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Integrated Open Systems Unit (Hiroaki Kitano)
Unit outline
Professor (Adjunct) Hiroaki Kitano
kitano at oist.jp
This project aims at development of novel software platform and computational forms of biological knowledge (models and active knowledge-bases) of budding yeast, cancer cells, and developmental/reprogramming pathways, which takes full advantage of recent advantages in information science. The software platform developed will be a next generation information infrastructure for biological science, enabling development of self-sustainable, scalable, and coherent biological models and knowledge sources. "Self-sustainable" means that the system (software and its operation) can be enriched by continuous participations of users, contributors, and business entities. "Scalable" means that the system can grow to describe and execute very large models, such as whole cell models or whole human models, in the future without substantial change of its basic architecture and mode of operation. "Coherent" means a group of software functions in a consistent manner using defined standards and protocols.
Such platform shall be able to aggregate, integrate, and execute biological knowledge. It shall be noted that "execution" means that, at some point in the future, dynamical simulation of biological system can be attained through a body of knowledge encoded in the computational platform. Any change in knowledge can be automatically reflected to simulation. Progress of computational platform toward this goal shall benefit basic biological research as well as industrial use of biological knowledge by pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies.
Despite remarkable progress in computational and information science, software platforms in biological science have not been well established so far, particularly due to lack of standardization and weakness of software platform for utilizing available data and knowledge in a consistent and coherent manner. This problem has been significantly improved in the past years partly due to our efforts for standard formation and development of de facto industrial quality software development. Nevertheless, how such efforts bring benefits to a broader scientific and medical audience is yet to be confirmed. With an overwhelming accumulation of knowledge on specific protein-protein and gene regulatory interactions and a huge volume of public biological data, there is an unprecedented opportunity today that we may actually be able to create a platform and actual service that embraces comprehensive body of knowledge on biological systems. It is practically feasible that comprehensive body of knowledge in a computational form (knowledge base and model of molecular/gene interaction network) to be developed to biological systems by intense study and industrial needs.
Software Platform Development
Software platform development aims at the development of a novel and comprehensive computational platform that consists of (A) SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language) and SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation) model description standard, (B) CellDesigner (CD) and its plug-in analysis tools and Payao , which are platforms for aggregating, editing, analyzing, and sharing biological models, (C) a new on-the-fly simulation platform as well as system analysis tools, and (D) a novel intelligent inference system that designs experiments to fill an information gaps to complete the model, and (E) the integration of an advanced text-mining system developed by collaborators, such as the University of Tokyo and the University of Manchester (NaCTeM), which allows users to quickly search and update publications and specific data on interactions of interest.
This system will gradually transform into a scalable dynamical simulation system that can reflect changes in each component and modular models on-the-fly, thereby enabling continuous upgrading of model precision. This requires a modular and hierarchical modeling system with a rigid mathematical and computational basis.
Biological Model Development
Modeling efforts are expected to validate efficacy of the software platform developed and to be used for further research. The budding yeast model and a part of the cancer cell model will be developed as collective efforts of the community as well as an automated integration of public knowledge and data. Open Yeast Initiative (Open Source Whole Yeast Modeling) may be the central effort of the Open Biology Unit for now.
"Open Yeast Initiative" aims to create a draft whole cell computational model of budding yeast within the next three years followed by successive improvements. "Open Yeast Initiative" that enables a whole yeast and systems biology community to get involved in collectively creating and refining the yeast model. Payao, an open-flow system, and a series of novel simulation software shall enable this unprecedented project. The Open Biology Unit of OIST, in collaboration with the System Biology Institute (SBI) will provide an initial seed map for large-scale molecular interaction of key yeast biological processes, and will be the seed to foster community annotation and improvement. The project shall move toward the integration of biological knowledge and dynamical simulation.
Hase T, Tanaka H, Suzuki Y, Nakagawa S, Kitano H, 2009 Structure of Protein Interaction Networks and Their Implications on Drug Design. PLoS Comput Biol 5(10): e1000550. [doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000550]
Nicolas Le Novère, Michael Hucka, Huaiyu Mi, Stuart Moodie, Falk Schreiber, Anatoly Sorokin, Emek Demir, Katja Wegner, Mirit I Aladjem, Sarala M Wimalaratne, Frank T Bergman, Ralph Gauges, Peter Ghazal, Hideya Kawaji, Lu Li, Yukiko Matsuoka, Alice Villéger, Sarah E Boyd, Laurence Calzone, Melanie Courtot, Ugur Dogrusoz, Tom C Freeman, Akira Funahashi, Samik Ghosh, Akiya Jouraku, Sohyoung Kim, Fedor Kolpakov, Augustin Luna, Sven Sahle, Esther Schmidt, Steven Watterson, Guanming Wu, Igor Goryanin, Douglas B Kell, Chris Sander, Herbert Sauro, Jacky L Snoep, Kurt Kohn & Hiroaki Kitano, The Systems Biology Graphical Notation, Nature Biotechnol. 2009 Aug;27(7) 735 - 741 [doi:10.1038/nbt1558]
Krantz M, Ahmadpour D, Ottosson LG, Warringer J, Waltermann C, Nordlander B, Klipp E, Blomberg A, Hohmann S, Kitano H., Robustness and fragility in the yeast high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) signal-transduction pathway. Mol Syst Biol. 2009;5:281. Epub 2009 Jun 16 [doi:10.1038/msb.2009.36]
Matsuoka Y.; Ghosh S.; Kitano H. ; Consistent design schematics for biological systems: standardization of representation in biological engineering. J. R. Soc. Interface. 2009 [doi:10.1098/rsif.2009.0046.focus]
Further publications related to this Unit are available at http://sbi.jp/Publication.htm


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Completed all the way from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street in 2009, the High Line is Manhattan's new park atop an elevated rail structure is one of the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. Led by Friends of the High Line's Emily Pinkowitz, this walk will be a great way to enjoy the park in the evening hours while hearing more on the gritty history of the West Side and the park's wondrous variety of plantings.
Date: Saturday May 5, 2012
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Event Start: Gansevoort Plaza, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District
Event End: TBD
Host: Emily Pinkowitz, School & Youth Program Manager of Friends of the High Line
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The Affordable Care Act still figures to be a prevalent issue when voters go to the polls later this year, and lingering support for the law stands to boost Republicans.
About eight in 10 voters say a candidate's stance on the law, known as Obamacare, will be important when they vote this November, according to a new Pew Research-USA Today poll released Thursday. That includes more than half — 54 percent — who say it will be "very important."
The group rating Obamacare as "very important" is made up of many enthusiastic Republicans as well as Independent voters. By nearly a 2-1 margin, those who say the law will be "very important" in determining their vote disapprove of Obamacare.
Republicans and people who oppose the law are more enthusiastic at this stage, a possibly crucial factor in a midterm election, which depends heavily on turnout.
President Barack Obama said last week that more than 7 million Americans had signed up for insurance through the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. The Pew-USA Today survey was taken in the aftermath of that announcement.
Americans still disapprove of the law by a 50-37 split, which has not moved since last month. Independent voters disapprove by a 20-point margin, and 45 percent of Independents say their views of the law will be "very important" in determining their vote.
Most Independent voters think the Affordable Care Act has had, and will continue to have, a negative effect on the country. Overall, Americans expect a slightly brighter future for the law, but a plurality still think it will have a negative effect on the country in the coming years.
Here's a chart from Pew that breaks down the partisan divide on the law's future:
The key battle in this year's midterm election will come in the Senate, where Democrats are trying to prevent a Republican takeover that would massively hinder Obama's ambitions as president over his final two years. Republicans need to swing six seats to take back control of the Senate.


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We asked adult Third Culture Kids about the concept of home. These were their responses: [View the story "TCKchat # 41: Home" on Storify]
TCKChat: International Friendships
We asked adult Third Culture Kids about friendships and how they maintain them after a nomadic childhood. Here are there responses across 2 sessions: [View the story "TCKchat # 40: International Friendships" on Storify]
TCKChat: The Expat Parent Experience
We asked adult TCKs across 2 sessions how the TCK experience differs from the Expat Parent Experience. Here were their thoughts: [View the story "TCKchat # 39: TCK vs Expat Parent Experience" on Storify]


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Ah, March! The first true signs of Spring come in many forms in March...hues of green poke through the brown muddiness. Crocuses and Snowdrops awaken to the warm sun. Thoughts of capris, tank tops and flipflops enter my mind (although don't quite make it out of the closet, yet!). The feeling of freshness creeps into the house while spring cleaning with the windows open! And it just may also be a certain someones birthday month-ME!
What do you do in March?
How about you Sponsor Imprintalish? How fun would that be?! I've got lots of fun things planned for March, including my kitchen reno reveal, some fun DIY's, and of course the usual fun like How Pinteresting Wednesdays and Frivolous Friday's Linky!
Large Feature Spots are sold out for March, June, July!


