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China's Xi begins 2nd trip to Latin America, in sign of expanding role
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday starts his second lengthy trip to Latin America in barely more than a year, showering attention on a region partially neglected by Washington and relishing China's role as the biggest financier to Latin America.
Xi arrives in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza for the start of a two-day summit of the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – then meets with regional leaders before heading to Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba.
Xi and a delegation of 150 Chinese bankers and industrialists will spend eight leisurely days in the hemisphere, a contrast to the often surgical-strike visits by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
If Latin American presidents are watching Xi's trip with acute interest, it's because of China's huge role in providing loans around the hemisphere. By some accounts, China has provided more financing to Latin America in the past decade than the total of all loans by multilateral institutions such as the World Bank.
China's trade with the region has skyrocketed. Trade volume between China and Latin America reached a record $261 billion last year, almost 21 times the figure in 2000, the China Daily newspaper noted over the weekend.
While Xi, who came to office in March 2013, will travel to only four countries, he'll meet other Caribbean and Central and South American leaders, and will take strides toward giving China a greater role in a regional assembly.
"China is trying to become a leader within organizations that are not dominated by the U.S., and preferably which exclude the United States," said Robert Daly, the director of the Kissinger Center on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
One of those groups is the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States, a bloc formed in 2011. Canada and the United States weren't invited to join.
Xi will meet Thursday with the leaders of Brazil and four countries in the bloc – Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – and is poised to announce a forum of cooperation with foreign ministers of the 33 countries later this year in Beijing.
Jorge Heine, a veteran Chilean diplomat who'll take up a post as ambassador to Beijing later this month, said China was moving quickly toward "dealing with Latin America on regional terms, not just on a bilateral basis."
"It's not just another routine visit," Heine said. "It means a ratcheting up of links between Latin America and China."
"The political message is quite interesting and strong," added Gonzalo S. Paz, an Argentina expert on China-Latin America relations, who spoke with Heine and Daly on a conference telephone briefing organized by the Wilson Center.
Booming trade has made bilateral ties strong with nations such as Chile, Peru and Brazil, where China is the No. 1 trade partner based on its deep appetite for raw materials such as crude oil, iron ore, copper and soybeans.
"The China boom lifted the Latin American boat for a long time," Kevin P. Gallagher, a specialist at Boston University on Latin America-China financial ties, said in a telephone interview.
"They're all happy that they've got China, but the honeymoon stage is over," Gallagher added. "They're all running current account deficits with China now."
But China may position itself even further on this trip as an instrumental player in providing alternative financing to the region with fewer of the conditions imposed by institutions such as the World Bank.
While in Brazil, Xi is to finalize plans for creating the BRICS Development Bank, which is expected to start lending in 2016 with a capital base of $50 billion and plans to boost capitalization to $100 billion over the next five years.
The BRICS bank, if it lends within Latin America, would further insulate the region from short-term volatility in global financial markets.
As China's footprint in Latin America grows, it's moving away from lending just for energy projects and heavy industry, and moving into railway and telecommunication projects and military provisioning, including in Brazil.
On the visit to Argentina, in which Xi will be feted at a state banquet Saturday night, China is to announce a $2 billion loan for Belgrano Cargas, a major railway line, to buy Chinese rail cars and locomotives. It's also lending billions for two hydroelectric plants in Patagonia.
For Latin leaders, the growing role of China helps diversify relations and diminish U.S. leverage over inter-American affairs, a move they view as beneficial.
But for some U.S. scholars, China's growing clout in the region causes unease over what they see as U.S. neglect of the hemisphere.
"The Chinese are quote unquote making things happen now," said Gallagher. "The Chinese see the Latin Americans as partners. And we seem more like their patrons."
U.S. policymakers take "too much comfort in a narrative which says that as China spreads into Africa, into Latin America and into Southeast Asia, it is experiencing a backlash and is being criticized for neo-imperialist policies," Daly said.
The perception comes because Chinese companies flood into places such as Africa with a focus on extractive industries, giving most jobs to Chinese workers. But Daly said China had learned from the push-back and was adapting.
"I see China learning rapidly and adjusting its investment, its development and its aid policies, and actually stealing a march on the United States in diplomatic terms," he said.


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This elegant photo of Jenna Jameson from the book XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits was created with 1 bi-tube light and a collapsable reflector.
Camera: Deardorf 8×10 with 450mm Nikkor lens and Kodak Portra NC 160 film, obviously set on a tripod 10 feet from the model. Shot at 1/60, f32, ISO 160.
Lighting: Timothy has made a career out of simple, single light source portraiture. The key light is a giant Elinchrom Octabank at f32 (powered by two Profoto 2400 packs and one bi-tube) five feet to the right of camera. For a little fill, an assistant holds a reflector just below Jenna's waist, angled toward her face. Since it is not lit, the white background has gone grey.
Comments: Freshly mustachioed and chewing on a cigar, Timothy summoned his inner Terry Richardson and shot Jenna over the course of a sixer of Bud tall boys. There was no shortage of assistants, interns, volunteers and generic helpers for this shoot.


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A president, a pope and a black cat
VATICAN CITY – President Barack Obama sat opposite Pope Francis at his spare desk adorned with a crucifix, looking very much like the visitor he was.
The balance of power — an intangible element that the president is accustomed to controlling — appeared subtly tipped in the pontiff's favor.
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Obama looked reserved, even a bit nervous, repeatedly expressing his appreciation to the 77-year-old pontiff, who broke into a fatherly smile in return.
( PHOTOS: Presidents and popes)
"It's a great honor. I'm a great admirer," Obama said. "Thank you so much for receiving me."
It turns out that Obama didn't have to worry. By the end, when reporters were summoned back to the papal library — by a bell, no less — the two men were standing on the opposite side of the room, engaged in friendly banter. Obama appeared far more relaxed, and journalists who cover the Vatican later remarked that Francis, too, seemed unusually animated.
The meeting clearly held symbolic importance for Obama — aides described it as a personal highlight of his trip through Europe. Senior officials said the president, once a community organizer who worked in Catholic churches in Chicago, was taken by the pope's message on poverty and charisma, just like millions of others around the world. He feels a certain kinship with the pope, one adviser said.
And his admiration showed.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's papal audience)
For 52 minutes — longer than expected — the pope and the president talked alone in the papal library, absent the dozens of handlers, security personnel and senior staff that shadow Obama's every move. The one-on-one meeting is unheard of on foreign visits, though routine for audiences with the pope.
There was an air of mystery Thursday night, even among senior staff, of what exactly the two men discussed.
Obama had actually been there before, in July 2009 to meet Pope Benedict, but that meeting lasted only 30 minutes and lacked the hype surrounding this one.
Strict Vatican traditions cloaked the meeting, from the solemn and synchronized procession led by the Papal Gentlemen through Clementine Hall to the choreographed greeting between the two leading world figures.
( Also on POLITICO: Deciphering the papal bull meeting)
They bonded over the suffocating customs and requirements involved in their jobs. Every step, every movement, of their encounter was scripted. Any deviation or disruption caused by the small group of American and Vatican reporters huddled in a room just off the library drew the ire of the Vatican handlers, who weren't shy about pushing the reporters and photographers back into line.
"His Holiness is probably the only person in the world who has to put up with more protocol than me," the president joked.
