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In the midst of Apple, Inc.'s (
) efforts to
kill its biggest rival
-- Android phonemaker Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
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the plight of
second-place Android phonemaker HTC Corp. (
) has increasingly been overlooked. HTC recently
missed earnings targets
due to an
inexplicable ban on imports
, which lasted a month despite HTC
removing the infringing feature
(the "rubber-band" animation, which mimics a naturally occurring phenomena Apple has patented animation rights to).
The experience likely made HTC a bit wary of the good times that once rolled with partner Google Inc. (
). Hence, much
like Samsung
, this time around it appears much more serious when it comes to putting product on "the other" smartphone platform -- Windows Phone -- which is protected under Microsoft Corp.'s (
cross-licensing pact with Apple
As anticipated
, HTC unveiled two new
Windows Phone 8
handsets today -- the Windows Phone 8X and 8S. The phones serve as more colorful cousins to the
HTC One X and One S
, the company's flagship Android smartphones.
The 8X features a fully colored polycarbonate case. It can be had in California Blue (pictured), Graphite Black, Flame Red and Limelight Yellow (don't ask us what those colors mean, precisely):
The HTC Windows Phone 8X
The 8S has a more subtle colored accent that wraps the bottom edge of the phone and appears in the button area. That phone is available with "Domino, Fiesta Red, Atlantic Blue and High-Rise Gray" colors. The Atlantic Blue is seen below:
The HTC Windows Phone 8S
The coloring flourishes bear a not-so-subtle similarity to Nokia Oyj.'s (
distinctive Lumia 900 colored body design
. Still, the shape of the body is classic HTC design and is similar to the Android analogues.
Likewise there are many similarities to be found on the hardware front.
The 8X features a 4.3-inch 1280 x 720 Super LCD 2 display,
Gorilla Glass 2
protective coating, a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB DRAM, 16GB internal NAND Flash, and a 1,800 mAh Li-ion battery. On the connectivity side the phone has NFC, WiFi a/b/g/n, NFC, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, HSPA/WCDMA (850, 900, 1900, 2100MHz) (HPSA+), and LTE. An 8 megapixel camera is onboard in the back, with flash, while the front packs a 2.1 megapixel camera for chatting.
The 8S features a smaller 4-inch screen with first generation Gorilla Glass. It features a slower dual-core Snapdragon S4 (1 GHz), less DRAM (512 MB), and less internal storage (4 GB). NFC and LTE are also not mentioned, so it's probably those features are dropped. The camera is dropped to 5 megapixels, while the front camera is eliminated altogether. Clearly the 8S is the "budget" model.
Both phones do add a couple nice differentiators, though --
a Beats Audio
built-in amplifier to produce better sound quality out the headphones port, and an ImageChip processor, which features the same unique continuous-shooting that's depicted in the company's humorous "mountain goat" commercial:
The phones are expected to ship in the early November, but the pricing and precise carrier availability has not been revealed. HTC would only say that the phones are expected to be available on 150 carriers worldwide (while declining to discuss specific U.S. carriers, for now).
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- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 large red onion, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon sweet Hungarian paprika, plus more for garnish
- Sea salt
- 1 1/2 pounds young carrots, scrubbed
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- 3/4 cup plain whole-milk Greek yogurt
- 1/4 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 4 cups cooked wheat berries
In a medium saucepan, heat 3 tablespoons of the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion and garlic and cook over moderate heat until softened, about 6 minutes. Add the 1 tablespoon of paprika and a generous pinch of salt and cook for 1 minute, stirring. Add 4 cups of water and the carrots and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook over low heat until tender, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Drain the carrots and transfer to a platter. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of the chives.
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I've been slacking..... sort of. With posts anyway. Life just got busy. And in the book of life, that's just how shit rolls. You feel me? I had a root canal. Oh wait, let me back up. I broke (and broke off) my bottom back molar eating................a chip. Then I had the root canal. Which then became abscessed and required three additional trips to the dentist and a half swollen/half lopsided face for a week. So in. So hot. So nowww. I was not #abscessed about the whole situation. See what I did there? Seriously theeee worst localized pain I've ever been in. I've been slammed at work preparing for closings - schedule is stacked through May. Yolo. I've been painting/redecorating/updating the lower level of my house - after 10 years it was time for an update. AND my beautiful niece made her debut last Tuesday and she is theeee sweetest little angel. Oh I just love her so!!
I've worn a couple of outfits which were photo worthy during this time so I'll just do what I normally do when nobody sees me at the grocery store on Sunday, I'll wear the same outfit tomorrow, k? I'll wear again and post. Swerve. Shit, trying to remember what I wore though?? I'll figure it out. You can trust me (don't ever trust anyone that says you can trust me. Except for me. DISCLAIMER: sometimes.)
Button down: F21
Jeans - Express
Shoes - Target, circa 2012. (I need another pair. They're getting pretty worn out.)
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Outfit Post
It's the end of the month and quarter and today has been busy. I've got nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. But this. I got this:
Blouse - F21 (I have a problem with blouses. I have a ton of them. I can't quit them. They're so easy to pair literally anything with.)
Jeans - TJMaxx (these are Abercrombie. I found these back in Feb and snatched them up. Went back to TJMaxx two weekends ago and saw one pair, exact same pair I had, on clearance for $16.00. Sold!)
Heels - Nordstrom (Halogen. They have fringe. Enough said.)
Purse - Windsor Store
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
"Me", by me.
