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Pipe Dream: Geographically Distributed Drupal
The speed of light is, unfortunately, still a constant. If your Drupal site has users in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Delhi, and Australia (and whose doesn't?), you've had no good way to give all of them fast access to your site. No matter where you put your master database server, most people have to cross an ocean to access it. Perhaps you can put read-only slave databases with local web servers in locations around the world, but then the remote users still have a long haul when they want to log in and create content---which is, after all, what your Drupal site is for.
I am experimenting with an approach to solving this problem that allows users to log in and create content using web and slave database servers that are geographically close to them while maintaining a single consistent Drupal site. It does not require multiple active database master servers and all the intractable problems that causes. My system, called Pipe Dream, intercepts database-changing operations at the remote locations and sends them over a message queue (a.k.a. a pipe) to the primary location where they are replayed.
Shameless plug: I'll be presenting my work on Pipe Dream at Drupalcon Copenhagen assuming my session gets selected. See you there!
The basic idea is simple. First consider the normal, local-only case:
A user's web browser submits a form via HTTP POST to a web server, which then writes the new data into the database. Later, the web server reads from the database to generate pages.
Pipe Dream changes this process to use a message queue between remote and primary servers. A message queue is an asynchronous, "fire and forget" communication channel; it works like sending an email message. The sender can deliver a message into the queue and immediately go on to other tasks; eventually the recipient will get and act on the message. Here's how Pipe Dream works:
The web browser submits the form via HTTP POST to the web server. The Pipe Dream module intercepts the form data before it is "submitted" (in the Drupal Form API sense) and redirects it to the primary master server via a message queue. A message queue listener on the primary location receives the message and re-submits it to the master server which writes the new data into the database. Eventually the new database changes are replicated to the remote MySQL slave server. In a healthy system, this whole process will probably only take a few seconds so the new data will be available at all of the remote locations right away.
The advantage of this system is that the remote users only ever talk to the web and database servers near them. When new content is submitted, the POST request is processed and returns right away. The content will appear later, but in the meantime the user experiences a fast web site and can move on to other things.
While the basic idea is simple, unsurprisingly, the details are complex. Here are some the issues I have identified and how I am thinking of addressing them:
* Delay. Yes, it is true that a user will post a comment and then may not see it immediately when the page reloads. I don't care. Pipe Dream can display a message: "Thank you for your submission. It will be appear shortly." We're talking about user-generated content web sites, not a nuclear missle control system.
* User login. The previous item notwithstanding, when a user logs in to a remote location, it won't do to tell them "Thank you for logging in. Please refresh the page a few times until your username appears in the upper-right corner." So the user login form actually has to be processed locally, issuing a local session cookie. Pipe Dream could replay the login at the primary location so the user will be logged in "everywhere" but probably the login can just remain local. Logins from the primary location can still be replicated everywhere, because the session table can have multiple entries for a single user id.
* Caches. Much like user login, it is important for cache tables to be stored locally. It might easily be the case that content viewed frequently in a remote location is rarely viewed in the primary location. This turns out to be a non-issue because Drupal 7 uses the REPLACE INTO query for cache updates. All cache clearing and cache entry operations at the primary location will be replicated out, and all cache entry operations at the remote locations will all be stored locally.
* Validation. Form submissions can fail for a number of legitimate reasons such as a missing title field. Pipe Dream will allow forms to be validated locally and only deliver them to the primary location if they pass. Of course, it is possible that a form will pass validation remotely and still fail at the primary location due to a race condition; perhaps a referenced node or term just got deleted. The easiest answer is "I don't care." A better answer is for Pipe Dream to store the form submission in a table of failed submits (which of course gets replicated to the remote locations) and then show the user a block containing forms to be re-submitted. When the user clicks an entry in the block, the form re-appears filled in with validation errors displayed.
* Form API complexity. Drupal 7 forms can have a variety of behaviors and structures, including multiple submit buttons; Pipe Dream will not always know how the form is supposed to behave. For example, node forms have Preview, Add More, Save, and Delete. The first should run locally, the last two should run at the primary location, and Add More is an AJAX operation that I haven't figured out what to do with yet. Pipe Dream will probably be able to handle all "simple" forms that have only a single primary Submit button and no AJAX plus a selected list of forms for which there is a special-purpose handler. Probably Pipe Dream will define a hook that lets modules tell it how to handle their non-standard forms. In the initial implementation, I only plan to support very standard forms; nodes and comments are what everyone is going to care about anyway.
* Images. These might be easy or tricky depending on the way Pipe Dream intercepts form submissions. I have not actually tried it yet.
There are several different approaches to implementing Pipe Dream. My initial plan as described above is to base it on form interception. chx likes the idea of a new database driver that passes all non-SELECT queries (instead of form submits) to the primary location. There are probably other options.
As of this writing, Pipe Dream is an early-stage research project. I have it working with basic node forms with title, body, and taxonomy terms, using a dumb SQL-based message queue. I plan to have a functioning demo and code in the Pipe Dream module at drupal.org later this summer.
