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Calorie counts in bold type and the added sugars in a product will be part of new food labels proposed to help U.S. consumers become healthier eaters.
The labels also will provide new serving sizes, such as 1 cup instead of a half-cup for ice cream, that more accurately reflect the way people eat, according to the proposed rules released today by the Food and Drug Administration. While the food industry introduced a voluntary front-of-package labeling system in 2011, the rules proposed today would be the first required changes to the labels in more than 20 years.
The government is largely playing catch-up as the nation's eating habits, food trends and advancements in obesity research have evolved since 1993, when labels bearing basic calorie counts and fat grams became standard. The changes are meant to help curtail the obesity epidemic and prevent chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes.
"Nobody claims that information all by itself will solve the obesity problem," Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, said today on a conference call with reporters. "There is research that lots of people use this label. The label itself influences choices for the better."
$2 Billion Cost
The FDA's draft guidance on the labels will be open to public comment for 90 days. The final rules are expected in the next year and companies then will have two years to update their packaging. The changes are expected to cost $2 billion, though the government estimates they may generate health benefits of $20 billion to $30 billion to consumers over 20 years.
"It is critical that any changes are based on the most current and reliable science," Pamela Bailey, chief executive officer of the Grocery Manufacturer's Association, said in a statement today. "Equally as important is ensuring that any changes ultimately serve to inform, and not confuse, consumers."
The FDA has been talking with the food industry about revising the labels for about a decade, Taylor said.
About 78 million adults, or about one-third of the U.S. population, are obese as are 17 percent of children and teenagers younger than 19. Michelle Obama has focused attention on childhood obesity since her husband entered the White House, urging families to eat healthier foods and exercise more. The obesity rate for 2- to 5-year-olds fell almost by half to 14 percent in 2011-2012 from a decade earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a Feb. 25 report.
Easily Understood
"Our guiding principle here is very simple: that you as a parent and a consumer should be able to walk into your local grocery store, pick up an item off the shelf, and be able to tell whether it's good for your family," first lady Michelle Obama said in a statement. "So this is a big deal, and it's going to make a big difference for families all across this country."
The new labels are another step in the effort by federal officials to help people improve their diets. Information about added sugars is a new requirement. Research over the last decade has shown that added sugars should be avoided: People who eat them are more likely to ingest less nutrient-rich food and consume more calories.
The FDA proposal also reduces the daily recommendation on sodium to 2,300 milligrams from 2,400, which the Center for Science in the Public Interest said isn't enough. The daily value should be reduced to 1,500 milligrams, the nonprofit advocacy group said.
"Americans average about 4,000 milligrams of sodium per day," the Washington-based advocacy group said in a statement today. "That level is causing about 100,000 more deaths per year from heart attacks and strokes than would occur if people were consuming 2,000 milligrams per day."
Vitamin Changes
The new labels will display the number of servings per container in bold type, and calories in a larger, bold font. Vitamin D and potassium will replace vitamin C and vitamin A as nutrients. FDA officials said Americans don't get enough of either nutrient with vitamin D aiding bone health and potassium helping reduce blood pressure. Also, the recommended daily amounts of dietary fiber and vitamin D have changed.
Calories from fat will be removed from the label, though total fat, saturated fat and trans fat still must be listed. Studies have shown that the type of fat consumed matters more than the amount.
Serving Sizes
FDA officials offered a few examples of the serving size changes being proposed. A single serving of soda will increase to 12 ounces from 8 ounces so people are better-informed about how many calories they're drinking.
Not all of the serving sizes will increase. Yogurt will be reduced to 6 ounces a serving from 8 ounces. Also, any packaged food ordinarily consumed in one sitting, such as a 20-ounce bottle of soda, will be declared one serving. Anything larger that may be consumed in one or more sittings will be labeled explaining nutrition both per serving and per package.
"There might be some awkwardness in serving size," Jim Marks, senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a telephone interview. "The recommendations would have a 12-ounce soft drink as a single serving, and a 20- ounce soft drink also as a single serving, so with a 2 liter bottle, how many servings is that?"
The proposed nutritional labels affect all packaged foods except meat, poultry and processed egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture rather than the FDA.
"To remain relevant, the FDA's newly proposed Nutrition Facts label incorporates the latest in nutrition science as more has been learned about the connection between what we eat and the development of serious chronic diseases impacting millions of Americans," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement.


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Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
A five-video series on the America's Climate Choices project
A strong, credible body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems, concludes this panel report from the America's Climate Choices suite of studies. As decision makers respond to these risks, the nation's scientific enterprise can contribute both by continuing to improve understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change, and by improving and expanding the options available to limit the magnitude of climate change and adapt to its impacts. To make this possible, the nation needs a comprehensive, integrated, and flexible climate change research enterprise that is closely linked with action-oriented programs at all levels.
The report recommends that a single federal entity or program be given the authority and resources to coordinate a national research effort integrated across many disciplines and aimed at improving both understanding and responses to climate change. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, established in 1990, could fulfill this role, but it would need to form partnerships with action-oriented programs and address weaknesses in its current program. A comprehensive climate observing system, improved climate models and other analytical tools, investment in human capital, and better linkages between research and decision making are also essential to a complete understanding of climate change.
Visit americasclimatechoices.org for more information.
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- A single federal interagency program or other entity should be given the authority and resources to coordinate and implement an integrated research effort that supports improving both understanding of and responses to climate change. If several key modifications are made, the U.S. Global Change Research Program could serve this role.
- A strong body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.
- Seven cross-cutting themes should be pursued in this new era of research: i) climate forcings, feedbacks, responses, and thresholds; ii) human behaviors and institutions; iii) vulnerability and adaptation analyses; iv) research to support strategies for limiting climate change; v) effective information and decision support systems; vi) integrated climate observing systems; and vii) improved projections, models, analyses, and assessments.
- The federal climate change research program, working in partnership with other relevant domestic and international bodies, should: a) redouble efforts to develop, deploy, and maintain a comprehensive climate observing system; b) accelerate the development of advanced models and other analytical tools; and c) expand and engage the human capital needed to carry out climate change research and response programs.
- The nation needs a new era in the climate change science enterprise, one that not only contributes to our fundamental understanding of climate change but also informs and expands America's climate choices.
- The nation's climate change research enterprise should: 1) integrate disciplinary and interdisciplinary research across the physical, social, biological, health, and engineering sciences; 2) focus on use-inspired, fundamental research that contributes to both improved understanding and more effective decision making; 3) be linked to action-oriented programs focused on limiting and adapting to climate change; 4) be flexible in identifying and pursuing emerging research challenges.


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Today is Part Two of a series on blogging.
See here for Part 1, on Why Did You Start Blogging?
When I started, I figured I would blog about writing. I was deep into my second novel, trying to get an agent, and I figured I needed it for platform. Also, to vent! (Carefully, mind you.)
Early on, I decided to tackle a huge paranoia I had. I feared that other writers would shun me because I had this whole other career as a doctor. I wanted my blog to focus on the writer part, but I felt like a sham. I thought, maybe embracing it would be a better idea.
And so, Medical Mondays was born, along with Mental Health Mondays with Laura Diamond, who uses her skills as psychiatrist for writerly questions too. Sarah Fine came on board later on, to add her knowledge of psychology (specifically, child psychology). It's been a trifecta of goodness.
I am so glad I took that shaky step! Not only do I get a chance to help others, I also learn something fact-checking and doing research for every single post. As for that paranoia of mine? Poof. It disappeared when I realized people embraced these different sides of me and were okay with it. The icing on the bloggy cake is that Medical Mondays garners the most page views and sends the most strangers to my blog from search engines.
The Wednesday blog chain started soon afterwards. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Blog has changed a few members, but every month we're challenged to answer our own question. Deb, Sarah, and Laura have been great sisters, and great supporters.