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Understanding the Devastating Impact of Head Injury Accidents
Closed head injuries are one of the most devastating medical conditions that can be suffered after an accident. A Pasadena traumatic head Injury Lawyer can explain the challenges in filing a claim for compensation and help you pursue it.
Understanding the Types of Accidents That Could Result in a Traumatic Brain Injury
Injury accidents can happen at any time. Those involving brain injuries tend to occur most often after the following types of accidents:
- Car Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Slip and Falls
- Sports or Recreational Accidents (skiing, snowboarding etc.)
- Boating Accidents
- Construction Accidents
- Truck Accidents, etc.
Regardless of how the Injury occurred, liability for compensation follows general negligence principles. As a Pasadena traumatic head Injury Attorney can explain, this means the at-fault party must have failed to act reasonably to protect the safety of those around him or her, thereby leading to the Injury. A Pasadena Personal Injury Attorney can investigate whether the victim did anything to contribute to the accident thereby potentially reducing or precluding the chance to recover money. An Attorney can also help compile supporting documentation for the Injury and related disability and provide them to the insurance adjuster when asked.
Understanding the Devastating Impact of Traumatic Brain Injuries
The effects of closed head injuries can be devastating. Often the full extent of the disability or impact on a victim's daily life isn't clear for months or even years later. The prognosis often depends on what part of the brain was injured. Head injuries can cause problems with speech, memory, gross and fine motor control, regulating emotions, Personality and mood shifts and a whole host of other issues seen and unseen. A Pasadena traumatic head Injury Attorney can help you understand who may be legally responsible for your claim and help you pursue it.
At The Paul S. Norris Law Firm, you can discuss your case with an experienced and compassionate Pasadena traumatic head Injury Lawyer. Call (626) 993-4415 to set up a consultation and discuss your legal options.


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Fr Jacques Hamel
One more thing about Fr Jacques Hamel's martyrdom by the Mohammedan fanatics that I find very interesting but that I haven't seen anyone comment on. He was martyred on the feast day of his patron, St James. St James was also martyred by beheading. In the old Spanish legend St James appeared to fight for the Christian army against the Mohammedans. Hence, his Spanish nickname, Santiago Matamoros -- St James the Moorslayer.


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A one-on-one coaching engagement allows you to focus on whatever issues are present, such as time management, business challenges, self-confidence, or relationships. Coaching is different from consulting in that I do not give answers. Rather, I use powerful questions and my expertise, experience, creativity, and intuition to champion you to get "unstuck" so you can discover your own best solutions.
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I am a certified practitioner of the Leadership Circle Profile 360 Assessment, a unique leadership model and tool that connects a well-researched battery of competencies with underlying thought patterns and motivations. This approach leads to a specific development plan that will enable you to build on your areas of strength and replace your reactive tendencies with more creative capabilities, thereby enabling you to inspire your team to do their best. I am also a certified practitioner of the Leadership Culture Survey, which illuminates areas of development for the entire leadership team.
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About Steeped Tea
Several months ago I was contacted by Christa Jones, a consultant for Steeped Tea. I was unfamiliar with this Canada-based company so Christa urged me to take a peak at their seasonal brochure. I was absolutely fascinated by their offerings. Not only do they stock a full range of teas, but they also carry cute teaware, and edibles like Chocolate Chai Muffin Mix and Matcha Mousse.
Steeped tea isn't your typical tea business. While they do offer ordering online, they're actually structured more like Mary Kay (makeup) or PartyLite (candles) and use direct sales to spread the word about their teas. The idea of a house party may not be for everyone, but it is a great way to share your love of tea with others. According to their website "this company began as a passionate search for the perfect cup of tea. Along the way we discovered that the secret was who you shared it with." Well Steeped Tea, I couldn't agree more.
Dark Chocolate Chai
Tea Description:
Enjoy the taste of rich chocolate in this favorite chai blend.
Ingredients: Black Tea, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, white chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, soya lecithin, vanilla extract), spices, natural flavors. Contains milk and soy.
Other Information:
Leaf Type: Chai/Black
Suggested Brewing Tips:
Serving Size: 1 teaspoon per 8oz serving
Water Temp: 212°F
Steep Time: 3 - 5 minutes
The end of September is here and this morning there was a definite bite to the air when I woke up. It had me immediately reaching for a thick pair of socks to ward off the chill from our tile floor as I stumbled out of bed and towards the stove to make breakfast. Chilly weather calls for one thing and one thing only, a nice cup of hot tea. This morning it happened to be a dark chocolate chai from Steeped Tea.
I've had the opportunity to sample a lot of chai over the past few years, but this was one of the most disappointing I've come across in recent memory. Traditionally chai is prepared with milk and sugar, but I found that this chai didn't hold up well to traditional preparation methods. Instead of being greeted by the bright, bold flavors from the various spices this blend was incredibly flat and bland. Even after increasing the amount of loose leaf I used during my preparation (from 1 teaspoon to 1 Tablespoon) I had difficulty tasting the spices. There was an add aftertaste present, perhaps from the chocolate, that seemed to stick with me and get strong the more I drank. In the end I dumped out several cups of this tea, some prepared with milk and others without. I've decided to fix something else to get me going this morning.
My Rating: 19/100
Would I order this again?No. This blend has a very odd aftertaste to it.
Earl Grey de la Créme
Tea Description:
The tea that started it all! This Earl Grey blend is celebrated for its creamy taste.
Ingredients: Black tea, cornflower petals, natural flavors.
Other Information:
Leaf Type: Black (flavored)
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Suggested Brewing Tips:
Serving Size: 1 teaspoon per 8oz serving
Water Temp: 208°F
Steep Time: 2-3 minutes
The truth is that I've rarely met an Earl Grey Créme tea that I didn't enjoy, which is why I decided to save this blend for last. The combinations of citrus and vanilla is pretty high up on my list of favorite flavor combinations, so much so that I've begun to experiment with the combination more in the kitchen. Eventually I'd like to try my hand at Earl Grey Créme Macaroons, but that is a project for when I have more time. First I have to learn how to make macaroons.
It's well established that Earl Grey Créme is my favorite tea and go-to blend when I don't want to put much thought into my selection, but that doesn't mean I don't put just as much thought into reviewing this type tea as I do others. It's fun to compare and contrast each new blend with my favorite. Earl Grey de la Créme from Steeped tea is very heavy on the vanilla, giving it a pleasantly sweet flavor (perfect for those of you like me who have a sweet tooth!) There is only a hint of citrusy bergamot that shines through. If I had one complaint about this blend it would be that it really needs a stronger base to balance everything out and tone down the sweetness. Without more of a contrast from the bergamot and base I think this blend is actually too sweet.
My Rating:75/100
Would I order this again? Probably not. Even though I enjoyed this tea there are many Earl Grey Cream teas are better quality and lower priced.
In an effort to be open with my readers I want to let you know that Christa Jones a Steeped Tea consultant has provided me with tea for review. As always, all opinions are my own.


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Admit it. You've wanted to join the Dharma Initiative since you saw that first grainy movie back on the first season of LOST. Well, now you can.
Not sure what, exactly, ABC is doing with this, but I signed up anyway to fill that LOST void. If anyone else takes the recruitment test, you'll have to let me know if some of the images and "answers" freak you out a little.
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This is the first demo of the new Sony Ericsson Aino's PlayStation 3 Remote Play compatibility. Double click the video to go to our new YouTube Channel. The video speaks for itself otherwise.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Sony Ericsson Aino - PS3 Remote Play
This is the first demo of the new Sony Ericsson Aino's PlayStation 3 Remote Play compatibility. Double click the video to go to our new YouTube Channel. The video speaks for itself otherwise.
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Sony Ericsson Aino Available from 'Early Q4 2009'
Sony Ericsson have revealed on the Official Press Release web page of the Sony Ericsson Aino that the mobile phone that has PlayStation 3 Remote Play will be released in "Early Q4 2009". The new touch screen phone gives a little taste of what could be the start of a PlayStation phone.
- 3D games
- FM radio with RDS
- Java
- Motion gaming
- Remote Play for PLAYSTATION®3
- Tracker
- Video streaming
- Video viewing
- Walk mate
- YouTube™
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Sony: Motion Controller in Development since original Eye-Toy
You may think that Sony's Motion Controller 'Wand' has been kept a secret for maybe two or three years. Wrong. Sony have revealed that the Motion Controller has been in development since the days of the first Eye-Toy which was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Rumor: PSP Apps Coming to PSN
Do you think the iPhone has an advantage over the PSP as it has games and applications? Well that could be changing very soon. Sony apparently plans to reveal an updated PS Store at Gamescon in August, with a new section for PSP Apps. The apps are reportedly priced between $2 and $6 and will take up a storage space of 100MB.
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Monday, 15 June 2009
Hand's On: Supercar Challenge
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Sunday, 14 June 2009
Battlefield 1943 Delayed?
