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Try Puppy Linux
Wow, what a great article by Louis Iacona [LJ, April
2008, "Puppy Linux"]. I was pleasantly surprised to
find it so in depth for a magazine article, which is usually no more than
two pages. It definitely encouraged me to try Puppy Linux, which I will
do. I hope to see more articles by this gentleman and hope he was well
paid. Thank you for such a great magazine.
George Mulak
On ISOs
I have noticed mention of ISOs now and then in LJ articles.
While working on our own applications, we've often gone searching on the Internet for tools and applications that might already be found in the form of a ready-to-run ISO.
Because ISOs are relatively new to the public, we concluded that currently, it is difficult to find such works or list them if you are an author.
Therefore, we have created a new site, www.isotogo.com, to help the
public and authors in working with ISOs. There is no cost to use it or to
list your works, and because it is new, we are working hard on moving up the
search engine ladder.
Mike Paradis
Comments on the OLPC XO
Dave Phillips is effusive in his praise of the OLPC XO [LJ, June 2008], and most of it is well deserved, indeed. But it must be conceded that the keyboard is a piece of absolute trash. After just a few hours of use, mine developed keys that stick or fail to actuate or actuate with Alt applied unpredictably. This got worse until it was completely unusable. A Google search turned up many such complaints and detailed instructions for excising and replacing the keyboard (serious tinkerers only!). The USB keyboard is really a necessity, but that is not convenient in all circumstances.
The mouse does have two active buttons, as you can verify by copying the binary of gpm from a compatible system (I use Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Latitude). Run it as:
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse0 -t ps2 -r 5 -a 3
and play with the -r and -a settings to get it the way you like.
The display is a little bit strange. Plotting a bunch of random pixels in white on a black screen makes red, green and blue dots. A white-on-black line may show bands of color, depending on the point density and inclination. So your favorite graphics apps may need some tweaking.
If you want to run something that uses SVGALIB, you need my framebuffer
version of that. It's not complete yet, but it does basic pixel, line and
block functions. I'll put it on my SourceForge site soon, but meanwhile,
if interested, send me a note at email@example.com.
Bill McConnaughey
Yet Another One-Liner
The June 2008 issue of LJ published a letter from David Newall, which responded to a letter from Joao Macedo published in the February 2008 issue, which was, in turn, a response to Dave Taylor's column in the December 2007 issue. Both Joao and David wrote in with one-liners using the echo and bc commands to do floating-point calculations in place of using Dave Taylor's solve.sh script. Joao's example embedded an actual newline character, whereas David Newall's used the escape code version of the same. There is yet another way to do this, and it is, in fact, my preference, as it is much more intuitive to folks accustomed to writing shell scripts. In bourne-shell scripts, a semicolon can be used to place commands together on a single line. It can be used for the same purpose with bc. Here is a third rewrite of the example to demonstrate:
echo 'scale=4;11/7' | bc
James Williams Zavada
First off, great magazine! While reading page 13, in the UpFront
section [LJ, June 2008, "Eee PC Gets an
Upgrade"], Doc talks about the upgrade that the Eee PC is getting, along the
lines of the larger screen, larger SSD hard drive and more memory. He
lists the new Eee PC 900 as having 1GB of RAM, and say that this is "up from
512KB". I dunno about you, but my Eee PC (from which I am sending
this letter)
has 512 megabytes, not kilobytes! If yours has 512KB
of RAM, you should send
it back! Great magazine, small typo, I forgive you!
Eric Jennings
I just wanted to send a quick note to thank all of the contributors to LJ. You have inspired me over the past couple of years to migrate over to Linux as my OS of choice and motivated me to learn new projects. I am in the middle of setting up an LTSP project for our home-schooling community and using info gained from various LJ articles and book recommendations.
Keep up the good work. Hopefully I will send some converts your way
Dean Anderson
I'm happy to see the coverage of Sony's use of Linux in the June 2008 issue.
There is actually an even bigger list of Sony products running Linux at
www.sony.net/Products/Linux. Myself, I was surprised to find my
new digital camera on that list. Now if only we could turn this into some
sort of quality label instead of a hidden feature. (Disclaimer: I am a
UNIX sysadmin working for Sony.)
Nico De Ranter
More Must-Have Firefox Extensions
I'm surprised the article [Dan Sawyer's "Must-Have Firefox Extensions" in the June 2008 issue of LJ] didn't even mention AdBlock Plus. It's the first extension I put on any Firefox installation I come across. After I installed it on my girlfriend's laptop, she exclaimed, "now I understand why you actually like that one site!" Her laptop's running Kubuntu with VMware Workstation for those pesky Windows-only apps, by the way.
Another helpful extension is Cookie Button, which prevents all those cookie confirmation windows from popping up and still allows one to enable them easily for a specific site if required.
I also enjoyed last month's article regarding using virtualization on Mac OS X, because that's what I've been doing ever since I got my MacBook Pro [Dave Taylor's "Running Ubuntu as a Virtual OS in Mac OS X" in the May 2008 issue of LJ]. It's running Parallels with Kubuntu and Windows XP, and it allows me to develop and test software on all three operating systems with ease.
And, I can run Amarok to listen to music, because iTunes simply doesn't
measure up.
U. Hertlein
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Gilbert Hall (across from Sts. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church)
3700 Gilbert Street
Detroit, MI 48210
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ODO is offering a monthly free meal, on the third Sunday of each month, to our brothers and sisters in need and is looking for volunteers each month to serve. Around 6 volunteers (youth groups, parish choirs, little league, etc.) are needed every month. Bring enough food to feed around 50 people (i.e. pasta trays, casserole burgers, salad, sandwiches, etc.)
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10/9/2011 | Valparaiso, Ind. | Attendance: 245
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Valparaiso claimed a two-goal lead in the 58th minute against Oral Roberts Sunday afternoon at Brown Field, but the Golden Eagles scored three unanswered goals as the Crusaders fell, 3-2, in non-league action.
"Obviously, it's a really disappointing result because if you look at the stats and watched the game, we maybe deserved better today," said Crusader head coach Mike Avery. "Having said that, give credit to Oral Roberts. They hung around, and at the end of game we got a bit sloppy. We had some very tired legs and were missing quite a few players today to nagging injuries. It kind of all caught up to us in the last half hour of the game. Whenever you're up two goals at home, you certainly don't expect you're going to give away three goals, and from our standpoint they were all soft mistakes that can easily be corrected and usually are by our team."
In a first half that saw Valpo out-shoot Oral Roberts 8-2, the Crusaders were able to get on the board late in the opening stanza. Fifth-year senior Clayton Lyons (Louisville, Ky./Trinity) carried the ball in on a 2-on-1 in the 39th minute and let go a shot from outside the box that was stopped by ORU goalkeeper Nick Petolick. But the rebound bounced directly to freshman Gerardo Avelar (San Salvador, El Salvador/Colegio San Francisco), who had no problem hitting the wide-open net for the game's first tally.
