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Louise M. Soder
Madison-Louise M. Soder, age 86, died on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at the Agrace HospiceCare Center , Fitchburg . She was a first generation American, born January 14, 1927 in Green Bay, WI to German parents, Max & Magdalena (Emmel) Richter. She was a graduate of East High School , Green Bay and Oshkosh State Teacher's College (now UW-Oshkosh). Louise taught in Beaver Dam, WI from 1949-52 and then at West High School in Madison until her retirement in 1991.
On April 13, 1952 Louise married Henry Soder. They enjoyed 45 years of marriage until Henry's death on January 6, 1998. They enjoyed traveling and made numerous trips to Germany to visit relatives. Louise loved gardening, being a guide at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unitarian Meeting House, and membership in the Sherlock Holmes Reading Group, the Agatha Christie Book Club and the University League.
Louise is survived by her daughter, Christine Soder; her sister, Margaret Richter; many cousins both in the U.S. and Germany .
A funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Living Christ, 110 N. Gammon Road , Madison with Rev. Daniel C. Kowert officiating. A reception will follow service immediately. A visitation will be held on Saturday at the church from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service.
In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the charity of your choice.


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If you thought Diplo peaked with Hollertronix or plateau'd with M.I.A. or repeated himself with Santogold, or if you think you're just over the baile thing altogether, you really need to stop thinking and go dancing or something. Besides, Brazil's not even where Diplo is at these days — his Mad Decent label has such scattered signees as DJ Blaqstarr, Crookers, and the South Rakkas Crew. This Friday, a Mad Decent–sanctioned show rolls into the Middle East, and the sounds will be as random as one of Diplo's mixes. Here's what to expect.
Diplo, "Must be a Devil"
This track first burst through on Diplo's 2007 iTunes Live Session EP, but it's so much more at home on the Blow Your Head 12-inch. Not only does his first new vinyl release under his own name in more than two years sport this beast (with its mouthful of Pixies), it's also got three mixes of "Wassup Wassup" by Crookers, Bart Bmore, and Philly's DJ Sega, plus a gruesomely awesome sleeve by Gunsho.
Abe Vigoda, "Bear Face"
LA's most notable tropical punks (by way of the increasingly infamous Smell, of course) might seem a little bit out of place on this Mad Decent bill, but they're out of place everywhere — did you get that "tropical punk" bit back there? This doozy off their newest, Skeleton, is as cute and catchy as it is deeply disturbing. Bring shoes you don't care about.
Boy 8-Bit, "The Suspense is Killing Me"
Don't let the name fool you: though the South London artist (and resident DJ at the popular Body Clap night) likes his primal bleeps and bloops just fine, he's no chiptune purist. You can still hear (literal) bits of the Amiga he grew up on laced through "The Suspense Is Killing Me," but the rest of this track is a few comfortable steps ahead of right now.
Telepathe, "Chrome's on It (Mad Decent Mix)"
Although they're not on the Mad Decent label themselves (their Chrome's on It EP is freshly out on IAMSOUND), the laconic, dreamy, early 4AD vibe of Brooklyn's Telepathe is perfect twiddle fodder for restless retrofetishists like Diplo. Witness this grubby reworking of the single's lead track.
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Are you like millions of other people who want to follow floating bears to a giant junk bear who takes his head off? Well, finally we have our day people! The fine folks at Studio Colorido have put together, what is the best floating bear title ever penned to film. I smell a genre about to start! Anyhow, a young girl sees a bear in a shop window which is next to a maniquin of another red head young girl. He suddenly moves, which does not freak out the young girl, waves his arms and Pouf! suddenly she is swapped with the other girl in the window, and transported to a magical... See full review
Amending a review for a show you originally thought was a mediocre mess only to be surprised by a solid second act, is very rare. In fact, I am not sure it has happened to me yet. Ah Macross... You big beautiful mix of warfare and dancy pop numbers. Shredded mecha roar by with explosions everywhere all the while a songstress (or plural) belt out love ballads. meanwhile a love triangle (mostly 2 girls and 1 guy, with a couple exceptions) forms and causes for great soapy drama. Originally I noted the fact that in the first 10-12 episodes it felt like the creators threw in everything but the... See full review
Tron stumbles into a bar and hooks up with Madoka Magica and Log Horizon.
But wait! Digimon Movie 2 and Eva both show up and say that he is the baby daddy and all hell breaks loose... I believe a chair is thrown. Garakowa was a title I had the fortune to see, complete with a panel afterward of the director and producer. I was at Sakuracon, and saw that we had a rare opportunity to meet the makers at the end. This was an interesting notion, and seeing that I knew nothing of it, I was going in completely blind. First off, let me say it is not remarkable. It has a lot of flash and pizzazz, but the... See full review
Give me a Mecha with a giant ass spear, and make it a battered Gundam in the hands of slightly older children soldiers. Oh, and give the title some sort of kick ass name with metal and some body fluid as the subtex. I must admit, I have been jonsing for a mecha title in the vein of more realistic mecha titles of yore, like Gundam 08th, Votoms, or maybe even Fang of the Sun Dougram. In fact, in the case of the last title mentioned, a desert wasteland is a perfect backdrop. Let's face it; Gundam has been stumbling about a bit lately. Gundam Age was too glossy and cumbersome, Gundam G... See full review
It is ever so hard to define Lupin in an anime world of trope filled Shonen, Shojo, comedy, slice of life, supernatural, magical, mecha laden, tournament seeking, violent, monster of the week, moe and ecchi filled titles that anime is begrudgingly dumped into. First off, this is a great nostalgic flashback to the lupin series that came before. Especially Lupin part2. It so far has been a fun ride as Lupin and gang spend this series in sunny Italy. Do you want a Lupin title to start with? One that will be your gateway drug, as it will, to one of the longest lasting series in Japan? Well, this... See full review
This is going to be a short review. Why? This is a short show. Like really short. Of all the Lupin titles, outside of the random late 60's short, this one is right up there for itty-bitty. It is 10 minutes and some of that is credits. The title is not going to make a lot of sense and becomes a game of Clue. The mystery only becomes clear at the end of the episode (well, sorta) . Everyone in the Lupin group was invited by Lupin to show up on an island. As each one arrives, there are accusations that not all is what it seems by everyone. Just imagine a room full of people who all... See full review
If ye be wanting to see good stuff from the 90's, go back! Go elsewhere! Run! If ye be wanting to walk down memory lane with your VHS tapes anime addiction from the 90's (back when any anime you could find was worth watching) and you are desperate, watch this again. This is a title that adorned a handful of Blockbusters and mom and Pop VHS stores back in the day. It was prominently displayed near a copy of Sailor Moon's first movie release, or just near the "S" section of your alphabetical anime section. (Because outside of porn, there was little in the way of breaking... See full review
Stylish, slick and and with the guys from Redline and A Woman Names Fujiko Mine, behind the helm, you know it is going to be gloriously striking (more on that later). Outside of almost all Lupin series/movies OVA/specials, this one stands with very few as a rather Mature, gritty tale in the Lupin topology. It does sometimes feel like a show in the middle of a larger series. This is not a major problem, but will leave some people hoping for a continuation of the ongoing story. Mind you this is two separate episodes that are needing each other to complete the story. When delving into the world... See full review
Dragonball has a new series, Sailor Moon has been revived and JoJo is no-longer an OAV, I think I smacked my head on a time machine and woke up in the 90s. Here comes another very simple straight forward shonen from that era. Set up is easy; Tiger looking demon, kid who grows long hair and carries a long sacred spear. Each episode so far has our protagonist fighting a demon. We know what is going to happen you won't need Cliff's Notes or Wikipedia to fill you in on subtle deep meanings. No, you will be able to follow the numbers like a paint by colors booklet. But there in-lies the... See full review
When watching this title, I said to myself, based on the opening alone it would be an exploitative ride down a dark path of violence, sex and bloody action. Then I watched episode 1 and realized, yep, not for little boys and girls, but then I kept watching. Soon it felt like I was watching a Gonzo title. It has a fantastic start, and a so-so end. At first the title seemed like a seedy world of tough guys who bludgeon, dice and blast through a trove of gang minions. But then the show seems to take an almost comical turn when they introduce a crime family ran by a young girl. From the point... See full review
