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Trooper Jonathan M. Biven
Public Affairs Officer
Kentucky State Police
Post 3, Bowling Green
(270) 782-2010
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Multiple Collisions on Cumberland Parkway
Date of News Release: 03/26/2013
(Bowling Green, KY) -- On Tuesday March 26th, 2013 around 6:18 a.m. Trooper Jonathan McChesney received a complaint of an injury collision on the Cumberland Parkway ramp westbound onto Interstate 65. When Trooper McChesney arrived on the scene, he learned there had been a total of four collisions in which three of them were injury collisions. The investigation shows that Terry Gray (64) of Glasgow struck the ice covered Interstate 65 overpass causing him to lose control of his 1999 GMC pickup. Mr. Gray then exited the left shoulder of the roadway and struck a guardrail in which his vehicle went over the guardrail into the east bound on ramp of the parkway. His truck came to final rest against the guardrail facing North.
Moments after the first collision, a second vehicle driven by Hannah Short (18) of Bowling Green was westbound when she observed the truck from the first collision. As Mrs. Short attempted to slow her 1999 Nissan, she also struck the ice covered overpass causing her to lose control. Mrs. Short exited the left shoulder of the roadway and struck a guardrail which deflected her vehicle back across both westbound lanes into a second guardrail.
As Ms. Short exited her vehicle, a third vehicle driven by Marsha Varner (52) of Glasgow attempted to slow due to the collisions. Mrs. Varner struck the ice and lost control of her 2002 Pontiac and struck a guardrail. After striking the guardrail her vehicle was deflected back across both westbound lanes where she side swiped Mrs. Short's vehicle. The impact from Varner's car into Short's car caused the vehicle to strike Mrs. Short who had exited her vehicle. Mrs. Varner then continued back across both westbound lanes where her vehicle came to final rest facing south in the median. A fourth non injury accident occurred just moments after the first three as a result of the ice covered overpass.
All three drivers from the injury accidents were transported by the Barren Metcalfe EMS to T.J. Samson Community Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries as a result of the collisions. Trooper McChesney was assisted on the scene by Tpr. Tommie Walters, Park City Fire, and Barren Metcalfe EMS.


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Every detail matters, and building great software means taking time to remove the papercuts. Ubuntu has over the past 5 years been refined in many ways to feel amazingly comfortable on the cloud. In the very early days of EC2 growth the Ubuntu team recognised how many developers were enjoying fast access to infrastructure on demand, and we set about polishing up Ubuntu to be amazing on the cloud.
This was a big program of work; the Linux experience had many bad assumptions baked in – everything had been designed to be installed once on a server then left largely untouched for as long as possible, but cloud infrastructure was much more dynamic than that.
We encouraged our team to use the cloud as much as possible, which made the work practical and motivated people to get it right themselves. If you want to catch all the little scratchy bits, make it part of your everyday workflow. Today, we have added OpenStack clouds to the mix, as well as the major public clouds. Cloud vendors have taken diverse approaches to IAAS so we find ourselves encouraging developers to use all of them to get a holistic view, and also to address any cloud-specific issues that arise. But the key point is – if it's great for us, that's a good start on making it great for everybody.
Then we set about interviewing cloud users and engaging people who were deep into cloud infrastructure to advise on what they needed. We spent a lot of time immersing ourselves in the IAAS experience through the eyes of cloud users – startups and industrial titans, universities and mid-sized, everyday companies. We engaged the largest and fastest-moving cloud users like Netflix, who have said they enjoy Ubuntu as a platform on the cloud. And that in turn drove our prioritisation of paper-cuts and significant new features for cloud users.
We also looked at the places people actually spend time developing. Lots of them are on Ubuntu desktops, but Windows and MacOS are popular too, and it takes some care to make it very easy for folks there to have a great devops experience.
All of this is an industrial version of the user experience design process that also powers our work on desktop, tablet and phone – system interfaces and applications. Devops, sysadmins, developers and their managers are humans too, so human-centric design principles are just as important on the infrastructure as they are on consumer electronics and consumer software. Feeling great at the command line, being productive as an operator and a developer, are vital to our community and our ecosystem. We keep all the potency of Linux with the polish of a refined, designed environment.
Along the way we invented and designed a whole raft of key new pieces of Ubuntu. I'll write about one of them, cloud-init, next. The net effect of that work makes Ubuntu really useful on every cloud. That's why the majority of developers using IAAS do so on Ubuntu.
ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn't be changed by the hardware manufacturer.
We don't live in that era any more.
However, we DO live in an era where any firmware code running on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you.
If you read the catalogue of spy tools and digital weaponry provided to us by Edward Snowden, you'll see that firmware on your device is the NSA's best friend. Your biggest mistake might be to assume that the NSA is the only institution abusing this position of trust – in fact, it's reasonable to assume that all firmware is a cesspool of insecurity courtesy of incompetence of the worst degree from manufacturers, and competence of the highest degree from a very wide range of such agencies.
In ye olden days, a manufacturer would ship Windows, which could not be changed, and they wanted to innovate on the motherboard, so they used firmware to present a standard interface for things like power management to a platform that could not modified to accommodate their innovation.
Today, that same manufacturer can innovate on the hardware and publish a patch for Linux to express that innovation – and Linux is almost certainly the platform that matters. If Windows enters this market then the Windows driver model can evolve to give manufacturers this same ability to innovate in the Windows world, where proprietary unverifiable blobs are the norm.
Arguing for ACPI on your next-generation device is arguing for a trojan horse of monumental proportions to be installed in your living room and in your data centre. I've been to Troy, there is not much left.
We've spent a good deal of time working towards a world where you can inspect the code that is running on any device you run. In Ubuntu we work hard to make sure that any issues in that code can be fixed and delivered right away to millions of users. Bruce Schneier wisely calls security a process, not a product. But the processes for finding and fixing problems in firmware are non-existent and not improving.
I would very much like to be part of FIXING the security problem we engineers have created in our rush to ship products in the olden days. I'm totally committed to that.
So from my perspective:
- Upstream kernel is the place to deliver the software portion of the innovation you're selling. We have great processes now to deliver that innovation to users, and the same processes help us improve security and efficiency too.
- Declarative firmware that describes hardware linkages and dependencies but doesn't include executable code is the best chance we have of real bottom-up security. The Linux device tree is a very good starting point. We have work to do to improve it, and we need to recognise the importance of being able to fix declarations over the life of a product, but we must not introduce blobs in order to short cut that process.
Let's do this right. Each generation gets its turn to define the platforms it wants to pass on – let's pass on something we can be proud of.
Our mission in Ubuntu is to give the world's people a free platform they can trust. I suspect a lot of the Linux community is motivated by the same goal regardless of their distro. That also means finding ways to ensure that those trustworthy platforms can't be compromised elsewhere. We can help vendors innovate AND ensure that users have a fighting chance of privacy and security in this brave new world. But we can't do that if we cling to the tools of the past. Don't cave in to expediency. Design a better future, it really can be much healthier than the present if we care and act accordingly.
Check out "loving the bottom edge" for the most important bit of design guidance for your Ubuntu mobile app.
This work has been a LOT of fun. It started when we were trying to find the zen of each edge of the screen, a long time back. We quickly figured out that the bottom edge is by far the most fun, by far the most accessible. You can always get to it easily, it feels great. I suspect that's why Apple has used the bottom edge for their quick control access on IOS.
