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The U.S. Senate Thursday approved the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act (2012 farm bill) by a vote of 64-35..
Response was immediate. A sampling can be found below:
National Corn Growers Association
The National Corn Growers Association congratulates the Senate on passage of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act (2012 farm bill). The legislation was agreed to by a vote of 64-35. NCGA also urges the House of Representatives to take action quickly.
"America's farmers greatly appreciate the leadership and cooperative work by the Senate to pass the 2012 farm bill in a timely manner," NCGA President Garry Niemeyer said.
"We would also like to thank Senators Stabenow and Roberts for their bipartisan efforts throughout the process. We have been calling on Congress to pass the new legislation before the current law expires on Sept 30. NCGA is pleased to see this significant hurdle has been overcome."
NCGA has advocated for an affordable crop insurance program as well as a farm program that would provide risk management tools to growers when they are facing a loss beyond their control. NCGA has also encouraged farm policy reforms that will be responsive to taxpayers and effective in helping farms remain viable and productive.
"Our focus now turns to the House Agriculture Committee with hopes they will schedule a markup of their version of the farm bill for immediately following the July 4th recess," Niemeyer said.
"We look forward to continuing our work with agriculture advocates to pass a new common sense, reformed 2012 farm bill before Congress recesses in August."
American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust (AFT) today hailed the passage of the Senate farm bill, and urged Congress to retain funding for conservation as the legislation moves through the House of Representatives.
AFT President Jon Scholl said, "Congratulations are due to Chairman Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Pat Roberts for their diligence in crafting this farm bill and moving it through the Senate under extremely difficult circumstances. Completing the farm bill this year is essential to continue the gains we've made to protect America's working farmlands. We urge the House to follow suit in passing this critical legislation."
AFT is also extremely pleased that the Chambliss amendment to reattach conservation compliance to crop and revenue insurance was adopted. "Since 1985, compliance has been a successful part of farm policy," noted Scholl.
"As crop and revenue insurance becomes the core of agriculture's financial safety net, we need to retain the same commitment to conservation that has been a part of past farm programs."
Scholl added, "We appreciate how Senators Stabenow and Roberts have cooperated in bipartisan fashion to move the bill forward."
"AFT has worked extensively with Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, the Committee's senior Republican, on a number of priority reforms to conservation programs in the farm bill.
"We particularly applaud the inclusion of the new agricultural land easement component, patterned after the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP), which now includes many of the functions of the Grasslands Reserve Program, as well.
"Agricultural land easements will work through state and local partners to provide permanent protection to working agricultural lands."
AFT further noted that the Senate adopted by unanimous consent language offered by Senators Michael Bennett (D-Colo.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) that specifically supports the role of land trusts and state agencies who work with USDA in protecting farm and ranch lands through this program.
Another priority for AFT has been the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, which allows conservationists and agricultural producers to address priority natural resource concerns in critical areas, especially acute water quality and quantity concerns.
"All together, these reforms in the title provide more comprehensive and efficient tools for conservation – while also providing an important step toward deficit reduction.
"Overall, the Senate farm bill contributes $23 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years. More than one-quarter of the spending cuts, however, result from program reforms and reductions to programs in the Conservation Title," said Scholl.
Scholl stated that conservation programs "have shouldered a significant share of cuts to aid deficit reduction," noting that that the health of America's soil and water, which relies upon these programs, is essential to the long term productivity and economic viability of agriculture.
Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance
The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA) applauded the passage of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 in the Senate today.
The 64-35 vote comes after a two-day consideration of more than 70 amendments, pared down from the nearly 300 that were submitted.
The bill addresses many of the critical priorities outlined by the SCFBA and continues the support of specialty crops that was established in the 2008 farm bill.
"We appreciate the hard work of Majority Leader Reid, Republican Leader McConnell, Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, and Ranking Member Roberts for getting this challenging but vital farm bill over the Senate finish line," said John Keeling, National Potato Council executive vice-president and CEO and co-chair of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance.
"The policies of the farm bill passed by the Senate will help protect the tens of thousands of jobs associated with the specialty crop industry and will help create more. And it further strengthens the access of all Americans to the specialty crops that enhance their daily lives.
"We look forward to ensuring the voices of employers, workers and families dependent on a strong specialty crop industry are heard as the House makes progress on its farm bill."
"At a time when it's critically important for Americans to be eating more fruits and vegetables, Senate passage of this bill is great news for consumers," said Mike Stuart, president of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association and co-chair of the Alliance.
"Besides preserving jobs, it helps to ensure access to a plentiful supply of healthful specialty crops. What's more, this bill addresses some of the continual significant challenges specialty crop growers face in the production and marketing of their crops in an increasingly global marketplace. We look forward to working with the House as it takes up its version of the bill."
"For specialty crop producers across the country the farm bill represents an opportunity to create a healthier life for Americans across the country," said Tom Nassif, president and CEO, Western Growers and co-chair of the Alliance.
"Farm Bill funding helps fuel innovations in farming that will help our producers grow and harvest an abundant supply of specialty crops utilizing fewer natural resources.
"This is an opportunity to help our industry in the short- and long-term as well as help secure the jobs of millions of American workers who support agriculture and reduce the federal deficit.
"Now that the Senate has completed its work, we look forward to seeing Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member Peterson move the farm bill through the House Agriculture Committee."
Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation
"The bipartisan farm bill approved today by the Senate (S.3240) provides farmers improved risk management tools consistent with Farm Bureau's core principles.
"While no farm bill is perfect, this is a solid bill that was worthy of Senate approval. The bill includes important reforms and is fiscally responsible, while including important provisions to enhance crop insurance, maintain a viable marketing loan program and minimize the potential for farm program provisions to drive producer decisions.
"There is still a lot of hard work ahead to fully secure the kind of policy we believe our farm and ranch families need, but we applaud the Senate for approving a workable bill and moving this process forward.
"The Senate has provided us solid footing by approving a bill that stands firm on $23 billion in savings, yet protects and strengthens the federal crop insurance program and provides a commodity title that attempts to encourage producers to follow market signals rather than make planting decisions in anticipation of government payments.
"Now our attention turns to the House Agriculture Committee, which will begin its farm bill legislative activity in July. It remains critical for farmers to know what their new farm bill will be as they begin thinking about and looking toward next year's cropping decisions.
