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AHRC Nassau, The Arc New York and today's service model originated 70 years ago due to the advocacy efforts of people with disabilities, their family members, friends and supporters. Share your perspectives and let lawmakers know the strong community that stands up for the issues impacting people all abilities, especially:
Key Issues
The Issue:
Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) provide daily care, services and supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Caring for people with complex needs is a rewarding yet challenging job, which requires ongoing training and a high-level of responsibility and skill. These are not minimum wage jobs.
Nonprofit provider agencies funded by the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) employ nearly 100,000 DSPs, and deliver 85 percent of the needed services to approximately 130,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in New York State. Almost all funding for these agencies comes from the government at rates set by the government.
Statewide, reimbursement for DSP salaries has increased just 1.4 percent per year over the last eight years. Despite the high demands of the job, DSPs currently earn on average between $10 and $13 per hour. We are losing our DSPs to higher-paying entry-level job sectors, which continue to increase their hourly wages.
In 2017, our statewide vacancy rate for DSPs was 14.4%, a 30% increase from 2016 and an 80% increase since 2014. Many agencies throughout the state are faring even worse, with vacancy rates in excess of 20%. Turnover rates are also problematic, with nearly one in every three DSPs leaving the job in less than a year.
It is absolutely critical that we secure adequate government funding to pay our DSPs a living wage. If we do not, our programs could be reduced or eliminated due to lack of staffing, and many years of progress toward community integration, choice and deinstitutionalization will be lost.
State-run programs and staff are reimbursed at a higher rate than those in the voluntary sector. If nonprofit programs are eliminated due to insufficient staffing, those still-needed services would likely be provided by state agencies, at a higher cost to taxpayers.
To address the workforce crisis, The Arc New York helped create a coalition of all of the major developmental disability provider agencies in New York State and was one of the driving forces behind the #bFair2DirectCare campaign.
While we were successful in 2017 in getting the Governor and Legislature to include $191 million in the enacted state budget to provide two consecutive 3.25% wage increases for DSPs, that is not enough to fully fund living wages for DSPs.
The Position:
AHRC Nassau will continue to advocate as part of the #bFair2DirectCare coalition to secure living wages for DSPs.
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Toolkit for Family/Friends
The Issue:
Thousands of New York State citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities are waiting for placement in a community residential setting, and many are in immediate need. The state has not provided an adequate way for families to plan for the future when providing care at home becomes difficult or impossible. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families face an onerous placement process without a clear understanding of that process or the extent of their wait.
However, while thousands await suitable placements, many residential vacancies go unfilled. Vacancies within certified residential settings have grown in recent years because of an administrative requirement to fill the opening with someone from the "Emergency Need" placement category. Often, the care needs and behaviors of these individuals are incompatible with the home in which the vacancy exists. In these cases, the vacancy remains unfilled, despite the fact it may be a suitable placement for individuals from the Current Need or Substantial Need categories.
Offering housing almost solely on an emergency basis, makes it impossible to guarantee placements will be found in the most appropriate, least restrictive home environment. These restrictions also lessen the individual's opportunity for choice in their own housing.
We are working with OPWDD to improve the flexibility and timeliness of the placement process, to more expeditiously place individuals into available vacancies that are compatible with their needs. The Arc New York will also continue to collaborate with Keep the Promise Family Coalition to advocate for solutions.
The Position:
We continue to advocate for increased residential development, and an improved placement process, especially for people living at home with aging caregivers. We propose the following actions be taken to ensure there is sufficient residential development to meet the growing need:
-transparently assess the number of people who have requested or need residential services and keep a wait list with a publicly available summary;
-streamline the eligibility process so that people on the wait list can have their eligibility rapidly assessed and established;
-make administrative enhancements necessary to more efficiently match people seeking placement with existing vacancies;
-match and place individuals in already existing residential settings which can meet their individualized needs; and
-provide capital and operating funds to establish as many new residential opportunities as necessary to meet the needs of New Yorkers with intellectual and developmental disabilities, particularly for those individuals with behavioral and psychological needs.
The Issue:
Medicaid is the backbone of services to people with developmental disabilities across the nation, and particularly in New York State. Medicaid comprises approximately 90 percent of the funding to the Arc New York and other developmental disabilities providers in our state. Cuts to Medicaid funding would prove devastating to the families we serve and services we provide.
If previous attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had been successful, the cuts would have cost New York State between $4 billion and $7 billion in federal Medicaid funds. That represents nearly a 10% cut to all Medicaid providers, and would devastate the state's system of programs and services for people with developmental disabilities.
Medicaid is still at risk. Advocates stopped previous attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, but key members of Congress continue to target Medicaid as a solution to contain the nation's growing federal deficit. Proposed actions include cuts to the Nation's Medicaid program, and attempts to eliminate it as an entitlement program by converting it to a block grant or per capita cap system of reimbursement to states.
The Position:
AHRC Nassau, the Arc New York and thousands of other developmental disabilities providers and advocates across the nation will vigilantly defend the Medicaid program from any actions in Washington that reduce federal Medicaid funding.
The Issue:
Even though many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities want to work and have the skills to do so, there are limited employment opportunities available to them. As a result, the majority of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are either unemployed or underemployed.
The Arc New York recently initiated the Customized Job Programs legislation A.1415 (Santabarbara)/ S.6626 (Skoufis). This bill would establish a pilot program that subdivides state jobs into simpler component parts to provide opportunities for minimum-wage, integrated employment for people who could effectively perform some, but not all aspects of a job.
The Position:
The Arc New York supports increased employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and will work to:
-enhance employer tax credits for hiring people with disabilities;
-secure additional funding for job coaches and other supports;
-create new state job opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities;
-pay a subminimum wage when appropriate;
-pass the Customized Job Programs legislation; and
-continue to transform sheltered workshops into integrated businesses where appropriate.


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Public cloud's reputation fends off cloud hacker attacks
Cloud experts are fighting to protect cloud's good name following the recent iCloud hack, but public opinion is not easily swayed. However, cloud may not be hackers' primary target -- for now.
Cloud computing experts were called to arms following the iCloud hack that spurred an outcry regarding cloud security. Mainstream reporters sought out anyone with the ability to spell "cloud computing" for their hot take on the hack that publicized personal photos of mostly female celebrities.
Most major news outlets across the globe are covering the security breach and, of course, questioning the safety of cloud computing against hacker attacks.
Cloud perception versus reality
What's interesting is the cloud case of perception versus reality. This was an attack on Apple's iCloud, not through some major flaw in the security system. Many hackers likely researched publicly available personal information for these celebrities and figured out their user IDs and passwords. The cloud did not fail these victims -- people did.
The horrifying reality is that clouds, websites, internal enterprise systems and anything with a network connection are constantly under hacker attack. Today, security workers are constantly playing whack-a-mole around security attempts to access systems. Trust me, internal systems everywhere play the same game.
The recent non-cloud breaches of large retailers Target and Home Depot is where the real hacking damage was done. Many credit card numbers were compromised and security mayhem ensued. These breaches make the iCloud issue seem very minor, technically, because these systems were physically in the enterprise. That's supposed to stop all bad things from happening, right? Not a chance.
