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Friday, October 31, 2003
B is for Bathos. One of my favorite words in English, it's sadly underused today. If you look it up in the dictionary, by the way, you will see someone's picture there.
C is for Chekhov, the great Russian writer, whom I am a little miffed at lately. His famous aphorism about writing, "If the playwright describes a gun on a shelf in Act One, it must be fired by Act Three" was adopted as gospel by Hollywood screenwriters long ago, and it is getting on my nerves. Every kind of improbable plot manipulation is justified because...it's shown or mentioned early on. I watched Eliza Dushku's new show Tru Calling last night and this process is taken to its extreme. It's mentioned early on in passing that she was a track star in school, so of course half the show is taken up with her running around in fast motion between locations, rather than simply cutting between scenes. Painful.
D is for Dude, a word that needs to be surgically removed from the language.
E is for Elmore Leonard, who still writes the best dialogue in English at the age of 72.
F is for Fight. That's the focus-group-tested phrase that you hear more and more in campaign speeches and advertisements, as in "I'll fight for you in Trenton" or "Fighting for more school aid." On the level of national politics, as when Al Gore used the phrase constantly in the 2000 elections, it's more revealing. I'm trying not to generalize too much, but I find that when Democrats use the word they are almost always talking about fighting...other Americans. This, I think, is a bit of a disconnect with most of the public at the moment, as I think that most people would rather our leaders talk about fighting...people who are actively trying to kill us.
G is for ...well, take a look. Yes, that's Klingon.
H is for Halloween, which it's too damn hot to be.
I is for Inevitable Distractions, as it always is.
J is for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Her recent remarks to the effect that American Law should conform to that of other countries were pretty horrifying. Tighten up, Sandy baby.
K is for Mickey Kaus, who makes one of the very best points I've heard regarding the Schiavo case:
How does a) the number of innocent people who will be executed under death penalty procedures compare with b) the number of innocent, live patients who will be killed under a tendentious diagnosis of PVS? I'd guess the ratio is probably one to 100, maybe 1 to 1,000. But the American left makes a huge (and legitimate) fuss about the former while it actually promotes the latter.
L is for Lord of the Rings. The 10-hour showing of all three films together on December 16 sold out in seconds here at the two theaters participating. Grrr.
M is for Mystic River, which I thought was very overrated. For all its gritty realism, Clint's movie is still, I thought, cartoony and not nearly as subtle as it could or should have been. Sean Penn, though, is an amazing actor. Even though I despise him personally, watching him onscreen is like watching that moment in one of those nature shows where a particularly ugly spider is about to devour an unsuspecting beetle, and you can't look away.
N is still for Naomi.
O is for Oscars. Right now I have seen three Best Actor nomination-worthy performances this year: Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men, and Sean Penn. I'm expecting Viggo Mortensen and Benicio Del Toro to fill this category out, but we will see. Best Actress can only be between Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Watts.
P is for Mel Gibson's The Passion. If film distributors can give releases to From Justin to Kelly and The Real Cancun, I can't believe that they can't distribute this one.
Q is for Quart. Yes, I hate the metric system.
R is for Retail. Would you like that gift-wrapped, sir?
S is for Suzanne, my sister, who is not at all a huggy person, but always hugs me when we meet because she knows I am.
T is for Ticket Scalpers. I was amused to find them at the Metropolitan Opera of all places--"tick-etttttts!"--exactly as if it were Yankee Stadium.
U is for U-571, which vies with Windtalkers as the worst of the recent war movies.
V is for Vanity Fair, which for a while there was the best American magazine being published. It sort of went off the rails recently as editor Graydon Carter went on a heavyhanded antiwar crusade prior to the Iraq war, quieted down after the dramatic successes of that conflict, then went back to it in the summer as the fighting began again. That, along with way too many Royal Family stories, a throwback to the hated Tina Brown era, caused a steep drop in the quality of VF. And the absence of Christopher Hitchens hasn't helped.
W is for Lt. Col. Allen B. West, who apparently cannot be forgiven for reminding people that we are in fact at war.
X is for Xenomorph. The Director's Cut of Alien opens this weekend!
Y is for Yo. A perfectly legitimate Philadelphianism hijacked by the larger culture. Grrr.
Z is for Zombies 3.5, the new expansion of the lovely boardgame. It's brains for dinner tonight...
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
I had one of the rare actual adventures of my life with Mike in 1995 when a Teamsters strike stranded our entire order of a new Magic the Gathering product at a terminal in Northeast Philly, with no way to get it out except coming and getting it ourselves.
Mike was so eager to get his order that he took it upon himself to rent a truck to to pick our shipment up. Which of course involved crossing a Teamster picket line. Since the shipment was for us, someone from our company had to go along and sign for it. And of course nobody wanted to, because they were afraid of what would happen in the process of crossing a Teamster picket line.
So I volunteered. If I really thought there was a possibility of violence, I would have been scared to death. But it wasn't an issue of courage, only logic: we would be in a big truck (that we didn't own anyway, so property damage was not an issue) in broad daylight, with police around. So there wasn't any real, logical chance of violence, and I went. And of course there wasn't any. As we crossed the Teamsters' picket line, we received nothing more than a charming variety of colorful language that still makes me smile when I think of it.
Anyway, that was a sort of bonding experience with Mike, and we have been friendly ever since. We made a sweet deal today that we both loved: We gave him 3 boxes of some of our old Magic in return for a huge amount of old RPGs, junky stuff that we can nevertheless ebay for three or four times the trade value that we gave up. Mike gets a nice, quick sale that will impress the hell out of his customers, and we get stuff that we get to make nice margins on for a year. I love great trades.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The 1960 John Wayne version, clumsy and overwrought as it was, treated the Mexican attackers of the Alamo with complete dignity (Wayne presumably had nothing against Mexicans, as he kept marrying them). But we live in an age where dignity is not enough: every possible ethnic sensitivity (most Christians excepted, of course) must be massaged and stroked at every opportunity. And when you have a movie about what amounts to an ethnic conflict, the sensitivity requirement ensures that all possible life is drained out of it. The new Alamo was doomed from the start.
And I have to quote a couple of jokes from my favorite current television comedian, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, from last night's Conan:
On Christina Aguilera videos: "It's like watching porn except the music's not as good."
On Eminem: "Hey my mother was a bitch, too, but I don't go writing songs about it."
Monday, October 27, 2003
My brother is, incredibly, 65 years old today (actually tomorrow as I write this, but you get the idea). There are all kinds of reasons why he and I are so different, but that's one of the primary ones, the very large age difference between us. He was born before World War Two and lived through the war, while I was born towards the end of the postwar baby boom. He was from a world so different from the one I grew up in. In his words,
I grew up in Richmond, a section of ethnic northeast Philadelphia located on the Delaware River in a highly industrialized area. In those days the EPA didn't exist, and the factories poured forth each day noxious fumes that clouded the sky, dirtied my fastidious grandmother's curtains and laundry and fouled my nostrils with a penetrating odor that reeked of unnamed poisons. It didn't seem to actually hurt me (or anyone else I knew) in any permanent way, but having to endure the awful smells day after day gave me what perhaps was my first indication that we might be poor. Even as a child I couldn't believe that anyone with more choices would live there willingly. At any rate, I must have had a more delicate nose than was probably good for me, because no one else in my family or our acquaintances ever complained about it.
Now by the time I came around we had moved to the suburbs, and we only went to Richmond on Saturdays. For me, as a sort of tourist to that bizarre place, it was, well, exotic. The cobbled streets that ruined the suspensions on cars, the odd, stinky foods, the same sickening industrial smells that Joe described--the worst was the long-gone Old Hickory whiskey factory on Delaware Avenue, which produced this appalling funk of rotting vegetable matter that made you automatically wince every time you drove by it.
In the fifties, my father had gotten the job at Curtis Publishing and I grew up in a completely different plane of existence, in Delaware County. I am so different from him, in fact, that it took me until much later in my life before I could really appreciate what he's done with his life, and admire him for it.
