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No Nintendo Fuse Podcast tonight
Today is Tuesday, and normally that would mean we have the Nintendo Fuse Podcast tonight at 9 pm eastern time. However, this week the show is cancelled. The reason being that I have swine flu and I need rest. Well, to be honest, I'm feeling a lot better already and I haven't had a fever in a while and I've only been sick for like a day so I'm thinking I don't have swine flu and it's something else… but regardless, I need rest. That means next week's podcast will have two weeks' worth of news, so that should be good.
In the meantime, you can catch up on any old episodes that you missed. You can listen to the old episodes here. You can also subscribe to the Nintendo Fuse Podcast in iTunes for free by searching for Nintendo Fuse in the iTunes Store or by clicking this link.
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Probably you do have swine flu, but have a pretty good immune system. Then don't worry about it, I was looking forward to tonight's podcast but it's quite alright I'll just wait for next week's. 😀


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Facebook did WHAT to Instagram? :: #TWIB No. 6 [VIDEO]
On the latest episode of This Week in Blogging over on Blogcast FM, lots of news in social media.
- Facebook acquired the Instagram photo sharing network for 1 Billion dollars
- Google Plus redesigned their platform and users are now seeing a lot of white
- Savvy Sexy Social guest blogger, Allie Lehman, was featured as the Blogger to Watch
Tune in for my thoughts on all of the above.
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On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:14, Will Senn wrote: > Total and complete insanity on the vendors part, but a truthful > assessment nonetheless. Gone are the days of bullet proof specs, or are > they? Could it be that they were never here? Sadly not, although it may > have seemed so, back in the day. The exponential increase in complexity > has exposed a great number of flaws in what might have seemed solid back > when. > You really don't want to get in to the discussion of bullet proof specs. ;-) > However, that being said, my 2 cents is that it's totally nuts to commit > anything after an error, unless you don't care that your datastore is in > an unknown state (you being the database vendor). The argument that the > app developer might want it that way... sheesh harkens back to the days > of writing linear incongruent pseudo random number generators using > BASIC's integer overflow characteristics... Cool, but infinitely > frightening (non-portable, monster-unmaintainable) at the same time. > > -Will I don't think that anyone is suggesting that. In further thought of my suggestion, I guess the database vendors would have to do some work. Considering what I am thinking would force them to rethink what is meant by a connection relative to a transaction, and how to allow for multiple non-nested concurrent transactions to occur within the same connection context. But again, I don't think that its going to be rocket science. -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC
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The term market sector is used in economics and finance to describe a part of the economy. It is usually a broader term than industry, which is a set of businesses that are buying and selling such similar goods and services that they are in direct competition with each other.[1] Analysts divide the stock market itself into market sectors so that shares of companies that are in direct competition are listed alongside each other.
In the bond market it refers to the division of the market by the type of issuer. E.g. government, state, corporate, or utility.
The term is also used in marketing to describe sections of the mass market that can be specifically targeted in advertising campaigns. In this context it is correctly called Market segment.
Markets are often split into sectors using either GICS, ICB or TRBC.
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By Tina Berres Filipski
A standing-room-crowd turned out to hear master marketer Seth Godin's Opening Session on Tuesday morning at The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas. And Godin gave them plenty to think about in his talk Invisible Or Remarkable: Notes From The Revolution.
While most of us were taught in school from an early age to be quiet and fit in, Seth Godin begged his listeners to do the complete opposite.
Using examples, personal stories and unforgettable, often hilarious, oversized background images, Godin took on what's been wrong with marketing since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
He should know—in 1992 he published a book about the internet and it sold a dismal 1,842 copies; a total, epic failure, he admitted. At the same time, two guys created a site about the internet and named it Yahoo. Godin credits their success with the fact that the pair had a blank slate—and figured that if people want to learn about the internet, they would learn online. He, on the other hand, created what he already knew how to make—a book.
For almost an hour, Godin held thousands of listeners in the palm of his hand as he explained the giant shift that's been happening in marketing over the past 50 years.
Mass merchants demand mass markets to sell more stuff, he explained. "The mentality was that if we advertise it enough, people will buy from us," he says. "This is all fueled by bosses who keep saying the four-letter word to us over and over again. M-O-R-E. More market share, more yield, more profit per share. This leads to average products for average people."
Godin emphasized his point: "All products are average on purpose, because if you want to reach everybody, you better make something everybody wants to buy."
But the rules have changed, he pointed out. "There is an entire industry that is falling apart—the one that drove the mass marketing concept of interrupting everybody is going away. We are going into a completely new way of thinking and lots of people are looking in the rearview mirror and thinking 'How do we drive forward?'"
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Relationship between levels of bacteriuria or candiduria and quantitative pyuria in 761 catheterized patients. Data are depicted on a log-log scale, for clarity; colony counts between 1 and 103 colony-forming units per milliliter are not shown. Each point represents 1 catheter-day. It can be seen (curvilinear regression line) that the relationship between urine microbial counts and pyuria in the catheterized patient is weak until very high levels of bacteriuria or candiduria are reached.
Tambyah PA, Maki DG. The Relationship Between Pyuria and Infection in Patients With Indwelling Urinary CathetersA Prospective Study of 761 Patients. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160(5):673-677. doi:10.1001/archinte.160.5.673
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Pyuria is universally considered as essential for identifying urinary tract infections in noncatheterized patients. The utility of pyuria in the catheterized patient, to identify catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), has not been adequately defined.
