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There's nothing like a good urban legend. A post here about a weird mist in Chino Hills continues to draw a comment or two per month, with the total currently at 43!
So let me create another perennial blog post by noting the popular urban legend about a community of little people in one of the foothill communities in the San Gabriel Valley, or slightly east.
I've heard these stories and read them on the Internet over the years. Someone claims they were walking in the middle of nowhere and stumbled across a cluster of smaller-than-usual homes with small doors and windows. Or their friend's cousin saw it, or they saw it themselves but could never find it again.
They've heard those stories at the Padua HIlls Theater in upper Claremont. When I toured the place a few weeks back, two people told me young people have parked in the lot to go in search of this mythical community, whose location varies depending on who's telling the story.
Apparently there are rumored but nonexistent communities of little people all over the country. In SoCal, Long Beach, Downey and San Diego are frequently mentioned.
Anyone ever heard these stories locally or tried to investigate in person?


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Hillsboro High School sophomore Allison Gray recently took fifth chair position in the French horn section of the Kansas Music Educators Association all-state band and will be performing with the ensemble March 1.
In addition to regularly scheduled school band practice with band teacher Bruce Major, Allison also has been taking private lessons from former band instructor Shana Stepanek for about two years to help develop her musicianship.
"Allison's parents approached me at church," Stepanek said. "Her mom used to be a French horn player too."
Stepanek has a bachelor's degree in music theory and masters in music education from Oklahoma University.
"The French horn has been my main instrument for about 35 years," Stepanek said. "I started in school band when I was a kid and have been involved with music ever since."
She helped Allison prepare approximately 120 to 130 measures of solo material for her honor band audition, in which there were 59 other French horn players competing for eight chairs on the 200 member honor band.
"We worked with a list of required audition material," Stepanek said. "This is college level stuff."
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Before coming to Alltech, David was President of a web development and software company, where he specialized in search engine optimization, e-commerce and educational multimedia. Prior to working on the web he was an environmental geologist with the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection. Butler has earned degrees in Economics, Environmental Geoscience and Geochemistry from the University of Kentucky. His graduate research focused on bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in wetland soils.


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text: The Chinese New Year is one of China's oldest festivals, with records of it going back as far as the 14th century BC. As its date falls so differently to the New Year celebrated in the Western world, an explanation will help us to understand why that's so. It's believed that Emperor Huangdi introduced the lunar calendar, based on the lunisolar cycle. This observes the moon phases and solar years to determine the exact date that Chinese New Year falls on, which will always be between 21st January and 21st February.


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On July 26, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to NASD Rule 2211, which governs NASD member institutional sales material and correspondence.1 The amendments require a registered principal to approve correspondence sent to 25 or more existing retail customers within any 30 calendar-day period if the correspondence makes any financial or investment recommendation or otherwise promotes a product or service of the member.
The effective date of this rule change is December 1, 2006. Included with this Notice is Attachment A (text of rule amendments).
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C++11's async Template
C++11 brings rich support for threading to the language, and one of the features that really works for me is the function template
async. This provides a great mechanism for spinning off worker threads and easily collecting their results. In this article, I'll show you how I used
async to introduce threading to C++ beginners in a nice, non-threatening fashion.
C/C++ and Threads
Even though the languages lacked standardized support for threading, people have been writing multithreaded C and C++ programs for quite a long time. Libraries like pthreads work pretty well and give you a shot at reasonable portability. But I found that beginners would often stumble when using these as their introduction to multithreading.
The biggest annoyance for beginners would have to be the ability to pass parameters to threads, and to return values from threads. The pthreads library handled this in a conventional way for a C API, requiring all threads to have the same function signature — which relied on void pointers, dynamic allocation, and casting. Plenty of places for the newcomer to stumble.
And returning data from a thread to the caller? You're on your own. Ad hoc methods are easy enough to implement, but again, it's just one more place to make a mistake.
C++11 async()
C++11 solves most of these problems quite nicely with its thread support. In particular, for straightforward worker thread applications, the new
async function template is perfect.
When using
async(), a thread is modeled as a standard C++ function, as is the case with most other libraries. However, you can pass your choic e of parameters to the library — full type safety is observed, and you can pass values by copy or reference.
The function prototype for
async is a bit of a mess, but in a nutshell, you call
async with the following arguments:
A launch policy of either
std::launch::async, which asks the runtime to create an asynchronous thread, or
std::launch::deferred, which indicates you simply want to defer the function call until a later time (lazy evaluati on.) This argument is optional — if you omit it your function will use the default policy.
The name of the function you are calling.
The arguments to be passed to the function. Normally these are passed just as you would when calling the function, but if you wish to pass an argument by reference, you need to wrap it in a call to
The actual prototype is shown below:
template< class Function, class... Args > std::future<typename std::result_of<Function(Args...)>::type> async( std::launch policy, Function&& f, Args&&... args );
You'll note a few instances of C++11 variadic template syntax — the dot-dot-dot (not really an ellipsis) following the word
class in the template type parameter list, and following the argument name
Args. In both usages, this syntax means 0 or more arguments of this type. (How these variadic arguments are processed is a topic for another post.) The key point is that the function template
async is instantiated to accept a typesafe list of arguments that have to match the function you are using to instantiate a thread.
My Teaching Example
To give students a feel for threading using C++11, I asked them to create a simple program called
WordSearch that identifies possible Scrabble plays using a simple syntax. A single command-line argument is passed to the program — a template expression for searching through the dictionary. I had the students identify specific characters with the actual letter to be played, and the period character for places where any letter could be played. A typical run might look like this:
[email protected]:~ $ ./WordSearch ..x..n Found 5 matches for ..x..n sextan sexton sixain taxman taxmen [email protected]:~ $
The words are identified by brute force, working through all the entries in a copy of the Scrabble dictionary. (One of the nice things about using this pattern is that I can check the program output against grep, since the periods form a regular expression.)
To get started with the program, I asked the students to simply read the words from the scrabble dictionary into a simple
ifstream f( "sowpods.txt" ); if ( !f ) { cerr << "Cannot open sowpods.txt in the current directory\n"; return -1; } string word; deque<string> backlog; while ( f >> word ) backlog.push_back( word );
I then asked them to create a function called
find_matches that would locate all the matches in that
deque, and return them to the caller in a
vector<string>. A typical implementation might look like this:
vector<string> find_matches( string pattern, deque<string> &backlog ) { vector<string> results; while ( backlog.size() ) { string word = backlog.front(); backlog.pop_front(); if ( match( pattern, word ) ) results.push_back( word ); } return results; }
The implementation of
match() should be trivial.