How do you easily grab my interest away from cookie cutter titles? Well, it is not hard. Any title that puts a lumbering, big lipped, buzz cut guy slapped right on the front title promo picture tells me that this title might be worth a look. Quantifying this anime leaves me hard pressed to find a title that is similar to it. The awkward height proportions of Lovely Complex? The main character who downright scares everyone like Kimi ni Todoke? Or possibly the character who does not know about romance very well like Say, I love you? All of these would make solid recommendations, yet do not... See full review
Are you on drugs? Would you like to be? Well, why not try out Maeshiba. This is one of those odd titles that remind me that Japan is a lot different than the rest of the world. When 59 second shorts about small beans or food that talk to you with random facts you know you are in for Oddity city. There is no real narrative. Just understand that somehow a single coffee bean will sift away from other beans. Then that bean will look up to a character, introduce itself, and then tell the main character of this short a random fact. The fact like "hippos sweat is pink" will normally cause the... See full review
Oh Hell yeah, you lookin' for some fantasy action adventure? This is a fast paced, mother fucking bad-ass, well drawn, awesome action title! I am just going to say if there was ever a title that required, no, demanded a review to get people to check it out, Rage of Bahamut deserves it. A one word review to describe it? "fun." Right from the start we are introduced to: huge high fantasy dragons, angelic magic powered glowing women on steeds, and a raging battle just this side of Middle Earth. Dont want that type of action? How about a clever horseback chase as they literaly rip... See full review
Welcome back Tomino. It has been a while since I tried to decipher a story thrown at me with as much force as dirt through a Dyson Vacuum. Gundam: G no Reconguista reunites not only Yoshiyuki Tomino with his crowning achieving of Gundam, but also gives us his compadres who helped with the character designs of Turn A Gundam and the same character designer and mecha designer of King Overman Gainer. But wait that is not all! It also is set in the old Universal Century (now living in a new timetable) to have fun with again. Can it be watched without seeing the original series? Yes. Will it be confusing?... See full review
Food! It is good! It is life! You eat Yoke? What!!! Add a lot of exclamation points filled with excitement and over dramatics. So, this is a short subject about a man who takes his food way too seriously. The interesting way it goes about this is following our protagonist as he overreacts to how food is prepared and or eatten. If you want to know how to mix rice and greens and the all important egg, this is a title for you. If you wonder why your life is pointless, also watch this title! It will make you feel like your life is less pointless than this man. The animation in this is actually... See full review
Jackass the Sumo wrestler. Did you ever watch something originally to find out about a certain sport or activity which you are too lazy to read about it? Well, this is why I decided to watch Abarenbou Rikishi!! Matsutarou. Matsutarou Sakaguchi is a career student who seems to have only 2 ambitions in life. Eat and fawn after a teacher who has all the dimensions of a piece of paper on the ground. Right from the get go, Sakaguchi drinks heavily, kidnaps a woman, endangers a life, wrecks a car and even takes candy from a kid. He is essentially one of the bigger assholes that I have... See full review
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The Mecha is piloted by a boy who could hardly hold a driver's license.
There is political intrigue of governments and companies that pull strings in the background.
There is a Monster or fight of the week. There is not much you're going to get out of this title past the standard. It does nothing more than pull off exactly what it set out to do. Make a colorful mecha title with a stack of young pretty characters. It is pretty similar to about 10 mecha titles and the characters are nothing more than variations of Eureka 7 or Star Driver which are both... See full review
I think I am going to create a reverse romance! First thing, I need a hapless heroine who is attractive to the males in the title for no in particular reason other than she is of the opposite gender. We now need some guys. Let's make one A brawny sporty type who is into her, a fun guy who you can laugh at (but chances are slim the girl would end up with him) now we need the guy who acts like he doesn't like her at first, yeah just like that. Oh and a quiet cute boy. Me: "You know what we are missing?" Audience: "An Asshole guy?" Yeah we need one of those. If we have enough... See full review
As far as Lupin movies/OAV's/TV Specials go, this is a steady Lupin title. It pulls all the right lupin-ish momnets and even has a great comical escape, But it does foray into something that many Lupin series do not go. Instead of just a treasure and a baddy who wants it the Lupin jumps for a little bit of the supernatural. In fact it does this so much better than the Pycal special. Now this is not completely out of the relm of Lupin, I mean he has driven a car along the side of a moutain, jumped out of a burning plane unscathed and his partiners have done everything under the sun from cutting... See full review
First off, claymation penis makes any claymation artsy. Mezamero is some sort of animation project that somehow got funding in Japan, and was niftily put up on You Tube for me to waste my time on. Stop photography shorts can come in 2 sizes. Unique, brilliant little gems that can stir the mind, sometimes leave you uneasy. The second are dreadful, overwrought, crap-fests that are better left in a project room floor somewhere gathering dust while being stepped on. This was the later. It was not that the story mattered. After a few lines of metaphysical mumbo jumbo, we are greeted to a mixture of... See full review
So your just dieing to see some Cycling right? No? (If you happen to be a cyclist do not read further, just find it) Well, to be honest, I could give a rat's ass about the two wheeled contraptions outside of a few bike trails when I get the notion. So a cycling anime probably would not be what you think someone like myself would reach for...but I did, and it probably is because I do end up reaching for anime that would be something unique, and hard to compare. This title did all of the above, for the mere cost of 45 minutes of my time. Now a days this is more of a feat than it was... See full review
This is the worlds quickest review. I can sum the show up with one line. Underwear, lots of it. STORY Underwear, Lots of it. ANIMATION (colorful) Underwear Lots of it SOUND Average (if underwear made noise, I am sure it would have been here) CHARACTERS A moving stroke of deep emotional story telling, with strong emotional women, wound tight with a sisterhood of care and love... .... what am I kidding? Underwear, lots of it. OVERALL It was very clean underwear anyhow. Nary a brown streak in the lot. It is almost worth the watch just to see how many ways the... See full review
Not being a major reviewer of sorts, I just need to come here to somehow make sense of the wasted 4-5 hours of my life. I am a big fan of gender-bender storys. When I saw this on a monthly marathon, hosted by Chii on Anime Planet, I was overjoyed and really looking forward to this title. It sounded like I, Me My, Starberry Eggs, meets My-Hime, and had potential. I was just finishing a title that was the polar opposite called Aoi Bunkoi, so the change of pace sounded like Rocky Road bliss. 20 minutes into the first episode I realized I was more wrong than people who order a Snuggie. The... See full review


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âScientists have created a âMighty Mouseâ with muscles that stay powerful as it grows old,â the Daily Mail has reported. The newspaper said the âbreakthroughâ paves the way for a âpill to give pensioners the strength of their youth, cutting the risks of falls and fractures in old ageâ.
The story comes from research on mice that found that transplanting donor muscle stem cells into injured leg muscles led to a 50% increase in muscle mass and a 170% increase in muscle size. The improvements were maintained though the lifetime of the mouse. The findings could have implications for treating the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs in human ageing, say the researchers. It may also have implications for the treatment of muscle wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy.
This laboratory study has provided intriguing findings but these are very preliminary as we are still a long way from developing a treatment to prevent loss of muscle mass in humans. Future research will first need to establish whether such transplants would be safe or effective in humans, which is likely to be a lengthy and challenging process.


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Primary Health Care to distribute Inex Innovations Exchange's iGeneScreen Prenatal Test in Australia
Singapore: Singapore's Inex Innovations Exchange, a fetal health diagnostics company, signed a distribution agreement for iGeneScreen Prenatal Test in Australia with Primary Health Care (PHC). The agreement covers all the territories and major cities in Australia, including Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
iGeneScreen is a non-invasive prenatal blood test that detects Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome) with 99 percent accuracy. It is a non-invasive screening test requiring only a 10ml blood sample from pregnant women at 12 weeks gestation.