"Farm Bureau remains committed to ensuring farmers have the tools they need to manage risks and minimizing the limitations imposed on farmers regardless of the size or type of their operations. And we are convinced that having a new farm bill in place this year is overwhelmingly in the best interest of our members."
National Cattlemen's Beef Association Vice-President Colin Woodall
"Like many of us who have a vested interest in this legislation (S. 3240), I was pleasantly surprised by the bipartisan efforts made to move this bill through the Senate very efficiently and without much partisan rhetoric.
Both Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Minority Leader Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) should be commended for their leadership on this very important piece of legislation. Their transparency and willingness to listen to all vested interests was very refreshing for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and other like-minded organizations. NCBA stands firm in our commitment to support this legislation.
"Although the amendment process was certainly concerning in its early stages, all is well for cattlemen and women thanks to their outspoken grassroots advocacy. This legislation, as written, incorporates all NCBA priorities. Bottom-line, there is no livestock title, conservation programs — specifically EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentives Program) – are maintained and the research title is sustained. All this is done with more than $20 billion in savings to the American taxpayer.
"We support this legislation and will continue working with the House to ensure amendments that would interject the federal government into production agriculture are left out of the legislation or soundly defeated.
"As we focus our efforts on working with the House Committee on Agriculture to ensure another version of this legislation that is positive for cattlemen, I must stress the importance of family farmers and ranchers being engaged in this process."
National Sustainable agriculture Coalition
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition supported passage of the farm bill as amended after three days of Senate debate.
"NSAC congratulates Senate leaders for moving ahead with this bipartisan legislation," said Ferd Hoefner, NSAC Policy Director.
"This debate and vote were important hurdles to overcome for Congress to pass a full reauthorization before the current bill expires on Sept. 30."
While the bill includes historic commodity payment limit reforms and renewed investments in a variety of sustainable farm and food programs, the Senate-passed bill is far from perfect.
"The bill would benefit greatly from more agriculture reform, a greater local and regional food focus, and a much greater commitment to economic development and jobs," said Hoefner.
"We are also disappointed with the $3.7 billion cut to conservation programs on working farms and ranches."
Several major amendments adopted by the Senate made significant improvements to the bill.
"Senate adoption of amendments by Senator Brown (D-Ohio) on rural development and beginning farmers, Senator Chambliss (R-Ga.) on soil and wetland conservation, and Senators Durbin (D-Ill.) and Coburn (R-Okla.) on crop insurance subsidy limits brought the bill more in line with the 'reform' and 'jobs' in its title," said Hoefner.
"These amendments, along with others like Senator Merkley's (D-Ore.) on crop insurance for organic farmers and Senator Grassley's (R-Iowa) on commodity payment limit reform, significantly improved the bill. Without passage of these amendments, we could not have supported passage of the final bill."
All of these improvements would not have happened without significant citizen engagement in the process. "NSAC thanks all of the farmers and grassroots activists who took action in support of reform and a sustainable farming future," said Hoefner.
"Without the countless calls and e-mails from people doing the hard work of building sustainable food systems in their communities, many of the reforms in the bill would not have been included," noted Hoefner.
All eyes now turn to the House of Representatives. The House Agriculture Committee this week announced a delay in their consideration of the bill, but Chairman Lucas (R-Okla.) said he will move "hell or high water" on the farm bill after the July 4 recess.
House Majority Leader Cantor (R-Va.), however, has not listed the farm bill for potential action on the House floor this summer and is quoted this week saying he wants to "push the pause button" on the bill and assess the political situation.
"Our message to the House leaders is very simple," said Hoefner.
"Now is not the time to hit the pause button, now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get the bill done on time and in proper order.
"The current farm bill expires on Sept. 30, giving the House exactly 17 legislative days to take up and pass the bill before expiration, assuming Committee passage the week of July 9.
"The hour is late. It is not yet time to hit the panic button, but the hand must come off the pause button or there will be no bill this year."
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
"I'm very pleased the Senate acted in bipartisan spirit today to approve the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act.
"I am grateful for the Senate's progress toward providing a reformed safety net for producers in times of need, supporting agricultural research and trade promotion, honoring World Trade Organization commitments, furthering the bio-based economy, conserving our natural resources, strengthening local and regional food systems, and promoting job growth in rural America.
"As the legislative process moves forward, the Administration will continue to seek policy solutions and savings consistent with the President's Budget, and we are hopeful that the House of Representatives will produce a bill with those same goals in mind.
"Swift action is needed so that American farmers and ranchers and our rural communities have the certainty they need to continue strengthening the rural and national economy."
National Cotton Council
"The cotton industry has reservations about a number of provisions in the Senate-passed legislation, but believes the cotton title will facilitate successful resolution of the cotton component of the Brazil WTO dispute.
"The cotton industry looks forward to working with the leaders of the House Agriculture Committee and Cotton Belt members as they develop their version of new farm legislation.
"It is clear U.S. cotton farmers are willing to make a significant contribution to deficit reduction and are committed to reform farm policy in a way that allows them to manage risks that are beyond their control.
"It is important for Congress to complete and the President to sign, in a timely manner, new farm legislation that is balanced, stable and predictable."
National Association of Wheat Growers
NAWG President Erik Younggren, farmer from Hallock, Minn. commended the Senate for moving forward with the legislation.
"This will provide policy certainty for hundreds of thousands of U.S. farmers and one in 12 American job earners who rely on agriculture."
"This bill is about standing up for our nation's farmers, our small businesses, our manufacturers, our exporters and others whose livelihoods depend on us getting the policy right," said Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
In addition to reauthorizing the nation's food and farm programs, the chamber's version calls on the Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon to report on how sequestration expected in January 2013 will be implemented.
"American agriculture and those who depend on it around the globe need a farm bill" said Senate Committee on Agriculture Majority Leader Pat Roberts (R-Kan.).
"They need to know what to expect from the federal government to make planning decisions, to be assured of a safe and affordable food supply, and to know that their businesses and families will have the opportunity to thrive. I take this responsibility seriously."
More about NAWG's farm bill work is at www.wheatworld.org/farmbill.
American Soybean Association
"ASA is extremely pleased with the Senate's legislation, which would establish an effective risk management program for soybean producers that complements crop insurance, consolidate conservation programs, and have agriculture do its fair share to help address our nation's fiscal situation by reducing government spending on agriculture by $23 billion," said ASA President Steve Wellman, a soybean farmer from Syracuse, Neb.
