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Mind Reading for Luddites
What to look for on entering a room:
clues littered across coffee tables,
hunt for well-thumbed evidence
in bookcases, fading pictures
on the wall. A world of
insight in ruffled magazines,
yellowed newspaper. I am curious,
hello, what have we here?
Scraps of mind-litter, dandruff
of human longing, a slough
of dear forgotten things. It
pays, I tell you, to probe
the printed marrow,
the pulp
if you wish to
get down to the bone
and troll for
buried whimsies. Go
only by the book:
accept no offhand offerings
of electronic screens
flickering in every nook.
They won't let you off the hook,
for you and I know they are but black holes
that suck you in
and spit you out
and leave you
none the wiser.
— 3/12/2014
Shelf Life
Back in the days when I thought it would be a cinch
to command a print run of, say, thirty thousand,
I used to dream of being read, dozens of readers
dawdling over every inch, dallying
with each irresistible insight.
I thought of our intercourse
as a fertile two-way street,
spurring us all onto a higher
plane of understanding. You,
reader, would root
for me, and I, purring, would give you my all;
deposit it humbly at your feet, or at
your local library.
I wondered if there would be an electric spark,
a charge
for every profitable connection made
between my promiscuous brain
and yours;
a morse-code in the dark, winking on, off —
a wild firefly cotillion.
Being read would reveal
how many soul mates I had in the world.
I'd be pelted with flowers,
sent stricken fan letters,
quoted profusely,
invited to speak to your assemblies.
I'd never be alone again. Ah,
but how could I, a virgin author,
be expected to know better? Uncracked,
untouched, not even a blip
on the literary radar screen,
I had only my daydreams to go on.
As I sat there at my desk, smitten with
some piece I had just written,
it seemed impossible that
there might not be any takers for
the fresh, ingenious thoughts I had
to offer.
One fine day, having penned that final line,
I would read it over
one last time as the public
hovered with bated breath. And then,
still clammy and glistening with the
sweat of my brow,
I would emerge from my cell
and step out into the world.
I'd be delivered of my first book, and
there would be such a stir, such rapture,
such a rush to whisk me away
into the literary pantheon,
that I would never be alone again.
The dawning has been slow.
I can now see reality
snoring in the second row; I mean, my first is still
waiting in the wings
hoping for a chance to be pushed onto the stage,
but now it has siblings crowding behind,
just as eager to have a go.
I worry about this: what if
one of the others,
younger in age but
more savvy and bold, were
to elbow its way in ahead
of my first-born? Which
would then be 'first'?
I try not to think of my plucky
bundles, sent
out into the world in all
feckless innocence, only
never to be returned or even
stamped with the courtesy of a reply.
Some, to be sure,
did find their way home eventually,
sordidly stained,
hustled by agents who
courageously stuck their
necks out for a while
but had to give up on me in the end.
Still alone,
an old maid now, my works
wallflowers wilting on the shelf,
I am drained
of the old illusions.
Posthumous perhaps,
but in this lifetime? Not a chance in hell.
Oh, but deal with it!
Reality check:
Who wants to have her words niggled at
by cocky copy-editors, her choices derided
by a sullen jury, her meaning misunderstood —
— a target of puzzlement,
heckling, contempt, offense,
boredom, indifference
or fury?
For I know now that being read is not enough.
It needs to be done
with dedication, and with pleasure. And
being read with pleasure is not enough, there
has to be a concrete response, a positive
And a positive response is not enough,
it has to come from someone you respect,
because what do most people know
Even a positive response from
someone you respect is not enough,
since you can never be sure if it is quite
Who wants to be parachuted
around the globe anyway,
cloned creepily a thousand times over
like Charlotte's offspring,
each squiggly thing vulnerable to
harm and neglect?
A single pristine volume hung
on the wall of some hushed museum
suddenly seems a
more sensible option. Look
but don't touch, it ought
to read in red letters:
No yawning
No snickering
Not to be left out in the rain
Not to be read in the john
And never
ever to be remaindered for a dollar
So let me state it here,
for the record:
Being published isn't for me. You can keep
your three-martini lunches at the
Four Seasons, your
five-city book tours, your
six-figure advances. Phooey
to your oohs and your Oprahs,
your bouquets and your Charlie Roses.
Don't even try to woo me with Pulitzer
prizes or teaching posts, a
by-line or fame beyond my crudest
dreams. Honestly, it's not my thing.
I'm sure I'll
get along
without it
One of the things I'm proudest of is that I am a twin. I do realize being a twin isn't really something to brag about, since you're just born that way, and it can also make you feel like a freak sometimes, but there it is: being a twin is part of my identity, and I like it.
Another thing I am proud of is that I speak more than one language. Which isn't really such an awesome achievement either, since I lived in five different countries growing up, so speaking more than one language was a necessity. At home in Geneva, my sisters and I spoke (and sometimes sang) a medley of English, French and Dutch.
It won't surprise you to learn that I was a bookworm. I especially loved English Literature, so when the time came, off I bravely marched to King's College London for a healthy dose of Shakespeare and linguistics and such. Then, after a couple of years working as a paid slave — i.e. copy editor, or "sub" — on a couple of women's magazines, I decided I missed Literature, so back I went for another degree at London U.
The next chapter in my life had nothing to do with Literature, and instead was spent sending news footage around the world at an international TV news agency, first in London and later in New York, which was very exciting and stressful.
After a decade of thinking that unless I was in the newsroom the world would come to a screeching halt, I quit, got married, and moved to the (calm and peaceful) countryside. Home with young children (of whom I must tell you I am also quite proud, this time with reason) I started writing novels, most of which never saw the light of day, although my children's book Isabel of the Whales was a surprise national bestseller.
One thing led to another, and I discovered that by using my languages, I could pursue Literature in a whole new way. Translating opened up new worlds for me, filling me with fresh love and respect for the three languages I thought I knew so well.
I'm an old hand at it by now, but every time I start on a new book it's a new adventure, and the thought that I am enabling readers to immerse themselves in the Literature of a different culture gives me yet another reason to feel fiercely, and unreasonably, proud.
Don't you remember how
We clasped each other and stared
In the icy lobby
And you held me at arm's length and shook your head;
"You haven't changed a bit!" you said
As if you really meant it,
Although I understood instead
A different incredulity:
You, reading as never before perhaps,
Your old abandoned self
In the altered mirror of me.
How I wished then for once
Not to be imprisoned behind these eyes
But able to peer the other way, to see
What you saw, looking at me!
Definition I crave,
Not these snippets inhabiting my history
Or myth, it seems, of others' making
Slapped onto my impostor soul.
"But nor have you!" I lied, and pressed your hand
To squeeze the bones
Metacarpal and capitate,
Aching to find
Some fossil of forgotten time.
You let go. Gazing past my head—
"I'm late," you said, "But let's catch up soon!"
"We'll do that," I said.
"Promise!" you chided,
Still checking out the room.
Then the party started
And the day ran away,
And by the end of it
So much of us had been sloughed off,
And already replaced (at the cellular level, I mean)
That it no longer really mattered
And she to me: "No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy"
Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria (Dante Alighieri)
Not in the USA
In Europe, where I'm from, children are expected to learn at least one foreign language at school, if not more. It's not seen as a great hurdle; the younger you are, the easier it is to pick up another language. When they are a bit older, teens are sent abroad in the school holidays to perfect their languages. Similarly, in Asia and Africa, young people who want to get on in the world make an effort to learn a foreign language. Often it is English, the lingua franca of Hollywood and pop music. This in addition to having to speak both one's native dialect and the country's official language. In Cambodia, I saw tiny street urchins trying out several different languages on tourists in order to wheedle money out of them.
The United States is an exception. Children here are not expected to learn another language; indeed, the ability to speak a foreign tongue tends to be regarded with awe, as though you need some special talent to master it. It's sometimes even viewed with suspicion or contempt, as if it's somehow un-American (you may recall that presidential candidate John Kerry was dismissed as a snob for knowing French). Language proficiency is an 'elitist skill', reserved for the highly educated—except in the case of immigrants, especially those on the bottom rung of the income ladder, who are expected to be fluent in English if they want to live here. I find it ironic that immigrants are not admired for their ability to pick up the language, but looked down upon if they fail to do so.