We have been expecting the new multiplayer first-person-shooter Battlefield 1943 for quite some time. It was expected to be released towards the end of this month. Although now on the Official EA Battlefield 1943 Site the release date is stated as PSN: Ships - 9/30 and Xbox Live: SHips 9/30. For all of you who had your money ready for the end of the month (The game will be $15/£9.99) you may have to put it away for a little while longer.
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5 Days till Launch - PS3 Wheel
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Lost Planet 2 to be released simultaneously on PS3 and 360
Despite all the rumors that Lost Planet 2 will be a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, Chris Kramer, public relations of Capcom USA, confirmed to Joystiq that the game will be released on the same date for both platforms.
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Saturday, 13 June 2009
Prototype Review
The main theme of Prototype is to get revenge through deception and destruction. So you may think it is along the same story lines as a GTA Title. It's certainly not. It's a lot more than that. Every mission is different, requiring different varieties of attacks and tactics.
You ask yourself questions whilst looking down on a troubled New York City. Should i go in hard and tear everything to pieces or a quieter approach? Should i use a helicopter or a tank to destroy everything? Whichever decision you make, you will feel rewarded afterwards.
Almost the very first thing you do in Prototype is kill a lot of people. The game opens in Time Square, New York City and everything surrounding you is exploding from buildings to manholes, tanks are firing at mutants which are leaping from the cities billboards whilst you (Alex Mercer), are in the middle of everything chopping literally everything and everyone into pieces.
The structure of the game heavily resembles other games like GTA IV and Assassins Creed. Your free to roam anywhere at any time through the game from the moment you start playing. Side missions are dotted all over the map which resembles either side-missions or min-games. Mission markers are yellow and are available to be activated at any time. The games full missions will reveal who Alex Mercer actually is as you slowly progress through the game. Be warned, as there are a lot of twists in the plot. You will meet different characters through the game who know more about the viral outbreak of mutants. You then have the ability to absorb into these characters and find out what they know.
At the start of the game you will only have the ability to simply run and jump and as you progress and experiment through the game, you will earn Experience Points (EP) which you will then be able to upgrade Mercer in almost any way you want.
Consuming people will be a great experience for any gamer as you will be able to sneak into military bases and you can also upgrade to a stealth costume. Another excellent tactic against military bases by attracting attention to a mutant which will distract enemy fire and possibly the best ability of all is that if you steal the right identity you can order in artillery strikes onto your enemy bases or virus hives. Boosting Mercer's strength is a must as he'll be able to pick up heavier objects with more force and with the 'Spiderman-like' webbing Mercer has you will be able to pull heavier objects such as helicopters to the ground or you could catch a ride.
During the game you will be involved in some excellent boss fights with the best one possibly being the first one where you have an epic battle in the centre of a viral hive. At this point Mercer's blades feel terrible to control but don't worry as you will get used to them.
The mini-games featured in the game are also exceptional with five game types (Kill, War, Consume, Movement and Glide). In kill you simply kill as many mutants or military personals but with military devices such as tanks or helicopters. War is a lot like Kill except you don't use military devices. Consume is where you have to locate and consume a certain character. Movement is simply a range of races around the city and finally Glide is where a target is set on the map and you must leap from the roof of a building, glide and land as close as possible to the target. The closer you get, the more EP you are rewarded with and it's easier the next time around.
The game is superb, and offers so many ways to play it, with so much carnage and fun in it, you can't go wrong. The only blank point is no co-op or multiplayer. You will be experimenting the game for months to come.
PSL Score – 9/10
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Wanted: Weapons Of Fate Review
Wanted: Weapons of Fate is the latest secret agent game to head to consoles. The movie was very popular for quite a few weeks and Warner Bros. Are hoping to continue the popularity with the game.
You play as the greasy haired supernatural assassin, Wesley Gibson. Who is trying to discover the truth about his family, with a lot of questions to ask the game starts five hours after the movie ends. The game gives you the ability to curve your bullets into the throats of your enemies. The only way the developers GRIN could have made this happen is by making it a third-person shooter. The whole game is a slick and enjoyable adventure. Unfortunately the game is far too short and is in need of some DLC. In other words it's a classic movie game.
To activate the 'bullet-bending', hold the L1 button for the PlayStation 3 or the same button for Xbox 360. Choose your target and put it through their skull. If you hit your enemy through the throat your screen will gush full of blood.
GRIN have done an excellent job with the cinematic part's of the game. They can be aggravating at times but are always exciting and filled to the brim with memorable locations. The aeroplane level which is featured in the demo is a brilliant example where you come face-to-face with deadly assassins.
The cover system featured also works very well for the style of game. Sliding and rolling behind cover gives an adrenaline rush and the difficulty isn't too challenging provided players realise early on that steaming straight into the action leads to a quick death. For most of the game you will only have access to one gun but you will have access to two towards the end of the game. It might just be the way the story was supposed to go but every shooter needs a large range of weapons including some decent mounted-guns. The problem with Weapons of Fate's mounted gun's are simple, they're the worst there is on a 'next-gen' game. They take up at least 75% of the screen and just ridiculous for any game in the 21st Century.
The game will only take a few hours to complete which isn't unusual for a game based on a movie. You will also pick up a few trophies/achievements through the short campaign, maybe even a full set. Nothing beyond the graphics will blow your mind away and the game is certainly not worth the £40 it was first released for. So either rent, or wait till this summer when it will be hitting the bargain shelves.
PSL Score – 7/10
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Friday, 12 June 2009
The New PS3 Wheel is looking Excellent
- Enhances gameplay for all driving games that support SIXAXIS Control
- Fully compatible with SIXAXIS and Dualshock 3 Controllers.
- Allows full access to all wireless controller buttons
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New Modern Warfare 2 Details
The new Play Magazine in the UK has given some new details of the biggest FPS of the year:
- Every perk featured in the original multiplayer will return with some new ones included.
- The new 'Special Forces Mode' will be like the Mile High Club mode.
- Operation Detachment may feature.
- Stealth will play a huge part throughout the game.
- Squad insertions will be by helicopter or submarine.
- The new target of Task 141 is one of Zakhaev's buddies - a man called Makarov
- Players will be able to use riot shields (Only in single player campaign)
- Longer completion time.
- Single Player spawning system will change slightly.
Release Info
- The game will be called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (This could change near the release)
- November 10 is it's release date. CEO of Infinity Ward says this will never change.
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In the 2004 election, at polling sites like the Coral Reef public-library branch in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets counted right. So I'm taking my day off today to do this now, not on Election Day, when it's too late to fix things."
This year Florida Republicans are probably worrying that it's too late to fix things, and much of that angst stems from early voting. Many of them, in fact, may be wondering what the GOP-controlled legislature was thinking in 2002 when it approved the practice. The answer is that it had to do something in response to the presidential-vote-recount debacle that embarrassed the state in 2000. And early voting, which allows voters to cast ballots during the two weeks prior to Election Day at a limited number of polling sites, seemed to benefit the GOP in Florida in the 2004 election (although the state kept no official count that year).
But so far this year, early-voting Democrats are outnumbering Republicans at those sites by more than 20 percentage points, and a WSVNSuffolk University poll has Barack Obama leading over John McCain 60% to 40% among early voters. What's more, the number of early voters could approach 30% of all of Florida's 11.2 million registered voters by the actual Nov. 4 Election Day. That massive turnout prompted Florida's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, to flash his bipartisan bona fides this week and lengthen early voting on weekdays by four hours (while letting each county decide whether to lengthen the normal hours this weekend).
Florida, the nation's largest swing state, with 27 electoral votes, is one of 36 states that allow early voting, which increases convenience for voters and reduces Election Day stress for officials. Other states, like Nevada and Georgia, are seeing similarly high turnouts.
But the custom has become particularly popular in the Sunshine State, where many voters have come to view it as a hedge against Florida's notorious Election Day mishaps and misdeeds. The added factor this year is the enthusiasm among Obama voters, especially African Americans eager to elect the first black President (if not avenge what they call the Florida disenfranchisement they suffered in 2000). An unusually vast Obama ground operation in Florida has galvanized early voting, bringing movie stars like Matt Damon into Tampa for early-voter rallies and holding drum-line marches in Miami's predominantly black communities. Most polls show Obama with a narrow but unexpected lead in Florida, and the lopsided presence of Obama supporters in the early-voting lines, which affords the campaign more preElection Day publicity than normal politicking would, "is helping us torque up the vote in as many different pockets of the state as possible," says campaign spokesman Jamal Simmons.
Benjamin Bishin, a political-science professor at the University of California at Riverside who has studied early voting in Florida, says this year's turnout seems to bear out research on two fronts. One is that early voting "disproportionately rewards campaigns that are better organized" because it often requires more refined voter-mobilization efforts than regular voting does; the other is that it "lowers barriers to participation," especially for hourly workers, who can least afford to take time off from work on election Tuesday. "And the fact that these voters are waiting two or three hours in line, which would seem to contradict the convenience argument, indicates they feel as if they're making some kind of statement," says Bishin. "It's as if they're waking up earliest on Christmas morning and this is their chance to influence things."
