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St. Louis (KSDK) - To most, his goals may have seemed simple. Sixteen-year-old Christian Izquierdo wanted to walk better, run, and just jump.
His parents knew that would require a great leap of faith for them and their son with cerebral palsy. So, they traveled from south Florida to St. Louis, to begin on January 27th, what has become Christian's Crusade.
At eight-months-old Christian was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
"We just want the best for him, like any parent. So, we're here now because I guess it's God's will that he have a different quality of life," said his mom, Adriana Shashaty.
It's a life Dr. T. S. Park, the hospital's chief of pediatric neurosurgery, has helped give to close to 2,400 children with cerebral palsy worldwide. He's refined what's called selective dorsal rhizotomy. He snips some sensory nerves in the back to relieve some of the tension or stiffness in his patients' bodies; a $32,000 surgery not covered by most out-of-state insurance companies.
It's the reason Christan's Crusade went public with a plea for donations online.
After the surgery and some physical therapy, Christian returned to Florida, but four months later he would have to return for a follow-up.
Running is now part of Christian's daily routine, and not only that, but he can even jump in the pool.
Dr. Park said he saw improvements in bodily function, behavior, and even speech.
Of course, Christian's parents did, too.
"He says, I want to be a father and I want to be an occupational therapist and I want to have babies, so he knows and he sees himself somewhere in the future having a future," added Adriana.


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After a break of 18 days, the end of the opening test in Jerez action resumed again in Bahrain today.
The twin four-day sessions at Sakhir represent the last chance for the teams to prepare for the Australian GP.
After the Jerez debacle it's a big week for Renault and especially Red Bull, and the early signs are that the World Champions still have a lot of work to do. Sebastian Vettel got out late while updates to the RB10 were completed, and ran only 14 laps, having stopped on track at one point.
Meanwhile Mercedes continued to shine, with three of its cars setting the pace for most of the day, until Ferrari joined the party.
Nico Hulkenberg set the ultimate pace for Force India and ensured that a Mercedes car finished the day on top.
"A very positive and satisfying day," said Hulkenberg. "We had a busy program and we learned a lot. Time in the car is very valuable at the moment and so it feels good to cover so many laps and even complete two long runs at the end of the day. That gave me a chance to see how the car behaves and to start getting a feel for it, which was not something I was able to do in Jerez. It's great that we've already done some set-up work and started to improve the drivability of the car. But it's still very early stages; we are learning with every lap and we face a very steep learning curve in the coming days."
Fernando Alonso moved into second place in the afternoon with a best time 0.999s shy of the German's effort. Ferrari said its main focus today was on its brake by wire system.
"It's nice to be driving again, especially when you have more reference points compared to the previous time, which means you get a better feeling for the car," said Alonso. "We are also at a track that is more representative, with normal temperatures, where it's been easier to understand tire behaviour. We are in a phase where we are discovering things and with every lap, we learn something new. For everyone, there is still a lot to do to be well prepared for Melbourne, so it will be important to make the most of every day we have available to us."
Lewis Hamilton was third fastest for Mercedes, although the Briton lost the chance to improve when brake-by-wire issues caused his day to finish early.
Kevin Magnussen was fastest up to lunchtime for McLaren, and was fourth at the end of the day, having completed more laps than anyone else.
Meanwhile Vettel's best time some 3.3s off Hulkenberg's pace as he took a distant fifth spot.
"Obviously we're not happy with where we are now and we have a long way ahead of us.," said Vettel. "The first gut feeling from the car is OK, but we need more running," he said. "It's not easy to find a quick fix, but I think we understand the problems. We sorted out the issues from Jerez and we were able to do some laps today. However, very often you fix one problem and another pops up, which is what happened. That's testing. We all knew this year was a massive challenge and we knew it would be difficult. We obviously didn't want this, but it is what it is and we are working flat out to solve the problems."
He was still faster than the only other cars to log a serious number of laps, the Sauber of Adrian Sutil, and the Caterham of test driver Robin Frijns.
"We did 82 laps today and were able to put a lot of mileage on the engine," said Sutil. "The car is getting better, but there is still a lot to do. We still have issues with the brakes and the engine drivability, but we were able to progress, which is good. It was good to have a better day today than any we had in Jerez and I am more confident now. Also in terms of aerodynamics, the car was in a much better shape with much more grip and better driveability."
Ongoing problems restricted Daniil Kvyat in the Toro Rosso, which had an oil leak, and Romain Grosjean, who gave the Lotus E22 its first public outing. Meanwhile, no flying lap times were recorded by either Jules Bianchi in the Marussia, or Felipe Massa in the Williams, the latter handicapped by a frustrating fuel system problem.
"It was a difficult day," said Massa. "It was frustrating for me but also for the whole team as we all wanted to get lots of laps on the board today. We had a few issues with the car which we are investigating and aim to solve for tomorrow and the following days. We know the most important thing is to get mileage on the car, so we hope to do that and get everything we want from tomorrow, and through until the end of next week."
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1m36.880s 78
2. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m37.879s 64
3. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m37.908s 74
4. Kevin Magnussen McLaren 1m38.295s 81
5. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1m40.224s 14
6. Adrian Sutil Sauber 1m40.443s 82
7. Robin Frijns Caterham 1m42.534s 68
8. Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 1m44.346s 5
9. Romain Grosjean Lotus 1m44.832s 8
10. Felipe Massa Williams No time 5
11. Jules Bianchi Marussia No time 3

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Zombie hordes happen
October 22, 2013
In 2009, citizens dining in downtown Issaquah spotted a handful of zombies shambling down Front Street. Since then, the group founded by Tom Gotuzzo has grown into a horde and added a few dance moves to the annual event.
The fourth annual Zombie Walk returns to Issaquah from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Karen Donovan, Downtown Issaquah Association executive director, said all ages of creepers are invited to join the horde.
Become a member of the zombie horde by meeting at the Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front St. N. Come already dressed or get help being made up and join in on a practice run through of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance moves.
Zombies to invade Highlands Green Halloween Festival
October 22, 2013
The Issaquah Highlands Council presents the 13th annual Green Halloween Festival, from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 26 at the new Grand Ridge Plaza.
There will be carnival rides, games, pony rides, inflatables, food, music, giveaways and laser tag.
A flash mob performance of "Thrill the World" at noon and again at 4 p.m. Zombies will then hop a trolley to downtown Issaquah and join the performance there at 5 p.m.


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Seattle Seahawks honor Issaquah School District teachers
October 23, 2012
The Seattle Seahawks, in partnership with Symetra Financial Corp., honored Issaquah Middle School's Liz Villa and Tiger Mountain Community High School's Lane Helgeson as Heroes in the Classroom this month.
The duo is among 24 teachers across the Puget Sound area being honored for educational excellence during the 2012 NFL season.
Winners are recognized in front of their students at surprise in-school presentations and receive a $1,000 donation for classroom books and supplies.
In addition, Villa and Helgeson were recognized in an on-field presentation at the Oct. 14 game when the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots.
