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Population,Migration,and Globalization
Population, Migration, and Globalization
Globalization is not internationalization, but the effective erasure of national boundaries-opening the way not only to free mobility of capital and goods but also, in effect, to free movement (or uncontrolled migration) of vast labor pools from regions of rapid population growth. The impacts on national economies could be tragic.
The trend toward globalization (free trade, free capital mobility) is not usually associated with migration or demography. If globalization were to be accomplished by free mobility of people, then demographers would certainly be paying attention. However, since globalization is being driven primarily by "free migration" of goods and capital, with labor a distant third in terms of mobility, few have noticed that the economic consequences of this free flow of goods and capital are equivalent to those that would obtain under a free flow of labor. They are also driven by the same demographic and economic forces that would determine labor migration, if labor were free to migrate.
The economic tendency resulting from competition is to equalize wages and social standards across countries. But instead of cheap labor moving to where the capital is, and bidding wages down, capital moves to where the cheap labor is, and bids wages up-or would do so if only there were not a nearly unlimited supply of cheap labor, a Malthusian situation that still prevails in much of the world. Yet wages in the capital-sending country are bid down as much as if the newly employed laborers in the low-wage country had actually immigrated to the high-wage country. The determinant of wages in the low-wage country is not labor "productivity," nor anything else on the demand side of the labor market. It is entirely on the supply side-an excess and rapidly growing supply of labor at near-subsistence wages. This demographic condition-a very numerous and still rapidly growing underclass in the third world-is one for which demographers have many explanations, beginning with Malthus.
Globalization, considered by many to be the inevitable wave of the future, is frequently confused with internationalization, but is in fact something totally different. Internationalization refers to the increasing importance of international trade, international relations, treaties, alliances, etc. Inter-national, of course, means between or among nations. The basic unit remains the nation, even as relations among nations become increasingly necessary and important. Globalization refers to the global economic integration of many formerly national economies into one global economy, mainly by free trade and free capital mobility, but also by somewhat easier or uncontrolled migration. It is the effective erasure of national boundaries for economic purposes. What was international becomes interregional.
The word "integration" derives from "integer," meaning one, complete, or whole. Integration is the act of combining into one whole. Since there can be only one whole, it follows that global economic integration logically implies national economic disintegration. As the saying goes, to make an omelette you have to break some eggs. The dis-integration of the national egg is necessary to integrate the global omelette. It is dishonest to celebrate the benefits of global integration without counting the consequent costs of national disintegration.
Forgotten Root
Those costs are significant. It is not for nothing that the population explosion in the third world has only recently affected wages in the industrial world. The British did not allow colonial India, for instance, to compete in global markets with its cheap labor, nor did the Chinese seek to do so under the isolation policies of Chairman Mao. Only in the last 30 years has the World Bank become converted to the now "incontestible" orthodoxy of export-led development based on foreign investment as the key part of structural adjustment. But although "free trade" is the new mantra, it now means something very different from what it meant in the early nineteenth century, when English economist David Ricardo gave it the enduring blessing of his comparative advantage argument.
In the classical nineteenth-century vision of Ricardo and Adam Smith, the national community embraced both national labor and national capital. These classes cooperated (albeit with conflict) to produce national goods, which then competed in international markets against the goods of other nations produced by their own national capital/labor teams. This was internationalization, as defined above.
However, in the globally integrated world of the twenty-first century, both capital and goods are free to move internationally-and capital, or at least money, can be shifted electronically with almost no effort at all. But free capital mobility totally undercuts Ricardo's comparative advantage argument for free trade in goods, because that argument is explicitly and essentially premised on capital (and other factors) being immobile between nations. Under the new globalization regime, capital tends simply to flow to wherever costs are lowest-that is, to pursue absolute advantage.*
Nevertheless, the conventional wisdom seems to be that if free trade in goods is beneficial, then free trade in capital must be even more beneficial. However, you cannot use the conclusion of an argument to deny one of its premises! In any event, it no longer makes sense to think of national teams of labor and capital in the globalized economy. There are competing global capitalists, and national laborers thrown into global competition by mobile capital.
Back, finally, to the costs mentioned above. What are the consequences of globalization for national community? Here in the United States, we have seen the abrogation of a basic social agreement between labor and capital over how to divide up the value that they jointly add to raw materials (as well as the value of the raw materials themselves, i.e., nature's often-uncounted value added). That agreement has been reached nationally, not internationally, much less globally. It was not reached by economic theory, but through generations of national debate, elections, strikes, lockouts, court decisions, and violent conflicts. That agreement, on which national community and industrial peace depend, is being repudiated in the interests of global integration. That is a very poor trade, even if you call it "free trade."
Stresses and Strains
At a deeper level, what if globalization began to entail the overt encouragement of free migration? Even some free trade advocates might recoil from the radical cosmopolitanism of such a policy. Perhaps they can see that it would lead to massive relocation of people between world regions of vastly differing wealth, creating a tragedy of the open access commons. The strain on local communities, both the sending and the receiving, would be enormous. In the face of unlimited migration, how could any national community maintain a minimum wage, a welfare program, subsidized medical care, or a public school system? How could a nation punish its criminals and tax evaders if citizens were totally free to emigrate? Indeed, one wonders, would it not be much cheaper to encourage emigration of a country's poor, sick, or criminals, rather than run welfare programs, charity hospitals, and prisons? (Fidel Castro took precisely this course of action in opening Cuba's jails in 1980. His policy encouraged migration of prisoners and others that became part of the wave of "marielito" immigrants to the United States.)
Further, one might reasonably wonder how a country could reap the benefit of educational investments made in its own citizens if those citizens are totally free to emigrate. Would nations continue to make such investments in the face of free migration and a continuing "brain drain"? Would a country make investments in education if it experienced massive immigration pressures, which would dilute the educational resources of the nation? Would any country any longer try to limit its birth rate, since youths who migrate abroad and send back remittances can be a good investment, a fact that might increase the birth rate? (With unfettered migration, a country could never control its numbers anyway, so why even talk about the controversial issue of birth control?)
To some this skepticism will sound like a nationalistic negation of world community. It is not. It is the view that world community should be viewed as a "community of communities," a federation of national communities rather than a cosmopolitan world government lacking any historical roots in real communities. A "world with no boundaries" makes a sentimental song lyric, but community and policy cannot exist without boundaries. For mainstream-neoclassical-economists, only the individual is real; community is just a misleading name for an aggregate of individuals. From that perspective, national communities impose "distorting" interferences upon the individualistic free market, and their disintegration is not a cost but something to be welcomed. To the contrary, I would argue, this aspect of globalization is just another way in which capitalism undermines the very conditions it requires in order to function.
