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Maryland made the right call by getting rid of the "one bite rule," which created an assumption that dog owners know their dogs can bite. In doing so, they effectively nixed a court ruling that said that Pit Bulls are inherently dangerous and imposed strict liability for owners and landlords. At the end of the day though, insurance companies are most interested in these sort of decisions, since they're the ones paying out dog-bite claims. And although the dog breeds may not be as big an issue for Maryland legislators anymore, your insurance company may still discriminate and charge you more based on the type of dog that you have.
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"There's two sides to every story. I saw the video. That's their personal business, and it shouldn't have affected his career. I don't agree with domestic violence, but she's still with him, so obviously it wasn't that big of a deal. Everyone should just drop it."
– Random Ravens Fan Last Night
"The case is a perfect symbol of all that's wrong with the litigation system in this country."
Lisa Rickard, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform and the American Tort Reform Association talking about the infamous lawsuit where an administrative law judge sued for $65 million claiming a dry cleaner had lost his pants
Why Tiger Woods Back Surgery Is Bad News for Personal Injury Victims
Tiger Woods announced today that he has undergone successful back surgery and expects to be back playing golf this summer. Good for him. This is bad news for golf fans who passionately root for or against Tiger. But it is also bad for personal injury victims who are bringing a back injury claim in front of a jury. Why? Because juries get constant evidence from athletes that back injuries and back surgery is not a big deal. Some will equate Tiger Woods to 58 year-old Mary Smith when she has a discectomy and fusion for a herniated disc after a car accident.
Why Tiger's Surgery and Expected Recovery Misleads Juries
There are a number of reasons why the comparison is unfair. First, not all back injuries are created the same. Tiger had a microdiscectomy for a pinched nerve. That is light years from, say, a herniated disc suffered by great trauma. But some jurors view back surgery as back surgery regardless of the severity of the injury. Second, Tiger is a professional athlete who dedicates his life to keeping his body in the best possible shape. Tiger won't even share his workout secrets. He will also get stunning medical care. The best doctors and ridiculous amounts of medical attention you and I would never see. Finally, Tiger's getting surgery in the first place is probably something you and I never would have gotten in the first place. Why? First, we are not violently swinging a golf club at pretty much the speed of light. So I can probably still workout and work around the same injury that Tiger needs to get taken care of so he can perform on a world class level. Continue reading →
This Is the Most Read Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
According to Alexa, this is the most read personal injury lawyer blog in the country.
I really don't have anything else to say about that except I really do appreciate the people who read this blog, especially those that comment, like on Facebook and Twitter, etc.
The summer is almost over, my kids will be back at school and going to bed earlier, and you can expect more blogs and a redesigned page in the fall.
2014 Update: This is still the top personal injury lawyer blog in the country. I've been writing this blog now for 8 years. Like most bloggers, I have spurts where I write almost every day and there are weeks were a write very little.
Is It Worth the Energy for a Personal Injury Lawyer to Blog Regularly?
My partner and I always talk about turning the kaleidoscope. It all depends on how you look at the issue. From one angle, it is worthless; from another, it is quite fruitful. Let's break it down a little.
Does It Lead to Tons of Direct Leads? No.
Let's start with direct new clients that I can attribute to this blog. If you use this as the sole measuring stick, I would tell you to NOT blog. Because, for reasons that escape me, the blog does not generate a lot of direct leads. We place well on important terms and people come by a visit those pages and read the information we have provided. But they just do not very often lead to clients.
So if you are using it simply to get victims to contact you directly, I think there is a less circuitous path.
Does It Increase Your Name Recognition in a Way That Indirectly Leads You to Business? Maybe.
Here is what I think. If you are just putting up promotional type material or telling us about an accident you read in the Baltimore Sun, you are mostly wasting your time. Most bloggers are doing just this. You might get some victims looking for information about their own accident or just get some blind luck. But if your time has any value at all, you are wasting it. The democracy of the Internet is amazing. What rises up is information that actually helps people. If you are really not telling a story or providing real information, it is going to be really tough to making blogging a worthwhile investment.
So What Is My Advice?
My advice is that if you want to build your brand and your reputation AND you really have something to say that will be of use to other lawyers or personal injury victims, you should be blogging IF you actually enjoy it a little bit. But if you are missing one of the elements in that criteria that I made up 30 seconds ago, I think you are making a mistake by committing real energy into blogging. You would be better served developing your website or so other way to develop your practice than trying putting up blog posts.