We started in the same place as Apple, thinking that the bottom edge was so nice we wanted it for ourselves, in the system. But as we discussed it, we started to think that the app developer was the one who deserved to do something really distinctive in their app with it instead. It's always tempting to grab the tastiest bit for oneself, but the mark of civility is restraint in the use of power and this felt like an appropriate time to exercise that restraint.
Importantly you can use it equally well if we split the screen into left and right stages. That made it a really important edge for us because it meant it could be used equally well on the Ubuntu phone, with a single app visible on the screen, and on the Ubuntu tablet, where we have the side stage as a uniquely cool way to put phone apps on tablet screens alongside a bigger, tablet app.
The net result is that you, the developer, and you, the user, have complete creative freedom with that bottom edge. There are of course ways to judge how well you've exercised that freedom, and the design guidance tries to leave you all the freedom in the world while still providing a framework for evaluating how good the result will feel to your users. If you want, there are some archetypes and patterns to choose from, but what I'd really like to see is NEW patterns and archetypes coming from diverse designs in the app developer community.
Here's the key thing – that bottom edge is the one thing you are guaranteed to want to do more innovatively on Ubuntu than on any other mobile platform. So if you are creating a portable app, targeting a few different environments, that's the thing to take extra time over for your Ubuntu version. That's the place to brainstorm, try out ideas on your friends, make a few mockups. It's the place you really express the single most important aspects of your application, because it's the fastest, grooviest gesture in the book, and it's all yours on Ubuntu.
Have fun!
OpenStack has emerged as the consensus forum for open source private cloud software. That of course makes it a big and complex community, with complex governance and arguably even more complex politics, but it has survived several rounds of competition and is now settling down as THE place to get diverse vendors to work together on a IAAS that anybody can deploy for themselves. It is a big enough forum with sufficient independent leadership that no one vendor will ever control it (despite some fantastically impressive efforts to do so!). In short, OpenStack is what you want if you are trying to figure out how to build yourself a cloud.
And by quite a large majority, most of the people who have actually chosen to deploy OpenStack in production, have done so on Ubuntu.
At the latest OpenStack summit, an official survey of production OpenStack deployments found 55% of them on Ubuntu, a stark contrast with the 10% of OpenStack deployments on RHEL.
Canonical and Ubuntu play an interesting role in OpenStack. We do not seek to control any particular part of the project, although some of our competitors clearly think that would be useful for them to achieve, we think OpenStack would be greatly diminished in importance if it was perceived to be controlled by a single vendor, and we think there are enough contributors and experts around the table to ensure that the end result cannot actually be controlled by a single party. To a certain extent, the battle for notional control of key aspects of OpenStack just holds the project back; it's a distraction from the real task at hand, which is to deliver a high quality, high performance open cloud story. So our focus is on supporting the development of OpenStack, supporting the broadest range of vendors who want to offer OpenStack solutions, components and services, and enabling a large ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of OpenStack in their markets.
It's a point of pride for us that you can get an OpenStack cloud built on Ubuntu from just about every participant in the OpenStack ecosystem – Dell, HP, Mirantis, and many more – we think the healthiest approach is for us to ensure that people have great choices when it comes to their cloud solution.
We were founding members and are platinum sponsors of the OpenStack Foundation. But what's more important to us, is that most OpenStack development happens on Ubuntu. We take the needs of OpenStack developers very seriously – for 14.04 LTS, our upcoming bi-annual enterprise release, a significant part of our product requirements were driven by the goal of supporting large-scale enterprise deployments of OpenStack with high availability as a baseline. Our partners like HP, who run one of the largest OpenStack public cloud offerings, invest heavily in OpenStack's CI and test capabilities, ensuring that OpenStack on Ubuntu is of high quality for anybody who chooses the same base platform.
We publish stable, maintained archives of each OpenStack release for the LTS releases of Ubuntu. That means you can ALWAYS deploy the latest version of OpenStack on the current LTS of Ubuntu, and there is a clear upgrade path as new versions of both OpenStack and Ubuntu are released. And the fact that the OpenStack release cadence and the Ubuntu release cadence are perfectly aligned is no accident – it ensures that the OpenStack developers can always deliver their latest code straight to a very large audience of developers and operators. That's important because of the extraordinary pace of innovation inside OpenStack; there are significant and valuable improvements in each six-month release, so customers, even enterprise customers, find themselves wanting a more aggressive upgrade schedule for OpenStack than is normal for them in platform environments. We support that and have committed to continue doing so, though we do expect the urgency of those upgrades to diminish as OpenStack matures over the next three years.
For commercial support of OpenStack, we are happy for industry to engage either with our partners who can provide local talent combined with an escalation path to Canonical for L3 support of the whole solution, or directly with Canonical if the circumstances warrant it. That means building on Ubuntu opens up a wide range of solution providers who can make the same high commitment to SLAs and upgrades.
For Canonical itself, our focus is on scale and quality. Our direct customers run the very largest production deployments of OpenStack, both private and public, and we enjoy collaborating with their architects to push the limits of the stack as it stands today. That gives us a lot of insight into the approaches being taken by a wide range of architects in telco, finance and media. We ourselves invest very heavily in testing, continuous integration, and interoperability, with the largest OpenStack interop program (OIL) that gives us the ability to speak with confidence about what combinations of vendor offerings will actually work, and in many cases, how they will perform together for different applications.
The fact that the traditional enterprise Linux vendors have now joined OpenStack is a tremendous validation of the role that OpenStack has assumed in industry: THE open cloud forum. But for all the reasons outlined above, most of the actual production deployments of OpenStack are not on traditional, legacy enterprise Linux. This mirrors the public cloud, where even the largest and most mission-critical deployments tend not to be on proprietary Linux offerings; the economics of HA single-node solutions just don't apply in a scale-out environment. So just as Ubuntu is by far the most widely used platform for public cloud guests, it is also on track to be the enterprise choice for scale-out infrastructure like IAAS, storage, and big data. Even if you have always done Linux a particular way, the transition to scale-out thinking is an opportunity to reset expectations about your base OS; and for the fastest-moving players in telco, media and finance, Ubuntu turns out to be a great way to get more done, more efficiently.
In a series of 12 posts, I'll make the case for Ubuntu as the platform of choice for public clouds, enterprise clouds and related scale-out initiatives.
Cloud computing is largely being defined on public clouds today. There are a range of initiatives for private cloud computing – some proprietary, some open – but for sheer scale and traction, the game today is all about public cloud services. Azure, AWS, a range of offerings from telco's and service providers together with innovative takes on the concept from hardware OEMs have been the leading edge of the cloud market for the past five years. We do expect private clouds to flourish around OpenStack, but we expect the gene pool of innovation to stay on the public clouds for some time.
And what do people run on public clouds? By substantial majority, most of that innovation, most of that practical experience and most of the insights being generated are on Ubuntu.
Digital Ocean, the fastest growing new challenger in the US public cloud market, published definitive statistics on the share of operating systems that customers choose on their cloud:
AWS hasn't spoken publicly on the topic but there are a number of measurements by third parties that provide some insight. For example, SCALR offer a management service that is used by enterprises looking for more institutional management control of the way their teams use Amazon. One might think that an enterprise management perspective would be skewed away from Ubuntu towards traditional, legacy enterprise Linux, but in fact they find that Ubuntu is more than 70% of all the images they see, three times as popular as CentOS.