Few would deny that some migration is a very good thing-but this discussion concerns free migration, where "free" means deregulated, uncontrolled, unlimited, as in "free" trade, or "free" capital mobility, or "free" reproduction. One must also be intensely mindful that immigrants are people, frequently disadvantaged people. It is a terrible thing to be "anti-immigrant." Immigration, however, is a policy, not a person, and one can be "anti-immigration," or more accurately "pro-immigration limits" without in the least being anti-immigrant. The global cosmopolitans think that it is immoral to make any policy distinction between citizen and noncitizen, and therefore favor free migration. They also suggest that free migration is the shortest route to their vision of the summum bonum, equality of wages worldwide. Their point is fair enough; there is some logic in their position-so long as they are willing to see wages equalized at a low level. But those who support free migration as the shortest route to equality of wages worldwide could only with great difficulty try to contend with problems of an open-access commons, the destruction of local community, and other issues raised above.
A more workable moral guide is the recognition that, as a member of a national community, one's obligation to non-citizens is to do them no harm, while one's obligation to fellow citizens is first to do no harm and then try to do positive good. The many dire consequences of globalization (besides those mentioned above)-over-specialization in a few volatile export commodities (petroleum, timber, minerals, and other extractive goods with little value added locally, for instance), crushing debt burdens, exchange rate risks and speculative currency destabilization, foreign corporate control of national markets, unnecessary monopolization of "trade-related intellectual property rights" (typically patents on prescription drugs), and not least, easy immigration in the interests of lower wages and cheaper exports-amply show that the "do no harm" criterion is still far from being met.
Some feel that U.S. economic policies have harmed third-world citizens, and that easy immigration to the U.S. is a justified form of restitution. I have considerable sympathy with the view that U.S. policies (precisely those of globalization) have harmed third-world citizens, but for reasons already stated, no sympathy with the idea that easy immigration is a fair or reasonable restitution. For restitution I would prefer a series of small grants (not large interest-bearing loans), accompanied by free transfer of knowledge and technology.
Free Trade's Hidden Shackles
Free trade, specialization, and global integration mean that nations are no longer free not to trade. Yet freedom not to trade is surely necessary if trade is to remain voluntary, a precondition of its mutual benefit. To avoid war, nations must both consume less and become more self-sufficient. But free traders say we should become less self-sufficient and more globally integrated as part of the overriding quest to consume ever more. We must lift the laboring masses (which now include the formerly high-wage workers) up from their subsistence wages. This can only be done by massive growth, we are told. But can the environment sustain so much growth? It cannot. And how will whatever growth dividend there is ever get to the poor, i.e., how can wages increase given the nearly unlimited supply of labor? If wages do not increase then what reason is there to expect a fall in the birth rate of the laboring class via the "demographic transition"? How could we ever expect to have high wages in any country that becomes globally integrated with a globe having a vast oversupply of labor? Why, in a globally integrated world, would any nation have an incentive to reduce its birth rate?
Global economic integration and growth, far from bringing a halt to population growth, will be the means by which the consequences of overpopulation in the third world are generalized to the globe as a whole. They will be the means whereby the practice of constraining births in some countries will be eliminated by a demographic version of the "race to the bottom," rather than spread by demonstration of its benefits. In the scramble to attract capital and jobs, there will be a standards-lowering competition to keep wages low and to reduce any social, safety, and environmental standards that raise costs.
Some are seduced by the idea of "solving" the South's population problem and the North's labor shortage problem simultaneously-by migration. However, the North's labor shortage is entirely a function of below-equilibrium wages. The shortage could be instantly removed by an increase in wages that equated domestic supply and demand-simply by allowing the market to work. But the cheap-labor lobby, in the United States at least, thinks we must import workers in order to keep wages from rising and thereby reducing profits and export competitiveness. Of course this also keeps 80 percent of our citizens from sharing in the increased prosperity through higher wages. But never mind! They will still benefit, because importing workers is the key to saving Social Security-which, we are told, will collapse without growth in the cohort of working-age people provided by immigration. And when the large cohort of worker-immigrants retires? Well, we will just repeat the process.
The real solution to the Social Security imbalance is to raise the age of retirement and lower the benefits. The real solution to the South's problem is for those countries to lower their birth rates and to put their working-age population to use at home producing necessities for the home market. And the reply to the half-truth that the United States is really more overpopulated than India because each American consumes so much more than each Indian, is that the United States needs mainly to lower its per capita consumption (and secondarily its population growth), while India and China need primarily to lower their population growth, and are in no position to lower per capita consumption, except for the elite. Serious efforts to reduce birth rates in these countries are sometimes condemned, because, with the advent of ultrasound technology that can determine the gender of the fetus, the cultural preference for males has led to selective abortion of females. The problem here is neither birth control nor ultrasound but the immoral preference for males and indifference to the social costs of a gender imbalance a generation hence.
Demographers and economists have understandably become reluctant to prescribe birth control to other countries. If a country historically "chooses" many people, low wages, and high inequality over fewer people, higher wages, and less inequality, who is to say that is wrong? Let all make their own choices, since it is they who will have to live with the consequences.
But while that may be a defensible position under internationalization, it is not defensible under globalization. The whole point of an integrated world is that these consequences, both costs of overpopulation and benefits of population control, are externalized to all nations. The costs and benefits of overpopulation under globalization are now distributed by class more than by nation. Labor bears the cost of reduced wage income; capital enjoys the benefit of reduced wage costs. Malthusian and Marxian considerations both seem to foster inequality. The old conflict between Marx and Malthus, always more ideological than logical, has now for practical purposes been further diminished. After all, both always held that wages tend toward subsistence under capitalism. Marx would probably see globalization as one more capitalist strategy to lower wages. Malthus might agree, while arguing that it is the fact of overpopulation that allows the capitalist's strategy to work in the first place. Presumably Marx would accept that, but insist that the overpopulation is only relative to capitalist institutions, not to any limits of nature's bounty, and would not exist under socialism. Malthus would disagree, along with the post-Mao Chinese communists. I confess that my sympathies lean more toward Malthus, and that I lament the recent tendency of the environmental movement to court "political correctness" by soft-pedaling issues of population, migration, and globalization.
Herman E. Daly is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, a former World Bank economist, and the author of For the Common Good (with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.), Steady-State Economics, Beyond Growth, and many other works on ecological economics and development issues.
References and readings for each article are available at www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/.


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LONDON (MarketWatch)—European stocks climbed Thursday after the European Central Bank held key interest rates unchanged, while the euro weakened largely in the wake of a strong jobs report from the U.S.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.00% ended up 0.9% at 348.91, a third win in a row.
