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Before the All-Star break I'd like to calculate the Marginal Win Score and the consequent wins and losses produced by each player on every NBA team. When I am finished with every team I will produce a page that will provide access to continuously updated NBA Win Charts.
This morning's post is the first in that series, and it features an analysis of the Detroit Pistons.
Detroit Pistons (11-25)
In deference to BGulker, a friend of this blog, the rest of the Badboys, and all the others from PistonNation who have been kind enough to follow this blog, I begin the project with the Detroit Pistons Win Chart, which I just finished.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW DETROIT PISTONS WIN CHART(36 games)
Who's dragging down the Pistons?
I don't know what the expectations were in Detroit, but I certainly thought the Pistons would get off to a better start than they have. What is going on?
If we compare the above listed Win Chart to the Pistons Win Chart from last season (click here), we can identify those that are not producing up to last season's standards, and those who are no longer around and whose absence is felt the most.
At this point the two key columns on the Win Charts that will be most helpful in our analysis are "Win Contribution", that means the respective player's relative "win impact" he is providing the team over a given period of time, and "Player Win Average", which is the percentage of wins the player is producing for every 240 minutes of action. Those two columns are fully comparable. (Win Credits are not because they are a function of absolute minutes played). The former is a measure of player value, the latter a measure of player performance.
The Returning Pistons
If we concentrate on those categories we see that almost every significant contributor to last season's Piston team is well off last season's pace. Its actually a little bizarre. I don't think I've ever seen a situation where a whole group of players productivity took roughly the same simultaneous decline.
Its almost as though someone deemed that every returning Piston take a 200 point haircut on his Player Win Average. Really strange. Jason Maxiell (.483% to .209%), Rodney Stuckey (.452% to .279%), Kwame Brown (.428% to .197%), Tayshaun Prince (.519% to .275%) all have declined by roughly the same amount.
And if you notice, the group's common decline just about mirrors the overall team decline (from an overall winning percentage last season of .475% to an overall winning percentage this season of .305%). But the aforementioned players don't deserve all of the blame.
Richard Hamilton = Michael Redd
A big disappointment for Detroit has been stalwart swingman Richard Hamilton, who is basically the Michael Redd of the Pistons. Like Redd, Hamilton was and has been an significant win contributor to his team, but also like Redd the "Marginal Win Score" system has never believed he was quite as significant a win contributor as popularly assumed. Both players are volume scorers and not much else. When they are hitting a high percentage of shots, or converting a high percentage of possessions into points, they are valuable players. When they aren't they are usually costly players.
This season both have been exceptionally costly. Of course Redd's season is over now, but in a lot of ways it never began. He was basically a loss producer for the Bucks, and may have been the team's worst player. At the moment, Richard Hamilton is demonstrably the Pistons worst player (if you consider MWS48 a legitimate measurement).
Hamilton's Player Win Average is currently -.114%, way down from last season's .442%. A negative Player Win Average is horrible. It means the player is not only producing losses, he is also producing "negative wins". Negative wins means the player's marginal production has been so bad it has forced the others who are on the court with him to outproduce their counterparts by a larger amount than they normally would have to do just to produce the same amount of wins.
To conceptualize "negative wins", think of the fat guy on that Real World/Road Rules Challenge a few seasons back who cost his team the grand prize because in the final race he not only ran slow, he repeatedly collapsed and thereby prevented his teammates from running and forced them to exert extra energy dragging him along the course… like Joker had to drag Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. That's basically a negative win.
So that's a quick overview of the returning Pistons. By and large they have been a disappointment.
Now lets examine the players the team added in the offseason and compare them to the players the team lost.
The one departing player whose absence is most costly is PF/C Antonio McDyess. He had a tremendous season last year, a very underappreciated tremendous season. Its very hard to replace a player who makes a > +0.200 Win Contribution to his team, and none of the newcomers have. But this is not really an indictment on Pistons management because, like Kurt Thomas of the Bucks, McDyess appears out of gas. He has not contributed much to his new team the Spurs. Nevertheless the missing wins are a fact.
The other player who made a decent contribution last season but is no longer in Detroit this season is PF Amir Johnson. Unlike McDyess, Johnson has most certainly not run out of gas. In fact he is producing nearly identical numbers in Toronto. The Pistons and after them the Bucks were fools to kick Johnson down the road. Yes his offensive game is rudimentary and yes he fouls too much, but when he's on the court he produces wins. Plain and simple. Its funny how fans sometimes view player value. It seems that if a player can score basketball fans will overlook almost any glaring fault, but if he cannot score, fans consider any fault at all to be fatal.
The Frustrators
Now lets look at the new Pistons. Here I have to eat a little crow. Charlie Villanueva is actually producing decent numbers. But, I caution Pistons fans. He's played this shell game before. No other player in living memory has ever been such a cocktease in a Bucks uniform as Villanueva was. This guy burned me with his up-and-down play at least five times. And I note that his play has declined over the last month, so I am not yet a believer in Charlie fever. But at just below average production, I must admit he is so far doing better than I imagined he would.
The other frustration for Pistons fans is the similarly inconsistent Ben Gordon. His numbers are down from last season with the Bulls. They may bounce right back. But then I my experience with him has been that they go back down again (two seasons ago he was awful). Others disagree. (See footnote).
Honestly, I have never liked Gordon. Why? Because in my mind he's the basketball version of fool's gold. He goes on incredible scoring runs and your mind tends to overvalue those. Thus you think he's adding great value when a lot of the time he is not. Coaches will remember his incredible scoring binges and decide to leave him on the court when he's doing nothing but taking awful shots.
That's what killed the Bulls in Game Seven last season against the Celtics. Remember that hideous airball he had when the game was basically in the balance? Gordon just wouldn't stop wasting possessions with bad shots, and Bulls Coach Del Negro wouldn't sit him down. And there went the series. Binge scorers like Gordon will do that to you.
I don't know if that's what's happening in Detroit this season, but by my calculation Gordon has not been up to par. At the moment he is producing the same value for Detroit that Allen Iverson produced for them last season. And I think that got Iverson run out of town.
The other veteran newcomer is C Ben Wallace. For a guy who was supposedly washed up, he's done alright. Just don't ask him to be last season's Antonio McDyess. Or last decade's Ben Wallace.
Promising Rookies
Let me close on an optimistic note for Pistons fans. Their two rookies, Jerebko and Austin Daye have promise. I'm somewhat impressed with Austin Daye. Others such as BasketballValue rate him poorly, but I don't. He's relatively efficient and productive, and that's what you want a basketball player to be. It tends to result in wins.
I don't put much stock in BasketballValue anway, though I certainly find it interesting and I know others believe in it a lot, and that's fine. I just think the "+/-" system relies too much on circumstance. Yes, perhaps my reliance on tangible box score production does omit the value of a pick set, or a "pass before an assist" but I can live with that because I really don't think those intangibles are worth a whole lot. They may be, but I'm just not convinced.
I prefer instead to rely on direct evidence. Its more consistent. I don't want to end up proclaiming Sebastian Telfair an "underrated gem" only to find the very next season that gem looks a little like cubic Z. (Boy how does a guy go from positive one year to -16.00 the next?).
FOOTNOTE: There are others who disagree with my positive analysis of Daye, so I shouldn't take after BasketballValue so harshly. I could be wrong. Basketball-Reference.com's Win Share system allocates wins in a very similar manner to my "Win_Loss Credits' except they give 0.2 less to Daye and 0.7 more to Ben Gordon. My system downgrades Gordon's win production because his scoring surplus is outweighed by his deficits in every other statistical category.