Praising the public cloud providers
For the most part, iCloud and other public cloud providers maintain top-notch security. Cloud providers' security mechanisms and best practices are typically up to date due to the ensuing paranoia when data assets are stored on third-party cloud-based systems.
Once a few patches are applied, iCloud and iPhone users won't experience similar breaches. Educating users on cloud security and frequently required password changes should do the trick. However, security measures won't be effective if cloud users continue to use birthdays, pet names and street addresses for passwords. All bets are off when that happens.
Cloud providers earn an A- for security practices and technologies. Public cloud providers understand what's at stake and take preventative measures to reduce the risk. However, completely eliminating risks is impossible.
Over the next few years, most major breaches won't be coming from cloud providers. Poorly designed security systems around internal enterprise data, as well as lost laptops, phones and tablets will continue to be the culprits. As long as those easy pickings are around, hackers won't bother with the cloud -- yet.
About the author:
David "Dave" S. Linthicum is senior vice president of Cloud Technology Partners and an internationally recognized cloud industry expert and thought leader. He is the author or co-author of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling Enterprise Application Integration. Linthicum keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration and enterprise architecture.
His latest book is Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide. His industry experience includes tenures as chief technology officer and CEO of several successful software companies and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia, Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin.
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Hope Solo is still trying to get a seat during mediation sessions between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the Untied States Women's National Team, even after both sides have shot down the idea.
The former USWNT goalie filed a "strongly-worded" 10-page motion on Monday, calling for legal sanctions against her former teammates and their attorneys days after they rejected her request to join their mediation sessions with the USSF regarding their equal pay lawsuit filed earlier this year. Both the USWNT and the USSF said on Friday that, "with all due respect," Solo's help isn't needed in the mediation sessions.
In the motion filed on Monday, Solo said that their brief rejecting her bid to join the mediation sessions needs to be removed from the official record. Otherwise, Solo maintains her reputation will take a major hit, according to The Athletic.
The "improper filing of the untruthful Opposition has already caused Solo to suffer undeserved irreparable harm, ridicule and humiliation in the mainstream and social media," she wrote in the motion, via The Athletic.
"It's unfortunate that in their continued quest to marginalize Hope Solo, the player who has lead the fight for equal pay at every stage, including being the first player to file a federal lawsuit for equal pay eight months before the other members of the team, the USWNT and their counsel elected to file an Opposition that not only inaccurately represents the nature of their case, and Hope's status in that matter, but also boldly violates the Federal Rules in order to partner with U.S. Soccer to keep Hope out of their Mediation," Solo's attorney, Rich Nichols, said in a statement to Yahoo Sports.
The USWNT first filed its gender discrimination lawsuit against the USSF in March. Both sides agreed to mediation in the equal pay lawsuit after the team's 2-0 win against the Netherlands in the Women's World Cup last month.
Solo has her own similar pending equal-pay lawsuit against the USSF, filed last August, which she argued in part that she believes she was dismissed from the USWNT due to her role in the fight for equal pay. Solo's contract with U.S. Soccer was terminated shortly after a loss to Sweden in the 2016 Olympics, when she called the Swedish team "a bunch of cowards."
In her motion, Solo asked the court to strike the USWNT motion, assess them her legal fees and rule their class council is "inadequate," according to The Athletic. She claimed that the USWNT had no right to reject her bid to join their mediation sessions, because they "are a non-party to her case," per the report.
USWNT outside lawyer Jeff Kessler, however, isn't sure what rule they violated by rejecting her bid.
"I am not aware of any federal rule that has been violated by this filing (the USWNT motion)," Kessler wrote in an email to Solo's legal team on Monday, via The Athletic. "Please identify the basis for your claim and we will then evaluate it."
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Coming back from a nice trip to Malaysia, it has inspired me on the wonder of travelling and how it rejuvenates and lifts our spirits. By taking a break from our routine life, we can feel the zest of what life has to offer and experience other possibilities in our life. During this trip, I got to meet new friends and their warmth really touched me. Also, the simplicity of the life there really humbled me. The pace of life is much slower than in singapore, and people lead a more simpler life there, unlike here where the culture is extremely materialistic. With the slower pace of life, one can enjoy more the subtleties of life, such as nature, art, culture and human relations. This definitely adds to the richness of our lives as we r not just meant to be living routine and mechanical lives like a robot.
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Everyone a leader!
Everyone a leader. A model for schools?
The only team in the world without a captain is the side that doesn't need one, the Australian woman hockey team, the Hockeyroos. After winning back to back Olympic Golds they have established themselves as the most successful sporting team in Australia.
Their Coach Ric Shuttleworth dispensed with the idea a few years ago. The innovative coach reckoned captaincy was an anachronism that belonged to a different age.
'Ask yourself', says Professor Frank Crowther recently in NZ to talk to beginning principals, 'what the implications for a school might be'. Shuttleworth did away with the captaincy but to say his Hockeyroos were leaderless is far from the truth. They had leaders all over the field, they don't have single captain but they might as well have eleven. Shuttleworth talks of having a 'critical mass' of six, seven or eight trailblazers.
The whole idea is to develop leadership qualities in every player. The very least that can be said is that the Hockeyroos were disciplined all over the field. They were also wholeheartedly committed, if there was any fighting it was over who should swoop on a loose ball.
Those who take orders are very good at giving them in a team of equals. It is all part of the Hockeyroo ethic, which encourages players to strive for greater goals commitment, thoroughness, team play, time management and personal development. Players must be able to fit two or three positions increasing their overall value to the squad and allowing scores of extra options.
Crowther had two of the girls as students at the University of Southern Queensland and he asked them about their preparation for the Olympics. The analogy of swooping on a loose ball is what educationalists have in mind when they talk about collective responsibity, or distributed leadership, in a professional community; everyone taking a collective responsibility for any issue that might come up, as opposed to it's your responsibity because that kid is in your class. Swooping on loose balls does represent a different kind of paradigm, says Crowther.
If it works for the Hockeyroos why wouldn't it work for schools, asks Crowther? It is Crowther's view that we have to look at a different concept when we look at school leadership. He calls this concept parallel leadership, introducing the importance of teacher leadership, which he says is of equal importance to principal leadership. You can't compare them because they are two different things. When you get them both in place then you can sustain school improvement over a significant period of time.
I can only think of one school where this distributed leadership applied. And this school exhibited both alignment and consistency and individual creativity and innovation. I have however seen something similar in the relationship between teachers and their students in lots of creative classes. It all about trust and sharing power.
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For over a decade teacher's 'voices' have not been listened to - Crowther's article signals a beginning of a new era for teachers; one that values their leadership contribution? Sounds good!
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- Bruce Hammonds said...
Teachers felt more like their own 'experts' before 'Tomorrows Schools' - but that is distant but not yet totally forgotten history.
- 10:54 am
Today there are just too many people who know better than the teacher - but to have your 'voice' valued you need to connect with people who are playing the same game
- 11:37 am
- Bruce Hammonds said...
What is required is professional trust once you show to your peers you can do the job! To much, 'have to record and prove it these days!'
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As you say it is all about relationships between people who trust each other.It is about the power of a shared culture of teaching.