Valpo made it a two-goal game in the 58th minute. In a scramble in the area following a corner kick, fifth-year senior Stefan Antonijevic (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Stevenson [College of Lake County/Marquette]) finally gained possession and slotted a shot from 10 yards out off the right-hand post and into the back of the net. Fifth-year senior Wei Ming Wong (Hong Kong/Hong Kong International [SMU]) and junior Stipo Zeba (Brookfield, Ill./Morton West) earned assists on the goal.
But the two-goal lead wouldn't be enough. Oral Roberts cut the deficit in half in the 64th minute, as a pair of Golden Eagles got behind the Valpo defense. Aaron Birk moved around Valpo goalkeeper Kyle Zobeck (Coralville, Iowa/Iowa City West) outside the top of the box and then laid a pass off to Jarrett Hamilton, who found the back of the open net for ORU's first goal. Then, in the 72nd minute, the Golden Eagles knotted the score on an own goal, as a Birk effort which was going wide was redirected into the back of the net by a Crusader defender.
The Golden Eagles scored the eventual match-winner in the 85th minute. Birk controlled the ball off a corner kick on the right flank and sent a pass along the ground into the 18-yard box. Hamilton was there to gain control, and the ORU striker turned and fired a shot from 15 yards out which went inside the far post for the match-winning tally.
Valparaiso out-shot Oral Roberts (4-7-0) 19-9 on the afternoon and put eight shots on goal to ORU's four. Zobeck made one save for Valpo, while Petolick stopped five shots and the Golden Eagles' backs also came up with a clearance off the line.
"Even though I'm disappointed in the final result, I'm certainly not disappointed with our guys," said Avery. "I think they'll rebound pretty well. We have a week off now to prepare for Ohio State next weekend, which should be an exciting game. Overall, I think we're going to be fine; it was just a tough day at the office today."
Valparaiso (5-5-2) has a week away from the pitch before returning to Brown Field. The Crusaders will host Ohio State on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 1 p.m, with live audio available on WVUR, 95.1 FM, Valparaiso and live video through the Horizon League Network. Links to both, as well as live stats, will be available at www.valpoathletics.com.
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Wondering what new businesses are opening up in your town? Our new monthly "Sprouts & Shutters" column highlights restaurant, retail and other business news in Milpitas, Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
Milpitas now has two Bambu Dessert & Drinks cafes: Bambu, which specializes in popular Vietnamese desserts such as sweet soupy "che," opened this summer on Park Victoria across from Ocean Supermarket. And a Bambu Dessert & Drinks replaced New Bambu on North Milpitas Boulevard. Bambu is expanding with new locations throughout the Bay Area. Browse the menu at drinkbambu.com.
J. Crew comes to the Great Mall Oct. 17. The American-based clothing retailer sells classic, casual women's and men's apparel and accessories and operates nearly 300 retail stores and 100 factory stores nationwide. The new J.Crew will be located near Chipotle and Fresh Choice. Learn more at jcrew.com.
Fremont cheese steak fans no longer have to venture to Milpitas: A Cheese Steak Shop opened Sept. 11, replacing Quiznos on Fremont Boulevard next to Round Table. According to the company, Cheese Steak Shop is a California-based chain that has been serving "Real Philly" cheese steaks since 1982. It also serves French fries, salads and even vegetarian sandwiches. Learn more at cheesesteakshop.com.
Fremont's new Twinkle Boba Café is like a serve-yourself frozen yogurt bar: You partially fill your cup with boba and other "sinkers" and then staff tops it off with your choice of drink. The new Twinkle replaced Quickly on Sept. 25 next to BBQ Factory in the Fremont Times Square on Warm Springs. Hurry in—drinks are 15 percent off during October.
For more recent Fremont business news, read Patch coverage of the new Suju's Coffee, Aniki's Sushi and AT&T store.
Newark's new Chef Wu Restaurant specializes in Taiwanese and Mandarin cuisine, including Taiwanese breakfast fare like. The new restaurant, formerly located in Cupertino, opened on Sycamore Street on Oct. 6. You can read reviews of the closed Cupertino eatery (Chef Woo's) here — fans raved about the Chinese donut and hot sweet soy milk.
A new women's clothing store called Envy opened earlier this month in the NewPark Mall. Envy, which sells women's apparel, shoes and accessories, is located near Site for Sore Eyes and Ms. Field's Cookies on the lower level.
Union City has a new all-you-can-eat sushi buffet: Mizuumi Buffet opened last month in Hometown Buffet's old space on Decoto Road near BART. For $11.95 for lunch and $17.95 for dinner, you can load your plate with sushi, dim sum, crab, stir fry dishes, desserts and more. See what locals think on Yelp.
HK Top, a new Chinese restaurant with a short name and long menu, opened in August in Union City. The new eatery, short for Hong Kong Top, serves wonton soup, dim sum, chow fun, and Kung Pao chicken and other familiar dishes. HK Top replaces Banyan Tree on Decoto Road next to another Chinese restaurant, Zhiwei.
Sad news for many Union City businesses: A four-alarm fire destroyed or severely damaged ten businesses in the Alvarado Place Shopping Center on Oct. 10. For a full report, see recent coverage in Union City Patch.
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Russell Ray Lockaby, age 53, of Woodbine, passed away on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at his residence.
He was born in Phoenix, Ariz., to the late Oscar Lockaby and Erma Smith Roark. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his grandson, Devin Folgman; and a brother, Marvin Dean Lockaby. Russell was a U.S. Army veteran.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley Lockaby, of Woodbine; son, Michael Lockaby, of Corbin; daughters, Stephanie Morris, of Corbin, and Jennifer Folgman, of Florida; five grandchildren, Breana, Paige, Reed, Jeremiah and Ami; three brothers, Joe Lockaby, Clayton Lockaby and Darrell Lockaby; and two sisters, Lesa Bailey and Bonnie Beck, all who mourn his passing.
Visitation will be from noon Thursday, Feb. 7, until the funeral at 2 p.m. at the Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the funeral home to help with expenses.
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each calendar are noted. The diary will prove an indispensable tool for anyone
who must keep track of appointments or a log of daily accomplishments.
Students and teachers can use it for the 2013/2014 school year; rabbis and
synagogue officials will find it handy for the year 5774. People
and professionals can keep track of appointments, conferences
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Prayers (such as penitential selichos, or relevant psalms) recited on special occasions
are listed, along with other information about the daily prayer services, in
the margin of the day on which they are recited.
