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The Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention Unit (CDPU) works with health systems, health care providers, insurers and professional organizations across the state to support a healthier Wisconsin by improving the prevention and management of heart disease and stroke. With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the CDPU manages several projects to enhance coordinated systems of care, promote clinical best practices, and support patient self-care and health literacy. Current projects include:
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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Oval Office, Dec. 11, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event, Dec 13: Back in 2008, we used to talk about this being a historic moment for America, that we were at a crossroads in our history. Well, we haven't fully crossed the road, and in some ways, 2012 is even more important than it was four years ago. The choices could not be starker. The vision about where we want to take the country could not be more different.
I gave a speech in Kansas last week where I talked about where we need to go as a country; a country that's based on everybody having a fair shot, a country that depends on everybody doing their fair share, a country where fair play applies across the board….
…. And that vision, in contrast to a vision that basically says you are on your own, is what this election was about in 2008; it's what this election is going to be about in 2012. I am confident that the vision that we believe in so deeply and that we've worked so hard for is the vision that is truest to our history and most representative of the core decency of the American people.
But we're going to have to fight for it. It's not a slam-dunk. We're going to have to deliver this message effectively all across the country….
All of the things that we've done over the last three years – to rescue the economy and rescue the auto industry, and end the war in Iraq and end "don't ask, don't tell," and make sure that health care is in place, and financial reform brings back some integrity to the financial sector – all those things don't mean that much to somebody if they're still out of work right now, or their house is still underwater by $100,000.
So, yeah, this is going to be tough. But I just want to remind all of you that you didn't decide to support Barack Hussein Obama because it was going to be easy. There were always easier choices to make, just as there would have been easier political choices for me to make. We took a flyer on this thing because we believe passionately in an America in which everybody is getting ahead.
That's worth fighting for. And here's my message to you. If you guys stick with this, if you don't falter, if you stay steady, we are going to win this thing. We are going to win this thing, and America is going to win as a consequence.
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AP: Australia's prime minister said Wednesday that President Barack Obama impressed her as a "good person" through his acknowledgment of attendants and security staff during his recent visit to Australia.
"I always think the way you can best judge people's attitudes is not necessarily how they treat me, the prime minister of Australia, but how you see them interact with others, and as President Obama moved through Parliament House, he said hello to every attendant and every security guard he walked past."
"He doesn't have to do that – nothing makes him do that except being a good person," she said.
…. Gillard described him as charming, with a "fabulous, high-voltage smile." "The private person is very like the public person – very calm, very measured person, very intelligent, casual in a way," she said.
"Clearly being president of the United States comes with all of this machinery and prestige, but in the middle of that, he is actually one-to-one in his reaction with people a very casual person," Gillard said.
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10:05: The President and First Lady depart the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews
10:20: Leave Andrews for Ft. Bragg, N.C.
11:25: Arrive in Ft. Bragg
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"Hello Justin."
"Hello Mr President …. um, you're hurting my hand."
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"No worries Mr President …. um, now you're hurting my shoulder."
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Bloomberg: Companies in the U.S. boosted payrolls in December by the most since records began in 2001, showing a stronger labor-market recovery at the end of last year, data from a private report showed today.
Employment increased by 297,000, exceeding the highest projection in a Bloomberg News survey….
Faster job growth will fuel the income gains necessary to further spur consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy. A Labor Department report in two days will show companies added 150,000 workers last month and the unemployment rate eased to 9.7 percent…
….today's ADP report showed an increase of 27,000 workers in goods-producing industries … it was the biggest gain since February 2006 and the second straight rise. Service providers added 270,000 workers, the 11th straight gain and the most since record-keeping began.
Employment in construction was little changed, the first time without a decline since June 2007, while factories added 23,000 jobs…employers in the U.S. announced plans in December to cut 32,004 jobs, the fewest since June 2000…
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GORTON: The question that I asked you was: What made you think even when you took over and got these first briefings, given the history of Al Qaida and its successful attacks on Americans that we had the luxury of even seven months before we could make any kind of response, much less three years?
RUMSFELD: And my answer was on point. I said I didn't come up with three years, and I can't defend that number.
RUMSFELD: I don't know where that came from. With respect to seven months, I've answered. My testimony today lays out what was done during that period. Do you have -- you phrase it, do you have the luxury of seven months? In reflecting on what happened on September 11th, the question is, obviously, the Good Lord willing, things would have happened prior to that that could have stopped it. But something to have stopped that would have had to happen months and months and months beforehand, not five minutes or not one month or two months or three months. And the counter argument, it seems to me, is do you have the luxury of doing what was done before and simply just heaving some cruise missiles into the thing and not doing it right? I don't know. We thought not. It's a judgment.
GORTON: Let me ask you the same question that I asked of Senator Powell. At one level, you could claim, but you're too modest and too cautious to claim, that your policies since 9/11 have been successful, that is to say there has not been another successful terrorist attack, you know, on -- you know, on the United States. We all know, as Senator Powell pointed out, that that risk is still there, and it's going to be there for as long as any of us can imagine. But none the less, we've now gone two and a half years without any such attack. What do you think or how do you evaluate our provisional success in that connection? How much of it is just luck? How much of it is hardened targets, the steps we've taken for homeland security? How much of it is more effective intelligence and that prevention, both through your department and elsewhere? How much of it is due to the fact that we've attacked the source and to a large extent in Afghanistan at least eliminated it? Give me your own views as to what you think we've done right, and the importance of those things that we've done right. And how much have we ended or reduced the amount of terrorism in the world itself?
GORTON: And how much have we just displaced it and caused it to take place in other places?
RUMSFELD: As a former pilot, one of the things you always did was you never talked about the fact there hadn't been a flight accident for a long time.
GORTON: That's true.