Friday, October 24, 2003
And not only there.
Thursday, October 23, 2003
In the meantime, all American consumers have been asked to do is to buy Ben & Jerry's One Sweet Whirled ice cream, ensuring that a portion of Unilever's profits go towards "global warming initiatives". Wow!
Hardly worth a wow. The hallmark of modern policymaking is not initiatives that actually do anything, but rather those that serve to make people feel better about themselves. Certainly this is true of the Kyoto treaty, which does nothing to address the enormous amounts of "greenhouse gases" being produced by, for example, China, India, and Mexico. Even the proponents of this treaty cannot point to any measurable climatic benefits that will derive from it. But it will make us feel that we are Doing Something About It. And in this world where feelings are all that matters, that's enough.
"We're waging a war on the environment, a very successful one," says Paul Ehrlich, professor of population studies at Stanford University.
Amazing to see Paul Ehrlich quoted as an authority on anything. Ehrlich is the most consistently wrong predictor in memory, including radio psychics.
"It's a country founded on the idea of no limits. The essence of environmentalism is that there are indeed limits. It's one of the reasons environmentalism is a stronger ethic in Europe than in the US."
Finally something I completely agree with. It is very definitely true that the physical world has limits. But human creativity does not. The freest societies are the best at solving problems, including environmental ones, much better that those that simply impose arbitrary limits. The Kyoto-based limits that France placed on the use of air conditioning, for example, cost the country 15,000 dead this past summer. That's what limits do for you.
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
One of the bad things about this time of year is all the damn horny deer running all over the place. Tonight, driving down Butler Pike (the place where I completely destroyed the front end of my Chevy four years ago on a relatively small buck) I had to slam on the brakes to avoid wiping out a stupid doe strolling across the road.
Then her stupid friend runs right into my now-stopped car. Luckily she didn't so any damage. But I have had all I can take of deer this year.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Monday, October 20, 2003
Bedrolls littered the floor, and two fighters at the rear of the room took aim through windows at other Americans entering the compound. Both swung toward Pryor, Kalashnikovs in their hands. Pryor fired, the rounds striking so dead-center that the men's beards fluttered.
As he reloaded, Pryor felt a foot brush up against his boot. At first, he thought it was another American. It wasn't. An al-Qaeda fighter struck Pryor hard from behind. The blow, possibly from a wooden board, dislocated Pryor's shoulder and broke his collarbone.
The fighter, bearded with his hair in a ponytail, jumped on Pryor's back and clawed at his face, tearing off his night-vision goggles.
"He started sticking his stinking little fingers into my eyeballs," Pryor remembers. [Ed's note: Al-Qaeda hand-to-hand combat training manuals emphasize attacking opponents' eyes as a direct route to the brain.]
His left shoulder felt like it was on fire. He was winded and weary from fighting at an altitude of 8,000 feet. Without night vision, everything was black.
The battle outside raged on, punctuated by AK-47 and rifle fire and the steady boom of a 40mm grenade launcher from a Special Forces Humvee. The air reeked of gunpowder and the copper scent of blood. Inside that first room, the two fighters — al-Qaeda and American — were fighting to the death.
Pryor had only a single thought: You're not going to kill me.
"That's how I attack things," he says later.
With one good arm, Pryor grabbed his enemy by the hair. But the man's weight, combined with the 80 pounds of Army gear that Pryor wore, caused the two to fall. They landed on Pryor's left elbow, and the impact jammed his shoulder back into its socket.
Now he could fight with both hands. In a few desperate seconds, Pryor broke the man's neck and finished him with a 9mm pistol.
Just damn.
Saturday, October 18, 2003
But that's me. Every time I visit New York City there is always at least one new odd impression the city makes on me, and this time, it was the ugly rat dogs.
The occasion of my visit was to meet my brother and go to the Metropolitan Opera. So I drove to Trenton and took a New Jersey Transit train to Penn Station where we met and then walked 30 blocks to the Met. We had a wonderful
lunch at Rosa Mexicano, an upscale Mexican restaurant across from Lincoln Center. They make this great guacamole right at your table in these big mortar and pestles made of heavy lava stone.
Then we went to see La Boheme, my first opera. I loved it, from the amazing Franco Zeffirelli sets to the performance of Hei-Kyung Hong as Mimi. A wonderful day in spite of the ugly rat dogs.
Thursday, October 16, 2003
SENATOR ROBERT BYRD: "This bee-ull gives Mr. Bremer a blank check.
A blank check.
A blank check."
LAURA: "I think he's upset about a blank check."
I love Laura.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Kill Bill is already one of my top five films of the year. Tarantino shows us nothing particularly new--it's the usual juxtapostion of pop-culture kitsch, hip/camp music, and extreme violence--but I love the formula. Certainly there is nothing profound in KB; the brilliance is in the confidence of the storytelling. As energetic as the fight scenes are, they still don't approach the state-of-the-art established in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, for example (though the final snow-falling-on-cedars fight scene is nearly perfectly shot). But Tarantino makes up for any shortcomings with over-the-top violence and cartoon gore, and with an enthusiasm that pumps through every frame of Kill Bill.
My brother approached it from an almost scientific viewpoint: He came to see how the economics of socialism were a recipe for disaster, for ruin, for starvation.
For me, it was a philosophical thing: I started reading history after I got out of school, and I became fascinated with the origins and growth of the totalitarian impulse. For me it wasn't as much a matter of Right or Left as much as it was a larger issue of Freedom versus Compulsion. And while the extreme compulsive Right had been discredited after World War Two, the idea of Left Socialism still had life, and was still exerting an ever-increasing influence on us. So, after being a Carter voter in 1976 (all three of us were, in fact), I considered myself conservative after that.
But most of all I love to listen to my sister talk about her transformation: It had to do with when she started having children, and that she didn't want her kids to be the subjects of social engineering by people who weren't their parents. She also became a Christian around this time, so her political transformation was informed by a spiritual one. She is so eloquent and quietly passionate on the subject that I can't even begin to summarize and do her justice, but she is inspiring to listen to when she talks about it.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Sunday, October 12, 2003
First of all, I just want to say that sometimes there are news stories that just make you glow inside with the most delicious schadenfreude, eventually making you sense, despite nagging problems here and there, that all's right with the world.
A busy two days with my siblings up at my brother's house in upstate New York. I am normally very soft-spoken at such family gatherings, and I was quieter than ever on the trip for a few reasons.
1. it was so damn beautiful up there that I was kind of in awe. Here in Pennsylvania, the leaves have hardly changed a bit. But up in the area where New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont meet, where we were driving around, the colors were the best I'd ever seen. I will shut up now.
2. My brother has so many obscure family stories and I prefer to let him tell them. I think he is saving them up or something. Anyway, he had a great one about an epiphany my grandfather had eighty-two years ago:
Joseph was visiting Germany in 1921, the first time since the war. He was around 40, and had emigrated to the USA at the turn of the century. He was crossing the street in one of the Rhenish towns he was traveling in, and a German policeman began to hassle him for jaywalking as he would any German who disobeyed the rules. My grandfather turned to the guy and said, in English, "Go to hell." The cop backed off and apologized to the uppity tourist. It was then that my grandfather realized for the first time that he felt like an American, and that he was American.
3. I was sore as hell. I am used to running on these flat athletic tracks around here, and the nasty grades surrounding the lake killed my shins.
4. When the topic of conversation turned to our late sister, I went over and rinsed the dishes. I just don't feel like talking about her anymore. For me it's like rubbing open a sore that's scabbed over more times than I can count.
5. I am not in a chatty mood in general.
The other good thing about the weekend was that I got to miss the Eagles-Dallas game. But it was worth having Donovan McNabb play as if his entire game was choreographed by Rush Limbaugh just to see the highlights of that amazing Chiefs win today. I want to see Dick Vermeil take his third different team to the Super Bowl and I want to see him blubbering after every playoff game. When Dick is crying on a Sunday, you just know, in spite of everything, that all's right with the world.