This represents a major step forward over the current invasive amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling that most "at risk" pregnant mothers are offered to take. Current routine prenatal testing methods such as the Nuchal Translucency Scan and Triple Test have high false positive and false negative rates. Primary Health Care through its network of practices is one of Australia's largest pathology providers with approximately 100 pathology laboratories, and 1,500 collection centers around the country. The agreement will allow patients to access this testing service through Primary's laboratories.
"This Agreements signals our progress in facilitating the adoption of an important test in the Australian market. We are delighted that pregnant mothers can now have access to a non-invasive prenatal test, and that they no longer have to endure the stresses associated with existing prenatal tests," said Dr Sidney Yee, executive director of Inex. "We look forward to working closely with Primary Health Care to launching the test across major cities in Australia in the coming months."
Announcing the agreement, Dr Narelle Hadlow, a pathologist at Primary Health Care's Western Australian pathology practice said, "Today's announcement is another significant step forward in our practice's aim to provide better health care insights to doctors so as to improve the care of their patients. The reach that our laboratory network can provide patients will ensure that this innovative technology will be available to pregnant mothers nationwide."
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This model represents part of a DNA molecule. Your life-and the lives of all other organisms–depend on molecular compounds such as DNA.
Why It Matters
- The majority of your body consists of water. The other compounds that make up you and other living things are called biochemical compounds. They are placed in four classes: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. DNA is classified as a nucleic acid.
- All of these compounds in living things are molecular compounds. Molecular compounds form between nonmetallic elements that are held together by covalent bonds.
- The nonmetal carbon is the basis of all biochemical compounds. Carbon can form covalent bonds with itself and many other atoms, creating an incredible array of biochemical molecules.
- Review covalent bonds by watching this video:
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Learn more about covalent bonds and biochemical compounds at the links below. Then answer the questions that follow.
- http://www.kentchemistry.com/links/bonding/covalentProps.htm
- http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/organic/biochemcon.html
- What is covalent bonding?
- What's the difference between polar and nonpolar covalent bonds?
- Define electronegativity. How is electronegativity related to the polarity of a covalent bond?
- The nature of covalent bonds influences the properties of covalent, or molecular, compounds. What are general properties of molecular compounds?
- Biochemical molecules often consist of many smaller molecular compounds, called monomers. The monomers are joined together in long chains by covalent bonds. What are the monomers of proteins? Of nucleic acids?
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Cell Tracking
Did you just buy a shiny new smartphone loaded with the newest and greatest features to have conversations throughout the day, wherever you are? While your phone's capabilities are distinctly modern, a new decision in United States v. Davis allowing police to get without a warrant records of which cell tower your phone connects to ensures that a key privacy protection you should have when using your phone is stuck in 1979.
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With more than 38-million people and some of the largest technology companies in the world calling California home, the Golden State should be a leader in safeguarding electronic privacy. For years the state's constitution has provided greater privacy protection than the Fourth Amendment. But when it comes to electronic privacy, the state has lagged behind, even as other states, such as Texas and Maine, have passed legislation to protect everything from the contents of email to the detailed location information generated by our phones.
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Update 2014-01-16: Turn announced today they will suspend their zombie cookie program by early February, but left open the possibility to resume in the future. We ask that they end the program permanently.
Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them with dozens of major websites and ad networks, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. Explosive research from Stanford security expert Jonathan Mayer shows that, as we warned in November, Verizon's UIDH header is being used as an undeletable perma-cookie that makes it impossible for customers to meaningfully control their online privacy.
Mayer's research, described in ProPublica, shows that advertising network and Verizon partner Turn is using the UIDH header value to re-identify and re-cookie users who have taken careful steps to clear their cookies for privacy purposes. This contradicts standard browser privacy controls, users' expectations, and Verizon's own claims that the UIDH header won't be used to track users because it changes periodically.
2014 has seen a flurry of events surrounding the issues of privacy and security when it comes to mobile devices. Here are some highlights.
EFF started the year by releasing HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox for Android. Before, HTTPS Everywhere could only protect web browsing on desktop platforms, but with the release of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox for Android, that same protection became available for Android devices as well.
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|Inflatable Watercraft Rafts, pontoon boats, kickboats, etc.
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My raft would make a great 3 person inflatable driftboat. Just add a rowing frame and a set of oars and your done. NRS, Star and Aire all make some nice fishing frames for this raft.
|Hey did you see the aire raft in the for sale section? Three of my pacific northwest friends own them and they are awesome driftboats. Good price and in PA too.
which river do you fish,the west and east branch of the deleware has alot of private land is it legal to pull over and fish from shore without a problem,how is it with a stand up pontoon to fish ,can you get some quick casts as you go from pool to pool,how do the drift boats play around in from pool to pool,i went on trips in bigger rivers than the west branch but was unsure how they manage their drift boats in such a small area,where can i see a pic of a bronco ,thanks chris
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if you have a very wadeable river, the smaller one will provide good transportation from pool to pool so you can fish on foot (which I prefer). Small ones like the bronco (which I own) are easy to take down in fact it fits right in my truck intact. Don't use fins or you will regret it, just pull oars and fish from shore with these small boats. Anchoring a small boat in a river is a bad idea. Trust me.
If not, then you will fish from the boat - then you need a bigger one with the stand-up gear and floor. You might need a little trailer or spend some time assembling. A bigger boat can be anchored much more safely than a one-man craft in rivers but still requires caution over a 25 ft aluminum sled.
If you fish with a few friends then you need a larger raft or pontoon boat. I have seen giant pontoons that let two fish, but most often you just float the river and fish from shore.
You don't need to take out fishermen - just either let them know you are going to pass behind them or if you are joining the head of the pool pull out well upstream and walk down. In some cases you might pass the far bank well out of superman's casting reach but most often you would gently pass behind letting them know what you are doing.
inflatable pontoon,stand up or sit down,which is better
i fish the west & east branch of the deleware,also fish the kenebec in maine and other rivers out west,what is the best all around pontoon for these rivers,I've seen guys go down on the west branch with the pontoons but wasnt sure what was a good size,I was looking at the 10.5 FT skykomish sunrise with the platform or the 9 FT trout unlimited colorado river sit down pontoon,but wasnt sure what would be better or managable in these rivers are they to short or too long just was not sure,i didnt want to go down in a cadalac and take out the fisherman wading in please help with the choice,thanks!
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Quipfire! comedy group will perform, April 28-30
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Quipfire!, Princeton's improvisational comedy group, will perform at 9:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 28-30, in Murray-Dodge Theater.
To make the scenes even more unpredictable, the performers will ask the audience for suggestions on elements such as location and relationships between characters.
Tickets are $5, and may be reserved online. On Thursday, freshmen with an ID will get in free.


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Wall Street Journal economics reporter Eric Morath says New York and California are racing to be the first state to implement the 15 dollar an hour minimum wage. The already intense debate over raising the wage promises to heat up even more.
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A good portion of our lives is spent at the workplace and working at home. Globalization has taken "do more with less resources" to a new level. Using my career experiences, observations, and education, I will bring real-life scenarios of the Trilogy: Career, Management, and the Workplace to you for interactive dialogue and commenting. Work-life balance is not an easy feat. The goal of my blog is to dive into trilogy challenges we see and face as well as provide realistic approaches to move forward.
Today I could feel her presence all around me - very strong, just like her. Today was the time to share my last days with her. She was my "breakfast club."
I went to see Grandmother this morning, not knowing what to expect when I saw her. I had not been to see her for a couple weeks. Seeing her every day started to wear on my emotions, and I started getting depressed / out of sorts. In addition, I developed an unknown rash on my face, which needed attention, to make sure it was not contagious. It was difficult getting the motivation to go into the unknown, yet I knew I had to, because she had always been there for me, not matter what the circumstances.
When I arrived, I had a brief conversation with Tammy, one of the nurses, just to see how she had been doing, so I kind of knew what to expect when I went into the dining area to see her. When I walked up to her, she was speaking with one of the aids. I placed my hand on her left shoulder, so she knew someone else was there and let her finish her conversation. I said, "Good Morning, Grandmother." She said, "It must be someone I know, because they called me grandmother." She continued by saying, "It must be Traci. It's morning." I was very happy to know, she still remembered me, and the fact I see her in the mornings.