There is no true safety in numbers, but there is certainly reassurance. Using a platform that is being used by most other people means that the majority of the content you find about how to get things done efficiently is immediately relevant to you. Version skew – subtle differences in the versions of components that are available by default on your platform of choice – is much less of an issue if the guidebook you are reading assumes you're on the same platform they used.
There is also the question of talent – finding people to get amazing things done on the cloud is a lot easier if you let them use the platforms they have already grown comfortable with. They can be more productive, and there are many more of them around to hire. Talking to companies about cloud computing today it's clear their biggest constraint is knowledge acquisition; the time it takes to grow own internal skills or to hire in the necessary skills to get the job done. Building on Ubuntu gives you a much broader talent and knowledge base to work with. Training your own team to use Ubuntu if they are familiar with another Linux is a relatively minor switch compared to the fundamental challenge of adopting a IAAS-based architecture. Switching to Ubuntu is the fastest way to tame that dragon, and the economics are great, too.
That's why we see many companies that have been doing Linux one way for a decade switching to Ubuntu when they switch to the cloud. Even if what they are doing on the cloud is essentially the same as something they already do on another platform, it's "easier with Ubuntu on the cloud", so they switch.
With Bdale Garbee's casting vote this week, the Debian technical committee finally settled the question of init for both Debian and Ubuntu in favour of systemd.
I'd like to thank the committee for their thoughtful debate under pressure in the fishbowl; it set a high bar for analysis and experience-driven decision making since most members of the committee clearly took time to familiarise themselves with both options. I know the many people who work on Upstart appreciated the high praise for its code quality, rigorous testing and clarity of purpose expressed even by members who voted against it; from my perspective, it has been a pleasure to support the efforts of people who want to create truly great free software, and do it properly. Upstart has served Ubuntu extremely well – it gave us a great competitive advantage at a time when things became very dynamic in the kernel, it's been very stable (it is after all the init used in both Ubuntu and RHEL 6 and has set a high standard for Canonical-lead software quality of which I am proud.
Nevertheless, the decision is for systemd, and given that Ubuntu is quite centrally a member of the Debian family, that's a decision we support. I will ask members of the Ubuntu community to help to implement this decision efficiently, bringing systemd into both Debian and Ubuntu safely and expeditiously. It will no doubt take time to achieve the stability and coverage that we enjoy today and in 14.04 LTS with Upstart, but I will ask the Ubuntu tech board (many of whom do not work for Canonical) to review the position and map out appropriate transition plans. We'll certainly complete work to make the new logind work without systemd as pid 1. I expect they will want to bring systemd into Ubuntu as an option for developers as soon as it is reliably available in Debian, and as our default as soon as it offers a credible quality of service to match the existing init.
Technologies of choice evolve, and our platform evolves both to lead (today our focus is on the cloud and on mobile, and we are quite clearly leading GNU/Linux on both fronts) and to embrace change imposed elsewhere. Init is contentious because it is required for both developers and system administrators to understand its quirks and capabilities. No wonder this was a difficult debate, the consequences for hundreds of thousands of people are very high. From my perspective the fact that good people were clearly split suggests that either option would work perfectly well. I trust the new stewards of pid 1 will take that responsibility as seriously as the Upstart team has done, and be as pleasant to work with. And… onward.
As prep for the upcoming 14.04 LTS release of Ubuntu I spent some quality time with each of the main flavours that I track – Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu with the default DE, Unity.
They are all in really great shape! Thanks and congratulations to the teams that are racing to deliver Trusty versions of their favourite DE's. I get the impression that all the major environments are settling down from periods of rapid change and stress, and the timing for an LTS release in 14.04 is perfect. Lucky us
The experience reminded me of something people say about Ubuntu all the time – that it's a place where great people bring diverse but equally important interests together, and a place where people create options for others of which they are proud. You want options? This is the place to get them. You want to collaborate with amazing people? This is the place to find them. I'm very grateful to the people who create those options – for all of them it's as much a labour of love as a professional concern, and their attention to detail is what makes the whole thing sing.
Of course, my testing was relatively lightweight. I saw tons of major improvements in shared apps like LibreOffice and Firefox and Chromium, and each of the desktop environments feels true to its values, diverse as those are. What I bet those teams would appreciate is all of you taking 14.04 for a spin yourselves. It's stable enough for any of us who use Linux heavily as an engineering environment, and of course you can use a live boot image off USB if you just want to test drive the future. Cloud images are also available for server testing on all the major clouds.
Having the whole team, and broader community, focus on processes that support faster development at higher quality has really paid off. I've upgraded all my systems to Trusty and those I support from afar, too, without any issues. While that's mere anecdata, the team has far more real data to support a rigorous assessment of 14.04′s quality than any other open platform on the planet, and it's that rigour that we can all celebrate as the release date approached. There's still time for tweaks and polish; if you are going to be counting on Trusty, give it a spin and let's make sure it's perfect.
This week IBM released a bunch of new hardware, including 8 new Power Systems, 3 PureSystems models, and new storage technology. This is good news for small and medium businesses, because it means the same powerful hardware that powers Watson (http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/) is now available at prices designed to compete with commodity hardware from other vendors. more>>
The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11X has just announced that popular Linux Journal columnist, Kyle Rankin, will give the second keynote at the expo in February.


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When Bassekou Kouyate met Taj Mahal
The coming together of African American blues titan Taj Mahal and legendary Malian ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate in London resulted in sheer jubilance.
Review: Toumani & SidikiMali's greatest living kora players come together in a father-son partnership.
Lines in the Malian Sand: Tuareg Fractures Widen as Talks Continue to StallDivisions within northern Mali's various Tuareg groups have slowed down negotiations with the government and reawakened old regional rivalries.
Calculating Coups: Can Data Stop Disasters?Statistical forecasting isn't perfect but it's always getting better. The international community should sit up and listen because it could help save lives.
West Africa's Barbershop 'Pride'In Esiebo's stunning photos of West African barbershops, the viewer sees the relationship between barber and client, the care barbers take in their work, and above all their pride.
Peace and Security for Africa, Made in FranceFor all the talk of a new approach, it seems France is the only actor able and willing to engage militarily in much of Africa.
Mali: Are the Blue Helmets Going Green?After the Haiti cholera scandal, the UN Mali mission has become the first tasked with assessing its own environmental impacts. However early indications don't look promising.
Review – Music, Culture & Conflict in MaliMusic is Mali's most famous cultural asset and has shaped the country's history for centuries. A new book by Andy Morgan recounts how it has suffered under Islamist occupation.
Niger: The Stable Sahelian State, For NowDespite an outward image of stability, Niger can't be used as a model for Mali's reconstruction.
Mali: The Appeal of the Shadows and the Destruction of DemocracyIbrahim Boubakar Keïta must learn not to make the mistakes of his predecessors if Mali is to make meaningful progress.
And Another One: the Tragedy of Single-Issue Publications on Small-Scale Gold MiningThe sad, unintended consequence of publications like these is that they will skew the debate on small-scale gold mining away from the real issue: legalisation.