RUMSFELD: And with good reason. You start doing that and something happens. The fact is, a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique. And we can't defend everywhere at every moment against every technique. And we could have a terrorist attack anywhere in the world tomorrow. And we have to recognize that. This is a tough business that we're in. And it is difficult, and it's challenging. Now, to the good side. A 90-nation coalition is a big thing, the fact that all of those countries are cooperating, sharing intelligence, helping to find bank accounts, helping to put pressure on terrorists coming across their borders, helping to put pressure on things moving across their borders. Is it perfect? No. Are things still porous? Yes. Is money still getting there? Yes. But everything is harder. Everything is more difficult to day. It's tougher to recruit. It's tougher to train. It's tougher to retain. It's tougher to finance. It's tougher to move things. It's tougher to communicate with each other for those folks. Someone asked me if Osama bin Laden is masterminding all of this. And I said, you know, who knows. But if I were in his shoes, I think I'd be spending an awful lot of time trying to not get caught. Most of his time's probably spent trying not to get caught. And so he is busy, and that's a good thing. And there has been a lot of pressure. How to put a value on that, I don't know. What worries me is the last point I mentioned in my prepared remarks and that was this issue of: How many people are coming in the intake? How many people are being trained to go out and kill innocent men, women and children? We've got a lot of good things going on, capturing and killing and putting pressure on terrorists today. And every day that cooperation within our government and between 90 nations gets better and better and better. The intelligence fusion cells that are taking place, the cooperative arrangements between the United States and other militaries, the cooperative arrangements between the Department of Defense and the CIA, every day they get better. But at the same time, we know of certain knowledge that money is going to madrassas schools that are training people to kill people. And that's a problem.
GORTON: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
KEAN: Commissioner Ben-Veniste? BEN-VENISTE: Good afternoon, Mr. Secretary. There are a number of different questions I'd like to ask, but my time is limited. I'd
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WSDL, URI and that's it...
I have a standalone Java application, which needs to call a webservice and several methods on that service. All I have is a WSDL file for the service, and the URI to call it. I have RAD 6, but I haven't done much work with web services. Can someone please tell me what I should be doing? I have generated two objects (a ...BindingImpl) and ...PortType, but not sure how to use them. I understand the principal of setting up a Call and Invoking it - but the WSDL stuff is confusing me!
Hi Matt,
I recommend going through the Web Services (JAX-WS) in Java EE 5 using NetBeans [1]. This is probably the fastest way you can get started. Exercise 3.1 [2] is likely of most interest to you as this explains how a Java SE client can invoke a Web service.
[1] http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/websvc-jax-ws.html
[2] http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/websvc-jax-ws.html#Exercise_3_1
Hi, many thanks for the help. I have a webservice now, but on one method it returns an UnsignedInt. My documentation tells me that the most significant 16 bits represents a status code, and the least significant 16 bits represents any error codes.
Can someone tell me what I can do to get this information? At the moment I can do a byteValue() on the UnsignedInt but it only returns the least significant 16 bits... and intValue returns a huge number which makes no sense (for obvious reasons)...
Many thanks! (and once again thanks Sandoz for the pointers)...
Hi Matt,
Being a little direct: that is rather elementary Java stuff :-) I recommend getting a good Java book [1] and read up on Java bitwise and bit-shift operators (although i must admit the signed/unsigned thing can cause confusion at first).
Note that Integer.byteValue *converts* the Integer value to a byte, it does not get the least significant 16 bits.
If i understand correctly this should do it for you:
int value = ... // the unsigned int
int statusCode = (value >>> 16)
int errorCode = (value & 0xFFFF)
Not talking specifically about RAD6, I can say that WSDL is not the thing you should care about if you want just to "call a webservice and several methods". Once you have WSDL - WebServices framework could be able to generate the WebServices client stubs, which you can use.


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross sheltered more than 420 people in Georgia and Tennessee overnight, a signal that even though flood waters are slowly receding, many are still unable to return to their homes.
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The Red Cross has more than 200 volunteers and staff and 18 Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) in the area with more on standby. Clean up and comfort kits are being distributed and almost 2,000 meals have been served to those affected by the flooding. Officials say early estimates show as many as 3,000 homes may be affected with damages estimated at $250 million.
Red Cross is partnering with Southern Baptist Convention, which has one mobile kitchen in operation and another on alert if needed. Other partners include Samaritan's Purse, Georgia Association of Food Banks, Church of Latter Day Saints, Church World Service, and NECHAMA.
"Our focus is on making people as comfortable as possible, feeding them and taking care of their immediate needs," said Joe Becker, Red Cross Disaster Services senior vice president. "We have the workers, equipment and supplies here on the ground to do that with more on standby if needed."
As the waters recede, the Red Cross issues these steps people should take to remain safe as they return to their neighborhoods:
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Suspended sentence and 12 month ban for driver who killed Suffolk cyclist
"Exemplary citizen" unable to explain how she failed to see rider on clear sunny day
A driver who hit and killed a cyclist in Suffolk last year has been handed a six-month suspended sentence and banned for 12 months after pleading guilty to causing death by careless driving.
Deborah Lumley-Holmes, 53, drove into the back of 51-year-old Julian Evans on Newmarket Road, Risby, on October 7, 2012. Mr Evans suffered serious head injuries and died in hospital the next day.
According to reports from Ipswich Star and Bury Free Press, Judge John Holt said the case was an "absolute tragedy". He said he had read four victim impact statements and it was inadequate to describe Mr Evans' family as "devastated".
Prosecutor Robert Sadd said that Lumley-Holmes should have seen Mr Evans who was riding on a straight stretch of road on a dry, sunny day with clear visibility.
Mr Sadd said police accident investigators estimated Lumley-Holmes would have been able to see Mr Evans for 200m. If she was travelling at 30mph she would have had 11 seconds to see him. "This was not momentary inattention," said Mr Sadd.
Mitigating, Michael Proctor said that Lumley-Holmes had no recollection of seeing Mr Evans before the accident. She was a vulnerable defendant who had suffered an abusive childhood, her teenage years in care and been diagnosed with a personality disorder.
As a result of the collision Lumley-Holmes had been "devastated and horrified" and suffered a form of post traumatic stress disorder.
He said she was an "exemplary citizen" who had raised £18,000 for charity and had volunteered at a local hospice.
Passing sentence, Judge Holt said: "You can't explain what happened and I accept that, so precisely why you didn't see Mr Evans will remain a mystery."
He said that even accepting the view of her own expert Lumley-Holmes would have had a clear view of Mr Evans for 60m which meant that if she was driving at 30mph he would have been in her view for four-and-a half seconds. If she was driving at 40mph he would have been in her view for three-and-a half seconds.
Mr Evans' family declined to comment on the sentence, but Lumley-Holmes said: "I would like to say how very sorry and devastated I am for the accident and tragic loss of Julian Evans and to say how sorry I am for the loss, hurt and suffering this has caused the family and those dear to him.
"I pray and hope that in the future the family can forgive me for their tragic loss."
Lumley-Holmes was also ordered to do 200 hours community service and to attend a women's emotional wellbeing course.
CTC Road Justice comment
Cycle campaign charity CTC said that this was another example of a court putting the impact on the perpetrator before that on the victim's family and handing down far too short a ban.
CTC campaigner Rhia Weston said: "Again we see far more emphasis in court on the impact of a fatal collision on the perpetrator of the collision than on the victims (i.e. the bereaved's family).