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York City, on the calendar page; for 66 cities, at the
end of the planner. For the second night of a Festival, the candles should not
be lit before 45 minutes after sunset (later, in the far northern latitudes; some
wait until 72 minutes after sunset in any case). However, if the Festival falls on
a Friday, the Sabbath candles should be lit 18 minutes before sunset.
For many decades, the daily study of a folio page of the Talmud has become
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completes the Talmud in seven and a half years. The daily daf (page) is listed in
this diary. During the period covered by this diary, the following tractates of the Talmud
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April 1, 2011, fell on Friday in Mississippi, just like it did everywhere else. We at HSLDA did not know, however, what mischief April Fool's Day would bring to Mississippi until the following Monday.
That Monday began like most other Mondays. Check email, voicemail, inbox, and calendar. Get coffee. Make plans for the week ahead. Pretty routine—dull even.
Then around 10:00 a.m., HSLDA Senior Counsel Dewitt (Dee) Black walked into my office with two pieces of paper in his hand and a grave expression on his face.
"We've got a situation in Mississippi you need to look at," he said as he handed me the papers.
Dee is HSLDA's contact attorney for Mississippi (along with several other states), and I am the director of litigation. When Dee or one of the other six contact attorneys hands me papers, it usually means one of our members has been summoned to court. Not so on this slow-starting Monday.
The first page was an "Official Notice" from a School Attendance Officer (SAO) dated April 1, 2011. "Dear Home Educator," it began. "The Mississippi Department of Education has received a Court Order from Judge Joe Dale Walker, Chancellor Thirteenth District, Post 2, for a copy of a list of names and addresses of all students and parents of said children in any home schooling program within the Thirteenth District."
The letter referred to a federal law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which is better known by its unpleasant acronym—FERPA. FERPA, the letter said, "allows release of educational records without prior written parental consent if the disclosure is to comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena."
The SAO's letter continued, "We are notifying you of the Order so that you may seek protective action to prevent us from releasing this information." And, the letter warned, "If you do not seek and obtain a court order which prohibits us from releasing any or all of this information, we will be required to release this information ... by Friday, April 8, 2011."
In other words, the April Fool's Day letter was an invitation to homeschoolers to sue the truant officer to stop her from doing what the judge had ordered. It stopped short of asking "Pretty please," but it was no joke. The SAO did not want to release the information and was giving us till Friday to do something about it.
It took a minute to digest the irony of the letter before I could turn to the second page, which was a copy of the order itself. It did not disappoint.
While the order at first glance looked like other orders, it was different in several very important respects. First, it had no case number to link it to any particular case.
Second, the order listed no parties. If Wile E. Coyote sued Road Runner, the case would bear the names of the parties in the form Coyote v. Road Runner. If Road Runner moved to dismiss Coyote's lawsuit, the ensuing order would list the case number and party names, as well as say whether the motion was being granted or denied. This order simply said "RE: HOME SCHOOL" where you would expect to see the names of the parties.
Finally, the order began:
THIS DAY this cause came on for hearing on the Court's own motion to provide the Court with a list of the names and addresses of all students in any home schooling program within the Thirteenth District ... and the Court after considering the same finds ... [t]hat it is necessary to provide the Court with a list of names and addresses [of all homeschoolers in the district].
Translation: The judge wanted the information but was told that he could not have it without a court order. Being a judge himself, he knew how to write a court order. So he asked himself to issue the order he wanted. He apparently held a hearing with himself and agreed with the arguments he made in support of his own motion. In spite of how the order began, there was no "cause" and therefore no case.
It was the Case of the Missing Case.
I looked at Dee and asked, "Does this really say what I think it says?" He confirmed that there didn't appear to be any case before the court and added that he was aware of no plausible legal grounds for the order under Mississippi law.
"We need to fight this," I said. "Hard."
"Agreed," he said.
The letter and order had been faxed to us by an HSLDA member family that lives in the Thirteenth District. Before long, other members who had received the letter were calling, emailing, and faxing—all concerned about the same thing: the release of their personal information to an agent of the state who had no right to it.
I like to think of our 80,000 member families as a "homeschoolers' early warning system." There are over 13,000 school districts in America and whenever a public official steps out of line with respect to homeschoolers, more than likely, one of our members will be affected and will let us know—pronto.
The April Fool's Day fax from our member was like a navy lookout reporting, "Incoming bogey bearing zero-niner-zero!" To stretch the metaphor further, Dee and I sounded the law firm equivalent of "General quarters!"
The first step for me was to inform "the Mikes," as we affectionately refer to HSLDA's founders, Michael Farris and Michael Smith. These two homeschooling dads started defending homeschoolers over 30 years ago in private practice. Seeing that the need was great, they founded HSLDA in 1983.
Anyone who knows Mike Farris knows that he is a bundle of barely contained energy who keeps a very full schedule consisting of appointments with senators, governors, state homeschooling leaders, and Patrick Henry College students. In his spare time, he writes books, makes educational videos, and heads a Virginia governor's task force on Lyme disease. In his other spare time, he's amending the U.S. Constitution to protect parents' rights and acting as chairman of the Shelby Kennedy Foundation Bible Bee. His office door is jealously watched by an imposing praetorian guard named Michele.
On this Monday morning, Mike's door was open and Michele grudgingly allotted me a moment of his time with a cautionary frown. I handed him the papers.
"Boss," I said, "You really need to read these."
He took a few moments, glancing up at me occasionally with a glint in his eye and a grim smile forming on his lips.
"I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day," he said when he had finished reading.
He and Michele quickly cancelled, shuffled, and thoroughly rearranged his otherwise full Monday schedule.
It was Monday. We had till Friday to reverse a court order the likes of which we'd never encountered before. A hundred details would need to be attended to and major decisions about how to proceed needed to be made quickly, with no time for dithering. In the first few minutes, we ticked off a list of questions that would become action items:
After working on dozens of cases together, Mike and I have developed a working relationship that lends itself to quick, decisive, but careful action. Mike is bold, aggressive, and optimistic. He immediately sees the big picture and focuses on the pros.
I am more cautious, worry about the details, and think about the precise legal theories and all of the objections to each. My mind runs quickly to the cons.
These early legal discussions tend to be vigorous, freewheeling, sometimes heated, but always collegial and respectful. Mike does me the great honor of listening to my objections and taking them seriously. He knows that I in turn will cheerfully defer to his final decision and work hard to carry it out even if a few minutes before I was vigorously arguing against it.
It was decided that we would file a civil rights complaint in federal court based in large part on FERPA, the federal statute. The homeschoolers would be the good guys (naturally); the SAOs would technically be the bad guys (although sometimes the bad guys side with the good guys once a complaint is filed, and we thought that might be the case here). Our complaint would argue that the judge's order violated the homeschoolers' right to privacy by demanding their personal information without just cause.