I think this accidentally got published on July 13 when it was meant for 3 months and 12 days ago ;)
Is there really demand for this? Can you describe some of the performance benefits you hope this will achieve?
Like: "currently a user in Australia accessing a server in New York sees page load/comment submission times of X seconds and under this architecture it would instead be Y seconds."
It seems like a much better project for Acquia would be to roll out something that can save seconds from every page request for every authenticated user on Acquia Hosting: memcache a>.
I think that if you say 'I don't care' enough you can get this to work :).
But I agree with Greg's question - what are you trying to solve here? If you want fast read access for distant users. The typical solution for that is a CDN. A CDN is pretty straightforward for media and anon pages but lets discuss the authenticated case. I think the best practice (still quite new) is for the CDN to assemble the personalized page using Edge Side Includes for the dynamic bits. Since all Drupal gardens sites run the same codebase, I would think you could solve this once for all those sites. For custom sites, they need custom engineering to generate the right HTML for each ESI. If you look at http://drupalcontrib.org/api/function/drupal_render_cache_set/7, you will see that D7 has a built-in a spot for ESI placeholders to be swapped into the $page array. Its unproven, but Acquia is quite used to shaking out D7 bugs.
Now that I re-read, it sounds like Barry wants faster *write* access for distant users which is not a use case we typically think about. Assuming you have offloaded all media and aggregated js/css to the CDN, I don't see a better speedup than this solution. It could be that the cure is worse than the disease though. Just how fast can people submit nodes and comments? Isn't a one second delay between pages acceptable? Or are we trying to isolate the submitter from write delays on the master?
I love the name Pipe Dream!
Sure, but what benefit at what cost?
I mean, R&D and personal technical odysseys are every engineers dream so I don't blame you for running down this road, but what is the potential benefit of this system? And what is the cost. Your use cases make sense, but what is the measurable loss in time to your customer in situation 1? Are the people in London and Shanghai waiting an extra 1 second per page request? 2 seconds? And would it not be possible to achieve similar benefit using more proven and immediately available techniques like the memcache I suggested or ESI as moshe suggested?
Another fun thing to consider here is the possibility of dynamic use of cloud computing. If someone needed additional near-time instances of Drupal running and could do so in spinning off x clones in disparate spaces knowing that the message queue will be able to make sure the updates and creates eventually get incorporated.
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MySQL Proxy seems like an obvious alternative to consider here - version 0.8 has lua scripts for read/write splitting that can do exactly what chx proposes. This is still beta, although my guess is probably pretty functional, since Drupal doesn't tend to use some of the problematic MySQL functionality. It would also have a bunch of side benefits, such as being able to balance multiple local slaves and fail back to the master for reads if no local slave is available.
edit: While I think MySQL Proxy might be quicker way to achieve the end-user latency objectives described, the form based approach also has some obvious side benefits - being able to elegantly deal with form submissions/failures in a non-real-time way could be useful for lots of other slow transactions (e.g. booking flights) and even without servers in multiple locations the queue system would really help with very large write heavy sites (together with sharded/nosql type data storage), particularly since you could (in theory) have several persistent Drupal daemons processing forms on behalf of each user, with no bootstrap cost.
This was an alternative to chx idea of writing a database driver to do read/write splitting (pointing out that this part is already doable) - they would share the same issues in that regard. That said, once you exclude cache, log and session table writes (which could be local only) the number of write queries for some operations (comments, polls, etc) is very small - node create/updates would be a problem though. Some of this latency could avoided though if these write queries could be executed directly after the page is served, but before php exits - this has been suggested in the past and given some more work in the database layer should be reasonably easy for most form submits, but would introduce some complexities in common to the form state approach you describe.
interesting idea, sounds like a fun thing to work on. i think replication is the wrong tool here though. i think using content UUIDs and messages both ways would scale better (in an application maintenance sense).
just guessing, but i think solving consistency issues via versioning and messages will be easier than solving the issues created by data flowing back from the primary site to the secondary site(s) in a non-application-aware way. it would also allow for "local" data to show up straight away when that makes sense for the type of content and application. messaging both ways allows for the rules about what makes sense here to be tuned per application.


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Oh pizza straight out of the oven, with its crunchy crust, ooey gooey cheese, and spicy tomato sauce - is there anything better? Unfortunately, they can be calorie bombs, and some "diet" pizzas just aren't satisfying. But Pizza Fit 'n Free says they are "America's Fat Free Pizza." Well now - that's all they needed to say to get me to try it!
Each 7 inch (6.4 ounce) pizza clocks in at only 250 calories, no fat, 16% of the daily value for sodium (380 mg), 20 grams of protein and 41 grams of carbohydrates which includes 3 grams of fiber (12% of the DV) and no sugar. There is also 26% of daily recommendations for vitamin A and 45% for calcium. I was really excited. The only problem: these pizzas are only available online! Six pizzas cost $29.94 plus shipping ($6 if you order just the six pizzas; the price goes down if you order more), which is a bit on the pricey side. The company sent me a sample, though, and once I got it, I dug in right away.