Stocks extended gains in afternoon trade at the same time the euro EURUSD, -0.1896% dipped below $1.36 against the U.S. dollar, and hit its lowest level against the British pound EURGBP, +0.0000% since September 2012. The greenback DXY, +0.10% enjoyed broad strength against its major rivals after the U.S. economy added a stronger-than-expected 288,000 jobs in June.
The European Central Bank left its main lending, or refi, rate unchanged at 0.15%, as expected, and made no changes to other key rates. The bank also left its deposit rate unchanged at negative 0.10% after last month lowering it into negative territory for the first time. The ECB in June launched measures aimed at boosting low levels of inflation and spurring stronger economic growth.
"We've had a lot of momentum behind the markets over the course of recent weeks heading into a meeting when everybody knows [ECB President Mario] Draghi isn't going to announce any kind of monetary tightening," Commerzbank economist Peter Dixon said in an interview Thursday.
"The markets basically are operating under this principle that central banks generally remain fairly accommodative," he said.
Ahead of the ECB rate statement, data released Thursday showed a June slowdown in business activity in the euro zone, though activity in Italy logged the fastest pace of growth in more than three years.
Among equities, Ingenico SA ING, -1.06% put in the best performance on the Stoxx 600, leaping 9.5% as the French payment terminals maker agreed to purchase GlobalCollect, an online payment provider, for €820 million ($1.12 million).
Vodafone VOD, +0.67% pushed higher by 1% after the European Commission cleared the telecom company's €7.2 billion ($9.83 billion) proposed purchase of Ono, Spain's largest cable operator.
But Balfour Beatty PLC shares BBY, -0.26% took a 4.5% hit after the company warned of "further worsening" in the mechanical and electrical engineering part of its U.K. construction business. That unit will see a £35 million profit shortfall, the company said, but added that overall group pretax profit expectations for 2014 remain unchanged at £145 million to £160 million.
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Sphingotec Announces Launch of Blood Test for Breast Cancer Prediction
Proneurotensin (pro-NT) is a unique biomarker for breast cancer prediction in women
Jan 02, 2013, 10:18 ET
HENNIGSDORF, Germany, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sphingotec GmbH announced today that it will launch a blood test for the early prediction of breast cancer in women. The test will be available in Europe beginning in the second quarter of 2013. sphingotest® pro-NT is a simple blood test for the determination of proneurotensin (pro-NT). sphingotest® pro-NT detects the release of the satiety hormone neurotensin and is applicable to all female individuals, regardless of genetic predispositions. It shows great promise as a starting point for the prevention of breast cancer.
In 2010, breast cancer was diagnosed for 1.6 million patients worldwide. Breast cancer is the most frequent form of cancer in women.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a highly ranked peer-reviewed journal, recently published solid data demonstrating that determination of proneurotensin levels offers a substantial advantage in prediction of breast cancer (O. Melander et al, Plasma Pro-Neurotensin Independently Predicts Cardiometabolic Diseases, Breast Cancer, and Death In Women, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 308, No. 14, pp. 1469- 1475, October 10, 2012).
"Sphingotec will offer a simple blood test that can be used by gynecologists, family doctors and clinical laboratories for women to quantify their individual risk to develop breast cancer," said Dr. Andreas Bergmann, CEO of Sphingotec GmbH. "We are confident this test will impact current prevention and early recognition programs for breast cancer and ultimately breast cancer incidence as well."
About Proneurotensin/Neurotensin:
Neurotensin is a satiety hormone, released in gastrointestinal tract. The major stimulus for neurotensin production is fat. Breast cancer cell growth is stimulated by neurotensin. Since neurotensin is a very unstable peptide, Sphingotec uses the stable precursor hormone proneurotensin as a surrogate biomarker for neurotensin. High levels of proneurotensin correspond with a three-fold risk of developing breast cancer or a recurrence of breast cancer.
Proneurotensin is the subject of several ongoing US-based and European-based studies. The goal of further investigations is the discovery of appropriate interventions (e.g, a low-fat diet) in females at high risk.
About Sphingotec GmbH:
Sphingotec GmbH aims to reduce incidence of severe diseases like cancer and diabetes by identification of susceptibility factors. Sphingotec GmbH explores biomarkers that are susceptibility factors for the development of severe diseases and provides starting points for prevention strategies.
Sphingotec GmbH is a biotechnology company located in Hennigsdorf, Germany. The company was founded in 2002.
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The shoveling of ceremonial dirt for Utah State University's new Huntsman Hall was only a formality. The seeds were planted years ago for a bigger, better Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
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A Crisis of Authority
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For all his sincere faith and right principle, the President is still wrong.
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Brian Krebs at the Washington Post is reporting on the latest effort to highlight potential security issues with OS X. The Month of Apple Bugs will be brought to you by LMH, anonymous denizen of the Internet who brought you the Month of Kernel Bugs, and security researcher Kevin Finisterre. Of course, one could argue that a daily revelation of undocumented flaws in OS X could have the unintended consequence of actually making it less secure, except that consequence is not unintended.
"Right now, many OS X users still think their system is bulletproof, and some people are interested on making it look that way," LMH said.
Right there is where the question of motive comes into play, as one could also argue that some people are interested in making OS X look another way. Remember the "Hacked Mac in 60 Seconds" drama, the flaw that was never actually demonstrated in public?
This isn't to say all is well at Apple Computer regarding security, even at the most basic level. By default, Safari still opens "safe" files that have been downloaded. Nonetheless, setting aside accusations about smug Mac users and comparative security of Windows and OS X, one simple fact remains. OS X is still safer than Windows, safety being measured by actual exploits that have occurred, or not occurred.
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Samsung Galaxy S III - What We Know So Far (Rumor Roundup)
A New Galaxy is Coming to You Soon!
Given that the popular Samsung Galaxy S II made its grand splash at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011, we were fairly disappointed when we first heard that Samsung had decided to unveil its successor at a separate hosted event at a later date instead of at MWC 2012 in February, choosing to concentrate on its tablet efforts instead.
Fast forward to mid-April where news finally broke out that Samsung had planned for a big Mobile Unpacked event in London on the 3rd of May, heralding the appearance of "the Next Galaxy". This purportedly refers to the Samsung Galaxy S III, more or less confirmed by Senior VP, Samsung, Robert Yi at the end of a recently-concluded Q1 earnings call. Of course, tech pundits and media alike have not been resting on their laurels - rumors of the phone dated back to even late last year, with some of the recent ones claiming that the the Samsung Galaxy S III will be the official device for the 2012 Summer Olympics, which explains why the event is held in London.
Nonetheless, the speculations have caught most of us in a bind - "What does the phone look like? Will it come with a quad-core or dual-core processor? And LTE connectivity?" With the information that we have compiled over the months - amongst which is a supposed hands-on video of the device by Vietnamese website Tinhte -, we've utilized them to cross-reference its alleged specs with the existing Galaxy S devices. As always, do take the legitimacy of the Galaxy S III specs at this point of time with a pinch of salt; nothing is official until Samsung reveals its Galaxy device on the 3rd of May, London time.
