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"Are they here yet?" That's the call that mycologist and mushroom purveyor Connie Green hears from the Boulevard kitchen at least a month before fresh morels are actually available. By the time March arrives, we don't want to see another parsnip, rutabaga, or turnip. By April, we definitely anticipate the arrival of fresh morels and all of the delights of spring. So when English peas, green garlic, fava beans, and fresh morels arrive in the kitchen at the same time, carpe diem—seize the day!
At the restaurant, we use two types of halibut: California, which is a bit smaller and leaner, and Alaskan, which is larger, fattier, and thicker. Halibut cheeks are relatively unknown outside coastal fishing ports, but many people consider them the best part of the fish. They're denser than the fillets and have a more concentrated sweetness, much like scallops, which can be substituted in this recipe. Because halibut is such a lean fish, it can quickly overcook, so err on the side of being underdone, and let it finish cooking outside the oven.
Fresh morels first make their appearance in spring and can be purchased throughout the summer. Look for those that are firm and dry with no damp, soft spots or off odor. Morels can be as short as 1/2 inch or up to 4 inches long. For this recipe, choose small- to medium-size specimens about 2 inches in length. To clean fresh morel mushrooms, we use the "soak and float" method: Put them into a large bowl of cold water, swish them around, then let them sit for a few seconds until they float to the surface. The dirt will settle to the bottom of the bowl. Scoop out the morels, drain the water, and repeat the procedure 2 or 3 times. Spread the morels out on a sheet pan or plate lined with paper towels and pat dry. You can do this a few hours ahead of time, then set them aside at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
Pea shoots and pea tendrils (the smaller, more delicate, curly ends of the shoots) were once only seen in Chinese markets. Today you can find them at many upscale urban grocers and farmers' markets. The cut ends of the shoots can often be dry and tough, so we prefer the tendrils, which are sweet and delicately flavored.
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Pan Roasted Halibut Fillets
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- Serves 4
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- For the morel mushroom jus
- 1/2 ounce dried morel mushrooms
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped (1 cup)
- 1 shallot, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 6 black peppercorns
- 3 thyme sprigs
- 2 cups chicken stock, preferably homemade
- For the green garlic pesto
- 2 cups chopped green garlic , white and green parts
- 2 cups loosely packed flat-leaf parsley leaves
- 1 cup olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- For the spring vegetables
- 1/2 pound English peas, shelled (1/2 cup shelled)
- 20 sugar snap peas, stems and strings removed
- 1/2 cup shelled fava beans
- 1/4 pound pea shoots or tendrils
- For the halibut
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Four 4-ounce pieces halibut fillets, skin on
- 1/2 pound halibut cheeks or sea scallops
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 24 fresh morel mushrooms (each about 2 inches long), cleaned, or dried morels
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup water
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Make the morel mushroom jus
- 1. Soak the dried mushrooms in the hot water in a small bowl for 15 minutes. Drain and discard the water.
- 2. Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and shallot and cook, stirring occasionally to prevent burning, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the onions begin to soften and turn a touch brown. Add the wine, then add the morels, peppercorns, thyme sprigs, and chicken stock. Increase the heat to high and cook until the liquid has reduced by half.
- 3. Pour the morels and their liquid into a blender or food processor and pulse until the mushrooms are coarsely chopped (be careful not to purée them). Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl and discard the solids. You should have about 3/4 cup jus. Set aside or cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.
- Make the green garlic pesto
- 4. Trim the tough green ends from the garlic. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook the garlic until it's tender but still vibrant green, about 5 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the garlic from the boiling water to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking. Drain and set aside.
- 5. Blanch the parsley leaves in the same boiling water for 30 seconds, then scoop out the parsley and plunge them into the bowl of ice water. Drain and transfer to the plate with the green garlic.
- 6. Put the garlic and parsley into a blender and purée with 1/4 cup olive oil. With the machine running slowly, add the remaining 3/4 cup olive oil in a slow, steady stream until the mixture has formed an emulsion. It may be necessary to stop and scrape down the sides of the blender several times with a rubber spatula. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Using the spatula, press the pesto through a medium- or fine-mesh sieve into a small bowl. The pesto will be quite thick. You should have about 3/4 cup. Set aside or cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
- Make the spring vegetables
- 7. Bring the same pot of water you used for the green garlic and the parsley back to a boil. Blanch the English peas and sugar snap peas together for 1 minute and, using a slotted spoon, plunge them into another bowl of cold water. Drain and set aside.
- Make the halibut
- 8. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- 9. Heat the olive oil in a large ovenproof nonstick sauté pan over medium-high heat. Season the skin side of the halibut fillets and both sides of the halibut cheeks with salt and pepper. Place the halibut fillets in the pan, skin side down, and sear for 1 minute. Add the cheeks to the pan and cook, without budging either the fillets or the cheeks, until golden brown, about 2 minutes more. Flip the fillets and the cheeks and sprinkle just the fillets with a little salt. Transfer the pan to the oven and roast just until the fillets are springy to the touch and the center is translucent (you can make a discreet cut in the thickest fillet with a knife to check), 4 to 6 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven just before the fish seems completely cooked through, as the residual heat will finish the cooking.
- To serve the halibut
- 10. If using dried morels, rehydrate them as you did with the morel mushroom jus. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over high heat. Add the morels and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute, or until lightly browned. Add the mushroom jus and reduce until the liquid is thick and syrupy. Remove from the heat and swirl in the butter. Set aside.
- 11. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the favas, English peas, and sugar snap peas and cook for 1 minute. Add the pea shoots and water and cook just until the shoots have softened, about 30 seconds. Stir in the pesto, adding a little water if the mixture seems too thick. (The vegetables should move freely in the sauce.) Taste for salt and pepper and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
- 12. Place some of the vegetables in the center of each of 4 warm dinner plates. Place a halibut fillet on top of each mound of vegetables and top with the halibut cheeks. Spoon some of the morels and morel jus over the top, making sure each plate has an even number of morels.
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Nintendo's reported rises in both sales and profit for the fiscal year, the 12 months ending March. Sales rose to ¥1,838,622 million, a 9.0 percent increase over the previous year, while operating profit hit ¥555,263 million, 14 percent better than fiscal 2008. Almost 26 million Wii systems were sold in the period, bringing lifetime totals […]
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Then there are times like today when I'm pretty sure they'll never get jobs, move out of my house, or be able cut up their own pork chops. Days like today when I walk into the bathroom and realize there's no toilet paper. Most of the time when my kids finish a roll, they simply leave the cardboard tube on the spindle. My guess is that they're leaving the empty roll for the elusive TP Fairy to exchange with a fresh new one. Today, however, I couldn't find the spindle at all. It was nowhere in sight. Finally Savannah called out, "I found it! Apparently they think when the roll is done, there's no longer a use for the toilet paper holder at all."