We prospectively studied 761 newly catheterized patients in a university hospital; 82 (10.8%) developed nosocomial CAUTI (>103 colony-forming units per milliliter). While catheterized, each patient was seen daily, a quantitative urine culture was obtained, and the urine white blood cell concentration was measured quantitatively using a hemocytometer.
The mean urine leukocyte count in patients with CAUTI was significantly higher than in patients without infections (71 vs 4 per microliter; P=.006). Pyuria was most strongly associated with CAUTI caused by gram-negative bacilli (white blood cell count, 121 vs 4 per microliter; P=.03); infection with coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococci (white blood cell count, 39 vs 4 per microliter; P=.25) or yeasts (white blood cell count, 25 vs 4 per microliter; P=.15) produced much less pyuria. Pyuria with a white blood cell count greater than 10 per microliter (>5 per high-power field in a conventional urinalysis) had a specificity of 90% for predicting CAUTI with greater than 105 colony-forming units per milliliter but a sensitivity of only 37%.
In patients with short-term indwelling urinary catheters, pyuria is less strongly correlated with CAUTI than in noncatheterized patients with urinary tract infection. The strongest association is with CAUTI caused by gram-negative bacilli; the association is far weaker for infections caused by gram-positive cocci or yeasts. Most patients with CAUTI are asymptomatic and do not have associated fever. Pyuria should not be used as the sole criterion to obtain a urine culture in a patient with a catheter.
CATHETER-ASSOCIATED urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection, accounting for up to 40% of all nosocomial infections and more than 1 million infections in US hospitals each year.1- 3 Up to a half of patients requiring an indwelling urethral catheter for 5 days or longer will develop bacteriuria or candiduria.1- 3 Silent catheter-associated bacteriuria comprises a huge reservoir of resistant organisms in the hospital, particularly on critical care units.4- 13
Pyuria has been shown to have excellent predictive value for identifying urinary tract infections in noncatheterized patients.14,15 Although recently published guidelines16 recommend using pyuria as the criterion for obtaining a urine culture as part of the workup of fever in the hospitalized patient, the utility of pyuria for identifying bacteriuria or candiduria in patients with a short-term catheter has not been clearly defined.
We report the results of a prospective study of the relationship between pyuria and urinary tract infection in 761 hospitalized patients with short-term indwelling urinary catheters.
Patients participating in 2 prospective, randomized, comparative trials of medicated catheters, one a nitrofurazone-impregnated silicone catheter17 and the other a silver-polyurethane hydrogel catheter,18 formed the population studied. Neither medicated catheter was associated with any irritative urinary tract symptoms or with sterile pyuria compared with the control catheters used in each trial.17,18 Participants in both trials were hospitalized patients scheduled to receive an indwelling urethral (Foley) catheter who were expected to be catheterized for more than 24 hours. Patients were excluded if they were younger than 18 years; pregnant; or had a known allergy to silicone, nitrofurazone, or silver. Both studies were approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Health Sciences, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
On enrollment into the study, baseline demographic and clinical data bearing on risk factors for CAUTI19- 21 were collected, including age, sex, structural urologic disease, underlying systemic diseases including diabetes mellitus and cancer, immunosuppressive therapy, hospital service, confinement in an intensive care unit, severity of illness using the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score, recent surgery, and the purpose for catheterization.
On enrollment, and daily thereafter, approximately 3 mL of urine was aspirated from the sampling port of the catheter with a sterile syringe, first disinfecting the port with 10% povidone-iodine. Each specimen was immediately brought to the laboratory and cultured using a technique capable of detecting 1 colony-forming unit (CFUs) per milliliter,22 evenly spreading 1 mL of undiluted urine and serial dilutions on predried sheep blood agar plates. After aerobic incubation at 37°C for 24 to 48 hours, each colony type was enumerated and fully identified using standard techniques and criteria.23
Quantitative urine white blood cell counts were measured daily using a hemocytometer (Hausser Scientific Partnership, Horsham, Pa).24 Every day, in addition to the urine culture, the patient was questioned regarding any discomfort or symptoms associated with the catheter (pain, sense of urgency, or dysuria). Patients' medical records were reviewed concurrently for fever or other clinical and laboratory data suggesting active infection. Peripheral white blood cell counts were recorded as they were ordered by patients' physicians.
The new appearance of bacteriuria or funguria of greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter was considered to represent nosocomial CAUTI. We have previously shown that isolation of greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter is highly predictive of CAUTI22; with greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter bacteriuria or candiduria, if intercurrent antimicrobial therapy is not given to the patient, the level of bacteriuria or candiduria uniformly rises to greater than 105 CFUs per milliliter within 24 to 48 hours, as confirmed in this study.
The Student unpaired t test was used to determine the significance of differences with continuous variables; and the Fisher exact test, for dichotomous data. Two-tailed tests of significance were used exclusively.
A total of 1035 evaluable newly catheterized patients participated in this study. To accurately assess the significance of pyuria in patients with an indwelling urinary catheter, we excluded patients who underwent a kidney or a kidney-pancreas transplantation, who we have found show a burst of sterile leukocyturia immediately after transplantation (P.A.T. and D.G.M., unpublished data, 1998), and analyzed 761 catheterized patients, of whom 82 (10.8%) developed 95 nosocomial CAUTIs.