Late Summer Tort News Round-Up
I have not done a decent roundup in a while! Here we go:
- Walter Olson at Overlawyered provides a Maryland law roundup. Yes, this is a roundup within a round-up but most of these are most germane to our issues here. The one that is least relevant, and the most interesting, is the latest on Tavon White. I demand someone write a biography on this guy. Accumulating the power that he was able to enjoy in that environment against all odds is just fascinating as is getting four different prison guards pregnant and apparently all of them being cool with it. If you don't live near Baltimore, you may not have heard of him. But I can't be the only one who thought it was an amazing story. The Baltimore Sun spent three weeks gunning for a Pulitzer Prize on this story. (They won't get one because their budget these days is about $354. But there was some good reporting done anyway.)
- Eric Turkewitz writes about everyone's new favorite discovery issue: Facebook. I do find it interesting to see courts attacking this new issue but it has really only been a significant issue in one case what we have had. So while the topic is fascinating, I think the actual impact on our practice has been fairly limited.
- This is a good post from Georgia Personal Injury Lawyers Blog on dealing with subrogation liens. I have written some long posts on subrogation that, if you look at the traffic on this site, few people actually read it. So I thought this post at least deserves a link because the author is passing on real information that can help you in your practice.
- Here is a post by an Arizona lawyer complaining about the EEOC. I know little about the EEOC or employment law but I don't think this one case tells us much about how the EEOC sausage is made and how it tastes. Does Michael Nifong tell us anything about how prosecutors in America are doing? Okay, so this post is outside my legal wheelhouse and I disagree with the conclusions. Why am I linking to it? The author is my brother-in-law. For that, you should get a link.
- It continues to amaze me how Maryland stays in the dark ages on just about every major tort issue in spite of the fact that far more conservative states have evolved. Are Marylanders just afraid of change? Is the fact that we all have not just picked up and moved to San Diego irrefutable proof. It is not just Maryland actually: Virginia, North Carolina, and D.C. are all with us in this legal doctrine of "let's keep the laws that made great sense 50 years ago." But even in that group, we lag behind. Look at this summary of dram shop laws by state. We sit in last place with Nevada and South Dakota. Mississippi has us beat. It is unreal. Let me tell you: If you are lobbying for businesses interests or doctors in Maryland you are woefully underpaid.
Does Size Really Matter?
A Nate Silver wannabe breaks down the question of whether jury size matters in these jurisdictions, where a jury's verdict does not have to be unanimous. Clearly, the greater concern is in criminal cases where it does seem a bit odd to convict someone to life in prison, as you can in Louisiana, on a 9-3 vote. Continue reading →
I Had Jury Duty
I had jury duty yesterday which was unbelievably interesting. Turns out Anne Arundel County is a small town. The oral surgeon plaintiff might have done my root canal (it was definitely his office) and the defense lawyer represented the defendant in my first trial with Miller & Zois. (What happened in that case? Thanks for asking. We socked him with a $300,000 verdict in a low property damage case which I enjoyed sharing at the judge's bench yesterday.)
Shockingly, I was not chosen for the jury. I'm not sure if I was struck for cause; I'm going to try to find out. Technically, I can talk about the case since I was not on the jury, but because I'm going to share my impressions of the case – based on nothing but still – I'm going to wait until the case resolves before writing about it. So look for my post next week. It was a very interesting experience where I learned absolutely nothing but really learned a lot, if that makes any sense.
Blog's 2012 Best
These were the five most popular posts on this blog in 2012:
- The Internet Hates Progressive Insurance.. But Should It?: lots of visitors here from a Washington Times link.
- Insurance Claims Adjusters Say the Silliest Things: this got a lot of interest because, well you know, insurance adjusters do say the silliest things.
- Progressive Insurance = Just File Suit: my argument that it is largely a wasted effort trying to settle with Progressive Insurance until suit is filed.
- Sneaky Medical Malpractice Defense Lawyer Tricks: I think this resonated with many plaintiffs' lawyers because the games played in malpractice cases are so over-the-top. Lots of really good lawyers handle malpractice cases at some pretty low hourly rates. Arguably, some of them make up some of the difference by working the file 8,543 ways to Sunday to churn the file.
Marital Privilege and Work Emails
I never find myself writing about marital privilege. But I do have an interest in modern technology and how it will impact pre-trial discovery and admissibility of evidence. Which takes me to the new 4th Circuit opinion U.S. v. Hamilton.
This case involves the bribery conviction of a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates who also served part-time as an administrator with the Newport News, Virginia public schools system. Basically, the guy pushed for and got a salary from Old Dominion University in exchange for getting them funding for a million dollar program called Center for Teacher Quality and Education Leadership. (FACT: 89% of all "education centers" with titles as goofy and ambiguous as this one are hopelessly corrupt.)
Anyway, a key piece of evidence in the take down of this guy is an email that he writes to his wife about how he is trying to get this salary out of the deal, which he writes from his public school computer. So the question is whether the marital privilege applies because he used his work email account.