Despite the two-to-three-hour waits, the Florida numbers keep growing. As of the close of polls on Tuesday, more than 1.4 million Floridians had voted early, a figure that elections officials say could double by Sunday evening. In Miami-Dade County, where Birgin voted, 162,456 people had cast ballots through Tuesday, over 40% more than during the same period in 2004. In Palm Beach County, site of the disastrous butterfly-ballot controversy of 2000, 56,685 people voted early in the first week, more than in the entire two-week period of 2004. This, despite the fact that Palm Beach County voters are dealing with their third voting-machine technology in as many presidential elections, ballot-mishandling in a recent local contest and a seldom-seen elections chief, Arthur Anderson, who has been seriously ill since losing his re-election bid in the August primary race. But a pleasant autumnal drop in temperature after a torrid summer has helped early Palm Beach voters like McCain backer Arelia Sayer, 54, forget the troubles. "We've got a beautiful day," Sayer said in line in Boynton Beach. "You've got to get 'er done."
Getting early voting done can be a hassle. A big reason, besides the reduced number of polling sites, is that since there are only a handful of central voting sites, distinct ballots must be printed out onsite to match each voter's particular precinct. In Palm Beach County, for example, there are 185 different ballots. Palm Beach's de facto interim elections chief, assistant county administrator Brad Merriman, has had to enact several changes in recent weeks to ensure those votes "are all accounted for, every step of the way" between now and Nov. 4; one such change has been to make sure early votes are transported to tabulation sites overnight after polls close instead of letting them sit until the next morning.
Still, early voting has evolved into a valuable test run for states after Florida's 2000 debacle, when the entire nation's electoral processes were exposed as flawed and anachronistic. This year the two-week run-up is letting election watchdogs detect potential problems not just defective voting-booth technology but also the new no-match, no-vote laws that tighten voter-identification requirements at the polls but that critics say threaten to inordinately disenfranchise minority voters. A new concern is the home-foreclosure crisis, which in hard-hit states like Florida may leave thousands of voters without a valid voter address to claim. No major problems have been reported so far, but lawyers for both parties are at the ready (and at polling sites) to make a case if necessary.
Florida does hold some good news for McCain and the Republicans in the run-up to Tuesday. The GOP is certainly behind in early-voter turnout, but its registered voters have mailed in more than 15% more absentee ballots than the Democrats have. (Republicans also requested far more of Florida's 1.6 million absentee ballots, about 793,000, compared with 573,000 for Democrats.) It's a big reason that despite the Democrats' large early-voter lead, the party holds only about a 6-point edge over the GOP in Florida, on the basis of the party that early voters (including absentee-ballot voters) are registered with. (The votes themselves aren't actually counted until Election Day.)
The outcome, as is so often the case in Florida, will be largely determined by the state's huge cohort of independent voters, who make up almost a fifth of the electorate. And that, say analysts, is again where early voting benefits the more potent Obama ground campaign. As more Democratic voters are checked off the list before Nov. 4, it allows his campaign to focus more of its energy and resources on the state's independents and undecideds. "You're simply able to throw that much more at the people who haven't voted yet," says Bishin.
The broader small-d democratic benefit of early voting is supposed to be higher overall turnout. But analysts say the practice hasn't been around long enough to draw conclusions. The same holds for the widely held notion inside the parties especially among Democrats, who are assumed to gain more from higher turnout than the GOP does that early voting is an insurance policy against low voter turnout on Election Day.
Nor has early voting made the case that America's Election Day should be on a weekend instead of a weekday when almost everyone is working: Bishin notes that last week, early-voting numbers in Miami-Dade County dropped from 21,000 on Friday to 14,500 on Saturday and 16,600 on Sunday before bouncing back to 24,000 on Monday. Then again, this is Florida, where weekends are for the beach something practically everyone, Democrats and Republicans, can agree on.
With reporting by Hector Florin / West Palm Beach
(See photos of John McCain's long distance campaign here.)
(See photos of what Barack Obama saw on the campaign trail here.)


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The Fee: The amount payable by the Client to the Company for the service in the Agreement
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The Booking Fee of £250 may be made by BACS online money bank transfer (preferred), or a cheque made payable to Kristida Stalionyte, or by cash, and secures the time and services of the Photographer(s) for the wedding and is non-refundable or transferable in the event of cancellation, it being the agreed loss suffered by the Photographer due to cancellation. Cancellation less than 12 weeks before the wedding will result in the payment in full. All cancellations must be in writing. Weddings that are postponed to a later date will retain the fee as long as the Photographer can re-schedule for the new date and time.
Following payment of the Booking Fee, the balance of £[] is due by []. No Photographs, Albums, USB Memory Stick or Additions will be delivered until all payments due have been paid in full. Payment for Reprints, Digital Story Books, Acrylic Panels, Canvas Prints, or other Additions is to be
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The Principal Photographer will be Kristida Stalionyte, and a 2nd Photographer of his choice will be provided at extra cost. They will be the ONLY stills Photographers allowed to attend for financial gain. (Videographers attendance by agreement.)
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Johan, Nengyanti (2009) STUDI PEREMPUAN: ILMU ATAU BUKAN. Empirika Fisip Unsri, XIII (1). pp. 8-17. ISSN 1410-8364
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Abstract Discourse of women as a science or not had made long time issue. Actually, women studies is similar with ecology, demography etc. As a science, based on Kuhn's science paradigm, women studies had viewed as paradigm on the beginning 1980's and had been developing as science. Study and research model onwomen studies had also been developing. Moreover, women studies had influenced Public Administration especially on decision making of public policy or as a public policy itself. As a science, women studies have own object for study and methodology for itself to research. Key words: Studi Perempuan, Ilmu, Paradigma. Administrasi Negara
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This is the forum page. For the main LPMuds page, visit http://lpmuds.net
I've added RCP support to Dead Souls. That means thatapplications that use the "Remote Creator Protocol" should probablywork ok.
Of course, there are only two I ever heard of, but hey.
This basically allows you to edit files on your mudas if they were local files, without having to use ed or ftp.
If you want to give it a test drive, the files and instructions arein alpha 17. I Don't recommend trying to back port stuff to16 from 17, because I had to change quite a few things toget this thing to work. You'll need to install alpha 17 for this to work.
It's a sneak peek, and probably still buggy, but worth a look, for the adventurous.
For more info:
EDIT: To clarify, what this means is that you log into your UNIX computer,then you issue the creremote command. That command connects youto your mud, whther it's on that computer or on another one. You canthen use your favorite UNIX editor like gvim to edit mud files, and thechanges magically appear on the mud, even though you never telneted in.
Unfortunately, you can't do this on Windows. The Windows creremoteclient doesn't seem to work.
inv = deep_inventory(env) - ({ this_object() });
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Everyday more and more birds are flying into the park from their winter home. As ice and snow melts, habitat expands for the birds returning. Trying to spend as much time as possible locating birds, the anticipation for the spring migration is always shorter then the event. One day I caught the Red tailed Hawk flying overhead and on a another day the American Weigeon searching for food among the open water.
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Show us your Pride!
Join folks from Louisville and beyond for our annual
Powered With Pride 5K!
In 2014, PWP Nation is poised to grow larger, stronger...PROUDER!
Our mission: To engage and empower communities, by fostering a healthy sense of self, one proud step at a time.
Powered With Pride Run/Walk, presented by Humana Vitality, returns to Louisville's Pride Weekend line-up in 2014 after an incredibly successful inaugural event in June 2013. Energized by the amazing support from Louisville's LGBT and supporting communities which united in such a healthy and visible display, many new PWP-focused events are planned in 2014...all culminating with our run/walk on Saturday, June 21st. We hope you'll become a part of PWP Nation and join the journey!
All participants will receive a custom designed race t-shirt and black rainbow tube socks.
Each year we donate a portion of our proceeds to a local non-profit focused on advancing causes near and dear to the LGBT and supporting communities.
Our 2014 charity beneficiary is The Louisville Youth Group! LYG boosts the self-esteem of GLBT youth by providing a safe space that encourages positive life choices, teaches healthy interactions with peers and adults, and develops activities in which youth are challenged to reach their full potential.
Join the Journey & register now!
Date & Time
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Powered With Pride 5K Run/Walk: 8:00 AM
The Comfy Cow Chase Kid's Run: 9:15 AM
Hogan's Fountain/Pavilion
Cherokee Park
745 Cochran Hill Rd
Louisville, KY 40206
Entry Fee
Registration Fee: $35.00
Register now online or register in person with your completed registration form and cash or check at either Blue Mile store locations:
The Summit, Louisville The Highlands, Louisville
4114 Summit Plaza Drive 1512 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40241 Louisville, KY 40205
Online registration closes June 20, 2014. In-store registration, and other registration points, will be taken through race morning if spots remain available.