"We look forward to working with the House Agriculture Committee as it finalizes its version of this legislation, so the 2012 farm bill can be completed this year."
Major provisions supported by ASA include the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) program under which revenue losses exceeding 11 percent will be partially offset at either the farm or county level. ASA also supported the consolidation of conservation programs for environmentally sensitive and working lands, reduction of Conservation Reserve Program acres from 32 to 25 million acres, and reauthorization and funding of the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) program.
In its review of the farm bill, the Senate considered a total of 73 amendments, including several that ASA strongly opposed and that were defeated:
• An amendment by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that would have made national check-off programs voluntary lost on a vote of 20-79.
• An amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that would have reduced annual funding for MAP from $200 to $160 million lost on a vote of 30-69.
• An amendment by Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) to authorize states to require mandatory labeling of biotech food products lost on a vote of 26-73.
"While ASA disagrees with some of the amendments that were approved on the floor of the Senate, on the whole ASA believes the Senate's farm bill will help farmers manage risk, conserve natural resources and develop foreign markets," Wellman stated.
"Additionally, maintaining the viability of the crop insurance program as an effective risk management tool is a top priority for ASA and soybean farmers. ASA will continue to work with the Senate and House Agriculture Committees to ensure that the viability of the crop insurance program as a risk management tool is not weakened."
Wellman concluded, "ASA thanks Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Pat Roberts for their leadership in guiding the farm bill through the Senate. We urge the House to move forward so the 2012 farm bill process can be completed before current program authorities expire at the end of September."


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The article 'A man and a woman walk into an office...' in last week's Stylist investigates why women aren't as comfortable as men with using humour in the workplace while office 'banter' comes naturally to men.
According to a study of male female differences in workplace humour published in the International Journal of Humor Research: "humour is much less a part of the female's communicative patterns" but it's my personal view that all the while the men are busy bantering with each other they are missing out on some of the richest, funniest and, dare I say, filthiest observational comedy that comes naturally to women. The men don't get a look in! Humour is very definitely part of a women's method of communicating but we do it our way!
During a workshop that I ran last year at the Edinburgh Fringe, one of our participants, journalist Ashley Davis who writes for The Scotsman, discovered a rich seam of material based upon her workplace observations. They had clearly been simmering for some time. She worked in a busy newspaper office and sat strategically placed to watch her male colleagues go to and from the toilets. I'm not sure that a man in the same situation would have seen the equivalent scenario as material for a comedy set - but then women don't spend as much time in the loo, or take their computer in with them, or emerge as if they've given birth to a football smiling in self-satisfaction! Comedy is about close observation and women have always been good at the detail. Listen to women talking and you'll soon get the picture.
So - why are women reticent to exploit this talent for humour in the workplace? They are not genetically disposed to dominate in mixed sex groups, so humour is not a recognised part of the charm offensive. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of dominant women who can now disprove this theory, but they use a different set of leadership tactics.
Now that humour is a shared experience with stand-up entertainment, live and virtual, a staple of modern life and more women getting to share the stage with the men, we're finally being let in on the joke. Whereas we've had to learn to play the boys' game, they are missing out on some of the innuendo and intuitive humour that takes place between female colleagues. We can share a joke with the raise of an eyebrow; it doesn't always have to be said out loud.
My main concern is that we could get sucked into a training vortex, churning out a trail of sharp shooting one liner merchants ready for a comedic assault on the boardrooms of tomorrow. Male or female - this is not a good look. The secret of good stand up is about being yourself, even an enhanced version or a caricature, and this training taken in context can really help to improve your confidence and communication skills.
I work with men and women separately because when sexual politics enter the mix, behaviour changes. As a single sex group you are more honest with each other. Women are generally very supportive of each other when there are no men in the room to impress. However, if an alpha female is allowed to dominate that group, she has a powerful hold over them, intimidating the rest of them into submission. As workshop leader I am forced to challenge her authority and this is where humour can build bridges. Even if the dominant female won't play, it will help the rest of the group to bond and grow stronger through exploring humour together and this mutual support is very important for a team.
Men like to 'perform' to each other hence stand up is genetic! Yet, they talk at each other rather than communicating and listening. Banter is like artillery fire getting the battle going, and once the big guns are out, there's very little margin for negotiation. A good tactical leader amongst men is often part of the pack and might not immediately assert his authority. He'll play the game, join in and lead from within the group.
As women we can really learn from this of sexually exclusive behaviour. Learn to pass the ball and not hold on to it and humour helps you with this skill. Men on the other hand need to listen more to what women are saying to each other and they will begin to understand how we really think!
Caitlin Moran in her best-selling book, How to Be a Woman states that "Women are fundamentally unsuited to putting their head over the parapet and competing on the same terms as men. They just can't handle the big boy stuff. They simply need to stop trying." She goes on to say that the effort involved in competing with men makes women miserable. Whether or not you agree with Caitlin, whose bawdy, Wife of Bath style of comic writing makes even Russell Brand look coy, there is still a feminine propensity towards self-deprecation and lack of esteem that makes women hold back on the humour.
Yet as more and more women get into stand up men are provided with a valuable insight into our take on life. We can be really useful tacticians on the team with a valuable and intuitive voice. A humorous anecdote will often be laced with wisdom - women don't waste time dreaming up one-liners just to bring attention to themselves in the workplace. We've got better things to do!
See the Stylist's tips on how to be funny at work.
For more about Funny Women's Stand Up to Stand Out workshops visit: http://www.funnywomen.com/workshops.php

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UC Hastings Professors Robin Feldman, Elizabeth L. Hillman, and Joan C. Williams chose to explore hot-button topics in their fields long before those issues became trendy. These professors are just three of the many UC Hastings scholars who have earned stellar reputations for having their fingers on the pulse of what's coursing through society.
Credit UC Hastings' academic culture, which fosters thoroughly researched work, vetted by colleagues, that espouses novel legal theories. Spanning every discipline, scholarship at UC Hastings infuses public debate and often translates into policy changes adopted by legislative and regulatory bodies.
Research by Feldman, Hillman, and Williams has triggered changes in legislation and rule making across agencies as diverse as the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Labor. The professors' scholarly work in the fields of intellectual property, military violence, and work-life balance has been published in world-class law reviews and cited in court briefs; it has also reached mainstream audiences through blog posts and op-ed pieces.