The incidence of CAUTI was much higher in women than men (50 [21.2%] of 236 vs 32 [7.2%] of 443; relative risk, 2.9; 95% confidence interval, 2.1-4.2; P<.001). Of the 95 CAUTIs, 89 (94%) were unimicrobial and 6 (6%) were polymicrobial, most commonly with enterococci and gram-negative bacilli; 14 infections (14%) were caused by Escherichia coli, 27 (27%) by Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or other resistant nosocomial gram-negative bacilli, 27 (27%) by enterococci or staphylococci, and 31 (31%) by Candida species. Only 50 (53%) of the 95 CAUTIs were detected by the primary team taking care of the patients; more than half of the CAUTIs were not treated.
As can be seen in Table 1, except for sex, duration of catheterization, and type of service, patients with and without CAUTI were quite similar, including severity of illness, as measured by the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score. Moreover, most patients were asymptomatic, including those with CAUTI,25 and mean peripheral white blood cell counts were similar in patients with and without CAUTI.
The mean urine white blood cell count in patients with CAUTI during active infection was significantly higher than in uninfected patients (71 vs 4 per microliter, P=.006) (Table 2). Pyuria was most strongly associated with infection caused by gram-negative bacilli (mean urine white cell count, 121 vs 4 per microliter, P=.03). In contrast, CAUTI caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococci (39 vs 4 per microliter, P=.25) or yeasts (25 vs 4 per microliter, P=.15) produced far less pyuria.
Although the maximum level of pyuria was considerably higher than the mean during the period of catheterization, in patients with and without CAUTI, the discrimination between uninfected and infected patients using maximum urine white blood cell counts was no better than using mean values (Table 2). Urine white blood cell counts on the day of onset of bacteriuria or candiduria greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter were only modestly elevated and were not useful for the prediction of CAUTI (Table 2). The absolute level of bacteriuria or candiduria did not correlate with the level of pyuria except at very high microbial concentrations, greater than 108 CFUs per milliliter (Figure 1).
The sensitivity of pyuria greater than 10 white blood cells per microliter in a fresh urine specimen (which corresponds roughly to >5 per high-power field in a microscopic examination of the urine sediment24) for the diagnosis of CAUTI with greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter was only 37%; specificity, 90%; and positive predictive value, 36%; for the diagnosis of CAUTI with greater than 105 CFUs per milliliter, sensitivity was only 47%; specificity, 90%; and positive predictive value, 32% (Table 3).
The association between pyuria in a spontaneously voided urine specimen and urinary tract infection in noncatheterized patients is based on the studies of Brumfitt26 and Little.27 A urinary leukocyte excretion rate, as measured in a counting chamber, of greater than 400 000 per hour was found by Hutt et al28 and Gadeholt29 to be the upper limit of normal and correlated with a quantitative urine white blood cell count of approximately 10 per microliter in a single examination of uncentrifuged urine. In a review24 of the 5 published studies using counting chamber urine leukocyte determinations, 281 of 291 symptomatic patients with bacteriuria had a white blood cell count greater than 10 per microliter (sensitivity, 97%; specificity, 98%; and positive predictive value, 98%). Since then, pyuria has become universally regarded as an essential criterion for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection.1,30- 32 Pyuria has also been recommended as the indication to obtain a urine culture in patients with fever in the intensive care unit in a recent consensus guideline.16
In patients with indwelling urinary catheters, the association of pyuria with bacteriuria has been studied primarily in those with spinal cord injury undergoing intermittent catheterization or in those with long-term indwelling catheters. In a study of 32 patients with chronic infections, Peterson and Roth33 found that 50 white blood cells per high-power field in microscopic examination of urinary sediment separated their cohort into a high pyuria group, 6 of 10 who had fever and symptomatic urinary tract infection, and a low pyuria group, of which only 3 of 22 had fever or other symptoms. However, Gribble et al,34 studying a population of intermittently catheterized patients with spinal cord injury, reported that measurement of the quantitative level of pyuria did not separate bacteriuric from abacteriuric patients. Musher et al35 reported that pyuria with a white blood cell count greater than 10 per microliter had a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 73% for the diagnosis of CAUTI with greater than 103 CFUs per milliliter; for CAUTI with greater than105 CFUs per milliliter, the sensitivity was 91% and the specificity was 72%. However, most of their patients were undergoing long-term catheterization, women were not studied, and patients with candiduria were excluded. The utility of pyuria for the identification of CAUTI in hospitalized patients with short-term indwelling urinary catheters has not been adequately defined.