I just wanted to give you an insight into my personal thought process while taking outfit pics:
"Fix hair – stand tha – not that way – ok that looks ok – damn I got a big head – ok – stand thi – shit – ok turn a little – holy shit I'm sweating – my hair, dammit – ok, fix hair – ugh stand up straighter – that one might be good – ok you look crazy - look less crazy in the face – shit should I smile – ok that looks weird – nice gut - put shoulders back – maybe frontal – ok looks like I'm trying too hard – eyes looked a little crossed in that one – hold phone farther away – fuuuuck I'm sweating – flip hair right – flip it back to left – arms are tired - ugh don't move – don't want to lose place – ugh I'm sick of this – just another one – oh shit that looked ok – one more – nope."
Shirt - GAP (I bought this shirt from Goodwill for $4.00. It is a men's size large. I am not a men's size large. So I pulled out my sewing machine, ran a seam up both sides of shirt AND down the inside/and down the length of both sleeves........ and voila! Super easy.)
Skirt - Forever 21 (I bought this skirt this past Feb - $17.90. I mean, really. And it has pockets.)
Heels - Jessica Simpson (D'Orsay style pumps - I bought these at Nordstrom last year. I have these in nude too and are easily some of my fav heels. They go with errrrything.)
Monday, March 27, 2017
White on white
Blazers. Are they still a thing? What about a hole in the crotch of your pants? Asking for a friend.
Blazer – Forever21 (circa 2012)
T-shirt – Target (bought one size up)
Boyfriend Jeans – Charlotte Russe (I think I bought these in 2011… I. love. them. I've sewn these pants up too many times to count. I'm still on the lookout for another pair. In the meantime, I will keep sewing these up until I can't anymore.)Heels – Steve Madden. (I bought these last year. Buy one, get one free type deal. Baller on a budget style.)
Friday, March 24, 2017
New year, old me.
Hi. Anyone there?
6 or 7 years later. What the hell have I been up to? Well, let's see, I got dressed a couple of times. I stopped plucking my eyebrows. And I took a lot of naps. It's been pretty successful.
Anywhooo, so lets see if I still know how to post. I did find my password after all.
6 or 7 years later. What the hell have I been up to? Well, let's see, I got dressed a couple of times. I stopped plucking my eyebrows. And I took a lot of naps. It's been pretty successful.
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- Unofficially and tentatively scheduled, Cornell's Red-White Game (the annual intersquad scrimmage which is open to the public in Newman Arena) will take place on October 22, during the program's Alumni Weekend.
- According to Ballin' Is A Habit, Cornell had the #8 ranked recruiting class in the country in 2006 when looking at the classes in hindsight. The site writes:
1. North Carolina (Rivals 1, Scout 1)..
2. Ohio State (Rivals: 2, Scout: 2)...
3. Duke (Rivals: 5, Scout: 4)...
4. Texas (Rivals: 3, Scout: 3)...
5. Kansas (Rivals: 12, Scout: 8)...
6. Villanova (Rivals: 14, Scout: 24)...
7. Davidson (Rivals: NR, Scout: NR)...
8. Cornell (Rivals: NR, Scout: NR): Ryan Wittman, Jeff Foote, Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Jon Jacques, and Pete Reynolds
Cornell's basketball program had been on the rise for a couple of years, but this class took it to another level and led Steve Donahue to the head coaching gig at Boston College. After finishing third in the conference as freshmen, Cornell started a string of three consecutive Ivy League titles stretching from 2008-2010. In 2008, Dale was the Ivy player of the year. In 2010, Wittman won that honor. Those two, and Foote, were staples on the all-league teams. After losing in the first round of the Big Dance in both 2008 and 2009, the hard work finally paid off with a Sweet 16 trip in 2010.
9. Louisville (Rivals: 9, Scout: 9)...
10. Cal (Rivals: NR, Scout: NR)...
- Updating readers on Penn guard, Zach Rosen's summer, the Philadelphia Daily News writes, "At night, he got some run [in New York City] at the New York Athletic Club against a bunch of pros and became very friendly with all those former Cornell players who dominated the Ivy League for 3 years."
- DLeagueDigest.com writes a piece on what certain D-Leaguers need to do to earn a call up to the NBA. D League Digest writes on Cornell's Ryan Wittman (Class of '10):
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Height: 6-6
Weight: 215 lbs.
A sniper by nature, the 6-6 Wittman is an NBA caliber shooter. Throughout his college career at Cornell Wittman shot above 41% from beyond the arc, including a sophomore season that saw him shoot .459% from three.
The one thing Ryan Wittman could do to get a call up:
Study J.J. Redick's NBA career.
Wittman is 2 inches taller than Redick, and not as prolific a college shooter, but both face similar obstacles in being a successful NBA player. Early in his NBA career, Redick was a poor defender and had trouble finding his flow in an offense where he wasn't handed double digit shot attempts a game. Wittman faces these same problems.
Redick made two key adjustments that Wittman would benefit from. First, Redick tailored his defensive game to his skill set. Neither Redick nor Wittman is going to ever be an elite on ball defender, instead Redick has become a great chaser. Against guards like Ray Allen and Richard Hamilton, Redick has found his niche in shadowing shooters around multiple picks. Wittman should take note of this, and focus on how he could make a specific impact on the defensive end.
The second adjustment Redick made was getting to the free throw line more, a place where he and Wittman excel. The small addition of an extra free throw attempt a game has had positive effects on other parts of Redick's game, his best three point shooting seasons have been his last two, directly correlating with his increase in free throw attempts. Wittman is a shooter and any free buckets he can get improves his overall rhythm. A skilled shooter that can draw fouls will always be an asset to NBA teams.