It's only the elites and the immigrants, therefore, who are multilingual; the rest of society is blithely, proudly off the hook. This applies to our most recent U.S. president, Donald Trump. I can't imagine there are many politicians outside the U.S. who would aspire to the highest office in the land without having the ability to communicate with their foreign counterparts in at least one language not their own.
6/30/2017 But something has happened to romance. Something happened when "love" was demoted to "relationship" and "commitment". In our age, romantic love is old-fashioned, passé. It is more important to be realistic, cynical even; to have your heart toughened for the inevitable disappointment. Whatever happened to rose-tinted glasses?


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Looking for a movie to see this weekend? Then brave the depths with the film "Pioneer" now in Theaters.
This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission.
But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake
PIONEER is Directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg.
Starring Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang and Aksel Hennie
PIONEER is now playing in Theatres and is available on iTunes, On Demand, on Google Play and YouTube.
To learn more, visit - www.magpictures.com/pioneer

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SATURDAY UPDATE: Due to the rain, Saturday's schedule will be adjusted. The first game of the day will no longer start at 10 a.m. and has been pushed back. The schedule for Saturday will now include an 11:30 a.m. start to game #3 featuring CMSV and FSC. The Sage-MSMC will follow 20 minutes after the completion of the first game of the day and so on.
Troy, NY--The Sage Colleges will serve as the host institution for the 2014 Skyline Conference Softball Championship. The event will run Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27 and will crown the league's softball champion. That champion will garner the league's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division III Championship with NCAA bids being released on Monday, May 5.
The tournament is a double-elimination format with four teams vying for the crown.
(Tournament Bracket)
Friday, Apr. 25
Game 1 - No. 4 Mount Saint Vincent at No. 1 Sage - CMSV wins, 3-1
Game 2 - No. 2 Mount Saint Mary vs. No. 3 Farmingdale State - FSC wins, 4-3
Saturday, Apr. 26
Game 3 - CMSV vs. FSC - FSC wins 9-3
Video Link
Game 4 - Sage vs. MSMC- Sage wins 3-1 (8 innings)
Video Link
Game 5 - Sage vs. CMSV, Sage wins 5-0
Video Link
Sunday, Apr. 27
Game 6 - FSC vs. Sage - 11:00 a.m. (live stats)
Game 7 (If necessary) - 2:00 p.m. (live stats)
All games will be played at Robison Field on the campus of Sage (Directions to the field)
(*IF USING MAPQUEST OR A GPS PLEASE USE 1010 Fifth Avenue, Troy, NY 12180 for the Neff Center.)


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Guide for people who give the SRA information about solicitors
Last updated 4 August 2010
We are very grateful to people who give us information that helps us to regulate solicitors effectively.
This guide explains what you can expect if you supply us with information, and how we will try to support you if we decide to take action and you are asked to be a witness.
How we gather evidence
When we receive information we assess the risk to the public and decide whether we should investigate. If we decide to do so, we will gather information and decide whether to take disciplinary proceedings, which may involve a hearing at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
In some cases, we may need to interview you to obtain a statement. We may be able to take a statement over the phone or it may be better for you to meet one of our investigators or lawyers. We may ask to see relevant documents so we can refer to them in your statements.
We might decide that your evidence is not needed. Perhaps we have similar evidence from a number of people and don't need to use it all. We will tell you if that is the case.
If you give us a statement, it will have to be signed and dated. We will give you a copy. It may be disclosed to other law enforcement agencies or regulators and to the lawyer or firm that we are bringing proceedings against.
Do you need extra support?
Please tell us if you have a disability, illness or condition which may affect your ability to provide evidence. We can then discuss how we might be able to support you.
For instance, you may want us to write to you in larger print or to have somebody with you when we ask you for information or documents. If English is not your first language, we might be able to provide an interpreter or translator.
Preparing the case
If the case is referred to the SDT, you will be given a named contact at the SRA and a phone number and email address. This person will answer any questions you have.
Sometimes, we are able to agree the facts in the statement and there will be no need for you to attend the SDT hearing.
If we need you to attend, you will be informed in good time. The date is set by the SDT—we try to ensure that it is convenient for you, although sometimes it can be difficult to suit everyone's needs.
Your SRA contact will advise how long the hearing is likely to take. The time allocated to the hearing will depend upon how complex the issues are.
Do you pay my expenses?
If you need hotel accommodation, we will book and pay for it. We will also book train tickets. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, train travel is standard class.
If you need to take a taxi from and to railway stations, please get a receipt so that you can claim the fare from us. Other out-of-pocket expenses are up to £7.50 for breakfast if you leave home before 7.00, £8.50 for lunch and, if you have to stay overnight, £30.00 for an evening meal. Please keep itemised and dated receipts so we can reimburse you.
As a general rule, we do not pay for time spent in preparing for and actually attending the hearing. If your employer says they will not pay you while you attend the hearing, please discuss this with us. (Special arrangements apply for professional expert witnesses.)
What happens at the hearing?
In good time, you will be sent directions to the SDT at Gate House, 1 Farringdon Street, London EC4M 7LG. (View map)
Your SRA contact or our lawyer will tell you when you need to arrive. Please go to the reception on the 3rd floor. The receptionist will put you in touch with the SRA representative and you will be shown where to wait.
While you are waiting, avoid discussing your evidence with anyone, as it is vital that your evidence is not influenced by anyone else's. You may be waiting for some time, so it's a good idea to take something to read.
Sometimes there are several cases on the same day and the case in which you are involved may not start until later in the day.
SDT hearings are usually in public. A journalist may be there. In exceptional circumstances, the hearing may be in private, so the media cannot report it.
A panel of three people will hear the case—the Chairperson, a legally qualified person and a lay person. A clerk will record what is said.
When you are called to give evidence, you will be shown to the witness desk. The Chairperson will usually introduce himself or herself and the rest of the panel to you. You will be asked whether you prefer to take a religious oath on a holy book or to make an affirmation about the truth of your evidence.
A solicitor or barrister will present the case for the SRA. He or she will ask you a few questions, but usually this will not be very detailed, because the Panel and the other party will already have seen your statement. Our witnesses are often simply asked to state their name and confirm that this is their witness statement and their signature. You might be shown a bundle of documents and asked to comment on important ones.
The lawyer, firm or other person that we are prosecuting usually has their own legal representative. Occasionally, they represent themselves. They will be entitled to ask you questions.
Do take your time when answering a question. If you haven't understood a question, ask for it to be repeated or explained. A member of the SDT panel may ask you a question to make sure they have understood you correctly.
There will be a lunch break at midday, if not earlier. If you haven't finished giving your evidence when that happens, you must not discuss it with anyone.
Once you have given your evidence, you can leave or sit at the back of the hearing room.
The Chairperson will decide when to finish the hearing. Usually the SDT finishes by 17.00, but it has been known to sit until around 18.30. Sometimes the hearing has to continue the next day.
After the Hearing
The SDT usually announces the outcome at the end of the hearing. It will say whether there has been professional misconduct and if so, whether a penalty will be imposed. This could be a reprimand, fine, suspension or striking off from the Roll of Solicitors.
We will write to you with the outcome of the hearing within two weeks of its end.
Later on, the SDT will produce a written report. If you want a copy, please let your SRA contact know and they will send you one.
If you have incurred out-of-pocket expenses, please send your receipts to your SRA contact. We suggest you keep a copy in case the originals are lost. We will try to send you a cheque within 14 days.
Last but not least, we are keen to know how you have found the experience of giving evidence at the SDT, so we can try to make things easier for witnesses in the future. If you receive a feedback form from us, please fill it in and send it to us.
Other proceedings
Sometimes the SRA brings proceedings against solicitors and law firms in the courts. We prosecute people before the Magistrates' Court for pretending to be a solicitor when they are not.
The procedure is very similar to that relating to SDT cases. The same travel, hotel and expenses provisions apply.