Taking a Look at the Samsung Galaxy S Family
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Rumors, however, about the Samsung Galaxy S III's appearance have been more fickle in nature. The device is said to come in two color options: blue and black, and white. Previously allegations also specify that the phone will feature a ceramic case but leaked photos of the device have attested to the fact that it may come in a brushed metal or stainless steel/plastic case. The Galaxy S III is also alleged to feature a physical home button in the middle of the device under the display, and that it would not be relying on the on-screen navigation buttons available on Android 4.0.
Other Devices and Services
Previous leaks have also pointed to the possibility of a second Galaxy device to be unveiled - the only major difference that we see is that it comes with a dual-core processor. This is hardly a new strategy: major manufacturers have had announced their smartphones in batches, take for example, the recent Sony Xperia series and the HTC One series, with one core smartphone positioned as the flagship model and the others catering to niche audiences.
Another major announcement that is purported to be made at the Samsung event is with regards to the S-Cloud, the company's very own cloud service. It is said to be similar to Apple's iCloud but comes with no restrictions to the type of content you can upload and is rumored to offer more than 5GB of initial storage. It is also expected to ship with access to entertainment - both free and paid TV shows, movies, and music - that will eventually be available across a suite of Samsung products, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. Further strengthening its ecosystem will be highly instrumental in keeping customers loyal to a brand, especially in a day and age where consumers no longer stick firmly to one.
So what can we expect? It's for certain at least ONE device will make its appearance, but we are expecting to see the possibility of new, elusive devices making their debut at the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012. And of course, introducing services like the S-Cloud will certainly complement the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone and pit it even closely against its rival, the iPhone. But for now, we shall leave you with Samsung's latest teaser video (well, Android users have the extra option of downloading the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 app from Google Play). In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for our coverage direct from London!
Samsung Galaxy S III: The News We Have Gathered So Far
Samsung Galaxy S III to Get Galaxy Note II Software Features in Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update
NEWS / 06 Dec 2012
Samsung is currently seeding the Android 4.1.2 update, which includes the Multi-View multi-tasking feature, over-the-air for its popular S III device. Poland will be the first country to receive it.
Galaxy S3 Alpha Runs Jelly Bean, Includes Multi-window Support
NEWS / 15 Oct 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S III Alpha, an updated version offered by NTT DoCoMo, will include the multi-window feature, one that was first shown on its bigger cousins, the Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Note 10.1.
Black Samsung Galaxy S III Set to Debut in UK in Four to Six Weeks
NEWS / 14 Aug 2012
UK smartphone retailer MobileFun has launched a pre-order page for a black edition of the Samsung Galaxy S III, adding another to an existing palette of three colors for the popular smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S III - The New Star on the Block (Updated with Video!)
FEATURE / 04 May 2012
We managed to get our paws all over the Samsung Galaxy S III in an exclusive, albeit short, hands-on session. So let's cut to the chase; check out our preview on the highly anticipated gadget after the jump.
Korean Screen Protector Hints at 4.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S III
NEWS / 02 May 2012
A screen guard by manufacturer Colorant reveals that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III will come with a 4.8-inch display. In addition, comparisons with the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S II hint of a chassis that is slightly longer and has a dedicated menu button.
Samsung Galaxy S III's Alleged 4.8-inch Screen in Leaked Photo
NEWS / 30 Apr 2012
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III will allegedly come with a 4.8-inch screen size and measures 130mm, KnowYourMobile reports.
Samsung Exec Let Slips Galaxy S III Namesake
NEWS / 27 Apr 2012
Senior VP, Samsung, Robert Yi let one slip about the official name of the upcoming Galaxy phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. The Verge reports.
Samsung announces 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad Processor for Next Galaxy Phone
NEWS / 26 Apr 2012
The Samsung 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor has been announced and is scheduled to be part of the next Galaxy smartphone's hardware specifications.
Samsung Galaxy S III Specs Leaked
NEWS / 26 Apr 2012
The specs of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S III were leaked in the AnTuTu benchmark. Besides running on Android 4.0, the Galaxy S III will be powered by the Exynos 4212 dual-core processor clocked at 1.4GHz. It also has a 4.7-inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels and a whopping 12-megapixel rear camera.
Leaked Galaxy S III Prototype Showcases Custom Menu Button
NEWS / 25 Apr 2012
Photos of another "dummy box" for the alleged ICS-flavored Samsung Galaxy S III (Samsung GT-I9300) have been leaked, featuring a larger virtual menu button than the one found on the Android 4.0 stock software.
'Leaked' Samsung Galaxy S III GPU Benchmark Results Top Charts
NEWS / 24 Apr 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S III benchmark results were accidentally hosted for some time on GLBenchmark with a screenshot promptly taken, Phone Arena reports.
May 3rd Galaxy Event: S-Cloud Service As Well?
NEWS / 23 Apr 2012
Samsung's own cloud service, the S-Cloud, is said to be unveiled alongside the Samsung Galaxy S III on the 3rd of May in London, according to The Verge and MK.
Samsung Launches Teaser Site for Galaxy S III
NEWS / 23 Apr 2012
To drum up more hype for its upcoming Galaxy S III flagship phone, Samsung launched a teaser site with a countdown ending in about 10 hours. What will be revealed then still remains a mystery.
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NEWS / 20 Apr 2012
A sneak peek video at the Samsung Galaxy S III has been making its round on the Internet, a few weeks before its official May 3rd unveiling, Engadget reports.
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NEWS / 19 Apr 2012
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The conversion was made by Zero Gravity Entertainment and published by WizardWorks Software. It had two levels and pitted the player against 12 evil clones of the X-Men. This was the mid-90s, mind you, so players battled mutants like Cannonball and Bishop wearing sweet spandex and shoulder pads. The game didn't skimp on the gore — blood did indeed spurt out when you shot bone claw Wolverine in the head. As you'll see in the clip above, the spectacle of mowing down the X-Men with a shotgun is pretty darn perverse. I'm not sure why Marvel would approve of a game that encouraged the wholesale slaughter of their most profitable superheroes.
The game's bosses included Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister, but after mowing down clone after clone of Iceman and Storm, I bet killing the real bad guys had zero pizazz.
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Trace Adkins Chooses Newcomer to Partner for TV Performances
"Celebrity Apprentice" finalist Trace Adkins has an apprentice of his own.
In the market for a duet partner, Adkins picked out an unknown singer he saw at a junior-college fundraiser to join him for his appearances this week on "Today" and "Fox & Friends." He surprised 23-year-old Maureen Maltez with a copy of the song during a jazz dance class two weeks ago, and after a few quick rehearsals, the two boarded a plane Tuesday to New York.