Prefer to sleep in but still want a sweet t-shirt? No problem!
Choose our Sleep-In Donation of $25 to support us and get a custom-designed t-shirt!
Comfy Cow Chase
The Comfy Cow Chase is our NEW kid's fun run added to PWP festivities for those age 12 and under. The fun run will take place as soon as the last PWP participant has victoriously crossed the 5K finish line in Cherokee Park! Fun run participants will join The Comfy Cow mascot, and other costumed characters, as they dash along our grassy-chase-course in a colorful display of fun and wellness. The cost to join is $5, with all participants receiving a children's pair of Pride Socks, finisher's award, and FREE scoop of Comfy Cow ice cream! Registration for those 12 and under is on our active.com registration page.
Packet Pick-Up
In advance:
Details on advance packet pickup can be found on our Events page.
Day of race:
Saturday, June 21, 2014 before 7:30 AM, prior to the start of PWP 5K at Hogan's Fountain/Pavilion
This year awards will be given to the top overall male, female, and transgender runners as well as the top 3 runners in each age division. PWP is about community, solidarity and FUN. We will continue our tradition of awards for costumes! This year our costume contests will include Best Theme, Most Colorful, Sexiest, and other categories for both groups and individuals So come join us, and show us your PRIDE!
PWP age divisions are as follows: 13-15 yrs, 16-19 yrs, 20-24 yrs, 25-29 yrs, 30-34 yrs, 35-39 yrs, 40-44 yrs, 45-49 yrs, 50-54 yrs, 55-59 yrs, 60-64 yrs, 65+ yrs.
Door Prizes
A huge hit at our inaugural race, all participants are eligible for door prize drawings at our post-race celebration at The Monkey Wrench. Like last year, we'll have goodies, swag and certificates by the dozens to win! Prize giveaways will begin shortly after the last participant finishes. All participants are eligible for door prize drawings.


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Admissions Deadlines
Admissions Deadlines
- Fall — August 1
- Spring — December 1
- Summer — April 1
2018–2019 Start Dates
- Summer — May 13, 2019
- Fall — September 3, 2019
- Spring — January 13, 2020
Have Questions? Contact your admissions counselor!
Last names starting with A–K, contact:
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Post Traditional Admissions Counselor
Steps to Apply
- Submit a completed application.
- Submit $45 application fee along with your completed application.
- Official high school transcripts and official college transcript(s):
- College transcripts should include all college courses completed by the student.
- Transcripts may not be hand delivered. They must be sent electronically from the school via Parchment or mailed directly to:
Office of Post-Traditional Admissions
13800 Biola Ave.
La Mirada, CA 90639
Note: It is advised that you fill out your FAFSA form (fafsa.ed.gov) early in the admission process. Be sure to include Biola University's number (001122) on the form. Once that is received, our Financial Aid Department can begin the process of helping you find the aid you need.
Steps to Apply: International Student
- Submit a completed application.
- Submit $45 application fee along with your completed application.
- If applying online, you may submit the fee through your application portal, otherwise please send a check or money order made payable to Biola University, with the student's name indicated on the memo-line, to the address below:
Office of Post-Traditional Admissions
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La Mirada, CA 90639
- If applying online, you may submit the fee through your application portal, otherwise please send a check or money order made payable to Biola University, with the student's name indicated on the memo-line, to the address below:
- Complete the required essays
- Your essay prompts can be found in your application. Your application will not be reviewed until your essay has been submitted.
- Submit official transcripts
- Submit an official transcript from each secondary and post-secondary school attended, current through the time of application. Students who have taken courses outside of the United States must have their transcripts evaluated by an independent Credential Evaluation Agency located in the United States, such as the American Education Research Corporation. A 2.5 GPA is required for international transfer students.
Admissions Requirements
- Must be a believer in the Christian faith (the applicant's statement of faith will be articulated in the personal essay section of the application).
- Must have at least a 2.5 cumulative college GPA.
- Must have graduated from high school or earned an equivalent degree (GED).
- Preference will be given to students with at least three years' work experience.
- Students with fewer than 15 semester credits post high school must apply as transfer students and meet the Admissions requirements for first time college students. In addition, students are required to submit SAT/ACT scores. If no test score is available, the Post Traditional Test-Optional Rubric process will be used.
Please note that we consider a student's file for admission in a holistic manner and encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the bulleted requirements above. Please contact your Admissions Counselor with any questions.
Transfer Credits
Up to 70 credits of work from other accredited colleges or universities can be applied to your degree. Ask your admissions counselor for transfer credit guidelines.
- Your courses must be from an accredited institution.
- You must have earned a grade of "C" or better in the course.
- You must order an official copy of your transcripts from each school you have attended.
- Transcripts are only "official" when they are mailed directly to Biola from each school.
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In this May 28, 2009 file photo, a foreclosed home is shown in Mountain View, Calif. More than 13 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure as the recession throws more people out of work, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
In this May 28, 2009 file photo, a foreclosed home is shown in Mountain View, Calif. More than 13 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure as the recession throws more people out of work, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
By Jennifer Taub
416 pp. Yale University Press $30
In the early 2000s, the media regularly turned to David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. He provided consistently optimistic predictions about rising housing prices and labeled those who disagreed a "Chicken Little." In 2006, at the peak of the housing bubble, he published a book entitled Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust—And How You Can Profit from It.
Within a year, the housing bubble popped. Between 2006 and 2012, housing prices nationwide fell by a third. Americans lost about $7 trillion in household wealth as a result of the real estate crash. Six million families lost their homes to foreclosure and short sales. As late as mid-2014, almost 10 million American households (about one in five of all mortgaged homes) were still "underwater"—their homes worth less than their mortgages. Millions of middle-class families watched their major source of wealth stripped away, their neighborhoods decimated, and their future economic security destroyed. Foreclosed homes in a neighborhood bring down the value of other houses in the area, magnifying the impact. The slowness of this recovery has much to do with the housing collapse.
In Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business, Jennifer Taub explains how they got away with it and how this house of cards came crashing down. She names names—of greedy bankers, sleazy mortgage lenders, compliant politicians, indifferent government regulators, and occasional heroes who fought for stronger government oversight of banks and tougher consumer protections.
Taub reminds us that the nation's economic troubles were entirely preventable. She pinpoints the key decisions—primarily by presidents, cabinet secretaries, key members of Congress, and government bank regulators—that allowed banks to engage in an orgy of speculation that caused the mortgage meltdown and the subsequent economic crisis. They weren't following some predetermined script. They were making conscious choices about which interests to serve. They knew what they were doing and what the consequences might be. But, blinded by greed, they simply didn't care.
Taub traces the 2008 financial crisis to the deregulation that began in the Carter years in the 1970s, accelerated during the Reagan-Bush period in the 1980s, and continued during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eras. The 2008 disaster, she writes, was a replay of the savings-and-loan debacle of the 1980s, when hundreds of S&Ls and banks went under and the federal government was left to bail out the depositors whose money the speculators had looted to the tune of about $125 billion. At the end of each catastrophe, the industry consolidated, with fewer banks owning more assets. The nation's ten largest banks increased their control of the industry's assets from 21 percent in 1960 to 60 percent by 2005.
The financial and real-estate lobbies used their political muscle to promote deregulation, which opened the floodgates to risky and predatory practices. Banks and private mortgage lenders began pushing subprime mortgages, many with "adjustable" rates that jumped sharply after a few years. These loans comprised 8.6 percent of all mortgages in 2001, soaring to 20.1 percent by 2006. That year, ten lenders accounted for 56 percent of all subprime loans, totaling $362 billion.
Instead of cautiously making loans to people who could repay them, banks and brokers made money by lending to people who were unable to repay. They bent the rules, lowered normal banking standards, and engaged in a variety of fraudulent practices—hidden fees, confusing loan documents, failure to verify borrowers' income—that increased the odds that consumers would eventually lose their homes to foreclosure, after which lenders and brokers would make money by "servicing" the loan and reselling the home to the next unsuspecting buyer.
Predatory lenders touted low interest rates in ads targeting the elderly and residents of low-income, working-class, and minority neighborhoods, without explaining the actual interest rates or that adjustable-rate mortgages would soon have higher rates. Mortgage brokers, the street hustlers of the lending world, made a commission for every borrower they handed to a lender. They used mail solicitations and ads that shouted, "Bad Credit? No Problem!" and "Zero Percent Down Payment!" to find people who were closed out of homeownership, or homeowners who could be talked into refinancing.
Taub, a professor at Vermont Law School (and former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments), is a great storyteller. She peppers her history of the financial crisis with profiles of people who played key roles and bit parts in the unfolding disaster.