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The Federal Reserve Board today announced its approval of the proposal of Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to acquire Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California, and thereby acquire all of Wells Fargo's bank, nonbank, and foreign subsidiaries.
The Board's approval is conditioned on the divestiture of 26 branches in 14 banking markets in Arizona and Nevada. Norwest also must report to the Federal Reserve System semiannually during the two-year period after consummation of the merger all branch closings that occur as a result of this proposal.
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What have you all been checking out on the web lately? I've been all over the place and yet seem to wind up in the same old places as well, like a favorite, Colossal:
Colossal introduced me to these wire birds perched in trees in Geneva, created by Cédric Le Borgne and part of an outdoor tree lighting festival. Of course, if you have ornithophobia, waking up and looking out your apartment window at this could be dangerous for your health.
I also took a thorough virtual tour of Bob Hope's desert home, now on the market. This home is supposed to look like a volcano and was designed by beloved architect John Lautner. It's over 23,00o square feet, which is crazier than living in a volcano. It has views of the Coachella Valley, so I'm very curious to know if you can see TuPac's hologram from the patio during the festival.
Take the tour over at Zillow's blog. Be sure to check out the e-brochure, as the sketches and black and white photos are quite breathtaking.
Speaking of popular architects, it's been about a week and a half since we found out Toyo Ito won the Pritzker Prize, but it takes awhile to get to know the body of work from his long career. Whenever I need a little break from work, I head on over to Toyo Ito & Associates for inspiration.
Speaking of breaks from work, I love to giggle over Passive-Aggressive notes dot com, don't you? The busting of Alex really cracked me up. I picture this guy having Popeye arms and a serious tab down at GNC.
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`(B) a facility for the administration of an educational program, or a student center or student union, except that not more than 5 percent of the loan proceeds provided under this part may be used for the facility, center or union if the facility, center or union is owned, leased, managed, or operated by a private business, that, in return for such use, makes a payment to the eligible institution;';
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Australia spinner Nathan Lyon is coy about the new delivery he has been refining with Muttiah Muralitharan and hopes to unleash on Pakistan in October`s test series, describing it only as an "Australian" carrom ball.
An orthodox spinner who has rarely strayed from his stock off-breaks, Lyon teamed up with Australia`s new spin bowling consultant Murali to work on the delivery on a two-day training camp in Sri Lanka this week.
The partnership between Lyon and Murali, who holds the record of 800 test wickets and was a master of the `doosra` -- a ball that turns the opposite direction of the off-break -- has intrigued cricket fans in Australia.
Local media have speculated that Murali`s appointment would include teaching Lyon how to bowl the carrom, a ball that also turns the other way but with spin imparted by the flicking of the middle finger rather than the wristy action of the doosra.
Lyon, however, said he had been working on a different ball with spin coach John Davison long before teaming up with Murali.
"I certainly haven`t landed in Colombo and suddenly started bowling a new ball," the 26-year-old said in a Cricket Australia interview.
"I`ve been working on them for a while now, especially with Davo back home.
"So it`s just been good to talk with Murali. We all know how good a bowler Murali was so to have his ideas and feedback about the progression of the ball that Dave and I have come up with has been very helpful.
"It`s definitely not the carrom ball," he added. "It`s trying to have a different variation, it`s a ball that we`ve come up with working at the spin wicket at the MCC.
"It`s an Australian version of that carrom ball, I guess you could say, but hopefully it`s going to be a different variation."
Lyon, who has taken 112 wickets in 33 tests at an average of just under 33, has previously experimented with unorthodox deliveries, and unveiled a ball he coined the "Jeff" in 2012 to some success, though it has made few appearances since.
Although Australia`s leading slow bowler and at 26, still developing his craft, Lyon has long lived in the shadow of retired legspinner Shane Warne and never quite been able to silence his critics with a virtuoso match-winning performance.
Murali was once among the critics, and cast doubt on Lyon`s ability to take wickets even on turning pitches after the spinner laboured on a deteriorating Hobart wicket in a 2012 test against Sri Lanka.
The top-ranked test nation, Australia play matches against Pakistan in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and Lyon may need to play a leading role on the pitches in Gulf where the powers of fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris may be blunted.
"Murali`s been really good to talk to about training methods and especially having different tactics on-field against the Pakistanis in the UAE (United Arab Emirates)," Lyon said.
"We don`t know what we`re going to get over there in the UAE ... It`s going to be a good challenge for us."