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Each has its advocates, of whom designers and specifiers need to ask the most important question of all: how do I know you are telling me the truth? Trying to sort it out takes time and a level of knowledge beyond our expertise. The issues are equally difficult for manufacturers who must weigh many different issues when making their choice of what ecolabels to get for their products. What we really need is a transparent, understandable standard format for defining and reporting the product content of building materials and furnishings. And yes, the impetus is on the manufacturer to get the information to us versus the current system where it is the designer/specifier's responsibility to sort through, understand and substantiate the veracity of environmental claims. Luckily there are two formats, one established and one emerging, that will help both manufacturers and their customers. Both are voluntary and are grounded in transparency—the big, new (and overdue) movement in building design and construction. EPD, meet HPD First up is the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). Born in Sweden and used primarily in Europe (though it is gaining traction in the U.S.), its purpose is to clarify the environmental impacts of the products and materials we use in our buildings, just as nutrition labels let you know what's in your food. EPDs begin with a detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) from raw material extraction to end-of-life based on internationally accepted methods (ISO 14025). Having an EPD does not guarantee a product's environmental soundness, only that the manufacturer has put the product through the process. However, since all products are classified into categories with established impact Product Category Rules (PCRs), it makes comparisons between products possible, and that's a good thing. 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HPD Working Group members are providing the manufacturers with a reference guide, webinars and technical collaboration to help refine the HPD to be reliable and actionable for end users, and reasonable and fair to all manufacturers. The companies will also receive support from the Pharos Project, a project of the Healthy Building Network, which will provide access to its extensive Chemical and Material Library through its web-based Pharos system. The Working Group will evaluate and synthesize the feedback from the participating companies, and revise the draft HPD into a final version that will be officially ratified and made available to the public later this year." The story behind the formation of the HPD pilot program is both inspirational and yet somehow typical of the green building movement, where innovation often occurs because of the passions and actions of one person or company. In this case it was the Swedish manufacturer ASSA ABLOY, the world's largest provider of door security solutions. While working on developing Product Category Rules and conducting LCAs for the EPDs required by many European countries, the staff of ASSA ABLOY had an "ah-ha" moment. EPDs miss what is arguably the most important aspect of environmental transparency: the human health impacts. According to Aaron Smith, director of sustainable building solutions at ASSA ABLOY, the company was already engaged with Healthy Building Network's Pharos system and learned that a customer-led working group was developing the HPD. After realizing that the project fell in line with its dual corporate goals of transparency and environmental transformation in its product division, the company volunteered to use some of its products to troubleshoot and improve the draft format. Three more firms signed on—InterfaceFLOR, Scranton Products and YOLO Colorhouse—in time for the public debut of the draft HPD at Greenbuild 2011, and the pilot program was underway. Smith admits that filling out the HPD forms can be daunting—akin to herding informational cats—and that some companies may have a problem with divulging proprietary data. However, it is important to understand that the HPD is a format for gathering information and health effects that will be used in many other reporting documents. "ASSA ABLOY is excited about HPDs," says Smith. "It moves our industry forward and gets us ahead of evolving codes and standards, plus it's the right thing to do." Product transparency is emerging as an essential component of green design. If adopted as currently written, LEED 2012 will offer points for products with an EPD. GreenSpec has added product transparency as a search attribute. InterfaceFLOR has committed to providing EPDs for all its flooring products by 2012, and some large companies—Google, for instance—insist upon it for all material decisions in their facilities. It is incumbent for our entire industry to step up. Designers, demand transparency. Manufacturers, provide transparency. Really, without it, how do we know you're telling us the truth? You can learn more about EPDs at www.environmentalproductdeclarations.com; information about HPDs is available at www.hpdworkinggroup.org. Penny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP ID+C works in the fields of environmental consulting and communications, and is a prominent writer and lecturer. She is the founding chair and a primary author of the LEED Commercial Interiors rating system. Her published works include Sustainability Matters, written with the General Services Administration, and Sustainable Commercial Interiors (Wiley). 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If your doctor suspects osteoporosis, you may need a special type of X-ray called a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) or bone density scan. These tests show if osteoporosis is the cause of the fracture.
If your compression fractures are related to osteoporosis, your doctor will want to treat the osteoporosis. You may need to take bone-strengthening medicine and calcium and vitamin D supplements. Physical therapy and exercises may be recommended too. These things help make your bones stronger and can help prevent other fractures.
Other types of treatment include:
Different types of surgery are available and may be needed if other treatments aren't helping:
If cancer is causing your symptoms, you may need radiation therapy as well as surgery to remove some of the bone and treat the tumor. If an injury has caused the fracture, you may need surgery to repair the bone and join vertebrae together, a procedure called fusion.
Complications of compression fractures include:
Preventing osteoporosis, or treating it if you have it, is the best way to help prevent compression fractures. Talk to your doctor about a bone density test to see if you are at risk for osteoporosis and then find out what you can do about it. To reduce your risk of osteoporosis and certain types of cancer, don't smoke and limit alcohol use. Weight bearing exercises to strengthen your bones and being careful to reduce your risk of falling are important too.
Compression fractures caused by osteoporosis usually become less painful with medicines and rest. They usually heal within 3 months, but some can cause long-term problems. Medicines to treat osteoporosis can help prevent fractures in the future, but does not help heal an existing fracture. If you have osteoporosis, it's best to treat it before you develop any compression fractures.
In most cases, compression fractures caused by injuries heal in about 8 weeks, but it can take longer if surgery is needed.
Compression fractures caused by cancer have varying outcomes depending on the type of cancer and how well it responds to treatment.
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Joakim Noah is a thug.
How often do you hear that and what type of feeling does it evoke from you?
I've found that some polarizing sports figures like Joakim are being given the "thug" label with reckless abandon. You can make an argument that a few athletes deserve it but most definitely do not.
Joakim is the son of a former professional tennis player turned musician and a former Miss Sweden. He was brought up through private boarding schools until he attended the University of Florida. Additionally, the man can speak fluent French.
Clearly, he does not fit the socio-economic mold of an American "thug." And although plenty of thugs exist in francophone countries, those applying the thug label to Joakim Noah aren't being true to form in the first place.