Calling this routine and printing the results is easy enough now:
vector<string> words = find_matches( pattern, backlog ); cerr << "Found " << words.size() << " matches for " << pattern << endl; for ( auto s : words ) cout << s << "\n";


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Promising news out of Indianapolis: Colts coach Chuck Pagano's cancer is in remission.
Pagano's doctors said Monday that the Colts coach has passed the standard test administered to leukemia patients "with flying colors," according to The Indianapolis Star.
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Oncologist Dr. Larry Cripe Cripe pronounced Pagano in remission after a bone marrow aspirate test showed no sign of the cancer.
Pagano isn't in the clear yet. He still must undergo two more rounds of chemotherapy. After that, he'll receive "maintenance treatment" for the two-year period that follows the final chemo session.
"We need to keep going, and we will not be able to use the word 'cure' for four or five years," Cripe told The Star.
Interim coach Bruce Arians will continue to lead the 5-3 Colts in Pagano's absence. Pagano provided one of the season's signature moments Sunday, when he delivered an emotional postgame speech to Colts players and coaches following a 23-20 win over the Miami Dolphins.
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Although I'd like to think of myself as someone who is well dressed (or at least indulges in the ceremony of creating a new outfit each day) I must admit, combining outfits with the perfect, practical bag has me stumped. In particular the shopper bag or any large tote has been particularly difficult to style. The designs are more practical than elegant, and it becomes evident with the amount of wear and tear on my own bags (as well as some unfortunate stains, the results of lunches ferried from home to work which did not survive the trip). I'm somewhat limited without the luxury of having a whole handbag collection at my disposal but it serves as a "working definition" if you will, of looks I should aspire towards. If there's one thing I've learned from this fall collection, it's that knitted embellishments look just as good on your handbag as they do on a dress. Cue mad attempts to crochet, inevitable frustration and scouring etsy for handmade/ vintage bag charms or other paraphernalia suitable for swinging from a handbag.
Although I have no use for one given my present location (the middle of outback Australia) Christopher Kane managed to make even a grey coat seem fanciful and full of whimsy. Particularly those coats long enough to just skim across the knees and gargantuan sleeves. While I'm told it does get cold during the evenings, nothing more than a light jacket is needed to shield me from the cold. However, the romance of wearing a heavy jacket and trudging through stormy weather still seems lofty. Perhaps it was the injection of such a modest piece of clothing with sexy black sheer or the texture variation between each piece but when worn with a pair of black ankle boots the coats oozed luxury and cool. Add a bit of grandma bling by way of chunky oversized brooch and you have a winning combination. Perspex rain hoods were optional, but seemed most impressive when worn with lace cuffs followed by boxy leather black handbags. For those brave enough to take this aesthetic to the extreme, I would recommend wearing your sunglasses dangling from a string of pearls.
The looks most likely to be worn by Susie Bubble and the fabulous, self-affirmed women from street style blogs such as Advanced Style are the Gothic romantic floor-length floral dresses. Or perhaps this is just a projection of what I think these inspiring women would look best in, as well as my own desire to wear gorgeous flowing dresses with asymmetrical hemlines. These looks saw the emergence of thin, statement charm bracelets and footwear with the occasional flurry cuff of feather embellishment. While the accessories seem to pale in comparison to the gorgeous dresses, it's these finishing touches which reinforce the idea of creating an outfit based around one piece. While some may snicker and suggest that these autumnal floral prints would be better suited to armchairs rather than adorning the female body, I would willingly embrace grandma chic in its eccentric glory.
As the show progressed, I slowly lost interest in the clothes and became fixated on the loose charms, bracelets and brooches scattered throughout the collection. Although I'm predominantly wearing shades of red and black, these clothes don't interest me when curated in block colours. A number of years ago I made the sartorial mistake of attempting to pin brooches to a pair of pastel coloured socks worn with traditional Japanese hand woven sandals. Needless to say the whole thing was a disaster albeit an attempt at Decora (one of the most most pervasive Harajuku style groups) and I never delved into such a tedious method of ornamentation ever again. But maybe the brooches weren't the problem, and had I gotten my grubby mitts on a slip dress I might have found a different path entirely. One does not do well to dwell on such thoughts of fancy, and my energy would be better spent creating some conceptual sketches of what my future self would look like wearing a creative and yet artfully coordinated outfit. Wonderfully weird shoes not essential but strongly encouraged.
So often I've seen crochet flowers not too dissimilar to those which graced the runway at Christopher Kane adorning tea cosies and handicrafts across the country. Of course in their current state I ignored their potential or worse, scoffed at their crumpled petals and misshapen forms. At the time I lacked the imagination or daring to wear them with evocative elbow length leather gloves and a little black dress. In my defense, when attempted as a DIY or upcycled piece without any reference to a particular designer, the looks would have fallen flat and lost all their charm. That's not to say I should be discouraged from finding my own means of adding strange knitted objects to outfits, but discovering what's practical would be a helpful starting point. I suppose I'm hoping to invent some strange combination of upcycling and found art to recreate outfits I've seen on the runway. As per usual, I'm somewhat limited in terms of craft supplies living in a small town but just think of the ramifications of undertaking such a large and ambitious project!
Once again, stripes featured prominently throughout the collection, something Kane has learned to reinvent from season to season depending on the medium through which he works. In this instance, ribbed jersey knit dresses became the epitome of maximalist chic replacing previous incarnations including (but not limited to) gaffer tape t-shirt dresses and futuristic bodycon dresses. Even within this collection, stripes proved a versatile canvas and worthy of the finale where ribbons of material fluttered down the runway. After a six-day working week and a warm mug of chamomile tea, with my vision blurred I'm left wondering whether anyone else found the Avant-garde hemlines to look more like the tentacles of a jellyfish after intense contemplation. While these remarks might seem disparaging (I promise, this is just the effect of such a unique analogy!) I loved the water colour three dimensional flowers and stripes reinvented and worn in painterly fashion. To me, this is fashion iimitating art at its best (rather than Viktor and Rolf's outlandish picture frame dresses...)


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Less than one percent of all the people in the United States fly an aircraft and, of those, only about 10 percent are women. That puts area Girl Scouts in Craven and Pamlico counties who are interested in flight in a unique group.
Less than one percent of all the people in the United States fly an aircraft and, of those, only about 10 percent are women. That puts area Girl Scouts in Craven and Pamlico counties who are interested in flight in a unique group.
More than 75 area troop members attended Airport Day at Coastal Carolina Regional Airport Saturday to see some of the women who are already in the skies.
The event, which was hosted by EAA Chapter 1171 � The Flyin� Bears of New Bern, was designed to help the Girl Scouts fulfill the requirements for their Aviation badges.