There was speculation ahead of the visit that Francis would bring up the contraceptive coverage mandate under the Affordable Care Act, a policy that has divided Obama and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Or that Francis might press Obama on abortion and other hot button social issues, distracting from the income inequality issues that the White House prefers to focus on and potentially embarrassing the president.
( POLITICO Podcast: Obama meets the pope, ACA delayed & Malaysian plane still missing)
If the meeting had tense moments, it wasn't apparent during ceremonial gift exchange that followed. The president smiled quite a bit, saying things to the pope that could not always be heard by the pool but often made Francis smile or laugh.
The president explained that he brought a custom-made seed chest featuring fruit and vegetable seeds used in the White House Garden. Obama mentioned that he had heard that Francis would open to the public the gardens of the papal summer residence.
"These, I think, are carrots," he said, holding a pouch. "Each one has a different seed in it. The box is made from timber from the first cathedral to open in the United States in Baltimore."
"If you have a chance to come to the White House," Obama added, "we can show you our garden as well."


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Carol A. Johnson, 63, died Feb. 4 at home in Bel Aire. She was born May 18, 1949, in Marion to Harold and Jessie (Higgins) Bowers.
She earned a doctorate in family medicine, practicing with Family Physicians of Kansas.
She is survived by two sons, Caleb Bowers of Bel Aire and David Johnson of Woodward, Okla.; a daughter, Rebekah Johnson of Bel Aire; four brothers, Vernon Bowers and Gene Bowers, both of Marion, Kenneth Bowers of St. Louis, and Norman Bowers of Olathe; and a sister, Janice Bowers of Wakarusa.
A funeral service was Saturday at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire. Private interment was at Grant Township Cemetery, rural Marion.
Memorial funds have been established for Kansas Academy of Family Physicians Scholarship Fund and Milk and Honey Ministries.


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After going through a huge stack of reviews for our Dante's Inferno Frankenreview, I have determined that this game might have a few things in common with God of War. That, and Dante has no idea how to play Limbo.
Is it strange that a game revolving around a long, drawn-out philosophical exploration on the nature of hell be likened to a franchise that's essentially a long, drawn-out exploration of killing things in a bad-ass fashion? Kids, this is the video game industry, where developers make the impossible possible every single day.
But is it possible to write a review for Dante's Inferno without mentioning God of War? Probably not. Get under that stick, Dante!
Basing your game on a 14th century poem set in Hell has certain advantages. For starters, you don't have to pay copyright fees or worry about the author of the source material complaining you've bastardised his work. In fact you don't have to worry about anyone complaining as only 27 people in the world have bothered to read the thing, and half of them are lying. But there are risks too. You can't employ many of the most popular action-adventure staples such as guns, cars, aliens, Nazis, wisecracking sidekicks and love interests with buttocks like two basketballs in a pillowcase. You're limited by the types of enemies you can create and the environments they can inhabit. As is the case with any game set in Hell, you risk ending up with one big lava level. So what's a developer to do? Why, find another game with no guns, cars or aliens and rip it off, or so it would seem in the case of Dante's Inferno. In fact, this game has so many similarities to a certain other series it's hard to believe it wasn't originally called Dante's Infernof War.
Total Video Games
Sadly, as far as Inferno's gameplay is concerned, far too much time is spent in Purgatorio. There are sections where it becomes difficult enough to be hellish, but very few moments (if any at all) where the level of gaming fulfilment reaches Paradiso. It's hard to think of any game on current-gen consoles that's quite as derivative as Dante's Inferno (and that's a long list of derivative games). By our estimates, Inferno is roughly 95% God of War, 3% Prince of Persia trilogy, and 2% original thinking. While the odd environmental puzzle section and some occasional rappelling makes Inferno mildly PoP in form, the amount of tricks that have been taken directly from Kratos' back-catalogue certainly books EA a second ticket to the fraudulent circle of hell.
Official Xbox Magazine UK
Unusually for a hack 'n' slash hero, Dante only has two weapons to choose from. There's a heavy scythe that used to belong to the Grim Reaper, and a crucifix that shoots out holy fireballs. Even at the start of the game when you haven't unlocked much, the combat still feels meaty. Your scythe hits home with a satisfying thud and showers of gore, and almost every combination of the X, Y and B buttons creates a new and exciting attack chain. It's empowering for the most part, but unfortunately, there are also times - particularly during boss battles - that the health system becomes a source of frustration. There are no storable health items, and very few enemies drop recovery orbs. If you pass a checkpoint with low health, you'll return there in a similar state if you die. It's only after repeated deaths that your health gradually increases.
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The only problem with the combat is that a lot of the in-depth and complex moves you purchase aren't necessary to win most battles. On normal difficulty you could burn through most fights using the base combos you start with (Hellish is a pretty good challenge on the other hand). Spamming light scythe attacks and standard cross attacks can be your full arsenal if you wish, but where's the fun in that? It's up to the player to string together moves and build impressive combos, but doing so is a lot of fun. The boss fights are well done and in these one-on-one brawls some cunning is surely needed to be victorious.
Visually, Dante's Inferno is stunning, both from a technical and artistic standpoint. Visceral's vision of hell — based on Alighieri's text as well as a broad range of artists' interpretations (including its own) — is as impressive as it is morbid and twisted. As you move your way through the circles — from Limbo to Treachery — the distinctions are clear, in both enemy design as well as the environments, many of which feel alive: contorted bodies and moving are part of the terrain, and you can hear their screams and howls echoing in the air. When you think it can't get more f*cked up (the souls of aborted babies attack with you their razor blade arms), it does. As you dive deeper into hell, you're in for a real treat, as the level design becomes more jaw-droppingly morbid and perverse as you plunge towards the final Circle of Hell.
New York Times (No score given)
It should be clear by now that the story in the game has almost nothing to do with the story of the poem. There is no reason this game could not be set in any of the hundreds or thousands of generic hells that have hosted video games over the years. What Electronic Arts has done, quite transparently, is appropriate Dante's brand to use as a light marketing skin on top of the God of War clone the company so clearly wanted to make. And so images of Virgil spout lines from the poem at you once in a while, and Dante's ranged weapon appears as crosses of light, but there is no heavy religious imagery and never any real sense of horror or torment. There are, however, a lot of bare female breasts. There is even a giant Cleopatra demon who spurts knife-wielding unbaptized children out of her nipples. You would like to hope that after so many centuries, "The Divine Comedy" can withstand something as fleeting as being used to hawk a video game. As for Mr. Jaffe, sadly, he shouldn't hold his breath for those royalty checks.
I've come to understand that creating a game based on something revered doesn't mean it has to be a copy or endlessly quoted. To work, the byproduct has to just stay true to the intentions of that work. That's what Dante's Inferno does. You could fill a book about how hell doesn't have switches or big flashing symbols or life and mana, but those are just the trappings of gameplay and mechanic. Certainly, the developers could have done a better job of weaving those basics of play into the tapestry of their take on hell. But that shouldn't lessen the impact of all of the things they did right. Dante's Inferno the video game is a metaphysical journey though and an animated illumination of medieval hell. It deals with morality and existentialism as aptly as it delivers an engrossing experience. It is not without its issues, it most certainly won't be for everyone, but it does something that very few video games do: It opens the door for moral introspection.