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Caught on camera: Bicyclist shot during group ride
It was supposed to be a normal Saturday club ride for the Semi Tough Cycling Club, but instead there was turmoil.
Reid Case was filming with his helmet cam when he said someone shot fellow cyclist Chris Weiss in the side.
"It was kind of surprising. I mean, you don't really expect that to happen. We've been through that area so many times," Case said.
The day started off like most Saturdays for the club. After meeting over coffee, they headed for some of the most scenic spots in New Orleans, including the French Quarter, the Lakefront and then into New Orleans East.
On the way back from Bayou Savage, about 40 miles into their trip, they rolled down Bullard Avenue toward Hayne Boulevard.
"We had pulled over to the side to let some cars pass through and as the last one came through ... Chris ... screamed and grabbed his side. I personally heard a pop around the same time," Case said.
The video includes what sounds like a police siren behind the bikes, whose riders move over. A light-colored car passes the group of cyclists, and seconds later something pops Weiss in the back.
He cries out, and moments later another vehicle rolls past the group.
Case and others stopped to help Weiss. An ambulance took him to the hospital.
Weiss said his doctor told him that he had been shot in the back by a small-caliber bullet. He said his doctor decided to keep the bullet in him because taking it out could cause more harm than good.
Case said he bought the helmet camera after he claims someone attacked him with a paintball gun on the Lakefront.
Members of the cyclist group said they're not the only ones who bike in that area. They are asking police to find the people responsible and help better protect cyclists.
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Trouble bubbles for Coke
A lawsuit and a probe over the cola maker's fountain business leaves a bitter aftertaste in the wake of Vanilla Coke's success
Coca-Cola Co. had plenty to be happy about heading into 2003. Its launch of Vanilla Coke stood as one of the company's most successful ever and Minute Maid, its key non-carbonated beverage business, was showing positive momentum against rival PepsiCo's Tropicana and others.
But it would require more than vanilla to put the fizz back into Coke. Facing declining consumer interest in carbonated soft drinks in developed markets, and even some developing ones, as well as an implacable and stronger foe in PepsiCo, beverage maker has its work cut out for it these days, and in more ways than one. In an effort to get leaner and more competitive in the foodservice arena, Coke cut 1,000 jobs in March. Besides the $400 million pretax charge to cover all 1,000 layoffs, one in particular may prove costlier still.
Fountain fizzle
Former Coca-Cola internal auditor Matthew Whitley claimed in a May lawsuit that he was let go not for business reasons but because he blew the whistle on accounting and ethical lapses. Among those problems, according to Whitley's suit, is that Coke executives doctored a market research test to sell Burger King, Coke's second-largest fountain customer, on Frozen Coke in what became the company's highest-profile boondoggle since New Coke.
Whitley's 85-page lawsuit, laden with hundreds of additional pages of Coca-Cola documents, has since spawned investigations by the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating accounting both for Coca-Cola and Lancer, its fountain equipment supplier. A Fulton County (Georgia) Superior Court judge in September threw out most of the counts by Whitley against Coca-Cola, though his core wrongful termination action still stands.
For its part, Coca-Cola denies the allegations in Whitley's suit, terming them "frivolous" and describing him as a disgruntled employee.
But Coca-Cola also has acknowledged its 2000 market test results for frozen Coke were inflated, apologized to Burger King and its franchisees and offered to pay them $21 million. John Fisher, the fountain executive who allegedly spent $10,000 to entice youths in the Richmond, Va., area to buy meals that featured Frozen Cokes, has since left the company. Tom Moore, the head of the fountain division, who reprimanded and disciplined Fisher when he learned of the alleged test problems, himself resigned a few months after taking charge of the newly formed Foodservice and Hospitality division that prompted layoffs.
Coca-Cola, however, has rejected any efforts to pin blame higher up. In the company's response to Whitley's suit, President and COO Steve Heyer denied having seen an e-mail Whitley allegedly sent to him on the test issue while Heyer was traveling on business last February. And Coke said Whitley was fired because of the restructuring, not because he blew the whistle on the test.
Frozen Coke was only one of the problems in the fountain business. Coke's heavily touted portion-controlling iFountain dispenser never caught on with foodservice operators. And Coke withdrew Planet Java fountain dispensers from Wal-Mart Stores and elsewhere earlier this year following complaints from operators.
Taking a toll?
Industry watchers believe the scandal may take a toll on Coke, but won't seriously hamper the company long term.
"I don't think there's any question that the company has been tainted, and it needs to overcome that impression in the public psyche," says Tom Pirko, president of the consulting firm Bevmark, Santa Barbara, Calif. "On a more practical level, in the everyday of politics and business, things like this get submerged. This is nothing like what brought down Doug Ivester [former Coca-Cola CEO who left after criticism mounted about his slow response to safety issues that arose in Europe in 1999]. Nobody is going to stop buying Coca-Cola because of this. Heyer was able to patch things up with Burger King."
One reason the impact should be limited, Pirko says, is that the problems really do appear to be limited to the individuals directly involved with the businesses.
According to Pirko and several consumer products executives, inflating results in local test markets has become commonplace , whether by using levels of marketing support that could never be sustained nationally, or by providing special incentives to sales reps to make the test pan out, to say nothing of other "creative" means.
"It's a very subjective world," Pirko observes. "It's a little like polling, inasmuch as it all comes down to who you ask and how you word the question. Why clients would place a good deal of faith on such a marketing test is beyond me. I hate to say it, but it's naive. The results are always open to interpretation, and they're so easy to massage."
Coca-Cola ranked just behind Tyson Foods in a 2003 reputation ranking of foodservice suppliers by foodservice operators, conducted by Cannondale Associates before the lawsuit was filed and scandal broke. While Coke may suffer some in later surveys, Sven Risom, a partner with Cannondale, doubts the issue will have a lasting impact.
"My true belief is that Coke is a quality firm that delivers great products and insights," Risom says. "I truly believe [the test market and accounting issues] are very serious but relatively isolated situations. You hope they never happen again."
Meanwhile, Coke has been going through major changes, he said. "I think those will help them in the marketplace, because they'll be more customer sensitive and less [centered on] Coke and more like a true integrated part of their operator network."
The change is overdue, he adds. "Pepsi is just charging, and I think that's probably the biggest wakeup call [to Coke]. Programs that the Pepsi-Quaker-Frito-Lay organization is starting to pull together are real challenges. So to some degree Coke has to change Many companies in the past that have been perceived as arrogant, and I think Coke got that way in certain segments."
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The opposite of superior is inferior, not backward.The opposite of backward is advanced. So your pontificating is missing the target.
Being backward/advanced is a temporal statement of fact... like in 7th vs. 21st century.
By the way, we are talking about societies, and you keep referring to individuals. Once again, you are missing the target.
But, but...MY invisible man in the sky says something different than YOUR invisible man in the sky...I KILL YOU!
Indeed. There is a lot of that going on in Syria, and you'll find a thread on what should be done about that here in Coffee Corner. This is a discussion about a cleric in India issuing a legal opinion about photography. An unpopular one as well, judging by local opinion there.
Depicting people in illustrations contravenes the laws of all the People Of The Book. Nothing new in this.