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Green green green (with just a hint of rainbow)
In the Southern Tablelands region of NSW (where we live and garden), this is the time of year when the vege patch is FULL to the brim with green stuff - spinach, mustard, rocket (arugula) and all sorts of other good things - but not a whole lot of colour. We still have quite a wait for our tomatoes, capsicum, chillis, eggplant, corn, carrots, beets and melons (in fact, some of those will really only be ready for harvest at the end of summer or early autumn).
I'm a big fan of the green stuff. I'd be quite content for most of our meals to consist of those ingredients (I, for one, truly believe that you CAN make friends with salad), but sometimes it is nice to have a bit of colour in a meal.
Enter the jewel of the early summer vege patch in cool and alpine regions - silverbeet (Swiss chard).
Silverbeet could not be easier to grow and, for much of the country, it can be treated as a semi-perennial and planted in the ornamental garden beds (and with its white, red and yellow stems, it is certainly pretty enough to earn its place there!). In our climate we can't grow it well over the three coldest months, so we keep it confined to The Coopermarket.
Silverbeet seeds are best sown directly into the vege patch. It doesn't take long to get to harvest - in fact, tonight's dinner was sown only about 5 weeks ago (they were young stems, but all the better… and sweeter).
This is one of those fantastic cut-and-come-again type plants. You harvest only what you want to eat by cutting the stem near the soil (both stem and leaves are edible), leaving the rest intact. You will be able to eat from the same plant for months before it goes to seed. It is still worth succession sowing about once very 4-6 weeks for a continuous supply, but it isn't quite such an urgent task as, say, with rocket that tends to bolt in the hotter months. Better yet, silverbeet isn't really a food that you will get sick of with a glut that has to be harvested all at once (ahem, zucchini!), and there are soooooo many great uses for it.
We are a bit obsessed with the Stephanie Alexander tome 'The Cook's Companion' in our house (recommended by Mickey Robertson, stolen from my mum). If you have a kitchen garden, you should really get that book. Every single fruit or vege that you grow or find in your local farmers' market is itemised in 'A Cook's Companion' and the most wonderful recipes and "recipes" (simple, rustic ways to make the most of the ingredient) are suggested.
Tonight's dinner was courtesy of silverbeet from The Coopermarket and Stephanie's advice to pair it with a fruity olive oil, streaky bacon and some goats cheese. Done and done. Dinner was on the table in minutes, and we both agreed that we could happily eat this for breakfast (maybe add a poached egg?), lunch or dinner any day of the week. Which is good, as we have a whole lot of silverbeet to eat before the rest of The Coopermarket colours up!


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I am a Weight Watcher Repeater. I have followed and quit this program so many times I have lost count.
I joined for the first time in 1990 or 1991. I had about 15 pounds to lose. We didn't have points then, we had exchanges. I had never followed a structured program before and I didn't last long. I would re-join and follow the program almost every year after that. I would lose a little bit of weight and then "life" would happen and I would get off track and quit. It would take me several months and then I would get frustrated with myself and re-join. Cycle repeat.
Does that mean it doesn't work? I don't think so, every time that I quit following the program before was because I didn't work.
In the meantime I tried other diets some crazy some not. I always came back to Weight Watchers. Why? I know it works. It's flexible and sensible. There really isn't a lot they say you have to do. I know the program works when I work.
Did you notice I said quit not failed? Making the needed changes to live a healthy and active lifestyle is hard when you have been reckless with your eating and sedentary. Nothing worth having in life is going to be easy, and this takes work.
Shopping, planning and preparing food. It's fun at first, but it becomes work. I re-joined Weight Watchers this past week because I feel really ready to do the work.
So this weekend I did some work. I read everything I was given at the meeting this week. I went to the grocery store after Mike had already done the shopping for the week; but I was now in search of healthy snack options. I planned to save most of my Weekly Points Allowance for the party we attended Saturday and to enjoy our Sunday breakfast and a meal Mike was cooking Sunday night. I tracked my points and I dragged myself out of bed to start walking again.
I am writing this now, not because I am already feeling the pain of the work. Quite the opposite I am excited about getting healthy. I know later I will need to remind myself of all of this. When I am not excited about getting healthy, when life gets in the way and I want to quit. When I blow it one week and think I can't do this.
I can do it.
If I do the work.


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Plugin-based component modeling tool.
Project description
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|Greg Tucker
Nicole Gasparini
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Daniel Hobley
Sai Nudurupati
Jordan Adams
Eric Hutton
Installing a release
We don't have any releases of The Landlab yet so this doesn't work right now. However, once we have a stable release, this is how users will install our software on their machine:
$ pip install TheLandlab
This will install Landlab as well as any prerequisite packages (required packages are listed in setup.py).
Installing from a source distribution
To install the landlab package from a source distribution (like what you get with a Subversion checkout), run the setup.py script with the install argument:
$ python setup.py install
This will put the landlab package into a system-wide location so that you can import landlab from any python session. It will also install any required packages.
Note that if you are developing landlab you will probably not want to do this! If you do, you would have to run this command everytime you make a change to the code. Instead, you want to install the package in "development mode". See below in the "Development Environment" section for details on how to do this.
Developing The Landlab
This section describes one possible workflow when developing The Landlab.
Using Subversion
The standard resource for Subversion "Version Control with Subversion" book. It's available online and is completely free!
Checkout a copy of the source
Use Subversion to checkout the latest version of the source code:
$ svn co https://csdms.colorado.edu/svn/TheLandlab/trunk landlab
Alternatively, if you already have a working copy of the repository you may want to update it with changes that others have committed to the repository:
$ svn update
Review your changes
Now that you've made changes to some files, you'll probably want to have a look at what you've done. To see what it is you've changed since your last commit (or since you last checkout), use the status command:
$ svn status
Use the Subversion diff command to see the differences between your copy and the copy that you checked out:
$ svn diff <changed_file>
where <changed_file> is the name of the file you've made changes to. If you don't list any file names, this command will print the differences for all files that have changes.
Commit your changes to the repository
Once you have made changes to your copy of the source and are happy with the changes, you can commit them back to the repository:
$ svn commit
This will commit all changes that you have made under the current directory. If you only want to commit changes to a file or two, you can list the file names separately on the command line:
$ svn commit <one_file> <another_file>
The Development Environment
Once I have a working copy of The Landlab source code, I use the pip command to install a development version of the code. If I'm in the base landlab folder (the folder that contains setup.py), I run the following:
$ pip install -e .
This sets up python so that it knows where the landlab package is when try to import it - regardless of what directory you are in. This allows python commands like:
>>> import landlab >>> from landlab import craters
to work. If you didn't do this you might start getting errors that contain something like:
ImportError: No module named landlab
To uninstall your development version of landlab:
$ pip uninstall TheLandlab
Running Unit Tests
Immediatly after update your working copy of the code (or checking out a new version) I will normally run the unit tests for the package to make sure nothing is broken. You can do this with setup.py:
$ python setup.py test
You should also probably do this before commiting changes to the repository to make sure you didn't break things.
Coding Style
Because Python is so flexible style-wise, please try to stick to the coding style described by PEP8,
An easy way to make sure that you've done this is by running the pep8 command on each file that you edit. If you don't have pep8 installed, you will have to install it with:
$ pip install pep8
Now you can run it on a Python source file. For instance:
$ pep8 craters.py
At first, this will probably return lots of problems with you source file. Don't worry though, it won't take long to get used to the coding style and be able to write compatible code straigt away. If we stick to this it will make it much easier to read the code written by any one of us.
Build API Documentation
You can build documentation for the LandLab API using Sphinx. Once you have set up your envrionment to properly import landlab, you can generate the necessary sphinx files with:
$ python setup.py build_sphinx
This will put a bunch of files in the docs folder. The HTML documentation will be under the docs/_build/html/ folder. Pointing your browser to index.html under this folder will give you the top-level page for the documentation. This entire folder is relocatable, so if you would like your documentation elsewhere you can easily move the folder around.