We would need a federal complaint, a motion for a temporary restraining order, a memorandum of law, and a motion for temporary admission to practice in the federal district court.
By tomorrow.
Mike located a Mississippi lawyer who was eager to be our local counsel. He is a homeschooling dad himself and practices in both state and federal court. His name is Sharkey Burke.
"Before we go any further," said Mike, "let's just note for the record: best name for a local counsel—ever!"
The Thirteenth Chancery District consists of five counties, each with its own SAO. We quickly identified members in four counties who had already contacted us and were willing to join the fight as parties in the case, but we were short one county.
Dee Black conferred with Mississippi state leaders, who were unanimously in agreement that we needed to fight. He notified each of the SAOs that we intended to take legal action and sent an e-lert to everyone on our Mississippi email list to let them know that we were on the case.
A family in the fifth county was finally identified and enlisted. Because the central issue involved the disclosure of homeschoolers' names, which we did not want to do, we decided to refer to the families in our pleadings as John, Jane, and Children Doe, One through Five. But as their legend grew, first in the South, then throughout the land, they became known as—the Mississippi Five.
Meanwhile, Mike called one of the SAOs to find out who was her lawyer. She referred him to someone at the Mississippi Department of Education, who referred him to staff legal counsel, who refused to discuss the matter but suggested someone in the attorney general's (AG's) office, who didn't know anything about anything. Frustrated but never bashful, Mike called the AG's office again and asked to speak to anyone who wasn't afraid to talk. The switchboard put him through to a high-ranking assistant AG.
After Mike put him in the picture, the AG said that he didn't blame us for suing in federal court. He also asked a rather unusual question.
"Are you familiar with In re: Football Practice?"
"No," said Mike. "But if you're telling me that I need to be, I'll sure run it down."
"You need to find that case," said the AG. "In re: Football Practice," he repeated, and hung up.
When my sophisticated legal research software failed to pop up the case, I turned to the Google machine and found a newspaper article from summer 2007. The judge for Mississippi Chancery Court, Third District, had concluded that it was too hot for outdoor activities. So he had issued an injunction against football practice. Needless to say, this did not go over well in the land of the Ole Miss Rebels. Another article noted that the Supreme Court of Mississippi vacated the injunction within days.
But we could not find the case.
Sharkey thought he could find it the old-fashioned way by going to the supreme court and looking through the paper files. But that would take time.
Mike began writing the federal complaint and memorandum, with the theme of protecting the homeschoolers' right to privacy. Mike writes quickly and persuasively, but he needed cases to cite and we were in uncharted water. So I began researching the law.
Legal research requires at least two important traits: the ability to read quickly and carefully, and the ability to be objectively inquisitive. Sometimes researching one case leads to another, which leads to another, ending with an unexpected gem. Sometimes the same process leads to a dead end.
In my FERPA research I found a promising case: "The purpose of FERPA is to ... protect [parents' and students'] right to privacy by limiting the transferability and disclosure of their records without their consent."
But the case continued: "FERPA does not provide a privilege that prevents the disclosure of student records. Rather, by threatening financial sanctions, it seeks to deter schools from adopting policies of releasing student records."
Congress adopted FERPA under its spending clause powers, which suggested that our federal complaint could be in trouble. When Congress promises money to the states, it comes with strings attached. If a state accepts the money but fails to do what Congress demanded as a condition for receiving it, often the state must give the money back. Sometimes a federal spending clause statute sounds like it is intended to protect individual rights, but really it's just a carrot for the states to do Congress's bidding.
A quick search of United States Supreme Court cases yielded the 2002 case of Gonzaga University v. Doe and this depressing case summary: "Held: FERPA's provisions create no personal rights to enforce under federal civil rights statutes."
When I took this case to Mike I said, "The bad news is that the decision was 7 to 2."
He looked at the case and responded, "The even more bad news is that John Roberts argued for the winning side." Roberts is now chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
After about 10 seconds, Mike said, "So—we start over. We do a writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court of Mississippi. The theme will be that the judge acted outside the scope of his office."
A writ of prohibition is an unusual procedure that allows a superior court to correct an inferior court when an appeal would not be adequate to do so. Neither of us had ever prepared one and neither had Sharkey.
By 11:00 Monday evening, Mike had drafted a petition for a writ of prohibition, a motion to stay enforcement of the order, and a memorandum of law in support of both.
Early Tuesday morning, I put the finishing touches on our documents. Soften the tone here, beef up the argument there. Double-check the cases and the quotes. When my fellow litigation attorney, Darren Jones, arrived, he reviewed everything with particular attention to the supreme court's rules on format and for style generally.
By 10:00 a.m. we were ready to send the writ, motion, and memorandum to Sharkey, who would need to carefully review them himself before filing them. Our goal was to file before the court closed on Tuesday.
Just as I was about to send everything to Sharkey, I got an email from him with an attachment. It was the In re: Football Practice case. Somehow, he'd been able to dig it up after all. It was only two pages long, but it confirmed that what we had prepared was exactly right.
After the chancery judge enjoined football practice, several schools and athletic associations filed a writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court of Mississippi. The supreme court noted that the order had no case number, no pending cause of action, and no parties. The court declared the order void and vacated it, which meant that it could not be enforced.
Mike quickly incorporated Football Practice into our documents and we sent them on to Sharkey. At 4:00 Sharkey notified us that the writ had been filed and that he was faxing it to the chancery court and each of the five SAOs.
The next morning, I called one of the SAOs to confirm that she'd received the writ and to find out what instructions she had received. She said that she had been told not to release the information before the supreme court ruled.
"Mr. Mason," she said with a sweet Southern twang, "I just want you to know that this wasn't our idea. We love our homeschoolers."
She said, "We told the judge he didn't want to mess with the homeschoolers. They've got that legal defense fund and they won't stand for it." In fact, she had been referring any homeschooler who called her about the situation to HSLDA.
I didn't say it, but in my heart I was shouting, "Preach it, sister!"
On Thursday, the supreme court granted the motion to stay and gave the judge till April 18 to "specifically address the issue of under what authority the March 23, 2011 order was issued."
The judge filed a desultory answer explaining that he was just trying to enforce the compulsory attendance laws. He didn't explain how having the names of all of the families who were lawfully homeschooling would help him to do that, and we can think of no logical connection. The state supreme court couldn't, either. On April 21, the court granted our petition and vacated the order.
We never learned exactly why the judge wanted the names and addresses of the homeschoolers in his district. But the Case of the Missing Case was not really about names and addresses. The judge had temporarily lost sight of his right role in the American political system. Judges don't pass the laws, they don't prosecute the offenders, and they surely don't commence the cases over which they preside. The order had attempted to consolidate the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in one man. That is what James Madison referred to as tyranny in The Federalist, No. 47.