I added other themes, like Plot Devices. Deus Ex Machina (after I got the spelling right) was illuminating for me. I also found out what a MacGuffin was (not a slobbish, overweight MacGyver. Who knew?)
Then weird science-related things that caught my attention. The Zombie Ants post was a runaway hit. The Luna Moth one still takes my breath away.
In August, I started doing some Author Spotlights on Fridays. That has been fun, and it came at a time where I was running out of fun things to blog about. Lately it's died off a bit, mostly because I slacked off on finding authors, plus I wanted to blog on Fridays for myself again. BUT if you want to be spotlit for a Friday, email me. I'd be happy to have you. :)
I guess after doing this for two years, I figured out a lot.
- Sometimes taking a chance on content can pay off big (personally, and in page views)
- Be willing to change and experiment. It's your blog, after all.
- Make your own rules, and stick to them. For me, I stay away from cussing, religion/spirituality, and politics. I do not do book reviews. I don't post my own fiction here, not even snippets. I don't show pictures or names of my family members, and obviously, I don't blog about specifics from my day job. (Can you say HIPAA violation???)
- Be yourself. On my blog, I'm silly. I doodle cartoons. This is what I'm like, on a personal level. Yes, my patients and my boss can probably see this stuff, but people and patients I work with know I keep my work sphere very distinct from this one. I've decided I have different facets, and I choose when to show those facets. I am not all things at all times. I am complicated, and I'm okay with that.
One big upcoming question will be about self-promotion. I will have a book coming out on 2013. Yes, I will make announcements on exciting stuff. But no, I will not be shoving my book in my reader's faces on every post when the time comes. I don't like reading that on other's people's blogs, and I won't have it on mine.
My blog, myself, my decisions.
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It was February 1998 late at night into the early morning hours when overflowing waters from the San Francisquito Creek flooded homes in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park.
The memories are still fresh for some residents who said they are always worried about a repeat flooding any time a series of rain showers and storms hit their neighborhoods.
With more rain expected this weekend and a ground already saturated by recent wet weather, residents said they are nervous for a repeat of what's known as the flood of record in 1998.
Mary and John Schaefer remembered just how quickly the waters flooded their Palo Alto home on De Soto Drive. "There was no warning, it's a silent enemy," recalled Mary. "Once it comes over the threshold, you just look at it and go, 'Ohhh.'" The water filled the house, 14 inches high, damaging walls and furniture, and ruining the collection of family photos. The damage? $35,000.
In 1999, the three cities and two counties, San Mateo and Santa Clara, decided to form the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (SFCJPA) to design and implement projects on behalf of all of the jurisdictions. SFCJPA Executive Director Len Materman said that board members will vote in just two weeks on approving a project that would widen the creek, build levees, and add flood walls. If the funding is ready, construction could begin next year and finish by 2015.
"This system is particularly flashy," Materman explained. "What that means is that it can rise and fall very quickly with severe rain storm, a burst of rain, and that's what we saw in '98. We're really concerned it can happen again."
Next month, the SFCJPA is set to produce environmental reviews about the Pope-Chaucer Street Bridge, a choke point that sent water into many homes. A bridge John Shaefer said should have been replaced "30 years ago." Materman added that it's not just about protecting the people and their 6,000 homes and businesses in the area, but also unifying the communities.
"This creek for so long has been a liability because of its flood issues and it's been divisive. It's divided counties and cities, and we hope to bring these projects along so these communities can be united. Instead of a liability it becomes an asset."


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From time to time I get tagged with one of those "me-me's" where you're supposed to make a list about yourself. I almost never get around to them (sorry!) because as much as I like a good t0-do list, I'm terrible at making lists about myself. I have three lists started that I never finished! So... rather than let them sit unseen on my computer, I figured I'd share what I came up with so far.
Things I Like:
- Rummaging around in thrift stores. I can, and do, spend hours at a time picking through each and every pieces of clothing and knick-knack in thrift stores. Often people ask to go thrifting with me and I warn them that it could take hours. I don't think they really believe me and they usually get bored about 30 minutes into the whole deal.
- Being by myself. This sort of relates to #1. I find it meditative to be by myself at the thrift store, digging through racks of clothes. But I also like to do things like take long walks by myself, going out to eat by myself and going to the movies by myself. I once went to see 28 Days Later by myself and ending up being the only person in the theater. Super creepy! I don't do this much anymore since I really enjoy the company of my boyfriend. I suppose it's quite different choosing to be alone than being alone because you have no choice.
- This is a brand new addition to the list. Wii Fitness! We visited friends last weekend that have it and I was instantly hooked. Can I just say that I'm awesome at Wii Hoola Hoop? Thank you, thank you. One of my prouder accomplishments. Although I have to admit I was a bit bummed that my Wii age ended up being 11 years older than my real age. Guess I have some work to do!
Things I Don't Like:
- Elevators. I think it's mainly the closed in space that I don't like. Whenever I step into an elevator I instantly feel like everyone is breathing my air. I'll usually opt to take the stairs whenever possible although I have gotten used to riding the elevator in the building where I live (I think that's because I'm usually the only person in it).
- Other people doing my laundry. I'm super particular about my clothes (no surprise there, right?) and I don't like for anyone else to do my laundry. Certain things don't go in the dryer or need to be dried flat or need to hang to dry. Some people stuff too many things in the washer at once and it makes me crazy. I'd just rather do it myself. Even though we have a washer and dryer in our apartment, my boyfriend and I always do our laundry separately.
- Sushi. I really, really wish I liked sushi (the vegetarian kind at least). It's just so cute and bite sized! I love to look at all the little rolls lined up and the sushi dishes are always so adorable. Even back when I still ate fish I tried eating it many times thinking this will be the time that I love it. Nope! Not even a little bit.
Odd Things About Me:
- I read magazine backwards, that is from back to front. For some reason I always start at the last page and flip to the front. I even find myself reading the last paragraph of an article and then skimming to the beginning. It's a terrible habit. Some sort of compulsion that I can't seem to shake. I'll even do it to books if I'm not careful. Sometimes I have to paperclip the last few pages of a book together to keep myself from spoiling the end by peeking before I'm done reading.
- I always have to put on my left shoe and sock first. If I accidentally put the right one on first without thinking, I have to take it off and start again. If not, I'll feel strangely crooked all day. I've noticed that this practice is spreading to things like gloves, earrings and anything else that comes in pairs.
- I don't know if this really counts as being odd, but being from the South I have several expressions I use on a regular basis that frequently garner strange looks. For instance, I call shopping carts "buggies" and winter caps "toboggans" (or just "boggans" for short). I call fingernail clippers "snips" and often say things like "fixin' to" and "might could". And when someone's taking my photo I'll say I'm "getting my picture made".


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LOS ANGELES—Sean "Diddy" Combs is being treated for injuries he sustained during a minor car accident in Beverly Hills, Calif.
A spokeswoman for the 42-year-old rapper-producer says he hurt his neck, ribs and collarbone in the crash Wednesday on Sunset Boulevard near the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Combs was a passenger in a Cadillac Escalade when a Lexus sedan made a left turn and collided with it. A police lieutenant said Combs complained of pain but he was not taken to a hospital at the time.
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Constitutional Rules, Constitutional Standards, and Constitutional Settlement: Marbury V. Madison and the Case for Judicial Supremacy
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Even after 200 years, Marbury v. Madison continues to generate scholarly attention. There is a huge and rich literature on the merits and implications of the Marshall opinion apart from its assertion of judicial review. Nevertheless, the main body of the vast Marbury oeuvre is devoted to judicial review. Is judicial review provided for in the Constitution? If not, has its legitimacy been established other than by constitutional provenance? What is the scope of judicial review? In other words, to what governmental acts is it applicable? Finally, what is the force of judicial review? Does it have stare decisis effect as well as res judicata effect? And if it has stare decisis effect, is that effect as strong as or stronger than the Supreme Court's gloss on Marbury in Cooper v. Aaron implies?
