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Incidence and Mortality
Estimated new cases and deaths from gallbladder (and other biliary) cancer in the United States in 2019:[1]
Cancer that arises in the gallbladder is uncommon.
Clinical Features
The most common symptoms caused by gallbladder cancer are jaundice, pain, and fever.
Histopathology and Diagnostics
In patients whose superficial cancer (T1 or confined to the mucosa) is discovered on pathological examination of tissue after gallbladder removal for other reasons, the disease is often cured without further therapy. In patients who present with symptoms, the tumor is rarely diagnosed preoperatively.[2] In such cases, the tumor often cannot be removed completely by surgery and the patient cannot be cured, although palliative measures may be beneficial. For patients with T2 or greater disease, extended resection with partial hepatectomy and portal lymph node dissection may be an option.[3,4]
Other Prognostic Factors
Cholelithiasis is an associated finding in the majority of cases, but less than 1% of patients with cholelithiasis develop this cancer.
Some histologic types of gallbladder cancer have a better prognosis than others; papillary carcinomas have the best prognosis. The histologic types of gallbladder cancer include the following:[1]
*Grade 4 by definition.
AJCC Stage Groupings and TNM Definitions
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has designated staging by the TNM classification to define gallbladder cancer.[1]
Localized (Stage I)
Patients with localized (stage I) gallbladder cancer have cancer confined to the gallbladder wall that can be completely resected. They represent a minority of cases of gallbladder cancer. Patients with cancers confined to the mucosa have 5-year survival rates of nearly 100%.[2] Patients with muscular invasion or beyond have a survival of less than 15%. Treatment of localized disease includes removal of regional lymphatics and lymph nodes should be removed along with the gallbladder in such patients.
Unresectable (Stage II–IV)
With the exception of some patients with focal stage IIA disease, patients with stage II, III, or IV disease have cancer that cannot be completely resected. They represent the majority of cases of gallbladder cancer. Often the cancer invades directly into adjacent liver or biliary lymph nodes or has disseminated throughout the peritoneal cavity. Spread to distant parts of the body is not uncommon. At these stages, standard therapy is directed at palliation. Because of its rarity, no specific clinical trials exist; however, such patients can be included in trials aimed at improving local control by combining radiation therapy with radiosensitizer drugs.
When gallbladder cancer is previously unsuspected and is discovered in the mucosa of the gallbladder at pathologic examination, it is curable in more than 80% of cases. Gallbladder cancer suspected before surgery because of symptoms, however, usually penetrates the muscularis and serosa and is curable in fewer than 5% of patients.
One study reported on patterns of lymph node spread from gallbladder cancer and outcomes of patients with metastases to lymph nodes in 111 consecutive surgical patients in a single institution from 1981 to 1995.[1][Level of evidence: 3iiiA] The standard surgical procedure was removal of the gallbladder, a wedge resection of the liver, resection of the extrahepatic bile duct, and resection of the regional (N1 and N2) lymph nodes. Kaplan-Meier estimates of the 5-year survival for node-negative tumors pathologically staged as T2 to T4 were 42.5% ± 6.5% and for similar nodepositive tumors, 31% ± 6.2%.
Standard treatment options for localized gallbladder cancer
Standard treatment options for localized gallbladder cancer include the following:
Implantation of the carcinoma at all port sites (including the camera site) after laparoscopic removal of an unsuspected cancer is a problem. Even for stage I cancers, the port sites must be excised completely.[6]
Treatment options under clinical evaluation for localized gallbladder cancer
Treatment options under clinical evaluation for localized gallbladder cancer include the following:
Current Clinical Trials
Use our advanced clinical trial search to find NCI-supported cancer clinical trials that are now enrolling patients. The search can be narrowed by location of the trial, type of treatment, name of the drug, and other criteria. General information about clinical trials is also available.
Patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer are not curable. Significant symptomatic benefit can often be achieved with relief of biliary obstruction. A few patients have very slow-growing tumors and may live several years. Patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer should be considered for inclusion in clinical trials whenever possible. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI website.
Treatment options for unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer
Treatment options for unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer include the following:
Palliative radiation therapy after biliary drainage may be beneficial, and patients may be candidates for inclusion in clinical trials that explore ways to improve the effects of radiation therapy with various radiation sensitizers such as hyperthermia, radiosensitizer drugs, or cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents.
A randomized, phase III study of up to 6 months of gemcitabine versus gemcitabine and cisplatin in 410 patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer demonstrated an improvement in median overall survival (OS) among patients treated with combination therapy (11.7 months vs. 8.1 months; hazard ratio, 0.64; [95% confidence interval, 0.52–0.80], P < .001).[2][Level of evidence: 1iiA] A similar median OS benefit was demonstrated in all subgroups, including 149 patients with gallbladder cancer. Grade 3 and 4 toxicities occurred with similar frequency in both study arms, with the exception of increased hematologic toxic effects in patients randomly assigned to gemcitabine-cisplatin and increased hepatotoxicity in patients randomly assigned to single-agent gemcitabine.
A multi-institutional, randomized, phase III study (NCT01149122) of advanced biliary cancers that evaluated the benefit of chemotherapy (gemcitabine and oxaliplatin) with or without erlotinib failed to meet its endpoint of improvement in OS and progression-free survival.[3][Level of evidence: 1iiD]
Other drugs and drug combinations await evaluation in randomized trials.
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Jay Triano, the presumptive choice to coach the suddenly sexy Canadian men's basketball team, wasn't keen to discuss his employment situation, his relation-ship with Basketball Canada or, for that matter, his working friendship with Steve Nash, the newly minted GM of the men's team.
And that's fine. It's accepted that Nash will offer the job to Triano, his former coach, once various entanglements have been ironed out. It's also accepted that Triano is the only logical candidate for the position.
But, on Wednesday, Triano wasn't nearly as reticent about discussing something that's been bothering him, and everyone associated with hoops in this country, for some time.
Since 1988, exactly 12 men have played basketball for Canada at the Olympics and, because the national team didn't qualify for London and 2012, it will be 28 years, at the minimum, before another 12 players wear the Maple Leaf at the Summer Games.
That's one team which has qualified for the Olympics in almost three decades. The good news is that streak could come to an end in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The bad news is that it exists in the first place, and when you add those things together, you begin to understand why Nash, his former national teammate Rowan Barrett and, most likely, Triano will be involved in the preparation for Rio.