In this large prospective study of hospitalized patients with catheters, with a wide but typical range of underlying conditions, nearly all of the patients with documented CAUTI were asymptomatic for fever or irritative symptoms referable to the urinary tract.25 Yet, patients with CAUTI did show on average a substantial and significant elevation of the mean urine white blood cell count during the period of active infection (Table 1). However, when infections were analyzed by the organism causing infection, pyuria was most strongly associated with CAUTI caused by gram-negative bacilli (121 vs 4 per microliter, P=.03; Table 2); infection caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococci or yeasts was much less strongly associated with pyuria. On the first day of bacteriuria or candiduria, the mean level of pyuria in patients infected with staphylococci and enterococci or yeasts differed little from that of uninfected patients (8 and 9 per microliter, respectively, vs 5 per microliter). Others have recently reported the frequent absence of pyuria in noncatheterized and catheterized patients with urinary tract infection caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci36 or yeasts.37
The reasons underlying these observations are not entirely clear. While CAUTI caused by staphylococci, enterococci, or yeasts occasionally leads to bloodstream infection, especially if urinary tract obstruction occurs,38 the degree of urinary tract inflammation elicited by these organisms is clearly not as great as occurs with the gram-negative bacilli. Coagulase-negative staphylococci have been shown in animal models of infection to incite far less cytokine release than gram-negative bacilli.39 Symptomatic community-acquired urinary tract infections in noncatheterized patients have been associated with more virulent, "pyelonephritogenic" strains of E coli,40- 42 but most nosocomial gram-negative bacillar CAUTIs are caused by P aeruginosa, Enterobacter species, and other enteric gram-negative bacilli2,3,43 for which urovirulence characteristics have yet to be characterized.
The clinical relevance of our findings seems clear. Pyuria cannot and should not be used as the sole criterion for obtaining a urine culture in a catheterized patient. This is especially true in the case of infections caused by yeasts and gram-positive cocci. It is clear that most patients with CAUTI are asymptomatic and do not have fever caused by CAUTI.25 If a catheterized patient develops fever or signs of sepsis that cannot be linked to another source, such as nosocomial pneumonia, surgical site infection, or vascular catheter-related bloodstream infection, a urine culture should be obtained even if the patient does not have demonstrable pyuria.
In this study of catheter-associated pyuria, we used a counting chamber to determine quantitative urine white blood cell counts. Most clinical laboratories measure pyuria semiquantitatively, reporting the number of white blood cells per microscopic high-power field in a centrifuged urine specimen. Although more than 5 white blood cells per high-power field correlates roughly with a urine white blood cell count greater than 10 per microliter,24 assessment of pyuria by semiquantitative microscopic examination of the urinary sediment has been shown to have a high degree of interobserver variability44 and may not be reliable as a diagnostic test. Semiquantitative pyuria by microscopy may have even poorer predictive value for diagnosing CAUTI.
Accepted for publication May 6, 1999.
This study was supported by research grants from Bard International, Covington, Ga; and Rochester Medial Inc, Rochester, Minn. Dr Tambyah is the recipient of a Singapore National Medical Research Council Fellowship.
Presented in part at the 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Diego, Calif, September 27, 1998.
We thank Kathleen Halvorson, MS, Leah Narans, BS, and Shelly Fischer, BS, for their excellent laboratory support; and the research nurses, Valerie Knasinski, BSN, Jo Thomson, LPN, Pam Owen, LPN, Sharon Little, LPN, Josh Knox, BS, Ann Kelly, LPN, Julie Jurss, LPN, Anne Jones, LPN, Pat Gwinn, LPN, Carol Boone, LPN, Rose Bauer, LPN, and Lani Arrieta, BSN, for their collection of data during this study.
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Amazing real young riders playing tough ball in ponies in Spain
Today, I propose this friendly, but tough horseball match taken place in Palencia (Spain) between Spaniard and French kids on Saturday July 18th, 2010.
Here is the link in youtube:
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La Posada de Campos
Like basketball on horseback. Very interesting. I never knew that something like that even existed.
I've seen it before. It can get pretty intense.
I want to play this SO badly!!
Doesn't that look like fun?~! if only I were younger!
thank you for sharing that. It is a wonderful video!
Cool! :)
Very fun! What a great way to develop balance independent of the hands!
Even I might be able to pick up the ball if I could ride a short horse (pony)!
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Here in France, horses are advertised as and more expensive if they are "horse ball" players. :)
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Kind of like in-hand polo, wish there were more sports like this in the US
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Investigative TV journalism at its best.
Read an edited transcript of Jonathan Holmes interview with Craig Veness, NSW Police Prosecutor and a pioneer for the circle sentencing program in Nowra.
Reporter: Jonathan Holmes
Date: 10/10/2005
Q. Craig, I wouldve expected that a police prosecutor of all people would be very suspicious of this kind of procedure, the circle sentencing, and would see it as a soft option. Is that the way you look at it?
A. Initially that is exactly the way that I looked at it when the initial concept was muted here for us to look at, exploring it and seeing whether it was a feasible process to implement. Yes, I was suspicious and I dont think theres anything remarkable about that, police are inherently suspicious. Its in our nature to test the water and reserve judgment before we actually make a claim as to whether its practical and whether its effective or not. So yes, I think that thats quite true, and I think that a majority of prosecutors that have not actually had any experience with circle court for a significant period of time would still remain suspicious and somewhat sceptical even today.
Q. What about the rest of the police here in Nowra; when it was first introduced there must have been quite a lot of hostility with the idea, wasnt there?