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- Bruce Hammonds said...
The culture is the 'big picture' we have lost sight of; we are all too busy fiddling around with the pieces to even think their might be a guiding pattern of relationships.
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By Thomas DiLorenzo
It's The American Way, after all. Whenever a
libertarian/constitutionalist runs for national office both major
parties conspire to snuff him or her out. Just look at how they treated
Ron Paul, even planting Bozos in the front row of debates to screech
loud horse laughs at everything Ron said.
Both parties are experts at
Gerrymandering and other tricks that rig elections that guarantee at
least 95% of all congressional incumbents have been reelected for the
past half century or so. The latest example is the smearing of Roy
Moore in Alabama by a Washington Post reporterette who herself had
previously been convicted of passing bad checks. Then there's Gloria
All-Red with some woman who claimed that Moore locked her in his car 40
years ago, back when cars did not even have child-proof car locks and it
was impossible to lock a passenger in a car. So it appears that
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Macworld | iWorld 2012: Use your iOS device to collaborate on a film of the event
Going to Macworld | iWorld 2012? Got a smartphone, OK, got an iPhone? Would you like to shoot footage of your experience at this year's event and collaborate with fellow attendees to make a film to be released before it closes?
If so, put iShotThat! – A Crowd Sourced Film with John Turner, chief technologist at Assistronics, LLC, in your diary. Turner is holding a Tech Talk on Thursday 2pm on
"We are going to ask attendees to capture what it is to be at Macworld | iWorld during the first few days and submit that footage online. A small team of editors will work hard to edit the footage into a short film that will be released near the end of the event, " says Turner in the event notes.
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"Everyone has something to share. It could be something cool you saw on the show floor, some new people you meet, a party you attended, the after hours happenings around town, anything that happens to you during Macworld | iWorld is fair game. So grab your favorite camera app and share what it means to be at Macworld | iWorld!"
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This month, we're hosting two workshops in support of the Omaha Neighborhood Grants Program. Each workshop will include an overview of the program, including and Q&A panel, as well as opportunities to receive support with grant applications and program development.
The workshops will be:
Thursday, January 10th, 5:30pm @ OutrSpaces (1258 South 13th Street)
Tuesday, January 15th, 6pm @ Drips (2205 North 24th Street)(Next to Skeet's)
For program information and eligibility requirements, visit the Omaha Community Foundation's website.
Applications are open now until Friday, March 1st.
Just a reminder, we are still scheduling neighborhood visioning sessions for the Omaha Neighborhood Grants Program. See info below.
One Omaha is excited to again be partnering with the Omaha Community Foundation and the Peter Kiewit Foundation on the upcoming Omaha Neighborhood Grants Program. The mission of this grant program is support and engage residents throughout Omaha on collaborative, neighbor-led projects that benefit and strengthen the neighborhood and broader community.
We are now scheduling neighborhood visioning sessions with groups who would like to develop a project for this grant opportunity.
Visioning sessions are a great way to bring neighbors in and out of you network together and involve them in building something with your group that makes your neighborhood a better place. Visioning can also help you engage and identify new members, volunteers, and future leaders.
One Omaha will assist with finding times an locations for the session if needed. We will also help you promote the session to your neighbors.
These sessions generally take about an hour and a half and include asset mapping, ideation, and consensus building. Our ultimate goal is to help you develop comprehensive, impactful projects that are designed by, implemented by, and impactful to as many of your neighbors as possible.
After the session, our staff will be available to help you work out the details and further develop your project to be ready for the grant application.
The grant application will open in January with applications due in March. Applications up to $5000 will be accepted.
I you would like to host a visioning session in your neighborhood, you can register here.


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The friendship and collaboration between sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens, and President Theodore Roosevelt is one of the more remarkable tales of the early 20th Century. Roosevelt, when once speaking about his friend, stated that Saint Gaudens possessed: "that lofty quality of insight which enables a man to see to the root of things."
Their friendship dated back to the first days of Roosevelt's presidency when Saint Gaudens was asked to serve on a commission that would plan public space on the Mall in Washington, D.C. In March 1902 Saint Gaudens helped locate the site of what was to become the Lincoln Memorial. He was there the day a spike was pounded into the landfill near the Potomac River at the end of the Mall. By 1922, the majestic Lincoln Memorial would rise from the spot marked by Saint Gaudens and his fellow commissioners.
Theodore Roosevelt became President in September 1901 upon the assassination of President McKinley. Almost immediately, the nation took notice of this young man of seemingly inexhaustible drive and vision. Roosevelt became the first President to go up in a plane, the first to go under in a submarine, and the first President to travel abroad while in office (Panama). President Roosevelt became a populist President by challenging long held beliefs that laws existed for the exclusive benefit of large companies, but not for the average citizens. He aggressively went after trusts and monopolies. Roosevelt became a champion of the environment by opening up the National Park System. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War. And he became a champion of the arts, using the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency to get his way on a number of projects.
Augustus Saint Gaudens was, by 1901, the finest sculptor in America and was, in the opinion of many, second to none (or perhaps, Rodin) in worldwide acclaim. A man of humble birth, Saint Gaudens had apprenticed in New York as a cameo cutter, studied in Paris and Rome and eventually, at the age of 33, became a well-known sculptor. His first prominent commission (an overwhelming success) was the statue of Admiral Farragut (1881) in Madison Square Park, New York City. Other public monuments would include: the Shaw Memorial (1897) in Boston, the Gen. John A. Logan Monument (1897) in Chicago, the Adams Memorial (1891) in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C., the Sherman Monument (1903) in Central Park, New York City and the Standing Lincoln (1887) in Chicago. Saint Gaudens was a master of the portrait relief. His work in bas-relief (low relief) is unsurpassed to this day and compares with the finest work of the 15th Century in Europe. Saint Gaudens was a tireless teacher from 1888 to 1897. An entire new generation of sculptors studied under Saint Gaudens or became his assistants. It is to his credit that the designers of the Buffalo Nickel, Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty and Washington Quarter, Walking Liberty Half Dollar and $2.50 and $5 Gold Indians were his students and/or assistants.
It should be no surprise that these two immensely talented men would form a mutual admiration society between themselves. Saint Gaudens would first become involved with Roosevelt on an artistic level when asked to produce an inaugural medallion for the President's first full term.
Saint Gaudens and Charles E. Barber (the Chief Engraver of the Mint) had a history of mutual hostility going back to the Chicago World's Fair of 1892. That year, Saint Gaudens submitted four different designs for award medals, and had them all rejected by Barber. Barber eventually chose a design that incorporated Saint Gaudens' obverse and his own cluttered reverse. This compromise enraged Saint Gaudens and set the stage for what was to follow in 1905. Barber had designed a serviceable medal for Roosevelt in 1901 upon the death of President McKinley. Barber and the mint wished to simply change the date on the medal and have it struck in a smaller size by a private mint in Philadelphia for Roosevelt's 1905 inauguration. President Roosevelt was never fond of the original medal and did not want to see it again in a revised version.
On January 18, 1905 at the White House, Saint Gaudens capitulated to Roosevelt's forceful plea to create an inauguration medal that would be worthy of the event. It was at this meeting that Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Shaw asked Saint Gaudens to consider new designs for United States gold coins.