The instructions are pretty simple: heat the 7" cheese pizza for 8-10 minutes in a 400 degree oven. I did this, hardly able to wait those few minutes for it to warm up. The size is generous and should easily satisfy you. Once it was out of the oven I was amazed - the cheese was melted to perfection, and there was just enough of it atop the pizza - how in the world is this fat free?! The sauce was really good as well - not too overpowering on the tomato taste, and the crust came out quite crunchy. I finished my pizza and found myself not just satisfied but really happy about my meal .
The ingredients are actually pretty straightforward too. There are no toppings, so add your own - may I suggest bell peppers and some Lightlife Smart Deli Pepperoni. Needless to say, despite the price, I plan on purchasing more of these - what an amazing guilt-free pizza option!


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Behind the smiling public face of Cuties brand clementines, a multimillion dollar feud has been festering for months.
There won't be any interruption in supplies, though, despite the fact that Paramount Citrus Association and Sun Pacific Marketing are in arbitration regarding the packing, marketing and selling of the fruit, Paramount's president said.
"Paramount Citrus will continue to deliver the Cuties brand to our customers and consumers," said David Krause, president of Delano, Calif.-based Paramount. "Our ongoing plans for the fall remain unchanged."
Berne Evans, owner of Pasadena, Calif.-based Sun Pacific, said he could not comment on the pending arbitration, which also involves a dispute about use of the Cuties logos. Evans did say he anticipates the relationship between his company and Paramount will continue, even after their current contract expires in 2014.
Cuties coined in 2001
Evans and Paramount owner Stewart Resnick began collaborating in the late 1990s. They agreed in April 1999 to grow, pack, market and sell clementines and afourers. They coined the Cuties name in 2001, according to court documents.
In 2004 the companies harvested the first major crop under the Cuties brand. Evans and Resnick formed Maricopa Packing LP, Exeter, Calif., in October 2005 to pack the brand.
In September 2007 Resnick and Evans formed the Cuties Clementine Cooperative, according to records from the California secretary of state. Paramount and Sun Pacific are the only voting members of the cooperative. The cooperative's website does not include corporate officers or names of participating companies.
Nonvoting members can sell clementines to the cooperative. Fowler Packing Co. Inc., Fresno, Calif., which grows and packs Cuties, is described by Evans in court documents as a "business associate" of Paramount and Sun Pacific.
By the 2011-12 season, Cuties volumes had grown to 75 million boxes. In June 2011 Evans and Resnick were finalizing plans for a juice operation that would provide a profitable option for culls. Development of the juice operation is part of their 2008 master agreement.
The juice operation, Califia Farms, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Pacific, in Pasadena. Resnick and his company are not involved. He pulled out of the deal in late 2011.
Califia began making and marketing Cuties-branded juice. In March, Resnick filed a trademark infringement case in federal court, even though court documents show Paramount and Sun Pacific jointly own the trademarks and intellectual property related to Cuties.


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Here is the history of Israel's passing into the land of Canaan, conquering and dividing it, under the command of Joshua, and their history until his death. The power and truth of God in fulfilling his promises to Israel, and in executing his justly threatened vengeance on the Canaanites, are wonderfully displayed. This should teach us to regard the tremendous curses denounced in the word of God against impenitent sinners, and to seek refuge in Christ Jesus.
The Lord appoints Joshua to succeed Moses. (1-4) God promises to assist Joshua. (5-9) Preparation to pass over Jordan. (10-15) The people promise to obey Joshua. (16-18)
Verses 1-4 Joshua had attended upon Moses. He who was called to honour, had been long used to business. Our Lord Jesus took upon him the form of a servant. Joshua was trained up under command. Those are fittest to rule, who have learned to obey. The removal of useful men should quicken survivors to be the more diligent in doing good. Arise, go over Jordan. At this place and at this time the banks were overflowed. Joshua had no bridge or boats, and yet he must believe that God, having ordered the people over, would open a way.
Verses 5-9 Joshua is to make the law of God his rule. He is charged to meditate therein day and night, that he might understand it. Whatever affairs of this world we have to mind, we must not neglect the one thing needful. All his orders to the people, and his judgments, must be according to the law of God. Joshua must himself be under command; no man's dignity or dominion sets him above the law of God. He is to encourage himself with the promise and presence of God. Let not the sense of thine own infirmities dishearten thee; God is all-sufficient. I have commanded, called, and commissioned thee to do it, and will be sure to bear thee out in it. When we are in the way of duty, we have reason to be strong and very bold. Our Lord Jesus, as Joshua here, was borne up under his sufferings by a regard to the will of God, and the commandment from his Father.
Verses 10-15 Joshua says to the people, Ye shall pass over Jordan, and shall possess the land; because God had said so to him. We honour the truth of God, when we stagger not at the promise of God. The two tribes and a half were to go over Jordan with their brethren. When God, by his providence, has given us rest, we ought to consider what service we may do to our brethren.