Thursday, October 09, 2003
I don't mind when, say, a Roger Ebert writes politically-influenced movie reviews from the Left, or a James Bowman from the Right. What I object to is when politics robs people of their common sense. I thought of this today when I read a local reviewer's piece on the recent DVD release of Brian DePalma's Scarface, in which the writer makes himself look silly:
The film's laughable failure to cast any of the lead roles with Latin actors...seems almost unthinkable now.
I guess no one told him that the second male lead in the film, Stephen Bauer, is Cuban-American.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Monday, October 06, 2003
The September issue of Commentary had a good piece by Arthur Waldron about the Article 23 demonstrations in Hong Kong on July 1st, a day that annihilated a certain amount of the conventional wisdom about Hong Kong and, ultimately, China. Half a million people--eight percent of the entire population of the city--came out to protest the proposed change in Hong Kong's governing council that would have given more dictatorial control to Beijing. The professionals, the experts, the authorities, both inside and outside China were, as one, shocked--they had expected minor, token demonstrations. And one passage jumped out at me
Speaking of her children, a Hong Kong woman married to an American put it this way: "Three days before American Independence Day, I took them to march with me to show them that the half of their heritage that is Chinese cares as much about liberty and human dignity as the half that is American—and what patriotism and love of country really mean."
Though this question is seemingly everywhere these days, we see it most dramatically in the Middle East, in particular in Iraq. The other day
Paul Wolfowitz alluded to it:
When I hear people say the Arabs are incapable of democracy; Islam is incapable of democracy; I am reminded of hearing exactly the same things 20 years ago, that the South Koreans are incapable of democracy. They've never had it in their history. Confucian culture exalts authoritarianism. They can't do it.
And of course Wolfowitz's point is that the successful multiparty elections in South Korea belie arguments against democracy. There is something familiar about these arguments. We've heard them before—but where? All the sophisticated, nuanced points of view aligned together against a "simplistic" belief in democracy. The idea that it was simply cruel and arrogant to try to push "our" version of human rights on people who were unprepared for it. Where have we heard this before?
I remember. It was during the nineteenth century slavery debate. The most common argument of slaveowners and slavetraders was that African slaves were unsuited for freedom and therefore the most merciful thing was to continue the system of chattel slavery. The best reply was that of the great English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay:
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Today the argument is couched in anti-Western rhetoric rather than in the language of racism as it was in the nineteenth century, but it boils down to essentially the same thing: The concepts of democracy and human rights are cultural constructs proprietary to the Western world. Therefore they shouldn't be "imposed" on non-Western peoples, who are culturally "unsuited" for them.
So we are left with a more abstract question: what is freedom after all? We have two viewpoints. Is freedom just another Western cultural export like McDonald's, or is it, as the current American president says, "God's gift to humanity"? The answer, of course, is yes.
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Friday, October 03, 2003
I remember it was a beautiful sunny day in early June 1993 and I had just nudged my red rental Opel out of the lot at the Frankfurt airport. Across the way the autobahn glittered with the metallic twinkle of cars zipping past at typical NASCAR speeds and I felt two powerful competing emotions goosing my adrenal gland: The nowayIcangetonthatroad grip of fear and the eager Ican'twaittogetonthatroad response.
I got on the road.
I drove laughably slowly at first, but within minutes I was testing the engine of my smallish Opel and finding that the lack of speed governors can be a wonderful thing. Within ten minutes I had it over a hundred mph, and in a straight section of the autobahn on the way to Munich I was over one-fifty and and at some point it was almost a religious experience.
I was thinking about that, and realizing (as I got the hell out of the way of rotten driver after rotten driver on I-476) that unlimited speed on American highways would mean an appalling death toll. It's not that the Germans are smarter or more mature or even better drivers as much as they, being Germans, take rules seriously. On the autobahn, there are really only two rules.
First, no passing on the right, ever. It doesn't sound like such a big deal, but the knowledge that all passing will be to the left lets everyone know how the flow of traffic will go at all times. It removes pretty much all uncertainty from driver interactions.
Second, when someone comes up behind you and flashes highbeams, you must immediately move into the right lane. In America you're sort of supposed to do this already, but half the time the driver being high-beamed takes it as an insult to his masculinity and it's road rage time.
There isn't that much I miss about Germany. The weather is still just as crappy there as it was when Tacitus was complaining about it 2000 years ago, and the food is heavenly for three days, enjoyable for five, but after a week you're screaming for something that isn't meat.
But I do miss the autobahns.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
I would instead like to talk about form: The form that these sorts of racialized kerfuffles always tend to take.
1) They are invariably used as a political weapon against people with the wrong point of view. It goes without saying that a Robert Byrd or a Cruz Bustamante can shout the "n" word from the rooftops without any real consequences, because they are reliably socialist. That's just the way things are. In contemporary America, so much of the time, race is not about race but rather about politics.
2) The psychology at work. It is sickening to watch people use the designated victim as a sort of Judas goat so that they can feel better about themselves. "Thank God *I* am not a racist like *that* guy." In the specific case of Limbaugh, we see the lovely spectacle of the lily-white NFL owners' club putting pressure on ESPN to fire Limbaugh for being racially insensitive.
3) I have a big problem with the appearance of the story on Tuesday. Limbaugh's remarks were made on Sunday morning. Why did the story not break until Tuesday? Why were Limbaugh's remarks "offensive" and "outrageous" on Tuesday but not on Monday?
I will answer my own question: Because the press hadn't built up enough outrage on Sunday. In fact, Limbaugh's remarks were made in front of the black men he worked with at ESPN, and though Tom Jackson disagreed with him on the facts, no one expressed any offense.
A controversy like this is often the result of a sort of media push-poll: Eventually the reporters in question shoved the Limbaugh quotes in enough faces so that enough people were suitably outraged, and we were off and running.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
But the film is wonderful. It's really made by the amazing lead performances by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. They draw the viewer in and don't let go. Coppola wisely lets them captivate us and doesn't call attention to herself with directorial technique. Nothing is allowed to distract us from the emotional world that the two leads create--even the Japan that the film is set in is less of a locale than it is a recurring phenomenon, bizarre and inexplicable and temporary.
This is Murray's best performance by a factor of millions, especially in two scenes toward the end of the film where his face is uncannily expressive; Johansson, in a star-making performance, is just as good. There is also a hilarious, letter-perfect Cameron Diaz parody by Anna Faris, along with lots of great sight gags. There is just so much to love about this movie, not least the novel and refreshing idea that[spoiler] two people can like each other without having to sleep together. Bad sex scenes in movies have become a kind of prosthetic device for lazy, untalented screenwriters to clue the audience in that, hey, these characters like each other! [/spoiler] Lost in Translation is my favorite film of the year so far.


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The eye can be analyzed with relative ease regarding both its function and its structure. A functional examination includes the ability to move in the orbit and the response of the pupil to light and lodging.
The function of the eye might be evaluated in numerous methods. The patient may be asked to recognize illuminated letter or things of varying sizes on what is called the Snellen chart.
Alternatively, the assessment of the structural part of the eye might be made in several ways. Stress within the eyeball is measured by a "tonometer." In certain illness, especially in glaucoma, the tension in the eyeball is increased significantly.
Nevertheless, it ought to be well kept in mind that a client with an eye issue may have other issues also. Often other physical conditions are main and impact the eye as a repercussion. The appearance of the eye can alert the client and the physician to problems in some disruptions of other parts of the body even prior to other signs provide themselves.
One's reliance on sight is emphasized when one deals with a possible or temporary permanent loss of this crucial sense. When restorative measures are looked for, specific kinds of vision correction such as contact lenses or glasses are recommended.