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I come from a family of non-traditionalists. There was the Christmas that my mom vetoed a full blown tree for smaller "interpretations" of Christmas trees scattered around the house, to the year my maternal grandmother declared that we would celebrate Christmas Eve on the 23rd (so everyone would be free of in-law engagements). My entry for LP 5, graciously hosted by Mike of Lafang, is our December 23 Noche Buena (Christmas Eve gathering) spread.
This year, to offset our very un-traditional schedule, we had traditional Filipino food. Great timing for a Lasang Pinoy entry, don't you think? We started everything off with appetizers of crispy ukoy (fried shrimp patties) and a trio of spreads with rounds of melba toast. The spreads consisted of the following: my aunt's yummy adobo chicken liver pate (first time I tried it and what a pleasant surprise it was!), dulong (the tineist little fish, in olive oil with a little chili), and a chunky goat's cheese spread.
For the main event (second picture) we had vegetables and prawns in gata (coconut milk), a fork-tender and very flavorful beef kalitiran (a cut of beef...beef chuck I think) with potatoes (special recipe of my uncle's mother-in-law), and pancit (of course!). The super star of the night (as always) was the lechon (roast pig, first picture). We all waited eagerly as it was carved, greedily plucking up choice pieces of crispy skin...yum! My favorite parts are the skin and the ribs...so much flavor. All of this was served with a huge bowl of white rice, everything washed down with copious amounts of wine.
On the dessert table was turon (my first ever Lasang Pinoy entry coincidentally enough, except this one was the traditional banana only variety), suman (sweet, sticky rice flavored with coconut and wrapped in banan leaves) with mango sauce, and a delicious choc-nut bundt cake (my aunt's great discovery).
After dessert we proceeded with the whole gift-opening ceremony, just as if it was really Christmas Eve (if you know my grandma, you would know that she is someone who makes her own rules about everything), with my ninong (godfather) taking charge for the gift distribution. Lot's of kisses and hugs and thank-you's ensued. More wine was imbibed.
As we were resting in the rosy after glow of gifts recieved, warm camaraderie, and lots of wine, we proceeded to pop open the Prosecco (an Italian sparkling wine), which my uncle insisted was our in-between drink. In between what you may ask? Why, in between dinner and midnight snack of course! Now this is one tradition that nobody passes up...my aunt's rich hot chocolate with ensaymada. This year she added pinipig as a topping for the chocolate.
I have only posted about one of my Christmas meals. Ironically enough, the most un-traditional side of my family is the one that came up with the most traditional Filipino meal! However, I do think the other meals are defnitely worth mentioning (especially as they represent such a cultural diversity which I think is very common in how we Filipinos cook and eat), so here is a little summary...
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December 23 dinner - menu above.
December 24 dinner - Turkey and roast lamb with ALL the trimmings. My uncle (father's side) is famous for his turkey and stuffing. His stuffing changes every time he makes it and never fails to be fantastic. Because of him I never found out that you could buy stuffing in a box (!!!) until much later in life.
December 25 lunch - Paella, Fabada (Spanish bean stew with bacon slab and chorizo), grilled ribs, and sausages. Foie gras demi cuit (my aunt's amazing recipe) and various Spanish tapas for starters. Sangria for drinks.
December 25 dinner - Peking Duck dinner with C's family at Jade Garden. We started with century eggs (my fave!) and hot and sour soup. Moved on to stir fried beef, steamed fish, hot prawn salad, and of course, the duck. All served with salted fish fried rice.
I'm off to the beach tomorrow morning for our New Year's celebration. Yippee! As I sit here writing this, I am covered in self-tanner (my traditional prep work for any beach trip), with a warm glow in my tummy from all that food...wondering how the bikini will react to my Christmas weight gain. Oh well, I don't regret a moment or a morsel of it! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas!!! And all the best and brightest wishes for the New Year!!!


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Kinston defeats Albermarle Post 84, 12-9, in Game
Playing just its second game in 13 days, Kinston Post 43 wasn�t exactly sharp.
Albemarle Post 84, on the other hand, was just plain awful.
Kinston collected nine hits, but it was Albemarle�s 10 errors that told the tale as Post 43 held on
for a 12-9 victory in game one of the American Legion Area I playoffs Saturday at Kinston High School.
Post 43 can clinch the first round, best two-of-three series Sunday in a 7 p.m. contest at Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City.
�It was about what I expected,� Post 43 manager Ronnie Battle said. �Sloppy, high-scoring. It
was almost like a season-opener.�
Kinston (11-5) was actually outhit by the visitors 14-9, but not even the 1927 New York Yankees
could have overcome Albemarle�s atrocious defensive play.
Two errors in the first inning, one in the second, five in the fifth, and one each in the sixth and
seventh. Only in the last two frames did Post 43 fail to score.
�Sometimes you have to take what the other team gives you,� Battle said. �We took advantage
of their mistakes and added in some timely hits of our own. What matters is that we got the win.�
Kinston trailed 4-3 entering the home half of the fifth. That�s when Post 84 (6-9) unraveled,
kicking the ball around five times to go with two walks, a hit batter, and two wild pitches.
When the dust finally cleared, Post 43 had plated nine runs on just four hits, sending 13 batters
to the plate.
�It was an ugly inning, but we�ll take it,� Battle said. �We hit some balls hard that they
misplayed. We did a good job of creating our own luck.�
Kinston didn�t score again and endured a few anxious moments at the end as Post 84 rallied to
score once in the eighth and then four times in the top of the ninth. Albemarle had the tying run in the
on deck circle when Post 43 reliever Garrett Blackburn enticed Garrett Cartwright to ground out to end
the game.
�Letting them get back in the game obviously wasn�t what we wanted, but the important thing is
that we were able to close them out,� Battle said. �After such a long layoff just being able to get back on
the field and play a game was huge for us.�
Matt Hinson drove in four runs for Post 43, including three on a pair of fifth-inning at bats.
Sammy West delivered a tie-breaking two-run base hit in the fifth, and Brett Davis and Will Deters also
knocked in runs during the big inning.
Ryan Cobb and Garrett Holland got Kinston started with consecutive RBI singles in the first.
Caleb Kearney tossed six solid innings to earn the win for Post 43.
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1. Before that, Post 43 last played on June 23, losing at Albemarle 4-3. . .Both teams squandered
numerous opportunities. Post 43 left 9 runners on base, while Albemarle stranded 12. . .If Post 84 wins
at home Sunday night, the deciding game three will be back in Kinston on Monday. . .Kinston is seeded
second for playoff purposes, while Post 84 is the seven seed.


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Lightsquared cries dyslexic Havoc, unleashes 'gods of law'
These Godzilla lawyers will crumple the FCC like paper cups!
LightSquared has hired two top litigators in what appears to be a prelude to a all out war over the FCC's decision to block deployment of its 4G network.
The litigators concerned have considerable form. Bloomberg quotes Washington lawyer Lawrence Kaplan describing the recruits as "one of the best teams available", and one of them in particular as "a deity", but even such fine legal minds will have a hard time making FCC change its mind in the face of equally-well-funded opposition.
The FCC's decision was based on studies which showed LightSquared's network could interfere with GPS equipment, as it was intended to operate in the neighbouring frequency. LightSquared tried leasing another band from Imnmarsat, and dialled down the power considerably, but GPS interference was still observed in the last round of testing.
