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Is LifeOne Right For you?
Two Brevard County physicians are applying a different tact in treating cancer and AIDS patients, with dramatic, verifiable results.
For Dr. Michael Farley, N.D., cancer was given a face in 1995 that was all too real and personal. In the spring of that year, Donald Farley, Michael's dad, age 71 was diagnosed with fulminant end-stage multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone). The average lifespan for patients so diagnosed is one year or less. In Donald's case, he was told he could expect to live another month.
Seven years later, at 78, he was clinically cancer free. His multiple myeloma was in remission; with no evidence of further cancer growth or metastasis. X-rays showed his bone lesions were healed or healing and his blood test values showed no evidence of cancer. He had no medical complaints other than occasional chest tightness with exertion and mild hypertension. Unfortunately, in February of 2002, Donald died from complications after an ill-advised cardiac angioplasty.
Although reports of spontaneous cancer remission are not uncommon, Donald Farley's deliverance from the nation's number two killer was neither spontaneous nor the result of conventional treatment. Instead, Michael Farley, a naturopathic physician, says the remission is attributable to the melding of modern testing and diagnosis protocols with a naturopathic – or natural – treatment approach, whose roots stretch deep into the past. Aiding this treatment methodology was the formulation and use of an herb-based treatment Dr. Farley developed over the better part of a decade, which is called LifeOne.
To better understand why LifeOne was formulated and how it works, it is helpful to know how naturopathy differs from "conventional" medicine, as well as the nature of cancer and the body's wondrous immune system.
NATUROPATHY, CANCER and the IMMUNE SYSTEM
The Naturopathic Method
Naturopathy is a long-practiced approach to healing and sustaining good health that leverages the body's own natural healing powers. Naturopaths endeavor to identify the underlying cause of disease and to treat the person as a whole by taking into account emotional, genetic and environmental influences.
The foundation of naturopathy is the use of natural medicine or herbs. The first written record of herbal medicines dates back to 2800 B.C. China. Evidence of herbal treatments can be traced back millennia earlier to archeological digs in which bags of herbs were discovered interred with bodies of Native Americans.
The popularity of herbal use has fluctuated over the years, but beginning in the 1960s, with the highly publicized fallout from the spectacular failure of certain mainstream drugs such as thalamide, the public's interest in safer, alternative treatments began to grow.
Today, the sale of herbs and other natural health products is a multi-billion-dollar worldwide industry spread across countless shops, stores and Internet outlets. However, Life One is not the typical health product supplement found at every corner store. The treatment is a result of many years of research into only natural remedies which have been proven to provide actual healing qualities.
Cancer – What is It?
Cancer is cellular division run amuck.
Unchecked, these abnormal cells – medically known as malignant neoplasms – can divide and create more damaged cells that spread throughout the body through a process known as metastasis. Once this occurs, other organs are affected and their functions compromised. Some tumors are benign, or non-life-threatening. Others are malignant; such as pancreatic cancer, which can cause death with startling swiftness.
Losing the War
America's so-called "war on cancer" was launched during President Richard Nixon's State of the Union Address in January 1971. Nixon said, "The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal."
The war, however, is essentially a losing one for millions of people worldwide. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the math is grim: One in three Americans eventually will contract cancer. This year alone, the ACS predicts that nearly 600,000 American men and women will succumb to the disease. In spite of diagnostic and treatment advances, overall, the mortality rate for all cancers is only slightly less than it was half a century ago. In contrast, deaths from heart diseases have been slashed from 586.8 to 245.8 per 100,000 people over the same period.
Cancer treatment methods have been practiced for hundreds of years, with conventional surgery dating back the farthest. Around the turn of the 20th century, radiation therapy was added, followed by chemotherapy in the 1950s. More recently, hormone therapy has shown promise, but thus far appears effective only against a small number of cancers.
The Immune System
The body's defense against a myriad of bacteria, viruses and cancers is its immune system. Without a strong immune system, good health is impossible.
The immune system performs two types of key functions: humoral activity, which results in the production of antibodies, essentially defending the body from viruses and cancer; and cellular immunity, which involves the interaction of cell mediated actions, which defend the body against bacteria. A healthy immune system allows cells to differentiate invading harmful organisms from resident "good cells."
Unlike dedicated organs such as the heart, stomach or lungs, the immune system is truly a system, comprised of organs (thymus and spleen) and other components, including bone marrow, white blood cells, antibodies, hormones, and the lymphatic system.
When the immune system is working at peak efficiency, it can target and destroy pathogenic intruders, such as viruses and bacteria; and abnormally formed cells such as cancer, for which there appears to be no single cause. Some experts believe that the extraordinarily high cancer rate can be attributed to the carcinogenic – or cancer-causing – environment in which we live. Others point to people living longer, which increase the odds that they'll eventually contract the disease.
Where's the Cure?
Still, the question remains: Given that cancer is the nation's number two killer across all age groups (and the number one killer of children), why hasn't the medical community at large developed more effective cancer treatments? According to Dr. Paul La Rochelle, a colleague of Dr. Michael Farley, the reasons are three fold.
First, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations make it difficult for cancer patients to access non-mainstream treatment methodologies. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires "substantive evidence" of the efficacy and safety of drugs before they are approved, a process that is both lengthy and tremendously expensive. In 2002, the FDA was given jurisdiction over food. This means that if a food is found to be successful in the treatment of disease, the FDA can take it off the market and require that it be subjected to the same lengthy and expensive testing process required for new drugs. As an example, chicken soup has been shown to decrease the symptoms and length of virus infections such as the common cold. As such, chicken soup could be deemed a drug by the FDA and if subjected to the testing and approval process could cost hundreds of dollars per cup.
Second, the gatekeepers to cancer treatment are typically oncologists, who, says Dr. La Rochelle, are generally ill qualified to treat cancer and possibly biased. "Oncologists have a conflict of interest in that they [typically] make over a third of their income from the sale of chemotherapy," explains La Rochelle. "Oncologists tend to be one of the least qualified physicians for keeping a cancer patient alive. They're primarily hematologists and not trained in nutrition, or internal medicine. They're specialists in evaluating blood, but have little idea how the body works as a whole. The therapies they use in treating cancer today are no more effective than they were in 1971 when the war was declared on cancer. As a matter of fact, these treatments have become more expensive but no more effective."
"There was a study done at McGill University on how many oncologists would have chemo if they were diagnosed with cancer. Seventy-five percent would not," points out La Rochelle. "They said it has not been shown to be efficacious, and the side effects are too severe. But, 75 percent of the people who get labeled with cancer in this country get chemo. And of the 25 percent of oncologists who would take the chemo say they would do so only for the five or six cancers that are mostly childhood cancers that chemo has been shown to be effective in treating without usually killing the patient. So, that's very telling. The oncologists won't take it but they'll give it to their patients."
Third, the pharmacological industry is a juggernaut, replete with hundreds of lobbyists who exert political pressure to discourage legislation that would open windows to alternative treatment methods or less expensive drugs. Says La Rochelle: "The pharmaceutical companies fight very hard to ensure that there is no competition against their drugs. The fastest way to be labeled a quack is to have an effective [non-mainstream] method of treatment."
Dr. Farley interjects that "Many physicians are also bound in terms of treatment methods. For example, if a physician receives government funding for the treatment of AIDS, they are restricted to the use of government-approved treatment methods. These methods require the use of expensive pharmaceuticals, which the patients' most times cannot afford on their own. Because these patients cannot afford treatment, they are limited to the pharmaceuticals mandated by the government. The doctor in most cases would not even offer any other treatment for fear that they lose the government funding.