"It doesn't matter how charitable a person is, this does not affect their form of driving, therefore, although a suspended sentence is appropriate in this case, it should have been accompanied by a much longer driving ban and possibly a re-test."
Of course it's relevant.
Example A: Someone gets up from their chair in the lounge to go to the downstairs toilet and, whilst getting up, knocks over a candle onto the floor without noticing. By the time they return, the lounge and stairs are ablaze but they escape safely. Four people are trapped in the rooms upstairs and die.
Example B: Someone gets up from their chair in the lounge, leaves by the front door, lights a candle and drops it through the window onto the lounge floor before walking off. Four people are trapped in the rooms upstairs and die.
If intent is irrelevant, you must sentence those people equally.
Agreed, intent is relevant. The intentional arsonist is predisposed to doing it again.
In the case of the unintentional you have to ask 'Was the accident something they could have reasonably avoided if they changed some aspect of behavior'
In this case is there something fundamentally wrong with their ability at driving?
posted by earth [213 posts]
10th January 2014 - 17:26
"Bez, I'm not talking about a hypothetical situation, I'm talking about whether she should be in jail or not for her actions, and on that issue, intent is irrelevant"
If your opinion is that she should be jailed for this non-intentional act then that's absolutely fine and coherent, there's nothing untenable about that view whatsoever.
But that's absolutely not the same thing as saying that intent is not relevant.
posted by Bez [540 posts]
10th January 2014 - 17:32
CTC arguing for "a much longer driving ban and possibly a re-test"?
You get found guilty of killing someone, you lose your licence and you don't get it back.
Why demand anything less? It's only a driving licence, it's not like you're demanding they have their legs taken away.
If someone's proven they can't drive without causing someone's death, they shouldn't be driving. If we could determine whether this was the case at the point of the driving test, we'd never give them a licence in the first place. So once we do find that it is the case, why do we just hand it back to then?
I am posting above that she shouldn't get a licence back until this "personality disorder" she used as mitigation as to why she can't be held responsible is dealt with. That maybe never in her case.
and in general I think that a year is way too low for killing by careless or dangerous driving. I am thinking 5 - 10. Plus some other testing and training and with big hurdles.
There are some cases where a lifetime ban and maybe life imprisonment may be appropriate. And dangerous driving is one thing and careless driving another. But say a 21 year old kills someone while careless driving, I don't think it appropriate to have him/her banned for life. When they are 30 and after this they may be the safest most careful and considerate driver on the road ever.
I actually think it should be a long ban 5+ years (careless) or 10+ years (dangerous) but I also think that after that, the hurdles to getting a licence back need to be quite high. eg a permanent imposition of the terms that new drivers face of a 6 point maximum for 2 years after passing. I'd have that as a permanent imposition for drivers who have been convicted of killing either by careless or dangeous driving. So basically speed twice in 4 years and that's it. Or anything attracting 6 points. 1 instance of speeding a lot or due care. And that wo9uld be a one time deal.
Losing your licence once is bad. Twice and it's permanent.
Cycling is like a church - many attend, but few understand.
posted by oozaveared [905 posts]
10th January 2014 - 17:43
So the cyclist who jumped a red light and accidently GBH'd a young girl got a 12 month custodial sentence a few weeks back
And a motorist kills a cyclist get next to bugger all. AND what the hell has this to do with it.
"She was a vulnerable defendant who had suffered an abusive childhood, her teenage years in care and been diagnosed with a personality disorder".
Didn't stop her driving didn it.
Lost for words ....nearly
We're all entitled to a reasonable opinion!
posted by Guyz2010 [298 posts]
10th January 2014 - 17:54
posted by antonio [1108 posts]
10th January 2014 - 19:19
"Bez, I'm not talking about a hypothetical situation, I'm talking about whether she should be in jail or not for her actions, and on that issue, intent is irrelevant"
If your opinion is that she should be jailed for this non-intentional act then that's absolutely fine and coherent, there's nothing untenable about that view whatsoever.
But that's absolutely not the same thing as saying that intent is not relevant.
TBF, we don't know that she killed the victim unintentionally. She has offered no explaination.
posted by Sara_H [57 posts]
10th January 2014 - 19:59
we should not condemn the attempts of her legal team to mitigate her case. that is their job. there is a saying amongst barristers:
There's no such thing as justice, there's just us.
What an appallingly lenient sentence, sending all the wrong messages. petrol heads will no doubt rejoice in glee.
posted by philtregear [90 posts]
10th January 2014 - 22:13
Oozaveared: interesting thoughts; I like the cut of your jib.
posted by Bez [540 posts]
10th January 2014 - 22:14
"Prosecutor Robert Sadd said that she should have seen Mr Evans who was cycling on a straight stretch of road on a dry, sunny day with clear visibility.
"Anyone could and should have seen the cyclist. There is no explanation other than it was driving in such a way that led to his death."
After the impact which shattered the windscreen of the car Lumley-Holmes did not stop for another 90 metres and no explanation had been given as to why, said Mr Sadd."
I don't know this lady and I wasn't in court so I have no basis to doubt that the accident was unintentional but she should not be allowed to drive ever again until there is a satisfactory explanation of the part she played in this tragic accident.
To the family and friends of Mr Evans, my thoughts are with you today. This outcome must be very hard to bear.
Never in a hurry on a bicycle.
posted by GoingRoundInCycles [134 posts]
10th January 2014 - 22:35
"Mitigating, Michael Proctor said that Lumley-Holmes had no recollection of seeing Mr Evans before the accident. She was a vulnerable defendant who had suffered an abusive childhood, her teenage years in care and been diagnosed with a personality disorder."
NO MITIGATION... Those items have absolutelu NOTHING to do with the incident...
posted by Paul_C [342 posts]
10th January 2014 - 22:50
Possibly a re-test, is it, CTC? I think you are too mild for your role, pehaps a bit too comfortable in it to be rocking the boat?
If I were a CTC member, I'd be diverting my cash to the likes of the Stop The Killing campaign with their excellent "subvertising".
posted by vbvb [443 posts]
11th January 2014 - 0:05
Travelled 90 metres with the windscreen smashed by the impact of the victim - 90 metres FFS.
How many emergency stops from 30mph is that? Well its almost 4 emergency stops from 30mph (23m) and nearly 3 from 40mph (36m). Did she have a big problem deciding which pedal to press? Or was it havering on a decision of whether to step on the gas and do a runner? Or did she realise that someone had seen the crash and so had better stop? Quite clearly we will only get one view on this.
