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on Aug 1st, 2009The Rule of Lenity
I considered various topics for my initial blog post and settled on the rule of lenity. The spirit of the rule of lenity – fundamental fairness – lies at the heart of a respectable criminal justice system. See McBoyle v. United States, 283 U.S. 25, 27 (1931) (the principle of "fair warning" motivates the lenity rule) (Holmes, J.). At a high level of generality, we all agree that ambiguous criminal statutes must be construed in favor of the accused. But the rule of lenity is often not taken seriously. After all, the Supreme Court itself has articulated two plainly conflicting standards. In one formulation, the Court has stated that "where text, structure, and history fail to establish that the Government's position is unambiguously correct[,]" a court must "apply the rule of lenity and resolve the ambiguity in [defendant's] favor." United States v. Granderson, 511 U.S. 39, 54 (1994). In another formulation, the Court has held that a statute must contain a "'grievous ambiguity or uncertainty'" before the rule of lenity may be applied. Muscarello v. United States, 524 U.S. 125, 138-29 (1998) (quoting Staples v. United States, 511 U. S. 600, 619, n. 17 (1994)). From the perspective of a criminal defendant facing a loss of liberty, such a state of affairs doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the system.
Despite a recent tease, the Supreme Court hasn't made matters any more coherent. In United States v. Santos, 128 S.Ct. 2020 (2008), the Court held that the definition of "proceeds" in the federal money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, covers only criminal receipts, not profits. Writing for himself and Justices Thomas, Souter, and Ginsburg, Justice Scalia stated:
From the face of the statute, there is no more reason to think that 'proceeds' means 'receipts' than there is to think that 'proceeds' means 'profits.' Under a long line of our decisions, the tie must go to the defendant. The rule of lenity requires ambiguous criminal laws to be interpreted in favor of the defendants subjected to them. See United States v. Gradwell, 243 U. S. 476, 485 (1917); McBoyle v. United States, 283 U. S. 25, 27 (1931); United States v. Bass, 404 U. S. 336, 347– 349 (1971). This venerable rule not only vindicates the fundamental principle that no citizen should be held accountable for a violation of a statute whose commands are uncertain, or subjected to punishment that is not clearly prescribed. It also places the weight of inertia upon the party that can best induce Congress to speak more clearly and keeps courts from making criminal law in Congress's stead. Because the 'profits' definition of 'proceeds' is always more defendant-friendly than the 'receipts' definition, the rule of lenity dictates that it should be adopted.
128 S.Ct. at 2025. Justice Stevens provided the fifth vote for the Court's narrow holding but did not join Justice Scalia's view of the rule of lenity. Concurring only in the judgment, Justice Stevens concluded that "proceeds" under Section 1956 can mean "receipts" in some instances and "profits" in others depending on the type of predicate criminal activity involved. 129 S.Ct. at 2031-34. To that, Justice Scalia responded for the plurality: "Our obligation to maintain the consistent meaning of words in statutory text does not disappear when the rule of lenity is involved." Id. at 2030.
The plurality opinion in Santos, which was decided during the October 2007 Term, has marked a high point for the rule of lenity. Since then, the Court has retreated in its approach to the concept. See United States v. Hayes, 129 S.Ct. 1079 (2009); Dean v. United States, 129 S.Ct. 1849 (2009). The majorities in both Hayes and Dean invoked Muscarello's "grievous ambiguity" standard. Moreover, the lineup of Justices in Hayes and Dean is rather startling given Santos.
In Hayes, the defendant was prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) for possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Writing for a seven-Justice majority (including Justices Thomas and Souter, who joined Justice Scalia's plurality opinion in Santos), Justice Ginsburg (who also joined the Santos plurality opinion) stated that the requisite domestic relationship must be established beyond a reasonable doubt but need not be a defining element of the predicate offense. 129 S.Ct. at 1084-89. Rejecting the application of the rule of lenity, the Court stated: "Section 921(a)(33)(A)'s definition of 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence,' we acknowledge, is not a model of the careful drafter's art. See Barnes, 295 F.3d, at 1356. But neither is it 'grievous[ly] ambigu[ous].' Huddleston v. United States, 415 U.S. 814, 831 [] (1974)." In a dissent, Chief Justice Roberts (joined by Justice Scalia), stated: "This is a textbook case for application of the rule of lenity. . . . If the rule of lenity means anything, it is that an individual should not go to jail for failing to conduct a 50-state survey or comb through obscure legislative history. Ten years in jail is too much to hinge on the will-o'-the-wisp of statutory meaning pursued by the majority." 129 S.Ct. at 1093.
In Dean, decided two months after Hayes, the Court held that a statutory sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for discharge of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime does not require proof of intent. 129 S.Ct. at 1856. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for seven Justices (including every member of the Santos plurality), invoked Muscarello's "grievous ambiguity" standard in holding that the rule of lenity was not implicated:
'The simple existence of some statutory ambiguity, however, is not sufficient to warrant application of that rule, for most statutes are ambiguous to some degree.' Muscarello v. United States, 524 U.S. 125, 138 [] (1998); see also Smith, supra, at 239, 113 S.Ct. 2050 ('The mere possibility of articulating a narrower construction, however, does not by itself make the rule of lenity applicable'). 'To invoke the rule, we must conclude that there is a grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the statute.' Muscarello, supra, at 138-139, 118 S.Ct. 1911 (internal quotation marks omitted). In this case, the statutory text and structure convince us that the discharge provision does not contain an intent requirement. Dean's contrary arguments are not enough to render the statute grievously ambiguous.
129 S.Ct. at 1856. Dissenting, Justice Stevens invoked the rule of lenity. Id. at 1858-59 (Stevens, J., dissenting). Justice Breyer, in a separate dissent, stated that "the 'rule of lenity' tips the balance against the majority's position." Id. at 1861.
Despite the plurality opinion in Santos, a majority of the Justices now appear to have embraced Muscarello's "grievous ambiguity" standard with renewed vigor. The Justices' treatment of the rule of lenity the last two Terms has been at best curious. Justice Scalia himself, after writing the Santos plurality opinion and joining the Hayes dissent, joined a majority opinion in Dean that articulates an especially narrow version of the rule of lenity.
If the Justices are unwilling to frame a consistent standard, lower court judges are far less likely to take the rule of lenity seriously and apply it meaningfully. Why can't the Supreme Court set it straight? Given a description of Santos, Hayes, and Dean, the legal realists in the 1930s (and the so-called critical legal theorists in the 1980s) might have said that the Justices are using the rule of lenity, like canons of statutory construction, as nothing more than a vehicle to reach a desired result in a given case. Let's hope that is not true. The rule of lenity, rooted in our deepest constitutional principles, is no mere interpretive tool. Although cynicism may be appropriate, it would be a serious mistake to accede to the 'grievous ambiguity' standard because the Court itself does not appear to be sure what it wants. So the focus must remain sharp: convincing district judges every day that the rule of lenity has real force – and eventually convincing five Justices to articulate a consistent standard that gives the rule of lenity its due.