In this paper I focus on the force question, its relation to the so-called countermajoritarian difficulty, and to what extent attacks on Cooper v. Aaron are meritorious.
Keywords: Marbury v. Madison, Aaron v. Cooper, judicial review, consititutional law
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I had a look at component images and sure enough the center lines were clearly looped over the bar disabling the normal depowering of the kite much less Emergency Depowering.
The wrapped bar. He even had his thumb on it.
Looking at the excessive power and looping of the kite in the opening scene it apparently had wrapped before that time perhaps in a wipeout. The non-responsiveness of the kite to normal depowering was his first tipoff. He didn't know enough about normal kite functioning apparently to pickup on this. The best thing to have done would have been to set the kite entirely free as early as possible or at the latest while it was stalled upside down by the jetty. Activating the primary QR under these circumstances almost assures a bad outcome.
Just before he hit the rocks, at least twice and the side of the concrete walk once. He was a very lucky guy to come out of this.
Getting adequate, QUALITY pro kiting instruction is key, in all cases. When you tumble in a wipeout, EXPECT something to haven been messed up. Work to make sure this isn't the case as it may or may not be. Understand how your gear works and what it should normally look like. Wearing reasonable safety gear can help too, for head and torso impacts. If the kite hadn't stalled in the lee of the jetty he might have been dragged into the water to slam into the side of the far jetty. Coming out of that sort of impact so cleanly seems unlikely in the extreme.
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The stock market has been falling hard since the election, though it's really been weak since the beginning of October.
The popular explanation of the fall is the "Fiscal Cliff", which is a somewhat disappointing and unsatisfying explanation, since it's not like there's been any new information on that front (and in fact, if anything, the early tone has been fairly conciliatory).
In a note to clients of his firm last week, Nouriel Roubini gave 6 reasons why the rally has been "running out of steam."
We summarize them in bullets:
- Growth is weak.
- The Eurozone crisis is backsliding again. Greece is coming to a head (once again).
- Political concerns (fiscal cliff, etc.).
- Valuations have gotten way stretched, and are difficult to justify given low inflation and more developed market deleveraging.
- QE is running out of its impact, and unlike past QEs (QE1 and QE2), QE3 was launched near a market peak, and if anything revenue and earnings misses are expected to accelerate.
- Geopolitical risk is back (Israel, Gaza, Syria, etc.).
None of these are terribly new for investors, but they do point to a collage of concerns that expand just beyond The Cliff.
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Patients are allowed to possess six ounces at once, but are not allowed to cultivate marijuana plants at home.
In Massachusetts, doctors can now recommend medical marijuana for patients with certain conditions including cancer, glaucoma, HIV-positive status or AIDS, hepatitis C, Crohn's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS, or multiple sclerosis, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Patients need written certification from a doctor, which would allow them to have a 60-day supply of marijuana for personal medical use. Those who wish to cultivate their own marijuana must be unable to access treatment centers and would need a permit from the health department.
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ZAGREB, Croatia, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Defending champion Mikhail Youzhny breezed to a second-round win over Igor Sijsling Wednesday at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors tennis tournament in Croatia.
Youzhny, the No. 3 seed, beat Sijsling 6-3, 6-2 in 68 minutes. He won three-quarters of the points on serve and saved the only two break points he faced.
Youzhny dropped just three points when he landed his first serve.
First-round play was completed Wednesday, including a match in which sixth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis beat Tobias Kamke 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 6-4. Baghdatis saw just one break point -- and saved it -- while taking 74 percent of the points when serving. He lost four points on serve in putting the match away in the third set.
Ivan Dodig defeat Benjamin Becker 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) and Robin Haase stopped Antonio Veic 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Also advancing to the second round was Flavio Cipolla, who was tied 1-1 in the first set when eighth-seeded Lukas Lacko retired with a back injury. Youzhny beat Lacko in last year's Zagreb final.


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Talk:How Metro Works
I recommend integrating this content into the Metro main page. We are missing a basic introduction to Metro there - a defintion of what it is, etc.
Basic introduction is not needed, the goal of the article is to dive deeper in the subject and this would add redundancy, those who read the article know what metro is. At worst I will put cross a reference (best practice : do cross references, do not repeat the text between articles). Metro is not a single article, it is a set of several articles (this one, the quick start guide, the data modules, used and whatever else added in the future) grouped with the category "Metro"and this what the Metro page refers to :)
However I agree with you, Metro need a bit more verbosity, I would make the Metro main page more verbose with a list of several sub pages dedicated to a particular subjects. This page is the common denominator of every other.


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AMD Dives 14%: Stock's Too Rich Given PC Woes, Says Goldman; AlphaOne Disagrees
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Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are down 63 cents, or 14.4%, at $3.75, after Goldman Sachs chip analyst James Covello cut his rating on the stock to Sell from Neutral, despite raising estimates, writing that the 83% run-up in the stock this year means that even with with rising estimates, the stock's valuation doesn't reflect a challenging outlook for the PC market.
"As has been the case with many of the other rallies in AMD, which have all faded, ultimately, the numbers do not justify the move in the stock, in our view."
Covello, like other analysts recently, notes that the company is facing potential upside in chips that are expected to go into the next Sony (SNE) PlayStation, the PS 4, as well as Microsoft's (MSFT) next Xbox, which is expected to be unveiled next week at the E3 video game conference:
The gaming opportunity for AMD is real and indeed we believe published consensus estimates likely need to increase to incorporate gaming. However, even incorporating the expected gaming revenue and earnings, the stock is trading at 22X our new 2014 CY EPS estimate as the gaming opportunity only partially offsets the continued secular challenges in the company's core PC business (we estimate that the PC business will generate 45% of the company's 2013 revenue). We therefore believe this recent move in the stock is just the latest in a long history of unsustainable rallies, and we are downgrading the stock to Sell. We believe the current multiple is unjustified for any company with such significant exposure to the secularly declining PC market.
Covello thinks that total gaming revenue in 2014 could be $960 million, based on total "application processor unit" shipments of 12 million units.
However, Covello sees AMD losing share in PC chips amidst a troubled market, with shipments dropping to 153.5 million this year from 157.7 million last year:
PC business remains a headwind. Our model assumes that AMD continues to lose market share in the core PC market, and we assume AMD's share of PC client processors declines to 13% in 2014 from 17% in 2012 (Exhibit 3). We believe our view on AMD's share in the PC client business is below consensus. We expect AMD will lose further share in the performance areas of the market to Intel, as we believe Intel's integrated design and manufacturing allows it to more quickly ramp leading edge products. In power-sensitive applications, we believe AMD will lose share to new ARM-based entrants such as Qualcomm due to the low-power characteristics of the ARM core.
Covello raises this year's projected revenue to $4.92 billion from $4.57 billion, to reflect the gaming revenue, and cuts his net loss projection to 15 cents per share from a 25-cent loss. That is higher than the consensus for $4.7 billion, and in line with a 14-cent non-GAAP net loss. For 2014, he sees $5.5 billion in revenue, and a 20-cent profit per share, versus a prior $4.65 billion and a 10-cent loss. The Street is at $5.06 billion and a 20-cent-per-share profit.
Covello's note is similar to one two weeks ago from Macquarie Equities Research's Shawn Webster, who cut the stock to Hold, writing that the valuation had become too rich.
Update: In rebuttal, Dan Niles of AlphaOne Capital Management, who was short AMD shares all last year, but recently went long the stock, tells me in a phone call today "If they're saying the valuation is too high, that's a bet I'll take every time" because rising estimates will tend to lift the stock.
On a deeper level, Niles argues that AMD is a company once thought to go bankrupt, and the company's major problem a year ago was the delay it suffered in getting chips out the door with partner GlobalFoundries. Now that AMD has switched to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) for most of its production, "they've got the A Team" in chip production, ensuring a smoother ramp.
If the company is being designed into gaming consoles, that's a six-year cycle of steady revenue, observes Niles. He agrees that the PC market is bad place to be, but notes that AMD has been more realistic than Intel (INTC).
