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- Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit in London on 12-14 May
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LegalTech Hong Kong on 2 March – a video introduction
The third Legaltech Hong Kong takes place on 2 March at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong. As always, the agenda is broad, running across a wide range of the challenges which face lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region. I recently bumped … Continue reading
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A post-LegalTech hiatus
You will be wondering, no doubt, at the near-silence on my part on my blogs and Twitter for the last two weeks or so. I don't suppose you'd noticed at all in fact, but I will tell you anyway. The first … Continue reading
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Why I go to LegalTech
This is personal – it is about what I go to LegalTech for. As I make clear below, if you are a potential buyer of software, then LegalTech is the perfect place to see demos of everything relevant under one … Continue reading
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Washington and New York to Mitchell via privacy, Singapore and Lobachevsky
The problem with running a website which offers news and updates is that people notice when it lies silent – the essence of news is that it is new. In fact, I have never aspired to timeliness and, as I … Continue reading
ILTA 2012 Part 5 – Future ILTA events
This is the last of my series of articles about the ILTA conference in Washington in August. What else is ILTA doing around the world? ILTA has recently partnered with ALM, the owners of LegalTech. Apart from LegalTech itself, the next of … Continue reading
A UK view of LegalTech from Andrew Haslam
Each year, Andrew Haslam of Allvision writes a comprehensive report of LegalTech through the eyes of UK visitors. I say "visitors" in the plural because Andrew solicits contributions and views from others and splices them together. This year, it seems, … Continue reading
The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance – the movie
I have referred more than once to the webinar which Nuix organised just before LegalTech with the title The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance. I moderated it, and the panel comprised Craig Ball, Attorney and Forensic Technologist, Stephen Stewart, … Continue reading
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Huron eDiscovery Panel at LegalTech as the cross-border climate begins to change
My wide-angle lens is being repaired, so I have no photograph of the panel which Nigel Murray of Huron Legal moderated at LegalTech. There were eleven of us at the table for two consecutive sessions with the title A GC's … Continue reading
Taking stock of the eDiscovery world
This is a good moment to pause a little and look around the eDiscovery / eDisclosure world. The wide range of topics which make this such an interesting field are all getting an airing at once. The stream of useful … Continue reading
Setting the scene after LegalTech 2012
Well, who would have thought that the big topic of conversation at LegalTech would be the weather? Keen though I am to import British ideas into US eDiscovery, the near-obsessive British focus on temperature and precipitation can stay at home. … Continue reading
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Aggressive Transparency and Strategic Cooperation in Electronic Disclosure
Lieutenant Schrank: You hoodlums don't own these streets. And I've had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain't gonna do it on my beat. … … Continue reading
Levelling out after LegalTech
LegalTech, UK educational sessions and calls from law firms, an LPO conference, Irish eDiscovery, litigation as an invisible export, legal blogging in New York and eDiscovery in Germany all help to pass the time. By and large, I find that … Continue reading
New web sites and a case study make good marketing
Although the nuts and bolts of what I do involves e-discovery / e-disclosure rules and the crossover between rules and practice on the one hand and technology on the other, my real interest lies in marketing, with a self imposed … Continue reading
The Trilantic Commonwealth Brunch on Sunday at LegalTech
The invitations to parties, receptions and meetings at LegalTech New York continue to roll in – my personal best so far is four assignations on one evening. The biggest issue, so far as I am concerned, is not fitting them … Continue reading
Strong UK presence at LegalTech 2011
LegalTech 2011 is only a few days away and the programme is packed. Almost everyone whose name has appeared in these pages is taking part in something, and I will not attempt to list them all. Following on, however, from … Continue reading
LegalTech 2010: Andrew Haslam reports for the Orange Rag and the 451 Group delivers market analysis
My unspoken deal with Andrew Haslam of Allvision after LegalTech each year is that I will write a heavyweight report on the business trends for the ensuing year, and will also write an anecdotal local colour story designed to convey … Continue reading
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Defensible document review – Epiq Systems panel at LegalTech
As is increasingly the case, The Posse List is getting out its reports of events and developments so quickly and comprehensively that it is folly on my part to cover them as well. This suits me well, since I am … Continue reading
Applied Discovery joins the Project's sponsors
I will do a proper welcome post shortly, and this is just a brief note to welcome Applied Discovery to the ranks of the sponsors of the e-Disclosure Information Project. I wrote about the company recently (see Applied Discovery gets … Continue reading
Deborah Baron summarises the Autonomy Cloud message on video