"I think that's why Steve got involved," Triano said before speaking at the SFU fundraising breakfast on Wednesday. "He wants to help the young players in this country.
Triano recalled that when Nash and Barrett, the new assistant general manager, played for him at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, "there were issues with Basketball Canada, as there are with all amateur sports in this country. They'd sit around and say, 'This isn't right. When we're done, we've got to do something to change this.'
"I think it's really honourable those two guys have stepped forward and want to make a change for the next generation."
And this generation could be changing a lot of things for basket-ball in this country.
Nash and Barrett have assumed control of a program which, owing to a remarkable pool of young talent, is fairly pregnant with potential. The Canadian team which attempts to qualify for Rio could have on its roster: Tristan Thompson, the fourth overall pick by Cleveland in last summer's NBA draft; Cory Joseph, San Antonio Spurs first-rounder from 2011; Andrew Nicholson and Kris Joseph, who could go in the first round of this summer's draft; North Van's Robert Sacre, who could go in the second round; Myck Kabongo, a projected first-rounder in 2013; and prep star Andrew Wiggins, widely regarded as the top NCAA recruit in the class of 2014.
Triano, who's still the Toronto Raptors VP of pro scouting following his dismissal as the NBA team's head coach last offseason, declined to comment on any players specifically.
How about in general?
"I'm really excited about this group," he said.
The challenge now becomes integrating that talent into the nation-al team, which is where Nash and Triano come in. Basketball Canada, unfortunately, has an uneven history of fitting elite players into the program. Longtime NBA player Jamal Magliore has consistently refused entreaties to play for Canada. Samuel Dalembert suited up in the run-up to 2008 and was subsequently booted off the team by then head coach Leo Rautins. Even Nash sat out the last two rounds of Olympic qualifying for Canada.
But Nash was there in 2000, one of the 12, leading the Triano-coached Canadians to a 5-2 record in the Olympic tournament. He's always regarded that experience as a tipping point in his basketball career and a richly satisfying personal moment. Now, he'll try to draw others into the fold and Basketball Canada is betting all that young talent will have a hard time saying no to a future Hall-of-Famer.
"[Nash] said playing for Canada was the best time of his life," said Triano. "He's extremely passionate about this. When he knocks on your door and asks you to play for your country, a lot more Canadian kids will listen to what he has to say."
And basketball fans in this country will be listening right along with him.
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With copeg's tip,
I'm constructing a robot that has to move from right to left and forward and back.
My teacher has given us a sort of base code to start with, but since I don't know how to make a "robot" move, I haven't added to it yet.
package lab4; public class RobotTest { public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO: construct a robot and move it around. Make it run out of // battery power, then recharge it and continue. Make the robot end // where it begins. Call the method print below (repeatedly) to // monitor the state of your robot. } private static void print(Robot r) { // TODO: print the state of the specified robot to the console. // This method calls methods on the specified robot object r. // For example, r.getX() gets the X coordinate of the robot r, // which this method can then print, along with other such info. } }
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As the NFL prepares to roll out its first-ever prime time draft Thursday night, the stubborn glare of the spotlight is instead on a matter pro football would like to move past: Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's six-game suspension.
Commissioner Roger Goodell's sidelining of the two-time Super Bowl winner for his role in an alleged sexual assault was hotly debated by sports commentators who wondered if the punishment was too harsh -- or didn't go far enough. While Roethlisberger's defenders point out that he was not charged, Goodell has put a premium on cleaning up the league's image.
Is Roethlisberger's suspension fair when he was never charged with a crime?
- USA Today's Christine Brennan applauded Goodell's decision, saying it sends an "unequivocal message" to Roethlisberger and other players "intent on emulating his disgusting, immature and offensive behavior." "Goodell's action also acknowledges that no matter how the case was handled by the police and other authorities in Georgia, the strong arm of a serious sports commissioner can right some wrongs and mete out very significant, old school-style punishment," she wrote.
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Jeff Schultz argues that Goodell had no choice but to come down with a harsh punishment to protect his credibility as a the man who "lives to protect the [NFL] shield." The suspension also chokes a potential explosive conversation about race. "To not suspend Roethlisberger would've furthered a race debate among some fans and some of the league's African American players who believe Goodell is harder on blacks than whites," Schultz writes. "By suspending the two-time, Super-Bowl-winning white quarterback from arguably the league's premier franchise, that argument is over."
- While Goodell's decision was met with much approval by sports writers, Jets linebacker Calvin Pace ripped the commissioner's action. "How do you suspend somebody who didn't get convicted in court? I don't get it. How can you do it? Because Roger Goodell's like a judge," he told the NY Post. "That's a lot of games, especially for a franchise quarterback...It's a situation where you're dealing with somebody's word against your word."
- ESPN's resident legal expert, lawyer Lester Munson, answered Pace's question. "The league's personal conduct policy gives Goodell the power to impose discipline even without any violation of the law," he wrote. "However, Goodell did rely on his review of an enormous and detailed investigation and concluded that Roethlisberger's conduct was 'detrimental to the league' and was a 'danger to the safety and well being of another person.'"
- Yahoo Sports' blogger, Matthew J. Darnell, said he is not "disappointed or upset that [Roethlisberger will] be sitting out six (or four, or eight) games of the NFL season" but was concerned with "Goodell's limitless power to punish." Noting that the quarterback was never charged with a crime, Darnell points out that it is the first time the NFL suspends a player who was not charged with a crime or failed a drug test. "Doesn't this decision open up the possibility of a major suspension being handed out someday on the grounds of a false accusation? Or for some other thing that someone didn't really do, but still generated negative headlines for the NFL?" he wrote.


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Beauty is a funny thing. My idea of what is beautiful has changed so many times over the years, at least when we're talking about what's on the outside. This past weekend I was talking with my friend Morgan, who actually took the photo above, about cancer. About how it's relevant to my family again, and about how much I hate it, and about how I will never ever understand the whys of such a terrible thing. We got on the subject of breast cancer, because both of our mothers are survivors. And we talked about beauty, and about the BRCA test, and what we would do if we were to test positive.