Breck Neer, Young Eagle coordinator for the event, which was held at Tradewinds Aviation Flight School�s hanger, wanted to be sure it provided female role models for all of the aspiring young aviators.
Presenters, most of them women, led sessions in local meteorology, NOAA and Aviation Weather, women in aviation, basic flight principles, flight and aircraft-related training programs at Craven Community College, Air Traffic Control and military aviation.
Air Force Capt. Symatha Unruh flies a fuel tanker for the 916th Air Refueling Wing and passed on her personal enthusiasm to girls like Rachel Fenton of Troop 863 in the James City area, which meets at Brices Creek Bible Church.
Fenton, who just turned 13, was at last year�s event and said she enjoyed it so much she went to Tradewinds Aviation�s summer ground school camp to begin learning aviation techniques and dynamics.
Formerly of California, she�d flown commercially cross country. She said attending the event and being in the cockpit of a small plane �made me know it�s for me, certainly for my own enjoyment, but I might also think about being a commercial pilot.�
Unruh, who was herself a Girl Scout, said, �I made up my mind when I was 11 that I wanted to fly.�
Her unit�s last six operations included deployments to Afghanistan, Southwest Asia, Europe, Guam, Iraq, Libya and Spain, and often take her away from her husband, also a military pilot, for long periods. She told the girls that the average passenger car could operate for more than a year on the fuel that goes through the air refueling boom of her KC-135 in just one minute.
Mark Woods, an airframe mechanics who teaches aeronautics at Craven Community College, said there�s a place for women in that area of aviation also.
The scouts learned from a Newport National Weather Service forecaster Bel Melendez that there have been women in the Weather Service since 1940 when it was called the National Weather Bureau. At that time, however, a bachelor�s degree from college was not required. You just had to be 17 years old or older and have a high school diploma.
Jill Adair, a former Marine who is an air traffic controller at the airport�s FAA tower, gave the Scouts a tour and explained her role in flight takeoffs and landings.
Heidi Fenton, leader of Girl Scout Troop 863, which mostly includes Scouts aged 11 and 12 from H.J. MacDonald, Epiphany and Gramercy schools, said Saturday�s Fly-in �was very well done.�
It seemed to be the general consensus of planners, presenters, leaders and participants that the day was well spent for the future of women in aviation.
Each of the Girl Scouts participating also got to enjoy a Young Eagle flight courtesy of The Flyin� Bears, who hope to make this second-year event an annual one.
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Archaeology, Incan & Wari Archaeology in Peru by Francesca Wild
The beginning!
Waking up at 4am to catch a bus up to one of the 7 wonders of the world, surrounded by impatient European tourists. Arriving at the gates to the Machu Picchu site and being asked for my passport by a surly Peruvian guard… and seeing it back in my hotel room, half an hour's bus drive away. I will never forget running around Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town) trying to find the ticket office for another ticket up the mountain. An unforgettable day in my two-week excursion to Peru.
My Archaeology Project in Peru
During the summer I went to Huyro, a tiny village 5 hours from Cuzco, Peru with Projects Abroad to take part in an archaeology project, discovering new Inca sites in Peru. We managed to begin work on unearthing a small Incan building. The machetes were really useful at cutting down small trees, but the long grass that we spent most of our time hacking at was too thick and most of it was pulled out. I was also stupid enough to not remember to put on my gloves until after we stopped for lunch, but I learnt quickly.
Before we knew it we were scrambling down the side of the mountain and relaxing in the river after a long days work, ending up in a water fight soaking us all. In the evening we played volleyball and although I had a disadvantage having never really played before, as long as I stayed away from the ball, our team didn't do too badly. Then we went into Huyro and had a look around.
The next morning we stocked up on the bread, which is honestly the nicest bread I have ever eaten, and all got into the bus to take us to a viewing point on the Inca trail, which was just beautiful and really showed just how long and difficult it would be to walk, as we were tired just getting back up to the bus!
We also went to three other Inca sites that day, the first a sort of hotel for travellers on the trail and the second a place where they would celebrate and give offerings to the gods. Our last stop of the day was the longest stretch of the Inca trail that's been found intact, pretty impressive really and although we couldn't walk all of it, we did get to see how the Incas would break the rocks.
Fantastic weekend trip to Machu Picchu
Visiting Machu Picchu that weekend was unbelievable, despite the little hiccough of forgetting my passport, everything was just fantastic and I took an inordinate number of pictures of everything. We also got to chew Coca leaves, and we had a little travel ritual, and we made our own altars. Jorge took some of the group up to the sun gate, and even though I began to walk up, it was so hot and we were walking so quickly, I went and joined the rest of the group in the café. Finishing off our trip to Aguas Calientes was lunch, where I had Alpaca! Surprisingly nice, but I haven't been able to find it at home.
After our weekend at Machu Picchu we moved on the next day to a site that we swept for pieces of pottery and clay; more difficult than it sounds when little trees are in the way! I don't think I have ever been so dusty in my life because for some reason I was in short sleeves and dust and sun cream do not mix well together. On our last day we were 'baptised'. A little different to what I am used to: getting our face painted with an orange plant, given an Incan name and then dirt poured all over our heads!
Our time in Cuzco, although short was successful and we got to visit Saqsaywaman and Ollantaytambo when we first arrived, amazing places with superb views. On our way home we had a day there again, so we got in some vastly important shopping in some local markets, and I stocked up on Peruvian style jumpers and a blanket, along with presents for everyone back at home.
Such a nice place to go!
It was a completely new experience for me spending time in a place with no Internet, cold showers and a room with a mosquito net for a window. It was absolutely fabulous and I would definitely recommend it to anyone, although maybe you would choose one that lasts more than two weeks, as it was hard leaving people who got to stay for another month and the plane ride home was a lot quieter than the past two weeks had been but I had a brilliant time and will not forget any of the people I met and hope we can meet up again soon!
Francesca Wild
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Why Cities Go Bankrupt
San Bernardino, California filed for bankruptcy last August. It is a poor city, yes. The economy is bad, yes. But why does one city fail while many others like it don't?
This excellent Reuters report on San Bernardino provides one strong clue: when you are the poorest city of your size in your state, yet your police and firefighters can retire at the age of 50 with a pension that is 90% of their final salary, you are a strong contender for bankruptcy, sooner or later. One small example of the municipal largesse that eventually dragged San Bernardino into a hole it could not climb out of:
In 2009, patrol lieutenant Richard Taack retired at the age of 59, after 37 years of service. He took home $389,727 that year, including $194,820 in unused sick time and $33,721 for unused vacation time, according to city payroll records. Shortly after Taack retired - on an annual lifetime pension of $128,000 - he was hired part-time by [longtime city attorney James] Penman's city attorney's office, at $32 an hour.