A thug is a violent, petty criminal. The name is derived from an Indian network of robbers and murderers. This definition is the same to most. However, it's taken on a different spin as several hip-hop musicians have taken to labeling themselves as "thugs."
Generally, these musicians have used the label purely as bravado. And sadly, as with most things, mainstream America has just as brusquely taken the label from some artists and generalized it. Now it has become a type of scarlet letter, especially for athletes, that deviate from what the public sees as the norm.
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It's difficult to understand why one person would throw that label out. But when everyone starts throwing it out, things become much clearer. Some people want to neatly place persons into categories. And when a clear anamoly comes along, the categorization is reduced to a rationalized diversion of truth.
Sure, Joakim Noah has had some alleged disputes in the locker room. If you've ever played sports, please recall how many times "disputes" can get blown up when taken out of context.
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I appreciate a kid that cares about the game. And I'll definitely appreciate someone with a personality trying to be real.
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1. When reviewing a district court's ruling on a motion to suppress, the appellate court determines whether the factual underpinnings of the decision are supported by substantial competent evidence. The court exercises de novo review of the ultimate legal conclusion drawn from those facts. To the extent the facts material to the district court's decision are not in dispute, the question of whether to suppress is purely a question of law over which the appellate court has unlimited review.
2. The State bears the burden to demonstrate that a challenged search or seizure was lawful.
3. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and § 15 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights generally prohibit the warrantless entry of a person's home. The prohibition does not apply, however, to situations in which voluntary consent has been obtained, either from the individual whose property is searched, or from a third party who possesses, or who reasonably appears to possess, common authority over the premises.
4. Pursuant to Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103, 164 L. Ed. 2d 208, 126 S. Ct. 1515 (2006), a physically present co-occupant's explicit refusal to permit entry into a shared residence renders a warrantless entry and search unreasonable and invalid as to the co-occupant, even though another present resident consented to the search.
5. Under the facts of this case, in the absence of evidence that the defendant, who was being held outside his residence, expressly objected to the search, or that officers specifically removed him from the home for the sake of avoiding a possible objection, consent to search given by the defendant's father satisfied the consent exception to the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against warrantless searches and seizures.
Appeal from Jackson District Court; GARY L. NAFZIGER, judge. Opinion filed August 24, 2007. Reversed and remanded.
Micheal A. Ireland, county attorney, for appellant.
Jonathan B. Phelps, of Phelps Chartered, of Topeka, for appellee.
Before CAPLINGER, P.J., ELLIOTT, J., and BUKATY, S.J.
CAPLINGER, J.: In this interlocutory appeal, the State challenges the district court's order granting defendant Jared Chilson's motion to suppress drug evidence discovered in a search of the residence Chilson shared with his father. Relying upon Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103, 164 L. Ed. 2d 208, 126 S. Ct. 1515 (2006), Chilson argues his father's consent to search the shared residence was invalid and the resulting warrantless entry and search unreasonable, because Chilson, who was detained nearby, was not given an opportunity to refuse consent.
We hold that in the absence of evidence that the defendant expressly objected to the search, or that officers specifically removed him from the home for the sake of avoiding a possible objection, the consent to search given by the defendant's father satisfied the consent exception to the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against warrantless searches and seizures. We thus reverse the district court's order and remand to the district court for further proceedings.
Factual and procedural background
Twenty-two-year-old defendant Jared Chilson (Chilson) lived at home with his father, Robert Chilson. Chilson had his own bedroom and access to a shared bathroom.
On July 12, 2004, the Jackson County Sheriff's dispatcher received a report of a domestic disturbance at the Chilson residence. The dispatcher's notes indicate: "[Robert Chilson is] w/son Jarod [sic]–thinks he is doing [narcotics] when dad is not home–wants him off property–not violent at this point."
Deputy Ryan Bruggeman testified that when he arrived at the Chilson home, he had been informed only that there was a domestic dispute between Chilson and his father. Corporal Brad Hanika and Detective Carolyn Clark were on the scene. As was police procedure on domestic dispute calls, officers had separated the father and son so that they were out of sight and hearing of each other; Clark detained Jared Chilson outside.
Meanwhile, inside, the father told Bruggeman that he had found a baggie of marijuana in Chilson's room, and when he confronted his son, Chilson "got in his face" in a threatening manner; took the bag; and flushed it down the toilet. The father granted the officers permission to look throughout the house, specifically in the bathroom, where officers discovered two or three fragments of marijuana in the toilet. Officers did not ask Chilson for his consent to the search.
After the search, Bruggeman Mirandized Chilson and asked if he wanted to talk. Chilson responded affirmatively and told Bruggeman he and his father had an argument and his father had attempted to kick him out of the house. When asked about marijuana, Chilson remained silent.
After the State charged Chilson with assault and possession of marijuana, he
filed a motion to suppress the drug evidence, in which he argued the officers' warrantless search violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Section 15 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights, and K.S.A. 22-3216, and the trace elements of marijuana found in the toilet constituted fruit of the poisonous tree.
After a hearing, the district court denied the motion, finding Chilson's father had consented to the search and Chilson had no expectation of privacy in the "flushed material."
Chilson subsequently renewed his motion to suppress based upon a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, Randolph, 547 U.S. 103.
On rehearing the suppression motion, the district court made further findings of fact. It found Chilson was not "absent" from the scene but was segregated by officers pursuant to protocol, and Chilson had communicated with officers and was available for inquiry. The district court further noted that at the time of the incident, case law did not require the police to obtain Chilson's consent to search once they had received the father's permission.
However, having reviewed Randolph, the district court concluded the officers could have obtained a search warrant based upon the father's statements. It further concluded it would not have been unreasonable for police to have sought Chilson's consent to the search. Based upon these findings, the district court reconsidered its earlier ruling and found the search was unreasonable because it was without a warrant and without Chilson's consent, and it sought fruits and instrumentalities of an offense unrelated to the charge the officers were called to investigate. The State appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 22-3603.
Standard of review
When reviewing a district court's ruling on a motion to suppress, we determine whether the factual underpinnings of the decision are supported by substantial competent evidence. We exercise de novo review of the ultimate legal conclusion drawn from those facts. To the extent the facts material to the district court's decision are not in dispute, the question of whether to suppress is purely a question of law over which we have unlimited review. State v. Anderson, 281 Kan. 896, 900-01, 136 P.3d 406 (2006); State v. Ramirez, 278 Kan. 402, 404, 100 P.3d 94 (2004). Moreover, the State bears the burden to demonstrate that a challenged search or seizure was lawful. See Anderson, 281 Kan. at 901; State v. Boyd, 275 Kan. 271, 273, 64 P.3d 419 (2003).