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Drivers of Design
Cost pressures, new materials and product marketability increasingly are influencing orthopedic device designs.
Michael Barbella
Managing Editor
Jeffrey Kapec was about to grab some food at an outdoor clambake one day last summer when he noticed an older man with a cane standing in line for lobster and, well, clams. For the most part, Kapec is not the kind of man who is easily distracted, but there was something—perhaps it was natural curiosity or simply the sight of the cane—that led him to ask about the stranger's affliction.
"He was probably in his late 60s," Kapec recounted. "And everybody was asking him how he was feeling. He said, 'Pretty well, no problems.' So I said to him, 'Did you have a sprain or something?' And he said, 'No, I just had my hip replaced last week.' I looked at him and thought 'Last week? And he's standing in line at a clam bake?' If you looked at that scenario 20 years ago, that guy certainly wouldn't be at a clambake a week later."
Kapec is right. Two decades ago, that guy wouldn't have been anywhere near a clambake so soon after receiving an artificial hip. He most likely would still have been recovering from a procedure that was more invasive, more risky and in all likelihood, more painful. But an explosion of innovative new orthopedic implant designs and surgical techniques over the last 20 years has improved the quality of the replacement parts and hastened patients' recoveries, allowing them to resume the active lifestyles to which they've grown accustomed. Trend-setting baby boomers, in their constant quest for remedies to the debilitating aging process, have created an enormous demand for these procedures and devices in the last decade. Between 2000 and 2009, in fact, the number of annual joint replacement surgeries in the United States nearly doubled, going from 575,000 in 2000 to an estimated 1.1 million in 2009, according to industry data. One in 30 Americans are now walking around with at least one new joint; 11 years ago, that number was one in 60.
While baby boomers have been a driving force behind much of the innovation that has occurred in the orthopedic implant market, they are not the sole source of inspiration for surgeons and design engineers. Other muses include cost, reimbursement rates, materials, testing, marketing, new technologies and surgical procedures, and the desire to both simplify surgery and reduce recovery time.
The emergence of minimally invasive surgery, for example, has inspired a plethora of device designs in recent years, including the Micronail Fixation (wrist) implant from Wright Medical Technology Inc., the Axle Interspinous Fusion System from X-spine Systems Inc., the Taperloc and Balance Microplasty hip stems from Biomet Orthopedics, and the extreme Lateral Interbody (spinal) Fusion system from NuVasive Inc., among others.
Minimally invasive surgery has become particularly popular among younger patients because it minimizes scarring, reduces pain as well as recovery times, and results in less blood loss than traditional "open" procedures. Many doctors prefer this technique as well due to the improved recovery times generally associated with it. Still, minimally invasive surgery has its drawbacks—it can impair the physician's visual field and limit the choice of devices used for the procedure. Such disadvantages, however, have not discouraged doctors and design engineers from refining the technology in an effort to perfect the system. Such determination has given rise to another surgical technique that further reduces recovery time and is quickly gaining traction in the industry: the direct anterior approach to hip replacement.
In this approach, surgeons place a hip joint through an incision on the front of the body, enabling the implant to be placed between muscle planes rather than through muscle planes (the customary method used in traditional posterior placement procedures). This technique reduces muscle damage as well as complications from dislocations and unequal leg length following procedures, industry experts said. Patients undergoing the anterior approach also tend to recover more quickly, leaving the hospital in one or two days as opposed to the typical three or four days associated with traditional hip replacement surgeries.
Though the impetus behind these new surgical technologies seem patient-centric, they increasingly are being influenced by an industry-wide trend to reduce overall healthcare costs. More efficient surgeries and accelerated recovery times can help curb escalating costs for both hospitals and implant manufacturers, industry experts claim.
"The latest trends in orthopedic implant design are migrating from innovation to cost and outcomes," said Steve Maguire, general manager at Orchid Design, a division of Shelton, Conn.-based Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, a contract design and manufacturing firm serving the orthopedic, dental and cardiovascular markets. "The healthcare environment is the driver of this shift and doing things faster, simpler and at a lower total cost is the direction we see. As such, proven implant designs are being replicated and lower manufacturing costs are the driver. Instrumentation that is easier to use and helps a surgeon with repeated surgeries also is a focus. We have seen investments in navigation, both manual and navigated with computers."
The Dollar Factor
Here's how the healthcare reimbursement system is supposed to work: Fueled by demand from an aging population, orthopedic implant manufacturers sell their products to hospitals for healthy profits (an artificial joint can fetch between $3,000 and $15,000, according to industry estimates). Hospitals, in turn, fully recoup the implant's cost from taxpayers and policyholders by billing Medicare or private insurers.
Here's how the process actually works: Implant manufacturers sell their devices to hospitals at exorbitant prices (the gross margin on implants sold in the United States hovers around 80 percent). Hospitals, engaged in a life-or-death struggle to stay financially afloat, do their best to recover the implant's total cost from Medicare or private insurers. And they fail.
Hospitals have been locked in this dead-end reimbursement cycle for more than a decade. Between 1991 and 2006, for example, the average list price for coated hip implants skyrocketed 171 percent while Medicare payments to hospitals rose only 19 percent. Such disproportionality has led many hospitals to set price caps on orthopedic devices, forcing the hands of major manufacturing companies.
Besides wreaking havoc on hospitals' finances (and ultimately, physician salaries), declining reimbursement rates have made it more challenging to design innovative devices, industry leaders told Orthopedic Design & Technology. Products that offer no value to the healthcare system and fail to generate new reimbursement codes will be difficult to market. Therefore, it is essential that surgeons and engineers factor reimbursement rates and product marketability into the design of an orthopedic device.
"Reimbursement is a significant driver of orthopedic device design," said John Mulvihill, vice president of sales and marketing at CIRTEC Medical Systems, a contract design, development and manufacturing company with offices in Los Gatos, Calif., and East Longmeadow, Mass."The healthcare system has got to be able to pay for the implant and there has to be some cost benefit that the company receives upon reimbursement. If the designers can develop an innovative new implant that translates into a new reimbursement code and has a significant impact on lowering healthcare costs, they'll win big."