I am a strong believer in the idea that businesses, and particularly technology businesses, need to make use of every medium which is available to get messages across to potential users. The new media formats such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook … Continue reading
Distinguishing discussion from lecture at LegalTech
I go back over my recent posts a day or two after publishing them, partly to pick up typos to which one is blind when they are newly typed, but mainly to check that what I said is what I … Continue reading
Mixing eDiscovery business with pleasure at LegalTech 2010
I write each February after LegalTech in New York to try and convey how this event is simultaneously hard work and good fun. Certain times and cultures are inherently suspicious of the idea that you can enjoy yourself whilst working, … Continue reading
CaseCentral CARtoon – what drives Toyota's eDiscovery purchasing strategy
CaseCentral's Case in Point cartoon series maintains its quality with this week's one in which Toyota explains what drives its eDiscovery purchasing strategy. I spotted a judge at LegalTech wearing a No Processing badge which emanated (anonymously) from CaseCentral. Full … Continue reading
BA misses the bus – how to lose goodwill at the end of the project
The customers remember best what happens last, whether you are running an e-Discovery project for them or flying them across the Atlantic. It seems a shame to do it all so well and then screw up at the end. I … Continue reading
Some statistics from Equivio>Relevance
I have recently written a white paper about Equivio>Relevance and was subsequently interviewed about it by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel – both if these can be found on Equivio's publications page. A recent article by Marisa Peacock on CMSWire called Equivio … Continue reading
7Safe launches UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010
Mysterious messages have been appearing on Twitter all week like "In 85% of data breach cases, payment card information was stolen". They all lead back to an analysis of data compromise cases over an 18 month period which 7Safe have … Continue reading
FTI Technology 2009 IDC Survey defines the eDiscovery challenges
FTI Technology will be out in force at LegalTech, as you would expect from a company whose range of products and services cover the full range of eDiscovery problems and solutions. They commissioned an IDC survey which was published in … Continue reading
Anacomp e-Discovery panel at LegalTech – emerging technology and a defensible process
Anacomp are running a panel in the New York suite at the Hilton on Tuesday 2 February at 10:30 AM. I will not, unfortunately, be there, because I am on another platform at the same time. The title is What's … Continue reading
Stratify eDiscovery Super Session panels at LegalTech
I have already mentioned one of the four panels which Stratify is running on Tuesday, 2 February in the Sutton Parlor Center Room at the Hilton in New York. The sessions are as follows: 8.30 Can we have our cake … Continue reading
Epiq Systems e-Discovery Super Sessions at LegalTech
Epiq Systems are running three panels on Tuesday, 2 February at LegalTech. They take place in Concourse G at the Hilton New York as follows: 9:00 Achieving a Cost Efficient, Defensible Document Review 10:00 Best Practices for Successful Multinational E-Discovery … Continue reading
Autonomy eDiscovery Appliance – chaining law firms and clients together
A series of announcements from Autonomy coincide with what I see as the coming developments in the UK and elsewhere, enabling the lawyers to work collaboratively with clients. As one would expect, Autonomy has come up with a series of … Continue reading
Remember ESTA before embarking for LegalTech
Those from the UK who were confined to barracks last year and unable to go to LegalTech may be glad of a reminder that one must now apply in advance under the Visa Waiver Program via ESTA, the Electronic System … Continue reading
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Seeing Nuix at LegalTech
I try to avoid spending too much time at LegalTech looking at applications. I am much more interested in talking and listening to people, and three days is just not long enough to fit everything in. I generally limit my … Continue reading
US claims Global Power to Access Data despite EU data protection laws
Another decision of a US court shows the supremacy of the US courts over EU laws, at least as seen from the US. It doubtless plays well in Utah, but is probably bad news for US evidence-collection in the long … Continue reading
US District Judge to Speak on Women in eDiscovery Panel at LegalTech
One of the best panels at the Masters Conference in Washington last year was the Women Thought Leader Panel: The Art of Negotiating E-Discovery moderated by Caitlin Murphy of CT Summation and including Shawnna Childress of LECG, co-founder of Women … Continue reading
Catching up with the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure
I missed the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure which came into effect on 1 January. By "missed", I mean that I knew about them but decided that it was a topic important enough to be put on one … Continue reading
Guidance Software launches EnCase eDiscovery 4 with help from Twitter and YouTube
Guidance Software has released EnCase E-Discovery 4, which offers a pre-collection analytics capability as well as the ability to analyse and review ESI throughout the key discovery processes – during a legal hold, during forensic data collection, post- collection, during … Continue reading
Between the rock of Jackson and the hard place of LegalTech
Once a decade, we get a large and influential report on Civil Procedure in the Courts of England & Wales. Once a year, the largest and most important e-discovery conference takes place in New York. Did they have to take … Continue reading