"There were any number of seasoned professionals here in town that of course I could have gone with and they would have done a beautiful job," Adkins said. "But I saw her sing ... and I remembered her and I just thought, `I bet it would really mean something if she were to do it.' I know what I would have thought if I was (young) and somebody would have come in and said, `Hey, you want to go to New York City and sing on the "Today" show?'"
If his reaction was anything like Maltez's, he would have freaked out.
She remembers standing backstage following her performance at the fundraiser when a 6-foot-7 man she'd never met walked up. Maltez's college instructor runs a dance studio where Adkins' daughters take classes, but she had no idea of that connection four months ago.
"All he said was, `Hello, my name is Trace Adkins and you sing beautiful.' I wrote it down," Maltez said before a rehearsal Monday at Adkins' Brentwood home. "A friend of mine was beside me and he was like, `Oh, my gosh!' I could barely sleep that night."
She never expected to see him again, but two weeks ago he walked into her class at Columbia State Community College and handed her a CD with "Watch the World End," a song from his new album, "Love Will ...," that features Colbie Caillat. Caillat was unable to make it to New York with Adkins this week.
Adkins gave Maltez a night to rehearse the song and returned with his piano player the next day to see how they sounded together. Satisfied, he invited her to New York. Adkins' wife, Rhonda, took the Miami-born, Honduras-raised singer on a shopping trip for outfits and invited her into their home.
"What I really like is I didn't feel like a stranger around them," Maltez said.
The nerves were already apparent Monday, less than 48 hours before her appearance Wednesday on the "Today" show. She's never been to New York, sung in front of more than 1,000 people, or appeared on national television.
Adkins thinks she'll do just fine.
"I want this to be fun for her, something she remembers," he said. "As I was leaving (her school) a couple of the ladies came outside and caught me, and they had tears in their eyes and they were like, `You don't understand, this girl is so special.' I said, `You don't have to tell me about that.' I saw the aura when she walked out onstage. There's something about her. She has that thing. I saw it right off."


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Rongsheng Cai, M.D., is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Arkansas Children's Hospital and an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China in 1985 and 1992. He then completed his neurosurgery residency at Tongji Hospital, a teaching hospital of Tongji Medical College. Upon the graduation from resident training, he became an attending neurosurgeon at Tongji Hospital.
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OAK CREEK, Wis., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The gunman who killed six people at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple shot himself in the head after being wounded by a police officer, the FBI said Wednesday.
FBI agent Teresa Carlson told a news conference at the agency's Milwaukee office Wade Michael Page shot himself in the head after he was shot in the stomach by an Oak Creek police officer who was one of three people critically wounded in the incident at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"The evidence indicates that the second responding officer who shot Page in the stomach, thereby neutralizing the threat -- and by the way, I've seen the video, it is an amazing shot. And thank goodness. Subsequent to that wound, it appears that Page died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head," Carlson said.
Carlson said there is no evidence anyone else was involved in Page's actions.
Also Wednesday, President Obama called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to give his condolences for the death of Indian nationals at the temple, presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One. Carney said the president made the call from the plane.
Obama told Singh, a Sikh and the first non-Hindu to serve as prime minister in India, that both countries are committed to religious freedom, Carney said.
Police earlier confirmed Page's former girlfriend was arrested on suspicion of being a felon possessing a firearm.
Misty Cook, 31, of South Milwaukee was arrested after police found a gun at her apartment, which she shared with Page until they broke up in June and he moved to nearby Cudahy, police said.
Cook cannot legally possess a gun because she has a felony conviction for fleeing and eluding police in Milwaukee County.
The Milwaukee County district attorney's office will review the case. South Milwaukee police also consulted with the FBI, which is leading the investigation.
Fox News Channel said the weapon was not related to Sunday's temple shooting in which Page killed five worshipers and a police officer.
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitored Page and Cook for years, said Cook was associated with a group called Volksfront, which anti-hate groups describe as a racist neo-Nazi organization.
Volksfront, also known as Volksfront International, describes itself as an international fraternal organization for persons of European descent. The group told the Journal Sentinel Cook has not been a member since 2008 and her relationship with it could be described as "actively hostile."
The ADL says the group is "one of the most active skinhead groups in the United States." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which also monitored Page, includes Volksfront on its list of hate groups. Volksfront disputes the designation.
The Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday Cook worked at a restaurant about a block away from the Oak Creek Sikh temple Page attacked.
Page, who had a misdemeanor criminal record, legally purchased the gun used in the temple shooting.
Before her arrest, Cook told the Journal Sentinel by e-mail she did not wish to be interviewed.
"In light of this senseless tragedy, I must respectfully decline any requests for comments," she wrote. "If I could say something to ease the pain of the victims and their families I would gladly do so. Unfortunately words do not begin to heal the pain they are going through. I ask that you please respect my privacy in dealing with this issue as it is a great struggle for me."
In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, Cook said the emphasis should be on the "heroes" of the killing. She mentioned Satwant Singh Kaleka, who tried to hold off Page with a knife, giving his wife and others time to hide, and police officer Brian Murphy.
"The reaction of the Sikh community around the world has been admirable," Cook said. "Their advocation for education and understanding is something we should all try to emulate. The responding officers, especially Brian Murphy, are heroes in my book for preventing further bloodshed."
The newspaper said Cook and Page were active participants in an online message forum for a white supremacist group, using the screen names "Luluroman," which the ADL says Cook used as a handle, and "End Apathy," which the civil rights group says Page used. End Apathy was the name of his skinhead band.
"End Apathy" posted more than 200 times, beginning in 2010, the newspaper said. "Luluroman" posted nearly 800 times, beginning Dec. 29, 2009.
The ADL says Cook may be the reason why Page moved to the Milwaukee area nine months ago, the Journal Sentinel reported.


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Anyone who wonders how well teenagers today know the game of baseball should talk to players representing the eight regional champions at the American Legion World Series.
They not only know the game, many of them live and breathe it. So it was no trouble getting them to share their thoughts and experiences at Thursday�s practice sessions at Veterans Field at Keeter Stadium.
What would you change?
Opinions about what could make the game better were varied.
Several said they�d like to see lifetime bans for steroid use. Others are hoping for better use of video replay in the majors, while some would like to dispose of the designated hitter rule.
What drew the most response though are the current bats used in legion and college baseball. Some would prefer wood bats exclusively while others want the rules to go back a couple years ago when more home runs were being hit.
Kyle Hart from the Branford, Conn., team would like the seventh-inning stretch to be juiced up, possibly with some races to amuse fans. Zach Welsher from Audobon, N.J., though, said no changes were needed: �The game is perfect the way it is,� he said.