The medal that resulted from this January day was of supreme artistic merit. Especially notable was the impressive reverse of the medal that featured a heroic eagle on a cliff. This had been a device that Barber rejected back in 1892! Roosevelt said it best in a letter to his friend: "Thank heaven we have at last some artistic work of permanent worth, done for the government."
Saint Gaudens now turned his attention to Roosevelt's "pet crime." The President was displeased with the look of United States coinage. He greatly admired the high relief ancient coinage of Alexander the Great. The "pet crime" reference comes from a letter Roosevelt sent to Saint Gaudens. In the letter, President Roosevelt, referring to his plans to change the designs on U.S. gold coins states: "You know, Saint-Gaudens, this is my pet crime."
Saint Gaudens made preliminary sketches and turned over much of the work to his trusted assistant, Henry Hering. By the end of 1905, Saint Gaudens was in poor health. He stayed at his estate in Cornish, New Hampshire but kept a watchful eye on many projects. Roosevelt himself suggested the addition of a feathered Indian headdress for the obverse of the $10 gold coin. The reverse featured an eagle similar to that of Roosevelt's inaugural medal. This coin was minted, with some modifications by Barber, starting in 1907.
The $20 coin was more of a problem. Roosevelt wanted (insisted) for the obverse, a winged figure of Liberty wearing, once again, an Indian headdress. Saint Gaudens appealed to Roosevelt that this figure would crowd out most of the available space on the obverse. The sculptor won this argument. The reverse features an eagle flying across the rays of the sun. Noticeably absent on both coins was the motto: IN GOD WE TRUST. Saint Gaudens checked with Federal law and found that there was nothing on the books that mandated the placement of this motto on U.S. coins. He felt that the addition of this motto would clutter the available surface of these coins. Roosevelt agreed, and the coins were struck without the motto. Congress would later object, so in 1908 the $10 and $20 coins added: IN GOD WE TRUST.
The first strikes of the $20 coin were in extremely high relief on a medal press. This was impractical for "production coins," so Charles Barber eagerly modified the dies and created a coin in somewhat lower relief. This is the highly coveted coin known today as the "High Relief" $20 Saint Gaudens. In 1908, the coin's relief and design features were modified again by Barber, so that they would stack evenly in banker's trays.
Saint Gaudens died on August 3, 1907 without ever seeing the results of his "pet crime" with his good friend, Theodore Roosevelt. Our numismatic heritage has been greatly enriched by their inspired collaboration of art, government, mutual respect and friendship.


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fascinating visitors at milan design week 2018 in a spellbinding sensorial experience, the sony 'hidden senses' exhibition explores the subtle relation between technology and human behaviour in a vision depicting an enriched future of everyday life. focusing on human senses, guests explore five highly attuned contextual spaces that inhabit familiar objects. as the experience builds from one area to another, they witness the incredible and much richer opportunities that sony's design team are able to integrate, un-intrusively, with technology into a familiar living context.
from sound to tactility, the sony 'hidden senses' exhibition smoothly blends technology into familiar objects that wows and enhances, without intimidating or confusing. the elements, which are showcased in a specific case study area, add functional value in a way much more than just styling or shaping. technology helps gradually transform everyday objects into intuitive, helpful and more emotional product interactions. in terms of traditional furnishing items, they turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
at the space, which is open throughout milan design week 2018 from april 17 to 22, designboom interviewed yutaka hasegawa, VP of sony design, and hirotaka tako, chief art director at sony creative centre. after experiencing the senses ourselves, we discussed how integral design is to the brand, how the installation highlights a focus on the interactions between human behaviour and objects, and also the specific technologies that customers may personally experience in their living spaces in the near future.
DB: first of all, could you both outline your roles at sony?
yutaka hasegawa (YH): I am the VP of sony design, so mainly in charge of the product, branding, interaction, user interface, and spacial design. sony designs for so many categories, even expanding from financial to entertainment, and we are supporting all of this.
hirotaka tako (HT): I am chief art director at sony creative centre. I am taking care of the home category, including TVs, home theaters, projectors, and also I started the project based on smart home proposals. that is my key role, whilst I like designing furniture. I also learnt about space and environment design at university, so that is why I am so passionate about living spaces.
DB: design has always been an important part of the brand, what characteristics define sony's design DNA?
HT: every sony member believes that design is one of the strongest aspects of the sony brand. we are expanding our boundaries to more engineering, storytelling and brand development. I think that design is more than just shape, line and color or material. sometimes it is really hard to communicate the benefit of technology because it is always digital. the function is necessary but we need to convey the beauty to the customer by showing the importance and how it enriches the everyday life. this approach is most important for our design. this is why we have been able to create the 'hidden senses' installation.
DB: what is the 'perceptual experience project' and how does it connect to the 'hidden senses' exhibition?
YH: 'perceptual experience project' is an overall directive to challenge sony design to stimulate shifts in perception through design and technology. 'hidden senses' is part of this in which we further develop design-driven concepts through research and open innovation visualising future experiences.
DB: can you introduce what 'hidden senses' is and intends to showcase?
HT: 'hidden senses' is to showcase a 'brand new everyday' by transforming the ordinary to extraordinary. we are designing the experience, which happens by interactions between human behaviour and objects. we need to merge everything to show our lives; we have objects, we have spaces, we have human behaviour, we have habit, and then we have technology. we really wanted to present our technologies, objects and context by one simple solution. the show explains all these components step by step, and finally, visitors are able to understand what we want to do through a living space that truly integrates it all.
YH: internally, we have been developing and designing some of these design prototypes for over five years now. previously, we have just been working on the aesthetic design but as technology is getting highly important and advancing quickly, we think about how users interact with products much more today. we constantly strive to translate the most newest technology to be understandable for the user, creating a more interactive experience is key for sony. this is why we are trying to make exhibitions like 'hidden senses' that are experiences about interactions and not just products.
DB: the exhibition is composed of five case study areas, what are these and what different scenarios do they depict?
HT: the exhibition is composed of five case study rooms. as you journey through each case study, 'hidden senses' will be gradually revealed; from conceptual interaction into examples of contextual application. as we learn to understand the actions first, which takes on very simple, everyday tasks as that is pure interaction. we then looked further at elements such as sound for the first case study. afterwards, we added visual aspects on top so that there is more detail to the experience, like movement, color and communication. case study number three is about tactility, which offers an even richer experience with more feedback. in the end, we have a form with every sense involved. finally, it is the living space that combines all these building steps. each room involves a different design skill, such as a graphic, interaction, product and space designers.
DB: the final area envisions a new and unique living space scenario by sony. do you imagine that this is what living spaces may look like in the near future or is it solely to show the reachable possibilities that sony can create?
YH: we are showing the reachable possibilities that sony can create. we could present these experiences to potential customers, but we need to gauge the visitor reaction. what you see at the exhibition is currently just prototypes but it shows that the technology is already here.
HT: as you can see, this is all happening right now with the technology, so theoretically it is possible to make it real. however, as it is a design concept, many processes still need to be done.