For what I think are good reasons, communications between spouses have long been thought to implicate important privacy and confidentiality interests. This has led to a recognition of a marital privilege in both Maryland and federal law that makes communications between spouses presumptively confidential.
A New Scam
I was in D.C. this week with my oldest son taking in a Wizards game (they are awful) and seeing the city (which is awesome). While I was out, I got a phone call from someone wanting to speak to me about my client Joe Smith (or something like that).
The guy was a landlord who had "gotten my email" about how my client was going to be paying his rent out of his settlement. He read to my paralegal the contents of my email to him. The email came from a Miller & Zois gmail account that, naturally, misspelled the name of our firm.
I guess what happened is someone was late on their rent payment and decided to pretend I was their lawyer and went though the trouble of setting up an email account and impersonating me. I should get a therapist and take this up with them in greater detail but, bizarrely, I felt sort of flattered by this.(Of all the lawyers in all of the world, you picked me, Mr. Scam Artist.)
Now, of course, the gig is up but I think the scam served its intended purpose of buying time to avoid eviction.

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Understanding the USGA's latest golf club rule changes
New USGA guidelines on shaft roughness and clubhead furrows and runners
The people at the United States Golf Association (USGA) have sent out new "interpretive guidelines" of their definitive rules relating to golf club design to the manufacturers of equipment.
From time to time, as manufacturers become more skilled and cunning at working the edges of the current USGA Rules of Golf, the organization feels the need to rein them in by sending out a "Notice to Manufacturers" that is a "Communication of New Evaluation Method."
This avoids nasty headbutting or potential lawsuits when the USGA begins seeing things a little differently than maybe it did in the past. The manufacturers actually appreciate this so that they don't waste valuable time and money developing new products only to have them declared non-conforming to the official rules.
The two new guidelines pertain to golf-shaft roughness and to furrows and runners on clubheads.
First, let's talk about the shaft-roughness issue. Why in the world would anyone care how rough the surface of a golf shaft could be?
Well, those of us in the design business have known for quite a while that by putting some kind of texture, roughness or dimples on a shaft's surface that a small increase in club speed is gained. This is due to reducing the air drag when a club is swung at full speed. There's not a lot of increase in speed, but enough apparently to concern the USGA that with future advances, designers may have us all hitting 400-yard drives.
The USGA goes on to specify what the actual surface roughness may be and that any features may only be decorative (non-functional). The rules do, however, allow for past traditional steel shafts that had recessed flutes formed into them.
The next subject that the USGA addresses is that of furrows in or runners on the head that extend into the clubface. It specifies a method of determining where exactly the face profile actually is (since with some clubs the head seems to blend into the face portion at times).
I won't bore you with all the details of the method the USGA specifies to identify the face from the head. The USGA then goes on to provide its definition of when a furrow or runner bleeds into the face — and that this would be non-conforming.
The ruling body is making sure that no club has an indented or concave clubface. This concern dates back to the 1930's when Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones used sand wedges with concave faces that seemed well suited for hitting a golf ball. Back then the USGA changed the rule to disallow this for fear that a golfer may accidentally be guilty of striking a golf ball twice with one swing as the face makes contact with two sides of the ball.
The current USGA is only trying to avoid any such problem now or in the future.
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Joe Arpaio Pays Dennis Gilman the Ultimate Compliment, Better Than E.J. Montini's Pizzas
The nativists love to hate Dennis Gilman, the activist/videographer who's always documenting their dirty deeds. And there's no love lost between the MCSO and Gilman either. Joe Arpaio's deputy dips have threatened to arrest him several times, all for exercising his constitutional right to monitor law enforcement.
If the MCSO were a clean, professional agency, Gilman wouldn't bother its deputies. But it isn't, so it's deeply p.o.'d, and desperate for payback. Check this latest Twitter by Sheriff Arpaio, posting a pic of Gilman in the act of filming a sheriff's deputy. Gilman's not bothering the guy, he's acting as a citizen journalist, and bird-dogging the coppers as he should.
"These activists with cameras try to intimidate my deputies from doing their jobs," gripes Joe, or, more likely, one of the flunkies in his employ.
Pardon me, shurf, but if I were you, I'd be a little less worried about an activist with a camera, and a little more concerned about the federal indictment you're likely going to receive soon as a Valentine's Day card. Maybe a one-way trip to Honduras with David Hendershott is in order. No doubt Lisa Allen can score you a cheap ticket.
As for the Twitter itself, I'm sure it made Gilman's day. I'll bet he wouldn't trade it for a boatload of E.J. Montini's pizzas.