If you have added, removed, or renamed files you may need to regenerate some of the sphinx files and rebuild the api docs. If you have Sphinx installed, you can do this with (from the directory that contains setup.py):
$ sphinx-apidoc -o docs landlab
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In addition, "Two Summits", "One Exhibition and One Contest", and "Serial Activities" will be rolled out during the Expo.
Key forum: Big Data Standardization Forum
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The forum will outline the application and promotion of national big data industry standards and aims to involve more companies in research and promote the trial application of settled standards.
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May 25 9:00 – 17:30
The forum will invite more than 300 officials, business representatives, scholars and experts to exchange ideas about data security and national cyber security strategies.
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The forum will focus on the application of big data in social welfare. Government officials, business representatives and scholars will be invited to give keynote speeches and roundtables to discuss the integration of big data with businesses, schools and governments. The MOU will be signed to improve the Guizhou Berkeley Big Data Innovation Research Center (GBIC) that opened in Sept 2016.
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Our views: Democrats have a lot of work ahead
House Democrats have wrapped up their promised 100 hours of legislative action by passing an energy bill with hours to spare. It was a rare show of Democratic efficiency, but what, exactly, did it prove?
The final energy measure repealed some tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, meaning they'll have less money to invest. More disturbing, it imposes a new tax on oil and gasoline from the Gulf of Mexico, as well as reneges on leases the industry signed with government in the 1990s.
The House passed a homeland security bill whose principal provision, universal inspection of seaborne cargoes, is impractical.
The House also voted to allow government funding of embryonic stem cell research even though President Bush has vetoed this once and likely will do so again.
It voted to halve the interest rates on student loans, although the savings won't match the growth in college tuition. And it voted to increase the minimum wage although many states already had done so.
These were modest accomplishments, in other words. The real work of government will take more than 100 hours.
The above editorial excerpt is from The Rocky Mountain News.


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What I would expect from the Romanian left-wing
As established, Romania has only a wide array of right-wing political parties, focused on conservatorism, nationalism and with little interest on secularity. It would really be nice to see a true left-wing party that adheres to neo-socialism and liberal politics. What I'd like to see in a true left party:
- gay rights support
- legalisation of gay marriage
- unequivocal split of the state from Church
- relaxation of abortion laws
- increased medical and psychological support in abortion clinics
- consolidation of the public healthcare system
- promote interculturalism
- new foreign policy doctrine that forbids offshore military presence and emphasises participation in conflict areas in diplomatic capacity with a focus on conflict transformation and humanitarian aid
- promote policies aimed at reducing gender discrimination and the discrimination of sexual minorities


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- This is an article about the 7th season episode where House treats Cuddy's mother Arlene. For the 3rd season episode where House treats a young potential bone marrow donor, see Family.
Cuddy persuading her mom to remain at Princeton-Plainsboro:
- "The reason you keep coming to see me in the clinic is because you trust me. You trust my medical judgment, so here it is: if you transfer to Princeton General, you'll be treated well and you'll die. If you stay here with House, you'll be treated badly, but you'll live. I don't care if I have to slash the tires of every ambulance in this bay, mom, I am not letting you leave my hospital."
- ―Family Practice
"Family Practice" is a 7th season episode of House which first aired on February 7, 2011. This episode was shown out of production order (it was the 13th episode filmed for the season), most likely due to the necessity of David Shore scrapping an "on-the-road" arc to allow for time to rework the season.
Paula Marshall appears for the first time as Lisa Cuddy's sister Julia.
Cuddy's mother Arlene is back, and Cuddy insists that House deal with her mother's recent symptoms by coming up with a diagnosis that will satisfy her. Cuddy forbids House from relying on a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness. However, House wonders if Arlene's condition is related to the fact that when they last met, she accepted that she had drunk enough alcohol to pass out. Meanwhile, Arlene reveals that she has had a lengthy affair with a married man that she has frequently discussed with Julia but kept from Lisa, leaving Lisa to wonder how close her relationship to her mother really is. However, when Mother Cuddy throws House off of her case, House must play on the fears of his entire team in order to make one desperate stab at treating her. Meanwhile, it appears Taub has found a way to earn a little extra money.
This episode features a new, much shorter, opening montage with a short opening theme.
Cuddy, her mother and her sister Julia are out shopping when Mother Cuddy complains of palpitations. Cuddy takes her pulse and wants to rush her to the hospital.
House and his team are in the morgue hiding from Cuddy. However, she finds him anyway. House knows about Arlene and says she's just a 65-year old woman with high blood pressure. Cuddy counters that she has microcytic anemia, but House points out it's borderline and that Arlene has a history of psychosomatic illness. However, Cuddy points out atrial fibrillation isn't a psychosomatic symptom, but House says in that case, a cardiologist should be able to handle it, and besides, Cuddy shouldn't be involved in her mother's case in any event because she can't be objective.
House finally decides to take the case (and humors everyone by wearing a lab coat), but merely provides reassurance to Arlene that her problem was probably transitory and she can keep it under control with medication. However, Arlene says it has something to do with her other symptoms, and implies House should go through her 15 year medical history. House goes through a lengthy list of trivial symptoms, but when he goes to suggest psychosomatic illness, Cuddy cuts him off. She promises a thyroid test and an environmental scan. Arlene wonders why House's lab coat doesn't fit.
Masters and Taub go to do the environmental scan. They only find sex pictures of Arlene, but they suspect an STD. However, they also find a folk remedy for arthritis.
The herbal medicine contains lead and Cuddy goes to start Arlene on chelation therapy. However, House also tells Cuddy about her mother's sex life. Cuddy is actually impressed with her mother.
Cuddy asks her mother about the herbal remedy and why she didn't tell her. She also asks about her partner, a younger man. Julia already knows about it, and that its been going on for five years. Cuddy wants to know why her mother didn't tell her and Arlene replies they don't have that kind of relationship.
Foreman is helping Taub move into a new hotel room. Rachel Taub drops by to talk to Taub. She tells him he's spoken to her brother the lawyer to get him work as a part-time medical consultant. Taub reminds her that her brother broke his nose after he found out Taub had cheated. Rachel gives Taub her brother's card anyway.
House goes to see Arlene about all the texts, telephone calls and e-mails she's been sending to him. Arlene's been doing research and realizes that lead poisoning doesn't explain all of her symptoms, but House implies it explains all her real symptoms, and she realizes he's implying she's a hypochondriac. When Arlene tells him her hand started shaking after he took the arthritis medication he prescribed, he admits she's on placebos and the shaking hand was a side effect he put on the bottle to see if she would react to it. Arlene fires him.
Arlene wanted to leave the hospital, but Cuddy convinced her to accept the head of internal medicine, Dr. Marty Kaufman as her new doctor. Cuddy and House argue about what he did, but he tells her that if he hadn't done it, Arlene would have come up with six new diagnoses. However, Dr. Kaufman calls to tell Cuddy that Arlene is in atrial fibrillation with a heart rate of 170. Cuddy tells House that he's back on the case, but Arlene can't know about it.
House goes to Kaufman, but Kaufman tells him that Arlene doesn't want House involved. House argues he has skills and resources available, but Kaufman tells him he's on record as the attending and it's likely House will go behind his back at some point, leaving Kaufman on the hook if things go wrong.
House plants an eavesdropping device in Arlene's room. Arlene is insulting House. Chase thinks it might be leukemia, but Kaufman has already come to the same conclusion. House tells Masters to get a new case. However, when she's gone, House calls in the rest of his team. He figured Masters would get upset about the bug and needed to get her out so they could discuss the case in secret. House has a better diagnosis. When House drugged Arlene at Cuddy's birthday party, Arlene figured she had passed out from drinking. That seems to point to alcoholism, making thiamine deficiency a likely diagnosis. However, they have to slip her the pills without her knowing. Foreman thinks that they have to get Cuddy's permission, but House is way ahead of him and gets up to tell her.