Applied Discovery gets new marketing wind behind it
Good eDiscovery marketing must give would-be clients useful information and help, not just shout "buy me" with a list of functions and benefits. All forms of media must be pressed into service, and value lies more in helpful content than … Continue reading
Trilantic assembles experts for International eDiscovery Track at LegalTech
UK-based legal support provider Trilantic has put together a double panel session on EU data privacy and related subjects which takes place on the first day at LegalTech, Monday, 1 February. Subjects covered will include privacy considerations and EU data … Continue reading
Interview with Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about Equivio>Relevance
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has published an interview based on a long conversation which I had with them before Christmas. The title is Trainable E-Discovery Software Offers Cost Savings and the subject is Equivio>Relevance. The main theme of the interview was … Continue reading
Anacomp divests to focus on CaseLogistix, eDiscovery and litigation
Anacomp has sold its MVS Division to DecisionOne in order to focus on eDiscovery with its document review application CaseLogistix and the services which go with it. 2010 should be the right year to concentrate on eDiscovery You would probably … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: to Insource or to Outsource by George Rudoy
Outsourcing part of the disclosure / discovery process has suddenly attracted attention in the UK. Some think that this is due to the instincts in common between lawyers and the poor old lemmings, who are invoked as role models whenever … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech round-up
The general reaction to ALM's Virtual LegalTech by its participants and delegates seems generally to be positive. If, as Charles Christian said on Twitter afterwards, it had a 1990s feel to it, well, that can doubtless be improved upon in … Continue reading
The FSA swoops on the unprepared
The American Museum of Natural History in New York contains many tableaux – scenes of animals and man in various stages of early development. My son and I spent an afternoon in there when LegalTech had ended and I found … Continue reading
As the sun sinks slowly in the West we say farewell to LegalTech – or do we?
You are all too young to remember the clichéd ending to those American travel documentaries which always ended with the sun sinking slowly in the West. So am I, despite being old enough to remember telexes and carbon paper as … Continue reading
Autonomy panel at LegalTech points to proactive clients – and lawyers
Panel sessions at LegalTech and other conferences combine the best of all worlds so far as I am concerned. The burden is distributed – the moderator has to have a plan and the ability to herd the speakers through it, … Continue reading
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Trilantic panel explores international e-Discovery initiatives at LegalTech
Not much changes at LegalTech from year to year. Sure, the trends come and go – "the move to the left", Twitter, and "Please look at my CV" being this year's big things – but for the most part, the … Continue reading
Legal Inc panel at LegalTech lives up to its billing
Litigation support providers from the relatively small UK market made a good showing at LegalTech in New York this year. Amongst them was Legal Inc who hosted a panel of luminaries moderated by Charles Christian of Legal Technology Insider. LTi … Continue reading
Judge Facciola LegalTech messages are for UK as well as US lawyers
There was something almost surreal about the discovery that the LegalTech organisers had failed to record US Magistrate Judge John Facciola's keynote speech, given that Facciola regularly delivers Opinions castigating parties either for faulty decisions about technology or for technological … Continue reading
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There's a polite 'hello'. Then there's bringing candy to the door. Or beer, that is better than candy. Or even a sexy wink and beer, one of the great ways to show up at our doorstep. But the very best way? An outlandishly hot topless pictorial in the delightfully D-cup filled Nuts magazine, which is exactly how Jess Kingham makes her way onto our pages, and into our hearts, today.
Whatever happened between us Yanks and the Brits a couple hundred years ago, well, consider it all but forgotten, if we can lay our lust-filled eyes upon the likes of Jess Kingham, we just have to call it even. Or, double evens. Jess Kingham's funbags might just save the world. Enjoy.

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text: Let me first say that I disagree with many of Dusty's moves, and think the Reds would be much better with a different manager. However, I don't blame his decision to not start Yonder Alonso in left. I've watched Alonso in left all year for the Bats and his defense will make you MISS Gomes (and Dunn as well). His bat may be ready for a shot as a major league starter, but his defense is nowhere near major league quality. Heisey and Lewis are both great defensive outfielders, Heisey deserves the chance as a starter, and Lewis is a proven major league bat. While I think Alonso should not have been kept on the bench for EVERY game that he has been up for, I think the question we should ask is not why Dusty won't start him, but why Walt Jocketty brought him up! Sappelt is having as good of a year or better as Alonso in AAA and is a good outfielder as well. If the 40 man issue is a problem (trade Maloney to give him the chance he deserves), then Hermida is a former quality major leaguer, who is tearing up AAA and would be a lefty bat who could provide average defense. It does not help the Reds or Alonso's development to strand him on the bench like this.