Designers also will win big by keeping the current regulatory environment in mind when creating a new device. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been reviewing new device applications with more scrutiny over the last two years in an effort to bolster the agency's safety record, a move that ultimately will force manufacturing companies to spend more time and money developing and marketing their products. Designers can minimize costs and maximize their chances of successfully marketing a product by determining the proper regulatory path for their creations. For instance, designs that incorporate a new technology or material generally need premarket approval (PMA) from the FDA, a process that involves the filing of an investigational device exemption application so the product can be used in a clinical study to collect the scientific evidence needed to support the PMA submission, and securing Institutional Review Board approval for the clinical study itself. Such regulatory hurdles can become quite time consuming and expensive for companies.
"Certainly the regulatory environment is a challenge for products getting to market now, almost to the point where it is stifling innovation," charged Brian R. McLaughlin, business development manager at Orchid Design. "The more innovative your implant solution, the higher likelihood you are to have to do clinical trials and make the road to commercialization that much longer and that much more expensive."
A much quicker and less expensive path to commercialization is available through the FDA's 510(k) clearance process, a 35-year-old approval system (now being refined) that endorses devices that are "substantially equivalent" to existing products. Most medical firms prefer this simplified approval process— statistics indicate that manufacturers have cleared about 90 percent of medical devices for the U.S. market through the 510(k) system since the program's inception in 1976.
Healthcare reform, however, threatens to complicate the FDA's device approval system and force designers to wrangle with a new set of factors during the creative process. With the new law focusing on reducing healthcare costs and improving the quality of care, experts predict that regulatory agencies will place more focus on evidence-based medicine. Medical organizations such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) already have instituted guidelines on the matter to help its members get accustomed to using the best available evidence when practicing medicine.
In September, the organization released a guideline on vertebroplasty, citing studies that indicated the benefits to patients were equal to placebo procedures. The AAOS also has created a guidance that discourages its members from using arthroscopy to treat patients with degenerative knee arthritis. Surgeons predict the evidence-based movement will make insurers more reluctant to reimburse for procedures. "The payors, in an effort to control expenses, will demand a higher level of proven effectiveness to make sure the treatments they are paying for are worth it," David Ott, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon in Phoenix, Ariz., told Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review late last year.
Besides stemming the flow of reimbursement dollars, a stronger focus on evidence-based medicine also is likely to lengthen the amount of time it will take to commercialize medical devices. Such a consequence is bound to frustrate product engineers and inventors who have watched their new product applications become mired in more regulatory red tape in recent years. Average decision times by the FDA jumped 20 percent between 2002 and 2008, going froom 97 days in 2002 to 116 days in 2008, according to statistics from the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) in Washington, D.C. The number of days applicants spend gathering more information for the FDA also has risen, nearly tripling from 19 days in 2002 to 51 days in 2008. Consequently, these delays have prompted an increasing number of companies to abandon their 510(k) applications: AdvaMed data shows that 510(k) withdrawals skyrocketed 89 percent in just five years, going from 9 percent in 2004 to 17 percent in 2009.
With the device approval process so unreliable and reimbursement rates strongly influencing new product development, more companies are turning to design for manufacturability (DFM) to reduce costs. Industry experts consider this trend to be the fallout from explosive market growth in the early part of the new century, when manufacturing firms were less concerned about cost and more concerned with the unique marketability of their product.
"We certainly expect a big push in 2011 in design for manufacturability," noted Josh Sprague, vice president of Hoosier Inc., a full-service spinal contract manufacturing company based in Corona, Calif. "All of our clients are being forced to find ways to reduce cost and the reality is that cost reduction rolls downhill. One of the reasons that design for manufacturability is really taking off now is that the spine market six or seven years ago was on a path of rapid expansion, and when that happened, everyone wanted to get their products out quickly, with less regards to cost. Now that things have settled down, it's time to reduce some cost."
"In the past some of our customers didn't care about the difficulty of manufacturing a device because their products were innovative or the added complexity gave them more security with patent protection," Sprague continued. "Maybe the product was designed to be pretty when it really didn't need to be. Now that the market has grown more slowly, engineers have more time to examine the manufacturing aspect of a product. The name of the game now is price, simplicity, and how fast can you get me my parts. It's a win win for the OEM, patient, and the vendor when the parts are easier to make."
Material Manipulators
Orthopedic implants and their components, however, are not always so easy to make. Their designs can be complicated by the some of the very factors that drive innovation, particularly testing and material selection.
With implants prone to material wear, device testing is paramount and should be incorporated into the design and product development process. New designs generally are evaluated for feasibility; at that stage, a prototype is made to function like the final product (but does not necessarily look like the finished piece). Feasibility testing evaluates the device against the design requirements and early-stage risk analysis, industry experts said.
Materials play an equally important role in the development of orthopedic implant designs. For decades, the choices for implant materials had been limited to metals such as stainless steel, titanium, cobalt-chromium and tantalum, and polyethylenes such as PEEK (polyetheretherketone). But these substances wear over time in the body, producing friction and particle debris that aggravate the surrounding tissue and cause the implant to loosen. Improvements to existing metals and the introduction of new materials such as ceramics and bone growth substitutes has been a significant driver of device design in recent years.
For example, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials in Dresden, Germany, developed a titanium "foam" that may prove to be a better material for use in orthopedic implants. The researchers believe the foam's porous structure will better grow into the implant, which itself would be lighter because less material is used. Having already experimented on defective vertebral bodies and stressed bones, engineers and researchers are now designing full-fledged foam-based implants.
Similarly, scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel are modifying a machinery-monitoring technique used by Israeli and American air forces to evaluate and improve orthopedic implant designs. The technique—called ferrography—entails the extraction and analysis of tiny iron particles (hence the name) from lubricants such as oil and grease to determine wear in machines. The Tel Aviv scientists are exploring the possibility of using bioferrography to test the extent of joint damage by extracting wear particles from synovial fluid, for instance. The technology may benefit implant manufacturing companies, as the technique potentially could predict the life span of artificial joints during research and development.
"Biologics is an area that is moving very quickly," said Kapec, a principal and executive vice president of Tanaka Kapec Design Group Inc., a Norwalk, Conn.-based design consultancy. "There's so much being done now in the area of bone growth. The approach to [implant] design used to be more mechanical in nature but now biologics is being used along with mechanics to get the body to accept that bone growth and make sure it's unified to the bone. That's where the science is going."
Science also is venturing into areas that one day might totally eliminate the need for metal, plastic or ceramic implants. Platelet rich plasma therapy is used in dental implant procedures to regenerate new tissue and help the body heal more quickly and efficiently. This technique is based on the science of platelets, which—among their many functions—form blood clots and release growth factors into wounds. These growth factors include a platelet derived growth factor, a transforming growth factor beta (TGF) and an insulin-like growth factor. Bone morphogenic protein—a relative of TGF—has been shown to induce the formation of new bone in research studies conducted on animals and in humans. Adding platelet rich plasma and bone morphogenic protein to an implant site allows surgeons to grow bone more predictably and faster than traditional methods, experts claim.