Verses 16-18 The people of Israel engage to obey Joshua; All that thou commandest us to do we will readily do, without murmuring or disputing, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go. The best we can ask of God for our magistrates, is, that they may have the presence of God; that will make them blessings to us, so that in seeking this for them, we consult our own interest. May we be enabled to enlist under the banner of the Captain of our salvation, to be obedient to his commands, and to fight the good fight of faith, with all that trust in and love his name, against all who oppose his authority; for whoever refuses to obey him must be destroyed.
Joshua 1:1-18 . THE LORD APPOINTS JOSHUA TO SUCCEED MOSES.
1. Now after the death of Moses--Joshua, having been already appointed and designated leader of Israel ( Numbers 27:18-23 ), in all probability assumed the reins of government immediately "after the death of Moses."
the servant of the Lord--This was the official title of Moses as invested with a special mission to make known the will of God; and it conferred great honor and authority.
the Lord spake unto Joshua--probably during the period of public mourning, and either by a direct revelation to the mind of Joshua, or by means of Urim and Thummim ( Numbers 27:21 ). This first communication gave a pledge that the divine instructions which, according to the provisions of the theocracy, had been imparted to Moses, would be continued to the new leader, though God might not perhaps speak to him "mouth to mouth" ( Numbers 12:8 ).
Joshua--The original name, Oshea, ( Numbers 13:8 ), which had been, according to Eastern usage, changed like those of Abram and Sarai ( Genesis 17:5-15 ) into Jehoshua or Joshua (that is, "God's salvation") was significant of the services he was to render, and typified those of a greater Saviour ( Hebrews 4:8 ).
Moses' minister--that is, his official attendant, who, from being constantly employed in important services and early initiated into the principles of the government, would be well trained for undertaking the leadership of Israel.
2-9. now therefore arise, go over this Jordan--Joshua's mission was that of a military leader. This passage records his call to begin the work, and the address contains a literal repetition of the promise made to Moses ( Deuteronomy 11:24 Deuteronomy 11:25 , Deuteronomy 31:6-8 Deuteronomy 31:23 ).
3, 4. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have I given you--meaning, of course, not universal dominion, but only the territory comprised within the boundaries here specified
4. all the land of the Hittites--These occupied the southern extremities and were the dominant tribe of Canaan. Their superior power and the extent of their dominions are attested by the mention of them under the name of Khita, on the Assyrian inscriptions, and still more frequently on the Egyptian inscriptions of the eighteenth and nineteenth Dynasties. What life and encouragement must have been imparted to Joshua by the assurance that his people, who had been overwhelmed with fear of that gigantic race, were to possess "all the land of the Hittites"!
5-9. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee--Canaan was theirs by a divine grant; and the renewed confirmation of that grant to Joshua when about to lead the people into it, intimated not only a certain but an easy conquest. It is remarkable, however, that his courage and hope of victory were made to depend on his firm and inflexible adherence to the law of God, not only that regarding the extirpation of the Canaanites, but the whole divine code.
10-18. Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people--These were the Shoterim
11-13. command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals--not manna, which, though it still fell, would not keep; but corn, sheep, and articles of food procurable in the conquered countries.
for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan--that is, the third day, according to Hebrew idiom--the time allotted for getting ready before the encampment in Abel-Shittim broke up and they removed to the desert bank of the river where no victuals were available. At the same time Joshua himself convened the two and a half tribes which had settled east of Jordan, to remind them of their promise ( Numbers 32:1-42 ) to assist their brethren in the conquest of western Canaan. Their readiness to redeem their pledge and the terms in which they answered the appeal of Joshua displayed to great advantage their patriotic and pious feelings at so interesting a crisis.
14. ye shall pass . . . armed--that is, officered or marshalled under five leaders in the old and approved caravan order
all the mighty men of valour--The words are not to be interpreted strictly as meaning the whole, but only the flower or choice of the


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Top-ranked all-arounder Samantha Peszek was awarded Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week honors.
Bruin senior won the all-around with a season-high 39.625 and beam with a 9.95.
No. 8 UCLA travels to No. 4 Utah in Pac-12 Networks-televised showdown on Friday night.
Samantha Peszek and Danusia Francis team up for the second episode of Bruin Banter.
UCLA Gymnastics is bringing back some classic floor exercise routines this season.
UCLA gymnasts won all four individual events, and the Bruins stay undefeated with a win over Arizona
The UCLA Gymnastics team will make its Pauley Pavilion season debut on Monday at 1pm.
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Samantha Peszek wins all-around, vault and floor.
Bruins face Beavers in Monday's season opener, which airs live on Pac-12 Networks.
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The Government should take steps to regulate listed company executive pay, says ACCA in its response to the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills' consultation on high pay.
The accountancy body is concerned that executive pay at the largest companies has achieved its own momentum and that the essential connection between pay and reward is being lost. ACCA argues that a regulatory response should reinforce the capacity of company shareholders to insist boards incentivise their personnel in sustainable ways, without impeding boards and remuneration committees' ability to pay objectively justifiable rates for the right people.