A. Hostility, no. I think scepticism and suspicion reign supreme and to a certain degree that probably still remains today, however what has I guess assisted us in our cause here is that a number of police have actually been required to attend circle court as witnesses or as victims and they have seen first hand how the process works, and they have had the opportunity to air their grievances with the defendants themselves. And as a consequence of that process they have come to understand the actual individual better, understand whats brought them to that to place and they have, this is the police, have seen that the Elders are very very serious about their job, have imposed sentences that are in keeping with what the magistrate would ordinarily impose, if not tougher, and theyve also seen a change in the defendants. So the police have seen that the punishment thats been handed out certainly would satisfy the communitys expectations, and at the same time they have identified a change in the defendant and their attitude towards police.
Q. Your own feeling about it now that youve been to what, 50 circles or something, does this process work?
A. Yes, it does. Look Ive been in the police force now for going on towards 21 years. Ive only been a prosecutor for six of those years and Id have to say that all police when they first join the police force are somewhat naïve, but we all have an idealistic approach to what we want to achieve while were in the police force and that is to make the world a better place in some way. We soon find out that its not as easy as we first thought, however, what I found in this process is that it makes a difference, it actually does. Were taking recidivist offenders, these arent first offenders, theyre people that are knocking on the door of gaol, and we can take them through a process that radically changes their attitude
Q. Does the process actually work, Craig? Whats your experience of it?
A. Id have to say yes it does. Initially yes I was cynical about it even when we first commenced the process. Nobody really knew what was going to happen but over the passage of time we have seen that the offenders that have come before circle court have, by and large, not re-offended. Those that have re-offended their rate of offending has been reduced significantly and the majority of them, their attitude has changed towards their own community, bearing in mind that its their own Elders sitting in judgment of them and often theyre related of course. Their attitude towards themselves and towards police has changed.
It is probably the most rewarding and satisfying element of my career, because were actually taking individuals who are recidivist offenders, people that ordinarily wouldve gone to gaol, were putting them before a court and those persons are having a sentence imposed upon them by their own peers, which is in keeping with what the communitys expectations would be based on the criminality and their criminal history, but at the same time that sanction is coupled with support. You will often find that the very Elders themselves that are involved in imposing the penalty, recommending the penalty, are also heavily involved in ensuring that the support mechanism is there for the defendant so they dont re-offend, and that is what Im finding is the major difference between what happens in the circle court and the, what we would consider the traditional court.
Q. What was the rate before circle roughly, the percentage if you like of Aboriginal representation in the courts? There isnt a big Aboriginal population here in Nowra but were they representing
A. As I understand the Aboriginal population in this area based on the last census material thats available to me was somewhere in the vicinity of 3000 in the Shoalhaven. Now, it would be fair to say that the percentage of Aboriginal people coming before the court here over the years has reduced, and it was reducing marginally before the introduction of circle court. However with the introduction of circle sentencing court it seems to be sending a message in its our right to the Aboriginal community, and that is that the Elders will not tolerate behaviour which constitutes an offence, and they are condoning the law as it stands today
Certainly the most significant statistic would be in relation to the rate of re-offending, I think, those persons that come before circle court as opposed to persons who dont is significantly different. They really dont seem to come back I have to say that my own personal experience with a lot of these offenders has been one, and I know Ive said this to the magistrate himself, there have been many occasions in the past where as a police officer Ill be walking the street and I will see an offender that I have known and they will more than likely cross to the opposite side of the road and disappear amongst the crowd. These days those same persons that have been through the circle sentencing process will cross from the opposite side of the road to me to say hello. Now, I find that extraordinary.
Q. Well youve got that experience with Wayne Lowesborough. Tell us about that because well be meeting him.
A. Sure, Wayne is one of the fellows that came through circle sentencing court, and certainly Waynes history was such that he was knocking on the door of gaol, and Wayne went through the process and he, like so many other fellows, had a realisation of exactly how precarious his position was, exactly what the impact of his actions had been upon the general community, the attitude of his own community, that is his Aboriginal community towards his re-offending, and he certainly stopped re-offending. He, all he wanted to do was get a mortgage, get a job, and get back together with his wife and children. And his life at the time of coming through circle was a mess. Since that process was undertaken Wayne certainly got back together again with his wife. He certainly has a mortgage. He has a home, which isnt too far away from myself. When he built his house I was aware that he needed some grass in the backyard and I was doing some extensions on my home and I went and saw Wayne and offered him all the grass from the back of my home. So the next thing you know the prosecutor and the former offender are in his backyard rolling out all the grass, and it was a really nice closing, I thought, to that chapter in Waynes life, and it was very gratifying for me.
Q. Do you think that your colleagues in the police have found, I mean the relationship between the Aboriginal community, especially on the missions, was pretty poisonous between them and the police, as I understand it, at times. Has that situation improved at all as a result of circle, do you think?
A. Yes, I think it has. You have to be careful to not to assume that circle court is going to be the panacea and solve all of the social problems that affect us all. Youre never going to be able to stop the angry drunken man; but what we are finding with the circle court is that in those communities the Elders are there. The Elders are now gaining far more respect than they used to have, and I think in effect its because the Elders have got their own job back. Were aware that the Elders traditionally used to sit in judgment of their own peers. With European settlement a completely difference judicial system was imposed upon everybody in the land, and as I understand it this is the first occasion in which there has been a successful marriage between the cultural role of leaders of the Aboriginal community and the contemporary law of the land. The two of them work hand in hand together and as a consequence of that the wider Aboriginal community see the elders as once again being in a position of being able to sit in judgment of them.