YH: spiritually,there should be no boundaries between the ordinary and extra-ordinary. it is a blurred experience between the unconscious and the conscious. for the future, this should all be more linear. users want to feel the 'wow' feeling so everything needs to link.
DB: the interactions with the technology seems so intuitive. was it a focus for sony to make everything so understandable for visitors?
HT: making everything clearly understandable to the visitors was the most important part when we were designing the interactions. ideally each case study should be self-explanatory. they are everyday objects so we set out to make the technology essential and simple to reach a wider audience. by making emotional interaction prototypes, we need to see, look and learn how people react and what kind of experience they have with objects, even their habits.
DB: how important is it for sony to engage with the public at design events such as this?
HT: the interaction process needs to be embedded with public engagement. new forms of interaction design has so much potential as a brand.
yutaka hasegawa, VP of sony design
DB: how do you imagine guests will leave the exhibition? what will they have hopefully experienced and be thinking of?
YH: we hope to break the preconceptions in the communication between the product and user by improving people's emotional feeling to products. forget IoT, it should be IoE for emotions. 'hidden senses' shifts the focus of design and technology to the experience. we are always thinking about the user, and with this installation, we wish to reach far deeper.
hirotaka tako, chief art director at sony creative centre
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Wow, I can't believe how much fear people express about teaching their children a little bit of mindful awareness. It sounds like, who believes in organized religion, feels threatened by people who choose to think for themselves. Personally I think, it would be a blessing for everyone if children get attuned to hearing their inner voice as early as possible in life. Let your children breath!!!
Blessings Edith
TREE HUGGERS: Jack Barlow and Lucy Srzich 'breathing' with a plant to help calm themselves.
Lucy says a ''lot of people were giggling'' when they first tried mindfulness.
Jack Barlow wonders if "neophyte" is in the classroom dictionary (it isn't). He queries if Charles next to him knows there are more than 120 meanings for "set" (he doesn't).
It's thoughts like these that "race" through young Jack's busy mind. But the 11-year-old is doing his best to concentrate as one of 20 students staring intently at a man, perched like a grasshopper, brandishing a golden stick and bowl in a classroom at Westmere Primary school in central Auckland. Legs crossed, arms folded – out of habit, not instruction – they wait for him to stir the stick. A ringing echoes; everyone inhales.
It's not easy. Sitting completely still never is at that age. Morning tea is 20 minutes away. Yet students must concentrate on their arms, legs and "deep belly breathing."
"When your mind wanders," drones instructor Grant Rix, "gently say 'wandering'." Then: "notice the sensations in your feet."
Westmere Primary School has been part of the Mental Health Foundation's (MHF) Mindfulness in Schools programme for two years. The trials, lasting eight weeks, included five other schools, four from Auckland and one in rural Southland, and the early results are promising.
Teachers kept journal entries on the progress of the 20-minute lessons and a survey three months later assessed the potential long-term impact, with researchers from Auckland University and the Auckland University of Technology studying the results.
"We found it improved students' self-control, attentiveness, respect for other classmates and enhanced the school's mood," says Rix. It was beneficial for teachers too – many reported reduced stress in their personal lives.
Rix – the man with the golden stick and bowl – works for the MHF and has been practising mindfulness for 15 years. He developed mindfulness in schools after seeing similar trials overseas.
And the benefits were plentiful, according to Teck Wee, a teacher at another participating primary school, Te Papapa, who reported gradual change in students as the programme continued: "They were thinking more about how their own behaviour affected situations, rather than how other kids' behaviour was affecting them."
He recalls one troublesome student who would run, swear, fight, attack teachers and was academically two years behind.
"Mindfulness has given him some anger management strategies and cleared up his thought process. Now where he gets angry he's not just sorry, but he talks about what he did wrong and what he will do next time."
So why is mindfulness the latest buzzword among the US marines, rapper 50 Cent, a group of British MPs (all of whom practise mindfulness) and yoga mums alike? It's less a buzzword, explains Rix, and more about getting rid of buzz.
It's a tricky concept but at its simplest mindfulness is about focusing on the present. What it's not about is only reducing stress (because then you're striving for something). Or emptying your mind of all thoughts (they prefer you to observe your current ones). Or religion.
The technique draws on breathing exercises often used in meditation and Buddhism, but there the comparison ends. The aim is to be more aware of thoughts and feelings.
It sounds deceptively vague and hippie-ish but, stresses Rix, this isn't about chanting and spirituality.
Not everyone is onside. The Ministry of Education received five formal complaints from parents at Riversdale School in the South Island after their principal proposed introducing mindfulness classes.
Katrina Casey, head of sector enablement and support at the MOE, says mindfulness shares some characteristics with Buddhism but isn't specifically tied to the religion.
"There has been growing interest from schools in the technique. Earlier this year the Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand had a guest speaker talk about mindfulness at their annual conference.
"We do not advocate one behaviour management programme over another and we did not commission the Mental Health Foundation's programme [it was funded by donations]. However, it's not uncommon for teachers to encourage students to reflect on their behaviour."
Other schools, she says, are trialling the 'My Friends' youth resilience programme as part of a wider, multi-agency initiative aimed at supporting student mental health and wellbeing.
"Schools have a lot of flexibility on all decisions relating to the curriculum and how they encourage good behaviour. Any school is free to introduce such a practice, if backed by its board of trustees in consultation with the school community."
The modern mindfulness movement, says Rix, is equally informed by neuroscience and psychology.
"It's nothing new for a secular society to adopt practices from elsewhere and then to study them scientifically, validate and integrate them into secular context.
"It's a misconception," he says of the complaints. "But people are entitled to their own views."
Various district health boards across New Zealand use an eight-week mindfulness course to treat severely depressed or anxious patients. Evidence suggests mindfulness can improve people's ability to handle stress and alleviate depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and eating disorders.
Overseas, in 2011 Jacob Piet and Esben Hougaard of Aarhus University, Denmark, published a review of the eight-week course in Clinical Psychology Review.
After six clinical trials with 593 people, they concluded mindfulness-based therapy reduced the risk of relapse for patients with at least three previous incidents of depression by 43 per cent compared to people who received regular treatment. However, there were no significant benefits for people with fewer than three major incidents.
It sounds a simple panacea – safe, relatively cheap, no heavy objects or pills. At times it comes close to channelling New Age waffle, but Westmere Primary's principal, Carolyn Marino, is a firm believer in the benefits.
"There's far more anxiety among children than when I first started teaching," she reflects on her 20-year career. "More children have social and emotional disorders as a result of our society.
"Life isn't as predictable as it used to be and parents are putting pressure on their children – not necessarily on purpose – but questioning if they're working hard enough to get that job."
Marino's received no complaints – parents who had doubts were swayed after an information evening and now some indulge in mindfulness with their children after nightmares.
"Children live in this digital age where they are constantly being got at and don't have enough down time to get away from that stimulus. Mindfulness gives them a strategy that helps them be a little more present."
With so much on our minds at any given time we function regularly on autopilot. We don't think about the physical and mental process that goes into, say, climbing a set of stairs and rightly so – we'd take forever to get anywhere.
Such mindlessness is why we often walk into a room forgetting our initial purpose or fail to remember what happened on a three hour journey. Mindfulness teaches us to be present rather than distracted by the past or projecting into the future.