As a woman, and I'm speaking to my own experience here, our ideas of beauty are often tied to how we look, how we feel. Growing up I can remember carrying around a CoverGirl compact in the back pocket of my Levis. I was in 7th grade and pulling that out and powdering my nose made me feel beautiful. Later in college we would all get dressed up in our flouncy little skirts, tank tops and wedges, and spend hours putting on makeup. MAC eyeshadow and lip gloss, Victoria's Secret glitter body lotion and perfume. This was what we did to feel beautiful. Then at 22 I started getting tattooed because owning my body, putting things on it, that made me happy, that was beautiful to me...and it still is.
In my early twenties my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. It came in like a tornado, quick and fast, and overnight it felt as if she was suddenly in the operating room, getting a double mastectomy. At the time this seemed so crazy to me- breasts were everything right? Somewhere along the line I had been taught that breasts meant femininity, they meant sexy, they meant beauty. And now my Mom's were gone. The cancer was in one breast, and my Mom elected to have both removed, as a precautionary measure. And she was one of the lucky ones. She had the surgery, she recovered, and then she called me one afternoon, asking- "Do you want my bras? I won't need them again." She had decided against reconstruction.
As parents we're always teaching our children, even when we don't realize we are. I don't think my Mom's decision to forgo breast reconstruction was a conscious teachable moment in her mind then, but now as a Mom myself, that's all I see. In that decision she taught me that beauty is not our breasts. Or our stomachs. Or our legs, arms, or faces. Truly. And it's beyond all of the clichés about beauty being skin deep, it's far past all of that. My Mom told me in that moment, "I don't give a fuck. I am a woman. I am beautiful. And I get to make my own definition of what that means." That's powerful. What that said to me, especially as a twenty-something who was still figuring out who I even was, was that I have the power to create my own idea of femininity and beauty, and then allow myself to accept that as my own truth. And what that says to me now, as a thirty-something still on the path to self-acceptance, is that it's okay to be exactly who I am, because that authenticity, that truth, that is beauty.
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The recent stories about property tax levies in DeKalb and Sycamore areas are another reminder of how falling property values are hurting homeowners and their local governments.
Essentially, this has been another year where houses became more expensive to own and worth less to sell.
If there is good news to be found, it's that there appear to be glimmers of hope for a turnaround in the housing market and the reemergence of new construction – both of which are needed locally.
Until that happens, we will have situations like the ones we've been reading about.
In Sycamore School District 427, the school district expects to receive $24.3 million in local property taxes in 2013, an $800,000 increase over this year.
Only about $113,000 of that money is revenue from new construction. Established property owners will cover the rest of the increase, and their tax rate will increase because the value of property in the school district fell for the third consecutive year, this time by 9 percent.
It's a similar story in DeKalb, where property owners in School District 428 are expected to see their property tax rates increase from $6.22 per $100 of equalized assessed value for taxes paid this year to $6.99 per $100 next year.
Tax cap rules allow local governments to increase their property tax collection by 5 percent or the rate of inflation each year. For schools, there's little option to forgo the increase – they're already receiving less in general state aid each year.
The Sycamore City Council, meanwhile, is discussing holding its tax levy request steady this year. Even so, the decline in property value in the city means that property owners could see a small increase on their tax bills.
The City of DeKalb says increased revenue is needed to cover pension costs, and if the city council makes and receives a $10 million levy request this year, property owners will see their tax rate increase from 72 cents per $100 to almost 86 cents.
When the housing market was healthy and new homes and businesses were built at a healthy clip, the opposite was true. Property values grew faster than the rate of inflation, property tax rates fell, and along with them, the tax cap led to decreases in annual tax property tax bills.
About that good news? The Illinois Association of Realtors says the median home sale price in the nine-county Chicago metro area (which includes DeKalb County) was up 2.1 percent year over year in October, and that sales overall were up 44.1 percent year over year.
There's also encouraging news about housing starts nationally, as American builders in October started construction on the most homes and apartments since July 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The figure was still short of what is considered a healthy rate, however.
Still, given that Illinois property taxes are paid a year in arrears (2012 property taxes will be paid in 2013) there's hope that the deflation in the housing market might be ending soon.
Until then, taxpayers and local governments alike will feel the squeeze.


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Was the row of LEDs really necessary? Nevertheless, it's a cool-running, well laid-out board with triple GPU PCI-E 2.0 slots that still falls at the cheaper end of the X58 scale.
With the UD5 and Extreme models waiting above it and the UD4 below it, this looks like the best bet of the range and one to keep an eye on for price-drops in coming months.
In terms of performance and features there's not much to define it from Asus's P6T Deluxe, but it's definitely the looker of the two.


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The Toronto based practice Shim – Sutcliffe Architects realised this house for architecture, music and performance located at the edge of a Toronto ravine. With a discerning eye for the detail the duo created a premium venue which is characterised by serpentine walls made of vertical glass separated by projecting oak fins.
"The section of the house parallels the experience of descending the ravine slope as well as ascending above into the tree tops. The key moment in your journey through the project is a performance space for 150 people to gather located a full floor below your entry level and visually intertwined with the ravine landscape. Upper level dining and living areas double as balconies during a performance providing additional seating overlooking the performance space.
Each of the project's five stories on the ravine side has a different and emphatic relationship to the ravine landscape. At the lower floors, the experience of the forest floor is primary. As one ascends through the house, both the palette and spatial experiences lightens until you are in the airy tree tops."
"Sustainability is integrated into the project and not considered as features. Beneath the entry driveway, twenty-three geothermal pipes provide heating and cooling for the main performance space and rest of the residence. The demands of an assembly space for larger events and gatherings necessitated an approach that is simultaneously energy efficient and also extremely quiet both inside and outside given its prime location in the heart of a large urban metropolis and along a ravine edge. The project's extensive green roof reduces the heat island as well as being a visual feature viewed from many parts of the project. The vertical wooden fins provide sun shading on the exterior as well as contributing to the acoustical performance of the performance space on the interior. Materials have been selected for their aesthetic contribution as well as their enduring qualities based on life cycle costing calculations."