- Boston College released the following:
Boston College head men's basketball coach Steve Donahue has announced that Nat Graham has been promoted to assistant head coach and Woody Kampmann has been promoted to assistant coach.
Graham served last season as assistant coach, while Kampmann spent the 2010-11 season as the program's director of basketball operations.
Graham joined the Eagles for the 2010-11 season after serving the previous five years as an assistant coach on Donahue's staff at Cornell.
Kampmann came to Boston College in the spring of 2010 after serving three seasons as an assistant coach under Donahue at Cornell.
In the three years that Graham and Kampmann worked together at Cornell, the Big Red won 20 or more games in each season. In 2009-10, Cornell won a school-record 29 games and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.Graham is a 1997 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Kampmann is a 2005 graduate of Hobart College.


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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 17 April 2015
Posted on 19th Apr 2015 in Weekly Notes
A bumper crop of legal news and events from home and abroad as Weekly Notes returns after a break for the Easter law vacation.
Manifestoes for Justice
Election fever pitch for legal services professions
The major political parties have finally published their manifestoes for the forthcoming General Election. Given that the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 provided by section 1(2) that
"The polling day for the next parliamentary general election after the passing of this Act is to be 7 May 2015…"
you'd think the parties would have had sufficient notice to get their policies into publishable form long before now. But no, it's good old British brinkmanship, or Thick Of It muddle and confusion, all the way. So although we have examined some parties' promises in relation to law and justice in the last few weeks, we'll now be able to pin down exactly what, if anything, they really plan to do. Hopefully by next week we'll have some kind of survey.
Meanwhile, the legal professions have been dropping some sizeable hints in their wish-lists, with the aptly named Manifesto for Justice. This was launched just before we broke for Easter by a consortium including the Bar Council, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, Legal Action Group, JUSTICE, the Law Centres Foundation, Legal Aid Practitioners Group, and Liberty. They say:
This new Manifesto for Justice seeks to make a clear, strong case for the role of a good justice system in contributing to a healthy society.
We need justice and the rule of law to underpin a democratic society, if all of its people are to be able to share its freedoms and prosperity. We therefore ask for three principles of justice:
- good governance and the rule of law
- respect for human rights and civil liberties
- access to justice
Though it doesn't seem to have joined the others, the Law Society has its own Manifesto for Justice, promoting access to justice, the role of law, and the contribution of legal services to the economy.
It will be interesting to see how far these desiderata are reflected in the promises and claims of the political parties' manifestoes. More to the point, whether they will actually deliver them. And what happens if they don't?
This is the subject of a brilliant article by David Allen Green in the Financial Times: If a politician breaks a promise should a voter have a legal remedy?
Keys to coalition
And given the likelihood of another coalition, a question that has taxed, if not vexed, constitutional lawyers is whether a party like the SNP (or UKIP) can really hold the balance of power, or play "kingmaker", if one of the major parties fails to gain an outright majority of seats. What if the major party is Labour: would it need a guarantee of support from, say, the SNP, before it could be asked to form a government?
This is the subject of a brilliant piece by Carl Gardner on his Head of Legal blog, Ed can enter No. 10 without Nicola's keys
Rally for justice
Claiming that there has recently been "a sea change in public awareness on this issue" (of justice), the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association (CLSA) is holding a Vote For Justice Rally at Central Hall, Westminster 23 April at 2pm. They say:
It is to show the media and the politicians that the attacks upon legal aid are an election issue that matters. Of course people vote for all sorts of reasons for different parties. But what we are saying is that access to justice is crucial to our wellbeing as a society and should be discussed. It goes to the heart of what sort of Society we wish to be. One in which we enable people to defend themselves and to seek justice or one where only the powerful and wealthy will prevail in courts?
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Judicial remarks misconstrued
Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, recently gave a speech to the Criminal Justice Alliance. Entitled Fairness in the courts: the best we can do, it addressed a number of issues about cultural perceptions of the court process and the intimidating nature of it to non lawyers. In passing, he happened to allude to the controversial subject of the wearing of the full face veil or niqab by witnesses or defendants at trial.
His remarks on this topic were widely reported in the media, eg by the BBC, (Top judge calls for respect for veiled women in court) and Guardian (Respect women's right to wear veil in court, says Britain's most senior judge) as suggesting or implying that previous judicial decisions restricting or banning the wearing of such veils had been wrong, and that it should be permitted.
In fact, he said no such thing. A clarification had to be issued by the UK Supreme Court press office, whose spokesman said:
"Following various media reports based on a lecture he gave last week, Lord Neuberger would like to emphasise that he did not say that Muslim women should be allowed to wear a full-face veil while giving evidence in court.
"His lecture was aimed at encouraging judges to develop a greater understanding of the perspectives of those less experienced in the criminal justice system, especially when faced with having to give evidence or face cross-examination.
"Lord Neuberger mentioned a number of examples of cultural and religious views and practices which might lead some people to find such an experience intimidating, but made it clear that the court's primary duty is to establish the truth and determine cases fairly."
Lord Neuberger's speech addressed the sense of alienation many non-lawyers feel on their first encounter with the justice system, and urged judges to be mindful of the need to help non-lawyers understand what was going on and what was expected of them, particularly now that many litigants were no longer able to get funding for legal representation and were having to represent themselves. He also called for judges to demonstrate their neutrality, particularly in view of the likelihood that their privileged background might lead to a suspicion of unconscious bias; and to respect and understand different cultural traditions and how they might affect people's attitudes to and experience of court proceedings.
