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Set Up POP or IMAP E-Mail on an Internet-Capable Mobile Phone
Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Microsoft Exchange, Live@edu
You can set up e-mail on a wide variety of Internet-capable mobile phones. If you know your mobile phone's operating system, see Mobile Phone Setup Reference for links to specific instructions for each mobile phone operating system.
How do I set up POP or IMAP e-mail on an Internet-capable phone?
In your mobile phone's messaging program, you can set up your e-mail with the following settings:
- E-mail address: This is your full e-mail address (for example, firstname.lastname@example.com).
- User name: Your user name is your full e-mail address (for example, email@example.com).
- Password: This is the password for your e-mail account.
- Incoming mail server: Enter the POP3 or IMAP server name. For information about how to find your incoming (POP3 or IMAP4) server name, see How do I find the server settings? later in this topic.
- Outgoing mail server: For information about how to find your outgoing (SMTP) server name, see How do I find the server settings? later in this topic.
- Advanced Settings: If your mobile phone's messaging program allows you to set up advanced settings, make sure your Outgoing server requires authentication option is selected and make sure to choose Use the same user name and password for sending e-mail.
How do I find the server settings?
Before you set up a POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail program, you need to look up your own POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP server settings.
Watch this video to learn how to find your server settings for your POP or IMAP e-mail program.
To find your server settings, sign in to your e-mail account using Outlook Web App. After you sign in, click Options > See All Options > Account > My Account > Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access. The POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP server name and other settings you may need to enter are listed on the Protocol Settings page under POP setting or IMAP setting, and SMTP setting.
If you see Not available next to POP setting, IMAP setting, and SMTP setting, your account may not be set up to use POP or IMAP e-mail programs. For more information, contact the person who manages your e-mail account.
What else do I need to know?
- Setting up an e-mail account on your mobile phone requires that you have a data plan with your mobile phone carrier.
- If your e-mail account is the type that requires registration, you must register it the first time you sign in to Outlook Web App. Connecting to your e-mail account through a mobile phone will fail if you haven't registered your account through Outlook Web App. After you sign in to your account, sign out. Then try to connect using your mobile phone. For more information about how to sign in to your account using Outlook Web App, see How to Sign In to Outlook Web App. If you have trouble signing in, see FAQs: Sign-in and Password Issues or contact the person who manages your e-mail account.
- If you can't send messages from your Windows Mobile phone using POP3 or IMAP4, but you can receive messages, there might be a problem with the e-mail setup on your Windows Mobile phone. This problem can be corrected by downloading and installing the Windows Mobile 6.1 Hotfix for Sending POP and IMAP E-mail. To download the hotfix, click the following link.


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After months of rumors, leaks and anticipation, Samsung has just officially announced the the Galaxy S 4 (in a bizarre, epic broadway style show). The Galaxy S 4 trumps the S III in every way imaginable. Itâs thinner, sturdier, has beefier specs and a ton of software enhancements that will differentiate it from other handsets on the market.
The full spec rundown looks like this:
- Network â" 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE): 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz, 3G (HSPA+ 42Mbps): 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz, 4G (LTE Cat 3 100/50Mbps) : up to 6 different band sets(Dependent on market)
- Display â" 5 inch Full HD Super AMOLED (1920 x 1080) display, 441 ppi
- 1.9 GHz Quad-Core Processor / 1.6 GHz Octa-Core Processor (depending on the market)
- Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
- 13 megapixel Auto Focus camera with Flash & Zero Shutter Lag, BIS
- 2 megapixel front-facing camera, Full HD recording @30fps with Zero Shutter Lag, BIS
- Video codecs include â" MPEG4, H.264, H.263, DivX, DivX3.11, VC-1, VP8, WMV7/8, Sorenson Spark, HEVC
- Audio codecs include â" MP3, AMR-NB/WB, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA, OGG, FLAC, AC-3, apt-X
- WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (HT80)
- NFC, Bluetooth® 4.0 (LE)
- IR LED (Remote Control), MHL 2.0
- Accelerometer, RGB light, Geomagnetic, Proximity, Gyro, Barometer
- Temperature & Humidity, Gesture
- 16/ 32/ 64 GB User memory + microSD slot (up to 64GB)
- 2,600 mAh
As for Samsungâs special software enhancements:
- Camera features include â" Dual Camera: Dual Shot / Dual Recording/ Dual Video Call, Drama Shot, Sound & Shot, 360 Photo, Cinema Photo, Eraser, Night, Best Photo, Best Face, Beauty Face, HDR (High Dynamic Range), Panorama, Sports
- Additional features include â" Group Play: Share Music, Share Picture, Share Document, Play Games, Story Album, S Translator, Optical Reader, Samsung Smart Scroll, Samsung Smart Pause, Air Gesture, Air View, Samsung Hub, ChatON (Voice/Video Call, Share screen, 3-way calling), Samsung WatchON S Travel (Trip Advisor), S Voice Drive, S Health, Samsung Adapt Display, Samsung Adapt Sound, Auto adjust touch sensitivity (Glove friendly), Safety Assistance, Samsung Link, Screen Mirroring, Samsung KNOX (B2B only)
The Galaxy S 4 will launch around the globe, in Q2 2013. Be on the lookout for a ton of Galaxy S 4 info coming tonight, including some in-depth looks at Samsungâs special software.

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In 2013, we published a blueprint with the National Home Performance Council that outlines a seven-step process to make energy efficiency visible and properly valued in the real estate market. Appraisals are a key part of the process because the appraiser serves as a neutral third party who assesses a high performance home and indicates whether energy efficiency improvements contribute to the value.
We've witnessed real progress in the appraisal process, including enhancements to the appraiser's toolkit to better address high performance home valuations. And in locations that have pioneered the green building and remodeling movement, we're even seeing a growing demand for qualified "green" appraisers. However, we still have a way to go.
Nothing works in the appraisal process unless high performance homes are consistently documented (see Step 1 of the blueprint). Right now, the majority of home appraisers use Fannie Mae's Uniform Residential Appraisal Report (also referred to as Form 1004) to provide opinions on the market value of a given property. But, this form lacks an adequate section in which to document energy efficiency features.
In response to this, the Appraisal Institute created the Residential Green and Energy Efficiency Addendum to collect the additional information an appraiser needs when forming an Opinion of Value on a high performance home. The addendum has been well received, including a recent announcement that the Residential Energy Services Network will auto-populate the addendum, enabling direct transfer of a home's potential energy performance data from builder or home owner to the appraiser. While all appraisers have access to the addendum online, the problem is, less than 15 percent of appraisers are members of the Appraisal Institute.
We'd love to see the Residential Green and Energy Efficiency Addendum used as the model for a standard, approved approach to record the details needed to value high performance homes. The approach could be defined in the approved underwriting guidelines used by larger federal or lending organizations, or government sponsored entities like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. While limited in reach, we've seen firsthand that the industry has embraced the template and the related process. Clarifications from the government sponsored entities would formalize this model.
We'd also like to see more multiple listing services follow the lead of Midwest Real Estate Data Corporation and make energy costs accessible on listings. This provides appraisers with important data to help establish a credible value opinion. Appraisers are also better equipped to do sales comparison and income approach methods when this data is available.
Next, and logically, the right appraisers need to be assigned to the right properties. Finding a competent appraiser who has experience in valuing energy efficiency features can be difficult.
Various training initiatives are happening with some success, but lenders and appraisal management companies continue to struggle in finding qualified appraisers – or even knowing they need to assign them in the first place. An important first step would be to ensure that the existing requirements for assigning appraisers based on competency are enforced for high performance home assignments. Definitions of this competency are starting to be drafted by the Appraisal Foundation.
But we see progress here, too. The Appraisal Institute is in the process of opening its Appraiser Registry to include all students who successfully complete the required sustainability courses (and consent to have their name listed on the registry), allowing for greater exposure and marketability of their qualifications and services. Before this change, the directory only listed Appraisal Institute members who had first graduated a designation course and then went on to complete sustainability courses and exams.
Education provides a great opportunity to better connect these qualified appraisers to appraisal management companies and lenders. Appraiser Sandra Adomatis suggests that appraisers, lenders, underwriters, and builders take courses together. "When all the different players in the high performance home transaction come together for training and discussion, they better understand how they can work well together toward overlapping processes and common goals," Adomatis said.