The bit players include Harriet and Leonard Nobelman. In 1984, the couple borrowed $68,250 from a mortgage broker to purchase a modest condo in Dallas. The broker then sold the loan to American Savings and Loan Association in Stockton, California, the nation's largest S&L. Its executives' greed and mismanagement led to several reorganizations, but whenever it fell on hard times, the federal government bailed it out. Eventually, it was purchased by Washington Mutual, which later collapsed under a mountain of bad mortgages brought on by its own predatory practices, including the creation of a devious idea called the Option ARM (adjustable rate mortgage), which allowed the borrower to defer a portion of the interest due. These mortgages were a trap almost guaranteed to result in massive foreclosures.
While American Savings' various incarnations kept feeding at the federal trough, the Nobelmans had no such luck. By 1990, they had lost their jobs and faced health problems. They filed for bankruptcy to avoid losing their home. They wanted a bankruptcy judge to modify their mortgage, based on their condo's depressed value ($23,500—a result of Dallas's worsening real estate market). But the bankruptcy judge rejected their plan. When they appealed the case, the federal court for the Northern District of Texas turned them down, too. They took their case to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but they had no better luck there. So they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1993, in Nobelman v. American Savings Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited judges from requiring banks to modify mortgages by reducing principal to help homeowners facing bankruptcy and foreclosure. With the Nobelman ruling, lenders quickly recognized that consumers who fell behind on mortgage payments couldn't rely on the same bankruptcy protections routinely used by businesses. This, Taub explains, gave lenders "added incentive to place people in homes they could not afford," often using deceptive mortgage products. As Taub observes, our government determined that while the Nobelmans were "too small to save," American Savings, "with $30 billion in assets, was too big to fail."
One fascinating figure in Taub's story is Kerry Killinger, who became CEO of Washington Mutual in 1990 at age 40. Throughout its history, WaMu had engaged in what Taub calls "simple, safe banking" that was cautious and consumer-friendly. Killinger changed WaMu's corporate culture. Between 1990 and 1998, WaMu grew from $7 billion to $150 billion in assets and from 50 to 2,000 branches, in part by buying other banks. In 2001, American Banker named Killinger its Banker of the Year. As WaMu got bigger, so did Killinger's appetite. He stopped flying coach and began traveling on corporate jets. As a young CEO, he earned a modest salary. By 2007, he was earning $14.3 million in compensation; the next year, $25.1 million.
WaMu pumped up its profits by pushing riskier loans that were more profitable than fixed-rate mortgages. By 2006, 75 percent of WaMu's home loans were subprime, adjustable mortgages. WaMu intentionally failed to verify, and sometimes falsified, the income or credit history of borrowers, and even forged borrowers' signatures on loan documents. It hired appraisers who inflated the value of homes to increase loans and put borrowers in precarious over-leveraged positions. It relied on 34,000 independent brokers to bring in business but had only 14 of its own employees to oversee their work. Not surprisingly, fraud was rampant and unchecked. Salespeople who delivered the most borrowers received invitations to WaMu's annual President Club event, an opulent party held in various vacation spots like Cancun, the Bahamas, Maui, and Kauai. Salespeople who refused to sell the Option ARMs as a matter of conscience were fired.
"If you were alive, they would give you a loan," said one appraiser who worked closely with WaMu. "Actually, I think if you were dead, they would still give you a loan."
In September 2008, WaMu's board fired Killinger. A few weeks later, after WaMu reported that it faced $19 billion in losses from troubled mortgages, the Office of Thrift Supervision seized WaMu's banking divisions and put the FDIC in place as the receiver. It was, at the time, the largest bank failure in the nation's history. The FDIC arranged for JPMorgan Chase to purchase WaMu's assets. Nevertheless, Killinger received $15.3 million in severance payments.
The conclusion Taub draws from the malpractices of WaMu and kindred lenders, rating agencies, investment banks, and others is stark: "Any hope for a large business to self-regulate at the expense of profit is likely not tenable on a playing field with competitors waiting to take one's place. And especially not when a CEO and other top executives are compensated for driving up short-term profits and thus the stock price, even when losses are certain to follow." She concludes that Killinger "led this company off the cliff, but he did so because lawmakers and regulators took down the guardrails and eliminated the speed limits."
Although Taub uses Killinger and WaMu as exemplars, she reminds us that this was a systemic disease that infected the entire financial industry. Many bankers, brokers, and rating agencies broke the law, but much of what they did was perfectly legal, the consequence of decades of deregulation.
Taub reveals that, with a few exceptions, the heads of the crazy quilt of state and federal bank regulatory agencies viewed the lenders as clients. They did little to ensure banks' safety and soundness or to protect investors, depositors, borrowers—and the wider economy.
The worst culprit was Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, a disciple of Ayn Rand, whose libertarian views colored his tenure as the nation's top bank regulator. Greenspan believed that the banks could and should police themselves, with investors and rating agencies serving as back-up cops. He didn't think that any bank would jeopardize its long-term solvency to make short-term profits. Only after the bubble burst and the economy crashed did Greenspan admit he was wrong, telling Congress in 2008 that he was in a state of "shocked disbelief."
But Greenspan and other regulators had plenty of information warning them that many huge banks were engaging in fraudulent, reckless, and risky activities that would eventually explode. They choose not to act, blinded by ideology, self-interest (including potential jobs in the banking industry), and timidity. "Had Greenspan acted," Taub writes, "the entire mortgage crisis could have been averted."
Taub does not spare the Obama administration for its unwillingness to hold the worst culprits accountable for their misdeeds or to address the suffering of homeowners victimized by reckless lenders. Obama's key economic advisers, particularly Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, did not believe that directly addressing the foreclosure problem by providing financial relief to distressed homeowners was necessary or politically feasible.
Obama eventually supported the effort that led to the Dodd–Frank legislation. The new law focused primarily on protecting consumers from abusive practices, but it did little to challenge the concentration of ownership or key aspects of the industry's business practices, including the "originate to distribute" loan model and regulation of derivatives.
Particularly frustrating was Attorney General Eric Holder's reluctance to prosecute the banks and their top executives. Eventually, the Justice Department put enough pressure on several major banks to agree to negotiate multibillion-dollar settlements. The funds were targeted to some of the victims of the banks' fraudulent practices, and to help homeowners. But the top executives admitted no wrongdoing. The settlement fees came out of the banks' revenues, not the pockets of the bigwigs. And the real culprits avoided spending time behind prison bars, which in the end is the only way to really stop them from misbehaving and crashing the economy again.
In 2011, for example, the FDIC sued Killinger and two other WaMu executives for mismanagement. They reached a settlement agreement for $64.7 million, most of it covered by the bank's insurance policy. That year, too, the Justice Department investigated WaMu but failed to file any charges.
Indeed, many Wall Street honchos survived the financial crisis not only with their jobs intact but with substantial raises. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon received a hefty bonus after negotiating a settlement with the feds over his bank's involvement in the mortgage crisis. On January 24, 2014, it was announced that Dimon would receive a 74 percent raise—to $20 million—despite what was reported as the bank's worst year under Dimon's reign.
The Institute for Policy Studies, in a March 2014 report, found that the $26.7 billion in bonuses handed to 165,200 executives by Wall Street banks in 2013 was enough to more than double the pay for all 1,085,000 Americans who work full-time at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
No bank CEO has faced prosecution or gone to jail for the widespread mortgage fraud that fueled the bubble and the collapse that followed. "The message to every Wall Street banker is loud and clear," said Senator Elizabeth Warren at a Senate Banking Committee hearing last year. "If you break the law, you are not going to jail, but you might end up with a bigger paycheck."
Taub's tale of malfeasance, corruption, and indifference is occasionally interrupted with stories of dissenters who challenged the bankers and regulators. Her heroes include Warren and Senator Richard Durbin, who pushed for legislation to give bankruptcy court judges the power to modify mortgages through "principal reduction"—to reduce the balance owed on the mortgage to the home's current market value—which would save "underwater" homeowners from spiraling debt and foreclosure, but who ran into a buzz saw of industry lobbyists who killed the bill in the Senate. Another dissenter was Brooksley Born, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1996 to 1999, who wanted her agency to regulate derivatives and other exotic financial investments (including credit default swaps) that she accurately predicted were too risky and would lead to disaster. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Summers, and Greenspan stopped her from exercising the kind of regulatory authority that would have prevented the calamity. Edward M. Gramlich, a Federal Reserve Board member, repeatedly warned about subprime mortgages and predatory lending. He tried to get Greenspan to crack down on irrational subprime lending, but his warnings fell on deaf ears, including those in Congress. Taub also praises Sheila Bair, the FDIC chair who resisted banks' reckless practices, but was usually outmaneuvered by White House officials and regulators closer to centers of power. Taub credits two economists, Dean Baker and Susan Wachter, who warned that the upsurge of subprime loans and the upward spiraling of housing prices was unsustainable, but who were marginalized by their more mainstream colleagues and the industry's hired experts.
