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If you were listening to NPR 10 years ago this week, you might have heard this enthusiastic proclamation: "The wait is finally over for architect Frank Gehry, for the musicians and staff of the LA Philharmonic, and for all of Los Angeles. Tonight, for the first time in public, the orchestra plays its magnificent new instrument: Walt Disney Concert Hall."
The voice was that of KUSC's Gail Eichenthal, speaking alongside Performance Today's Fred Child from the broadcast booth at the freshly-minted Disney Hall back in 2003. From day one, the city's residents marveled at the building's curving, swaying, almost dancing facade.
"It's become a symbol of LA already," says Mark Swed, who covers the city's classical music scene for the Los Angeles Times. "It became one almost overnight."
Architect Frank Gehry worked wonders with the structure. But Swed says music aficionados give special credit to the man who designed the acoustics: Yasuhisa Toyota.
"People come there, and they just don't realize what things can sound like," Swed says. "The first night, they ended with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The fact is, you just could sense not only what every individual instrument was doing — and it felt like it was very close to you — but the combination of them. You got all of the colors and all of the amazing nuances. But then you just got the big, physical impact where it felt like the bass was coming through the floor right into your soles of your feet."
At Disney Hall, the acoustics for the audience are as good as the acoustics for the musicians. Every cough, every candy wrapper, every sneeze resonates and resounds.
"And interestingly enough, audiences learned extremely quickly about that," Mark Swed notes. "And it's made for much, much better audiences because you notice it."
Here's how disciplined they are now: For the 10th anniversary gala, music director Gustavo Dudamel began with John Cage's "4:33," a completely silent piece. All the musicians sit basically motionless for four minutes and 33 seconds.
"It's all about being in the environment you're in," Swed says, "but everybody was so quiet, there was almost nothing to hear! Everyone was so respectful. We're all so used to just being quiet in there."
As for the outside, Swed says that although Frank Gehry's undulating design quickly became a landmark, not many people know what Disney Hall could have been if not for early budget cuts.
"They took away the cafe from him. They don't light it well; you wouldn't think of not lighting the Arc de Triomphe," Swed says. "He chose the steel specifically for its reflective qualities because his idea was you would project the concert on the skin of the hall as it was going on. ... There would be a giant Solanen or Dudamel conducting away. And they've never done that."
Still, Disney Hall was an instant success, and has remained so. And that stands in stark contrast to some of the depressing recent headlines about classical performance across the country: lockouts at the Minnesota Orchestra, or the bankruptcy of the New York City Opera.
"With a new hall, and especially with Disney Hall, you have a year or two where you're gonna sell out every concert, because people just want to see it. And then you've got to find a way to hook people," Mark Swed says. "One of the ways the LA Phil hooked people was with new music."
Enter Gustavo Dudamel. Says the orchestra's wild-haired Venezuelan music director: "I always say that LA is a place of the new tradition, of new things."
Dudamel took over in 2009 and brought a youthful energy and unmistakable star power. But he's also been bucking the nationwide trend of offering only the tried-and-true favorites, like Mozart and Bach. Dudamel says he thrives on introducing audiences to new composers.
"It's really interesting because in the new music programs, we have good audiences," Dudamel says, "[whereas], in other places, they feel like they will not connect with that music."
It's a legacy that goes back to Dudamel's predecessor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, whose dedication to new music paid off in more than just ticket sales. In 2005, the L.A. Phil gave the first performance of one of the most important works of the last decade: the Neruda Songs.
"Peter Lieberson wrote these songs for his wife Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who was an amazing mezzo-soprano, just at the height of her powers," Mark Swed explains. "She also had cancer and was dying. Nobody quite knew how bad things were at that point. But these are songs that were very personal, and it's really become one of the best known and most popular new classical pieces from this century."
These days, Disney Hall routinely packs in crowds with new music on the schedule, whether tucked in between Debussy and Bartok or standing alone as part of its now-revered Green Umbrella series.
"It's sort of like hitting the jackpot," says composer Andrew Norman, who had a piece commissioned for the series in 2011. "I mean, this series is known all over the country and the world as being a showcase for the most interesting things in new music, so for me as a young composer, this was part electrifying and part terrifying."
Disney Hall is unquestionably unique, both outside and in, and that enduring gift is not lost on Gustavo Dudamel.
"For me, and for the orchestra, it's something great to have an instrument where we can develop a sound," he says. "And this is the Disney Hall: an amazing and unique instrument. It's moving all the time; it's calling you all the time to move. You know, architecture is harmony, it's sound, it's music. And I really love this place."
Disney Hall is spending this month celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Todd English: Allspice for its versatility. It adds heat, aroma and power to food.
Keith Keogh: Peppercorns. You have to have the basics, and with peppercorns, you can do reductions and all sorts of preparations.
What spice do you feel will grow in popularity in the coming year?
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The Canadian women's rugby sevens team heads into the 2022 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series season with an overhauled roster and new interim coach.
Irish-born Jack Hanratty has been tasked with steering the team through the end of the year, with back-to-back events in Dubai. The first starts Friday behind closed doors at the Sevens Stadium. Spectators will be allowed in the second event Dec. 3-4.
The Canadian women are in a pool with Fiji, Ireland, Britain and Russia. The Canadian men will play in a pool featuring Olympic champion Fiji, Australia and France.
It has been 663 days since the last women's Sevens Series action, with New Zealand winning the Sydney Sevens on Feb. 2, 2020.
Due to the pandemic, the 2021 women's season was cancelled although the Canadian women took part in two mini-events — in Vancouver and Edmonton in September — with several top teams unable to take part because of travel restrictions.
As it is, New Zealand's men's and women's teams, the 2020 Series champions, and the Samoan men won't participate in Dubai. The Canadian women finished runner-up at the last two events in Dubai.
The only returnees from the Canadian Olympic team on the Dubai roster are Elissa Alarie, Olivia Apps, Pam Buisa and Breanne Nicholas, who captains the squad.