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and § 15 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights generally prohibit the warrantless entry of a person's home. Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 576, 63 L. Ed. 2d 639, 100 S. Ct. 1371 (1980); State v. Mendez, 275 Kan. 412, 420-21, 66 P.3d 811 (2003). The prohibition does not apply, however, to situations in which voluntary consent has been obtained, either from the individual whose property is searched, see Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 222, 36 L. Ed. 2d 854, 93 S. Ct. 2041 (1973), or from a third party who possesses, United States v. Matlock, 415 U.S. 164, 170, 39 L. Ed. 2d 242, 94 S. Ct. 988 (1974), or who reasonably appears to possess, Illinois v. Rodriguez, 497 U.S. 177, 182-89, 111 L. Ed. 2d 148, 110 S. Ct. 2793 (1990), common authority over the premises. See also State v. Porting, 281 Kan. 320, 324, 130 P.3d 1173 (2006); Mendez, 275 Kan. at 420-21.
In Matlock, the defendant, a suspect in a bank robbery, was arrested in the yard of a house where he lived with a woman named Gayle Graff and her relatives. Defendant was detained in a squad car while officers went to the door. Graff answered the door, dressed in a robe with a baby in her arms, and consented to a search of the house. 415 U.S. at 166. When defendant contested the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence discovered during the search, the Court held that "the consent of one who possesses common authority over premises or effects is valid as against the absent, nonconsenting person with whom that authority is shared." 415 U.S. at 170.
The Court reiterated and clarified this tenet in Rodriguez. There, the defendant had severely beaten his girlfriend. She called police from her mother's home and took police to the defendant's apartment. She told them that she lived there with him, unlocked the door with a key, and gave them permission to enter. Police discovered the defendant asleep in a bedroom and seized drug evidence which formed in part the basis for the defendant's charges. Unbeknownst to the police, the girlfriend had in fact moved out of the apartment several weeks earlier and did not have actual authority to consent to the search of the defendant's apartment. 497 U.S. at 179-80. The Supreme Court nonetheless held the warrantless entry would be valid if police, at the time of entry, reasonably believed the girlfriend had common authority over the premises–objective reasonableness being the critical inquiry. 497 U.S. at 188-89.
Kansas has absorbed the holdings of Matlock and Rodriguez and adopted the third-party consent to search exception to the warrant requirement. Porting, 281 Kan. at 328 (discussing and applying both Matlock and Rodriguez); State v. Ratley, 16 Kan. App. 2d 589, 591, 594-95, 827 P.2d 78 (1992) (explicitly adopting the third-party consent by common authority and apparent authority rules of Matlock and Rodriguez in Kansas); see also State v. Savage, 27 Kan. App. 2d 1022, 1026, 10 P.3d 765, rev. denied 270 Kan. 903 (2000) (noting Kansas has adopted the common authority and apparent authority rules). And it was upon this controlling authority that the district court in this case initially denied Chilson's motion to suppress.
The impetus for the district court's about-face on the suppression issue was the recent United States Supreme Court case of Randolph, in which the Court distinguished its holdings in both Rodriguez and Matlock.
In Randolph, the defendant's estranged wife called police to report a domestic dispute. She told responding officers that the defendant was a drug addict who had "items of drug evidence" in the residence. 547 U.S. at 107. The defendant arrived at the residence shortly after the police arrived, and he refused the officers' request for permission to search the residence. Officers then turned to the defendant's wife, who readily gave them permission to search. Police seized a section of a straw covered with a powdery substance. After receiving a warrant, police returned and seized further evidence of drug use, which formed the basis for charges against the defendant. 547 U.S. at 107.
The trial court denied the defendant's motion to suppress based on the wife's common authority to consent to the search under Matlock and Rodriguez. The Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court concluded the evidence should have been suppressed. To resolve a split of authority on whether one occupant may give effective consent to search a shared premises in the face of another occupant's express refusal to permit the search, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari and affirmed the Georgia Supreme Court. 547 U.S. at 108.
The Randolph Court held that a physically present co-occupant's explicit refusal to permit entry renders a warrantless entry and search unreasonable and invalid as to the co-occupant, even though another present resident consented to the search. 547 U.S. at 122-23. Specifically, it held "[d]isputed permission is thus no match for [the] central value of the Fourth Amendment." 547 U.S. at 115. A co-occupant "may be able to deliver evidence to the police, [citation omitted], and can tell police what he knows, for use before a magistrate in getting a warrant." 547 U.S. at 116. These options avoid "relying on a theory of consent that ignores an inhabitant's refusal to allow a warrantless search." 547 U.S. at 116. Absent some other circumstance justifying a warrantless search, police may not search with the consent of one co-occupant while the other is "standing at the door and expressly refusing consent." 547 U.S. at 118-19.
Significantly, the Randolph court reconciled its holding with that of Matlock and Rodriguez:
"If [Matlock and Rodriguez] are not to be undercut by today's holding, we have to admit that we are drawing a fine line; if a potential defendant with self-interest in objecting is in fact at the door and objects, the co-tenant's permission does not suffice for a reasonable search, whereas the potential objector, nearby but not invited to take part in the threshold colloquy, loses out.
"This is the line we draw, and we think the formalism is justified. So long as there is no evidence that the police have removed the potentially objecting tenant from the entrance for the sake of avoiding a possible objection, there is practical value in the simple clarity of complementary rules, one recognizing the co-tenant's permission when there is no fellow occupant on hand, the other according dispositive weight to the fellow occupant's contrary indication when he expresses it." 547 U.S. at 121-22.
The facts of this case fall somewhere along the continuum of reasonableness established by Matlock and Randolph. Here, the co-occupant defendant was not absent, as was the defendant in Matlock. But, unlike the co-occupant defendant in Randolph, he did not stand at the door and object to the search. However, the district court did not find the officers removed the defendant "for the sake of avoiding a possible objection"; rather, they removed him pursuant to protocol. Nor did the evidence indicate the defendant voiced an objection despite the officers' failure to inquire. Moreover, if the defendant had been asked for his consent to search, it is not a foregone conclusion that he would have refused: suspects often consent, albeit imprudently. See Randolph, 547 U.S. at 122; see, e.g., State v. Moore, 283 Kan. 344, 347, 360, 154 P.3d 1 (2007); State v. Pennington, 281 Kan. 426, 428, 132 P.3d 902 (2006); State v. Edgar, 281 Kan. 47, 49-50, 127 P.3d 1016 (2006).
In determining where this case falls on the continuum, we find guidance in recent post-Randolph cases from other jurisdictions with similar factual circumstances.