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- It's a beautiful day. Why not take the kids out boating? It's one of our favorite things! © Michael Wiley
- Their mom knows that outdoors in nature is the best place for exploration and games © Michael Wiley
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"They really don't treat the water in this kind of eggshell kind of way that they do in the United States," Mr. Chakrabarti said. "They reclaim the land, use dredging material, do a whole variety of things to reshape the shoreline, like we first did when we were New Amsterdam. The Dutch have unrivaled experience in dealing with flooding. They really know how to shape the water's edge, and I think we really have to rethink the way we deal with the water's edge, given what's happened with Sandy." — New York Observer
Architect and planner Vishaan Charkrabarti, director of Columbia's Center for Urban Real Estate and a partner at SHoP, has a novel idea to save New York from the next big one: Build some giant sea gates around the harbor, like they have in Rotterdam. Also, a barrier island or two would be good. View full entry »
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Prefabricated shells meant for building Bangkok's elevated skyway have become home for flood refugees. — cnn.com
These homes in Vicksburg are all situated along the Yazoo River, a tributary of the overflowing Mississippi River, and their owners have surrounded themselves with tons of earth and sand.
With questions over whether the main levees that protect the area from floods would hold, these farmers took no chances and have so far saved their homes and crops from destruction. — dailymail.co.uk
The Farnsworth House, damaged by flood on September 14th, now has a blog to communicate the clean-up. They have also announced special tours of the damage to help finance the effort. View full entry »
As positive-platypus points out in the forum: "As of mid-day Sunday, flood waters rose above the 5-foot risers on which the steel and glass home sits, leaving its interior covered in another two feet of water," said Whitney French, historic site director. View full entry »
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Nice, but there is a better way. Soak the chicken overnight in buttermilk, pat it dry before rolling in the seasoned flour (mix in some corn meal too) & the result is a more tender, moist & flavorful chicken when fried (peanut oil is best) or oven-fried.
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Interesting judgments. For the record, the progressive folks I am acquainted with bear no resemblance to such harsh characterizations. Nor do we believe "lies" about the Tea Party. We see what those people do, and form opinions based on their actions. (Like a pointless government shutdown that cost untold billions of dollars and put many hard-working Americans out of work, for example.) And we listen - first hand - to inflammatory divisive rhetoric and we are quite able to draw our own conclusions. Politicians like Palin and Cruz demonize themselves. Absolutely no need for the press to "spin" it for anyone.
Speaking of lies and spin, I would guess that much of what was written above this comment was likely informed by a media outlet that rhymes with "pox." The very "journalists" who went to court and proved they had the LEGAL RIGHT to lie to their viewers. How ironic.
There is no doubt our government needs some serious overhaul. What a shame that "we the people" can't seem to find a way to work together and make that happen.
"LEGAL RIGHT to lie to their viewers". What about the President who continues to lie to the American people?
But one of them did, so does that count?
One of the ringleaders of the rebels that did dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor was Samuel Adams. Not only did he sign the Declaration of Independence, and serve in Congress, but his manifesto spoke of 'natural rights' ( life and liberty). Thomas Jefferson incorporated those terms into the Declaration of Independence.in
If Sam Adams doesn't qualify as 'a founder', someone is setting the bar a little high -- apparently to argue a partisan position. Isn't there enough of that already?
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As the 32 NFL clubs start releasing players in order to meet tonight's deadline of having a final 53 man roster, some veteran players will be released. This season is no different than any other season with some surprise moves being made at the 11th hour. It appears that the quarterback situation in Cleveland has been resolved, another veteran has been jettisoned by the New England Patriots and the Washington Redskins confusing running back situation has been made a bit clearer. Several outlets are reporting this afternoon that veteran QB Seneca Wallace has been released by the Cleveland Browns. This news does not surprise me, given Seneca Wallace's salary heading into the regular season versus Colt McCoy's cost. Yes, there might have been a rift between McCoy and the team's president over the handling of McCoy's concussion last year, but he understands the offense and comes at a much cheaper price. Deion Branch has been released by the New England Patriots. Many thought that Branc...
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From the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK; and the Scottish Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. Correspondence: Professor TM McMillan, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, 1055 Great Western Road Glasgow G12 OXH, UK.
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Does "partial" posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occur after head injury? The authors found that attention bias to trauma-related threat stimuli and higher heart rate during trauma interview were not associated with PTSD symptom severity in 42 participants with severe head injury. They found no evidence for "partial" PTSD.
There has been debate about whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after severe head injury (SHI), when there is usually little or no recollection of the actual traumatic event.1 Head injury impairs memory for trauma as a result of loss of consciousness, posttraumatic amnesia (PTA), and retrograde amnesia. Hence, the basis for reexperience is limited, and this limitation might provide protection from psychological trauma. Fear associated with traumatic experiences may be mediated by subcortical structures, allowing development of reexperience phenomena after SHI, as represented by emotional and physiological reactivity, and damage might explain the lower incidence of intrusive phenomena.2 Indeed, several studies on PTSD after SHI report low frequencies of intrusive symptoms, and some report an absence of "reexperience" symptoms..2–5 A protective effect of SHI might, for some patients, prevent PTSD from arising and, for others, result in "partial" PTSD, where all symptom criteria are not met.6 There is interest in "partial" PTSD after non-head-injury–related trauma,7 but, as yet, this is not reflected in studies on head injury.
Diagnosis of PTSD after head injury is complicated by symptoms that are common to both. Also, the cognitive sequelae of head injury often include impairment of attention and inflexible thinking, and these factors can also lead to errors in diagnosis.8 Furthermore, people with head injury are often curious about the "amnesic gap" in their lives during the traumatic event. This curiosity can have an intrusive quality, without associations associated with anxiety or fear, but can be confused with reexperience.4 If PTSD occurs after SHI in "partial" form, this phenomenon might explain the wide range of occurrence of PTSD (0–27%) reported after SHI,2,3,8 and there are implications for diagnosis and treatment after head injury.
Here, we investigate whether partial PTSD occurs after SHI. If partial PTSD is common after SHI, then emotional responses associated with PTSD (attention bias to trauma-related threat stimuli and heart rate reaction) when asked to remember the trauma would be associated with PTSD symptom severity.
Evidence for partial PTSD after SHI will be supported if higher PTSD symptom severity scores are associated with 1) attention bias toward trauma-related words; and 2) increase in heart rate when discussing the traumatic event.
Participants were recruited from a neurorehabilitation unit and from a brain-injury charity organization. Ethics approval was granted by NHS Lothian. Inclusion criteria were the following: over age 17 years, IQ over 79, not color-blind, SHI (PTA>1 day), ≥3 months post-injury (DSM-IV criterion for PTSD), and living independently.
Participants were administered the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)9 and the Traumatic Memory Inventory (a structured interview assessing memory for the event; only current memory was assessed, as described previously;6 see Van der Kolk BA: Traumatic Memory Inventory [TMI]; Boston, MA, 1990; unpublished report obtained directly from the author). Severity of brain injury was estimated by retrospective assessment of PTA.10 The Wechsler Test of Adult Reading yielded a pre-injury estimate of IQ.11
The Stroop Test was modified to assess attention bias. It consisted of traumatic, negative, neutral, and positive words that were selected on the basis of a pilot study (details available from corresponding author). Fifteen words of each type were repeated four times (once in red, blue, yellow, and green ink). A practice trial consisted of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 presented randomly in red, blue, green, and yellow ink. The test was presented electronically, by laptop, using Superlab V4.0 with a Cedrus RB-730 response box),12 with automatic recording of errors and response times. Words were presented pseudo-randomly, with the same word or color never appearing consecutively. Heart rate was estimated using the Garmin-Forerunner 50 Heart Rate Monitor.
