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1. Pick out any tiny bits of skin or bone and rough chop.
2. Running a Cuisinart at medium speed, purée the shallots
3. Add the fish, and pulse blend it until well chopped. Scrape the bowl at least twice to get an even smooth mixture. Add the salt and pepper, egg whites, and with the motor running, add 1/2 the heavy cream (1 cup) slowly.
4. Scrape down.
5. Add the second half of the cream (1 cup) in a steady stream. Scrape down. At this point the mixture should be perfectly smooth and stiff, and hold its shape well if bagged.
6. Cover it with saran, set it over a bowl of ice in refrigerator for an hour to chill well. It is then ready to use. You may add diced fish, shellfish, etc. to the mix if it is to be used in a terrine. A 1 lb (raw fish) batch will need an 8 cup ring, Butter it well, and spoon in the mousse. It can be layered with other ingredients, such as poached asparagus. Fill the mold 3/4 and cover the top with buttered brown paper. Set it in a pan of boiling water, at least halfway up the mold. Bake 375 F 25 min till a knife comes out clean. Let set 5-10 min and unmold on the serving plate.
Sauce and serve ASAP, as this mousse is light and delicate.
You may use it directly for quenelles. I used to bag them onto a very lightly buttered steam table pan and refrigerate covered with saran. Placing the pan on the hottop I would then add boiling salted water to cover the small bagged out quenelle, and poach them in 3 min. Do not let the water boil, as they are semi fragile.
This recipe works equally well with breast of chicken.
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North Andover, Mass. - Merrimack hockey recently added another team member to its nationally ranked roster. The warriors welcomed their newest teammate on the ice at the Fenway Park Holiday Skate on January 3rd. Eleven year old Tim Burke woke up at six o'clock in the morning before the 7pm event. "I was so excited to meet the team, I couldn't sleep. It ended up being even better than I expected," he said.
Tim is undergoing treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and was paired up with the Merrimack hockey team by Team IMPACT, a local organization which matches children who have critical illnesses with college athletic teams.
Team IMPACT first approached Tim, who resides in South Boston, about joining the Boston University Terriers. But the young hockey fan had begun following Merrimack's rise through the national rankings last year, and he wanted to be a warrior.
"We've welcomed him with open arms," said sophomore assistant captain Jordan Heywood (Regina, SK). "We want to give him courage, and something to fight for. We're there for him."
Tim is in the middle of 2.5 years of chemotherapy. As the warriors burst onto the national hockey scene last year, Tim was fighting his own battle. After being diagnosed with leukemia, he developed a severe infection last winter which landed him in the Children's Hospital intensive care unit, and in August he fractured his foot and back, as a result of the bone-weakening chemotherapy.
Head coach Mark Dennehy explained that this relationship with Tim could "spark emotions some players have not dealt with," and that there were support systems in place for those players.
Timmy joins the team in the locker room before games, makes up secret handshakes with players, and frequently texts his older teammates. He describes the team as very nice, and very funny. "This is like any friendship that evolves over time," said Heywood. "He'll support us at our big games, and we'll go visit him if he's in the hospital. He gives us perspective, and a reason to dig a little deeper."
Tim's treatment often prevents him from attending games, but he sent a text message to Heywood before the January 13 Hockey East match-up against the University of Maine. "I said good luck, and to score a goal for me. I was just trying to give him some motivation," said Tim.
Heywood scored a goal in the first period, in what would go on to become Merrimack's 12th win of the season.
"The morning after the skate at Fenway, he told me, 'I've only been a warrior for twelve hours and I already love it,'" said Tim's mother, Mary Kelly Burke. "It's nice to see him smile again."
Tim, who predicts that Merrimack will win the Hockey East Championships, has big dreams of his own. He is currently applying to Boston College High School, "where Joe Cannata and Coach went." He hopes to one day be the general manager of the Boston Red Sox.
In the meantime, Tim has already won the friendship and respect of his teammates. "Tim is an amazing kid with a huge heart. He's always smiling and happy and it's contagious. I've been able to hang out with him a couple times and it's always something I look forward to," said junior Kyle Bigos (Upland, CA).
"There's no question that the players get more out of this than Tim," said Coach Dennehy. "It allows them to remember when they were his age. I think life wears you down quite a bit, and this childlike approach is beneficial. It takes them back to when they played hockey for the fun of it."
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I am trying to find out exactly what retricular nodular disease is and what might cause it.I have had my left upper lobe removed due to cancer (Adenocarcinona), along with a harvest of local Lymph nodes. No radiation or chemical treatment followed.
Is or could the cancer be related to retricular nodular disease?
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Two more headed to all-star games
Gerald Hodges and Matt Stankiewitch both will represent Penn State in the East-West Shrine Game.
It will be played on Jan. 19. NFL Network will broadcast it at 4 p.m.
Hodges and Stankiewitch Set to Play in 88th East-West Shrine Game
Seven Nittany Lions Invited to All-Star Games; East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 19
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; January 11, 2013 – A pair of Penn State's All-Big Ten honorees – linebacker Gerald Hodges (Paulsboro, N.J.) and center Matt Stankiewitch (Orwigsburg) have accepted invitations to play in the 88th East-West Shrine Game. The contest is Saturday, Jan. 19 at 4:00 p.m. in St. Petersburg, Fla. NFL Network will televise.
The selection of Hodges and Stankiewitch raises the number of Nittany Lions playing in post-season games to seven.
Hodges and Stankiewitch helped Coach Bill O'Brien's Nittany Lions earn an 8-4 overall record, with a 6-2 Big Ten mark, finishing second in the Leaders Division. The duo helped Penn State lead the Big Ten in total offense (437.0 ypg) in conference games and allow 17 points or less in six contests.
A starter in all 25 games the past two years, Hodges was No. 4 in the Big Ten with 109 tackles. A semifinalist for the 2012 Butkus Award and a two-time All-Big Ten honoree, he led the team with seven pass breakups and was tied for second on the squad with two interceptions. He also ranked third with 8.5 tackles for loss, while adding one forced fumble and one sack.
Hodges was an instrumental part of a Nittany Lion defense that ranked second in the Big Ten and No. 16 nationally in scoring defense at 19.1 ppg. The Nittany Lions also led the Big Ten and were tied for No. 4 in NCAA Red Zone defense (.64) and ranked No. 23 nationally in rushing defense (128.4 ypg).
Hodges was selected the New Jersey Division I College Player of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Southern New Jersey and the Brooks-Irvine Memorial Football Club of South Jersey.
A first-team All-Big Ten selection by the coaches, BTN.com and ESPN.com, Stankiewitch started all 25 games the past two seasons. He was instrumental in helping the Nittany Lions lead the Big Ten in total offense (437.0 ypg) in conference games and rank second in scoring offense (32.6 ppg) and second in pass offense (283.1 ypg) against Big Ten foes. Stankiewitch helped Penn State gain more than 500 yards of total offense three times in conference play, topped by 546 yards against Indiana, its highest total against a Big Ten foe in four years.
One of six finalists for the Rimington Trophy, Stankiewitch helped McGloin break nine Penn State season and career passing records, Allen Robinson break the school season receptions mark (77) and Zach Zwinak to rush for 1,000 yards this season, gaining 100 yards or more in six Big Ten games.
Penn State tackle Mike Farrell (Pittsburgh) will begin the Nittany Lions in post-season action tonight at the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game in Tucson. The contest kicks at 7 p.m. MT/9 p.m. ET on ESPN3 (webstream).