There are a few things I do to try to help her remember who I am, even though her mind is pretty sharp, though she does repeat herself a bit. I greet her the same way when I visit. I wear the same smelling perfume. I look into her eyes when I talk to her. I try to wear my hair the same / similar. I keep my hands cold, so when she holds them she'll tell me they are cold, so I can tell her I do it on purpose, so she holds my hands tight to warn them up. It's a "trick of the trade" I learned when I used to see Grandma & Grandpa Meyers before they passed away. Grandma Meyers used to tell me, "You smell so good. I knew it was you."
It is amazing to me how, in such a short period of time, she had changed so much. She was a little more shaky than normal and her beautiful face was starting to sink in from not eating. Her brownish / hazel eyes were starting to show their age, yet they still sparkled when she smiled or made a funny. Every once in a while she stops talking and drifts off somewhere. When I ask her what she was thinking about. Her response was, "I don't know." I said, "Your mind is always thinking. Whatcha thinkin' about?" She said, "It's inappropriate for me to say." Maybe some day soon, she will tell me what is really on her mind.
Soon after, she asked me where her Brandy Manhattan and beer was. "I would really like a beer. I love my beer," she continued. You could see her almost tasting it when she asked for it. I told her they did not serve either one here. She remarked, "Well that's not very nice of them." One of the aids was at the table and said she liked beer, too. I said, "Grandmother passed on her love for beer to me, that's for sure." We all chuckled a bit. A few minute later, she asked me, if we could go play the slot machines. The two must go together. She was disgruntled when I told her they did not have slot machines. "I hope to get out of here very, very soon. I'm okay, you're okay, we're both okay," she chimed. It has always been one of her favorite sayings.
I talked to her about the job I applied for. She remembered us talking about it. She was disappointed for me when I told her I did not get it. I commented to her there is something better out there for me. She told me I was over qualified for the position anyway. At least I have a job. She repeated quite a few times, "Yes, it's good you both have your jobs." It's funny how her mind works. When you ask her questions about certain things, she will tell you she does not remember. I think she says that, because she does not like to talk about certain topics.
There is a lot I can tell about her moods, thoughts, and emotions just by holding her hand. When she is relaxed, she has a very loose hold. When she is interested in what you are saying / gets excited in a good way, she pulse-holds my hand. When she is agitated or upset, she will squeeze so hard, she almost cuts your circulation off. Then she'll ask, if she was holding on too tight. When she is not particularly in the mood for company or conversation, she will rest her hand on the wheelchair arm and give you her fingers, just to let you know you are welcome.
There are times when she will just stare at me in the eyes, look over my clothes, or watch me as I talk to other people. I will ask, if she needs anything, or if she is okay. Most times she will just smile real bright and say, "No thank you." Other times she will do her, "I'm okay, you're okay, we're all okay" chant. Today was a little different. When she was staring at my jacket, she would tell me she needed to upchuck. Believe it or not, I held that pan like a trooper, let her cough it up, wiped her mouth, and let her do it again. She did promise she would not upchuck on me. I don't recall what we were talking about as we repeated the upchuck process a few times. Out of the blue, she asked me, if she could help me with anything. True to form, here she is again, thinking of someone else's needs before her own.
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Sports Round Up - Feb. 14, 2013
Boys Basketball: Onalaska 50, La Crosse Central 32
Onalaska senior Ben Skogen came off the bench and hit possibly the two biggest baskets of the game. His two three-pointers right before the half gave the Hilltoppers some breathing room as they went into the break with a 21-12 lead.
That nine-point deficit would be as close as Central would get the entire second half. Onalaska's Matt Thomas took over in the third quarter scoring 11 points after being held to just a basket in the first half.
"We wanted to try to take care of business and get the job done here and from now on, it all starts over. We'll enjoy this tonight and tomorrow we'll get back to work," says Thomas who finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
With the win Onalaska clinches the MVC championship outright with an 11-1 record. The number-one ranked team in Division 2 opens up the WIAA playoffs a week from Friday against either Menomonie or New Richmond.
Sawyer Smith was the leading scorer for Central with 7 points. Playoffs also open up for the number-four ranked Red Raiders a week from Friday versus La Crosse Logan or Ashland.18558224
Boys Basketball: Aquinas 55, Holmen 34
Bronson Koenig drops in 29 points for Aquinas in their regular season finale. With the win the Blugolds finish 10-2 in the MVC, good for second place in the standings.
Girls Basketball: West Salem 44, Westby 41 F/OT
West Salem freshman Jillie Olson hit three-pointer in the final minute of overtime to put the Panthers up 42-41. Olson then sealed the win with a pair of free throws to keep her team alive as they try to track down Arcadia in the Coulee Conference championship chase.
Boys Hockey: Onalaska 5, Tomah 0
Ryan Aschenbrenner scores a hat trick for Onalaska as they capture the WIAA Regional Championship. The two teams split their two regular season meetings, each winning by one on their home ice.
Boys Hockey: West Salem/Bangor 3, Reedsburg/WI Dells 2 F/OT
Taylor Trapp scores the game-winning goal for West Salem in overtime. The win sets up a Sectional Semifinal matchup between the Panthers and Onalaska on Tuesday night.
Girls Hockey: Onalaska co-op 15, Viroqua co-op 0
11 different Hilltoppers score goals in their opening game of the postseason. Onalaska advances to the Sectional Semifinal on Tuesday to face the winner of Friday's game between Black River Falls and Sun Prairie.


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By the bye... does anyone have any opinions on Orvis 28GX circle wides (2X-short shank) and their "bog-standard" 9034s for bones, 'pon and, whisper it, permit ? Silly question really, as this is probably the opinion capital of the 'net.
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Best fishes, Carl.
|To be honest, a bluewater flyrod isn't worth owning unless it can dead lift twenty pounds. Now this is for pursuit of marlin, large bluefin and yellowfin tuna, etc. There are several rods on the market right now that can do just that and more. I was not able to duplicate Mel's results on the SC15 and I worked with a number of the same hooks. I don't know why that happened, but maybe he got a package of defective hooks. I debarb the SC15 all the time and have no more problems with them than any other hook I debarb. While I probably wouldn't use the SC15 on potential world record tarpon or large billfish, they are fantastic for about everything else. And, Gami does make a stronger hook, the SC15C-2H (meaning 2X strong) to handle those fish. To me the cost of pursuing fish like this is such that the cost of the hooks is really small potatoes. I just choose to use the best, which at this point in time means Gamakatsu and Owner, though Mustad and others are doing a good job of trying to catch up.
Unsuitable hooks...?
Hi all (and Mel !). Mel tested his hook with 80lb breaking strength mono and a Boga-grip whereupon the hook straightened at 13lbs. I suspect that that would not be a fair test ! Reading Thomas McGuane's "The Longest Silence", he maintains that NO ROD is capable of pulling more than (I think...) 6lbs. I assume he means without failing catastrophically, or as I call it... breaking.
Would Mel be kind enough to try the same test using a tarpon rod or, just leaving out the hook, tie the mono direct to the Boga-grip. I am categorically NOT asking that he endanger any rod but just see if he can even approach 6 or 7lbs.
Best fishes, Carl.
By the way, Mr McGuane's book is utterly brilliant with lots of tarpon,permit,and bonefish within. Buy it !
The SC15 and the SL11-3H depending on profile and fish size. The TMC 800s is a pretty good bone hook too.
|Dick, which Gami hooks do you like for bones?
I've found Mustads (34007, 011s, and 07s) adequate for bones, permit, and tarpon for over 25 years and I have great respect for them. But I've also lost plenty of good fish on broken and bent-open Mustads. And while I've always sharpened my Mustads before I tie, the Gamakatsus I'm using today are better out of the box--esential for penetrating a bone's or a permit's hard crusher plates. The new hooks are expensive, even if you buy 100 packs, but well worth it for a $3-5k trip to the flats.
I'll be tying some flies for March in about a month and I'll be using Gamakatsus.
Hope this helps.