So a mindfulness exercise could be having a shower. Instead of thinking about how your day was or what you need to do, simply notice what's going on – the floor is wet, the air is steamy, the water hot and so on. Don't judge if it's a good or bad shower. Just notice it.
The principles and practice of "mindful leadership" are taught at Harvard; and Oxford University has its own Mindfulness Centre carrying out research into clinical and general health benefits.
Recently the World Health Organisation warned that by 2030 mental health issues will have become society's biggest healthcare burden.
"This is going to come to a state where [mindfulness in schools] isn't a luxury – it will have to be a necessity," says Marino. "I worry about the mental health of our children and the society we're moving into. The sense of risking failure is very prevalent; the need to be perfect is becoming increasingly obvious in young children."
Eleven year old Lucy Srzich has taken such a liking for the programme that the time the CD malfunctioned, she led the class.
She was hesitant at first, and some of her friends thought the programme sounded silly. That first session, "a lot of people were giggling," she says. But she was won over, as were her friends and parents who "researched it and then they were into it".
Srzich continues to use mindful breathing when she is flustered or angry and needs a moment to calm down.
At the end of 20 minutes' deep-belly breathing, Rix invites the class to share feedback. "It was just normal, yeah . . ." shrugs one student. Another is more receptive: "I feel like the square around me came out of the ground and floated in the air" he explains, to a flurry of giggles.
A common theme was the light, calm, fresh and relaxed feeling most students notice. If anything, mindfulness is doing wonders for their vocabulary. One explains: "I feel relaxed and calm every time I do this. I notice if I'm feeling worried and I never notice that when I'm playing, then it just builds up until I can't calm down."
Another chimes in: "It feels like the world stops spinning; I feel more of the little things."
Marino took a mindfulness course herself when she was finding her early years as a principal stressful.
"It would be great if every child could be exposed to it as a strategy they could implement into their daily lives," she argues. "What a great time to start. We try to get kids eating healthier and exercising, setting up those behaviours early on. Young people always seem to be looking into the future or something that isn't necessarily their reality.
"We often work with our children on anger management strategies around breathing and taking anger out on things that are non-animate – telephone books, for example. This is a nice strategy for kids who might have issues with needing to get back to a place where they can make a sensible decision before they punch somebody."
Rix agrees. The biggest feedback from both students and teachers is that it has become easier to identify emotions.
"They're beginning to recognise how that manifests in their body as a physical sensation and understand what they're feeling is going to pass. They've got this skill where they can drop anchor by paying attention to their breathing and just allow that anger to diffuse in a healthy way rather than lashing out."
Next year he plans to extend the programme to intermediate schools. The final results of the study will be published early in the new year and Rix hopes they will persuade the Ministry of Education to invest.
It's not quantitative stuff that can be measured in tests, says Marino, but it's a building block.
"If you give kids enough exposure and skills they start to build a toolkit and that's where I see mindfulness sitting. You're not going to change kids overnight but you can create a shift in how they see themselves or deal with things that come into their lives."
At the end of the course, children are encouraged to bring in something that will encourage them to practise mindfulness.
Soft toys are popular; one girl brings in a pink fluffy cushion, saying that whenever she cuddles it she practises mindful breathing.
"Others bring in mind jars they have made," says Rix. "Sometimes a little pebble. Pieces of fruit are popular as well."
Rix quotes a colleague who worked with a student from a difficult background who had trouble controlling his emotions.
"He was so taken with breathing with the green plants that he came and sat next to the plants I had in the chapel at the end of class, closed his eyes and observed his breathing for several more minutes.
"He asked me if he could take one to keep in his room."
Source; http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/63216075/Putting-mindfulness-in-the-curriculums


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'Koreans only': No Aussies in new Australian baseball team
Australia's newest baseball team will feature no Australian players.
The seventh Australian Baseball League franchise will be made up entirely of Korean players, predominantly from the Korean baseball league – the KBO.
The ABL is expanding the number of teams in the competition from six to eight for the 2018/19 season, which begins in November.
Baseball Australia CEO Cam Vale maintains a key indicator of the team's success will be whether it can engage with the sport at a grassroots level.
"We're expecting that they will certainly all be coming out of Korean leagues, and at this stage all Korean players," Vale told Macquarie Sports Radio's Cam Reddin.
Geelong is considered the favourite to house the new team, which will be named and branded after its Australian home town.
"That may change over time. It may be that we do look to integrate our local players into that team," Vale said.
"It's an Australian city that's in our competition. It just happens to be an all-Korean team that represents them."
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Causes: A bone spur (osteophyte) is a bony growth formed on normal bone. Most people think of something sharp when they think of a "spur," but a bone spur is just extra bone. It's usually smooth, but it can cause wear and tear or pain if it presses or rubs on other bones or soft tissues such as ligaments, tendo ns, or nerves in the body. Symptoms: A bone spur forms as the body tries to repair itself by building extra bone. It generally forms in response to pressure, rubbing, or stress that continues over a long period of time....
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SiriusXM announced today that it will buy streaming music service Pandora Media for $3.5 billion. It already purchased 19% of the mobile app for $480 million last year, and completion of the all-stock deal would create the world's largest audio entertainment company, which will help the satellite-based platform compete against other personalized streaming music services, such as Apple Music and Spotify.
As more auto manufacturers integrate device mirroring technology such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into vehicles, Sirius XM 's in-dash advantage is waning. Users of these telematics apps put on-demand streaming music front-and-center rather than the music and news channels that SiriusXM curates. Buying Pandora would give the entertainment giant prominent real estate in mobile devices and in application-based infotainment systems.
It also opens the door to additional revenue streams, according to Gartner analyst Michael Ramsey.
Vehicles are fast-becoming mobile devices that will know a lot about their occupants. Information about daily commutes, shopping habits, and favorite haunts could translate into data that advertisers could use to deliver targeted ads to a captive audience via Pandora.
"Sirius has a huge play into the telematics world. It could combine the streaming services content along with things like vehicle position and usage to create curated ads for individuals," says Ramsey. So what does that mean for the consumer?
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In 2009 the Kentucky Supreme Court substantially revised the Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct.
Articles in this index written before 2009 citing Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct must be checked for any changes to the rule cited.
The Client From Hell, Dog Cases, and Escape Clauses
Del O'Roark, Loss Prevention Consultant, Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company of Kentucky
Firing a client is counter-intuitive to lawyers. After all, since clients are so hard to come by why would a lawyer ever want to fire one? As it turns out lawyers need to know when and how to withdraw from representing a client for a host of reasons. Sometimes it's necessary because professional conduct rules require it. Other times to avoid a malpractice claim, bar complaint, or disqualification motion. There are practical reasons for withdrawal as well. Examples are when a lawyer is not paid, has an unmanageable caseload, becomes ill, leaves a firm, or retires from practice. Even when a client fires the lawyer there are duties the lawyer must observe in terminating the relationship.
This article provides an overview of Kentucky Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16 Declining or Terminating Representation. It covers several withdrawal situations plus "escape clauses" that some lawyers now use in employment contracts to facilitate firing clients. It concludes with an evaluation of withdrawal malpractice risks and risk management techniques to counter these risks.