A 1 year ban is ridiculous, if someone with such mental issues slipped through the net and shot their victim with a firearm - even without the intent of harming their victim, you can be damn sure that that person would not get another firearms licence, and there would be questions about how that person got the licence in the first place.
Perhaps it is the time, when the driving test is being reviewed, that, just as a motorcycle licence has a compulsory element of basic training in motorcycle handling, the driving test should require candidates to have taken and passed Bikeability Level 3, which for many younger candidates could have been taken at school with 4 or more years cycling experience, and practical appreciation of road signs, traffic law etc, before they get behind the wheel of a car - far more relevant and effective than a multiple choice theory test, which can often be passed by intensive rote learning.
47 years of breaking bikes and still they offer me a 10 year frame warranty!
posted by A V Lowe [561 posts]
11th January 2014 - 4:14
Quote:Lumley-Holmes would have been able to see Mr Evans for 200m. If she was travelling at 30mph she would have had 11 seconds to see him.
Is it just my poor maths skills again or does that not add up? At 30mph (48km/h) it should take 15 seconds to cross the 200m distance - and during that time the cyclist will have moved forward another, say, 60 metres, so really we are talking 20 seconds or so.
I wonder how much sleep she had had (or if my maths is wrong how much I have had).
Yeah, I make it 15 seconds. But it also surely depends on the speed of the victim, and hence the _relative_ speed, as she hit him from behind. Was he stationary at the time?
posted by FluffyKittenofT... [1041 posts]
11th January 2014 - 8:49
I can't figure out exactly what I feel about these cases. Because I don't want to be vengeful and demand very long sentences for perpetrators.
But the alternative (which is what we actually have) is that its just taken as an unfortunate 'given' that cyclists, like this poor man, can at any time be violently killed through no fault of their own, and its just 'one of those things' and no strong culpability can be attached to those responsible.
I think the problem is that these tragedies don't just occur because of the mistakes of the drivers, they are socially and politically caused, and the responsibility lies with those who design awful roads, and a society that has contrived to make driving almost compulsory and hence made it into a 'right' rather than the privilege it really should be.
At the very least, however, the courts need to be much more ruthless about imposing driving bans, regardless of people's claims about how much they 'need' to drive. You kill someone through your error, you never drive again.
posted by FluffyKittenofT... [1041 posts]
11th January 2014 - 9:00
I volunteer in my local community, I've raised money for charity. Am I allowed a stay out of jail free card if I find myself stamping on a few kittens or worse. I promise to say I don't remember doing it & I'm very sorry.
posted by Shouldbeinbed [41 posts]
11th January 2014 - 11:35
I just did the math on the stop as well, it takes 6.71 seconds to go 90meters at 30mph it would take longer with stopping taken in to account, unless she was driving crazy fast.
Why can't she account for not seeing him for 14.91 seconds and why did she not stop with a shattered windscreen for 7+ seconds.
She should be in prison, I'm thinking from the science and the lack of forthcoming that she may have done this WITH intent. Did this case even have anyone acting as prosecution - what were they doing?
Next time your driving, think about how scary it would be to not look at the road ahead for 5 seconds, let alone 15seconds.
Does anyone know the stretch of road in question? If I were the victims family then I would probably be appealing this sentence.
posted by kie7077 [802 posts]
11th January 2014 - 12:15
posted by dreamlx10 [148 posts]
11th January 2014 - 12:24
I volunteer in my local community, I've raised money for charity. Am I allowed a stay out of jail free card if I find myself stamping on a few kittens or worse. I promise to say I don't remember doing it & I'm very sorry.
Go murder someone, you've earned it.
posted by kie7077 [802 posts]
11th January 2014 - 12:25
Here's the CPS sentencing guidelines... http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/causing_death_by_ca...
There have not been applied in several regards. E.g. the mimimum mandatory disqualification is 12 months. The community order is appropriate only for cases arising from momentary inattention, which is clearly not the case here as the court heard.
As pointed out above, the aggravating factor of driving other than in accordance with the terms of a valid driving licence, specifically with an undeclared personality disorder, has been successfully presented as a mitigating factor.
The sentence is clearly unduly lenient, and can and should be appealed within 28 days as detailed here... http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/unduly_lenient_sentences/#a01
posted by Malaconotus [81 posts]
11th January 2014 - 13:38
She was obviously not "driving" at the time or the cyclist would have been seen.
Another justice fail.
Should be a lifetime ban.
posted by tourdelound [137 posts]
11th January 2014 - 13:56
I bet this guy wishes he'd done a bit more charity work now.
posted by Housecathst [325 posts]
11th January 2014 - 17:06
Just occurred to me, to wonder how this would have gone if the _victim_ had been the one with a psychological issue? What's the betting that _also_ would be regarded as a mitigating factor for the driver?
"Well, he shouldn't have been cycling on the road if he wasn't in perfect mental health"
posted by FluffyKittenofT... [1041 posts]
11th January 2014 - 18:30
"No intent is irrelevant."
Of course it's relevant.
Example A: Someone gets up from their chair in the lounge to go to the downstairs toilet and, whilst getting up, knocks over a candle onto the floor without noticing. By the time they return, the lounge and stairs are ablaze but they escape safely. Four people are trapped in the rooms upstairs and die.
Example B: Someone gets up from their chair in the lounge, leaves by the front door, lights a candle and drops it through the window onto the lounge floor before walking off. Four people are trapped in the rooms upstairs and die.
If intent is irrelevant, you must sentence those people equally.
Personally, from the point-of-view of morality if not existing law, I don't think intent is necessarily very important at all in every case. For example, I'm one who doesn't think "I didn't mean to cause offense" is necessarily a valid defence when someone has said something racist, say.
Being casually reckless can be no better than doing something deliberately, as far as I'm concerned. There comes a point where you damn well _should_ know better.
The difficulty occurs when that casual recklessness is characteristic of a large group and is socially regarded as normal. As, for example, drunk-driving once was.
In those cases, members of that group will think the distinction over intent is important, while those NOT part of that group will see it as besides the point, because the group as a whole have collectively _decided_ not to be more careful.
(That's what often happens with the "didn't mean to cause offense" thing with regard to many groups).
I believe drivers, as a group, have normalised not being careful with the lives of others. But I don't see that non-drivers have to accept that as an excuse.