On the other hand, some individuals are bothered with the reality that they have actually some framed lenses or contact lenses in front of their eyes.
For this factor, advanced surgical operations were developed to encourage reduced usage of contact lenses or glasses. Among which is the now popular LASIK eye surgery.
Generally, LASIK eye surgical treatment is the short term for "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis." Like its tangible counterpart, LASIK eye surgical treatment is another kind of vision correction. The only difference is More Bonuses that with this kind of surgical treatment, one's vision is corrected permanently.
With LASIK eye surgical treatment, the refractive mistakes in the cornea are permanently changed. This can be done utilizing an "excimer laser."
The main purpose of this surgical treatment is to develop a threadlike, rounded "flap" in the cornea using a blade understood as "microkeratome." In a series of unfolding and laser processing, the cornea is lastly reformed, allowing better the eye to direct more light into the retina.
Popularity vs. Disadvantages
Amidst the growing appeal of LASIK eye surgical treatment, there are still disadvantages that people should know. Probably, the primary reason that this type of eye surgical treatment has actually become well accepted is due to the fact that most of its cases had succeeded.
In spite of its success, there are still some drawbacks. Here is the list:
1. It is an operation applied to the most delicate part of the eye
Due to the fact that LASIK eye surgical treatment includes the operation of the retina, which check my site is among the most delicate parts of the eye, you can find out more many people say that the operation can be extremely risky.
To puts it simply, a simple error could almost cause an individual's lifetime blindness. Thus, it is very important to think about numerous factors prior to deciding whether LASIK eye surgical treatment is the best corrective step one needs to undergo.
2. It is not a perfect treatment
LASIK eye surgery may correct your vision however it does not necessarily mean that it can provide you a twenty-twenty. Even if statistical reports reveal that 70% of the patients may have 20/20 vision, this does not necessarily suggest they have ideal vision.
Given all these things, it can be deduced that, in spite of the appeal of the operation, LASIK may not constantly be the ideal eye surgery the method many people see it
On the other hand, the assessment of the structural part of the eye might be made in numerous methods. It ought to be well remembered that a client with an eye problem may have other problems. Typically other physical conditions are primary and impact the eye as a consequence. The look of the eye can inform the physician and the client to difficulties in some disturbances of other parts of the body even prior to other signs provide themselves.
Like its concrete counterpart, LASIK eye surgical treatment is another type of vision correction.
2 Things You Do Not Realize With Regards To LASIK Eye Medical Procedures
The eye can be analyzed with relative ease regarding both its function and its structure. A functional examination includes the ability to move in the orbit and the response of the pupil to light and lodging.

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20 of our Y10 HAT students were incredibly lucky to be able to attend an inspiring careers talk on Thurs 18th Jan.
This was delivered by Stef Burns, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) ambassador who is a commercial airlines pilot.
She spoke about her own challenging journey to be qualified which showed grit, determination and amazing perseverance and also shared some of her day to day experiences of flying a cargo plane all over the world.
The students were fascinated to learn about the cargo she carries ( from racehorses to Moonpig greetings cards!) and also the ongoing training she must undergo in the flight simulators based in Copenhagen.
A fascinating and very inspiring talk!
Thanks to Mrs Whelan-Davis for facilitating…


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"If Archie Bunker had TiVo, he'd be the Kid from Brooklyn."
The perpetually pissed off and potty-mouthed Kid from Brooklyn, famous for classic video rants like "Starbucks" and "Bat Day," is back for more, spewing contempt for virtually everything in twenty-first-century American culture, unabashedly letting you know why "the world is comin' to a f*ckin' end." Now in his second book of unedited outraged observations, the Kid mouths off on all that America holds dear—or not:
The Kid On Marriage:
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It's been 25 years since fifth grade. You're trying to remember how that spitwad melee you caused in Mr. Wisdom's class turned out.
Did iron-fisted Principal Footstomp get involved? Were you banished to the detention room without legal representation?
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That "permanent file" that teachers held over your head lives up to its name in some ways, but not in others.
Chances are, records of your grades and test scores will live on like Methuselah. Other information might be discarded.
Regulations vary in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The Maryland State Department of Education requires school systems to permanently keep students' high school test scores and grades, as well as some biographical information, such as name, address and date of birth, spokesman Bill Reinhard said.


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Jose Hernandez has big dreams in this, his senior year at Palmer High School. They go something like this: He is accepted to Harvard University, studies business, graduates, starts making money and comes back to Colorado Springs to share the wealth with his family.
At 17, Hernandez is smart and gets good grades. But he has a lot to overcome. As his guidance counselor puts it, the deck is stacked against him.
His dad manages a grocery store. His mom is a housekeeper. Translation: He is a low-income kid.
That means lower odds of making his big dreams come true -- despite his hard work -- as compared with kids from upper-middle class and wealthier backgrounds.
For me, its really a question of money, Hernandez says. I will be looking at the bottom line.
Hernandez isnt alone.
Eugene Tobin, a researcher for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former president of Hamilton College in New York, has found that hardworking students from low-income families -- those that earn roughly $30,000 to $40,000 a year -- are admitted to Ivy League schools, private liberal arts colleges and premier state universities at notably lower rates than their wealthier peers.
The ideal, Tobin says, would be this: American society and American education is a meritocracy. We want to believe that. The cream rises to the top, and thats based upon qualities of excellence that we value: hard work, stamina, intellectual acuity.
But in reality, just 11 percent of students from a representative sampling of the nations most selective colleges emerged from low-income families, according to research Tobin and two colleagues released earlier this year.
Tobin says time-honored admissions practices, such as the favoring of legacy students -- kids who attend their parents alma maters --work against students from low-income families. Moreover, policies meant to increase the number of students of color at selective universities havent helped improve the representation of low-income students.
Its starting to affect the nations bottom line, he says. When it comes to the percentage of population getting degrees, the United States currently ranks seventh in the world, and is slipping. The nations rankings in science and math are falling, too, he says.
One of the reasons we think that the U.S. has dropped in terms of these kind of rankings, is that theres a bottleneck, Tobin says.
In other words, too few talented low-income students are getting into the nations best universities and colleges.
Free money for students
Last year, Rep. Keith King, a Republican from Colorado Springs, was successful in what he describes as a two-year battle to help poor families carve out a better life for their kids.
At the time, University of Colorado system President Elizabeth Hoffman and Colorado State University President Al Yates had asked lawmakers for help in addressing their respective budget crises, which were precipitated by $400 million in higher education cuts that began in 2001.
King saw room for a compromise. In exchange for releasing the universities from the pressures of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, so they could have more flexibility with their respective budgets, Colorado would institute the nation's first and only higher education voucher system.
The idea was sold like this: The state gives students free money -- like a tuition check to help them pay for college, or a kind of state-sanctioned college savings account.
"It was a dramatic shift in thinking," King says.
But students don't actually receive the money in hand. Instead, they sign a form allocating the funds to the institution at which they enroll.
Before the vouchers, which were implemented for the first time this fall, state government provided a lump sum to public higher education institutions, to subsidize tuition rates for Colorado residents. In some cases, students from Colorado may use vouchers toward private schools like Colorado College and the University of Denver.
But critics say the vouchers didn't change anything for low-income students.
"It's not new money," says Rep. Michael Merrifield, D-Manitou Springs. "We haven't suddenly provided new money for higher education. ... The fund hasn't done anything to make access by low-income students any easier."
Merrifield maintains that he voted for King's bill because public university budgets have been anemic in recent years. He notes that before the vouchers were enacted, however, they were significantly slashed, down from the $4,000 a year originally envisioned to $2,400 a year.
Meanwhile, universities have raised tuition to address budget woes.
This year, tuition at Colorado's public institutions went up 17 percent on average -- the steepest rise in the nation. At CU-Boulder, in-state tuition, combined with books and housing, now is estimated at $15,000 a year, some $12,600 more than a voucher covers.
