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Withstanding crises and redressing inequalities key to Africa's continued progressJul 24, 2014
Tokyo, 24 July 2014 —Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa need to intensify their battle against deprivation and prevent crises from setting back recent development advances, according to the global 2104 Human Development Report (HDR), launched here today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
"Africa is enjoying higher levels of economic growth and well-being, but insecurity, as well as natural or human-induced disasters, persists in some parts of the region," said Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, the Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Africa. "Withstanding crises and protecting the most vulnerable, who are the most affected, are key to ensuring development progress is sustainable and inclusive."
The 2014 HDR, entitled "Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience," shows that between 2000 and 2013, Sub-Saharan Africa had the second highest rate of progress in the Human Development Index (HDI), which combines achievements in income, health and education. Rwanda and Ethiopia achieved the fastest growth, followed by Angola, Burundi, Mali, Mozambique, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
In spite of this progress, Sub-Saharan Africa is the most unequal region in the world, according to UNDP's Coefficient on Human Inequality.
Around 585 million people, the equivalent of 72 percent of the region's population, are either living in multidimensional poverty – with overlapping deprivations in education, health and living standards – or at risk of falling back into poverty, the Report shows. These groups often do not experience improvements in their standard of living because they have limited political participation, livelihood options and access to basic social services, and even when they do escape poverty, they can relapse rapidly into precariousness when crises hit.
These disparities affect individuals or even entire communities over a lifespan, based on gender, ethnicity, geographic location and other factors. For example, the Report shows that the region has the world's highest disparities in health, and shows considerable gender inequalities in income, educational attainment and access to reproductive health services.
Noting that vulnerability can accumulate over the course of a lifetime, the Report asserts that policies to maximize people's future opportunities should pay particular attention to specific periods in life. For instance, such policies would require investing in early childhood services, youth employment and support for older people.
The Report makes the case that preventing shocks and promoting opportunities for all—especially for those most at risk—can effectively help reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience.
"The eradication of poverty is not just about 'getting to zero'—it is also about staying there," the Administrator of UNDP, Helen Clark, points out in the foreword, adding that the Report's focus on resilience is highly relevant to current discussions on the post-2015 global development agenda.
Efforts to build social cohesion in conflict areas can lead to long-term reductions in the risk of conflict, while early warning systems and responsive institutions can lessen the impact of natural disasters. The report cites examples of peace architectures in Ghana, Kenya and Togo in facilitating dialogue and mediating disputes among communities during elections.
In addition, the Report argues that measures to create equal access to jobs, healthcare and education opportunities have an important role to play in promoting sustainable and equitable development.
With 77 percent of the population in vulnerable employment, many of them youths, the Report calls on countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt full employment policies and ensure that economic growth is employment-intensive, while paying special attention to the quality and security of the jobs created. Creating decent employment opportunities is critical to achieving substantive poverty reduction and social cohesion.
Acknowledging these challenges, it urges countries to transition from agriculture-based economies into industry and services, while supporting investments in infrastructure and education so that "modern formal employment gradually incorporates most of the workforce."
Further, social protection schemes such as unemployment insurance and pensions, universal health coverage and cash transfers can help individuals and communities weather difficult times and invest in the future.
For instance, South Africa's Child Support Grant contributed to reducing the poverty rate among children, while in Mozambique, progressive laws have given poor communities increased access to land.
Responsive and accountable institutions of governance are critical to overcoming injustice, vulnerability and exclusion that can fuel social discontent, while improving the delivery of services to all populations, the Report adds. While responding to emergencies is critical, building resilience requires sustained, long-term comprehensive efforts over time.
Finally, the Report calls for better global coordination in shoring up resilience to vulnerabilities that are increasingly global in origin and impact. Contact informationAnna Ortubia
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Freshman earns first weekly honor setting PR in high jump
MACON, Ga. (Dec. 5, 2012) – Setting a personal best in her first collegiate meet this past weekend, ETSU women's track & field freshman Kristin Chapman (Jacksboro, Tenn.) was named Atlantic Sun Field Athlete of the Week, the league office announced on Wednesday.
Chapman, a product of Campbell Country High School, was one of three Buccaneers to take a third-place finish at the Clemson Orange & Purple Winter Classic. The ETSU freshman competed in the high jump, clearing a height of 1.55m on her first attempt. The mark went down as a personal best for the newcomer, as she garners her first A-Sun weekly honor after her first collegiate weekend.
The ETSU men's and women's track & field squads get back to action Friday, Jan. 11, in Birmingham Ala., at the Blazer Invite.
Chapman Notes
- Competed in her first collegiate event at Clemson's Orange & Purple Winter Classic
- Tied for ETSU's best finish of the day, taking third place in the high jump (1.55m, PR)
- Earns first A-Sun weekly honor
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Fire leaves $17,000 damage to Riverside house
Buffalo firefighters confined an fire that broke out early Monday to the first floor of a vacant house in the city's Riverside section.
Firefighters responded to a 4:09 a.m. alarm at 89 Grace St., one block north of Hertel Avenue, a couple blocks east of Niagara Street. The fire left an estimated $17,000 damage. The cause remains under investigation.


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May 20, 1927 - May 7, 2013
Woodbourne, NY
Clarence L. Tillson "Tilly" of Woodbourne, passed away on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at home, with his family by his side. He was 85.
He was the son of the late Frank and Pearl Keaton Tillson, born on May 20, 1927 in Grahamsville, NY.
Clarence was a dedicated employee, no matter where he worked, and had a great work ethic, starting at a young age. He started working when he was as young as 15 for Smith's Garage, driving a bus for kids his own age, with various different routes. He later began working for the Town of Neversink, plowing snow. Then he helped with the construction of the Neversink Dam. He proudly served our country in the United States Army from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Conflict. He later became a long distance truck driver working for McBride MC Transportation and later retiring from Glover Leaf Transportation. He was one of the original members of the Grahamsville Fire Department. He married his wife, Hilda Cypert, on January 31, 1952. He will be missed deeply.
He is survived by his wife, Hilda, of Woodbourne and his only daughter, Naomi Tillson of New York City. He was predeceased by his brother, Harvey Tillson in 2006.
There will be a Memorial Visitation on Saturday, May 18th, at Colonial Memorial Funeral Home, 396 State Route 52, Woodbourne, NY 12788 from 1 to 2 p.m. A Firematic Service will begin at the funeral home at 2 p.m., followed by a Funeral Service.
The family would like to give a special thanks to all of the hospice workers of Orange and Sullivan Counties that helped them during their time of need. They would also like to thank Dr. Emmanuel N. Rodriguez for all his care through the years.
Arrangements were under the direction of Colonial-Bryant Funeral Homes and Cremation Services; for further information, please call 845-434-7363 or visit our website at www.colonialbryantfuneralhome.com


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I was wandering if anyone is going to be at Alameda around 5-6 today.
It is my first water session and I want to make body drag and maybe a bit on the board if i'm lucky enough.
where is the best place to start?
I had my land lesson and I think I'm ready to move forward. I'm able to self launch/land and I was with my 12m in Berkeley park/marina a few times.


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One of the highlights of Sunday's Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was the win for Bob Newhart, who picked up his first Emmy.
His first? One might wonder how it's possible that Newhart, 84, had never won an Emmy before, given that he's one of the most recognizable and distinctive comedy stars in TV history, especially for the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show." (His win finally came for a guest spot on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory.")
"I just felt the kind of stuff I do doesn't win awards," Newhart told reporters backstage.