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Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.
Maddex, Diane, ed. All About Old Buildings: The Whole Preservation Catalog. Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1985.
McDonald, Travis C., Jr. Preservation Briefs 35: Understanding Old Buildings: the Process of Architectural Investigation. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, 1994.
McKee, Harley J. Amateur's Guide to Terms Commonly Used in Describing Historic Buildings. Rochester, NY: Landmarks Society of Western New York, 1970.
Summers, Lydia B. Researching the Old House. Portland, ME: Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc., 1981.
Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1978.
Weitzman, David. Underfoot: An Everyday Guide to Exploring America's Past. New York: Scribner's, 1976.
Some of the information presented in this bulletin was adapted from the following sources:
Campbell, Susan H., "National Register Research Guide," Ellaville, GA.
Hart, David M. "How to Date an Old House." Handout distributed by Old House Journal, Brooklyn, NY, October 1976.
"How to Prepare Nominations to the National Register of Historic Places." State Historic Preservation Office, Parks and Recreation Division, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, OR, 1988.
Porter, Charles W., III, "Documenting Research Methods Applied to Historic Sites and Buildings," The American Archivist, n.c., on file at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
"Researching Your Historic Resource," Technical Paper No. 5, Historic Preservation Program, King County Cultural Resources Division, King County, WA.
Thomas, Kenneth H., Jr., "Documenting a Structure in Georgia," Historic Preservation Section, Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, GA, September, 1986.
Travers, Jean, "Guide to Resources Used in Historic Preservation Research," National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, 1978.
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We offer tandem and triple flights. Triples are at the Captain's discretion. The parasail ride will last approximately 8-10 minutes. The boat holds up to 12 passengers and the length of each trip is 1 hour. Observer spots cannot be booked ahead of time and will always be on stand-by.


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The Subal web site claims that they will have housings for the 10d and the S2 in July.
Subal Housings for 10D and S2
Started by davephdv, Jun 25 2003 09:18 PM
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Posted 25 June 2003 - 09:18 PM
Dave Burroughs, Nikon D300, D2X, Subal housing, DS160 strobes
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Posted 26 June 2003 - 06:03 AM
Guess who's a happy little Triggerfish?
By the way, I must also state for anyone new to this forum that Ikelite has the best customer service department I have ever experienced in ANY industry. I had the privelege of talking to a guy named Brett over the phone who gave me straight, honest, down to earth answers to every question I had. They have a housing for the 10D that will be available possibly in September.
Also, the people with OceanBrite (the distributors for Jonah) were very helpful when I called.
Subal, Ikelite, and Jonah will all have housings for the 10D coming out sometime in Aug-Oct probably, with Subal apparently in the lead with a possible July release. (I cannot WAIT to see how this turns out!)
Posted 27 June 2003 - 12:17 AM
agree with CDesperado regarding Ikelite's customer service. I'm from Singapore and I had absolutely no problem in sending my flooded strobe back to Ike USA for repair. Had it back about 1 month from the day I sent it. Considering I am using normal air mail and not UPS or DHL, the strobe is probably only in USA for 1.5 weeks. I think that's pretty fast repair for me


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Every year, thousands of individuals take the courageous step of reporting their rape to the police. They overcome the terrible, misplaced social stigma of being the victim of sexual violence. They overcome the warnings sometimes uttered by the rapist to keep silent. They overcome the suggestions that these issues ought not to be spoken of, and they speak up.
The forensic examination of their bodies, the crime scene, typically takes four to six hours. The evidence is then collected in a "Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit" — a rape kit.
Experts estimate there are hundreds of thousands of rape kits sitting untested throughout the country. Over the past several years, this rape kit backlog has become a fixture in the national media, with reports coming from multiple cities and municipalities of untested rape kits piling up in police and crime lab storage facilities.
Each kit represents a missed opportunity for justice.
We know rape kit evidence is an invaluable investigative tool for a country that has struggled to respond adequately to sexual assault. When tested, rape kit evidence can identify an unknown assailant, confirm the presence of a known suspect, affirm a survivor's account of the attack, connect a suspect to other unsolved crimes, and exonerate innocent suspects. And yet, hundreds of thousands of times, a decision is made not to process the evidence. Even when a member of law enforcement does send a kit to the crime lab for testing, it can sit for months — and in some cases, years — before being processed.
If testing kits represents a chance for justice for survivors and accountability for offenders, not testing kits represents the opposite.
Of all violent crimes in the United States, rape has the lowest reporting, arrest and prosecution rates. According to FBI crime data, rape has a 24 percent arrest rate — the lowest in nearly 40 years of tracking such information. This means that a survivor of rape has a one in five chance of seeing the perpetrator brought to justice. It also means that a rapist is likely to get away with the crime and, in many cases, to rape again.
We have seen the difference that testing every rape kit makes. New York City cleared its backlog of 17,000 kits, and now tests every kit booked into police evidence. Proof of the value of testing every kit: the city's arrest rate for rape has jumped from 40 percent to 70 percent.
Detroit is another city that now faces the massive task of processing its untested kits — more than 11,000 kits. After a National Institute of Justice grant allowed the first 500 kits to be tested, 32 potential serial rapists were identified.
From those first kits, prosecutors have already secured two convictions, and traced assailants to assaults in 11 additional states and the District of Columbia. Florida is one of those states. That means that had Detroit's kits been tested after being taken into evidence, an attack might have been prevented in Florida. It turns out one city's backlog is a threat to public safety in all communities across the country.
We are greatly encouraged that the federal government is making the reduction and elimination of the nationwide rape kit backlog a priority. After President Obama's request that Congress allocate dollars to reduce the backlog, both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have included $117 million for Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Reduction Grants in their fiscal year 2014 spending bills. The bills specifically instruct the Justice Department to prioritize the reduction of untested rape kits.
In these harsh economic times, this is a critical investment that will save lives, prevent suffering, hold rapists accountable and allow jurisdictions to provide justice for survivors — it also has the power to bring much-needed healing.
This funding can make the difference between getting a violent offender off the street and letting him go free to harm again. Florida's congressional delegation has an opportunity to support full funding for rape kit reform as the budget moves through Congress. On behalf of survivors who deserve justice, communities across the country are counting on their support.
We must eliminate this backlog. We must give survivors the justice they deserve. We must hold dangerous assailants accountable. The stakes are simply too high.
Sarah Tofte is the director of policy and advocacy at the Joyful Heart Foundation, founded by actress Mariska Hargitay.


