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Much has been made lately of BlackRock (BLK) fund manager Daniel Rice III. It turns out that a private company he and his family own also operates in the industry in which his efforts are focused at BlackRock. While he has a position in the funds he manages, his holdings in the family business are materially larger. Worse, there have been questions raised about trades in the funds perhaps being biased by the family business.
This situation is, clearly, at the extreme end of a spectrum. However, it brings to light an issue that all fund investors should keep in mind—are the fund managers to which money has been entrusted eating their own cooking?
Fund managers report their holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission on a regular basis. While this is a good thing, there is a material degree of latitude in the disclosure. For example, a fund manager could report holding between $100,000 and $500,000 in the funds he or she manages. This is a rather broad range, for starters, and it doesn't give any perspective, such as the percentage of the manager's total investment portfolio that this sum represents. Clearly, an individual with $500,000 in a fund and $500,000 worth of assets in total is more aligned with shareholders than someone with $500,000 in a fund and $10 million in investible assets.
Manager ownership information isn't always easy to find, either. This is not surprising giving the legal speak that drives disclosure in the funds industry. Most investors trying to read a fund's summary prospectus, prospectus, and statement of additional information are likely to end up confused or asleep. These documents are so dense that most investors don't even bother reading them. The summary prospectus game is one way to address this issue; it is more concise than the full prospectus. (A more skeptical take on the origin of the summary prospectus would be that it saves the costs of printing hundreds of pages of information that few people read.) However, the often vague ownership information can usually be found in the statement of additional information.
It's important to remember that a fund manager owning shares in the funds he or she manages does not guarantee good performance. In fact, all it guarantees is that the manager will share in the gains and losses you experience as an investor in those funds. Still, it is comforting to know that the person to whom you have entrusted your wealth is in the same game as you, and truly believes in this investment.
Anyone who has "paper traded" in the stock market to practice before actually using real cash will readily understand this issue. Fake money simply doesn't come with the same stress as real money. While mutual fund managers are using real money, if only a small portion of that money is their own, if any at all, the weight of the buy and sell decisions being made will inherently be less meaningful. This isn't to suggest that fund managers don't care about what they do, the vast majority are very conscientious, but it is hard to deny that money changes things.
There are some fund managers who make a point to highlight their ownership stake. John Hussman of the Hussman Funds, for example, frequently points out in his weekly commentaries that the majority of his life savings is in the funds he manages. With just four funds bearing his name, Hussman is a tiny player compared to Fidelity, but that could actually be a big part of the disclosure issue, as larger entities can lead to employees having less of an ownership mentality.
The benefits for fund investors in knowing this information is obvious. However, there is another side. As noted above, money changes things, and people are justifiably sensitive to discussions of their wealth. Some in the industry consider overly detailed disclosure as going a step to far. Most would agree that having to disclose their net worth to the world would be an onerous request. Still, using percentages would seem to avoid the issue in this situation.
BlackRock and Mr. Rice are taking steps to deal with the situation surrounding Mr. Rice's ownership in his family's company. This is a good thing, but it comes only after negative publicity surrounding the issue. For mutual fund investors, knowing if a fund manager is eating his or her own cooking can be an important differentiating factor when selecting through a small number of potential investment options. It shouldn't be the first thing considered, but it definitely should be a part of the decision-making process.
At the time of this article's writing, the author had positions in three Hussman funds.


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Sienna Miller: Keira is 'timeless'
- Bang Showbiz
- 7 April 2013
Sienna Miller thinks her close friend Keira Knightley is like a "timeless movie-star"
Sienna Miller thinks Keira Knightley is a "timeless movie-star".
The 31-year-old actress, who starred alongside Keira in 2008 film 'The Edge Of Love', thinks her close friend has a unique style and can pull of any outfit because of her classic appearance.
She said: "The first thing that springs to mind [when thinking about Keira] is the 1940s. I think of her as glamorous in that kind of timeless movie-star way, but she can be grungy in this very cool 90s way.
"You say this about people who have style, but it's true - she genuinely doesn't think about the way she looks or how she puts herself together. She could throw on a bin bag and look beautiful."
Keira, 28, has been the face of numerous beauty and fashion campaigns - including Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle perfume - and the brunette beauty enjoys exploring different looks to create distinctive feels for the brands.
She told Marie Claire magazine: "I like the fantasy of fashion, creating a different person and dressing up like her. Putting on a flowery dress when it's raining brightens up the world."

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new York, NY (PRWEB) January 16, 2013
Open d USA, LLC, an international design agency is pleased to announce that it has just finished the installation of new back wall and gondola at the airport in Mexico City. The Mexican tequila brand needed a new gondola to replace an old one at a duty-free store in Cancun airport.
Cancun airport is a global entryway for many visitors to Mexico's beautiful beaches, world-class hotels, and signature golf-courses. This gave Open d USA a daunting challenge because we had to make sure that we remained close to the brand values which are based on the brands beginnings in an hacienda dating back to 1870's, but create something new, inviting, exciting for the type of modern and savvy world traveler that comes through Cancun. The old back wall and gondola did not have any product segmentation; it was made of light wood color and had no details that mentioned the brands image or any of the products names. These fixtures needed a serious overhaul and Open d USA came to the rescue.
About Open d Group
Open d Group opened in 2002 in Paris, France and has expanded to become an international design agency with locations in Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Geneva, Beirut, Shanghai and New York. The group has 5 different agencies within that specialize in different areas: MAD Agency- Product & Packaging for the Perfume and Cosmetics industry, Sparkle Agency- Product & Packaging for the Wines and Spirit Industries, Open d Agency- for visual merchandising in all industries, Well Done- for Sourcing & Manufacturing and Retail Access- Interior and Retail.
The organization provides solutions for the many design needs of a brand.
Open d USA and Herradura
Using our in-house Well Done agency we sourced the quality producing manufacturers locally and managed the entire process of installation in Mexico, making us a one-stop shop for the brand's sales and marketing team. The signature – Dream up, Design and Deliver plus a little bit of Open d's secret sauce was given to this project.
To learn more about Open d Group in the US, please contact:
Marleny Almonte
636 Broadway, Suite 602
New York, NY 10012
Office: 646-454-9964
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Travel Joy Hostels Chelsea Informations
Travel Joy Hostels is a relaxed and chilled-out hostel which focuses on personal service.
We are the only London hostel overlooking the river. Were extremely centrally located between Chelsea and The Houses of Parliament.
We provide free tea/coffee/soft drinks to residents at all times, free
With a timetable departure of every 15 minutes, and with a journey time of just 30 minutes, Gatwick Express is the easiest way to get from London Gatwick Airport to Victoria Train Station, then you have to take the London Underground on the Victoria Line Southbound and get off at Pimlico Station which is the first stop.
From Heathrow Airport:
From 05:00 to 23:00, take the London Underground on the Piccadilly Line, change at Green Park for the Victoria Line Southbound. Get off the tube at Pimlico Station which is the second stop.