Those four plus Emma Chown have a combined 51 World Series tournaments under their belt. The other eight will be making their debut on the circuit.
Rugby Canada says Olympic veterans Charity Williams, Keyara Wardley, Julia Greenshields and Karen Paquin were unavailable for selection, either through injury or other reasons.
Buisa, Gonzalez and Paquin were part of the recent 15s tour to Britain.
Former captain Ghislaine Landry and fellow Olympians Britt Benn, Bianca Farella, Kaili Lukan and Kayla Molesch have either retired or are taking time away from rugby.
Dubai represents a new beginning for the women's sevens program, in the wake of a formal complaint under Rugby Canada's bullying and harassment policy and a disappointing ninth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics.
Rugby Canada said while an independent review into the complaint concluded "the conduct described in the complaint reflected the experiences of the 37 NSW7s (national senior women's sevens) athletes," it was not behaviour that fell within the then-policy's definition of harassment or bullying.
The exact nature of the allegations against former coach John Tait has not been made public. Tait called them "unfounded' but stepped down. He is now technical director of B.C. Rugby.
"We've really been focusing on just giving a love back to the game," said Hanratty. "And kind of re-starting."
"The one thing I'll say is I think the athletes have been really open," he added. "With new coaches, there's a certain element of trust that needs to be built up. Obviously they have to understand us and our philosophies and our styles of coaching and we have to understand them as athletes and how they explore the game."
Hanratty, 32, is being assisted by former 15s and sevens player Brittany Waters, head coach of the University of Victoria Vikes women's team. With the search for a permanent coach ongoing, he says they are just concentrating on the two Dubai events.
"What we're focusing on is what things can we do on a day-to-day (basis) to make this a really positive fun environment where athletes are getting to focus on the game of rugby and develop their knowledge of the game of rugby."
The sevens women, who won bronze under Tait at the 2016 Rio Olympics, were coached by Australian Mick Byrne in Tokyo this summer.
Hanratty served as an assistant to Kelly Russell at the two September sevens events. He is also an assistant coach with the women's 15s team, head coach of the women's under-20 side, head coach of the Nova Scotia men's and women's teams, and a Rugby Canada academy coach at the Canadian Sports Centre (CSC) Atlantic in Halifax.
Canada women's 15s coach Sandro Fiorino calls Hanratty "a strong communicator" who knows the landscape of rugby in Canada.
"A breath of fresh air. And that's ideal. He's got a lot of energy, which is great," said Fiorino.
Hanratty first got involved with rugby in his hometown of Skerries, a coastal town 35 kilometres from Dublin.
He has continued in an advisory role to CSC Atlantic and Rugby Nova Scotia during his time with the sevens squad.
He was working as a development officer for Leinster Rugby when he came to Canada nine years ago, initially for seven days to run a course for a rugby club in Halifax. That turned into a sabbatical for the summer.
After returning to Ireland, he interviewed for a job with Rugby Nova Scotia, thinking it might last a year or so. He is still there.
"Although the Irish accent is there, I feel like an absolute East Coaster, through music and my love of seafood and everything in-between," said Hanratty, who passed his citizenship test in October prior to coming out west to take charge of the sevens squad.
Canada Roster
Olivia De Couvreur, Ottawa, Ottawa Irish; Renee Gonzalez, Toronto, University of Victoria Vikes; Pamphinette Buisa, Gatineau, Que., Ottawa Irish/University of Victoria; Olivia Apps, Sarnia, Ont., Lindsay RFC; Breanne Nicholas, Blenheim, Ont. London St. Georges; Emma Chown, Barrie, Ont., Aurora Barbarians; Sabrina Poulin, St-Georges de Beauce, Que., Town of Mount Royal Rugby; Nakisa Levale, Abbotsford, B.C., Abbotsford RFC; Asia Hogan-Rochester, Toronto, Toronto Nomads; Fancy Bermudez, Edmonton, Nor'Wester Athletic Association NWAA; Elissa Alarie, Trois-Rivières, Que., Westshore RFC/ Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue RFC/Braves de Trois-Rivières; Chloe Daniels, Sutton, Ont., RC Maple Leafs Academy/Queen's University; Krissy Scurfield, Canmore, Alta., University of Victoria Vikes.
—Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
RELATED: Canadian women's rugby 15s team returns to action after two-year layoff


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THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE > Seating Charts
Main Floor Reserved Seating
Paramount Main Floor Seating Chart PDF Version
The main floor of The Paramount Theatre, often referred to as "orchestra level," is divided into four main sections. Each row is lettered A through Z followed by AA - KK. Each seat is numbered, seat 1 being an aisle seat and closest to center. Tickets in these sections will show the section as "MF" followed by the section number, 1, 2, 3 or 4.
Each side of the main floor is lined with smaller, slightly elevated sections, which are wheelchair accessible. Most of these sections contain three rows. Seat 1 in each of these rows is closest to center, but not an aisle. Row B has removable seats allowing room for a wheelchair. Tickets in these sections will show the section as "SEC" followed by the section letter A, B, C, D or E.
Occasionally orchestra pit seating is added. When this is done, the orchestra pit is lowered and padded, free-standing chairs are placed in the orchestra pit for seating, labeled as rows PB1 and PB2.
Balcony Reserved Seating
Paramount Balcony Seating Chart PDF Version
The balcony of The Paramount Theatre is divided into four sections separated by walkways. The front section of the balcony, the loge, is available through a Paramount Club membership only. Go to The Paramount Club for information. The next three sections, often referred to as "mezzanines," are each divided into five sections. The first mezzanine sections are numbered 11 through 15 from right to left, each containing rows A - H. The second mezzanine sections are numbered 21 through 25 from right to left, each containing rows J - R. The third mezzanine sections are numbered 31 through 35 from right to left, each containing rows S - Z. For all mezzanine rows, each seat is numbered, seat 1 being an aisle seat and closest to center. Tickets in these sections will show the section as "MEZ" followed by the section number as described above.