Naturally Blocking the Mechanisms of Cancer
The LifeOne formula is an outgrowth of the naturopath's Native American upbringing. Says doctor Farley: "I was raised in a culture that has used herbal medicines for thousands of years. My grandmother used a lot of herbal medicines and often collected herbs. She taught me a lot."
Dr. Farley's resume is diverse and includes work in forensic pathology and physiology, psychology and zoology and naturopathic medicine. He holds patents on orthopedic and orthotic devices to treat limb deformities in foals and leg fractures in horses. In 1992, he received a Doctorate of Naturopathy (N.D.) from the Native American Studies Institute in Old Fort, North Carolina. Although this degree represents a very small part of his formal education, by the time he graduated, Farley had already logged a quarter century of training in herbal medicine.
Around the time he completed work on his degree, Farley turned his attention to developing a means to cope with cancer.
"I investigated the properties of cancer – what cancer cells require to reproduce and what cancer cells have in common," he says. "I looked at those commonalities that could be worked with, and I studied the ways Native Americans treated cancer for thousands of years. Then, I researched the properties of those herbs. I also examined other cultural medicines whose effectiveness had been empirically proven. If something is used for a thousand years, chances are it works."
Essentially his research and his education have shown that most cancer results from a combination of poor nutrition [because of the generalized poisoning of our food and water sources] along with contamination of our environment that has reduced the innate function of our healthy immune system to control cancer cells. The primary culprits in all this are excess estrogen and other toxic materials from our environment that get into our food and water. LifeOne is a natural herbal formula of plant phytochemical compounds that provides nutrition to stimulate our immune system back to normal levels. LifeOne ingredients include chrysin, green tea and tumeric extracts, and other natural compounds which naturally help block these excess estrogen contaminants from reaching their target organs in the body.
Professional Partnership
After Farley spent eight years developing his LifeOne formula, he began to work with Dr. Paul La Rochelle, a Brevard County orthopedic surgeon specializing in oncology.
A graduate of prestigious McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Dr. La Rochelle, M.D.C.M., is an M.D. and has a Master's degree in surgery. Dr. La Rochelle is certified in Canada and in the United States for orthopedic surgery; and was Fellowship trained at Mount Sinai hospital at the University of Toronto in surgical oncology. He has lived and worked in the Melbourne area for some 15 years, specializing in joint-replacement surgery and where applicable, biological reconstruction of knee joints utilizing autologous cartilage reimplantation. His friendship with Farley goes back to the early 1990s, when they first tossed around the idea of jointly creating an integrated medical group that would consist of naturopaths and other complementary health professionals such as anesthesiologists performing acupuncture.
After a fall from a ladder in 1999 resulted in permanent nerve damage, that his left arm and hand partially paralyzed, Dr. La Rochelle began working with Farley in earnest, which heralded what La Rochelle calls the "eye-opening" phase of his medical career.
"I was going through the usual pain, depression and malaise of a life-changing injury," says La Rochelle. "Dr. Farley needed some help with some orthopedic cases, so he got me up and out and gradually stimulated by what he was doing. And for most of the last three years, he's been my mentor in helping me learn about naturopathic medicine as opposed to traditional medicine. I'm learning and just beginning to practice what is true medicine – not what has been taught to M.D.s, which is pharmacological medicine. I've learned to find out what the cause of the problem is and to look for and treat the cause as opposed to treating the symptoms with medication."
Treatment Protocol
Three years after La Rochelle's accident, he began consulting cancer and AIDS patients using a naturopathic approach with Dr. Farley's guidance. Although research and case histories have shown that LifeOne is effective on its own, Dr. La Rochelle treats patients based on an established protocol that includes consultation, testing, lifestyle revamping and treatment, including the administering of LifeOne.
Says La Rochelle, "What I do is very simple. The patients are extensively counseled on a corrective diet, essentially removing sugars and simple carbohydrates, and add LifeOne for further nutritional boosting, which kicks the immune system into high gear and helps the body's natural ability to produce more antibodies, targeting cells and killer cells that stop the cancer from growing and from spreading. Then I look at the patient's hormone and cortisol profiles, and adjust where necessary. I then try to reduce the patient's stress and modify his or her diet, which is extremely important."
Of course, treatment can vary depending upon the patient's history and whether the cancer has already been treated via conventional means. La Rochelle prefers consulting with patients whose immune systems haven't been bludgeoned by chemotherapy or radiation.
"If the patient has undergone chemo or radiation therapy, then his immune system is most likely destroyed," says La Rochelle. We can deal in most cases with the effects of chemotherapy because usually those are temporary attacks to the immune system. However, the devastating effects of radiation therapy are permanent and in most cases I am unable to reverse the effects of the chronic radiation poisoning that these patients have to deal with for the rest of their lives. "In these cases, I have to put them on something to keep the immune system functioning. But, if the worse thing you have to do is take a hydrocortisone tablet (hydrocortisone is a natural low strength steroid made from soy) every day (in a physiological dose, not a pharmacologically high dose) to maintain the cellular side of your immune system, exercise, watch what you eat; and try to relax: if you want to live and be healthy, that's what you have to do!"
"When you take a patient out of hospice who's supposed to be dead in two weeks and then 90 days later he's visiting a fundraiser, you feel good," he says. "But many of the patients consulted were dying from secondary or tertiary problems because they had radiation or chemotherapy. Many had developed bacterial infections because they had no immune system. Many had heart problems, kidney problems, liver problems that had nothing to do with their cancer. So, there was a great deal of frustration at the same time in that these problems had to be addressed."
Patients who haven't undergone chemo or radiation can be treated much easier. "In these cases, we help them deal with stress in a non-pharmacological way," says La Rochelle. "So, instead of taking the cortisone, they might take up yoga or painting and achieve the same effect by simply changing something in their lifestyle."
Stress and the Immune System
Before developing a natural product that replenishes the nutritionally deficient immune system, one of the first things Farley had to understand was why people develop cancer in the first place.
"If you understand the premise that cancer happens every day, and your body has a mechanism to deal with it, then you need to look at what happens to your body when it's unable to deal with that cancer," says Farley. "Most of this has to do with what we eat and drink; what our environment is; and what pesticides and what additives go into our food; and also, what estrogens and similar agents end up in our water that adversely affects our immune system."
In addition to the usual environmental contaminants, La Rochelle says that stress plays a significant role in how well the immune system functions.
"More recently, we've been looking at the cellular side of the immune system that's been giving us trouble, and we've found that the cortisol production by the adrenal glands in animals, as seen in veterinary animal tests, is greatly affected by chronic stress. You have adrenal glands that start to produce more cortisol, but can only do so for a limited amount of time and then they become depleted. It's what we call adrenal insufficiency. This causes several effects down the line in terms of how your immune system works, how your body feels, how you sleep, and more."
In an emergency situation your body (adrenal glands) secretes excess cortisol and adrenaline so you can be alert and fast to react to the state of emergency. When this happens once or twice a month there is no harm done.
On the other hand, when you deal with daily stress going from traffic jams, pressure at work/school, financial crisis, just to mention a few, your adrenal glands are overworking to produce cortisol and adrenaline. The adrenal glands may be able to continue doing this for a short time but will eventually fail and the person ends up with chronic adrenal syndrome. In other words, they are low on cortisol on a daily basis. That kind of stress on a daily basis is much worse than the once or twice monthly emergency situations.
What happens is that your adrenal glands can't cope, so they stop producing cortisol. Low cortisol levels in cancer patients are universal. So, looking at patients who have problems with their stress glands, and based on research using animals, we found that a low dose of hydrocortisone [a natural version of cortisol made from soy] corrects the problem. Doing this in tandem with the LifeOne formula simply helps the body get back to doing what it needs to do."