Tests were two-tailed. Nonparametric statistics were used if data were not normally distributed.
All 42 participants sustained a severe head injury (PTA 1–7 days: 41%; 8–28 days: 26%; >28 days, 33%). Causes of injury were road traffic accident (47%), fall (36%), and assault (17%). On the TMI, 39 (93%) reported some recall of the event (mean score 2.74; standard deviation [SD]: 1.73).
On the CAPS, the proportion with no re-experience symptoms (88%) was much greater than for avoidance (48%) or hypervigilance (45%). Two people (5%) achieved PTSD "caseness" on the CAPS (DSM-IV criteria B–F); both had some memory of the trauma. CAPS symptom severity scores were not associated with age, time since injury, or PTA duration; higher CAPS scores were associated with estimates of lower pre-injury verbal IQ (Table 1). For ANCOVAs, two PTSD symptom severity groups were divided by median split as "higher" (mean: 27.14; SD: 14.35) or "lower" (mean: 3.24; SD: 14.35).
The sample was demographically representative of people with severe head injury.4,13 Evidence for attention bias or heart rate response might be expected if "partial" PTSD is common after SHI,5 and, in turn, PTSD symptoms might be expected in this SHI sample because 93% reported some memory of the traumatic event. However, associations between PTSD symptom severity and attention bias or heart rate were not found. Consistent with other reports, few participants reached the DSM-IV criterion for reexperience.3,4 In fact, the frequency of PTSD "cases" is lower than reported in the general population in victims of road traffic accidents or assaults.5 These findings support the view that SHI protects against the development of PTSD.3,6,8,14 Clearly, symptoms of avoidance and arousal can arise independently of PTSD in people who suffer a brain injury. These include anxiety and adjustment issues associated with the trauma and its consequences, memory impairment, difficulty concentrating, sleep difficulties, and irritability.4 Hence, the low rates of re-experience symptoms after SHI found here are more likely to reflect a low true rate of PTSD, rather than PTSD in a "partial" form.
This research was part funded by NHS Education Scotland.
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Administrators at two Memphis schools are cracking down on a dress code and warning parents after gunshots and fights broke out near Wooddale Middle and High schools this past Tuesday.
Memphis City Schools officials say they've worked hard to reduce gang activity in the classroom, but what happens outside of school is a different issue.
Four people who weren't students were arrested near the two schools Feb. 26. Administrators say guns were fired while around 100 students were nearby. Groups of students wearing similar colors fought students wearing other colors - a sign a gang crime.
It's a sign of gang crime -- and now school administrators are cracking down on the dress code.
"Gangs wear particular colors, particular kinds of symbols, so when we see those signs and symbols showing up in the community around our schools then we know that there's gang activity around that school," said Ron Pope, Memphis City Schools coordinator of gang and truancy prevention.
The school system wants to get ahead of the problem. Both the middle school and high school principals sent letters home in the past few days in wake of the incident explaining what happened. The letters also detailed that there will be renewed enforcement of the dress code.
The schools said the students will wear a uniform of black, white or khaki. They won't be able to wear colors or hats or sports gear or cartoon characters on clothing.
"I support the administration with enforcing the dress code," said Jacqueline Hunt, Wooddale guardian. Her two nephews attend Wooddale High and she had to purchase new clothes this week.
"I love the principal here and, cause he's concerned for the children and getting their education," she said.
If students don't comply with the dress code they could face suspensions.
The news of suspensions does not sit well with some Wooddale parents.
That doesn't sit well with some parents.
"You're going to kick my child out of school cause of what color shoes he got on and he got to change that within 24 hours?," questioned Clotee Walker. "That ain't going to happen."
Police were on patrol when school let out Friday. Officers were encouraging students to head home. School officials say the dress code could help reduce the threat of gang violence on campus.
"The thing we want to make sure is that everyone understands that we're very serious about school safety and protecting students," Pope said.
The MCS dress code has been in effect for years, but Wooddale Middle and High Schools had let students make some exceptions as a convenience to parents. Administrators with the school district say if Wooddale parents are concerned their child could be involved in a gang, they can contact the school system. MCS has resources to help.
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CONYERS -- Parents of students in the gifted program at Rockdale County Public Schools will get a chance later this month to share their opinions on changes to the program.
Last month, officials at RCPS presented the Rockdale County Board of Education with a plan for Program Challenge to operate differently next school year.
More than 400 gifted elementary school students are bused to Peek's Chapel Elementary School for a few hours each week to take advanced courses with nine teachers. Next school year, officials plan to operate a program at each individual elementary school to save time and money on students being transported to one central location.
After RCPS presented the changes to the school board, several parents of students in the program were upset that they weren't part of the discussion about the changes.
"We were not given any communication about this change, and we were not asked what we think about it or given an explanation as to why they want to do this," said Sherri Alderson, a parent of a third-grader in the program and whose middle school student was once in the program.
As a result and directed by RCPS Superintendent Samuel King, RCPS is planning to hold an information and input session for parents of students in the program at 6 p.m. March 22 at Rockdale Career Academy, which is located at 1064 Culpepper Drive, off Parker Road, in Conyers. As promised, Rich Autry, chief academic officer at RCPS, said Friday that letters will be mailed out on Monday encouraging parents to participate in the meeting.
"We're hoping that we are allowed to give some input as to what is going on in the schools with our children's education," Alderson said Friday. "My concern is that down the road, we have this jewel, the (Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology), and not all the kids will go that route, but we need to prepare those children best as we can."
She hopes to find out if the changes will water down the program and if criteria and standards of the program will be changed to let more students in it.
"We want to understand the reasoning and urgency to do this without any input," Alderson said. "We deeply care about the educational system in this county ... and we want to help the educators."
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"Remaining Competitive in Today's Legal Market", Environmental Law Institute, Forum, May/June 2014
The Consumer Law Revolution: The Lawyer's Guide to the Online Legal Marketplace, ABA/LPM, June 2013
Essential Qualities of the Professional Lawyer, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, Chapter on eProfessionalism, June 2013
"Using Technology to Unbundle in the Legal Services Community," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, online Fall/Winter 2012
Limited Scope Legal Services: Unbundling and the Self-Help Client, ABA/LPM Publishing, March 2012
Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online, ABA/LPM Publishing, 2010
Practicing Law Online: Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office, ebook, August 2008, revised January 2009
Ethics Chapter for Cloud Computing for Lawyers by Nicole Black, Winter 2012, ABA/LPM Publishing
Ethics of Virtual Law Practice with Courtney Kennaday, South Carolina Lawyer, March 2012
Educating the Digital Lawyer, Editors Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, Harvard's Berkman Center LawLab and LexisNexis, Chapter 10 "What Should be in a Digital Curriculum: A Practitioner's Must Have List." January 2012.
"The Law Office of the Near Future: Practical and Ethical Considerations for Virtual Practice", New York State Bar Association Journal, Vol. 83, No. 7, September 2011.
"Popular Cloud Computing Services for Lawyers: Practice Management Online", co-authored with Tom Mighell, ABA Law Practice Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 5, September 2011.
Serving the DIY Client: A Guide to Unbundling Legal Services for the Private Practitioner, ebook April 2011.
So You Want to Start a Virtual Practice? Steps for Choosing a Structure, Law Practice Magazine, January/February 2011.