Dick Brown
|Another vote for the 2/0 SC-15. Amazing penetration and surpriseingly strong. This is for the ocean side flats off Isla Morada. Small flys and fish maybe not as big as Capt. Mel's.
|Actually, those hooks are among the strongest available. The 3H stands for 3X strong. They are heavier and will therefore require a little better timing in your casting. They will certainly be stronger than 13lb of pull. Their shank is also full length so any pattern should fit. I think they'll more than handle any tarpon you'll find in Belize. Good fishing.
barbless hooks
things got a little heavy there for a while, its amazing that my little question about barbless got carried so far. Thanks guys.
I just started tying some saltwater flies, the hooks I bought were GamaKatsku sc11-3h, I dont know anything about salt hooks, only to buy non corrosive ones. These hooks were the only ones available in town. They look strong??? they are about $5. for 12 hooks, is that considered cheap or expensive. Hopefully these hooks will hold up to that first tarpon I know i am gonna get in belize in a couple of months. If not, its the hookup that counts,.
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barbless hooks
things got a little heavy there for a while, its amazing that my little question about barbless got carried so far. Thanks guys.
I just started tying some saltwater flies, the hooks I bought were GamaKatsku sc11-3h, I dont know anything about salt hooks, only to buy non corrosive ones. These hooks were the only ones available in town. They look strong??? they are about $5. for 12 hooks, is that considered cheap or expensive. Hopefully these hooks will hold up to that first tarpon I know i am gonna get in belize in a couple of months. If not, its the hookup that counts,.
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OOps, they were GamaKatsu SC15's.
And OH! Did I mention semi-circle...another thing I don't like.
There may be those that can let a 120# tarpon stick itself but my customers are trained to strip strike. Bam! Stick em hard and deep!
OK, that's all I've got...Mel.
|Capt. Mel Simpson
Just got in from a half day charter, washed my boat and ate some lunch while I checked my email, and decided to run to my local fly shop and get some "NEW" hooks. At the 3rd one I found them.
They only had 3/0 and 4/0 GamaKatsu SC 10's, (well some I couldn't read the size) so I bought what they had. There was no one there that knew anything about the hooks so I came home.
The first thing I noticed was that there is a huge difference between a 3/0 and 4/0. That's a problem with the AKI's too.
The next thing that bothers me is that the barb broke off when I tried to mash it flat. Too much carbon in the steel? Could be I'm a grumpy old guide, ...don't know.
I also don't like the short shank, pretty hard to get a full size tarpon fly tied onto it. I am picky!
So I finally tested it's strength. Now this is only my way of testing and by no means scientific, but it's all I've got to go on....works for me sort of thing. I tied on 80# mono using a Homer Rhode loop knot and hooked it to my "IGFA certified Boga Grip"!
The damn thing bent at a little over 13#'s...!?!? What's up with that!
Nah...I guess I'm just one of "those" guides. I do fancy a nice Zin or Cab once in a while tho, if I can find one for under $25.
Good points and , to be fair, most of the guides I've fished with over the years have been great guys - (Chateau Neuf Du Pape Viex Telegraph 1985 ).
We've strayed a bit off-topic here (barbless hooks wasn't it?) but advice to anyone booking a guide whether for the first time or the hundredth - discuss your preferences and expectations beforehand. Ideally do this when you make your reservation or if not possible (e.g. fishing camp scenario) then before you get out on the water.
Guiding is not easy.
There are only so many factors you can control, then the rest are up to fate. You are responsible for all of them.
Anglers who are up to the task upon arrival are the exception not the rule. A day of instruction does not seem appreciated even when completely necessary. Often only the fish are the measure of success, not the skills gained.
The pay is not the real reason one guides, unless they are paid astronomical rates. This does not necessarily equate to the ability of the guide, but it may. One has to love it to overcome the frustrations, demanding situations, and pressure to deliver the goods.
It's hard work. Before a trip, the equipment must be tuned, the right flies must be tied, the conditions must be understood and the itinerary must match the behavior of the fish and the tides, weather, abilities of the angler and likelihood of success. You're a tourist bureau, a chauffer, an entertainer, a teacher and a fish finder.
You have to have a deep knowledge of the fishery; deep enough to overcome situations that would defeat most angler's attempts to succeed. You have to have the confidence to leave a flat visibly crawling with shrimp sippers to find a pack of crab eaters, eel chasers, or silverside slammers.
Knowing fish are in a spot at a given tide phase is one thing, knowing where fish that are aggressive during a tide phase is another thing completely. Only the latter yields high results.
You need good physical abilities - vision, perception, and good judgement. You need a sixth sense to pull a rabbit out of a hat on a dead day on the water. You need a rabbits foot.
It's challenging, difficult and you could make more per hour flipping burgers when you count all the hours and work invested.
But when the new day breaks over the atlantic and the rush hour begins beneath the surface of the flooding flats, there are few pleasures greater than having something eye-opening to share with fellow anglers that they can enjoy and appreciate; and if one can build a life around offering a square deal for a quality day on the water for a few bills then more power to 'em. Guiding is an important part of the social and economic balance of the angling world that has always been and will always be.
Don't tell my family but I am praying that I'm full time again next year from May to October!
|I agree. About the only time I have a problem with guides, whether trout, salmon, or saltwater is when they insist on treating their clients as raw beginners even though at least some of us are not. I had that experience again this summer with an Atlantic salmon guide. I mean the guy really meant well, but it just got to be too much. As much as Florida guides get ripped (epecially Keys guides) for being screamers, most of the one's I've fished with (in fact, all but one) were total gentlemen. I had a Homassasa guide recommend using his tackle to me since he was not familiar with the model of reel I had. He semed to be saying that if he never heard of it then it probably wouldn't work on the big tarpon there. But, it took only a little while to explain that the reel was more than up to the task and to his credit he listened and didn't push it any farther. The only arrogant guide I've had in Florida is better known for his writings on trout and other freshwater fish, and even he wasn't too bad.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:04 am
I would have thought the headline should have started with "FORMER Dispatcher" rather than inferring that a present employee was involved.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:39 am
The article states that she had "one" Oxycodone and "one" morphine pill at her home without a prescription for them. Come on! Many of us have the same situation with old prescriptions that we are no longer taking. The unauthorized search of databases seems to be more of an issue than the small amount of pills. I would question that searching of databases very seriously.
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liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Lee, please don't provide excuses for this illegal behavior. There's a big difference between having left over pills from one of your legal, past prescriptions, versus this case, where the person had drugs in their possession that they never had a prescription for.
No, many of us do not have that same situation........at least not law abiding citizens.
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Lee is trying to make invisible what has happened so far. Let the investigation proceed. If there is a guilty party, then there will be a price to pay.
stuff happens...i rest my case.
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VOTC 12" at West Florissant Kmart. They had 2 Luke's and 3 Fett's when I was there this afternoon.
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NW PLaza TRU had 6 of the new Jedi council sets ( Yoda, Qui-Gon and Ki-Adi ) around 6:00.
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Saint Ann Walmart OTC figs, including the Cloud Car Pilot, Bespin Leia, and Lobot. Plus 5 or 6 repacks. That was this morning around 10:30. Sorry I didn't post sooner.
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Have you guys seen these anywhere else yet? I was driving all over North County today looking for Han.
Just to clarify, I meant the VOTC, not the Galactic Heroes. Thanks!
That's the only place I've seen them so far. I remember seeing a peg for them somewhere else (Bridgeton K-mart?) but it was empty.Originally Posted by anti-hero
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Earlier this week I saw unleashed Slave Leia at the Mills Mall KB. That was on Monday or Tuesday, but they had a bunch. Don't know if that's new or not, so I thought I'd mention it.