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Nina Paley Explains Intellectual Disobedience
from the people-are-going-to-create-and-share dept
"A lot of people infringe copyright and they're apologetic ... If you know as much about the law as, unfortunately, I do, I cannot claim ignorance and I cannot claim fair use ... I know that I'm infringing copyright and I don't apologize for it."There's much more in the full interview:
The phrase "intellectual disobedience" has a call-to-arms ring to it, but Paley characterized it as an introspective personal choice driven by a need to create. "It's important for me as an artist to make art, and the degree of self-censorship that is required by the law is too great," Paley said. "In order to have integrity as a human being and as an artist, I guess I'm going to be conscientiously violating the law because there's no way to comply with the law and remain a free human being."
Holding that back, for some mistaken understanding of "preserving" culture, does seem like a tremendous shame. And so in those situations I think Nina's point is a good one. Creating new artwork should never be something that people apologize for. Historically, building on the works of others is how culture has been expanded. Some of our greatest forms of culture were created exactly that way. Great plays and novels of the past were really re-imaginings of older stories. Musical forms of folk music, rock music, jazz and soul all are versions of building on the works that came before (often very soon before). Hip hop, of course, is even more directly rooted in building on top of the work of others and making something new out of it. Why should people be apologetic for doing what we've always done?


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30 in 30: Young defense among Predators' questionsby Mike G. Morreale
The Nashville Predators finished with the fourth-worst record in the NHL in 2012-13, but general manager David Poile is confident there are better times ahead.
That is if coach Barry Trotz can find a way to motivate his team to put the puck in the net. The Predators have long been a group that has thrived on scoring by committee, but they failed miserably last season when they connected for two or fewer goals in 27 of 48 games and had a 3-17-7 mark in those contests en route to finishing 14th in the Western Conference.
Naturally, one of several big questions surrounding the team entering 2013-14 is the state of the offense; no player had more than 12 goals and three finished in double digits.
"We have world-class players here like [captain] Shea Weber and [goalie] Pekka Rinne, who are both in the prime of their careers, and the goal is to capitalize and build around them in order to win with them," Poile said. "It's my job to identify the right pieces to complement them and give us the best chance to compete for the Stanley Cup. That remains our goal, and returning to the playoffs is step one."
Here are six questions the Predators face heading into the 2013-14 season:
1. Can the Nashville offense turn it around? -- An upgrade was the offseason priority for Poile after his team scored 2.27 goals per game to match the Florida Panthers for the lowest average in the League last season. The veteran GM did just that on the opening day of free agency when he signed four forwards. Additionally, the Predators scouting department believes Swedish prospect Filip Forsberg could provide some needed production in his first full season in North America, and prospect Austin Watson might be promoted at some point, providing an added boost.
The Predators were 13-6-2 when scoring more than two goals last season. One area the offense likely will improve is shots per game; Nashville averaged a League-low 25.9 last season.
"The 3-2 game is a winning formula for the Nashville Predators," Poile said.
2. Will the free agent signings make a difference? -- Poile is hopeful his hard work to upgrade the offense pays off with the acquisitions of center Matt Cullen and wings Viktor Stalberg, Eric Nystrom and Matt Hendricks on the opening day of NHL free agency.
But not one of the additions has scored more than 49 points in a full season, which means the Predators may be forced to continue to grind out victories behind tough defensive play and stout goaltending. Cullen, whose 0.64 points per game average last season was his best since 0.83 in 2007-08, provides depth down the middle, but it remains to be seen if a 36-year-old can maintain that consistency required as a top pivot.
Stalberg offers speed and size, Nystrom possesses a relentless motor and ability to forecheck effectively, and Hendricks is a versatile player with a strong work ethic.
3. Will prospects Seth Jones and Filip Forsberg become impact players? -- Trotz was very impressed with each player during the team's development camp in July.
"You've seen a lot of players that you know have gone on to have careers and all that, and they carry themselves a certain way," Trotz said. "I can't explain it, you just see it, and I think both of them have that little bit of that 'it factor,' whatever 'it' is. I really can't explain it, but they seem to have that."
The idea is for each player to earn a roster spot out of training camp and continue to mature and develop while making contributions with the Predators in 2013-14. Jones dropped to Nashville at the No. 4 pick in the 2013 NHL Draft on June 30. Forsberg was acquired from the Washington Capitals on April 3, 2013; he was the No. 11 pick in the 2012 draft.
"Filip had the skill, size and humbleness … and a quiet confidence in him (during his brief stint with Nashville in 2012-13)," Trotz said. "Sometimes other players don't cheer for the young guy because he may be full of himself, but our players cheered for Fillip Forsberg. They know he will be a contributing factor for a number of years."
Whether or not one or both players become impact performers remains to be seen, but there's little doubt each is ready to make the jump. And Jones might have some extra motivation after falling a few spots in the draft.
4. Will goalie Pekka Rinne rebound? -- The bottom line is no matter how much better the Nashville offense might be, the team is reliant on the play of its exceptionally talented goaltender.
The Predators are hopeful the two-time Vezina Trophy finalist will be ready for training camp after he underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left hip in May. The surgery, which required approximately four months of recovery, was necessary to correct a situation team officials were aware of last season. That might explain why Rinne is coming off his lowest save percentage (.910) in five full seasons. Rinne, who ranks sixth in the NHL with 152 wins since 2008-09, has remained in Nashville during his recovery.
"The decision to go ahead and do the surgery was a tough one," Rinne told The Tennessean on July 13. "I knew that it was going to be a long road to recovery. I'm confident that I'll be ready for the season no problem."
Poile put a positive spin on the situation.
"If there is good news in this situation, the year that Tim Thomas had the [hip] operation, the following season, he won the Vezina Trophy and the Bruins won the Stanley Cup," he said.
Ryan Ellis become a transitional force? -- Despite a pair of assignments to the team's American Hockey League affiliate in Milwaukee last season, there's reason to believe Ellis will be able to turn things around this season. He'll reap the benefits of working closely with one of the finest and similarly sized defensemen to ever play in the NHL: assistant coach Phil Housley.
Let's face it, Ellis wasn't selected in the first round (No. 11) of the 2009 NHL Draft for his stoic defensive play, rather his ability to transition quickly from defense to offense. But that's something that hasn't happened in 64 NHL games spanning two seasons; Ellis has five goals and 17 points.
Enter Housley, the second-leading American-born scorer with 1,232 points, a seven-time NHL All-Star and finalist for the 1992 Norris Trophy as the League's best defenseman. Ellis, who is in the final year of his entry-level deal before becoming a restricted free agent, can create chances for himself and draw penalties. The prevailing thought is that he finally puts a solid season together and becomes a key in 5-on-5 situations in a third-pair defense role.
6. Can the Predators reach 100 points? -- The Predators found playing at a 100-point pace without defenseman Ryan Suter a lot more difficult than expected, but they still found ways to remain competitive in 2012-13, losing seven games in regulation by one goal and nine in overtime.
Though the Predators might not eclipse the century mark this season, it's not too far-fetched to believe the team will top 90 points. In order to make that happen, Trotz said it must get back to basics and its culture as an organization.
"[In 2011-12] we finished in the top 10 in four categories -- goals for, goals against, power play and penalty kill -- and we didn't finish in the top 10 in any of those last season," Trotz said. "We need to be relentless and hard to play against … that's a cultural thing. We want to turn home ice into the Roman Coliseum."
The Predators finished two games above .500 on home ice and were 5-14-5 on the road in 2012-13.
For all 30 in 30 stories go to NHL.com/30in30stories and for the full 30 in 30 schedule visit NHL.com/30in30.