Up next, we're honored to attend a Green Mortgage Appraisal Roundtable on March 11 in Washington D.C. Members of our team will join appraisers, lenders, Realtors, federal agencies, and other stakeholders to discuss the challenges of assigning a value to energy savings. We will continue to work toward progress on these issues through our Value for High Performance Homes campaign.
For more, sign up for the high performance homes newsletter or follow the conversation on Twitter at #VisibleValue.
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Thanks for asking about the book. The book will be ready in a couple weeks and can be found at the following website when it is ready. http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/store/books/
It became apparent at the Green Mortgage Roundtable that we need more appraiser driven studies in areas around the US to valid the appraisal methodology available when sales of high performance houses are not. The Colorado Solar PV Study is a good example of an appraiser driven study that validated the new free tool "PV Value Tool" by Energy Sense Finance and Sandia National Labs. A few more studies like this around the US and it will be hard for underwriters to say it is not a valid tool.
The secondary mortgage market is skeptical of the tools other than paired sales. The studies done using statistics are not support for the income approach and usually are not understood by most appraisers or underwriters.
Thanks for the comment, Sandra! We agree; it's important for more to complete the required courses, and it's our duty, as part of the Value for High Performance Homes campaign, to help show them the benefits of doing so. Where can folks go to access the Residential Green Valuation Tools book?
We're looking forward to your presentation at ACI, too. For other readers here, Sandra is leading a session on appraising an existing energy efficient home, including appraiser guidelines and constraints and acceptable methodology. Here's more:
Great article Melissa! The Appraisal Institute opened its Green Appraiser Registry two weeks ago, retroactive, to all students that have taken the required courses and passed the exams. Now we need to push for more folks to complete the required courses in each state.
In April, the Appraisal Institute is publishing a new book written for appraisers, real estate agents, builders, lenders, and underwriters - "Residential Green Valuation Tools" - The book will walk you through the tools available to appraisers to value energy efficiency and other features. It will illustrate the types of data needed to use these tools. The underwriting guidelines and appraiser competency is also addressed.
Hi Kent. Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading the post. Great that you're conducting the training and bringing together real estate, appraiser, and builder communities. We'd love to hear more about how the training goes and how your community progresses. Feel free to reach out to us!
If you're curious about the Value for High Performance Homes newsletter, the sign-up page and more info is here: http://www.elevateenergy.org/value-high-performance-homes/
Thanks Sandra. We look forward to that, too!
Looks like my post lost a line - Our BIA is sponsoring a training for Appraisers and RE Agents to address this issue...
Our Clark County Washington BIA & Green Building Council. We have a couple trainers coming in and are both very well versed in this subject. It'll be interesting to see the changes progress. Here's a link to more info:
Thanks for the comment, Al. We appreciate you reading the post. It's not an open event, we were honored to be selected to attend. We look forward to the Federal Housing Administration and the White House's continued leadership. For more, check out the newsletter link above, we send regular updates on this topic. Thanks!
Thank you for the update to this very important topic.
I'm wondering if the round table discussion next week is open to additional stakeholders?
I would welcome a seat at the table.
Al Cobb
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Very important article from Brad Friedman's Velvet Revolution
7/18/08: Ohio Attorneys Launch Targeted Discovery To Expose Election Manipulation By Karl Rove And Others
"Ohio Attorney Cliff Arnebeck launched a new legal strategy to expose a national strategy of election manipulation directed by Karl Rove. The implications are stunning. Arnebeck has asked the Ohio Federal Court to allow for targeted under oath depositions of key individuals including Rove, Bush IT guru Michael Connell, Jack Abramoff, Ken Blackwell and others. This will be the first opportunity ever to place these individuals under oath. Arnebeck indicated that he has amassed a great deal of information from various sources including whistleblowers implicating ..............
Mr. Karl Rove and others based upon their activities beginning in 2000 to illegally use corporate treasury money and government power to establish single faction dominance in the United States, military dominance in the world and generally undermine the rule of law as it had developed over the course of the past century."
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Study: Immune Therapy Promising in Treatment of Advanced Leukemia
(NEW YORK) -- An experimental form of immune therapy may hold the key to successful treatment of a deadly form of adult leukemia, a preliminary study suggests.
According to HealthDay News, the study, which included just five adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), showed promise as treatment for the disease.
ALL progresses quickly and often kills patients within weeks if left untreated. According to HealthDay, the first treatment usually involves three separate treatments of chemotherapy drugs. While that treatment often helps patients experience a remission, the cancer often returns.
Dr. Renier Brentjens, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and his team decided to test a different course of action.
The five patients in the study received infusions of their own immune system's T-cells, but the T-cells were genetically engineered with chimeric antigen receptors to help them recognize and destroy the leukemia cells.
All give patients experienced remission, with one patient reaching remission within eight days, according to HealthDay News.
Four of the patients proceeded to have a bone marrow transplant to aid in their recovery. The fifth was deemed ineligible due to heart disease and other health conditions.
The treatment studied by Dr. Brentjens, known as adoptive T-cell therapy, is not available outside of the research setting, but does amaze researchers in its potential. Much research must still be done before the treatment would be considered for non-research use.
Nearly 6,100 people are diagnosed with ALL each year, and more than 1,400 of those will die, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute.
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Object-oriented Programming in Common LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS
Addison-Wesley, Jan 1, 1989 - Computers - 266 pages
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No. 91,247
RICHARD BLISS and CAROL BLISS,
1. In order to establish negligence, a plaintiff must prove the existence of a duty, a breach of that duty, an injury, and proximate cause, that is, a causal connection between the duty breached and the injury suffered.
2. The existence of a legal duty is a question of law to be determined by the court. Appellate courts have unlimited review of questions of law.
3. There is no duty so to control the conduct of a third person as to prevent him or her from causing harm to another unless (a) a special relation exists between the actor and the third person which imposes a duty upon the actor to control the third person's conduct, or (b) a special relation exists between the actor and the other which gives to the other a right to protection.
4. There is no duty owing in situations where an actor does not have the ability or the right to control a third person who causes harm.
5. A possessor of land who holds it open to the public is under a duty to aid or protect members of the public who enter in response to his or her invitation.
6. The fact that an actor realizes or should realize that action on his or her part is necessary for another's aid or protection does not of itself impose upon him or her a duty to take such action.
7. An occupier of land owes a duty of reasonable care under the circumstances to all entrants on the property who are present with the occupier's consent.
8. Before a landowner may be held liable for an injury resulting from a dangerous condition on his or her land, the plaintiff generally must show that the landowner had actual knowledge of the condition or that the condition had existed for such a length of time that in the exercise of ordinary care the landowner should have known about it.
9. The argument that a spouse is to be equated with and considered to be "property" or a "dangerous condition" in order to give rise to premises liability has no support in reported Kansas cases.
10. Under the facts in this case: (1) There was no special relationship between a wife and her husband or the wife and a minor giving rise to a duty of the wife to warn the minor of the unknown and unexpected criminal acts on the husband's part; (2) in the absence of a duty, there can be no breach of a duty and no basis for a negligence cause of action; and (3) there is no basis for premises liability on a wife's part for her husband's criminal acts occurring on the real property jointly owned by the wife and husband.
Review of the judgment of the Court of Appeals in an unpublished decision filed July 30, 2004. Appeal from Wyandotte district court; R. WAYNE LAMPSON, judge. Judgment of the Court of Appeals reversing the district court is reversed. Judgment of the district court is affirmed. Opinion filed June 3, 2005.
Patrick R. Miller, of Ullman, Dezube & Miller, P.A., of Overland Park, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellant.
Derrick A. Pearce, of Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Enochs, Chartered, of Overland Park, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellee Carol Bliss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
LARSON, J.: In this first impression damage action, we must decide if the wife of a criminal offender has a special relationship with a minor, giving rise to her having a duty to warn the minor of the likelihood of being sexually abused by her husband.
We must further decide if liability may be imposed on the wife of a criminal offender under the theory of premises liability, as described by Restatement (Second) of Torts § 314A(3) (1964) for the criminal acts of her husband occurring on real property which they jointly owned and where they both resided.