For instance, in United States v. DiModica, 468 F.3d 495, 497-98 (7th Cir. 2006), a wife, who was not present at the home, reported a domestic assault and told police her husband, DiModica, was a felon who possessed guns and drugs. She gave police a key to their house and consent to search. Armed with an arrest warrant, officers knocked on the door, confirmed DiModica's identity, arrested him, and removed him from the home. They did not ask his permission to search. The wife met officers at the home afterward, and police discovered items that formed the basis of charges unrelated to the domestic abuse. DiModica argued that had he not been arrested and removed from the scene, he would have refused to allow the police to search his home. The Seventh Circuit distinguished the case from Randolph, noting that unlike the defendant and his wife in Randolph, DiModica and his wife were not standing together at the doorway, one consenting to the search while the other refused. The officers did not ask DiModica for permission to search, and DiModica did not advise the officers they could not do so.
The Seventh Circuit found Dimodica's case was not materially distinguishable from Matlock. The officers did not remove DiModica to avoid his objection; they legally arrested DiModica based on probable cause he had committed domestic abuse. Once DiModica was arrested and removed from the scene, the wife's consent alone was valid and permitted the officers to legally search the residence. See also United States v. Wilburn, 473 F.3d 742 (7th Cir. 2007) (no Fourth Amendment violation where officers, after arresting defendant and placing him in squad car outside his apartment, received consent from defendant's girlfriend to search apartment where defendant lived with girlfriend; defendant was not physically present when girlfriend consented to search, made no objection, and officers had not deliberately removed him from area to avoid hearing him invoke objection to the search); United States v. Parker, 469 F.3d 1074, 1077 (7th Cir. 2006) (where there was no evidence that the defendant was asked for consent to search and refused, or that he objected in any way, court distinguished case from Randolph).
Similarly, in United States v. Uscanga-Ramirez, 475 F.3d 1024 (8th Cir. 2007), officers responded to a mother's report that her son-in-law was holding her daughter against her will in their home. Police arrived at the residence and found the mother sitting in a parked car in front of the home. The daughter then walked out the front door. In response to police questions, the daughter said she was not being held against her will; she was leaving with her mother; her husband had locked himself in a bedroom with a gun because he was upset that she was leaving; but he had not threatened to harm anyone, including himself. The police asked for her permission to enter the residence and check on her husband, and she consented. Officers found the locked bedroom and the husband opened the door. He advised officers he didn't have a gun, but police discovered a loaded gun under a pillow in the middle of the bed. He was charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
The Eighth Circuit in Uscanga-Ramirez distinguished Randolph based upon the lack of any evidence that defendant expressly refused the officers' entry into the home.
Federal district courts and other state courts also have concluded that absent a defendant co-occupant's express objection, third-party consent to a search is a valid exception to the warrant requirement. See, e.g., United States v. Church, __ F. Supp. 2d __, 2007 WL 689890, at 2 (W.D. Mich. 2007) (Randolph distinguishable where present defendant raised no objection to entry, which co-occupant girlfriend invited); United States v. Groves, __ F. Supp. 2d __, 2007 WL 171916, at 6 (N.D. Ind. 2007) (defendant refused to consent to search on night shots fired from his house; police returned 2 weeks later and obtained consent from defendant's live-in girlfriend who had actual and apparent authority to consent; court held police did not procure defendant's absence and his earlier objection was insufficient to invalidate girlfriend's later consent); United States v. McCurdy, 480 F. Supp. 2d 380, 390 n.9 (D. Me. 2007) (Randolph's holding expressly limited to defendants who are physically present and expressly refuse consent; it does not extend to absent but potentially reachable defendants who, if reached, might refuse consent); Starks v. State, 846 N.E.2d 673, 682 n.1 (2006) (Randolph distinguishable where, when co-tenant consented, defendant was not physically present, and was physically present for another portion of search but did not express refusal to consent to the search); but see United States v. Henderson, __ F. Supp. 2d __, 2006 WL 3469538 (N.D. Ill. 2006) (wife gave officers responding to her domestic battery call a house key; they entered home she shared with defendant, who told officers to "get the fuck out of my house"; officers acted unreasonably under Randolph in removing defendant and searching home based on wife's consent given defendant's explicit objection).
As the Utah Court of Appeals noted in State v. Udell, 141 P.3d 612, 613 (Utah App. 2006), Randolph "'invites a straightforward application of the rule that a physically present inhabitant's express refusal of consent to a police search is dispositive as to him, regardless of the consent of a fellow occupant.'"
Here, in the absence of evidence that Chilson expressly objected to the search, or that officers specifically removed him from the home "for the sake of avoiding a possible objection," we hold the consent given by the defendant's father satisfied the consent exception to the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against warrantless searches and seizures. We believe our decision is consistent with Matlock and Rodriguez and, under these facts, does not offend the holding in Randolph.
Further, we note the defendant provides no compelling reason for reaching a different conclusion. In fact, rather than distinguishing Matlock or the extrajurisdictional authority that cuts against his position, the defendant essentially asks this court to reweigh evidence and reevaluate the credibility of the responding officers. We decline to do so. See State v. Wilkerson, 278 Kan. 147, 159, 91 P.3d 1181 (2004).
Accordingly, we reverse the district court's decision granting Chilson's motion to suppress and remand for further proceedings.
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The Better Precincts of the World We Inhabit: Celebrating the National Medals
Text by David Remnick Photos by Ralph Alswang
Herb Albert receives the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, delivered the keynote address at the dinner hosted by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities to celebrate the 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities medal recipients. Here is a slightly edited version of his remarks.
Some years ago, Paul Simon was honored at the Kennedy Center: he watched as his songs were sung, film clips of his storied career projected, and standing ovations periodically delivered. Finally, after all the music and buildup, Steve Martin, Simon's admirer and friend, came out on stage and said, "It would be easy for me to stand up here for the next few minutes and talk about Paul Simon and his consummate skill as a songwriter and musician. But this seems neither the time…nor the place."
So it is tonight---times twenty-four. We are gathered here on the eve of the President's awarding medals to two-dozen scholars, artists, patrons, and performers. The honorees are among the most creative minds this country is lucky enough to know. I hope you will reach deep into your cups and give them all your most raucous and love-filled round of applause.
Allen Toussaint receives the National Medal of Arts from the president.