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---- — When I think of the dog days my mind goes back to a skinny 10-year-old who was terrified just by the words.
Living in one of the hottest states in the union, I didn't connect the heat to the position of the Dog Star, Sirius, like the ancients did. I only knew that I along with everyone else was suffering from the heat; the temperature still 100° at 6 p.m. and most of the night. The sidewalks burned my feet. Few homes had electricity, hence no fans or refrigerators. My brother and I developed some strong biceps from carrying blocks of ice home on ropes from the ice house.
It was a fearful time for me because we believed dog days meant all dogs were rabid (and some were), and biting every person in sight. I was afraid I would become their new chew toy. I remember running and screaming at the sight of a strange dog on our block.
It saddens me to think of my little mother firing up the wood-burning cookstove to cook for our family of six. Our kitchen became a sauna. Today, I am doggone thankful for my blessings and know you are, too. My simple fan would have been an object of worship then.
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You would have thought I was goofy from the heat if you were here this morning. By the time I got up, Molly had two dozen chocolate cupcakes cooling on the kitchen table. Would you believe I looked until noon for a special frosting recipe I wanted for her before I finally gave up?
My house is full of recipes, most of which are seldom used. I treat recipes like I treat my clothes, using the old favorites over and over. I keep promising myself that one day I am going to organize them, but somehow other things seem more urgent. I'd be so happy to hear that some of you have the same problems. That always helps me feel more normal!
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Last month I was complaining about all the pests we'd had this spring, ending with our current crop of fruit flies. I'm guessing they're visiting you, too. One of our reader friends, Duane, sent us a cure you may want to try. Here it is: Put ½ to ¾ cup of vinegar in a small glass dish. Cover with waxed paper and seal with a rubber band; punch a few holes in the paper with an ice pick. Set by the kitchen sink. It catches flies and controls production. It is not pretty with its collection of dead flies in the bottom.
Cathy, my next-to-oldest daughter from New York, was here for a weekend visit. It was fun and fast. She made a great meal for me on Saturday, so Molly and I had a rerun on Monday night and finished it up. Cathy made an eggplant sauce, with tomatoes, garlic and herbs. We served it over whole wheat pasta. We also had tiny green beans, sautéed in sesame oil with garlic.
The star of the show was the best salad we've had all summer. It really wakes up your taste buds. It came to us from a Martha Stewart magazine and is called Iceberg Lettuce with Blue Cheese Vinaigrette. We used crumbled feta cheese because it's made with goat's milk and is lower in fat. Believe me, this salad is simple and will be loved by all. Make extra vinaigrette to keep on hand as it is great on all greens.
Iceberg Lettuce with Feta Cheese Vinaigrette
3 T. white vinegar
1 small shallot, finely chopped
1 t. Dijon mustard
½ c. extra-virgin olive oil
¼ c. feta cheese, crumbled (recipe calls for blue)
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
1 head iceberg lettuce, quartered into wedges
Whisk together vinegar, shallot and mustard. Pour in oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking constantly until emulsified. Whisk in half of the cheese. Season with salt.
Arrange lettuce wedges on plates. Drizzle with vinaigrette. Sprinkle with remaining feta cheese, and season with pepper.
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Here is a delicious sandwich to brighten up your dog days and have everyone barking for more!
Bacon, Avocado and Tomato Sandwich
12-16 ozs. of bacon (about 8 slices)
8 slices hearty stone ground whole wheat bread
1 avocado, sliced
1 large tomato, sliced
Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat, turning occasionally, until crisp. Transfer to a paper-towel-lined tray to drain.
Lightly toast bread, and spread with mayo. Pile on avocado, bacon and tomato. Salt to taste. Delicious!
Stay tuned to next month's column. I'm saving some fall recipes for you!
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Parting Shot: Do you think God is upset when we pass a field of wildflowers and forget to notice it?
Edna Shaffer is a local mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who writes about cooking from the perspective of an older adult. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more Grandma's Kitchen columns by Edna Shaffer, log on to record-eagle.com/ednashaffer.


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We all remember the first time that we saw Shawnee Smith, and for every person that time is different. Literally, for every person in the world it is different.
For the uneducated, Smith is Amanda in the Saw movies.
For people over 60, she was the girl in Becker.
Or perhaps for you, she was one of the little girls in this 1981 McDonald's commercial. I wonder if Shawnee and "other girl" are still best friends?
For me, I first noticed her beautiful face in one of the most underrated horror films of the 80s: The Blob, co-starring Matt Dillon. No, no, that's not right. Well, they couldn't get Matt Dillon, so they hired the real-life version of Johnny Drama and the actor who plays Johnny Drama: Kevin Dillon.
When Drama recounts his "glory years" on Entourage, he's basically talking about that time he starred in The Blob and guest starred on Tales from the Crypt. It took K. Dillon nearly 20 years in the business to finally get the respect needed for him…. to play himself. Good luck with Johnny Bananas.
Shawnee Smith shared a similar fate.
She has been acting for basically her entire life, and made her on-screen debut in the 1982 version of Annie, when she was 12. She was 18 when The Blob (I seriously have written blog EVERY TIME and had to re-type it) came out, but co-starring in a righteous special effects horror movie wasn't enough to put her over the top.
But she did have a bunch of small roles that kept her at the forefront of my fantasies.
Look how cute she is in Summer School (1986)
Then The Blob
Wow, that smile. Such as in Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
And continued to show up in The Stand (1994), The X Files, Leaving Las Vegas (1995), and Armageddon (1998) so that I'd never forget how badly I want to kiss her face.
For most people, it seems that they'll always know Shawnee as "Amanda in Saw" but most of those movies are shitty. They might know her as Linda in Becker, but I never watched that shit. Ted Danson is only funny when he's on Cheers, Curb, or Whoopie.
The Blob isn't a great all-around movie, but if you can get past Kevin's face, it has some great kills, special effects, and most importantly a smile could melt my blob of a heart.
Shawnee, you're 12 years older than me, but age is just a number. Besides, when I first fell in love with you, you were only 18. If anything, I'm a perv for liking a girl so young. Let's party.


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soccer players need to learn how to block them too. a slight contact, and they're down for like 15 minutes, rolling around like they got shot.
They're wearing shin guards for Christ sake.
Originally Posted by TBEAR
If Aldo hit your leg once you will feel it. Aldos kicks are a different level...he destroys Pettis
That said curling needs legkicks for sure
They didn't seem to affect Hominick or Edgar very much.
Pettis has very good anticipation and is good at creating angles. He's just a smart fighter in general, and that added with his quickness, he's a dangerous fight for anyone. I'll also take his cardio and ground game over Aldo's. This fight is 50/50 for me.