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Risotto alla Milanese
|Uncooked arborio rice
|1 3⁄4 Cup (28 tbs)
|Unsalted butter
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), divided
|Beef stock
|1 1⁄2 Quart
|Beef marrow
|3 Tablespoon
|1 , thinly sliced
|Saffron powder
|1 Teaspoon
|Dry white wine
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|To Taste
|Grated parmesan cheese
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
1. Melt half of the butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Simmer the onion and beef marrow in the butter for about 10 minutes. When the onion is soft, remove the onion and marrow from the pan using a slotted spoon, and set aside. (I like to leave the onions in.)
2. Saute the rice in the pan over medium heat for 5 to 7 minutes, or until lightly toasted. Stir constantly so the rice will not stick and burn. Stir in one ladle of beef stock, and keep stirring until it is mostly absorbed, ladling and stirring in more of the broth as well as the white wine in the same manner, until the rice is almost al dente. Stir in the saffron, remaining butter, and 3/4 cup of Parmesan cheese. Turn off the heat, cover and let sit for 4 or 5 minutes.
3. Serve as a bed for ossibuchi or by itself with as much of the remaining Parmesan cheese sprinkled over as you like.


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III. Donors: The Way Forward
Involuntary detention in compulsory centres for drug users is common in Asia. Treatment should always be voluntary and provided only with the consent of the drug user, and not, as frequently happens in the Asia region, either when arrested by the police or solely at the request of the user's family.
—World Health Organization, "Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants," 2011[146]
Centers like Somsanga are not unique to Lao PDR. In recent years, UN agencies and international organizations have begun to express concern about drug detention centers in various countries in Asia.
In a plenary address in July 2010 at the 18th International AIDS Conference (held in Vienna, Austria) the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, called for the closure of all compulsory drug detention centers.[147] The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has called for "the earliest possible closure of such centers."[148] UNDP, UNICEF, and the UN high commissioner for human rights have also criticized the centers.[149] The UN special rapporteurs on torture and health have also spoken out against abuses in drug detention centers. In 2010, the director of the Drug Policy Coordination Unit of the European Commission deemed such centers an "abomination."[150]
The World Medical Association (WMA) and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations (IFHHRO) have called for the closure of such centers, on the grounds they violate the human rights of the detained and operate without following accepted principles of medical treatment.[151]
Such positions have been replicated by UN agencies and embassies at the country-level. The UN country team in Vietnam has stated that it "does not support" the use of detention centers for drug users.[152] The UN country team in Cambodia has stated that "there is no reason for the centers to remain open."[153] The US Embassy in Vietnam has pressed the Vietnamese government for "elimination of [compulsory] drug treatment centers" in that country.[154]
For its part, UNODC has criticized the approach of routine, en masse long-term detention in the name of "treatment":
Many countries provide long term residential treatment for drug dependence without the consent of the patient that is in reality a type of low security imprisonment. Evidence of the therapeutic effect of this approach is lacking, either compared to traditional imprisonment or to community-based voluntary drug treatment. It is expensive, not cost-effective, and neither benefits the individual nor the community. It does not constitute an alternative to incarceration because it is a form of incarceration. [155]
Somsanga shares the underlying operating principle of the centers criticized by these organizations. Lao authorities have developed—and international donors have continued long-term support for—a system that results in routine, en masse long-term detention in the name of "treatment."
The underlying operating principle of Somsanga—detention of people against their will in the name of "treatment" and "rehabilitation"—violates the right to health of people dependent on drugs. Except in exceptional "crisis" situations, health interventions should only be administered on a voluntary basis following the fully informed consent of the patient. Even then, involuntary treatment can only be justified when it is in the best interests of the patient, for short periods of time to return the patient to a state of autonomy over his or her own decision making, and when it involves interventions which are medically and scientifically appropriate (which is not the case, for instance, when detention itself is the mainstay of treatment).