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Chinese cabbage and daikon from last year's garden
In our garden this time of year, I grow a lot of Asian greens for a couple of reasons: first, they germinate and grow extremely fast and secondly, supermarkets and even farmers markets tend to have just a sampling. Asian markets in the suburbs have more choice, but the quality can be iffy and the veggies aren't organic.
So as the summer heat finally died down, I sowed mizuna, mibuna, Chinese broccoli, daikon, bok choi, tat soi, two varieties of Chinese cabbage, mustard, turnips, red carrots, as well as a couple of varieties of lettuce that I don't often find, like red iceberg, a heirloom. I'll be drowning in Asian greens and lettuce in about 6-10 weeks and making my own kimchi.
I thought about this approach - grow what you can't buy - when I read this interesting piece about a gardener in England, Mark Diacono, who has a new book, Taste of the Unexpected. He talks about how he decided what to grow:
I did a little research, whittling out the truly impossible as well as anything cheap and widely available. What was left formed my first wishlist: mulberries, apricots, medlars, persimmons, quinces, pecans, olives, peaches, walnuts, mizuna, Szechuan pepper, kai lan and almonds. What a menu. Otter Farm was on its way.
On top of that, he bet climate change would make it possible to grow plants more common to the Mediterranean than the UK.
Apricots, peaches and nectarines, among others, will get plenty enough sun in England to ripen happily, but the frosts can nip the blossom and kill off any chance of fruit. I was convinced that climate change would make those late frosts fewer and farther between, so I planted.
What I liked most was this list of how to think about what to plant. So here's Diacono's 13 steps (edited a bit from the full list at the Guardian link above):
1. Drawing up your wishlist is the key step ... forget about any limitations your garden may have and think imaginatively. Let flavour be your guide.
2. Grow what you most like to eat. Make a list of all the food you love. Add to it anything you love the sound of.
3. Grow what you can't buy. Some homegrown foods bear little resemblance to those in the shops. Grow them for yourself and get them to the kitchen within minutes and they will taste luxurious.
4. Grow something unexpected. Quinces, mulberries and salsify are three of the many that don't suit the supermarket system, and all are among the very finest food you can eat.
5. Challenge your tastebuds. If you hate it, grow it, at least once. Chances are it'll be so far removed from what you buy in the shops, or be so fine in combination with something else you grow that you'll be converted.
6. Grow food that's expensive to buy. It makes little sense to grow the cheap stuff and keep forking out for the pricier food, but that's exactly what most people do. Grow something delicious and expensive instead.
7. Transformers. The transformers are those harvests that ensure your main crops have any number of costumes to dress up in. They are typically long on flavour and short on volume – herbs, Szechuan pepper, Egyptian walking onions, etc.
8. Think seasonally. It can be tempting to concentrate on the height-of-summer loveliness, ignoring the fruit, greens, buried treasure, salads and nuts from the other parts of the year.
9. Quick return. Like most things, growing is about confidence and momentum, so enjoy the taste of success early. Include some cut-and-come-again salad leaves, intense microleaves and pinch off day-lily flowers within a few weeks or even days of them starting to grow and you'll taste the difference.
10. Go for diversity. Generally speaking, a little of lots rather than lots of a little is what you're after. Go for a broad range of foods as well as a number of varieties of each.
11. Aesthetics. A beautiful plot is undeniably more compelling to be in. Foster your own sense of the beautiful, afford it importance and you'll find your patch the place you most want to be for your morning coffee.
12. Get catalogues. When picking plants go to someone who does it for a living: they know what they're doing and they have an interest in you coming back.
13. Be realistic about your time. In the first year, bite off less than you can chew. If I gave you a tomato plant to look after you'd probably find the time; if I gave you a two-acre field you might find other commitments get the better of you.
HT to my friend the writer Roger Atwood who alerted me.
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Don't know about this story and don't care.
That said, the so-called "satire sites" are getting a little smarter...in that they spatter in real stories along with their completely made-up ones so people see stories they know are true and believe the site is somewhat legitimate.
This means...just because a story is on a "satire site" doesn't necessarily mean it's false anymore...also doesn't mean it's true.
My starting position is to assume it's false....and the term "satire" itself is grossly abused. Many of these sites have no interest in clever satire...they merely make up outrageous stories to gain clicks from people just itching to be outraged by what the "other side" is up to now.
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Budget Request System
This web-based application allows State of Oklahoma agencies to enter and submit both operating budget requests and capital project requests directly to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and the Long-Range Planning Commission. The application requires Oracle's JInitiator plug-in. Procedures to obtain the plug-in follow.
To run this application, the following basic system requirements are recommended:
Note: It will take approximately 2-3 days to process this form. Please include your e-mail address on the OSF Form 90 and you will receive notification of the new userid by e-mail. Otherwise, our staff will phone you with your new userid.
The Budget Request System requires Oracle's JInitiator plug-in. This enables your browser to use the budget request application. If you have already configured your browser to use Oracle JInitiator, you may continue to follow the Budget Request links and begin using the application.
If you do not already have the Oracle JInitiator installed, you will need to configure your browser with the plug-in. There are 2 ways to receive and install this plug-in:
NOTE: You may want to consult with your agency system administrator regarding these system requirements and the download of Oracle JInitiator.
The following instructions provide an overview of the screens to download this application and access the Budget Request System. You may print this page to refer to when installing the plug-in.
For Internet Explorer Users:
For Netscape Users:
NOTE: This application does not work with CHAMELEON browser.
Once you have entered this information, click on "Connect." You are now at the initial screen of the Budget Request System and can begin your request.
This screen is used to select your agency and the budget request forms you wish to enter - Operating, Capital Outlay, or Budget Request.
NOTE: For detailed instructions on the system and the specific request forms, please see the Capital or Operating Budget Request sections of this site.
The initial budget request screen is used to select your agency and the budget request forms you wish to enter - Operating or Capital Outlay Budget Request. This system functions similar to most Web based applications and allows the user to point and click, choose menu commands, and make selections in dialog boxes.
NOTE: For detailed instructions on the specific request forms, please see the Capital or Operating Budget Request sections of this site.
Title 62 Oklahoma Statutes, Section 900 et seq established the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission. All Oklahoma state-level agencies, boards, trusts and commissions are included in this statute. Capital budget items are submitted even if no state appropriated funds are used to acquire them. The commission defines capital projects as those with a cost of at least $25,000 and a useful life of five years or more. If your organization does not anticipate capital expenditures in any of the next 5 years, please send notification to the commission via e-mail to Ben Davis.
For questions on the Capital Budget Request, please e-mail to Ben Davis or phone at (405) 522-1652.