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Why buy a Big Issue? Because selling it is bloody hard work
There are tough gigs but few tougher than that of The Big Issue street vendor, as Vivienne Skinner discovered at she donned the flouro vest for International Vendor Week.
There are tough jobs. And then there is selling The Big Issue. At lunchtime. Mid-summer. With a junk shop spruiker competing for my patch of pavement.
Bear with me while I channel Gen Y: OMG it was hard.
From the moment I arrived, brimming with confidence as I donned the red Big Issue cap and the fluoro Big Issue vest, my bundle of mags in my hand and waited for the queue of buyers to form to the tragic moment an hour-and-a-half later when I called it quits, I sold one magazine. That's right, folks, I stood for an hour-and-a-half on George Street in the middle of Sydney on a mid-summer day and sold one $6 magazine. One. (Thank you to that lady with the kind grey eyes and the gentle heart, who fossicked for ages until she'd counted out my cash — I love you, and I have spoken to God and there is a place reserved for you right beside him in heaven on that day, many decades into the future, when you head his way.)
For those who don't know, this week is International Vendor Week, when the spotlight shines on those who make their living selling The Big Issue on street corners. It is the week when a few dozen Sydney CEOs stand alongside regular vendors and get a feel for what a cinch it is to sell The Big Issue. As the CEO of a modest-sized company and a long-time supporter of The Big Issue, I was happy to oblige. It couldn't be that hard.
My partner was Mick, a lean, scrubbed, gingery middle-aged man who sleeps rough. He is hoping to find regular accommodation and has a mate who reckons he can find them something that avoids the long government housing queue. In the meantime, he sleeps where he can, and I am impressed at how well he cares for himself in the absence of an ensuite. He's been selling The Big Issue since 2006 and loves his job. It gives him structure, human contact and cash in his pocket.
Our spot outside Wynyard Station was not Mick's (or my) regular spot, and it became clear as time passed that success at this business depends on one giant factor: constancy. Selling always in the same location where you can build up regulars, nearby workers who get to know you a little, get used to your presence. The regular "0wner" of our spot didn't want to be involved with the CEO event, so Mick and I were assigned it instead. The result? No one recognised us, there was no "care" factor, and everyone just walked on. One young woman arrived with a bag of hot chips for the regular seller — she does this every day — and was terribly concerned to find her gone. Mick got them instead.
Most people probably don't realise that selling The Big Issue is a genuine micro business. It's not charity. Mick must buy all his magazines before his shift. He then keeps half the cover price — that is, $3 per sale. Occasionally he'll sell 40 in a day, though usually much fewer. Apparently vendors have more success in Melbourne, perhaps because the magazine has been around there for longer.
The motto of The Big Issue is "helping people help themselves", and it indeed gives thousands of rough sleepers a living, a leg up into the rental market, and the chance to chat to the rest of us. And it is a great read — this issue Leonardo DiCaprio and The Wolf of Wall Street jostle for space with what's wrong with Facebook and images by the world's best wildlife photographers.
By the end of my shift, my feet ached and I was hot, hungry and thirsty. But even though it had been a dud sale day, I hadn't wasted my time. Meeting stoic Mick and watching his unflagging persistence was an inspiration. As I undid the vest and handed him back all my mags, minus one, I turned my eyes heavenward once again and offered a silent word of thanks that I don't make my living as a street vendor.
So if you see Mick and his mates this week, or any week, please buy a magazine and give them the chance to help themselves. I guarantee, there's no tougher job in town.
1Matt HardinPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 2:20 pm | Permalink
Instead of selling Big Issues and grandstanding bot how tough it all is, perhaps Australia's CEOs and management class could:
-divert productivity gains to increased employment rather than enormous executive salaries and obscene profits;
-take less money for themselves and leave more money to employ locals instead of off shoring jobs and/or
-stop employing accountants to minimise their tax and allow government services to be adequately funded.
By the way what happened to the regular vendor for that site if consistency is a big factor in sales? Was he compensated for losing a day's pay so a CEO could feel good about herself?
2Adeline TeohPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 3:12 pm | Permalink
Consistency is a big factor for me because I like to stop for a chat, but it also means I sometimes walk by vendors who are new to the pitch.
@Matt The author already said the regular vendor didn't want to be involved. I often buy from her (or Ed who sells on Wynyard St) and she is quite shy. It might've been a better exercise if Vivienne joined a vendor at their usual spot, but there's no need to be cynical and nasty about it.
3Matt HardinPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 3:25 pm | Permalink
I read the article and understood that that the regular vendor did not want to be involved. My point is that she was displaced for a day for a publicity exercise and I want to know if she was compensated. For that day her sales were likely to be significantly lower. She may have lost 20% of her income for the week for a publicity exercise.
How would you feel as an employee or franchisee to be docked 20% of your pay for a week so they could advertise?