LightSquared disputes those results, which were occluded by the leaking of an early draft based on the dialled-up power levels. That draft showed lots of interference, and LightSquared has demanded a public enquiry into how the results got leaked from a government testing house to a Bloomberg reporter, claiming that it was a deliberate ploy by the GPS industry to obfuscate the argument.
LightSquared's second argument is that since it isn't leaking signals into the GPS band it shouldn't be responsible. GPS receivers are often very sensitive, and the most sensitive pick up signals from neighbouring bands including those LightSquared wants to use, but LightSquared doesn't see why that should be its problem.
And LightSquared has invested billions of dollars on the assumption that the interference issue could be resolved.
The box-of-frogs plan was to use frequencies normally reserved for satellite communications to deploy a national, terrestrial, LTE network. Terrestrial transmitters are permitted under the satellite use to fill in shadows and penetrate buildings, but LightSquared needs FCC approval to deploy 40,000 of them and it still had to launch a satellite to maintain the illusion of being a satellite-phone operator as well as providing service while the network was being built.
That bird is still up there: SkyTerra 1 has a 22 meter reflector, which is bloody huge by anyone's standards and enables it to deliver 400Kb/sec to a handset on the ground, which must be a delight to the handful of people who have a LightSquared satellite phone.
LightSquared was always intended to be a wholesale deal, and signed up a load of customers who wanted to resell its LTE service. The business model calls for 40 million connected devices, but Leap Wireless, who's Cricket service was an early win for LightSquared, has just announced an alternative deal with Clearwire, following the even-more-insane-than-LightSquared FreedomPop who signed up with Clearwire last month.
Sprint will almost certainly withdraw from its location-sharing agreement in the next few days, leaving LightSquared without a network, or usable spectrum, or much in the way of customers, so litigation may be the only business left. ®


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Anorectal malformations typically occur between the fifth and seventh weeks of gestation (fetal development in the womb), and tend to be slightly more common in boys than girls.
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After reading the interview, it seems like he hadn't the chance, since there were three cabs involved and it was lost in the first cab, but not discovered until the end of the ride in the second cab. I'm curious to know how he was able to even get a third cab with no money, though. The whole thing was heartbreaking though.
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Busy shift yesterday with various calls to medical emergencies that required some interventions before taking to the A/E.
One job we got sent to about halfway through the shift was to a collapse, unconscious, ? breathing. We,ve all been sent to these calls and it turns out to be nothing!
This one was something!
Arriving on scene we saw the patient on the pavement with the RRV Paramedic bagging away and the defibillator attached. (We were not informed en-route that an RRV was on scene) I quickly de-bussed and went over and took over chest compressions. The monitor showed V.F. (ventricular fibrillation…where the entire heart muscle is firing off in all directions and not pumping blood around the body) so I adminstered the second shock. This put the patient into spurious asystole (transient flat line due to myocardial stunning) so we continued with CPR for two minutes.
On checking the monitor we could see a cardiac output and listening to the patients heart with my stethoscope I could hear it beating normally again! Then we intubated quickly and attached the tube to the ventilator. Things were looking good…for a change!
The patient was a 76 year old gentleman who was on his way to the doctors as he had haematuria (blood in his urine) when he suddenly collapsed in the street. Luckily his grandaughter was with him and she dialled 999 straight away.
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The paramedic on the RRV adminstered one shock straight away to revert the ventricular fibrillation and carried on bagging (bag & mask which is squeezed to get oxygen into the patient)
Cardiac drugs were given via a cannula placed in the patients right external juglar and we made ready to place the patient onto the stretcher and into the vehicle. En-route to the hospital the patient started to spontaenously breath for himself. A pre-alert was put into A/E and we arrived at the resus room 6 minutes later.
It was nice to see everything in place and that this gentleman has a fighting chance of making a good recovery.
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ZusammenfassungThe presentation starts with an introduction to coded modulation using the Multi- Level Construction (MLC). This concept is generalized by the definition of so called "sequential binary partitions". It is shown that Polar Codes, introduced by E. Arikan in 2007, and MLC are special cases of sequential binary partitions and concatenations of them. This leads to a new and rather simple proof of the capacity achieving property of Polar Codes. The derived framework allows for a joint description and optimization of both, binary polar coding and 2^m-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) schemes such as MLC and bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM). The conceptual equivalence of polar coding and multilevel coding is covered in detail. Based on an alternative characterization of the channel polarization phenomenon, rules for the optimum choice of the labeling in coded modulation schemes employing polar codes are developed. Finally, simulation results and comparisons regarding the error performance of the proposed schemes on the AWGN channel are presented.
VortragenderJohannes Huber received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany in 1977. From 1977 to 1982 he was research assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, from which he received the Dr.-Ing. degree with a thesis on coding for channels with memory. Since autumn 1991, he is Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests are information and coding theory, modulation schemes, algorithms for signal detection and adaptive equalization for channels with severe intersymbol interference, signalling, detection and equalization or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels and concatenated coding together with iterative decoding.

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I know it's vacation seasons so this is a shout-out to the first person who knows what's going on here. I just got use to pkg_add a few weeks ago when I was using plain old FreeBSD at the command-line but for the pass few weeks this set-up is all about making a real effort to use PcBSD and now I see that files are everywhere compared to the tiny FreeBSD, i miss it already. I tried to install GNOME but dependencies needed dependencies, so I drop the ball on that one, but I did learn how to use pkg_add well but not to oblivion. Just trying to give you a clearer picture.
My question is what do GNOME want and where do he want me to put it? Also is bonnie++-1.03e installed correctly? One more thing, I found this at FreeBSD download, is this the same kind of program "bonnie++1.96_1.tbz"? ... I can't find it at the official ZCAV site. Should I install this one since it got a higher version number? Sorry for being such a noob but I'm in it for good now and I want to complete this process and record those numbers. I found my PRIMARY now I want to know the slices, and than I'm optimize after I optimize. Any way if some one could explain this to me I will never forget. I don't know why it say this when the directory already got the file name in it:
/Programs/Gnome/lib/liblzma.so.5: ... this dir has a liblzma.so.5 already
And what is XZ_5.0 and of what?
/usr/lib/libarchive.so.5 ... libarchive.so.5 is in here already
This is what I got when I tried to install gnuplot-4.4.3.tar.gz:
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/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /Programs/Gnome/lib/liblzma.so.5: version XZ_5.0 required by /usr/lib/libarchive.so.5 not defined
I installed bonnie++-1.03e.tgz first, and this is what I got:
bash-4.1# ./configure
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking vector.h usability... yes
checking vector.h presence... yes
checking for vector.h... yes
checking vector usability... yes
checking vector presence... yes
checking for vector... yes
checking algorithm usability... yes
checking algorithm presence... yes
checking for algorithm... yes
checking algo.h usability... yes
checking algo.h presence... yes
checking for algo.h... yes
checking algo usability... no
checking algo presence... no
checking for algo... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: WARNING: Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating bonnie.h
config.status: creating port.h
config.status: creating bonnie++.spec
config.status: creating bon_csv2html
config.status: creating bon_csv2txt
config.status: creating sun/pkginfo
config.status: creating conf.h
config.status: conf.h is unchanged
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That's fine! It makes good since to me. Sorry about that ocicat. Anyway, your chosen title along tells me to google and study how the package system work. I never thought about that until now. I do it for everything else. One thing I learn about BSD, every tiny step can be a major learning process. By time we get to the good part it be history with a whole new set of rules (technologies) to start from scratch all over again.. I hope I don't crack.