That was long after the city had already seen its tax revenues collapse, along with the economy as a whole. Municipal unions seeking opulent contracts are certainly complicit in San Bernardino's downfall. But the real blame rests with elected officials who voted this entire unsustainable system of lavish payments and pensions into place.
If your local elected officials are math-illiterate, in the pocket of special interests to the point of being functionally corrupt, or both, your city may go bankrupt. A lot of cities meet that criteria. This entire story is excellent. Send it to your city council.


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This is a scheduled post, but I'll reply to comments as soon as I get a chance.
Still doing Xena in a funny order I'm afraid! Thanks to Amanda for lending me this one.
Ah, the Amazons. Everyone's favourite opportunity to get lots of women into skimpy outfits. I actually thought Xena was one before I started watching the show. Oddly enough, the versions of the myths of the Amazons that refer to them chopping off one breast to allow them to shoot arrows more easily never seem to make it to screen.
The Amazons are entirely mythological so the series has pretty free reign here. Interestingly, the queen of the Amazons doesn't have either of the usual Amazon queen names, Hippolyta or Penthesilea - perhaps they wanted to save those for later. Gabrielle as an Amazon princess is both hilarious and provides a perfect opportunity to get Gabrielle some proper training and put her in a decent, if fan service-y, costume (better fanservice than that hideous peasant thing she's been stuck in so far).
I like the old-fashioned effect on the centaurs - a simple case of putting film of a man on top of film of a horse, like in the old BBC Narnia adaptations. I find this much more convincing than the awful CGI in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The characterisation of the centaurs is interesting, neither as wild as those in Greek mythology nor as cultured and wise as Narnian centaurs. It's a nice compromise which works well for the story.
At one point, Phantes claims that 'If it looks like a hydra and moves like a hydra, it's a hydra'. It's an amusing attempt to Greekify the expression, but really, how could you possibly mistake a hydra, a many-headed monster, for anything else?!
Often, appearances of Amazons, from Greek myth to modern comic books, are really an excuse to objectify women for a bit, and I'm afraid this episode has a fair dollop of that going on as well. The Amazons are 'harlots' according to the title, their uniform is crop tops and tiny skirts, they dance energetically a lot and they wear bikinis to funerals. Since half the point of Xena is Lucy Lawless in tight armour and a short skirt, and since I have been known to objectify quite a few shirtless vampires, ER doctors and Roman statesmen in my time, this isn't really a major issue, but I do find the title a bit much, and indicative of a double standard I don't really like (what would be the male equivalent?). Again, I know it comes from a line of dialogue from the episode, spoken by the bad guy, but still - hmm.
I enjoyed this episode a lot, mainly because Gabrielle among the Amazons is great, especially her dancing. Ephiny is a fun character as well, and well played, and there's something about the realisation that the Amazons and the centaurs need to band together against the men that appeals to me. The end credits note that 'No Males, Centaurs or Amazons were harmed during the production of this motion picture.' Good to know.


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Winston1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 189 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
I am an independent iPhone developer with a passion in creating state-of-the-art applications. Blink will allow you to take a picture of any sign, text, menu in a foreign language while translating it into a language that you can understand.
Now you can understand those French menus in France, those Chinese signs hanging on the Chinese restaurant walls, or simply take a notes by taking a picture of a magazine page while recognizing the text(using OCR) and save it into your notes. Unable to take a picture for some reason? Just draw the character with your fingeres for instant translation.
I am looking for ideas around this and would like to entertain any type of design which embodies the items above.
There are a few target audiences who Blink! is targeted for:
1. I aim to target global travelers who love to travel and need a translation pocket companion with them.
2. Those who would like to learn a new language.
3. Blink! also acts as a pocket OCR scanner. Take a picture of a newspaper and extract the text from the photo.
The name Blink! was conceived as a blink of the camera shutter. Ideally, the icon for the application would need to integrate item #1 along with at least one other element (#2 thru #4) below .
1. Symbol representing translation, the concept of a single universal language, a symbol/concept representing understanding, or capturing the element of discovery, e.g. the feeling one gets when it is translated and you want to capture the feeling of "Oh, this is what it means!". (Mandatory since this is what the app does).
2. An eye blink
3. A camera shutter
4. Anything travel related
I would love to hear of any other ideas even if it means going beyond the requirements above.
Use of bright, harmonic and attractive colors are encouraged.
In terms of technical deliverables, I would need.
1. One 512x512 pixel .PNG at least 300dpi.
2. One 57x57 pixel .PNG
3. 3 different versions, a "lite", a "full" and a "pro" version (see below for description)
The icon should be attractive (preferably cheerful&bright), drawing attention to the icon. This includes creative use of colors and imagery.
There will be 3 versions of this application, a "lite", a "full" and a "pro" version. The lite version recognizes your home language and can translate into any other language (you can add-on other languages via in-store purchases). The pro version will recognize all languages. I will be adding in capabilities for business card reading to add directly to contacts as well.
Bonus : I will distribute a free promotional key of the "pro" version for those who participate in the contest! The pro will ultimately be in the $4.99-$9.99 pricing category after the introductory period expires.
As mentioned above, I'm looking for ideas around the icon itself, something simple and catchy.
Please do contact me for any questions and looking forward to hearing from you. Very good potential for future work including suggestions for wallpaper/background images and for website design.
Thank you,


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The Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal is an abandoned canal in Michigan that was only partially completed. The canal was to connect Lake St. Clair with Lake Michigan. The inspiration came from the success of the Erie Canal in New York, which was completed in 1825. Michigan had just achieved statehood in 1837 and its first governor, Stevens Thomson Mason, initiated an ambitious program of internal improvements which included three railroads and two canals.
The Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal was to begin in Mount Clemens on the banks of the Clinton River and continue through Utica, Rochester, Pontiac, Howell, Hastings, and finally to the mouth of the Kalamazoo River.
In all, the canal was to span 216 miles. It's purpose was to open up the heavily forested land for settlers and commercial boat traffic.
Construction began in 1838 near the now defunct Village of Frederick in Clinton Twp. The Detroit Free Press of July 19,1838, noted the festivities to mark the beginning of the project. The entire Mt.Clemens area was awakened with the sound of a signal gun. Throughout the day, there were speeches, food, a thirteen gun salute, music, and the governor turning the first shovel of dirt. Hundreds of workers, mostly Irish workers, earned 65 cents a day and carried out the work in one-mile sections using pick and shovel. Included in some of these sections were locks to lift and lower the boats over the 220′ elevation difference over the length of the canal.