The Paramount Theatre does not have an elevator to the balcony. Handicapped and wheelchair accessible seating is located on the main floor.
Main floor cabaret seating
Printable Cabaret Table Seating Chart.
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The capacity of the main floor with cabaret style seating is 568. Cabaret style seating consists of tables that seat two, four and six. Each row of tables is lettered A through L, with an aisle in the center of each row. Tables left of center are odd numbered and tables right of center are even numbered (for example, if you need two tables, purchase tables numbered 1 and 3, not 1 and 2). Row A seats two at a table and row G seats 6 at a table. All other rows seat 4 at a table. Wheelchair accessible tables are available.
Cocktails and light fare are available for purchase on the main floor for those with cabaret table seats. Food service is available beginning one hour prior to showtime and cocktail service is available throughout the performance.Main Floor General Admission
Two types of general admission are sold for events at The Paramount Theatre - general admission with regular seating in place and general admission with a flat floor. In our flat floor configuration, most seats are removed but our accessible seating sections remain. For general admission, seats are available on a first come, first serve basis, by level. Tickets will show either "ORCH" or "BALC," with the row specified as "GA," which simply means general admission.


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By Jan Ahlen, NFU Government Relations Representative
Attacks on the Renewable Fuel Standard have begun again in earnest. Following a recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision not to waive the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), the usual suspects are lining up again to blast our nation's major effort to ramp up renewable fuels production, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and stimulate the commercialization of advanced biofuels. The RFS mandates the production of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels by 2022 from conventional as well as advanced biofuels.
Recently, the National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR) released a study purporting that ethanol was the culprit behind high food prices in the chain restaurant industry. Not to be outdone, the American Petroleum Institute (API) called for a full repeal of the RFS because it claimed that it is not working and that ethanol is damaging vehicles. AAA even got into the game by warning recently that gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol, or E15, would damage car's engines.
Unfortunately, these organizations are dead wrong on a number of issues.
First, ethanol is not to blame for increased food costs. Energy costs, particularly the price of oil, are the main factors in determining food prices, not ethanol or corn. In fact, recent EPA analyses as well as numerous independent studies show that there is little relationship between ethanol production and food prices. Each month, NFU releases its Farmer's Share of Retail Food Dollar. For instance, in November, bacon sold for $4.83 at retail but the farmer only received $0.84. The retail cost of a box of cereal costs $4.69 in the grocery store while the farmer takes home a humbling $0.10. Where does the rest of the money go? 84 cents of every dollar spent on food go to transportation, marketing, packaging and advertising, which are driven by the price of oil.
Second, regardless of your point of view on ethanol, an informed debate must be driven by sound science. Unfortunately, claims by API and AAA that higher blends of ethanol will damage engines are simply wrong. EPA underwent significant testing before approving the commercial sale of E15 in model year 2001 and newer cars, SUVs, pick-up trucks and vans. These extensive tests were conducted by various stakeholders and coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Third, despite claims by API, the RFS is working as it should. The RFS is largely responsible for ethanol comprising 10% of our nation's fuel supply and reducing prices at the pump. A recent study by Iowa State University found that ethanol saved consumers $1.09 per gallon in 2011. Ethanol has also helped reduce our dependence on foreign oil from 60 percent in 2005 to 45 percent today. It supports more than 400,000 American jobs and generates $53 billion in economic activity each year. Besides, if the RFS wasn't working, organizations such as NCCR wouldn't be claiming that ethanol production is driving up food prices.
While special interests bring up the same arguments to attack ethanol whenever it is politically appropriate, U.S. energy policy must focus on the long term and not change based on short-term circumstances. The RFS is the main path forward for the advanced biofuels industry and will continue to help wean our nation off of foreign oil dependence.


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The crisis in Syria continues to escalate and 9.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance—more than 40 percent of the country's total population. With winter fast approaching, these staggering numbers speak to the urgency of preparing Syrians for the upcoming cold weather.
Majd and his family are one of many receiving winter relief assistance from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. Intense fighting forced him to flee Homs with his wife, three-year-old son and elderly mother. When they reached safety in Tartous, they had nothing but each other and the clothing on their backs.
The family managed to find shelter in a small room of a shared compound housing several displaced Syrians, but this new 'home' was in no condition to protect them from a cold winter. It had no furniture, bed, or floor coverings, leaving them with nowhere to sleep but the hard, cold floor.
Due to the conflict, Majd had been out of work for close to a year. Left without any source of income, he was unable to buy even one blanket for his family. It was USAID partners that provided Majd with mattresses and extra blankets to help keep his family warm.
With many more people now in need since last year, the United States began preparing winter relief kits and coordinating distribution plans over the summer. Efforts to distribute thermal blankets, warm clothing and additional plastic sheeting for shelter will ramp up as the cold weather sets in.
USAID partners are also working to improve infrastructure in both camp and urban areas to provide people with adequate protection from winter weather elements.
The United States has accelerated its humanitarian response at every step to meet the increasing needs, having contributed more than $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid to date.


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Tooth Squeeze for Scuba Divers
For those who prefer scuba diving over swimming pools, the dental health risk is barodontalgia or "tooth squeeze." The same way pressure builds in our ears when we dive, it can also build inside teeth, particularly any with untreated cavities or faulty dental work. If the pressure grows enough, it can even fracture the tooth. We recommend pre-diving dental visits to make sure no teeth are vulnerable.
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A common diving problem is that the so-called "one size fits all" mouthpieces don't seem to fit anyone well, forcing divers to clench down on the mouthpiece to keep it in place. This puts a lot of strain on the jaws, potentially contributing to temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). To anyone who dives multiple times a year, we recommend investing in a custom-fitted mouthpiece.