From Stansted Airport:
The Stansted Express runs every 15 minutes and reaches London Liverpool Street in 45 minutes. Trains depart from Stansted Airport rail station, situated directly below the terminal. The London Underground connections which will bring you to Liverpool Street, from there take the Central Line Westbound to Oxford Circus, change there for the Victoria Line Southbound. Get off the tube at Pimlico Station which is the third stop.
Also, Stansted Airport's bus and coach station will bring you to Victoria Coach Station. You can either take a taxi for 6/7 or walk; please see directions below. Coach tickets can be bought at the ticket desk in arrivals (open 06:00 to 01:00), in the coach station (24 hours, seven days a week) or on board.
From Luton Airport:
East Midlands Trains (formerly Midland Mainline) operate a frequent service from Luton Airport Parkway station to St. Pancras International. Average journey time is 35 minutes. Where you are at St Pancras/Kings Cross Station take the London Underground - Victoria Line Southbound, and then get off at Pimlico Station which is the seventh stop.
Directions from Victoria Coach Station by walk:
Head southwest on Buckingham Palace Rd/A3214 toward Semley Place, turn left onto Ebury Bridge/B324, at the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Sutherland St, then turn right onto Turpentine Lane, continue onto Peabody Ave, continue onto Turpentine Lane, slight right onto Lupus St, turn left onto Grosvenor Rd/A3212.
Directions from Pimlico Station by walk:
Once you get out of Pimlico Tube Station look for Aylesford Street or St Georges Square. Walk to the end of either of these roads in the direction of the Thames River and Grosvenor Road. At Grosvenor Road turn right and continue 500m until you see Battersea Power Station on the other side of the river which we are directly opposite to.
Informations about Travel Joy Hostels Chelsea
Travel Joy Hostels is a relaxed and chilled-out hostel which focuses on personal service.
We are the only London hostel overlooking the river. Were extremely centrally located between Chelsea and The Houses of Parliament.
We provide free tea/coffee/soft drinks to residents at all times, free linen/towels, free earplugs, free sweets, Wi-Fi in the entire building and free continental breakfast. There are no hidden costs.
There is bicycle dock and a 24-hour bus outside the door that goes every ten minutes to Victoria Station, Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Soho, Oxford Street and Camden.
We have a Thai and European restaurant on-site as well as a tour- and theatre-tickets desk.
We have PCs in the lounge area which can be accessed for a small fee.
We also exchange at no commission and no spread. We just take the rate from xe.com. (As such, we are the best place to exchange in the UK).
Our other facilities include a postal service, card phones, a washing machine/dryer, iron/ironing board, hair dryers, on-street parking and free luggage storage.
Our large bar below the hostel is a great place to relax and socialise, with guest drink specials. You can also BBQ on our terrace or hang out in our common room. Our building offers all modern facilities and guests can feel very safe and comfortable.
We can assure you that your stay with Travel Joy Hostels Chelsea will be enjoyable and relaxing and give you a wonderful taste of Central London.
We have Free Salsa Classes on Wednesdays, an Open Mic Night on Fridays and Live Music on Saturdays where you can take the stage and show your talent. We also have deals with the major London nightclubs and various pub crawl operators.


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Barcelona assistant coach Jordi Roura has named Lionel Messi on the bench for the Catalan side's Spanish Primera Division clash with Deportivo on Saturday evening.
The home side have a crucial Champions League encounter with AC Milan on the horizon, and will field a much-changed starting XI for the visit of Fernando Vazquez's men.
As well as Messi, Andres Iniesta has also been rested, so Alexis Sanchez, Cristian Tello, and David Villa will make up the attacking front three of the hosts.
Xavi is still sidelined with a hamstring injury and Sergio Busquets is given a break, so Alex Song and Thiago come in to partner Cesc Fabregas in the middle of midfield. Victor Valdes is suspended and Gerard Pique is on the bench, so Jose Pinto and Javier Mascherano come into the first XI.
Ze Castro, Riki, and Kaka are all injured for Deportivo, and Carlos Marchena, which means that untested duo of Pablo Insua and Aythami begin at centre-back.
Juan Valeron, Bruno Gama, and Pizzi support Nelson Oliveira in attack for the visitors.
Barcelona (4-3-3): Pinto; Alves, Mascherano, Puyol, Adriano; Thiago, Song, Cesc; Alexis, Villa, Tello
Deportivo (4-2-3-1): Aranzubia; Silvio, Aythami, Insua, Manuel Pablo; Aguilar, Assunçao; Valeron, Pizzi, Gama; Oliveira.


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The Three Word Wardrobe is a project in partnership with Skip created to explore the relationship between clothing and mood; how colours, textures and fabrics make us feel.
For the launch of the campaign they spent a month collecting fashion imagery - from shoots, lookbooks or daily outfit posts - by selected fashion bloggers/photographers from all over the globe to use on their various online platforms. Each image submitted is captioned with the Three Word Wardrobe formula: colour, fabrication, mood to find these patterns and connections. The SA site has recently been made live along with a pretty great competition. You can find it at www.skip.co.za.
My contribution to the Three Word Wardrobe is mix of unseens, outtakes and new images shot for and inspired by the project.
Capturing a mood through styling and colour has always been a big part of the images I make, but as one of the contributors to this project, as the month progressed I became more aware of what texture and fabrication can add to what an image is saying. These are some of the shots:


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A strong, growing business center, Broomfield is Colorado's first master-planned community. Originally formed as an agricultural community, it grew into an industrial and commercial hotspot with large, medium, and small businesses ranging from high-tech to service industries.
Strategically located midway between Denver and Boulder along U.S. Highway 36, Broomfield offers ready access for commuters going north or south. A fast-growing center for high-tech, retail and manufacturing companies, Broomfield has attracted major corporations, such as Sun Microsystems and Level 3 and developed the upscale Flatiron Crossing shopping mall. The Broomfield real estate market also offers a wide variety of housing choices and generous open space. Anthem Colorado at Broomfield is a multi-use commercial, office, retail and town center that offers a variety of lifestyle choices in a resort-like setting for residents of all ages.
Another attraction is the Broomfield Event Center, which hosts professional sports games and exhibitions, concerts, conventions, and other public events.
Broomfield offers incredible views with Pikes Peak to the South, Mount Evans to the West, and Long's Peak to the Northwest. The town prides itself on its safe streets and neighborhoods with a very low crime rate, exceptional school systems (Boulder Valley, Adams 12 Five Star, and Jefferson County), and 63 parks, playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball, softball, and soccer fields. Broomfield embodies a hometown feel.
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Offered at $955,000
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2 full baths, 1 half bath, 2 three-quarter baths, 5 bedrooms and approximately 4,395 square feet on a lot of 13,068 sqft (or 0.3 acres).
It was built in 2003. 3211 Madison Court is located in Broomfield and in ZIP Code 80023.
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Calendar: PAMM Free Second Saturdays: Musical Identity
Event Description
Unearth the healing power of music with activities inspired by peace. Join us for an instrument-making workshop, pop-up performances, and a public talk by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum presented in partnership with PeaceJam Southeast Miami.