Cyberbullying crackdown is priority for sheriff's office
October 23, 2012
King County Sheriff's Office investigators could soon crack down on cyberbullying, after the King County Council approved a motion introduced by Issaquah-area Councilman Reagan Dunn.
Cyberbullying is the use of information and technology to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior. The crime exploded in recent years due to the prevalence of social media services, and gained national attention last year after classmates targeted a then-12-year-old Issaquah girl online.
Dunn said cyberbullying is increasingly a concern for law enforcement agencies.
"In recent months, all across the country, we have seen tragedies unfold as a result of cyberbullying," he said in a statement. "This motion will allow the sheriff's office to study this issue thoroughly and ensure King County has a plan to deal with any of these troubling bullying trends."
(Dunn represents rural areas south of Issaquah and Newcastle on the council.)
Green Halloween Festival scares up fun, frights
October 23, 2012
The leaves around Issaquah may form an autumnal rainbow of yellows, reds and browns, but it's going to be a green Halloween as the Issaquah Highlands Council gets set to celebrate the 12th annual Green Halloween Festival on Oct. 27.
The festival gets its name through its partnership with Green Halloween, a locally founded movement to make all holidays healthier and more sustainable, said Christy Garrard, Highlands Council special events planner.
"We partnered with Green Halloween because it really fit with the built green philosophy of the Issaquah Highlands urban village concept," she said.
The outdoor, family-friendly festival kicks off with a bang at noon, when dancers of all ages will gather in front of Blakely Hall for Thrill the World, a worldwide attempt to break the record for the largest simultaneous dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Festival attendees are encouraged to try their best zombie impression and join in on the iconic dance routine.
Statewide earthquake drill shakes up preparedness plan
October 23, 2012
Staffers flooded from Issaquah City Hall and other municipal buildings at 10:18 a.m. Oct. 18 as employees joined a statewide earthquake drill.
The preparedness exercise involved public employees throughout the city, plus residents throughout the city and state, as planners tested residents' ability to respond to a temblor.
The city official responsible for disseminating information to the public during emergencies, Communications Coordinator Autumn Monahan, said frequent disaster preparedness exercises educate city employees about the proper procedures to follow in worst-case scenarios.
Local schools receive $30,000 boost from community
October 23, 2012
Several area education programs got a helping hand Oct. 10 when the Issaquah School Board approved nearly $30,000 worth of donations.
The Associated Student Body Robotics Club at Skyline High School received $5,000 from David Levin through The Boeing Co.'s Gift Match Program. The Endeavour Elementary School PTSA donated $7,035.08 to help pay salaries for additional education assistants at its school while the Pacific Cascade Middle School PTSA gave $5,099,74 to be used for teacher mini grants.
Teachers at Newcastle Elementary School got $12,500 from the school's PTSA to buy various supplies and materials. Most of that money is to be distributed by grade: kindergarten ($1,200); first grade ($1,600); second grade ($2,000); third grade ($1,600); fourth grade ($1,600); and fifth grade ($1,600).
Zombies return to menace downtown Issaquah
October 23, 2012
Last October, on a sunny afternoon, a regular Saturday turned unordinary as zombies menaced Issaquah.
The undead shambled into the sunset, and Issaquah sidestepped a zombie apocalypse — for a while, at least.
The zombie horde is back.
Expect to see the undead shuffle down Front Street North on Oct. 27 during a Downtown Zombie Walk and then assemble for a flash-mob dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" outside the Issaquah Library.
Halloween happenings abound in Issaquah, nearby
October 23, 2012
Enciso Family Farm, featuring you-pick pumpkins and fresh Christmas trees; an old country store with snacks, cozy fireplace and a selection of specialty gourds and pumpkins; a barn from the 1800s; tractors from past and present; and more, 19417 196th Ave. S.E., Renton, 206-595-5845
Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Tree Farm, featuring pumpkins for sale in the shop or farm stand, pumpkin patch-pick in the field, open daily through Oct. 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 14237 228th Ave. S.E., www.trinitytreefarm.com
Nightmare at Beaver Lake, Oct. 24-31, Beaver Lake Park, Southeast 24th Street, Sammamish; The family scare runs from 7-7:45 p.m. nightly. The full scare runs from 8-10 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, and from 8-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $10 per person for a family scare; $16 per person for a full scare. Donate a can of food and receive a $1 discount on tickets. Learn more and purchase tickets at www.nightmareatbeaverlake.com.
Crews rebuild downtown gas station
October 23, 2012
Expect the remade downtown Shell gas station and Jacksons convenience store to stand taller and cover more ground than the boxlike former structure after a monthslong overhaul concludes.
The planned store at Front Street and Sunset Way should feature a more modern, spacious layout and additional options. The planned façade includes sconces and stone accents. The gas station site is also in line to receive additional landscaping after construction concludes.
Crews started the major overhaul Sept. 11, a day after the business closed to customers.
Issaquah High School hosts Norwegian student
October 23, 2012
Issaquah High School is host to a new student who has come all the way from Gullhaug, Norway.
Sophomore Vetle Oscar Grønsleth Solheim came nearly 5,000 miles to study and learn in Issaquah for the year. One would think that it is a difficult transition, but Solheim didn't have much trouble.
"My first couple of days in Washington weren't too hard," Solheim said. "I know the language all right, and people are so kind, so it wasn't a problem to make friends."
So far, Solheim has thoroughly enjoyed his stay in Issaquah, and feels lucky to have experienced the last hints of summer.
King County property tax deadline approaches
October 23, 2012
Oct. 31 is the deadline for King County homeowners to pay property tax bills.
Taxpayers should include the tax statement and write the property tax account number on a check or money order to pay by mail.
Homeowners can pay property taxes online or by check, cash or credit card in person at King County Treasury Operations, Room 600, 500 Fourth Ave., Seattle. The office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. The office is scheduled to remain open until 5 p.m. Oct. 31.


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New Pattern: Yesternight
I designed Yesternight for Griffin's fourth birthday. He says things every day that I hope I will remember forever, but wistfully know I will not. Griffin calls last night "Yesternight," and I love it too much to correct him. The sweater is my way of remembering all our Yesternights together.
The pattern is suitable for advanced beginner cable knitters. Instructions are both written and charted, and a detailed schematic is included. Like all my patterns, it has been professionally tech edited.
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Love it! I've been looking for a sweater to knit for my niece and nephew, but hadn't found something that really appealed until I saw this one! I even have the right weight yarn already in my stash! :-)Posted by: morenna at November 29, 2012 05:32 PM
To this Yesternight & many more to come...
How stunning! I want to knit this for me.Posted by: mick at November 29, 2012 02:20 PM
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LINDA SHOEMAKER: Entertainer is racist, hateful
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, born Jan. 12, 1951, is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. "The Rush Limbaugh Show" is a nationally syndicated talk show that airs throughout the U.S. He has been credited with reviving AM radio in the U.S. and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
National Review magazine, in a '93 cover story, called him "The Leader of the Opposition" during the Clinton administration. He is a best-selling author, with two titles on the New York Times best seller list in the 1990s. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia.)
Thus, Limbaugh has a unique opportunity to influence American society. But, is he good for the GOP?