Cuddy is shocked with the news, but House assures her the treatment is easy, safe and won't interfere with Kaufman's procedures. He's put thiamine in an antacid bottle. Cuddy wants to ask Arlene about the alcohol, but House predicts that it will wind up with Arlene being offended. Cuddy assures House that since her father died, Arlene has been honest with her when confronted directly. House reminds her that addicts lie.
Cuddy tells her mother that she thinks that her drinking is causing her heart problems. Arlene denies being a drunk. Cuddy leaves behind the pills and tells her they're for her stomach pain.
House finds Cuddy sitting alone. Cuddy tells House that if another matter like this arises, that he should take care of it himself without involving her. Cuddy thinks she's being a coward and realizes this is why doctors shouldn't treat their own relatives.
Taub meets with Rachel's brother. The brother apologizes for breaking Taub's nose and says he had divorce issues of his own, and he's taking anger management. He offers Taub $50,000 a year for 15 hours a week of work as a non-testifying expert. Taub agrees. However, when he looks at a scan that's lying around, he notices something that looks like a sub-arachnoid bleed. The brother tells him the case is about to settle for a large amount and that the client is fine, so he should forget it.
Arlene develops a fever, meaning House was wrong about the alcoholism, but the biopsies run by Kaufman have ruled out cancer.
House goes into the coma ward with his team to tell them can't work on Arlene's case. However, he decides to do a differential on the coma patient. He prompts the team in mime until Masters realizes the patient may have overdosed on a different drug and, if he tests positive, he will soon recover on his own. He sends Masters to run the tests.
However, when he gets the rest of his team alone, they start a new differential on Arlene. Taub guesses lupus, but once again Kaufman is treating her for it. Foreman guesses endocarditis, which means she will die on the steroids she's being treated with. Taub thinks House should warn Kaufman, but one of Kaufman's specialists in infectious disease has made the same point. House proposes to switch her meds with antibiotics. Foreman points out that it's likely that if they get caught or something happens, they will all go to jail. Foreman reminds House that he's personally involved in the case. Chase suggests asking Cuddy, but House tells them Cuddy wants no part of these decisions. House tells his team he knows it's screwed up, but orders them to do it or they're fired. Foreman wants the whole team to refuse, but Chase is convinced it's endocarditis too.
Taub wonders where his life went. He used to get awards for volunteer work, and now he and Foreman are sitting around letting Chase take all the risks. Foreman also tells Taub to forget about the sub-arachnoid bleed he thought he saw. Chase comes in and says that Julia recognized him, so he can't pull it off. Julia knows Foreman too. Taub gets a page from his brother-in-law and realizes he has to go or he will lose the consulting job.
Instead, Taub goes to see Timothy, the patient whose scan he saw in his brother-in-law's office, and tells his mother to get him a cerebral angiogram or he might bleed to death.
House realizes that his team hasn't switched out the medication. He comes up with another plan to do it when Arlene has a nap.
Masters goes to Cuddy to tell her that it's likely House is still working on Arlene's case. She found out that Chase ordered both prednisone and antibiotics from the pharmacy for the coma patient and that she thinks House is trying to switch out her mother's meds.
Cuddy confronts House, but he reminds her it was her idea not to make any difficult decisions. However, House admits he's not sure it's endocarditis, but it's the best fit. He asks for her help to switch out the meds.
Cuddy asks Arlene why she treated her and her sister Julia so differently. Arlene says that although she loves them the same, Julia has more in common with her and is nicer to her. She says she likes Julia more.
The scan comes back on Timothy, showing what Taub saw was a harmless anatomical anomaly in a bone in the skull pressing against a blood vessel.
However, Arlene suffers an allergic reaction. Kaufman can't understand - prednisone can't cause allergic reactions, but Cuddy realizes it was the antibiotics.
House and his team gather in Cuddy's office. Arlene is back on prednisone. She's breathing normally, but the atrial fibrillation is back and her fever is up. However, since Kaufman didn't know about the antibiotics, he took her off the prednisone and started thinking it was endocarditis. House starts a new differential and figures it's a fungus. Foreman argues that the treatment is dangerous and will just confuse Kaufman. Cuddy doesn't think she can go through with it, and House snaps and says she never should have let Arlene fire him. When House tells Cuddy to switch the meds again, the rest of the team tells Cuddy it's a bad idea. Cuddy tells the rest of the team they can leave. Cuddy knows House is right. However, Masters comes in. Surprisingly Masters agrees with the fungal endocarditis diagnosis, but wants to tell Arlene. House tells Cuddy to get out of the office. House then threatens to have Masters' career destroyed if she tells anyone. Masters has anticipated this and doesn't think that anyone will believe House. However, House has her - the coma patient had a do not treat order and if she tells anyone about Arlene, he will have Masters prosecuted for criminal assault for the blood draw on the coma patient. He reminds her that he didn't actually tell her to do the blood draw - it was her idea. Masters realizes she's been set up. House tells her that he did it because Arlene is the patient with the highest priority.
Masters runs to the bathroom to vomit.
Taub is in the men's room when his brother-in-law comes in and assaults him. He tells him the mother fired him, rejected the settlement and reported him to the bar. He threatens to sue Taub and tells him not to bother Rachel again.
Masters goes to Arlene's room and asks to speak to Dr. Kaufman and Arlene alone. Kaufman is furious. Arlene fires Kaufman and insists on being transferred to Princeton General. Cuddy agrees to call the ambulance. House asks Masters if she's happy about what she's done.
House tells Cuddy she just killed Arlene. They start arguing who's at fault. House tells Cuddy she never confronts her mother. House is afraid Cuddy is going to blame him for her mother's death and tells Cuddy to get her back.
Cuddy intercepts her mother and tells her that she realizes Arlene was tough on her because she was smart and ambitious, unlike Julia. She reminds her mother that she trusts her medical judgment. She tells her that she will die at Princeton General. At Princeton-Plainsboro, she will be treated rudely, but will live.
Arlene agrees to stay. They start her on anti-fungals. Arlene wonders why House is so great when he doesn't have a department to run anymore. Cuddy wonders how Arlene got that idea. Arlene says House told her that, but House says he was just being sarcastic. House begins to realizes that Arlene doesn't understand when other people are being sarcastic. That speaks to central nervous system involvement before heart involvement. All of a sudden, Arlene loses consciousness. All the symptoms point to heavy metal poisoning, but she was treated for it. House realizes she's still being exposed to the toxin. He performs emergency surgery and finds that her hip replacement broke down and is poisoning her and breaking down her muscles, metallosis due to cobalt poisoning. She needs more chelation and an immediate replacement of the hip joint.
Taub hears a knocking at his door, and Rachel walks in. Foreman called her. She said she wasn't told that Taub thought the brother's client had a bleed in his head and she will cut her brother out of her life if the brother retaliates. Taub wonders why she cares. She says he was a crappy husband, but he is a good person. She gives him a hug.
House un-fires Masters again. He realizes that Masters stood up to him even if it meant getting thrown out of medical school, and he's impressed. She wonders what she has to do to keep her job. House tells her to keep him from doing things Cuddy will regret.
Julia wants to know why Arlene wants to keep her old hip joint. Arlene realizes that the hip joint has been causing all of the problems she's been complaining about for the last fifteen years. Cuddy admits Arlene may have been really sick all that time.
Major EventsEdit
- Cuddy's mother gets sick, and she insists House work on the case.
- Masters reveals she was voted "homecoming geek" at high school.
- On the other hand, Taub reveals he was voted class president and was best boy at his prep school.
- House seems to come up with the right diagnosis and implies Cuddy's mother is a hypochondriac, so the mother fires House.
- Cuddy's mother continues to develop serious symptoms, so Cuddy insists House work on the case without the knowledge of her mother or the attending physician.
- Taub also reveals he's won awards for volunteer work.
- Taub has also fixed cleft palates in Guatemala as well as Bangladesh.
- Taub is offered a job by Rachel Taub's brother working as a medical-legal consultant. However, he sees an x-ray on another case and insists on telling the person they may have a sub-arachnoid bleed. Instead, it's a harmless anomaly. The client fires Rachel's brother, who beats up Taub.
- It is revealed Cuddy has obtained substantial academic honors, graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan and being elected to the AOA fraternity in medical school.