PcBSD pbi system install has no comparison to FreeBSD. PBI install where they want to so you can have one click install - I believe it suppose to mimic the way OS X installs work.
tbz files are pre-compiled package files for FreeBSD. I don't think you are suppose to mix and match FreeBSD packages with PcBSD PBIs. If you're gonna use PcBSD it best to stick with there methods I'd think.
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I move this to a new thead...
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Thanks for the update. The URL for the QA wiki was inserted into the IRC log for the meeting, and the QA test metadata was mentioned in the minutes and listed as a resource in the agenda (with a slightly older date), so thanks for emphasizing the QA test metadata work and pointing out the RDF schema work! Thanks and best wishes, Tim Boland NIST At 03:51 PM 1/31/2007 +0900, Karl Dubost wrote: >Hi Michael and others, > >First of all, sorry to not have been available during your meeting. I >was on holidays. > >Le 31 janv. 2007 à 00:02, Michael Cooper a écrit : >>Minutes of the WAI Testing meeting held 24 January 2007 are >>available at http://www.w3.org/2007/01/24-wai-testing-minutes. > >Reading the minutes, I see >[[[ >RESOLUTION: terminology needs to be consistant and clear. ><jallan> need to use existing definitions when available >]]] > >It might help this group. The QA WG before closing released "Test >Metadata"[1] W3C Working Group Note, it might still needs >clarification, Patrick Curran (Sun) was working on it and maybe Lynne >Rosenthal (NIST) too. "Test Metadata" Note "defines a minimal set of >metadata elements that can usefully be applied to tests that are >intended for publication within a test suite." > >We didn't create a specific language for handling test cases because >WGs seem to have different habits for describing and collecting their >test (XHTML, RDF, etc.) But as you can see in Test Case Metadata[2], >Dom[3] has created an [RDF Schema for Test Metadata][4][5]. On the >wiki, you will find also a list of previous projects by different >groups. > > >[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/test-metadata/ >[2]: http://esw.w3.org/topic/TestCaseMetadata >[3]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2006Mar/0023 >[4]: http://www.w3.org/2006/03/test-description.n3 >[5]: http://www.w3.org/2006/03/test-description.rdf > >>In addition to the minutes, we have an action to create a report >>outlining potential next steps. I will announce when that is ready. > >keep me in the loop for it. > > > >-- >Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ >W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead > QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ > *** Be Strict To Be Cool *** > > >Received on Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:53:23 UTC
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The risk of cyberattacks in the financial services industry is on the rise in 2014, and wealth management companies, broker-dealers and registered investment advisers are not exempt.
The threat is moving from large banks to midtier institutions and smaller firms as increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals and "hacktivists" pinpoint individual targets and seek easy entry points to do their damage, according to online-security experts.
"Firms need to believe, first of all, that they are a probable target," said William Stewart, a commercial cyberbusiness senior vice president at management and technology consultant Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. "For firms that say, 'We're too small, they won't bother with us,' it's not true. These sophisticated adversaries have multipronged attacks. They don't just launch malware against one target."
For example, a cybercriminal might buy identity information on the dark web (websites and other networks intentionally hidden from search engine crawlers) or break into a firm "so they can find out that this financial wealth management institution has some prominent people they're working with," including bank executives and government officials, Mr. Stewart said.
Then the criminal will send a plausible-looking e-mail to the targeted individual's business network to capture even more information when the recipient clicks on an infected document and allows the malware to get inside their network.
"That's why these midtier folks are a target," Mr. Stewart said, pointing to wealth management firms, regional banks and hedge funds. "They have valuable information because they're managing assets."
And when grouped together, these organizations are like a row of dominos that, when attacked, can create a cascade of systemic risks that could affect financial institutions of any size, he warned.
Threats in the past have come from distributed denial of service, or DDoS (making a website temporarily or indefinitely unavailable), and data-destroying attacks from groups such as the Mideastern Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters hacking collective.
Now mobile platforms also are at risk, Mr. Stewart said.
In short, the level of threat is monumental. But cybersecurity experts say financial institutions' resistance to revealing the extent of the problem makes it difficult to quantify the rise of cyberattacks.
A security bulletin published in December by IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab reports that the number of attacks launched from web resources globally in all sectors increased to 1.7 billion in 2013, from 1.6 billion in 2012. Fully 45% of web attacks in 2013 were launched from malicious web resources in the U.S. and Russia.
While large institutions are spending tens of millions of dollars on security measures, midtier firms typically can't afford that degree of protection, which puts them at risk, Mr. Stewart said. He estimated that only 5% to 10% of an average firm's IT budget goes to cybersecurity.
Roel Schouwenberg, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said that in addition to cybercriminals' greater focus on midsize firms, another disturbing trend comes from politically motivated hacktivists whose activity is less obvious. Rather than steal from a company, for example, their aim may be to destroy someone's reputation.
Hacktivists in 2013 were more involved than ever in the shutdown of stock exchanges, Mr. Schouwenberg said.
"From my personal point of view, one of the most interesting developments this year will be more closures at stock exchanges attributed to cyberattacks, because 2013 showed the system isn't as robust as people thought it was," he said.
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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. have identified cybersecurity as a heightened risk in the examination priority letters they released this month.
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Karl Schimmeck, SIFMA's managing director of financial services operations, said that what makes cybersecurity so difficult is that the need differs from one firm to the next.
"Your threat profile is typically unique to your firm," Mr. Schimmeck said. "Financial services is a network of small, medium and large firms, and we need protection at all levels. Each one can be a gateway into the system."
He highlighted one glimmer of hope: financial firms' willingness to share with one another because cybersecurity is viewed as a noncompetitive topic.
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit group founded in 1999, now serves as the primary group for information sharing between the federal government and the financial sector. FS-ISAC, which has about 4,000 members, shares data about physical and cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities to help protect critical U.S. infrastructure.
Similarly, the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security works to minimize operational risks in financial services.
Mark Clancy, managing director for technology risk management and chief information security officer of Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., whose firm is a member of both groups, said he sees nothing on the horizon that will change the growth curve for cyberattacks, because the financial sector has been productive for criminals.
Looking ahead, Mr. Clancy said that while DDoS attacks so far have made up the bulk of cybercrime against financial firms, the bad guys are figuring out new ways to strike.
"Unfortunately, criminals will start to figure out the broker-dealers," he said. "When criminals start to understand the industry better, broker-dealers can expect to see more attacks. The key to remember is that on the other side of these attacks is a human. Humans innovate."


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Wisconsin Supreme Court accepts six new cases
Madison, Wisconsin - October 24, 2012
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept six new cases. The Court also acted to deny review in a number of cases. The case numbers, issues, and counties of origin are listed below. The Court of Appeals' opinion for the newly accepted cases are hyperlinked.
2011AP1113 Prent Corp. v. LIRC and Regina Leach
This case reviews a decision of the Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) and examines whether Prent Corp. (Prent) had a reasonable basis for not paying the full amount of a worker's compensation award to a former employee, and whether the evidence was sufficient to support a bad-faith award against Prent. Also at issue is whether the LIRC exceeded its powers in deciding what constituted bad faith, thereby permitting an additional penalty.