Now, I could spend my time and yours talking about the virtues of each and every one of our honorees. About the imagery of Camilo Vergara, Laurie Olin and Ellsworth Kelly, or the unmistakable voices of Renee Fleming, Marilynne Robinson, Ernest Gaines, and Kay Ryan. We could talk about how, Herb Alpert, well before the age of diversity, described the makeup of his band, The Tijuana Brass, as "four lasagnas, two bagels, and an American cheese." We could discuss how the anxious asperity of Slouching Toward Bethlehem is as vital to the twentieth-century American sound as "So What," "Strange Fruit," "Roll Over, Beethoven," and "Hills Like White Elephants." We might cite the generosity of Lin Arison, the programming vision of the Washington Performing Arts Society, the innovative scholarship of Natalie Zemon Davis, the teaching of Joan Myers Brown, and the progressive visions of Jill Kerr Conway, William Bowen, Robert Putnam, and Edward Ayers. We could sing hosannas to the king of New Orleans, Allen Toussaint. And we could talk of Elaine May, who began her career in Yiddish theater. In Elaine's days performing with Mike Nichols, she captured the rhythms of the universal maternal with the unforgettable phone call greeting, "Hello, Arthur, this is your Mother. Do you remember me?"
Arts patron Lin Arison with President Barack Obama.
I'd like to pay personal homage to Bill Bowen, who was president of Princeton, when I was an undergraduate. In 1978, when the South Africa divestment campaign was the one sign of activism on campus, I joined in a springtime occupation of Nassau Hall. We slept overnight on the corridor floors, outside the office of President Bowen, who didn't seem to mind much. I think the historically-minded among you remember what happened next: As a result of our many minutes of undergraduate suffering and sacrifice, apartheid immediately collapsed.
We could cast honors in all directions tonight, but, as I say, this is neither the time nor the place. Honestly, there is so much talent assembled here tonight, so much creative and intellectual wattage, that we would, in attempting to pay proper homage to everyone, do justice to none.
Washington Performing Arts Society CEO and President Jenny Bellfield accepts the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama on behalf of her organization.
These are celebratory and welcome occasions. But maybe they are a little fraught, too. At least since the days of Vietnam, if not before, American artists and scholars, have harbored a wariness about being celebrated by, or even being invited to, official Washington. Sometimes that inner reluctance rises to the level of public refusal. As a protest against the war, Robert Lowell spurned Lyndon Johnson's invitation, in 1965, to read at a festival of the arts. "Every serious artist knows," Lowell wrote to Johnson, "that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments." Thirty years later, another poet, Adrienne Rich, refused the National Medal of Arts, because of what she described as the "radical disparities of wealth and power" in the United States and the "cynical" policies of the Clinton Administration and Congress at this time. "[Art]," she said, "means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.…A President cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored."
Philadanco! founder Joan Myers Brown with President Barack Obama.
These were honorable acts of protests by serious people. But I think it is more than possible to be present at such an occasion, too, and remain wholly of independent mind. The evidence is all around. No one here is a centerpiece at the table of power.
In fact, some are the best kind of irritants. Take, for instance, the fervent irritations of Tony Kushner. His writing, his extraordinary plays, were about many things but they were also ferocious indictments of enforced sexual conformity and the early complacency about the AIDS virus. His radicalism is now majority opinion. A few weeks ago, we saw a national celebrations for the great victories won at the Supreme Court on gay marriage. Even if Justice Scalia thinks otherwise, Angels in America had a role in that American evolution.
Tony Kushner with President Barack Obama.
Anna Deavere Smith, as a playwright and as an actor, has, whether in South Central or Crown Heights, given voice to the multiplicity and complexity of American tribalism, confusion, spirit, rage, love, and aspiration. Her art is both forgiving and unrelenting. Robert Silvers, the elegant, tireless dean of American editors, invented, along with the late and deeply missed Barbara Epstein, a journal that has published dissent on every aspect of public life. Commenting on the euphoria surrounding the 2008 election, the ever-un-euphoric Joan Didion wrote this in Mr. Silvers's New York Review of Books: "Imagining in 2008 that all the world's people wanted to be with us did not seem entirely different in kind from imagining in 2003 that we would be greeted with flowers when we invaded Iraq, but in the irony-free zone that the nation had chosen to become, this was not the preferred way of looking at it."
President Barack Obama presents Renee Fleming with the National Medal of Arts.
Indeed, one of the President's favorite forms of relaxation---watching college sports---doesn't even get a break from this group. William Bowen and Frank Deford see the NCAA and big-time college sports not as a field of dreams but as an arena of greed that undermines the values of higher education.
In other words, we are honoring men and women tonight of fearless, critical thought. They inspire and prod us; they serve as examples to young artists and thinkers. And yet what of the atmosphere, the times, in which they work and we gather?
It is a matter of fact, not alarm, that the activities we're paying homage to are too often marginalized, under-funded, overlooked, cast aside. We gather at a time when a primacy of science and technology is a matter of consensus and even policy.
The president greets Ernest Gaines before presenting the National Medal of Arts.
In 1959, C.P. Snow delivered his famous, if schematic, lecture, "The Two Cultures." Snow criticized British educated elites, in particular, for over-rewarding a knowledge of the humanities at the expense of the sciences. He inquired if any card-carrying group of humanists had even a faint idea of, say, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Such a question, he said, was the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's? "I now believe," Snow said, "that if I had asked an even simpler question---such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, Can you read?"[they wouldn't know].
Now the reverse is true. In our time it is a matter of fact, not alarm, that the knowledge and pursuits that most profoundly deepen our capacity to interpret the world are being eclipsed. We live at a time of veneration for science and technology, for the undeniably remarkable innovations in distribution, computation, inheritance, and acceleration. It remains the responsibility of thinking people to have some working knowledge of science---no one is disputing that---but it now seems a commonplace, in too many quarters, that it is neither essential nor desirable to grapple with the enigmas suggested by music, philosophy, art, and literature.
Ellsworth Kelly after receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
This concern is not the hysteria of a paranoid humanist; it's rooted in realities, it's heard daily in the rhetoric of economic competition. Not long ago, the governor of Florida, Rick Scott, recommended that state universities charge higher tuitions for humanities majors; "You know, we don't need a lot more anthropologists in the state," he said. "It's a great degree if people want to get it, but we don't need them here."
Politicians and commentators, liberals and conservatives, routinely pay awed obeisance to the educational systems of China and Singapore. Which is strange in a democracy. Martha Nussbaum is right to point out, however, that a grounding in the humanities, in interpretation and critical thinking, is essential to civic life and dissent; it is not by accident that the humanities play such a diminished role in educational systems where civic dissent is discouraged or outlawed.