Joan C. Williams: Advocating for Laws that Promote Work-Life Balance
According to the New York Times, Joan C. Williams has achieved "something approaching rock-star status" among work-life advocates.
Case in point: as director of the Center for WorkLife Law, Williams devised innovative legal theories, adopted by the Second Circuit and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), about family-responsibilities discrimination, a rapidly growing area of employment law in which federal court plaintiffs win roughly two-thirds of the time.
"A lot of organizations work for 20 or 30 years to get a law passed," explains Williams, author or co-author of more than 70 academic articles and seven books, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. "Our role is different. We seek to achieve concrete change in a three- to five-year span. Sometimes, law is the most effective change-delivery system. But not always: We also have developed best-practice flexibility policies for professional and hourly workers." The center invented the modern part-time policies in law firms and academia, which keep professionals on partnership and tenure tracks. Its best practices for hourly workers are being built into scheduling software by Intuit. According to Victoria Lipnic, former assistant secretary at the Department of Labor and now an EEOC commissioner, the center's path-breaking work documenting the work-family conflict among hourly workers, notably Williams' 2006 report "One Sick Child Away from Being Fired," helped save intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
The center's interdisciplinary working groups bring together social scientists and activists to produce action-ready research. This model has spread to Stanford and Columbia, which currently participate in working groups co-organized with the center.
The center is developing new legal theories to secure pregnancy accommodations, the results of which will be published in the Yale Law and Policy Review. The center's "Poor, Pregnant, and Fired" report found that many pregnant blue-collar women are fired every year "for not being allowed to carry a water bottle, for needing more bathroom breaks, for requiring larger bulletproof vests." As a result, pregnancy accommodations are now a key strategic initiative for the EEOC.
Choosing what to study is "idiosyncratic," explains Williams, a recipient of the prestigious Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association and its Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award. "I was an environmental lawyer who had a baby and learned that the world was not set up for mothers."
And today that baby—now a student at Yale Law School named Rachel Dempsey—has become one of Williams' most frequent collaborators. Early next year, mother and daughter will publish their first book together, What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Every Woman Should Know, from NYU Press. "Work-life balance matters deeply to me," says Williams.
Read more from UC Hastings magazine here.


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The HTC One has been available on Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T for a few weeks now, but the black variant has been a bit hard to find. Fortunately, that all changed last night when the Stealth Black HTC One made its debut on AT&T's online store. On-contract pricing for the Stealth Black HTC One from AT&T is set at $199.99 for the 32GB model or $299.99 if you simply can't live without 64GB of portable storage.
Now that the Stealth Black HTC One is available from Sprint and AT&T, we are hoping that HTC will make the black model available to those who want to buy the Developer Edition of the SIM unlocked HTC One directly from HTC.
How many of you are willing to sell your silver HTC One at a slight loss in order to get your hands on the Stealth Black HTC One?


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On Nov. 7, a Congressional briefing was held by the Canary Party, an anti-vaccine Political Action Committee, to attack the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), the U.S. program that compensates vaccine injuries. The briefing was billed as part of the run-up to a hearing that will supposedly be held by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, although the hearing is not yet on the committee's calendar.
This article is reprinted with permission from the November 22, 2013 edition of The Recorder.
by Dorit Reiss
Mary Holland, speaking for the Canary Party, criticized the NVICP for being too adversarial and not providing plaintiffs—especially those whose children have autism—with proper compensation. She rejected the solution of reforming the program—what she called "tinkering at the edges"—and instead suggested completely abolishing or seriously curtailing it.
Holland's recommendation is misguided: while there may be room for improving the program, NVICP offers plaintiffs with supportable claims a less adversarial forum for compensation. It appropriately dismisses claims of plaintiffs who cannot demonstrate causation. While losing plaintiffs are understandably distressed about losing, their emotional response is no reason to dismantle a functional program. And dismantling the program will harm our society and children by potentially creating vaccine shortages and putting our children at risk of vaccine preventable diseases.
In the 1980s, the number of suits against vaccine manufacturers increased. Vaccine manufacturers were leaving the market, leading to vaccine shortages and the predictable disease outbreaks. At the same time, plaintiffs were dissatisfied with the existing litigation process. To address both problems—vaccine shortages and plaintiffs' need for swift, sure compensation—Congress enacted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The act created an administrative compensation program by which plaintiffs' claims were adjudicated by a Special Master in the Court of Federal Claims, with appeals first to a judge of the court, and then to the appropriate Federal Circuit.
Since 1989, the NVICP has decided 13,125 cases out of 14,924, compensating 3,447 for an overall rate of 26 percent cases compensated. Some vaccines, like rotavirus and Hepatitis B, are compensated at a rate of over 50 percent, while others, like the Inactivated Polio Virus Vaccine (IPV), have a very low rate of compensation. The program is financed by an excise tax on vaccines. It pays attorneys' fees for both winning and losing plaintiffs. Since 1989, over $2.7 billion in compensation and $150 million in attorney fees have been paid out.
In 2011, in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, the Supreme Court interpreted the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act to preempt design defect suits. Plaintiffs who are claiming a design defect can no longer reject NVICP's decision and sue in state courts: NVICP is their only forum for compensation.
Compared to the Courts
If the concern of those requesting a hearing is that the process is adversarial, abolishing NVICP and going back to the courts is the wrong solution. If the goal is to make the process less adversarial and more plaintiff-friendly, it may be appropriate to reform NVICP. But while many good things can be said about the United States civil courts—a source of new and exciting legal doctrines, a venue open to new claims—non-adversarial is not an adjective usually applied to them. I have described in detail elsewhere why plaintiffs with credible claims are probably better off in NVICP than in the regular courts, but will remind readers of some of the highlights.
Unlike regular courts, NVICP is a no-fault system: plaintiffs do not have to prove a design defect (or another type of defect, but these are usually design defect claims) to win their case. If they have a suffered what is called a "Table Injury," a condition acknowledged to be caused by the vaccine, causation is presumed and compensation is all but automatic. Rules of evidence are relaxed. It is a system designed to be more favorable to plaintiffs than the regular courts. It is doubtful that plaintiffs—especially those who lose—can appreciate the difference without extensive experience with the legal process, but it is certainly a system designed to provide plaintiffs with numerous advantages.