When Jack Cowan asked the party chairs if we wanted to write about Limbaugh, I hesitated. I do not like Limbaugh and, for very sound reasons, do not listen to his program. I have tried on a few occasions, but quickly changed the station to hear "oldies."
Limbaugh is a bombastic hatemonger, a misogynist, a schoolyard bully who is not to be taken seriously because much of what he says is not true. He is not a credible commentator, but an entertainer, if you like that sort of ranting.
Imagine these two scenarios: One worker leaves her car to enter the office, having just listened to Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World." Another worker leaves his car, having listened to Limbaugh on the way to work. The first driver is singing, "Joy to the world; all the boys and girls. Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea. Joy to you and me."
The other has heard Limbaugh say of Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."
Or perhaps he heard Limbaugh say, "When a gay person turns his back on you, it's anything but an insult — it's an invitation. The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit." On homelessness, Limbaugh has said, "One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the Homeless Olympics. The 10-meter shopping cart relay, the dumpster dig, and the hop, skip and trip."
He has said, "The only people who worry about the environment are wackos, dunderheaded alarmists and prophets of doom."
About NAFTA: "If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people — I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs, let the kinds of jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."
Finally, speculating on how a Mexican won the New York marathon: "An immigration agent chased him for the last 10 miles."
Who would you prefer as a co-worker? The Limbaugh effect is totally negative. At a time when Republicans are dealing with the aftershock of a Democratic landslide electoral victory in the presidential election and significant losses in Congress, inspirational role models are needed.
Unfortunately, the GOP finds itself stuck with the likes of Limbaugh and Michael Steele.
The new Republican National Committee chair, Steele, had the nerve to say that Limbaugh was "an entertainer" and his rhetoric is "incendiary" and "ugly." Showing a remarkably weak spine, Steele later apologized to Limbaugh.
Will Limbaugh's leadership inspire new followers, people who are thoughtful and respectful? Will it encourage Hispanics to vote for the GOP? What about women?
Limbaugh has said: "Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along." In fact, women did not have the right to vote before feminism came along.
I believe that for both parties we need leaders who bring out the best in us. President Obama tries to do just that. As the nation's first black president, he is working mightily to heal the wounds caused by racism.
Even there, Limbaugh has shown his typical insensitivity. He lost a job with ESPN for racist comments and, on his radio show, played a song by Paul Shanklin, "Barack the Magic Negro," sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon."
Rush Limbaugh is not good for the GOP and he is not good for you. Look elsewhere for your entertainment. Seek out those who build and not those who drive wedges and destroy. Especially now, America needs the best each of us can offer.
Linda Shoemaker is chairwoman of the Tom Green County Democratic Party.
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Sims McGrath envisions a future Orleans whose character remains that of a small New England maritime village, where pedestrians and bikers safely navigate a vibrant village center fully occupied with small, locally owned shops, where the town's many beaches and parks remain accessible to all, where its lakes and ponds remain healthy and swimmable, where qualified municipal employees helpfully provide essential services, and where all this is accomplished with one of the lowest property tax rates on the Cape.
Sims developed this vision during his many years of public service, which besides the Board of Selectmen includes Planning Board, Board of Health, Comprehensive Plan Committee, Zoning Bylaw Task Force and Comprehensive Wastewater Management Steering Committee.
Fortunately for us who reside in Orleans, Sims has begun implementing this vision as a selectman, especially in his current role as the board's chairman. Sims deserves the opportunity to continue implementing his vision. So I encourage voters on May 20 to re-elect Sims McGrath to the Orleans Board of Selectmen.
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Another "NBA player goes to China" experiment is reportedly over.
Yahoo Sports reports that free agent point guard Patty Mills has been released by the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association after suffering a recent hamstring injury. Mills said in late-December that he expects to be sidelined "3-6 weeks"; on Wednesday, he added that he could be back to the court as soon as this weekend.
Mills was one of a number of fringe NBA players who opted to play abroad during the NBA lockout. He first signed with the Melbourne Tigers of Australia's National Basketball League but was lured to Xinjiang with the promise of a 7-figure contract.
Mills, a 23-year-old Australian, spent his only two NBA seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, posting career averages of 5.1 points and 1.5 assists in a reserve role.
A favorite of Blazers owner Paul Allen, Mills has repeatedly expressed a desire to return to the NBA and the Blazers in interviews and on his Twitter account. Portland's roster is currently full at 15 players, including point guards Raymond Felton, Nolan Smith and Armon Johnson. The Blazers also added combo guard and sixth man Jamal Crawford during the free agency period. Mills, an undersized spark plug, is known as a shooter. He struggled to find minutes in the halfcourt system used by Blazers coach Nate McMillan because of his decision-making and ability to defend his position.
Yahoo reports that Mills' ability to return to the NBA could be held up until March, when the Chinese regular season ends. A number of other NBA players -- including J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin -- are currently stuck after signing deals there during the lockout. Martin, who also played for Xinjiang, reached a buyout agreement but is reportedly stuck until the Chinese season end. Smith is still playing in China.
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Thanks, but no thanks.
While Patty's popular with the crowd, I really rather see Armon Johnson, or Nolan Smith get some minutes as the third-string point guard. Sorry, not a fan.


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The battle faced by Grayson Bruce hits close to home for Tiffany Morones-Suttle, the mother of an 11-year-old Wake County boy thought to have attempted suicide by hanging himself after what his parents say was bullying because he liked My Little Pony.
Michael had been in a medically induced coma since he was found unconscious in his home Jan. 23, and is still being treated for potentially lifelong neurological injuries caused by a lack of oxygen. Morones-Suttle said they don't know how much he will recover or when, if ever. Doctors say he is between a vegetative and minimally conscious state.


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God bless Simpson and Bowles.
The retired Republican Wyoming Senator (Alan Simpson) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff (Erskine Bowles) just keep trying and trying to coalesce Washington leadership around a long-term fiscal stabilization plan. Theirs, frankly, is one of the few plans that would actually balance the budget in, ahem, a balanced way. Theres enough in their plan for everyone to dislike revenue increases that make Republicans yelp; program cuts that couldnt be supported by Democrats.
But its a plan, a starting point.
Its sad that nearly everyone seems to ignore them, or at least not even use their work.
But the two keep at it, and implored leadership in a Washington Post op/ed today to re-focus on a grand bargain for the budget.
They even tweaked their original proposal to reflect more up-to-date numbers and released a revised plan earlier this month.
Ive said before that I believe Simpson-Bowles is the best starting point for solutions to our big-picture fiscal problems.
I dont agree with everything in it. (And Isaid earlier this month, for example, that I strongly disagree with at least one of the plans ideas for Social Security.)
But its the best possible template for meaningful discussions.
Sometimes, it seems like the president and Congress have given up on the idea that they can have those discussions. Good thing Simpson and Bowles arent ready to throw in the towel just yet.


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Rihanna's brother Rorrey has revealed she used to be one of the smart kids at school.
The 'Where Have You Been' singer's little brother, 22, admitted that she may be the coolest person in the music industry at the moment but she was known for being extremely intelligent at school in Barbados.