@Adeline I really don't know what you mean by nasty and cynical unless you think that that sharing the wealth generated in Australia's economic boom fairly would probably do more good than standing in the sun for 90 minutes and then musing how the poor have it tough.
4Tarquin BiscuitbarrelPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 4:36 pm | Permalink
Just nauseating.
5Adeline TeohPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 4:49 pm | Permalink
@Matt I'm not disputing your points about diverting productivity gains etc. I agree with them. But I felt your final rhetorical question was cynical in that you assumed that Vivienne was only doing it to "feel good about herself" and it bordered on nasty to make that the focus when the piece is clearly trying to communicate the efforts of street paper vendors in Australia from someone who has access to the general media and can describe it from a non-vendor perspective. The Big Issue contains articles about vendors and vendor experiences and the real shame is that these aren't shared in the broader media. I don't think dumping on the author or on CEOs in general in this context is warranted.
I was interested to read: "One young woman arrived with a bag of hot chips for the regular seller — she does this every day — and was terribly concerned to find her gone" because I know the vendor is not there every day. As you may have picked up, some people don't buy from sellers who aren't their regular vendors, so the regular vendor would not have missed out on those sales, the other buyers can buy from any number of sellers along George St and in the Sydney CBD and the money would go to vendors who are just as marginalised, like Mick.
6Matt HardinPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 5:06 pm | Permalink
@ Adeline The article clearly stated that familiarity with the vendor was important:
Our spot outside Wynyard Station was not Mick's (or my) regular spot, and it became clear as time passed that success at this business depends on one giant factor: constancy. Selling always in the same location where you can build up regulars, nearby workers who get to know you a little, get used to your presence.
but now you suggest that it is not as important:
[so the regular vendor would not have missed out on those sales,].
Which is it? What percentage of the meagre funds that the regular seller earns each day were lost? Was she compensated?
As for [dumping on the author or on CEOs in general] are you seriously trying to say that the problems that the management class caused through the policies they advocate are off set by standing in the street for 90 minutes and telling everyone how tough it is to be homeless? Or does an hour and a half in the sun make it all OK?
Articles and exercises like this are what allows the rich to continue to shaft the poor but not feel so bad about it. The CEOs are the cynics - not me.
BTW I would imagine that poor old Mick earned less that day than he usually would, not being in his usual spot. So two of our poorest copping it on the chin.
7zut alorsPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 5:23 pm | Permalink
I agree 100% with the three points made by Matt Hardin in post #1.
The Big Issue needs more public awareness, some still don't know about the commendable Big Issue ethos. Someone I knew used to give the vendors a wide berth as they imagined communist propaganda was being dispensed.
8Adeline TeohPosted Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 10:24 pm | Permalink
@Matt I did not say the pitch was not important, I clearly said it *was* and that I—for better or worse—practice 'vendor discrimination' where I prefer to buy from one of my two regular vendors.
When I wrote "so the regular vendor would not have missed out on those sales", I meant to establish that regular customers would not have bought from Mick if they were regular customers of Antonia, who usually sells in that pitch. The loser here might have been Mick, not Antonia, as you rightly surmise at the end of your comment. Mick actually has a different pitch down the road and I'm as baffled as you are as to why Mick and Vivienne didn't sell there for this story.
are you seriously trying to say that the problems that the management class caused through the policies they advocate are off set by standing in the street for 90 minutes and telling everyone how tough it is to be homeless? Or does an hour and a half in the sun make it all OK?]
Hell no. I'm not even sure where you got that idea from.
My points again:
—Vivienne is promoting The Big Issue to a wider audience by writing this. She is informing people of what it is and its mission, and encouraging people to buy it. I think this is a good thing.
—You are dismissing Vivienne as a symbol of a (or maybe an actual) big corporate baddie trying to look good. I think you don't know enough about Vivienne to say this. Your general comments about CEOs are probably sound but I'm not sure why you've decided to pick on this article, which has a net positive result (in that more people know about The Big Issue) to voice these.
—I do not think Vivienne is kidding herself that she knows what it is like to be homeless or that she is an instant saint for doing this. She is raising awareness of how difficult it is to sell a magazine (that happens to help marginalised people) because she is a "a long-time supporter" of the magazine. This promotional exercise is no different to The Big Issue's celebrity vendor campaign, but for the corporate set.
Articles and exercises like this are what allows the rich to continue to shaft the poor but not feel so bad about it.
Are you seriously saying that all rich people are so two-dimensional that they believe a donation here and some volunteer work there will make up for inequality? For people who genuinely want to do something, the work is never finished and they do what they can. Sometimes that's fixing things in their own realm of influence, including implementing fair work policies (and maybe Vivienne has already done that in her organisation, have you checked?), but sometimes it's trying to help out an enterprise in a series of small ways like buying The Big Issue, trying to sell The Big Issue and writing about the experience as a lever to help promote the publication on a national website.