Q. Do you think as a police prosecutor that circle is a soft option compared with what the same offenders would get for the same offences in court?
A. No, I dont. Circle court to my mind has delivered, in terms of the raw sentence itself, generally speaking the sentences have been just as tough if not harsher than the sentences that the magistrate, at least in this circuit would ordinarily impose
Q. But hes not a particularly soft magistrate?
A. No, hes not, hes not. I dont actually recall the last time that I appealed a sentence because it was manifestly inadequate, at least in terms of this particular magistrate. So I havent had a problem with the actual severity of the sentences that he has imposed. But the Aboriginal community, the Elders themselves are imposing sentences that are just as severe, if not even tougher. But its the extra peerial punishment that comes with the sentence which makes the major difference for these offenders. They cant escape their own community, and its their own community sitting there finding out about this particular individuals extra curricular activities, their criminal history, and indeed on a number of occasions their domestic violence history. And its often a real surprise to a lot of the Elders as well to see exactly what these people have been up to So, that extra element thats involved not only in the actual imposition of the actual sentence itself, but the shame factor, the exposure, very quickly coupled with the support that those people will still give is whats making the difference.
Q. How do you explain to the white population that quite often, the Elders are closely related to the people being judged; that youve got aunties, youve got uncles, people certainly whove known these people all their lives sitting in judgment on them; that would never be tolerated in the white system at all.
A. In the traditional court, no, it wouldnt. Ordinarily you would find that if a magistrate felt that there was a conflict of interest there for those very reasons, he would disqualify himself, or herself from sitting in judgment and indeed a replacement magistrate would come on board to deal with that particular matter. Thats one of the unique features of this particular process. The Elders are in a very very difficult situation where they know that they have a job to do and they take their job very very seriously
Q. So you were saying that they have an incredibly difficult job to do because theyre so closely, they know these people.
A. Yes, thats right. Theyre, theyre in a situation where they are very well aware of their role and exactly the significance of their role, and that circle court cannot be seen as a soft option, first of all by the defendant themselves, because if they do its effectively a waste of time. There are a lot of critics of circle court and to impose a soft option certainly sends the wrong message to them and certainly plays into their hands. I have not yet seen one soft option imposed or a sentence which I have felt was inadequate. But theyre in a very very difficult situation because, yes youre right, they often will know these people very well. Theyll often be related to them and thats an extraordinary situation to sit there in judgment and have to seriously contemplate sending maybe even one of your own family to gaol. To actually act upon that and then to do it sends to my mind a very very clear message to the wider community that the Elders that sit in circle court are deadly serious about their job...
Q. How important was Gail Wallace as a sort of intermediary in all of this, do you think?
A. She was vital. Gails job was very difficult right from the very start because she had the task of being able to convince the Elders in this community to give it a go, to actually be involved in something like this. And if you were just to step out of the process for a minute and to consider what would it be like as an Aboriginal person to be approached and asked to sit in judgment of your peers in a court, that would be a terrifying thing. And to sit there with the magistrate and with the police prosecutor and and to actually embark on this role would be a very unsettling experience. And it was interesting when we first started this process none of us really knew how it was going to work, and we had to hasten slowly with it. And over a period of time you could see the Elders were starting to become comfortable with the role, and these days you will find that the Elders that sit on circle sit with authority, and the offenders themselves are left in no doubt as to who holds the floor in circle; its not the magistrate and its not me, its the Elders, they are the ones that the defendant has to answer to.
Q. I was going to say how hard was it for you to stand back enough, you and Doug Dick, to stand back enough to let this process work? That mustve been tough at first.
A. Very difficult, really difficult. There are in the normal courtroom environment legislative parameters that we have to work within. In the circle court a lot of those parameters dont exist and things are said in circle court that would ordinarily prompt a very healthy objection, either by myself or the lawyer that would represent the defendant. Those occasions we have to bite our lip and listen very carefully. And initially we really werent sure where this was going. A circle court might take two hours to arrive at a decision that a magistrate might make in five minutes, at face value you might think that in terms of its efficacy and its efficiency that its found wanting, but where it finds its place is in the capacity of circle court to minimize the chances of that person coming back before the court again...
Q. What do you say to those critics who say this is a kind of apartheid, why should we have a different system of justice for one small section of the community; why shouldnt everyone be treated the same?
A. First of all what I would say to those people is that the defendants journey starts in the local court. The defendants journey ends in the local court, they are sentenced in the local court. So, from that point of view it isnt any different, I would say that the fundamental difference of circle court is that we are focussing on Aboriginal people and Aboriginal people that are knocking on the door of gaol because personally I think we owe it. And secondly when one looks statistically at the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people within the correctional services facilities Australia wide something has to be done. You know I look at the actual prosecution process and I tend to think that circle court redefines what a successful prosecution is. Its all well and good to go before the traditional court and to put forward a prosecution which results in the conviction of an offender and an effective sentence being imposed. But then as we often see an offender will re-offend, a lot of them do re-offend within a relatively short space of time, and I just wonder just how successful weve been. So, if this process includes as part of the sanction a process in which the prosecution can introduce an element of support to minimize the likelihood of that offender re-offending that is what I consider to be a successful prosecution.