Rorrey Fenty told the Daily Star newspaper: "We worked very hard and took it really seriously. We went to good schools and Ri was a good student."
He added that she was very self-motivated and made sure she only took time out to have fun once a week.
He said: "She is very self-motivated so Mom didn't have to push her to do homework. She had a lot of discipline. We only went to the beach on Sundays."
Rorrey, who is launching a rap career under the name GQ, also revealed that the 24-year-old was obsessed with finding unidentified flying objects.
Apparently the performer had a thing about discovering life beyond Earth.
He continued: "We used to spend all weekend watching movies and talking about UFOs, looking out for them. Ri really believes there are UFOs." - Bang Showbiz
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Wow. NewStatesman contributor Sadie Smith has a bone to pick with what she describes as the "online wimmin mob". Legitimate grievance? Exaggeration? Baseless accusations? Provocation for the sake of provocation? What say you, Disinfonauts?
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"Check your privilege!" This has become the rallying cry of the Mob when faced with a woman with whom they disagree. "Privilege", when out of the hands of Mob bullies, is actually not a bad concept. God knows, party conference fringes involving Harriet Harman chatting to her public school mates about the importance of getting more women into politics have been known to bring me out in a bad case of the hives on more than one occasion. There's absolutely nothing wrong with thinking, "Woah, there! Is it possible that there are more things in heav'n and earth than were dreamt of in a South Kensington champagne bar over tapas with Jocasta?"
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|The major structural and enzymatically active protein in spicules from siliceous sponges, e.g., for Suberites domuncula studied here, is silicatein. Silicatein has been established to be the key enzyme that catalyzes the formation of biosilica, a polymer that represents the inorganic scaffold for the spicule. In the present study, it is shown, by application of high-resolution transmission and scanning transmission electron microscopy that, during the initial phase of spicule synthesis, nanofibrils with a diameter of around 10 nm are formed that comprise bundles of between 10 and 20 nanofibrils. In intracellular vacuoles, silicasomes, the nanofibrils form polar structures with a pointed tip and a blunt end. In a time-dependent manner, these nanofibrillar bundles become embedded into a Si-rich matrix, indicative for the formation of biosilica via silicatein molecules that form the nanofibrils. These biosilicified nanofibrillar bundles become extruded from the intracellular space, where they are located in the silicasomes, to the extracellular environment by an evagination process, during which a cellular protrusion forms the axial canal in the growing spicule. The nanofibrillar bundles condense and progressively form the axial filament that becomes localized in the extracellular space. It is concluded that the silicatein-composing nanofibrils act not only as enzymatic silica bio-condensing platforms but also as a structure-giving guidance for the growing spicule.
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A friend who's training for the MCM bought a training plan from the Run SMART Project, which is affiliated with Jack Daniels. In my opinion there are both good and bad things about the plan, but one thing that caught my eye was that paces (for easy and workout runs and for the tune-up half and the eventual marathon) changed every 6 weeks.
By reverse-engineering the plan, so to speak, I figured out that the initial pace was based on a previous half marathon fed into the running calculator at that site, which also spits out the calculated VDOT value. Every 6 weeks, the VDOT value is assumed to have improved by 0.7 (um, points? I don't know the units).
What I am wondering is: is the assumption of 0.7 points/6 weeks VDOT improvement (and thus of race times; I'm considering one a proxy for the other) valid for most people in a focused training program? What's it based on? What kind of assumptions (mileage? Amount of hard running) go into it? (I would assume mileage would have something to do with it. The plan mentioned above was very low-mileage.)
It's rather hard for me to draw conclusions from my own races, as I don't have a lot of good pairs of races (similar courses, similar conditions) for comparison.
Looking back at 2009, which is when I started running a lot more and getting faster, I ran a 1:44:19 half marathon in June (VDOT = 43.0) and a 1:42:44 half marathon in October (VDOT 44.2) for an improvement of 1.2 over 17 weeks, or ~0.4 in 6 weeks, a bit short of the assumed 0.7. (I was running about 47mpw.)
In 2011, I was coming back from a stress fracture and ran a 1:43:54 half in October, for a VDOT of 43.2. Seven weeks later, my mileage and strength fully rebuilt, I ran my PR 10K of 43:06 on a significantly downhill course; tweaking the time with the Runworks calculator gives me an equivalent of a 44:02 on a flat course, which gives me a 46.4; six weeks later I ran the Houston Marathon for a PR of 3:29:13, a VDOT of 45.7. Leaving aside the usual problem of the marathon not matching its equivalent from shorter distances (I was running about 55mpw on average) and all the assumptions going into the massaging of the 10K time, this suggests that I improved something between 2.5 and 3.2 points in 13 weeks, or on the order of 1-1.5 per 6 weeks. Which is nothing like either the purchased plan's assumptions, nor my improvement rate two years earlier.
I'm thinking of this mostly in terms of figuring out how to adjust the results from tune-up races which are earlier than optimal with respect to the marathon, and how to predict the improvement that can be expected from a training program. Yes, I'm probably overthinking it! But I like numbers!
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In my case I don't often see VDOT change at all. I might start a marathon training program with very good short race fitness, which establishes the VDOT. The purpose of the training program is to get sufficiently strong to be able to confirm the MP (or M pace, in Daniels' terms) that corresponds to the same VDOT.
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This is not marketed as a canned plan - it's lovingly crafted by a team of coaches out of virgin planstuff extruded from the Daniels book, or so it claims. And actually the paces seem pretty reasonable to me, though other aspects ring my alarm bells.
Back to VDOT-ness. A muse, does that mean your short distance races change not at all? You're running relatively high mpw, right? Ditto for dkg. Would you say that VDOT changes from quality, while the likelihood of matching the M pace changes from sustained solid mileage?
Steve, the calculator on the Daniels page gives 43.9 and 47.3, for a 3.4 improvement over 12 weeks, or 1.7/6 weeks or 1.1 over 4 weeks.
I'm still kind of stuck on the endurance vs speed thing, I think. Does that improvement mean that you could run a 43:22 10K? (Probably?) Does it mean that you can run a 3:20 marathon? (Probably not.)
But paces changes shouldn't be 'assumed' based on some expected fitness improvement. That's not tailored to the runner. That's canned. Pace changes should be based on some kind of fitness test feedback; either a race or time trial or historical HR comparison.
Am I preaching? Hello? Choir?
Hah, yes, I agree with this. You know I sing your song. I'm trying to figure out if in the absence of fitness testing, these assumptions are valid, or if they're nonsensical. My hunch is 'something in between'.
My friend has a half marathon scheduled for next weekend, I think, which she is supposed to run at her new VDOT-determined pace. Her actual results will certainly either prove or disprove this assumption in her case! (I don't think there is a mechanism for saying, 'hey, guys, you said I could run a 1:57 but I ran a 1:59, so what do I do about these paces?' but maybe there is.)
(I don't actually use 'paces' at all, in my own training, and am not sure they are useful except as a guideline to help me realize that I'm running way too fast for a tempo and no way am I going to manage 40 minutes at this pace.)