La Rochelle says that the importance of regulating cortisol in the body is its effect on the immune system; and, by default, immune-deficient-related diseases and conditions. This interaction also provides a biological explanation for spontaneous remission in cancer.
"Pretty much everyone knows someone or saw somewhere on the news where someone was in the advanced stages of cancer, but for some reason it went away and the doctors had no explanation as to how or why this happened," says La Rochelle. "But once you understand how stress affects the immune system, you can see what's happening.
"Let's say someone who's had a biopsy has been told she has a nasty breast cancer; and that she requires surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy to survive. Let's say she's a religious woman who believes in prayer. And she prays to God and lets him handle the problem. Well, she just eliminated a lot of stress. By the same token, many people who are diagnosed with cancer generally stop work and stay at home, so they've eliminated the stress from work, including the drive back and forth between work and home. If they're fortunate enough that their spouse has a good enough job or they have a good leave of absence policy at work and they're not looking at a financial catastrophe, then another layer of stress is removed. So, with this free time at home, accepting the situation, the patient now uses this time to change her diet, eliminating sugar and eats healthier foods while starting to walk or swim for exercise.
Before you know it, the adrenal gland has had time to rest and recover; and starts creating cortisol and stimulating bone marrow, which, in turn, begins creating leukocytes, anti-malignin antibodies and lymphocytes: and boom…the tumor gradually shrinks away. That's the biological explanation for these spontaneous remissions.
Is this a miracle? Well not really, other than God created us and our ability to heal ourselves when we allow it to happen naturally.
However, this particular combination of reducing stress, changing diet and getting exercise is not the usual treatment for cancer. Instead patients are referred to an oncologist, who increases their stress tremendously by usually telling them they're going to die, that they will undergo horrific treatments that will make them very ill and possibly kill them, all, to perhaps, extend their life for only a few weeks.
The AMAS Test – Validation Tool for LifeOne
How do cancer patients know if their treatment is working? La Rochelle tracks the recovery process through several tests. One of these is a simple blood test, which measures the presence of an antibody that the body produces in response to the presence of cancer, called an AMAS test (Antimalignin Antibody in Serum).
La Rochelle remains incredulous that after having been available for 30 years, the AMAS test isn't better well known. "Hypothetically, what would be an ideal test for cancer?" he asks. "It should be very sensitive, it should be relatively inexpensive, it should work on all cancers, its results should be reproducible, and it should be doable in any doctor's office.
"The AMAS test – of which some 70,000 to 80,000 have been administered – meets these criteria and more," he says. "It was developed by a Harvard biochemist who was working with brain cancers. He then discovered that all cancers were producing a short peptide chain molecule when they were malignant, which he named "malignin". Research both in humans and animals show that antibodies are produced naturally in the immune system to control cancer. The test is more than 95 percent accurate in detecting the presence of cancer…97 percent for breast cancer."
The AMAS test is produced by and evaluated by Oncolab Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Any local laboratory facility can draw and prepare the patient's blood to be sent to Oncolab to be evaluated for the malignin antibody level.
Results are returned in a few days to the patient's physician and can be used to make the diagnosis of cancer with an accuracy of 95 to 97% without the need for invasive biopsies or surgery; and without the tremendous expense of PET scans, MRIs, CT scans or mammograms. Also, the AMAS test can be used to evaluate the treatment of cancer! Once a baseline level is made, usually starting off at a peak, the AMAS antibody levels go down to normal when the body's immune system has gotten the cancer under control.
Although anyone can request an AMAS test through his or her physician, La Rochelle use the AMAS to track his patients' progress during treatment. "I use this test to show how the treatments work," says La Rochelle. "For example, in the last six months, I have had eight breast cancer patients, which I called "naive cases" because they came to me through family or friends before they were seen by an oncologist and did not have chemotherapy or radiation. All of whom had abnormal, positive mammograms. Four had positive biopsies for breast cancer. All were told by their primary physician that they would need an oncological evaluation, surgery, chemotherapy and probably radiation and appointments were made for those procedures. Fortunately the patients came to see me prior to any treatment. I performed baseline CBC's, complete metabolic profiles, extensive lymphocyte subset panel's and AMAS tests before we began treatment. Eight out of eight of these breast cancer patients all had abnormally high AMAS antibody levels consistent with active cancer.
"Once I got the initial baseline blood tests and AMAS tests done, I advised them how to change their diet to a no sugar, no simple carbohydrate diet and treated them with LifeOne. After four weeks, the women were re-examined and I could see and palpate that the masses were about half the size that they were before treatment began. Normally, breast cancer isn't painful, especially in the early stages. But the patients' lumps became sore as the antibodies that fight malignancies started to kill the cancer cells and the inflammatory response kicked in.
At eight weeks into the treatment their AMAS test numbers had dropped to normal or near normal. So, I suggested these patients repeat their mammograms, all of which were all normal, not because I doubted their cancer was in remission but because I wanted to get them out of the [conventional treatment] system. The follow-up mammograms were performed and their doctors scratched their heads and said, 'Well, it must not have been cancer in the first place.' However, there had been enough cancer to schedule these patients for surgery or chemo in the first place. So, the AMAS test allowed me to track their progress as treatment progressed."
Clinical Trials and Success
The LifeOne formula has been in use now for over five years by thousands of patients, both in controlled studies and in "over the counter" usage. Clinical trials have shown that LifeOne provides the necessary nutritional supplementation to re-supply the depleted immune system, boosting that immune system to levels where it can effectively tackle all major forms of cancer, ranging from breast cancer to melanomas to sarcoma of the tongue. Most patients respond favorably to treatment with LifeOne within a week and usually experience decreased pain, increased energy, and a general feeling of increased vigor.
Farley and La Rochelle request testimonials from patients who use LifeOne and physicians who have prescribed LifeOne for their patients and actually used it themselves.
Farley and La Rochelle have received interest from organizations all around the world with regard to the LifeOne. Currently, product has been shipped to Latin America for the purpose of independent clinicals on myriad forms of cancer and AIDS patients. The completed trials have been very positive in all candidates.
So Is It a Cure?
Farley stops short of calling LifeOne a cure for cancer. He does assert, however, that the dietary supplement blocks the mechanisms in the body that enable cancer cells to easily feed and replicate. This process involves chemically controlling insulin and glucose levels of the blood and blocking certain receptor sites, such as estrogen receptor sites. "If you have a cancer that is receptive to estrogen and the receptor site is blocked, then there is no estrogen to help make it grow," he says. "By locking the DNA transcription for several types of cells so they can't reproduce, we're able to control, not cure, the spread of cancer."
La Rochelle is blunt on the subject of any supposed cancer cure. "Every day, your body produces two to six thousand cancer cells. From the time that you are a child, your immune system is able to isolate and kill them. So, if anyone tells you they have developed a cure for cancer, it is at best a lie, because cancer is a process that is continually ongoing in the human body." LifeOne isn't a cure and it's not a miracle. What it does is help the body do what the body is capable of doing. 1
Dr. La Rochelle is equally blunt regarding the effectiveness of LifeOne. "The results of LifeOne on cancer, AIDS, and immune system are indisputable. We set up a protocol for treatment, and within that protocol, it's mandated that patients have certain tests (pre-and post treatment) and these tests are preformed at outside independent laboratories. Those tests tell us if patients are getting better or not. Time and again, they have. The product works!"
Recent Events
Currently, treatment is ongoing with approximately 6,000-8,000 cancer patients using LifeOne today. An estimated 85% are individuals with breast cancer, with the remaining 15% split among other cancers and HIV/AIDS. Thus far, there is no record of any cancer case where treatment has not resulted in success.