Defensive end Sean Stanley (Rockville, Md.) and running back Michael Zordich (Youngstown, Ohio) are scheduled to play in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl on Jan. 19. Defensive tackle Jordan Hill (Steelton) is playing in the 64th Senior Bowl on Jan. 26 and quarterback Matt McGloin (Scranton) is set to play in the Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Challenge on Feb. 2. Additional Nittany Lions may receive post-season invitations.
Led by first-year coach O'Brien, the ESPN and Maxwell Football Club Coach of the Year, the Nittany Lions won eight of their final 10 games, with the only losses coming against Big Ten division winners Ohio State and Nebraska. In the season finale, the Nittany Lions beat eventual Big Ten champion Wisconsin, 24-21, in overtime.
Season tickets are available for the 2013 season. The Nittany Lions will host three teams that finished in the 2012 BCS Top 25: Michigan (Oct. 12-Homecoming), Nebraska (Nov. 23) and Kent State (Sept. 21). Purdue, Illinois, Virginia and Eastern Michigan also will visit Beaver Stadium next fall. Penn State opens the season Aug. 31 vs. Syracuse at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.


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Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency is a group of rare genetic disorders in which a person lacks a protein needed to break down fat molecules. The disorder causes a large amount of fat to build up in the blood.
Causes of Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency is caused by a defective gene that is passed down through families.
Persons with this condition lack an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase. Without this enzyme, the body cannot break down fat from digested food. Fat particles called chylomicrons build up in the blood.
Risk factors include a family history of lipoprotein lipase deficiency.
The disorder affects about 1 out of 1,000,000 people. The condition is usually first seen during infancy or childhood.
Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency Symptoms
- Abdominal pain (may appear as colic in infancy)
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Pain in the muscles and bones (musculoskeletal pain)
- Vomiting
Tests and Exams
Signs of this condition include:
- Enlarged liver
- Failure to thrive in infancy
- Fatty deposits in the skin (xanthomas)
- High triglyceride levels in the blood
- Pale retinas and white-colored blood vessels in the retinas
- Pancreatitis that keeps returning
- Yellowing of the eyes and skin (jaundice)
Blood tests will be done to check cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Rarely, a special blood test may be done after you are given blood thinners through a vein. This test looks for lipoprotein lipase activity in your blood.
Genetic tests may be done, including one for apolipoprotein CII deficiency.
Treatment of Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
Treatment aims to control the symptoms and blood triglyceride levels with a very low-fat diet. You should eat no more than 20 grams of fat per day to prevent the symptoms from coming back.
Twenty grams of fat is equal to one of the following:
- 2 8-ounce glasses of whole milk
- 4 teaspoons of margarine
- 4-ounce serving of meat
The average American diet has a fat content of up to 45% of total calories. Fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K and mineral supplements are recommended for people who eat a very low-fat diet. Dietary counseling may be helpful for patients who are trying to stick to a strict diet and still get enough calories and nutrients.
Pancreatitis that is related to lipoprotein lipase deficiency responds to treatments for that disorder.
Prognosis (Outlook)
Persons with this condition who follow a very low-fat diet may live into adulthood.
Potential Complications
Pancreatitis and recurrent episodes of abdominal pain may develop.
Xanthomas are not usually painful unless they are rubbed a lot.
When to Contact a Health Professional
Call your health care provider for screening if someone in your family has lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Genetic counseling is recommended for anyone with a family history of this disease.
Prevention of Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
There is no known prevention for this rare, inherited disorder. Awareness of risks may allow early detection. Following a very low-fat diet can dramatically improve the symptoms of this disease.
Gennest J, Libby P. Lipoprotein disorders and cardiovascular disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 47.
Semenkovich CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 213.
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Recently, Olympus announced two new camera models. Two new models that we should see are: X-560WP and T100. First model, X560 WP is a 10-megapixel camera and it's water resistant therefore it could be perfect solution for hot summer days. X-560WP can work 10 meters under water without any problems. This camera comes with 3x optical zoom and with Advanced Face Detection so it can track 16 faces at the time. This camera provides clear and sharp images thanks to the high ISO and it comes with 18 shooting modes. Also this model includes SD card support.
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They also seem to promote abs and that, ahem, V-shaped torso. Jennifer Lopez and beau Casper Smart posted a photo on her personal website of the duo in their hippie Halloween costumes, which included afros, peace signs, headbands, fringe and groovy patterns. "Happy Halloween LOVE!RS! My team and I had fun celebrating in Dusseldorf and Oberhausen," she wrote. "How are you celebrating Halloween?" The couple recently celebrated their one-year anniversary and showed a little social media PDA on Twitter. "?@BEAUcasperSMART BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today is OUR's!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful smile with me everyday! ?#SpecialDay ?#LOVE!" Lopez tweeted Smart. He replied, "Happy 1 yr. anniversary to the most Gorgeous, Kind, Sweet, Funny, Beautiful Lil Bear in the world.... Love Bear ?#October25"
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with all this talk of 3d coordinate transformations, i was reminded how much i forget my basic linear algebra. i don't think i've touched an identity matrix or dot product since 10th grade..
does anyone know of any good resources or references for learning/ relearning this stuff? actually, what i'm most interested in know is why it works, not just how to perform certain operations. i already have the red book, but it doesn't seem to go into much detail about the math and the whys.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Chocolate Fudge Topped Petite Cream Puffs | Easy Hors D'Oeuvres
When I was in college, I worked at a bakery called the Upper Crust. They made the most beautiful desserts, cookies, cakes and breads - most from scratch. One of their most popular items were these small bite-size cream puffs with chocolate fudge buttercream. Ladies would come in a buy trays full for parties, then have a couple boxed up for the car ride home. People were addicted! The real secret was... the cream puffs were frozen! That's right. They bought them from Costco, then added their own delicious buttercream on top.
When I started catering, these cream puffs were my secret weapon. I could turn out 100 in 10 minutes for $15... and my clients loved them - always at the top of the request list.
Chocolate Fudge Topped Petite Cream Puffs
the easiest sweet treat
Frozen Mini Cream Puffs
Chocolate Fudge Buttercream (store-bought or homemade - recipe below)
Thaw the cream puffs for about an hour at room temperature or a couple of hours in the refrigerator. Put the chocolate butter cream in a plastic pastry bag. Cut the tip off, leaving about a 1/2 inch opening. Pipe the buttercream on the puffs.
Chocolate Fudge Buttercream Recipe
4 sticks of salted butter, soften
6 cups of powdered sugar
1 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup of heavy cream
Place chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and pour over heavy cream. Microwave for 1 minute, then stir. Repeat until the chocolate ganache (yes, that is ganache!) is smooth. Be careful not to over heat. Refrigerate for 15 minutes until cool.
In your kitchen aid fitted with a paddle attachment, whip butter and 4 cups sugar for 3 minutes until fluffy and smooth. Pour in chocolate ganache and 2 more cups of powdered sugar. Whip until smooth. Add more powdered sugar, if necessary to create the thickness.
Put the buttercream in a pastry bag (or ziploc bag) and cut 1 inch opening at the bottom of the bag. Pipe in a swirl on top of the cupcake - be very generous with frosting.
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Asma, Yes you can. Because they come frozen, I would pipe them when they were still frozen the morning of the party, then put them in the refrigerator for the day to thaw. They only keep in the refrigerator for about a day, then the whipped cream filling will make the pastry soggy.