Sen. Ron Tupa from Boulder, a longtime member of the Senate Education Committee, called the voucher plan a "Faustian bargain."
"It still is," he says.
The sticking point for Tupa is that vouchers can be used only over 145 credit hours, equivalent to a 4 1/2-year timeframe for a full-time student. After that, students either must find money elsewhere, or show extreme hardship.
"If you don't graduate in that timeframe, you're going to be in trouble," Tupa says. "What if you want to switch your major? What if you want a double major? I just didn't think it was a good idea for the state to say, 'We're going to limit the amount of education we can provide.'"
Currently, just 48 percent of students in Colorado public higher-education institutions graduate within five years, according to data gathered by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
As King sees it, too many slackers in colleges and universities are eating up state money by taking their time to graduate.
"We are trying to prevent kids from going to college for five or six years to get a four-year degree," King says.
King cites CU-Boulder, which has agreed in writing to improve its six-year graduation rate to 72 percent by 2016. But he says nothing about improving graduation rates within a 4 1/2-year timeframe.
Meanwhile, Tupa fears that the fund providing the money for the vouchers, the Colorado Opportunity Fund, will suffer from inadequate funding in coming years.
Big cuts to the fund narrowly were avoided in November, when Colorado voters passed Referendum C, which allows the state to keep TABOR refunds for five years to address the state's four-year budget crisis. Analysts project that if the measure hadn't passed, the value of a voucher would have been slashed to less than $800.
King and other lawmakers now project the voucher's value increasing slightly -- but not to the amount that originally was envisioned.
"My guess is that the stipend never gets to $4,000," King says.
Gov. Bill Owens has proposed raising it by just $180 next year.
Its raining men
In an effort to increase its number of low-income students, CU-Boulder signed a contract with the state earlier this year.
The university has agreed to raise the number of "underserved" students whose families are at the federal poverty level by 5 percent by 2009.
But the students must be male -- a provision King says he personally fought to see through.
"It was one of the driving motivations I had in writing the bill," King says. "We've got to do something for males in particular. They're becoming the endangered species."
King cites a growing gender gap at colleges and universities nationwide -- roughly 57 percent women to 43 percent men.
However, that gulf doesn't exist at CU-Boulder. Last year, 53 percent of students at the university were male.
Wade Buchanan, president of the Bell Policy Center, a Denver-based research group that has studied higher education and state funding, says it is important to keep a gender balance on campuses, but is critical of King's provision because it leaves women out.
"It's not useful to categorize it that way," he says.
Buchanan was heartened by the passage of Referendum C in the November election. For the first time since 2001, the state isn't talking about cuts to higher education. The governor also has proposed that financial aid could increase by 6 percent, while tuition hikes could be capped at 2.5 percent.
But even with the passage of C, the state's higher education system appears headed for trouble in the coming years, Buchanan says. While Referendum C will allocate between $276 and $318 million to higher education in the next five years, the Bell Policy Center estimates that $559 million a year is needed to keep up with inflation and an anticipated 33 percent increase in enrollment due to the state's rising population.
And many Republicans in Congress are pushing big cuts to higher education on the federal level.
One plan, which has angered Democrats and moderate Republicans, targets $14.3 billion in student aid over the next five years. The proposal would add charges to students who default on or consolidate their loans, increase the fees parents pay to obtain loans so their kids can go to college, and remove guarantees of low interest rates.
With a typical student already strapped with $17,500 in debt, the congressional proposal would increase that debt by $5,800, opponents estimate.
Meanwhile, amid tuition inflation and rising living expenses, Pell Grants, which don't have to be repaid, have stagnated at $4,050 per student, per year, for the last four years.
Not a priority
To Kirk Powell, a guidance counselor at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, "there's no doubt" that students from low-income families are at a disadvantage when it comes to applying to the best colleges. Everything from being unable to visit schools to having had limited life experiences can hurt.
"They don't see themselves [ultimately attending] a four-year college," Powell says, based on his observations of students over the years. "They don't see themselves as a success, despite the hard work they do to get by. They see cost. They see headlines about rising tuition. It's not how much they can afford to pay on their own -- it's that many of them can't afford anything."
At stake for students is a better life.
A recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that high school graduates earn, over the course of their careers, an average of $25,900 annually, as compared to $45,400 for college graduates.
In their book, Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, Tobin of the Mellon foundation, along with two of his associates, William G. Bowen and Martin A. Kurzweil, identified a shortage of low-income students at the nation's most selective higher education institutions.
Their research found that just 11 percent of low-income students are being accepted at the nation's most selective colleges and universities. Only 6 percent are the first in their family to attend college, and a mere 3 percent are both low-income and the first in their family to attend college.
If academically successful low-income students were given the same preferences that, say, star athletes or children of alums receive, the ranks of low-income students would rise to at least 17 percent based on their level of qualification, Tobin says. Of course, the money would have to be there for them, too.
Basically, low-income students with proven potential to succeed aren't viewed as a priority deserving of an extra nudge in the admissions process, he says.
"When [low-income students] triumph, let's say, over the underfunded public schools that they attended and the disruptions in family life and the unsafe neighborhoods and the inadequate health care and all the other issues that people on the edge of urban and rural poverty have to deal with on a daily basis -- when they even make it over all those hurdles and do well in high school and get on the radar screens of select schools and make it into the credible applicant pool, something really interesting happens: They belong to a group who really have no advocate for them," Tobin says.
For example, just 14 percent of students attending CU-Boulder in 2004 were considered low-income, according to the number of students awarded Pell Grants.
That means CU-Boulder is in league with Harvard University when it comes to enrolling high-achieving students from low-income families. At Harvard, just 11 percent of the students in 2004 were low-income -- ranking the renowned university among the lowest in the nation when it comes to what Tobin terms "economic diversity."
According to information obtained through an open records request, 19 percent of new students at CU-Boulder are considered legacy students -- up by 5 percent since 2001. Meanwhile, just 2 percent of new students are both low-income and the first in their family to attend college, up by just 1 percent since 2001.
Universities offer preferences to legacy students because it can be lucrative, Tobin notes. Alums sometimes give generous donations to their schools if their children are accepted.
But Tobin says the practice should end because it challenges the ideal that universities are meritocracies. Low-income students, he says, should be granted the same kinds of considerations as students of color in order to create more equity in the nation's most selective schools.
Kevin MacLennan, CU-Boulder's director of admissions, acknowledges the percentage of students from low-income families could be higher. He says the university is reaching out to such students with a guarantee to pay their tuition and books if they are admitted.
Nonetheless, students like Paula Riley say there's not enough aid to help them.
Riley graduated from high school last spring in the Eastern Plains farming town of Hugo. After reviewing the finances available to her, she concluded she still shouldn't apply to CU-Boulder.
The expense of renting an apartment or living in the dorms -- which would not be covered by the university -- was too high.
"It was basically $10,000 I didn't have," she says.
So she enrolled at the Community College of Denver. There, Riley is able to defray living expenses by staying with her aunt. She maintains a full slate of classes and 40-hour-a-week work schedule as a waitress at a Johnny Carino's Italian restaurant. Now she aspires to get a scholarship to Johnson and Wales University, a private university in Denver, after she earns an associate's degree.
Getting the edge
This year, the Colorado Children's Campaign, which is dedicated to improving the lives of children, released a study that found that more than 309,000 low-income Colorado students slowly are falling behind their peers at wealthier public schools -- all the way from the elementary level through high school.
For example, 74 percent of 8th-graders taking the Colorado Student Assessment Program, a standardized test mandated by the state to gauge achievement, this year in wealthier schools were considered "proficient," as compared to just 33 percent from poorer schools. A similar gap held for 10th-graders.
Powell, one of six guidance counselors working with roughly 1,870 students at Palmer High School, has noticed that low-income students tend to have more academic trouble than students from wealthier families do.
"A lot of the time, they're not equipped to handle the courses that these Tier 1 schools require," Powell says.