Zebra Factor 6/10Edit
Cobalt poisoning is very rare. It is usually the result of exposure to dust in a work environment involving the creation of tungsten carbide, which is commonly used in drill bits. It is used in medical devices (like artificial hip joints) because it adds strength to metals, but because of this toughness, it rarely breaks down in the body.
Trivia & Cultural ReferencesEdit
- Despite being credited in the opening credits, Robert Sean Leonard (James Wilson) does not appear in this episode.
- The song at the beginning of the episode is Mr. Sandman. It was a #1 hit for The Chordettes in 1954.
- House is right that medical ethics codes generally prohibit a physician from treating a family member, except for routine care.
- House may have made a reference to werewolves when asked by Chase what could cause Cuddy's mom to turn into a patient named Stewart. He responds Lupus (as in wolf) to possibly suggest werewolf.
- House says to his team "Pop quiz, hotshots!" A reference to the movie Speed.
- Azarcon is a folk remedy which consists of lead salts. Although used for the treatment of arthritis, it is highly poisonous.
- Guatemala is a country in Central America.
- The Mexican folk remedy Azarcon is identified in the episode as lead chromate, a lead compound used as a yellow pigment in artist's oil paints. However, Azarcon is actual lead tetraoxide, a lead salt. Nevertheless, both are deadly.
In Real LifeEdit
- This episode has brought attention to cobalt poisoning from replacement hip joints[1] [2] [3][4] [5]. In Germany, Dr. Jürgen Schäfer (who, like House, specializes in difficult cases), had just seen the episode when a patient came to him with progressive deafness, blindness and heart failure. After learning of the patient's hip replacement, he correctly diagnosed him with cobalt poisoning from the worn hip joint. In another case reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, cobalt poisoning was diagnosed after the patient's heart transplant. The article noted that if the problem had been diagnosed earlier, the patient probably would not have needed the transplant.
- Episode page at IMDB
- Episode review at Blogcritics
- Episode recap at The Celebrity Cafe
- Episode transcript at Clinic Duty
- Episode page at House MD Guide
- Episode guide at Ace Showbiz
- Episode page at Series and TV
- Episode page at TV Rage
- Episode page at TV.com
- Episode recap at Roxy's Blog
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Cannabis is a pharmaceutical factory housed inside a plant.
There are both male cannabis plants and female cannabis plants. Because an unpollinated female plant produces far greater concentrations of drug substances than a male plant, these unpollinated females are cultivated for medicinal use. The cannabis plant concentrates its medicine within the female flower clusters. Each flower consists of a curled single leaf known as a calyx. Each calyx is covered with vast numbers of tiny hair-like gland cells called trichomes.
Under magnification, a trichome resembles a golfball sitting atop a tee. The ball is the trichome's resin head, a waxy pillow of oils filled from secretory cells in the trichome's tip. When these delicate resin heads rupture, they release the intense aromatic chemicals called terpenes that are associated with the distinctive smell of cannabis, while cannabinoids such as THC are odorless. The resin heads contain the most medically interesting chemicals produced by the cannabis plant, including cannabinoids and terpenes. Both cannabinoids and terpenes are pharmacologically active.
Since Dr. Raphael Mechoulam first discovered THC in the early 1960', eighty-five other cannabinoids have been identified in the cannabis plant. There are six primary cannabinoids found among different cannabis strains: THC, CBD, CBN, THCV, CBG and CBC. On fresh, undisturbed cannabis, these cannabinoids exist as acids. When heated, acidic THC is converted to its neutral form, and becomes psychoactive. THC, CBD and THCV cannabinoids are of significant medicinal interest, though all of the minor cannabinoids are being studied for potential medical applications. Each cannabis strain may contain one or several cannabinoids, and the ratios of cannabinoids varies widely amongst the different strains.
The various effects (stimulating, sedative, etc.) attributed to different cannabis strains are likely due to the interaction of cannabinoids and the aromatic terpenes. Even though terpenes are found in very small amounts in cannabis flowers, cannabinoids appear to increase the brain's ability to absorb these terpenes, which increases their pharmacological impact. This combination of cannabinoid and terpenoid interaction is called an "entourage effect".


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AMID the bureaucratic prose of his dreadful book The Blair Revolution, Peter Mandelson managed to articulate one noble thought. Writing in 1996, when the old Soviet empire lay in ruins, he declared that the European Union must move into central and eastern Europe to 'strengthen security, entrench democracy and ensure economic and social progress spread across the whole continent'.
He could plausibly believe then that Tony Blair would be at the forefront of a new Europe, free and at peace. Now, his optimism seems a dream from another age. Putin's autocratic regime of former KGB men and crony capitalist backers laments the loss of the empire of the tsars and commissars and gives every sign of wanting to take it back. After the war in Georgia, and with the recession bringing Ukraine close to collapse, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff had to fly to Lithuania last week to promise the former occupied territories that Nato would protect them.
MI5 says there are as many Russian spies in Britain today as at the height of the Cold War. Putin's state security apparatus monitors Russian dissidents in London and displays no visible sign of regret when they are horribly murdered.
Yet Mandelson and politicians like him, who once wanted to entrench democracy and progress across Europe, see nothing wrong with consorting with the oligarchy, although I suspect it has taken newspapers readers a while to understand the magnitude of their moral failure.
The Deripaska affair is a puzzle to outsiders because the press can't quite say what it is about. When George Osborne briefed the press, the story was that Mandelson was spreading poison about Gordon Brown. His stay on Deripaska's yacht and dinners with the oligarch in Moscow's restaurants quickly superseded tales of back-stabbing, because journalists realised Mandelson's decisions as European Trade Commissioner affected the interests of one of the world's richest men.
When Nathaniel Rothschild wrote that Osborne had talked about soliciting donations from Deripaska, we decided one Bullingdon Club member was punishing another for breaking the omertà of upper-class house parties. Business journalists intervened to point out that a little more than gentlemanly pride was at stake for Rothschild. Deripaska's money helped him increase his fortune, but the Russian was not coping well with the financial crisis. Rothschild had to attack Osborne for drawing attention to a shadowy man who had contributed towards the cost of Rothschild's Klosters chalet, where, inevitably, Mandelson was a frequent guest.
Those naive souls who worry about political – oh I don't know – decorum then watched open-mouthed as within weeks of allowing the super-rich to pass him around like a half-drunk bottle of Cristal, Mandelson returned to Whitehall and demanded restrictions on the employment rights of working mothers. Osborne could not beat that although he tried. After staying with the Rothschilds and visiting the Deripaskas in Corfu, he announced that the Tories were the only party truly committed to tackling poverty.
For all the apparent ruthlessness, the media are dancing around the main point. It is not showing what should be at the heart of the affair: a proper sense of outrage at Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild's belief that the tame oligarchs of a dangerous autocracy are no better or worse than other industrialists.
My colleagues are not to blame for pulling punches. London not only offers crony capitalists Michelin-starred restaurants, security guards and discreet bankers. Our authoritarian libel laws also attract the rich. Editors think once, twice, 100 times before crossing them. They know they must contend with libel judges and Law Lords unfit to hold office in an open society because they won't stand up for freedom of speech.
Reading between the lines, you may realise that when reporters talk about 'the aluminium wars' that turned Deripaska into a tycoon in Nineties' Siberia, we do not use 'war' figuratively. Notice, too, how often we say that the State Department revoked Deripaska's visa to enter the US in 2006 and how rarely we explain why.
Judges graciously lift libel restrictions when journalists report their verdicts. I can therefore give you a taste of the company the political class is keeping by quoting a ruling by Mr Justice Christopher Clarke at the High Court on 3 July.
He was hearing the claim of Michael Cherney. Like so many who try to do business in Russia, the exile alleges that the associates of the Kremlin cheated him. He feared arrest if he went home to demand $4.35bn from his former partner, one Oleg Deripaska, and asked London courts to hear his case instead. Deripaska denied he owed Cherney a rouble and insisted that any hearing should be in Russia.