In answering these questions, we set forth the facts, the history of the litigation, and the rulings of the district court and Court of Appeals; state the standards of review and the contentions of the parties; and analyze the duty to warn and premises liability issues before reaching our conclusions.
D.W. met Richard Bliss in May 1998 while D.W. was waiting for a school bus in his neighborhood. Richard asked D.W. if he would mow Richard's lawn, and D.W. agreed to do so.
During the summer of 1998, D.W. became 15 years old in July and developed a relationship with Richard. The two spent time together playing racquetball, fishing, shopping, watching television in Richard's house, and just talking. Richard gave D.W. gifts and money.
D.W.'s mother initially believed Richard was acting as a mentor to D.W. Richard was active as a leader and mentor in various youth groups and regularly devoted time to such endeavors.
During this time, Richard was married to Carol Bliss, and they resided together in Johnson County. Carol was present during some of the time Richard and D.W. spent together at the Bliss home, but there was little interaction between Carol and D.W., who characterized his relationship with Carol as nonexistent. D.W.'s telephone calls were to Richard; Carol never invited D.W. to the Bliss household. Carol was never involved in D.W.'s activities either inside or outside of the Bliss home.
In the fall of 1998, Richard began having criminal sexual encounters with D.W. Most were outside the Bliss home at the Wolbach Farm, at a duck club in Wyandotte County, and in Bennett Springs, Missouri. Carol never witnessed any of the encounters and denied she knew about them. D.W. did not believe Carol knew the encounters were occurring. Richard and D.W. made every effort to conceal the improper relationship from Carol.
Several months later, Richard hired a prostitute for D.W. Ultimately, the criminal acts perpetrated by Richard became known. As the result of his illicit sexual actions with D.W., Richard pled guilty in Wyandotte County to one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor and one count of aggravated indecent liberties and pled guilty in Johnson County to one count of aggravated indecent liberties.
After the charges against Richard were filed, two men, A.M. and G.S., whom Richard had previously mentored, came forward to D.W.'s family and admitted having sexual relationships with Richard. Deposition testimony clearly showed that neither sexual relationship occurred until both men were adults. Both men met Richard while they were teenagers.
A.M., born in February 1966, met Richard when he was 14 years old through a YMCA mentoring program. He lived in the Bliss home for 2 or 3 months as a sophomore in high school when he had problems with his mother. A.M. began having sexual encounters with Richard after he turned 18 and continued until he was 22. Richard and A.M. continued a friendly relationship after they ceased being involved sexually.
A.M. testified to an incident where Carol started to enter a room where he and Richard were watching a pornographic movie and masturbating each other. The tape was turned off, and Richard met Carol at the door. A.M. knew they talked but did not know what was said. Another time, Carol started down the stairs into the basement where Richard was performing oral sex on A.M. A.M. stated he quickly pulled his pants up, and Carol stopped part way down the stairs and went back up the stairs, saying nothing. A.M. admitted it was speculation on his part as to whether Carol knew about the sexual encounters.
A.M. introduced G.S. to Richard while they were in high school. G.S., born in December 1965, mowed Richard's lawn. After he turned 18, he moved into the Bliss house. G.S. did not begin to have a sexual relationship with Richard until he was 18, and it continued until 1990, when he was 25 years old. After the sexual encounters stopped, he continued to live in the Bliss home for some time and enjoyed a family-type relationship with Richard and the two Bliss daughters.
G.S. testified that while he was living in the Bliss house, there were a number of times when Carol came upstairs to the bedroom and knocked on the closed door when he and Richard were engaged in sexual activity. Richard would go to the door and speak with Carol, but G.S. did not hear the conversation. There was also testimony that Carol found pornography under G.S.'s bed. G.S. testified Carol never witnessed any of the acts and that he and Richard agreed to keep the sexual relationship secret from Carol.
D.W., G.S., and A.M. all testified in their depositions that Richard lied to Carol to prevent her from having knowledge about his sexual encounters with them. In his deposition, Richard claimed Carol had absolutely no knowledge about his sexual relationships. He said he had hidden them for more than 10 years. He denied that Carol had ever given any indication that she knew of his sexual relationships with D.W., G.S., or A.M.
D.W. brought a civil action against Richard and Carol. D.W. later dismissed with prejudice his action against Richard, leaving Carol as the sole defendant. D.W.'s claims were for negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and defamation by Richard's attorney. D.W. alleged Carol knew about Richard's sexual propensities based on the statements of G.S.and A.M. and should have warned him. D.W. further argued that Carol, as co-owner of the home, had a duty to warn him of the dangerous conditions existing on the property. D.W. finally contended Carol conspired with Richard to harm him by using marital funds to hire attorneys who defamed him by their communications.
Carol, by her answer and summary judgment affidavit, denied any knowledge of Richard's sexual relationships with D.W., G.S., or A.M. until after Richard's arrest on the charges involving D.W. She denied walking in on encounters between A.M. and Richard and stated she routinely knocked on G.S.'s door out of respect for his privacy just like she did with her daughter's doors. She stated it was not unusual for young men to be around the house, as Richard had mentored many during their marriage. She admitted to finding pornography in G.S.'s room but did not equate that to a sexual relationship between G.S. and Richard. She denied D.W. was ever in her care, custody, or control.
Carol moved for summary judgment, contending there was no material evidence she knew Richard was a threat to D.W.; D.W. had never been in her care, custody or control; she had no special relationship with D.W. or Richard giving rise to a duty to warn or protect D.W.; and the claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress, child endangerment, and civil conspiracy failed as a matter of law. D.W. withdrew his claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress and child endangerment, but responded on his claims of negligence and civil conspiracy, stating summary judgment was improper.
The district court granted Carol's motion for summary judgment on all counts. The court stated and held:
"Plaintiff has filed several counts against the defendant Carol Bliss. These counts are based upon three separate duties: one, that Carol Bliss was entrusted with the care of the plaintiff and that this created a duty which was breached by her failing to stop her husband from having sexual relations with plaintiff, two, that as co-owner of the property (house) she has a duty to warn licensees of dangerous conditions which exist on the property, and she failed to make such warnings, and third, that she conspired with her husband to cause harm to the plaintiff by use of marital funds to hire attorneys who defamed plaintiff by their communications.
"The Court has examined each of the cases cited in the parties' briefs, and after said review does find that the Bauswell v. Mauzey, 916 F. Supp. 787, which was decided by Judge Van Bebber in 1996 does correctly set out the law of Kansas in this area, and application of Bauswell convinces this Court that Carol Bliss is entitled to summary judgment as to all claims against her. Simply the Court finds that no duty existed in this case that could be breached, and therefore no liability can be placed on Carol Bliss. Both the claims as to 'special relationships' require that Carol Bliss be in charge or control of either her husband or the plaintiff. No facts suggest this to be the case. Plaintiff was the guest of Mr. Bliss and even if the court finds that Carol Bliss knew of the sexual acts with the other men some 10 years before, the Bauswell case makes it clear that this does not create duty, unless the special relationship exists.
"Further, no facts are present which indicate that Carol Bliss communicated any statements or writings to anyone which can be the basis for the defamation claim. Mere use of marital funds to employ her husband's attorney cannot rise to the level necessary for defamation or civil conspiracy."
D.W. appealed to the Court of Appeals, contending Carol owed a duty to him while he was in the Bliss home and that sufficient facts existed to establish that Richard's acts were foreseeable to Carol.
Carol argued there was no special relationship between her and Richard or D.W. to give rise to a duty to warn D.W. and that Richard's conduct was not foreseeable by her.
The Court of Appeals' opinion recited our well known standard of review of summary judgment motions and the necessity in negligence actions to show the existence of a duty, and then examined whether a duty existed. The Court of Appeals' opinion quoted Restatement (Second) of Torts § 315 (1964), which stated there was no duty to control the conduct of a third person unless a special relationship existed that imposed a duty to control the third person's conduct, or a special relationship existed between the actor and the other that gave the other a right to protection. The opinion stated none of the relationships as set forth in Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 316-19 existed under these facts, "i.e., the relationship between Carol and Richard did not require Carol to control Richard's sexual conduct with D.W." D.W. v. Bliss, No. 91,247, unpublished opinion filed July 30, 2004, slip op. at 9.