Financial troubles related to the Panic of 1837 caused funding for the canal to disappear and all construction stopped in 1843 after only 12 miles had been completed. Engineering miscalculations also contributed to the canal's failure as the canal was dug too shallow and too narrow (50′ wide) for heavy freight ships. For a short time, there was some boat traffic on the canal from the Village of Frederick to Utica. The boats carried lumber, whiskey, grain and some passenger.
After construction ended, the canal quickly fell into disrepair. Portions were used as a millrace to power watermills that operated well into the 1900s. Remnants of the canal are still visible in Rochester Hills in Oakland County and in Shelby Township and Clinton Township in Macomb County.


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The forbidden way... click for larger map.
"No Bikes" is all the sign at the entrance to East Road says. The old sign, which said "due to gravel" along with how vehicles and pedestrians were still allowed, was gone. I guess they decided it was time to get serious.
That sealed the deal. I turned onto East Road, rather than continue on the more direct route up Alexander.
It's all completely ridiculous. There's a few trenches, marked with ominous "open trench" signs, which are filled with dirt and covered with gravel. Sanchez Road between Market and Duboce in the City is far worse. Yet for some reason cyclists, the majority of the traffic mountain bikes designed for riding up fire roads and single-track, is forbidden. Oh, my -- a cyclist might hit the gravel and crash! But so might a motorcyclist, or for that matter any vehicle. During the week the road is completely closed to all traffic, but on weekends, cars and pedestrians are allowed. Only cyclists are denied access.
In California, cyclists may only be banned from freeways, tunnels, bridges, and expressways (a recent addition to the list). I suppose temporary emergency situations which might be particularly hazardous to cyclists, such as a power line downed in a storm, might also apply. But East Road is different: it's national park land, part of the Golden Gate National Park. The Federal government is far less pro-cyclist than California, at least in talking the talk. The California Bike Coalition and the San Francisco Bike Coalition have each done fantastic work towards promoting the rights of cyclists to use the roads. The League of American Bicyclists far less successful, in my humble view. In fact, only recently has the federal government made it a policy statement that cyclist access be a priority in transportation projects. And for this, Transportation Secretary La Hood has taken a lot of flak from the radical motorheads, who very much like the monopoly their carbon-spewing behemoths of steel and plastic have on the federal transportation infrastructure.
The whole Headlands project, of which the East Road trenches are a part, promises to improve the conditions for cyclists there. But it's all porkified hogwash. Conditions for cyclists in the headlands now are almost idyllic, all except for the tunnel on Bunker Road, which at least has a trigger for cyclists to illuminate a warning sign of their presence in the tunnel. No -- the purpose of the project is to facilitate car access: to "handle the rigors of 21st century tourism." Whoa -- I thought the "drive the SUV up the hill, take a photo, and drive back down" paradigm was the folly of late-20th century tourism, hopefully not the 21st. This century, we've realized we've got to be smarter managing the movement of people and objects: hauling 6000 lb of mass-produced, over-marketed junk up a 1000 foot climb to carry a 150 lb tourist (okay, I'm optimistic: most are a lot more than 150 lb...) to a viewpoint is obscene. For those that can't hike up, there can be a shuttle. Wider roads = more cars = just as much congestion, more pollution, and worse conditions for cyclists, not better. A few painted stripes and bike stencils on the road won't change that.
So please ride East Road. Ride it often. Fortunately, I wasn't the only one doing so: I saw a number of other cyclists doing the same. We as cyclists don't need to be coddled any more than motor vehicle operators need to be coddled. If anything, we need to be coddled less: cycling, unlike driving, is a right, not a privilege.


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Bird in Skeletal Tree
This was taken in January. I love skeletal trees and when I saw the bird in the branches something about that touched me. Maybe because the tree appears dead and the bird is so alive? Also, I don't know what kind of bird this is, so if anyone else can enlighten me I would love it.
Side note: It is really hard trying to title these photos, so excuse the lame names. Merci.


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- About Us
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The TechnoAlpin fan guns and snow cannons boast pioneering features which put them at the cutting edge of snow production. The fan guns are endowed with innovative and efficient technologies as a result of painstaking research and development. The equipment includes ceramic Quadrijet nozzles, oil-free compressors and valve block filters. The blades of the propellers have been aligned for optimum airflow, even in adverse weather conditions, in order to boost performance. Sound emissions are also reduced by this design.
Besides the production output, the emphasis is also on the energy efficiency of the snow guns. Good stewardship of the available resources is characteristic of the quality and sustainability of TechnoAlpin. The use of ceramic Quadrijet nozzles guarantees even atomization, for example, and reduces the amount of water required.
TechnoAlpin offers a wide selection of fan guns for varying demands and different types of terrain: The biggest and most powerful snow gun is the TF10 which is available as the standard model or in a reduced-noise version as well as a manual version. TechnoAlpin developed the T40 to cater for demands for a compact snow gun which is most suitable for mobile use. TechnoAlpin also supplies the MMS and the which are manually operated fan guns.
All fan guns are fitted as standard with an automatic rotation mechanism, enabling the snow to be distributed over a wide area if necessary and allowing the time needed for slope preparation to be reduced. The TechnoAlpin snow guns are also available in a large number of models which can be adapted to the varying demands and different types of terrain in the ski resorts. They can be mounted on lifts, towers and arms as fixed installations or on undercarriages as mobile alternatives.


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Title: Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor
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Title: Marketing Coordinator, Truex Cullins and Partners
Title: Director of Marketing and Development for Special Olympics Vermont
Title: Government consultant for Client Solutions Architects in San Diego
Title: Pentagon Reporter, National Public Radio
Title: Athletics Coordinator, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association
Title: Graduate Assistant at Ohio University
Title: CEO of RiverRoad Waste Solutions, Inc.
Title: Sportscaster for New England Sports Network (NESN) covering Red Sox baseball, hockey
Title: Co-Founder, Embrace eCulture
Title: Hall Director and Master's Student, Providence College
Title: Teacher at Blackstone Valley Prep, RI
Title: Graduate Student, Dartmouth College
Title: Manager of Special Projects, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Title: Chief of Saint Michael's Fire Department
Title: Assistant Vice President, Rose & Kiernan
Title: Post-doctoral associate, Vermont EPSCoR
Title: Graduate Student, University of Oxford
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Title: Admissions Counselor at Green Mountain College
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Title: College Completion Coach, AmeriCorps
Title: Patient Advocate
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Title: Development Associate at New York Presbyterian Hospital
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Title: Retired Commander, 832nd Air Division
Title: Application Specialist at Boston Children's Hospital
Title: High School English Teacher
Title: Assistant Director at the Association of Africans Living in Vermont
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Title: Senior Associate/Securities Finance, State Street
Title: Master's of Arts Student in Food Studies at New York University
Title: Partner in the firm of Geisler, Gabriele & Marano
Title: Manager, Position Evaluation Team, Panama Canal Authority
Title: Transportation Planning Engineer, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission
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Title: Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement, Bates College
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The sense of community, the caring and intelligent faculty, the administration and my friends (not necessarily in that order) were the very best parts of Saint Michael's. I hope new students will feel the same, make the most of the experience - push yourselves in areas that you are not comfortable - stretch and grow.