Your example could be one of those cases, if the candle-tipper was a member of a group who were regularly prone to be careless with the lives of members of the group who formed the victims.
posted by FluffyKittenofT... [1041 posts]
11th January 2014 - 18:51
The courts are a fucking joke. Yet another stupidly lenient sentence from an idiot judge. The slaughter continues.
posted by Airzound [1002 posts]
12th January 2014 - 12:11
Nearly 7000 individuals lobbied for Mc Court retrial (Audrey Fyfe), so anyone care to put up a petition for this one?
Just wondering
47 years of breaking bikes and still they offer me a 10 year frame warranty!
posted by A V Lowe [561 posts]
12th January 2014 - 12:53
Reply to kie7077
You can learn a lot about the road where this collision took place simply by opening either Google Maps or Google Earth, and then opening Streetview to give you ground level pictures which you can rotate around. Useful info will include the typical visibility (500 metres +), the location of the side roads from Cavenham and Burthorpe, Gowing Auto Salvage, the extent of the 70 MPH speed limit and the following 40 MPH limit, the weigh scales, the four trees in a row and other useful landmarks.
Regarding the 30 MPH figure was this used to suggest a possible visibility time, or was it a red herring to dupe the court (and yourself) in to thinking the speed was only 30 MPH ? I could not find where it actually stated that the speed of the car was only 30 MPH. We should all remember that the press only reports a fraction of the court proceedings. A review of the accident reports of any of these fatalities and the court proceedings I am sure would be very revealing.
posted by Denis B [8 posts]
12th January 2014 - 19:12
A is an accident, B is a deliberate act.
What about C, negligence?
posted by FourMinuteSmiler [3 posts]
13th January 2014 - 0:34
I guess that's here:
She could have easily been doing 50mph down that road, which would change the times in seconds moving to about 40% less... She would have had 9 seconds at that speed to see him. She wouldn't have stopped for 4 seconds instead of 7 seconds.
posted by kie7077 [802 posts]
13th January 2014 - 2:00
she should have got a much longer ban, maybe even lifelong ban, if not lifelong ban then at least a training course or re-test (reapply for license)
Feel the fear and do it anyway
posted by hood [117 posts]
14th January 2014 - 14:07
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Bone metastases, the spread of tumors to the bone, are a serious concern for advanced breast cancer patients, with incidence rates as high as 75 percent. When cancer spreads to the bone, the growing cancer cells weaken and destroy the bone around the tumor. This damage can result in a number of serious bone complications, collectively called SREs.
Full efficacy and safety data will be submitted for presentation at an upcoming medical meeting in the second half of this year.
Study Design
This was an international Phase 3, randomized, double-blind study comparing denosumab with Zometa in the treatment of bone metastases in patients with advanced breast cancer. Patients enrolled in the study were randomized in a one-to-one ratio to receive either 120 mg of denosumab subcutaneously every four weeks (Q4W) or Zometa administered intravenously at a dose of 4 mg single, 15 minute infusion every four weeks as per the labeled use.
In clinical trials testing new medications for bone metastases, treatment success has been measured by whether the bone complications, or SREs, caused by the tumor are reduced or delayed. The primary and secondary endpoints of the denosumab bone metastases studies use a composite endpoint of four SREs - fracture, radiation to bone, surgery to bone, and spinal cord compression - to measure the effectiveness of denosumab versus Zometa.
The primary endpoint was to evaluate if denosumab is non-inferior to Zometa with respect to the first on-study SRE in patients with advanced breast cancer and bone metastases. Secondary endpoints were to evaluate if denosumab was superior to Zometa with respect to the first on-study SRE, as well as first-and-subsequent on-study SREs, and to assess the safety and tolerability of denosumab compared
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Music: Dir en grey
Japanese five-piece Avant-Garde Metal band. They formed around 1996 as a Visual Kei band, but have gone in a more contemporary, post-Visual Kei direction as far as appearance. Musically, Dir en grey encompasses Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Nu Metal, Gothic Metal, etc. They first gained attention in 1998 with two independently produced singles. Subsequently, they caught the eye of Yoshiki from X Japan, who helped arrange and produce the singles of Dir en grey's first studio album, and subsequently signed them to Extasy Records. Later on, they would switch labels to Dynamite Tommy's Free Will Records, and then sign to both Gan-Shin for their European releases and The End Records for their American releases. Their material is released by Firewall Div, a sub-division of Free-Will Records, Since their inception, the quintet has released eight full-length studio albums, three EPs, and loads of other material, including singles, live videos, and music video compilations.Considered by some metal fans as the Spiritual Successor to the legendary bands Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and X Japan, and even dubbed as "the Japanese Marilyn Manson", the band has gained international acclaim for their unique sound, precise, dynamic musician, dark, explicit lyrical themes, near-incomprehensible songwriting and convention-challenging image, and enjoys continuous success as one of Japan's biggest Visual Kei groups. They were part of the Second wave of Visual Kei bands and were one of the bands responsible for re-establishing Visual Kei as a musical movement among Heavy Metal artists.
- Kyo: Vocals
- Kaoru: Guitar
- Die (pronounced "Dye" as opposed to "dee-eh"): Guitar
- Toshiya: Bass Guitar
- Shinya: Drums
Studio Albums:
- Kisou (2002)
- Withering to death. (2005)
- Arche (2014)
- Missa (1997)
- Six Ugly (2002)
- The Unraveling (2013, classified as a mini-album but released as an EP)
Dir en grey Provides Examples of:
- Altum Videtur: DUM SPIRO SPERO, which translates to "While I Breathe, I Hope." Also, "VANITAS," note a song from the album.
- The title of their latest Arche, translates to "Origin."
- Ambiguous Gender: More in the early days when they were more blatant with their Visual Kei stylings. This video is one of the best examples.
- Animated Music Video: The PVs for "Agitated Screams of Maggots" and "Different Sense" note .
- Ate His Gun: Implied to be how the protagonist of "The Final" committed suicide.
- Avant-Garde Metal: Currently at the very forefront of the genre.
- Ax-Crazy: Kyo's stage persona.
- Badass Longcoat: Kyo in "Yurameki," complete with a fur collar.
- Captain Obvious: They have a song called "I Will Die in Loneliness, Because I'm Lonely."
- Careful with That Axe: Kyo, with his trademark screeching death voice suddenly popping up on seemingly light and clean songs.
- Character Tics:
- Kyo has his spastic twitching, zombie walk, fish-hooking, and vomiting. Also, his trademark screeching.
- Toshiya often plays the bass vertically between his thighs, with his body contorted in a slightly awkward, serpentine fashion. Also, on the song "Obscure," he has a habit of swinging his bass while spinning.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Some of the songs with English lyrics from The Marrow of a Bone have this.
- "Lie Buried with a Vengeance" provides a particularly egregious example at the end of the song.