In December 2010, UNODC, the UNAIDS and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asian and the Pacific (ESCAP) convened a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss alternatives to compulsory drug detention centers in the region. Government officials from China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines attended the meeting.[156] Officials from Lao PDR chose not to attend and staff members of international organizations familiar with the meeting explained that this decision reflected the Lao government's position that its centers are voluntary.[157]
Somsanga operates in clear disregard of the principles articulated by one of its principal supporters, UNODC. According to UNODC:
Treatment carried out without the informed consent of the patient in clearly defined exceptional circumstances needs to follow similar criteria to those used in mental health emergency situations. It should, for example:
• Require a clinical judgment by at least two qualified healthcare professionals that such treatment was necessary
• Impose a time limit of several days for compulsory treatment (to return the person to a state of autonomy in which decisions regarding their own welfare can be taken, maximum several days)
• Include a judicial review for any continued necessity, including the right to appeal
• Involve medically appropriate, individually prescribed plan, subject to regular review, that is consistent with international evidence-based best practice and ethical standards.[158]
Not only does the operational basis of Somsanga violate the right to health, but the human rights context of Lao PDR means that closed centers for so-called drug "treatment" and "rehabilitation" create an unacceptably high risk that other types of people deemed "undesirable" will be arbitrarily detained alongside people dependent on drugs.
Lao PDR has a dismal record on respecting, protecting and fulfilling the due process rights of its citizens. The US State Department's 2010 human rights report noted that arbitrary arrest and detention persist in the country. It observed:
Police agents exercised wide latitude in making arrests, relying on exceptions to the requirement that warrants are necessary except to apprehend persons in the act of committing crimes or in urgent cases. Police reportedly sometimes used arrest as a means to intimidate persons or extract bribes…. A militia in urban and rural areas, operating under the aegis of the armed forces, shared responsibility for maintaining public order and reported "undesirable elements" to police.[159]
Compounding these concerns is the Lao government's refusal to respect the right to freedom of expression. The government owns and controls most local print and electronic media and forbids public criticism that it considers harmful to its reputation. The US State Department's 2010 human rights report also notes the absence of independent monitoring of detention conditions.[160] This context renders the independent and transparent monitoring and reporting of the human rights conditions of detainees in centers such as Somsanga virtually impossible.
Despite the poor human rights record of Lao PDR, a UN agency, donors and international organizations have financed and supported drug dependency services that require people to be locked up for many months in closed centers. As noted above, in some instances donors have financed the actual construction and refurbishment of such closed centers, including fences.
Donor support for closed centers in a country where due process rights are routinely violated, and where public criticism of government policy is not tolerated, creates an unacceptably high risk that such closed centers will be abusive. This is what has occurred in Somsanga.
In effect, Somsanga functions as a detention center for people who use drugs (regardless of whether actually dependent), as well as a wide-range of other socially "undesirable" groups, outside of any form of due process or legal oversight.
None of the persons whom Human Rights Watch interviewed for this report had seen a lawyer or been sent to a court prior to their detention in Somsanga. There does not appear to be any means to review or appeal detention. Human Rights Watch believes that the appropriate response to the detention of people against their will and without due process is their immediate release from such arbitrary detention. The continued detention of detainees at Somsanga cannot be justified on either legal or health grounds.
There is no doubt that effective management and treatment of drug dependence in resource-poor settings (such as Lao PDR) present serious challenges. This is particularly the case of treatment services for amphetamine-type stimulants—the most common types of illegal drugs in Lao PDR—for which no form of accepted substitution therapy currently exists.
But this fact should not be used by donors as an excuse to turn a blind eye to the ongoing confinement for an indefinite period of time of hundreds of people for whom detention is arbitrary and abusive. All people, including those who are genuinely dependent on drugs, enjoy the right to freedom from arbitrary detention. Human Rights Watch believes that, given the ongoing ill treatment and suicides in Somsanga, it is safer and healthier for people, including those who are genuinely dependent on drugs, to reside in the community rather than be confined in an abusive setting.
Neither Lao PDR nor international donors should ignore human rights concerns in the provision of drug treatment, including ATS (amphetamine type stimulants) treatment. As WHO has noted:
All approaches to the treatment of ATS use should comply with human rights obligations. The human rights of people with ATS dependence must never be compromised…. Inhuman or degrading practices and punishment should never be part of the treatment for ATS dependence. All drug treatment should therefore be voluntary. Only in an exceptional crisis situation such as high risk to self or others should compulsory treatment be considered, and only as a last resort.[161]
For some people dependent on drugs (as well as many others who are poor, homeless, infrequent drug users or beggars), vocational training courses may be beneficial. But access to such services should be conditional on months of involuntary detention in closed centers.
The way forward for drug dependence services in Lao PDR should begin with an affirmation of the human rights principle of the availability of drug dependency services on a voluntary basis, following fully informed consent. WHO and UNODC note that:
[T]he same standards of ethical treatment should apply to the treatment of drug dependence as other health care conditions. These include the right to autonomy, and self determination on the part of the patient, and the obligation for beneficence and non maleficence [do good/do no harm] on behalf of treating staff.[162]
The principle of treatment following fully informed consent requires the establishment of a continuum of medically and scientifically appropriate services for people who use drugs.