Jenny One thing that you may like to try on your Belgian waffles is oatmeal. This not only brings a wonderful flavour to your waffle, but also a nice texture that many people like.
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Audio Mixers: Bruce Torrescano; Jorge Gaxiola.
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Arrangers: Maurilio Pineda; Jorge Gaxiola.
Formed in 2009 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, Voz de Mando scored their first hit with the single "Comandos del M.P. (500 Balazos)" off their debut album, Con la Nueva Federacion, in 2010. The quartet relocated to Huntington Park in Los Angeles County, but hasn't changed its trademark ranchera norteña sound. That tuba, which is typical of Sinaloan music, is right up front, keeping the band a step ahead, whether the bandmembers are singing narco corridos, ballads, or polkas. Y Ahora Resulta, the band's true sophomore studio effort, continues the formula, though the production standards have been upped considerably, evidenced by the smooth, silvery textures of the title track and first single. Check the gorgeous, slippery polka meets ranchera in "El Señor de los Cielos" and the hilarious sequel, "Hummer y el Camaro 2 'La Revancha'." Even in the darker moments -- such as on "El Mayor," which commences with the spoken words (in English) "I hereby sentence you to two years in federal prison" -- Voz de Mando keep the good-time grooves that seamlessly wed accordion, acoustic guitar, tuba, and impressive vocals. There is no sophomore slump here; Y Ahora Resulta is, in fact, a stronger album than its predecessor. ~ Thom Jurek


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DALLAS - The Providence Journal's parent company, A. H. Belo Corp., said today it has written down The Journal's goodwill value to zero as the company's losses widened in the first three months of this year.
A. H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) posted a net loss of $103.07 million, or $5.03 per share, in the three months ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $8.72 million, or 43 cents per share, in the same period last year. The Dallas-based company's quarterly revenue fell 19.8 percent to $128.49 million, compared with $160.19 million a year ago.
However, the company said about three-quarters of the $103 million quarterly loss was caused by its decision to wipe out its estimate of the value that it gave to The Providence Journal in excess of its asset value when it bought the paper in 1997, through what is known as a goodwill impairment charge.
The company also had a $4 million one-time charge related to a recent round of layoffs, which affected about 500 A. H. Belo employees nationwide, including 100 at The Journal, for an estimated annual savings to the company of $27 million.
Excluding those two charges, A. H. Belo said it lost $18.1 million, or 91 cents per share, in the first quarter, nearly double the amount it lost in the same period during 2008.
"A. H. Belo continues to face significant revenue challenges in 2009," Robert W. Decherd, A. H. Belo's chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement. "Lower advertising revenues require us to focus on expense reductions and operational realignment."
Advertising revenue at A. H. Belo's four major papers – The Dallas Morning News, The Journal, The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., and the Denton Record-Chronicle – and its smaller holdings continued to plummet, falling 28.2 percent compared with the first quarter of 2008, to $89.33 million from $124.42 million a year ago. The company said declining classified revenue was the primary cause of the decrease.
In a troubling sign, A. H. Belo also said Internet revenue fell 24 percent, to $9.3 million, compared with the same period last year, and accounted for only 7.2 percent of total quarterly revenue, down from 7.5 percent a year ago.
By comparison, circulation revenue edged upward by 9 percent, to $31.71 million from $29.11 million in the same quarter last year, thanks to higher newsstand and home delivery prices for The Journal and The Dallas Morning News.
It was unclear this morning what made A. H. Belo decide to completely write off The Journal's goodwill value. Alison K. Engel, the company's senior vice president and chief financial officer, did not immediately return a phone call requesting comment.
In 2007, Belo Corp. – which owned The Journal and A. H. Belo's other properties until they were spun off into a separate company last year – reduced the goodwill value of The Journal by 75 percent, slashing its estimate of the paper's value in excess of the sum of its parts from $323.73 million to $80.94 million. A. H. Belo wrote off The Journal's remaining goodwill value today.
Belo Corp. paid $1.5 billion in cash and stock to buy The Providence Journal Co. in February 1997. At the time the sale was announced, Edward J. Atorino, a media analyst, told The New York Times he thought the price was high.
Not including asset value reductions based on cost-containment efforts and other changes, The Journal's value has been reduced by a total of $410.62 million from goodwill write-downs by its parent.
Despite the goodwill write-down, the company also reported that The Journal posted the best margin of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of any of the company's properties in the first quarter, including The Dallas Morning News.
Excluding charges related to the employee layoffs, A. H. Belo said its newspapers earned $1.3 million before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. The company did not break out results for its individual papers. In 2008, The Journal's revenue fell 13.3 percent to $131.47 million, according to the company's annual report.
Decherd also said the company's first-quarter expenses were $150.5 million, or $21.5 million lower than in the first quarter of last year, excluding the $80 million accounting charge for the Journal write-down.
"We are extremely proud of the work done to adjust our cost base by A. H. Belo's operating units, corporate leadership and all of our employees," Decherd said. The company has asked employees to accept pay cuts as it looks to shave another $10 million from its annual expenses this year.
A. H. Belo did not declare a quarterly dividend. A year ago, it declared a first-quarter dividend of 25 cents per share.
A. H. Belo plans to hold a conference call to discuss the results at 2:30 p.m. At 10:34 a.m. Monday, the company's stock price was up 7.7 percent, trading at $1.81 per share, on the New York Stock Exchange, after closing at $1.68 on Friday.
In a column published in Sunday's edition of The Journal, Thomas E. Heslin, the paper's executive editor, stressed: "We are here. Very much alive." He also outlined a series of changes that the paper has made to adapt, including the reorganization of the smaller news staff into five topic desks.
A. H. Belo Corp. (NYSE: AHC) owns and operates The Providence Journal, The Dallas Morning News, The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., and the Denton Record-Chronicle, with a combined total audience estimated at 3.7 million readers. The company also produces a variety of specialty print and online publications and offers direct-mail and commercial printing services. For more information, visit www.AHBelo.com.
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Niedermayer rejoins the flock as an assistant
Attempting to reverse their downward trend toward the lower reaches of the Western Conference, the Ducks turned to someone who lifted them to their greatest heights for help.
Former captain Scott Niedermayer, 39, will join the Ducks coaching staff as an assistant, marking his first foray into coaching at the NHL level. He retired in 2010 after 18 stellar NHL seasons and has been a consultant with the team since.
Niedermayer took on various roles with the Ducks, including scouting and working with their American Hockey League affiliate as he began his transition to a new phase of his career in hockey.
The club wanted the former defenseman to take on a greater role within the organization, and Niedermayer met with General Manager Bob Murray and Coach Bruce Boudreau this week.
"The last couple of years have been different, but I've had some fun opportunities to do things with the family and by myself that I haven't been able to do before," Niedermayer said. "It was good, but now I'm looking forward to this, to get back and help out any way I can.
"As a player, you want to do anything you can to help make the team more successful, and I think my attitude will pretty much be the same now."
The rest of the Ducks staff — Boudreau, assistants Bob Woods and Brad Lauer, and video coordinator Joe Piscotty — remains intact.
Details of Niedermayer's contract were not released, as per club policy.
Niedermayer said he'll initially remain at home, attending practice and games, but he also is welcome to join the team on trips if he so chooses.
The travel grind was one of the reasons the defenseman decided to end his playing days.
As far as the itch to coach, he said he didn't think there was really one moment when it came to him.