- Also, prevalent in "The Domestic Fucker Family" from Kisou.
- Costume Porn: During their early days as a VK band. Downplayed to the point of aversion in recent years, though Toshiya and Shinya look noticeably more visual than the rest of the band in most photoshoots. The band brought back visuals since the UROBOROS era, however, they've put more emphasis on Badass clothing and darker, more stripped-down styles than full-on Visual Kei.
- Darker and Angrier: Than their contemporaries, and pretty much every other Visual band.
- Don't Try This at Home: For career singers, Kyo's vocal style — unless you want a short career with repeated injuries to your vocal cords and eardrums. It's far better you find an actual vocal coach or teacher, and if you can't or don't want to go that route, to at least practice with singers that have done so and that know proper technique to not injure themselves repeatedly note . Also, trying to sing through pain like Kyo does is a very bad idea that can leave your voice permanently and irreparably damaged. It's much the singing equivalent of trying to teach oneself drums from pre-1995 Yoshiki or learning guitar by copying Dragonforce.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: The band, especially Toshiya and Shinya pulled off the look really well during the band's early years. Shinya arguably did a better job at it than Trope Maker Mana ever did.
- Follow the Leader: Many other J-rock bands who were part of the second wave of VK have tried copying their formula, including those who worked under former bassist and leader Music/Kisaki's Under Code Production label, to various degrees of success. Those that did achieve success (The Gazette, existtrace, Girugamesh, and a few others) have also established their own image and sound.
"To be honest, when we first started and we were wearing a lot of makeup on stage and stuff, there were a lot of bands doing that at the time in Japan, and people thought it was cool. But not anymore... The music was so unique, too... Bands like X Japan. At that time, there weren't any two bands that sounded alike; these days everyone sounds exactly the same."
- Apparently, this trope was the reason why the band opted for a post-Visual kei image, as Toshiya said in a 2010 interview:
- Friendly Rivalry: The reunited X Japan and Dir en grey have one. It's a lot less friendly on the fandom side, however.
- Funny Aneurysm: Happened to one of their fans who sent a message to Kyo on how to end his life, which he didn't take too seriously. Kyo later found out that the fan was dead serious about suicide, and succeeded in an attempt to take his own life. The incident scarred Kyo for life, and since then, he has been mostly silent to fans who would like to send him messages.
- Fun Size: Kyo. He's only around 5'2"/5'3"
- Genre-Busting: The band challenges all the conventions of Japanese rock/metal by being a cut above the established tropes. In a Kerrang! interview, Kaoru once stated that, while they were still La Sadies, they were more of an unlistenable noise band than anything else, justifying the aforementioned statement. Indeed, as La:Sadie''s they had such a weird sound that they can only be vaguely described as "experimental/alternative melodic noise rock." Some songs from the new album, Arche, even throw in short segments of Power Metal and Noise Rock.
- Genre Popularizer: Eroguro Kei, from the very start. Also one of the first bands to display elements of what is to become Deathcore with their album Withering to Death. Technical Death Metal since Marrow of a Bone and Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly since UROBOROS.
- Genre Roulette: Overlaps with Genre-Busting, and creates even more of a Mind Screw for critics.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: "Egnirys Cimredopyh +) an injection" from MACABRE Read the first part backwards. Japanese law forbids the mention of syringes and needles.
- "Mitsu to Tsuba" from GAUZE. It translates to "Honey and Saliva," but since the kanji (the japanese characters) are printed backwards, it's assumed to be read as "Tsumi to Batsu," which means "crime and punishment."
- Gorn: A fairly common lyrical theme in their works, among many others.
- Gratuitous Rape: The lyrics and video of "OBSCURE," "Agitated Screams of Maggots," and "Different Sense," the latter two of which featured tentacle rape. The lyrics of "Tsumi to Batsu," which is an entire song about rape. "Different Sense" could be argued to be symbolism (the TEPCO nuclear disaster being equated to a rape of the world) and Rape as Drama, but it still is a very close call as to whether the rape imagery from tentacle hentai was necessary for the symbolism.
- Iconic Logo: The name of the band, stylized in all caps and in big, bold letters. As of 2013, they have adopted a sleeker, more modern typeface similar to The Gazette and (coincidentally) to Khanate's respective logos, as seen in The Unraveling.
- Incredibly Long Note: Kyo does this often, with one of the crowning examples being the Last Note Nightmare of "The Final" at Tabula Rasa 12-13.
- Indecipherable Lyrics: Early attempts at English lyrics came out completely garbled by Kyo's accent. Kyo also has a habit of belting out even his Japanese lyrics while under emotional duress, so any blubbering or raucous behaviour is gonna make him slur his words.
- Impossible Hair Color: Every single member of the band, at one point or another. Kyo had gone through more hair color changes than anyone else in the band, ranging from black, brown, blonde, orange, red, and even bright pink◊.
- Last Note Nightmare: Plenty of songs.
- "Dozing Green" is probably the worst offender; what sounds like a song fading out is suddenly interrupted by Kyo screaming like a horrified girl.
- The title track from The Unraveling ends with the final measures of the song throwing the instrumentations into utter chaos.
- Lead Bassist: Toshiya is a Type C, Type D, and Type A.
- Long Runner Line Up: The last major change happened around 1997, after the La:Sadie's era, when Toshiya took Kisaki's place as bass guitarist after parting ways with the latter.
- Justified by the fact that every single member considers the band as highly important.
- Long Title: There are several examples of this when their titles are translated into English, including "Room 304, Cherry Blossoms of White Death" and "Tragedy is the Sweet Melancholy That Lowers Your Eyelids," but the longest one falls to "The Violence and the Darkness of the Burning Heat Entwines in My Heart". The Japanese title? "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka De, Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami," the lead single from DUM SPIRO SPERO.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Everyone in the band has sported this look at one point. Shinya plays this straight all throughout the band's history.
- Loudness War: Pretty much all their discography has songs that are brickwalled to an extent, but the original version of UROBOROS and the 2013 EP The Unraveling fell prey to atrocious mixing, especially the latter, where the drums sound excessively clipped and the bass drowned out the guitars.
- Their more recent live shows are brickwalled as well. It was reported that their 2013 show in Hollywood was a droning wall of noise, with instruments rendered indistinguishable from another. However, the opening band, while retaining the volume, was crystal clear in quality. Others have reported similar issues with their Irving Plaza 2013 live show.
- Lyrical Dissonance: Kyo makes a point never to write happy lyrics. This has done nothing to prevent Kaoru and Die from giving him some pretty bouncy material to sing over. "Jessica," "Audrey," "Youkan," and Shinya's "Umbrella" are particularly notable examples.