In this respect, it should be noted that in general only a minority of people who use ATS become dependent.[163] For those who are clinically dependent, WHO considers that a range of psychosocial interventions, from cognitive behavioral therapy, contingency management and 12-step programs, have yielded encouraging results in the treatment of dependence to amphetamine type stimulants.[164] Human Rights Watch is not aware that any of these interventions are available in Lao PDR.
According to one staff member of an international organization who is familiar with drug issues in Lao PDR:
To my knowledge there are only very limited voluntary services for drug users in Vientiane, and none for amphetamine users. Drug use is still seen by the authorities as requiring punishment, as opposed to medical and social support. Moving forward, there's a need to set up community treatment options for drug users. Such community services would certainly be closer to the Lao culture of compassion [than Somsanga].[165]
Specialized residential treatment facilities—in which people are able to come and go, and are offered medically and scientifically appropriate services—should be available for some heavily dependent drug users. Human Rights Watch believes that a key condition of specialized residential facilities for drug treatment should be their voluntary nature.
Specialized residential treatment facilities operating in Lao PDR would require basic human rights safeguards, such as admission mechanisms to ensure admissions are truly voluntary (and not susceptible to abuse by families, police, or local militia). In cases where persons are admitted to the residential facility on the basis of a decision to detain the individual, there should be due process protections (including legal representation and the right to appeal) to ensure that such decisions are only taken in the patient's best interests, are time limited and are subject to appeal. Equally importantly, specialized residential treatment facilities would require rigorous independent monitoring and reporting—including confidential interviews of both current patients and those recently discharged—as well as public reporting on conditions inside the centers.
These conditions are not present at Somsanga and continuing donor support for the Somsanga center has an unacceptably high risk of engendering the types of human rights abuses that this report has documented.
Before international donors continue funding Somsanga under the mistaken belief that it is a "reformed" detention facility now operating as a specialized residential treatment facility, they should assess this approach in terms of the actual and potential human rights violations associated with it. In addition to violating the right to health of people who use drugs, that assessment should acknowledge arbitrary detention in Somsanga, the risk of exposure to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment that detention entails, as well as the recognition that such abuses will very likely persist in a country noted for its dismal record regarding respecting due process rights and intolerance of public criticism.
In many countries, NGOs offer the range of health services required to provide drug dependence services. Historically, government authorities in Lao PDR have suppressed NGOs. A Decree on Associations, issued by the prime minister in 2009, has the potential to allow for a range of technical and social-welfare oriented NGOs.[166]
According to accounts of staff members of organizations familiar with drug issues in Lao PDR, applications for registering NGOs have been painfully slow. But support by donors for NGOs has the potential to provide needed services for people who use drugs (and other socially marginalized groups) without the human rights risks inherent in closed centers. Donors should fund medically and scientifically appropriate healthcare interventions which are available via voluntary, community-based services.
[146] World Health Organization, "Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS): Principles of prevention and treatment for the use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)," undated. www.wpro.who.int/sites/hsi/documents/atstechnicalbriefs.htm (accessed June 8, 2011).
[147] "Providing Impact, Promoting Rights. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," Michel Kazatchkine, presentation at AIDS 2010 - XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18-23, 2010, http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/ed/remarks_iac_proving_impact_promoting_right_100721.pdf
[148] Letter from Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS to Human Rights Watch, March 30, 2010, on file with Human Rights Watch
[149]Comments by Mandeep Dhaliwal, Cluster Leader: Human Rights, Gender & Sexual Diversities, United Nations Development Programme, "Harm Reduction 2010 The Next Generation: Addressing the Development Dimensions," presentation at the International Harm Reduction Association Annual Conference, Liverpool, April 29, 2010; "Statement of the care and protection of children in institutions in Cambodia," UNICEF East Asia & Pacific Regional Office, June 8, 2010, http://www.unicef.org/eapro/UNICEF_Statement_on_HRW.pdf (accessed May 12, 2011); Email from Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of HIV/AIDS Department of WHO to Human Rights Watch, May 6, 2010, on file with Human Rights Watch; "High Commissioner calls for focus on human rights and harm reduction in international drug policy," United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights press release, March 10, 2009, http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/3A5B668A4EE1BBC2C12575750055262E?opendocument (accessed May 12, 2011).