If Aldo hit your leg once you will feel it. Aldos kicks are a different level...he destroys Pettis
That said curling needs legkicks for sure
Im a big Aldo fan, and dont particularly like Pettis, but this fight has me nervous... Pettis has the skill to deal with Aldo standing, and even threaten to finish him... He is training with Roufus, who is a kickboxing legend... He knows his stuff... but has really turned his attention to MMA, and knows how to best kickboxing into MMA.
Aldo better bring in all the big-time striking trainers for this fight, because you know that Duke and his team are picking apart Aldo footage, looking to expose him and put him away.
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Originally Posted by KevoOnTheRadio
There are leg kicks in soccer.
soccer players need to learn how to block them too. a slight contact, and they're down for like 15 minutes, rolling around like they got shot.
Originally Posted by The Donosaur
I have always thought that golf needed more leg kicks.
If Golf had leg kicks, I may actually start watching it.
Aldo's leg kicks are nasty but with that said If i remember correctly they didnt really affect Hominick that much (who has years of kickboxing under his belt). I can see where Roufus is coming from saying they could not affect Pettis who i am sure has been around leg kicks for much of his life.
Wont know until the first one is thrown though
Been a funny thread to read but just a few leg kicks get through could yield positive results for Aldo.
There are leg kicks in soccer.
Originally Posted by The Donosaur
I admit that I know nothing about taekwondo, but I am sure that nothing else that you used as an example even allows kicking. I do not know what he meant, other than trying to discredit a big strength of his fighters opponent.
they are all sports which have aspects utilized in mma . he was saying blocking leg kicks is more obvious and utilized in sports outside of mma . To be SPECIFIC k-1 , muay thai , etc. And he is correct. I f for example a caoch had said hip tosses are not utilized nearly as much in mma as other sports then my judo reference would apply. My statement was mainly for the wiseguys posting above . we all know Duke roufus isn't stupid enough to think theree are legkicks in footbal. Just facestomps
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By John Toole
---- — New Hampshire's appetite for Dunkin' Donuts seems insatiable.
Pelham and Windham planners next week will review separate projects for the Massachusetts-based company.
Approval would bring the number of Dunkin' outlets to more than 30 along the Interstate 93 corridor in Southern New Hampshire.
The projects in Pelham and Windham come just months after Salem planners approved the company's seventh outlet in town.
The restaurants in Pelham and Windham would be the third in each town.
Is this too much of a good thing? Divided opinions on the streets of Derry yesterday indicated it's worth discussing over coffee.
"You can't have too many Dunkin' Donuts, because everybody is always going there," Brenda Holt of Derry said. "It makes it more convenient."
Holt admits she sometimes gets her coffee at Cumberland Farms to save a few pennies.
"But Dunkin' Donuts is great," she said. "I love their coffee."
For Christina Sadler of Londonderry, Dunkin' is a regional institution.
"It's a popular New England thing," Sadler said. "Everybody has Dunkin' in the morning."
Brothers Trevor and Tyler Guay of Londonderry disagreed over the Dunkin' explosion.
"I personally love Dunkin' Donuts," Trevor Guay said. "I don't think there can be too many."
But brother Tyler Guay disagrees.
"I love Dunkin' Donuts myself, but there are too many. There's not enough variety in your town," he said. "I can think of four in a one-mile radius."
The proposed Dunkin' Donuts in Pelham would replace a convenience store at 869 Mammoth Road.
The one in Windham would be part of a project at 43 Range Road, which includes retail and office space.
Founded in 1950, Dunkin' has more than 10,000 restaurants in 31 countries. Sales for last year amounted to nearly $7 billion.
The company has a presence in nine of 12 communities in Southern New Hampshire, with 29 outlets.
"They just opened a new store at 227 North Broadway, where the old Granite State Potato Chip factory was located," Salem planning director Ross Moldoff said. "They obviously have a very successful business model, as evidenced by all the stores they are building around the region."
Dunkin' is proposing a country-style store with dormers in Pelham, planning director Jeff Gowan said.
"The Planning Board held a site walk last Saturday that was very well attended," Gowan said. "A plan to improve traffic flow by altering the end of Valley Hill Road, where it meets Mammoth, was discussed at the site walk and the Highway Safety Committee will meet to review and provide comment on that concept in advance of the Sept. 5 Planning Board meeting."
Off-site traffic improvements would be subject to approval from selectmen, should planners OK the overall plan, Gowan said.
"Dunkin' Donuts is certainly a successful and prolific company," he said.
Windham community development director Laura Scott said the Windham project would be a new one, with Dunkin' as one of three tenants, near the intersection of Range Road and Delahunty Drive.
The company's vision, one of ongoing growth, is outlined on the corporate website that details plans for major expansion throughout the U.S., including Texas and California.
In Southern California alone, plans call for 45 stores.
The company in recent months also announced 19 new stores in Texas and eight for the Rochester, N.Y., area.
In 1980, the company's slogan was changed to "Dunkin' Donuts, it's worth the trip."
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Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff
I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
Want to make sure that new medicines reach the market as quickly as possible? Vote for the re-election of President Barack Obama. Afraid that the Food and Drug Administration has become too lax, and is letting unsafe or ineffective drugs through? Better vote for Mitt Romney.
To the extent either presidential candidate has a position on the FDA, that advice runs exactly counter to it. Generally speaking, Democrats like Obama want to ensure that medicines are safe and are less concerned with being friendly to the pharmaceutical industry, and Republicans like Romney believe in lowering regulatory barriers and getting medicines to market faster. But the reality is no president makes the FDA his top priority — which means that the agency is often shaped as much by the opposition as by the commander in chief.
In written answers to questions from ScienceDebate.org, a joint effort of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academies, and Scientific American, Romney took the stance that Obama was standing in the way of innovation.
"His FDA has slowed the drug development process and inserted requirements that drive up the cost of developing new antibiotics," the Romney campaign wrote. "A robust public health system is only as strong as the tools available, and I will empower the private sector to pursue the breakthroughs that will equip society for the health challenges of the twenty-first century." (Obama did not address the FDA at all in his answers.)
But the reality is that during the past two years the FDA has been approving new drugs at a rate that was not seen at any time in the previous decade. In 2011, the agency approved 30 new drugs, the second highest total in 10 years. So far this year, according to BioCentury, it has approved 28 new drugs, making this another banner year. And there is a perception on Wall Street that barriers to approval for some types of drug may actually have gone down.
It's true that the FDA has a terrible record on antibiotics, but this began long before Obama took office. In March 2009, before Obama named Margaret Hamburg as commissioner of the FDA, I wrote that over the past five years only five of six antibiotics approved by the FDA were approved, and detailed the difficult path that another new antibiotic was having in trying to reach the market. Obama had nothing to do with what happened to those drugs.