The Court of Appeals' opinion then noted comment (c) to § 315 referred to §§ 314A and 320 and stated: "The only section which comes close to applying to the relationship between Carol and D.W. is § 314A(3), which states: 'A possessor of land who holds it open to the public is under a similar duty to members of the public who enter in response to his invitation.'" Slip op. at 9. The opinion observed there was no evidence Carol held her residence open to the public but notes Restatement (Second) of Torts § 314A, comment b stated the specifically listed relations "'are not intended to be exclusive, and are not necessarily the only ones in which a duty of affirmative action for the aid or protection of another may be found.'" Slip op. at 9.
The Court of Appeals next noted the distinction between licensees and invitees had been abolished by Jones v. Hansen, 254 Kan. 499, 509, 867 P.2d 303 (1994). The court then stated D.W. was at least a licensee and concluded: "Therefore, Carol owed D.W. a duty to protect him from defective or dangerous property conditions." Slip op. at 10. Thus, the opinion equated Richard with a partially concealed defective stairwell.
The Court of Appeals' opinion quoted Nero v. Kansas State University, 253 Kan. 567, 584, 861 P.2d 768 (1993), stating: "'Prior similar acts committed upon invitees furnish actual or constructive notice to a landowner.'" Slip op. at 10. The opinion then stated the Nero rule should apply to social guests and concluded: "[I]f it was foreseeable that Richard would sexually abuse D.W., Carol had a duty to exercise reasonable care to protect D.W." Slip. op. at 11.
The opinion held a genuine issue existed as to whether Carol knew about Richard's sexual relationships with A.M. and G.S., making this a fact question as to whether Richard's criminal conduct should have been foreseeable to Carol. The Court of Appeals then held summary judgment was inappropriate. Slip op. at 13.
Carol's petition for review argues a special relationship is not established by saying the facts "'[come] close'" to those required by the Restatement. She contended that equating Richard with a defective and dangerous property condition was legally incorrect. Carol stated she did not have the right to control Richard's usage of their jointly owned home. Carol pointed out she never had custody and control of D.W., who came into the Bliss home only on Richard's invitation. She contended her situation was similar to Gardin v. Emporia Hotels, Inc., 31 Kan. App. 2d 168, 172, 61 P.3d 732, rev. denied 275 Kan. 963 (2003), where the relationship between the plaintiff and the motel was "too far removed" to impose a duty upon the motel. Carol argued that under the Court of Appeals' reasoning, there would be no end of the duties a wife would owe for her husband's criminal actions so long as they occurred in a residence they jointly owned.
We granted Carol's petition for review.
The standard of review of grants of summary judgment is well known and often stated. K.S.A. 60-256(c) teaches us a party is entitled to summary judgment if "there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and . . . the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law." We have further said:
"'Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal, we apply the same rules and where we find reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment must be denied. [Citation omitted.]'" Exploration Place, Inc. v. Midwest Drywall Co., Inc., 277 Kan. 898, 900, 89 P.3d 536 (2004) (quoting Bracken v. Dixon Industries, Inc., 272 Kan. 1272, 1274-75, 38 P.3d 679 [2002]).
However, as McGee v. Chalfant, 248 Kan. 434, 437, 806 P.2d 980 (1991), noted: "The existence of a legal duty is a question of law to be determined by the court." We have unlimited review of questions of law. T.S.I. Holdings, Inc. v. Jenkins, 260 Kan. 703, 716, 924 P.2d 1239 (1996).
We must first determine if there is a special relationship between Carol and Richard or Carol and D.W. giving rise to Carol's duty to warn D.W. of Richard's propensity to commit criminal child abuse.
In doing this, we must first recognize there was no evidence of any prior criminal acts by Richard. Richard's last involvement with G.S. stopped in 1990, 8 years prior to the acts involving D.W.
The necessity of proving the existence of a duty is based on the requirements of establishing negligence. In Williamson v. City of Hays, 275 Kan. 300, 311, 64 P.3d 364 (2003), we said: "'In order to establish negligence, a plaintiff must prove the existence of a duty, a breach of that duty, an injury, and proximate cause, that is, a causal connection between the duty breached and the injury suffered.' [Citation omitted.]" The necessity of establishing existence of a duty is essential, for without a duty there can be no breach to support D.W.'s claim. See Hackler v. U.S.D. No. 500, 245 Kan. 295, 297, 777 P.2d 839 (1989).
Generally, an actor has no duty to control the conduct of a third person to prevent that person from causing harm to others unless there is a special relationship between the actor and the third party or the actor and the injured party. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 315 (1964); Thies v. Cooper, 243 Kan. 149, 151, 753 P.2d 1280 (1988). As we said in Nero v. Kansas State University, 253 Kan. at 571-72:
"As far back as 1983, this court, speaking through Justice McFarland, stated:
'Although this court has never formally adopted . . . § 315, . . . we discussed the concept of special relationship in Robertson v. City of Topeka, 231 Kan. 358, 644 P.2d 458 (1982). . . . We observed a special relationship or specific duty has been found when one creates a foreseeable peril, not readily discoverable, and fails to warn. 231 Kan. at 364.' Durflinger v. Artiles, 234 Kan. 484, 499, 673 P.2d 86 (1983)."
The Restatement (Second) of Torts § 315 (1964) states:
"There is no duty so to control the conduct of a third person as to prevent him from causing physical harm to another unless
(a) a special relation exists between the actor and the third person which imposes a duty upon the actor to control the third person's conduct, or
(b) a special relation exists between the actor and the other which gives to the other a right to protection."
Comment c to § 315 explains:
"The relations between the actor and a third person which require the actor to control the third person's conduct are stated in §§ 316-319. The relations between the actor and the other which require the actor to control the conduct of third persons for the protection of the other are stated in §§ 314A and 320."
Our prevailing rule in Kansas is that in the absence of a "special relationship," there is no duty of an actor (Carol) to control the conduct of a third person (Richard) to prevent harm to another (D.W.). As was noted in C.J.W. v. State, 253 Kan. 1, 8, 853 P.2d 4 (1993), there may be special relationships giving rise to a duty to control in situations described in Restatement (Second) of Torts between a parent and child (§ 316), master and servant (§ 317), persons in charge of one with dangerous propensities (§ 319), and persons with custody of another (§ 320). We have a number of appellate decisions involving these sections of the Restatement. Some have helpful language, but many involve governmental agencies as the "actor" and are clearly different factually from our situation.
We do have a trilogy of Kansas cases involving health care professionals as the actors and § 315 duties of control in issue.
In Boulanger v. Pol, 258 Kan. 289, 307, 900 P.2d 823 (1995), we held a psychiatrist did not have a duty to control or warn of the actions of a voluntary patient where the third party (plaintiff) was aware of the potential danger. Calwell v. Hassan, 260 Kan. 769, 925 P.2d 422 (1996), involved a claim by an injured bicycle rider against a physician who was treating the driver of a car who fell asleep and hit the plaintiff. We held no special relationship existed that would impose a duty on the defendant physician under § 315, and further no duty was owed from the defendant physician to the injured plaintiff under § 324A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts. 260 Kan. at 789.
The third case, Hesler v. Osawatomie State Hospital, 266 Kan. 616, 971 P.2d 1169 (1999), involved claims against individual physicians and nurses and the State Hospital where a patient on a temporary off-grounds pass riding with his mother in a car grabbed the steering wheel of the car, causing it to veer into the path of the vehicle occupied by the plaintiffs. Here there was evidence of prior dangerous propensities of the patient toward himself but no express threat to any other parties, including the plaintiffs.
Justice Abbott, writing for the Hesler court, noted the review in Boulanger of cases involving § 315 and relied on Schmidt v. HTG, Inc., 265 Kan. 372, 961 P.2d 677, cert. denied 525 U.S. 964 (1998), where we held no duty existed under § 315 to warn the third party (Stephanie Schmidt) about the dangerous propensities of a parolee in the absence of an express threat. The Hesler opinion states: "Even if this court found that a special relationship existed, [which it did not] the question of whether the duty to control extends to a duty to warn potential victims would remain." 266 Kan. at 630.