It's convincing the people who don't want to do something about inequality that is the problem. I feel your remarks unfairly picked on Vivienne, and devalued the reason for this article, which was to promote The Big Issue and the plight of the vendors selling it.


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So who'll defend the Patriot Act? Unfortunately, there's hardly a single Republican who can do the job effectively.
A fair number of Republicans don't want to defend the Patriot Act, of course. Patrick Leahy of Vermont--yet another Democratic senator who was only recently proud to vote yes on the question--now boasts that opposition to the law exists "across the political spectrum, from the far right to the far left." And he is right about that, though his inadvertently suggestive "far" speaks more to a certain irritable, anti-government reflex than to any coherent ideological impulse, conservative or liberal.
Former Republican congressman Bob Barr has lately joined forces with the ACLU to campaign against a Patriot Act ("Mr. Barr? Mr. Barr votes 'aye.'") that represents "an official step into the Brave New World of 1984." Longtime Republican activists Grover Norquist and David Keene are pleased to appear, with the likes of Alec Baldwin and People for the American Way's Ralph Neas, at anti-Patriot Act teach-ins. Pretty much the entire, all-Republican Idaho congressional delegation is now leading a forceful legislative charge to repeal certain key sections of the Patriot Act, and they are winning bipartisan support even from senators and representatives whose home states don't--yet--have a black helicopter problem.
Indeed, so low has the Patriot Act's reputation fallen that Marc Racicot, the chairman of President Bush's reelection campaign, is afraid to endorse it in public. "I'm not aware of any act, or any piece of legislation ever that has been undertaken by human beings, who are certainly subject to imperfections, that has ultimately ended up in a situation where it did not have to be refined," Racicot stuttered in response to an audience member's question during his own presentation to the Arab American Institute on October 17. His "expectation," Racicot offered, "although I certainly have not talked with the president about this issue," is that "refinements to that act . . . so that it does not end up invading the civil rights of any American [is] a cause that will be undertaken."
This will be news to Attorney General John Ashcroft, who for his part continues to stump the country hither and yon, giving speeches about the 150-plus terrorism convictions made possible only by the Patriot Act--about how federal agents, using investigative tools freshly granted to them by that law, have since disrupted terrorist cells in Buffalo, Seattle, Portland, and Detroit. And so on.
But here, alas, Ashcroft is engaged in what's probably a hopeless effort. For all practical political purposes, the poor man is no longer one of those imperfect human beings Marc Racicot talks about. Ashcroft, instead, has become a cartoon, as sometimes happens in our public life (think Dan Quayle). And the cartoon Ashcroft is "authoritarian"--and too "divisive" to persuade any but the already persuaded that "authoritarian" isn't quite the right word to apply to his Justice Department or to the Patriot Act the department is administering. It's gotten to the point where Ashcroft is automatically blamed for things he can't possibly have done. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act last week, the attorney general came under a shower of abuse for ducking an appearance even though, as committee chairman Orrin Hatch eventually pointed out, Ashcroft hadn't actually been invited.
Now, Orrin Hatch is a fine fellow, don't get us wrong. And he is not exactly alone; Ashcroft and the Patriot Act still enjoy broad Republican support on Capitol Hill. But party loyalists like Hatch are less than ideally situated to reassure America that the Bush administration's war on terrorism is other than a fascist plot. In an atmosphere of such intense suspicion, the arguments of party loyalists can only be sold at the deepest of discounts--insofar as they can be sold at all.
No, what the Patriot Act really needs are some Democratic defenders.
And, we're pleased to report, it now has two. They deserve a loud round of applause, and a great deal more publicity.
At last week's Senate hearing, Joe Biden of Delaware didn't have to say that "the tide of criticism" being directed against the Patriot Act "is both misinformed and overblown," that "I stand by my support" of that law, and that the Ashcroft Justice Department has "done a pretty good job in terms of implementing" the law's provisions. But Biden did say all these things, anyway. And California's Dianne Feinstein went further still, in a stern and lengthy lecture about the concrete reality of U.S. anti-terrorism law--as opposed to the paranoiac fantasy version now being circulated throughout the land by the likes of Bob Barr and Howard Dean. How's about we concentrate on some facts, Feinstein suggested.
"I've tried to see what has happened in the complaints that have come in," she said, "and I've received to date 21,434 complaints about the Patriot Act." Except these turned out to be unrelated civil liberties gripes, or complaints about a "Patriot Act II" that doesn't yet exist. "I have never had a single [verified] abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff emailed the ACLU and asked them for instances of actual abuses. They emailed back and said they had none."