In fact, while George W. Bush and his first FDA chief, Mark McClellan, started out by pushing to get cancer drugs approved faster — reviewing Velcade, for multiple myeloma, in just four months — McClellan got moved to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the FDA went years without an official head.
Then came the controversy over whether antidepressants like GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil and Eli Lilly's Prozac actually increased the risk of depressed teenagers committing suicide, followed by an explosion of bad PR: the withdrawal of Merck's arthritis pill Vioxx. For years, scientists had warned that it might increase heart attack risk, and Merck argued it didn't. When Merck's own study proved the risk did exist, the company (not the FDA) immediately yanked the drug from the market, igniting a firestorm of bad press.
Congressional Democrats like Henry Waxman, John Dingell, and Bart Stupak, who blamed Roche's acne drug Accutane for the death of his child, piled on the drug industry and the FDA, ably assisted by Charles Grassley, the iconoclastic Republican. Those of us in the press followed, digging hard for stories about corporate malfeasance and regulators asleep at the switch. (There was plenty to find.) Suddenly, being an FDA reviewer who had been too easy on a new drug meant that you might have to defend yourself in front of Congress.
An antibiotic, Ketek, had side effects and multiple problems with its clinical trials, including outright fraud. Congeress zoomed in; FDA eventually restricted its use. This is what made the FDA clamp down on antibiotics at exactly the time when Big Pharma was abandoning the drugs due to profitability concerns and drug-resistant bacteria were starting to ooze onto the scene. Every single problem with an antibiotic clinical trial was suddenly evidence of possible fraud, and guidelines for what had to be done to get new drugs approved changed so fast that drug company executives didn't want to invest in testing new medicines for fear that they would lose out due to the changing rules.
The drug safety controversies also resulted in new law – good law, mostly — that increase the FDA's power and try to force drug companies to be better at disclosing data. One big changes was that, for the first time, the FDA has the ability to restrict how drugs are distributed, meaning that it is much less likely that potentially dangerous medicines will be overused. These were good changes, but they were not the ones that seemed likely in 2000.
Bush could have spent political capital defending the FDA, but he didn't, because no matter what he did it was not going to be part of his legacy or change his chances of re-election. The FDA was actually left rudderless, for many years without a commissioner. And this is the lesson of how politics affects drug regulation: the FDA is the least guarded boat in the executive branch, and if it gets attacked, it's often tempting to let it go in order to protect the rest of the flotilla.
Obama actually put someone in charge of the agency. Shortly after the election, there was talk that Hamburg and a deputy, Josh Sharfstein, were going to hold the industry to account. But from the beginning, Hamburg talked about the FDA as a "public health" agency that would make sure drugs were safe, but also that they got to patients with appropriate speed.
During Obama's term, the drug safety controversies have almost entirely faded. Negative headlines for the industry have focused mostly on drugs that are already restricted (Avandia) or are off-patent (antipsychotics like Risperdal.) Sharfstein left the agency after toiling to make the FDA — not the drug companies — more transparent. Last year, the Obama administration threw the FDA under the bus by over-ruling its decision to expand the over-the-counter use of Plan B contraceptives to adolecents. The Bush administration had interfered with Plan B decisions, too, but never at so high a level.
There have been changes to the FDA under Obama, too. One of the most dramatic, as a result of a recently passed law, is that many more medicines should be approved on an "accelerated" basis, before results are in. Wall Street has woken up to this. Extremely positive results for a muscular dystrophy drug developed by Sarepta Therapeutics are being talked about as a reason the medicine might be approved — even though its main trial followed only about a dozen patients. In the past, this would have just seemed too small.
After years in which it seemed that any obesity drug would not be approved due to side effects, the FDA approved two, one from Arena Pharmaceuticals and Eisai and a second from Vivus. All signals point to this being one of the best times to submit a new drug application in years.
From an FDA perspective here, the lesson may be that it's best to insulate the agency from politics as much as possible. One way to do that, according to Peter Pitts of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, would be to put FDA commissioners on six-year terms, protecting them from political churn.
In the bigger picture, this is an illustration that when it comes to reshaping federal agencies, Presidents are not as powerful as you might think — and a reminder that just because a politician campaigns for a change does not mean that he or she will be able to execute it. The reality is that you're probably unlikely to vote for either Obama or Romney based on his FDA policy — and that's exactly why neither man is likely to work very hard to change anything about the way drugs are approved.
30 is a lot of approvals, but it happened because immense development resources were thrown at drug development. The cost per approval has been rising sharply and well above inflation. I don't know what areas are getting easier to get drugs approved, but I know a lot that are getting harder. The standards for approval in most areas are rising steadily, and the FDA's expectations even on generic drugs are much above what they were 10 years ago (e.g., quality by design, etc.).
Matt does it really matter how long the FDA takes? I mean think how long the DEA takes and see which one is a bigger cluster.
Just watch, close to half will not even bother to vote. We the people are disinterested in our own lives. What's my point? You can say anything to the American People & we will believe it.
Make a campaign promise, or not, it hasn't seemed to matter much this time. The American People are strung along by medias on both sides.
We are all doing a whole lot of talking, but there isn't anything pertinent being said anymore. I am personally sick & tired of hearing about older Americans spending god aweful amounts of money on prescriptions that only seem to hasten their deaths. But here in propagandaville, the only thing we have in common any more is our media induced public stupor.