"The abilities of these substances is more biologics but they're being classified truly as implants. That's how they're coming through the FDA," noted Anand M. Vora, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon in Illinois who also teaches orthopaedic surgery at both Northwestern University Medical School and the University of Illinois Medical School. "Bone morphogenic protein and platelet rich plasma are really hot topics right now. The platelet rich plasma involves taking platelet rich healing cells to initiate healing in all phases of treatment. It's a very interesting area that shows a lot of promise."
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Innovative implant designs and surgical techniques along with advances in technology have created an enormous demand for orthopedic implants in the last decade. Much of this demand has been driven by baby boomers seeking to maintain their active lifestyles, though the market also is being influenced by new materials that improve the durability of joint replacement parts and younger patients looking for less invasive alternatives to traditional surgical treatments. Indeed, the global implant market is expected to grow 7.8 percent annually over the next five years, swelling to $41.8 billion in 2016, according to GBI Research. The joint reconstruction sector is forecast to grow at nearly the same rate (7.4 percent annually), expanding to $22.9 billion in 2016. And while trends such as minimally invasive surgery and computer imaging of diseased joints most likely will continue to influence implant designs over the next half decade, industry experts predict that cost will play an even more important role, as both orthopedic manufacturers, hospitals and health insurers attempt to reduce healthcare costs. As one resident expert told ODT: "It wasn't always about reducing cost—it used to be about getting your product to market. The primary consideration was time to market and then innovation. Back in 2007 and 2008, OEMs would say 'let's get this product to market and we'll figure out the money later.' Well, it's now later. It's time to figure out the money."

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Products for the Super Paranoid
Dumbest products aimed at the super paranoid
For $500 you can dress your pet up like a baked potato to keep it safe from disaster. The Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket comes with a handle to carry your pet to safety, as well as several built-in storage pouches, because it's important for you to be able to carry around your cat in a fire retardant pouch while he thrashes through most of it with his claws foaming at the mouth like a rabies infested wild beast, and be able to hold your stylish sunglasses and iPad. Not to mention the vest is flame-retardant, but it doesn't cover its legs or face.
For $1,400, you can strap a harness of two-and-a-half-pound self-inflating cushions to your back that will instantly swell up in response to any sudden movements. The obvious drawback is that the Personal Airbag can really only help you if you topple over backward. If you fall face-first into the concrete floor of Costco, the airbag can do nothing but add its extra weight to your fall. Also you could never get this away from your younger brother who idolizes Steve-O (the drunk Steve-O, not the sober Steve-O) from constantly flinging himself backward or performing the fall of trust off your garage with no one to actually catch him just to make it inflate and bounce him off the floor.
If you've ever panicked over being slowly poisoned to death by invisible beams of radioactivity, the RDTX Pro Portable Radiation Detector can easily be attached to your iPhone, bringing you consistently accurate radiation-level readings for up to 96 hours on a single charge while resting handsomely in a convenient belt holster that lets people know you're a complete weirdo. Just wave the wand attachment around like you're doing a Harry Potter spell to get a reading, which is displayed on the screen of your smartphone on a color-coded meter -- green for "safe area," yellow for "elevated radiation," and red for "both the phone and your eyeballs have melted onto your face."
The FaceKini is a nylon bodysuit that protects against 99.9 percent of the sun's ultraviolet rays and comes in a variety of colors that will make you look like a terrorist with a taste for fashion. So if you really want to impress that boy at the beach this summer, strap one of these babies on and look like a luchador wrestler because boys love wrastling.
OpticsPlanet.com offers their Zombie Extermination, Research, and Operations Kit, or Z.E.R.O. for only $25,000. This kit doesn't even come with any guns, which you would think might come in handy during a zombie attack, but instead it's loaded with camouflage outfits so you can hide or do a pretend apocalypse fashion show with your friends, a couple of toolboxes jazzed up with neon green ZOMBIE logos, and 600 batteries for your rent-a-cop flashlight you can try and scare them with. Now aren't you glad you have this instead of grandpa's rifle which he would've given you for free to simply blow their undead zombie flesh feasting scum heads off?
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Title 3: Executive
Chapter 5: SECRETARY OF STATE
Sub-Chapter 3: Professional Regulation
3 V.S.A. § 128. Disciplinary action to be reported to the board
§ 128. Disciplinary action to be reported to the board
(a) Any hospital, clinic, community mental health center, or other health care institution in which a licensee performs professional services shall report to the appropriate board, along with supporting information and evidence, any disciplinary action taken by it or its staff, after an initial investigation or hearing in which the licensee has been afforded the opportunity to participate, which limits or conditions the licensee's privilege to practice or leads to suspension or expulsion from the institution. The report shall be made within ten days of the date the disciplinary action was taken, regardless of whether the action is the subject of a pending appeal, and in the case of a licensee who is employed by, or under contract with, a community mental health center, a copy of the report shall also be sent to the Commissioners of Mental Health and of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living. This section shall not apply to cases of resignation, separation from service, or changes in privileges which are unrelated to:
(1) a disciplinary or adverse action;
(2) an adverse action report to the National Practitioner Data Bank;
(3) an unexpected adverse outcome in the care or treatment of a patient;
(4) misconduct or allegations of misconduct;
(5) the initiation or process of an action to limit, condition, or suspend a licensee's privilege to practice in an institution;
(6) an action to expel the licensee from an institution; or
(7) any other action which could lead to an outcome described in subdivisions (1) through (6) of this subsection.
(b) Within 30 days of any judgment or settlements involving a claim of professional negligence by a licensee, any insurer of the licensee shall report such information to the appropriate board, regardless of whether the action is the subject of a pending appeal.
(c) Information provided to a board under this section shall be confidential unless the board decides to treat the report as a complaint in which case the provisions of section 131 of this title shall apply.
(d) A person who acts in good faith in accord with the provisions of this section shall not be liable for damages in any civil action.
(e) A person who violates this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000.00. (Added 1989, No. 250 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1995, No. 126 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2001, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 13, 2002; 2011, No. 66, § 1, eff. June 1, 2011; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2013, No. 138 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)


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Build Muscle Without Heavy Weights
You have heard it 1,000 times I am sure. High repetition and low weights for toning and calorie burn and less reps and heavier weights if you want muscle gain. Yet a new study in Physiology.org and an opinion piece in Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, indicate that weight training at a lower intensity, but with more repetitions, may be as effective for building muscle as lifting heavy weights.