Under the provisions of Title 62, section 41.47, the operating budget request forms were prepared jointly by the staffs of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and the Joint Legislative Committee on Budget and Program Oversight (legislative fiscal staff). Information contained in your responses will be used by both the legislative and executive branches in developing budget proposals, so please follow the directives of the OMES and fiscal staffs to ensure that these forms are filled out completely. It is very important that you provide complete justification for each of your funding changes.
Historical and BWP data from ICS will be loaded into the new system to eliminate the need for you to enter this data. Some data from last year's budget request will also be copied into the new system and will be available for you to edit. In addition, some forms you completed in the past will be generated by the system from data provided on other forms. Specifics on each form are included in the section by section instructions. These instructions were mailed to each agency and are also linked below.
Please see the training section for the dates and contact information on scheduling your agency for operating budget request training on the new system.
Please direct any questions on the operating budget request to the budget or fiscal analysts for your agency. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses of the analysts are available on the OSF, House, and Senate home pages.
Each state agency presently using or contemplating the use of data processing applications is required to submit a long-range (three year) Data Processing Plan. The total Data Processing plan amount for the budget request fiscal year must balance to the agency's Budget Request for data processing. All purchases for data processing equipment, software or services must be identified in the agency's data processing plan.
Effective Sept. 1, 1992, no agency shall use state funds for the acquisition of computer hardware or software exceeding $2,500 in value, without the written authorization of the Director of State Finance in accordance with Title 62, Section 41.5a, item B of the Oklahoma State Statutes. This section does not apply to higher education, public schools, or vocational-technical districts. Even though the Legislative and Judicial Branches are exempt, their participation is encouraged as it would enhance the statewide planning for data processing.
All state agencies are required by State Statutes to submit a long-range (3-year) telecommunications plan. The plan is to include voice (telephone), radio, video, facsimile or any other forms of communications and telecommunications which the agency is using or is planning to use in the future. Even though the Legislative and Judicial Branches are exempt, their participation is encouraged as it would enhance the statewide planning for telecommunications.
Links to the Data Processing/Telecommunications instructions and forms are included in the Operating Request Section.
Please direct any questions to the OMES Systems Planning Group at (405) 521-2804 re: data processing, and (405) 521-2373 re: telecommunication, (405) 521-2373.
Training sessions are available to help you learn the system.
Capital Request training is available from the Long Range Planning Commission. Please e-mail Ben Davis or contact him by phone (405) 522-1652, if you need assistance.
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services will provide Operating Budget Request training. Please contact your budget analyst if you need to schedule training.
The information in this section is used by an agency to develop a workforce plan that reviews the agency's workforce demographics and identifies current and future problem areas due to resignations and retirement.
Upon entering the Budget Request System, click on the 'Strategic Plan' button. Then click on the 'Workforce Plan' button, this will take you to the Workforce Plan. The Workforce Plan will already have pre-populated workforce demographics for each agency that contains the following information:
The report contains only Job Families and Sub-Activities with the following problem areas:
Note: If the row contains a JFD and Job description it is Identifying a problem with a specific Job in that sub-activity. If it only contains the sub-activity but no job code or job description it is reporting a problem with the Sub-activity as a whole.
Step 1: Enter the contact information for the agency's primary workforce planning contact at the top of the page.
Step 2: For each JFD or Sub-Activity that meets any of the problem criteria, click on any field in the row for that JFD or Sub-Activity and a blank screens will appear at the bottom to Identify potential problems, enter information for an action plan, and a method to evaluate progress.
Note: There is a blank row at the bottom of the pre-populated list for additional JFD or Sub-Activity problems an agency wishes to report. Agencies may enter any additional Job Families or Sub-activities not identified in the pre-populated list, such as areas with vacant positions. By inserting that information on the blank row, an action Plan can be created for these areas.
The first section entitled "Potential Problem," contains a drop-down menu that identifies the following problems:
Step 3: Select a potential problem in the drop-down menu for the Job Family or Sub-Activity. There may be more than one problem area for each Job Family or Sub-Activity, each problem should be addressed on separate rows, starting with the highest priority and working down from there.
Step 4: Following the identification of a problem area, click on the Action Plan box. an individual action plan to address each problem area will pop up. Enter your action plan to address the problem area into the text box. These plans will be different for each Job Family or Sub-Activity depending on how your agency plans to address these problems. Once completed, close the box.
Step 5: In the last text box on the row, agencies will specify a method to evaluate progress in addressing the problem area. Just as with the action plan click on the empty box and a text box will appear. Once you have completed the method to evaluate progress close the box.
Repeat these steps till all problem Job Families and Sub-agencies have been addressed.
Note: If the pre-populated information identifies a Job Family or Sub-Agency as having a problem, but the agency feels that it is not a significant one, Choose other in the Potential Problem box and give a brief explanation of why the agency feels this is not a significant problem in the Action Plan box.
Once the plan has been completed, you may print a copy from the Strategic Plan main screen by clicking on the 'Forms' button.
For assistance or questions in completing the Workforce Plan, please contact the Office of Workforce Planning at (405) 521-6350.


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Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct
Commentary - Rule 3.7
[1] Combining the roles of advocate and witness can prejudice the opposing party and can involve a conflict of interest between the lawyer and client.
[2] The opposing party has proper objection where the combination of roles may prejudice that party's rights in the litigation. A witness is required to testify on the basis of personal knowledge, while an advocate is expected to explain and comment on evidence given by others. It may not be clear whether a statement by an advocate-witness should be taken as proof or as an analysis of the proof.
[3] Subsection (a) (1) recognizes that if the testimony will be uncontested, the ambiguities in the dual role are purely theoretical. Subsection (a) (2) recognizes that where the testimony concerns the extent and value of legal services rendered in the action in which the testimony is offered, permitting the lawyers to testify avoids the need for a second trial with new counsel to resolve that issue. Moreover, in such a situation the judge has firsthand knowledge of the matter in issue; hence, there is less dependence on the adversary process to test the credibility of the testimony.
[4] Apart from these two exceptions, subsection (a) (3) recognizes that a balancing is required between the interests of the client and those of the opposing party. Whether the opposing party is likely to suffer prejudice depends on the nature of the case, the importance and probable tenor of the lawyer's testimony, and the probability that the lawyer's testimony will conflict with that of other witnesses. Even if there is risk of such prejudice, in determining whether the lawyer should be disqualified, due regard must be given to the effect of disqualification on the lawyer's client. It is relevant that one or both parties could reasonably foresee that the lawyer would probably be a witness. The principle of imputed disqualification stated in Rule 1.10 has no application to this aspect of the problem.