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Zero Energy, Zero Water, Zero Waste, Zero Carbon, Zero Emissions. This is the mantra of Steve Glenn, founder of LivingHomes, a modern prefab home company offering stylish green homes at accessible prices. His first LivingHome was recently featured in Dwell magazine, and includes such features as FSC-certified cedar, Permalight LED downlights, radiant floor heating, and a full array of energy-saving technologies and sustainable and nontoxic materials. Glenn claims his homes "are clearly among the most environmentally considered production homes ever built," and his prototype home received a LEED Platinum rating in August.
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A Truth Journal: Polls: Public Widely Supports Prez Obama On Assault Weapons Ban and More: From Denny: The NRA and the Republicans might as well give up now while they are still treading water. The public is growing increasingly restless, anxious for the safety of their children, and downright angry that the NRA and members of Congress are pushing back against common sense and decency.
Thirty days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, American opinion is rising to higher levels to support serious gun control measures never before considered on a national scale. Local cities and various states are not waiting for Congress and are passing their own gun control legislation, like New York state.
In the latest Pew Research poll about gun control released yesterday the numbers are high in favor of many gun restrictions, contrary to the NRA public relations campaign attempting to sell to the contrary.


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English FA hails 'fantastic' FIFA $500,000 grant
England's Football Association has welcomed a $500,000 grant from FIFA towards its new national football centre as evidence of a major step forward in an often icy relationship with the world governing body.
The money will go towards 'The Goal' project of a sports and medical centre at St George's Park in Burton, central England.
It was only last year that FA chairman David Bernstein received a frosty reception from fellow delegates after calling, unsuccessfully, for the unopposed re-election of FIFA president Sepp Blatter to be postponed in order to allow rival candidates to emerge.
Relations between FIFA and most of English football nose-dived when England's bid to stage the 2018 World Cup attracted only one FIFA vote apart from the one cast by the FA.
But Bernstein, welcoming the funding, said in a statement on Wednesday that relations were thawing.
"This is fantastic news and reflects FIFA's commitment to raising standards within the game around the world and to our improving relationship with FIFA."
Blatter added: "Protecting the health of players is one of our key objectives and I am therefore very pleased that this project will be dedicated to a sports science and medical centre at such an emblematic location at St George's Park."
The FA also announced Wednesday it will fund bursaries for nine promising international coaches to study for the FA International Licence course under a new scheme.
Meanwhile FA and FIFA officials also signed a memorandum of understanding, similar to agreements made between the global governing body and the Spanish and German FAs, agreeing to share knowledge with FIFA member associations.
Jane Bateman, head of international relations at the FA, said: "The FA has a long history of developing football around the world.
"Like the new memorandum of understanding with FIFA, this bursary project opens our education programmes to the international football community and, in this case, will give a group of international coaches the experience of St George's Park in its inaugural year.
"These coaches come from diverse backgrounds and all have great potential as coaches in their countries. We are proud to be supporting them and to be playing a key part in their development."


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Limitless Fun With Lime Green
Kelly green has always been one of my all time favorite colors. It's the perfect combination of preppy and edgy and it also happens to be pretty popular in the world of interiors. When I'm feeling a little too mainstream with my kelly green accents, I turn to her much edgier sister — lime green and I start feeling much cooler.
I know what most peoples initial reaction would be to lime green in the home — yikes! But seriously, this once scary color can actually be used in small or large doses and give your home some serious spunk and personality.
If you're going for an edgy all white look, add a touch of lime green to accent pieces and even curtains to really grab attentions. If you're really daring and up for a super fun DIY project, paint the floors lime green, you might actually be surprised by how great they look! If you have a super sunny room (or even dark room that is in desperate need of brightening) paint the walls lime green and watch how the subtle furniture now suddenly pops.
What's your take on lime green?
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Don't you sometimes wish, in this world of instant news where everything looks the same no matter where it comes from, that you could get a reliable, filtered summary of the day's news at some point during the day?
Thinking of a way to do this, as a sort of evolution for Yesterday's Internet, Today!, I glanced upon two emails I get daily. The first one is the epaper email in the morning, that you should be getting if you're a subscriber. It's basically the paper as it appears in print, which comes in handy if you're away (you might notice that all the pages are in color as well).
"But those are yesterday's news!" astute Yesterday's Internet, Today! readers might say. And you would be correct! What if you want what's happening up to now, but in email form, and without a subscription maybe? Why, there's an email alert for that! And a breaking news email alert if you don't want to wait.
There's also text alerts, and Android and iOS apps.
And you can keep up on Facebook and Twitter. Or maybe you just want to get away from it all and simply get nice photos from Instagram. And we do that too.
So perhaps the problem is not so much that we don't do this but that we haven't told you about it well?
***I'd add that a good newsletter would have a bit more personalization, and I can understand why small news organizations just aren't able to do this. (If you're wondering how I have time to write this, I'm doing it on my day off). So the daily emails can suffice (and do for thousands).
In an ideal world, the email would add some links from outside the Freeman, a sort of "we also saw this and you might want to check them out too." This is the sort of thing my newsletter was aiming for, but with a focus on what's of interest to me because, well, it's my newsletter, after all.
For example, from yesterday:
Everybody's grounded. Go to your rooms.
So let's keep the format going. Thus ...
One video: Jess X. Snow painted the "O Wind, Take Me to My Country" mural in Kingston as part of the 2016 O+ Festival.
* I posted a tweet about Hillary the other day. It went viral and made the front page of Drudge and now it's the most popular thing I've ever done ever. You're all terrible.
* I made a massive interactive timeline of the news of the year the other day. I spend a lot of time doing it and it didn't even crack the most popular things of that day. You're all terrible.
* Free college proposal so of course everyone's angry?
* We covered the new year live and I was able to live-stream directly to Twitter in 360° from the office beforehand as a precursor of things to come this year (not many can do this yet). Stay tuned. I've got ~surprises~
One cat?
How about a bunch of cats? For adoption? Locally? Right MEOW!
Yesterday's Internet, Today! was going to wrap up forever but then I was, like, nah let's see what happens. There's more to do.