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North Carolina has sent letters of "permanent disassociation" to former Tar Heels football players Marvin Austin, Greg Little and Robert Quinn for NCAA violations that led to criminal charges against five people for violating the state's sports agent law.
The letters dated Nov. 15 prohibit the players from contacting current UNC athletes, bar them from the Kenan Football Center or other campus athletic facilities, and prohibit them from providing recruiting or financial assistance for athletics.
The players missed the 2010 season for accepting improper benefits, including cash and travel accommodations. That led to NCAA sanctions against the program and recent charges against five people for violating the state's Uniform Athlete Agents Act.
The school released the letters Tuesday in response to public-records requests from media outlets.
Little, a wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns, said Wednesday that he not seen the letter, but was told about it by agent Drew Rosenhaus.
Little, though, did acknowledge his actions have caused others some suffering.
"I think there's been some wrongful accusing," Little said. "There's a lot of people that I've hurt, and I think a lot of the blame should be put on me much less than attacking other people."
Despite the ban, Little said he will continue to back the school.
"North Carolina's a great university and I wish things weren't the way they were," he said. "I'll just continue to support them from afar."
North Carolina also recently sent letters to four of the five people charged barring them from having any contact with UNC athletes or the school's athletic program. Those letters were sent to: Georgia-based agent Terry Watson, Watson associate Patrick Jones, Watson employee Willie Barley and Little's longtime friend Michael Johnson - now an employee of Rosenhaus Sports Representation, which lists Little as a client.
The school had already sent a letter of disassociation to former UNC tutor Jennifer Wiley Thompson, the fifth person indicted by an Orange County grand jury during its Sept. 30 session for violating the agent law that prohibits offering benefits to athletes to entice them to sign a representation contract.
They were charged with either providing benefits to Austin, Little and Quinn directly or facilitating Watson's efforts to sign them.
The letters to Austin, Little and Quinn state that the permanent disassociation is to prevent them from "further embarrassing" the university and "jeopardizing the University's commitment to full NCAA rules compliance."
"The integrity of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's intercollegiate athletics program has been damaged through your actions," states the letter signed by UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham. "We will take every step necessary to protect our intercollegiate athletics program from future NCAA rules violations."
The disassociation letters to Austin, Little and Quinn came after documents from the investigation by the North Carolina Secretary of State's office outlined numerous violations such as Little and Austin arranging to receive packages of cash through the mail or a third party. In Little's case, he told investigators he received more than $20,000 from Watson in 2010 - including a $2,200 monthly allowance - according to a June search warrant.
Unsealed indictments also state Quinn received a package of cash from Watson, sent by Jones, as well as travel accommodations from Barley.
The NCAA declared Quinn and Little permanently ineligible in 2010, while the school dismissed Austin from the team. Quinn was a first-round draft pick and is a defensive end with the St. Louis Rams, Little is a receiver with the Cleveland Browns while Austin - a defensive tackle - has spent time with Miami and Dallas this year.


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The Explorers had knocked off mighty Butler and a decade of mediocre basketball was forgotten in a flash.
Out of timeouts, Galloway sprinted the length of the court for the winning basket with 2.7 seconds left to send La Salle to a 54-53 victory over No. 9 Butler on Wednesday night.
Fans stormed the court in wild elation for the biggest win for La Salle (13-5, 3-2 Atlantic 10) in 33 years. There was some confusion after Galloway's basket and fans were ordered off the court. Butler had attempted a last-second heave that was way off the mark. Officials huddled with both coaches and they decided the final score stood. It was mayhem again as fans rushed the court for the second time in minutes.
Let them celebrate twice: La Salle hadn't defeated a top 10 team since 1980.
"It's the greatest feeling ever," Galloway said. "It's one of the greatest wins ever in my life. I know it is for my teammates, too."
Butler (16-3, 3-1) had lived on last-second victories this season, including a buzzer-beater Saturday against Gonzaga. Just not at La Salle.
Andrew Smith's layup with 8 seconds left put Butler ahead 53-52 and it appeared the Bulldogs would survive another thriller.
Not so fast. Galloway took the inbounds, drove past Smith and Roosevelt Jones and banked the shot for the stunner that helped flood the court with delirious fans. La Salle last defeated a Top 25 team on March 3, 2001 against No. 18 Saint Joseph's, 91-90. The last time La Salle defeated an top 10 team was on Jan. 30, 1980, against No. 8 Notre Dame, 62-60, according to STATS LLC.
La Salle's Sam Mills hit a jumper with 32 seconds left to make it 52-51. But Mills missed the front end of a 1-and-1 to give Butler the ball with 10.9 seconds left. Smith gave Butler the short-lived lead. Galloway hit the basket to remember.
"You could tell how everybody celebrated how happy they was," guard Tyreek Duren said.
Galloway, battling some family issues, broke down in tears in the postgame press conference as he talked about his family.
Duren had 16 points and six assists and Mills scored 11 for the Explorers. La Salle shot 52 percent (13 of 25) from the field in the second half.
Butler's leading scorer Rotnei Clarke missed his third straight game with a severely sprained neck. No decision has yet been made about Saturday's home game against Temple.
Clarke was hurt when he crashed head-first into a padded basket support at Dayton on Jan. 12.
But Clarke's absence hadn't slowed the surging Bulldogs until Wednesday. Butler had won 13 straight including Saturday's buzzer-beater over then-No. 8 Gonzaga, 64-63. The streak has moved the Bulldogs into the top 10 for the first time since Feb. 18, 2008.
They won't be ranked there much longer. Smith scored 16 points, Kellen Dunham hit three 3-pointers and scored 15 points and Jones had 14.
"I've got to do a reasonable job of keeping this in perspective," Butler coach Brad Stevens said. "We basically won at Dayton without Rotnei. We beat Richmond and Gonzaga without Rotnei, and we lost a one point game at La Salle against a very good team without Rotnei. I think we have to keep that in perspective and move on."
This was the second time in two nights students rushed the court in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, Villanova fans stormed the Wells Fargo Center after a 73-64 win over No. 5 Louisville. This one meant a bit more at La Salle.
"It was a dramatic win for our players, our fans, our students. It was awesome," coach John Giannini said. "But am I going to tell you I'm shocked that we won? Absolutely not."
La Salle goes for two upsets in two games when it plays Saturday at No. 19. Virginia Commonwealth.
La Salle trailed by 10 points in the first half but never let the game get too far out of control.
Duren hit a 3 to make it 38-35 and Mills made two from the free throw line to cut Butler's lead to one. Duren drove the lane for the 41-40 lead and suddenly 3,400 fans sounded like 34,000. Garland followed with a 3 that gave La Salle a four-point lead and put the upset only 7:40 away.
La Salle was once like Butler back when Tom Gola, a three-time All-America, led the program to consecutive trips to the NCAA championship game in 1954 and 1955. The Explorers won the 1954 national championship.
But the team wouldn't remain among the elite and lean times hit the program for most of the last two decades. La Salle hasn't played in the NCAA tournament since 1992 and last season's NIT berth was its first since 1991.
For most of Wednesday night, the underwhelming decades didn't matter. Gola Arena, pretty much a high school gym plopped on a city campus, was packed with 3,400 fans full of school spirit and thirsting for an upset. Yes, the Explorers were a 2½-point betting favorite, but the oddsmakers were the only ones who considered the Bulldogs an underdog.
Butler could not shake La Salle in the first half. Galloway dunked off a turnover to keep it a three-point deficit, and Garland and Duren buried consecutive 3-pointers to cut Butler's lead to 28-23. Butler's 52 percent shooting to La Salle's 32 percent helped the Bulldogs lead 28-23 at halftime.