Yet many, like Hernandez, are, he adds.
And students like him overcome many obstacles. Low-income students can't always count on parents being around to help with homework because they're often at work. Some students get distracted because they have to baby-sit siblings. Some work themselves, on nights and weekends, to help pay for rent, groceries and heat.
Students from poorer families also are less likely to be involved in extracurricular activities, like sports and clubs and unpaid internships. That hurts when they apply to colleges, which are looking for well-rounded students.
Tobin says when the pieces start coming together, low-income students just don't seem as worldly as their wealthier peers, in spite of their efforts to succeed.
"[Students from wealthier families] have had the chance to probably travel abroad," he says. "Their writing, the whole ethos about them, may reflect much more polish and sophistication -- as well as their vanity. You've got that against a student from a working-class background who might be the first in his or her family to go to college."
Another big disadvantage is that low-income kids often can't afford classes to prepare for the standardized SAT, a key measure used by the best colleges and universities to narrow the list of applicants.
SAT preparation has become a multimillion-dollar industry, and many parents currently pay $1,000 or more for intensive classes designed to give their kids an edge.
Hernandez's family can't afford the edge.
He's studying for the test the old-fashioned way -- cracking the books and burning the midnight oil.
Counselors at Palmer High School have sought to level the playing field by securing a professional SAT teacher to lead a two-night, condensed course at a discount. It helps many students who might not otherwise afford such classes, but the $79 price tag is still too much for some families, Powell notes.
And the SAT can be the difference between getting in and not. CU-Boulder, for example, puts emphasis on applicants both graduating in the top 25 percent of their class and scoring well on the SAT.
But research shows that even high-achieving low-income students consistently score lower on SATs.
The odds, Tobin says, of taking the SAT and scoring over 1,200 are more than three times lower for a student whose family earns roughly $30,000 a year than for a student from a wealthy family.
"Of course, wealthier students aren't smarter, although there are some parents who would suggest that," he says.
On the front lines
As a 31-year-old single mom with three pre-teenage boys, Carrie Riffee has struggled hard, even battling homelessness, to get to Pikes Peak Community College. She's looking to transfer to UCCS next year to pursue a bachelor's degree in political science.
These days, two-year community college credits are more transferable to four-year universities than they ever were before.
But Riffee, who is president of the student body this year, worries that if something happens and she has to drop classes, or wants to change direction, the vouchers will run out.
"It has made me cut out the classes that aren't essential," she says.
Michael Reyes, another PPCC student, says he wishes more classes were covered under the vouchers for students planning to transfer. He decided to become a physics teacher after taking an optional class in space-based physics before the vouchers went into effect.
"That was the course that put me on track," he says. "I don't know that I would have taken it now. It's not transferable. It didn't count toward anything."
He also plans to transfer to UCCS. His decision to begin his studies at the community college is simple:
"UCCS costs about twice as much as Pikes Peak," he says.


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The battle of words never stops for the Barretto clan. Here is Mommy Inday's answers to her daughter's defenders.
To Tanya, you say you respect me. Please don't — keep it— you need that for yourself. I don't need respect from someone like you. I have plenty of it from where I come from.
"I know who you are, what you are, but you shocked the world at how you could face the camera so professionally comfortable in lying to tell a story of more than 30 years ago as if you were there when it happened, as if you were part and parcel of our household when not even our cats and dogs know you — tsk, tsk, tsk! — lying to the hilt without batting an eyelash. Unless you were coached to read a prepared story.
"No. 1: No, Tanya, it is never true that Gretchen's tuition was not paid. School is top priority of our payables.
"No. 2: No money for recess and lunch? I don't even want to dignify you on that since you are not a dignified one.
"No. 3: So you saw Gretchen with a bruise of black and blue? Do you want to insinuate that we did that to her? We have no history of violence. Don't be dramatic. People might ask you to convince them some more and all these events of 30 years ago, huh?"
To Mother Lily: Yes, Mother Dearest, it is true that I was the one who used to pick up Gretchen's checks because she was a minor, remember? But it is not true what you said that you know that not a cent went to her.
"The cents went to pay for, 1) car, 2) driver, 3) yaya, 4) gasoline, 5) food, 6) clothes, 7) and others (kulang pa).
"I hope you understand being a mother, too. And by the way, we still have the contract we signed with you."
To Robbie Tan: Thank you, Robbie, for having given Gretchen more work because you thought she needed money for the family. But for your information and correction, at age 18 she was no longer with us because she was already living-in with Joey Loyzaga and our family was already in Iloilo. We did not use her money, period, same way you made good business from the projects you made for her. More power to you."


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Thursday, March 18, 2010
HCR - scary initials
I am sure I have talked about the hidden tax, the cost of employer provided health insurance premiums that are passed on to everyone. It's not just union shops that have employer provided health insurance, so do colleges and universities, insurance firms (including Highmark and UPMC, ironic, no?), banks, the government, etc etc etc. Everything costs more because the insurance companies can charge what they want. And if someone can show me a study that proves offering health insurance across state borders works, I will be pleased to read and comment. But from personal experience dealing with a national insurance company (and their customer service department located who knows where) that has a presence in Pennsylvania, remote health insurance companies bring with them unique problems.
Now, I don't think the Democratic plan really does anything for the hidden tax, and that is something we are going to need to deal with soon, but again, the alternative is not passing a phantom Republican plan. Even if Republicans have introduced bills, they are not on anyone's radar, so they might as well not exist.
So I will grit my teeth and continue to defend the Democrat's HCR bill, particularly against false Republican accusations like saying the Public Option will ruin our health care and cause huge waits for procedures (*actually seen on FaceBook). That particular statement is false because the current bill *has* *no* *public* *op-* *tion*.
But I wanted to say I'm not stupid, this bill is only slightly better than nothing. That that is so is a topic for another post.
(It would be OK with me, Barry, if you want to go ahead and call the other members of your party a bunch of self interested, self serving jerks whose only redeeming quality is that they are slightly less self interested and self serving than their Republican counterparts. But that redeeming quality is off set by the Republicans ability to get their message out.)
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- William Ford said...
I agree with your assessment. For those with employer-sponsored plans, premiums will continue to rise as they have. The group and indivual markets may be hit even harder as the insurance companies cope with eliminating prexisting and lifetime limit caps. The exchanges won't have the power to temper increases. We are turning the whole system over to the companies that have made costs go out of control in the first place. Becaused of delayed implementation, the full negative effects won't be felt for at least six or seven years.
- March 21, 2010 9:07 AM
- EdHeath said...
Do you agree with all of my assessment? Will premiums rise if the bill is not passed? If the pre-existing conditions and lifetime caps are allowed to stay in place, will that have a negative of the aggregated lives of thousands of individuals?
I think a clear eyed assessment has to look at the effect of doing nothing. If HCR is defeated, or repealed by Republicans later, the chilling effect will leave us without even a semblance of regulation on the market (apart from the state controls), and will embolden the health insurance companies and health care providers (including but not limited to pharmaceuticals) to increase their profits by increasing their charges across the board.
I was talking about this with another person yesterday who has a similar situation to my own, except she pays a lot more to her health insurance company that her employer chose, because she is a single mom with children (she has children, I believe she is a single mom). We agree we are happy with our health insurance as it is, but we also agree we would be sunk without it, and the economy as a whole is paying too much.
- March 21, 2010 10:24 AM


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After making my first chrysalis I had a little skinnerblend left. So I made this mouse and a ring to go with it. Quite funny to find leafs in pouring rain for making the texture. And it was much easyer than I thougt.
How to make a leaf texture
You just find a leaf with a good texture. Use the back of the leaf where the texture is best. Put it on the clay and roll over the leaf with a roller.
Think about all those beautiful leaves just waiting around to make a good impression on your clay. You can make all sorts of pendants, rings and bracelets. A leaf impression allways draws attention.