Q. Could it work in your view for a wider community, could you have circle courts for everybody?
A. Personally I dont think we can. I think that first of all I dont think it will work for juvenile offenders. The rationale behind that is that its very very difficult to tell young people what to do.
Q. If its been so successful with the Aboriginal community or it looks as though it might be, why couldnt it work for everyone, why couldnt we have circle courts for everyone?
A. Well I can see that, here is a potential for circle court to be, it has a utilitarian value to certain areas within the community. I think really the most important ingredient if you want to see circle court work for other cultural groups for example, there must be a strong community, there must be strong community support for it. If its a fragmented community I cant see it working
Q. Youve got to have Elders that people know and respect?
A. Yes. Thats exactly right, and indeed if they dont respect them initially you need to ensure that the Elders themselves, for want of a better word, in other communities are people that are absolutely committed and dedicated to seeing the process through. And when you have people that are unshaken by a defendants attitude towards them you soon see that the defendants recognise the Elders in that particular community deserve respect, and I can see that it does have potential in other community groups, subject to that being there.
Q. One specific criticism Ive heard from Aboriginal people and non Aboriginal people is that circle is not appropriate for domestic violence cases, that its not fair on the victim to get them in to confront the offender and that there would be a lot of pressure on the victim to minimize the offence, especially if they come from the Aboriginal community. Whats your observation about how well this system works for domestic violence in particular?
A. Well if were talking about domestic violence in particular Id have to say that it has probably worked more effectively for domestic violence offences than most others. Theres nothing pleasant about a victim having to confront the defendant under any circumstances. In this particular environment however the victims are accompanied by a support person. They are, they can enjoy the protection of the prosecutor for them, and not to mention the Elders in the actual circle as well. Weve had occasions for example where one particular victim very early in the circle found it really quite distressing, and spontaneously the Elders got up and came over to the victim and supported her and held her until such time as she calmed down and was in a position to continue to function in the circle. Nobody asked them to do that, it was a natural response by the Elders to do that. The defendant was left sitting there by himself whilst the Elders came and supported the victim Theres been quite a few domestic violence matters that have come through circle. It really is probably one of the most effective ways of being able to get to the very heart of what has caused the conflict between the two people. And because were not constrained by a lot of the legal parameters that I referred to earlier a lot of the issues that you ordinarily wont hear in court come out. We get, weve got plenty of time, we discuss all the issues, and I am yet to see a victim of domestic violence leave circle court not being satisfied.
Q. And of course in the normal court system they dont get a say at all.
A. In the normal court system theyre often not there at all. In the normal court system I may not even know what the victim looks like, Im acting on instructions that are received and the victims are often not there at all. They dont get the opportunity to confront the defendant.
Q. Theyd have to give evidence though, wouldnt they?
A. Well if its a plea of guilty they, you wont see them. Certainly if its a plea of not guilty, yes theyre in a position where they actually have to get up in the court on oath and give evidence and then be subject to cross examination. And thats not a pleasant experience for anybody to have to undertake. But circle court is all about sentencing. Weve gone past the presumption of innocence. The person has been found guilty. Its all about exactly what sort of sentence is going to be imposed and how can we ensure that youre not going to re-offend again.
Q. And in fact they wouldnt even be allowed into circle if they didnt already accept their guilt and and if they were contesting the facts or anything like that, would they?
A. Thats right. The matter would immediately go back before the local court and be dealt with by the magistrate in his own right.
Q So just to sum up, this process is now being started in a lot of towns in New South Wales. How easy do you think that the process that youve pioneered here in Nowra will be to try and transport to communities as different as Mount Druitt on the one hand and Bourke on the other?
A. I can see that there is potential for circle court to certainly start in these places and to be very effective, but to roll the process out in these particular locations without giving serious consideration to the dynamics of the area, without giving serious consideration to the dynamics of circle court itself I think is unwise. For example I touched upon earlier the necessity to have a prosecutor and a magistrate that are known to the Elders, and that win the trust of the Elders. To have a prosecutor, for example, that is somewhat transient, that would fly a prosecutor in to a distant location to deal with circle court and then they leave, that wont work unless the Elders trust that prosecutor and trust the magistrate for exactly the same reasons I dont see it as being as effective as it is here.
It wasnt easy for the magistrate and I to win the trust of the Elders here but these days we work as a team in the court. They certainly respect our positions, we respect theirs, and that didnt happen overnight. So to consider imposing it, or rolling it out in these other locations, yes, I see that there is potential for that to occur, but we have to hasten slowly with it and we need to ensure we have consistency in our approach in relation to the dispensation of justice. And certainly in the actual persons themselves that are involved in the actual circle court itself, the magistrates and the prosecutors really have to understand the legislative parameters that circle court will work within. They have to be cultural sensitive and I think they also need to be able to exercise a certain degree of
Q. Theyve got to be prepared to surrender their own power.
A. Yes, thats thats probably one of the hardest things I would think for the magistrates and indeed even the prosecutors to do is to step, sit back and allow this process to take place. Its a beautiful thing actually to see the authority being shared amongst the Elders in the community and to see just how responsibly they handle that new authority. Its comforting to see that when theyre given that particular authority, yes it weighs very heavily upon their their minds and their hearts, but when it comes to the crunch, when they actually have to deliver their sentences they do so, and they do it in a manner which personally makes me very proud. And I think the general community, if they had the opportunity to see what happens, they too would be quite proud of the actions of the Elders.