'A disconnect has arisen between boards, their employees, shareholders, and the rest of the community,' says John Davies, head of technical at ACCA. 'In principle, pay should be an internal decision for companies and there should be freedom to pay the prevailing market rate for talented people. However, today, high pay seems to justify itself, while shareholders seem to have little control over management decisions. This is a structural problem which needs proper reform.'
ACCA argues that:
1. There is a structural inability of the ownership base of some listed companies to exert meaningful control over board decisions. This isn't completely down to shareholder apathy: the fragmented landscape of share ownership and a lack of shareholder confidence in their right to insist on policies that pursue long-term growth are also at fault.
2. Switching from a retrospective shareholder vote on pay to a binding, pro-active one – as mooted by the Government – would not change anything by itself. Giving more rights to shareholders would not be a panacea as new powers won't necessarily be used, as previous experience has shown. Equally, it would not prevent policy statements framed in broad, flexible ways being put to the vote. On this specific point, a binding vote on a triennial basis would be a more proportionate response than a yearly vote anyway: it would provide more freedom for boards provided they disclosed any changes made to policy between votes and made a market statement where material dissent was expressed in votes
3. Reform needs to be part of a wider package.
a. The statement of directors duties in s172 of the Companies Act should be reviewed to impose a more explicit onus on directors to consider long-term shareholder value when setting pay policy
b. Remuneration committees should be encouraged to set criteria for assessing performance that reflect the board's responsibility for stewardship
c. The make-up of remuneration committees needs to be considered. These are currently comprised almost exclusively of current or former executive directors, embedding a culture of high pay
d. There needs to be a fundamental improvement in levels of engagement by shareholders – a process already begun by the Financial Reporting Council's 'Stewardship Code'. Giving investors an express right of intervention on pay policy could help enhance the quality of shareholder stewardship.
4. Getting the legal detail right is crucial.
a. Regulation needs to be clear, especially if shareholders are asked to vote on overall policies, meaning that one major disagreement would risk the whole of the policy being defeated. What happens next?
b. Any new shareholder vote must be prospective in nature and should not interfere with contractual agreements already entered into and payments already made
The consultation – the Executive Pay Consultation – was set up by the Department of Business Innovation & Skills and is headed by Barry Walker. The consultation closes on Friday 27 April and following the consultation, the Government will announce final proposals for enhanced shareholder voting rights in early summer.
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Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea (For Most Law Schools) Brian Tamanaha
Interdisciplinary studies are currently the rage in legal academia. An increasing number of law schools are touting their interdisciplinary programs, which include offering courses from other academic disciplines (economics, statistics, anthropology, etc.) in the law school curriculum, creating law and social science institutes of various sorts within the law school, offering joint JD/PhD programs, and hiring JD/ PhD faculty.
An interesting post as usual.
I agree with the general thrust - that one can be a competent, and indeed, very good lawyer without interdisciplinary bona fides. However, I would add this: I think the legal profession and "the law" in general would be improved if we emphasized empirical/social scientific knowledge a bit more. Too many lawyers suffer from what Tushnet has called the "lawyer as astrophysicist" mentality where we think a J.D. bestows some special knowledge or wisdom about nearly everything.
I agree, Calvin, although lawyers might also point out that this tendency is even more pronounced in law professors.
I agree with this post, although I would note that at least when I was in law school, the enthusiasm for interdisciplinary studies affected law faculty hiring more than it affected the curriculum. That is, the elite law schools looked with favor on candidates who had Ph.D.'s in addition to J.D.'s and whose scholarship focused on "law and -------." However, the students learned the same basic contracts, torts, crim. law in first year, and (most of them) learned the basic Corps I, Tax I and Con Law in second year, even though some of the professors may have been bored with the curriculum. Third year of law school is a waste anyway, so it doesn't matter if you learn Advanced Corporate Taxation or Sociological Analysis of Gender Discrimination, it's all the same.
So long as the enthusiasm for interdisciplinary studies doesn't affect the basic curriculum, but only affects faculty hiring and the contents of third year seminars, it won't matter much. If it gets the point where first year torts students at John Marshall are learning about "cheaper cost avoiders" rather than "proximate cause," that will be a problem.
If it gets the point where first year torts students at John Marshall are learning about "cheaper cost avoiders" rather than "proximate cause," that will be a problem. Getting close. We read Posner's stuff in torts (in the early 90's). He's of the silly opinion that as long as you spent as much (or more) as the 'expected' damages from doing nothing, you ought to get off scott-free, even if someone does get damaged despite your 'prevention' ... and scr*w them. Here's one danger of lawyers that pretend to have expertise (or some brilliant insight) in other areas (such as CBA here); they put on some patina of "rationality" or "scientific precision" on top of what is at base absurd logic.... Then there was the 'cross-disciplinary' work of Philip Johnson..... ;-) Cheers,
I think that your statement that law schools are attempting to become more like academic educational institutions that places to teach a profession is the giveaway regarding how bad the idea is. Business schools have conducted a similar shift in teaching finance.