Missing from Taub's account are the many community organizing and advocacy groups, like National People's Action and ACORN, who, since the 1970s, were on the front lines of the battle against bank redlining and who issued early warnings about predatory lending. She also ignores the role of Americans for Financial Reform, the Washington, D.C.–based liberal coalition that played a key part in pushing for tough reform measures that resulted in the Dodd–Frank legislation. Nor does she discuss Occupy Wall Street, which helped inject outrage about the banking industry's abuse of power into the national conversation. For the story of those grassroots activists, readers will have to rely on Larry Kirsch and Robert Mayer's Financial Justice: The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse and Chester Hartman and Gregory Squires's From Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit.
Taub's book is a jeremiad, a warning that we need to understand what led to the 1980s S&L crisis and the more recent financial meltdown, or else it could happen again. She would certainly be upset, but not surprised, by a story that appeared on the front page of The New York Times on January 14, soon after the Republicans took control of both the House and Senate. The article began, "In the span of a month, the nation's biggest banks and investment firms have twice won passage of measures to weaken regulations [adopted as part of the Dodd-Frank law] intended to help lessen the risk of another financial crisis, setting their sights on narrow, arcane provisions and greasing their efforts with a surge of lobbying and campaign contributions." She may have to add a chapter to the book before it appears in paperback, recounting the sorry tale of lessons unlearned.


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Vanessa and Joe met through Joe's Sister. They were friends first but then created a long and lasting relationship. It wasn't until a trip to Napa and Vanessa's family when Joe asked Vanessa to Marry him. For the engagement, we headed to Sutro Baths for a beautiful fall day. It was so much fun and we had some crazy beautiful light throughout the shoot. I can't wait until their wedding day at Ravenswood in Livemore next May!
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Letter from Paid Sick Days Supporter
City Council-members, as well as Healthy Tacoma, received this encouraging letter from one of our local supporters of paid sick days. We want to thank the individual/business owner that sent this in to City Council. We hope it inspires others (like you) to share their stories as well!
"Dear City Council-members,
I don't understand why there is even a question whether employees should be paid for sick-days. For as long as I have been in business all of my employees who worked at least 35 hours a week earned a certain number of hours towards paid sick-days they could use within that year. The rate at which they would accumulate depended on the years they worked for me. So a new employee accumulated fewer hours than a loyal employee who stayed with my company. The same went for vacation days.
Maybe I offered this because I grew up in Germany and it was just the way business was conducted there. I also offered health-insurance for many years until it was just impossible to pay for it any more, especially since the competition didn't provide it and I couldn't very well raise our prices as quickly and by as much as the health-insurance went up which was over 20% in some years. If every employer would have to provide the same benefits to their employees, the playing field would be even.
To me it makes no sense to have a sick employee service customers or do any kind of work. First of all the sick employee cannot possibly provide excellent service and secondly you don't want your customers to get sick at your place of business or they stay away.
I don't understand why this should be a local issue. The federal government and the State regulate pretty much everything that has to do with business. In this country we treat those who do the actual work in such a demeaning way and don't care for their well being first and foremost. Equipment gets serviced regularly so it stays in top condition and it is generally treated better than most employees. People do better when they feel appreciated and when they are rested and allowed to 'recharge their batteries'.
If we have to start at the local level, than I am totally supportive of Tacoma requiring employers to provide paid sick-days to employees."


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Make Him Sacred/
By Carolyn Shields
I've been so fascinated with this idea of holy for years now. What is holy. Who is holy. My holy. Because of this, can you guess what my favorite part of mass is? In the Sanctus, our voices come together and we unite with the choir of saints in heaven. Our words of praise are in tune with the angels'. And then? We hit our knees.
We become grounded back to this objective reality, reminded of what's coming before us, and bracing ourselves to receive our Holy and to enter into this divine union.
But this world seems to have lost a sense of reverence, of awe and humility of understanding there is something far, far greater that happens on that altar than the ritual seems to let on. It's a vague memory to many now, and warped to think how by becoming Man, Holy gave Himself an expiration date simply by folding Himself into our history and rooting Himself in our time. He became old news in an age where we are constantly looking forward, pushing onward, and tradition becomes something to burn.
Holy, holy, holy. Once isn't enough.
So here's the thing then...if Holy seems confined to the past, restricted to an altar or a tabernacle, or so abstract that even the stars can't comprehend it, creation can't bare it, humanity struggles to find it, then where is it? We can't live on bended knee before an altar forever.
But when we dip our fingertips into the holy water, and cross ourselves to go back out to build His kingdom on earth, we have our answer.
You harbor Holy. You host the Host. 1 Corinthians 3:17 says, "God's temple is holy; and you are that temple."
You know how you've got the stuff of sainthood in you? And how you're being challenged to live a holy life, whatever that looks like, whether or not that's simply you challenging yourself because no one else is? And you know how we've been told that we're created in the image and likeness of God, meant for more? How we should go to confession? You know all that stuff we've been told?
It's all right there. You see, we have all of these truths before us, some great and beautiful and some hellish, some maybe we're even tired of hearing, but I'm beginning to understand how they're all intertwined, and that's by holiness within this mystical body of Christ. We know we were not meant for this world (we get that), and that sin ruptures what so delicately unites us to Christ (we feel that), but by striving for purity, that's exactly how we are going to find Him in this world. And yes, sometimes He finds us alone, sitting on our windowsill on the eighth floor of our first studio watching the sunset, and He reveals Himself in the hazy golden and violet light. Sometimes it's not always through the other, but if our Holy Ghost is total Communion (think Trinity), and if we are made in His image and likeness, aren't we too created for relationships?
Didn't He send His very son to communicate that to us? Holy took on flesh, right? God is holy by Essence.
So that's my prayer, but not only for you sweet readers, for my family, for our Church, but for him too. Let's hit our knees again and again, and let's take this on, together. Again, it's been blowing my mind for years now how Holy not only wants an intimate relationship with us, but that He dwells in us; that we are called to be holy, and as we grapple with this beautiful truth, let's take our spouse into this contemplation as we end in prayer:
Holy Spirit,
I ask that you make him sacred. Let him embody your love and have hands dirty from giving, a restored soul and a vibrant heart. Let him have everything short of your scars. Let him approach life reverently, with discernment at the center of his actions, praise on his lips, and a mind always on you. Keep him gracious, keep him solemn and devout and pious. Let him never run but stand his ground. Let him take the hit and protect those around him. Let him practice sacrifice and self denial and humility every single day. Let him defend Your name by offering his own, and one day, may he give me his. Holy Spirit, make him sacred. Make him holy. Make him sanctified. Amen.


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Remembering the Jewish Community of
Gusyatin, Ukraine
Remembered by George Aronson
Grandson of Leona Guttmann Sachs, b. Gusyatin, 1903
Great-grandson of Osias Guttmann b. Gusyatin, 1860, and Tillie Bucharest, b. Satanov ( ca 1870)
Jews began living in Gusyatin, in the Ukraine, in the sixteenth century. The town stayed smaIl until 1772, when Poland was partitioned, with the border between Austria and Russia following the Zabrotz River through the center of the town. As a border town, Gusyatin became an important center for trade. Many Gusyatin Jews became wholesale merchants, shipping grain and lumber from Austria to Russia.
Gusyatin grew quickly in the 19th century. A Satmar Hassidic Court was set up, and hundreds of Hassidim moved to Gusyatin to live near the rebbe. New synagogues were built, as were ritual baths, hotels, hospitals, and old age homes. The town supported a Jewish-owned factory to make fountain pen nibs, print shops and paper merchants, as well as an organization to publish rare manuscripts.
Secular Jewish life also thrived. Zionist groups were started. A Toynbee-Hala club was established to present popular cultures on Saturday evenings. Modem services came to the town, including banks, electricity, and a new sewage system. Among the thriving businesses was a factory that produced uniforms for the Austrian army under the management of Osias Guttmann, a Satmar Hassid and the great-grandfather of Temple Israel member George Aronson.
In the early 1900s, the town was haunted by the prospect of war between Austria and Russia. Crossing the border became more difficult. Fearing the war, some Gusyatin students emigrated (including Osias Guttmann). On August 9, 1914, the Russian Army attacked Austria through Gusyatin. Jews dispersed to avoid the oncoming armies. Many died from typhus or were victimized by local peasants. Others were exiled to Kiev.
After World War 1, the border between Poland and Russia divided the town. The border was closed and trade stopped. The communists confiscated property from Jewish-owned businesses. Yet Jews returned to Gusyatin and began to rebuild. A rabbi was hired. A Hebrew school was opened. The mikveh was repaired. Zionist groups reorganized.
And although crossing the border was prohibited, once each year, on Rosh Hashanah, the Jews from the Polish and Russian portions of the community were allowed go to their respective sides of the river for the Tashlich prayer --- the only time of the year when they were allowed to see and speak with each other across the river.