[5] Whether the combination of roles involves an improper conflict of interest with respect to the client is determined by Rule 1.7 or 1.9. For example, if there is likely to be substantial conflict between the testimony of the client and that of the lawyer or a member of the lawyer's firm, the representation is improper. The problem can arise whether the lawyer is called as a witness on behalf of the client or is called by the opposing party. Determining whether or not such a conflict exists is primarily the responsibility of the lawyer involved. See Commentary to Rule 1.7. If a lawyer who is a member of a firm may not act as both advocate and witness by reason of conflict of interest, Rule 1.10 disqualifies the firm also.


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Tomorrow we go to the Copa de Oro (Gold Cup) quarterfinal games in D.C. – That's right, plural – games! … I totally didn't even realize that it was a doubleheader, which means two games one after the other at the same venue which are attended with the same ticket. So not only will I get to see the U.S. team play against Jamaica, I get to see the game right after it. Do you know whose playing?
EL SALVADOR vs. Panama! … I'm freaking out. The only way this could be more chévere is if Chicharito showed up and bought me a beer, but let's keep things realistic, shall we?
Our tickets are supposed to be at "will call" which makes me nervous, but I'm told this is a reliable way to do things and I don't have a choice in the matter, so primero a Dios and fingers crossed. The reason it makes me nervous is because these games are todo sold-out. I have a feeling it's going to be crazy getting in. A friend who will be at the game advised us to arrive hours early, partly to avoid a really long line and also to enjoy the pre-game atmosphere. You're going to have a parqueo full of guanacos, panameños, Jamaicans, gringos and a mix of others … I don't know how hard everyone else parties, but the Salvadorans alone will make plenty of noise and fun – not to mention that they're clever business people and I'm sure a lot of ventas will be going on. If Suegra were coming, (which she's not!) I know she'd be out there hustling, selling pupusas, hand-embroidered delantales, joya, and whatever else she could carry.
Like I said, Suegra is staying home to watch the cipotes so it seems we're ready for the games – except what to wear?
Carlos and I have been looking everywhere for a shirt to wear to the game. You would think we owned a La Selecta shirt but every time we asked Suegra to bring us one, she'd come back with tourist T-shirts. One time she got closer and brought us a team shirt for Chalatenango, but purple stripes are not as cool as "La Azul" – (not to mention, the shirt is too small – the chorizo look is not a good one.)
So we went to various sporting goods stores. One store we went to I asked where their soccer shirts are and the guy said, "Um, we don't have… soccer…shirts… We have soccer balls?" … The other store had a U.S. MLS shirt, but it was $50… So not happening.
We tried department stores, where I found a really cool shirt for El Tri, which, (while I still want it), would have been an inappropriate choice for the game. (I may wear my "Mexico Numero Uno" shirt here at home and deal with the wrath of Carlos and Suegra, but I'm not tonta enough to wear it in a stadium full of Salvadorans.)
Wally World was also no good. They have a lot of patriotic shirts due to the season, but not anything I would be caught dead wearing. (Glittery kittens with fireworks? Seriously? People like this?)
Finally I had the idea to make a shirt. I bought a nice bright blue T-shirt for $3 and some iron-on letters… but what to write?
That's when I remembered my new favorite player – Salvadoran, Dennis Alas.
While I was watching El Salvador play Cuba on television, I noticed that the commentator kept referring to one of the players as "Pitbull." I thought this was just a silly, quirky thing that this particular commentator had come up with, but after searching the internet a little, I found out that Dennis Alas is known as the "Salvadoran Pitbull" – (I'm thinking it's the shaved head.)
After reading more about the player and looking up video of some of his past goals – I've really come to like him.
He actually didn't score any goals against Cuba. Here's him missing one though. Oops.
No me importa. His nickname is too chivo for me not to like him and I think he has potential.
So anyhow, Dennis "Pitbull" Alas inspired me to create a camisa for the game. I think I will be the only person in the stadium, (or in the world), with this one-of-a-kind shirt. If you watch the games mañana, look for me.
Disclosure: I will be attending the CONCACAF Copa de Oro/Gold Cup games at the invitation of State Farm. All opinions are my own.


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Pitt87 wrote:Froggy wrote:Bioshock wrote:It really is astounding that Despres continues to sit.
why? they looked pretty good with engelland in there today.
bylsma has said REPEATEDLY that he wants engelland in there against physical teams. So far, especially as of late, it has worked pretty well. It's not like it's an arbitrary decision on his part. Bottom line, the lineup we had today only let up 1 goal against a top team in the league with our back up goalie in net. I'm gonna go ahead and give Bylsma the benefit of the doubt on our defensive line up after that.
When was the last time Engelland had a game off? Agree they played well today, but when your rotation doesn't move guys out of your bottom pair, its hard to explain how you have a guy like Despres on the bench.
I think that Bylsma saw the Rangers pound his superstar for 60 minutes yesterday without any threat of retaliation, and decided to throw someone on the ice that could drop the gloves...especially against an uber-physical team like Boston. The Pens really don't have anyone else on the roster than can 'deter' that type of behavior.
FTR, I'm not a fan of the enforcer role, but it was pretty obvious yesterday that there was no one to put fear in Girardi and the other Rangers running the Pens.


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Premier League: Newcastle could finish in the top half, says Alan Pardew
Alan Pardew says Newcastle will now look to challenge for a top-half finish but admits they were lucky against Stoke.
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Last Updated: 11/03/13 9:02am
Stoke took the lead at St James' Park through a Jon Walters penalty just after the hour, but Newcastle won it 2-1 thanks to Yohan Cabaye and a last-gasp strike from Papiss Cisse, and are now 13th in the table.
"It was a very important win for us, because it jumps us right up the Premier League and gives us a chance to attack the top ten," Pardew told Sky Sports.
"But we were fortunate in some ways, Stoke came here and were excellent today and that was as good a defensive display as you will see.
"They stopped us playing and made it very difficult and we kept plugging away, asking different questions and in the end it was a pass through the eye of the needle from [Sylvain] Marveaux that got us the goal."
Pardew was full of praise for Marveaux, who he says is unlucky not to be in the team after returning from injury.
"The team has done well in his absence and he is knocking on the door and he sparked us in that last little bit and it was massive," he said.
"Stoke were a threat all afternoon from set plays, they are giants and you have to be big and strong which we were and I thought Steven Taylor was England standard today. It is a brilliant win for us - a massive win."
Pardew said his team took 45 minutes to get going following the trip to Russia earlier in the week when they faced Anzhi Makhachkala in the Europa League.
"Sometimes it is not physical, but a mental tiredness and I thought we were slow. But I thought we brightened up," said Pardew.
The Newcastle boss now hopes that his side can have a big night against Anzhi on Thursday.
"It has been a cold week and we all have our thermals still on and hopefully we will warm up for Thursday. This will set us up and I hope our fans respond and we have a big night and performance."