text: Show Hide image Politics 15 November 2012 Don't be a smiler if you want to be a winner Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column. Sign-up Well done Steven Gerrard on reaching your 100th cap for England. OK, so it's two days to go, as I write, till the friendly against Sweden and anything could happen, earthquake, lights fail, the coach breaks down, Stevie falls off his wallet, cuts his head off shaving, or he might not get picked. Notwithstanding and néanmoins, which is French, as Stevie well knows, having played against them loads, what I am really looking forward to is – will Stevie smile? Have you ever, knowingly, consciously, seen him smile? I suppose he must have done, for a brief few seconds, back in 2005 when Liverpool won the Champions League, but not since. Those baggy eyes, that tight mouth, that set jaw, they were not made for laughing. I need talk. One of my many reveries in the night, after I have picked my eight Desert Island Discs, thought of a witty reply to Rosanna Greenstreet when she asks me how often I have sex, listed all the funny things that have happened to me in connection with spoons, is to work out my replies when the Guardian asks me What I See in the Mirror. I always end up with same answer – a Miserable Old Sod. That's the troof, as our son used to say, aged four. But come on, I am ancient, in fact I am surprised I am still here, in work, so don't be surprised if I fall asleep at the end of this paragraph and have to go for a lie down, ohhhh zzzzzzz, sorry, where was I? I can't help looking gloomy, not at this age, oh the troubles I've seen; and the war, it was agony, the lines and wrinkles. We didn't have no cream in them days, apart from the stuff we put on our lettuce and boiled egg salad. So it's not surprising that my normal face is not wreathed in beams and smiles. Must rest, my knee is killing me. But Stevie is only 32, at the height of his physical powers, fit in every sense, a multimillionaire, lauded and loved by all – and yet he still never seems to smile. I don't think I've seen Paul Scholes smile either, but then he does have asthma. I know only too well that it does help with your breathing if you keep your mouth slightly open, the better to help the air flow, even if it precludes smiling. John Terry, now he is a proper scowler –wouldn't like to meet him on a dark pitch, or any pitch. Top teeth It does occasionally happen, that top players have been caught smiling. Dwight Yorke used to be known for his toothy smile, although it was noticeable that towards the end of his career his smiles were less frequent. Too worried about the team sheet. Emmanuel Adebayor, last seen at Spurs, has often been seen to smile but I think that is more to do with prominent teeth than genuine delight. Joe Hart, the Man City and England goalie – you can often catch him smiling, exchanging banter with his defenders and even the opposition, but not asoften as before, now that he's started making silly mistakes and getting too confident. David Nugent – remember him? – one appearance for England, then was in the Premiership with Portsmouth. He's currently starring, if that is the right word to use, with Leicester. I spotted him playing last Saturday in the game against Nottingham Forest – and he was still giving little twinkly smiles, even when he had made a mistake, such as hitting the corner flag instead of the goals. It is probably this weakness, those little smiles, that explains why he had dropped down into the Championship. Coaches don't like smilers. You never see Fergie smiling. No time, really, with all that chewing, plus tapping his watch, glaring at the ref. As for Wenger, my God, he thinks life is a funeral, which is why each day he dresses and glooms as if at a wake. Ron Atkinson did smile, showing he liked a larf, as did Harry Redknapp. But where are they now, you immediately point out. The answer lies in the soil, on the sweet earth they played on when they was lads – that's when they smiled. When I wrote a book called The Glory Game, behind the scenes at Tottenham hundreds of years ago, I asked the first team pool at Spurs if they were happier now, playing for a top team in the top division, than they were at 15 playing football for their school. Eleven out of the 18 said they enjoyed their football so much more at 15. The pleasure had gone. Too much pressure. Playing football is a hard job, sweated labour, factory work, the best bit for most is when the whistle blows. So good luck, Stevie. Let's hope you put in a good shift. Hunter Davies is a journalist, broadcaster and profilic author perhaps best known for writing about the Beatles. He is an ardent Tottenham fan and writes a regular column on football for the New Statesman. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 19 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The plot against the BBC SUBSCRIBE More


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Valentine's Day is quickly approaching. While you can shower your love with gifts and candy on February 14th, think about giving the gift of pink with these select items from Filters Fast.
The Brita Grand Water Pitcher Filter is a water pitcher filter with a lovely pink lid that provides you with great tasting and fresh water in your home. Simply fill the pitcher with tap water and the filter will reduce lead, copper, cadmium, mercury, benzene, toluene, tetrachloreethylene, sediment, dirt, rust, and more from your water. Featuring a flip top lid, soft grip handle, and electronic filter change indicator, this pitcher is an ideal gift.
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Ste-Brigide-de-Kildare parish in Montréal, QC, will be closing.As early as 1850, the Irish population of Montréal was petitioning for an English-speaking parish. Msgr. Ignace BOURGET, bishop of the city, acquiesced and the parish was established in 1867.
The church will be turned into a Community Center. There will be an open-house at the parish on Sunday, October 5, 2008 before renovations begin. Like many Roman Catholic parishes, the building will be used for other purposes.
Although there are still many persons in Québec, who claim to be Catholic, few attend church services regularly, other than for the traditional ceremonies of Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage & Funerals. For this reason, many parishes have merged & others have closed, such as will Sainte-Brigide-de-Kildare since expenses may not be met.
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On a weeknight, Ms Fab and I decided to check out Freddy Smalls Bar & Kitchen for drinks and apps. It was a tiny space, but cozy and familiar, like a modernized version of the Cheers bar. It felt like everybody that walks in are regulars, and love it there.
We strolled past a smattering of tables, and sidled up to the bar, where you really do get to know the 'community' based on sheer proximity to your neighbor - you're almost literally elbow to elbow - order too many plates and you're going to spill over into someone's personal space. Good for those who want to make new friends, not so fun for us who were trying to have a conversation without having to cater to our solitary neighbor who decided it was his duty to 'host' us that entire evening, commenting on our menu choices and plates as they arrived.
Anyways, that's the setting. Let's get on to what they do with it. The food is FANTASTIC. We got excited just looking at the menu, not your run of the mill bar grub - and even more excited to hear that we had made it in time for Happy Hour pricing (on select items). We jumped at the Chicken Liver Mousse on Toasts ($4 regular price / $3 during Happy Hour) caper berry marmalade, frisee, radish. Loved the beautiful balance of creamy, earthy chicken liver mousse with the clean crunch of radish slices, frisee and sweet/tart caper berry marmalade - on a slender slab of artisan toast. We were going to share, so we can taste other food, but ended up ordering a second round immediately after the first bite.