"The Ethics of Unbundling Legal Services" Family Advocate, ABA Section of Family Law, September 2010
"Practicing without a Law Office Address: How the Bona Fide Office Rule Affects Virtual Law Practice", University of Dayton School of Law, Law Review, January 2011
"Best Practice Tips for the Virtual Law Office," Michigan Bar Journal, September, 2010
Three part series on virtual law practice for the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (Mass LOMAP) blog:
"Introduction to Virtual Law Practice and Delivering Unbundled Legal Services Online" June 15, 2010
"Marketing a Virtual Law Office" July 8, 2010
"Ethics Considerations for the Virtual Practice of Law" August 10, 2010
Regular contributor on virtual law practice and unbundling legal services on the Lawyerist Blog:
"Marketing Unbundled Legal Services in a DIY Economy", June 16, 2010
"Putting Unbundled Legal Services Online" February 4, 2010
"Unbundling Legal Services Online" Feburary 2, 2010
"Avoiding Malpractice Risks When Providing Unbundled Legal Services Online", February 8, 2010
"How to Write a Client Engagement Letter For A Virtual Law Practice" August 3, 2010
"Innovative Attorneys Push Forward with Virtual Law Practice," May 3 2010
Setting Up a Web-based Virtual Law Office, ABA GP/Solo & Small Firm Technology eReport, November 2009.
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South Carolina Law Review's 2014 Symposium, "On Task? Expanding the Boundaries of Legal Education," University of South Carolina School of Law Columbia, South Carolina, panel presentation "What Do Clients and Employers Want?" focusing on consumer law and access, February 28, 2014.
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2014 Tax Institute, "Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Your Online Law Practice," January 27, 2014.
University of San Francisco School of Law, 2014 Legal Ethics Symposium, "What Can I Say? Borderless Communication in a Jurisdictional Profession", panel presentation January 31, 2014.
Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grants (LSC TIG) Annual Conference, "Get Your Game On!: Using Games to Engage and Learn about Legal Services," Jacksonville, Florida, January 15, 2014.
District of Oregon Conference entitled, Innovations in the Law: Science and Technology, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, speaking about branded networks, consumer law, and access to justice, October, 2013.
ABA Annual 2013, with Richard Granat and Will Hornsby on Consumer Law Revolution, August 2013.
Tymetrix, spoke to a closed group of in-house counsel and GC for large corporate clients about unbundling of legal services, Napa Valley, CA, June 2013.
Chicago Bar Association, CLE live and webcast, Virtual Law Practice, May 2013.
ABA Business Bar Leaders Conference, May 2013, Chicago. Social Media Panelist.
Avvo Lawyernomics, Speaking on branded networks and online marketing, April, 2013, Las Vegas.
ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, Ignite style presentation on the Consumer Law Revolution, March 2013
California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) CLE presentation on virtual law offices, San Francisco, December 12, 2012.
Use of Apps in Law Practice, NBI CLE teleconference, November 29, 2012.
Consumer Law Revolution, panel presentation for College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) with Michael Mills, Marc Lauritsen, and Prof. Tanina Rostain, Washington, D.C. October 26, 2012.
Reinventing the Practice of Law, panel presentation with Will Hornsby and Luz Herrera, ABA GP, Solo, Small Firm Conference, Seattle, October 13, 2012.
Unbundling in the 21st Century: Growing Your Practice with Limited Scope Representation, ABA webinar, panel presentation with Richard Granat, Sue Talia and Woody Mosten, September 18, 2012.
California Lawyer's Mutual CLE presentation, virtual law practice (two recorded video sessions), August 28, 2012.
ALI-CLE webinar, "How You Can Deliver Legal Services Online," sponsored by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, August 16, 2012.
ABA Annual, "Delivering "Unbundled Legal Services" Over the Internet" with Will Hornsby and Richard Granat, sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, August 3, 2012.
International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC), Banff, Alberta, Canada, "The Challenges of Virtual Law Practice and Social Media." July 13, 2012
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Entertainment Law Section CLE, recorded webinar presentation on virtual law practice, June 14, 2012
Institute of Intellectual Property Paralegals, Cary, NC, CLE presentation, "eOffice", April 26, 2012
U.S. GSA, Office of General Counsel, online presentation on remote lawyering, April 19, 2012
Stanford Law School, May 2, 2012, as a speaker sponored by CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, "Unbundling and the Future of Legal Service Delivery" . Video here.
Going Virtual to Expand Access, Legal Services Corporation's Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) conference, Albuquerque, N.M., January 11, 2012.
Webinar for law students at Elon Law School, January 9, 2012.
Virtual Law Practice and the Future of Legal Services, American Association of Law Schools (AALS), Washington, D.C., January 5, 2012.
Cloud Computing, Dayton Bar, December 8, 2011.
Webinar for Buffalo Law School students, November 21, 2011.
Virtual Law Practice and 60 Tips in 60 Minutes presentations, North Carolina Bar Association Solo/Small Firm Conference, November 18, 2011.
Future of Legal Services and Online Delivery, Canadian Disciplinary Commission's Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 3, 2011.
"Legal Trends", National Association of Bar Related Insurance Companies (NABRICO), September 29, 2011.
Marketing a Law Practice and Cloud Computing in Law Practice, South Carolina Bar Solo/Small Firm Conference, September 23, 2011.
Delivering Legal Services Online CLE webinar for Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), September 14, 2011.
Webinar for Concord Law School's Small Business LLM on Virtual Law Practice and Unbundling Legal Services, August, 2011.
Webinar on virtual law practice for students at Charlotte School of Law, August, 2011.
Alabama State Bar Annual Conference, July 14-15, Point Clear, AL: "Visit My North Carolina Virtual Law Office and Remain at The Grand Hotel" and "Ethical and Technological Issues of Delivering Legal Services On–line"
The National Conference on Professional Responsibility, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, Memphis, TN, June 1-4, "The Future is Here: Ethical and Regulatory Implications of Virtual Law Practice", panel presentation with Will Hornsby moderating, co-panelists: Randall DiFuntorum and Richard Granat.
Missouri State Bar Association's GP/Solo/Small Firm Conference,
Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, June 8-10: "Online Clients and Virtual Lawyering: How to Deliver Legal Services Over the Internet", "Serving the DIY Client: Unbundling Your Practice", and "Hey You! Get Off of My Cloud! The Benefits and Ethics of Practicing Law in the Internet Cloud" with Catherine Sanders Reach
ABA TECHSHOW, Chicago, April 11, 10:30-11:30am, "Expanding Your Practice with an Online Office", co-presented with Catherine Sanders Reach and April 12, 8:00- 9:00am, Meet the Author, "Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online" 10:00 – 11:00am, "Popular Cloud Services for Lawyers", co-presented with Tom Mighell
Panel discussion, Pacific McGeorge Ethics Symposium, Ethics 20/20: Globalization and Technology, April 8, 2011.
Virtual Law Practice: How To Deliver Legal Services Online, CLE for ALI-ABA and ABA-LPM, April 6, 2011
Practicing Law with a Virtual Law Office, CLE for Greensboro Bar, March 30, 2011
AVVO webinar on unbundling legal services, Thursday March 10th at 10:00 am PT.
Unbundling Legal Services: Ethics and Best Practices, ALI-ABA Teleconference, February 24, noon-1:30pm EST.
Going Virtual, Staying Ethical: How Ethically To Deliver Legal Services Online, ALI-ABA, January 2011.
The Virtual Lawyer: Is An Online Law Practice For You?, Seattle University School of Law, January 2011.