Rule 1.16i has three cardinal principles and provides two categories of withdrawal that every lawyer must know.
Withdrawal Categories
Is it OK to withdraw for no reason? Personal reasons? Caseload management problems?
The rule allows permissive withdrawal at the lawyer's option if there is no material adverse affect on the client. Thus, it appears that in such circumstances a lawyer may withdraw for no reason, frivolous reasons, or to reduce workload. It is not quite that simple.
First, withdrawal usually has some adverse affect on the client even if the lawyer does not consider it material. A lawyer accused of an unjustified withdrawal has a heavy burden to prove there was no material adverse affect on the client. Failure to meet this burden could be expensive.
Second, and more important, as a comment to Rule 1.16 stresses: "A lawyer should not accept representation in a matter unless it can be performed competently, promptly, without improper conflict of interest and to completion." This invokes the lawyer's obligation of client loyalty. It holds that the lawyer-client relationship is more than contractual. It requires exceptional commitment and dedication to the clients a lawyer agrees to represent. Accordingly, lawyers should withdraw only for compelling reasons. A casual or convenient withdrawal from representation may not be a per se violation of the rule, but it falls short of the minimal loyalty a client has a right to expect.
Is it OK to drop the "client from hell" because you are fed up?
Lawyers typically withdraw for cause from representing difficult clients citing the permissive grounds of "the representation … has been rendered unreasonably difficult by the client" or "other good cause for withdrawal exists." Examples of withdrawal for these reasons include a client that withheld material information and repeatedly contacted the opponent's lawyers, a client that would not respond to calls and letters, and a client that sent vituperative letters to the lawyer. Generally they concern instances in which there is an antagonistic breakdown in relations between the lawyer and client.ii A key point is that withdrawal on these grounds may be with prejudice to the client. Of course, if there is no material adverse affect on the difficult client's interests, withdrawal is permissible at the lawyer's option as covered in the previous paragraph.
Is it OK to drop a current client like a hot potato to avoid a conflict of interest that precludes accepting a new better paying client?
The prevailing view is that you cannot cure a conflict of interest or avoid disqualification by dropping a less favored client like a hot potato to accept a new client with a more lucrative matter.iii One ethics expert explains why not as follows:
The most obvious problem is a moral one: the lawyer's motivation is patently base and disloyal to the abandoned client. Courts, obviously motivated by concern over the lawyer's disloyalty, have spoken with one voice. The now widely accepted rule is that a lawyer who withdraws – whether otherwise in conformity with the lawyer code or rules or not – from representing a current client for the purpose of proceeding adversely to the client on behalf of another client does not thereby convert the representation into that of a former client.iv
Is it OK to withdraw from a dog of a case?
Dog cases are those litigation cases lawyers take knowing they are weak, but hoping they will develop into a worthwhile undertaking. As so often happens they do not improve with investigation and linger on as an active case going nowhere. Timely realization that a dog case is too weak to pursue usually allows permissive withdrawal at the lawyer's option because promptly resigning the case should have no material adverse affect on the client. Unfortunately, lawyers often procrastinate in dog cases and do not consider withdrawing until the case is utterly hopeless, suit has been filed, or the statute of limitations is an issue. At this point withdrawal is likely to produce a material adverse affect on the client precluding a lawyer's option to resign. Under the old adage that when things go bad they stay bad there is usually no permissive withdrawal for cause ground available for the dog case, and the lawyer is committed to the representation to the bitter end. One seasoned Kentucky lawyer advises: "The best approach is often to take your medicine. Quit procrastinating, do the discovery, set the case for trial, try the case, lose the case; i.e., clean up your own mess. After all, you took the case."
If a lawyer believes the dog case lacks a good faith basis for proceeding, Rule 1.16 mandates withdrawal because pursuing the case is a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Rule 3.1 Meritorious Claims and Contentions) and procedural rules forbidding baseless and frivolous actions. The risk in withdrawing for this reason is that few matters can be valued as totally lacking in merit. For this reason, while it is often appropriate to advise a client that a weak case should not be pursued and that the lawyer must withdraw, it is seldom prudent to advise that a case has no merit. One of the classic malpractice cases concerns a lawyer who asserted this to a client only to learn at great expense that another more experienced lawyer later discovered a viable cause of action after the statute of limitations expired.v
Is it OK to use an escape clause in a letter of engagement or employment contract?
There is a growing practice, especially by personal injury lawyers, of including withdrawal and termination clauses in employment contracts. One loss prevention guide recommends thisvi and two recent New York bar ethics opinions evaluate the propriety of escape clauses.vii There is no known Kentucky legal authority on this practice.
Some escape clauses simply provide that the lawyer has the discretion to terminate the employment agreement at any time by mailing written notice to the client. Other examples are:
If we cannot resolve a problem, you or we may end this relationship at any time, subject to your obligation to pay us according to the terms of the agreement, by giving reasonable notice to the other. We will endeavor sufficiently before any such termination to assist you in retaining alternate counsel without a lapse in representation.viii
This Retainer Agreement is subject to the Firm's receipt and review of medical records; in the event, after review of those records, whether by an attorney or the Firm or an expert witness, the Firm believes the case is not viable, the Firm reserves the right to unilaterally discharge itself from representing the Client.ix
Clauses similar to these examples often include the stipulation that the client consents to the specified withdrawal rights of the lawyer. Others provide for unilateral withdrawal with ten days notice if the client fails to cooperate, rejects a recommended offer of settlement, or fails to follow instructions and advice on ethical, strategic, or tactical matters.
The problem with these escape clauses is that they take advantage of the unequal position of the client in the attorney-client relationship. They are manipulative and can mislead clients on their authority and rights in the relationship. Furthermore, they abridge the ethical standards for withdrawal established in Rule 1.16 and the lawyer's obligation to continue a representation to completion, withdrawing only under compelling circumstances.
Neither New York ethics opinion concluded that escape clauses were per se unethical. They, however, stressed the following ethical considerations as guidance for drafting escape clauses:
Malpractice and ethics violations can result from either the act of withdrawal or from the manner in which the withdrawal is done:
Act of Withdrawal: The risk of an unjustified act of withdrawal is that the client will be considered abandoned by the lawyer. The lawyer is then exposed to liability for a claim for all damages proximately caused by the unjustified withdrawal as well as bar discipline. A Kentucky lawyer was disciplined for an unjustified withdrawal when he abruptly closed an Eastern Kentucky office without even notifying a client.x
Manner of Withdrawal: There is a risk even when a lawyer has justifiable grounds for withdrawal, if the withdrawal is done in a manner that does not adequately protect the interests of the client. An Ohio lawyer was disciplined for failing to arrange for another lawyer to represent one of her clients. The lawyer received court permission to withdraw, citing deterioration of the attorney-client relationship, the client's failure to communicate with her, and the client's failure to pay her fees as grounds for termination. She, however, never specifically told her client she was withdrawing. The unrepresented client then received an unfavorable judgment based on a divorce decree that contained an error. xi
As in all malpractice claims, to have merit the lawyer's withdrawal must be the proximate cause of damage to the client. If the underlying matter had no merit, the lawyer will not be liable to the client no matter how unjustified the withdrawal was. Unfortunately, if the matter had merit, the lawyer becomes a virtual guarantor of a successful outcome for the client. Either the client will successfully recover from being abandoned by prevailing in the underlying matter or achieve the same result by suing the lawyer for malpractice. While a meritless underlying matter will save the withdrawing lawyer from malpractice liability, it will not serve as a defense to a disciplinary complaint for unjustifiable withdrawal.xii
Risk managing client firings is critical because the potential liability is so great when accused of an unjustified withdrawal. Before you decide to withdraw from representation for whatever reason consider these loss prevention concepts. One of them could help you avoid an unpleasant experience.