Scientific cellular testing for seven specific cancer cells has further proven the effectiveness of the treatment. A study completed October 4, 2005, using LifeOne on prostate, colon, ovarian, cervical, leukemia and two breast cancers, has resulted in dramatic evidence supporting the successful clinical trial results. Depending on the cancer strain, 50%-95% of the cancerous cells were killed within the first 24 hours of treatment.
1 This article, like many others, was written prior to the research conducted by Valerie A. Buckley-Beason for Nine Lives C.A. of Venezuela that clearly demonstrates LifeOne does indeed attack and kill cancer cells, thus it is possible to call LifeOne a cure, in certain applications.
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The seven senior politicians and academics who make up a self-proclaimed bi-partisan group recently introduced the "broad one China framework," a one-night sensation that drew attention, but was soon forgotten.
Led by former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Shih Ming-te (施明德), the group included former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Chen Ming-tung (陳明通), and former National Security Council secretary-general Su Chi (蘇起) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
Tamkang University professor Andy Chang (張五岳), former DPP legislator Hong Chi-chang (洪奇昌) and a pair of former KMT administration officials, Cheng Chien-jen (程建人) and Chiao Jen-ho (焦仁和), were also in the group.
Their "five principles" can be summed up as: first, calling for both sides to respect the "status quo" and restrain from changing it unilaterally; second, recognizing the coexistence of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China; third, replacing Beijing's "one China principle" with the "broad one China framework" since the "one China principle" has been interpreted as representing the PRC; fourth, jointly establishing an "incomplete international entity" as a political umbrella that serves as an interim mechanism between the two countries; lastly, the elimination of hostility, a mutual commitment to the non-use of force and not signing military agreements that jeopardize the safety of either side and to participate equally in international organizations, including the UN.
This ambitious proposal, said to be the result of nine months of discussions, is an attempt to set a brand new framework that defines cross-strait relations.
Intriguingly, one can easily see in the initiative elements that come from almost all major previous proposals that originated on this side of the Taiwan Strait.
With regards to the recognition of separate governance and the co-existence of the PRC and the ROC, the same ideas were advocated in former president Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) and pro-independence groups' "one country on each side," and former premier Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) "two sides, two constitutions."
While the group failed to explain what an "incomplete international entity" means, the concept was similar to the "one China with three constitutions," proposed by pro-unification National Taiwan University professor Chang Ya-chung (張亞中) and the "one China roof" theory supported by the People First Party and the pro-unification United Daily News.
"Non-use of force and not signing military agreements" are similar to the "Nation of Brotherhood" theory developed by staunch independence supporter Koo Kwang-ming (辜寬敏). The resemblance to previous theories failed to earn the initiative much recognition.
Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office denounced the proposal due to its promotion of a "state-to-state relationship" and neither pro-Taiwan advocates or DPP politicians have nice things to say about it because of its long-term one China arrangement.
If a successful China policy should be "desirable by Taiwanese, accepted by Washington and tolerated by Beijing" — as Frank Hsieh said, this initiative is unlikely to satisfy any of the three stakeholders.
The dangers of the proposal are in two areas: First, it has completely ignored the implications of the recent Sunflower movement, as well as the democratic values that Taiwan cherishes. Second, the design of the framework tries to shift Taipei away from its current "invisible alliance" with Washington and Tokyo, which is both impractical and unreasonable.

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The editors of Journal of Critical Race Inquiry are pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue.
Vol 4, No 1 (2017)
This issue publishes essays by Katerina Deliovsky (Brock University), Ardavan Eizadirad (OISE / University of Toronto), and Terri-Lynn Brennan (City of Kingston) collaborating with Limestone District teachers Tracy Bridgen, Trevor Hill, Matthew Gallupe, and Meghan Squarebriggs.
The issue includes two book reviews: "Viola Desmond's Canada", Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson (Fernwood Press 2016) reviewed by Deirdre McCorkindale (Queen's University); and "Revolutionary Mothering", Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams, Eds. (PM Press 2016) reviewed by Maki Motapanyane (Mount Royal University).
One essay in the current issue -- "The Legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald" (T. Brennan, et al) -- may be read as a companion piece to our 2016 special issue, "Critical Race Perspectives on Sir John A. Macdonald."
Vol 3, No 1 (2016)
The 2016 special issue received press coverage in Ricochet media and is being taught in courses.
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Skilling climbs stairs like a man on his way to the gallows, unkempt and addled.
He eyes the stock price.
As he goes up, he notices his presence pushing the stock price up a very little bit.
This spurs Skilling on.
As they go up, Enron Analysts and Journalists emerge from everywhere to listen to the conference call.
Silence. Skilling exhales.
There is utter silence as everyone realises what he just said to an important stock analyst.
Then suddenly there is frenetic activity.
The Analysts all get on their phones and BlackBerries to their banks and brokerage firms
The Analysts have taken themselves off, hurrying back to their marketplace hubs, a sea change in the offing.
But their effects are already painfully clear on the stock price, which is free-falling.
A spotlight on Skilling alone, unsupported. Just him and his representation of his self-worth, the stock price.
Skilling approaches it desperately, trying to regain former glories.
He ends, his arms outstretched, crucifying himself before the market.
The blocks beneath where Skilling was standing are removed by Analysts and Brokers as shares continue to be sold and the company weakens.
A sour, tuneless version of the 'Enron' barbershop quartet from earlier plays.


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Software program & Assistive Technology
If the IEP team determines that your kid demands assistive technology devices and solutions, the college district is responsible for offering these and cannot use lack of availability or expense as an excuse. Talking calculators assist students with studying disabilities verify their work by reading aloud almost everything they enter. TTS application packages (also known as electronic readers, assistive reading application, reading machines, screen readers, computer text readers or e-readers) can study aloud from a selection of file kinds. Do-It – The University of Washington's Do-It system provides several various sources for particular education students, like on the web math lessons, tutoring, explanations, and visual aids. This permits students to make the connection amongst sounds and letters, and can be very helpful for those who have dyslexia. This write-up supplied a simple overview of how to use assistive technologies to support writing. Particular computer software makes it possible for the person to variety, and may possibly include word-completion technologies to speed up the procedure.
Scientific Learning Reading Assistant is a software program that combines advanced speech verification technologies with scientifically primarily based reading interventions to help students enhance reading fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension expertise. We would like to develop a list of funding resources or loan applications for assistive technology. For much more data on the assistive technology tools listed above, please refer to the links listed under. Occupational therapy and assistive technology evaluations could be necessary for kids with poor handwriting. The students with fine motor troubles can use a keyboard or a mouse to location the correct quantity on the screen.
The Reading Created EZ program Premier Assistive Technologies is a suite of applications that can translate Text to Audio, generating students make use of their sense of hearing to support recognize written material. A trackball mouse, and mice in common are no longer regarded as to be higher tech types of assistive technology but nonetheless continue to be quite successful tools. Member organizations contain the Learning Disabilities Association is an active member, the National Down Syndrome Society, the National College Boards Association, the National Education Association, and the National Association of State Directors of Particular Education, more. Research shows that funding continues to be one particular of the most significant obstacles to the acquisition of assistive technology for kids with disabilities.
The important idea in Universal Style for Learning is that new curricular components and learning technologies will be designed to be versatile to accommodate the special finding out designs of a wide variety of men and women, which includes young children with disabilities. This web site supports educators and students in their teaching and study of universal design and style. Wordbar is a talking word bank that offers numerous various words for students to use all through their writing. The authors provide very very good example of this interaction and integration in the classroom with an example of a student with a reading disability trying to master a history idea.