"Obviously the last couple of years, I've worked with players down in Syracuse and at Norfolk at the start of this year," Niedermayer said later on a conference call.
"I realized that I do enjoy it, more than maybe I had thought when I was a player. I probably couldn't predict this when I was a player.
"I've enjoyed that opportunity. Just talking with Bob and his ideas as to what would help the organization, and he thought this might be something that would be worthwhile. I'm excited about the chance to try and help."
Niedermayer captained the Ducks to their only Stanley Cup title in 2007 after winning three championships with the New Jersey Devils.
"As a player, Scott was one of the great leaders and winners of all time, making him a tremendous addition to our coaching staff," Murray said.
"His knowledge of the game and relationship with the players will be a great benefit for us. And he's even a better person than a hockey player."
Perhaps the most significant free-agent signing in franchise history, Niedermayer played in 371 games over five seasons with the Ducks and led them to four consecutive playoff appearances and their greatest success. He is the club's all-time leader in goals (60), assists (204), points (264) and power-play goals (39) as a defenseman.
His impact was never greater than his first two seasons. Niedermayer lifted the Ducks toward elite status in 2005-06 with a career-best 63-point season that made him a Norris Trophy finalist after winning the award with the Devils in 2004.
Niedermayer only topped that performance in 2006-07 with personal bests of 15 goals, 54 assists and 69 points before leading the Ducks to the mountaintop with clutch performances in the postseason that earned him the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' most valuable player.
Boudreau sounded eager to use one of the sport's most respected players.
"Let's realize Scotty is one of the greatest players that ever played the game," he said. "And his knowledge of the game is paramount. Players of his ilk, they see things that you don't see. And that kind of input is always invaluable.
"Especially with this role. He's probably going to be the eye in the sky. He's going to be able to see plays as they develop and we'll be in constant contact with the bench and him. Again, that'll be invaluable."
One of his pet projects could be third-year defenseman Cam Fowler, who figures to take over the No. 1 role full time but also has a combined minus-53 rating over his first two NHL seasons.
"Cam is obviously a great skater, and in the game today, that's obviously a huge asset to have," Niedermayer said. "He's a smart player. You see the decisions he makes with and without the puck. Those two things are tremendously valuable and they're difficult to teach.
"Those are the talents he has and hopefully we can use those to make him an even better player."
Players were excited at the prospect of the future Hockey Hall of Fame blue-liner being around more often.
"I see him more like (an) individual coach," said Teemu Selanne, who won the Cup with his one-time teammate. "He can help a lot of young players and give good thoughts and feedback."
Said Corey Perry: "It's going to be fun having him around."
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How many places in the world have you actually discussed moving to without ever having visited? For my husband and I, the answer is exactly one: Belize.
We've been reading and dreaming about Belize for 4 years now. The beaches of course look beautiful, and the reef beacons all of us born under a water sign. But what has grabbed my attention is western Belize, with the rainforests, wildlife, and ruins. And NOBODY does Western Belize like Chaa Creek.
I first heard about the Lodge at Chaa Creek in a travel chat room. I lived vicariously through those travelers' rainforest adventures. Those interested in a physical challenge clearly got it. Discussions of treks to Mayan ruins, mountain bike rides, and eco adventure canoe trips down rivers had me green with envy. Then I heard others talking about glamorous swimming pools, delicious meals, golf courses and spa treatments, and I assumed they posted in the wrong thread. To my delight, I was wrong!
After reading about others' adventures, I had to investigate Chaa Creek for myself. The magnificent website looks just like a photo spread in Conde Nast or National Geographic. I spent several hours looking through the info on the site, and learning about a side of Belize that I hadn't really come across before. We have also read through the different Belize travel packages offered by Chaa Creek, and I have to say each one looks more amazing than the one before it.
So, obviously we haven't actually moved to Belize yet — and certainly we'll be visiting before we would ever consider it. But now we know with absolute certainty who to arrange our travel with when the time comes for our inaugural visit.
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FROM ITS SEATTLE BASE, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has designed a large and diverse body of residential, commercial, and institutional work in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East. One reason for the rapid rise in the firm's number of projects over the past decade, says managing partner Scott Allen, is that in the early 1990s, he and his partners decided to expand their geographic reach. "We set an audacious goal of moving from being a local firm to a regional firm to a national firm to an international firm," says Allen.
But going global requires travel, travel takes time, and, as the saying goes, time is money. More and more U.S. firms are taking advantage of a globalizing economy by taking on projects across the country and abroad. At the same time, the price of airline tickets and gasoline are rising precipitously. And the costs of travel are not likely to decrease any time in the near future
Worried you'll have to fly coach to Shanghai just to make budget? Here's how Allen gets both domestic and international clients to pay for travel time, without putting the firm at a financial disadvantage.
Draw the line ...
"We drew a fuzzy red line around Seattle," says Allen. "For anything inside that line"—that is, for local projects—"we expect clients to pay for all our travel time. But for projects outside that line, we wanted to ensure that the cost of flying us in wouldn't make us uncompetitive. So we decided to bill our travel time at about 50 percent. That can still be lots of money." And with more and more firms taking on projects overseas, it is important to consider the length of international travel versus domestic. "To get from here to Hong Kong takes 12 to 14 hours," says Allen. "But billing for only half those hours makes clients feel they're not being taken advantage of."
or fix the fee.
"If it's a fixed project fee, travel time is included," Allen says. "But a lot of our projects—including all of the private homes—are billed by the hour. That means all the hours devoted to the project are billed, from time on the computer to time on the road reaching the building site." Of course, says Allen, you don't include hours of personal time on such trips, like those spent sleeping or eating.
Be fair—to clients and yourself.
"If you're marketing yourself, you may have to absorb the full cost of your travel time," says Allen. "The trick is to decide what's marketing and what's not marketing. If we're asked to fly somewhere to show someone a portfolio or to talk about a project, it's clearly a marketing effort. But even then, if the distance and expense involved are great, we may ask for some reimbursement of expenses. We went to Beijing to make a presentation, and they said, 'We'll pay for your hotel and airfare but not your time.' And that seemed fair."
Cost-plus, up for negotiation.
"Typically, we bill our expenses at cost plus a small markup for taxes and administration," says Allen. "It costs money to run expenses through our system. We just want to at least break even on them." But, he says, that markup can be subject to negotiation on a project-by-project basis, because "often, clients don't want to pay anything but the actual costs." One solution Allen's firm uses is to have the client book all tickets and deal with reimbursements on its end—that means the administrative costs are the client's, but the architect's costs are still covered.
Class distinctions matter.
"For a short flight, flying coach is no big deal," says Allen. "But if travel time is more than five or six hours, we feel like it ought to be business class. After all, you're not much good to the client if you're been stuck in a coach seat for 14 hours. Most clients, who are businesspeople, understand that."
Keep the home fires burning.
"We try to make judicious use of travel, using video conferencing whenever possible," says Allen. "There's no reason to jump on a plane when you can solve the problem remotely. On the other hand, at key points in the life of a project, there's nothing that replaces a site visit and a face-to-face meeting with the client. That's the art form: to see how little can you travel and still have the impact you need to have on the project."


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State of the Art Nancy Ausonio Mammography Center Features Digital Technology, Spa-Like Surrounding
This new facility features the latest technologies, including digital mammography, to ensure crystal clear, accurate images. The spacious Center features four mammography rooms, three ultrasound suites—one specially-equipped for ultrasound-guided biopsies—a dedicated room for computer-aided biopsies, and changing rooms with lockers.