Inability to show Causation
Why, then, the Canary Party's demand to dismantle the NVICP? The answer is that the Canary Party and their allies believe their children's autism (and other ills) was caused by vaccination. In making the autism claim, they run into general causation problems and problems in specific cases.
The claim that vaccines cause autism has been examined in numerous large-scale studies focusing on various hypotheses (the studies are listed here and here). The first problem plaintiffs making the "autism as vaccine injury" claim face is that the science to support a causal connection is just not there.
Further, the NVICP has already addressed the "autism as vaccine injury" claim. Prior to 1996, there were no claims to the NVICP for autism as a vaccine injury. A combination of news reports, attorney marketing, and online parents' email lists began to advance the idea that autism is caused by vaccines, and the NVICP began to receive a flood of claims, most represented by a few law firms. In 2002, to manage the flood, the NVICP established a Petitioners' Steering Committee, composed of lawyers representing plaintiffs' families. The Petitioners' Steering Committee selected their six strongest test cases. The hearing for the six claims together was called the Omnibus Autism Proceeding.
Over several years, NVICP conducted hearings. Then, in a series of detailed, thoughtful decisions it rejected all six cases. The Special Masters carefully examined plaintiffs' evidence. They rejected each case because the evidence was "overwhelmingly contrary to the petitioners' causation theories."
It's easy to sympathize with the pain of a plaintiff who sincerely believes vaccines caused a child's disability, and with the plight of a parent with a disabled child. But anger at losing in the forum provided does not mean that forum was unjust, and does not entitle plaintiffs who cannot show causation to have another try in the civil courts, hoping they will be lucky enough to fall on a judge who misunderstands the science.
Cost to Society
Before NVICP, vaccine manufacturers were leaving the market. Within a few years, the U.S. went from 18 companies manufacturing vaccines in the 1980s to today's five. The concern about vaccine shortages is not theoretical. It has a historical basis.
Those opposing vaccines may not see that as a problem, but—as evidenced by the high vaccination rates in our society—most parents would rather not have their children left vulnerable to diseases like diphtheria, polio, HiB, measles, and the other diseases we currently have the means of preventing. Rise in exemption rates already led to higher levels of measles than the United States has seen in years, and while the whooping cough outbreak is to a large extent due to a vaccine that is not as effective as scientists expected, communities with high rates of unvaccinated individuals are more at risk of outbreaks and contribute to the problem.
Dismantling NVICP would not only be bad for plaintiffs with actual provable cases, it would be bad for the rest of us. We should oppose it.
Dorit Reiss is a professor of law at UC Hastings where she teaches public law, public administration, and law and politics.
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Welcome to The John Dickson Carr Collector. This site is for the Carr enthusiast as well as the Carr collector. I have included the cover art for Carr's hardbacks and paperbacks as well as publication information to help in identifying first editions. The pictures are arranged by Carr's detectives (Dr. Fell, Sir Henry Merrivale, and Henri Bencolin) and can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate picture at the left of this page. Also, you can search for a particular title using the search form. The original plot synopses for all of the paperbacks are now included as well.
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John Dickson Carr was a writer in the "Golden Age" of mysteries, and he was one of the best. In his books you will not find child molesters, serial killers with a taste for liver, or melancholy P.I.'s filled with two slugs of bourbon. Rather, you will find mysteries that are cleverly crafted and that above all else adhere to the rules of "fairplay". Carr was a stickler for playing fair with the reader; There are no secret passages, unknown poisons, or last-chapter appearances by unknown characters. All of the clues needed to solve the mystery are presented and with keen observation and perseverance the reader has every chance of doing so.
Though Carr was an American most of his books (especially the early ones) were set in England. He moved to England with his wife (her native country) in 1933 and they lived there for a number of years before moving back permanently to the states in 1965. While living in England in the 1930's Carr was invited to join the London Detection Club. Some of its members included Anthony Berkeley, Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Rhode, and Agatha Christie. Carr was one of only two Americans to have been a member. Carr was awarded an Edgar in 1950 by the Mystery writers of America for his Conan Doyle biography. He was also awarded the highest honor by the MWA in 1970; the title of Grand Master.
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Red Floral Skirt
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Skirt is fully-lined and features a wide waist yoke, inseam pockets, an invisible zipper situated at center back, and piping, which runs along the waist yoke seam.
This skirt was loosely based off of Simplicity 9926. I changed a lot with this 80s pattern, which belonged to my mother. I chose not to use the waistband pattern piece, I added a 2.5" wide waist yoke, lowered the waistline, added inseam pockets, and moved the side zip to the back. Really the only thing this pattern gave me to work with was a full, a-line skirt shape. I changed almost everything else about it. :)I made this skirt for my younger sister using fabric I bought at a yard sale last year for $3—and I have leftovers. Oh, I love that! The fabric is a medium weight cotton (probably was going to be used in a quilt), and the lightweight lining is 100% polyester, which I bought from fabric.com in 2010.
Learn more about this skirt by visiting my blog: http://artandneedlework.blogspot.com/2012/03/3312-floral-skirt-ready-for-spring.html
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100% cotton fabric, invisible zipper, homemade cotton piping, 100% polyester lining
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Mar 4, 2012, 01.17 AMby skeeler
Really pretty. I like the piping too!
Mar 4, 2012, 12.25 AMby schnui
Lovely skirt and the piping gives it a beautiful finish.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
African Conflicts on Google Maps
The Map of Conflict in Africa is a Fusion Tables driven Google Map of all African conflicts between 1997 and 2010.
The article accompanying the map includes a link to the Google Fusion Table holding the data so it is possible to access the table and create a heat map of the conflicts. The developer, Zachary M. Jones, also says he is working on "producing a map that will sequentially display data points (a subset of the ones shown here) by conflict and over time."
It would also be great if conflicts post 2010 were added, obviously the map at the moment doesn't include conflicts arising out of the Arab Spring.
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Henri Matisse (French,1869–1954). La Musique , 1939. Oil on canvas,45 3/8 x 45 3/8 inches (115.3x 115.3cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York;Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1940 (RCA1940:13).© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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This painting is four and a half feet tall by four and a half feet wide, a perfect square. The viewer's gaze is met by two women seated on brightly pattered cushions on what may be a patio. A combination of interior and exterior space is suggested by a bold red background covered with a bright yellow grid, comprised of roughly 1 inch squares that fills the bottom two thirds of the painting. The top third implies an exterior space as this strip of space has a solid black background on top of which are large flat green tropical plant leaves. The woman on the right side of the painting holds a guitar, on a table top set at the bottom of the work in between both is an open music book.