Q. But in terms of spreading the system through New South Wales we shouldnt expect instant miracles; theres a lot that could go wrong?
A. Yes, I think so. I think that we have tapped into something here which really will make, over the passage of time, a significant difference, but we have to hasten slowly with it. If we rush into this too quickly I can see us doing more harm than good.
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Starry night 1889 This is one of Van Gogh's most well known pieces of work. Unlike the majority of his work Starry night was painted from memory and not out in the landscape. Starry night is memorable because of its unique style the sky keeps the viewers eyes focused on it as they follow the curves. The painting creates a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere.
Met zijn oude droom van een kunstenaarscollectief in gedachten huurt hij een atelier in Arles, het 'Gele Huis', en nodigt Gauguin uit bij hem te komen wonen. In afwachting van Gauguins komst schildert Vincent stillevens van zonnebloemen om de kamer van zijn vriend te verfraaien Más
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Three distinct MAP kinase (MAPK) pathways, each mediated by the extracellular signal regulated protein kinases (ERK), the c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNK) and the p38 MAPK, regulate the response of cells to a variety of extracellular stimuli. Under conditions of physical stress, tissue injury and infection, these MAPK signaling cascades are activated either in a direct, cell-autonomous manner or via intercellular cytokine signaling, and responsible for regulating cell survival and adaptation. In our long-term quest for understanding the function of MAPKs in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases, we have focused specifically on the p38 signaling pathway. Of the four isoforms of p38 MAPK in mammals, p38? is the most widely expressed protein and appears to mediate most, if not all, of the p38 MAPK actions that are sensitive to currently available p38 inhibitors. Targeted deletion of the p38? gene in mice results in early embryonic lethality, thus complicating the examination of p38 function in adult tissues. In this project, we aim to assess the cell type-specific requirement of p38? signaling in inflammatory responses and determine the mechanism by which p38? regulates inflammatory gene expression. To this end, we plan to pursue the following Specific Aims:1) Determine the cell type-specific functions of p38? in mouse models of inflammation;2) Identify the regulatory targets of p38? in myeloid, lymphoid, and epithelial tissues and determine their inflammatory function;and 3) Elucidate the mechanisms that link p38? signaling to target gene expression. Findings from the experiments proposed here will enable a better understanding of the p38 MAPK pathway and offer new insight into the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Public Health Relevance:
We aim to understand how injurious stimuli induce inflammatory responses through investigation of molecules that relay inflammatory signals in the cell. Our study will offer new insight into the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
We aim to understand how injurious stimuli induce inflammatory responses through investigation of molecules that relay inflammatory signals in the cell. Our study will offer new insight into the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
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Musician Website SEO SEM and Links
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Project Description
I need to encourage more of the right leads to a website to generate more business.
The website is for an Australian musician who performs for high-end weddings as well as corporate events for large scale companies. All based in Australia.
The musician has a basic website set up but requires a plan for improving SEO and SEM.
Requirements of you if Awarded:
(1) Provide a one page approach for how you will do this work.
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Some of the things I want to see:
1. Improvements on the musicians website to improve visibility and exposure to search engines (keywords, meta, title tags, alt attributes on images etc). Must not interfere with look of website.
2. Increase visibility to Google, Bing, Yahoo search engines.
3. Links to and from third party sites that are relevant in Australia for events, performers, musicians, artists, weddings, corporate events, event managers.
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The Oregon Trail DS
- Publisher: Gameloft
- Release Date: Dec 28, 2009
- Also On: iPhone/iPad, Mobile
Summary: [DSiWare] Westward, ho! Your favorite pioneering adventure game takes you on an exciting, historic, side-scrolling adventure with your Nintendo DSi system. Take the Oregon Trail experience further than ever before with all of the decision-making and problem-solving fun of the original game plus additional challenges. Leave your mark on America's history. Take a picture of yourself at each landmark with the Nintendo DSi system's built-in camera. You'll have your portrait and party's name printed in the Daily Oregon Trail newspaper in the game. Play eight skill-based mini-games that will impact your resources: Hunting, Fishing, River Crossing, Rafting, Wagon Repairing, Telegraph, Berry Picking and Gold Panning. Random events faced by real pioneers - such as disease, bandits and hitchhikers - and side missions add more excitement to your westward trek. [Nintendo]
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Buddy System for Dissertation Writers
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Lot 1P: Fallout 4 Nuka Cola Quantam Target Exclusive! Includes Promotional Poster! See Great Photos!
Christmas in "Hampton Roads, VA" Vintage Toy & Sports Card Sale | Dec. 4, 2016 1130am EST
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Description: Collector item for post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, role playing video-game series "Fallout," it is an in game consumable giving player a stark stat-boost. Nuka Cola is the series' version of Coke or Pepsi. These exclusive bottles were released and sold at Target in limited quantity for a limited time in mid-December 2015, one month after game developer Bethesda had released Fallout 4, the Fallout series' fourth main game. Required for any fan of the Fallout series collection dedicated to the series. Includes Promotional "Full-Size" Poster! See All Great Photos!
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Exhibited: Specifications: 12 Fl Oz. Bottle Berry-Lemonade Soda Jones Soda Company
Date: 2015