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Ute Variation B
Added Sep 1, 2008
By burdastyle
New York, New Yo...
The Ute blouse come in two variations. This is Variation B, with a tie at the neck and a simple sleeve with a bit of fullness on the cap and no cuff.
Material Notes
Light weight cotton print.
5 x buttons,
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Joe Leonard
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Andre Gunn
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Jordy Poon
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Larissa at Rocket Garage
- Location
Burk Residence, Northern New Jersey
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Oct 31, 2010, 07.25 PMby stellass
I am going to buy this one, it is a beauty.
Mar 1, 2010, 07.10 AMby meegie-moo
this is a gorgeous print and photography. I might just buy this one day and give it a try :-)
Mar 17, 2009, 01.26 AMby ghainskom
Susanne, I guess a new project doesn't mean a new pattern. I already had Ute and I'm not really interested in this Simplicity skirt so I'm somewhat disappointed as well but oh well, next monday is coming fast…
Mar 17, 2009, 01.10 AMby teamydear
Yay, thank you so much for the blouse pattern! And for making me check out Simplicity, what an inspiration :) (I preferred the skirt from another one from your combinations, I might go get that one!)
Mar 16, 2009, 01.24 PMby susanne2011
'New BurdaStyle project added each Monday'
I don't get it, what is new about this week's pattern? The fact that we can download it for free for an entire week? Or am I missing something?
Mar 16, 2009, 12.29 PMby minnietheminks
I really like this pattern alot and was about to buy it, but instead I voted for it :) thank you it is just my style
Mar 16, 2009, 12.27 PMby nehmah
Thank you for the Ute pattern. This outfit will be for the granddaughter. I'm pleased it won because I already have that skirt pattern. Of course, it was a "bit" more expensive than $5.00 (US). However, it is better to buy when you really like it; too often the good stuff gets away. ;( Nehmah
Sep 8, 2008, 08.30 AMby scoobiewu
I am working on variation B of this blouse in a lovely green/beige/pearl floral and I'm trying to match the pattern on the princess seams. Since the seams are curvy, I'm not sure where the matching looks best – the bust or the waist? Anyway I chose the bust. I'm also not very sure how to handle the button placket facing during assembly. Is there a how-to on that? Thanks!!
Sep 3, 2008, 06.53 AMby benedikta
Hey Everybody, Thanks for the nice comments! We appreciate it. As for the pants or the skirt..we will have a skort pattern coming up next spring. Still a little away but it is in production!
Sep 3, 2008, 05.06 AMby stretchk13
Fab.. just what I've been looking for…bring on the warm weather and the sexy summer clothes that go with it :-) P.S the pattern matching is superb..
Sep 3, 2008, 12.17 AMby yoshimi
I loooove this blouse. The choice of fabric is superb, too.
Sep 2, 2008, 09.11 PMby sixpixel
I like the skirt pictured here much better than the blouse. Is there a chance you'll be posting a pattern for that or some sailor style pants?
Sep 2, 2008, 08.32 PMby Elisabeth Nielson
Pretty shirt. I love the sleeves – and in a few weeks it'll be heading towards short sleeve weather in this half of the globe. I may have to indulge myself.
Sep 2, 2008, 04.28 PMby tsuyako
I love this top but I like the skirt better, is there a pattern for that?
Sep 2, 2008, 02.37 PMby mandypandy
That's cool how you were able to match up the pattern on the seam and the back darts! Very nice! Love it!
Sep 2, 2008, 12.56 PMby madamewu
i love this :)
Sep 2, 2008, 09.33 AMby krunamagiar
the one with the slayer around the neck looks like stewardess uniform.. cool..
Sep 2, 2008, 07.00 AMby cornsey
I really love this pattern. The cut is similar to a (very expensive) Paul Smith blouse I have that just fell apart after a couple of washes. I'm definitely going to make one of these when my children are back in school!
Sep 2, 2008, 12.41 AMby Angela Ashley Chiew
I really like this. I don't fancy myself much of a shirt person but I might just have to give this one a shot. Maybe I just hadn't found the right cut yet.
Sep 1, 2008, 11.22 PMby magpierat
Fantastic, I've been looking forward to variation B! :D
Amazing work with the pattern-matching on this garment, that fabric must have been such a headache but it really makes a difference to the finished look. You see so many cheap commercial garments these days where they haven't bothered to match the plaid, check or print, and it just looks so sloppy and irritating. Thanks for reminding us what to shoot for :)
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Outdoor Bronze Award
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|Outdoor Bronze Award
1. Medal with Outdoor device pin.
2. Outdoor ribbon device.
The Venturing Outdoor Bronze Award may be achieved along the way of earning the Venturing Ranger Award. The Bronze Award metal is pinned immediately above the seam of the left pocket; the ribbon device is worn above the left pocket in a rack above any knots.
Outdoor Bronze Award requirements
Core requirements
Do four of the following Ranger Award core requirements:
Standard First Aid
Requirement 1. Complete a standard first aid course or the American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Basics or equivalent course.
Requirement 2. Do 2(a), 2(b), or 2(c).
Requirement 3.
Emergency Preparedness
Requirement 4.
Land Navigation
Requirement 5.
Leave No Trace
Requirement 6.
Wilderness Survival
Requirement 7. (Note: Before you complete Wilderness Survival, you must have completed the Cooking, Land Navigation, and First Aid requirements.)
Requirement 8.
Do two of the following Ranger Award elective requirements:
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- Venturers who have received the Outdoor Bronze Award need to complete only four more of the core requirements and two more electives to qualify for the Ranger Award.
- Venturers may complete requirements for the Outdoor Bronze Award and the Ranger Award concurrently. The Outdoor Bronze Award does not need to be completed before proceeding onto Ranger Award requirements.
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- Venturing Bronze Award on the BSA scouting.org site.
Program-level awards: Venturing Award • Discovery Award • Pathfinder Award • Summit Award
Expert-level awards: Quest Award • TRUST Award • Ranger Award
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What should families expect their children to learn in a life skills class at the high school level? A simple question; however, I think many schools seem to struggle with providing valuable life skills lessons. Our students age out at 22 years old, which means the state is no longer responsible with providing the students services through public schools. When students attain that age and leave our system, it is incredibly important for them and their family that the student has learned coping skills to assist them to become more independent in their life. Read the rest of this entry →