Although the actor was a school district and not an individual, in Beshears v. U.S.D. No. 305, 261 Kan. 555, 566, 930 P.2d 1376 (1997), we held no duty was owed from a defendant school district to the minor plaintiff for injuries occurring off school premises and after school hours. Justice Six relied on the following quote from Calwell: "'We have found a duty owing under § 315(a) only in situations in which the party owing the duty did have the ability or right to control the third person causing the harm.'" 261 Kan. at 561. We held U.S.D. 305 had neither the ability nor the right to control the plaintiff or the third person causing the harm.
The trial court and the Court of Appeals found no duty on the part of Carol to control Richard. Nor do we. There is no basis for liability here under the general principle of Restatement (Second) of Torts § 315(a).
However, § 315(b) speaks of the existence of a special relationship between the actor (Carol) and the other (D.W.) which gives to the other a right of protection. This points us to §314A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, which in applicable part states:
"§ 314A. Special Relations Giving Rise to Duty to Aid or Protect
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"(3) A possessor of land who holds it open to the public is under a similar duty to members of the public who enter in response to his invitation."
This is an exception to the general rule of § 314 relating to the "Duty to Act for Protection of Others," which states: "The fact that the actor realizes or should realize that action on his part is necessary for another's aid or protection does not of itself impose upon him a duty to take such action."
As comment (a) to § 314 teaches us, the above general rule should be read with the other sections to follow. We therefore look to § 314A(3), which, when read explicitly, would not impose upon Carol (the actor) any duty to members of the public (D.W.).
In the first place, Carol never held her home open to members of the public. In addition, the record in our case is clear that D.W. never entered the Bliss home in response to Carol's invitation. Richard was always the invitor of D.W., who characterized his relationship with Carol as nonexistent.
At this point, it would be logical to hold § 314A(3) is simply not applicable to our facts. However, the Court of Appeals' opinion points to the caveat to § 314A which states, "[t]he Institute expresses no opinion as to whether there may not be other relations which impose a similar duty," and notes the distinction between licensees and invitees has been abolished in Kansas. The Court of Appeals' opinion then applied the rule that "the occupier of land owes a duty of reasonable care under the circumstances to all entrants on the property who are present with the occupier's consent." Jones, 254 Kan. at 509; D.W., slip op. at 9-10.
The Court of Appeals next suggests that Carol owed D.W. a duty to protect him from a defective or dangerous property condition; equates Richard with a partially concealed stairwell; and sets forth the quote from Nero, 253 Kan. at 584, that "[p]rior similar acts committed upon invitees furnish actual or constructive notice to a landowner." According to the Court of Appeals, this made the foreseeability of Richard sexually abusing D.W. a fact issue to be determined by a jury and requiring summary judgment in Carol's favor to be reversed.
There are numerous problems with this analysis. First, the actual relationship, or lack thereof, between Carol and D.W. is directly contradictory to the specific language of § 314A(3). Our facts are simply not applicable to § 314A(3).
Next, the caveat to § 314A about the relationships specified not being intended to be exclusive is utilized to create a new duty on behalf of a wife, resulting in legal responsibility for the criminal acts of her first-time offender husband. If we apply the Restatement caveat in this manner, we would be rewriting the Restatement as we wish it to read without limitation.
It is not logical to create liability when clearly distinguishable facts are only "close" to what is necessary to establish a special relationship. We have, in all our special relationships/duty cases, followed the outlines of the Restatement, and to judicially create responsibility based on the marriage relationship would create a "slippery slope" of unlimited possibilities for family liability that would have no practical stopping point. See Gritzner v. Michael R., 235 Wis. 2d 781, 797, 611 N.W.2d 906 (2000), for a discussion of the "slippery slope" problem in such a holding.
Equating the acts of a husband to a "defective and dangerous property condition" has the effect of establishing the existence of a duty dependent upon the relative degree of harm to a plaintiff. This we have never done despite the tragedy imposed on victims in cases such as Hesler, 266 Kan. 616; Schmidt, 265 Kan. 372; Beshears, 261 Kan. 555; and Calwell, 260 Kan. 769.
However, we recognize there is a special relationship between possessors of land and their licensees that may lead to premises liability. See Jones, 254 Kan. at 509; Nero, 253 Kan. at 572. This is a readily accepted theory of legal liability in Kansas that we must consider. D.W.'s counsel most strongly relied on Jones and Nero and argued they must be applied in this case.
Our Kansas law on premises liability underwent a change in Jones, where we eliminated the historical distinction between duties owed to licensees and invitees and held: "The duty owed by an occupier of land to invitees and licensees alike is one of reasonable care under all the circumstances." 254 Kan. at 509.
In Gragg v. Wichita State Univ., 261 Kan. 1037, 934 P.2d 121 (1997), premises liability was in issue, as was the relationship of the parties. The plaintiffs were the heirs of Barbara Gragg, who was shot and killed by a stranger, Anthony Scott, at a 1993 fireworks display held on the campus of Wichita State University (WSU). Additional defendants were the sponsors of the Independence Day celebration. In upholding summary judgment for all the defendants, §§ 314A(3), 318, and 344 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts were considered. We held that none of the sponsors were possessors or in control of the premises or had violated any duty to Gragg. 261 Kan. at 1045-47. As to WSU, we held that the Graggs failed to show, as a matter of law, that a special duty existed on behalf of WSU to protect Gragg from the unanticipated and unexpected attack by Scott. 261 Kan. at 1057.
The Graggs had attempted to place WSU in the same shoes as Kansas State University (KSU) was in Nero, just as D.W. does here. Nero is clearly distinguishable here for, as we said in Gragg: "Nero's holding . . . is more basically represented as follows: 'KSU is a landlord furnishing housing to its students in competition with private landlords. It owes a duty of reasonable care to its tenants.'" 261 Kan. at 1053.
Nero is, in reality, a landlord and tenant case, and the duty of care involved was that of a third party known to KSU to have recently been charged with rape. This is totally different from the relationships in our case. D.W. was not a tenant. The record, read most favorably to D.W., shows Carol had no knowledge that Richard had ever violated any criminal law. Richard's sexual involvement with an adult had stopped 8 years before he met D.W. Our facts are totally different than Nero. Nero is not sustainable authority for establishing a special relationship imposing a duty on Carol to warn D.W. of potential danger.
In considering premises liability, we held in Brock v. Richmond-Berea Cemetery Dist., 264 Kan. 613, 620, 957 P.2d 505 (1998):
"Before a landowner may be held liable for an injury resulting from a dangerous condition, however, the plaintiff generally must show that the defendant had actual knowledge of the condition or that the condition had existed for such a length of time that in the exercise of ordinary care the landowner should have known about it. [Citation omitted.]"
The suggestion that Richard is to be equated with and considered to be "property" or a "dangerous condition" in order to give rise to premises liability, while creative, has no support in reported Kansas cases.
A similar argument was made in Hackett v. Schmidt, 630 So. 2d 1324, 1328-29 (La. App. 1993), where it was held a wife could not be held responsible under a "premises liability" theory for her husband's negligent or intentional acts in allegedly sexually molesting a visiting child, inasmuch as the husband was not "property" and there was no special relationship between the wife and the child. In Hackett, the husband had engaged in sexual misconduct with minor females 15 years earlier. This fact was known to the wife, and the plaintiffs argued she should be responsible for the husband's subsequent unexpected conduct.
The Hackett court ruled there was no special relationship and no duty to warn. In response to a "premises liability" theory raised on oral argument, the Louisiana court said:
"The Hacketts argued that Mrs. Schmidt should be liable for failing to warn about or prevent the abuse in the same way that she would [be] liable for failing to warn about or prevent an injury caused by the existence of a hole in the floor of her home or the presence of a dog on the premises. However, this situation cannot be likened to a premises liability situation, where the owners of the property may be strictly liable for injuries caused by defects in their property. Mr. Schmidt is not Mrs. Schmidt's property." 630 So. 2d at 1328-29.