Since skeletal muscle mass is a large contributor to daily energy expenditure and assists in weight management, the findings have important implications from a public health standpoint, according to lead researcher Nicholas Burd, quoted in Science Daily. "Skeletal muscle mass, because of its overall size, is the primary site of blood sugar disposal, and thus will likely play a role in reducing the risk of development of type II diabetes," Burd says.
The authors from McMaster University found that high-intensity muscle contractions derived from lifting heavy loads were not the only drivers of exercise-induced muscle development. In resistance-trained young men, a lower workout intensity and a higher volume of repetitions of resistance exercise, performed until failure, was equally effective in stimulating muscle proteins as a heavy workout intensity at lower repetition rates. An additional benefit of low-intensity workouts is that the higher repetitions to achieve fatigue also will be beneficial for sustaining the muscle response for days.
Add strength training to your routine. If you are only doing cardio, you are ignoring one of the most essential components of your body that will keep you more youthful and healthier as you age—your muscles. Before you worry about doing it wrong, just start doing. Try for a few sessions a week with any size weights. Do a DVD or join a class if you need instruction to get started. If you add strength training to your weekly exercise regimen, you can add years and vitality to your life.
Quit worrying about bulking up. No matter what your age, don't worry about using weights and suddenly looking you should be in a body builder contest. You won't. The most important take away from this study is that light weights have more impact than you might think. Both light and heavy weights can help build and keep muscle in your body.
Light weights count. This study shows that light weights as as effective for building muscle as lifting heavier weights, so don't discount the work you are doing for your muscles when you use lighter weights. With more muscle, you can burn more calories at rest, boost your metabolism, and keep your body strong and resilient as you age.
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While the stars-and-stripes-wearing Kid got some face time at the Super Bowl, he was sadly overshadowed by Janet Jackson and her boob-time "wardrobe malfunction." Where he was most sorely missed, though, was during the commercials. The game carried nine spots for Budweiser, the official beer sponsor, but not a one for Coors -- which meant no sign of either Rock ("Someone's gotta feel this," he sings in one ad that Coors says "reminds us the hardest hits are in the NFL") or the Twins, lead cheerleaders in the fight for that desirable young male demographic. Sadly, Elaine and Diane Klimaszewski, who rated their own Maxim Super Bowl party last year, had to resort to promising that they'd be at the "hottest" parties in Houston on their website, www.twinship.tv, which also touts an upcoming appearance on Hollywood Squares.
But despite his halftime-show setback, the Kid's still doing his bit for the brewery. Pamela Anderson's boy toy tells Blender that he loves David Allan Coe, Better Homes and Gardens, his 1962 Impala and his '68 Lincoln with suicide doors. But the best perk of stardom is his gig with Coors. "Being a rock star is the best job in the world," Rock says. "The only job that's better is being the spokesman for Coors Light. I hate to sound like a dick, but I get paid to drink beer. If I called Coors right now, they'd have ten cases in this room by tonight. They said I wouldn't amount to shit in school. Well, I get paid to drink beer."
Someone's gotta feel this!
There ghost the neighborhood: For many years, Jim and Nancy Weisman shared their turn-of-the-century Victorian home at the corner of 22nd Avenue and Ogden Street. They just didn't know who -- or what -- they were sharing the place with.
When Jim, a realtor and renovator, bought the building in 1977, it was an abandoned dump with no windows, no heat, no running water and no electricity. But the house had plenty of energy. "People would say, 'Wow, what a spooky place,'" Jim remembers. "It had been vacant, and it was such a complete disaster that I should have been running the opposite direction as fast as I could. But I moved into the bedroom on the second floor with a kerosene heater and camp stove. It felt like somebody was here with me, and it was very warming and welcoming."
Nancy moved in with Jim in 1982, and she, too, was content to let their unknown spirit friend have the run of the place.
Several years later, a Canadian television crew knocked on the door. "They believed that the young woman who was kidnapped and later murdered by the American Indian Movement had spent some time in the back of the house -- that maybe she was even kept here for a time," Nancy recalls. "It got us thinking."
Before then, the Weismans hadn't heard of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, the thirty-year-old American Indian Movement activist who was murdered in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in 1975. But the house had been filled with AIM detritus when Jim had moved in, and he'd heard that at one point the building had housed the Denver chapter of AIM. While there was no evidence that Pictou-Aquash had been held against her will there before being driven to her doom at Pine Ridge -- she'd been abducted from a triplex on Pecos Street months before her body was found -- she could easily have spent time in the Ogden Street AIM office in the early '70s.
The Weismans replayed some of the stories they'd been told by friends and neighbors, who'd sworn they'd seen a thin woman in a long black dress, usually hanging around a back stairwell that once led to servants' quarters. One colleague of Jim's had been so shaken after an encounter with the apparition that she'd left a dinner party early. Could it be that the ghost of Anna Mae had returned to seek clues in her own murder?
"At the time we were first told of these encounters, of course we were thinking, 'Aha! She's a Victorian!' Now we started thinking that it could be this Indian maiden," Jim says. "It didn't really go along with what we came to understand about what happened to her, because we always got a warm-fuzzy feeling from whatever spirit, or spirits, lived with us. But you never know when you're dealing with something like this."
Whether the apparition was the murdered activist or another disembodied spirit -- or simply the result, as Dickens would say, of a collective case of undigested beef -- the non-spirit world will never know: Jim and Nancy awoke one morning to discover that their ghost had left the building.


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Feb 15th 2014Today I left behind the Olympic madness of Wu Tang, Valentine's dates and adoptable puppies to see if what they say is true: Is Sochi really a freeride mecca?
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Season dates are set for Girls Day Out ski camp, events are to be held at three ski resorts and one Cat skiing operation around B.C. Girls Day Out is a 2 day off-piste ski camp for females ages 13-50. It provides a comfortable atmosphere to foster ski skills and amplify big mountain knowledge.
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Victoria, B.C. (October 23, 2008) – Girls Day Out tour - with support from Rossignol - will be hosted at 3 different ski resorts this winter season, Fernie Alpine Resort, Red Mountain Resort and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort. Girls Day Out will also host an inaugural cat skiing event to be held at Valhalla Powder Cats. Official dates are as followed: January.3-4th Fernie Alpine Resort, January.10-11th Red Mountain Resort, March.21-22nd Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and March 7th Valhalla Powder Cats.
Participants will spend two action packed days, improving skiing skills with professional coaches, testing out new Rossignol skis, eating exquisite lunches and sharing laughs with new friends. Community building and goal setting workshops will be implanted to help all attendees become aware of their personal potential on and off skis.