Inside the museum, be sure to check out our new activation, "Miami Stories" of Cuban exiles at PAMM.


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This is the finest residential property in Yountville
Yes, we're getting near the end of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Aren't You thrilled? Today we're heading up to the whine, whoops wine country to see what prices are doing far from the SF/SV axis of insanity.
And, Yoiks! This doesn't look much different! A generous but not ginormous house, on a comfortable, but by no means estate-quality lot. Perhaps the owners thought they were in Saratoga or something?
6761 Jefferson St
Yountville, CA 94599
3 Beds
2.5 Baths
2,600 Sq. Ft.
$1,192 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 2006
Lot Size: 0.27 Acres
On Redfin: 116 days
Status: Active
Property Type: Residential, Detached, Single Family
Stories: 2
County: Napa
Style: Craftsman
Community: Yountville
Extraordinary custom-built California craftsman style home. Two-story main house with 3BD/2.5BA; pool house with kitchen & full bath; pool/spa plus numerous special features. Top quality throughout. This is the finest residential property in Yountville.
There isn't much for sale in Yountville right now, and we wondered which best exemplified the market. There's a snouty looking condo, two cottages crammed onto one lot, a brand new place with some really tired-looking pix, a tornado-watch of charming
trailer mobile homes, and this Extraordinary custom-built California craftsman style home.
Or should we say this Extraordinary custom-built California craftsman style home that's been sitting on the market for 116 days. Built right when the bottom was Yanked out of the exurban market in 2006, Yet.
Yikes, what to do? How about You let us know what You'd pick if you had to live in Yountville?


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When saxophonist Fred Anderson performed, famously leaning forward a bit, torrents of sound rushed from his horn. The deep-amber tones and craggy lines at the heart of his music summed up a vast swath of jazz history, from the ricocheting bebop tunes of his youth to the experimental sounds of the future.
Audiences from across Chicago and around the world journeyed to Anderson's South Side club, the Velvet Lounge, to soak up this music, knowing they would hear nothing quite like that tenor saxophone anywhere else.
Had he lived, Anderson would have turned 85 last Saturday, and to mark the occasion, several of his most prominent acolytes will play in tribute to him, with Chicago saxophonist Ernest Dawkins convening colleagues Wednesday night at the Water Hole and a Fred Anderson Legacy Band performing Saturday evening at Elastic.
Though Anderson died in 2010, at age 81, his alluring art and outsized influence on jazz in Chicago — and beyond — still resonate in our musical lives.
"He was kind of like Ornette (Coleman) to me," says Dawkins, referring to the iconoclastic saxophonist-composer who envisioned new ways of creating jazz in the second half of the 20th century.
"No one sounds like Fred. … Even though he was 'free,'" adds Dawkins, referring to "free jazz" experiments of the 1960s and thereafter, "he still had that African-American method about what he was doing. … It was the esthetic that he came from — Louisiana, and you could hear that in his sound. If you really listened, you could hear that underneath everything he was doing."
Indeed, Anderson himself rejected the "free jazz" label that critics and others glibly applied to him, his music transcending specific musical styles and languages. Or perhaps it's more precise to observe that Anderson created a musical syntax of his own.
"Even in those (early) days, everyone said I was playing far out, but I never could see it," Anderson told me in 1997, as a recording of Charlie Parker played in the background one afternoon at the Velvet Lounge. "I was just trying to play some good, serious music, trying to have my own sound.
"I don't just hear music in one key. I hear all these 12 tones together, they all relate, and you've got to deal with all their possibilities.
"And, anyway," added Anderson, preparing to discuss Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), "no matter what they say about how far out the AACM music was, it was really all about blues, when you came down to it. It was playing blues in new ways."
That's what Anderson did, building on the blues sensibility of his native Louisiana — which he and his mother left when he was 8 — with the harmonic innovations of Parker and other bebop-era inventors. The music that Anderson came up with, largely by studying recordings of Parker and Lester Young, served as a kind of bridge between bebop and "free" idioms. Anderson spoke to both worlds in distinct and immensely attractive ways.
"Fred meant so much to me and the other guys going all the way back to the early AACM days" of the mid-1960s, multi-instrumentalist Joseph Jarman told me in '97. "He would always be showing me things about the saxophone — how to get certain sounds, how to express certain ideas.
"His own music was very strange and beautiful, like nothing else, really. That's why so many musicians hung around Fred. They wanted to figure out what it was he was doing and how they could learn from it."
But it wasn't only Anderson's unorthodox musical vocabulary and sometimes plush, sometimes acidic tones that drew generations of musicians to him. Equally important was Anderson's role as educator and advocate. The sessions he put on at the Birdhouse, on North Lincoln Avenue, in the 1970s, and at the Velvet Lounge, which he bought in 1982, nurtured artists who had few other places in which to test and refine daring musical ideas that would not be welcomed in more commercial, mainstream jazz rooms.
Jazz musicians who are widely admired today — such as flutist Nicole Mitchell, percussionist Hamid Drake, trumpeters Corey Wilkes and Maurice Brown and scores more — developed their ideas in the hothouse of the Velvet Lounge, effectively launching their international careers under Anderson's tutelage.
"He's one of the important people who taught me it's OK to be the way you are in the music — you don't need to customize yourself or cater yourself to do things, but play the music the way you feel," says bassist Tatsu Aoki, who collaborated with Anderson prolifically.
"For all these shows that we did, he never told me what to play. … He taught me to understand what you end up playing."
The Velvet Lounge, adds Aoki, "was one of the monumental clubs," not withstanding its cramped, somewhat battered original home on South Indiana Avenue between a barbecue chicken joint and a currency exchange. "His contribution was to have the castle that everybody wants to come into."
For those not fortunate enough to have heard Anderson live, his recordings capture some of the majesty of his solos, and the intuitiveness of his collaborations with colleagues. Late 1990s albums such as "Fred" (a two-CD set on Southport Records) and "Fred Anderson/DKV Trio" (Okka Disk) and reissues such as "The Missing Link" (Nessa) and "Fred Anderson and Steve McCall: Vintage Duets" (Okka Disk) document Anderson in prime form. The CD and DVD "21st Century Chase" (Delmark), released for his 80th birthday in 2009, showed that the volcanic spirit of his work never flagged, Anderson partnering with New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan and younger innovators, including guitarist Jeff Parker, drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Harrison Bankhead.
"He was always trying to grow," says tenor saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, Jr., who will be playing in the Fred Anderson Legacy Band on Saturday night. "Even when he was in his 80s, he never said: 'I've made it' or 'I'm done.' Every time I saw him, he'd tell me about a new horn he'd gotten."
Anderson pursued his quest until the end.
"I'm trying to figure out how these great musicians, like Charlie Parker, could play for a week and never play the same thing twice," he told me on the eve of his 81st birthday show at the last location of the Velvet Lounge, on East Cermak Road.