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This is a delicious cake and if you like honey in cakes, i think you will like this too. I actually made this cake twice. The first time i made it, i didnt ground the walnuts properly. I was supposed to use a food processor to do the job but because i halved the recipe i thought it was just a little amount so i used a mill instead to grind. But it was difficult to do it with a mill and soon my half grinded walnuts started to release oil and and when it was mixed with the flour, it kinda of lumpy and i knew that probably it will not turn out well. I didnt care cos i was already finishing almost doing everything. True indeed, it turned out to be fudgy in some parts of the cake, nevertheless edible and tasted very nice. Just 2 days ago, i thought i wanted to make this again, after all i find its taste good so i dont mind baking another one, making sure i use the food processor to ground the walnuts but again i did some other little mistake about the sugar but i dont think it affected the taste and the texture of the cake. It came out well this time, cakey, moist and most importantly i like the taste of honey in there. Previously, i did made other cupcakes with honey in it but i didnt like that, i found that it tasted funny with honey but not this one.
|first time..fudgy..like underbaked
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1 1/2 cups walnut pieces
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
6 tbsps honey
3 large eggs
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1.Preheat the oven at 350F. Grease a 9 inch round cake tin. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Grease the parchment , dust the sides of the pan and parchment with flour. Spread the walnuts in a single layer on a baking sheet and toast until fragrant, 8-10 minutes. Let cool completely.
2. Combine the cooled walnuts and 1 tbsp of sugar in the bowl of a food processor and process until the nuts are finely ground. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and pulse to combine.
3. Add the buttter, honey and remaining sugar to a large mixing bowl and beat on medium high speed until smooth, about 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl . Beat in the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Beat in the zest and vanilla. Add the nut flour mixture, 1/2 cup at a time and mix until just incorporated.
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John Hersey
Lauren DiGioia's face was stony and impassive beneath bright blue hair as she was brought into a courtroom in handcuffs on March 18.
At 2:30 the previous afternoon, DiGioia, 27, had become the first person arrested by the New York City Police Department during Occupy Wall Street's six-month anniversary at Zuccotti Park. DiGioia was taken in for dancing on the public sidewalk outside the park after police told her not to.
"Four police officers forced me to my knees," DiGioia recalls. "They put the zip cuffs on really tight, and then they threw me in the paddy wagon."
DiGioia was initially taken to the Seventh Precinct, but because she was being charged with resisting arrest along with disorderly conduct, she was moved to central booking and thrown into a cell holding about 35 other women. Charismatic and garrulous, DiGioia was soon talking with the other inmates.
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"A lot of the women I met that night were in on really minor charges," she says. "Marijuana, petty theft, getting in a fight in a nightclub. They were sort of shocked that I'd been arrested for dancing on the sidewalk, but it didn't surprise them because they see stuff like that in their marginalized neighborhoods—people stop-and-frisked and profiled for the way they look."
After a night and the better part of a day in jail, DiGioia looked tired in court as the assistant district attorney read out the charges. Her lawyer said she didn't wish to make a plea, and the judge ordered her released without bail until her next hearing.
"One coming out!" a court officer shouted as another unlocked her handcuffs and pointed her through the gate to the court gallery.
DiGioia cleared the swinging doors, and a dozen fellow protesters sitting on benches in the gallery stood and moved, arms outstretched, toward her. As DiGioia approached them, her composure cracked and collapsed, and she broke down, doubling over in tears and falling into their arms.
The group moved quickly to the hallway outside of the court, where DiGioia tried to explain to her comrades that she was fine.
"I'm OK," she insisted. "I'm OK. It's just . . . the other women. I met some amazing women in my cell last night, and I just know they're not going to have anyone waiting for them when they're arraigned. They're not going to have a lawyer. They're not going to have anyone posting bail. They're not going to have anyone watching. It's not right."
A few weeks later, DiGioia was more composed while describing her experience but clearly still affected. "It was just really sad to see the difference," she says. "We were all there together at first, but then because I had a lawyer and access to bail and they didn't, we went down these separate tracks. I watched a lot of women get left behind, and it broke my heart."
As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inner workings of the criminal-justice system, they're learning firsthand what New York's poor, black, and immigrant communities have known for years: The criminal-justice system is rotten.
Stop-and-frisk policing might be the highly visible doorway into the system, filling jail cells and court dockets with poor black and brown New Yorkers on mostly minor charges. But it's in court—and specifically at arraignment—where the full discriminatory weight of the justice apparatus is brought to bear.
It is a central tenet of American justice that as these arrests enter the court system, people are innocent until they are proved guilty. But the open secret of New York's criminal courts is that there simply aren't enough judges, prosecutors, and hours in the day to give each of these defendants a fair chance to prove their innocence, to challenge the evidence against them, and to mount a defense.
New York's criminal courts are underfunded and overwhelmed with cases—more and more of them misdemeanors and minor offenses as the NYPD pursues its so-called broken-window strategy.
If even a fraction of those presumed innocent fought their cases in court, the system would grind to a halt. To keep things moving, judges and prosecutors need defendants to plead guilty to something as early in the process as possible. And the single most powerful tool to extract a guilty plea is the threat of bail.
In the state of New York, bail can only legitimately be set for one reason: to ensure that a defendant will return to court for his or her next hearing. But everyone who works in criminal justice in New York City knows that's not what's going on at all.
For no particular reason other than institutional habit and a fondness for round numbers, bail in New York is generally set in increments of $250 and, more commonly, $500. In 40 percent of cases where bail was set in 2010, it was $1,000 or less.
Some people wouldn't have much trouble coming up with $1,000. If they don't have it themselves, they have friends, a family, and a community that could scrape it together. But those aren't the people who make up the overwhelming majority of criminal defendants.
In 2010, only 17 percent of those held on $1,000 or less made bail at arraignment. The rest stayed locked up. Some posted bail later, but half of them remained in a jail cell until their cases were disposed of. The figure is almost as bad for people held on $500 or less: Forty-four percent of them—all presumed innocent, remember—stayed in jail until their case was decided, simply because they couldn't make bail.
Jail is an unpleasant place to be. But avoiding a pre-trial stint at Rikers is only one reason many defendants would rather plead guilty to a lesser charge and walk out of court with nothing more than a criminal record and a sentence for time served.
"These people have families," says Robin Steinberg, executive director of the Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit that offers legal services in the Bronx. "They have children they need to care for. They have jobs that they're going to lose if they don't show up for work. It doesn't matter whether they're innocent—there's a whole range of subsequent damage to their lives and the lives of people close to them if they're held on bail."
If you're not in this country legally, there are added stakes: Pleading out at arraignment is your last best hope of avoiding deportation. Once at Rikers, your immigration status is almost certain to be screened and passed on to Immigration and Customs agents.
Faced with such high stakes, it's no wonder that so many defendants cave when prosecutors mention bail.
"It happens all the time," Steinberg says. "We see clients at arraignment not wanting to plea, saying they want to fight their case. Then they hear the bail that the prosecutor is going to ask for, and they'll turn to their defense lawyer and say, 'I'll take the plea.'"
This use of bail has been an integral part of the justice system for decades. But recently, there has been a renewed push to return bail to its statutory purpose and make sure that no one stays behind bars just for being poor. Some, such as the Bronx Defenders, are pursuing reform through education and impact litigation. Others, like Occupy Wall Street affiliates, are contemplating direct actions that will test the courts' commitment to justice.
In the city that never sleeps, there are courtrooms processing arraignments and setting bails every day of the week, at every hour of the day and night. The arraignment is the moment when an arrestee becomes a defendant, when he's handed off from Jerry Orbach's realm of Order to Sam Waterston's world of Law. Interestingly, most court procedurals on film and television spend little time on the arraignment, if they show it at all. As a result, most people have little understanding of what actually happens at an arraignment. And that's too bad, Steinberg says, because "the arraignment is actually the most important proceeding in the entire process. What happens in the arraignment determines everything that comes afterward."
Spending a day or a night in an arraignment court is as disturbing as it is edifying. Prisoners are brought into the courtroom and processed in a matter of minutes. A judge can easily decide the fates of more than a dozen defendants in an hour. Here's how the process usually goes:
Recently arrested people are brought from lockup and wait outside the courtroom for their case to be called. This is the time when most of them first meet the lawyer assigned to their cases, a harried public defender with a stack of folders more than a foot high on her table. They talk for a few minutes, and then the court officer calls the case number. The prosecutor may make an offer for a plea bargain. If he doesn't or if it's refused, the court turns its attention to the question of bail.