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Representatives of a West Volusia manufacturer are looking to grow its business by tapping the growing market for green homes.
DELAND — Representatives of a West Volusia manufacturer are looking to grow its business by tapping the growing market for green homes — i.e., homes that are energy-efficient and as a result friendly to the environment.
Kingspan Insulated Panels North America sent a team of officials from its plant in DeLand to the 2012 Greenbuild International Expo in San Francisco earlier this month to show off some of its new products and to tout a "deep-energy retro-fitting' project in Boston of which the company is taking part.
Kingspan is a worldwide manufacturer of insulated metal panels for building construction.
Joe Brash, president of Kingspan Insulated Panels North America in DeLand spoke with The News-Journal in a telephone interview while attending the expo in California.
Brash said, "Kingspan came to Greenfield because it's a major exhibition of sustainable products."
More than 30,000 people and 1,000 exhibitors attended the Greenbuild conference, according to the conference website.
Brash said "40 percent of all energy wasted in the world is from buildings not using energy properly."
He said if people were more aware of the benefits of "properly insulating," it is possible to solve the world's oil crisis by simply educating individuals on those facts alone.
Some are catching on. The green building trend is becoming more and more popular in commercial construction.
According to the 2012 Green Building Trends report by a trade publication called McGraw-Hill Construction World, 63 percent of worldwide construction firms plan to use green-building materials when building new offices and factories. That number is up from 48 percent in 2008.
And according to 2012 Green Building Market Barometer by New York-based Turner Construction, 71 percent of real estate owners, developers and corporate building owners plan to rennovate with green products over the next year, up from 58 percent in 2010.
The Greenbuild event is put on by the U.S. Green Building Council, based in Washington, D.C.
At the expo, Kingspan also debuted its "Benchmark Facades" line, which Brash said, is "a panel with an integrated layout where the rail fixes through the joint through the structure of the building and you can hang different products onto the rail."
Kingspan Insulated Panels North America was founded in 1972 Ireland, as a subsidiary of the Kingspan Group, a manufacturer of sustainable construction industry products — specifically the insulation of hot water tanks .
The subsidiary company arrived in North America in 2007 in Toronto, Canada. Another Kingspan location opened in Vancouver in 2008, and the company has been in DeLand since 2009.
Kingspan's primary North American office and biggest production plant is in DeLand where it employs 140 workers.
The DeLand plant has roughly 200,000 square-feet of factory space on a 30-acre property.
Kingspan Insulated Panels North America also has offices in Modesto, Calif., and Columbus, Ohio.
When asked if Kingspan plans to expand production locally, Brash confirmed that his company is considering making a potential $2.5 million capital investment in its DeLand plant, but said it is too early to know if and/or when it would happen.


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By JaneAnne Murray
Henry Shuelke III's 514-page report on the prosecution of the late U.S. Sen. Theodore Stevens reveals in fine detail the lengths prosecutors can go to "play [their] cards close to the vest."1 An advocate in an adversarial system is expected to be strategic and circumspect, but Brady v. Maryland — the 50-year-old rule that a prosecutor disclose favorable information to the accused that is material to guilt or punishment2 — is an exception to this model, requiring the prosecutor to assist rather than counter the defense case.3Brady invokes the prosecutor's higher calling to do justice,4 and the criminal justice system's central goal of protecting the innocent.5 As the Stevens prosecution illustrates, however, these principles fit uneasily into the partisan world of criminal litigation.
For D.C. District Judge Emmett Sullivan, who presided over the Stevens case, Shuelke's report described prosecutorial misconduct "to a degree and extent" he had not seen in 25 years on the bench.6 But perhaps more striking than the prosecutors' egregious Brady violations is the banality of the conduct that made them possible — and inevitable. Debriefings of key witnesses that "did not go well" were not memorialized in written reports.7 Handwritten notes of the same interviews were misfiled or lost.8 Interview write-ups and notes omitted information consistent with Stevens' likely defenses.9 Nonlawyers were delegated to review files for Brady information.10 The prosecutors' own notes were never reviewed.11 Consultations with supervising prosecutors charged with guiding disclosure obligations were perfunctory.12 At trial, the government took the position that agents' reports of witness interviews were not prior statements of those interviewed, and therefore not subject to disclosure.13 These all-too-familiar practices did not themselves necessarily violate Brady (or even the law), but they created a fertile ground where Brady's mandate could be marginalized and disregarded.
Data on the prevalence of Brady violations is scarce, in part because 95 percent of cases end in a guilty plea. One study, however, revealed that 16 percent of reversals of capital convictions in the United States from 1973 to 1995 were due to prosecutorial suppression of favorable evidence.14 In addition, a 2010 Innocence Project study concluded that 10 percent of the 255 DNA exonerations involved allegations on appeal or in civil suits of prosecutorial suppression of evidence.15Brady violations can flourish in part because accountability mechanisms have proved ineffectual.16 In fact, in assigning Shuelke to investigate possible criminal contempt charges against the Stevens prosecutors, Judge Sullivan explained that "the events and allegations in th[e] case [we]re too serious and too numerous to be left to an internal investigation that ha[d] no outside accountability."17
While much has been written in the wake of the Stevens case on how to improve prosecutorial practices,18 this article focuses on some ways in which defense lawyers can give meaning to Brady's promise of fundamental fairness.19 Indeed, Shuelke's damning report is a story of defense vigilance as much as it is one of prosecutorial misconduct. In letter after letter, and motion upon motion, the Stevens defense team made Brady a central component of their advocacy, leading directly to the revelations that ultimately resulted in dismissal of the indictment.