My friend's plan is very low mileage (4 days/week, average mpw 31.7, max 35) and has as long runs two 18-milers which account for over 50% of the miles in those weeks. The speedwork is a relatively large proportion of mileage, which I don't like, but it starts with strides and moves to cruise intervals and tempos, which I think is appropriate. There is a lot of M paced running (where M varies as early it's derived from her starting VDOT and then progresses) which I don't think is a great idea early in a program but makes sense later, when there are also some multipaced workouts (which I like a lot). But who am I to second-guess Jack Daniels?
I think the paces make sense, but as I mentioned before I actually am not a fan of prescribed paces. (I run easy runs easy, threshold runs by heart rate/feel, and intervals as fast as I can manage!) My friend said that she had specified a desired mpw range and number of runs on the application, as well as her previous race times - do you know if your friend specifically requested a low-mpw plan? I mean, 30mpw is adequate preparation for a marathon at a certain level, but there is no way my friend is going to come close to the specified goal time, and I think it's deceptive of the coaching group to suggest that.
There were two, maybe 3 training cycles in which I would go into the start with a good speed base that established VDOT. The thing is, the mileage was already high -- 85-100mpw, even for short stuff. The main difference that happens over the course of the marathon program is specific endurance training.Of course, I wasn't running a Daniels plan or Run SMART.I think predicting a rate of improvement is a dangerous business.
Unless race times fall pretty much in line with a standard calculator like McMillan, using HM times for estimating VDOT and training paces will give invalid numbers, numbers that are too low. A 10K, or better yet, a good 5K time will give more accurate VDOT values. VDOT will change mostly as a result of speed work. Apparent improvements in VDOT using longer race times is the result of improved endurance, not a change in VDOT unless you also see a corresponding change in short distance times like 5K.
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The McMillan coaching plans are sent out every 4 weeks. However there is no specific adjustment in pace indicated - whether regularly scheduled or not. All the training paces are based on the calculator, so you just input your most recent indicative race and go from there.
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IIRC Daniels does pace adjustments about every four weeks, but based on feedback from the runner. This group seems to have gone a step further and assumed an improvement rate for the runner based on experience, mileage, etc. Risky.
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your making my head hurt lol thank god u all are so smart with the numbers and what is VDOT ? I'm still new to all this lingo but it fascinates me
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I guess it depends how bad your friend is to start with. I'm a relative newbie, and I've been at around 0.5 Jacks/month improvement for the last year, which is in line with what you're seeing in that plan. In my 5k and HM, I went up 3 Jacks in 6 months. I'm hoping for a 5 Jack improvement in 5 months for my Sept marathon, but a lot of that will come from better execution. Hopefully. Please.
It's one thing to look back and see that improvement. It's another thing entirely to predict it going forward. I sure wouldn't bet on it. In fact, I would be ecstatic with 3 Jack improvement in my 5k in my lifetime.
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It's one thing to look back and see that improvement. It's another thing entirely to predict it going forward. I sure wouldn't bet on it.
Hah, no kidding.
One cannot generalize an improvement over a wide range of runners. In the case of this plan, it might well work out as "close enough".
A low mileage plan is extremely likely to be used by a newer runner. Newer runners have a lot of improvements they can make, and IF they simply stay healthy and run regularly they usually DO improve a lot (regardless WHAT plan they use). Is their guess in the right ballpark... who knows, but it easily could be close enough.
This plan isn't custom, and isn't really Daniels. I played around with making a Daniels style plan generator myself because I like the underlying structure of his plans. It isn't hard to do one at 70+ miles, the issue is Daniels' plans were originally written for high mileage Elites and lower mileage forces you to break some of his "rules". Choosing WHICH rules to break at what mileage forced me to draw up schedules by hand.
There is no magic here. They are estimating how much people might improve on average and applying that with no regard to individual variation. Experienced, mature, high mileage runners relying on true fitness gains take a LONG time to change VDOT. New runners getting technically better, more efficient and making early body adaptations can make VDOT gains in leaps and bounds.
And to answer an earlier question (what is Vdot)... the short answer is it is a number derived from race results. It is meant to capture a combination of your VO2max and efficiency. Unfortunately the number is in the same scale as VO2max so many people think it is an estimate of VO2max: it isn't.
And to answer an earlier question (what is Vdot)... the short answer is it is a number derived from race results. It is meant to capture a combination of your VO2max and efficiency. Unfortunately the number is in the same scale as VO2max so many people think it is an estimate of VO2max: it isn't
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About 1,500 anglers line the banks of Bennett Spring State Park trying to catch their limit of four trout. Some stand precariously on top of the dam, just one wrong step away from slipping off.
From behind the clouds the early morning sun lights up the lines of anglers waist deep in water with a cool blue light, their rods and reels casting back and forth until they reel one in.
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The German driver joined Mallya's outfit as reserve driver at the end of the 2010 season having been dropped by Williams in favour of Pastor Maldonado.
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When citizens weigh in on government spending, the impact of public employee wages often is central to the discussion.
Some people tend to believe that public employees earn too much compared with private sector employees. Others believe public employees earn too little for all the value they bring to the table, whether it's their dedication to providing critical community services, or meeting the needs of a demanding public.
Often, a very personal question is asked: "I wonder what that public employee makes, compared with what I make in a private sector job?"
Gannett Wisconsin Media and The Reporter Media are publishing a five-week investigative special report, examining what public employees earn in every sector of local, state and federal government across the state.
As part of the analysis, we are publishing a digital database of all public employees with base salaries of $25,000 and up, using the latest available data from 2011-12. In addition, we are publishing in our print editions all public employee base salaries of $50,000 and up. Both online and in print, we are including each employee's name, title, years of service, and compensation including benefits where available, to give our readers a fuller understanding of what drives government payrolls, and even to help readers make comparisons with their own compensation.
Some readers will feel we shouldn't publish the names of the employees along with their salaries.
But as taxpayers, all of us pay the wages of public employees, and so the names and compensation are part of the public record, as well they should be. As the ultimate "boss," every citizen has every right to know what a public servant earns. Any citizen can request that very information from any government office, and that office by law must provide it. Through open records requests, the Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team did just that for this special report.
That said, it would be an extremely cumbersome process for a private citizen to actually obtain this huge body of data from a number of government entities, much less obtain enough of it to make good comparisons across jobs and across different government bodies.
By obtaining and publishing the information through this special report, and more so by sorting the data and putting it into perspective, Gannett Wisconsin Media is doing the hard legwork on our readers' behalf. We are making the information infinitely more accessible, providing a "one-stop," easy-to-digest collection point for the voluminous data, and we are offering a deep analysis to help foster an informed, robust discussion of the topic.
For instance, today's first installment of this special report explains that many technical college instructors make significant "extra" compensation through "overages" that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars annually, their pay boosted by taking on extra classes beyond contract workload. We also explain that University of Wisconsin professors generally make less than instructors in the technical college system.
Our readers may decide for themselves whether they believe these wage variances are reasonable or desirable.
But there is more to the story: Close to home, our analysis also found that average salaries for professors at UW-Fond du Lac are lower than for their peers at both the technical schools and the larger UW campuses. In fact, UW-Fond du Lac had the second-lowest average professor pay among the 13 two-year UW colleges. And the total pay, including overages, among full-time instructors at Moraine Park Technical College was on average the fifth lowest among the 16 technical colleges in the state.