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A circle of stick people holding hands, alternating between guys and girls. I would like it to look as a ring does when it is turned slightly so you get a sort of 3 dimensional feel, you will see the backs of some and fronts of others around the ring. I would like for the ring of people to have the lower side of the ring to the left. I would like to see the design of people in ring done in black, with a ring of yellow light that encircles then through the middle of the ring. I would like for it to be very faint on the left and get slightly larger to the right with a beam of light gleaming up and down at the very right of the logo, giving the feeling of
Magnificence and majesty.
For the business card,
which I would like to have done first, as soon as possible, because I have some very large events coming up the next week and week following.
I would like the back side of the card to be black and glossy. I would like the logo in the center and if you could find a unique way of outlining logo so it shows since it is black and the card will be black.
On my business card, please include:
NLP Practitioner (1st Under my name)
I was thinking that the people could maybe be slightly outlined in white? Also on the back of the a little below center and centered I would like our motto = "Coaching Strategies for Success!†with a yellow with a yellow line under the motto that is same type as one on ring except I would like it to be thicker in the middle and on both sides go out and fade away.
On the other side of the business card I would also like it black with the logo outlined in white. All writing in white. I would like the Logo on the left with The Winner's Circle top right.
My name and info on right.
Brett Baughman
Results Coach – Peak Performance Trainer
Keynote Speaker
323.841.2440 cell
949.387.1717 office
818.337.1987 fax
firstname.lastname@example.com (I would like the I lowercase please)
centered at the bottom in light ice blue, http://www.jointhewinnerscircle.com
Main Page:
Logo on Left top under logo:                                      at right top page names: Winning Strategies            Our Services                     About Us                Contact Us
The Winner's Circle
Coaching Strategies for Success
On the right I would like the video. I would like the video to start with a question "Are you living the life you deserve?â€Â then a flash of images start out slower and then move to a faster pace of pics, they are images of high stress world with no time to live, the pictures go from ones of some stress to bigger and bigger, on a more global level. i.e = images of late nights at the office, cars in traffic, people running in suits, big credit bills, hundreds of people in the streets, etc
Then the video comes to a stop! Boom. And across the video it says "Now you have a choice!â€
Then images of success, people running barefoot on the beach, people playing with kids, playing tennis, rock climbing, images of empowerment and achievement and then is gets really bright to white
And says Discover The Winner's Circle
And then the logo comes and I would like the yellow/ gold line that goes across the circle of people to shine like it hits the light and glints (if the main logo on the left could also do this whenever you open the main page that would be great and the phrase Coaching Strategies for Success fades in.
And then after a pause we go to a picture of me which I will get to you soon.
Below the logo on the left the text saying:
The Winner's Circle is an innovative coaching and consulting firm dedicated to helping
Individuals and companies achieve maximum results in their business and their life!
On the bottom of the main page, I would like four words Direction Commitment Awareness Creativity maybe they can each be in some type of box that you chose that has a picture faintly on it representing the word in back ground. These words will jump you to their place on the Winning Strategies page.
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Explaining Exeptional Cases in ISOR
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In medicine many exceptions occur. In medical practice and in knowledge-based systems, these exceptions have to be considered and have to be dealt with appropriately. In medical studies and in research, exceptions shall be explained. We have developed ISOR, a case-based dialogue system that helps doctors to explain exceptional cases. ISOR deals with situations where neither a well-developed theory nor reliable knowledge nor a proper case base is available. So, just some theoretical hypothesis and a set of measurements are given. In such situations the usual question is, how do measured data fit to theoretical hypotheses. To statistically confirm a hypothesis it is necessary that the majority of cases fit the hypothesis. Statistics determines the exact quantity of necessary confirmation. However, usually a few cases do not fit the hypothesis. We examine these cases to find out why they do not satisfy the hypothesis. ISOR offers a dialogue to guide the search for possible reasons in all components of the data system. The exceptional cases belong to the case base. This approach is justified by a certain mistrust of statistical models by doctors, because modelling results are usually unspecific and "average oriented", which means a lack of attention to individual "imperceptible" features of concrete patients.
The usual case-based reasoning (CBR) assumption is that a case base with complete solutions is available. Our approach starts in a situation where such a case base is not available but has to be set up incrementally. So, we must construct a model, point out the exceptions, find causes why the exceptional cases do not fit the model, and set up a case base.
Material and Methods
Hemodialysis means stress for a patient's organism and has significant adverse effects. Fitness is the most available and a relative cheap way of support. At the University clinic in St. Petersburg, a specially developed complex of physiotherapy exercises including simulators, walking, swimming and so on. was offered to all dialysis patients but only some of them actively participated, whereas some others participated but were not really active. For each patient a set of physiological parameters was measured. More than 100 parameters were planned for every patient. The parameters were supposed to be measured four times during the first year of participating in the fitness program. There was an initial measurement followed by a next one after three months, then after six months and finally after a year. Unfortunately, since some measurements did not happen, many data are missing. Non-homogeneity of observed data, many missing values, many parameters for a relatively small sample size, all this makes our data set practically impossible for usual statistical analysis.
According to our assumption, active patients should feel better after some months of fitness, whereas non-active ones should feel rather worse. We have to define the meaning of "feeling better" and "feeling worse" in our context. Therefor, a medical expert selects these factors from ISOR's menu: oxygen pulse by training, maximal uptake of oxygen by training, and performed work (joules) during control training.
Subsequently the "research time period" has to be determined. Initially, this period was planned to be twelve months, but after a while the patients tend to give up the fitness program. This means, the longer the time period, the more data are missing. Therefore, we have to make a compromise between time period and sample size. A period of six months is chosen.
The next question is whether the model shall be quantitative or qualitative? We compare every patient with his own situation some months ago, namely just before the start of the fitness program. The success shall not be measured in absolute values, because the health statuses of patients are very different. Thus, even a modest improvement for one patient may be as important as a great improvement of another. Therefore, we simply classify the development in two categories: "better" and "worse".
The three main factors are supposed to describe the changes of the physical conditions of the patients. The changes are assessed depending on the number of improved factors:
- Weak version of the model: at least one factor has improved
- Medium version of the model: at least two factors have improved
- Strong version of the model: all three factors have improved
The final step means to define the type of model. Popular statistical programs offer a large variety of statistical models. Some of them deal with categorical data. The easiest model is a 2x2 frequency table. Our "Better/ Worse" concept fits this simple model very well. So the 2x2 frequency table is accepted. The results are presented in Table 1 [Tab. 1].
Statistical analysis shows a significant dependence between the patients activity and improvement of their physical condition. Unfortunately, the most popular Pearson Chi-square test is not applicable here because of the small values "2" and "3" in table 1. But Fisher's exact test can be used. In the three versions shown in table 1 a very strong significance can be observed. The smaller the value of p is, the more significant the dependency.
Though the performed Fisher test confirms the hypothesis, there are exceptions, namely active patients whose health conditions did not improve. Exceptions should be explained. Already explained exceptions build the case base and can be considered for explaining further exceptional cases.
As results we obtain a set of solutions of different origin and different nature. There are three categories of solution: additional factor, model failure, and wrong data.
The most important and most frequent solution is the influence of an additional factor. Only three main factors are obviously not enough to describe all medical cases. Unfortunately, for different patients different additional factors are important. When ISOR has discovered an additional factor as explanation for an exceptional case, the factor has to be confirmed by a medical expert before it can be accepted as a solution. One of these factors is Parathyroid Hormone (PTH). An increased PTH level sometimes can explain a worsened condition of a patient. PTH is a significant factor, but unfortunately it was measured only for some patients. Another additional factor as an explanation is phosphorus blood level.
We regard two types of model failures. One of them is deliberately neglected data. As a compromise we just consider data of six months, whereas further data of a patient might be important. In fact, three of the patients did not show an improvement in the considered six month but in the following six months. So, they were wrongly classified and should really belong to the "better" category. The second type of model failure is based on the fact that the two-category model is not precise enough. Some exceptions can be explained by a tiny and not really significant change in one of the main factors.
Wrong data are usually due to a technical mistake or to not really proved data. One patient, for example, was reported as actively participating in the fitness program but really was not.
We propose to use CBR to explain cases that do not fit a statistical model. Here we presented one of the simplest models. However, it is relatively effective, because it demonstrates statistically significant dependencies, in our example between fitness activity and health improvement of dialysis patients, where the model covers about two thirds of the patients, whereas the other third can be explained by applying CBR. The presented method makes use of different sources of knowledge and information, including medical experts. It seems to be a very promising method to deal with a poorly structured database, with many missing data, and with situations where cases contain different sets of attributes.