Another case which denied application of premises liability is Eric J. v. Betty M., 76 Cal. App. 4th 715, 90 Cal. Rptr. 2d 549 (1999), where the former girlfriend of a parolee, whose 8-year-old son had been sexually molested by the parolee, brought suit against members of the parolee's family, alleging they had failed to inform her of the parolee's prior conviction for felony child molestation and, also, that acts had occurred on premises owned by family members.
In Eric J., the family members knew of the parolee's criminal convictions, but (1) this was not deemed sufficient to require liability under the theory of premises liability as no relationship existed between the harm sustained and the premises where the molestation occurred, and (2) family members were not in a special relationship with the girlfriend and did not owe a duty to inform her about parolee's criminal past or warn her of potential danger. 76 Cal. App. 4th at 726-28.
In discussing premises liability, the Eric J. court distinguished a case relied on by the plaintiff, Pamela L. v. Farmer, 112 Cal. App. 3d 206, 169 Cal. Rptr. 282 (1980), as not being based on premises liability. The wife of a sexual offender there was held liable for offenses he committed because she had invited his victims onto their property, thus, in effect, procuring them for him. Eric J., 76 Cal. App. 4th at 729. The Eric J. court said the parolee had been returned to society, could not be the equivalent of a "brute beast without the capacity to repent," and held his presence on the property could not be considered a dangerous condition of the property. 76 Cal. App. 4th at 725. Thus, there was no basis for premises liability. 76 Cal. App. 4th at 729-30.
As to Eric J.'s general negligence argument, the California court said upholding such a claim would require the court to abandon its long-time rule against liability for mere nonfeasance. There was held to be no special relationship, and the court would not overturn the "no duty to aid" rule, which it held, under their facts, would create intolerable conflicts of interests within families. 76 Cal. App. 4th at 729-30.
The district court in our case, in granting summary judgment to Carol, noted that even if she knew of her husband's sexual acts with other adult men some 10 years previously, the holding of Bauswell by and through Bauswell v. Mauzey, 936 F. Supp. 787 (D. Kan. 1996), precluded liability. There was no mention of "premises liability" in the Bauswell case, where children, by and through their mother, brought a negligence action against a husband and wife and alleged the wife had a duty to prevent the husband from molesting the children.
Even though actual knowledge of previous sexual abuse by the husband was alleged, Judge Van Bebber, in granting summary judgment to the wife based on the husband's actions, first noted that whether a duty exists is a question of law and that the wife maintained there was no special relationship between her and her husband as that term is defined in Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 317-320. The Bauswell plaintiffs had argued the husband was acting as his wife's servant in a babysitting arrangement.
After holding no case law had been cited to support the theory that the relationship of wife and husband is synonymous with that of an employer and employee to give rise to § 317 duty and resulting liability, the Bauswell decision continued:
"There also is no basis in the record to support a special relationship between the defendant and her husband based upon § 319, the duty of those in charge of a person having dangerous propensities. The plaintiffs do not allege that the defendant had 'charge' of Clifford Mauzey." 936 F. Supp. at 789-90.
Bauswell is good authority for Carol's argument that she cannot be in control of or in charge of Richard. The decision does not relate directly to D.W.'s premises liability claim except to bolster the fact that Richard cannot be considered a dangerous condition under Carol's control. Where this court has considered the duty to control, we have required a finding that the person charged with the duty actually have the ability to control the third person's conduct. Beshears, 261 Kan. at 561; Calwell v. Hassan, 260 Kan. 769, 783, 925 P.2d 422 (1995).
Richard, as a cotenant of the Bliss home, had an undivided right to possession and control of the property. See Fry v. Dewees, 151 Kan. 488, 493, 99 P.2d 844 (1940). Carol had no right to restrict Richard, as co-owner, from inviting D.W. on to the property. Extension of her ownership interest into responsibility for Richard's criminal actions is unwarranted.
There are a number of cases of the nature we face here that have been decided around the country. See Gritzner, 235 Wis. 2d at 803 n.12. Pamela L., 112 Cal. App. 3d 206, is cited as a case allowing recovery. Eric J., 76 Cal. App. 4th 715, is noted to be a case not allowing recovery. We have previously discussed both cases. The other cases mentioned in the Gritzner footnote are factually different, with recovery being allowed where the wife had actual knowledge of her husband's sexual abuse. J.S. v. R.T.H., 155 N.J. 330, 714 A.2d 924 (1998). Recovery was also allowed against a grandmother for failure to protect her granddaughter from a known risk of sexual abuse by the grandfather. Doe v. Franklin, 930 S.W.2d 921 (Tex. App. 1996).
The cases cited in the Gritzner footnote where recovery was not allowed included Doe v. Goff, 306 Ill. App. 3d 1131, 716 N.E.2d 323 (1999); H.B. v. Whittemore, 552 N.W.2d 705 (Minn. 1996); and T.A. v. Allen, 447 Pa. Super. 302, 669 A.2d 360 (1995). Although decided on a statute of limitations issue, no recovery would have been allowed under an analysis in Chaney v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 39 Cal. App. 4th 152, 46 Cal. Rptr. 73 (1995), which was not included in the Gritzner footnote.
There is obviously no issue of negligent supervision in our case, as Carol had little contact with D.W. and he was never under her care, custody, or control. Negligent supervision could not be a basis for the finding of a duty to warn.
Under our clear Kansas precedent, an actor (Carol) has no duty to control the conduct of a third person (Richard) to prevent that person from causing harm to others (D.W.) unless there is a special relationship between the actor and the third party or the actor and the injured party.
There was no special relationship between Carol and Richard or between Carol and D.W., giving rise to a duty to warn D.W. of the unknown and unexpected criminal act on Richard's part.
The facts in this case do not give rise to premises liability on Carol's part for Richard's criminal acts for the many reasons previously set forth in this opinion.
In the absence of a duty, there can be no breach of a duty and no basis for a negligence cause of action.
With no duty being shown, we need not discuss foreseeability.
The Court of Appeals is reversed. The district court is affirmed.
GERNON, J., not participating.
LARSON, S.J., assigned.1
1REPORTER'S NOTE: Senior Judge Edward Larson was appointed to hear case No. 91,247 vice Justice Gernon pursuant to the authority vested in the Supreme Court by K.S.A. 20-2616.


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BALTIMORE– UMBC women's lacrosse's junior Alyssa Semones (Westminster, Md./Westminster/Penn State) registered her fourth hat trick of the season, tallying two of her team-best three goals in the opening half to keep the Retrievers within one at the break, but No. 7/5 Johns Hopkins outscored the black and gold 6-3 in the second half en route to a 10-6 victory in non-conference action on Wednesday night at Homewood Field.
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The Retrievers spotted the Blue Jays a three-goal advantage, allowing sophomore Dene' DiMartino to score a pair of goals in the opening nine minutes of play, followed by a score from senior Taylor D'Amore with 16:45 to go in the period.
Semones put the Retrievers on the board, over powering her defender for the score with 13:11 to go, but DiMartino had the response for the Blue Jays, spinning around and netting her third unassisted score of the afternoon.
UMBC closed the gap to one, 4-3, with the final two goals of the half. Semones scored her second of the day in the midst of traffic following a pass from red-shirt junior Ali Carpenter (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh/Loyola) with 4:55 left and senior Kristen Bilney (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) scored at a tough angle through a double-team with 13.8 seconds left in the period to bring the Retrievers within one.
Junior Abby Wilson (Bel Air, Md./Fallston) won the ensuing draw and found sophomore Rachel Benzing (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) in front of the pack for an open shot against goalkeeper Caroline Federico. Federico made the initial save and stopped the rebound from Semones to send her team into the break with the 4-3 advantage.
The Retrievers' defense, that held strong throughout the final 15 minutes of the opening period, allowed JHU to jump on the board 1:51 into the second half on a free position goal from senior Sammy Cermack. Bilney was quick with the response, scoring her second of the day less than a minute later on a long shot into the bottom corner of the net to keep it a one-goal contest, 5-4. The goal marked her 100th-career point with the Retrievers.
The Retrievers struggled to transition the ball throughout stints in the second half, allowing the Blue Jays to break the game open with three consecutive scores. Senior Sarah Taylor opened the run by taking advantage of a tripped up defender, connecting on the open shot 8:28 into the half. The Retrievers' defense continued to play strong, but Cermack struck for her second free position goal of the day, this one into the upper right corner to extend the lead to 7-4 with 12:27 left. D'Amore concluded the run, scoring over the top of her defender with 11:21 to go.