Our friendly bartender asked what kinds of drinks we were into: when I said craft cocktails, layered - he recommended the 5-Star Sidecar ($11) Mexata Star, fresh orange, fresh lemon, Jerry Thomas bitters. I loved this light and refreshing drink, that almost felt healthy. Bitters can sometimes be overpowering but this one was perfectly balanced.
Next up for grub: Pork Belly and Charred Squid ($18) cranberry beans, eggplant, new onion. Big price jump on this one, but loved the offering of charred squid, at a bar!!! It was a dream pairing of gourmet surf and turf. I don't think I've ever seen eggplant used with squid either - kind of an ingenius combination, as evidenced by our rapid inhaling of the entire dish. If we weren't so close to our office (big risk of co-workers coming in, and in fact, one did as we were settling inwith our food) - we would have picked up the bowl and licked it clean.
Time for another drink. There are two things I particularly love in cocktails: cucumber, and some sort of element that brings heat into the mix. So the bartender whipped up a Westside Eastside ($12) Fidencio Clasico mezcal, fresh lime, agave syrup, cucumber, jalapeno - probably my fav drink of the night. I could drink these all day like they were Pressed Juicery concoctions.
I was so occupied with my drink I didn't really take good notes on Ms. Fab's unfortunately. So I think this pic is of Swedish Island ($9) Kanon Organic Vodka, lime, coconut water, orange blossom simple syrup. Ms. Fab liked hers but if memory served correctly, wished she had ordered the Westside Eastside instead.
Last but definitely not least - the dish that made us want to 'jump the bone': Reuben's Gluttony ($24) corned beef, bone marrow, yorkie pudding, carmelized kraut. We didn't really expect this giant platter of insane deliciousness. There was a gigantic bone with gorgeous, buttery marrow inside, topped by finely chopped carrot and I think celery bits for flavor and counterbalancing crunch. There were 'yorkie puddings' that were like giant popovers. Addictive *sweet* sauerkraut. Amazing corned beef that was more like carvings of steak, perfectly cooked. With house made mustards on the side that we wanted to lick off the board.
I know, I know, enough with the innuendos...we are still talking about food here. But us two single ladies definitely left satisfied and ready to come back for more at a moments notice. Freddy Smalls, you've won our hearts through our stomachs.
Flavor - 6 bites
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Ambience - 5.5 stars
Service - 6 stars
Overall experience - 6 bites
Price - $ (1 bite mark)
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Computex AMD has shown off what it claims is the "world's first" GPU capable of supporting the new graphics technologies implemented by Microsoft's DirectX 11 framework.
We're sure Nvidia has one of these in its lab too, and the real test of the two arch-rivals will be who gets the darn thing into the hands of gamers first. AMD's offering, at admitted yesterday, won't arrive until "the end of 2009".
Plenty of time for a DX11 GeForce in the meantime.
DX11-capable games will take while to arrive, as titles that can take advantage of new DirectX technology always do. But Windows 7 will make use of the framework, using API's CPU-on-GPU workload shifting to accelerate processor-intensive tasks, a technique both AMD and Nvidia have been touting for some time.
AMD may have the edge on DX11's tessellation feature, having already implemented in the Radeon HD series in anticipation of the technique's implementation in DX10. It never made the cut, but tessellation will appear in DX11. It brings the promise if much more complex geometries - essentially, more detailed models than we've seen before. ®


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An Oak Creek police lieutenant shot 15 times during the Sikh temple shooting received a special honor Thursday.
As he entered the Milwaukee County boardroom, supervisors welcomed Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy. Murphy was the first officer on the scene after a gunman invaded the Sikh temple on Aug. 5, killing six worshipers.
On Thursday, Murphy received a standing ovation and a commendation from the Milwaukee County Board.
"I'll keep this short. My singing voice isn't what it used to be," said Murphy.
Bullets shattered Murphy's vocal chords that fateful day, and he was hit 15 times in his arms, legs, head and vest.
"I'm well. Everything seems to be going along as good as possible," said Murphy.
However, it's still unclear whether Murphy will be rejoining his colleagues back at the Oak Creek Police Department.
"That's still in the doctor's hands. It's up to them to make a full evaluation. I have to go for more medical testing, but to be honest, I don't know how sunny the outlook is there and I'm OK with that," said Murphy.
Murphy said maybe he'll teach, if he doesn't return to the force.
"There's no greater honor than to serve your fellow man. If any of my actions resulted in the benefiting of others, that's what it was meant to do," said Murphy.
Murphy said his focus is on his family and getting better. He said will have another injection for his vocal chords Friday, but he just found out he will not have another surgery on his hand.


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I pretty much hate the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge (or Second Narrows). I have to cross it each time I cycle into work and its miserable.
Its asymmetric, the climb up from North to South is demoralising. The ride is often windy. Often wet. Usually cold. Everything that nature can throw at you, you'll encounter on the bridge.
And currently its only got one sidewalk, which means everyone has to stop and let each other pass. The east side walk is currently being renovated and will hopefully be slightly wider. This means its harder to get over and has a brutally dangerous off ramp on the north side. I'm surprised no-one has been killed on that yet.
Once the east side walk renovation gets completed, they'll start on the west side. The other part of the renovation is adding in a suicide fence. That will obstruct the view. But just occasionally the bridge gives you a stunning view… and just occasionally there's a break in the bike traffic and I get a photo like this:
Looking west to downtown and Lions Gate from the Second Narrows
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The grants come from the government-funded National Agency for Science and Technology. They cover five projects by public-private partnerships in different parts of the country looking into the design, manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines.
The companies involved in the projects include turbine manufacturer Imps, nuclear and aerospace group Invap, industrial equipment makers Metalúrgica Calviño and Centro de Maquinado Metalúrgico, shipyard Río Santiago, oil and gas industry supplier SICA Metalúrgica Argentina and Spanish engineering firm Emesa.
In total, the project budgets are expected to reach more than ARS 157 million through contributions made by companies and institutions involved.
The aim of the projects is the mass production of turbines, including major parts such as blades. There is also an initiative to develop and build a tower factory.
Other participants include the National University of La Plata, the Ministry of Production, Science and Technology of the province of Buenos Aires, the municipality of Cutral Có,the infrastructure and energy ministry of the province of Mendoza, and the National Institute of Industrial Technology. It is expected that projects will be completed between next 18 and 48 months.