It always fascinates me to watch nature in a macro view. Isn´t it amazing to see the wonders? There are so many details in nature we just pass by. Make a little stop - see the wonders around you. You´ll be surprised.


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Constitutional Law, Assistance of counsel. Practice, Criminal, Assistance of counsel, Continuance.
The criminal defendant failed to demonstrate any prejudice resulting from his trial counsel's failure to request a continuance after making his first appearance only ten days prior to trial, where the defendant offered no affidavits from any potential witnesses setting forth testimony they might have given if interviewed and did not obtain an affidavit from his trial counsel regarding his strategy [869-870]; moreover, the defendant's informed and voluntary agreement to proceed in accordance with trial counsel's recommendation undermined his claim that counsel was ineffective for pursuing that strategy at trial [870-871].
This court declined to adopt a new rule of law presuming prejudice when a criminal defense attorney fails to request a continuance when having only ten days to prepare for a murder trial [871-873], and concluded that the criminal defendant, whose trial counsel failed to make such a request in such circumstances, did not meet his burden of demonstrating that his counsel's actions fell within the per se ineffective assistance of counsel exception set forth in United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 659 (1984), where trial counsel had clearly subjected the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing, resulting in the jury returning a verdict of a lesser included offense [872-873].
INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court Department on July 21, 1992.
The cases were tried before Peter A. Velis, J., and a motion for a new trial, filed on November 1, 2002, was heard by him.
Jaclyn R. Greenhalgh for the defendant.
Brett J. Vottero, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
KANTROWITZ, J. The defendant appeals from his convictions of
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murder in the second degree and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. He argues that his counsel was ineffective for failing to request a continuance after making his first appearance only ten days prior to trial. Because we find that the defendant did not demonstrate any prejudice to his case by counsel's performance, and we reject the application of a per se rule, we affirm.
Facts. The evidence at trial justified the jury in finding the following facts. On June 9, 1992, the defendant and his friend "Chi-Chi," who were on the back porch of the defendant's third-floor apartment in Holyoke, engaged in a heated argument with Raul Santana and Melanio "Nano" Fernandez, who were standing in the yard. Chi-Chi claimed that Nano owed him money for drugs. The argument escalated and the parties decided to resolve the matter with their fists. Thereupon, the defendant went from his porch into his apartment, then returned to the porch and traveled down the stairs to the yard, followed by Chi-Chi. When the defendant arrived at ground level, he approached Raul, pulled a revolver from his pants, and fired at Raul and Nano. Raul, who did not initially realize he was shot, ran off. Five to ten minutes later, Raul met up with Nano, who had also been shot. Nano died from his wound that same day.
As the grand jury were in the process of returning indictments for murder in the first degree and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, the defendant was in the process of fleeing. It was not until eight years later that he was located in California, where he was incarcerated on unrelated Federal drug charges.
The defendant filed a demand for a speedy trial pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, which requires that he be brought to trial within 180 days. St. 1965, c. 892, § 1, art. III(a). Commonwealth v. Martens, 398 Mass. 674 , 675 (1986), cert. denied, 481 U.S. 1041 (1987). Upon his return to Massachusetts, he was arraigned on May 14, 2001. At that proceeding, the Commonwealth, apparently acting out of concern for the 180-day limit, requested a trial date of May 24, only ten days after the arraignment. The judge continued the matter for one day for pretrial conference and, more importantly, to allow the defendant to confer with his newly-appointed trial counsel.
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The following day, the defendant and his attorney willingly acceded to the trial date requested by the Commonwealth. Wisely, the judge questioned both counsel [Note 2] and the defendant [Note 3] about the decision and indicated that a request for a continuance would, in all likelihood, be granted. The offer was refused.
On the day of trial, a different judge, once again appropriately, questioned both counsel and the defendant concerning their readiness. Like the arraignment judge, the trial judge suggested the possibility, if not the probability, of a continuance, if one were requested. Counsel and the defendant assured the judge that they were ready and prepared for trial; neither of them made a request for additional time, and the trial commenced. [Note 4]
During the two-day trial, the Commonwealth presented testimony from five eyewitnesses to the incident. Raul Santana, one of the victims, was the chief witness and identified the defendant as the person who shot him at point blank range. Although Raul did not see the defendant shoot Nano, he heard three or four gunshots as he fled. Witnesses Jose Rodriguez and Maria Alicea testified that they saw the defendant shoot Raul and Nano. Neighbor Marilyn Solis testified that she heard the altercation and observed the defendant putting a gun in his
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pants afterward. Finally, witness Daisy Cruz, a friend of the defendant and the person the defendant asked to aid his subsequent flight from Massachusetts, testified that during the initial verbal argument, she observed the defendant go into his apartment and return with a handgun. The defense offered no witnesses.
A jury returned guilty verdicts of murder in the second degree and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, from which the defendant now appeals. [Note 5]
Standard of review. The principles regarding ineffective assistance of counsel are both well-known and well-settled. We ask "whether there has been serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of counsel -- behavior of counsel falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer -- and, if that is found, then, typically, whether it has likely deprived the defendant of an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence." Breese v. Commonwealth, 415 Mass. 249 , 252 (1993), quoting from Commonwealth v. Saferian, 366 Mass. 89 , 96 (1974). "In addition to a showing of incompetence of counsel, our cases usually require a demonstration of prejudice resulting therefrom." Commonwealth v. Rondeau, 378 Mass. 408 , 412 (1979).
We now turn to various considerations raised by the defendant.
Prejudice. We start with the observation that the defendant is unable to demonstrate any prejudice. As the motion judge, who was also the trial judge, observed in his memorandum of decision denying defendant's motion for a new trial, the defendant "has offered no affidavits from any potential witnesses setting forth the testimony that they would have given if interviewed." Indeed, the defendant is unable to demonstrate a single instance of how additional time and preparation would have benefited his cause.
"In [considering a motion for new trial], the judge looks not only to the seriousness of the claims presented, but also to the adequacy of the defendant's factual showing on those claims." Fogarty v. Commonwealth, 406 Mass. 103 , 111 (1989), S.C.,
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419 Mass. 456 (1995). The defendant's failure to include affidavits from witnesses whose testimony, if properly elicited, could have been a "real factor in the jury's deliberations," is telling. Commonwealth v. Colantonio, 31 Mass. App. Ct. 299 , 302 (1991), quoting from Commonwealth v. Grace, 397 Mass. 303 , 306 (1986). Without these affidavits, the judge was "unable to rule on the question of whether [the witnesses'] testimony would likely have made a material difference." Commonwealth v. Collins, 36 Mass. App. Ct. 25 , 30 (1994).
Additionally, the defendant failed to include an affidavit from defense counsel. See Commonwealth v. Lynch, 439 Mass. 532 , 539 n.2, cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1059 (2003) ("It is significant that no affidavit from trial counsel was submitted in connection with [the defendant's] motion for a new trial"); Commonwealth v. Savage, 51 Mass. App. Ct. 500 , 505 n.6 (2001) ("Conspicuously absent was an affidavit from trial counsel supporting the defendant's contention"). Without that affidavit, we have only the defendant's self-serving statements regarding trial counsel's strategy. [Note 6]
Prejudice per se. Perhaps recognizing the lack of prejudice shown, the defendant argues for a new rule of law, presuming prejudice when a defense attorney fails to request a continuance when having only ten days to prepare for a murder trial. Alternatively, he argues, relying on United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), that his counsel entirely failed to test the Commonwealth's case, thus invoking an exception to the normal rules of ineffective assistance of counsel.
Even if there may be some circumstances where applying a per se rule might be appropriate, we decline to use that approach here. See United States v. Cronic, supra; Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685 (2002). See also Commonwealth v. Satterfield,
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373 Mass. 109 , 115 (1977) (there may be rare cases "where the defense was so botched that judgments on th[e] hypothetical question [whether better work might have accomplished something material] would be without value").