"AMD has said they expect 1% to 2% decline in PC [unit] shipments this year, whereas Intel is still arguing things are going to turn around, which I don't think they are."
If the gaming market starts to boost revenue above current expectations, it will likely lead to leverage in manufacturing and operating expenses, Niles argues, which could mean profit comes out higher than the 15-cent loss Covello is modeling for this year and the 20 cents profit he models next year.


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Does anybody know a web service that allows you to
- insert the books you have
- mark authors you like
- mark book series you like
- rate books
- write reviews
- automatically find people who read similar books
- insert the languages you know
- gives, based on this information, recommendations for interesting books
- generate an rss-feed / send emails for some events, e.g.
- an author you like wrote a new book
- a serie you like got a new book
- a book you marked got translated in your language
(and perhaps save your information for usage out of this system)
I only know amazon and some other book stores that offer some recommendations, but I don't know any service that allows me to keep track of the books an author writes.
Do you know a web service like that?


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When the Alpinists leave his hut at 4 in the morning and the lights of the famous headlamp parade on Hörnligrat flash in the black mountain night, the day could still go either way for Kurt Lauber – will it be routine or catastrophe today? In the preface to his newly published book entitled "Der Wächter des Matterhorns" (Guardian of the Matterhorn), he writes: "In the years past, several hundred climbers have lost their lives on the Matterhorn – one can't help but be affected by that."
Aside from being the warden of the famous Hörnlihütte, Kurt Lauber is also a qualified ski instructor, helicopter pilot and rescue specialist. The hut is located at an altitude of 3,260 m above sea level at the access to the Hörnligrat ridge, the Alpinists' preferred route to the 4,478 metre Matterhorn.
Collecting unexperienced tourists
On lucky days, the weather is good enough to permit Kurt Lauber and his colleagues from the Zermatt mountain rescue team to collect inexperienced tourists by helicopter. When conditions are bad, the terrain, snow storms or the darkness may force them to arrive at the rescue scene on foot. At such times they may have to put their own lives at risk. The book contains funny stories, reflective ones and episodes from the life of the Alpinists on the 'Hore' and life on the Hörnlihütte. It is a great read for everyone who loves the mountains and likes ascending to dizzying heights while remaining firmly seated on the living room sofa. Snow storms, freezing cold temperatures and jet black nights. Putting on the little headlamp and tackling the 1,200 altitude metres to the peak of the Matterhorn is something they would either never dare to do, may do at some point or never plan to do again.
The book:
"Der Wächter des Matterhorns", Mein Leben auf der Hörnlihütte, (Guardian of the Matterhorn, my life at the Hörnlihütte), author: Kurt Lauber, published by Droemer Verlag.


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Today he is remembered mainly because of a modern marvel, the Hubble Space Telescope, that bears his name. But in the first quarter of the 20th century, the handsome, self-mythologizing and brilliant astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was famous for what he discovered while peering through an earlier, land-based telescope: namely, that we are not alone. Or rather, that our galaxy is not alone. In fact, ours is one of literally billions of galaxies — an exhilarating and humbling reality that had long been debated but, until Hubble, was never decisively shown.
Like Einstein's theory of relativity (the validity of which Hubble's discovery helped bolster), Edwin Hubble's astonishing revelation — officially delivered as a paper at the Jan. 1, 1925, meeting of the American Astronomical Society — fundamentally altered the way we see the universe, and our place in it. Some people reacted to Hubble's research with dismay, feeling that such a finding reduced centuries of human striving to near-irrelevancy.
After all, in the face of a cosmos as vast and mutable as that described by Hubble, even the highest aspirations and accomplishments seem somehow pointless. Vain. Puny.
Others, meanwhile, celebrated the ramifications of Hubble's work and his genius: if a man — albeit one firmly standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before — could envision and then, though rigorous work and discipline, prove that our universe is comprised of not only billions of stars but billions of galaxies, then what sort of other discoveries might lie in wait?
If a single human mind could encompass such a radical view of the cosmos, what other marvels could the human mind and the human imagination achieve?
Here, on Hubble's 125th birthday (b. Nov. 20, 1889), LIFE.com considers his legacy as seen through the lens of a photograph made in 1937 by Margaret Bourke-White. In the picture — arguably the single greatest photo ever made of a scientist at work — Hubble sits at the controls of the 100-inch Hooker telescope in California, the very same mind-bendingly powerful (and beautiful) device through which he gazed for years on end before shocking the world with his pronouncement of January 1925.
As LIFE wrote in the Nov. 8, 1937 issue of the magazine, in which Bourke-White's picture first appeared:
On top of Mt. Wilson, 70 miles east of Los Angeles, works a group of patient men who think in terms of decades and whose calculations are made in terms of millions of light years. They are the astronomers in charge of the 100-inch telescope which in the last 20 years has gradually rolled back the frontiers of the universe. Night after night and for hours on end they sit . . . taking photographs of distant stars. To them, the earth is an infinitely small cog in an immense clock. Hence they live in an atmosphere pleasantly devoid of the petty realities of life.
Whether or not any scientist, no matter how accomplished, has ever truly been able to "live in an atmosphere pleasantly devoid of the petty realities of life" is obviously open for debate. But in Bourke-White's remarkable portrait of Hubble, we witness a man so at ease and in sync with the massive machine before him that he seems almost to be a part of it — or rather, it is part of him: an extension not of his corporeal body, but of his imagination, and his will.
Alone, riveted, tirelessly tracking and mapping the heavens, Hubble is in his element. The "petty realities" fade; the universe expands; human knowledge advances.
That a single picture made more than three-quarters of a century ago can capture all of that, in an instant, says as much about the heart-stopping adventures of our greatest scientists as it does about both the talent of our greatest photographers, and the deep, enduring appeal of photography itself.


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Yesterday, somebody pointed me to a FriendFeed thread in which an artist and a FriendFeed user were working through issues of intellectual property and Internet etiquette.
The FriendFeed user, Kol, had bookmarked an image that he found on a site that allows artists to share their work with each other. In typical FriendFeed fashion, this bookmark appeared in FriendFeed with a thumbnail of the image he had bookmarked and with places for other FriendFeed users to comment on, "like," or re-share the bookmark and its related thumbnail image with their own sets of FriendFeed friends. The artist objected strenuously (and not at all politely) to the fact that this thumbnail appeared on FriendFeed. Kol and other FriendFeed users tried explaining that Kol had not, in fact, infringed on the artist's rights by bookmarking her image since thumbnails do not violate copyright and since the image was licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License (though the artist has since removed that license). In short, the artist was well within her rights to ask (politely) to have her image removed from FriendFeed as a matter of courtesy, but she was probably not within her rights to accuse the original poster of wrong-doing. That's the sanitized version, at least, which I reproduced here at some length because of difficulties with the original material.*
So, except for the attendant drama, the issues seem to be garden-variety intellectual property confusion. But all the drama involved in this particular exchange was actually kind of illuminating.
First, it reminded me that as an information consumer, I'm used to the feelings of frustration involved in finding out that I can't freely use other people's stuff however I want to even if I cite my sources. I run up against the flip-side of these frustrations only very rarely, however, and they're good to bear in mind. I happily slap Creative Commons licenses on lots of the stuff I produce, but I remember all too well the first time I found my work being reproduced and shared in a way that I didn't particularly appreciate but that fell squarely within the parameters of the license I'd chosen. There's nothing like working up a good head of righteous indignation only to remember that they're doing exactly what I said they could do and no more.