Ethics and the Virtual Law Office in Pennsylvania, CLE, ABA Law Practice Management Section, January 2011.
Practicing Law With a Virtual Law Office, Dayton Bar Inn of Court, January 2011.
Introduction to Virtual Lawyering: Delivering Legal Services Online, New Jersey State Bar Section of Elder & Disability Law, December 2010.
Practicing Law with a Virtual Law Office, University Student Legal Services Association Conference, December 2010.
How to Operate a Virtual Law Office and Deliver Legal Services Online, AVVO webinar, November 2010
The Virtual Law Office: What It Is & How to Use It, Law Practice Strategy, November 2010
Introduction to Virtual Law Practice, University of Dayton School of Law, dot.com course for LLM students, November 2010
Technology: How Can We Use it To Practice Law? covering the section on Virtual Law Practice, Georgia State Bar Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, November 2010.
ELawyering and the Future of Legal Work, CLE at American University Washington College of Law with co-panelists Blair Janis, Marc Lauritsen and Ronald Staudt, on October, 2010.
Delivering Legal Services Online with a Virtual Law Office, Massachusetts Bar CLE, October 2010.
Social Media in the Legal Profession, CLE for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, Annual Meeting, September 2010
Introduction to Virtual Law Practice, guest lecturer for law practice management course at Campbell Law School, Raleigh, NC, September, 2009 & 2010
Leverage the Internet to Serve Your Clients and Grow Your Practice, ABA Journal, Legal Rebels, August 2010
The Virtual Law Firm: How to Build Your Practice in An Online World, Co-presentedwith Will Hornsby, Marc Lauritsen and Richard Granat, Sponsored by the ABA LPM Section, ABA Annual Meeting, 2010
20/20 Vision: The Impact of Technology and Globalization on Ethics for the 21st Century Lawyer, Sponsored by the ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission and the Center for Professional Responsibility, ABA Annual Meeting, August 2010
eLawyering and the Future of Legal Work, presented with the ABA eLawyering Task Force at Boyd School of Law, UNLV, April, 2010, video and materials online
How to Operate a Virtual Law Office and Deliver Legal Services Online, two-part online CLE for North Carolina Bar Association, July 2010
Twitter Debate: Virtual Law Offices—Game Changer or Business as Usual?, ABA Journal, May 2010
SC Bar Association CLE "The Virtual Law Office: Making it Work for You", Friday, March 12, 2010, Live and Webinar audience
ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, presentation about virtual law practice before Commission, speaker materials and transcript from public hearing, February 5, 2010
The Virtual Law Firm: Benefits, Costs and Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid, co-presented with Richard Granat and Marc Lauritsen, sponsored by the American Bar Association LPM Section and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education, December 2009
60 Websites in 60 Minutes, NC Bar Association Practical Skills CLE, co-presented with Erik Mazzone, Director for the NC Bar Center of Law Practice Management, and Lee Rosen, attorney and owner of Rosen Divorce Law, September 2008 & 2009
Virtual Law Practice: Technology and Ethics Considerations, NC Bar Association CLE for General Practice/Solo and Small Firm Symposium, July 2008
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I have seldom seen a free agent happier than Nikolai Khabibulin. He was giddy, which stands out when a man of a certain age displays that kind of animation (it's like the day I read Keith Richards fell out of a tree. Why is he up in the tree? Do a lot of 60+ males spend time in trees? It stands out, just does) and states his glee in such glowing terms. Khabibulin: "It happened very quickly; in an hour or an hour and a half. Edmonton made such a big commitment. There weren't too many opportunities for such a long term."
Term. And the amount. Those were the concerns initially and that brought others. It was a tough year to be Nikolai Khabibulin.
- Boxcars: 18gp, 3.03
- SP ahead of backup: .008
- Cap hit (capgeek): $3,750,000
- What do these numbers tell us? We should be clear about this: even before the injury, Khabibulin was not quite NHL average. Then we add the fact that he got hurt and that was fairly predictable. Tyler Dellow last July 1: "Contrary to what Ryan Rishaug was saying on the radio, Khabibulin is not a particularly healthy fellow. He seems to miss 10-20 games a year with back/groin/knee problems. I'm no gerontologist but that doesn't sound to me like something that gets better as people get older." Khabibulin was not an upgrade on Roloson (even when healthy). The best stat he owned a year ago was a .924 EV SP, which was "in the range" with divisional rivals Kiprusoff (.928) and Luongo (.925).
- How could the numbers be better? He needed to stay healthy because the gap between NK (which was just below NHL average but could win you games) and two rookies was pretty big. Khabibulin's performance for the Oilers in 09-10 started poorly (opening night error) and never got on track.
- You liked him a year ago. Last summer, I wrote "like the goalie, don't like the numbers or term" and stand by it. My main issue is that the contract goes so deep it all counts against the cap even if NK walks away (my understanding is that the Oilers won't have to count the contract against the cap if he can't pass the physical at TC).
- What about a trade? GM Tambellini spent almost half of his most recent PC talking up Khabibulin (the other half was devoted to JF Jacques in what was a bizarre moment in Oiler history). I don't think he's going anywhere.
- Did Chabot help? I have no idea. I doubt they spent a lot of time together based on GP totals this season, as the coach had a few other things to deal with (2 rookie goalies) in 09-10.
- Can he save this contract? Age and injury history would suggest the answer is no.
- How Important is he to the organization? He's very important to Tambellini. This was the marquee move for the new GM and unless this player has a rebound season the club will be left with two lame-duck years of contract for a guy who can't (apparently) play or stay healthy. Some bad arrows here.
Predictions Past 2009-10: 48gp, 2.88 .914
Performance in 2009-10: 18gp, 3.03 .909


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The NFL announced the Pro Bowl rosters Wednesday night and the Packers had three players named to represent the NFC. Aaron Rodgers will be the starting quarterback for the second year in a row, earning his third Pro Bowl trip. Clay Matthews continues to make history, getting selected for the 4th straight year at lineabacker. Matthews is the only Packers player in history to make the Pro Bowl his first four years in the league. And there was one surprise. Veteran center Jeff Saturday, who made the Pro Bowl five times during his career with the Indianapolis Colts, was named as the backup center in his one, and likely only season in Green Bay. Just last week, Saturday was benched in favor of Evan Dietrich-Smith. Randall Cobb and Josh Sitton were named first alternates. The San Francisco 49ers led the way with nine selections, the Chicago Bears had five players named, Brandon Marshall, Julius Peppers, Henry Melton, Charles TIllman and Tim Jennings. The Minnesota Vikings had three players picked, Adrian Peterson, Jared Allen and rookie kicker Blair Walsh. The only Detroit Lion on the team is superstar wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Robert Griffen III is the only one of three rookie quarterbacks who have made a splash this year to make it. Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson were bypassed. Former Packers fullback Vonta Leach has become a Pro Bowl fullback with the Baltimore Ravens and ex-Wisconsin Badger JJ Watt was named to the team from the Houston Texans. The Pro Bowl game is played in Hawaii the Sunday before the Super Bowl.
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This is a group for all people who love or grew up with these 5th gen games. the 5th gen is also known as the 32-64 bit era and is the time of the atari...
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BfCommando developers group to regroup all people who help me to make BFC.
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This group is exactly what the name implies. A group for people who are Christians. If you're a Christian then please join us. We're a place on ModDB...