If Harvard is an indicator of anything it is worth noting that in 1954 36 percent of its undergraduates majored in the humanities; that has dropped to 20 percent. Last year, the State University of New York at Albany closed down departments in French, Russian, Italian, classics, and theater---a moment that the critic William Derisiewicz has called a "wholesale slaughter of the humanities." As Tony Kushner could tell us, Lincoln's great legislative achievements include not only emancipation and the transcontinental railroad, but also the signing the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, which put into motion the country's once-extraordinary system of public universities. Nothing helped contribute more to everything politicians say they value: opportunity, wider prosperity, and civic knowledge. But now even the epitome of that public university system---the public universities of the state of California---are in straightened circumstances, with the humanities hit most squarely and immediately.
Elaine May with President Barack Obama during the National Medal of Arts ceremony.
It's foolish, pure snobbery, to diminish the urgency of getting a decent job. And we can hardly deny what technology has done for the easy and frictionless distribution of ideas. Medical revolutions have saved and lengthened countless human lives. The mapping of the human genome and the keener understanding of neurobiology is sure to lead to more such revolutions. I don't know about you, but I am counting on those advances to ensure that, when I am of a certain age, fast approaching, I'll be able to remember my name and find my keys. But these advances are so astonishing, so at the center of our attention, that it is sometimes hard for anyone to think of anything else.
Recently, Judith Shulevitz, writing in The New Republic, archly suggested that the way to convince a technology-obsessed nation of the value of the humanities is to remind everyone that it is humanities---in the form of art, architecture, and literature---that lead to science fiction. And science fiction, she wrote, leads to actual science and actual technology: think of the proto-submarines in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; the vision of an internet in William Gibson's novel Neuromancer; the tablets in 2001: A Space Odyssey. From this point of view, this is George Lucas's world; we just live in it.
The president presents George Lucas with the National Medal of Arts.
There are questions that cannot be answered through the scientific method and with technological means. There are, and always will be, questions that are far beyond, and to the side of, engineering, genetics, computer science: How and whom to love; the nature and responsibilities of being a parent, a son or a daughter; the nature of loss; the nature of identity; questions of innocence and guilt; faith and disbelief; how to think about authority, tyranny, and democracy; how to think about truly difficult moral questions like abortion, charity, poverty, and mercy; what one man or woman owes another in a society; what a powerful country owes a poor country. A sense of history is no less important to the fate of a people than a grasp of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The stories, imagery, ideas, and music that men and women make are at least as valuable dimension of the human legacy as their technologies. Civilization is based on these things. How can civilization be a matter of secondary concern?
President Barack Obamam with landscape architect Laurie Olin.
I know that I've done none of the honorees even the remotest justice tonight---this was neither the time nor the place---but I would at least like to do justice to the independent nature of the artistic and intellectual ambitions being celebrated here. There are men and women here tonight who have, without question, made you and me more alive, more joyful, more prepared to confront life, even at its darkest moments. I like my iPhone as much as the next man, but I cannot live, no one should live, without what is on offer here tonight: the depth of the blues, the fire of brilliant prose, the truth and release of comedy, the depth of true thought. So all our gratitude and congratulations to the honorees. You've helped create the better precincts of the world we inhabit. We cannot thank you enough.


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Doug at Wino Magazine put a blog post up earlier in the week about the effects of the economic downturn on small wineries. One of his suggestions is to buy directly from the winery. I have mentioned this in the past and couldn't agree more, especially in tough economic times.
An example I heard a while back has stuck with me. A winemaker said it cost him $13 per bottle to make his wine. It wholesaled at $15 per bottle and retailed at $30 per bottle. So for every bottle he sold through distributors, he made $2. For every bottle he sold through the winery, he made $17. Let's do some simple math here. Say he makes 200 cases of a wine. The profit margin is $4,800 if sold exclusively through a distributor. $40,800 if bought exclusively through the winery. Needless to say that is quite a difference. It is easy to understand why wineries that do almost all of their business through mailing lists - such as Leonetti, Quilceda, and Cayuse - do quite well. For this reason, buy direct if you can.
That said, one thing for wineries to consider is dropping their shipping costs to a minimal amount. For many consumers, there is a barrier to buying directly through the winery due to the often high shipping costs. Given that the bottle cost is often close to that found in many retail stores, you are adding an often significant cost. If the shipping cost is $24 per case (not uncommon), that's an extra $2 a bottle. For your $60 wine or a wine that is not available locally, maybe you don't care. In cases like the present when people are focusing on value, it is a deal breaker, especially given that there are so many options on the shelves. In particular, if someone is just going to buy a bottle or two, adding in a shipping cost of $10-15 (again not uncommon) is completely prohibitive.
The bottom line is that if buying through the winery is cost neutral to positive for the consumer, more will take advantage of it. Ask Columbia Crest how their one penny shipping did in December although the 95 point Wine Spectator review clearly helped there. I would encourage wineries to consider minimal shipping costs combined with an aggressive email campaign to increase sales to help get through the tough times. I'm not suggesting the wineries take it on the chin in terms of shipping costs, but rather look at the overall benefits (decreased shipping cost but increased margin). At least during the economic downturn, it is something for wineries to consider.
Buying Washington wine in tough times - Why people should buy direct from wineries and how wineries can help them to
Doug at Wino Magazine put a blog post up earlier in the week about the effects of the economic downturn on small wineries. One of his suggestions is to buy directly from the winery. I have mentioned this in the past and couldn't agree more, especially in tough economic times.
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Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Adding to my point about shipping, one winery I received an email from charges $18 for 1-3 bottles and $46 for 12. I find it hard to believe that these would be the actual shipping costs (i.e., the winery is not making money on the shipping). At $4-18 extra a bottle - the wine costs $35 - this simply makes no sense for the consumer.
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Sean -
Back from a long snowshoeing weekend and catching up on The Report; great posts as always.
One of the main aspects of my business plan is to buy directly from Washington wineries, as opposed to distributors.
So, to use your $30 on-the-shelf example, in a three-tier case, the winery sells for $15 to the distributor, who turns and sells for $21 to the retailer, who slaps a $30 tag and puts it on the shelf. a winery would sell to a retailer for $21.
In most cases, wineries selling direct to retailers charge the same price as distributors would charge to retailers, so in that case, the winery would charge $21 and make a profit margin of $8. It's not the full $17, but it's a nice additional chunk of change.
And to your point about shipping, I completely agree. If I were hired to do consulting for any small winery, my first piece of advice would be to waive all shipping charges. It's penny-wise, pound-foolish for these wineries to charge for shipping at all, let alone try to make profit on it!