The building was designed to reflect a calm, warm and inviting environment, intended to make patients feel as comfortable and stress-free as possible. In addition to the light-filled registration and waiting area, the spa-like interior features a lounge with the soothing sounds of soft music and water flowing from a fountain. Inside, or outside on the private patio, patients can relax prior to their appointment.
It is through the gracious generosity of Nancy Ausonio that this center has become a reality. "Nancy is a long-time member of our Board and a caring, generous member of our community," says Shirley Lavorato, President of the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Governors.
"Naming the mammography center in honor of Nancy Ausonio is a tribute that recognizes her thoughtful contribution, and decades of philanthropic, community and humanitarian work," says John Meyer, Senior Administrative Director, Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation. "We appreciate her leadership, generosity and commitment to the Foundation, the hospital and communities throughout Monterey County."
The 9,425-square-foot facility is located at 240 San Jose Street, adjacent to the hospital campus. It features four digital mammogram units, three ultrasound machines including one that is dedicated for use in biopsies, an advanced stereotactic (computer-aided) biopsy table and a bone density scanner. A picture archiving and communications system (PACS) enables review of scans online.
"We offer excellent screening for early detection of breast cancer and help women who have cancer throughout their treatment and follow-up," says Amy Lantis Stemerman, MD, Medical Director of The Nancy Ausonio Mammography Center. The clinical team includes board-certified radiologists—Donald Catalano, MD, James Kowalski, MD, David Staunton, MD, Kristen Wulff, MD and Dr. Stemerman—a registered nurse, mammography technologists, ultrasound sonographers, receptionists and office staff.
"My focus is on ensuring quality patient care and patient satisfaction not only with diagnoses, but throughout treatment and ongoing care," says Ginny Williams, MSN, RN, Director of The Nancy Ausonio Mammography Center. "We want everyone who comes to the Center to feel supported and cared for." "It's wonderful to see our Foundation dollars at work," says Shirley Lavorato. "The Nancy Ausonio Mammography Center will help save the lives of people throughout our region."
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Anonymous. Pinhole photograph made by girls incarcerated at Remann Hall, WA, in a workshop facilitated by Steve Davis.
On November 20, 1989, the United Nations passed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The treaty banned Juvenile Life Without Parole (JWLOP) and other harsh sentencing practices, such as trying children in adult courts. Along with Somalia and South Sudan, the U.S. remains one of the few nations that has not ratified the treaty. 25 years after the passage of such a landmark treaty, the U.S. incarcerates more children than any other nation.
This is the context in which we should listen to lawyer Bryan Stevenson. On the occasion of the release of his new book Just Mercy, I've edited and republished a Prison Photography interview with Stevenson from late 2012 on Medium. I paired Stevenson's words with decade-old pinhole photos made by girls incarcerated at Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Facility, WA.
Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He has fought racial and economic inequality in the criminal justice system for a quarter of a century including wins at the U.S. Supreme Court for fair treatment of children, and successful exonerations of wrongfully convicted men. For the moneyed-class at TED, he spoke truth to power. For everyone else, he appeared on The Daily Show.
You can find our conversation on Medium, which is a place I've been experimenting with. I intend to use it mostly to republish some of the best of archive stuff on Prison Photography and to cross post relevant new articles too. The main advantage, for me, at Medium is the display of images larger than appear here on Prison Photography's 7-year old WordPress template!
Please, take a peek at the Prison Photography on Medium.
Photo: Robin Holland. Source: Bill Moyers Show
Bryan Stevenson founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) made arguments to the United States Supreme Court in May 2012 against the sentencing of Juvenile to Life Without Parole. He is fervently against the death penalty and has consistently pointed out the injustices within the US legal system that benefit the rich over the poor.
This is the second part of a two-part conversation with Prison Photography. You can read part one here.
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PP: While presenting at TED, you encouraged the audience to educate themselves about communities beyond their circles, but you also warned the audience that the type of awareness that spurs you and your work – an awareness of profound inequality in American society – "will get to you". Can you expand on that?
Bryan Stevenson: It is a challenge. It's a new relationship with the world of injustice, poverty and bias that implicates you in ways in which you are otherwise not implicated. That's both a burden and – in my judgment – a privilege, because to be able to respond to those things animates human beings in ways that very few things do. It creates meaning and purpose that can be transcendental.
I think the way you do it is by trying to insulate yourself from the politics of fear that have created many of these dynamics. We very rarely ask ourselves 'What are we afraid of?', 'What are we angry about?' but in public life we've been encouraged through our political leaders to be very angry about crime, to be very afraid of the society that we live in. There are things that we should be legitimately angry and legitimately concerned about, but I think as a world view this is a very destructive way to live.
When you're consumed with fear and anger you make decisions about how you treat other people, even about how you think of your own needs, that often time leads to inequality, injustice and oppression. When you look at every example of massive human rights violations the story always begins with a narrative around fear and anger. I think one of the things we have to do is step back from that and begin to ask harder, more critical questions about the issues around us. Is it better to punish crime or to prevent crime? Are there things that we can do to reduce the prison population? Is it better to have a free population or an incarcerated population? If you start asking those kind of questions it will lead you to different policy outcomes than the outcomes we've largely elected.
What that means for individuals – and I think for me – is that you sometimes have to say things which are challenging; you have to be willing to stand when everyone else is sitting and be the voice that says 'But what about this?' You have to be willing to speak when everyone else is quiet. That's not always easy and that's not always comfortable. Certainly for me, it has at times been pretty overwhelming and vexing to be the target of other people's anger and frustration because of what I am saying and who I am representing.
It has been frustrating to deal with this wall of ignorance when people are making decisions with so little information and with so little context of the people whose lives are being directly affected. What it has taught me is that I do have to believe things I haven't seen and that is not always easy for people to embrace but I think it essential if you are going to create justice, if you're going to create a new world.
As a little boy, growing up in the civil rights movement you'd hear Martin Luther King say, "The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." I heard the words, I understood their individual meaning but I didn't really get what he was talking about until I became actively engaged in advocating for people who were hated and condemned.
One of the great challenges for our generation and community today is that so much of academic training is trying to deconstruct the things we believe, know and understand, and to make you accept the status quo – it is really intended to make you less idealistic, less aspirational, less confident that you can change the world in which you inhabit. That is unfortunate and while we have to be smart and strategic, we still have to be hopeful and we still have to believe in things we haven't seen.
PP: This year you presented arguments in the cases Jackson vs. Hobbs and Miller vs. Alabama at the US Supreme Court. How did it go?
Bryan Stevenson: The United States Supreme Court is a tough room full of smart, thoughtful people who know these issues inside out. They ask a lot of difficult questions. Many of the justices asked some interesting questions about what sort of remedy would be necessary if relief were granted which is more encouraging than if they had asked no questions! I was pleased that the court granted review – that's the hard part. There are thousands of petitions filed every year and the court rarely grants review, so for the court to do so on such an important constitutional question like this is even less common.
PP: In June, The Supreme Court ruled that all mandatory life sentences without parole given to children 17 and younger are unconstitutional. What happens now?
Bryan Stevenson: EJI will be dealing with as many of those cases as we can. We have made commitment to over 100 people in the last few months. We prepared to help those who would be affected by a favorable ruling. A lot of these kids don't have right to counsel so even if the court grants relief, they're going to have a hard time finding the legal help they need to get their sentence corrected. We're trying to take that up.