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Changyou.com Announces its 2018 Annual Report on Form 20-F is Available on the Company's Website
BEIJING, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Changyou.com Limited ("Changyou" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CYOU), a leading online game developer and operator in China, today announced that it filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2019. The Annual Report is available on the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's Website at http://ir.changyou.com/. The Company will also provide a hard copy or electronic copy of the Annual Report free of charge to its shareholders upon request. Requests should be directed to Changyou's Investor Relations Department by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail at Investor Relations Department, Changyou.com Limited, Changyou Building, Raycom Creative Industrial Park, 65 Bajiao East Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100043.
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Spiritual Change – The Transfiguration of Jesus
Spiritual change is what happens to us when we allow the Holy Spirit to enter our lives.
A Sermon Delivered to
The Compassion Internet Church
2 March 2014
Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor
Scripture References:
Exodus 24:12–18
Exodus 31:18
Psalm 99:1-9
Matthew 17:1–13
2 Peter 1:16–21
2 Peter 2:1-3
Spiritual change is what happens to us when we allow the Holy Spirit to enter our lives.
This is Transfiguration Sunday, which speaks of Jesus being transfigured in His appearance upon the mountain.
Even Jesus' clothing was changed in appearance, and He met with Moses and Elijah, which leads us to believe that this spiritual change was more than just in appearance and that His physical body changed back into His spiritual body.
Furthermore, as we will soon see, even Peter, James, and John were able to see this event, which leads us to believe that God opened their eyes to be able to see into the spiritual realm.
This celebration of Transfiguration Sunday also relates to the time when Moses was called by God to come up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments, at which time a spiritual change took place so that his face shone after speaking with God.
Let's take a look at this event as recorded in Exodus 24:12-18…
12. Now the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction."
The important thing to recognize in this verse is that God, Himself, wrote the original law and commandment on the stone tablets which He was giving to Moses, just as we are told in Exodus 31:18…
18. And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.
With this important fact in mind, let's return to our Exodus 24 passage.
13. So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
14. But to the elders he said, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them."
15. Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
16. And the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
17. And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.
18. And Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
There was something very special and holy taking place upon the mountain, which should transform everyone who possesses any true faith into a loving, compassionate, and peacemaking child of God; and this spiritual change should cause us to do everything in our power to live in the heavenly will of God here on earth.
As we look at Psalm 99:1-9, which is a psalm of praise, we need to keep in mind who the Lord our God really is, and that He always lives and acts according to the perfection of His heavenly will, where there is no death or pain or mourning.
1. The LORD reigns, let the peoples tremble;
He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake!
2. The LORD is great in Zion,
And He is exalted above all the peoples.
3. Let them praise Thy great and awesome name;
Holy is He.
Anyone can just say these words, but only those who possess the spiritual change, which the Holy Spirit brings upon us, can praise the Lord with sincerity.
4. And the strength of the King loves justice;
Thou hast established equity;
Thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5. Exalt the LORD our God,
And worship at His footstool;|
Holy is He.
Then the psalmist adds some history.
6. Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called on His name;
They called upon the LORD, and He answered them.
7. He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies,
And the statute that He gave them.
8. O LORD our God, Thou didst answer them;
Thou wast a forgiving God to them,
And yet an avenger of their evil deeds.
God is not killing anyone, or making war against anyone or a nation, as humans all too often have done throughout history.
God makes a distinction between the people and their evil deeds, and only seeks to spiritually destroy the evil in the world, which is how He avenges their evil deeds.
9. Exalt the LORD our God,
And worship at His holy hill;|
For holy is the LORD our God.
Now let's take a look at Matthew 17:1-13, which tells about Jesus' transfiguration and the spiritual change that we talked about previously.
1. And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain by themselves.
2. And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.
Seeing Jesus being transfigured, or hearing about this spiritual change happening before witnesses, is one of the loving ways that God shows us that He cares about us, our faith in Him, and the way we go about doing His ministry here on earth.
We may not be transfigured in the same way that Jesus was, but when people change their lives from being worldly, as most people are, into truly loving, compassionate, and peacemaking children of God, they are transformed spiritually, and their softened demeanor is evident to those around them.
This spiritual change is what it means to be truly "born again."
3. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.
4. And Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
Peter, who often suffers from "foot in mouth disease," is thinking and speaking in worldly terms.
5. While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!"
6. And when the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were much afraid.
7. And Jesus came to them and touched them and said, "Arise, and do not be afraid."
8. And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus Himself alone.
9. And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."
Jesus is here referring to Himself as the Son of Man.
10. And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
11. And He answered and said, "Elijah is coming and will restore all things;
12. but I say to you, that Elijah already came, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."
13. Then the disciples understood that He had spoken to them about John the Baptist.
Jesus is plainly telling us that John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah.
In 2 Peter 1:16-21, Peter writes about his experience on the mountain when Jesus was transfigured, and the spiritual change that took place.
16. For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
17. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased" —
Remember that this quoted phrase was a rebuke to Peter for suggesting that he build tabernacles for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah instead of absorbing the spiritual change that was happening before their eyes.
18. and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.
Peter knows that he, James and John witnessed the transfiguration of the Son of God, and now Peter wants all of us to share in the same glory and encouragement that they experienced on the mountain.
19. And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
The "morning star" is a reference to Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit within us; in other words, the spiritual change that occurs when we are born again.
Just as darkness disappears when a physical light is turned on, so will evil flee when we shine the spiritual light of God upon the evil in this world.
20. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,
21. for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
This happens because a spiritual change has taken place within us.
As an encouragement to us, Peter is confirming his right to openly express what he witnessed.
Now in 2 Peter 2:1-3, he tells us about the worldly system that confronts us.
1. But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
An example of this are those people who claim that God gave them dominion over the animals and that they can do whatever they want to do to them, such as killing and eating them which is totally counter to what God commands us in the last paragraph of Genesis 1, which is the same as His heavenly will.
2. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;
3. and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Not only do those people exploit us humans, they also horribly exploit the animals and the environment we all live in.
They do these evil things because there is no Godly spiritual change within them.
This is exactly the way the world operates today, and we need to stand as beacons of light against it.
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How to get the best deal on an all inclusive package
When it comes to all inclusive vacations, this is the question most people want the answer to: 'When should I book to get the best deal?'
To clarify, 'all inclusive' in this case refers to a package with flight, hotel, food, and drinks and 99% of the time it's to Cuba, Mexico, or the Dominican, AKA the Big 3 of all inclusive traveling. Some people like to throw around the term 'all inclusive' when referring to a flight and hotel (only) package to Vegas or Hawaii or other destinations. To most people though (at least in Canada), the term all inclusive involves food and drinks.
I think it's important to understand exactly what your options are when looking for an all inclusive package. It may seem like there's an overwhelming variety of places to search and scour, but in reality there's really only 2 worlds of prices available to us Canadians.
World #1 - The Canadian Tour Operators
(ie: Sunwing, Transat Holidays, Nolitours, WestjetVacations, etc)
If you've ever searched for an all inclusive vacation on a Canadian based site like RedTag, SellOffVacations, ITravel2000, Escapes, FlightCentre, or FlightNetwork you were searching for prices from the Canadian tour operators. To save my fingers from some typing, I'm going to refer to them as the CTO's from this point on.
I'll give you a hint, if you've ever tried to price compare the CTO's all inclusive package prices between various sites, you're essentially wasting your time. They'll always be the same price.
However, the CTO's generally have very competitive prices. And for the most part (but not always) their flights are decent, either with minimal stopovers, or direct, because they make use of all the charter flights out there.
So, when do the CTO's offer the best price? As is always the case in the world of travel prices, there's never a perfect answer for all situations. There are a few patterns that stand out to me though.
The first is that prices generally don't budge a whole lot, until you get close to about 4-5 weeks before departure. That's when the CTO's will occasionally start to get nervous about not having enough seats filled. There's no guarantee that prices will drop, there's never a guarantee of anything when it comes to markets, but I have noticed if they *are* going to start to drop, it will be around this point. It's at about this point in time that you'll usually see the lowest overall average price, across the largest variety of packages.
Here's a chart showing the median price of an all inclusive package from Calgary, to a 4* resort in the Mayan Riviera, as of the writing of this article.
We can see that right now, the 3rd week of March has the lowest median price which is about 4-5 weeks from now.
You can also see there's a large spike in the price around the last week of March. It's no coincidence that March 25th is the last day of school for Calgary, before their midwinter break. Plenty of people will be taking their families on holidays, which means increased demand, which means higher prices.
Interestingly enough though, Easter is quite late this year, and doesn't seem to be subject to higher prices than usual.
That gives us a look at prices out West, but how about out East? Here's a look at Toronto:
Again we can see that about 5 weeks ahead offers the cheapest price, although it doesn't be appear to be significantly cheaper than 2 weeks ahead at the moment.
What is noticeable however, is a large spike around the 2nd week of March. Just like with Calgary, it's no coincidence that this is when Ontario schools let out for midwinter break. These are just two example cities, the situation will be similar from all cities.
If you're ever looking to go on an all inclusive vacation, just ask yourself, are there a lot of other people with holidays at this time? If the answer is yes, expect prices to be higher, and the chance of an unusually good price to be quite low.
When it comes to the *really* insane prices, those are usually to be found with less than a week to go. The problem is though, it's usually to just a few select resorts, while the specific resort you may have been hoping for stands a good chance of having a higher price than was available previously. That's a classic example of flexibility vs price in the world of travel.
I'm sure there's plenty of people out there that wait for a 'last minute' deal to a specific resort, only to be disappointed. To lower their odds even further, most people also narrow it down to a specific date range. The chances of a truly great deal happening on the exact dates you want, to the exact resort you want are pretty remote.
There are also overall price trends throughout the year. Christmas of course, is just ridiculously expensive, with the off-the-charts level of demand. I've found that the average Christmas all inclusive package is usually at least 1.6X a normal, decent price. Basically, anything that involves 'over' Christmas is going to be the worst of the pricing, but anything between Boxing Day and January 7th or so is going to be nearly as bad. The chance of a great deal during the holidays drops to nearly zero, no matter *when* you buy, although there were a *few* decent deals in 2010, and I do mean few.
Anoter bad time of the year to hope for a good deal is around the third week of February. Spring break, Reading week, Family Day, President's Day, and Christmas credit card bills being paid off all combine in a perfect storm to make sure there are impossibly few good deals to be found anywhere warm.
The shoulder seasons usually have some amazing deals, such as November up to mid December. Then the prices get ridiculous for Christmas, then they come back down to earth around second week of January, but still higher than the shoulder season, as winter sets in across Canada and people start looking to get away.
During winter, there are still insane deals to be had for sure, but less frequently than in the shoulder season. Then comes April, and you're into the opposite shoulder season. There are still charter flights flying to warm destinations, but they're starting to wind down towards the end of April.
As you get into late spring and summer, people might think, it's warm here, so there's probably always some amazing deals down south. While demand might be lower due to the warmer weather here, don't forget that less charter flights also means less supply, which is the other half of the supply/demand function that determines prices in the market. And there's also a lot of people that take holidays during the summer. During the summer, you also stand a much better chance of having your vacation ruined by a hurricane down south, especially as you move into August/September.
Then as you get into late fall (end of November is approximately the end of hurricane season down south), and the charters ramp up the number of flights again and the cycle starts over.
World #2 - Everything Else
(ie: packages from Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Bookit)
I know that sounds intimidating, 'everything else'. By everything else, I mean sites that aren't offering packages from the Canadian Tour Operator's mentioned above. This includes sites like Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Bookit, etc, basically any of the big (usually American owned) travel sites out there.