- Lyrical Shoehorn: "Agitated Screams of Maggots." The entire song is composed of wangsty, narmy, egregiously-written nigh-unintelligible English lyrics that make no sense at all. The first line mentions something about a fly, but that's all there is to it. note
- Man in a Kilt: Toshiya. He seems to have a strange affinity for skirts; he even wore a full Gothic Lolita dress back when they were VK◊. And while he downplayed, and eventually eschewed, that look as the band matured, he has gone back◊ to wearing his signature bell-shaped skirt◊ in recent years.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Kyo. Fans draw comparisons to the legendary Mike Patton, due to their eerily similar vocal range, despite the two being on opposite sides of the world.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Though Kyo is known for being a mean, evil and Ax-Crazy guy during concerts, he is a completely different person offstage, being nice, very polite and respectful during interviews. He also likes having fun and had his fair share of comedic moments as well.
- Some fans lucky enough to meet him have reported him being very shy and reserved off-stage.
- The Mentor: Not only Yoshiki, mentioned above, but Kyo was also a roadie for Kuroyume, whose influence is very obvious on Dir en Grey's first few releases.
- Metal Scream: Kyo does these very often, and takes his vocal work to inhuman levels.
- Mind Screw: The band is Mind Screw incarnate, their overall concept, their material, their sound, and their lyrical themes border on True Art Is Incomprehensible and appear to be created solely for the purpose of invoking Rule of Cool, Rule of Scary and countless other things. Even their name as a band is a Mind Screw in itself — it means absolutely nothing and was apparently chosen for no reason aside from sounding "cool."
- Minimalistic Cover Art:
- VULGAR's cover is a pair of opera gloves.
- Subverted with The Marrow of a Bone: while mostly appearing matte black, it actually hides a photo by Russian photographer Creator/DmitriBaltermants called "Grief."◊
- Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness: They come in at a very hard 10, and at their tamest, they are a solid 9. But most of the time, their lyrics can be so harsh, offensive, or incomprehensible that they often climb up to Level 11. Their lyrics are so wrong in so many levels that they can't be ranked lower in the scale.
- Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness: They've covered everything from a 1 to an 11. However, most of their songs range from a soft 6 ("Dozing Green") to a very hard 9 ("Different Sense,") with their lighter songs typically in the 4-5 range.
- It should probably be pointed out that Dir en Grey are one of the few artists who have managed to hit 11 with purely acoustic instrumentation (in the unplugged version of "Agitated Screams of Maggots.")
- Mood Whiplash: The Marrow of a Bone starts off with a soft power ballad, is followed by several ultra-aggressive metal songs, and while the album does soften slightly from "Agitated Screams of Maggots" onward, it never has another ballad again. The transition can be very unsettling and startling to the unsuspecting listener.
- Kyo would suddenly throw screaming fits on seemingly "normal" songs. Take for example, "Obscure," which starts off as an ambient tune but shifts rapidly into Deathcore once the screams kick in. Also, the Last Note Nightmare in "Dozing Green."
- A very unsettling example is the 4th disc of the DVD box set "Blitz 5 Days." The VERY depressing, mostly acoustic ballad "Mushi" (which ends with Kyo performing self-harm acts) is followed by the uncharacteristically upbeat-for-De G-standards "Umbrella."
- Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: Aside form just "metal," it is very hard to classify them.
- Lampshaded: The band chooses not to be categorized at all.
- Also, arguing about what genre they belong to would generate a lot of controversy.
- New Sound Album:
- Macabre saw their transition from seemingly random Alternative Rock to full-on Alternative Metal, a trend they continued up until Kisou.
- Six Ugly has the band ditching their Kuroyume influences in favor of a harsh, noisy, Americanized Nu Metal sound.
- Vulgar saw the heavy addition of Gratuitous English lyrics and slight Harsh Noise influences to the band's sound.
- Withering to Death saw the beginning of Kyo's insane screaming, as well as some Mathcore and Death Metal influences.
- Marrow of a Bone was mostly noisy Deathcore with Indecipherable Lyrics and trashy musicianship, and is seen by some fans as a landmark of the band's Stylistic Suck phase.
- UROBOROS ditched the insane tempos and garbage-level musicianship for slower, dirge-like songs and massive, technical compositions akin to Opeth and Meshuggah.
- Dum Spiro Spero was basically UROBOROS musicianship dialed Up to Eleven with the inclusion of arrhythmic beats and brutal breakdowns. The Harsh Noise influences from Withering To Death, as well as the louder bass of the older albums, returned with a vengeance. This continued with The Unraveling mini-album.
- Arche brought back the randomness of the first album, as well as adding influences from Kyo's other band, Sukekiyo, and influences from other styles the band has not touched before. Though it could be best described as Death Metal with clean vocals.
- Nice Hat: The band loves hats. Every member has worn at least one awesome hat at some point. Kyo is particularly notable for having lots of these.
- Older Than They Look: Everyone in the band is in their mid to late-thirties, but appear to be in their late teens or early twenties.
- Ominous Music Box Tune: The intro to "Cage."
- One Woman Song: "Jessica," "Audrey," possibly "Amber" though this may refer to the jewel, and even a one woman album in Missa.
- Otaku: Everyone in the band, with all of them apparently sharing the same fandoms (anime and video games). Two of the band's members are also illustrators and fashion designers.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Their band slogan appears to be "Japanese Zombie Heroez," which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as shown in this video. It also appears on some of Kaoru's guitars, picks, and straps, as well as some of the band's official merch.
- Rearrange the Song: While the band has been adept at remixing their own songs and re-arranging them for live performances, the single for Hageshisa to [...]" was the moment they began releasing re-recordings of their older songs. THE UNRAVELING'' is almost entirely re-recorded songs.
- Scary Musician, Harmless Music: Zigzagged. No surprise since their visual style is just as varied as their music. Currently inverted, in regard to their public image of being "cute, handsome, wealthy metal rockstars" anyway.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Kyo. He is particularly infamous among cover vocalists because of how perfect his screeching-high screams are, as well as how often he uses the technique.
- Sensory Abuse/Postmodernism: In any form possible, and the one band concept that underpins all of their work, if it can be considered one.
- Serial Escalation: They started out as an experimental/alternative pop-rock band with slight metal and noise influences akin to early Nu Metal bands. Since then, they've added considerably more metal sounds into their songs, with each release being progressively heavier that the last one.