The critical paragraph is para 22 which seems to have been misinterpreted by the news media. What he actually says (and this is all he actually says) is
22. This is where neutrality shades into the second requirement, respect. Judges have to show, and have to be seen to show, respect to everybody equally, and that requires an understanding of different cultural and social habits. It is necessary to have some understanding as to how people from different cultural, social, religious or other backgrounds think and behave and how they expect others to behave. Well known examples include how some religions consider it inappropriate to take the oath, how some people consider it rude to look other people in the eye, how some women find it inappropriate to appear in public with their face uncovered, and how some people deem it inappropriate to confront others or to be confronted – for instance with an outright denial. More broadly, judges should be courteous and, generally, good-humoured; and, while they should be firm, they should never, however great the temptation, lose their temper.
It must have been galling for Lord Neuberger to feel himself so misunderstood, in a speech that was all about reaching out to the non-legal public and making things easier for them to understand.
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Wailing Grayling says he never wanted to cut legal aid
Visiting Walsall College on 15 April, Chris Grayling, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, told an audience of law students that
"I would not wish to cut legal aid."
Nevertheless, he has done so, to the tune of £700m. But, he said:
"When we came into government the country was borrowing £1 of every £4 it was spending. That clearly could not continue. We still have the most expensive legal aid system in the world with by far the most expensive per person. It was never realistic for it to carry on at that level. We were spending £2.2bn a year and that has gone down to £1.5bn.
"People arrested and charged with a crime will always have access to a lawyer to defend them. That has always been the case and always will. What we cannot afford to do is to fund as many parts of the civil system."
According to the Express and Star, from which this story was culled, one of the local Labour hopefuls, Walsall North candidate David Winnick, said:
"Whenever the Government sends Cabinet members to my constituency my popularity seems to go up so I very much welcome the Lord Chancellor to Walsall."
Law (and injustice) from around the world
Neighbours' dispute provokes judicial wit storm
It's not often one reads a judgment for the sheer delight of its content, but this one is a gem. Unfortunately, the subject matter of the case is as depressing as you could wish for, though one's sympathy for the litigants is less than overflowing.
The judgment in Morland-Jones v. Taerk, 2014 ONSC 3061 was given by Justice EM Morgan in the Superior Court of Ontario last April, so it is not brand new. It was drawn to our attention by the indefatigable David Allen Green, via Twitter, and repays reading in full. It is published on CanLII, the Canadian equivalent of BAILII.
The case was a neighbours' dispute between two couples who frankly despised each other and resented having to occupy the same planet, let alone the immediate proximity of their dwellings on opposite sides of the same road in Ontario. They antagonised each other by doing things like pretending to take photographs of the other's house with a mobile phone, or depositing their dog's faeces in the other's dustbins.
Justice Morgan recounts at para 16:
In what is perhaps the piece de resistance of the claim, the Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants – again focusing primarily on Ms. Taerk – sometimes stand in their own driveway or elsewhere on their property and look at the Plaintiffs' house. One of the video exhibits shows Ms. Taerk doing just that, casting her gaze from her own property across the street and resting her eyes on the Plaintiffs' abode for a full 25 seconds. There is no denying that Ms. Taerk is guilty as charged. The camera doesn't lie.
At para 23 the judge says:
In my view, the parties do not need a judge; what they need is a rather stern kindergarten teacher.
And at para 24:
As I explained to Plaintiffs' counsel at the hearing, a court cannot order the Defendants to be nice to the Plaintiffs. Litigation must focus on legal wrongs and legal rights – commodities which are in remarkably short supply in this action.
Critical journalist jailed
Gao Yu, described as a veteran journalist (he is 71 years old), was jailed for 7 years by a Chinese court on charges of leaking a document detailing the Communist Party leadership's resolve to aggressively target civil society and press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power. The arrest and detention of Gao has been interpreted as both proof of the authenticity of the leaked document and of the government's keenness to crack down on human rights and freedoms. Gao's lawyers said he intended to appeal.
Full story: New York Times
North Korea
Legal victory for abducted pastor's family
Fifteen years ago Kim Dong-shik, a South Korean pastor with permanent resident status in the United States, was abducted in northeastern China in what his family suspected was an illegal action by North Korean agents seeking to suppress the activities of Christian proselytisers.
But now they have the evidence to back up their suspicion, following the trial in Seoul, South Korea, of a Chinese man who had confessed to having helped in the abduction of Mr Kim and others on behalf of North Korea's secret police agency.
Last week, armed in part with that evidence, Mr. Kim's son and brother, both American citizens, won a $330 million judgment against the North Korean government in a United States court for the pastor's abduction and presumed torture and killing. The question now is how they are going to enforce it.
Full story: New York Times
Blasphemy law reform
Lawmakers in the provincial government of Pakistan's southern Sindh province have taken a small step to limit the injustice of Pakistan's "blasphemy" law. They recently passed an amendment to Sindh Mental Health Act, 2013, which requires a mandatory psychological examination of any person accused of blasphemy. The amendment allows courts the discretion to reduce the sentences of individuals convicted of blasphemy whose medical evaluations produce a diagnosis of a "mental disorder."
Pakistan's "Blasphemy Law," as section 295-C of the penal code is known, makes the death penalty mandatory for those convicted o f blasphemy. Hundreds are jailed every year for various blasphemy offenses, including 295-C. To date, none have been executed, but at least 19 people in the country are on death row for blasphemy.
The law is largely used against members of religious minorities. In many instances, those charged become the targets of mob violence.