"Improvisation is really vast. It's just like life — you learn in life, but you just have to stay on top of it."
And he did.
Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins, bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Isaiah Spencer will pay tribute to Anderson at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Water Hole, 1400 S. Western Ave.; $10; 312-243-7988. The Fred Anderson Legacy Band — with bassist Tatsu Aoki, percussionist Dushun Mosley and reedists Edward Wilkerson, Jr., Francis Wong, Mwata Bowden and Hanah Jon Taylor will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday at Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., second floor; $10 at 773-772-3616 and elasticarts.org.
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Line 6 Variax HD Upgrade
Line 6 Variax HD Upgrade
Line 6 have always been committed to regular upgrades for their Variax range of guitars, with new features and improvements. They've really gone to town this time however, reworking the entire range of modeled guitar tones. It's called Variax HD but this isn't some simple resolution increase it's a total revamp with everything from solid bodies to hollowbodies and acoustics getting a bigger, bolder sound.
The Workbench has also gone HD, with an enhanced interface and greater range of options. A little further extra for owners of 59 and 69 versions is 5 new high gain guitar models. So if you've already got a James Tyler Variax then you need to upgrade for these new goodies. However if you've not joined the Variax family then here's what your missing out on, a world of vintage, rare, classic and exotic guitar tones...


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Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority
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Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C. serves as counsel to the petitioners in this case.
Holding: As it is used in the Torture Victim Protection Act, the term "individual" encompasses only natural persons and therefore does not impose liability on organizations.
Judgment: Affirmed, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Sotomayor on April 18, 2012. Justice Scalia did not join the opinion as to Part III-B. Justice Breyer filed a concurring opinion.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- In Plain English: Recent decisions (Amy Howe)
- Opinion analysis: Anti-torture law given narrow scope (UPDATED) (Lyle Denniston)
- Kiobel to be expanded and reargued (Lyle Denniston)
- Argument recap: Downhill, from the start (Lyle Denniston)
- SCOTUS for law students (sponsored by Bloomberg Law): Torture and jurisdiction (Stephen Wermiel)
- Argument preview: Human rights abuses and the law (Lyle Denniston)
- Plain English: Recent grants (Amy Howe)
- Court to rule on suing corporations and PLO (UPDATED) (Lyle Denniston)
Briefs and Documents
Merits Briefs for the Petitioners
Amicus Briefs in Support of the Petitioners
- Brief of Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges
- Brief for Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter et al.
- Brief for Larry Bowoto et al.
- Brief for Professor Juan Méndez, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture
- Brief for Nuremberg Scholars Omer Bartov et al.
- Brief for Joseph E. Stiglitz
Amicus Briefs in Support of Neither Party
Merits Briefs for Respondents
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Birmingham, UK, 28 October 2011—OCLC and Sabinet, OCLC's partner in South Africa, have signed an agreement to provide WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery service, as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources to the National Library of South Africa and 15 academic institutions, offering a simplified discovery and delivery experience to end-users.
Up to now, library users have needed to know which platform provides access to the information resources they are seeking. Having to navigate around several platforms has also made it difficult to discover the full range of electronic materials that the library has made available. With WorldCat Local, links to the full-text of licensed electronic content give users seamless access to all the library's resources from a single search box. For the librarian, evaluation of those resources is greatly simplified by WorldCat Local's aggregated presentation of usage statistics, making comparisons much easier.
As part of a recent agreement between OCLC and Sabinet, a major supplier of online information to libraries in sub-Saharan Africa, libraries will now be able to access Sabinet's African content on WorldCat Local, as well as the OCLC-licensed resources already on the platform.
Where there is need to consult print items, WorldCat Local displays location and availability details.
Users of the system can also use inter-library loan services in instances where there is neither print nor electronic provision of the item required in a local library. In addition to OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing service, WorldCat Local will also link to South Africa's national inter-library loan system, managed by Sabinet. Together, these two services represent a significant expansion of library collections.
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NATO chief: Any Afghan government official could sign key US security accord -- not just Karzai
BRUSSELS – NATO's chief said Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai isn't the only Afghan government official who can sign a security pact so that thousands of coalition troops can stay in Afghanistan after 2014. But an Afghan diplomat insisted Karzai will have final say anyway.
Karzai has balked at signing the bilateral security agreement with the United States. The deal would allow NATO to follow suit for plans for a far smaller assistance mission set to replace its longtime combat role after the end of next year.
The nearly 12-year mission in Afghanistan following the U.S.-led war that toppled the Taliban regime is the biggest ever for the alliance.
Karzai's refusal loomed large at a two-day meeting of alliance foreign ministers that ended Wednesday. NATO chiefs say they need time to plan for the new mission, and need clear rules before then -- in part to help unlock more than $8 billion in annual international military and development aid planned for Afghanistan after 2014.
In a sign that alliance leaders might be looking for a way to circumvent Karzai, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters after a meeting with two top Afghan envoys at NATO's Brussels headquarters that "everyone who is authorized to represent respective governments would be able to sign such an agreement." He did not elaborate.
A day earlier, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Karzai's "minister of defense can sign it, the government can sign it. Somebody can accept responsibility for this."
U.S. officials tempered that comment Wednesday, saying that the defense minister could sign the bilateral agreement -- but only if Karzai delegated such authority. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters by name, added that this was not a diplomatic avenue the United States was now pursuing or encouraging.
Karzai's refusal comes despite strong support from a key Afghan national assembly. He is deferring a decision to his successor after elections in April.
Janan Mosazai, a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, told reporters that his government supported the agreement and would sign it "in good time." But it also wanted two assurances -- that a "meaningful" peace process that includes the Taliban must begin in Afghanistan, and U.S. and NATO forces must stop military operations against Afghan homes "because that's not where the terrorists are."
In any case, "it's up to the president of Afghanistan to determine whether the bilateral security agreement will be signed at the presidential level or at a different level between the two governments," Mosazai said.
Under Afghan law, any agreement must be signed twice -- once to get it to parliament and, if approved, then by Karzai alone in his capacity as president.
At a news conference in Washington, the top U.S. military officer, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said the White House has not instructed him to plan for a so-called "zero option" - leaving no U.S. troops in Afghanistan to train and advise Afghan forces after 2014.
"But clearly I understand that it is a possibility given the current impasse," he said.
The current plan is for U.S. troop levels to drop to 34,000 by February, and Dempsey said further withdrawals would not be interrupted by the lack of a bilateral security agreement until "early summer." But he said any delays in signing the deal erode the confidence of Afghan army and police forces.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said any new NATO mission must adhere to a U.N. Security Council resolution. Russia is a veto-wielding permanent member of the council.