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"Girls Day out was great! I learned new tips in an open, comfortable and fun environment. I also got to learn from some awesome ladies, thanks so much I needed this!" -Megan Stewart, Girls Day Out attendee, age 27
Registration for events can be done on www.girlsdoski.com and is open to intermediate and expert female skiers ages 13-50.Camp price includes: Two day camp, Rossignol demos, Professional Coaching, two lunches, Motivational workshop, On site professional photographer, prizes and the opportunity to meet professional big mountain skiers. Prices excluding lift tickets are as followed: Fernie Alpine resort- $ 170 Red Mountain Resort- $150 Kicking Horse Mountain Resort- $170 and Valhalla Cat-Skiing $340
Girls Do Ski is the presenter of Girls Day Out events, owned and operated by Leah Evans. Leah is a Rossland B.C. native and current competitor on the Canadian big mountain circuit. Having a direct relationship with the media and athletes, Leah was exposed to the minimal media coverage and established programs for female big mountain skiers. Leah's goal is to provide females with encouragement to help them realize there full potential on and off skis.
Today I left behind the Olympic madness of Wu Tang, Valentine's dates and adoptable puppies to see if what they say is true: Is Sochi really a freeride mecca?
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Poll: Are you looking forward to WoTLK more than you looked forward to Burning Crusade? {WoW}
Jun 7th 2008 11:59AM I'd say yes. For the most part, I am equally excited (which is till to say really excited!), but the addition of the DK class makes this a more desirable expansion for me. Plus, Northrend is larger and, from what I've seen,more visually interesting that Outland. My explorer's heart is all about it!
15 Minutes of Fame: Tamzin on being a girl gamer, movies, music {WoW}
Jun 4th 2008 12:00AM Hi, Tamzin. I wasn't terribly fond of the joke about picking up guys in WoW either, but I'm not giving anyone any flack over it. :\
I personally don't like that the person chosen to be interviewed is someone so down on the game. I understand her contribution to the endgame makes it so, and yeah, it';s a reality alot of players are facing, but frankly, it bummed me out. :( I don't come to WoW Insider to be bummed out. Haha
Either way, decent artcle.
When the going gets tough {WoW}
May 27th 2008 12:18PM A friend and I are leveling Alliance Druids after having 5 Horde level 70s, just for the heck of it. Allianceingeneral have a bugger of a time at 35-45, but these Druids are just stagnating at around 45-50. Once we get Mangle I'm sure things will go faster,but 40-50 on a druid seems like a heck of a slump.
Overhauling the engine {WoW}
May 16th 2008 2:26PM I was playing the trial of LOTRO the other day, and it occurred tome why I enjoy WoW's look so much. It fits together. When something is overly realistic, it becomes easier and easier for our eyes, which are accustomed to actual reality,to pick out the things that are wrong. When parts of trees look oddly flat in LOTRO I question it much more than I do in WoW.
I would welcome an update to the engine if it allowed for more complex spell effects, more armor with moving bits, etc. Just a generally larger amount of complex and curious things to look at. But I don't feel that going toward realism,per se, is something the WoW designers are even interested in. Which is a good thing, imo.
Breakfast Topic: Goals before Wrath {WoW}
May 14th 2008 2:24PM I'd like to my Alliance Druid to 70. I have 5 Horde 70s now but I want a 70 Alliance to experience Wrath and DKs from the Alliance side as well. Very doable. She's at 48 right now.
I'd like to see more T5 content and maybe even Hyjal. Very doable. I just changed to a slightly more hardcore guild.
At least 10k gold. I'm sitting on about 5-6k right now. Shouldn't be too hard.
I want to have a large stockpile of items that will be needed to level my professions, including whatever we know about inscription mats.
Exalted with more Outland Factions on my main. Probably doable, thought I hate the grind. Haha.
I'd also like to get my Champion of the Naaru title at some point, probably on my Pally healer.
WoW, Casually: Wrath of the Lich King is for casuals too {WoW}
May 13th 2008 2:26PM Because games are not reality. It's a fantasy world. An escapist reality. Should not an escapist reality be better and more rewarding than actual reality?
WoW, Casually: Wrath of the Lich King is for casuals too {WoW}
May 13th 2008 2:20PM @ mcsaeki: Don't feel bad! My healadin totally wears the cloth robe off of the bear boss in ZA. It was three times better them my S1 chest piece! What was I supposed to do? (Plus it's pretty!)
WoW, Casually: Wrath of the Lich King is for casuals too {WoW}
May 13th 2008 2:17PM I agree wholeheartedly with the point you make about 40 to 25 man setups. 25-mans are infinitely harder than 40-mans were. You can't slack off. Often times you can't die at all, whereas how many people died on MC bosses? A dozen? And you still killed them. If a dozen people die in the Kael fight you're all toast.
25-mans in Wrath will still be like this. 10-mans will be toned down, obviously, but they are going to bring their own challenges. They are going to require even MORE coordination! Much like ZA, I'd imagine.
WoW, Casually: Wrath of the Lich King is for casuals too {WoW}
May 13th 2008 2:12PM Good on you, mate!
It's people like you and those of us who take the game for exactly what Blizzard has built it to be, that make this game great. There are so many different ways to play this game, and no one is "better" or more worthy than the other.
You don't instance. I can't stand 5-mans. Some people don't do anything but farm Ogres and they still have fun. And that's what it's about!
Get your bear mount before Wrath {WoW}
May 12th 2008 2:34PM Given that they now have a skeletal system in place to make bear mounts of any sort, I'll be HIGHLY disappointed if there is not some sort of armored polar bear mount in Wrath. D:


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Alright, so maybe Bonnaroo and Coachella are a bit far off in the future, but it's never too late to get excited about their imminent arrivals! With Elton John, Kanye West, and Jack White headlining Bonnaroo; Outkast, Muse, and Arcade Fire headlining Coachella, and many more amazing musicians/bands showcasing their talents at the two festivals, there is much about which to be excited. Bonnaroo is a little more than 100 days away; Coachella is just 40 days away; and spring break 2014 is happening right now. As many people are parading off to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the beach for a week of relaxation and wild festivities, I'm sure they would appreciate a playlist to get them to where they're going and make their trips more enjoyable. So, wherever you're going for spring break, whether flying out or road tripping, or simply going home for some much-needed R&R after a stressful week of midterms, here is a playlist of catchy tunes by some of the artists who will be performing at this year's Bonnaroo and Coachella to spice up your spring break!
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Report: AT&T reduces investment in Project Lightspeed, concentrates spending on existing U-Verse deployments
While AT&T is making its triple play U-Verse its core wireline focus, at the same time it's throttling back investment in Project Lightspeed, the VDSL-based fiber to the node (FTTN) infrastruce that supports U-Verse.