This particular discussion might also be less straight-forward than it at first appeared. Licenses always trump copyright, and the original image** has license-like language attached to it that prohibits "use" of the work outside of a specific community. The artist clearly thought that this applied to bookmarking and sharing via FriendFeed, though that's not at all clear from the term "use." Kol either didn't read those instructions, or read them but didn't think they applied to bookmarking, or read them but didn't think they constituted a license. (To be fair, I'm not completely sure they are a license, either, but I think good etiquette would be to assume that they do.) And where does all of this leave the artist's fans? If they want to share bookmarks with other fans or potential fans, they can't turn off the "suck in a thumbnail" feature of these social networks. The only way that gets turned off is if the originating site has lock-down features like Flickr does for the images its users make private.
Little did Kol know when he bookmarked this image that he'd bring down the wrath of the artist, spark a huge debate on FriendFeed (and a ton of re-shares of Kol's post), and set this librarian to musing about the incredibly intertangled worlds of intellectual property, etiquette, and the Internet.
* I don't like talking about things without linking to them, but this one has me on the fence for two reason: 1) the link may die suddenly since there was a promise to delete the thread as soon as someone from FriendFeed had seen and responded to the original poster, and 2) the language in this thread is decidedly not safe for work, or for kids, or for me. Still want to see it? Here you go. [Edit: yep, the original post is gone now.] I may or may not screen-grab the post for posterity. I haven't decided yet if that's fair to all involved, or if I want to have that kind of language saved anywhere associated with me. Call me a prude, if you want, but them's my boundaries and it's up to me if I want to cross them.
** I'm aware that by linking to that image, the artist may find my post, so I'll just say right up front that while I welcome constructive comments and discussion, I reserve the right to delete any crude or abusive comments. And I get to decide what constitutes "crude" or "abusive."


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Kingshuk Mukherjee
1. What classes do you teach?
Operations Management and possibly other management courses such as Principles of Management 201 as I start teaching as a full time faculty from fall.
2. Where did you go to school?
MBA in International Business : Coventry University, Coventry, England.
Bachelor's degree: St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India.
3. How long have you been teaching?
This is my third year of teaching here at St Ben's/ St John's as an adjunct faculty. I used to teach for business school for a British based University, called De Montfort from 1998-2000. I then went on to work in corporate sector working in the textile, fine art and craft industry, where starting as sales manager I became the Director of Operations, Sales and Marketing.
4. What activates or scholarly activities are you involved in?
I am at present involved in working with major national chains and box stores within domestic USA as well as Europe, Australia Middle East and South East Asia in areas of Operations/Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Sales and Sourcing worldwide. I am involved with many trade associations and organizations and like attending conferences and trade shows domestically and internationally. My scholarly interests would focus on bridging the gaps between the corporate world with academia. I am particularly interested in the areas of supply chain management, green supply chain, international trade, import-export management, asian business practices and management.
5. What do you like about teaching?
I like most about teaching is giving and sharing the real world experiences with the students who are the future so to make them ready for the new interconnected and interlinked world/work place. I like sharing with students the global views, perspective, intercultural and multi ethnic views so as to open the global doors and opportunities for the students. I also like to link the students with the local industries and apply the concepts taught in the class to see them play out at a real work place/company/job floor so that they can be better managers and/or leaders in coming years.
6. What would be your advice to students?
Act Local Think Global ethically and using moral judgments.


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Hear the untold stories of enslaved people and learn about historical and contemporary slavery.
Historical and contemporary slavery.
A beautiful building housing one of the UK's finest collections of fine and decorative art.
Paintings, Wedgwood and Chinese ceramics.
Uncover objects from the Titanic, find out about life at sea and learn about the port of Liverpool.
The Titanic, life at sea and Liverpool's port.
This museum tells the story of Liverpool with diverse exhibits housed in a stunning building.
Liverpool's history and popular culture.
Explore a Victorian merchant's house with its period furniture and beautiful paintings.
Paintings, vintage fashion and furniture.
Beautiful paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day.
Paintings, sculpture and decorative art.
Discover treasures from around the world, explore outer space and meet live creatures!
World cultures, space and live creatures.
Also in this section…?
Download mp3 audio files of talks and events at our museums and galleries. Transcripts are also available with each podcast.
A guide to listening to and downloading our podcasts can be found here.
A brief extract from the show 'A Dickens of a Christmas Carol' at World Museum Liverpool's Treasure House Theatre.1.1MB, 2.13 mins
Kensington Youth Inclusion Project read their poems inspired by the John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. 2.21MB, 4.47 mins
Performance, Community and education
A gallery talk by local historian Margaret Williams who discusses the Great War and its impact on the village of Port Sunlight. 14.2MB, 31.59 mins
Urban/social history
Lisa Bradshaw, John Moores exhibition officer at the Walker Art Gallery, talks about the history of the John Moores contemporary painting prize and the organisation of the John Moores 25 exhibition.14.8MB, 32.13 mins
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, Contemporary art, Temporary exhibitions
A gallery talk on the history of the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize and some of its winning artists and artworks. 20.5MB, 45.55 mins
Picture of the Month talk, October 2008 at the Walker Art Gallery.12.8MB, 28.56 mins
Talk by Nicolette Jones on Samuel Plimsoll, after whom the Plimsoll line is named.21.6MB, 47.10 mins
Nicolette Jones
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An introduction to the exhibition and detailed information about the room sizes and flooring of the gallery space. This guide may be useful to visually impaired visitors.2.26MB, 5.57 mins
Speeches by David Fleming, Prof. Phil Redmond, Reyahn King, Lady Grantchester and Sacha Craddock.8.97MB, 20.35 mins
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Jumping Back To The Future
As a pair of 25-year-old rookie cops, actors Jonah Hill (29) and Channing Tatum (31) push the envelope, but the credibility of their characters is smashed when they are sent back to high school in order to bust a designer drug ring. Even if you buy it, the premise of this comedy makes "21 Jump Street" creepier than many horrors.
Since it's also a reboot of a middling '80s crime drama, the film sends up Hollywood remakes of mediocre material. No one is safe, including Capt. Dickson (Ice Cube), a self-proclaimed angry black man, miffed off over his assignment overseeing the revived 21 Jump Street program, because, "All they do is recycle sh-t from the past … and expect us not to notice."
Capt. Dickson, a firm believer in stereotypes, informs his new recruits, "You've been assigned to go back to high school because you're too all immature for regular police work." It just so happens he's right, especially about beefcake Jenko – played by a blank-looking Tatum. The captain makes an underwater basket weaving class schedule for Jenko that includes track, band, P.E. and drama. Jenko's partner on the undercover assignment is Schmidt (Hill), who's lack of social skills and high academy grades prompts the captain to put the nerd in honors chemistry.
The film further plays with these types by switching their records, thus sending the jock into chemistry and the nerd into drama. That part of the film works well, as does requiring the recruits to pose as brothers and live with Schmidt's aging hippie mom (Caroline Aaron).
Schmidt is pleased to find himself accepted by the cool kids, including an ecology-obsessed, designer-drug dealer (Dave Franco), whose galpal Molly (Brie Larson), takes a shine to the new guy. Meanwhile, Jenko discovers that nerds dig blowing things up, and are geniuses when it comes to tapping cell phones.
The film, co-written by Hill, regularly sinks into vulgarity that trades polished wit for raunchy, homophobic, penis jokes. Likewise, the story's muddled action sequences consistently earn "C's" and "D's."
The situational humor works best when focused on the troubled friendship between its unlikely costars, and the unexpected elements each brings to his new high school clique. The setting provides an opportunity to make keen observations about the constantly shifting perspective of what is and isn't "cool" among teens, blaming the current environment of PC tolerance on TV shows such as "Glee."
Creepy bits included, there's little new here – but when it works, the story boldly goes where others have gone before.


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Don't know what the deal was before, but I got in just fine this time.
Is there anyone else who plays regularly who might not have noticed this thread yet that we need to let know?
We still need Kevin to sign up - then I'd say if no one has objections to go ahead and invite the other two. Unless you guys think we should wait a week or two to see if anyone else from JD uses the site. But I'm not about to try to stop inviting anyone being as I've already invited an outside player.
I assume you're referring to hypocrisy - which I intentionally (and successfully) managed to avoid.