Indeed, it is not just the accused who may be attacked, but even their lawyers. Last year, (as reported in Weekly Notes – 23 May 2014) Rashid Rehman, a lawyer acting for a university lecturer whose Facebook account was said to contain blasphemous statements, was killed by two unidentified gunmen in his office in Multan, Punjab Province.
Full story: Human Rights Watch
Saudi Arabia
Activist marks year behind bars
The prominent Saudi activist and lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair has completed a year of a 15-year prison term that stems solely from his peaceful criticism of the Saudi government and human rights advocacy.
Meanwhile, the new king, Salman, has marked his accession by issuing an amnesty pardoning real criminals while turning a blind eye to his country's abuse of human rights and suppression of fundamental freedoms. As readers of Weekly Notes will be aware, this is hardly an isolated case of a critic of the regime being disproportionately punished for daring to speak his mind or exercise his freedom of conscience.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch, commented:
It speaks volumes that Saudi authorities were willing to pardon and release convicted criminals yet they continue to imprison more than a dozen peaceful activists whose only offense was to highlight abuse and push for reform. King Salman should free Abu al-Khair and other activists jailed for peaceful human rights work.
Full story: Human Rights Watch
United States
Hair match evidence overstated
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Justice Department in America have formally acknowledged that for two decades, in the 1980s and 1990s, most FBI forensic examiners gave flawed testimony as to hair matches in almost all the criminal cases in which they were called to give evidence. The evidence given tended to favour prosecution cases, which raises the prospect of a large number of mistrials having occurred, in some cases after the death penalty had been executed. The errors came to light as a result of investigations by the Innocence Project.
Full story: Washington Post
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The purpose of this analysis is to explore whether the International Germ Cell Classification Consensus (IGCCC) tumor marker criteria, developed for adult males with metastatic malignant germ cell tumors (MGCT), are prognostic among pediatric patients and whether tumor marker data may be relevant in pediatric risk stratification.
The IGCCC was applied to 436 pediatric germ cell patients treated on Pediatric Intergroup Studies from 1990 to 1996. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards model identified prognostic variables; survival rates among IGCCC risk groups were compared using the log-rank test. Concordance and relative performance of IGCCC versus COG risk stratification was evaluated.
Applying the IGCCC, 21% of pediatric patients were good risk (GR), 35% intermediate risk (IR), and 44% poor risk (PR). Only modest concordance between IGCCC and COG stratification systems was noted (49%). Nonetheless, the IGCCC identified a group of PR patients who had significantly worse event-free survival (EFS) versus GR/IR patients (6-year EFS 80% vs. 91%), which was similar to the difference observed using the COG system (6-year EFS 77% vs. 90%). The IGCCC performed well within subgroups for which the IGCCC is not intended (prepubertal, female, and non-metastatic patients).
Applying the IGCCC system to pediatric patients produces a different stratification than does the application of the COG system, although both are prognostic. Development of a de novo pediatric prognostic classification is warranted.
The development of an international classification system for adult males with metastatic malignant germ cell tumors (MGCT) was an important advance for several reasons [1]. Identification of risk groups allowed for tailoring of treatment as well as comparison of results across populations of similarly defined individuals, and a common classification system has formed the basis for collaboration for international clinical trials. The International Germ Cell Classification Consensus (IGCCC) divides patients into three groups: good, intermediate, and poor prognosis groups based on the presence of primary mediastinal tumor, non-pulmonary metastases, and level of tumors markers [1] (Appendix I, Table I).
Pediatric germ cell tumors are much less common than their adult counterparts; only 350 pediatric germ cell tumors are diagnosed each year, compared to 6,000 adult males with metastatic germ cell tumors. In the United States, pediatric germ cell tumors have typically been divided into risk groups according to stage; grade III and IV tumors, regardless of site, have been considered as higher risk. Analysis of the last intergroup pediatric study, however, showed that site was an important discriminator in outcome [2,3]. Stage III and IV tumors that originated in the gonad had excellent overall survival (OS) (ovarian 97.3 ± 2.6%; testicular 93.3 ± 4.4%) whereas extragonadal (EG) stage III–IV tumors had a significantly worse OS (EG stage III 81% ± 8%; EG stage IV 82% ± 7%.) [2,3]. Therefore, a new classification system was devised for pediatric germ cell tumors. Low risk was defined as stage I gonadal tumors, intermediate risk (IR) as stage I/II EG and stage II–IV gonadal tumors, and high risk as stage III/IV EG tumors. The purpose of this analysis is to see if the additional factors used in the adult classification system, specifically elevation of tumor markers and/or presence of a mediastinal primary, might be useful in the stratification of pediatric patients. This analysis will (1) retrospectively compare the performance and concordance of the IGCCC system to the newly revised COG classification of pediatric germ cell tumors; and (2) explore whether the risk stratification of the IGCCC, when applied to pediatrics, varies by gender, stage (non-metastatic vs. metastatic), and age.
Several important caveats about this analysis warrant mention. Genetic and histologic differences do exist between adult and pediatric tumors. Among children <4 years with endodermal sinus tumors, gains of 1q and chromosome 3 are the most common abnormalities, whereas malignant ovarian tumors from older girls have a broader spectrum of abnormalities: loss of 1p/gain of 1q, +3, +8, +14, and +21. Adolescent boys, however, have chromosomal abnormalities that most resemble adult testicular GCT, most notably isochromosome 12p. Type of germ cell tumor histology differs between adult and pediatric patients. Yolk sac or endodermal sinus tumor is the most common histology among pediatric patients, often presenting as the sole histology, especially in prepubertal germ cell patients, whereas among adults, endodermal sinus tumor is much less common and usually is present in the setting of other malignant histologies. A final caveat is that the IGCCC was developed for men with metastatic MGCT and not for women or children with germ cell tumors. Nonetheless, investigators from other countries have noted that elevation of tumor markers at diagnosis are significant predictors of outcome among pediatric patients of both genders, in all sites and stages making examination of the US data warranted [4,5].