Since 2010, when the government auctioned and signed contracts for 754MW in wind projects at a fixed price of $127/MWh — at the time the highest in the region — little has been developed.
According to Windpower Monthly's Windicator, Argentina installed 60MW in 2013, taking it's overall capacity to 161MW, while the pipeline is around 3.56GW.


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"Moonrise Kingdom," Wes Anderson's film about the search for two missing kids, has been chosen to open the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The film will be the first shown at the 65th Festival de Cannes, which runs from May 16 to 27, announced artistic director Thierry Fremaux.
"Wes Anderson is one of the rising powers of American cinema, to which he brings a highly personal touch, particularly in Moonrise Kingdom, which once again is a testimony to the creative freedom in which he continues to evolve. Sensitive and independent, this admirer of Fellini and Renoir is also in his own right a brilliant and inventive filmmaker," Fremaux told The Hollywood Reporter.
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"Moonrise Kingdom" stars Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, and follows a 1960's community in New England desperately searching for a boy and a girl who have run off together. Anderson co-wrote the film with Roman Coppola.
Nine days after premiering at Cannes, "Moonrise Kingdom" will hit theaters on May 25.


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With one bound...
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: : : : 'With a bound he was free' or 'and with a bound he was free'?
: : : I remember reading a book dealing with the history of comics (not the stand-up variety, but the paper variety) which recounted a story that went something like this:
: : : A popular weekly comic a few decades ago gave its readers the usual fare of long episodic melodramatic tales where the hero was invariably put in a seemingly inescapable position with improbable regularity, the theory being that the suspense-filled cliffhanger ending would persuade more readers to buy the comic again next week - a tactic later adopted tongue-in-cheek by US TV serials such as Batman and anything produced by Irwin Allen Productions. This was in the days where comics were largely text-based, with illustrations being the exception, rather than the norm. Much panic set in at the offices of said comic one week when the writer of the most popular storyline didn't show up for work for a couple of days. The publishing deadline grew ever nearer, and the editor was at his wits' end, since neither he, nor any of the comic's other staff writers could come up with any credible way to extricate the hero from the impossible predicament that the absent writer had left him in. Disaster loomed, until the missing writer turned up with the deadline just hours away. He took a look at last week's storyline to remind himself of how he'd left things, and with no further thought wrote "With one bound, our hero was free".
: : : I'll try to track down some more details on this and post them if I can find them. It may be an apocryphal tale, but it was certainly quoted in whatever it was that I read.
: : A version associated with poorly planned adventure novels is "With a mighty leap, he sprang out of the pit."
: what does the expression mean? how to use it? example, pls.
I wonder if your confusion is caused by the word "bound", which in this sense means a leap or a jump. Here's an example, which also goes to show the ridiculous way in which this narrative device is considered to be used.
James Bond was shackled to a table, with a chainsaw being lowered towards his stomach and a cobra slithering up over his chest about to sink its fangs into his face. The villainous evil mastermind Blofeld cackled as he watched. Things looked bad indeed...
With one bound, Bond was free. He grabbed the chainsaw, killed the cobra, sliced Blofeld in half and saved the world.
- Missed calling Word Camel 05/13/03
- Missed calling R. Berg 05/14/03


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According to a report from IHS Inc., tablets are single-handedly driving the global market for LCD panels during the first nine months of the year.
By: Source: IHS Inc.Tablets are single-handedly driving the global market for large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels during the first nine months of the year, mitigating the losses from most other sectors of the LCD space, according to the LCD Shipment Database report from IHS Inc.
Worldwide LCD shipments for tablet panels so far for the first three quarters of 2013 amounted to 186.6 million units, up a remarkable 94% from 96.2 million during the same three-quarter period last year. As the most vigorous segment of the four major applications for LCD panels, tablets are working alongside a modestly growing TV panel space to make up for large declines in desktop PC monitors and notebooks, the two weakest LCD sectors.
The great gains made by tablet LCD panel shipments this year explain why total LCD panel shipments for the first three quarters are up 8% to 628.3 million units, a respectable increase from 581.2 million units for the same time last year, as presented in the figure.
LCD panel shipments for the TV sector were also up from January to the end of September, reaching 172.2 million units, or a 4% rise from 165.6 million last year. However, given the declining LCD-TV market this year, IHS expects panel shipments for televisions to end the year basically unchanged compared to 2012, in light of weak results expected in the fourth quarter.
Compared to the two gainers, the other two major panel segments—desktop PC monitors and notebooks—ran double-digit deficits during the first nine months of the year. Aggregate LCD panel shipments for monitors amounted to 121.5 million units, down 10% from 135.5 million. Notebooks fared even worse at 140.6 million units, down a precipitous 20% from 174.9 million.
"Tablets have continued to enjoy high popularity among consumers three years after Apple introduced the first media tablet device in the form of the iPad," said Ricky Park, senior manager; large-area displays. "Since then, tablets have eroded the share of computers in general including notebook PCs, taking down the monitor market as well. This is reflected in the rising demand for tablet panels and the declining prospects for computer-related panels."
Tablets rule the LCD panel realm
Although tablet panel shipments dipped in the second quarter this year compared to the first, this is the only sector in which shipments for every quarter of 2013 are up from their corresponding levels a year ago in 2012.
The tablet space is also the lone sector to post any kind of increase in the third quarter compared to the second. In contrast, all three other applications lost ground during this time, normally considered a strong period for sales and shipments.
TV disappointment
Despite the overall strong performance for large-sized LCD panels during the first nine month of the year, the third quarter proved somewhat disappointing as shipments grew at lower-than-expected levels, on both a sequential basis and a year-over-year reckoning. The quarter's 3% growth was lower than the 8% expansion enjoyed in the third quarter of 2012.
"The slowdown in the third quarter has resulted in oversupply, high inventories and continuous panel price reductions throughout 2013, especially in the television segment," said Sweta Dash, senior director, display research and strategy for IHS.
For example, panel pricing for 39-, 40-, and 42-in sized televisions dropped from 14% to 18% from January to September. Meanwhile, 50-in TV panel pricing declined by 10% to 12% during that period.
All attention is now turning to the significant fourth quarter, the busiest time for consumer and retail sales throughout the world because of the holidays. Most signs indicate that shipments in the fourth quarter will be up from the third by about 5%, but volume will only show 0.6% growth from the same period last year.