The widespread hullabaloo over the Patriot Act, Senator Feinstein concluded, proceeds from "substantial uncertainty . . . about what this bill actually does do." And "perhaps some ignorance," she added.
We'd challenge that "perhaps" part. Otherwise, we're with Dianne Feinstein a hundred percent. Wonders never cease.
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TEHRAN, Iran | Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a historic nuclear deal with world powers reached this week won't change Iran's policy towards the "arrogant" government of the United States.Khamenei said Saturday in a televised speech that U.S. policy in the Middle East runs counter to Tehran's strategy and that Iran will continue to support its allies in the Middle East including the Lebanese Hezbollah, Palestinian resistance groups and the Syrian government.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — With some lawmakers chanting "Death to the America," Iran's parliament voted to ban access to military sites, documents and scientists as part of a future deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program.The bill, if approved into law, could complicate the ongoing talks in Vienna between Iran and the six-nation group — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — as they face a self-imposed June 30 deadline. The talks are focused on reaching a final accord that curbs Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for months will stand trial "soon," the Islamic Republic's official news agency reported Wednesday.
The report by the IRNA news agency quoted Gholam Hossein Esmaeili, a senior judicial official. The report did not offer a specific time for the trial to start.
"Jason Rezaian will be tried soon," Esmaeili was quoted as saying.
TEHRAN — Iran halted its most sensitive uranium enrichment work on Monday as part of a landmark deal struck with world powers, easing concerns over the country's nuclear program and clearing the way for a partial lifting of sanctions, Tehran and the U.N. said.
An Iranian state TV broadcast said authorities halted enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, just steps away from bomb-making materials, by disconnecting the cascades of centrifuges enriching uranium in Natanz.
TEHRAN, Iran — Banners that suddenly cropped up around Tehran in the past week depict an American diplomat dressed in a jacket and tie, while under the negotiating table he is wearing military pants and pointing a shotgun at an Iranian envoy.
The anti-American images were ordered taken down Saturday by Tehran authorities. But they made their point.
TEHRAN, Iran — A gray-tufted monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant's car seat rode an Iranian rocket into space and returned safely, officials said Monday in what was described as a step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight.
The mission also touched on concerns that advances in Iran's rocket expertise could be channeled into military use for long-range weapons that might one day carry nuclear warheads. Iran says it does not seek atomic weapons.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone.
Similar unmanned surveillance planes have been used in Afghanistan for years and kept watch on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. But U.S. officials have said little about the history of the particular aircraft now in Iran's possession.
TEHRAN, Iran — The EU said today that world powers have agreed to a new round of talks with Iran over its nuclear program, and Iran gave permission for inspectors to visit a site suspected of secret atomic work.
The two developments appeared to counter somewhat the crisis atmosphere over Iran's nuclear development program, the focus of talks in Washington between President Barack Obama and Israel's visiting prime minister.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program.
Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led to the collapse of dialogue last year.
The United States and its allies want Iran to halt making nuclear fuel, which they worry could eventually lead to weapons-grade material and the production of nuclear weapons.
TEHRAN, Iran — The U.S. strongly warned Iran on Wednesday against closing a vital Persian Gulf waterway that carries one-sixth of the world's oil supply, after Iran threatened to choke off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz if Washington imposes sanctions targeting the country's crude exports.
The increasingly heated exchange raises new tensions in a standoff that has the potential to spark military reprisals and spike oil prices to levels that could batter an already fragile global economy.
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Take a good look at the leaders in Gartner's quadrant for Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) and you'll see some big differentiators. Box, for example, is a purely a public cloud play. Accellion's kiteworks, at least up until now, has insisted that private cloud or on premise is the best way to go if you want to keep your information secure.
But things change.
This morning Accellion announced content connectors for Google Drive for Work and for Microsoft's One Drive for Business. "It shouldn't matter where you store your content, IT can track and manage it from anywhere," said Paula Skokowski, Accellion's Chief Marketing Officer.
While we might have seen this as an "about face" or even somewhat sacrilegious a few months ago, Skokowski insists that it has been in the works for some time. "It's an important next chapter for us," she explains. With connectors to Google Drive and OneDrive, kiteworks can provide EFSS capabilities outside of the firewall. "Users need access to content regardless of where it is stored," she added.
Where's the Content?
As of today, Accellion's kiteworks customers can access content stored in SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, SharePoint Online, Windows File Shares and Distributed File Systems, Documentum, OpenText, Google Drive for Work and Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
"Information can be stored in 10 to 20 places," said Skokowski, "A couple here. And a couple there. We enable you to get all of your content in one place."