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The Orange Clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
|Orange Clownfish
A. percula
Binomial name:
Amphiprion percula
The Amphiron Percula can grow to be 11cm in length, but is on average 8cm, and can be recognized by three white lines across their bright orange bodies, with no distinction in color between sexes. The anterior white bar is placed just behind the eye; the middle bar goes straight down the middle of the fish; and the posterior bar occurs near the caudal fin. An anterior projecting bulge also exists on the middle bar. In addition to the white coloring, black edging outlines each fin with varying thickness.[2] This species can be mistaken for the similar species of clownfishes, A. ocellaris. This is known as the Ocellaris clownfish and sometimes referred to as the "false percula clownfish" or "common clownfish" due to its similar color and pattern. The "easiest" way to distinguish the two species is the fact that A. percula has 10 spines in the first dorsal fin and A. ocellaris has 11, which is a more reliable distinction than color patterns. The A. Oscellaris does not have thick black edging outlining the fins.[2]
Since these fish live in a warm water environment they can reproduce all year long. Each group of fish consists of a breeding pair and 0–4 non-breeders. Within each group there is a size-based hierarchy: the female is largest, the breeding male is second largest, and the male non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy descends.[4] They exhibit protandry, meaning each fish is born male, but will only change to female if the sole breeding female dies. If the female dies, the breeding male changes sex, becomes the breeding female and the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male. The spawning process is correlated with the lunar cycle. At night time the moon maintains a higher level of alertness in the A. percula and this increases the interaction with the males and females. Before spawning, the male attracts the female via courting behaviour. These courting actions include extending their fins, biting the female and chasing her. The males also swim rapidly in an upward and downward motion to attract the females. The nest site is also important for the survival of the eggs.[2] Depending on the size of the female spawn about 400–1500 eggs per cycle.[5] The expected tenure of breeding females is approximately 12 years and is relatively long for a fish of its size, but is characteristic of other reef fish.[6]
It has been unclear why the non-breeders continue to associate with these groups. Unlike non-reproductives in some animal groups, they cannot obtain occasional breeding opportunities, because their gonads are non-functional. They cannot be regarded as helpers at the nest, since it has been found their presence does not increase the reproductive success of the breeders. Recent research (Buston, 2004) suggests that they are simply queuing for the territory occupied by the breeders, i.e. the anemone; non-breeders living in association with breeders have a better chance of eventually securing a territory than a non-resident.[4] The probability of a fish ascending in rank in this queue is equal to that of the individual outliving at least one of its dominants because an individual will ascend in rank if any one of its dominants dies, and not simply when its immediate dominant dies.[4]
The development of the fish from juvenile to adult is dependent on the system of hierarchy, and can be described as density-dependent. There is aggression involved in these small families although usually not between the male and the females. The aggression usually exists between the males. The largest male will suppress the development of the next smallest male and the cycle continues until the smallest fish is evicted from the host anemone. Within each anemone, the regulation of the species is controlled by the female, since the amount of space for fish in her anemone is directly proportional to her size (which eventually reaches a maximum), so she ultimately controls the size of the other fish.[7] Amphiprion percula are very competitive fish and this causes the smaller fish to have a stunted growth. There is the potential for a fish to ascend in rank by contesting its dominant. This depends on the relative body sizes of the two fish, and is very unlikely to happen since A. Percula maintain well-defined size differences between adjacent individuals in rank.[4] However in an aquarium, this fish is peaceful, and it can live in an aquarium environment well.
The fish lay their eggs in a safe spot close to the anemone from where they are easily protected, and the parents can retreat to the safety of the anemone if danger threatens. Anemonefish usually lay their nests in the evening after a few days of carefully cleaning and examining the chosen site. Preferred egg sites are flat or slightly curved rocks or some other item the fish have dragged near their nest for the purpose. (In captivity, clay pots and saucers are an attractive choice.) First the female deposits some eggs with her ovipositor (a whitish tube descending from her belly), making a wiggling pass over the surface, then the male follows behind her fertilizing the eggs. After many passes, the nest is complete and will hatch in 6–8 days shortly after sunset, usually on a very dark night. In the meantime, the male is very protective of the nest and ceaselessly fans the eggs to provide proper oxygen circulation, and checks them for any bad eggs, which he eats before they can rot and damage more eggs. Females may or may not help the male tend the nest. At hatching, the larvae burst free and swim up toward the moonlight and the open ocean to ride the currents and eat plankton for about a week, before the still tiny metamorphosed clowns return to the reef and look for an anemone to settle into. Eventually the cycle repeats.
Recruitment is the number of individuals in a given species that can survive within a certain amount of time following larval habitation.[8] The higher the level of recruitment, the better chance a larva has of surviving long enough to become an actual fish. Large food supplies, low predator threats, and the availability of nearby anemonefish are all factors that affect recruitment levels of Amphirion Percula. Amphiprion Percula, like most coral reef fish, have a bipartite life cycle. This life cycle has a scattering pelagic larval stage whereas its resident phase is motionless. At the end of the A. Percula's pelagic phase, the larvae begin to settle on the coral reef and begin their recruiting process in the resident population.[4] Larvae that settle successfully and join a resident population are called recruits. Anemonefish species are recruited to areas where the fish are commonly found. Most anemonefish are site-attached and do not move from one anemone to another that are spatially distributed more than a few meters. This is simply because it is always a dangerous undertaking for A. Percula to be outside their anemonefish safe haven, exposed to dangerous predators. They are also very poor swimmers, increasing the risk involved in travel.[4] Recruitment is essentially the only method that the fish can use to inhabit new anemones. Finding a better living situation in a different anemone is unlikely because every anemone is already occupied by other anemonefish species. Anemonefish are known for reproducing all year round when they are in lower latitudes and it is anticipated that recruitment with these fish would follow the same pattern.[8]
Anemonefish are specialized coral reef fish that live within host anemones and are found in warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, off northwest Australia, southeast Asia and Japan. Both the A. percula and the anemones reside in shallow waters and the depth usually does not exceed twelve meters with water temperatures ranging between 25–28 degrees C.[2] Host anemones, which are tube-like organisms that reside on coral reefs, are usually occupied by only one anemonefish species because one species will out-compete and exclude other species when they inhabit the same host anemone. Unless there was a significant size difference, two anemonefish species will show aggression towards each other when trying to occupy the same host anemone.[8] This is why the supply of nearby anemone hosts so strongly influences A. Percula's ability to achieve recruitment and survival in general. A primary host anemone is where an anemonefish is found at a high frequency and a secondary host anemone is where an anemonefish is found at a relatively low frequency. The distribution and availability of sea anemones is limited by the activity of photosynthesis of algae that occupy the anemones' tentacles.[2] Secondary hosts are usually only used if there is a severe lack of available primary hosts. When many different species of anemonefishes occupy similar habitats, they tend to spread themselves out according to smaller microhabitats and available species of anemones. The A. Percula and A. Perideraion both essentially live within the H. Magnifica anemone but the A. Percula has the highest selection ratios with the S. Gigantea.[8] A study done by Elliot & Mariscal in the region of Madang, Papua New Guinea found that all of the H. Magnifica anemones that were censused were occupied by the A. Percula and A. Perideraion. The A. Percula generally occupies anemones that are near shore while the A. Perideraion occupies anemones that are more offshore. Anemonefish will not occupy anemones if they are in shallow water or if they are too small. This is because shallow waters give an inhabitable environment for the A. Percula because of the lower salinity levels, increased temperatures and they would be exposed during low tides. Also, small anemones would not provide protection from predators.[8] The A. Percula and the host anemone are very important to one another and interact in a symbiotic relationship. The A. Percula cleans the host anemone by consuming algae residue and zooplankton such as copepods and larval tunicates. They also protect the anemone from polyp consuming fish and other predators, while the clown fish is protected from predators by the anemone. The A. Percula will sometimes carry pieces of food to the host anemone for later consumption. In most cases the host anemone then devours the food that the A. Percula stored around it.[2] Chances of survival for both parties involved are increased through this co-existence.