Well, you are definately right, it is very irritating that there are a few mods left that actually have original content and new mods which have skilled developers rarely pop up, it somehow keeps the years-old BF2 game's modding alive. And it is good that we at least have a mod like Global Warfront, that puts ALL the free content together, because some people like me dont hVe the knowledge, time, or energy to put that all together.
But do not worry, quality people who can create original content are worth a lot more than the "developers" of those newly coming out mods, and will always be appreciated with your great work and effort. :)
PS: I almost had a heart attack when you said "Im done." Because I thought for a second thst you were quitting modding 0_o
well, people can chose mods. Nowadays they care about fun, enjoyable gameplay- and only very few cares about mod developers and stuff originality. That's all.
I'm the few. Somehow too much ported weapons doesnt fit with BF2, and I prefer either edited vanilla weapons or weapons that made from scratch.
When I started modding BF2 I didnt care about those things, but now after I putted my time into it, I dont like so called mods made only from BFP4F weapons and other games/mods ripps. While those mods do pop up almost every day and keep BF2 alive I still believe they represent "black sheeps" of modding communty. It's sad that new fish likes more those mod craps then PR, FH2, POE2, OPK2 and other original mods.
Good to hear 7 that you're back.
Whilst this is true 7, I have to say I agree with InsanityPays
And that's why you thumbed down 2 comments?
I didnt?
And that's why you risk starting a comment war? This is one way to start one actually. Weird isn't it?
I'm not trying to start anything here. I'm saying what I think that is true is all.


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OSHKOSH, WI - By 1st Lt. Joe Trovato, Wisconsin National Guard
After 11 long months, the 1157th Transportation Company is back in Wisconsin.
The unit's 123 Soldiers returned to a hangar at the EAA in Oshkosh, Wis. on Jan. 18 after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan, where they were welcomed by Gov. Scott Walker, the Wisconsin Army National Guard's top leadership, and most importantly, their families.
The reunification of so many families was emotional.
"We're ecstatic. The girls are looking forward to it," Andria Weber said of her husband, Staff Sgt. David Weber's, return home. "We've been waiting for months and the last few days have seemed the longest I think, because we know that he's so close but not quite home."
The couple from Oshkosh have two daughters - one just over a year old and the other three.
Maria Kloth, anxiously awaited the return of her younger brother Dylan Homer. Their family held postponed their celebration of Christmas so they could share it with Homer upon his return.
"For all of the Soldiers I'm speechless as to what they do," said Debbie Stenson as she waited for her son, Sgt. Anthony Stenson, to arrive at the EAA. "Whether you're deployed or not, the responsibilities that you carry ... I'm just proud to be an American."
William Butzlaff Sr., of Oshkosh, was also proud of what his son, William Jr., for his service. "I'm very proud of him. He went over there and represented our country and our state, and we should all be proud of all of them."
After months of anticipation, the moment finally arrived, as buses carrying the unit's 123 Soldiers arrived at the EAA. They passed through the handshakes of the governor and into the welcoming arms of their families.
Many of the Soldiers had some catching up to do.
"It's quite overwhelming. I was finally able to see my daughter. I watched her be born and two-and-a-half days later we went back to Camp Shelby, so it's very overwhelming and still very surreal," said Sgt. Adam Pearson, of Luxemburg, Wis. " I'm really looking forward to going home and being a family with my wife and my daughter and just settling down and getting back to my roots."
"It's absolutely crazy, because I've been waiting so long just to see my (three-year-old) son," said Spc. Garrett Kaehler, of Menasha, Wis.
Asked what he plans to do now that he is home for good.
"I'm going to take the kid to go get some Christmas presents and the stuff he's long overdue."
Capt. Roger Miller, a platoon leader in the 1157th highlighted the unit's accomplishments in his address. The unit, which conducted operations in northern, eastern, and central Afghanistan, provided convoy security for equipment and personnel leaving Afghanistan. All told, the unit performed 128 escort missions, and logged over 1.8 million miles on some of Afghanistan's most dangerous roads.
"No mission was too hard. No mission was too dangerous. The 1157th's dedication to mission accomplishment earned them 40 combat action badges and five purple hearts," Miller said. "Soldiers are often thanked for their service, and they're thanked for their sacrifice. Nobody's more appreciative, and nobody knows that sacrifice more acutely than our family members."
He added, "Thank you for being strong and for working hard through all the adversity. The State of Wisconsin and the American people should be real proud of you. I'm real proud of you. You earned those 12 (Army Achievement Medals), 105 Army Commendation Medals, nine Bronze Star (medals). And one new citizen."
In his remarks, Gov. Walker thanked the members of the 1157th for the dedication, representing Wisconsin, and serving the nation. He also promised the state's assistance in finding jobs for the returning Soldiers.
"There should be no man or woman coming back from serving our country on a deployment who doesn't have an opportunity for a job once you get back to Wisconsin," Walker said.
The state's adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar said, "It takes something special in our world to have enough courage and commitment to this country to put a uniform on and endure the rigor of hard training, and then when your country calls on you, to go into combat, go forth and complete that mission. You are in a rare, very select breed. I hope that you are proud of what you've accomplished. I want you to know that I am incredibly proud of what you've accomplished."
Dunbar also recognized the sacrifices of families during a deployment.
"To the families, I know a year is a long time. Your commitment is no less than your Soldier's to the defense of this country."
The 1157th first reported to Camp Shelby last February for mobilization training before arriving in Afghanistan in April. The past year's deployment was the fifth since 1990 for the unit. The unit mobilized and served overseas during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990, and it provided transportation support in 2002 to Army Special Operations Support Command and other units at Fort Bragg, N.C., for 11 months. In September 2005 the unit was ordered to active duty to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in Louisiana, and in 2006, it deployed to Iraq where it logged more than 300,000 miles hauling fuel and other cargo.


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In July, we told you about some big changes coming to Bismarck. Over the next couple of years, downtown will be filled with new businesses, restaurants and condos.
The man behind what's being built in downtown Bismarck is no stranger to commercial development projects. Although, he makes his living as a plastic surgeon, Dr. Rick Becker has been developing Bismarck for several years.
"Spa D'Athena was the first big project and that was in 2000 when we did the makeover on that building and then Athena Square, the big add on in 2006, I think it was, was the next one and now this," said Dr. Rick Becker.
Dr. Becker purchased buildings downtown five years ago. He's been researching and traveling to different cities to figure out the best way to develop the space. Here's a look at what he's come up with. The multi-story building will have a full service restaurant, bar and rooftop terrace.
"I just think that there is so much energy around a rooftop and it's something that we've been looking at for the last several years, doing a little research, which is fun kind of research to do, going to various cities, go to the rooftop lounges," said Dr. Becker. "In North Dakota, having essentially very limited time where we can enjoy the outdoors, I think because of that we gravitate so much to it when we are able to. That this type of venue will be, I think, in high demand."
The front space is two stories high. The terrace will sit on top of the second floor. The backside of the building will be four stories high and connect to the parking garage.
"If it weren't for, what I think is a very good parking solution, I wouldn't be doing the project. Parking is already a dismal downtown and to do another big project would make it impossible. So, what we are going to do is have a sky walk. It's going to be a double decker sky walk coming over from the second floor and the third flood, over to the new building," said Becker.
People will be able to start enjoying the space next year. Dr. Becker says construction will wrap up this summer. The space is set to open in the fall of 2012.


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