It sounds like an overwhelming task, with you wasting your precious time examining them all. I can tell you that 99.9% of the time though, you'll find their prices to be pretty much identical to each other. They're basically just taking fares from the major airlines (which are the same everywhere) and mashing them together with whatever the latest hotel prices are (which are virtually always the same everywhere).
In terms of 'all inclusive' packages, as in the ones involving food and drinks, you basically just need to search for a 'flight + hotel' package and look for the ones that contain the word 'all inclusive' in the title of the hotel. That way, you're comparing apples to apples with the CTO's above.
If you search for a flight + hotel package and it doesn't have 'all inclusive' in the title of the hotel, well, you're probably just getting the flight and the hotel. On some of them though, once you select the flight + hotel package, it will give you the option of making it an 'all inclusive' (ie: food and drinks) for more money.
One problem with World #2 is that these flight and hotel packages will be initially mashed together with the cheapest flight option, which can sometimes be a completely moronic flight, like a 20 hour flight with 2 or 3 stopovers. You just have to watch out for that, and you can usually pick another flight, but the price will be higher of course. With the CTO's, as I mentioned earlier, most of them are charter flights and are usually decent flights (but not always!).
About the only other thing often missing from World #2, that's usually always included from the CTO's, are the 'transfers', which just means a way of getting from the airport to the hotel. Often you can just figure out a cheap way to get to the hotel yourself (bus, taxi, etc) so it's not really an issue, but it's just something to consider when comparing the two worlds fairly.
So, when's the best time to buy from World #2 ? A large part of it generally depends on what the flight prices are. Unlike with the CTO's, you are *rarely* going to see a last minute deal from World #2. Why? Because last minute flight prices on the major carriers are usually very expensive (unlike the charter flights that the CTO's use).
The world of flight prices could cover a whole separate blog post, but generally prices are at their most decent about 2 months ahead (this is a very general rule of thumb though). In World #2, you also have to hope that some all inclusive hotels have decided to offer a decent discount on their prices, in order for both the flight + hotel price to be a good deal. You kind of need two stars in this world to align, the first being an unusually good flight price to a warm destination from your city, and an unusually good hotel deal at the same time.
A lot of the same general rules of thumb in terms of seasons apply here of course. Christmas packages will always be expensive in World #2 as well, because flight prices will always be expensive around Christmas. And any time a large number of people are taking their holidays at the same time as you, it's rare to see great prices.
Bottom Line:
- It never hurts to check both worlds, just be sure you're comparing apples to apples, in terms of what you're getting.
- I find that the CTO's generally do have the most competitive prices, but that's certainly not *always* the case.
- 4-5 weeks ahead is usually a good time for decent overall prices from the CTO's, just don't expect anything decent over Christmas or around the third week of February.
- Watch for the crazy sell-offs from the CTO's with under a week to go, but be open to anything, anywhere.
- Keep in mind these are just general trends, there's never a guarantee of anything when it comes to the world of travel prices.
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Gordon Guyer papers
Identifier: UA-2.1.18
Scope and Content
The records of Gordon Guyer were created or collected primarily in his capacity as acting President of Michigan State University. Guyer was acting president for one year from 1992 to 1993 during which a formal search for a new president was conducted and the appointment was completed. For that reason, the amount of records created during his presidency is reduced. These records are organized in four series: Administrative, Correspondence, Speeches, and Subjects Files....
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What is alcohol withdrawal?
Alcohol withdrawal is the changes the body goes through when a person suddenly stops drinking after prolonged and heavy alcohol use. Symptoms include trembling (shakes), insomnia, anxiety, and other physical and mental symptoms.
Alcohol has a slowing effect (also called a sedating effect or depressant effect) on the brain. In a heavy, long-term drinker, the brain is almost continually exposed to the depressant effect of alcohol. Over time, the brain adjusts its own chemistry to compensate for the effect of the alcohol. It does this by producing naturally stimulating chemicals (such as serotonin or norepinephrine, which is a relative of adrenaline) in larger quantities than normal.
If the alcohol is withdrawn suddenly, the brain is like an accelerated vehicle that has lost its brakes. Not surprisingly, most symptoms of withdrawal are symptoms that occur when the brain is overstimulated.
The most dangerous form of alcohol withdrawal occurs in about 1 out of every 20 people who have withdrawal symptoms. This condition is called delirium tremens (also called DTs).
In delirium tremens, the brain is not able to smoothly readjust its chemistry after alcohol is stopped. This creates a state of temporary confusion and leads to dangerous changes in the way your brain regulates your circulation and breathing. The body's vital signs such as your heart rate or blood pressure can change dramatically or unpredictably, creating a risk of heart attack, stroke or death.
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal
If your brain has adjusted to your heavy drinking habits, it takes time for your brain to adjust back. Alcohol withdrawal symptoms occur in a predictable pattern after your last alcohol drink. Not all symptoms develop in all patients:
- Tremors (shakes) — These usually begin within 5 to 10 hours after the last alcohol drink and typically peak at 24 to 48 hours. Along with tremors (trembling), you can have a rapid pulse, an increase in blood pressure, rapid breathing, sweating, nausea and vomiting, anxiety or a hyper-alert state, irritability, nightmares or vivid dreams, and insomnia.
- Alcohol hallucinosis — This symptom usually begins within 12 to 24 hours after your last drink, and may last as long as 2 days once it begins. If this happens, you hallucinate (see or feel things that are not real). It is common for people who are withdrawing from alcohol to see multiple small, similar, moving objects. Sometimes the vision is perceived to be crawling insects or falling coins. It is possible for an alcohol withdrawal hallucination to be a very detailed and imaginative vision.
- Alcohol withdrawal seizures — Seizures may occur 6 to 48 hours after the last drink, and it is common for several seizures to occur over several hours. The risk peaks at 24 hours.