The development of the A. Percula happens relatively fast. After the eggs are fertilized, they are ready to hatch after about six to seven days. After hatching, the larval are very small and are transparent except for the eyes, yolk sac, and a few colors across the body. The larva then sinks to the benthic environment but then swims to the upper water column. The larva spends about a week floating among plankton and is transported by ocean currents.[2] The larval stage ends when the A. Percula settles to the bottom of the ocean. The process from larval stages to juvenile takes approximately one day. There is a rapid development of color during the A. Percula's juvenile stage. During the juvenile stage the anemonefish has to find a suitable anemone host. Specific chemical components are used when finding their host. These chemical cues are different for each anemonefish. This causes preferential selection when finding their anemone host species.[2] When the A. Percula comes in contact with the anemone it produces a protective mucous coat. This mucous coat is developed with multiple interactions with the host anemone. The A. Perculas dances around the anemone, touching its fins first to the tentacles and then its entire body during its first interaction with the anemone. This process could take a few minutes or up to several hours.[2] If the A. Percula does not continue to come in contact with the host anemone the protective mucous covering may disappear. The A. Percula belongs to a group of fishes that are not stung by the nematocysts of the anemone. If the A. Percula did not have the protective mucous covering then they would be stung by the anemone. Other fish species that do not have the mucous covering are consumed by the anemone.[2]
The 2003 Disney/Pixar film, Finding Nemo featured the clown fish duo, Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) a juvenile clownfish, the title character and Marlin's son and Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) as Nemo's overprotective father.
External linksEdit
- ^ Elliot JK, Elliot JM, Mariscal RN (1995). "Host selection, location, and association behaviors of anemonefishes in field settlement experiments". Marine Biology 122: 377–389. doi:10.1007/BF00350870.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lee, J. 2003. "Amphiprion percula"(Online).
- ^ Mebs D (1994). "Anemonefish Symbiosis: Vulnerability and Resistance of Fish to the Toxin of the Sea Anemone". Toxicon 32 (9): 1059–1068. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(94)90390-5. PMID 7801342.
- ^ a b c d e f Buston PM (May 2004). "Territory inheritance in clownfish". Proc. Biol. Sci. 271 (Suppl 4): S252–4. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0156. PMC 1810038. PMID 15252999. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15252999.
- ^ Alava, Veronica R., Gomes, Luiz. (July 1989). "Breeding Marine Aquarium Animals: The Anemonefish. Naga". The ICLARM Quarterly: 12–13.
- ^ Buston P (2004). "Does the presence of non-breeders enhance the fitness of breeders? An experimental analysis in the clown anemonefish Amphiprion percula". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57: 23–31. doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0833-2.
- ^ Fautin, Daphne G. (1992). "Anemonefish Recruitment: The Roles of Order and Chance". Symbiosis 14: 143–160.
- ^ a b c d e Elliott JK, Mariscal RN (2001). "Coexistance of nine anemonefish species: differential host and habitat utilization, size and recruitment". Marine Biology 138: 23–36. doi:10.1007/s002270000441.


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Lord of the Beans follows the fantastic journey of a wide-eyed Flobbit named Toto Baggypants (Junior Asparagus) who inherits a bean with amazing powers from his Uncle Billboy (Archibald Asparagus). In this moving story, young Toto learns that he has been given an extraordinary gift- but what is it for?
Together with wise Randalf, fearless ranger Ear-A-Corn, sharpshooting elf Leg-O-Lamb, and surly dwark Grumpy, Toto forms the Fellowship of the Bean and embarks on a dangerous quest to find the answer to his question.
The journey takes them across the Mountains of Much Snowia, to the Elders of Razzberry Forest, through the Blue Gate and into the desolate Land of Woe- in search of an answer. Lord of the Beans is a touching tale that dramatically and comically illustrates how important it is to use the gifts God has given us...for good.
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I got a call Tuesday from a guy who thought my column that day about former Allentown Mayor Roy Afflerbach was "insulting" to readers. He wondered where I was when Afflerbach was seeking election.
I called him back to explain that I wrote before Roy Afflerbach was elected that I would never vote for him as mayor or anything else. I don't do endorsements, but that's about as close as I've come.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Playing for the first time in eight days prompted Penn State coach Patrick Chambers to set one goal on Sunday: Play harder than New Hampshire.
"I think we did that," Chambers said after Penn State limited New Hampshire to 22.6 percent shooting (12 of 53) during a 72-45 victory.
Jermaine Marshall scored 15 points and Sasa Borovnjak 11 for Penn State (7-4), which used a 32-5 first-half run to open a commanding 34-8 lead against the Wildcats (4-7).
"We were just so ready to play," Chambers said. "We wanted to go out and play harder than them. I hope we played that much better."
Brandon Taylor and D.J. Newbill added 10 each for the Nittany Lions, who have won three straight games and are 6-1 at home.
New Hampshire, of the America East Conference, shot just 17.9 percent (5 of 28) in the first half, enabling Penn State to open a 39-14 halftime lead with a 16-for-29 (55.2 percent) first-half field goal performance.
"The energy and effort were there," Chambers said. "We were dialed in for 40 minutes."
Penn State continued to widen its lead in the second half as Marshall scored eight points and New Hampshire was unable to come back with 28 percent second-half shooting (7 of 25). Marshall finished with a career-high five steals.
"The past couple of days we were working on our defensive foundation, our defensive gaps, and our defense really stepped up," Marshall said.
"They continued to play hard and we were still able to do what we do, and I think we did a pretty good job."
Penn State surpassed 70 points for the third straight game and shot 46.3 percent (25 of 54) overall.
"We need to create turnovers and get some run-outs and easy baskets," Chambers said. "Points in the Big Ten are going to be tough to come by, so it was good to get some steals."
The Nittany Lions' lead reached 52-26 on a jumper by Ross Travis after Donovon Jack blocked a shot by New Hampshire's Chandler Rhoads. Penn State extended the margin to 64-32 as nine of the team's 12 players scored at least three points.
"I thought today was the best job we've ever done," Chambers said. "Our bench was awesome. We began to listen to each other, and that builds trust. And that's why our defensive rotations were so good."
New Hampshire was led by Ferg Myrick and Scott Morris with nine points each.