The defense lawyer, the assistant district attorney, and the judge all have the same paperwork: the current charges, the defendant's rap sheet, and a bail recommendation from the Criminal Justice Agency, a nonprofit that interviews everyone before he or she is arraigned.
In making its bail recommendations, the CJA is essentially evaluating a defendant's flight risk. If a defendant is released, will he skip out on the next hearing and go on the lam? To make those recommendations, the agency asks six questions, meant to ascertain his ties to the community and his priors, of every defendant. Based on that information, the agency assigns each defendant a score that ranges from -12 to 12 and makes its best guess for the court. In roughly a third of cases, the CJA recommends that defendants be released without bail on their own recognizance. In around half of the cases, it recommends against release on own recognizance (ROR). About a fifth of the time, it classifies a defendant as a moderate risk and recommends that bail be set.
But the CJA's recommendation is hardly the final word on whether bail will be set for a defendant. According to the agency's own data, the most influential factor in whether bail is set and in what amount is what the prosecutor asks for. If prosecutors ask for a high bail, defendants are unlikely to be ROR'd, and the judge will probably set the bail high. What the defense says matters much less.
The law sets out a number of factors that may be considered when determining if someone is a flight risk: character and reputation; employment; ties to the community; criminal record; whether there are prior missed court appearances; the strength of the evidence; and how serious the sentence might be in a finding of guilt.
Perhaps citing some of these factors to support their arguments, the prosecutor and the defense attorney each make a suggestion to the judge. Sometimes other factors creep in, too. Last month, prosecutors asked for bail for defendants because they hadn't submitted to the NYPD's optional iris scans.
After hearing from both sides, the judge schedules the next appearance and announces whether bail will be set. The judge isn't required to explain his or her reasoning, and most don't.
Nestled in a warren of offices on Duane Street, across Foley Square from the city's courts, is the untidy desk of Jerome McElroy, the director of the Criminal Justice Agency.
McElroy is avuncular and unbelievably talkative—his wall bears a fake diploma his daughters made for him that is issued by the "University of Loquacity." And McElroy has a lot to talk about: His organization is sitting on the most massive, comprehensive database of criminal-justice statistics you've never heard of, and the picture that data paints isn't pretty.
Getting good information from the criminal-justice system isn't always easy. The NYPD is notorious for its opacity, for stalling Freedom of Information requests, and for finessing its own statistics. But if you want a vivid picture of what happens to New Yorkers after they're arrested, just ask McElroy.
For 35 years, the CJA has held a city contract to screen every single person being held for criminal arraignment in New York City, interview them, and make a recommendation to the court about setting bail.
That means the CJA has information on every single one of the 300,000 arraignments made in criminal court each year, data all the more valuable because the agency also tracks those cases through the system to their final disposition.
Here are some of the things the data from 2010 show: Eighty-four percent of criminal defendants were male; 43 percent had full-time employment or were in school full-time; half of them were black; and another third were Hispanic.
At arraignment, about half of the cases are disposed of. In those cases, more than half of the defendants pleaded guilty, with most of the rest either being dismissed or getting an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, in which the case goes away as long as the defendant stays out of trouble for a set period of time.
In the cases that aren't resolved at arraignment, a tiny handful of defendants deemed especially risky are remanded without bail. Two-thirds of defendants are released on their own recognizance with no bail set while they await their next hearing. And the remaining third have some bail set. The percentage of cases in which bail is set is small, but what it adds up to is this: In 2010, more than 8,000 people had bail set at $1,000 or less and stayed in jail for the days or weeks until their case was resolved simply because they didn't have the money to get out.
Also, the data show that being stuck in a cell has a statistically significant effect on the outcome of your case. A CJA analysis found that 51 percent of those released at arraignment on non-felony charges were ultimately convicted. For those who stayed in jail as their case proceeded, the conviction rate shot up to 78 percent. Those who stayed in jail all the way until their cases were resolved were convicted 92 percent of the time.
"It's like a law of physics," says David Feige, author of Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey Into the Inferno of American Justice. "A person incarcerated tends to stay incarcerated. A person at liberty tends to stay at liberty. When you're out, you're negotiating from a position of power; you're much less likely to take a plea that puts you back in jail. When you're in, it's just the opposite."
Keeping people in jail before their trials isn't cheap. When Human Rights Watch investigated the use of bail several years ago, it found there were 16,649 non-felony defendants in jail because they couldn't post a bail of $1,000 or less. With an average stay of 15.7 days and a daily cost of $161, the investigators calculated that those detentions cost taxpayers more than $42 million.
There's one statistic the CJA doesn't capture because there's no record of it anywhere: how often prosecutors threaten bail but it isn't set because a defendant opts instead to take a plea. What we do know, though, is that the overwhelming majority of convictions in misdemeanor cases—99.6 percent—come not because the defendant was found guilty at trial but rather because they pleaded guilty.
"Bail is the tool that gets those results," Feige says. "It's not the legal purpose of bail, but to put it in pharmaceutical terms, it's an off-label use."
If the bail regime is against New York law, unjustifiably expensive, and patently unfair, why does it persist?
"It's a good question," says the CJA's McElroy. "When you talk about comprehensive bail reform, you get into questions of who the hell wants it. And who doesn't want it."
Defense attorneys mostly agree that the system is problematic, but they're worried about what might replace it. If the courts expanded the supervised-release pilot program being tested in Queens, it might reduce the number of people jailed for want of bail, but it might also lead to more oppressive state supervision of people who would otherwise have been released on their own recognizance.
"When you talk to prosecutors, there's more resistance," McElroy says. "'Are you talking about a system in which the bail imposed has to be makeable by the defendant? Doesn't appear to be in my interest, because you and I and everyone else knows that I have a better chance of getting a conviction if the guy is in than if he's out.'"
It isn't just the drive for convictions that motivates prosecutor interest in maintaining the status quo, though. For one thing, guilty pleas are the only tools prosecutors have to redirect defendants into Alternative to Incarceration Programs for substance abusers and battered women.
And speaking of battered women, how would bail reform affect the guy who's being arraigned because he beat up his girlfriend last night, and she finally called the police? Right now, a judge can set a high bail and make sure he cools off for a while before he's back on the street. That isn't a legally allowed use of bail, but because there isn't any mechanism in New York for preventive detention, it's the only way to keep him locked up. Understandably, prosecutors don't want to lose that tool.
Then there are the judges. The present regime gives them a great deal of freedom: They don't have to explain their bail decisions, and they're not held accountable for them. But the thing that really motivates judges' reluctance to change the bail system isn't freedom. It's terror.
In the back of every judge's mind is the fear of finding themselves on the cover of the New York Post for releasing a pre-trial defendant who goes on to commit some terrible crime while awaiting his or her next hearing. The most recent member of the bench to go through that wringer was Brooklyn judge Evelyn Laporte, who last winter was slammed in a Post story headlined "Why Was He Freed to Kill?" after a man whom she'd released on his own recognizance for a felony drug case killed a police officer the next month.
As an anonymous judge told Human Rights Watch, "Judges set bail knowing they will never be criticized publicly for putting someone in jail, only for letting someone out without bail who then commits a crime." With every reason to play it safe, judges and prosecutors have no structural incentive to let defendants out to fight their cases from home.
"There's a lot of momentum against changing anything," Feige says. "Stacked up against those institutional interests, the poor and disadvantaged communities who make up most criminal defendants don't have much of a chance."
Despite the challenges, reformists are pursuing a range of strategies to fix the system. One of them is the Criminal Justice Agency itself, which is running a pilot project in Queens to take defendants for whom bail would otherwise be set and instead free them on supervised release. These defendants don't have to post bail, but they do have to check in regularly with CJA staff members, who in turn help set them up with social services and remind them when their court date is coming up. The program is less expensive than pre-trial detention, and so far, its participants have a better rate of returning to court than the city average. The CJA's McElroy is optimistic that the city will eventually expand the pilot program, but just when that might happen remains unclear.
The Bronx Defenders took a more aggressively experimental tack several years ago when, with little fanfare, they quietly spun off a nonprofit called the Bronx Freedom Fund.