The population consisted of all patients ≤21 years of age from intergroup studies POG 9048/CCG 8891 and POG 9049/CCG 8882 with MGCT resulting in an analytic population of 436 patients [2,3]. The specific aims and therapies used in these two studies are detailed in Appendix II. The pediatric patients were retrospectively stratified into the three IGCCC risk groups. Because location of metastasis was not required as part of the data collection for the intergroup studies, no pediatric patient could qualify as "high risk" on the basis of extra-pulmonary metastases. As a result, the only IGCCC criteria applied were the level of tumor markers AFP, HCG, and LDH at diagnosis and/or mediastinal primary site.
Several secondary analyses were conducted. First, because the IGCCC was developed specifically for male germ cell tumors, the population was stratified by gender to check performance of the IGCCC within females. Secondly, the IGCCC was developed for testicular patients with metastatic disease. In a secondary analysis, stage I/II patients were excluded and the analytic cohort restricted to patients with stage III/IV disease. Third, one of the criterion of the IGCCC is the level of AFP. The fetal liver synthesizes AFP, with synthesis continuing normally for several months after birth. Therefore, an AFP of up to 10,000 ng/ml can be normal in infants up to 6 months of age [6,7]. For this reason, a secondary analysis was performed, excluding patients <6 months of age.
Survival rates were calculated using the method of Kaplan and Meier [8] with standard errors according to Peto and Peto [9]. Comparisons of the survival curves were performed with a two-sided log-rank test. The time to event for EFS was calculated as the time from study enrollment to first occurrence of relapse, progressive disease, secondary malignancy or death, or the time to last contact with the patient, if no event occurred. The time to event for OS was the time from study enrollment until the time of death or the time of last contact if the patient was alive. Prognostic significance of the risk group factors was analyzed using a Cox proportional hazards regression model constructed with a stepwise backwards model-building technique [10]. For univariate and multivariable analyses, factors were dichotomized as follows: AFP (≤10,000 ng/ml vs. >10,000 ng/ml), HCG (≤5,000 IU/L vs. >5,000 IU/L), LDH (≤1.5 × N vs. >1.5 × N). In search of an age cut-off that was optimal for maximizing the difference in the outcome between the two age groups in terms of EFS and OS, log-rank tests for age cut-offs for each year from 10 to 20 years of age were performed. The age cut-off that gave the lowest P-value for the difference in outcome between two age groups was selected. Kendall's tau-b was used to test for association of the ordinal risk groups of the IGCCC and the COG systems. A sensitivity analysis was performed to determine the implications of potentially under-classifying patients who had missing data for one or more factors. The EFS and OS rates were calculated by risk group for: (a) all patients and (b) excluding patients who were missing data which could potentially classify them in a higher risk group.
Characteristics of the analytic cohort that included 194 males and 242 females are summarized in Table II. There were 63 stage I testicular germ cell tumors who received surgery only. Distribution by stage was: stage I/II (38.3%); stage III (31.2%); and stage IV (30.5%). Median follow-up of the 436 patients was 6.3 years. For both EFS and OS, the optimal age cut-off that maximized the survival rate difference between age groups was 15 years (P = 0.02 and P = 0.0001, respectively). The majority of patients were <15 years of age (n = 370). The most common primary tumor site was ovary in females (n = 126) and testis in males (n = 137). Only 39 patients had mediastinal primaries; 13 of the 39 patients were >15 years of age. AFP was ≤10,000 ng/ml in 265 patients and >10,000 in 161 patients (only 5 patients had AFP >100,000 ng/ml). HCG was ≤5,000 IU/L in 335 patients and >5,000 IU/L in 19 patients. No patients had HCG >50,000 IU/L. LDH was ≤1.5 × normal in 191 cases and >1.5 × normal in 148 cases; only 10 of the pediatric patients had LDH >10 × normal.
We investigated the prognostic significance of these factors in pediatric germ cell tumors (Table III). For EFS, univariate analyses identified the following prognostic variables: AFP >10,000 ng/ml (P = 0.006), mediastinal primary (P = 0.0013), and age >15 years (P = 0.02); and for OS, AFP ≥10,000 ng/ml (P = 0.008), LDH ≥1.5× normal (P = 0.03), mediastinal primary (P<0.0001), and age ≥15 years (P = 0.0002). A multivariable Cox proportional hazards model using patients with complete data on the factors found to be significant in the univariate model was used to determine which variables were independently prognostic (Table III). For EFS, mediastinal primary and AFP >10,000 ng/ml were found to be predictive of poor outcome. For OS, mediastinal primary, age ≥15 years, and AFP >10,000 ng/ml were predictive of poor outcome.
We evaluated the performance of the IGCCC when applied to pediatric patients. Overall, 21% of pediatric patients were good risk (GR) by IGCCC criteria, 35% were intermediate risk (IR), and 44% were poor risk (PR) (Table V). Only modest concordance was observed in the assignment of patients to COG versus IGCCC risk groups, and there was not a statistically significant association of the two systems (P = 0.3859, Table V). Out of 435 patients, only 212 (49%) are assigned to the same risk level (good = low, intermediate = intermediate, poor = high) in both stratification systems. Only 6 patients (1%) were GR by adult IGCCC but high risk by COG pediatric stratification, but 20 patients (5%, none of whom were infants <6 months of age with AFP >10,000) were PR by adult IGCCC but low risk by COG pediatric stratification. Sixty-six patients were PR by adult IGCCC but were IR by COG criteria.