Ginger proofreader checks your grammar and spelling primarily based on the context of your writing. Customer Guidelines for Evaluating Assistive Technologies Merchandise by Marshall Raskind, Ph.D. Learn how to choose the most successful assistive technology tools for your child's distinct needs. I think this solution can be advantageous to students and also improve their language abilities whether it is for the very first or second language. This system is recommended for students who are learning English as a second language. Technology—and especially the subset of technologies tools known as assistive technology—can be an efficient, if not needed, element of the writing curriculum for students with disabilities.…


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EOD Teams compete for the best in the Pacific
Story and photos by
Sgt. 1st Class John Delaine Brown
8th Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — The ability to blend technical knowledge, speed, precision, discipline and patience while racing a clock and standing face to face with explosives … well, that's a day in the life for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
Every year, the best EOD teams in the Pacific meet at Schofield Barracks to compete in the U.S. Army-Pacific Command (USARPAC) EOD Team of the Year competition. This year's competition saw teams from Alaska, Hawaii and the Republic of Korea.
"The competitors are special because they have been chosen to represent their units/region and compete to be the best in USARPAC," said Sgt. 1st Class Justin Loban, a planning noncommissioned officer, 303rd Ordnance Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command.
According to Loban, the planning for this year's six-day competition was more than six months in the making.
"The tasks must be challenging because they have to cover the largest swath of EOD tasks possible, not just IEDs (improvised explosive devices), ordnance, CBRN (chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear) or basic Soldier tasks, but all of it in extreme detail," he said.
Loban went on to explain that each of these tasks must be incredibly realistic in order to evoke the same level of response from the competing teams.
"Realism is extremely important," said Loban. "If the construct that the team is operating inside of isn't realistic, then they will possibly react in any number of unpredictable ways that are directly detrimental to training – simply because the scenario and training aids were not realistic."
Examples of the realism involved in this year's competition included the removal of ordnance from an AH-64 Apache helicopter and a round that was lodged in the barrel of an M198 155mmm Howitzer – both of which had to be completed in the middle of the night.
Staff Sgt. Josh Estes, an EOD team leader, 74th Ord. Co. (EOD), 303rd Ord. Bn., 8th MP Bde., said, "Competing in a competition like this means to me that I'm the best; it shows you that you really know the little details that make up the bigger picture.
"We cover such a wide range of responsibilities with our EOD mission, both stateside and deployed, and in order to fully understand that, competitions like this give you an opportunity to test that and build that confidence," said Estes.
"During this competition, you learn a lot about yourself, your team, and you're going to learn a lot about how much you know about this job," Estes continued.
After six days of competition, the winners were announced at a ceremony on Schofield Barracks, July 28.
Staff Sgt. Sean Conley and Spc. Devan Hardman, an EOD team from the 65th Ord. Co. (EOD), Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska, were proclaimed the best EOD team in the Pacific.
With a combined 21 years of military experience – eight in the EOD field, this was the first time Conley and Hardman had competed in a Team of the Year competition.
To prepare for the competition, the team modified their physical training regimen to include additional road marches, studied EOD publications and ran through a variety of training scenarios.
When asked why he chose the EOD career field, Conley said, "I like the idea that there's a lot of time and effort that goes into the design and manufacture of ordnance. They cost quite a bit of money and are designed to detonate or hit a target somewhere, but they can be stopped by a guy that barely graduated high school in Ohio.
"There's a malicious beauty to it. We are able to do a lot of stuff that people, not necessarily can't do, but aren't trained to do," explained Conley.
Hardman said, "We put a lot of work into this, and it showed, so we will spend the next month or so getting ready for the DA TOY (Department of the Army Team of the Year) and keep training."
The Department of the Army EOD Team of the Year competition takes place in September at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia.
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Medium Oval Shaped Motorcycle Helmets
Most of us have medium oval shaped heads – heads that are quite wide but slightly longer than they are wide. If that's you, then you'll find all our medium oval shaped motorcycle helmet reviews covered on these pages. If you've a longer, narrower head shape, then you might want to check out our long-oval helmets page instead. Make sure you follow our helmet fitting guide and always make sure your helmet fits just right – because good fitting helmets are the safest helmets.


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Today I wanted to share with you some lookbook inspiration from Ayres. What I love about their new Spring Summer collection is that it has a lot of color! I love those orange and green touches, they definitely express the joy and cool side of summer! What do you think?
Todas las fotos fueron extraídas de la página de Facebook de Ayres.


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Reston, VA, November 19, 2014 – K&B Underwriters, a national Program Administrator and wholesale insurance brokerage serving agents and brokers for senior living facilities, today announced it will partner with Freedom Specialty Insurance Company for its innovative DigniCARE insurance program. Freedom Specialty, based in New York City, is a highly successful business unit for Scottsdale Insurance Company, a division of Nationwide.
"K&B is proud to be a new partner with Freedom Specialty. The insurance operation has the financial strength and quality of service second to none," said Bryan Baird, President of K&B Underwriters. "We believe this new carrier relationship is consistent with our ongoing commitment to offer DigniCARE policyholders rock solid financial security on both an admitted and non-admitted basis."
Freedom Specialty's President, Craig Landi, commented on the new partnership by saying, "We are excited to be teaming up with K&B's expert underwriters to protect senior care facilities throughout the country with general and professional liability coverages. Our two teams share a passion for innovative coverage and proactive risk management."
K&B Underwriters has been at the forefront of insuring senior living facilities such as nursing homes, assisted living, retirement communities, adult day care and respite care for more than 15 years. Unlike traditional senior care facility coverages, the DigniCARE approach to writing senior living is based on a "cultural risk management" philosophy of providing policyholders with on-site staff training and a focus on moral values.
About Freedom Specialty
Freedom Specialty Insurance Company represents a wealth of experience in Specialty Liability insurance, providing solution expertise, dynamic innovation, and decisive responsiveness to the needs of their clients, backed by Nationwide's® A+ XV rating. The company's financial strength and stability allows them to serve as a vanguard in Specialty Liability lines. Visit www.freedomspecialtyins.com to learn more about Freedom Specialty.
About K&B Underwriters
K&B Underwriters is a national insurance Program Administrator and wholesale brokerage based in Reston, Virginia, serving insurance agents and brokers for senior living facilities. K&B provides nursing homes, assisted or independent living facilities and other senior living risks with industry-leading insurance programs and specialized risk management solutions.


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Gurbaksh Chahal, the Punjabi NRI writer & millionaire entrepreneur
Gurbaksh Chahal is a Punjabi NRI best selling writer. With a net worth of $340 million, Gurbaksh is among the youngest Punjabi diaspora millionaires and entrepreneurs.
Gurbaksh Chahal, a Punjabi NRI in America and a writer cum entrepreneur by his profession, is one of the youngest Punjabi diaspora millionaires of the world with his net worth of 340 million US dollars from his two advertising companies. The birth place of Gurbaksh Chahal was Tarn Taran of Punjab. Mr. Avtar Singh and Mrs. Arjinder Chahal, the parents of Gurbaksh Chahal, received an American Visa in 1982 through the Green Card Lottery. The next year, on 1982, when their baby was only four years old, the family of Gurbaksh Chahal settled permanently in San Jose of California, and became NRI Punjabis in America. Here you can read a detailed Gurbaksh Chahal biography with all latest updates on him.
Gurbaksh Chahal Personal Profile
Gurbaksh Chahal Career & Business Ventures
Gurbaksh Chahal dropped out of his school at an early age of sixteen in 1998. In fact if you consider Gurbaksh Chahal history you will see how he has questioned the age old notion of attending colleges and universities, getting high scores and becoming doctors and engineers in order to get success in life. He was admitted to the Accel Middle College where he could have got his school degree coupled with his college diploma, but he seldom liked classroom education and stopped going to school. In a recent interview in gWallet's office in San Francisco, Chahal said his parents wanted him to be doctor but classroom education was not his cup of tea - "I was one of the few teenagers who loved CNBC".