In the past, finance courses were taught by experienced financial professionals who came back and taught the practical skills, but the theory of finance developed about thirty years ago so that there was an academic theory of finance. Suddenly the new teachers tended to be Economics Ph.D.s who learned the theory of Finance and couldn't find an academic job in the (over populated) discipline of academic economics. The newer teachers were younger and much less experienced in finance, but were a lot more fluent in statistics and economic theory. The students came out as less able to deal with real world finance. Another issue from the academic side - I taught management and social science research methods. Our Dean of the School fo Business was a lawyer (used the law degree as a Ph.D. equivalent. small school and couldn't pay what it cost to get a real Ph.D.) He wanted us to do research and publish, but being a lawyer he had no clue what social science research requires! "Research" in law may be the same word, but I can promise you - it is not the same reality as social science research, and it is not something that a lawyer can take a few courses in and pick it up. It is a very different way of thinking and acting. Most importantly the goals are very different. From what I have observed, when a person needs a lawyer, they need somone who functions at a high level as a lawyer. They don't need a watered down economist, psychologist or sociologist. They need a lawyer. They need someone who can practice law without always going to a more experiences lawyer to make sure they aren't screwing up the simple legal stuff. The same is true for social scientists. If a lawyer needs to use social science in a case, then the lawyer needs to know the law stuff cold, and then needs to go to a social scientist to make sure he has the social science stuff right in his specific case. A little bit of social science education is not going to permit a lawyer to safely avoid asking for expert help. For the most part, I don't think it makes too much sense to include much social science in a law curriculum. All you will get is poor lawyers who can BS in more varied jargons that they don't understand. But that's just my opinion, as a non-lawyer who, if I need a lawyer, is not going to hire a watered down lawyer who speaks economics. And I'll look for a lawyer who studied a lot of law, rather than a generalist who doesn't have that much interest in law.
Come to think of it, if there is a need for more social science in law schools, why not simply return to the older idea of a Batchelor of Laws as an alternative to other BS degrees? Isn't that what the requirement that someone have other studies before entering law school was all about? First you learn to think rationally as an academic, then you get the law training?
Has that failed? Or was it just a way of limiting law school enrollment the way Medical schools have limited med school enrollment to keep the salaries higher?
While I see the general point here, I should note that the study of "law" is NOT the study of "lawyering." Law is inherently a social science (it is a social construction and the grandest form of social control), and I think that legal scholarship necessarily requires a grounding in the social science.
For the sake of the students, there should certainly be a focus on practical issues in law school, with faculty who have the appropriate amount of experience. However, if serious empirical legal scholarship is not conducted in law schools, then where?
Reminds me of the days when JD/MBA programs expanded into every niche and corner.
The real question is what employment is there for interdisciplinary lawyers where the added degree adds anything. Answering that question pretty much answers the rest of the debate.
Another approach is to require students to study law with another discipline. In Australia most law students do double degrees (5 years full time) with business and social sciences the most popular combinations.
So if I can get into an "elite" school then I get to learn theory and if not then I should accept my lot as a practicing technocrat? This post makes me want to swear very brutally at you Brian.
You have to be pretty sure of your selection mechanisms and spend a lot of time in "elite" schools to consign 200 other institutions to little better than trade school status. "Don't get me wrong—I am not anti-intellectual nor a legal traditionalist." You strike me as an established intellectual trying to narrow the path for those who would aspire to follow you. It isn't any of your business if I want to go learn "about law" at a school that will accept my non-pedigreed lower middle class backstory. You are right that I have no realistic chance at a law professorship even coming from the top of my class, but that is merely a function of entrenched "elite" hierarchies and... as you say, "empire building." So far I have proven a decent corporate lawyer though, and it has everything to do with what I know about life, the universe, and everything. You can believe that or not.
I'll try one that is a bit more constructive as well:
There is an unexplored angle in this discussion. Interdisciplinary studies, being concerned with the interaction of law with other aspects of human existence, are almost inherently more democratic, empathic, populist... while doctrinal scholarship, with its uneasy relationship to formalism, can serve as a short path to fascist "vanguard party" elitism. I find that the more time one spends immersed in real narratives of literature, psychology, or social science, the harder it is to promote a "greater good" over an otherwise obvious moral norm or plea for help. To my mind, the law schools are choosing whether to produce citizens or technocrats. Civic virtue requires an understanding of civic culture and popular norms. One doesn't have to learn about societal reality in law school but perhaps it would be criminal to bestow a JD credential on someone who hasn't so learned. They might write a torture memo or something.
"the current financial situation of non-elite law schools and their students. We often talk about social justice, but a situation with serious justice implications is developing around us."
I think that social justice problem is a significant issue, overshadowed by the immediate focus. I've worked in two different firms that used law graduates as paralegals, one the editor in chief of the law review of a bottom ranked school who could not find other employment. She was bright, competent and eventually hired as an associate, but was unable to get in the door for some time. There are real issues that are being missed by most. I should also note that it takes four to six years from graduation for most graduates to quit thinking like a law student and to start thinking like a lawyer. Something completely missing from most of these discussions is that law school does not teach anyone to think like a lawyer, instead it teaches them to think like a law student. While it appears that being taught to think like a law student qualifies one to teach law seamlessly without significant transition time, it is different from thinking like a lawyer.