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Past Presenters
2018-2019 Schedule of Presenters
|Sept. 5
|Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt
|Oct. 10
|Jennifer Chacon, UCLA
|Nov. 5
|Jonathan Peters, UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
|Jan. 9
|Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College
|Feb. 18
|Troy McKenzie, NYU
|Mar. 6
|Barry Cushman, Notre Dame
|Apr. 1
|Stephen Sachs, Duke
|Apr. 17
|Michelle Kwon, University of Tennessee
2017-2018 Schedule of Presenters
|Oct. 18
|Logan Sawyer, UGA School of Law
|Oct. 25
|Deborah Dinner, Emory Law
|Nov. 8
|Lisa Milot, UGA School of Law
|Jan. 17
|Usha Rodrigues, UGA School of Law
|Feb. 7
|Eric Franklin Amarante, UT Knoxville College of Law
|Feb. 12
|Adam N. Steinman, Alabama Law
|Feb. 26
|Rachel A. Harmon, UVA School of Law
|Mar. 7
|Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota Law School
|Mar. 26
|Stephen I. Vladeck, Texas Law
|Apr. 4
|Beth Burch, UGA School of Law
|Apr. 9
|Stephen Lee, UC Irvine School of Law
|Apr. 16
|Nathan Chapman, UGA School of Law
|Apr. 23
|Joe Miller, UGA School of Law
2016-2017 Schedule of Presenters
|Sept. 21
|Beth Burch, Georgia Law
|Sept. 26
|Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University
|Sept. 29
|Brian Lea, Georgia Law
|Oct. 10
|Saikrishna Prakash, University of Virginia
|Oct. 19
|Camilla Watson, Christian Turner, Georgia Law
|Nov. 9
|Peter Appel, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, Georgia Law
|Nov. 14
|Guy-Uriel Charles, Duke
|Jan. 18
|Amanda Frost, American University
|Jan. 25
|Greg Polsky, Georgia Law
|Jan. 30
|David I. Walker, Boston University
|Feb. 15
|Logan Sawyer, Georgia Law
|Feb. 27
|J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt
|March 15
|Myriam Gilles, Cardozo
|March 22
|Georgia Law, TBD
|March 27
|Paul Horwitz, University of Alabama
|April 3
|Hannah Wiseman, Florida State
|April 12
|Georgia Law, TBD
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|September 30
|Ziv Bohrer, Bar Ilan University
|October 5
|Paul Horwitz, University of Alabama
|October 12
|Lou Mulligan, University of Kansas
|October 19
|Anne Fleming, Georgetown University
|November 2
|Mehrsa Baradaran & TBD, University of Georgia
|November 23
|Ani Seitz, Emory University
|December 7
|January 20
|Gregory Parks, Wake Forest Univeristy
|January 25
|Dan Ernst, Georgetown University
|February 1
|Beth Burch & TBD, University of Georgia
|February 10
|Camille Gear Rich, University of South Carolina
|February 15
|Bryant Walker Smith, University of South Carolina
|February 22
|Wentong Zheng, University of Florida
|March 2
|Sue Bryant, CUNY
|March 21
|Tim Lytton, Georgia State University
|April 4
2014-15 Schedule of Presenters
|August 25
|David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
|August 27
|September 3
|Eddie Watson
|September 8
|Ralph Brubaker (University of Illinois College of Law)
|September 10
|Oren Perez (Bar Ilan University)
|September 17
|September 29
|Zygmunt Plater (Boston College Law School)
|October 13
|October 20
|December 3
|Paul Stephan (University of Virginia School of Law)
|February 9
|Timothy Lovelace (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
|February 16
|Jason Nance (University of Florida Levin College of Law)
|March 23
|Jeanne Fromer (New York University School of Law)
|April 15
|Zack Buck (Mercer Law)
|April 20
|Jane Aiken (Georgetown Law)
2013-14 Schedule of Presenters
|October 2
|Timothy Meyer (UGA School of Law)
|October 9
|Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law) - "Talent Wants to Be Free: The Upside of Leaks, Raids, and Free-Riding"
|October 30
|Harlan Cohen (University of Georgia School of Law) - "Prolegomena to a Theory of International Precedent"
|November 4
|Rashmi Dyal-Chand (Northeastern University School of Law) - "Sharing the Cathedral"
|November 13
|Ted Eisenberg (UNC School of Law) - "Statutory Interpretation from the Inside"
|November 20
|Sonja R. West (UGA School of Law)
|January 13
|Saule Omarova (UNC School of Law ) - "Private Means to Public Ends: Governments as market Actors"
|January 15
|Mark Graeber (UM Carey Law ) - "Constructing Constitutional Politics: The Reconstruction Strategy for Protecting Rights"
|January 29
|Jeanne Fromer (New York University Law)
|February 26
|John Stinneford (UF Levin College of Law) - "Death, Desuetude, and Original Meaning"
|March 3
|Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (UGA School of Law) - "Judging Multidistrict Litigation"
|March 5
|Danielle Citron (UM Carey Law) - "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace"
|March 17
|Rodney A. Smolla (UGA School of Law) - "Fisher v. University of Texas: Who Put the Holes in "Holistic"?"
|April 2
|David Fontana (GW Law) - "Government by Location"
|April 9
Sarah Barringer Gordon (Penn Law) - "The African Supplement: Religion, Race and Corporate Law in Early National America"
2012-13 Schedule of Presenters
|Jamal Greene, (Columbia University Law School) - "Pathetic Argument in Constitutional Law"
|September 17
|Tom C. W. Lin, (University of Florida College of Law) - "The New Investor"
|October 15
|Bridget J. Crawford, (Pace Univeristy School of Law) - "How Economic Law and Policy Define Marriage, Family and the Human Body"
|November 12
|Jedediah Purdy, (Duke University Law School) - "Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law"
|Janurary 14
|Mark Tushnet, (Harvard University Law School) - "Authoritarian Constitutionalism"
|Janurary 23
|Bruce Green, (Fordham University Law School) - "Lawyer's Professional Independence: Overrated or Undervalued?"