D. Haugen, WINO Magazine Says:
I would also recommend that wineries sell out of the tasting room at a pricepoint less than what it would be on the shelf at the retailer. The winery can still make a better margin than it would selling to either a distributor or to a retailer, and it would add incentive for people to buy direct. Some do this, but many more should.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
It was a true surprise to me when I first started traveling to wine country that the cost at the winery was identical - or higher - than the retail cost at wine shops. I don't know if its because wineries do not want to undercut the retailers or, more likely, because the retailers might be inclined to reduce to the winery's price and want to decrease the wholesale price as well. I had heard a long time back that there were some regulations surrounding pricing but don't know if that is actually the case.
Bottom line, being able to buy from the winery for $1 or $2 cheaper would provide a bit of added incentive. I have occasionally passed on buying wine from a winery if the wine is available in town for the same price and I am concerned about having enough space in the car. If I were saving a small amount of money, I would be less inclined to do this.


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Defined in the broadest sense, glycobiology is the study of the structure, biosynthesis, biology, and evolution of saccharides (sugar chains or glycans) that are widely distributed in nature in all living life forms. Glycobiology is now one of the more rapidly growing fields in the natural sciences, with broad relevance to many areas of basic research, biomedicine, and biotechnology. The field includes the chemistry of carbohydrates, the enzymology of glycan formation and degradation, the recognition of glycans by specific proteins, roles of glycans in complex biological systems, and their analysis or manipulation by various techniques. The third edition of this primary textbook in the field continues in the prior tradition, seeking to provide basic overview of glycobiology, directed towards the advanced undergraduate or the beginning graduate-level student of molecular and cellular biology and biomedicine. While efforts have been made to avoid a major increase in overall length of the text, substantial changes and improvements include the following:
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"The field of glycobiology has matured. The comments of Nobel Laureates on the previous editions reflect the long-held belief that central functional roles played by the diversity of glycan chains would be revealed by research in this field. Now, as the result of advances in analytical chemistry and much deeper understanding of genomes, cell and tissue organization, this field has arrived. The third edition of Essentials of Glycobiology stands as the authoritative treatise on the subject, covering all aspects of the field and written by the world leaders in current research."
—James E. Rothman, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, 2013
"Difficult to analyze and synthesize artificially, glycans are often simply ignored. To do so is to avert one's gaze from an important part of life. More than mere decoration, glycans magnify the diversity of the already diverse molecules to which they are attached, affect protein folding and stability, direct traffic within cells, serve as signposts of self vs. non-self, create barriers that protect us, and conversely, defend microbes, making some of them the pathogens they are. It is hard to imagine a world without complex sugars, but if such a world existed, it would be much diminished. The third edition of Essentials of Glycobiology may be life changing for scientists who have not yet engaged with glycobiology and will certainly be a treasured resource for those who already have."
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On June 4th, all associates from American Eagle Outfitters' Pittsburgh, New York, and San Fransisco offices participated in AE Community Day. Associates volunteered at project locations throughout Pittsburgh and New York City and supported ongoing AEO partnerships with New York Cares, Pittsburgh Cares, and the SCA (Student Conservation Association).
As part of AE Community Day, we also launched our "Boot the Bottle" campaign. As a replacement for disposable plastic bottles, all associates were provided with their own reusable AEO water bottles to encourage all of our associates to make an impact, save the planet and "Boot the Bottle!"
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Everyone is all atwitter this morning about Disney's "John Carter," which cost a whopping $250 million and failed to make back even one-eighth of its budget on opening weekend. The knives are out. Even the genteel New York Times declared, "Ishtar Lands On Mars." Given its cost and the seemingly obvious hindrances to its success (Had more than three people heard of the novels before this movie existed?), it would be easy to declare "John Carter" one of the most dreadful flops in the history of filmmaking. Ah, but was it? Let's check this past weekend's returns (chart via Box Office Mojo).
1. The Lorax - $39.1M
2. John Carter - $30.6M
3. Project X - $11.6M
4. Silent House - $7.0M
5. Act of Valor - $7.0M
6. A Thousand Words - $5.0M
7. Safe House - $7.2M
8. The Vow - $4.0M
9. This Means War - $3.8M
10. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $3.7M
Obviously, "Carter" has a long way to go to get back in the black. But do take care note that Eddie Murphy put out a movie this weekend, and that movie was SAVAGED. In fact, "A Thousand Words" got a resounding zero in the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator. Usually, bad movies start off with a zero before finally finding one critic to take pity on them. But not Murphy's flick. That sailed through the whole weekend without ONE positive review. Thus, it didn't even make our little PBCS standings, based on a proprietary formula that considers, box office, size of release, and critical reaction:
1. Silent House - 521
2. The Artist - 318
3. The Lorax - 311
4. Project X - 106
5. Act of Valor - 55
6. Friends With Kids - 42
7. John Carter - 26
8. Safe House - 19
9. Good Deeds - 15
10. The Vow - 13
"Silent House" got the top slot because of its miniscule budget (1/250th of "John Carter"). But you see that "Carter" at least got some points. It got middling reviews, nothing close to the outright attacks on movies such as "Sex & The City 2." As for Murphy? Well, he got himself a ZERO in our rankings. A big fat nothing. And true, his movie cost a good $210 million less than "John Carter," but I don't think flops should ever be measured strictly by finances. True flops are movies that both fail to make a profit and greatly offend the sensibilities of the general public.
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What do economists think is the best policy to adopt to respond to climate change? Hat-tip to the Environmental Economics blog.
The New York Times discusses energy taxes as tools to help tackle climate change. Hat tip again to the Environmental Economics blog.
The Davos World Economic Forum is not ignoring climate change. They have commissioned a report saying that curbing climate change will cost $700 billion a year.
Leo Hickman of the Guardian concludes you can't assume your flying emissions are 'offset' just because the EU has an ETS.
A UBS analyst concludes that the emission allowances (emission permits/units/credit) in the European Union emissions trading scheme are "worthless" without a change in the rules to tighten supply and curb the record glut of excess allowances.
According to UBS, the European Commission's strategy for the glut is to reduce the supply of allowances into the market by postponing the sale of 900 million allowances from the 2013-2015 period to 2019-2020. This is being called "backloading".
However, "The European Commission, the bloc's regulatory arm, will not get support from governments for its plan to temporarily cut oversupply by delaying auctions of some permits"
Consequently, the "EU nations and the region's parliament have two options now: to "sit back and do nothing and see the market crash" or to support the short-term rescue plan to backload allowances".