Some background: Regina Leach was employed by Prent, a plastic thermoforming manufacturer located in Janesville, for about 11 years. She suffered an injury related to her job that prevented her from working for a period of time. In March 2005, Leach applied for sick leave under the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The leave was granted.
On July 1, 2005, Prent sent Leach a letter saying she was being terminated for exceeding FMLA leave time. Leach's neurologist issued an opinion that her work exposure was a material contributing factor in the onset or progression of her injury. The neurologist released Leach to return to work without any restrictions in Oct. 2005. Prent informed Leach that her job was terminated and no longer available. Leach sought lost wages based on Prent's having unreasonably refused to hire her. The Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) agreed that Prent had unreasonably refused to rehire Leach, and it awarded Leach the maximum penalty allowed by statute, $30,706.52.
Prent did not seek judicial review of LIRC's refusal-to-rehire award and did not pay the award by the date specified. Leach petitioned LIRC for a bad-faith award based on Prent's failure to pay. Prent then sent Leach a check purporting to pay the full amount owed. However, Prent deducted taxes from the amount and also deducted the sums it had paid Leach in temporary disability wage reimbursement ($5,857), in defiance of an administrative law judge's (ALJ) earlier letter advising Prent there was no setoff for this item. Prent subsequently admitted it should not have withheld taxes and it paid Leach that amount. However, Prent continued to refuse to pay Leach the amount it had deducted for temporary disability wage reimbursements.
An ALJ held a hearing on Leach's bad faith claim in Oct. 2009. The ALJ awarded Leach $30,000 in bad faith damages based on Prent's failure to timely pay the amounts that had been ordered. The ALJ also ordered Prent to pay $1,264.39 in interest. Prent appealed; LIRC affirmed. Prent filed an appeal in circuit court, which also affirmed.
Prent appealed again, argued that LIRC incorrectly calculated the underlying $30,706.52 refusal-to-rehire award because the award did not account for disability payments Prent made to Leach.
The Court of Appeals pointed out that LIRC's decision said it assumed "for the sake of argument" that Prent's offset legal theory was correct, but even with this assumption, Leach's actual loss was far greater than $30,706.52. The Court of Appeals also pointed out that Prent raised the offset issue only after LIRC's refusal to rehire order was final and after Prent was delinquent in paying the amount awarded.
Prent contends it had a reasonable basis for offsetting the temporary disability payments, and that should have been found sufficient to preclude a finding of bad faith. It also argues that the bad faith award was not supported by sufficient evidence.
Prent asks the Supreme Court if the reasonable basis standard of Brown v. LIRC, 267 Wis. 2d 31, 671 N.W.2d 279 (2003) can be disregarded when the temporary disability payments are offset under Wis. Stat. § 102.35(3) against actual wage loss that exceeds 12 months. Prent also asks whether under Gehin v. Wisconsin Group Insurance Board, 278 Wis. 2d 111, 692 N.W.2d 572 (2005), a bad faith award can be supported by what Prent refers to as uncorroborated hearsay evidence, rather than substantial evidence of bad faith. From Rock County.
2011AP691-CR State v. Steffes
This case examines several issues arising from a prison phone-bill scam. The central question before the Supreme Court is whether the electricity used to power a telecommunications service may be considered "tangible property" under Wis. Stat. § 943.20, the state's theft statute.
Some background: Matthew R. Steffes, an inmate at the Waupun Correctional Institution, was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit theft of property exceeding $10,000 in value by fraud.
Steffes' fellow inmate, Joshua Howard, had worked with individuals outside of the prison to acquire phone numbers in fictitious names or "stolen" names. Those telephone lines were known as "burn out" lines because they would eventually be turned off when the telephone company learned that no one would pay for them.
The state presented testimony, recordings of telephone calls, and letters between Steffes and Howard that showed Steffes' involvement in using the "burn out" lines. Steffes claimed that there was no evidence that he had been involved in the conspiracy when the lines were being set up, and that he merely used the lines after they had been acquired by others. In the approximately 18 months between June 2002 and December 2003, Steffes made more than 320 calls on the lines that totaled 6,562 minutes of usage without paying for them.
Although telephone company (SBC) representatives were not able to provide an exact amount and value of electricity used, the total unpaid charges for the calls made on just three of the lines exceeded $26,000. The question of value in any theft case is significant because it determines the category of offense and range of punishment for a particular theft. By valuing the stolen property using the value of the standard charges for the calls, the state succeeded in convicting Steffes of two felonies.
The circuit court imposed concurrent sentences of 24 months of initial confinement and 30 months of extended supervision that were consecutive to Steffes' other sentences. The jury acquitted Steffes of the one charged count of identity theft.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. It reasoned that the telephone service theft scheme in which Steffes participated was covered by the statute because the defendants were actually stealing the electricity used to power the telephone network, and electricity is expressly included within the statutory definition of property. The theft of services only is not included in the language of the statute.
Steffes has asked the Supreme Court whether the elements of "theft by fraud," contrary to Sec. 943.20(1)(d), Stats., require that the defendant made an affirmative false promise to pay that induced SBC to provide the telephone service. Steffes argues that there was no evidence of a false promise to pay so he could not be convicted of theft by fraud. The Court of Appeals said that the statutory language required only a false representation and did not contain any requirement that there be an express promise of payment to the victim.
Another issue raised by Steffes is whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury as to the elements of "theft by fraud" as alleged in the criminal complaint; and, further, whether defense counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the defective jury instruction. Finally, the case presents the issue of how to value the property that was stolen here. From Milwaukee County.
2010AP2809-CR State v. Lonkoski
This case examines what constitutes interrogation and what constitutes custody under Miranda.
Some background: In a decision affirmed by the Court of Appeals, Matthew A. Lonkoski was convicted of recklessly causing great harm to a child and neglecting a child resulting in the child's death. Lonkoski's ten-month-old daughter, Peyton, was found dead by her parents, Lonkoski and Amanda Bodoh. The autopsy determined that Peyton's blood and urine contained a deadly amount of morphine and hydromorphone.
Detectives asked Bodoh to come to the sheriff's department for an interview. Lonkoski drove her to the interview and waited in the lobby while Bodoh was interviewed. After speaking with Bodoh, the officers sent her to another room and brought Lonkoski into the interview room for an interview that was video recorded. Detective Sara Gardner and Lt. Jim Wood interviewed Lonkoski, with Lonkoski sitting in the corner furthest from the door of the interview room.
Wood informed Lonkoski that he was not under arrest. He stated that he had closed the door to the interview room so other people could not hear the interview. For about the first half-hour, the detectives and Mr. Lonkoski talked about events since Peyton's death. Then Wood told Lonkoski that an autopsy showed that Peyton died of a morphine overdose. Loknkoski asked the detectives if he was being accused of giving his daughter morphine. The following exchange then occurred:
Mr. Lonkoski: I want a lawyer. I want a lawyer now. This is bullshit.
Lt. Wood: Okay.
Mr. Lonkoski: I would never do that to my kid, ever. I wasn't even at the apartment at all except at night. Why are you guys accusing me?
Lt. Wood: I didn't accuse you.
Det. Gardner: We were just asking.
Mr. Lonkoski: There is this is is is is is is is is insane.
Lt. Wood: I have to stop talking to you though 'cause you said you wanted a lawyer.