Following the school drop, Gurbaksh Chahal gave his entire time and concentration to his first business venture, ClickAgents, an advertising farm concentrating on performance based advertising. A couple of years later, ValueClick purchased ClickAgents and Chahal had a three years' non-compete agreement with the former company. On 12th January 2004, another Gurbaksh Chahal business advertising company came out under the name of BlueLithium. This business venture of Gurbaksh Chahal was soon a pioneering success in the field of online advertising. In 2007, Yahoo! purchased BlueLithium, for a huge amount of $300 million, while Chahal still continued to be the CEO of the company. In September 2009, the third business venture of Gurbaksh Chahal came out as he formed the gWallet, a virtual advertising company on the social games available on the web. When the non compete period expired, the company renamed itself as RadiumOne and came up with a bigger ad network. Recently, in March 2011, the company has announced that the net worth of Gurbaksh Chahal's company RadiumOne is worth $200 millions.
Gurbaksh also appeared at a number of TV shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show where he came out with his personal experience and life journey. He has also presented himself in the Fox TV reality show Secret Millionaire. In 2009, Extra TV featured him as "America's Most Eligible Bachelor".
Gurbaksh Chahal's Book 'The Dream': Review
A 2008 Palgrave MacMillan release, The Dream by Gurbaksh Chahal is a personal memoir of how the young Punjabi NRI entrepreneur achieved his success and fulfilled his dream. The book has soon shot to an enormous popularity and has managed to find a space in the compulsory curricula of a number of business colleges across the globe. In The Dream, Chahal encourages young and aspiring entrepreneurs to follow his way and take calculated risks in order to harvest good rewards in their business ventures.
The first chapter of the book, An Immigrant Family, traces the family of Chahal from Tarn Taran of Punjab to San Jose. The next two chapters, A New CEO and The First $40 Millions, narrates the story of Chahal's success to become the The Secret Millionaire of the Chapter VI. The last chapter, The Lessons of Entrepreneurship, shares Chahal's business brain, insights and his advices to the aspiring business tycoons. The book was initially a hard cover when it came out in 2008, but a year later the paperback version was also published. You can buy Gurbaksh Chahal book The Dream online from websites like FlipCart in India. If you want to read a jargon-less real life story of a young charismatic entrepreneur, you will definitely enjoy reading this book.


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Eden Woonwaens
Camping Equipment in George
Eden Woonwaens (Caravans) has branches in George and Mossel Bay. They are well known for the friendly service, advice and information they offer on camping and outdoor living. Not to mention the variety of caravans, tents and camping equipment they stock. Eden Woonwaens are part of a national friendship network and are members of SAWA, CCSA, JURGENS AND MCSA. They are also a Fiamma agent.
Caravan Sales in the Garden Route
Looking to buy a caravan, contact or visit Eden Woonwaens in the Garden Route. They handle sales of second hand / pre owned caravans, motor homes and trailers to get you started on your camping adventure. With lots of experience in camping the team at Eden Woonwaens has the expertise to help you make the right choice.
Caravan Repairs and Services in George
The well equipped workshop at Eden Woonwaens in George in the Western Cape can handle all your services, renovations, rebuilding and repairs. The workshop is manned by trained and experienced technicians. A trained and certified Jurgens technician is onsite.
Tent Repair in George
A seamstress is available on the premises at Eden Woonwaens in George for the making of tents and tent repairs after the wind blew it to shreds. They also build poles for your tents, replace bended poles and build new sets. New tents, rally's, multi and add-on-rooms are also available.


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The government Wednesday also set a flat 3% as the SUC for 4G airwaves in the 700 Mhz, 800 Mhz, 1800 Mhz, 2300 Mhz & 2500 MHz bands as well as for the 3G spectrum in the 900 Mhz and 2100 Mhz bands to be sold in the upcoming auction likely in September. This was lower than the 5% flat SUC charged in the 2015 sale.
The new formula pegs the SUC for Reliance Jio Infocomm at 3.05 per cent, which will be the weighted average for it while the telco will continue to pay 1 per cent SUC on the spectrum it won in 2010 auction. It also includes an additional 0.5 per cent Jio needs to pay for sharing spectrum with Reliance Communications. Incumbent GSM operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular will need to pay 3.8%, 4.8% and 4.5% respectively.
The new formula, which had been suggested by the Telecom Commission and accepted by the Cabinet, "will facilitate to move to a simple, transparent and flat ad-valorem SUC regime in accordance with the law and avoid creative accounting to bypass the revenues," the government said in a statement.
It added that with the decision on SUC, the "path is clear for issuance of the Notice Inviting Application (NIA) for spectrum auction by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)".
A senior official in the DoT said the department will issue the NIA next week. It typically takes around 45 days from the NIA issue to the start of the sale. NIA lays out rules for the auctions.
While welcoming government's move to lower the SUC rate to 3% in the upcoming sale from 5% earlier, the telecom industry still lamented the fact that didn't go for a totally flat SUC structure.
"We are disappointed that the government didn't go for a flat SUC as was initially proposed by the telecom regulator. Had the government adopted the telecom regulator's proposal of a flat SUC of 1%, there would have been no legal issues," said Rajan Mathews, director general of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents top telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and newcomer Reliance Jio Infocomm.
"The only thing holding the government back seems to be the loss of revenue in such a case but in NTP (National Telecom Policy) 2012, the government clearly said that revenue maximization was not a goal," Mathews added.
The government though needs the funds to meet its budget deficit target of 3.5% of GDP this fiscal year through March 2016. In a bid to protect its revenue, the Cabinet further set another floor for SUC: that the operators need to pay a minimum of what it paid as SUC for 2015-16. The government clocked around Rs 7,500 crore as revenue from SUC last fiscal year.
The DoT is expected to put on sale over 2200 Mhz of airwaves – the largest ever – which could raise over Rs5.50 lakh crore if all airwaves are sold at reserve price, over five times the amount raised through the March 2015 auctions.
However, industry and analysts say the base price for the 700 Mhz band – at Rs 11,485 crore a unit for pan-India airwaves - is too high and will elicit lukewarm response, only in some pockets in smaller circles. This may affect the success of the sale as the band accounts for more than a third of the spectrum proposed to be sold, and around three-fourths of what the government could generate if all spectrum is sold at base price.
Prashant Singhal, global telecommunications leader at consultancy firm EY India, expects the government to raise around Rs60,000 to Rs70,000 crore in the upcoming sale, mainly helped by demand for the 2100 Mhz band and 2300 Mhz band, along with interest in some pockets for the 700 Mhz band.
Vodafone and Idea, which lag significantly behind Bharti Airtel and Jio in terms of 4G airwaves held, are expected to be major players in the sale. The other two are widely expected to plug coverage gaps through the sale.
The cabinet last month had asked the telecom department to seek the telecom regulator's views on how to fix the SUC, after the attorney general had advised the telecom department against levying a flat spectrum usage charge on all airwaves.


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Muddy Good Run: Rangiora
Sunday, 27 September 2020
Mandeville Sports Centre, Rangiora
The Muddy Good Run is a muddy and watery obstacle course at the Mandeville Sports Centre in Rangiora on Sunday, 27 September 2020.
Run one or two laps for a total of 5km or 10km. There is also children's 1.5km course, and a 500m Junior KIDZ Mud Run for 4 to 6 year olds which requires a parent or guardian to run with the child.
The course combines cross country running with crawling, leaping and wading your way through a variety of challenging mud and water obstacles. There will be mud pits, man made hills, slippery slides, mud and water slides, cars to climb over, cars to crawl under, containers to scale, hay bales to get over, camo net crawls, cargo net climbs and a run in between.