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The show season is in full swing today in seven different cities in the US, with venues as varied an artic St Paul MN at -14 degrees to a balmy Palm Springs CA at 75 degrees. However our first results come in from Tallmadge OH where the Rubber City Kennel Club just wrapped its first show of the year.
The seven dogs that BIS judge Jon Cole saw were the Gordon Setter, GCH CH Sastya's Eleven Elven, the Bloodhound, GCH CH Flessner's International S'Cess, the Giant Schnauzer, GCH CH Skansen's Holy Knight, a Colored Bull Terrier from the classes, Action Spark of the Divine CA, the Pug, CH Warpug Black and Blue Reme, the Chinese Shar-Pei, GCH CH Shine's Deck The Halls, and the Australian Shepherd, GCH CH Copperridge's Debonair CD RA.
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In the face of official denials and widespread confusion about Jerry Lewis' role in this year's Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon, sources close to the show are saying that an orchestra is being assembled to perform with the entertainment legend as part of a recorded appearance in the annual fundraising showcase.
Plans are for Lewis to sing his signature show-closing number "You'll Never Walk Alone" with a 33-piece orchestra as part of a final send-off for the man who has hosted the national telethon since 1966. In that span, Lewis has led a fundraising effort that has amassed more than $2 billion for the MDA. The new, streamlined show airs from 6 p.m. to midnight on Sept. 4, with the South Point serving as its headquarters.
The last formal announcement from the MDA about Lewis' role in the telethon was a news release posted on the organization's Web site Aug. 3, in which it was announced that he would not be participating in the show and was vacating his position as MDA's national chairman. But on Saturday, as Lewis was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nevada Broadcasters Association at Red Rock Resort, word surfaced that Lewis would indeed take part in the scaled-back telethon.
The next day, Lewis publicist Candi Cazau said there was no plan for Lewis to participate in the show and reached Monday night repeated that there was no word from Lewis indicating that he was scheduled to appear. The MDA has not clarified what role, if any, Lewis would play in the new-look telethon. But several musicians from Las Vegas production shows are being hired to supplement the orchestra playing behind Lewis for his one-song finale.
Since May, when it was announced that the telethon would be cut from 21½ hours to 6, Lewis has not spoken publicly about his involvement in the MDA or any of the issues surrounding his departure from the telecast. Initially, the MDA said Lewis would indeed sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" to close out his peerless philanthropic career with the organization. Then the organization reversed field, announcing Aug. 3 that Lewis would no longer serve as its national chairman and would play no part in the upcoming telethon.
Back in May, Lewis was quoted by the MDA as saying, "As a labor of love, I've hosted the annual telethon since 1966, and I'll be making my final appearance on the show this year by performing my signature song, 'You'll Never Walk Alone.' I'll continue to serve MDA as its national chairman, as I've done since the early 1950s. I'll never desert MDA and my kids."
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The effects of immediate across-the-board cuts to the military are starting to take place at Northwest Florida bases.
EGLIN AFB � The effects of immediate across-the-board cuts to the military are starting to take place at Northwest Florida bases.
Reduced flying hours, higher thermostat settings and elimination of overtime are but a few sweeping changes designed to cut the required millions of dollars from the bases� operating budgets over the next six months.
One cost-saving measure of particular concern is impending unpaid leave for the thousands of civilians the military employs in the area.
Notices of furloughs should be handed out next week and could result in a 20 percent cut to the employees� paychecks over the next six months.
Brig. Gen. David Harris, commander of the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, held a series of meetings with about 2,000 civilian employees Tuesday to discuss the cuts.
�A 20 percent reduction in income is not something that people can absorb. Even careful people cannot absorb that,� he said between the meetings. �I wanted to look them in the eye and let them know how valuable they are to us, how much I feel their loss and how much I want to mitigate and soften that blow.�
The Department of Defense is required to cut $41 billion, with a potential additional $6 billion, by the end of the fiscal year in a process dubbed sequestration. That would amount to about 9 percent of its overall budget, according to the Pentagon.
The cost savings from the civilian furloughs will account for about one-ninth of the total cuts, Harris said.
Eglin has about 3,700 employees, which make up roughly half the base�s federal workforce.
Another 1,400 civilians are employed at Hurlburt Field.
The furlough will require employees to take up to 22 days of unpaid leave before Sept. 21, the last day of the last full pay period in the fiscal year.
The first furlough day will be no sooner than April 21.
After the notices are handed out next week, employees will have a couple weeks to make requests to their supervisors regarding how the leave should be implemented, in accordance with an agreement with civilian employee unions that was hammered out last week.
Ultimately, it will fall to the employee�s supervisor to determine how best to implement the days of unpaid leave in order to balance the needs of the mission with those of the employee, Harris said.
The agreement states that employees can request to take the leave stretched over the six months, in consecutive days, or in two sets of 11 days. Management must approve their requests.
Rocky Tasse, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1942, said the agreement was negotiated so employees can request to take the leave in the way that best suits their needs because each person�s hardship is going to be different.
For example, some workers may want to take a few days at a time and work a part-time job. Others may want to take the entire leave at once in order to take a temporary position with another employer or to qualify for unemployment.
�We negotiated in good faith with the understanding that the supervisor and management would work with the employee on a case-by-case basis,� Tassesaid.�I want management to be flexible and compassionate.�
He has some reservations that supervisors may not take employees� considerations into account, but said that Harris� meetings Tuesday made him hopeful that the base plans to work with employees to try to reduce the negative impact.
Aside from the furloughs, the 96th Test Wing, which oversees operations at Eglin, will have to cut $30 million, or about 20 percent of its budget, by the end of September, Harris said.
It already has started reducing flying hours, which is the most expensive operation at the base. In addition, people working in units that test equipment are restricted from working overtime, which could increase the turnaround time to complete some testing but will cut costs.
The 96th Test Wing has cut down on the number of vehicles being used, and thermostats have been set higher to try save on utilities.
The 96th covers utility bills for all local installations, including Hurlburt. Harris said each installation�s commander has been very cooperative in trying to cut electricity costs.
�It�s going to be a long, hot summer,� he said.
The 1st Special Operations Wing, which oversees operations at Hurlburt, was unable to release numbers Tuesday regarding how much will have to be cut from its budget this fiscal year, according to the base�s public affairs office.