We examined the ability of the two systems to discriminate patients with lower versus higher survival rates (Table VI). The EFS and OS rates for high-risk patients per the COG system are slightly lower than those of the PR group per the adult IGCCC (EFS: COG 77% ± 5% vs. IGCCC 80% ± 3%; OS: COG 81% ± 4% vs. IGCCC 86% ± 3%). The intermediate/low-risk patients per the COG system had similar EFS and OS rates as the intermediate/good cohort per the adult IGCCC.
Due to missing data, some patients may have been under-classified. However, the results of the sensitivity analysis showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the EFS or OS rates within a given risk group for: (a) all patients versus (b) the cohort excluding patients with missing data that could potentially upgrade them to higher risk. In fact, the rates were virtually identical (data not shown). Therefore, without data evidence to upgrade a patient to a higher risk group, it was reasonable to include patients with missing data in the lower risk group.
The performance of the IGCCC was examined within several subsets of patients. Although the IGCCC was not developed for these particular cohorts, it performed equally well (a) within females; (b) within non-metastatic disease (stage I/II); and (c) within patients >6 months of age (i.e., excluding 10 patients who were less than 6 months of age for whom an elevated AFP might have been normal for age) (data not shown). In each case, results were similar to those obtained in the overall cohort.
Several of the factors used to stratify adult patients (AFP, LDH, and mediastinal primary) were found to be prognostic of outcome in pediatric patients, and therefore potentially useful in pediatric-risk stratification. HCG level, however, was not found to be prognostic of outcome. In this pediatric population, 95% of the patients had HCG ≤5,000 IU/L, none of the patients had a level >50,000 IU/L, so the adult cutpoint is not informative for pediatric patients. No data were available in this cohort on the presence of non-pulmonary visceral metastases. Because non-pulmonary visceral metastases are very rare in pediatrics, it is doubtful that this additional factor would be helpful for pediatric-risk group assignment. In addition, among pediatric patients, age was predictive of outcome; patients ≥15-years-old had worse outcome than younger children.
At least four other studies of pediatric germ cell tumors have been conducted to identify prognostic factors. It is important to note that prognosis is largely dependent on the patient having received the most appropriate treatment and so any analysis of risk factors is confounded by differences in treatment. French investigators found that elevations of AFP >10,000 ng/ml predicted worse outcome [4]. In univariate analysis, site and stage were also predictive of poor outcome, but only AFP was significant in multivariable analysis. Combining the three factors, however, the French investigators were able to identify three risk groups with significantly different outcomes (100% vs. 81% vs. 43%).
The United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group reported on the treatment of 137 patients aged 0–16 years of age with malignant extracranial germ cell tumors treated with JEB-carboplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin. [11]. In univariate analyses, the most significant prognostic factor in their set of patients was an AFP >10,000 ng/ml (EFS >10,000 ng/ml: 76.5% vs. EFS <10,000 ng/ml: 95.3%; P = 0.01). Neither site nor stages were significantly related to survival in their data. Two studies have focused on prognostic factors among patients with EG germ cell tumors. In a German study of 76 patients with sacrococcygeal germ cell tumors, investigators examined the prognostic significance of metastatic disease, extension into bone, and AFP elevations >10,000 ng/ml [5]. Although none of these factors were found to predict outcome, sample size, and restriction of the analysis to those with single site of disease, may have limited their ability to detect a difference between groups. Marina et al. [12] examined prognostic factors among the subset of patients with EG germ cell tumors who were treated on the same protocols that constitute the basis for this analysis. The results reported in their analyses differed somewhat from our analysis on the total cohort of patients, which is not unexpected in subset analyses. In the analysis restricted only to patients with EG tumors, age >12 was associated with a worse prognosis, whereas in the full cohort analysis, age >15 was associated with a worse prognosis. Among EG tumors only, AFP was not prognostic, whereas, among the entire cohort, AFP was prognostic. The differences between these two analyses highlight the importance of large sample size. This strategy was used to develop the IGCCC criteria-pooled data from multiple centers to increase the size of the analytic cohort. Large sample size reduces the variability and chance observation that could occur when only a subset of the overall cohort is examined. A global cooperative effort, using an analytic cohort as close as possible to population-based, would be preferable for identification and agreement on prognostic factors for pediatric germ cell tumors.
The adult International Germ Cell Classification System and the pediatric COG system are both able to stratify pediatric patients into two distinct risk groups although the two systems are not highly concordant and one is not clearly superior to the other. Development of a de novo pediatric risk stratification system, using pooled data from multiple studies, that incorporates site, stage, as well as tumor markers, molecular studies, and age, to create a more refined stratification to assign patients to the appropriate level of therapy, is warranted and would clearly advance the field by allowing for more direct comparisons between different clinical trials.
NIH/NCI Grant U10-CA29139 awarded to POG and Grant U10-CA98413-02 awarded to COG. A complete listing of grant support for research conducted by CCG and POG before initiation of the COG grant in 2003 is available online at: http://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/admin/grantinfo.htm.
This article contains Supplementary Material available at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1545-5009/suppmat.