This work is painted in strong, bold colors. The figures and objects are flattened and linear. While the colors feel very solid, portions of the painting reveal the artists fluid brushstrokes which often move in a systematic direction within the given shape that they fill.
This description will start with the woman holding the guitar. The top of her head rests roughly five inches from the top of the canvas just to the right of center. Her navy blue long sleeve, ankle length pant suit has a sharp v-neck which reveals a cool peach flesh tone. She has chin length, wavy black hair. A few simple black lines create her angled open eyes, thin high arching eyebrows, slender nose and closed lips. Her gaze seems to be focused on the viewer and the corners of her lips curve slightly upward. She has broad shoulders. Her oversized left hand cradles the neck of the guitar and her equally oversized right hand is cupped with her palm facing upward just below the open sound hole of the guitar as though she is strumming the strings. Her torso faces the viewer while she is seated in a bright red lawn chair with a vine and leaf pattern lightly defined by a thin white line. The back of the chair is evident behind her right arm. Her left leg is bent and her left foot rest on-top of the lawn chair, her nose and edge of her pants are out of the picture frame. Her right leg is slightly bent and her large arched foot touches the bottom edge of the canvas. The bottom edge of both pant legs are patterned with upward facing bright yellow triangles.
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Shoppers in North America remain active on mobile. Advertisers with a shopping app generate 67% of transactions on mobile devices, for retailers who generate sales on both mobile web and in-app. Overall, when compared to Q4 2016, YoY sales increased by 13%.2. In the Middle East and Africa, Smartphone generates the largest share of online transactions for retailers, excluding apps.
The Middle East and Africa may show us the future, where mobile commerce actually dominates retail sales. Only 37% of transactions occurred on desktop. But apps still make for the best conversions as advertisers with a shopping app generate 66% of transactions on mobile devices.3. Latin America remains the fastest growing region for share of mobile transactions, with a year-over-year increase of 37%.
Though tablet usage has decreased to account for just under 2% of all transactions, those in Latin America are savvy app-users, contributing to app conversion rates that are 3 times higher on app than on mobile web. That's in line with the trends we've seen in Latin America in general – there's been a 37% increase YoY when it comes to mobile transactions.4. In Europe, transactions on mobile and desktop are split 50-50, with share of transactions completed on smartphones increasing 21% YoY.
Retailers with a shopping app now generate 44% of their sales on mobile devices. Interestingly, tablet usage is down like in the rest of the world, but still accounts for more than 10% of transactions. Overall, we still saw strong transactional data on smartphones, which increased 21% when compared to Q4 2016.5. Across the world, shoppers matched on another device spend more per order.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: combining intent data lets you see more shopping dollars per shopper, as it provides a better understanding of their shopping journey. In the UK for instance, shoppers matched on another device spend an average of 12% more per order, while in South East Asia , that number is even higher, with cross-device, cross-channels shopper transactions valued at 23% on average.
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BOSTON -Wednesday, October 02, 2013— The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will host Open Houses in Fall River and Taunton on the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIS/FEIR) for South Coast Rail. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and MassDOT released the combined federal/state document on September 23.
In the document, MassDOT identifies the Stoughton rail alternative as its preferred route for providing the best transportation, environmental and smart growth benefits, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers names the Stoughton alternatives as providing the fewest environmental impacts.
As part of the environmental review process, the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office (MEPA) will accept public comments on the FEIR until October 25, 2013. MassDOT is sponsoring two Open Houses to provide information about the FEIR, which is a lengthy document. Depending on the status of the Continuing Resolution, the U.S. Army Corps will also participate in the Open Houses.
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The FEIS/FEIR is available at local libraries throughout the South Coast region and by request from MassDOT. There is a link to the electronic version of the full report, an Executive Summary, Guide to the FEIS/FEIR and a project fact sheet at www.mass.gov/southcoastrail. Information on the Open Houses and how to comment on the FEIR is also posted on the website.
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Julian C. Mikolajek, 91, retired tool-and-die maker
July 20, 1921 – April 21, 2013
Julian C. Mikolajek, of Buffalo, a retired tool-and-die maker, died Sunday at Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, after a struggle with cancer. He was 91.
Born in Buffalo, he grew up on the East Side, attending School 40 and Boys Vocational High School. He enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served stateside during World War II as a mechanic and instructor.
Returning from service, he went to Seneca Vocational High School to become a tool- and-die maker, then worked at American Car, Markell Electric, Kolk Manufacturing and the General Motors Tonawanda Engine Plant, where he repaired production line machinery. He retired in 1986.
Mr. Mikolajek was a member of Matthew Glab Post 1477, American Legion, and served on the Funeral Detail Committee, heading the honor guard. An active parishioner at St. Casimir Catholic Church, he served on many committees, was a member of the Holy Name Society and was a bingo volunteer for more than 30 years. He also was an avid golfer and a longtime member of Cazenovia Golf Course.
He and his wife, the former Vera Knapik, celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary Friday.
Survivors also include three sons, Col. Louis, Jerome and Julian II; a daughter, Linda Gallagher; and two sisters, Mary Komaszewski and Tillie Dzieciuch.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9 a.m. Friday in St. Casimir's Church, Weimar and Casimir streets.


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The Nitro Circus crew has been rockin' for 15 years. In that time they've broken rules, bikes, bodies, and more. With Travis Pastrana and Gregg Godfrey leading, this crazy group of friends have documented their own brand of fun and shared it with the world. This two-disc Greatest Hits set is a must-have for any fan. Disc 1 tells the story behind the Nitro Circus. Sit around the campfire and listen and laugh as the crew chronicles it's best and worst moments and see un-released footage for the first time. Learn how their crazy schemes were hatched and witness the epic victory/epic failure results of their breath-taking antics. Disc 2 is a collection of Travis' biggest stunts. Hear the amazing details behind the no-chute jump, the double back flip, the floating ramp, and his latest record breaker, the Red Bull New Year's No Limits Rally car jump across the bay in Long Beach.
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"Fly Me to the Moon" is a new cartoon for children, in which three buggy stowaways hitch a ride on Apollo 11. Real flies will probably love it because -- well, we all know what real flies love.