After raising around $200,000, the fund began doing something at once simple and completely revolutionary: It bailed people out. When lawyers at the Bronx Defenders took on a client who couldn't make bail but wasn't considered a flight risk and wasn't charged with anything more serious than a misdemeanor or a nonviolent felony, they would refer him to Zoe Towns, the fund's only employee. If the defendant met the criteria, Towns would go down to the courthouse with a certified check and bail him out. When the defendant returned to court for his next hearing and the bail came back, it would be rolled back into the fund to help someone else.
The fund kept a low profile, in large part because its advisers worried that if judges and prosecutors knew that it existed, they might inflate bails to keep people in jail. But over the course of more than a year, the fund bailed out nearly 200 people. That was a tremendous boon for the defendants who could go home rather than stay locked up, but the project also generated some remarkable data.
First, the fund's numbers gave the lie to the assumption that defendants won't return to court if they don't have a personal relationship with the people posting bail for them. Ninety-three percent of the fund's clients showed up for every single one of their subsequent court hearings—a return rate higher than that of defendants who post their own bail or get commercial bail bonds.
But the really shocking revelation of the Freedom Fund experiment was this: More than half of the fund's clients eventually saw their cases either completely dismissed or knocked down to some noncriminal disposition. Not a single one ever went back to jail on the charges for which they were bailed out.
Without access to a bail fund, defendants in similar positions pleaded guilty to criminal charges 95 percent of the time. The fund's numbers made wincingly clear what everyone had already vaguely known: The current bail system has the direct effect of slapping criminal convictions on poor people who would otherwise win their cases.
The experiment didn't last. Eventually, a judge discovered the existence of the program and launched an investigation, ultimately ruling that the fund was illegal because it was effectively operating as an uninsured bail-bond company.
The fund was shuttered, but the Bronx Defenders didn't give up. Instead, they launched an education initiative, training judges and lawyers about aspects of bail law that are almost universally ignored. Almost without exception, New York judges only set two kinds of bail at arraignment: straight cash or commercial bail bond. But New York statute actually lays out eight different forms of acceptable bail.
Partially secured bonds, for example, let a defendant or someone else promise to pay the full bail if they miss their next court date while only having to put up a tenth of the full amount on the spot. Unsecured bonds let a defendant or someone else assume responsibility for the full amount without having to front anything.
"Nobody uses these other forms of bail," says Steinberg of the Bronx Defenders. "And what we often find is that, even with judges, they didn't even know these options exist."
But education only goes so far. In 2009, a judge in one of the Bronx Defenders' cases set a cash bail of $20,000 and refused to set any alternative bail, including a commercial bail bond. The defenders appealed and last month won a major victory: Judges have to set at least two forms of bail, the higher court ruled.
"Providing flexible bail alternatives to pre-trial detainees—who are presumptively innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt—is consistent with the underlying purpose of [the law]," the Court of Appeals wrote in a decision known as McManus v. Horn.
"There's no excuse for a system that is relying on cash bail when criminal-procedure law allows so many other options," Steinberg says. "The McManus decision really opens up that conversation."
But the ruling isn't everything bail-reform advocates might dream of. In a sort of winking aside, the court reassures judges who might be nervous that providing bail alternatives will make it easier for defendants to go free: Fear not, the court writes, because the law allows judges to order "a second type of bail, that, in effect, may be virtually indistinguishable from the cash option." That is to say: Set cash bail at $20,000, set a partially secured appearance bond at $200,000, and either way, the defendant still has to come up with $20,000 to get out. It's hardly progress.
There's another serious limitation to the McManus ruling: Most judges will likely offer commercial bail bonds as their second option, since it's what they're most familiar with. But the market for commercial bail bonds doesn't really exist for $500 and $1,000 bails—bondsmen just can't make enough money on them to make it worth their while.
So for the poorest defendants most in need of bail reform, the McManus ruling might not do much at all.
"Our hope is that judges will use this decision to not only set two forms of bail but to also consider the other forms of bonds," says Marika Meis, the Bronx Defenders lawyer who litigated the McManus case. "But is there still a lot of work to be done? Absolutely."
While institutional advocates like the Bronx Defenders pursue their own reforms, there's pressure mounting from other corners for a more direct intervention.
Almost since its inception, the Occupy Wall Street movement has had its own tangles with the criminal-justice system, most dramatically when, two weeks into its existence, police arrested more than 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the six months since then, across more than 2,200 arrests, Occupiers have had further opportunity to see the system from the inside. Many activists have been arrested half a dozen times and spent many nights in lockup in Manhattan precinct houses or the Tombs, the Manhattan Detention Complex, once named for Bernie Kerik.
But Occupiers' experiences in jail are radically different from those of their cell mates. Most Occupiers are coming to jail from a position of privilege—they're white, they have some sort of education, and they come from a middle-class background. They also have the support of their movement, which takes many forms.
From early on, Occupiers have organized jail support—teams of people ready with food, cigarettes, MetroCards, and emotional care who wait outside the precincts or sit in arraignment court.
"Being in jail is a form of trauma," says Moira Meltzer-Cohen, a City University of New York law student who works with Occupy Wall Street's Activist Legal Working Group. "You're stripped of your freedom, and you're often not treated very nicely. It's important for the Occupiers to recognize that their experience probably doesn't begin to compare to what more vulnerable people experience, but it's still traumatic, and it's hard to put a value on having friendly faces when you get out."
People arrested in the course of Occupy actions also have even more tangible advantages. For one, they have legal representation from the National Lawyers Guild, rather than having to rely on overworked public defenders. For another, like the members of many social-protest movements before them, they bail each other out.
Occupy Wall Street's decision-making body, the New York General Assembly, has allocated thousands of dollars toward bail and developed a smooth-running system for making sure protesters never have to languish in a cell for want of cash.
Most protesters are let off with a desk-appearance ticket or are released at arraignment on their own recognizance. But in some cases, the judge sets bail, and when that happens, a member of the movement's Accounting Working Group is on hand with cash at the ready.
It's a system that has worked well for the Occupiers, who are then free to fight their cases from a position of freedom.
"I can't tell you how many Occupy protesters I've spoken to who have told me a story about their time in jail, talking with other people who are in there for something stupid like a stop-and-frisk arrest or something, and how much that stays with them," says Matt McCoy, a 26-year-old who has been involved with the movement since its first day. "For a lot of us, that arrest isn't going to wreck our lives, and that's not necessarily true for the other people in there."
That uncomfortable awareness percolated among Occupiers for months, and as the movement began its planning for a range of May Day actions, some of them decided to do something about it. Occupy had already spun off numerous projects targeted at specific problems, including one that addressed banks' criminal responsibility for the foreclosure crisis by taking over foreclosed homes in East New York and installing homeless families in them.
McCoy, Meltzer-Cohen, and half a dozen others saw an opportunity to do something similar for the criminal-justice system, to call attention to the way bail is used to force guilty pleas and to keep people locked up for no other crime than their poverty. It would be a way for Occupiers to reach beyond their movement.
In its early meetings, the group, calling itself Bail Out New York, contemplated an organized effort to post cash bail for as many non-Occupy-affiliated criminal defendants as it could afford to. There were some legal problems with that strategy, though, so now they're contemplating alternatives. Among them is a mass action building on the Bronx Defenders' recent legal victory.
One of the little-used options for bail allows for someone else to stand as surety for a defendant, putting no money down up front but pledging to pay the full amount if the defendant misses a court date.
"One of the options we're looking at is getting a lot of people into an arraignment court and one by one having them stand up for defendants and say, 'Judge, if you'll set an unsecured bond, I'll stand surety,'" Meltzer-Cohen says. "Either the judges would go with it, which would be new and great, or they'd be on record refusing it, basically saying, 'We'd rather keep this person locked up than let him out on a legally permissible form of bail.'"
Bail Out New York is still working through some obstacles to this plan—finding many people willing to put their bank accounts on the line for $1,000 for a stranger might be more easily said than done—but the group is determined to do something.
"This is one of the most destructive, discriminatory parts of the criminal-justice system," McCoy says. "It ruins individual lives and whole communities. And we're at a moment where there's a real potential for change. We just have to figure out the right places to push."
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