Mr. Lonkoski: Am I under arrest?
Lt. Wood: You are now.
Mr. Lonkoski: Then I'll talk to you without a lawyer... I, I don't want to go to jail...
Shortly after this exchange, Lonkoski was escorted from the room to smoke a cigarette and use the bathroom. When Lonkoski, Gardner, and Wood returned to the room, Wood read Lonkoski his Miranda rights and Lonkoski agreed to answer further questions. Over approximately two additional hours of questioning, Lonkoski made incriminating statements; specifically, that he and a friend had used morphine – the drug that killed Peyton – around the time of Peyton's death. Lonkoski was again interrogated four days later and made more incriminating statements.
Lonkoski moved to suppress his statements to police as violative of his Miranda rights. After the trial court denied Lonkoski's motion to suppress, Lonkoski pled guilty to and was convicted of recklessly causing great harm to a child and neglecting a child resulting in the child's death.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, concluding that Lonkoski voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently waived his Miranda rights. Lonkoski now asks the Supreme Court to review whether a police officer ceases interrogation as required by Edwards v. Arizona [, 451 U.S. 477 (1981)] where, in response to the interrogated person's invocation of the right to counsel, the officer places the person under arrest. Lonkoski also asks the court to review whether the right to invoke Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) when custodial interrogation is "imminent or impending" applies where interrogation is ongoing but custody is imminent. From Oneida County.
2011AP583 Brown v. Acuity
This insurance case arises from an automobile collision involving a volunteer firefighter who ran a red light in his personal car while responding to the station for a call. The Supreme Court has been asked to examine whether driving by a volunteer firefighter on the way to the fire station in response to a call is a discretionary activity, entitling the firefighter to government immunity from tort liability.
Some background: Parnel P. Burditt was a volunteer firefighter and a lieutenant for the Okauchee Fire Department (OFD). He also served as Emergency Medical Services Director.
On a dark and rainy evening, Burditt responded to a dispatch from the fire department in his personal vehicle, which was equipped with emergency lights but no siren. Burditt's emergency lights were activated when he entered a traffic intersection against a red light, eventually colliding with a vehicle driven by Frank Brown. The collision injured Marilyn Brown and Delores Schwartz, passengers in Frank Brown's vehicle.
Marilyn Brown and Schwartz (collectively, "Brown") sued Burditt, the OFD, and their insurers, alleging that Burditt's negligence was a substantial factor causing the collision. Burditt moved for summary judgment, arguing that he was immune from personal liability for the accident pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 893.80(4) because he was acting within the scope of his duties for the fire department when the accident occurred. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Burditt and the OFD.
Brown appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The Court of Appeals concluded that Burditt was operating within the scope of his employment for purposes of governmental immunity because volunteer firefighters are actuated by a purpose to serve the fire department from the moment they choose to respond to an emergency call. This is so because when an emergency arises, the OFD's volunteers are expected to respond, if possible, from wherever they are currently located, and volunteers must obey the orders of their commanding officers once they choose to respond to a call.
The Court of Appeals further held that the fact that Burditt violated the traffic code did not mean that he was liable for negligence in his decision to proceed through the intersection. The court held that Burditt's decision to proceed through the intersection against the red light was discretionary, and thus Burditt was immune from liability for negligence based on that decision.
A decision by the Supreme Court could clarify whether government immunity applies to certain public employees, in this case volunteer firefighters, when they violate express statutory prohibitions. From Waukesha County.
2011AP1176/77 McLeod v. Mudlaff
This certification involves two consolidated cases. The Court of Appeals asks the Supreme Court to decide whether, under Wis. Stat. § 767.313(2), a court has the authority to entertain an action to declare a marriage void after one of the spouses has died.
Some background: Nancy and Luke Laubenheimer married on Aug. 18, 1972. Luke died on Aug. 24, 2001. In 1999, about two years before Luke's death, Nancy executed a will that left her estate to Luke. In the event Luke predeceased her, the bulk of her estate was to go to Luke's three children whom Nancy had never adopted. Nancy never updated her will after Luke's death.
In Jan. 2007, Nancy suffered a stroke and her health began to decline. It is unclear exactly when Nancy's second husband, Joseph McLeod, came into Nancy's life, but by March 2007 Joseph and Nancy were living together.
On Oct. 1, 2008, Nancy suffered another stroke. On Oct. 11, 2008, Nancy's doctors signed a "statement of incapacitation" opining that Nancy was "unable to receive and evaluate information effectively or to communicate decisions," and that she lacked "the capacity to manage health care decisions." The statement of incapacitation activated Nancy's health care power of attorney, which named Nancy's cousin, Diane Kulpa, as her agent for health-care decisions.
On Oct. 13, 2008, Nancy was admitted to a nursing home. On Nov. 3, 2008, Joseph removed Nancy from the nursing home to obtain a marriage license. On Nov. 7, 2008, Joseph and Nancy married. On Jan. 13, 2009, Luke's daughter Patricia Mudlaff filed a petition seeking guardianship for Nancy.
Mudlaff's petition alleged that Nancy "suffers from severe cognitive disability due to several strokes." The petition alleged that Joseph had removed Nancy from the nursing home against medical advice and that Nancy needed a guardian to readmit her to the nursing home. The petition contained an examining physician's report dated Jan. 15, 2009, which opined that Nancy was incompetent and in need of a guardian.
On Jan. 27, 2009, the trial court appointed Nancy's cousin, Diane Kulpa, as a temporary guardian of Nancy's person. The court appointed Nancy's sister as temporary guardian of Nancy's estate. The court found that there was a "reasonable likelihood" that Nancy was incompetent.
Nancy died on Feb. 5, 2009.
On June 9, 2009, Joseph filed a petition for the formal administration of Nancy's estate. Joseph requested that the court appoint him as personal representative of the estate. Joseph filed Nancy's 1999 will with the court but also asserted his Wis. Stat. § 853.12 right to a share of Nancy's estate. Section 853.12(1) provides that if a testator executed a will prior to marrying the surviving spouse, the surviving spouse is entitled to a share of the estate. The surviving spouse's share is equal to what his or her share would be if the testator died intestate, minus devises made to the testator's children and their issue. See § 853.12(2). As Nancy did not have any biological or adoptive children, Joseph argued that he was Nancy's sole heir.
Mudlaff also filed a petition for the formal administration of Nancy's estate. Mudlaff argued that Nancy's marriage to Joseph was invalid on the grounds that Nancy lacked the requisite mental capacity to enter into a marriage, and therefore Joseph had no right to a surviving spouse's share of Nancy's estate.
The trial court denied Mudlaff's petition on the grounds that Wis. Stat. § 767.313(2), quoted below, prohibits a court from annulling a marriage after the death of a party to the marriage. Mudlaff appealed. The Court of Appeals certified the matter to this court.
Wis. Stat. § 767.313(2) provides that "[a] judicial proceeding is required to annul a marriage. A marriage may not be annulled after the death of a party to the marriage." The trial court ruled that, given Nancy's death, § 767.313(2) deprived it of any power to address Mudlaff's petition.
Mudlaff argued on appeal that while the court could not annul Nancy's marriage to Joseph, it did have the power to void the marriage. Mudlaff pointed to various provisions of Wis. Stat. ch. 765 which state that a marriage is invalid if one of the parties was incompetent at the time of marriage. Under Wis. Stat. § 765.21, a marriage entered into in violation of these provisions "shall be void."