Travis, usually a starter for the Nittany Lions, sprained a knee in practice Thursday but was able to play with a brace. He came off the bench and scored four points and had six rebounds in 21 minutes.


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PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 Myst Edition Crossfire Review
PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 Myst Edition Crossfire Introduction:
Earlier this year I took a look at PowerColor's entry into the Tahiti LE market with the PowerColor PCS+ HD 7870 Myst Edition. It was able to fill a price and performance point for AMD delivering great performance in that niche when compared to NVIDIA's GTX 660Ti. Priced at $239, it offered up a significant value at the time. Equipped with a cut down 28nm Tahiti core labeled Tahiti LE, it comes equipped with 1536 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 96 texture units, and 2GB of GDDR5 memory running through a 256-bit memory bus. Clock speeds for the HD 7870 Myst Edition are 925MHz with a boost state of 975MHz while the memory clock speed stays at a static 1500MHz. The use of the Tahiti LE core allows the Myst Edition to deliver a higher level of gaming performance than the Pitcairn-based HD 7870 we currently know so well.
Spicing this offering up feature-wise as I noted in the single card review is the use of PowerColor's PCS+ (Professional Cooling System) cooling system that runs up to 15% cooler and quieter than a reference design, PowerColor's Gold Power Kit digital VRM that improves stability while increasing overclocking margins, and is Windows 8 UEFI ready. As we saw in the review, the performance delivered against the GTX 660Ti from NVIDIA scaled up and down depending on the game engine and how well it was optimized for one architecture or the other.
With the addition of another PowerColor HD 7870 Myst Edition, it's time to see just how well this card scales when a second card is added to a gaming system and again how well it fares against a pair of GTX 660Tis in SLI. Testing a pair in Crossfire is especially interesting now that AMD has stated it now has a driver capable of reducing the impact of a massive frame latency hit when running Crossfire configurations. As a $240 card, adding a second Powercolor HD 7870 Myst Edition into your system is a way to improve performance for not a lot of additional cash outlay. Let's hope that AMD has fixed its drivers and see where the data takes us as far as performance metrics and actual game play.
PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 Myst Edition Crossfire Closer Look:
The premise of this article is pure and simple; its purpose is to see how well this mid range offering from PowerColor, the HD 7870 Myst Edition, performs in a Crossfire configuration and then comparing the results against those of a pair of GTX 660Ti cards to see which combination of cards delivers the best gaming performance. A simple concept that should prove out whether or not one configuration is better than the other.
If you want to take a deeper look at the cards used in this comparison you can find them here and here. Let's get to it and find out which combo is going to deliver not only the highest FPS but the best "feel" in game.


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It occured to me today that we do not have a place for members to pay respects to the deceased on their anniversaries. So here we are.
Today is the anniversary of my friend Paul Hillyard, he died this day on 2002 due to cancer.
Out troops moved into the trench; Until all corners were filled
Then we took aim at the oncoming force; And broke the deathly still
Havoc broke out acros the field; As we ran into the fray
The sun poked over the hill; To mark the start of day
The fight raged on for two more days; 'Til finally it was through
We dragged out battered bodies back; Only to start anew
Month after month we pushed ourselves; going on a constant man hunt
We'd neither stop to eat nor slumber; Until all'd be quiet on the Western front
Daily I tried to write my wife; I wondered how she would survive
I'd wait until the carrier'd come; But no letter from her arrived
Into a battle we charged head on; My life-long friend at my side
Then out of the blue, some shrapnel flew; My companion fell down and died
I dropped to my knees, my heart torn in two;As I checked at his chest for a beat
Right then though the war was not over; I felt the let down of defeat
I stood up slowly, the pain sinking in; As I realized the meaning of war
Not to gain more than we need; And to kill a man? What for?
War was not about fighting; Or killing for more then we need
It's about about no longer having family; All because of a terrible greed
It's about not being able to go to town; Without being shot at or bombed
It's about always living in terror; So much that you can not be calmed
I slowly turned and walked away; My shoulders slumped at my side
My legs felt numb with pain; As I remembered my friend had just died
My commander soon came up to me; Excitement glowed on his face
No joy could ever have been so great; We'd won the last and final race
Oh such happniess I felt just then; I could only reply with a grunt
After a much hard earned victory; All was quiet on the Western front
I went back home to my wife; But she was not to be found
A graveyard stone then told me; She was far beneath the ground
Another wave of pain shook my frame; As I made my way into town
People crouched beneath small shacks; Since all homes had been burned to the ground
Yet, no more planes polluted the sky; No more bombs came fast and blunt
The war had left terrible scars; But all was quiet on the Western front
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LANDOVER, Md.—Nobody wants to see Robert Griffin III's career end far sooner than it should.
Sunday's NFC wild-card playoff game was a warning to Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan. He needs to rethink how he is handling Griffin's health, or else we will see more frightening scenes like Sunday night. Griffin, lying on the FedEx Field turf with his knee throbbing in pain, with an entire stadium watching in stunned silence. Shanahan with a lump in his throat and wondering if Griffin had done major damage that could have been avoided.
The Redskins' season is over following their 24-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. How Griffin's knee injury was handled remained a controversy from which the Redskins needed to learn.
Before the game, orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews told USA Today Sports of Griffin's injury, "I've been a nervous wreck letting him come back as quick as he has."
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Andrews serves as a Redskins sideline doctor. He admitted to USA Today Sports that when Griffin originally injured his knee Dec. 9, he ran back onto the field without being cleared by doctors.
"He (Griffin) never even let us look at him," Andrews said. "He came off the field, walked through the sidelines, circled back through the players, and took off back to the field. It wasn't our opinion. We didn't even get to touch him or talk to him. Scared the hell out of me."
Andrews' comments directly contradicted what Shanahan told reporters on Dec. 10. Shanahan said he got the OK from Andrews for Griffin to return on Dec. 9.
"He's the one that gives me that information," Shanahan said. "It's way over my head."
Later in that Dec. 9 game, Andrews examined Griffin and shut him down. Griffin has been playing hurt ever since. Knowing Andrews' concern about Griffin, Shanahan should have removed his franchise quarterback from Sunday's game sooner than he did. That's not hindsight. That's common sense.
By the fourth quarter, Griffin was an accident waiting to happen after limping throughout the game. Griffin said he reinjured his knee on his second offensive series.
Finally, late in the game, Griffin grotesquely twisted his knee, reaching down to catch a low snap from center. In the next day or two, we will find out if Griffin did further damage to his knee, but Griffin was definitely concerned about a serious injury.
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"Honestly, it's up in the air for me right now," he said. "We'll see what it is. No matter what it is, our season's over right now and I've just got to make sure that I get back healthy, no matter what the injury is."
Griffin's season did not have to end so painfully, and the bulk of that responsibility falls on Shanahan. Griffin is a competitor. You almost have to drag him off the field. That's the mentality of most athletes, especially great ones. That determination has helped Griffin become a world-class athlete.