There is a question that goes unstated in this. By what lights shall we call a lawyer good? It seems to me that the implicit understanding shared in most of the posts is that lawyering is simply a matter of technical know how. But, is that all that lawyering entails. A part of the definition of the scope of the lawyer's work in the Model Code includes the idea of lawyer as public citizen with a special concern for justice. The Carnegie Report made reference to this, suggesting that what law schools do poorly is provide education that is directly relevant to understanding the lawyer's role in society. What would it mean to teach to that goal? It would seem to be inherently interdisciplinary. That is to say, if we want to make lawyers that are not only good technocrats, but good citizens, then we need to help them achieve some understanding of the good that can be achieved by citizenship, and the particular ways that the rule of law and lawyers can serve society to achieve it (This may, incidentally lead to more satisfied lawyers).
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There are laws against bundling, but not sure they've ever been enforced in this field, nor who would do the enforcing. Justice? FCC? Either?
After reading the links provided of court cases, I would say it's the opposite. Bundling is very legal and can be beneficial to the consumer. What could be illegal is the result of the bundling, or another way to say it how they are structured. If the result is a monopoly for instance, then perhaps that particular bundling packge is not allowed but not because bundling is not legal but becase of what it caused.


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If we were to put our latest complaints into one word, it would be "rattles."
"Yikes! We have developed some nasty rattles, especially in the center console. It's all a little shaky at 27,000+ miles," wrote editor in chief Jean Jennings after spending Christmas weekend with the van.
Road test editor Marc Noordeloos concurred. "The plastics aren't good enough, and there are a surprising amount of rattles and squeaks considering the van's age."
And this easily frightened writer added, "the van creaks and rattles so much that I find myself turning around at every light to make sure a door's not open or that someone isn't hiding in back (intending to kill me, of course)."
The racket hasn't stopped us from appreciating the intrinsic brilliance of the T&C's design.
"Who needs an SUV when you can have a minivan?" exclaimed copy editor Rusty Blackwell after transporting a four-foot-wide piece of antique furniture. Even Noordeloos, one of the van's harshest critics, agreed after a weekend trip with his family. "The T&C swallowed a suitcase, a TV, Ikea boxes, and a computer with room to spare," he wrote, adding, "If only it drove as well as a Honda Odyssey (and was screwed together as well), Chrysler would have a winner.
Perhaps it wouldn't rattle as much, either.
2008 Chrysler Town & Country
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..and this was its steeple.
When we remodeled the former Calvary Baptist Church in 2000-2001 to become our Montessori school, we had to replace a few fixtures. The steeple was detached from the roof and lowered by crane to the parking lot below.
What do you do with a second-hand steeple? We gave it to a church down the road.
The demolition crew also removed the fiberglas baptistry by cutting it into pieces. All of the beautiful wood pews were sold. You can see one being used today in the school office. The colored windows were eventually replaced with clear glass.
This is what Building B looks like today.
Have a great Wednesday!
15 years ago the Lafayette Journal and Courier announced MSGL's plans to add an elementary program and move all of its programs to a new space.
The Morton Community Center on Chauncey Avenue had been MSGL's home since 1985.
As the article states, the new elementary program was originally going to be housed in a home on Rainbow Drive that had been donated by an MSGL family. A change of plans relocated that first class to some available classroom space inside the Temple Israel on Cumberland Avenue.
In February 2001, all of our programs, from the parent-infant class through elementary, moved into our permanent home in the former Calvary Baptist church on Soldiers Home Road.
In 2007, the elementary classes moved into the Montessori House, a remodeled home adjacent to the campus.
MSGL has plans to expand once again in the near future to add a second toddler classroom and a gym/gross motor space.


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Rainbow Springs State Park
A close up of the pool at the top of a waterfalls.
A view looking down the steps leading from the visitor center toward the water.
A couple using binoculars to look down river from the headsprings.
Anhinga bird sitting on top of a post next to the water.
Close up of a white flower in bloom.
Tree overhanging Rainbow River.
Water cascading down waterfalls.
Red shoulder hawk on rock at base of waterfalls.
Rainbow Falls with vegetation in the foreground.


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On March 1, friends, family and Life Care staff gathered at Life Care Center of Cleveland for a walking-out party for Davis, who just a few months earlier had not been able to walk at all.
"It's an exciting day. I haven't been home in exactly a year today. I've been in hospitals or rehab centers or nursing homes," Davis said. "This is my one-year anniversary, and I'm going home."
Davis was admitted to SkyRidge Medical Center in Cleveland on Feb. 29, 2012, with shortness of breath and fever. She was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and placed in the intensive care unit for four weeks. She needed a ventilator to breathe as her condition deteriorated.
Davis' pneumonia had been caused by a rare bacteria known as "Legionella" bacteria. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 8,000 to 18,000 people are diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease caused by the "Legionella" bacteria each year in the US.
"You just don't see this very often," said Becky Harris, a physical therapist at Life Care Center of Cleveland who worked with Davis. "Most people, if you look up Legionnaires' disease, don't live. If they do, they are on a ventilator. They have very poor outcomes."