Instead, spending is being redirected to selling and supporting customers in the limited areas where U-Verse has been deployed, writes Bob Wallace in xchange:
AT&T recently announced it is cutting capital spending by hundreds of millions, but didn't disclose specifically how that will affect its FTTx plans. AT&T said roughly a year ago that all new builds would use an FTTN architecture, but with these cuts in capital spending more folks likely will have to get by with copper links. However, AT&T is hiring big for U-verse in areas including customer service and call centers, help desk staff and technicians to install the service. That plays toward customer retention and easy adds.
"We know the capex slowdown will impact how many homes AT&T can pass with U-verse throughout 2008 and early 2009," said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for IPTV and Next Gen BSS/OSS for Infonetics Research. "However, right now the priority is signing up subscribers in the areas where they do pass the majority of homes. Their subscriber ramp continues to get better, as it should."


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Let's just go ahead and get this out there: I am, at most, one step below being an Andrew Macdonald fanboy. I've written about him a couple times in the past as well.
I had the privilege of getting called up and sent down and called up and sent down with him in 2007-2008 between the Utah Grizzlies and Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and therefore got to practice with him fairly consistently.
Macdonald, like myself, enjoyed getting on the ice early and staying out after practice, partially because we wanted to improve, but mostly because we both genuinely love hockey, and messing around with a bucket of pucks is a blast.
That time enabled me to see two things that the Islanders defenseman can do that I cannot (actually, the list is much, much longer than that, but I'll just share two for now).
I'll use "A-Mac's" goal today as exhibit A:
(He has a bomb for a skinny kid, if you hadn't noticed.)
He can and does take full, ceiling-scraping slapshots….with his head up the entire time.
And I don't mean he sneaks a peak before he hits it. He sees the puck coming (or has it on his stick, which is when he does it best), picks his head up and stares at the net, picks his corner and unloads.
I remember being in front of the net on a 5-on-3 in Fresno as he rolled to the middle of the ice with the puck, looked at the net (I thought he was staring at me, trying to get me to go somewhere) then suddenly uncorked without so much as glancing down for a heartbeat. Over my shoulder, over the goalies shoulder, and I just about pooped my pants.
It's extremely unique, even at the pro level, but what an advantage if you can do it.
The other trick up his sleeve is something I call his "cutter" – if you pass him a puck and he's standing a foot from the net, he uses the heel of his blade and hacks at the puck. He can get it up and under the crossbar like nothing I've ever seen.
It's not a re-direct – he can be standing on the other side of the net a foot or two back from it, you can pass it directly to him across the net, and he heel chops it into the top corner.
He has a fairly slight build (or he did 3 years ago anyway), so he's struggled with injuries since he's been in the NHL.
But if he's any stronger and can play 70+ games or so this year, I'd snap him up in a fantasy league in a New York minute. The Isles have him under contract at $550k a year (barely above league minimum) through the year 2013-2014. That could end up being one of the best contracts in the NHL by that time.
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In 2006, John Sebes and Gregory Miller hatched a plan to rescue democracy.
At the time, the United States was pumping nearly $4 billion into new voting machines, spurred on by Florida's 2000 presidential election fiasco. But the shift to machines built by companies such as Election Systems & Software and Sequoia Voting Systems (now called Dominion Voting Systems) had introduced all sorts of new problems.
Academics were finding deep flaws in the systems, and during every election, they seemed to fail somewhere. Earlier in 2006, voting machine problems marred primary elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where officials scrambled to hire temp workers to reprocess thousands of unreadable optical-scan ballots.
For Sebes and Miller, the answer was open source software. Working with Netscape in the late 1990s, they had helped usher in the internet age, and now they were eying another tech revolution. Voting machines seemed to be a perfect place for open source software to do what it does best: create standard pieces of technology everyone can freely share, review, and improve.
With the support of their families, Miller and Sebes quit their day jobs and launched a project dubbed Trust the Vote. They created a nonprofit, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, to manage the effort. And they started assembling the building blocks of an election system — ballot design programs, voter registration services, and election-night reporting software. In 2009, they shipped their first code.
Then the revolution stalled. The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation spent the next four years in a kind of government-induced limbo as the Internal Revenue Service delayed processing of its application for nonprofit status. That delay cost the operation an untold amount of grant and donation dollars, and though the project has produced some software, it still hasn't begun work on important things like ballot-counting and tabulation devices and accessible voting machines.
The delay is part of a much larger issue swirling around the IRS. This spring, an Inspector General report revealed that the agency was closely scrutinizing tax-exempt applications from conservative groups, many affiliated with the Tea Party, and the admission drew complaints nationwide. But the Tea Party is hardly the only organization affected. Progressive groups, health care data exchanges, and medical marijuana growers were cited by the IRS — and so were many open source software projects, including the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation.
The good news is the Foundation has emerged from IRS limbo. Two weeks ago, the IRS finally approved its application, ending a six-and-a-half-year review, during which the project filed hundreds of pages of documents and responses to agency interrogatories. "We're happy about our deserved designation," Miller says, "and yet we are so freaking angry at the IRS for what they made us go through and the damage they've caused us."
The decision from the IRS may finally breathe life into their voting-machine crusade, but it also may provide a roadmap for other open source projects wondering what it takes to achieve 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status these days.
Many are reluctant to publicly discuss their troubles, but numerous open source projects contacted by WIRED said the IRS has put a freeze on their nonprofit applications with Be On the Look Out letters, or BOLOs. Last month, documents released by Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee showed the Cincinnati-based IRS division that processes requests for tax-exempt status had been flagging open source software groups since at least 2010.
You see, the IRS is concerned that these open source groups are merely commercial operations in disguise. As one BOLO from the IRS reads: "The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit businesses or for-profit support technicians of the software." As the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation found out, the agency is even scrutinizing the open source licenses used by these organizations, hoping to ensure code is licensed in a way that ensures it doesn't make anyone any money.


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Sarah Palin had harsh words for the president in two speeches Friday.
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"We won't forget those who promised to hold firm against government funding of abortion, but caved at the last minute in exchange for a non-binding executive order promised by the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy The White House," she said.
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I'm a begginer citrus grower. I grow a Kumquat (Fortunella Margarita grafted on a Citrus macrophylla rootstock) and a Ponderosa Lemon propagated from a cutting. Recently both of the trees suffered by soft scale insects and so I was searching the web for an advice. What I have found and done wasn't probably the greatest idea of all. My effort resulted in spraying both trees with an vinegar-water (1:1 ratio) solution. Two days after yellow stains started to appear on Ponderosas leaves (see attached photo) while leaves of Kumquat remained visibly unchanged. At first the stains were not so visible and their boundaries also but it had changed few days after. Since that fatal day (15.10.2012) both of the trees began to defoliate. Kumquat drops around eight leaves a day and Ponderosa one or two. I'm starting to worry about their destinies. Is the vinegar solution the cause of the defoliation or is it occuring because of upcoming winter. Sun amount has changed dramatically within last week here in Czech Republic (Zone map: http://www.gardenweb.com/zones/europe/hze4.html) and I keep them both in flat in permanent 22°C beacause I have no other options. I still fertilize them with a citrus fertilizer and I was about to continue with fertilization to mid of November. I mist them once a day and water them when top of the soil starts to change its color. Kumquat also started to drop fruits simultaneously with leaves.