In addition to ending LWOP for children, we are committed to ending the incarceration of children with adults. There's still 27 or 28 states that put kids in adult facilities so that's another campaign we're trying to advance. We'll take those cases on. We're very interested in ending the underage prosecution of children; there is still a lot of states that have no minimum age for trying a child as an adult so frequently 9 and 10 year olds are looking at adult prosecution, something we think should never happen and we'll keep doing those cases no matter what the court rules on Miller and Jackson.
PP: EJI was one of the earliest organizations to partner with Richard Ross. He has provided EJI with photographs for its reports and advocacy. In April, I wrote a piece for Wired.com titles Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention In America about Richard's photographs. What does photography do or change – if anything at all – in helping EJI describe these worlds we can talk about but rarely see?
Bryan Stevenson: I think photography is essential. There's no question that Richard's images provide a power and an intimacy to these issues that cannot be achieved any other way. It is important for photography and photojournalism to be a component of the kind of work we're trying to do because in many ways the issues we're discussing are underground issues.
We don't really know what prisons and jails look like. We don't know what the people inside them look like. We have some very outdated and exaggerated presentations of jails and prisons in popular culture. I don't think people can get a perspective on what it is like to lock someone down 23 hours a day, year after year, decade after decade. We don't understand what it is like for a child to be in custody in an adult facility where the risk of sexual assault is 10 times greater than it would be for an adult. We don't know what it is like to go week after week with no contact with anybody who is not either a prisoner or a prison guard, which is true for many of our clients.
There is cruelty, real misconduct and brutality in prisons. There are all of these realities that good photographers can expose and give a lens to that is critical. Richard's work has been hugely influential and we've worked with other photographers to bring these issues to light. Our first report in 2007 was mostly photographs, driven by images by Steve Liss who'd spent time in facilities taking photographs of young kids incarcerated.
Until we show people these children and the conditions of confinement in which we find these children we are not going to be able to get people to deal carefully and honestly with these issues. Photo-advocacy is critical to the work we do.
PP: Once an image is made and seen of a child in a prison cell it smashes all the stereotypes that you talked about within our a culture of fear?
Bryan Stevenson: That's right.
PP: You argued at the Supreme Court that Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) is cruel and unusual. Definitions of cruel and unusual change over time. We perceive punishments as cruel and unusual depending on what we collectively consider socially reasonable. What do we need to do as a society to label practices that lead to mass incarceration as cruel and unusual?
Bryan Stevenson: We need to be quite intentional about how recognizing that having the highest rate of incarceration in the world is a negative thing. It is not a good reflection on a society that is committed to freedom and equality. We're going to have to be as deliberate in our efforts to eliminate and reduce mass incarceration as we have been in creating it.
We have to begin a conversation where we say it would be better if 1 out 3 young men of color were not in jail, prison, probation or parole. It would be a positive thing if we solved the problems of drug addiction and misuse in our society rather than just continuing to imprison people. If you orient that way, then you can ask 'What can we do instead?'
One of the things EJI talks about is having a deliberate target of reducing the prison pollution by 50% over the next 6 or 7 years. We have to be intentional. Drug policy is the largest contributor to our current prison population. We started about 30 years ago making something like simple drug possession a crime. We made drug addiction a crime. If we thought about drugs and drug abuse as a healthcare problem, rather than a criminal justice problem not only would we not be saving the thirty, forty, fifty thousands dollars a year to it costs incarcerate a person who has a health problem we could actually begin to pursue the interventions that reduce drug addiction. Redirect the resources.
That's not just good for the government and for taxpayers; it's good for families and communities. That orientation would go a long way to move us forward and eliminate these race disparities and the disparities that are created by class and status. If we did that seriously over the next 2 or 3 years we would dramatically reduce our prison population almost overnight.
If we added to that a punishment system and scale influenced by what science has to teach us about rehabilitation, behavior modification, about how human beings can recover, I think we'd also save billions of dollars – billions with a B – on resources that are now being invested in doing nothing more than warehousing people, further damaging them before we release them back into society.
There are states where we spend over $100,000 per year to keep teenagers incarcerated. I can't identify any educator who couldn't make better use of those dollars. Most educators will tell you that for half of that – for a quarter of that – invested in each child you are working with, you could do some magical things to re-orient them and prevent crime and the problems we're trying to deal with in the public safety sphere. We must approach this problem by first acknowledging it's a PROBLEM, it's not just an aspect of life in America that we incarcerate the poor and disadvantaged.
You're right; the notion of cruel and unusual has evolved. It is rooted in a concept of how we relate to one another, but it is also related in a vision of human rights and human dignity that the framers of our constitution understood was critical in a free society. If we tolerate cruelty and violations of human rights we sow the seeds of destruction, discontent and animosity that ultimately undermine any free community. That's why we can never make peace – in my judgment – the type of cruelty we see too much. To say to any child of thirteen, 'You are only fit to die in prison' is cruel. I don't think you need a law degree or a degree in adolescent development to acknowledge that. You just need to be willing to think critically and honestly about what protecting children requires. A lot of these issues are much more simple than people think.
PP: It's the first time I've heard someone put a figure on targets for decarceration in America. A reduction of 50% would mean releasing more than 1.1 million people. That figure would scare the hell out of most Americans.
Bryan Stevenson: [Laughs] Only because they don't know who those people are!
There are hundreds of thousands of people in jails and prisons who have never committed a violent crime, they've never hurt anybody. We have close to a million people in prison for non-violent property crimes or drug crimes. Frankly, if someone stole $50 from your house, you're never going to get that back in our current system, but you can imagine a world where the obligation to pay back to restore and to compensate the victims of crime in ways that are meaningful could replace the use of prisons to punish and crush folks.
All of a sudden a whole host of things are happening that I think are positive to our society; once we begin defining and describing how people get to prison and who they are, the idea of reducing the prison population becomes a lot more attractive. Also, when we start talking about the collateral consequences of the money we're spending; we are undermining education in this country because of mass incarceration. We are depleting resources for public safety because of mass incarceration. We are stripping basic services and public utilities because of mass incarceration.
PP: At TED, you said that as a society we will not be judged by our technology. Will we be judged by the fairness of our laws?
Bryan Stevenson: Our laws express our fundamental norms and our fundamental values; I think it more complex than just our laws or just our technology. It has to do with the dynamics in our community. If we get comfortable with widespread racial bias and discrimination; if we get comfortable with a widespread population of people who are desperately poor; if we get comfortable with these vertical relationships then we are destined to become a different kind of America – an America that is not defined by commitment to fairness, equality and opportunity.
We have to pay attention to all of the strategies and techniques that create opportunity, and technologies are at the heart of that, design is at the heart of that, even entertainment can stimulate the kind of creativity we need. Those are important parts of it, and so are our laws. Ultimately, for me, the measure is what we do with technological tools and where we stand. There are more people living under the poverty line today than there were forty years ago. That's a bad thing. Having 2.3 million people in jails and prisons is a bad thing. The growing population of people who have permanently lost the right to vote who are African-American – after the civil rights struggle – is a bad thing. The despair and hopelessness that I see in poor communities and minority communities – where 13 year old children believe they're either going to be dead or incarcerated by the time they are 21 – is a bad thing. We will ultimately have to measure our commitment to society and to our norms and values by how we respond to those problems.