- Delirium tremens — Delirium tremens commonly begins two to three days after the last alcohol drink, but it may be delayed more than a week. Its peak intensity is usually four to five days after the last drink. This condition causes dangerous shifts in your breathing, your circulation and your temperature control. It can cause your heart to race dangerously or can cause your blood pressure to increase dramatically, and it can cause dangerous dehydration. Delirium tremens also can temporarily reduce the amount of blood flow to your brain. Symptoms can include confusion, disorientation, stupor or loss of consciousness, nervous or angry behavior, irrational beliefs, soaking sweats, sleep disturbances and hallucinations.
Diagnosing alcohol withdrawal
Alcohol withdrawal is easy to diagnose if you have typical symptoms that occur after you stop heavy, habitual drinking. If you have a past experience of withdrawal symptoms, you are likely to have them return if you start and stop heavy drinking again. There are no specific tests that can be used to diagnose alcohol withdrawal.
If you have withdrawal symptoms from drinking, then you have consumed enough alcohol to damage other organs. It is a good idea for your doctor to examine you carefully and do blood tests, checking for alcohol-related damage to your liver, heart, the nerves in your feet, blood cell counts, and gastrointestinal tract. Your doctor will evaluate your usual diet and check for vitamin deficiencies because poor nutrition is common when someone is dependent on alcohol.
It is usually difficult for people who drink to be completely honest about how much they've been drinking. You should report your drinking history straightforwardly to your doctor so you can be treated safely for withdrawal symptoms.
Treatment options
The following list of medications are in some way related to or used in the treatment of this condition.
- gabapentin
- Valium
- Tranxene
- chlordiazepoxide
- Diazepam Intensol
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Expected duration of alcohol withdrawal
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal typically improve within five days, though a small number of patients may have prolonged symptoms, lasting weeks.
Preventing alcohol withdrawal
Alcoholism is caused by many factors. If you have a sibling or parent with alcoholism, then you are three or four times more likely than average to develop alcoholism. Some people with family histories of alcoholism choose to abstain from drinking since this is a guaranteed way to avoid developing alcohol dependence. Many people without a family history also develop alcoholism. If you are concerned about your drinking, speak with your doctor.
Treating alcohol withdrawal
If you have severe vomiting, seizures or delirium tremens, the safest place for you to be treated is in a hospital. For delirium tremens, treatment in an intensive care unit (ICU) is often required. In an ICU, your heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing can be monitored closely in case emergency life-support (such as artificial breathing by a machine) is needed.
Medicines called benzodiazepines can lessen alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Commonly used medicines in this group include chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and lorazepam (Ativan).
Most alcohol abusers who are having withdrawal symptoms have a shortage of several vitamins and minerals and can benefit from nutritional supplements. In particular, alcohol abuse can create a shortage of folate, thiamine, magnesium, zinc and phosphate. It also can cause low blood sugar.
When To Call a Professional
Get help if you or someone you love has an alcohol-related problem. Alcoholism is an illness that can be treated.
If you have an alcohol dependency problem and have decided to stop drinking, call your doctor for help. Your doctor can advise you and can prescribe medicines to make withdrawal symptoms more tolerable if they occur. Your doctor can also put you in touch with local resources that will help you to stay alcohol free.
Alcohol withdrawal is common, but delirium tremens only occurs in 5% of people who have alcohol withdrawal. Delirium tremens is dangerous, killing as many as 1 out of every 20 people who develop its symptoms.
After withdrawal is complete, it is essential that you not begin drinking again. Alcohol treatment programs are important because they improve your chances of successfully staying off of alcohol. Only about 20 percent of alcoholics are able to abstain from alcohol permanently without the help of formal treatment or self-help programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Of people who attend AA, 44 percent of those who remain free of alcohol for 1 year probably will remain abstinent for another year. This figure increases to 91% for those who have remained abstinent and have attended AA for 5 years or more.
On average, an alcoholic who doesn't stop drinking can expect to decrease his or her life expectancy by at least 15 years.
Additional Info
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services


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'Avatar' Retakes All-Time Box Office Crown From 'Avengers: Endgame'
Meet the new box-office champ. (Same as the old box-office champ.)
Avengers: Endgame became the biggest film in box-office history when it opened in theaters in the summer of 2019. Its $2.79 billion narrowly beat the previous champion, Avatar from 2009. That's the way things stood until this weekend, when Avatar was re-released in China, where it promptly grossed $12.3 million — giving it a new grand total of $2.802 billion. That means that Avatar is back on top of the all-time box office chart.
The Russo brothers, directors of Avengers: Endgame, were gracious in their defeat (at least until the next Endgame re-release), posting an image on Instagram of the Avengers logo getting snapped out of existence and being replaced by the unmistakeable Papyrus font of the Avatar logo. Their caption read "Passing the gauntlet back to you... James Cameron."
Cameron thanked the fans in China for showing up for the movie (some, as you'll see, in elaborate Na'vi costumes), writing "this crown belongs to Na'vi nation." (Thanks to Titanic, Cameron has directed two of the three biggest movies in history.)
The all-time box-office top five now looks like this (via Box Office Mojo):
- Avatar - $2.802 billion
- Avengers: Endgame - $2.797 billion
- Titanic - $2.471 billion
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $2.068 billion
- Avengers: Infinity War - $2.048 billion
Of course these are numbers that do not take inflation into consideration. Once you do that, the biggest domestic hit in history is still Gone With the Wind. (Avatar and Avengers: Endgame are only 15th and 16th on that list, respectively.) But Avatar will get the next chance to throw an absurd box-office total on this list; Avatar 2 will finally open in theaters around Christmas of 2022. At present, Avengers 5 has not been officially announced.
Gallery — The Biggest Second Weekends in Box Office History:


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Michelle Ayers is Head of Research Services at Jenkins Law Library , Philadelphia, PA.