Soon after Davis began her fight against the bacteria, she began exhibiting signs of a severe and rare symptom that can accompany the bacteria: rhabdomyolysis, a condition in which bacteria attacks and breaks down muscle tissue rapidly. Other complications also occurred, including various infections, blood poisoning, kidney failure and cardiac arrest. Davis was put on a ventilator with a tracheostomy (an opening in the windpipe), on a feeding tube and on dialysis.
"When I woke up from my drug-induced coma, I couldn't move anything. I couldn't move my fingers off the surface. I couldn't speak. I had horrid dreams, and I lived those even after I woke up," Davis said.
Davis moved from SkyRidge to Kindred Hospital in Chattanooga, where she was in the ICU for five weeks until moving to Standifer Place Health Care Center in Chattanooga. During her stay at Standifer Place, she began breathing on her own and was able to speak again, and therapists began working with her to regain some of her strength.
On July 11, Davis was able to have her trach removed, but she was still battling several infections that caused her to have confusion, memory loss and vivid dreams.
"When I visited her in the hospital, she was a totally different person," said Annette Smith, director of marketing for Life Care Center of Cleveland. "You would not think she was going to live."
Davis was able to move closer to her family in Cleveland after the trach was removed. She had worked for 13 years as secretary to Forrest Preston, Life Care Centers of America's founder and chairman, so on Sept. 6, she moved to Life Care Center of Cleveland. Her progress, however, was very limited.
"There's so much we take for granted. It took me a long time for me to lift my hand to my chin, and then to my nose," Davis said.
At the end of November, Davis returned to SkyRidge with dehydration, a urinary tract infection and extremely low blood pressure. This time, treatment seemed to work, and Davis was able to focus on therapy when she returned to Life Care.
"[Davis's family] were told she may never go home at the first of December," Harris said. "By the end of December, we had her walking for the first time."
Harris; Hollie Ryan, physical therapist assistant; Christina Hunt, speech therapist; and Eileen Nudd and Emily Salter, occupational therapist assistants, were among those who helped Davis regain daily life skills such as swallowing and eating on her own, as well as walking.
Harris and the team at Life Care say Davis' own willpower and the constant support of her friends and family have had a lot to do with her rapid progress.
"I would call it a miracle because when we first started treating Wanda, I did not expect this to be her outcome. She has worked so hard," Nudd said. "A lot of it is [Davis's] determination. Without determination, there's nothing we can do."
As part of the Ready ... Set ... Go! return-to-home program, Davis relearned many home skills she will need when she returns home, including grocery shopping and eating in a restaurant. The staff at Life Care also helped to wean her off pain and anxiety medications.
Davis will continue in outpatient therapy with Life Care Center of Cleveland three times a week. She has long-term goals of walking without a walker and eventually driving again, goals that the support staff at Life Care think are very attainable.
"I'm a miracle — I believe that wholeheartedly," Davis said. "There's no reason medically I should be alive."
Though Davis is excited to head home, she said that she will miss the nursing staff and rehab team she has gotten to know throughout her time at Life Care. Davis knows all of them by name and is so thankful for all of their help.
"Wanda is a great example of the power of rehab to restore function and bring healing to the human body, and I am so proud of our therapists who are able to accomplish that," said Beecher Hunter, president of Life Care Centers of America. "It is such an exhilarating feeling to know you are touching human lives and making them better the way that they do."
Life Care Center of Cleveland is one of 26 skilled nursing and rehab facilities in Tennessee operated or managed by Life Care Centers of America.
Founded in 1976, Life Care is a nationwide health care company. With headquarters in Cleveland, Life Care operates or manages more than 22 nursing, post-acute and Alzheimer's centers in 28 states. For more information about Life Care, visit lcca.com.


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Heckle and Jeckle were two inseparable black magpies, identical in appearance but distinguishably different in personality. Though both were remarkably witty, Heckle spoke with a New York accent, while Jeckle's tone was much more refined. Together, they sought to con free meals and shelter out of the upper class, who in all honesty, presented little difficulty for the clever and mischievous birds.
The first TV appearance of Heckle and Jeckle was on CBS Cartoon Theatre and then thier very own The Heckle And Jeckle Cartoon Show, the very first prime time network animated cartoon series (appearing in 1956, years before The Flintstones). Dick Van Dyke was the host of the show, and he introduced the Heckle and Jeckle segments, along with those of Gandy Goose, by pretending to converse with the animated birds.
In 1979, the magpies appeared in their second show, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle. Once again, the two birds were on the lookout for a free ride, using their immense vocabularies and sharpened street smarts to get the best of people.
The high point of any Heckle and Jeckle cartoon was always the witty banter between the feathered friends. Instead of resorting to violence, the birds bested their foes by outwitting them, and while doing so, indulged in wry commentary that made their adversaries appear even more foolish.
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- Animated Characters: Heckle, Jeckle.
- First Aired in 1979.
- Episode Number: 53019
- Running Time: 7 minutes.
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