So, the analysis raises more questions: What extra recruitment and retention challenges might UW-Fond du Lac or MPTC face given the disparate wage pools? Is the variance understandable, and more or less ok? Is it fair? Or is something out of sync? Should there be an effort to level the compensation in at least some cases? And how best to do that?
All the information we are providing over the next five weeks - the salaries, the comparisons, the perspective - is intended to offer the public, policy makers and lawmakers a fuller understanding of public employee compensation. Our ultimate goal is to help guide good policy decisions about the government payrolls to which we all contribute tax dollars.
We want to make another important point:
Because every government employee is a public servant, every one of them should be proud of what they earn and proud of the service they provide for the good of their communities and their state.
For readers who might be skeptical about that, we invite you to review the lists of salaries that will be published over the next five weeks. You might find the name of a friend or neighbor, maybe a teacher you know who enlightens your child, or an officer who waves to you as he patrols your street. And you might be surprised to learn that they don't make nearly enough for all they do.


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Half-Baked JusticeBruce A. Green in Law.com, February 01, 2011
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by Sue Reisinger
The initials BP are by now a household word. It is a name that in the public mind at least has become synonymous with longtime legal, environmental, and safety issues. The story starts two days after Christmas in 1965, when the oil rig Sea Gem collapsed and killed 13 crew members in the icy waters of the North Sea. Then came 40 years of toxic waste dumping, and oil and gas price manipulations, followed by the disastrous Texas City oil refinery blast of 2005 that left 15 workers dead and 270 injured.
The federal government ordered the company to fix some 300 safety problems at the refinery. BP paid a record $21 million fine and hired a new chief executive who vowed to make safety his top priority. But in 2009 the government cited BP again for failing to repair more than 200 of those violations and imposed another record fine. Then, last April, faulty equipment at the refinery allowed thousands of pounds of cancer-causing chemicals to leak into the air for 40 days. Worse, no one told residents in the surrounding communities—or even BP's own workers—that they were breathing toxic air.
Then came what may be its worst and most costly disaster yet. Last spring, BP's Macondo oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing the largest marine oil spill in history. Now the British company formally known as BP p.l.c. faces a criminal investigation and more than 300 civil suits over the spill. And that's not all—a growing chorus of victims, their families, and their lawyers are calling for executives to be jailed and the company shut down if it doesn't change.
BP North America general counsel John "Jack" Lynch declined to be interviewed for this story. But Lynch previously committed BP to take responsibility for the cleanup. The company also has set aside a $20 billion fund to pay damages claims, and it may sue other contractors on the rig for their alleged negligence.
Through the years BP has operated in an endless cycle of accidents, promises to do better, and record financial penalties. But the promises and costly punishment haven't seemed to change how BP runs. That leaves legal scholars and prosecutors pondering: How should the criminal justice system punish—or reform—the BPs of the world?
The answer is critical to in-house counsel. That's because when companies keep doing bad things, Congress generally steps in to "fix" the problem by imposing more work on the lawyers and costly reforms on their companies. That's what happened in 1989, when Congress reacted to the savings and loan crisis by passing the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act that dramatically changed the industry and its regulation. It happened again after the Enron Corp. scandal, when Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which set enhanced standards for all U.S. public companies and accounting firms. More recently, in 2010, Congress reacted to the financial meltdown and its excesses by passing the sweeping Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, parts of which also apply to all public companies, not just banks in trouble.
And that's an issue that in-house counsel must bear. Larry Thompson, general counsel for PepsiCo, Inc., and former deputy attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice, recently spoke at a legal symposium where he noted that reactive laws punish the innocent companies along with the guilty. "No matter how gold-plated your compliance efforts, no matter how hard one tries, large corporations today are walking targets for criminal liability," Thompson complained.
But Houston lawyer Brent Coon doesn't see it that way. The founder of Brent Coon & Associates represented plaintiffs in the BP refinery blast, and now represents others in the Gulf oil spill. And he is outraged that the company keeps doing business as usual. "Throw some of these bastards in jail, and in particular the corporate executives that make the decisions," he urges.
Just to be clear, BP isn't the only repeat offender. For example, before American International Group, Inc.'s risky behavior helped throw the world's economy into chaos in 2008, the government knew that AIG was a company operating on the legal edge. It had already reached two settlements with prosecutors over wrongdoing—including a nonprosecution agreement in 2006 following a deferred prosecution deal in 2004, both of which imposed a corporate monitor, for all the good it did.
Former AIG chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, who was kicked out, always denied any wrongdoing. The New York attorney general's office criminally charged Greenberg, but later dropped the charges in favor of civil litigation. He agreed to pay a $15 million civil penalty.
Then there's GlaxoSmithKline plc. A Glaxo associate general counsel was indicted in November on charges related to off-label drug use [see "A Depressing Case," page 20]. Before that the drug giant had already reached at least three separate settlements with prosecutors for alleged wrongdoing in 2003, 2005, and as late as October. In the October deal, which cost Glaxo $750 million in penalties, a subsidiary in Puerto Rico also pleaded guilty to a criminal charge for manufacturing contaminated drugs. The government has periodically imposed corporate integrity agreements on the drug company, without altering its behavior.
After the October settlement, Elpidio "PD" Villarreal, GSK's head of global litigation, said Glaxo regrets how it operated its manufacturing facility. "Our commitment to compliance is demonstrated by the fact that we have not received an FDA warning letter at any plant since the [now-closed] facility was cited in July 2002," Villarreal said. Three weeks later, the associate GC was indicted.
There are dozens of other examples of recidivist companies. But the pattern is clear. From fatal explosions to global financial meltdowns to health threats tied to drug company wrongdoing, prosecutors have settled for huge financial penalties and paper promises. Then the company returns to business as usual. Meanwhile, innocent companies are caught up in the consumer and government reactions.
So far, there is little evidence to show that higher fines and stricter monitoring are making the too-big-to-fail corporations change their behavior. And now, driven by recent corporate scandals and their consequences, critics are coming at the Justice Department from all sides.
The inability of prosecutors to figure out what to do with the worst offenders has created a tug-of-war in the legal world. On one side are corporate critics like Coon who feel the government isn't doing enough to prosecute crimes by these huge businesses. On the other are lawyers like Thompson who believe the government has overreacted to a few bad actors by "overcriminalizing" corporate conduct.
On the not-tough-enough side are many plaintiffs attorneys, along with a handful of federal judges like Jed Rakoff in Manhattan. Rakoff ticked off enforcement lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission after they settled for large financial penalties against Bank of America Corp. while filing no charges against individuals. Rakoff called the settlement "half-baked justice." But at least two other federal judges have followed Rakoff's lead and questioned and delayed proposed SEC settlements.
That's not enough for Coon, who wants to see executives scrutinized when they become "risk-takers" with other people's lives. "It is much cheaper for them to violate the law, negotiate fines, show contrition, and then go on about their business" rather than to comply with the law, he argues.