Work was performed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
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The Washington Capitals' development camp roster has three first-round draft picks and four players who were chosen in the second round. There's another who won a gold medal as a member of Canada's world junior championship team.
But after the camp's first two days at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the spotlight focused on one prospect in particular -- defenseman John Carlson, whom Coach Bruce Boudreau said is "easily" the most NHL-ready of the two dozen prospects in attendance.
"You notice him out here right away," Boudreau said of the 27th overall pick in 2008. "With his size and his strength, he's got the physical stature of an NHL player."
Carlson's game isn't too far behind. He plays solid defense. His outlet passes are hard and accurate. And when the pressure is on, he demands the puck with a stern whack of his stick on the ice. Did anyone mention that he's only 19?
"The higher level you get to, the more speed [forwards] are attacking with," Boudreau said. "John was right in everyone's face, whereas other [defensemen] were stiff-legged and puck-chasing."
Carlson's performance in camp, coupled with his emergence this spring when he helped the American Hockey League's Hershey Bears win a 10th Calder Cup, has Capitals officials reconsidering his status within the organization. They are no longer asking themselves whether the 6-foot-2, 218-pounder is going to make an impact in Washington. Now they're asking, "When?"
"Is it this year? Is it this training camp?" Boudreau said. "John Carlson is going to be the one to dictate that. If he says, 'I'm here to make the team' and goes out and he's one of the best players, we're going to fit him in, if we can fit him in."
The Capitals are committed to as many as eight NHL-proven defensemen: Mike Green, Tom Poti, Brian Pothier, Shaone Morrisonn, John Erskine, Milan Jurcina, Jeff Schultz and Karl Alzner. Assuming no one is traded away, Carlson will likely have to outplay at least one, if not two, of those veterans to earn a spot on the opening night roster.
Carlson was born in Natick, Mass., but moved with his family to Colonia, N.J., at age 5. He was a center until he was about 13, when at the urging of his father, Dick Carlson, he switched to defense. The elder Carlson manned the blueline at Division III Framingham State in Framingham, Mass., and was involved in coaching his son throughout his youth.
As a defenseman, Carlson saw his game blossom.
"We moved him to defense for a couple of reasons: He had a good head for the game and he had pretty good size," Dick Carlson said. "We thought he would be able to control the game a little more, and he did."
As a 16-year-old with the New Jersey Rockets, the younger Carlson led all defensemen in the Atlantic Junior Hockey League with 58 points. Later that year, he accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Massachusetts.


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If not, what would the proper response be.* The only thing you can't be forced to do is incriminate yourself* Indeed. So if I'm on the highway with my wife and kids and get chased down....I'm well within speed limits, all 4 windows are rolled down by the time I am pulled over. Hands on steering wheel, ignition off. Asked to roll up windows, only to get the window metered and tint ticket. Do I have the right to refuse to roll up my window in this instance. "That said, you should never roll your window down more than a crack when you are pulled over so the police cannot stick their heads in your vehicle and claim that they smell weed as a pretext to search your vehicle. " I disagree Michael. I can't recall ever a time I did not make sure my windows were rolled down, hands on steering wheel by the time the officer comes over to the car. With that said, I don't know how well a *crack* of a window will be favorable in the eyes of the office pulling you over....
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The proper response would be to roll up your windows. Perhaps the officer was fearful for some reason. The only thing you can't be forced to do is incriminate yourself.Ask a similar question
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There is not constitutional or legal requirement to roll a window down further than necessary to hand the cop your papers. As a matter of fact, I advise everyone to keep their windows rolled up and just open them enough to hand the cops your license, etc. If they tell you to roll your window down you can refuse; if they order you out of the car make them order you don't consent unless they make it clear that you are being ordered, and then roll all the windows up, turn the car off, lock it, and put the keys in your pocket. Now, nothing is "grabable" so they can't make up some nonsense that they thought they saw a weapon so they can search without a warrant. Also, I advised everyone to never consent to a search and answer every question with "officer, I know you are just doing your job but I don't consent to searches," and "officer, am I being detained or am I free to go." Polite and firm exercising of constitutional rights always wins the day.
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Talks surrounding Bentley's future have opened up once again, this time with Canvey Island and Conference new boys Gravesend & Northfleet leading the chase for the highly-rated 24-year-old.
Bentley is stalling on a new contract offered to him by Shots boss Brown, citing his ambition to play Conference standard football as the reason for his uncertainty.
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Due to the demise of ITV Digital and subsequent finances of a vast majority of Football League clubs, an estimated 900 professional footballers will be on the market this summer, giving Brown and many other of his non-League counterparts plenty of options in choosing his squad for next season.
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The Bentley situation is more or less exactly the same as this time last year when interest from Stevenage and Farnborough was quashed and then manager George Borg took up a year's option on his two-year contract.
That has now expired of course and the Shots are back to square one. Brown naturally sees Bentley as an integral part of his plans for the next two or three seasons and wasted no time in offering him a new deal, despite Bentley suffering an injury-hit season.
But the big money promise of Canvey chief Jeff King or the lure of Conference football down the road at Gravesend might just be enough to end his impressive Rec career.
Protheroe and Stafford Browne are also in the same boat, although boss Brown remains hopeful that new deals will be done and dusted in the near future.
Browne pledged his future to Aldershot Town seconds after blasting his superb hat-trick in the Hampshire Cup final two weeks ago and is expected to sign on the dotted line when he returns from a two-week holiday in the sun.
Protheroe is also away for a week, weighing up his options.
Elsewhere, a great deal of interest has also come in for the six players recently released by the club.
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