We are often told that attorney-client confidentiality is as sacred as the healthcare provider-patient relationship. Yet, as I conduct research on the Web for our library members and the general public, I do not see this principle routinely applied to the privacy concerns of legal researchers. The medical profession has adopted privacy policies for self-policing of medical Web sites. Even with these efforts, medical privacy is not always guaranteed. Legal researchers, too, are not often guaranteed privacy in their searching. As with the medical community, the privacy statements can be vague, confusing or non-existent. This article will review the methods the medical profession has developed for self regulation using privacy policies. I compare these policies to the statements used in some of the major legal Web sites. Finally, I suggest ways to protect your privacy, that of your organization and your clients when conducting sensitive legal research on the Internet.
Data Collection and Privacy on Medical Web Sites
Here at Jenkins Law Library, one criteria we use for testing the quality of medical Web sites is the HON Code ( http://www.hon.con/ ). The HON Code of Conduct was formed in 1995 by the Health on the Net Foundation. Its purpose is to encourage medical Web managers to adopt the HON codes self regulatory and voluntary seal of good conduct based on the following principles: the authority of the information provided, data confidentiality and privacy, proper attribution of sources, transparency of financial sponsorship and the importance of clearly separating advertising from editorial content. (See http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html for a complete list of the eight principles and their definitions.) On a voluntary basis, Web sites post the HON Code of Conduct seal on their home page as a signal that they adhere to the eight principles of the HON Code. Notice that "data confidentiality and privacy" is one of these principles.
Recently, a study was released in February 2000 by the California Healthcare Foundation that compared the sites' stated privacy policies with the actual privacy afforded users of the site. For the full report see: http://ehealth.chcf.org/priv_pol3/index_show.cfm?doc_id=33. The report was conducted by Janlori Goldman and Zoe Hudson of the Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University and Richard Smith, an Internet security expert. It looks at the privacy policies and practices of twenty one of the most heavily trafficked health sites on the Internet. Many of these sites post the HON Code of Conduct and further elaborate with privacy statements on their Web sites.
The identity of the twenty one Web sites is interesting. They included many of the medical sites that legal professionals may routinely use: Medscape.com, Drkoop.com, Oncolink.com, Webmed.com to name a few. It was surprising to see that the survey also listed several standard search engines and directories among the twenty one "health" sites they monitored. They are Altavista.com, Yahoo.com, Excite.com. The question the survey answers is this: do these sites adhere to their own privacy policies?
Survey Says…
To conduct the investigation, the authors used the twenty one health sites like a typical user and observed how personal data was handled. They then compared these observations to each site's privacy policy. The findings are quite remarkable. Here are two interesting points:
- Only one Web site, Oncolink.com, makes their privacy statement binding on their business partners. All others either do not make it binding [Altavista.com; CVS.com; Drugstore,com; Exicte.com; Healthcentralcom; Intelihealth.com; Ivillage.com; mayohealth.org; mediconsult.com; mediscape.com; mothernature.com; onhealth.com; Webmed.com; and Yahoo.com] or a notice to the user about the policy was not available [Cansearch.com; Drkoop.com; Hivinsite.ucsf.ude; Mhnet.org; Planetrx.com; Thebody.com]
- While almost all Web sites had a notice to the user about who is collecting the information, what information is collected, when and how it is collected and whether visitors are profiled, few sites gave users access and control over the information collected.
Privacy Statements of Legal Research Web Sites
Privacy statements from legal related Web sites varied in format, depth and content. Generally, all the major sites had some sort of privacy policy with standard language.
I began my survey of the more popular legal Web sites by deciding to ask some basic questions about each site. These questions were the same criteria used in the Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites. The following chart shows what I found.
Web Sites Is there a privacy statement? If so, is it displayed on the home page or linked from home page? Is there an TRUSTe endorsement? Is advertising accepted? Are cookies used? Lawguru.com yes yes no yes yes Findlaw.com yes yes no yes yes LLRX.com no n/a n/a yes no Catalaw.com yes, via third party host no yes yes yes ALSO! yes no no no no About.com yes yes yes yes yes Virtualchase.com no n/a n/a n/a n/a 'Lectric Law Library no n/a n/a n/a n/a Law.com yes yes no yes yes Loislaw.com no n/a no n/a n/a Versuslaw.com yes yes no no yes
Web Sites If a privacy statement exists, does the statement indicate the information collection points? At the collection points, is the data sent to the host site; another party? Is the privacy statement binding on the business partners, banner advertisers, 3rd parties Does the user have the right to view, correct or opt-out f the data collection process? Lawguru.com yes no unclear yes Findlaw.com yes maybe maybe yes LLRX.com n/a n/a na/ n/a Catalaw.com yes yes maybe maybe ALSO! n/a n/a n/a n/a About.com yes yes maybe yes Virtualchase.com n/a n/a n/a n/a 'Lectric Law Library n/a n/a n/a n/a Law.com yes yes maybe yes Loislaw.com n/a n/a n/a n/a Versuslaw.com n/a n/a n/a n/a
How to Protect Yourself
Granted, this survey was not meant to be a true scientific sampling. The purpose here is to illustrate the variations in privacy statements and to make you aware to check for privacy statements prior to conducting sensitive research over the Internet.
Awareness alone is not all you need to protect you and your clients in the brave new world of Internet research. There are tools to help with the challenge. A cookie manager called Privacy Companion helps your browser know the difference between first-party cookie from, say, the New York Times, to let you into the site, but disallow third-party cookies from ad companies that track your habits while you're there ( http://www.idcide.com/html/prod/prod.htm ). Complete cloaking tools like Anonymizer and Freedom can cloak the identity of a user in a broader way by hiding everything from your email address to your computer's IP address (http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/index.shtml and http://www.zeroknowledge.com/ ).
The question of protecting ones privacy on the Internet is not just a consumer issue. Legal professionals need to gain awareness of this issue and how it effects them as the Internet becomes the tool of choice for conducting research to support our clientele.