Now joining this group is Senator Arlen Specter, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. In a November 30 Senate subcommittee hearing on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Specter came down clearly on the side of jailing individuals. "Large fines are added to the cost of doing business, and are paid by the shareholders," Specter said at the hearing. "I am convinced that the only impact that matters in this sort [of egregious cases] is a jail sentence. It is the only effective deterrent."
Siding in part with the Coon/Rakoff/Specter group are some criminal defense attorneys and law professors who believe that large corporations receive special treatment. These critics say that government has created a two-tiered system of justice in America, with the richest corporations on top buying their way out of trouble; and ordinary citizens and small businesses on the bottom. For example, contrast BP's treatment for repeated and fatal safety violations with that of Michael and Paul Brassington, two brothers who for one year ran a small luxury charter jet service. After an overloaded plane aborted takeoff and crashed, injuring 20 passengers, the U.S. attorney in Newark indicted them for violating safety rules and trying to cover up the violations. A jury found them guilty last November 15, and they are to be sentenced in March. They could receive up to 30 years in prison.
U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said in a statement, "The defendants chose to commit crimes in the pursuit of profits over public safety. . . . [The guilty] verdict confirms that there are consequences when you break the law to boost your bottom line." But do those consequences apply equally to all?
Duke law professor Sara Sun Beale worries that the lower tier of criminals are being disproportionately punished. Beale spoke with Thompson at the November symposium on "overcriminalization" of the law, sponsored by George Mason University School of Law and the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy.
Any study of overcriminalization needs to include prosecutions of drug, gun, and immigration violations, she said, not just corporate crime. And she warned against pulling back from prosecuting bad companies. "Corporations yield enormous power and have potential to wreak havoc on our society," Beale said, so "we can't just fold up our tents and go home. We need to stay on this."
Disagreeing are those critics who say that Congress and prosecutors have gone too far in criminalizing behavior of corporations, both large and small. This group covers the political spectrum, including the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and the liberal National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Both have joined in a report accusing Congress of "reckless overcriminalization" of the law, especially in the wake of the financial meltdown.
The NACDL and The Heritage Foundation, among others, fiercely criticize the Dodd-Frank Act as vague and overreaching. They issued a statement saying, "Passage of an over-2,315-page bill, containing at least two dozen criminal offenses, absent Judiciary Committee oversight, is simply unacceptable."
The overcriminalization coalition also criticizes prosecutors who intimidate corporations into settlements. The companies cave in because they fear that being charged with a crime could irreparably damage their business. The resulting deals hide the legal process, leave novel prosecution theories untested, and fail to expose possible prosecutorial misconduct. Southern Illinois University law professor Lucian Dervan spoke to this point at the symposium. "Plea bargains have drifted into unconstitutional areas, based on staggering differences in sentencing options," Dervan complained. "No one is left to challenge because everyone has pleaded guilty" or accepted nonprosecution agreements.
Another lament of overcriminalization groups is the lack of criminal intent, or mens rea, requirements in new laws, particularly those aimed at corporate misconduct. The NACDL/Heritage coalition won bipartisan support on the House crime subcommittee for its 2010 report, "Without Intent: How Congress Is Eroding the Criminal Intent Requirement in Federal Law." Now they intend to push for legal reforms in 2011.
Judge Rakoff, who also spoke at the symposium, agreed that there is room for improvement in writing and enforcing criminal laws. But he questioned whether overcriminalization is really a serious problem. "In 15 years I've been a judge, I haven't seen examples of overcriminalization in my court," Rakoff said. "That makes me a little hopeful that the sky is not falling quite to the extent that has been suggested."
With passionate supporters on both sides, the debate leaves federal prosecutors in a conundrum. How should they proceed against recidivist corporations?
So far the government's actions against BP have mainly involved ratcheting up the fines in hopes of getting BP's attention. For example, in September 2005, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company $21 million over the refinery explosion—a record fine at the time. In addition, the U.S. attorney in Houston charged BP with one felony count; it pled guilty in 2007 and paid a $50 million criminal fine. When BP failed to fix hundreds of the safety violations by October 2009, OSHA fined it a whopping $87 million. The company appealed, and the two sides reached a deal in which BP promised major reforms and would pay only $50 million, still a record amount.
For the 2005 blast, the company ended up paying a total of $121 million in fines, plus $1.6 billion to the victims' families. Meanwhile, BP made $16.5 billion in profits in 2009, the latest full year available at this writing.
In reply to a question about how to deal with repeat violators like BP, Thompson, the GC, said to conferees, "What is the appropriate remedy? Is it just to say to BP that you no longer exist? It's a tough issue . . . but let's try to get a measured response, because our companies are competing out there on a global scale."
A better solution, Thompson suggested, is a combination of civil fine against the corporation and criminal prosecution of guilty individuals. "In most cases," Thompson said, "there is no good or sound policy reason for corporate criminal prosecutions."
This comes from the lawyer, you'll recall, who played a key role in the decision to prosecute Arthur Andersen LLP—a decision that led to the accounting firm's demise. He subsequently wrote the so-called Thompson Memo of 2003 that outlined which factors prosecutors should consider in charging a corporation with a crime, including collateral consequences to shareholders and innocent employees. The memo has been enhanced, but still stands as a basic guide. And the death of the Arthur Andersen firm still haunts him.
In his speech, Thompson suggested that prosecutors ask themselves if corporate criminal prosecution is really necessary. "Does it serve the goals of deterrence and retribution? If so, does the benefit of a conviction outweigh the costs . . . to shareholders, to the economy, to employees, to the government?"
Coon, the plaintiffs lawyer, would agree with Thompson on one point—that prosecutors should hold guilty individuals accountable. But Coon also believes that if a company is a habitual offender, it should be criminally charged and even shut down. Coon also strongly disagrees with those who insist on a mens rea requirement before a company executive can be charged. Many times, he argues, executives are made aware of potentially dangerous problems and choose to ignore them. This is the so-called willful blindness test. "Not all laws require criminal intent," he insists. "Many times the bad conduct itself is enough to prosecute."
One drawback, though, is that the criminal process for corporate executives "is a little like getting struck by lightning," says Bruce Green, chair of the American Bar Association's criminal justice section and a criminal law professor at Fordham University School of Law. Green is also a former federal prosecutor. He mentions "recent corporate cases where it seems [individual] wrongdoing is involved and nobody, or few, are indicted or prosecuted."
Yet another solution might be the enactment of laws that make it easier to prosecute executives at guilty corporations. The United Kingdom, for example, enacted a manslaughter law in 2008 that removes the need for proving intent in corporate fatality cases, such as the BP refinery fire or the Gulf oil spill. It states that a jury can simply consider the "attitudes, policies, systems, or accepted practices within the organization."
White-collar defense attorney Katya Jestin, for one, opposes adopting new laws akin to the U.K.'s. Jestin, a partner at Jenner & Block in New York who served as counsel to the examiner in the Lehman bankruptcy case, says reacting to huge corporate wrongs with new legislation isn't the way to go. "We don't need more statutes," she says. "We need more detection and more enforcement" of the laws already on the books.