However, with Shanahan knowing the history behind Griffin's knee injury, and Andrews' concern, the coach should have shut down Griffin before the final scary scene. Afterward, Shanahan defended his decision this way:
"I talked to Robert and he said to me, 'Coach, there's a difference between being injured and being hurt,' " Shanahan said. "He said, 'I can guarantee I'm hurt right now, but give me a chance to win this football game because I guarantee I'm not injured.' That was enough for me.
— Iyer: Seahawks' Wilson last rookie QB standing
"It's a very tough decision. You have to go with your gut and I did. I'm not saying my gut is always right, but I've been there before. I get to know Robert better as time goes on and I'll know how stubborn he is. He's a competitor and I'll probably second-guess myself when you take a look."
Shanahan has to become more protective of his franchise player, both in terms of injury and offensive approach. Despite the effectiveness of the Redskins' read option offense, Griffin is an accurate enough passer to move the offense from the pocket. Shanahan needs to made adjustments next season. Griffin needs to stay in the pocket more and run much less, and when he does run, he needs to think more about self-preservation by sliding more and getting out of bounds more often.
Griffin is the key to the Redskins' future, and football is already a dangerous sport.
Shanahan has been given solid evidence that he can't rely on Griffin to be forthcoming about injuries. Griffin has learned that he is far from indestructible, no matter how tough he is.
If Griffin again takes as many hits as he took this season, he may not have many more years left. Griffin has tremendous promise. But if lessons are not learned from Sunday, it could be a short career.
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When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation
Overview — Gender-based discrimination in hiring, promotion, and job assignments is difficult to overcome. This paper suggests a new intervention aimed at avoiding biased assessments: an "evaluation nudge," in which employees are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. While joint evaluation is common for most hiring decisions, especially at the lower levels, it is rarely used when job assignments and promotions are being considered. The research shows that a joint-evaluation mode succeeds in helping employers choose based on past performance, irrespective of an employee's gender and the implicit stereotypes the employer may hold. While it is not always feasible to bundle promotion decisions and explicitly compare candidates, the research suggests that, whenever possible, joint evaluation would increase both efficiency and equality. Findings have implications for organizations that want to decrease the likelihood that hiring, promotion, and job-assignment decisions will be based on irrelevant criteria triggered by stereotypes. Key concepts include:
- In addition to being a profit-maximizing decision procedure, joint evaluation is also a fair mechanism, as it encourages judgments based on people's performance rather than their demographic characteristics.
- In experiments, employers tasked to choose an employee for future performance were influenced by the candidate's gender in cases where candidates were evaluated separately. In contrast, in joint evaluation, gender was irrelevant. Employers were significantly more likely to choose the higher- rather than the lower-performing employee.
- Companies concerned about discrimination in these phases of employment might choose to review how, for example, career-relevant jobs are assigned and how promotion decisions are made.
Author Abstract
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of thinking that are activated under certain conditions.
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Tykeem Major started the first game and the last game for Bluffton High last season.
This year, the senior running back plans on starting them all.
"It's my time now - time to show people what I can do," Major said.
Major showed what he is capable of in Friday's non-region victory over South Effingham (Ga.). He carried 10 times for 115 yards in the 35-8 victory, the most productive rushing night this season for a team averaging 51 points through three games.
Bluffton (3-0) needed some time to get its vaunted passing game clicking against the Mustangs. The Bobcats dropped four passes - three of them potential touchdowns - and quarterback C.J. Frazier completed only one of his first 10 attempts.
In the meantime, Major kept the offense moving by gashing South Effingham up the middle. He averaged 11.5 yards per carry from his "super back" position, in which he lines up behind Frazier in the pistol set.
"That's just the way our offense works," Major said. "We just take what the other team gives us."
Major served as the backup last season to then-senior Zachary Scott. Injuries allowed him to get a handful of starts, including the opener and the SCHSL Class AAA title game at Clemson.
"He doesn't have a ton of game experience," Bluffton coach Ken Cribb said. "He felt his way through the first two games, and I felt like he had a breakout game the other night."
The Bobcats hit the road Friday for their first road game of the season, another non-region matchup at Wade Hampton in Varnville. The Red Devils (0-2) lost their first two games to Class A Allendale Fairfax (44-7) and Estill (26-18).
Bluffton has played Wade Hampton the past four seasons, winning three of the four meetings. The Bobcats won 30-18 in Cribb's first season and 55-7 last fall. They are 9-0 in regular-season road games under Cribb.
"I think it's a good change," said Cribb, whose team has only four road games on the schedule. "It's going to be good for us. We've got a lot of experience under our belts right now. They like the road trips."
See a photo slideshow from past Bobcat seasons and video from practice and the Bluffton vs. Ridgeland-Hardeeville game online at blufftontoday.com
What: Bluffton High at Wade Hampton
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Wade Hampton High School, Varnville
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The Memphis Grizzlies have locked up their playoff spot, but they will face a hungry Los Angeles Lakers team Friday night at the Staples Center.
The Lakers are in a battle for the eighth and final spot in the Western Conference. They lead the Utah Jazz by just one-half game and any type of lead is huge at this point.
"We've still got some work to do," head coach Mike D'Antoni said after practice on Thursday. "We put ourselves in a position that we control what we're doing, so that's great."
The Lakers have won two straight, with a road victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday and a home win over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday. The wins were great, but came at something of a price.
Steve Nash was injured early in the Sacramento game and missed the matchup with Dallas. Coach D'Antoni sounded skeptical that Nash would play Friday, but didn't rule it out. He's listed as doubtful.
Then, there's Kobe Bryant.
The 35-year-old with a bone spur in his right foot has played all but 79 seconds of the last two games.
"It concerns me, but we're looking at with him and talking about it every day," said D'Antoni. "We've had a couple days off after the games. Friday might be a little different because we play Sunday at 1 o'clock."
One of Friday's critical matchups will be Gasol versus Gasol.
Pau is the Lakers' power forward, while little brother Marc is the starting center for the Grizzlies.
Baby brother's squad is playing great ball. Memphis has won four straight and is only one-half game behind the Denver Nuggets for the third seed in the Western Conference.
The Grizzlies are 1 1/2 games ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers in the standings, but league rules dictate the three division winners be among the top four seeds, so if Memphis doesn't catch Denver, they will play on the road in the first round of the playoffs.
"It's not a motivation. The players might think about it, but I just want us to play well," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said of securing homecourt. "We had homecourt last year and we lost the series (to the Los Angeles Clippers). You just have to go play, and play well."
On Wednesday, the Grizzlies routed the Portland Trail Blazers to start a three-game western trip. The 94-76 victory gave Memphis a franchise-record 51 wins.
Mike Conley led the way with 20 points. Zach Randolph netted 17 points, while Tony Allen managed 14. Ed Davis came off the bench for 12 points and 10 rebounds in just over 18 minutes. Quincy Pondexter chipped in 10.
The Grizzlies have won both of this season's matchups, although both were in Memphis. The Grizz have taken two of their last three as the visitor in this series.