- They've done so much to their sound that comparing Gauze to UROBOROS or DUM SPIRO SPERO would be like comparing two or more entirely different bands.
- Kyo's singing has gotten increasingly more extreme after each throat surgery he undergoes.
- Signature Style: Most of their songs, especially their newer material, are in Uncommon Time and written in unusual key signatures. The band members themselves add their own elements that make their sound even more unique: the contrast between Kaoru's twangy melodies and Die's chromatic, palm-muted riffing, Toshiya's heavily downtuned basslines, Shinya's bizarre drum patterns and Kyo's extreme vocal ability have become staple traits of their overall sound.
- Spiritual Successor: They are literally this to Kuroyume, having had taken their predecessors' Darker and Edgier approach to Visual Kei and running off with it so that they can popularize Avant-Garde Metal in the scene. And that's not mentioning the fact that they have a vocalist that is both a near-perfect double for and has very good relations with Kuroyume frontman Kiyoharu.
- Non-Visual Kei fans are more than willing to compare them favorably to other Avant-Garde Metal bands such as Faith No More, Korn, and Atheist.
- For specific comparisons, their sound from Gauze up until Kisou draws comparisons to Mr. Bungle, Six Ugly to Korn, Vulgar to SikTh, Withering to Death and Marrow to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan, and the releases starting from UROBOROS to Meshuggah, X Japan and Atheist.
- Non-Visual Kei fans are more than willing to compare them favorably to other Avant-Garde Metal bands such as Faith No More, Korn, and Atheist.
- Start My Own: Kyo recently formed a side project called "Sukekiyo." It's apparently a Retraux of Macabre-era Diru.
- Textless Album Cover: The Marrow of a Bone was this by a printing accident in its initial U.S release. The cover was completely black with nothing on it. It has since been fixed but you can occasionally find it with the solid black cover.
- The Unintelligible: Some of Kyo's more inhuman sounds and his English tend to be this. Honestly, listen to "Dozing Green" from UROBOROS. Would you believe every word of that song is in English? There is also a Japanese version of "Dozing Green," but it's hard to tell the difference. Even worse than "Dozing Green" is "Glass Skin" from the same album. It's sung in completely unintelligible English.
- This overlaps with Loudness War when badly mixed live — good luck trying to even tell what song the band is playing without a setlist or where one ends and another begins at some points. Or to hear individual instruments or Kyo's vocals.
- Troll: The fandom is infested with them. They troll the band, who trolls them back, which prompts more trolling, ad nauseum. This poses a problem when outsiders from other fandoms (who possess less tolerance of trolling) jump onto the band's forums, leading to all-out Flame Wars due to taking trolling at face value. It gets stickier when some of the trolls actually mean their venomous hatred.
- Trope Codifier: for Avant-Garde Metal, Technical Deathcore, modern J-metal and post-Visual kei.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: The band completely changes their appearance with every new release. That includes their singles.
- Visual Kei: Played straight up until the mid-2000s, inverted at one point, and heavily zigzagged since then; though they might not look too Visual in recent years, they still have strong ties to the scene, still appeal to the same subculture (and at the same time reaching out to non-VK fans) and, more importantly, still put effort into achieving an awesome image and sound.
- They went for full Eroguro Kei during the Tabula Rasa and Ghoul tours, especially during the latter, with Kyo's new zombified image (complete with corpse paint and fangs), Die's return to a Visual Shock-inspired mullet and heavy makeup, Shinya going for a full Bifauxnen look and all of them (especially Toshiya, Kyo and Kaoru) wearing ominous robes during some songs.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: The band sported this look prior to Kisou.
- Widget Series: By far one of the best examples of Japanese Postmodernism.
- Woman in White: The band in the "Yokan" PV, minus the woman part.
- Word Salad Lyrics: Kyo's English.
- The translated lyrics to some songs end up as sounding awkward and incoherent at times.
- X Meets Y: Faith No More meets Converge meets Cannibal Corpse meets Atheist meets Metallica meets Mr. Bungle meets Judas Priest meets Sunn O meets Alice in Chains meets Meshuggah meets Queensrÿche meets Korn meets The Dillinger Escape Plan meets Pantera meets At The Gates meets Marilyn Manson meets Black Sabbath, etc... note
- Deftones meets Napalm Death? X Japan meets Fear Factory? Debates are continuing.


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The judge suspended three years of the sentence handed to former Edgewood Officer James Foutch on Thursday.
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State unemployment directors said Wednesday that the Senate's bipartisan bill to extend unemployment insurance is unworkable because the five-month extension would expire before many states even got the new program running.
In a letter to Senate leaders, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies said some states will probably opt out of the federal benefits program entirely rather than go through the administrative burden of restarting the program. Officials said it could take some states one to three months to restart, and the new benefits expire June 1 anyway.
The letter is a blow to Democratic leaders, who had thought they'd broken a logjam last week when they got five Republicans — enough to break a GOP filibuster — to sign onto the latest five-month extension.
"The requirements in [the Senate agreement] would cause considerable delays in the implementation of the program and increased administrative issues and costs," the state officials said in their letter. "Some states have indicated they might decide such changes are not feasible in the short time available, and therefore would consider not signing the U.S. Department of Labor's agreement to operate the program."
Armed with the new letter, House Speaker John A. Boehner announced his opposition to the latest Senate deal, which means the bill would be dead on arrival in the House.
"We have always said that we're willing to look at extending emergency unemployment benefits again, if Washington Democrats can come up with a plan that is fiscally-responsible, and gets to the root of the problem by helping to create more private-sector jobs," Mr. Boehner said in a statement. "There is no evidence that the bill being rammed through the Senate by Leader [Harry] Reid meets that test."
Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, is expected to put the new deal up for a vote in the Senate next week, and his spokesman said Mr. Boehner's concerns are solvable if House Republicans will come to the table to negotiate.
The latest Senate deal — the fourth version since the debate began in December — would extend federal benefits for the long-term jobless for five months, retroactive to Dec. 28, which is when the federal program ended. More than 2 million people have seen their federal benefits expire.
Sen. Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican and co-author of the Senate plan, said he'll continue to work to pass the proposal as is, despite objections from the states.
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Democrats initially pushed for an 11-month extension, but Republicans balked at the idea of such a long extension without making major reforms and offsetting the entire cost.
The state workforce officials' letter suggests a longer extension might solve some of the administrative problems — but finding more money to cover the costs of a longer extension would be difficult.
The state officials said old computer systems, questions about how to cover administrative claims costs and difficulty in enforcing a new provision in the bill to stop payments to millionaires would all slow down the process of implementing the changes in the bill.


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