Muddy Good Run
- Previous in series (29 March 2020)
Kids 500m (4 to 6 years old)
Kids 1.5km (7 to 13)


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This article covers organization admin functionalities, which are available to certain users with contracts covering unlimited database creation.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Required format
- Process
- OPT files
For a video on uploading processed data, please see here:
Uploading structured, processed data such as productions into Everlaw is a complex process with many potential sources of error. Because of this, you must attend a directed training before attempting to upload documents. Once you have received this training, you will be able to upload production sets directly into Everlaw without having to wait for support availability. To schedule a training, please email email@example.com or contact your account representative.
Please note that this feature only works in the Chrome web browser, so be sure to follow this process in Chrome.
Required format
The required format for uploads is relatively inflexible, so make sure that your documents conform to this standard before uploading. Unlike uploading processed data via the Uploads page to individual projects (for which either a Bates stamp or loadfile is required), documents uploaded via the processed uploader on the Organization Administrator page must have a loadfile. Please read our article on standard formats for processed data for additional information.
Initializing the upload
First, on the organization admin Processed Uploads tab, click "Add a new Upload." Then, enter in the corresponding database name or select a database from the drop-down. This step determines which database your data gets uploaded into, so take care that you are selecting the right one.
Next, drag and drop the unzipped folder containing the loadfile and image/text/native files into the uploader. Then, select the name of the user authorizing the upload. This is a safety check to make sure that the documents are being uploaded to the correct database, and can also be used as an audit trail to see who has provided and/or approved various uploads. If there is no user who has requested the upload, you may override this step by providing an authorizing organization or a free form note.
If you would like to give the upload a different name than the name of the folder you dragged in, you can change the name now. The uploader automatically adds the date, but you can remove it if you would like.
Click "Upload New Docs" if you are uploading a new set. If this is a modification of documents that are already on the platform, please go to the article on modification uploads. Then, select the loadfile. This will often be listed under a folder called "Data." If there are multiple loadfiles present, it tends to be the case that the .DAT file most closely conforms to the uploader's requirements. Otherwise, you can select a .CSV or a .TXT file. .OPT files will not work to ingest data into Everlaw. Then, select Upload Loadfile.
Special columns
The next step involves selecting system metadata fields. These are the special columns that Everlaw will use to identify where documents begin and end, as well as find the native documents. The fields are listed below:
- Begin Bates
- This field is always required.
- This is designated by selecting "B" next to the metadata field that will be used.
- It may be called "BeginBates," "BegDoc," "ProdBegBates," or any of several other potential options.
- The uploader may accidentally pick up a different Bates value (such as ParentBates), which must be corrected.
- End Bates
- Select "E" next to the field that will be used for this value.
- Either this field or "Page Count" are required so that the system knows where the end of the document is. End Bates is preferred over Page Count because it is less error prone.
- This field may have multiple potential names, like "EndBates" or "EndDoc."
- Page Count
- If there is no end Bates value, Page Count can be used to determine the end of documents. In that case, select "#" next to this column. You can also select both page count and end Bates. If the uploader prompts you for an .OPT file, that is an indication that the two values do not match up.
- Native Link
- Select "N" next to the metadata field that will be used to identify the documents' native files.
- This field will often be called "Native Link" or "Doc Link" and will contain text that looks like a file path and includes the word "Native", e.g., ENRON PROD009\ENRON PROD009\VOL0001\NATIVES
- This field is necessary if you would like to upload native files, even if those files have identical names to the image.
In this step, you can also select to ignore certain metadata fields, like "Page Count" as mentioned above. The uploader will automatically ignore all fields that have no values for any of the documents. To ignore a field, select "X."
Make sure that you always ignore the text path field, which could be called "Text Link" or "OCR Path." This is because Everlaw doesn't use text path to upload text, and the value on its own has little purpose.
If you are not able to assign the fields you want to in this step, it likely is because there is something wrong with the formatting in the loadfile. You can find out what the problem is by hovering over the header to see why the uploader does not think that the value can be used as that special column.
Note on overlapping documents
If you get an error after the previous step letting you know that the documents already exist on the platform, compare the number of documents that show the error to the number of lines in the loadfile. You can export a CSV of the errors to easily tally up the lines in Excel by clicking on the red circle with an exclamation point in it.
If the number of overlapping documents and the number of documents in the loadfile are equal, then all of the documents in the loadfile are already on the platform and you should consider doing a modify upload or skipping the upload entirely, as docs with the exact same begin and end Bates are already up. This indicates the upload might be a modification, but you should always reference the actual documents first.
Otherwise, if there are fewer documents in the error CSV than there are in the loadfile, that means the loadfile is a mixture of documents already on the system and new documents. In this case, you need to remove the lines in the loadfile representing documents already on the platform in order to upload the new documents. You can copy the lines of the overlapping documents into a new document if you would like to do a modify upload after.
Metadata parsing
In this step, you determine what format the uploader parses each metadata field as. For example, if there is a "File Size" field with contents that are just numbers, you can choose whether the uploader should understand it as a text string or a numerical value. If you select the latter, you will be able to do searches on number ranges (e.g., a search for file size larger than 100). The uploader will only allow you to select a field as numerical if there are only numbers and no letters in any of the values. For instance, a value of "100kb" would prevent the uploader from allowing you to select the field as numerical. Of particular importance in this step are
- Making sure that the uploader recognizes date fields as dates, not as text. Otherwise, you won't be able to do date range searches. Another
- Listing the To, From, and CC fields as addresslist type and the From field as AddressFrom.
The different colors on each metadata field reflect whether the uploader is confident with the designation of field type.
- Green: The uploader is confident that the field is parsed correctly; you usually do not need to click through these.
- Yellow: This color specifically means that the field has more than one non-text format option, such as numerical and date. Usually these are correctly parsed, but it's advisable to click through them to make sure the data seems to be in the proper format. Once you have clicked on a field, its color will change to a more muted hue. Often, date and time fields will be flagged here and may need to be reformatted (see below). Sometimes fields containing numerical values, e.g., "Attachment Count," may need to be changed from text to number format.
- Red: This means there has been an error. There is at least one value that cannot be parsed. To select this format, you will either have to create a new date field as described below, or mark the values that do not conform to the specified format as "Null." This will ignore that particular value and will allow the uploader to move to the next step.
In the case that a DateTime field is being parsed incorrectly, this often indicates that there are multiple different date formats present in a single loadfile. The date values that do not parse with the current format(s) will be displayed. To fix the inconsistent date values, you will need to merge the date format the uploader has identified with the format or formats present in other rows. To merge them, create a new format by clicking "Merge With..." Fill in the box with the format that matches the date fields that are not being correctly parsed according to the instructions that appear. Then, select that format from the drop-down and select Merge. You may have to do this multiple times to account for all of the potential date formats present in one upload.
You can also choose to ignore a column in this step by selecting the relevant green, yellow, or red column button and clicking on the gray Ignore Column button in the upper right.
In this step, you can combine date and time fields so that they are present as one field instead of two. For example "Date Created" and "Time Created" could be combined into one field. The uploader generally does this automatically, in which case the combined fields are shown as green. If you would like to split them anyway, select "Split" after clicking on the values. If the uploader is not confident, they will appear yellow.
If the field cannot be combined with anything, it will be grey. If fields that seem like they should be combined are not, you may need to return to the previous section, create new formats, and merge those formats.
In this step, you match the metadata fields in the loadfile (present on the right side of the table) with the metadata field that will be displayed in Everlaw. There are two types of metadata fields on the Everlaw platform: canonical and semantic fields.