Semones got one back and completed the hat trick on a free position goal with 10:20 on the clock to trim the deficit to 8-5. Taylor gave the Blue Jays back a four-goal advantage and Cermack followed by scoring on an empty net while the Retrievers were trying to force a turnover with the double-team.
Wilson added her fifth goal in the last three games with 1:19 remaining in the contest.
The Retrievers were four-of-eight on clearing attempts in the second half and turned the ball over eight times to Johns Hopkins' five. The Blue Jays outshot UMBC, 13-4, in the final 30 minutes.
The Retrievers take on their second nationally ranked opponent of the week when they host No. 19/18 Albany for Senior Day on Saturday, April 19 at the UMBC Stadium. UMBC will honor its five seniors prior to the contest. The day also marks Fan Appreciation Day on the UMBC campus.


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Venezuela: Chavez hit by new, severe infection
Mar 05, 2013, 11:29 AM EST
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A severe new respiratory infection has hit cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez and his condition is "very delicate," Venezuela's government says.
A brief statement read on national television by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas late Monday carried the sobering news about the charismatic 58-year-old socialist leader's deteriorating health.
Villegas said Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory.
Chavez has been undergoing "chemotherapy of strong impact," Villegas added without providing further details.
Chavez has neither been seen nor heard from, except for photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.
The government says he returned home on Feb. 18 and has been confined to Caracas' military hospital since.
Villegas said Chavez was "standing by Christ and life, conscious of the difficulties he faces."
He also took the opportunity to lash out at "the corrupt Venezuelan right" for what he called a psychological war seeking "scenarios of violence as a pretext for foreign intervention."
The communications minister called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be "on a war footing."
Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.
Indeed, the campaigning has already begun, although undeclared. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, has frequently commandeered all broadcast channels, Chavez-style, to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition.
Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop commander who rose to fame by launching a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his force of personality.
Chavez was last re-elected on Oct. 7, and his challenger, youthful Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles, is expected to again be the opposition's candidate.
One of Chavez's three daughters, Maria Gabriela, expressed thanks to well-wishers via her Twitter account. "We will prevail!" she wrote, echoing a favorite phrase of her father. "With God always."
Maduro said last week that the president had begun receiving chemotherapy around the end of January.
Doctors have said that such therapy was not necessarily to try to beat Chavez's cancer into remission, but could have been palliative, to extend Chavez's life and ease his suffering.
Dr. Carlos Castro, scientific director of the Colombian League Against Cancer in Bogota, Colombia, said "it's difficult to predict" when Chavez might die, but he believes "it's a matter of days."
Castro said that Chavez could face further respiratory complications if he receives more intense chemotherapy treatment.
If the president's medical team "gives him strong chemotherapy again, then it would not be surprising if some infections reappear," Castro said in a telephone interview.
While in Cuba, Chavez suffered a severe respiratory infection in late December that nearly killed him, Maduro said last week. A tracheal tube was inserted then and government officials have said his breathing remained labored.
Libardo Rodriguez, a 60-year-old man who sells orange juice on the street in Caracas, said he was very worried after Monday evening's announcement regarding Chavez's condition. The government, he added, should provide more information.
"We are worried because he does not appear. The truth is that I don't know what's happening," said Rodriguez, a Chavez supporter.
Rodriguez complained about what he described as the government's vague updates regarding Chavez's health.
"There are many rumors and nobody knows who to believe," he said. "We hope he's alive."
In Cuba, Chavez has undergone a series of radiation treatments and chemotherapy after his operations. But the entire treatment regimen was kept far from public scrutiny.
Associated Press writer Vivian Sequera in Bogota, Colombia, contributed to this report.


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- Jenny from Rancho Park
I've got a problem with sides.
It's not that I don't care about them; in a restaurant I carefully study accompaniments, and have been known to turn my back on a perfectly good piece of fish because there was talk of a persimmon on the plate. Care! But when I am cooking at home during the week, I tend to forget about side dishes all together.
Partly it's my congenital meal planning deficiency. There I am, thinking deep thoughts about my protein, wondering if I have mustard in the house, or if my sage is wilted, or how exactly one butterflies a pork loin. Then, my brain suddenly skips to dessert. Wouldn't it be nice to make a budino? But I don't know how to make a budino, so will pudding do?
I am also done in by a certain amount of laziness. Side dishes often involve lots of chopping, and some copious washing, too. Who wants to face a salad spinner on a Monday night? The net result is that my family is often stuck with some nice basmati rice or steamed broccoli, the plain white t-shirt of vegetables.
But if I am resorting nightly to broccoli, I wondered, why not some cauliflower? It's equally easy to wash and cut, it's healthy, and this time of year, it's in all the markets, too. (Can you confirm this, New York? Or are you all now in that stage where you march around the city with bags of beets and kale every week, trying to keep a brave face about it?)
Trolling food52, I stumbled up Rohit Mitter's simply Roasted Cauliflower, and was instantly intrigued. Its central allure was its compatibility with my pantry. After procuring your vegetable for this, I am guessing you too have some powdered ginger, olive oil, salt and garlic on hand, as well as some sort of "red chili powder," which I interpreted broadly as any chili powder you have used in any amount you deem palatable for what you're about to pour on your cauliflower.
Now working with a community-based recipe site means constant thrills, but also some creative license. Are you there Rohit? It's me Jenny, and I need you to tell me what you want me to do with this garlic. I also could have used some guidance on the amount of olive oil to include. On the garlic front, I chopped it finely because that just seemed intuitively correct. I used about two teaspoons of olive oil, so my dressing was more like a paste; I would go with a nice heavy tablespoon next time.
Once you have drizzled this concoction on your pretty vegetable, you roast it while you go on about your business, which is probably cooking something on your stovetop, or continuing to fantasize about dessert.
Let's bottom line it: when cauliflower meets a hot oven for a 45 minutes, something good happens, starting with that irresistible aroma that fills your kitchen 20 minutes in. When you dress it up a bit with some heat and ginger, and some nice olive oil, you've got a weeknight side dish worthy of anything else you are serving up tonight.
Roasted Cauliflower
Serves 4
1. Preheat oven to 415 degrees.
2. Add olive oil, garlic, ginger and red chili powder, to florets and combine well. Season with salt and pepper. Roast in oven for approximately 40 minutes (time may vary depending on desired crispiness).
3. Enjoy!
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Orange-tinted Candy Corn Cookies
To tint cookie dough, add gel paste food coloring after the dough has come together and knead in by hand. Gel coloring doesn't mix in like the liquid food coloring I grew up with, so kneading it is the way to go. For a really cool marble effect, knead only until there are swirls of color throughout your dough.
Once the flood icing was dried, I went back over the edges and borders of the cookies with some warmed corn syrup (meringue powder mixed with a little water works, too) using a small paintbrush and added some sparkling sugar.
Do you know that October 30th is National Candy Corn Day? I learned that from A Dozen Eggs last week! Who knew? A great snack mix....candy corn and salted peanuts....yum!!!
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Things like this make m wish it was still Ok to give out non-hermetically sealed treats on Halloween.
I know what you mean! I remember getting candy apples and popcorn balls when trick-or-treating!ReplyDelete
Even some schools now, won't allow homemade treats...it's terrible! That's why we homeschool! ;) I'm kidding, but I do hate that everything has to be pre-packaged!
I love the effect of tinting the cookie dough! I do it from time to time! If you add your gel from the start with your sugar and butter it will blend it, unless you want the marble effect.ReplyDelete
I just recently discovered your blog. These are really cute cookies! :)ReplyDelete
These are adorable!! I'm going to try tinting dough one of these days! My daughter is going to be a candy corn for Halloween- I can't wait!!ReplyDelete
Those are really cute! I really need to try my hand at making cute cookies, they just look so fun!ReplyDelete
So many things to make this month...so little time! I love these.ReplyDelete
I do believe that I would like these much better than the real Candy Corn.ReplyDelete
Oh! these are just too cute. I've only tinted my dough once.ReplyDelete
I would never have thought to use corn syrup for sanding sugar, very clever.ReplyDelete
And as a bonus, Emily Rose gave me the idea that I will be a candy corn for Halloween!!