|January 28
|Angela Onwuachi-Willig, (University of Iowa College of Law) - "Collective Discrimination"
|February 11
|David A. Wirth, (Boston College Law School) - "How Safe is That Shrimp? The Food Safety Modernization Act"
|March 4
|Ann Shalleck, (American University Washington College of Law) - "Toward a Jurisprudence of Clinical Thought: Investigating the Contours, Urges and Trajectories (Focusing on Clinical Stance)"
|April 29
|Mary Dudziak, (Emory University School of Law) - "Secrecy and the War Powers: Nixon's Cambodia Bombing, Obama's Targeted Killings, and the Atrophy of Political Restraints"
2011-12 Schedule of Presenters
|September 14
|Scott Dodson (The College of William & Mary) - Hybridizing Jurisdiction"
|October 17
|Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) - "Faith in Legal Doctrine: An Anglo-American Comparison"
|October 24
|Prasad Krishnamurthy (University of California at Berkeley) - "Branching Restrictions, Financial Integration, and Firm Growth"
|November 2
|Katerina Linos (University of California at Berkeley) - "Legislative Borrowing"
|November 9
|Gerald F. Leonard (Boston University) - "Jefferson's Constitutions"
|November 14
|Ethan J. Leib (University of California, Hastings) - "Judges as Fiduciaries"
|January 30
|Mae C. Quinn (Washington University) - "Feminist Legal Realism"
|February 6
|Scott E. Sundby (University of Miami) - "Anatomy of an Infamous Decision: McClesky vs. Kemp After 25 Years"
|February 8
|Julia D. Mahoney (University of Virginia) - "Health Care Reform, the Constitution and the "New" New Deal
|February 13
|Howard M. Erichson (Fordham University) - "Outsourcing Settlement"
|February 20
|Deborah J. Cantrell (University of Colorado at Boulder) - "Lawyers, Loyalty and Social Change"
|February 27
|E. Lea Johnston (University of Florida Levin College of Law) - "Vulnerability and Desert: A Theory of Sentencing the Mentally Ill"
|March 5
|Brett Frischmann (Yeshiva University) - "Infrastructure and Commons: From Roads and Telecommunications Networks to Ideas and Ecosystems"
|April 16
|Henry E. Smith (Harvard University) - "An Economic Analysis of Law versus Equity"
|May 3
Oren Perez (Bar Ilan University) - "Open Government, Technological Innovation and the Politics of Democratic Disillusionment: Democracy from Socrates to Obama"
2010-11 Schedule of Presenters
|September 27
|John Mikhail (Georgetown University): Unreasonable Risk: A Formal Analysis and Critical History of Common Law Negligence
|October 11
|Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law School): Nonbelievers
|October 18
|Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John's University): The Anti-Messiness Principle in Statutory Interpretation
|October 27
|Lawrence B. Solum (University of Illinois): The Interpretation-Construction Distinction
|November 1
|Stephen I. Vladeck (American University): The New Habeas Revisionism
|January 24
|Fred Smith Jr. (University of California at Berkeley): Awakening the People's "Giant": Sovereign Immunity and the Constitution's Republican Guarantee
|February 14
|Albert Yoon (University of Toronto): The Market for Law Professors
|February 21
|Ted Blumoff (Mercer University): How (Some) Criminals Are Made
|February 28
|Charlene Luke (University of Florida): Managing the Deluge: Tax Approaches to Flood "Insurance"
|March 7
|Stephen B. Burbank (University of Pennsylvania): Private Enforcement of Statutory and Administrative Law
|March 21
|Jayne Barnard (College of William & Mary): The Years of Magical Thinking: Bernie Madoff's Victims and the Power of Bereavement
|March 28
|Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) - "Faith in Legal Doctrine: An Anglo-American Comparison"
|April 4
|Amy Gajda (Tulane University) - "Privacy Before The Right to Privacy"
2009-10 Schedule of Presenters
|September 21
|Angela P. Harris (University of California at Berkeley): Color Chart and Gender Spectrum: Administering Race and Gender in a Post-Obama World
|October 5
|Cara H. Drinan (The Catholic University of America): The National Right to Counsel Act: A Congressional Solution to the Indigent Defense Crisis
|October 12
|Kimberly D. Krawiec (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): A Woman's Worth
|October 19
|Roderick M. Hills (New York University): Federalism and Distrust: The Gentry, the Saints, and the Federal Republic in Nineteenth Century America
|January 25
|Royce de R. Barondes (University of Missouri): ABA Ratings of Federal District Court Judges and the Likelihood of a Shepard's Warning Signal
|February 1
|Stephanie M. Stern (Loyola University): The Inviolate Home: From Iconic Property to Relational Privacy in the Fourth Amendment
|February 8
|Michael S. Kang (Emory University): Sore Loser Laws
|February 15
|Olivier Moréteau (Louisiana State University): A Summary Reflection on the Future of Civil Codes in Europe
|February 22
|Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton University): After Deference: Formalizing the Judicial Power in Foreign Relations Law
|February 24
|Richard J. Peltz (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) Access to Gun Registry and Freedom of Information Law
|March 1
|Lee-ford Tritt (University of Florida): Technical Correction or Tectonic Shift: Competing Default Rule Theories Under the New Uniform Probate Code
|March 22
|Michael Zimmer (Loyola University Chicago): The Ricci Decision
|April 5
|Christopher S. Elmendorf (University of California at Davis): "The Politics of First Best": Depolarization by Design and the Voting Rights Act
|April 12
|Nirej Sekhon (Georgia State University): Taking Their Pick: Police Departments, Discretion, and Race
2008-09 Schedule of Presenters
|September 22
|David J. Herring (University of Pittsburgh School of Law): Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research
|September 29
|Juan F. Perea (University of Florida Levin College of Law): On the Ideology of Constitutional Law Casebooks
|October 6
|Anne M. Coughlin (University of Virginia School of Law): Interrogation Stories
|October 13
|Gregory Klass (Georgetown University Law Center): Intent to Contract
|October 20
|Amanda Frost (American University Washington College of Law): In Defense of Sua Sponte Decisionmaking
|January 26
|Dennis D. Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law): Quasi Trademarks: Rethinking the Purposes of Design Patent Protection
|February 2
|Mitu Gulati (Duke University School of Law): The Stickiness of Contract Terms
|February 9
|Zanita E. Fenton (University of Miami School of Law): A Critical Race Feminist Reading of Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales
|February 16
|Christine Hurt (University of Illinois College of Law): The Windfall Fallacy
|February 23
|Al Brophy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law): University, Court, and Slave: Thomas R.R. Cobb's Proslavery Jurisprudence
|March 16
|Robert Steinbuch (University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law): Kidneys, Cash and Kashrut: A Legal, Economic and Religious Analysis of Selling Kidneys
|March 23
|Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan Law School): Harry Potter and the Purposes of Tort Law
|March 30
|Joe Miller (Lewis & Clark Law School): Hoisting Originality
|April 13
|Robert Rhee (University of Maryland School of Law): The Production Theory of Pure Economic Loss
|April 17
|Brian Z. Tamanaha (St. John's University School of Law): Over a Century of Balanced Realism About Judging (and Why It's Endangered)
|April 20
|Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener University School of Law): Balancing the Bankruptcy Code Towards the Honest but Unfortunate Creditor
2007-08 Schedule of Presenters
|September 10
|Brandon Garrett (University of Virginia)
|September 28
|Mitchell N. Berman (University of Texas)
|October 12
|Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt)
|October 19
|Shari Motro (University of Richmond)
|October 26
|Dorothy A. Brown (Washington & Lee)
|February 11
|Douglas H. Yarn (Georgia State University)
|February 18
|Bernadette Meyler (Cornell)
|February 25
|Ahmed E. Taha (Wake Forest)
|March 3
|Randy Picker (University of Chicago)
|March 24
|Camille A. Nelson (Saint Louis University)
|March 31
|David B. Mustard & Thomas A. Eaton (University of Georgia)
|April 7
|David Arthur Skeel (University of Pennsylvania)
|April 14
|Anup Malani (University of Chicago)
2006-07 Schedule of Presenters
|September 22
|Richard E. Myers II (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Sunset Amendment
|September 29
|Michael S. Pardo (University of Alabama): Juridical Proof and the Best Explanation
|October 6
|Margaret M. Blair (Vanderbilt University): Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
|October 13
|Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University): Explaining the Value of Transactional Lawyering
|October 23
|Ani B. Satz (Emory University)
|November 3
|John Neiman (University of Georgia): Defining the Judicial Office
|January 19
|Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge (Catholic University of America): Is Arbitration State Action? Does It Matter?
|January 22
|Lonnie T. Brown Jr. (University of Georgia): Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark
|January 29
|Usha Rodrigues (University of Georgia): Corporate Law
|February 9
|Jonathan Klick (Florida State University)
|February 16
|Christina E. Wells (University of Missouri): Funeral Protests
|February 23
|Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest University): The Black Box of Prosecutor Declinations
|March 2
|David A. Brennen (University of Georgia): Taxation of Nonprofits
|March 9
|Jim E. Pfander (University of Illinois): Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction Stripping
|Cynthia L. Estlund (New York University): The Fall and Rise of Self-Governance in the Workplace
2005-06 Schedule of Presenters
|September 23
|Peter Schuck (Yale University) - Bad Draws, Bad Bets, Bad Apples, and Bad Policies
|September 30
|Sean J. Griffith (University of Connecticut) – Unleashing a Gatekeeper
|October 12
|Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. (University of Georgia) - Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox
|October 20
|Julian A. Cook III (Michigan State Univesity) - Crumbs From the Master's Table: The Supreme Court, Pro Se Defendants and the Federal Guilty Plea Process
|October 26
|Akhil Amar (Yale University), Comparative Constitutional Law: American Style
|November 9
|David A. Brennen (Mercer University) – TBA
|November 16
|Olufunmilayo B. Arewa (Case Western Reserve University) – "Piracy," Borrowing and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks: History, Hierarchies and Conceptions of Culture
|November 18
|Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke University) - The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation
|January 27
|Ronald Rotunda (George Mason): The Detainee Cases of 2004 and Their Aftermath
|February 3
|Jim Rossi (Florida State): Approaching Deference for State Regulators in Antitrust Law Through Chevron
|February 17
|Julie Seamon (Emory): The Expert Witness as Stealth Fact-Finder: Hidden Hearsay, Confrontation, and Jury Determination of Facts
|February 24
|Anthony Alfieri (Miami): The Fall of Legal Ethics and the Rise of Risk Management
|March 1
|Michael Wells (UGA): "Sociological Legitimacy" in the Supreme Court
|March 8
|Michael Perry (Emory): Is capital punishment constitutional under the Eighth Amendment? And if it's not, should the Supreme Court so rule?