Human audiences are apt to have a less enthusiastic reaction.
A humorless and badly drawn adventure, it's full of so many cliches and stereotypes it seems to have come, not out of a film can, but a time capsule. It needs to be put back in, fast, and returned to orbit.
Oddly, as dusty as it is, in some ways the film seems to be part of a trend. It's been a long summer of sci-fi and space opera for kids -- from the sublime ("WALL*E'') to the ridiculous ("Space Chimps,'' "Meet Dave''). And the movie is also being released, as "Journey to the Center of the Earth'' was, in 3D.
Yet the movie has little sense of wonder (only a few scenes of the astronauts' landing have any beauty to them). And although it uses the same 3D process as "Journey,'' it's handled dreadfully here -- with many shots looking blurry or out of register, and none of the effect's power really exploited.
It doesn't help that the animation is ugly too -- even for pictures of bug-eyed flies. Or that there's a rather paltry array of distinctive voices (Christopher Lloyd is a garrulous old grandpa; Buzz Aldrin dubs himself, and Kelly Ripa and Adrienne Barbeau are lost in the background). Or that the film gets sidetracked by a Cold War subplot, as the moms -- we're once again back in Orphan Land, where no juvenile character ever has two parents -- mostly bake and fret.
Any opportunity that does present itself is resolutely ignored. For example, one of the charms of these micro adventures is seeing the alternate universe -- the sewer world of "Flushed Away,'' or the colony in "Antz.'' Yet here, the flies merely live in an old dollhouse. Any chance to create a unique world or provide some adult interest is thrown away; backgrounds are often minimal.
There are some nice shots of rocket travel (although audiences could find better real ones in any of the recent NASA documentaries). The violence is pretty minor (although there are an awful lot of bathroom jokes -- who knew flies were so flatulent?) The very young, and very forgiving, might enjoy it. But at the screening I went to, there was an awful lot of whining and fidgeting.
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April 4-5, 2018Student Scholar Days is a multidisciplinary, two-day conference that is intended to highlight the academic achievements of the undergraduate students in the many diverse majors at Adams State.
Students from across Adams State are asked to present their projects in a public forum, thereby giving faculty, staff, students, and the larger communities a glimpse at the excellent work Adams State students produce.
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Friday, July 08, 2011 - Tomas Spilka
Miro Paclik lives in Lovosice. What a handsome face he has, with beautiful eyes. His has quite a nice build and a thick, stubby dick and a lovely hairy ass.
Tomas Hurtik comes from Kraslice. I was quite impressed with Tomas, he looks good, if a little serious. He also has a nice dick and a lovely hairy ass. In fact his ass gives an idea of what a great bush he might have if he didn't shave.
Jirka Mudra is from Horsovsky Tyn. He is a good looking guy. I do like his face. He also has quite a good body, though I am not too keen on the large tattoo. Jirka has a nice fat dick, which certainly gets very hard, and he has a very nice ass too.


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Inspiration for tonight's dinner -- simple, rustic, and satisfying.
We've neatly condensed the recipes below, but to read the full-fledged versions (and save and print them) just click on the recipe links or photos. Dinner is served!
The Menu:
Grandma DiLaura's Italian Ricotta Gnocchi by cdilaura
Roasted Bagna Cauda Broccoli by mariaraynal
The Grocery List:
- • 1 pound fresh whole milk ricotta cheese
- • 1/2 pound hunk (or larger) of Parmesan cheese
- • 1 whole nutmeg for grating
- • 2 cups all-purpose flour
- • 1 head of broccoli
- • 2 anchovy fillets
- • a bottle of white wine (1 splash for the broccoli; lots of splashes for you)
- • 1 lemon, preferably Meyer
- • 1/4 cup sliced or slivered almonds
We hope you have olive oil, butter, a few cloves of garlic, a large egg, salt and freshly ground pepper on hand -- but if not, time to stock your larder!
The Plan:
1. Get your oven set to 425. Grate parmesan: 1/4 cup for the gnocchi, and as much as you like for the broccoli (a lot!).
2. Make the gnocchi (get your kids in on the fun too!): Mix the egg with the ricotta cheese and a tablespoon of olive oil. Add a 1/4 cup of grated parmesan and freshly grated nutmeg to taste. Add flour a little at a time until dough comes together. On a heavily floured surface, fashion the dough into 1/2-inch ropes, then cut them into 1-inch pieces. If you fancy, roll them along the back of a fork to make ridges, then place them on a lightly floured baking sheet. Into the freezer they go.
See? That wasn't so hard. You just made pasta.
3. Chop the broccoli into florets and onto a baking sheet they go. Season with salt, pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil -- into the oven for 20-25 minutes. Put a pot of water on to boil and salt it till it tastes like the sea. Mince 2 cloves of garlic.
4. In a small skillet, heat butter and olive oil, add that garlic and 2 anchovy fillets and sauté for a few minutes, pour in a splash of wine and a squeeze of lemon then let the sauce reduce a little. Toast those almonds. Dress the broccoli with the sauce and sprinkle with almonds and parmesan. Done.
5. Drop the gnocchi in your (now boiling) water and watch as they float to the top. Scoop them out. If you like, make a little brown butter in a pan, and pour it over gnocchi hot out of the pot. Or dress with any combo of olive oil, butter and parmesan. Mm.
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Even those who know nothing else of Brazil will have heard of Rio, its Mardi Gras carnival and its spectacular beach and mountain scenery. What many do not realise is that Rio de Janeiro is a state as well as a city, and that this state boasts beaches, forests and mountains just as beautiful as those in its capital.
The southern coast, or Costa Verde, is fringed with emerald-green coves and bays that rise steeply to rainforest-covered hills pocked with national parks. Mountains swathed in coffee plantations sit behind Rio itself, with hill retreats once favoured by the imperial family dotted throughout their valleys and remnants of one of the world's most biodiverse forests covering parts of their slopes. To the northeast of the city lies a string of surf beaches and little resorts, the most celebrated of which is Buzios, a fishing village put on the map by Brigitte Bardot in the late 1960s, which has grown to become a chic little retreat for the state's middle classes.
According to Cariocas – the people of Rio de Janeiro – God made the world in six days and then spent the seventh lying on the beach in Ipanema . For in a city as beautiful as this, they say, only the philistine or the ungrateful would do anything else.