PP: And you're helping us learn deeply about the problems, and offering solutions. More power to you. Thank you Bryan.
Bryan Stevenson: Thanks Pete.
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The first part of this conversation was published October 31st, 2012.
Below is Stevenson's full TED presentation.
Source: Flickr, Jurvetson
Bryan Stevenson is not a pioneering scientist or tech entrepreneur, nor is he a globally known entertainer, a powerful politician or a media mogul. Given that Stevenson's day-to-day company includes the poorest Americans, prisoners and the condemned he would not seem to be a likely candidate to speak at the prestigious pay-to-attend TED Conference. And yet, Stevenson, a lawyer of over 25 years, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), stole the show at this year's TED meet.
Without the aid of flashy visuals, Stevenson described how it is the poor and disadvantaged who suffer the racial and class biases within the US criminal justice system. Not only a breath of fresh air, his presentation was a challenge to both the moneyed and influential TEDsters in the room and we – the online audience – to engage with the facts, laws, and shortcomings of criminal justice within our communities.
Can we reconcile the belief that the US is a society based upon fairness, equality and opportunity when over 7 million citizens are under some form of correctional supervision? Why do we sentence children to an entire life behind bars? Can we adopt restorative justice and move away from an over-reliance on incarceration? Can we truly see and tackle the causes of despair, poverty and crime?
Given his other commitments, appearing at TED was not even Stevenson's priority. One week after TED, he stood in front of the United States Supreme Court and made arguments in the Jackson vs. Hobbs and Miller vs. Alabama cases against the use of Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentencing for children. Stevenson believes it cruel and unusual – and therefore a violation of the eighth amendment – to sentence a minor as an adult, and especially cruel when the sentence carries no possibility of release.
For many reasons including the current budget crises, criminal justice spending and policy is under scrutiny. Stevenson is at the sharp end of this hot topic. He sat down with Prison Photography to discuss his start in these tough issues, the need for us all to treat issues of poverty and marginalization as our own, and the long arc of the universe that Stevenson – despite the inequalities he battles daily – still believes bends toward justice.
Prison Photography (PP): How did you get invited to TED?
Bryan Stevenson: I hope it's not too embarrassing to admit that I had never actually heard of TED. I was never really that plugged in to that community. I was given a Four Freedoms Award in New York, last year, and that is where I met Chris Anderson.
Chris was very generous. He said, "I think you might be great for a TED talk." I said, "Well, I'll talk to you about that." I went back to Alabama and asked my staff, "What's a TED Talk?" and they said I should do one. It was a tough month because I had cases going to the Supreme Court and I wasn't sure I could do all of it, but I decided I would.
PP: You founded the EJI over two decades ago, and I presume while your focus has changed your message has been consistent. Did the TED conference have any effect on how your message has been received?
Bryan Stevenson: It was really surprised by what a vibrant community TED is. There are a lot of very thoughtful people all engaged in the pursuit of ideas. I listened to many of the presentations and I was quite inspired by them.
Frankly, I was tempted to do things differently to what I had planned; everything there was so visual, dazzling and spectacular. I don't usually use visual aids or do Powerpoints. I was a little concerned about that but I just decided to give the talk I planned. I was humbled by the response; people were very generous and very enthusiastic. For me, that was very affirming.
I talk in a lot of places where there's a great deal of hostility, where there is a great deal of resistance; where you know you're saying things that people don't really want to hear and frequently they show that. It was very gratifying to be received well at TED. And it has had an impact – just the notion that you can put a talk like that online in a venue that people regularly visit has meant that a lot of people have heard what we are trying to do and they'd otherwise have never heard about our work.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) believes deeply in getting more information out, educating more people. We cannot change this environment inside a courtroom alone; we're going to have to change the broader political, social and cultural environment; if we are going to have the sort of conversation I think we need to have.
PP: Did you really raise $1million in 15 minutes from TEDster donations?
Bryan Stevenson: Yes. The day after my talk, I had to go to Seattle to give another talk, so I wasn't at TED, but a lot of people had said that they wanted to advance the work we were doing and to participate directly. Chris was kind enough to have a few minutes to invite people to offer support and they did and we have gotten pledges of about a million dollars which really comes at a critical time. We're engaged in campaign right now to end excessive sentences of children. The United States is the only nation in the world that still sentences children to die in prison. Life in prison without parole for children as young as thirteen is a sentence that is still widely imposed in the US and we are really actively trying to eliminate that sentence, so we've been at the US Supreme Court, we've been in courts across the country and we're now doing a national campaign.
In addition [we're working on] a couple of other things – stopping the underage prosecution of children as adults, and stopping the incarceration of children with adults. This support will really allow us to move that forward. TED has had a tremendous impact on the visibility of our work and I'm hoping that out of it will come new partnerships, new colleagues, new opportunities for these very critical social justice issues for our era.
PP: One of the biggest laughs you got in the talk was when described writing a motion to have your poor, juvenile client tried as a 75 year-old, white corporate executive! That latter description would fit many in the TED crowd. Beforehand, were you nervous about the demographic and reaction of the TED crowd? Did you think it might be a tough crowd?
Bryan Stevenson: It ended up be a very generous crowd. I was a little nervous about that story, of course, but one thing I've learnt is that you want to reach people where you and they are. I talk about a lot of tough issues all the time and I genuinely want us to get to a better place; I genuinely want all people to achieve a relationship within the human community which is full, robust, respectful and appropriate, so whether you're black or white, rich or poor, employed or not, whatever the dynamic we must find ways to communicate with one another.
We impose on people in the criminal justice system identities that presume guilt, presume dangerousness and a fitness for incarceration. It has contributed to a high rate of error and wrongful convictions. We have to deconstruct that and my story about the motion is just one of the ways I've tried to raise important questions about why we are so indifferent to the status of people who are needy and vulnerable when to be just we need to acknowledge those deficits and deal with them appropriately.
PP: You talked about identities, how they are made, individual identity and collective identity. Was there a point in your life that you decided a life of fighting racial bias and inequalities in the criminal justice was for you?
Bryan Stevenson: I grew up in a poor rural community where issues of race and poverty were very dominant. It was a southern community where the legacy of Jim Crow was very evident, schools were segregated, social institutions were segregated and that was all slowly starting to get dismantled as I was coming up. It was hard to not see that.
I decided when I was a senior in college that I'd go to law school really with no clear idea of what type of lawyer I'd be or even if I would practice law. I just knew, as a philosophy major, no-one would pay me to philosophize.
After a year in law school when I had an internship at an organization in the South that provided legal assistance to death row prisoners and I became acutely aware of just how stark the differences were for people who were poor and incarcerated when it came to legal help. I met people on death row who were literally dying for legal assistance.
As a student at Harvard Law School and going back there where people were very anxious about which job they were going to take, not whether they'd get a job, the idea that there were people moving toward execution largely because they could not find legal assistance was pretty startling and compelling to me. I found in that area also some really interesting questions about how we treat the poor and how we deal with racial bias and how we deal with our history of racial discrimination. So all of it spoke to me in a way that I found very hard to ignore.
I started working on death penalty cases when I was a law student and when I graduated I began working at the same organization on criminal justice reform, excessive punishment, conditions of confinement and to this day I find new reasons to pursue this more intensely, to dig deeper and to struggle toward a better future and better solutions to the ones I've seen along the way.
PP: So there was no single personal experience in which you or your family were directly involved with the criminal justice system or a personal racist confrontation?