|April 7
|John Langbein (Yale) - Trust Law as Regulatory Law
|April 12
|Alan Watson (UGA): Lord Mansfield: Judicial Integrity or its Lack: Somerset's Case.
|April 21
|Thomas Lee (Fordham):The World Balance of Power and the Evolution of U.S. Foreign-States' Law
Spring 2005 Schedule of Presenters
|January 21
|Ryan Goodman (Harvard University) - Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War
|February 10
|Jim Brudney (Ohio State University) - Neutrality Agreements and Card Check Recognition: Prospects for Changing Paradigms
|February 18
|Tung Yin (University of Iowa) - Ending the War on Terrorism One Terrorist at a Time
|February 25
|Polly Price (Emory University) - State Court Judge and Property Rights: The Case for Conservatism in the Antebellum Era
|March 4
|John McGinnis (Northwestern University) - The Condorcet. Case for Super Majority Rules
|March 11
|Kent Greenfield (Boston College) - Five New Principles for Corporate Law
|March 25
|Orin Kerr (George Washington University) - The Fourth Amendment and the Computer Forensics Process
|March 29
|Sanford Levinson (University of Texas) - In Quest of a Common "Conscience": Reflections of the Current Debate about Torture
|April 13
|Allison Danner (Vanderbilt University) -The International Criminal Tribunals as International Courts


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Ride The Rockies: Counting down
Ah, chaos.
The last-minute rush to pack, the desperate search for missing things/people/pets, the 11th-hour arrangements for transportation, lodging, meals — the things normal folks take care of first. Oh, and the flurry of spending to cover my a**, or at least dress it up nice for the world of hurt and consequences ahead.
I'm on very good terms with my own personal chaos these days, the last few days before Ride The Rockies. I'm looking at a mere 435 miles from Durango to Breckenridge, over the breathtaking, 12,000-foot passes of the Rocky Mountains, on a bike that's screaming for a tuneup, on legs that have been doing a whole lot of nothing much in recent weeks.
Why the slackage? Some unexpected trips, crises, stuff.
Plus I live in Boulder, where being a mediocre cyclist is just a daily humiliation. Which means I come up with reasons to avoid being blown off the road by the Slipstream/Chipotle crew, the CU cycling team, or by the average, 70-year-old Boulderite out for an easy ride.
Which means I stay off my bike. For days and weeks at a time.
So, training? Preparation? Not so much.
The organizers of The Denver Post Ride The Rockies tour, however, have preparation down to a science. Since the very first Ride The Rockies tour back in 1986, its organizers have created one of the most ambitious, tightly-run, successful bike tours in the country. It draws cyclists from all over the world — this year, they're coming from countries such as Pakistan and Venezuela, Australia and China. And it has drawn a committed, seasoned team of volunteers who use their own vacation time to keep it running smoothly, come hell or high water (or snow).
That way, all of the disorganized, frantic participants like me can still have a fantastic experience. Painful, but fantastic.
(I've run into Tour Director Chandler Smith here in The Denver Post building from time to time, and he's constantly on the move, organizing, meeting and greeting, checking on road conditions throughout the route, maybe even eating once every couple of days…. And I almost feel guilty about my slap-dash approach. Almost.)
So this year's RTR tour kicks off Sunday, running from Durango through the towns of Cortez, Telluride, Montrose, Crested Butte and Buena Vista before wrapping up Saturday in Breckenridge. We also have a midweek rest day — one entire, blissful, Port-A-John-less day out of the saddle — in beautiful Crested Butte.
So really, despite the part about the stabbing leg pain, the altitude sickness and the epic case of saddlesore — and the Port-a-Johns — I'm kind of excited about the whole thing.
ABOVE: Cyclists climbing the road into the Colorado National Monument loop.
It's not a race
One of the great things about Ride The Rockies is that IT'S NOT A RACE. Really. You can go at your own pace and never feel like you'll be left stranded on a strange road. With a blown tire. After dark.
There are folks of all cycling levels, of all body types and ages, of all motivations, and lots of them take their own sweet time — all day, if necessary.
There are those who are up before the b-crack of dawn each morning, pushing for the next town as if their lives depended on it.
Then there are those who fall out of their tents sometime around noon-ish, after spending most of the night in the community beer garden. How they manage that, I don't know. But they manage.
I fall somewhere in the early part, mostly because nordic chicks like me don't do well in midday heat. So I get a somewhat early start, find breakfast (coffee) along the way and make frequent camera stops on my way to the next town. If I meet interesting people along the way, it can take the whole day to reach my destination. Which is the whole point. For me, anyway.
The elitists among us
Many friends of mine are offended by the cycling community in general. They point to the folks with $8,000 bikes, wearing matching spandex gear that screams sponsorship, blowing through traffic signals and riding four abreast on skinny roads.
So for many people, the idea of some 2,000 cyclists descending on their towns is not a welcome prospect. And they'll let you know.
As a cyclist, I've been shouted at, dodged flying beer bottles and been almost run off the road by trucks. On purpose.
I can understand where some of this anger comes from. As a driver, I get angry at cyclists who blow off traffic signals, creating frightening near-misses wherever they go. If they're lucky.
But we're not all elitist traffic hazards. Yes, there are a few of those in all road tours. Some even have their very own SAG wagons (Spouses And Gear in SUVs) and I've seen a few SAG it up particularly steep grades, only to hop out a half-mile before the top and make a grand show of "summitting." (Reader: Take right hand, point thumb out and index finger up, hold up to forehead, palm out.)
But there are also masses of interesting, down-to-earth, funny people on sometimes crusty old bikes, wearing cheap plastic doo-dads on their helmets and singing along to country-western songs on portable radios. I've seen folks on cruisers, unicycles, tandems, hand-cranks and other recumbents, or just really old bikes complete with rattling fenders and hard, cracked leather saddles. And they share the road.
(The photo above was taken during the 2005 Ride The Rockies, where I got a random hug from a passing cyclist).
Me, I'm a middle-of-the-road cyclist, so to speak: I have a no-name bike, mismatched spandex and a healthy respect for traffic, particularly LARGE traffic. (I ride an 18-pound bike. Do you really think I'm picking a fight with an 18-wheeler?)
In a nutshell, cyclists are like any large crowd of unrelated people. Some are really fun, interesting, respectful people. Some aren't.
The tandem experience
I just don't get it.
Relationships are hard enough, aren't they? But I see these couples on tandem bikes, pushing an insanely heavy bike (not to mention two bodies) up a steep grade, one of them staring into the spandex-clad, sweaty backside of their partner for hours on end, and I just think… divorce.
I have arguments with MYSELF on long bike rides. Sometimes out loud. But if I was struggling up a hill and someone ELSE was yelling orders at me, there would be blood. Lots of it.
So for those who can complete Ride The Rockies on a tandem bike with a spouse/significant other and no blood, I am in awe of you. I don't understand you, but I'm in awe of you.
More later…