Matt, you are right, and the dynamics are interesting. The FDA is now beginning to turn in response to several forces, one of them being that a Democrat is in the White House. This is a politically non-partisan comment by the way. The pressure applied by an unprecedented expansion of knowledge regarding the biology of disease, and some very disturbing actions by FDA review divisions (e.g., the FDA cancer drug division's nonsensical and lethal early handling of the breakthrough drug Zelboraf for treating terminal metastatic melanoma – delaying its approval for two years atthe cost of about 8,000 shortened lives), have become the proverbial straws that motivated Democrats in Congress to recognize that a slow, stagnant, rigid FDA was becoming a major problem for innovation, international competitiveness, medical progress and patients. Josh Sharfstein did work to open up the agency (although there has been some backsliding since his departure), and real patients (as opposed to the corporatized cottage industry groups the FDA has preferred to work with) are now being heard by policy makers outside FDA. Margaret Hamburg has recognized that her agency hasn't kept up and has consistently admitted it – even if her efforts to change the agency from the inside have fallen short in bringing new leadership at the review division level to displace some of the people who have worked hard to resist change. The bipartisan legislation from Congress earlier this year as part of user fee reauthorizations happened because Democrats not only supported it, they initiated some of it. They could do so because the administration in the persons of Hamburg, Sharfstein and even the President himself, asked for it (sort of). Until this year, Democrats were blocking any ideas for modernizing and speeding up the FDA, a path a number of Republicans (but not all) had been trying to get started for a decade. So why the turnaround? Because FDA really had become a problem too big to ignore. It had gotten so bad that entities that had always acted kind of like natural enemies (big pharma and small biotechs and patients and venture capitalists) did something they have never done before. They came together and started speaking with one voice about the mess that is our FDA. The tipping point was reached outside the FDA for most stakeholders. The effects of FDA's decades-long slide into mediocrity and unresponsiveness were being felt and reported to members of Congress from a wide-range of stakeholders, finally overwhelming the voices of the minority of special interests who had long succeeded in shielding the FDA from change. All good. Now the not so good news. Congress left to FDA the details of how its direction to modernize, speed up, and start listening to the real stakeholders – patients – would be implemented, and FDA is reacting in the only way it knows – trying to implement the new direction without really changing how it functions – without any real modernization of its regulatory science, approval endpoints, or key policy- and decision-making staff. So prepare to be underwhelmed. Congress will need to stay engaged to drag the FDA into this century and to set it up so it can and will keep up, and become a competent and responsive partner in making the rapid medical progress now possible, a reality. As for the FDA during the Bush Administration, the lack of a confirmed Commissioner for much of the term was a major problem, but the larger problem was rock-solid, cultural resistance to change among the career staff inside FDA, and among the leaders of the clinical research community outside the FDA. The sad truth on that dynamic is that clinical trialing is a $40 billion per year industry driven mostly by the FDA's steady escalation of testing requirements over the last two decades to gain drug approvals, with most of that cost being born by drug companies to conduct large randomized trials mandated by the FDA, over many years. The FDA's requirements funnel those billions of dollars into the bank accounts of the entities that conduct the trials. Scientific and medical modernization at the FDA will shrink and fundamentally change the clinical trialing industry. Trials will be smarter, faster, more effective, more informative, and a lot less expensive. Progress against disease will accelerate – a lot. The forces that prevented change during the Bush Administration are still in place inside and outside the FDA, which is why the needed change hasn't really happened yet. Congress needs to keep its focus on FDA. No matter who wins the election, the job of fixing our FDA has barely started, and without the continued attention of Congress, it will quickly stall. FDA has been an opaque, stagnant agency for so long that only a sustained, watchful and in some areas forceful effort from Congress and the next several administrations will succeed in transforming the FDA from the enormously powerful problem it is now, to the effective, responsive and flexible force for progress it must become.
I appreciate the article and the comments below. Keep in mind that the previous two years 2009 and 2010 experienced some of the lowest number of new drug approvals ever. There were a large number of agents backlogged and delayed for various reasons that finally led to a greater number of approvals.


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No surprise: Kobe Bryant made the All-Star team for the 15th time in 17 seasons. Surprise: Dwight Howard made it as a starter too.
Plenty of NBA analysts questioned Howard's inclusion via fan voting. So did his own coach, in a way.
"Well, when you're under .500 and you have two guys on the All-Star [team], that's kind of like, really?" Lakers Coach Mike D'Antoni said Thursday. "I'm with them a little bit. But I understand it. His injury kept him down and he's coming back from his injury and he's played at the All-Star level the last two or three games, so he's coming on."


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JOPLIN, Mo. —
If the Joplin City Council goes ahead with a special election in August asking voters whether to implement curbside recycling, it would be an advisory vote only, members of the city's Solid Waste Commission were told on Thursday.
Council members, in a special meeting April 8, heard a proposal and gave informal approval to hold a special election Aug. 6 on the question of whether voters want to implement curbside recycling.
City Attorney Brian Head told members of the Solid Waste Commission, a city advisory board, that if the council does approve a special election, the ballot question would be framed around instituting curbside recycling service but would not specify a price.
The council favored the pickup of recyclables every other week at a cost of $3.03.
Republic Services, the city's current residential hauler, offered weekly pickup at $5.45 a month on top of the existing trash bill of $11.91 and recycling pickup every other week for $3.03 added onto the trash bill. The least expensive option was recycling pickup every other week at $1.75 extra but with trash disposal limited to the contents of one cart with no yard waste removal.
Head told the commission Thursday that if the council formally approves the special election, the commission may be called on to talk to civic groups or conduct other activities to explain the proposal.
Commission members should refrain from promoting approval or defeat of the issue so that they do not run afoul of campaign laws, Head said.
Head also said that the City Council is not bound by the vote.
Commission member Richard Vaughan asked if the council could enact it if the advisory vote went against the proposal.
"Politically that would be very tough to do, but yes, they have the authority to do that," Head said.
The council may take up the election question for a formal vote at it's regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday.


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The story in today's Buzz column about the mystery of the China Star grows even more mysterious in the expanded version with pictures. (Click on that link.)
Subsequent to that telling, one person has told Buzz that there are millions of China Stars. The China Stars are as numerous as the stars in the sky!
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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
Some may call it chance, luck or coincidence — but I know better than that. As of late
I've been having the strangest things happen to me and, there's no doubt in my mind, there's a bigger hand in it all.
A couple weeks ago, I was traveling up I-75 North helping my boyfriend transport a queen-size mattress that decided in all its majesty to take flight. We both peered with wide-eyes into the truck's side mirrors as it flew into the path of an 18-wheeler, was ran over by one and almost caused a horrific accident.
All the color left our faces, but we calmly talked to each other about our plan of action, pulled over, and backed up. Semi-trucks swerved to miss the mattress and a distracted driver on her cell phone almost hit us in the emergency lane — but we made it. The mattress was within reach and we grabbed it.
Nothing makes your heart beat faster than near-death experience, and I'm not exaggerating one bit. The mattress episode wasn't luck, and neither was the moment six cars slammed on their brakes in the fast lane on I-75 last weekend.
It is beyond me why cars decide to weave in and out of lanes like they're creating a roadway basket of disaster, but they do it anyway, and my life flashed before my eyes. A van shot out of my lane and squeezed in front of a semi-truck causing everyone to behold a heart-pounding scene of cars plummeting from 70 mph to zero. Everyone screeched and squealed, including me and my boyfriend, who was driving directly in front of me.
In that moment of scared silence, I could barely look into my rear-view mirror. If anyone was going slam into me it would have been out of my control. The entirety of the hour drive from then on was spent with a cautious mind and thankful heart. Someone had to be without a doubt watching over us, protecting us.
Although our protector isn't always visible, I know He's there. Some would call it chance, luck or coincidence that we made it safely off of the dangerous roadways, but I call it God, who is our refuge and strength, a faithful and ever-present help when in trouble.