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PORTSMOUTH — Redhook Ale Brewery in Portsmouth is preparing to release a special beer in memory of Ben Harris, the 26-year-old employee who was fatally wounded while cleaning a keg earlier this year.
Ted Lane, a spokesman for the brewery, confirmed Monday that plans are in the works for the release of a memorial beer in Harris' honor — a plan the company announced tentatively in June.
Lane said Redhook is working with Harris' family on the project, and further details could be released by the end of the week.
Keg labels have already been designed for the special brew, which has been named "Ben Harris Beer." The label is available to preview on the website of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, which has granted approval for the design.
Harris died Tuesday, April 24, of injuries sustained when a plastic beer keg he was cleaning with pressurized air exploded, blowing apart at the seams. The 26-year-old Newington resident had recently been married and was expecting the birth of a child in December.
Harris' untimely death came as a heavy blow to fellow Redhook employees, who gathered for a memorial service at the brewery three days after his death.
Craft Brew Alliance, the parent company of Redhook, has hired an independent investigator to probe the cause of the accident. Federal inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are also still reviewing the circumstances.
Following Harris' death, several brewers around New England were perplexed by the accident, which stands out as one of the only instances of a work-related keg explosion many beer industry veterans can recall.
The incident also raised eyebrows in the brewing community because Redhook officials said it involved a plastic keg, rather than a traditional stainless steel keg — the industry standard for several decades.
In the wake of the accident, brewers across the country have offered their sympathies to Redhook and Harris' family. At least three breweries have also held fundraisers to benefit The Alysha Miller Harris Baby Fund, a memorial account established to benefit Harris' wife and unborn child.
Among them is Highland Brewing Company, in Asheville, N.C. The brewery hosted a four-hour benefit in Harris' memory at its tasting room on Thursday, May 24.
Alysha Miller Harris, Ben Harris' widow, is a former Asheville resident and a cousin to Jamie DeJohn, Highland Brewing Company's assistant tasting room manager, according to an announcement on the company's website.
Most recently, Milly's Tavern in Manchester, N.H. hosted a benefit concert on Sunday, July 1, in memory of Harris. The show featured local musicians, raffles, a silent auction and a motorcycle run from Spiderbite Tattoo to Milly's.
During a craft beer week held in Dallas, Texas, between May 14 and May 20, Goodfriend Beer Garden and Burger House donated a portion of its proceeds to the baby fund, according to an announcement posted on its Facebook page.
Two other breweries also hosted benefit events on Father's Day, Sunday, June 17. On that day, Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla., offered up snifters and growlers of a specialty imperial stout for sale, with all proceeds going to the memorial fund.
The Bruery, located in Placentia, Calif., also offered patrons the opportunity to sample a special barrel-aged stout on Father's Day, with proceeds going to benefit the fund.
"One of the great things about the brewing industry is the sense of camaraderie felt between companies and staffs," the company wrote in a newsletter advertising the event.


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Havelock�s Mercedes Hargett has a head for academics. She also has the power to hit a softball a long way.
Havelock�s Mercedes Hargett has a head for academics. She also has the power to hit a softball a long way.
Hargett signed her national letter of intent to play softball at Winston-Salem State on Friday at Havelock High School.
"When I visited, I absolutely loved the campus," Hargett said. "I loved the students there. They are real friendly. I loved the team. It�s just a real welcoming campus and environment."
Hargett said she also considered offers from St. Augustine and Norfolk State.
"When it all came down to it, the education at Winston-Salem State had so much more opportunities for me," she said.
Hargett has been involved with the sports medicine program at Havelock High for three years.
"I love it. It�s the greatest thing ever," she said.
She plans to major in exercise science and minor in sports medicine at Winston-Salem State.
"It covers everything from athletic training to sports medicine to physical therapy," she said. "I could even major in that and get a minor in teaching and teach P.E.
"I want to do something with athletic training. I like what I do on the field with sports med here. That�s what I look to do in the future and make a career out of it."
Hargett said the Winston-Salem State softball program had a lot to offer as well, coming off a 32-19 season and its second straight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship.
"That was also a factor for me. I really like that," she said of the program�s success. "Of course, nobody wants to be part of a losing team."
She also enjoyed meeting with the players during her recruiting trip.
"I felt like I can fit in," she said. "I talked to the girls, and I feel like I can really help out."
Hargett hit .414 last season in helping the Rams to a 22-5 season that ended in the fourth round of the playoffs. She had 28 RBIs, 25 runs scored, a .759 slugging percentage and four home runs, one of which was the first ever hit out of the Nash Central softball stadium during the second round of the playoffs.
"I was so excited about that," Hargett said of the home run. "When I hit the ball, I knew the fence was really tall and really far out. By the time it went over, I was already rounding second base because I didn�t know that it went out because the fence is so far and so tall, and nobody had ever hit it out before me, so I was the first one. I was really excited about that."
With such offensive numbers, Hargett has been an all-Coastal 3A Conference player the last two years and was named to the N.C. Softball Coaches Association all-state team last year.
"I work a lot with batting," she said. "Batting is my favorite part of the game, but it�s just natural. I�m just naturally strong. It�s just the way I�m built."
She thanked her high school and travel ball coaches as well as her mother, Cynthia, for helping her.
"She�s supported me so much all the time," Hargett said. "My mom�s been there the whole entire time, and I really love her for that."


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Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection
Ichthyology is the study of fishes. There are estimated to be over 32,500 species of fishes worldwide and nearly 5,000 in Australia.
Fishes are cold-blooded (mostly) animals that have:
- gills for
breathing abackbone or a notochord (a cartilaginous rod)
- fins (most species but not all)
- scales (most species but not all)
About the collection
As one would expect, the Fish Research Collection contains many adult and larval fish specimens. These are used by researchers worldwide.
The collection contains specimens from all around the
Of particular importance are the fish type specimens. These are the specimens upon which the original scientific description of the relevant species was based. The Australian Museum fish type collection is one of the most important in the world, containing over 12,600 specimens* (over 5200 lots), some of which date back well into the 1800s.
The majority of the collection has been fixed in 10% formaldehyde then transferred to 70% ethyl alcohol for long term storage. In recent years many frozen and
Collection data is all held in a KE Emu database. Some of these data are available online.
* Type statistics determined on 4 April 2012.
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A peculiar foible of criminal defense lawyers is habitual contrariness, at times mindlessly practiced even when the contrariness is irrational. Or worse.
Is law school largely a scam? Probably. A worse scam than the rest of "higher education", or Congress, or mortgage lending, or for that matter lending of any kind through the banking system, or maybe even the legal profession as a whole or the justice system itself? Doubtful.
We live in the fallen world, not paradise.
The question is: What is to be done? This involves more than critiquing and complaining that no one is really doing anything. Or really wants to. Although that is pretty much where Scott Greenfield leaves it:
And they're coming up with schemes to cure their ills…All these hungry little buggers they're sending into the profession need to find a way to pay off their loans and keep their mommies from crying, and if you read their blogs and websites, they're smarter, more aggressive, more caring and, yes, more experienced than you. Baloney, you say? Yeah. So what? They're doing what they've got to do to survive, and niceties like integrity are for old guys. They're fighting for their lives and, frankly, have completely rationalized ethics out of the picture. And since they are all brilliant (ask them, they'll tell you), they see no net harm from a bit of puffery…Are any of these schemes going to make a better legal profession? For a bunch of smart people, these schemes strike me as pretty darned inadequate, both for law students, for the profession or, most importantly, for clients. But then, if we leave it up to the lawprofs, what should we expect?
I don't think it's fair to characterize younger, "hungry" lawyers as insufficiently ethical or integrity challenged, whereas the old wizened sea dogs like Greenfield are increasingly lonely but integrity-filled paragons. That's absurdly self-serving under the circumstances.
For lawyers there's a lot of work to do. I mean, the system is seriously fucked up and people are getting seriously screwed over. The problem is getting paid for it, which is to say paid for what is actually needed: helping the people getting screwed over. The screwees, not the screwers. Practically by definition, the latter can pay you but the former cannot, or at least not very well. So the profession has gravitated inexorably towards representing the latter.
Well, that's one problem anyway.
Scholarship is so not the problem, which is why law schools aren't so much an obstacle to improving the profession as they are irrelevant. The law is not, and should not be, an imposingly intellectual endeavor. Not that long ago many lawyers went to law school right out of high school. In fact, many lawyers didn't go to law school at all.
So really we are looking at an economics problem. And like all economics problems in the modern world, it is really – underneath it all – a political problem. In other words, a power distribution problem.
So I thought this little anecdote (via Mark Bennett) was interesting:
And then there was the ham-handed attempt to bully me out of filing the Judicial Misconduct Complaint against Campbell… I was having an innocuous back hall conversation with Judge George Godwin, the former presiding judge of the 174th Criminal District Court. I always liked George Godwin. We were having a friendly chat when Judge Godwin, suddenly brought up the topic of judges sticking together. In the middle of a friendly conversation, without any segue, Judge Godwin said to me, that any attack by the defense bar on his brethren or "sistren" of the judiciary, would be viewed as an attack on all of them. As there was no segue, I was admittedly caught of guard by Judge Godwin's comment. The conversation came to a screeching halt and I left… After hearing Godwin's "Judicial Nato Speech", I thought, if the judges think that I will be bullied out of filling a legitimate Judicial Misconduct Complaint, they do not know me and they do not know HCCLA. If anything, Godwin's comments confirmed my deeply felt belief, that as lawyers we must be willing to stand up to judge's who engage in unethical or illegal actions. So, as was my duty as then President of HCCLA, I filed the Judicial Misconduct Complaint against Campbell.
Of course the Judicial Misconduct Complaint went nowhere. You see, the "Judicial NATO" is bound to include those who decide Judicial Misconduct Complaints.
What this illustrates is that the judicial powers-that-be feel they can walk all over the criminal defense bar and suffer no consequences whatever. And they're quite right about that, and indeed it isn't just the criminal defense bar, it's independent lawyers generally. The power differential has become so lopsided that judges will not only behave this way, they will openly threaten to behave this way. It was better when at least they would be ashamed of it.
And this explains a lot. Represent an individual litigant against an influential or institutional one, and what do you find? Probably more than half the time you will never get the case to a jury. When you do, the judge will try to undermine you from winning the trial at all, but certainly from winning convincingly, the result being that half of the remaining cases that actually make it to a jury will wind up losers. And even if you beat the odds and win "too much" – in the sole opinion of the judge, of course – it can all be taken away.
Put the shoe on the other foot, where the institutional litigant is bringing a criminal case, and what do you see? 90% plus resulting convictions.
The civil plaintiff and criminal defendant are flip sides of the same individual litigant coin. It's not the facts and it's certainly not "the law" determining outcomes; it is who has power over whom.
Since this is not a question of better arguments or innovative programs, then, but rather the far more primitive issue of raw power – like war, really – you have to think in terms of what damage you can inflict on your adversary from the relatively powerless position you occupy.
This blog came up with an idea at its inception: strikes by independent lawyers. These would work better than anything else I have seen suggested to shake up our increasingly corrupted profession, because it attacks the Achilles heel at the foundation of the "adversarial" system: its pretense of a fair fight. It can't be a fair fight if the little guys call foul by not showing up in the first place. It's really as simple as that.
With a more level playing field, there is room for more lawyers, at a time when – and to be sure this goes against conventional wisdom but it couldn't be more true – more lawyers are desperately needed. Independent lawyers. Real lawyers, in other words.
By and by, with a more level playing field and the system behaving more like it is supposed to, the money will follow because it always does, flowing from the biglaw firms and government agencies to the individual litigants and their independent lawyers. And this addresses a lot of problems at once – law school expenses, serving needy clients, preventing wrongful convictions. Money can do that. Money is a form of justice, or at least a measure of it. Sometimes. When things are working more or less correctly.
Alas the whole strike idea, while it has a lot of merit, not to mention precedent in other places, and there don't seem to be any good arguments against it, was not well received by Greenfield, who has yet to offer any solutions of his own other than to carp at young lawyers, or often even mock them.
I wish he'd cut that out. It's a bore, but more than that it's myopic, and to the extent he has any influence in framing this debate he's not doing anyone – or the profession – any favors.