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Happily each bag of astronauts came with a moon buggy and an American flag that has kept Ollie busy for days. Can you imagine the smile on his face when he hands these babies out?!
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UPDATE: Sprint dropped us an email to make sure you guys knew this new tiered data structure did not apply to smartphones, and there were no plans to remove unlimited data from their smartphone plans at this time. That being said, several Sprint users (myself included) have been reporting horrible 3G speeds since the iPhone was launched a few weeks back. For the heck of it, I ran a few 3G speed tests over the past half hour, and am averaging 100kbps down, 40 kbps up. Though they're going to try to re-focus some of their spectrum on the old Nextel frequencies, we have a feeling the end of the unlimited data era is quickly going to be upon us. But again, that's just our opinion. What do you think?
Oh Sprint, you really nailed it with those unlimited commercials when you launched them a few months back, but how quickly you take away your main differentiating factor.
Sprint has confirmed that they are moving away from offering unlimited plans for all non-smartphone devices except for smartphones starting today. Instead, Sprint will be offering the customary tiered data plans that customers of AT&T and Verizon have come to expect from their carriers. Sprint will be offering the following plans to all new and existing customers:
- Tablets-only: $20 per month for 1 GB of data
- Tablets + Hotspot: $35 per month for 3 GB
- Tablets + Hotspot: $50 per month for 6 GB
- Tablets + Hotspot: $80 per month for 12 GB
This move gives Sprint the cheapest tablet and hotspot data packages, providing users with the most GB bang for their buck. That being said, Sprint hasn't exactly been offering the best in the way of data speeds, with users reporting 3G speeds that are similar to what I experienced on T-Mobile's 2G Edge network (100kbps down/up).
This is quite a bold move for Sprint, though not unexpected. We reported a while back that Sprint was going to move their tablets, mobile hotspots and netbook devices away from unlimited data, and this is simply their move coming to fruition. Furthermore, we speculated that it was only a matter of time before they would move their smartphone data plans away from the world of the unlimited as well, something that's more and more likely as Sprint's network continues to deliver sub-optimal performance.
In our opinion, the era of truly unlimited mobile data is all but over. Though they have adamantly denied this notion, even a re-purposing of their Nextel Network and development of a 4G LTE network likely indicate the beginning of the end for Sprint's unlimited plans. I guess time will tell.


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During a four-year period starting in 2007 Ashland High climbed to the top of the Class 5A baseball mountain, advancing to the semifinals four years in a row, pushing through to the final twice and claiming the 2008 state title.
But the run ended with a quarterfinal setback in 2011, and the Grizzlies fell in the quarterfinals again last season, begging the question: Is the Ashland baseball factory finally slowing down production?
Enter new head coach and former College World Series champion John Wallace, whose emphatic answer leaves no room for doubt.
"A lot of these guys were on the team last year and saw how close we were to advancing to the state semifinals," said Wallace, whose team plays its home opener Saturday against Dallas. "And with the pitching that we have coming back — Jamie (Flynn) and Jack (Carroll) were the guys that carried us last year in the playoffs — we're setting our goals high. We think we can make a run at a state championship. That's our ultimate goal."
Indeed, Flynn, a senior right-hander, and Carroll, a senior lefty, should give the Grizzlies one of the most potent one-two pitching combinations in the state and a leg up over most of the competition come playoff time. And with sophomore sensation Steen Fredrickson waiting in the wings, slotted as the No. 3 starter, Ashland is once again loaded at the most important position in the field.
Flynn is the clear ace. His fastball consistently hits 85 mph, and he's developed nasty curve which he's comfortable throwing whether ahead in the count or behind.
Flynn offered a brief glimpse of his potential during a 15-pitch outing in Ashland's season-opening loss at Henley on Wednesday. He retired the last two batters he faced, one on strikes, but not before plunking a batter and allowing a hit.
"The command, obviously you've got to work on that all year," said Flynn, who has received some interest from Division I colleges such as Oregon State, Wallace's alma matter. "It's not midseason, so everything's gotta be better, but I felt like it was solid."
Wallace expects big things out of Flynn, who was 8-2 last season after a spectacular late-season surge that included five consecutive complete-game efforts, including two in the postseason.
"He's worked hard all offseason," Wallace said of Flynn. "He's gotten bigger, stronger, he's got more control of his pitches, so we're looking for him to be an ace and a shutdown pitcher."
Supporting Flynn, or whomever is on the mound, will be a defense that's green, but gifted. That's especially the case in the middle infield, where the Grizzlies have a freshman, Aaron Scott, starting at shortstop for the first time in more than a decade, and a sophomore, Fredrickson, sharing time at second base with senior Ian Alpenia.
Wallace feels good about Ashland's defense at the corners — junior Eric Carlson at first, and Flynn, when he's not pitching, at third — and also has been impressed with second-year starter Carter Glick, a junior, behind the plate, but says the middle infield and outfield will be an X-factor of sorts for the Grizzlies.
Which is why no final decisions have been made.
"I'm still figuring it out pretty much everywhere," Wallace said. "Even in the infield, we have guys who can play multiple positions, so right now that was our initial lineup (at Henley), but I would say nothing's really been set in stone. We're young, especially in the middle, which is tough."
Wallace said that some of those defensive positions may end up being decided at the plate, where the Grizzlies fared well overall Tuesday — they scored five runs on 11 hits — but suffered a slight drop-off near the bottom of the order.
Bryce Rogan, a junior lefty, takes over for Taylor Humphrey in the leadoff spot and looked up to the task Tuesday, when he went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and two runs scored. Glick, Carlson and Bottimore, who nailed a triple, follow.
Since team speed is not a strength, small ball is not likely to be a big part of the Grizzlies' game plan this season.
"We're definitely going to have to hit guys around," Wallace said. "We have some guys that can play a little small ball with the bunt game and do a few things hit and run, but as far as stealing and getting guys around that way it's not going to happen. We're going to have to find gaps and hit guys around, definitely."
As for that bottom-of-the-lineup conundrum, Wallace indicated that spots are still "up for grabs" and will be determined by in-game performance. The good news is, the Grizzlies have plenty of time to find the right combination. That's because the first of four games between Ashland and Southern Oregon Hybrid 5A rival Eagle Point isn't until April 11. In Ashland's list of goals, winning the season series against Eagle Point is at the top of the list for the Grizzlies, since that guarantees Ashland no worse than a play-in game. The next goal is to finish in the top eight in the final 5A power rankings and receive an automatic berth in the 16-team state tournament.
"We're a younger squad than last year, losing those key seniors," Flynn said, "but the potential's definitely there. Once we start working as a team and learn how to win as a team together, I think that we'll be a force, for sure."