A prosecutor's Brady obligations exist even without a defense demand,20 but as a practical matter, the defense will improve the chances of obtaining Brady information by asking and litigating for it with some specificity. A prosecutor may be deliberately withholding favorable information to see how the case progresses, or (more likely) may not know the information exists or has not focused on its exculpatory or impeachment potential. A targeted request may therefore prompt an ethical prosecutor (or one who fears sanction) to search her files and those of her agents, and disclose responsive documents and information. It establishes the groundwork for later litigation. An early resolute stance on the issue may prompt a favorable plea bargain. And it may impact any materiality assessment on appeal.21
The content of the Brady demand, needless to say, will depend on the facts and circumstances of the case, the defendant and potential witnesses, and the likely defenses. An available template of a comprehensive, customizable Brady demand — a useful project for defender organizations — would expedite its preparation in an individual case. A Brady demand, however, will be most effective if based on case-specific investigation, including extensive debriefing of the client and witnesses, and mining of social media and other Internet resources.22 In fact, Brady is not a substitute for investigation, and under the "due diligence" rule, there can be no Brady violation if the defendant or defense lawyer knew or should have known the undisclosed facts.23 In addition, strategic considerations may take precedence over a specific request. For example, a defense lawyer might not want to tip her hand by alerting the prosecutor to a witness's gambling problems, bankruptcy filings, or substance abuse issues.
Along with seeking substantive disclosures, the defense's Brady strategy should also focus on the process by which the prosecutors have complied with Brady. Readily apparent from recent high-profile cases involving Brady violations is the critical role of the prosecution team's practices in memorializing, collecting, and reviewing evidence. The DOJ's post-Stevens process for preserving and disclosing Brady information, outlined in a Jan. 4, 2010, memo by David Ogden,24 is a useful road map for defense counsel to relevant practices in this context. Important lines of inquiry include the membership of the prosecution team subject to Brady disclosure obligations (e.g., law enforcement agencies and regulators engaged in a joint investigation), the files reviewed for Brady evidence, the identities of those who conducted the review, the dates of a witness's debriefings, and the names of note-takers. Defense lawyers can petition the trial court to require prosecutors to certify the efforts taken to identify and disclose Brady information.25
A key component of an effective defense Brady strategy is challenging the prosecutor's pretrial reliance on the appellate materiality standard. This test — holding that information is "material" if there is a "reasonable probability" that disclosure would have altered the result of the proceeding26 — is necessarily a retrospective one. It borders on sophistry to apply it before trial when so many matters are "unknown and unknowable," such as the theory of defense, the identities of witnesses, the court's rulings on in limine motions, the content of jury instructions, and the salient issues during jury deliberations.27 Moreover, materiality is a manipulable standard that empowers the prosecutor to withhold information on the basis of self-serving speculation about outcomes. For these reasons, in United States v. Safavian, D.C. District Judge Paul Friedman held that the "only question before (and even during) trial is whether the evidence at issue may be 'favorable to the accused.'"28 Other courts29 and legislatures30 have reached similar conclusions.
Another battleground is the requirement that the prosecution disclose Brady information "in time for its effective use at trial."31 Often narrowly interpreted by courts and prosecutors as simply guaranteeing an opportunity to cross-examine,32 timeliness from a defense lawyer's perspective means access to Brady information sufficiently in advance of trial to seek additional favorable information, to shape trial theories, and to add meat to opening statements. Belated disclosures, as the Second Circuit acknowledged in Leka v. Portunondo, may "throw existing strategies and [trial] preparation into disarray … when a trial already has been prepared on the basis of the best opportunities and choices then available."33 A targeted demand and focused litigation may expedite disclosure, particularly as it puts all parties on notice that an adjournment will be sought if disclosure is made on the eve of trial. In United States v. Binday, for example, Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon ruled on a Brady motion three months before trial in a complex, multi-defendant fraud case that "'timeliness' with respect to Brady disclosure means immediate disclosure upon discovery."34
Related to the timeliness issue is the canard that impeachment material is a species of Brady subject to less stringent disclosure requirements. Prosecutors will often announce that they will disclose Giglio material at the same time as their required disclosures under the Jencks Act or its state law equivalent. The law is clear, however, that Giglio is Brady.35 As such, Brady and Giglio always trump the Jencks Act, and if information is both Jencks material and Brady, "it must be disclosed on the earlier Brady timeline."36
Recent high-profile cases involving suppression of Brady information illustrate the importance of an order directing compliance with Brady, especially in cases where a Brady violation comes to light or where the prosecutor's office has a history of flouting Brady's mandate. The Shuelke report concluded that the contempt sanction against the Stevens prosecutors was unavailable because there had been no unambiguous order from the court directing the disclosure of all Brady material.37 In fact, Judge Sullivan, relying on the prosecutor's assurances, had intentionally not issued such an order: "I'm not going to write an order that says 'follow the law.' We all know what the law is."38
Judge Sullivan now issues a standing Brady order in every criminal case39 and has urged his judicial colleagues to follow suit.40 His order sets forth textbook Brady principles, adding several clarifications that erase traditional excuses for withholding favorable information. Thus, it makes clear that Brady trumps any other discovery rules, doubts must be resolved in the defendant's favor, and the material must be produced in its original form or, if that is not available, in a summary with enough specificity to make it meaningful.41 The use of summaries, as Judge Sullivan pointed out in court on the day he dismissed the Stevens indictment, "is an opportunity for mischief and mistake."42 The Brady order is symbolically powerful in that it signals the seriousness with which the court views the issue, while also transforming any Brady violation into an act in contempt of court, for which additional civil and criminal remedies lie.