Mudlaff argues that because Nancy was not competent when she married Joseph, the marriage was void from its inception, and thus the court could "void" the marriage even though it could not "annul" the marriage.
In its certification, the Court of Appeals traced the historical development of marriage law from statehood to 2005 and examined various terms, including: "valid" marriages, "void" marriages, "voidable" marriages, "annulled" marriages, and "declared null and void" marriages.
In the end, the Court of Appeals asked the Supreme Court to decide how the statutes and the case law should be applied to these consolidated cases . From Washington County.
Review denied: The Supreme Court denied review in the following cases. As the state's law-developing court, the Supreme Court exercises its discretion to select for review only those cases that fit certain statutory criteria (see Wis. Stat. § 809.62). Except where indicated, these cases came to the Court via petition for review by the party who lost in the lower court:
2011AP676-CR State v. Byrnes
2011AP220 State v. Quintero
2011AP886 Rosenthal v. Village of Ashwaubenon
2011AP1180-CR State v. Coleman
2011AP793-CR State v. Raether
2011AP123 Nelson v. Furrer
2010AP2773 The Key Law Firm v. CenturyTel, Inc.
2010AP2599-CR State v. Anderson
2011AP752-CR State v. Tucker
2011AP1068 Kisting v. Village of Waunakee
2011AP1299-CR State v. Gutierrez-Hernandez - Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson dissents.
2012AP1050 State v. Gant
2010AP3054-CR State v. Elam
Eau Claire
2011AP1874 Berg v. Secura Ins.
2011AP210 Thompson v. Town of Brooklyn
Green Lake
2012AP2042-W Selvy v. Cir. Ct. Green Lake Co.
2011AP2783 Jackson Co. DHS v. Robert H.
2011AP1716 Wausaukee School Dist. v. Wausaukee Ed. Assoc.
2007XX1350-CR State v. James
2009AP746-W/2010AP1064 Washington v. State
2010AP966 State v. Hennings
2010AP2881-W Guman v. Pugh
2010AP3063-CR State v. Turner
2011AP68-CR State v. Lobermeier
2011AP362 Hernandez v. BNG Management - Justices Patience Drake Roggensack and Annette Kingsland Ziegler dissent.
2011AP363 Asst. Living Concepts v. Siegel-Gallaher
2011AP1393-CR State v. Hampton
2011AP1323-CR State v. Newman
2011AP1502-CR State v. Ward
2011AP1537-CR State v. Brewer
2011AP1600-CR State v. Laughrin
2011AP1675-CR State v. Nelson
2011AP1704-CR State v. Devroy
2011AP1922-CR State v. Carroll
2011AP1940-CR State v. Rayford
2011AP2029 State v. Parrish
2012AP167-69 State v. Stacee P.
2012XX735-CR State v. Willis
2012AP632 Ozaukee Co. DHS v. Monique B.
2010AP1056-CR State v. Armstrong
2011AP1108/09-CR State v. Bizzle
2011AP2858-CR State v. Moynihan
St. Croix
2011AP2340 Helmen v. Helmen
2011AP958 Pride v. City of Eagle River
2011AP1497/98-CR State v. Quinonez
2011AP868-CR State v. Jacob
2011AP1077 State v. Blank
2011AP2155/56-CR State v. Wegner
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Eating, Culture, and Coping
We all have an emotional and culturally-shaped relationship to food: We sometimes eat foods we love for comfort and sometimes stay away from certain foods out of health or aesthetic concerns. We sort through masses of information, sometimes contradictory and often confounding, about which foods promote and which foods diminish health. We contend with and try to make sense of advertising, a major force in our culture, which extols the abstemious physique while simultaneously enticing us to indulge in treats.
It's very confusing.
Moreover, females have been historically and remain more identified with their bodies than men. It is understandable that many females wrestle with their body image and eating.
Eating habits exist on a continuum, ranging from healthy to problematic to disordered (each is fully defined below). Eating habits become disordered when the pull to restrict intake or over-eat becomes unmanageable and when self-esteem becomes based on the amount of food recently digested or resisted. Eating problems often develop out of a diet, a very common practice. Certainly, not everyone on a diet is vulnerable to developing an eating disorder; however, restriction can become psychologically addictive. Restriction can also create powerful feeling of deprivation, which can be a set-up for a binge.
Problematic and disordered eating are outgrowths of a culture preoccupied with and confused about female appetite and intake. They are also ways of coping with difficult emotions and circumstances. Restriction blunts the emotional system and creates an illusory sense of control. Bingeing and purging discharge feelings that are not yet understood or directly communicated to others.
People are more prone to disturbed eating during times of stress and uncertainty. College is a time a massive transition, a bridge from adolescence to adulthood. It is often the first major separation from home, a time to form new friendships, re-define relationships with family, and explore and clarify one's identity and aspirations. For many, college can be a period of doubt and pressure as well as excitement and maturation.
Resources at Barnard:
There is much confidential support and treatment available at Barnard for anyone who is struggling with food.
The Rosemary Furman Counseling Center, located on the first floor of Hewitt Hall (extension 4-2092). Psychologist/Team Coordinator, an eating-disorder specialist, offers consultations, assessments, individual short-term therapy, and on-going therapy groups.
Health Services, located at Lower Level Brooks Hall (extension 4-2091). An Internist, assesses and follows all medical aspects of eating disorders and provides nutritional support. Nutritionist, provides nutritional assessments and counseling.
Well-Woman Program, located at 119 Reid Hall (extension 4-3063). provides information and facilitates workshops on body image, nutrition, and healthy eating.
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We hope you find this information helpful, but remember, self-help materials can provide only general information and guidance. If you're concerned about how one of these issues is affecting your life, visit us in the Furman Counseling Center to talk it over.:
Potential Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
Protect Yourself From Developing an Eating Disorder
Eating Concerns Links
- American Dietetic Association - the "eat right" site
- Nutrition Site - Tufts University
- National Eating Disorders Association
- ANRED - Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
- About Face - this San Francisco volunteer group highlights media influence on eating disorders.
- Smart Nutrition 101 - all about what you eat
- Something Fishy - Eating Disorders
- Gurze - Information about Bulimia
To find out more, see our list of Eating Disorders Self-Help Guides and Books.


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The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GBNERR) is part of a national network of protected areas and promotes long-term research, education and stewardship throughout the Great Bay estuary. Created under the Coastal Zone Management Act, the National Estuarine Research Reserve partnership program between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the coastal states protects more than one million acres of the nation's most important coastal resources.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department manages the Great Bay Reserve, which was designated in 1989. The Reserve is also supported by the Great Bay Stewards, a non-profit friends group. Visitors are encouraged to explore the natural beauty of the Great Bay Estuary and discover New Hampshire's hidden coast.
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The Global Campaign for Men and Boys
Equality 4 Men will be launching a series of campaigns in 2013 and 2014 to raise awareness of some of the key issues facing men and boys in the UK.
One of those campaigns will focus on the key actions we need to take to fight for #CancerEquality4Boys.
If you want to sign up to support the campaign for #CancerEquality4Boys today then please enter your name and email below.
Once the campaign is launched we'll send you regular email updates letting you know what we're up to and how you can get involved and take action to fight for #CancerEquality4Boys.


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