But 1st SOW commander Col. Jim Slife said the base is preparing for the furloughs and cuts to certain programs.
�Although certain projects and programs might be cut, (we) will continue to carry out our missions to the best of our ability, even though we will not be able to function at the same level of performance and readiness with a furloughed civilian workforce,� he said in a written statement. �Now, more than ever, we must remain a family and support each other during these hard times.�
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Mid-City's Milk has been developing a rep as a neighborhood go-to for salads, burgers, and baked goods, but—as the name might suggest—the real standouts here are the dairy products. Chef-owner Bret Thompson's shop uses its own homemade ice cream and sorbet for new spins on shakes and malts, served in towering frosted glass and sized to share.
The Strawberry Shortcake mixes vanilla ice cream, strawberries and malted milk into a red and white daydream, topped with hand-whipped cream and butter cookie crumbs. The end result is surprisingly light while still creamy, not too sweet and just thick enough to make straw or spoon equally useful methods of attack. Buried at the bottom of the glass is a tart surprise: a scoop of strawberry sorbet that cuts crisply through the cream.
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For something with a bit more bite, try the Milkie Way Malt, which more than earns the last part of its name. To mimic its candy bar namesake, the shake is a deceptively simple blend of vanilla ice cream, heavily malted milk, and chocolate chips, topped with whipped cream, caramel, and chocolate sauce and topped off with a malt ball. A caramel-chocolate swirl cascading down the inside of the glass gives the shake a glamorous look, but the caramel doesn't get enough of a chance to play with the other flavors. This one's for the malt-obsessed only.
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LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The team behind a British attempt to break the land speed record says they've teamed up with a Norwegian company for the car's rocket engine.
The British Bloodhound supersonic car project will employ a rocket from the Nammo company in its record attempt for 2015, the BBC reported Thursday.
The Bloodhound will be powered by two engines -- a jet and a rocket -- as it tries to break the current record of 763 mph.
It will use a Rolls-Royce Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine to take it to about 350 mph, and then ignite the rocket motor to go supersonic.
Nammo builds motors that are found in military missiles and are used also to separate the stages on the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 launch rocket.
The British team had been developing its own hybrid power setup -- using a mixture of both solid and liquid propellants -- and had tested its own rocket but realized further development would require too much time and expense, so it turned to the Norwegian firm for its expertise and facilities.
"It's a perfect match, a perfect opportunity," Bloodhound's chief engineer Mark Chapman said. "It was almost uncanny when we started looking at the power requirements, the duration of burn, the scale and size -- to find Nammo was already working on something very close to what we wanted."


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Senate Democrats Lead Passage of Time's Up Act Overhauling Connecticut's Sexual Harassment Laws
Fulfilling a promise the caucus made at the beginning of the General Assembly's legislative session, the Senate Democrats today declared "time's up" on sexual harassment and sexual assault and led passage (31-5) of the Time's Up Act, a legislative package that includes a massive overhaul of Connecticut's sexual harassment and sexual assault laws.
The Senate Democrats' Time's Up Act reforms Connecticut's sexual harassment and sexual assault laws and processes to create stronger protections for victims and to increase penalties for offenders by:
- reforming the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) complaint process by extending deadlines to file complaints
- strengthening and expanding Connecticut's mandated reporter laws
- eliminating statutes of limitation for all Class B and C felonies, and extending the statute of limitations for class D felonies from 5 to 25 years and for class A misdemeanors from 1 to 5 years.
- increasing financial penalties for offenders
- setting a universal process for investigations of harassment complaints against school administrators, and
- requiring increased training and education of sexual harassment in Connecticut workplaces.
"Senate Democrats proposed the Time's Up Act because everyone should be able to go and earn a living free from fear that they will be subject to sexual harassment,"said Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven). "As we stand the midst of a national reckoning over sexual assault and sexual harassment, this overhaul of Connecticut laws will go a long way to providing critical protections for Connecticut residents."
"We must eliminate inappropriate behavior and harassment in the workplace," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk). "Once law, the Time's Up Act will establish Connecticut a national leader when it comes to stamping out sexual assault and harassment."
"Tonight Connecticut Democrats declared that 'Time's Up' for companies that turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace. Time's up for men in positions of power who think they can get away with sexual harassment against their female colleagues. Time's up for people who blame and shame sexual assault victims who speak out against their attackers," Senator Marilyn Moore (D-Bridgeport) said. "Victims will be heard, companies must protect them, and if they don't there will be consequences. Every woman and man deserves to work in an environment free from harassment and fear of retaliation. I am proud to stand up for victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault and vote in favor of this bill."
"How many stories have we heard over the past year, all across America, of women being sexually harassed or assaulted in the workplace? The floodgates have opened, and we are compelled to act," said Senator Beth Bye (D-West Hartford). "The Time's Up bill is action—real action—to address the scourge of sexual harassment in American workplaces. We may not end it, but we will reduce it, and here in Connecticut we are sending a message that we take this problem seriously and we will not tolerate it."
"I have heard the stories of many of the survivors of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. It's heartbreaking to hear about this unacceptable behavior, which takes place in too many places," said Senator Terry Gerratana (D-New Britain). "Passing the Time's Up Act is the right thing to protect women in Connecticut. Today we fulfilled a promise that we all made as Senate Democrats to strengthen our laws and combat this crisis."
"Connecticut Democrats have made it our mission to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace by strengthening our workplace training policies and making it easier for victims to seek justice," said Senator Paul Doyle (D-Wethersfield). "I want to express my deepest appreciation to the courageous victims who stepped forward and shared their stories before the Judiciary Committee. Your voices made passage of this legislation possible."
The Time's Up Act will result in more than 70 percent of Connecticut employees having two hours of sexual harassment training, which can be fulfilled by accessing online video and materials provided by CHRO.
- At employers with 20 or more employees, all employees will need to satisfy the training requirement.
- At employers with less than 20 employees, only supervisors need to satisfy the training.
- Beginning on October 1, 2018 and thereafter, employer must ensure training of new hires within 6 months of employment start date.
- As of October 1, 2018, then current employees will have 1 year (October 1, 2019 deadline)
- Employers do not have to hire outside consultants for the training, there is no need for HR to do training in house, there is minimal expense to employers.