[150] UN Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, A/HRC/10/44, January 14, 2009, http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/10session/A.HRC.10.44AEV.pdf (accessed May 12, 2011); UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Anand Grover, A/65/255, August 5, 2010, http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/1360889.82224464.html accessed May 12, 2010); Comments by Carel Edwards, Director of the Drug Policy Coordination Unit of the European Commission, in Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, "Abuse in the Name of Treatment- Drug Detention Centers in Asia," video report, 2010, http://tasz.hu/en/hclu-film/abuse-name-treatment-drug-detention-centers-asia (accessed May 12, 2011).
[151] "Call for Compulsory drug detention centers to be closed," World Medical Association and International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations press release, May 17, 2011, http://www.ifhhro.org/news-a-events/225-world-medical-association-a-ifhhro-joint-press-release (accessed September 5, 2011).
[152] United Nations in Vietnam, "Position on Administrative Detention for Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs," August 2010, para 5. http://www.unaids.org.vn/sitee/images/stories/newsroom/2011/un_position_paper_on_administrative_detention_15_august_2011.pdf (accessed September 9, 2011. For an analysis of the human rights conditions in drug detention centers in Vietnam, see Human Rights Watch, The Rehab Archipelago: Forced labor and Other Abuses in Drug Detention Centers in Southern Vietnam, September 2011. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/09/07/rehab-archipelago-0
[153] United Nations in Cambodia, "UN Common Viewpoint: Support to the Royal Government of Cambodia to deliver evidence-based Drug Dependence Detoxification, Treatment and Aftercare for people who use drugs," May 2010, para. 2. http://www.unodc.org/documents/eastasiaandpacific/cambodia/UNCT_Common_Viewpoint_on_Drug_Dep_Treatment_June_2010_FINAL.pdf (accessed September 28, 2011). For an analysis of the human rights conditions in drug detention centers in Cambodia, see Human Rights Watch, "Skin on the Cable": The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture of People Who Use Drugs in Cambodia, January 2010. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2010/01/25/skin-cable-0
[154]Letter to Human Rights Watch from Gregory Beck, deputy assistance administrator, bureau for Asia, United States Agency for International Development, September 14, 2011.
[155]UNODC, "From Coercion to Cohesion: Treating drug dependence through healthcare, not punishment," March 2, 2010, p. 11. See also UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs, "Drug Control, Crime Prevention, and Criminal Justice: A Human Rights Perspective, Note by the Executive Director," E/CN.7/2010/CRP.6*–E/CN.15/2010/CRP.1 , March 3, 2010, http://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND-Uploads/CND-53-RelatedFiles/ECN152010_CRP1-6eV1051605.pdf (accessed May 12, 2011).
[156] See UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, "Regional Consultation for Compulsory Centers for Drug Users (CCDUs) in Asia and the Pacific: 14 to 16 December 2010, Bangkok," undated, http://www.unescap.org/sdd/meetings/CCDU-Nov2010/index.asp (accessed September 27, 2011).
[157] Human Rights Watch interview with two staff members of two international organizations, September 2011.
[158] UNODC, "From Coercion to Cohesion: Treating drug dependence through healthcare, not punishment," March 2, 2010, p. 11.
[159] US State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – 2010: Laos," April 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/eap/154390.htm (accessed June 6, 2011).
[160] Ibid.
[161]World Health Organization, "Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS): Principles of prevention and treatment for the use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)," undated, www.wpro.who.int/sites/hsi/documents/atstechnicalbriefs.htm (accessed June 8, 2011).
[162] UNODC/WHO, "Principles of Drug Dependence Treatment," p. 9.
[163] World Health Organization, "Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS): Principles of prevention and treatment for the use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)," undated. www.wpro.who.int/sites/hsi/documents/atstechnicalbriefs.htm (accessed June 8, 2011). One study of lifetime psycho=stimulant users found that 11.2 percent developed drug dependence (as defined by the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10): Anthony JC et al. Comparative epidemiology of dependence on tobacco, alcohol, controlled substances, and inhalants: basic findings from the National Comorbidity Survey. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1994, vol. 2(3), pp. 244–268, p. 255.
[164] World Health Organization Western Pacific Region, "Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS): Therapeutic interventions for users of amphetamine-type stimulants," undated. www.wpro.who.int/sites/hsi/documents/atstechnicalbriefs.htm (accessed June 8, 2011).
[165] Human Rights Watch interview with staff member of an international organization, September 2011.
[166]See Lao People's Democratic Republic, Decree on Associations, No. 115/PM, April 29, 2009.


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Hillsborough County has the 2nd highest rate of domestic violence in Florida. But advocates who support Domestic Violence victims, as well as officials from local law enforcement agencies, say they have real hope that a new facility in the County has a chance of dramatically helping those victimized by such violence ââ¬â and to see that their punishers are prosecuted.