I hope her daughter and I don't run into each other trick or treating!!
I agree these would be sooo much better than the real candy corn. What a smart idea ;)ReplyDelete
i was thinking, "i bet bridget makes the cutest halloween cookies!"ReplyDelete
Ah, those are so cute! I love how they are outlined in sugar! You do such a marvelous job decorating your cookies!ReplyDelete
Crazy but I don't like candy corn. But I bet I'd love your candy corn cookies if only I had one to try. :-( Hint, hint! LOL!
Just now found this and your cookies are adorable. WOW!ReplyDelete
And now I can end my despair over what to bring to the preschool Halloween party! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Bridget these are adorable!!!!ReplyDelete
Look delicious I want to try it.ReplyDelete
The candy looks delicious and attractive, I really want to eat itReplyDelete
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! Happy baking! :)
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Vinyl LP + full download + bonus track
20 tracks - 43 mins
Limited edition
Based on the original score for the film "I Am Here� (2014), written and directed by Anders Morgenthaler, starring Kim Basinger, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3004746/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_1
Written and Produced by JГіhann JГіhannsson and BJ Nilsen
Outer cover
• side opening, 3mm spine
• printed in black and one Pantone metallic only
• inside flooded black
• double-gloss finish
Inner cover
• top opening
• printed in one Pantone metallic only
• double-gloss finish
This is the first collaboration between Jóhann Jóhannsson and BJ Nilsen… very much a mix between their two worlds, you can hear both their signatures, and with the help of additional musicians, including Hildur Guðnadóttir on cello and the remarkable voices of Elfa Margrét Ingvadóttir and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson, they together create a world of great beauty and mystery.
Written and Produced by JГіhann JГіhannsson and BJNilsen
Cello: Hildur GuГ°nadГіttir
Violin and viola: Daniella Strasfogel
Vocals: Elfa MargrГ©t IngvadГіttir and GuГ°mundur Vignir Karlsson
Piano, guitar and electronics: JГіhann JГіhannsson
Electronics: BJ Nilsen
Recorded and mixed by JГіhann JГіhannsson and BJNilsen in Berlin, December 2013 - January 2014
Mastered and cut by Jason at Transition
Track listing:
1. Intro В В В В В В В В В
2. Lightgirl В В В В В
3. Maria Driving В В В
4. Shower В В В В В
5. I Need a Fix В В В В
6. Baby В В В В В В В В
7. Streetwalkers В В В В
8. Mama, I Had a Dream В
9. Transparent В В
10. Hotel Room В
11. Brothel В В В В
12. Hotel Room 2 В В
13. Abduction В В В В
14. Maria and Petit В
15. Hospital В В В В В В
16. Mirror В В В В В В В
17. Rape В В В
18. Carkeys В В В В
19. I Am Here (Salve Regina)
20. Maria Driving 2
Icelandic Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has recently completed the score for Universal's Theory of Everything. The film is directed by James Marsh who is known for his documentary films such as the Oscar winning Man On Wire. The Working Title production focuses on the life of famed physicist Stephen Hawking and stars Eddie Redmayne of Les Miserables and Felicity Jones of The Amazing Spider Man 2. Theory of Everything premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and will be released in the USA this November and the rest of the world in December with the score soundtrack available this autumn through Back Lot Music/Universal.
JГіhannsson has composed music for many films including his recent work scoring director Denis Villeneuvue's film Prisoners and Josh C. Waller's McCanick. This year he will work with Villeneuvue once again to score the upcoming Lionsgate film Sicario starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro.
BJ Nilsen (b,1975 Sweden) Is a sound and recording artist. His work is based on the sound of nature and its effect on humans. He primarily uses field recordings and electronic composition as a working method. He has worked for film, television, theatre, dance and as sound designer. His latest album is "Eye Of The Microphone� [Touch # TO:95, 2013]. This year he co-edited "The Acoustic City", a book publication with CD, co-edited with Matthew Gandy, [2014, JOVIS Verlag, Berlin]
The Quietus (UK):
Icelandic composer JГіhann JГіhannsson's soundtrack to the Stephen Hawking biopic, Theory Of Everything, has been nominated for an Oscar, but it's predictable, sentimental orchestrations are markedly different from the dark, understated drama he's formed here in collaboration with the always excellent Swedish sound artist BJ Nilsen. Their soundtrack to a film by Danish director Anders Morgenthaler for the most part combines just two strings (Hildur Gudnadottir on cello and Daniella Strasfogel on violin) with JГіhansson's piano gilded by Nilsen's electronics. This reduced ensemble steers the music into intimate contrasts, from portentous, brooding swells and simmering, scraping suspense to introspective lonely and hopeful passages, spare in execution but abundant in emotion. Key to this deeply evocative emphasis is the electronics where strange tensions are created by subtly suspended hums, buzzes and vaporous slices. Exquisitely recorded such that the instruments feel like they're playing from within you, the various themes, segues and motifs are frustratingly short. While the film, which I've not seen, no doubt benefits from the flexibility this affords in providing sonic colours to drape in the background, helping the foreground action unfold, a focussed listen without visuals is left craving for longer passages over which the deliciously dark dramas of the audio alone can evolve. [Russell Cuzner]
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Ariana Shuts Down Mac Miller Dating Question PERFECTLY
Are they or are they not dating??
After Ariana Grande was snapped kissing long-time friend Mac Miller in a PDA recently, everyone has come to the conclusion they're dating.
But Ariana's response in the video above makes us not so sure. When asked about the rumours, Ariana has the best response ever.
Ari, please don't hide it if it's true, we all want you guys together ASAP!!


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I have a friend who enjoys shaking up dinner conversations and cocktail parties by saying something inflammatory--"So I'm thinking of buying a gun," he'll say; "What do you think?"--then he sits back and watches the fireworks.
Thus it has been with this blog: a discussion about Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne's obsession with short-sellers, his relation to an oddball Conspiracy Theorist calling himself Bob O'Brien, and the vacuity of "X-Files" O'Brien's conspiracy case has given way to an intense shouting match leading to precisely no conclusion.
Although it does lead somewhere very interesting.
We know, for example, that "X-Files" and his cohorts have taken the threads of established cases of illegal naked shorting in stocks that hardly merit serious discussion, and woven a broad Conspiracy encompassing professional short-sellers in general and shorts in Overstock.com, in particular.
Unfortunately, for his case, "X-Files" ignores the fact that professional short sellers view naked shorting the same way he does: illegal. But pros go further: it is not only illegal, it is amateurish and also stupid. Hence, whatever Overstock.com's problems are, they come not from naked shortsellers.
"X-Files" not only refuses to believe this, he goes off the deep end by making very bizarre claims, including one that the hedge fund industry has been "linked to organized crime" and another that hedge funds such as those involved in Overstock.com violate the Patriot Act by accepting funds from terrorist groups.
These are serious charges and might be seriously considered, except that Mr. O'Brien practically declares himself certifiable by stating, and I quote:
I have contacted the FBI. My attorneys feel that given the players involved, only a madman would reveal his identity and strap a bulls-eye on his chest at this juncture. I thought they were being paranoid two years ago, but now I believe they are just being prudent.
What we're dealing with here, I think, is a crackpot. A certifiable crackpot.
Now, that's my opinion. Others might say he is merely eccentric, or a whack-job, or a harmless nut. The correct adjective is not important, what is important is this: why would the CEO of a large, widely owned, publicly traded company give over a significant portion of his earnings call to an individual who is so misguided as to the facts, and, apparently, a certifiable crackpot?
That's a question that merits a serious answer, because real public companies--and I had included Overstock in that category until "X-Files" more fully revealed himself here--do not allow their earnings calls to be hijacked by crackpots.
Note: This blog is not an Overstock.com blog, nor is it a Patrick Byrne blog, nor an "X-Files" O'Brien blog. I will be moving on to other topics. But I'm still looking for answers to the fundamental questions already raised about operating issues from Overstock's last quarter. Anyone who knows--and who is not making it up--is welcome to respond. Certifiables are not.


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