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NFTA given speedup for study of Buffalo-Amherst rail link
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government has agreed to change the terms of a $1.2 million federal grant to allow the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to speed up its study of building a mass transit link between downtown Buffalo and Amherst.
The Federal Transit Administration agreed to the change at the request of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., who announced the move on Tuesday.
"This simple rule change will save an estimated $1 million and one year in the project's development," Schumer said. "That's a year closer to a sensible system that ties the Medical Campus and downtown Buffalo with UB's Amherst campus."
Schumer won the $1.2 million grant for the study in October 2011, and at the time, federal law required that the money be spent on both an "alternatives analysis" and an "environmental review."
Congress consolidated these two processes into one in highway legislation it passed last year – but not for projects that were funded under an earlier highway bill, which included the Buffalo transit study.
Such projects needed special approval for such a consolidation. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that approval in a letter to Schumer.
"I can assure you that FTA staff at headquarters and at the New York City Regional Office has been working with NFTA to amend the grant application, which should be completed in the near future," LaHood wrote. "I also appreciate the need for transportation and other services over the wide-ranging area of Amherst, Buffalo and Niagara, and how much your constituents will benefit from the improvements."
With the expansion of the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus and nearby parking in short supply, the NFTA has dusted off the decades-old idea of extending Metro Rail to Amherst and other northern suburbs.
The original plans four decades ago called for an eventual light rail link to the north, but the pending study will take a look both at that option and also much cheaper alternatives, such as dedicated bus lanes.
Under the study that will now go forward, the NFTA will consider these alternatives while also studying the environmental impact of each prospective plan.
While it is far too early to know exactly how a northern transit link would be constructed – or how it would be funded – NFTA officials envision a "coatless" transit system where a doctor could board public transit near his or her home in Amherst and travel to the Medical Campus without ever going outdoors.
Kim Minkel, the NFTA's executive director, thanked Schumer for pressing the Federal Transit Administration to change the terms of the grant to allow the studies to be combined.
"Going forward, this will provide for a faster and less expensive process," she said.
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S0226 Anastrozole With or Without Fulvestrant as First-Line Therapy in Postmenopausal Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
a study on Breast Cancer
- Eligibility
- for females ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
- Location
- at San Francisco, California and other locations
- Dates
- study startedestimated completion:
RATIONALE: Estrogen can stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells. Hormone therapy using drugs such as anastrozole and fulvestrant may fight breast cancer by blocking the use of estrogen. It is not yet known whether anastrozole is more effective with or without fulvestrant in treating breast cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving anastrozole together with fulvestrant to see how well it works compared to anastrozole alone as first-line therapy in treating postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer.
Official Title
Phase III Randomized Trial of Anastrozole Versus Anastrozole and Fulvestrant as First Line Therapy for Post Menopausal Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Compare the time to tumor progression in postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer treated with anastrozole with or without fulvestrant as first-line therapy.
- Compare the clinical benefit (complete or partial response, confirmed or unconfirmed, or stable disease ≥ 24 weeks) and overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare adverse events in patients treated with these regimens.
- Determine the prognostic significance of estrogen receptor positivity and HER2/neu status in patients treated with these regimens.
- Determine parameters of estrogen and clinical pharmacology and estrogen levels in patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare anastrozole plasma levels at 8, 16, and 24 weeks in patients treated with these regimens (closed as of 4/16/2009).
- Compare estradiol serum levels at 8, 16, and 24 weeks in patients treated with these regimens (closed as of 4/16/2009).
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to prior adjuvant tamoxifen therapy (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral anastrozole once daily on days 1-28.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral anastrozole as in arm I. Patients also receive fulvestrant intramuscularly on days 1, 14, and 28 during course 1 and then on day 28 of the subsequent courses.
In both arms, courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients are followed for up to 4 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 690 patients (345 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 3 years.
Breast Cancer stage IV breast cancer recurrent breast cancer Breast Neoplasms Fulvestrant Anastrozole Estradiol
For females ages 18 years and up
- Histologically confirmed breast cancer meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Metastatic disease (M1)
- Multiple sites of new disease that is clinically obvious metastatic disease(e.g., multiple sites of new osseous disease)
- Measurable or nonmeasurable disease
- No known brain or CNS metastases
- Hormone receptor status:
- Estrogen-receptor positive* AND/OR
Progesterone-receptor positive NOTE: Positivity defined as estrogen binding of> 10 fmol/mg cytosol protein by ligand binding assay or positive by immunohistochemistry
- Not specified
- Female
Menopausal status
- Postmenopausal, as defined by 1 of the following:
- Prior bilateral oophorectomy
- More than 12 months since last menstrual period with no prior hysterectomy
- At least 55 years of age with prior hysterectomy
- Under 55 years of age with a prior hysterectomy without oophorectomy and with estradiol and follicle-stimulating hormone levels consistent with menopause
Performance status
- Zubrod 0-2
Life expectancy
- Not specified
- No bleeding diathesis (e.g., disseminated intravascular coagulation or clotting factor deficiency)
- Not specified
- HIV negative
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or adequately treated stage I or II cancer currently in complete remission
Biologic therapy
- No prior immunotherapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
- No prior chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
- More than 12 months since prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- No concurrent chemotherapy for malignancy
Endocrine therapy
- Prior adjuvant hormonal therapy allowed
- At least 12 months since prior adjuvant luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)analogues
- Menstrual periods must not have resumed since LHRH therapy
- More than 12 months since prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitors (e.g.,anastrozole, letrozole, or exemestane)
- More than 12 months since prior fulvestrant
- No prior hormonal therapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
- No other concurrent hormonal therapy for malignancy
- No concurrent hormone replacement therapy
- Not specified
- Not specified
- No long-term anticoagulant therapy (except antiplatelet therapy)
- San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
San Francisco California 94110 United States
- CCOP - Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
Santa Rosa California 95405 United States
- Status
- in progress, not accepting new patients
- Start Date
- Completion Date
- (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Southwest Oncology Group
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Last Updated