In camera inspection is another avenue to Brady disclosure, particularly of information that raises privacy issues. While judges are loath to assume this burden, some have taken to heart the observation that in an adversarial system, entrusting prosecutors with identifying and disclosing Brady material is akin to "appoint[ing] the fox as henhouse guard."43 These courts have, therefore, upon a "plausible showing" by the defense,44 appropriated the Brady gatekeeping role to themselves. For example, in United States v. Nogbou,45 a case involving the assault of a courthouse officer at a security checkpoint, Southern District of New York Judge John Keenan granted a pretrial in camera review of the victim officer's personnel file. This procedure was a matter of "sound case management" to avoid the possibility of a midtrial delay or a postconviction reversal because of a late Brady disclosure/discovery, and because "it [was] impossible to determine, in advance of trial, whether the evidence requested by Nogbou [would] be sufficiently material to fall within the ambit of Brady."46 Notably, "in an excess of caution," the court would undertake its own review, adding that it was "debatable" that the government would make an accurate materiality prediction.47In camera review has been utilized in the context of, among other things, presentence reports,48 probation files,49 prison records,50 investigating agents' notes,51 prosecutors' notes,52 and grand jury testimony.53 Some courts have delegated the review to special masters.54
Where a Brady violation has been discovered before or during trial, there is a gamut of creative sanctions defense lawyers have sought and district courts have employed, falling between a mere adjournment and the ultimate sanction of dismissal of the indictment. These include excluding evidence,55 advising the trial jury of the government's misconduct,56 referring the prosecutors for internal or external disciplinary actions,57 and enhancing discovery remedies, as in the notable case of People v. Waters,58 in which Judge Edgar Walker granted a mistrial in a murder case in Bronx County, N.Y., because of the prosecutor's deliberate failure to disclose a key witness's changed recollection. The prosecutor candidly admitted that the decision to withhold the information "was motivated by an intent to secure defendant's conviction."59 In a forceful decision — published in full as well as the subject of a news article in the widely read New York Law Journal — Judge Walker condemned the prosecutor's conduct as "an affirmative act of deceit."60 Denying the defense request to dismiss the indictment, the judge ordered that prior to the retrial, the prosecutor provide extensive discovery, including not only all police reports and prosecutor write-ups, but an unprecedented pretrial deposition of the witness.61
Finally, the often-forgotten application of Brady to sentencing — the very posture of Brady itself — is least developed in case law but perhaps most meaningful in a system where most cases end in a guilty plea. As the Supreme Court reminds us in Cone v. Bell, Brady includes information that may not exculpate but that nonetheless mitigates punishment.62 As the Court put it, while "[e]vidence that is material to guilt will often be material for sentencing purposes as well, the converse is not always true."63 Cone's sentence was vacated because although the suppressed witness statements, police teletypes and interview notes relating to Cone's drug use fell short of sustaining his insanity defense, they "may well" have been material to the jury's deliberations at the sentencing phase.64
A specific Brady sentencing request should therefore be made in cases where the judge decides the sentence. For example, does the prosecutor have information that casts doubt on the government's calculations of drug quantity65 or financial loss,66 or is relevant to the defendant's role, his acceptance of responsibility,67 or unwarranted sentencing disparities?68 Such information would include impeachment material. Thus, in United States v. Valenzuela,69 the court held the government had an obligation at sentencing to supply defendants with impeachment information — including benefits sought and received — relating to the victims upon whom the Probation Department and government relied to determine the applicable guideline range.70 Notably, the materiality threshold at sentencing is lower than the pretrial one. A guideline enhancement or mitigating factor typically need only be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt.71 Finally, while courts are upholding waivers of Brady rights in plea agreements,72 these may not necessarily apply to Brady information that is relevant to sentencing. For example, the defense can argue that the waiver may be trumped by a criminal defendant's "due process right to be sentenced on the basis of reliable information"73 and the prosecutor's obligation of "good faith and fair dealing" in plea bargaining.74
Last year, in two of its most notable rulings, the Supreme Court acknowledged that the system of criminal justice is one of pleas, not trials.75 As such, it grants the prosecutor "awesome" plea bargaining power76 and empowers an inquisitorial model of justice. Facts and rights are adjudicated in the courthouse corridors rather than the courtrooms. It is perhaps not coincidental that simultaneously, judges across the country are issuing vigilant and scathing Brady decisions.77Brady, with its focus on exculpatory and mitigating information, is a bright-line restraint on prosecutorial overreaching — prosecutors may be driven to win, but may not be permitted to win "by any means necessary."78 Judges' capacity to use Brady to halt the conveyor belt to conviction, however, requires that Brady violations be discovered — a challenging task that demands aggressive and persistent defense lawyering.
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For several weeks before elective surgery, you can donate your own blood. This practice is called preoperative autologous donation (PAD), and it is an alternative to transfusing blood from the community blood supply (called allogeneic transfusion).
PAD is often used for people undergoing elective surgeries that can cause enough blood loss to require transfusions, such as hip or knee replacement or vascular or cardiac surgery.
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If you are healthy enough to undergo elective surgery, PAD is probably safe. Age will not rule you out, but an infection or low hemoglobin count will. PAD may be advised if there is a high possibility of an incompatibility reaction to allogeneic blood, which can happen if your blood carries antibodies that will attack the donated blood cells.
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The body may have an immune reaction to donated blood. Such transfusion reactions are usually mild and might include chills, fever, backache, and hives; but more serious complications can also occur. Fortunately, the careful matching of blood that occurs before elective surgery makes these reactions rare, so if you cannot give your own blood, do not worry.
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You may donate 1 unit per week but no more than 1 unit every 3 days. If you need 4 units or less, donation should start 3 to 4 weeks before surgery. If you need more units, donation should occur several months before. A donation center may need to be contacted regarding freezing red blood cells.
Because you are giving blood to yourself, you do not have to pass the strict screening required of volunteers. You will need a doctor's prescription, which you will take to the blood center.
Here is what you can expect:
- You will be asked to sit. An area inside your elbow will be cleaned with an antiseptic wipe. A large band will be tied around your arm. The needle will then be inserted into a vein and the band removed. Tubing and a collection bag will collect the blood from the needle.
- It takes about 10 minutes to collect one pint of blood.
- You will remain briefly in an observation area where you can rest and eat a light snack.
- Your body will replace the fluid lost in about 24 hours.
- Red blood cells take longer to recover, so your doctor may give you iron pills so your body can use the iron to make more blood.
What If You Cannot Use PAD?
Allogeneic (other donor) blood transfusion is safe. There are rigorous tests and multiple safeguards to make blood safe for transfusion from donor to recipient.
There is testing called nucleic acid amplification testing or NAT. Unlike blood tests that detect infections like HIV or hepatitis C only after someone develops antibodies, NAT detects genetic materials of the viruses themselves. This increases the likelihood of detecting tainted blood from a donor who is newly infected.
A number of other safeguards are in place:
- Red blood cells always come from volunteer, not paid donors.
- Only healthy donors are accepted. Donor screening includes questions that try to reveal behaviors that may increase the risk of infection with transmittable diseases.
- Donors are informed about conditions that would render their blood unsafe and are given an opportunity to confidentially indicate that their blood should be discarded.
- Multiple screening tests are run on blood to identify diseases that can be transmitted by transfusion.
Before a transfusion, samples of the recipient's blood and donated blood are combined to test for negative reactions, a procedure called crossmatching.
What Are the Other Options?
There are 2 transfusion options that make use of your own blood that involve procedures done right in the operating room. One is called intraoperative blood salvage, a practice usually seen in vascular and cardiac surgery. During this procedure, the blood lost during surgery is washed and reinfused.
Hemodilution is another option. Several units of blood are removed and replaced with a protein or sugar solution. At the end of the surgery, your own blood is reinfused.
Directed donations from friends or family can be an option, but you should avoid choosing people who are not regular blood donors. Otherwise, you are probably better off using allogeneic blood whose donors have undergone testing many times.
What Is the Cost?
Contact your hospital's blood donation center for specific information. Also check with your health insurance to find out if blood donation is covered in your policy.
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