On July 6, 1941, Gusyatin was conquered by the German Army. Immediately, the local Ukranians began to attack the local Jews. The community was burdened by forced labor and confiscation of property. Many died of hunger and disease. Then, in March 1942, the Jews of Gusyatin were rounded up by the Nazis and deported by train to camps in Kofichintza and Provozna. None would return. None live in Gusyatin today. So ended 500 years of Jewish life in Gusyatin.
See: Pinkas Hakehillot, the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume II, Eastern Galicia, pages 181 to 184, listed in Hebrew by Yad Vashem in 1980. Thanks also to Eldad Ganin, who assisted in translation. Jewishgen.org has created a shetlinks site about Gusyatin, to which George contributed.
Researching Holocaust Communities • Map of Remembered Towns
Click below on a town to read the Remembrance essay that has been submitted:
ntopol • Bagamer • Baranovice • Bilke • Braslav
Chortkov • Chudnov • Crakow • Delatyn • Dokshitz
Dolhinov • Dubina • Dzyatlava • Gusyatin
Kamin-Kashirskiy • Karlsruhe • Kavarsk • Kiev
Konigsberg • Kosov • Kovno • Kremenets • Lechevitz
Memel • Mishnitz • Niederstetten • Nowy Dwor
Nowy Korczyn • Parfianov • Priluki • Pryzemsyl
Ptiatynce • Radom • Radymno • Rakhov • Rohatyn
Sokol • Sosnowiecz • Stepan • Tarnopol • Ujfeheto
Vienna • Warkaw • Zabludow • Zhetel


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Third time lucky for Ben Avon and I, and a 2 day traverse from Toumintoul, with a bike in to the Linn of Avon. I also walked over to Ben a' Bhuird's north top, and then around to pay my respects at a crash site. I don't wear a poppy, but I'm not dumb to the cost of war. It was a deeply affecting place to spend some time. Otherwise, I was alone and saw no-one for the duration, so I spoke to myself and I spoke to the mountains, and once or twice I think they might have answered back. That's a good outing then, and always useful to get a reminder of winter's wildness just before it begins in earnest. I wanted for more warm clothes both moving and at camp.
For those interested the long shots are taken with the new Sony FE100-400, which for my money (and that is a lot of my money) is a really wonderful lens. On the downside, the battery life on the Sony A7Rii (new to me) is appalling in the cold!
Time is short, so to the pictures... As always, if on a desktop, click to make big.


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Dr Bernadette Richards
|Associate Professor
|Org Unit
|Adelaide Law School
|+61 8 8313 6302
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Ligertwood Building
North Terrace
Biography/ Background
For more information on Bernadette's research interests , activities and publications please go to her Research Profile.
B.A., Dip Ed, LLB (Hons), Ph.D
Teaching Interests
Health Law
Tort Law
Research Interests
Medical Law (with a particular emphasis on consent), bioethics and Tort Law
Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, "On the cutting edge: promoting best practice in surgical innovation" (INCISIVE: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Investigating surgical Innovation and Ethics), 2014 -
Chief Investigator, Australian Research Discovery Grant, "Consent in the void: moral, legal and community values in decisions before birth and after death." 2006-2009.
Adviser, ARC Linkage Grant: Can and should we link data at a national level? Vaccine safetysurveillance: A case study Approved: Primary RFCD 3212 PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
"Medical Law and Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach" LexisNexis 2014 (with Jennie Louise)
"Tort Law Principles" Lawbook Co 2013 (with Melissa De Zwart and Karinne Ludlow)
"Issues at the Borders of Life" ATF, 2010 (editor with Vic Pfitzner)
"Tort Law in Principle," 5th ed, Lawbook Co 2009 (with Karinne Ludlow and Any Gibson)
"Torts Law in Principle", 4th ed with Sam Blay and Andrew Gibson
Book Chapters
'Informed Choice not Informed Consent: Shifting Focus and Protecting Interests' in Ethics Law and Society Volume V (ed N.Priaulx and A.Wrigley, Ashgate, 2013).
'The Patient Consent Conversation' in Legal and Forensic Medicine (ed. R.Beran, Springer, 2013).
'What Lies Beneath: A brief introduction to the issues underlying the development of the law in the context of medical treatment' in Public Theology in Law and Life (ed B.Edgar, P.Babie and D.Wilson, ATF, 2012)
'Life as Loss?' in Issues at the Borders of Life (ed Bernadette Richards and Vic Pfitzner, ATF, 2010)
'General Principles of Consent to Medical Treatment' in Health Law in Australia (ed Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott, Lawbook Co, 2010)
'Organ and Tissue Donation' in Health Law in Australia (ed Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott, Lawbook Co, 2010)
The Law of Torts, in A guide to Arbitration Practice in Australia, 2006.
'Medical Innovation Laws : an unnecessary innovation' Aust Health Review (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH15081
'The Medical Innovation Bill: Still more harm than good', (2015) Clinical Ethics (with G.Porter, W.Lipworth and T.Lysaght).
'Who Controls the Use of Organs After Death? Law in the books, law in practice and the view of the people' (2012) 20 Journal of Law and Medicine 295 (with Prof Ngaire Naffine, S. De Lacey, A Braunack-Mayer and Wendy Rogers)
'Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation: The Legal Dimension of the Problem' (2012) 9 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 49 (with Prof Ngaire Naffine)
'Directed Embryo Donation: Free Choice or Discrimination?' (2010) 18 Journal of Law and Medicine 169 (with Sheryl De Lacey and Wendy Rogers)
'Is Directed Donation Discriminatory?' (2009) 30 Australasian Science 37
'Scaring us all to death: The need for responsible legal scholarship on post-mortem organ donation' (2009) 16 Journal of Law and Medicine 696 (with Ngaire Naffine and Wendy Rogers)
Book review, 'Will I still be me? A journey through a transplant' (2008) 11 Health Expectations 317.
'Organ Donation After Cardiac Death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions,' (2007) 187 Medical Journal of Australia 168 (with Wendy Rogers)
Book review, 'Patient-Centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life' (2007) 10 (2) Health Expectations 10 (2), 206
"PD v Dr Nicholas Harvey: A Threat to Confidentiality or Straightforward Breach of Duty?", (2003) 7 UWSLR 161
"Introducing the Internet to the Law School: Some Lessons from Adelaide" (2001) 15(3) International Review of Law Computers and Technology, 369
OtherContributing Author Oxford Australian Law Dictionary (OUP, 2010)
Conference Papers
'Media: Exploring the final frontier of humanity' Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia: Interpellations, Dec 2013.
'Moving on from Rogers v Whitaker : A time to re-define the harm?' Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, July 2013
'Wi-Fi in the Ivory Tower: Reducing isolation of the Law PhD student through social media networks' Wellness Network for Law presents: , March 2013 with Melissa DeZwart
Panel Member, Plenary panel: The Advance Care Directives draft Framework - will it meet
expectations?' Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, July 2011
'Regulating Consent to Organ and Embryo Donation: An Australian Inquiry' 10th World Congress of Bioethics (Bioethics in a Globalised World)' Singapore, July 2010 (with Prof Ngaire Naffine)
'Informed Choice not Informed Consent', Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, July 2010.
Panelist: 'Life's End: Rights and Responsibilities' (The Forum, Open Day University of Adelaide August 2009)
'Life as Loss?' July 2009, ABA/ANZIHLE Joint Conference (Bioethics and Health Law Conference: Future Offers, Future Threats.')
'Directed Donation of Biological Materials: An Example of Discrimination or Exercise of Free Choice?' July 2009, ABA/ANZIHLE Joint Conference (Bioethics and Health Law Conference: Future Offers, Future Threats.'with Sheryl DeLacey and Wendy Rogers)
'Directed biological donations: Do embryos and organs raise the same issues?' 9th World Congress of Bioethics, Ryeka, Croatia September 2008. (with Sheryl De Lacey and Wendy Rogers).
'Donation After Cardiac Death', National Organ Donation Summit, July 2008
'Legal and ethical considerations: Donation after cardiac death' November 2007, ABA/ANZIHLE Joint Conference (Health, Bioethics and the Law: Inclusions and Exclusions.'(with Associate Professor Wendy Rogers)
'Rogers v Whitaker: Principles, perceptions and practicalities' September 2005, 12th AAPAE Conference.
"The Role of the Internet in the LLB" Law Via the Internet 2001, 3rd AustLII Conference on Computerisation of Law via the Internet
Cafe Scientifique: Xenotransplantation - the solution to our organ shortage?' RiAus September 2012
'When are you dead?: Brain death and organ donation' RiAus, June 2011
'The Ethics of Translational Research' Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) Forum: 'Translating Research from Bench to Bedside', July 2010
International Course for Organ Donor & Transplant Co-Ordinators: Legal & Ethical Issues Surrounding Organ Donation (with Associate Professor Wendy Rogers)July 2008
National Organ Donation Collaborative Learning Session: 'Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Organ Donation'(with Associate Professor Wendy Rogers), May 2008
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