Bryan Stevenson: When people think you're doing something unexpected and something hard to understand they are always searching for a narrative of something episodic or some incident to help explain how you got thrown off the path that you're supposed to be on [laughs] to this misguided path that they really have great concerns to see you traveling down.
I do get those questions and I tell people, "No, I'm not motivated because I have a loved one in prison, no-one in my family has ever been executed." That's not to say that I don't have an identity that is deeply vexed by the persistence of racial bias in our society; an identity that is challenged by the pervasive nature of poverty and our indifference to poverty; an identity that very much values freedom and fairness and the application of law that is just and reliable. But it doesn't come from a place of personal exposure.
I think everyone should realize that these are not issues for activists and advocates; these are basic fundamental issues for people concerned about the quality of society we live in. One of the great problems that we are dealing with is that mass incarceration, excessive punishment, the marginalization of communities of disadvantaged people in this country have been relegated to the boundaries and are not part of mainstream conversation, whereas in fact, I think they reveal more about us than many of the other things we are preoccupied with. If you look at magazines, we spend a lot of time looking at fashion, consumers habits, what we buy, what we watch on TV, the gadgets we use. All of these do reveal things about our culture, but when you have the highest rate of incarceration in the world and a system of justice that is systematically depriving people of basic human dignity and human rights – that says something about the society we live in as well.
I'm always saying to folks that you judge the character of society not by how you treat the privileged the rich and the powerful and the celebrated but how you treat the poor and the incarcerated and the condemned. I do think it is a very mainstream question that it is difficult for many people to ask or respond to because it has been so marginalized in popular discourse.
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The second part of a two-part conversation with Prison Photography can be read here.
I recommend Bryan Stevenson's TED presentation.
© Richard Ross. Cell of a 15 year old boy on the mental health wing of King County Youth Service Center, Seattle, WA. Many of the children on the wing here are on psychotropic medication. He didn't leave his house for three years; he hasn't gone to school in three years. He is locked up because he assaulted his mother and his mother doesn't want him. Placement will be difficult. The first step will be reconciliation with his mother. Alternatives to Secure Detention (A.S.D). He is under 24-hour observation and checked on every 15 minutes.
"The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in two homicide cases testing whether it is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a 14-year-old to life in prison without the possibility of parole," says Nina Totenberg (Do Juvenile Killers Deserve To Be Executed) for NPR. "There are currently 79 of these juvenile killers who will die in prison."
Much of the coverage on JLWOP, an undeniably emotive issue, can be skewed. Totenberg, however, deals with the facts very evenhandedly (as she always does when reporting on the labyrinthine legal SCOTUS cases).
She gets to the heart of the matter, which is to ask 'Are 14-year-old killers always killers who either can never – or do not deserve – to be rehabilitated?' Essentially, in the 18 states where JLWOP has been handed down, the law believes that is the case.
It is Bryan Stevenson (whose TED appearance I mentioned last week) that is representing the two boys in this case. He argues that it is cruel and unusual to lock up until death a child who does not have the developmental capacity to appreciate his or her actions nor the ability to fully grasp consequence.
"We're not saying that juvenile offenders who commit homicide can't be punished severely," Stevenson says. "They may even end up spending the rest of their lives in prison. But it's premature, excessive and unfair to say we know this juvenile will never be rehabilitated."
The problem is that law prohibits the consideration of an individual's history or the circumstances of the crime in sentencing.
"Judges can't consider it. Juries can't consider it. No one can consider it," says Stevenson.
Totenberg offers the example of Kuntrell Jackson a 14-year-old who robbed a video store with two others. An employee was shot dead but Jackson was not the gunman. "Under Arkansas' felony-murder law, Jackson was deemed just as responsible as the triggerman. He was tried as an adult for aggravated murder and, under state law, received a mandatory sentence of life without parole," explains Totenberg.
Sadhbh Walshe has just written (What JLWOP means: life without parole for kids) about a similar case in Pennsylvania. Robert Holbrook was look out for a drugs deal in which a female was killed.
Also in the Guardian, Ed Pilkington video interviews Quantel Lotts who murdered his step-brother in a fight aged 14 (Jailed for Life at 14: US supreme court to consider juvenile sentences). Lotts is in Missouri.
Pilkington puts it to Lotts that he might be a different person now as a 26-year-old. Lotts characterises his childhood – during which he was told violence solved everything – as a "phase."
As I said in my last post, retribution cannot be eternal. We cannot justify it and we can only tolerate it if we make it invisible.
I close by repeating the words of an adult I met who had served three decades in prison on a LWOP sentence before winning a governor's clemency against all odds. He said, "LWOP means you're dying inside. It's no different to a death sentence. It IS a death sentence."


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Smooth Muscled Model Felipe Herrera Jiménez
I'm going to start this one off by being a little less than flattering about this shoot. I know, I can almost hear the groan from all of you, but I have to be upfront about this shoot featuring Felipe Herrera Jiménez and say first of all that there is something wrong with it.
What's with all the damn air brushing!? You can see it too, right? Either he has been smoothed and polished post shoot, or he was wearing so much makeup he could have cracked if he moved. lol
It doesn't take away from the sexiness of the guy himself, and I think we can all appreciate his handsome face and that delicious body. But come on, there has to be a limit to the image of "perfection" put out by these people and we have to call them out on it sometimes, especially when it makes the guy look like a wax work.
These photos are for Joe Snyder, and although I love the setting and the guy featured, having checked out some of their other shoots it's all a little too fake, smooth and shiny for me.
What say you? Is it okay to smooth models out until they look like mannequins, or should there be a little more raw honesty and a natural presentation? That's your task for today boys, I expect your comments to be on my desk by the end of the lesson 😉


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Utah got outscored in the 1st half, decided to play in the second half, forced OT, and then won! This is "normal" for 2010 Utah Jazz basketball, all they do is fall behind far enough to rally. This time the lead got to as many as 16 before the Jazz decided that was enough, they stormed back into the game in the second half because of their defense. The Jazz held the Rockets to just 27 points in the 2nd half, the Rockets scored 52 in the first half. Utah pulled away in OT by scoring 14 points and holding the Rockets to 10 to win the game 103-99. Luis Scola brought his lunch pail to work last night, Scola finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Paul Milsap and Al Jefferson were responsible for most of the damage caused by the Jazz, Milsap finished with 27 points and 10 rebounds. Jefferson also had a double-double, he finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds. Deron Williams didn't have the greatest of shooting nights, but he did garner a double-double. Williams scored 14 points on 5 for 16 shooting, but Williams did dish out 15 assists! CJ Miles was himself again as he scored 16 points, Utah's bench scored 27 points as a unit. Utah turned the ball over more than the Rockets, but they out-rebounded Houston 53-42. Utah moves to 25-13 and 12-6 on the road, the Jazz end their road trip and play the Knicks at home on Wednesday. Utah and Oklahoma City won tonight, so they remain in a tie for first place in the division. Utah will have their hands full with the Knicks, they have to slow down that high octane offense. Raymond Felton and Amare Stoudamire seem as if they are really starting to gel. The Knicks are going to push the tempo, the Jazz need to slow the pace down by playing good defense and rebounding the basketball. I do know one thing, the Jazz CAN'T fall behind by double digits to the Knicks because of the tempo the Knicks play at. It will be hard to stop New York when they are running on all cylinders. Hopefully, Utah will be up to the task!!
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