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Checking in on… the SouthlandPosted by rtmsf on February 5th, 2010
Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.
Current Standings as of Feb. 5, 2010
- Stephen F. Austin 16-5 (6-2)
- SE Louisiana 13-8 (5-3)
- McNeese State 8-13 (3-4)
- Nicholls State 7-14 (3-5)
- Northwestern State 7-13 (2-5)
- Central Arkansas 7-15 (1-7)
- Sam Houston State 15-5 (7-0)
- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 11-10 (5-2)
- Lamar 12-11 (4-4)
- Texas State 10-12 (4-4)
- Texas-Arlington 11-9 (3-4)
- UT-San Antonio 12-8 (2-5)
Southeastern Louisiana big man Patrick Sullivan was named the SLC Player of the Week after averaging 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in wins over Nicholls State and Central Arkansas. Sullivan is a 6'9 senior from Florida, and scored a career-high 27 points against the Colonels to go with 12 rebounds. It was the 18th double-double of the year for Sullivan. The two scoring outbursts by Sullivan moved him into 11th place on the school's all-time scoring list.
In the battle of unbeatens, Sam Houston State defeated Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 70-58 and is the only team in the Southland Conference with a perfect record in league play.
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN – With two victories last week, not only do he 'Jacks still sit at the top of the SLC East (6-2), but have now reeled off five straight wins in SLC play. SFA downed McNeese State in Lake Charles, then pulled out a one-point overtime victory over Nicholls State on Feb. 3. The 'Jacks face two middle-of-the-road teams in Lamar and Northwestern State this week.
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA – Trying to keep pace with East Division-leading SFA, the Lions won both games last week with relatively easy wins over Nicholls State (84-65) and Texas State (75-66). SELA trailed TSU at halftime, but outscored the Bobcats by 12 in the second half. The Lions go up against UTSA and Nicholls State this week.
MCNEESE STATE – Jumped past Nicholls State in the SLC East by going 1-1 this past week. The Cowboys snapped a two-game SLC losing streak with a 92-85 victory over NW State in Natchitoches. McNeese will head from Louisiana to Texas this week with games against Texas State and UTA.
NICHOLLS STATE – Started another two-game losing streak with losses at home against SELA and on the road to Stephen F. Austin. The loss to SFA was particularly tough in that the Colonels got 38 points from Anatoly Bose. NSU faces two Texas schools in A&M-CC and Sam Houston State this week.
NORTHWESTERN STATE – Picked up a nice win against Central Arkansas (74-68) then had a letdown at home in losing to McNeese State 92-85. The Demons will face a tough Texas duo in Texas-Arlington and SFA this week.
CENTRAL ARKANSAS – The struggle continues in Southland Conference play for the Bears, who have now lost four straight in conference play and 10 of 12 overall. UCA travels to Huntsville to face SHSU, then hosts UTSA.
SAM HOUSTON STATE – The Bearkats were forced to scramble after trailing the Islanders by 15 early in the first half, but came out on top 70-58 to become the only undefeated team in the Southland. SHSU hosted UTSA and pulled out a six-point win to sit at 7-0. SHSU hosts Central Arkansas then hits the road to test Nicholls State.
A&M-CC – The Islanders coasted out to a 15-point lead against rival Sam Houston State, then the wheels fell of and A&M-CC took its first loss of the season, 70-58. Things didn't get much better as they were defeated by UTA on the road four nights later. Nicholls State and Texas State stand in the way of the Islanders getting back in the win column this week.
LAMAR – After winning two games against UTA and McNeese State, the Cardinals fell back to Earth with three straight losses to the Islanders, Bobcats and Bearkats. Important games loom against UTSA (Jan. 30) and Central Arkansas (Feb. 3).
TEXAS STATE – After two inspiring wins at the end of January, the Bobcats came crashing back to Earth as they lost to UTA and SELA. Things don't get any easier for TSU as they compete against McNeese and A&M-Corpus Christi this week.
UTA – Two wins against Texas State and A&M-CC have the Mavericks feeling good and they could steady the ship with Northwestern State and McNeese on the horizon this week. Plus, the Mavs have welcomed back senior leader Tommy Moffit.
UTSA – How the mighty have fallen! The Roadrunners started conference play with two wins, but have now lost their last five games and are in the West cellar. A tough game against Southeastern Louisiana looms ahead, then UTSA might get a reprieve when they face Central Arkansas.
Texas State's Cameron Johnson strung together three games where he averaged 22.3 points per game and 12 rebounds, but crashed against SELA with eight points and two rebounds.
UTA's Mr. Everything Marquez Haynes was "held" to 21 and 20 points, respectively, after going off for 32 points against non-conference foe Houston Baptist.
Lamar sophomore Anthony Miles never stepped off the court in two wins last week. Miles played all 40 minutes against UTSA and had 19 points and six assists, then 40 minutes against UCA and had 14 points and four assists.
An odd two games for UTSA… First the Roadrunners lost to Lamar as they were outrebounded 37-23 and placed only one player, Morris Smith IV, in double figures (19). Then UTSA outrebounded SHSU 35-29 and had five players in double figures, but still lost the game.
Not a great free-throw shooting team as they are hit 69 percent of their charity tosses, SHSU made 17 of 18 (95 percent) against A&M-CC and 15 of 18 against UTSA (83 percent).
After scoring 0 and 11 points in his two previous games, SHSU forward Gilberto Clavell went off for 27 against UTSA.
A&M-Corpus Christi's Kevin Palmer (21 games) and UTA's Marquez Haynes (20 games) have both scored in double figures in every game this season.
Nicholls State forward Anatoly Bose hit for 38 points in a loss to SFA on Feb. 3, but that wasn't his high for the year (46 points on Jan. 23). Bose is on a scoring tear right now averaging 32.7 points per game in the last four games.
Patrick Sullivan and Trent Hutchin each scored a career-high 27 points and Southeastern Louisiana beat Nicholls State 84-65 on Jan. 30.
Texas State junior Tony Bishop scored a season-high 19 points against SELA on Feb. 3. Bishop averages 7.4 points per game.
P.J. Alawoya was a difference maker in McNeese State's win over Northwestern State on Feb. 3. The 6'7 junior from Alief Hastings HS scored 13 points and pulled down a season-high 16 rebounds.
Both Will Pratt (Northwestern State) and Tadre Sheppard (Central Arkansas) filled up the box score as the Demons prevailed 74-68. Pratt had a season-high 29 points to go with eight rebounds, while Sheppard scored 17 points, had 11 rebounds and five steals.


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