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Every position at Riot Radio provides you with new experiences, the ability to meet like-minded students and uncover your passion for broadcasting. Each position involves a different level of commitment based on what you are interested in and your availability. Students can select their ideal role at Riot Radio by choosing the position that will allow them to develop and build new skills in their area of interest. Riot Radio is made up of full-time professional staff who support volunteers every step of the way.
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Miley's Raciest Stunt To Date: Photo Shoot With Terry Richardson
Jonathan Higbee | October 3, 2013
Miley continued her successful, chart-topping strategy of pushing the envelope today with her raciest stunt to date: a very revealing photoshoot with famed photog Terry Richardson.
How long until Billy Ray appears on CNN defending today's showing of areola and an amazing Brazilian wax as "world changing"?
Head to Terry's blog if you want to see Miley kick the controversy up a notch (NSFW).


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We still have a few weeks before the Samsung Galaxy S makes its official debut on U.S. service providers, but it looks like Samsung is already excited about the huge success the phone has had in Korea. Samsung has already sold over 200,000 units of the phone in South Korea alone and since the Android 2.1 equipped device has been on sale in many European countries for nearly a month already, it may be safe to say that the Galaxy S sales has already surpassed the 1 million units threshold.
Though the sales figures aren't as high as Apple's 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4 on opening weekend, Samsung is on track overtake the iPhone 3GS which has only sold 800,000 in South Korea in the past eight months.
Samsung is the second largest cell phone manufacturer on the globe, but they have always trailed in the smartphone sector. The Samsung Galaxy S is their ticket to success in 2010 and will definitely go a long way in helping Samsung move up a spot of two in the global smartphone sales ranking. Once the Galaxy S hits store shelves at all four major carriers in the U.S. and the other 110 nations across the planet, the Galaxy S is surely destined to be the top selling Android handset of the year.


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Australia's second test thrashing of an injury-ravaged Sri Lanka provided some consolation after a stinging 1-0 loss in the home series to South Africa, but has left the team with much to ponder ahead of the dead rubber test in Sydney next week.
Australia head into the final match of the series with an unassailable 2-0 lead, but the innings victory in Melbourne was soured with ongoing injury clouds over skipper Michael Clarke and vice-captain Shane Watson.
The fitness concerns have added further ammunition to critics of the team's player management, with selectors and fitness staff already under fire for a controversial rotation policy that saw injury-free seamer Mitchell Starc rested for Melbourne for fear he might break down.
Both Watson and Clarke played despite bringing injuries into the Melbourne test, leaving selectors open to accusations of double standards.
While Clarke scored a glittering 106 and Watson a solid 83 to help set up victory, the wash-out from Melbourne will do little to quell the grumbling.
All-rounder Watson broke down with a calf strain after bowling on day one and will miss the Sydney test, while Clarke remains in doubt as he continues his battle to recover from a hamstring strain.
When asked why selectors had not rested the injury-prone Watson, who was forced to shoulder a big bowling workload in the first test victory in Hobart when seamer Ben Hilfenhaus broke down with a side strain, Cricket Australia's high performance chief Pat Howard told reporters: "There was some consideration of it."
"But it was looked at as a collective. He's multi-skilled and can bring more than a couple of attributes to the game.
"When we talk about players missing a game or managing their workload, a lot of this is around young fast bowlers and looking after them is a pretty core principle of what we're trying to do."
The support staff's best intentions have not stopped young pacemen James Pattinson and Pat Cummins from breaking down among a raft of injuries, while 22-year-old Starc's Melbourne omission left the bowler tweeting that he was "shattered" by the decision.
Selectors have also backed themselves into a corner by promising Starc would play at the Sydney Cricket Ground, meaning either one of Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle or Jackson Bird must miss out on a wicket traditionally conducive to spin.
Man-of-the-match Johnson, had a brilliant return to form in Melbourne after being dumped for the Hobart test, capturing six wickets and bashing an unbeaten 92 in a performance that would virtually guarantee selection.
Bird also had an excellent test debut with four wickets in place of the injured Hilfenhaus, while pace attack leader Siddle might not take kindly to being left out after being controversially rested for Australia's third test loss to South Africa in Perth.
Cricket Australia can scarcely clutch at fatigue as an excuse in their selection deliberations, with the three quicks hardly breaking a sweat in the two and a half day test in Melbourne.
Clarke, on Australia's five-man selection panel, emphatically backed Watson to continue as an all-rounder after the Melbourne test.
But another injury could test Clarke's support, with the need for a settled lineup to tackle India on tour in February and March ahead of the first Ashes campaign in July.
"We want to keep getting better every day. And we aren't good enough to play players at 70 or 80 percent," Clarke said.
"You need to be able to be at your best."
Victorious Australia dogged by injuries, selection queries
Australia's second test thrashing of an injury-ravaged Sri Lanka provided some consolation after a stinging 1-0 loss in the home series to South Africa, but has left the team with much to ponder ahead of the dead rubber test in Sydney next week.


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The Old Beer of GermanyMay 1, 2010 - K. Florian Klemp
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Big Law Firm, Jones Day, Abusing Trademark Law To Stop Website From Reporting Public Info
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Paul Alan Levy from Public Citizen describes what an incredible abuse of trademark law this is:
According to Jones Day, linking to its web site dilutes its trademark and creates a likelihood of confusion. But that is preposterous. The link is in connection with a comment on Jones Day; when a trademark is used to comment on the trademark holder, the use reinforces the association with the trademark holder, rather than blurring it, and besides use for commentary is expressly protected as fair use under the Lanham Act as amended in 2006. Moreover, nobody could visit the BlockShopper web site and think that it is sponsored by or affiliated with Jones Day, even if they follow the links from BlockShopper's mention of Jones Day associates to Jones Day's own web site. That is what web sites do � they link to other web sites (that's what makes it a "World Wide Web").As Levy notes, based on Jones Day's argument, anyone who writes about the law firm may be liable for trademark infringement, but that's ridiculous. Tragically, it sounds like the judge in the case is ignoring all of this. The judge not only agreed to a temporary restraining order against BlockShopper, but also told the site's owner:
Indeed, throughout the first paragraph above, I used Jones Day's name (because I am writing about that firm) and linked to Jones Day's web site and elsewhere. Is Public Citizen equally liable for trademark infringement and dilution? If Jones Day is right here, it is hard to see how the Web could survive.
"Do you know, young man, how much money it's going to cost you to defend yourselves against Jones Day?"Apparently, actually being on the right side of the law is meaningless.
And before people bring up questions of copyright or privacy, Jones Day isn't suing over either of those -- and this is all publicly available information, so it's difficult to see what the privacy claim is. Right now, it just looks like a case of a big law firm bullying the owner of a website because he's done something the firm doesn't like -- and the judge is helping the firm out.