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- Posted by houstontexas123 z9a (My Page) on Wed, Oct 24, 12 at 12:03
the vinegar solution was too strong. i would put them in the kitchen sink or use a clean spray bottle and gently rinse them off. looks ok otherwise. in their weakened state, i would dilute the fertilizer for a few months till they're healthy again. which direction is your window facing? you may want to use artificial lighting. citrus have a fairly high light requirement. temperature of 22'C is around 70'F, so it will be just fine for the winter. |
Ever hear of acid rain?? You have definitely burned your leaves with the vinegar (acetic acid). What I like most about this forum.... common wisdom says experience is the best teacher; but it is often painful and costly. The best teacher is OTHER PEOPLE'S experience... no pain and its free. At least you can be happy you have helped others not to make that mistake. Thanks. |
If it got in your soil your may have shifted the ph there as well. Your damage does look like it occurred where you wiped it down. Usually a soil born problem would either have uniform damage to the leaves or burned tips. |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sun, Oct 28, 12 at 12:46
Thankfully, vinegar isn't very stable, as far as acidifying the actual potting mix.
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- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 28, 12 at 13:24
Good point Josh ! :-) |
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Yep, that's the problem. I've had that model and others.ChokeOnSmoke said:It makes no sense that it would be the bag's fault. A bag is a bag is a bag. If the machine doesn't "melt" the plastic to seal the bag off, then there's a problem with the machine's sealing mechanism. Am I missing something here??


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Luxembourg, 20 April 2007 – For the sixth year running, RTL Lëtzebuerg is organising Télévie, a major fund-raising event, in Luxembourg. Télévie aims to raise awareness and collect funds for cancer and leukemia scientific research for adults and children.
RTL Group is supporting the event by staging the third edition of the Télévie Challenge on its premises. The non-stop 2007 Télévie Challenge will take place on 20 April 2007 between noon and 10 p.m. in RTL Group's fitness centre in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.
This sporting event will set out to encourage a maximum number of people (RTL staff, politicians, sporting personalities and so forth) to pedal on fitness bikes, with RTL Group donating €4 for each kilometre completed. In 2006, the Télévie Challenge covered a total of 9,525 kilometres, raising €40,000.
RTL Group's Chief Financial Officer and Head of the Corporate Centre, Elmar Heggen, said: "The Télévie Challenge is a unique opportunity to mobilise our employees in a demonstration of solidarity. This year, more than 400 employees are expected to take part".
Executive Vice President Corporate HR Romain Mannelli added: "Many of our TV channels and radio stations throughout Europe are actively involved in charitable work. We are proud to see our headquarters contributing towards the fund raising for Télévie, an initiative jointly organised with success since many years by our operations RTL-TVI in Belgium and RTL Lëtzebuerg in Luxembourg".
Doctor Marc Diederich from Kirchberg Hospital's Laboratory for the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer (LBMCC), who will also be taking part in the challenge, said of the event: "Since 2002, a total of more than €4.7 million has been raised. Currently, 12 research programmes are under way, and 16 two-year mandates, i.e. 32 years of Télévie research have been funded in Luxembourg. Télévie effectively doubles the financing available for cancer research".
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Ah, BitterGate. Everything you're not supposed to talk about at parties—religion! class! "liberal elitism"! the Second Amendment!—all rolled into one neat little Political Scandal. Just in case you missed it, here's Barack Obama, inserting proverbial foot into proverbial mouth while speaking about the rough economy and small-town voters at a fundraiser last week: "It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Which…yeah. And Obama's "cling" rap is, itself, certainly clinging. Over the weekend, fallout from the comment dominated the news cycle, with reports and retorts and retorts to the retorts and retorts to the retorts to the retorts and well, you get the idea. At its heart, though, the whole thing begged one obvious question: "What do the voters think?" Are voters in Pennsylvania really, you know, bitter?
Well, hmm whom to ask? Who, oh who, might be intimately familiar with the Mind of the Small-Town Voter?
Why, Bob Shrum, of course! And Mary Matalin and James Carville and Mike Murphy! And Evan Bayh! And pollster and Franklin and Marshall College political scientist Terry Madonna! And Brookings senior fellow Thomas Mann! And Brian Davis, a Republican candidate seeking to challenge targeted Rep. Tim Walz in the fall! And nearly every strategist imaginable from the Obama, Clinton, and McCain campaigns!
Which, hey—it's fine to go macro. Experts are experts for a reason; the logic-of-superdelegates has its translation in journalism, as well. Still, though, there's a conspicuous absence in much of the Analyses of the Minds of Pennsylvania Voters: the, um, Pennsylvania voters themselves. Wouldn't it have been nice, at least in some instances, to remove the middlemen? Man-on-the-street reporting may get you only so far, sure, when you're trying to predict the results of a statewide—and, of course, national—election. But there's an especially perverse kind of logic—not to mention a healthy heaping of hubris—in asking pundits to read voters' minds when you could, just as easily, ask the voters themselves about what they're thinking. And that logic is rendered particularly ironic when applied to a story about…elitism.
Enter Fox News's Laura Ingle, who went, as she's wont to do, "On the Scene" to talk to voters:
So, this morning, we packed up our cameras and live truck and are heading to Allentown (we are all in the truck now listening to Billy Joel's song "Allentown" as I write this to get us in the mood .) We are almost to our location—a diner where many locals hang, and are going to talk to them about what Obama said and how they feel about it.
My opening line? "are you bitter?" This should be interesting . stay tuned
Now, sure, the level of anthropological self-congratulation here is a bit absurd: from all the talk of camera-packing and live-trucking, you'd think Ingle and her crew were on their way to a Safari Adventure—Jane Goodall et al, ready to explore the wilds of Allentown. Still, Ingle deserves praise for actually going out and talking to voters: while she might not have needed Kilimanjaro-ready hiking boots for this particular reporting expedition, at least her approach involved some shoe leather. And the team got some good footage of voters explaining/affirming/denying/decrying their alleged bitterness.
For my money, though, the best part of Ingle's "investigation" was after-the-fact journalism: the comments it triggered online. While many journalists—traditional reporters and bloggers alike—consulted pundits and other "experts" to flesh out their BitterGate reports, Ingle's audience simply consulted themselves. And then hit the "comment" button.