At least one government agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has beefed up enforcement efforts by taking on corporate executives. In a case pending before federal court in Washington, D.C., three drug company executives including the general counsel are appealing. In that case, HHS in 2007 charged the Purdue Pharma Inc. executives, including its general counsel, Howard Udell, with a criminal misdemeanor over the misbranding of the addictive drug OxyContin. The company itself signed a nonprosecution agreement, while a subsidiary pled guilty.
The three executives were not specifically accused of wrongdoing. Much to the chagrin of the overcriminalization coalition, prosecutors relied on a novel theory of strict liability. Under the theory, the government can hold responsible any corporate officers who fail to prevent, detect, or correct federal drug violations—without any proof of actual misconduct on their part.
The three did not challenge the theory, and instead they pled guilty to the misdemeanor. By doing that, they avoided any jail time, while each paid multimillion-dollar penalties. The agency later debarred the three from working at any company with government contracts, in effect ending their careers in health care. They are now appealing the debarment part of the punishment.
In the more recent action against drugmaker Glaxo, the government in November charged a former associate general counsel there with lying to investigators and obstructing their inquiry into the company's off-label sales of the drug Wellbutrin. Again, prosecutors did not accuse the in-house counsel of actually being involved in the alleged sales misconduct, but in an alleged cover-up. Glaxo itself at this writing has not been charged.
And Dara Corrigan, the Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner, made a point of the individual, rather than corporate, prosecution in the Glaxo case. "Those who purposely subvert the regulatory functions of the FDA through false statements and misleading information will be held accountable," Corrigan said in a statement.
If the prosecution of senior managers expands beyond one government department, then PepsiCo's Thompson could be getting at least part of his wish. Corporations would see fewer criminal charges. But their executives would face more scrutiny by investigators, and perhaps more criminal charges based on theories of strict liability, willful blindness, or, as in the Glaxo case, obstruction of justice.
For Coon, and other lawyers who have battled the repeat corporate offenders of the world, it's time for such a change. •


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Yes, it creates medical problems.
The reason this analyst is more accurate than others is because he is based in Taiwan, and practically all Apple products are made by Taiwanese companies (with manufacturing in China). All this guy does is wine and dine Foxconn executives and parts supplier executives trying to get some inside information.
I am sure the analysts in the US also have some connections, but Kuo is right where the action is.
Furthermore, in the note he identified three areas of concern. One, the irregular color of the metal, the touch sensitivity near the edges and the screen drop test. All seem to be fairly specific as if he does have some inside connection in the manufacturing team. He is from the region where that could be entirely possible.
I agree. It's not some random analyst making vague claims. It's an analyst with a good track record (the last being the prediction of the low cost iMac) making very specific claims. Of course no one can see the future, and Apple may very well have a breakthrough and solve these problems and launch both models in quantity. But I believe that, as of right now, he is in all likelihood correct.
How about Apple take a page out of Samsung's playbook and introduce the 5.5" model one week before the Galaxy S6 announcement? (sometime around April 2015)
I think his information comes from supply chain sources in East Asia. So when he claims knowledge of production delays I tend to believe him but when he claims knowledge of retail prices, not so much.
But quite apart from him, do I think Apple could release a > $1000 watch? Yes. It's no fun selling low margin products, it's much better to go after the top end of the market where you as a designer have the freedom to use expensive materials and make a no-compromises design.
Maybe because he'd like an iPhone with a larger screen?
iPhone 5s
2011 MBP (still going strong!)
iPad Mini (1st gen)
Debating 1st or 2nd gen Apple Watch
iPhone 5s
2011 MBP (still going strong!)
iPad Mini (1st gen)
Debating 1st or 2nd gen Apple Watch
Right. Check points:
Will it shatter if (when) I drop it? I care.
Will the screen be scratched by contact with objects and/or surfaces? I care.
Will the screen exhibit high brightness and contrast? I care.
Will colours have a natural appearance? I care.
Will the screen last several years before decaying? I care.
Will the screen be made of sapphire? Don't care. Why would I if the previous conditions are met? What matters is the quality of the product. HOW that quality is achieved is irrelevant.
Is this why most of the people I see using giant phones are Asian? Is there a benefit to a larger screen when working with certain languages? I wouldn't know, being barely monolingual myself.
Where does "hoping" fit in? The eyes squeezed shut, head tucked into shoulders, fists held tight to the point of shaking kind of hoping? The "Oh please oh please oh please!" kind of hoping? The it's Christmas Eve and I've been dropping hints about that Lego race car for months kind of hoping?
If I get up tomorrow and there's no 5.5" iPhone under the tree, I'm gonna be really disappointed. The "Tallest Grinch says there is no Santa Claus" kind of disappointed.
Maybe the thing is with these analysts...and where I can maybe give them a break...is they keep throwing a line out there expecting Apple to ACTUALLY RELEASE SOMETHING.
Apple is the one really falling short. More cash, more expertise, more capability than any other tech company, and come July of 2014 they've announced and released zero new products for the year. That which is expected TBA is the bare minimum.
Mac mini?
What on other is going on? The better they do, the more they pull out. I don't understand it.
So maybe the RDF wasn't actually his...or are you suggesting a ghost writer now? /s
And this is a freaking seriously long message. Yup, an assay to be correct.


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AAA-Washington presenting bicycling benefit Ride Around The Sound on September 13thAugust 3, 2014 at 4:52 pm | In How to help, West Seattle news | 3 Comments
Exercise your lungs – while fighting lung disease. You can do that in six weeks by joining Ride Around the Sound, part of which will go through West Seattle and White Center. Though you might associate WSB sponsor AAA-Washington mostly with cars, it's excited about this big bike ride, and here's why:
AAA Washington is proud to announce that we are the presenting sponsor of the American Lung Association Ride Around the Sound this year. This event features three scenic routes between Seattle and Bremerton that range from 38 to 92 miles, making it perfect for both beginning bikers and experienced cyclists.
Your AAA West Seattle store employees invite all West Seattle Blog readers to join us in supporting this great organization, either by riding in the event itself or pledging your support for a rider. All AAA members get a 20% discount off the registration fee. In addition, we'd like to throw down a friendly challenge to our fellow WSB Sponsors to put together a team and ride with us! There are also opportunities to help promote the event by placing a poster in your window or linking to the ALA Ride Around the Sound website
Let's help the ALA have a record fundraising year so they can continue to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.
Not an AAA member? You can fix that here. To see the three course alternatives for Ride Around The Sound, go here for the 92-mile version (which goes through Highland Park and White Center), go here for the 73-mile version, and here for the 38-mile version. To form or join a team, go here.
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I will be riding! It's a blast. Come on out and join us!
Comment by Mike — 5:31 pm August 3, 2014 #
Is the 92 miler a one day event? Last year it was longer with an over-night at UPS in Tacoma.
Comment by Peloton — 6:27 am August 4, 2014 #
Peloton – you might be thinking of RAPSody, this one's different. This is a one-day ride from Seattle to Bremerton, free ferry takes you straight back at the end of the day. alternate start in Tacoma for 38 mi route or Normandy Park for 73 mi.
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