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Welcome! and rules
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First time using ASP.Net
I am new to Asp.net , I have created an asp.net form but when I ran it all the buttons , textboxes, and lables came on one line on the top of the page.
Computers do exactly what you tell them. Always have, always will. (until Skynet)
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Was your design in grid mode, or flow? It flow, that's the way it is supposed to display. Try grid view.
Thanks for your reply. I have checked under the form properties whether the pageLayout is set to Gridlayout or not but it was set to Gridlayout but still did not work. What I get is all the lables on one line at the top of the webpage (at running stage)..
My Visual Studio .Net 2003 defaults to grid layout, and I've always had it run pretty much like it looked in design view. I would check on your settings (tools, options, etc. I think).
You might also try re-installing ASP.NET, by running regiis_aspnet.exe (in \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v.1.1.xxxx\). Run it with
Gridlayout isn't my favorite option for web pages: too inflexible. I think you need to read up on HtmlTable objects to format your controls like you'll see in 99% of commercial web pages. They're not hard and are the primary way you'll do html formatting for years to come.
I need an activeX control other than DataGrid to display
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"The only ones who can provide an identity to a nation are its enemies." -Umberto Eco
Results of Entitlement Culture
A customer service rep is hired to retain customers (see link below). She or he is a retainer. Sounds kinda funny, eh? There is a job title like 'corporate retainer'. Yet when I think about it I also think about Harvey Keitel as a Cleaner. I guess I'm in to opposites this morn. Been a …
Get Comfortable With Your Griftopia
"America's dirty little secret is that for this small group of plugged-in bubble lords, the political system works fine not just without elections, but without any political input from any people at all outside Manhattan. In bubble economics, actual human beings have only a few legitimate roles: they're either customers of the financial services industry …
You Have Been Serviced
First, dear worst-reader, why is jet-lag when traveling from west to east the worst? Is it because of the strange "-1" designation on my travel itinerary? PHL > FRA on Monday afternoon but you arrive in the wee-hours on Tuesday morn at destination. I think I crossed six time zones. I've been doing it for twenty-plus years. …
Word of the Day # 221
Hailion. Hail plus heroin? Or is it lion plus hail? Hail the size of softballs stuffed with syringes, some broke. In one was the mane of King George, the local zoos forty-year old lion. Nomatter. It was all in a dream last night while I was walking the beach for the very last time. And …
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Last Day Till When
Day before embarkation. Or is it disembarkation? Why do I always get those two screwed up? Oh well. Leaving home tomorrow morn. It's time to go back to my other home, the expat home, reality. I guess. I'm a man of homes. And. At least I don't shed tears about it (anymore). That's the great …
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Girl Gurl Haters
Boy do they get this wrong. What's especially wrong is utilizing a picture of the communist best gurl-friend turned capitalist-lover as an example of Eurowasteland equality. Germania is a patriarch society. Period. It is a boy-club and it means nothing that its political polit-büro leader is female. Having lived in anti-feminine Germania for the better …
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Hitch On Chomsky
Naom Chomsky, a most distinguished intellectual and moral dissident, once wrote that the old motto about "speaking truth to power" is overrated. Power, as he points out, quite probably knows the truth already, and is mainly interested in suppressing or limiting or distorting it. -Christopher Hitchens, Letters To A Young Contrarian
When Blumen Weep
Seriously. Hate to be a World Cup downer here. But I am worst-writer and not happy-writer. The article linked below starts with a reference (or is it a subtitle?) to 'the bearable lightness of being'. I will worst-assume that the authors of the article for Spiegel International are playing around with the tried and true …
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Transform This!
Meanwhile, farther up the literacy scale, many thousands of would-be writers display their tragically unrecognized wit and insight as movie critics, using mass distributed blogging software and mass produced computer hardware to illuminate mass distributed films (the prevailing assumption being that an audience, however small, is proof enough of authenticity and individuality.) -Deer Hunting For …
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Happy Failure
Schadenfreude? Maybe. Read link to article below and the links it links to. I know that wishing ills to others has its payback. But I guess I'm willing to accept that consequence. At least in this case. What better example is there of the greater-than-though meritless workforce of my grand united mistakes than those who …
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Jacob Obians
Will our Jacobians ever be defeated as the French ones were? -Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Wine Mis Advice
Above a label from one of four bottles of "Lisini" 1998 that I have rotting in my kitchen. That's right. They are rotting. Once they were magical bottles of wondrous wine. Then the reality set in. To remind me of what Italian stuck-up wine makers have done to something as simple as wine, these bottles …
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Weltmeister – Game of Face Punch
Gotta hand it to the Krauts. Even wore an old t-shirt yesterday that read, in red on black with a hint of gold, 'Let's Go Krauts'. But the truly amazing thing about the win was how the Germans conducted themselves through out the tournament. It's that thing that turns me off the most about foosball. …
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Almost Fail of the Day #16
Trying but unable to find the outcome of the argument between Jefferson and Madison regarding whether or not the earth belonged also to the dead. For you see, dear worst-reader, according to one or both (founders) there is an advantage and a disadvantage to declaring the dead property owners. Gee, I wonder why. Rant on.


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Management and Economic Consulting, Inc. (MAECI) has started construction on a Corn and Soybean processing facility in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. The plant is being constructed on the Mongomo Farm, located in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. The Mongomo Farm is the site of the countries initial farm project with MAECI, which is a 750 hectare Corn, and Soybean farm and processing center.
The plant includes four grain silos that will hold over 4,000 tons of grain at a time. The machines will process the corn and soybean into meal as well as oil.
The Mongomo farm is expected to produce 2500 tons of corn per year, and 1000 tons of soy beans. The Equatorial Guinea region will produce two harvests per year, making for an extremely efficient production facility.
The processing facility will be managed by MAECI.
The Mongomo Farm is a 100% efficient (no waste) program. The pigs are fed with the lower grade (not for human consumption) grain that is grown at the farm, as well as coconut husks that are picked up from a neighboring coconut oil factory. In addition, MAECI picks up waste from a brewery in Bata that is trucked to the farm for consumption by the pig population.
This project is a part of the Green Revolution that has been supported and invested in by the Government of Equatorial Guinea and soon the country will reach an unprecedented level of self-sufficiency in food production, using revenue from its oil sector, because of a bold approach to revamping driven by Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture and Forests H.E. Teodoro NGUEMA OBIANG MANGUE
The Green Revolution, and it is borne out of a three-step assessment of the E.G.'s Food, Agriculture and Economic challenges and opportunities. President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo outline the vision in 2007.


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