In his ruling on where the trial should take place, the judge described how he had heard the evidence of Bill Bowring, professor of law at Birkbeck College, and an authority on civil rights in Putin's Russia. It gave 'substantial support' to the conclusion that exiled enemies of the Kremlin and its backers would be arrested if they returned.
'Deripaska is, by common account, a Kremlin-friendly oligarch, who heeded President Putin's warning to the oligarchs to stay out of politics,' the professor said. 'Others have found themselves in exile or in a Siberian labour camp. But Mr Deripaska emerged as the triumphant leader of the Kremlin-friendly oligarchs whose ability to continue to do business is dependent on obedience to the Kremlin and who can count, in turn, on support from the government and the judicial system. He has funded President Putin's pet projects. [His] Rusal group is one of the most important assets of the Russian state.'
Without accusing Deripaska, the judge accepted that the trial could not take place in Russia because of 'the risk of a successful assassination'. Cherney had a 'well-founded fear for his safety'. Nor, continued the judge, could he expect a fair trial. 'It seems to me that there is a significant likelihood of Mr Cherney being prosecuted if he returns and a real possibility that Mr Deripaska might use his influence or his ability to orchestrate feeling against Mr Cherney.'
In a sentence that resonated with all who know the history of communist show trials, the judge added that 'the use of criminal prosecutions [or the threat of them] as tools in a power struggle with rivals was a feature of Soviet Russia. The pattern has continued and has a new name: "zakaznye dela" ["prosecutions to order"].'
With these words, he found against the client of Rothschild, the dining companion of Mandelson and the object of Osborne's covetous glances.
I began by describing Mandelson's book as dreadful. Perhaps I was harsh. In 1996, he wrote that voters believed they had 'a government that consists of business back-scratchers and a parliament made up of politicians on the make'. Ain't that the truth.


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Is Racing's Love Affair With Slots Over?
This week's LET IT RIDE.COM HOT TOPIC comes from Andrew Beyer of Daily Racing Form…take a read and VOICE AN OPINION!
Slots-racing marriage on the rocks
At a time when the horse racing business has suffered serious a decline, one segment of the sport is enjoying a bonanza. These are great times for horsemen in states where purses are subsidized by revenue from slot machines.
Owners and trainers at Parx Racing — the former Philadelphia Park — must think that they have died and gone to heaven when they run a bottom-level $5,000 claimer in a race with a $25,000 purse — plus a bonus if the animal was bred in Pennsylvania. Horsemen at minor-league tracks such as Charles Town (W.Va.) Presque Isle Downs (Pa.), and Zia Park (N.M.) regularly compete for big-league purses because of slot money.
These windfalls exist because many states, when they legalized slots, opted to install them in racetracks and decided to aid the sport by earmarking a certain percentage of revenues for purses and breeder awards. But what the state gives, the state can take away, and many are taking a fresh look at their largesse to the horse business:
◗ In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed cutting $72 million of subsidies to horse racing and breeding to pay for other agricultural projects.
◗ In Ontario, the provincial government has proposed ending all slots payments to the horse racing industry as of 2013.
◗ In Indiana, the state's inspector general advocated slashing the subsidy for horse racing.
◗ In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie ended state support of racing and blasted leaders of the sport for "extorting the taxpayers for millions of dollars in subsidies to their industry."
Horsemen have reacted with shock and outrage to such proposals, but they should have seen these haymakers coming. Many state governments are under severe financial pressure and are struggling to maintain basic services for their citizens. As politicians look for sources of revenue, they can't ignore the millions of dollars now flowing into horse racing, and they can readily frame populist arguments that the money is being misallocated. Christie said: "I am no longer going to permit millionaire horsemen to take money . . . from the taxpayers of the state to fund their industry."
In Ontario, Education Minister Laurel Broten sent out a press release declaring, "We simply can't afford to support . . . horse racing subsidies . . . when the . . . money could get better health care for our seniors and full-day kindergarten for our 4- and 5-year-olds."
In most places, the racing/slot machine relationships developed along similar lines. In some cases, a racetrack couldn't survive on its own merits, but it was such an important part of its community that the public supported legalizing slots to keep it alive. (This was the case at Charles Town.) In others, proposals for legalized slots faced a lot of not-in-my-backyard opposition, and the perfect answer was to put the slots in an existing gambling facility – a racetrack. The track, of course, got a percentage of the profits for running the operation. The rationale for allotting money to purses and breeders' awards (rather than, say, health care for seniors) was to revive the sport by improving the product and attracting more fans.
But every racing fan knows what happened instead. When slots were legalized, the machines proved to be so lucrative many track owners lost interest in the sport and viewed it as a nuisance. They made no effort to improve the game or attract new fans; slot players are more profitable customers. The day-to-day racing at tracks such as Parx and Delaware Park is just about as dreary as it was before slots inflated the purses. One track that has made the most of slots money is Woodbine, in Toronto, which offers some of the best daily cards on the continent and uses its resources to promote the sport and to create new horseplayers. But Woodbine is a rarity.
More often, slot money props up tracks that have virtually no fan base and couldn't exist on their own merits. This is true of most harness and dog tracks, and some Thoroughbred operations – such as Presque Isle Downs. Two previous racetracks in Erie, Pa., went broke from lack of support. Presque Isle was built when slots were legalized in the state, and it had to be a racetrack to get the machines, but its racing business is as pitiful as that of its predecessors. The track's average attendance last season was 705, and those customers bet an average of $35,000 per day on the live product. Yet Presque Isle pays huge purses – more than $200,000 a day.
While the money has benefited owners, trainers, and Pennsylvania breeders, it has done nothing to popularize or improve horse racing. On the contrary, it has hurt the sport in some ways. At a time when almost every track is suffering from a shortage of Thoroughbreds, the horses who go to Erie could be running at viable tracks, helping them to offer a better product, instead of racing in a place where almost nobody watches them.
Too many people in the Thoroughbred industry are content with the status quo. In the crowded Mid-Atlantic region, racetracks should agree to pare down their schedules, offering fewer races with larger fields that fans want to bet. But horsemen habitually resist such cutbacks, and most tracks continue to lose fans.
However, the status quo is unsustainable because more and more politicians will be asking: Why should we subsidize a sport that so few people care about? Why should we help an industry that won't help itself? And Thoroughbred racing can offer no good responses to these questions.
Is Pari-Mutual Wagering Dead…Even With Slots?
This week's LET IT RIDE.COM HOT TOPIC comes from Frank Angst of the Thoroughbred Times…take a read and VOICE AN OPINION!
Track owner Penn National sees little pari-mutuel future
While the company's name still references a racetrack, Penn National Gaming Chairman Peter Carlino made it clear on Thursday that he believes pari-mutuel wagering has dried up, even at tracks with added gaming.
In a conference call with investors and analysts, Carlino said his company no longer will argue that adding slot machines at tracks is a way to improve pari-mutuel handle. He said that when the company lobbies for slots at tracks, it will move to new arguments—including the ability of racetrack slots to promote agri-business—because he believes increased purses do not improve the quality of racing or increase pari-mutuel handle.
"There aren't sufficient numbers of racing customers in the world anymore because they died," Carlino said.
Carlino said everyone realizes Penn National's approach has been to buy tracks that have added gaming or have a chance to add gaming. In Maryland, where Penn National owns a 49% interest in Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, a percentage of gaming revenues supports purses. Carlino expressed frustration that tracks currently are left out of that equation.
"A huge mistake in Maryland—that's never happened anywhere else anywhere in the country before—was to allocate slots proceeds to purses," Carlino said. "I'm glad that horses are going to be eating well, but they're not going to be running well if there's no racetracks where they can run. The legislature completely ignored the people who have the real investment in the state, the racetracks."
Carlino said Pennsylvania's model for racinos, which he said included large licensing fees upfront and low taxes going forward, is the best. He encouraged Ohio Gov. John Kasich to consider a similar model.
"There is reasonable hope, if not an expectation, that [Governor Kasich] may recognize the advantage of protecting the racing industry in Ohio–which has a long history and needs help–and using that opportunity–since it's already keyed up and ready to go–to generate revenue perhaps with license fees up front and a reasonable tax rate," Carlino said.