As the motion judge noted, the Supreme Judicial Court has found no error in going to trial with less time available to prepare than was available here. See, e.g., Guerin v. Commonwealth, 339 Mass. 731 , 734 (1959) (ten days); Commonwealth v. Bettencourt, 361 Mass. 515 , 517-518 (1972) (counsel appointed four hours before trial for rape and kidnapping). Other courts have specifically refused to adopt a presumption of ineffective assistance based on inadequate preparation time. See, e.g., United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. at 664-665 (twenty-five days "is not so short that it even arguably justifies a presumption that no lawyer could provide the respondent with the effective assistance of counsel required by the Constitution"); Rastrom v. Robbins, 440 F.2d 1251, 1254 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 863 (1971) ("concern over short preparation time does not need to be institutionalized in the form of a presumption"); United States ex rel. Williams v. Twomey, 510 F.2d 634, 639 (7th Cir.), cert. denied sub nom. Sielaff v. Williams, 423 U.S. 876 (1975) ("Nor do we accept as a broad general proposition that counsel appointed on the day of trial is inevitably or even presumptively unprepared to go to trial"). The United States Supreme Court has observed that "the Constitution nowhere specifies any period which must intervene between the required appointment of counsel and trial." Avery v. Alabama, 308 U.S. 444, 446 (1940). Determinations of ineffectiveness should not be made according to a pre-established timeline, but rather on a case-by-case basis. [Note 7] See Rastrom v. Robbins, supra at 1253-1254.
The defendant's next contention is that the second of the per se ineffectiveness exceptions outlined in United States v. Cronic,
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466 U.S. at 659, applies to him. [Note 8] In Cronic, the trial court appointed a young real estate lawyer to represent the defendant on mail fraud charges, giving him twenty-five days to prepare for trial; the government, conversely, had been working on the case for four and one-half years. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, without finding any specific prejudicial errors by counsel, reversed, holding that "when circumstances hamper a given lawyer's preparation of a defendant's case, the defendant need not show specified errors in the conduct of his defense in order to show ineffective assistance of counsel." United States v. Cronic, 675 F.2d 1126, 1128 (10th Cir. 1982). The United States Supreme Court reversed the Tenth Circuit, holding that only under certain specified conditions should a court find prejudice per se. United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. at 658-660. Finding that none of the exceptions applied, the Court remanded the case for consideration of any "specific errors made by trial counsel." Id. at 666.
In Bell v. Cone, 535 U.S. 685, the Supreme Court further clarified Cronic. In Bell, the Court explained that the second exception justifying a finding of prejudice per se -- defense counsel's failure to test the prosecution's case -- applies only when the attorney's failure to test the government's case is "complete." Id. at 697. Thus, unless "counsel entirely fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing" (emphasis added), United States v. Cronic, supra at 659, a finding of ineffectiveness without a demonstration by the defendant of specific errors and resulting prejudice is inappropriate. See United States v. Bell, supra.
Here, the defendant is, once again, unable to demonstrate the type of failure required by Cronic and Bell. The record reflects
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that trial counsel clearly subjected the case to "meaningful adversarial testing," so much so that the jury returned a verdict of murder in the second, not the first, degree. [Note 9]
Colloquy. Finally, we point out that "[the defendant's] informed and voluntary agreement to proceed in accordance with trial counsel's recommendation further undermines (although does not preclude) his ability now to claim that counsel was ineffective for pursuing that strategy at trial." Commonwealth v. LaCava, 438 Mass. 708 , 716 (2003). The defendant and his counsel were questioned by two judges on two separate days as to whether they were ready and wished to proceed. In both instances they responded affirmatively, including when the question was put to them moments before trial. The defendant cannot now complain that he really did not mean what he earlier said.
Judgments affirmed.
Order denying motion for new trial affirmed.
[Note 1] Also known as Hector Guillan.
[Note 2] Counsel responded, "I received the discovery. I have discussed the matter with my client. My client wishes to go to trial. I'm telling Your Honor that I will be ready for trial. . . . And we are ready for trial, Judge."
[Note 3] "THE COURT: Well, sir, you understand that it is unusual for the Court to insist upon defense counsel being ready for trial on [ten] days' notice. If defense counsel wanted a continuance, the Court would probably give him one. You realize that?
"THE DEFENDANT: Yeah, but I want to get it over with.
"THE COURT: All right. You've talked about this thoroughly with [defense counsel]?
"THE DEFENDANT: Yes.
"THE COURT: This is what you want to do?
"THE DEFENDANT: Mm-hmm."
[Note 4] After the judge reviewed the voir dire questions to be put to the jury, the judge again asked counsel whether the defendant was ready for trial, to which counsel responded affirmatively.
[Note 5] The defendant also appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial.
[Note 6] The defendant's affidavit states: "My counsel stated that he did not believe that the Commonwealth could be ready for a murder trial in ten days. Counsel further stated that even if I was found guilty, that on appeal my conviction would be reversed. Counsel convinced me that it was a 'win' either way and I agreed to go to trial on May 24, 2001." The affidavit also faulted counsel for failing to interview the Commonwealth's witnesses, to locate witnesses that may have been helpful to his defense, and to investigate fully the crime scene and introduce ballistics evidence.
[Note 7] We observe that counsel's decision not to seek a continuance was tactical in nature, see Delle Chiaie v. Commonwealth, 367 Mass. 527 , 538-539 (1975), and would constitute ineffectiveness only if "manifestly unreasonable." Commonwealth v. White, 409 Mass. 266 , 273 (1991), quoting from Commonwealth v. Adams, 374 Mass. 722 , 728 (1978).
[Note 8] The Supreme Court recognized three situations in which there are "circumstances that are so likely to prejudice the accused that the cost of litigating their effect in a particular case is unjustified" (1) where there is a "complete denial of counsel" at a "critical stage of [the defendant's] trial"; (2) if "counsel entirely fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing"; and (3) where, "although counsel is available to assist the accused during trial, the likelihood that any lawyer, even a fully competent one, could provide effective assistance is so small that a presumption of prejudice is appropriate." United States v. Cronic, supra at 658-660.
[Note 9] The record also reflects preparation in the form of the filing of several pretrial motions; the employment of a private investigator to explore aspects of the Commonwealth's case; and participation in discovery and the trial itself. Perhaps the best proof of the adequacy of counsel's preparation, in addition to the jury verdict on the lesser included offense, is the defendant's failure to show anything that should have been done differently.


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The Cardiff Advice Zone front desk, CAA008, is by the entrance in the Library area of the ATRiuM building.
- Tier 4 Attendance Monitoring: The fingerprint scanner is at the Advice Zone desk in the ATRiuM.
- Attendance and Absence – please email the Advice Zone and lecturers teaching any class you will miss.
The Students' Union runs the Zen Bar in the ATRiuM. You can find the location of the Zen Bar in FindARoom.
National Car Parks allow staff and students to park for £4.50 all day at the Pellet Street Car Park. To make use of this offer, you have to collect a follow-up ticket / validation card from the reception desk in ATRiuM. If you park for less than 4 hours, you should not use this offer.
Careers Advice on Cardiff Campus can be booked online or arranged through the Cardiff Advice Zone front desk, CAA008.
There is no cash machine on our Cardiff campus. There are cash machines nearby as follows:
- St David's 2 in the food court area
- Spar on Station Terrace (opposite Queen Street Station)
- Tesco Express, Tredegar Street (between St David's 2 and John Lewis / behind Cineworld cinema)
- Churchill Way: HSBC bank, Natwest bank
There are two tiered theatre / cinema spaces in the ATRiuM: Ground Floor Cinema CAB004 and Second Floor Cinema CAB205.
The Lab Software Database lists computer labs and their locations.
You can book counselling appointments online. The Counselling and Wellbeing Services can be accessed through the Cardiff Advice Zone front desk, CAA008.
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