(roll tape#1 o.q.â�by the abuserâ�)Natalie Baird is a former victim of domestic violence and currently an attorney who fights for victims rights (roll tape#2 o.q.â�of domestic violenceâ�)
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In the fall of 2003, The Bush Administration announced a 3 year pilot program that would provide $20 million dollars nationally to establish such facilities. The President was inspired after learning about the ââ¬ÅFamily Justice Centerââ¬? in San Diego, which opened in 2002, and is considered the most complete type of center of its type in the country, bringing together the entire domestic violence units of the police department and the prosecutors office. And it provides victims of abuse with easy access to 20 on-site community services, including a temporary restraining order clinic and a forensic medical unit.
Chuck Hamby is with Verizon Wireless. The communications giant is a key player in establishing such a Center in Hillsborough County, as the organizationââ¬â¢s $300,000 pledge was the only operation money the center had until late last year ââ¬Â¦..He said that nationally, businesses lose about $2 billion dollars annually in the U.S. because of domestic violence. He says he hopes other companies will step up (roll tape#2 o.q.ââ¬? to stop this programââ¬?)
The request for the federal grant was actually written by directors from The Spring, the well respected domestic violence shelter ââ¬â and is being administered by illsborough County.
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The Family Justice Center of Hillsborough County will be located at the corner of Florida and Busch Boulevard ââ¬Â¦The executive director will be Nikki Daniels (roll tape#5 o.q.ââ¬? will be thereââ¬?)
Linda Oberhaus is Executive Director of the Spring of Tampa Bayââ¬Â¦She says the new center will improve services for victims in the areaââ¬Â¦ She said statistics show that children who experience domestic violence in the home, have a 74% rate of repeating such violence in their adult livesââ¬Â¦and she says with the new numbers indicating that Hillsborough leads the state in adolescent domestic violence, the timing for opening such a center has never been more apt (roll tape#6 o.q. violence in this communityââ¬?)
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"Fortunate for us geeks, we had a recession. Unfortunate for the country, we had a recession," Czerwinski said. "So what we wanted to do was to take the next step then and peel back the onion, and say what's going on here that's actually driving the fiscal condition of the state and local structure"
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What we wanted to do was look at both the spending and revenue for the state and local sectors over the past 30 years, and compare them," Czerwinski said. "The bottom line is, we've seen a faster growth in expenditures than we have in the revenue coming in."
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Sorry, can't get past this part, how do you reef without pointing into the wind ?
Jeff beat me to it, but since you are asking.
My boat is a 38 feet boat with main sail area of 34 m2 (368 sq feet), inline spreaders, two line reef setup, lazy bag and a rigid vang.
The mast (or tack) reef line is attached to a ring in the sail and is led back to the cabin top winch. The clew ref line is a standard setup going to the opposite cabintop winch (alternate side's for each reef).
But this technique works on other boats also. We did this on a Hanse 470 (with swept spreaders and single line reef) a week ago while sailing upwind in a race (At one of the owners amazement - he wanted to head into the wind for reefing while racing)
We can do this at most point's of sail except DDW, you must not sail so deep that the sail will hang on the spreaders during the operation.
Here is the procedure.
Put or keep the boat on a course where you can do the maneuver and have sufficient room/time to complete (preferably on starboard tack
Tighten the topping lift (If you don't have a rigid vang)
Ease the main sheet a little to take pressure off the sail.
Ease the kicker so the boom have room to lift
Slack the main halyard to preset mark (if no mark you must take it in increments - don't ease to much)
Use the winch to haul in the tack (mast) reef line
Use the winch to haul in the clew reef line
(If you have single line reef only one line but more rope)
You should not need to touch the halyard any more
Sheet in
Tighten kicker (if needed)
Clear up all the lines
My boat is tracking so good that i can do this singlehanded w/o any use of autopilot or engine, everything is done from the cockpit close to wheel and winches.
I prefer this method because
I get a more stable platform to work on than a boat bobbing on the waves
Don't loose much headway while doing it
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1 pound ground beef
8 ounces uncooked pasta, such as rotini or elbow macaroni
1 can (8 3/4 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
1 can (14 1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
1 1/2 cups water
1 package Lawry's® Taco Spices & Seasonings
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Brown meat in large skillet on medium-high heat. Drain fat.
Stir in remaining ingredients except cheese. Bring to boil on high heat. Reduce heat to low; cover and cook 15 minutes or until pasta is tender, stirring occasionally.
Sprinkle top with cheese. Cover. Cook 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
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