Carlino said his company has begun to lobby in Texas with the hope that legislators will consider taking action this year. Penn National owns a half-interest in Sam Houston Race Park.
In Ohio, where Penn National owns Beulah Park near Columbus, Carlino speculated the state could allow racing licenses to be moved to areas that will not compete with the state's planned free-standing casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo. Carlino said Penn National is emphasizing that with racetrack slots sustaining racing, states pick up important, environmentally friendly agri-business.
Penn National tracks without added gaming will face cutbacks.
"Operating these tracks at a loss is not in our long-term plan," Carlino said. "We will ratchet down costs in Texas. We will ratchet down costs in Maryland. We'll do whatever it takes. We'll be tough and brutal about that because we have to. We're not running a public charity."


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Deconstructing Suburbia: New and Recent Works by Hillerbrand + Magsamen
A feature and interview with Hillerbrand + Magsamen:
Deconstruction is a common theme in the arts. Whether a concept or an object, many artists incorporate the idea of dismantling into their practice. For the duo of Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen (known collectively as Hillerbrand + Magsamen), deconstruction is both literal and metaphorical. The artists draw on the theories and techniques of the Fluxus movement, absorbing it so wholly that there is little separation between their practice and their home life. Seemingly nothing is off limits for the couple, who often incorporate their personal belongings and home, and even their children, into the works they produce.
Hillerbrand + Magsamen remain true to Fluxus' exploration of what art can be by bringing it into the suburbs. The artists refer to their practice as a sort of "suburban fluxus," a form of the movement that not only deconstructs but also fully recontextualizes American family culture, as well as the role of the camera in contemporary art. By incorporating their whole selves, they take the mundane, the banal, the everyday and transform it into spectacle.


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a term used to describe a disease, disorder, or medical condition that is a direct result of medical treatment
a variety of diseases in which the skin is dry and scaly
a term used to describe something that occurs of an unknown cause
a surgical procedure in which the lower part of the small intestine (the ileum) is cut and brought to an opening in the abdominal wall, where faeces can be passed out of the body
the lowest section of the small intestine, which attaches to the large intestine
one of the two bones that form the hip on either side of the body
the technique of creating pictures of structures inside of the body using X-rays, ultrasound waves, or magnetic fields
impairment of the immune system, which reduces protection against infection and illness
the cells, substances, and structures in the body that protect against infection and illness
the process of causing immunity by injecting antibodies or provoking the body to make its own antibodies against a certain micro-organism
resistance to a specific disease because of the responses of the immune system
weakening of the body's immune system
failure of the body's immune system to fight disease
proteins in blood and tissue fluids that help destroy micro-organisms such as bacteria and viruses
Immunoglobulin E is a type of immunological missile called an antibody that is commonly involved in allergic responses.
Immunoglobulin G (IgG() is This is type of immunological missile or antibody that is responsible for the body's 'memory' of previous encounters with an outside stimulus. It is essential for vaccinations and immunisations and is thought to be implicated in food intolerance.
the study of the immune system, including how it functions and disorders that affect it
a drug that increases the ability of the body's immune system to fight disease
a drug that inhibits the activity of the immune system; used to prevent rejection of a transplant organ and in disorders where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues
a bone break in which the two broken ends have been forced into each other
a birth defect in which the opening of the anus is not formed normally
a highly contagious skin infection caused by bacteria, usually occurring around the nose and mouth; commonly occurring in children
an organ, tissue, or device surgically inserted and left in the body
the inability to acquire or maintain an erection of the penis
"in place"; often describes a cancer that has not spread
"in glass"; a biological test or process that is carried out in a laboratory
a treatment for infertility in which an egg and a sperm are joined outside the woman's body, and the fertilised egg is then inserted into the uterus or fallopian tube
"in the living body"; a biological process that occurs inside of the body
an abnormally weak cervix, which widens prematurely during pregnancy as a result of the weight of a developing foetus; may result in a miscarriage
inability to hold urine or faeces inside of the body
the time period between when an infectious organism enters the body and when symptoms occur
uncomfortable symptoms brought on by overeating or eating spicy, rich, or fatty foods; characterised by heartburn, pain in the abdomen, nausea, and gas, and can be more serious if recurrent
the use of artificial means to start the process of childbirth
tissue death due to lack of blood supply
disease-causing micro-organisms that enter the body, multiply, and damage cells or release toxins
arthritis caused by bacteria from a wound or the bloodstream entering a joint
the inability to have children as a result of sexual intercourse
redness, pain, and swelling in an injured or infected tissue produced as a result of the body's healing response
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any type of arthritis that causes a joint to become inflamed
a viral infection characterised by headaches, muscle aches, fever, weakness, and cough; commonly called the "flu"
agreement to undergo a medical procedure after the technique, its risks, and its possible complications have been explained
the introduction of a substance, such as a drug or nutrient, into the bloodstream or a body cavity
taking something into the body through the mouth
a painful condition of the big toe in which the nail grows into the skin on either side, causing inflammation and/or infection
the bulging of a portion of the intestines or abdominal tissue into the muscles of the groin (the area just below the abdomen)
a device used to introduce a powdered or misted drug into the lungs through the mouth, usually to treat respiratory disorders such as asthma
the passing of traits from parent to child through genes
the use of a syringe and needle to insert a drug into a vein, muscle, or joint or under the skin
the placement of semen into a woman's uterus, cervix, or vagina
difficulty falling or remaining asleep
a hormone made in the pancreas that plays an important role in the absorption of glucose (the body's main source of energy) into muscle cells
a noncancerous tumour of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas; the tumour releases excess insulin into the blood, causing glucose levels to drop dangerously low
close monitoring of a patient who is seriously ill
a protein produced by body cells that fights viral infections and certain cancers
a method of holding a broken bone in place using surgically inserted screws, rods, or plates
lying between body structures or in the interspaces of tissues
persistent inflammation of the lining and muscle of the bladder
a disease of the connective tissue surrounding the air sacs of the lungs that causes a dry cough, scarring of lung tissue, and shortness of breath
scarring of connective tissue in the lungs that leads to shortness of breath
a treatment for cancer in which a radioactive material is inserted into or near a tumour to provide direct radiation
broad, flat cartilage structures containing a gel-like fluid that cushion and separate vertebrae
a surgical procedure in which the beginning of the large intestine is joined to its end so that less food is absorbed; because of serious side effects, usually performed only on seriously obese people
a long, tube-shaped organ that extends from the stomach to the anus; absorbs food and water and passes the waste products of digestion as faeces
An intolerance is different from an allergy and is defined as an unusual response of the body to certain substances.
a small balloon inserted into the aorta that helps to circulate blood by inflating between heartbeats
describes a condition that does not respond to treatment
a strong metal rod that is placed inside of a broken bone to help it heal correctly
the pressure of the fluids within the eye
a device inserted into the uterus that helps to prevent pregnancy
inside of or into a vein
a term used to describe something originating from or located in a tissue or organ
the passage of a tube into an organ or body structure; commonly used to refer to the passage of a tube down the windpipe for artificial respiration
describes something that spreads throughout body tissues, such as a tumour or micro-organism; also describes a medical procedure in which body tissues are penetrated
occurring without a person's control or participation
an element for the formation of thyroid hormones
radiation that damages cells or genes; can be used to treat cancer
intelligence quotient; a measure of a person's intelligence as determined by specific tests
the coloured part of the eye
a mineral necessary for the formation of important biological substances such as haemoglobin, myoglobin, and certain enzymes
a type of anaemia caused by a greater-than-normal loss of iron due to bleeding, problems absorbing iron, or a lack of iron in the diet
the cleansing of a wound by flushing it with water, a medicated solution, or some other fluid
involuntary contractions of muscles in the bladder, which can cause lack of control of urination
abnormal muscle movement in the intestines, which causes abdominal pain and irregular bowel movements (diarrhoea, constipation, or both)
a condition in which a tissue or organ does not receive a sufficient supply of blood
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