Indeed, photographs cannot prepare you for Rio. There is far more to the city than Corcovado capped with Christ or the Sugar Loaf; these are overtures to the grand symphony of the scene. Rainforest-covered boulder mountains as high as Snowdon rise sheer from the sea around the vast Guanabara Bay and stretch to the horizon. Their curves and jags are broken by long sweeping beaches of powder-fine sand pounded by the dazzling green ocean, or by perfect half-moon coves lapped by the gentle waters of the bay. The city clusters around them, climbing over hills and crowding behind beaches and lakes. Its neighbourhoods are connected by tunnels bored through the ancient rock or across winding double-decker highways that cling vertiginously to the cliffs above the fierce Atlantic Ocean.
Against this magical backdrop, the famous Carioca day leisurely unwinds. When the sun is up the middle classes head for the beach, wearing nothing but tiny speedos or bikinis. Here they surf, play beach volleyball or football, or soak up the rays between occasional dips into the waves, with the working day just a brief interruption. When the sun is down, still wearing almost nothing, they head for the botecos (street bars) for an ice-cold draught beer or capirinha. Then they go home, finally put some clothes on and prepare to go out until the early hours of the morning.
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President Trump on Sunday dismissed comments by NBC News' Chuck Todd suggesting that the United States is getting steamrolled in negotiations with North Korea over the rogue nation halting its nuclear weapons program, saying, "We haven't given up anything.
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The Bible
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Hatred stirs up
quarrels, but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 10:12
"You have heard that
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love your enemy! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting
as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the
evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too."
Anyone who says, "I am in the light" but rejects another Christian
is still in darkness. But anyone who loves other Christians is walking in the
light and does not cause anyone to stumble. Those who reject other Christians
are wandering in spiritual darkness and don't know where they are going, for the
darkness has made them blind.
1 John 2:9-11
If someone says, "I love God,"
but hates another Christian, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people
we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen? And God himself has commanded
that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.
John 4:20-21
See also Anger, Enemies, Forgiving Others, Mercy. The Book of God's Promises -- Copyright, 1999 by J.
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Three Grand Championships for Dunlavey Students
JOHNSON–The cool brisk weather on Saturday April 6th was not a deterrent to 230 martial arts students from twenty schools who gathered to compete at Dunlavey's 24th Annual Spring Open Championship held at Johnson State College in Johnson, VT.Students from the Newport Branch of Dunlavey's Black Belt Academy represented the host school well, bringing home three Grand Championships.The students train at the Newport Studio, located at 292 Shattuck Hill in Derby, under the guidance of Master Rick Dunlavey, 7th degree Black Belt. Classes are offered Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings for ages three-through adult. For the full story, see the Express on 4-15-13.


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Arlon displayed high performance, "Best-in-Class" CLTE-XT for multi-layer, phase sensitive microwave circuits for radar, antennas and other circuits requiring high reliability at this year's EuMW.
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April 4, 2011
Great blue herons are nesting in a group of giant white-barked sycamore trees off a trail in the Mill Creek Streamway Park in Shawnee. The birds' breeding season is from April to July.
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Extra-large carnivorous birds pesky for some, 'magnificent' to others
In years of walking Mill Creek Streamway Park, Ascension Hernandez has seen the occasional great blue heron — water lapping at lanky legs, rope-like neck forming a graceful 'S.'
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Dorit Reiss
Professor Dorit Reiss spoke to NPR this week about a move by Gov. Jerry Brown that may that make it easier for parents to exempt their children from required vaccinations.
In recent years the number of parents who request so-called personal belief exemptions has been rising. It's gotten to the point that public health officials fear that there could be disease outbreaks in parts of California.
Last week, the state's health department released the form that parents must use to request an exemption. It includes a box for a health care provider to sign, showing that the matter was discussed.
But the form also includes something else. Another box reads, "I am a member of a religion which prohibits me from seeking medical advice or treatment from authorized health care practitioners."
"It will give parents who want to get out of it an easy out," says Dorit Reiss, at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. That includes parents who in the past checked the exemption box just because it was easier than taking the kids in for shots. "I'm not sure it's good public policy to encourage people to lie."
Reiss sees another big problem with the new exemption — it's not part of the law. "With all due respect to the governor, he can't unilaterally change the law," she says.
You can read more from Reiss on the MomsWhoVax blog and in her op-eds, here.
Frank H. Wu
Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu continues his series of columns in the Huffington Post, including these posts on cutting law schools and the inability to get over your first motorcycle. He also writes regularly for Above the Law on the crisis in legal education, and for LinkedIn on management.
James R. Lambden '75
Justice James R. Lambden '75, retired from the California Court of Appeal, first Appellate District, will receive the Benjamin Aranda III Access to Justice Award Dec. 12, 2013.
Lambden was selected for the award by the California State Bar, the California Judges Association, the California Commission on Access to Justice and the Judicial Counsel. Chief Justice Tani Canti-Sakauye will present the award.
Lambden was appointed an Alameda County Superior Court Judge in 1989 by Gov. George Deukmejian. He had been in private practice at Fitzgerald, Abbott and Beardsly 1975-1989. In 1996, he was elevated to the appellate court by Gov. Pete Wilson. He authored more than 900 opinions on his 17 years on the appellate bench, and has been a national leader in improving access to justice.
Jeff Adachi '85
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi '85 was honored with the annual Access to Justice award from The Lawyers' Club of San Francisco on October 29, 2013 at the group's 66th Annual California Supreme Court luncheon.
David Lim '99
San Mateo Mayor David Lim '99 was reelected to the San Mateo City Council Nov. 5. He first won election to the San Mateo City Council in 2009. He has worked as a deputy district attorney for 14 years, the last 13 with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Lim has prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including members of the notorious "Black Muslim Bakery" gang in Oakland, and a case in which a local pastor was defrauded of over $300,000 in a real estate fraud scheme.
2L Kyle Gertridge, 1L Alix Pisani
2L Kyle Gertridge finished in first place and 1L Alix Pisani finished in second place after a very close championship round of the Jeffrey S. Abrams National Mediation Competition at the University of Houston Law Center. 3L Kit Jones also finished in 9th place to round out three UC Hastings mediators finishing in the top 10 in this national competition. UC Hastings won the same competition last year, with 3L Eddy Mata taking top honors.
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