Canonical fields are the curated list of fields we have enumerated to try to limit the proliferation of redundant metadata fields. For example, if multiple parties are producing documents that are present in your database, you could have fields called "Begin Family," "BeginAttach," "Begin Attachment," and "BegFamily" that all actually reference the same underlying field. To facilitate searching all the fields at once, as well as making the data in your database easier to read, you should pick Everlaw's canonical "Begin Family" field if any of those are present. You can tell if a field is canonical because it will say "Canonical" in blue on the left side.
Semantic fields are fields that are not present in Everlaw's canonical list. In general, you want to map all fields to canonical fields to the degree possible. In other words, you want as many rows as possible to be blue in your table. This ensures that your database remains easy to search and metadata fields are easy to understand.
There are some fields that do not have a good canonical equivalent, however, such as "Has Redactions" or "Redacted," though you will still want to preserve them in the database. In those cases, you can select a semantic field. To avoid all of the problems with using multiple semantic fields, you should make sure that you are using the same semantic field each time. This means using "Redacted" consistently instead of alternating between that and "Has Redactions." This is aided by the fact that semantic fields you have previously used will say "Semantic" in grey on the left side, where new fields will say "New" in yellow.
One important thing to remember about this section is that though it does display example metadata values in rows and columns, the documents aren't necessarily the same across rows. That means that the entry in the third column of the "Custodian" field is not necessarily the same document as the one in the third column of the "Duplicate Custodian" field, even though they are right on top of each other. The best way to verify what metadata values correspond to a particular document is always to check the loadfile.
In this step, you resolve inconsistencies among the metadata fields you mapped in the previous field. For example, if you have mapped multiple loadfile fields to the same metadata field in Everlaw, but the loadfile document does not have all identical values, a conflict will appear and the box will be red. You can choose to go back to the previous step to map them to different metadata fields, save both values, or delete the conflicting values.
Going back to previous step to map loadfile fields to different Everlaw metadata fields.
If you choose to save the conflicting values, the values on the left, represented by a green column, will be the ones shown on the document. The values with the tan background will be present when hovering your mouse over the field you ultimately choose to save in the metadata panel, and when doing searches on that value. If you choose to delete the conflicting value, it will not be present at all in the database.
Saving conflicting fields.
Deleting conflicting fields.
If the fields have many of the same values, but some values are only present in one field but not the other, the field will be yellow. In many cases, this means you can combine them, as they reflect the same data. In other cases, it could represent that one field is a superset of another - for example, "Custodian" and "All Custodians" will have a good deal of overlap, but should not necessarily be combined.
You will only be able to move on to the next step once you have resolved all issues.
There is no action you need to complete as part of this step. It gives you a summary of any potentially problematic fields. This includes any conflicts, new fields that are being added, or semantic (non-canonical) fields being added to the database. If you would like to change any of these fields, go back to the previous steps and adjust them.
Select folders
In this step, you select the folders that you would like to be used to upload each type of document: image, text, and, if a native link is present, native. First, select the directory or directories where the images can be found, then hit "Next: Text." Do the same for text native. You can expand folders by clicking on them twice.
Please note that the uploader will give you an error if you point it to two files with the same name. This could happen if there are native PDFs or other image files in the native directory and you pick a top level directory that includes both the images and the native directory. The solution to this is to make sure that images and native documents are in separate folders and to select only those folders during this step.
Verify files
In this step, the uploader will first go through all of the files and verify that they are present. If any are missing, it will prompt you to continue anyway or stop the upload. If you continue anyway, you can download a list of missing files at the end. Then, the upload will occur, and you can watch as the system goes through all of the files. As the upload goes on, documents are indexed as they are ingested into the system. That means you will begin to see documents in the database before the upload is complete.
Once the upload has completed, you can open a search of the documents in the results table, download the loadfile that was used to configure this upload, or delete the upload by clicking on the trashcan. Deleting the upload with remove the documents from the database, not just delete the uploads table entry.
Associate documents with source card
When users (typically non-Organization Admins) upload zip files of processed documents to the platform via the project upload page, an upload card is created for the processed source.
Organization admins can associate uploaded documents with their original processed source(s). To do this, choose the processed source from the dropdown under your completed processed upload. The selected processed source(s) will appear under "Sources to Assign."
Associating uploads with their processed source will automatically mark the upload complete on the processed source card. Additionally, the card will have a document icon linking users to the uploaded documents.
OPT Files
An OPT file is an explicit listing of the name for each page of a document, including the filename of the image for that page. It is used to determine the names of image files when the name cannot be determined implicitly from the document's Bates range and page count.
An OPT file is required whenever there is an inconsistency between the number of pages indicated by the Page Count column and the implicit number of pages described by the Bates range. For example, loadfile record ABCD001-ABCD010 has a page count of 12 whereas the count implied by the Bates range is 10. An OPT file will be required to rectify the inconsistency. There are several possible reasons for the apparent or actual inconsistency:
- The Page Count column is inaccurate (rather than provide an OPT file you could ignore the Page Count column).
- Some pages have non-obvious names, e.g., the pages go ABCD001, ABCD002, ABCD002.2, ABCD002.3, ABCD003, ABCD004, … ABCD010. In this case the Bates range is correct and the page count of 12 is correct. The OPT file is needed to determine the name for each image. This problem may not be obvious without inspecting the images.
If the Page Count is correct but the Bates range is incorrect, an OPT file won't fix the problem. You will need to correct the Bates range in the loadfile.
Another case requiring an OPT file is whenever the names of a document's images cannot be inferred from the Bates range. For example:
- ABCD001-ABCD004.4 (some pages use a page separator, others don't)
OPT files are currently not supported for uploads using PDFs as the image format.
For common errors when uploading documents, please see our help documentation.


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At home I am pretty steeped in a Democratic culture; my wife is a staunch Democrat, as are her parents and mine. I consider myself an independent, so to balance myself out I follow a couple of Republican blogs.
Recently I ran across a post complaining about an objectionable video being show at a local high school – interesting to me because (a) I'm a new father, and (b) it's a local school. I posted a response to the post, thinking to start an interesting discussion. Oddly, when I checked back a couple days later, my response was gone! My comments were quite unobjectionable; I basically said that I agreed with the three points listed at the end of the article. So I posted another response, noting that my previous comment had disappeared, and asking if they were having any technical problems. That comment has now also disappeared.
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Jeez. Prince and Victoria Wood. Within a day of each other. One a global music superstar, the other a 'national treasure'. Both of them turned out to be phenomenally talented at whatever they put their hands to. He could play any instrument; she could write drama, play piano, tell jokes, be charming, sing funny songs, and even do straight acting if she wanted to.
When I was a teenager in the 80s, I was passionate about music (well, still am) and I read the then-as-passionate-if-not-more-so music papers, the NME and Melody Maker, every fortnight, spending my lunch money on them instead of on my lunch. (Sorry, mom, I lived on Manhattan popcorn in those years.) I read about Prince's genius, his brilliant synthesis of rock and funk and soul, his mastery of guitar, his sexiness, his devastating music. And in the evenings, with my family, I tuned into Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, which I never read anything about.
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Now I'm in my 40s, and they are both dead, both enormous talents, both of them much too young. They could have gone on to do way more. I know much more about music now, and I can finally hear how original Prince was, and how he brought different kinds of music together, and I appreciate how he was in many ways colour- and gender-blind when it came to hiring musicians, and he boosted people who deserved boosting, and he fought for his right to deliver his music the way he wanted to.
I know it's not a competition. As someone who writes about music, and as a guitar player, I have nothing but respect for Prince and his music and his legacy, which I can't even begin to grasp. I know he affected way more people than I can imagine, far more deeply than he ever affected me.
But the one I'm actually going to miss is Victoria Wood, because she changed the way I thought and felt about the world.


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