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Mary Anne Sadlier's Literary Influences
It is significant that Sadlier, although best-known for her Catholic books, appears to have written mostly romances and historical works before marrying James. The slant of his publishing house or his perception of the market for Irish literature may have led her to redirect the focus of her writing. Indeed, Mary Anne Sadlier received literary advice from a wide variety of male publishers and journalists, and frequently wrote her books on their request. One of her first and best-selling novels was written at the suggestion of editor Orestes Brownson in the January 1850 edition of his Quarterly Review, in which he called for someone to write a story for boys. Patrick Donahoe, editor of the Boston Pilot, responded by offering a $50 prize and serialization in his magazine. Brownson judged the contest and awarded the prize to Sadlier for Willy Burke, or the Irish Orphan in America, claiming it heralded the birth of a new literary genre: "A new literature, equally popular, but far more Catholic and healthy, is beginning to make its appearance among us" (Fanning, 538). Willy Burke also appeared in McGee's American Celt. Two other publishers, in addition to Donahoe, issued it in book form in 1850, but Donahoe retained the copyright, reprinting it in 1851 (Lacombe, Frying Pans, 101). It sold 7,000 copies within the first six weeks alone; and, like most of Sadlier's novels, was in print throughout the rest of the century (Anna Sadlier, 331). Willie Burke was Sadlier's first American tale, but her first novel, The Red Hand of Ulster; or, The Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, had been published in 1850 on the front page of the Pilot before being issued as a book. Donahoe used The Red Hand of Ulster, Sadlier's first long work of fiction, to advertise for subscribers in December, 1849, promising that the next month's edition would include "an Irish Prize Tale of thrilling interest, written especially for the Pilot" (Fanning, 115). McGee, who wrote heavily on the "schools question" in the 1850s, suggested the idea for The Blakes and Flanagans, serialized in his American Celt in 1850 (Lacombe, Frying Pans, 101) and published in book form in 1855 (Blain, 939). The Toronto Bishop de Charbone hailed The Blakes and Flanagans as "written with a pen of gold." Sadlier also wrote Bessy Conway on request, after Rev. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers and a publisher in his own right, suggested she draft an instructive tale for Irish serving girls, and wrote Aunt Honor's Keepsake in 1866 on the instigation of Dr. Silliman Ives, in the interest of creating support for the Catholic Protectory, a charitable organizations. Catholics such as Ives and Sadlier were concerned that Protestant benevolent associations such as the Juvenile Delinquent Society were proselytizing to Catholic boys, and wished to raise enough money to establish alternative Catholic institutions. Anna Sadlier writes that her mother's book was "hailed by the Catholic press at the time, and by those chiefly interested, as a most effective ally in the good cause (Anna Sadlier, 331). Upon closer examination of Sadlier's novels, however, we will see that most of Sadlier's work actually contain multiple narratives. While Sadlier's male colleagues had one goal in mind for her writing, it appears she had additional goals of her own.


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Your Fashion Questions, Answered (By Kate Bosworth!)
Guess what, ladies? Kate Bosworth, goddess of cool style, is sharing her fab fashion advice with you chic ladies. We received so many questions on Facebook during the actress/designer's VIP chat, and Kate wanted to answer a few more! So grab yourself a chai latte, sit back, relax and read our exclusive Q&A...
Take it away, Kate!
Chantal Y.: Hi Kate. You have such original style. I love it. What is your favorite era for design and for your personal style?
I love the 90s because it embraced both grunge and minimalism - two completely different, but equally exciting styles. For design, I often look back at iconic movies from the sixties and seventies for inspiration. Bonnie and Clyde, The Great Gatsby, and Annie Hall all were headlined by women with such unique personal style.
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Elizabeth W.: Do you have any personal style preferences/rules about mixing metals?
*We've all heard for ages that mixing metals is a fashion faux pas; Cher Coulter who is my stylist, best friend, and co-designer for JewelMint and I feel that mixing metals feels fresh, creative and bold. I love stacking a bunch of bangles - silver, gold, rose gold - up my arm.
We used the mixed metal theme all through our summer JewelMint collections, by creating ring sets and bracelet sets that incorporated different metal tones. We also played around with using mixed metals in a singular piece - take a look at the Lost Treasure Bracelet and let me know if you like how it turned out! *
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Sharon T.: Hi Kate, What do you do when you're in a styling rut? Lately I've found it hard to keep my look fresh in the workplace, since I like to stay with pretty classic pieces but still want to change it up a bit. Any advice on being office chic? Thanks!
The office can be challenging, but simple accessories can easily breathe life into your outfit. The skirt/blouse combo is classic, and looks great on all shapes and sizes. Lately I've been wearing short necklaces just under the collar of a button up shirt, which was a look inspired by Celine and Proenza Schouler. Try pairing a silk blouse with the JewelMint Paradise Cove Necklace or the Serpentine Necklace - it's such a simple look, but so elegant and on trend.
Backstage at Proenza Schouler's Fall 2011 show.
Tiffany M.: When you are out and about and struck with inspiration, what do you do? Do you carry a notepad or sketchbook to jot down ideas? And what sorts of places do you most often find inspiration?
I can find inspiration anywhere. From the way a certain textile folds to street graffiti in Paris, I never know when I'll have that ah-ha moment. I love New York, Paris, and London especially for inspiration. I'll scour vintage stores and markets when I'm traveling, and find a unique pin or belt that Cher and I will then figure out how to interpret for a piece of jewelry or a look for an event or shoot.
Sara Smith: Hi Kate, you are one of the few actresses that always seem to be on the "DO" list for Glamour...what are some key pieces in your closet that tie your wardrobe together? What can't you live without?
*My go-tos are the Alexander Wang Marti Bag and Isabel Marant's Betty Wedge Trainers—they complete any outfit with a casual but chic everyday look. *
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Another fun PS from Kate: Right now 50% of the proceeds from Kate's Mumbai Bracelet go to Emmanuelle Chriqui's charity, Raise Hope for Congo, as part of JewelMint's Giving Back program. "Cher and I recognize that we have a responsibility to use our voice to give back," says Kate, "So our JewelMint Curator and Celebrity Activist Series has been a fulfilling part of our journey with JewelMint.
__Ladies, are you as inspired to accessorize as I am? Don't you love these pieces and Kate's style inspirations? Do tell! __
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