And users can see it all through "a single pane of glass" without needing to open new applications.
It's not just access that kiteworks provides, it also inherits and honors security and compliance rules and enforces user privileges in the process.
So, putting Accellion's on-prem/private cloud capabilities aside, how does Accellion differentiate itself from the competition?
"We're not trying to be the cloud," said Skokowski, though it is worth noting that it does provide unlimited storage. (It is not a big part of their business.)
At the end of the day, Accellion is, as it describes itself, a mobile content platform that provides ubiquitous access to content stored in enterprise content management systems and cloud storage.
It provides a secure, "single pane of glass" through which user content can be accessed via mobile device, while maintaining 'document of record' in the source system without content duplication. It also provides full control and visibility of enterprise content sharing for compliance with government and industry regulations such as HIPAA.
Change of Strategy
It's interesting to note that, in the last few months, Accellion has changed its kiteworks play just a bit. In mid-July it introduced "kiteworks for teams", a mobile content solution that can be downloaded for free on a 30 day free trial.


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U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050
If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants.
Do Blacks and Hispanics Get Along?
Yes, but Not Always, and Not about Everything
Race, Ethnicity and Campaign '08
People...Can We All Get Along?
Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class
Optimism about Black Progress Declines
Modern Marriage
"I Like Hugs. I Like Kisses. But What I Really Love is Help with the Dishes."
Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work
From 1997 to 2007
As Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart, Public Is Concerned about Social Impact
Generation Gap in Values, Behaviors
Who Flies the Flag? Not Always Who You Might Think
A Closer Look at Patriotism
Being Dad May Be Tougher These Days, but Working Moms are among Their Biggest Fans
A broad consensus holds that it is harder to be a father now than it was 20 or 30 years ago. But seven-in-ten adults say it's harder to be a mom today than it was in the past, and only 11% see it as easier.
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☆☆☆ As seen on TIME, Lifehacker, Lifehack, MakeUseOf, TheNextWeb ☆☆☆
Dayboard is a to do list that focuses on just 5 items each day. Start your day by writing down the most important tasks you want to accomplish. Every time you open a new tab, you'll be reminded of your priorities to help prevent you from visiting distracting sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit) and stay focused on the task at hand.
It's no secret: not everything on our to do lists are worth doing. Spend a day doing busywork and you'll end your day feeling guilty and unproductive; but finish one important task and you'll be making progress. Dayboard helps you get the right stuff done with daily planning, positive habits and smart constraints.
✔ a minimal todo list
✔ focus mode that shows you one task at a time
✔ a history to show you your progress
✔ connect with team members to keep track of what everyone's working on (via dayboard.co)
✔ keep your tasks in sync on different machines (via dayboard.co)
Coming soon:
✔ the ability to archive tasks
✔ turn off your reminders when your work day is over
✔ secret: a feature that helps fight procrastination
Questions and suggestions?
• Get in touch via Twitter @dayboardco or via email at email@example.com
Update Log
Jan 12, 2016 - [v0.8.0]
• We added a new feature that let's you track your daily progress. Web users would've seen this on dayboard.co, but it's available to everyone through the extension now! ☜(゚ヮ゚☜)
• Fixed a bug with our support tool that didn't let you minimize the window.
June 24, 2015 - [v0.7.1]
• Added a little nudge for today's tasks when you have a blank state
June 10, 2015 - [v0.7.0]
• Added notification compatibility to the bottom of the task card when you are mentioned in a blocker.
Apr 22, 2015 - [v0.6.6]
• Fix an issue with text weight for non-English text.
Apr 15, 2015 - [v0.6.5]
• Fix a permissions issues were images for in-app messages weren't displaying properly.
Mar 8, 2015 - [v0.6.4]
• Another attempt to fix Chrome's storage issues.
Mar 4, 2015 - [v0.6.3]
• Fixed a bug with Google sync and storage limits.
• Pressing escape now lets you cancel your task input
Feb 15, 2015 - [v0.6.0]
• Users with accounts can now send and receive support messages straight from the new tab page!
• You can now add tasks by pressing the tab key
• We made some improvements to the way you edit tasks
• Added a tooltip to Focus mode if you don't have any tasks
Feb 5, 2015 - [v0.5.2]
• Fixed a bug where skipping tasks shows every item in Focus Mode
• Fixed a bug where you can't add tasks to tomorrow if there are 5 completed tasks today
• Fixed a bug where hovering over disabled tasks in tomorrow's list shows a cursor
• Fixed a bug where you can cross off a task from tomorrow's list
• Fixed a bug where you can accidentally load an unlimited number of tasks into focus mode and cause the browser to crash
• Fixed a typo in the bookmarks tooltip
Dec 1, 2014 - [v0.5.1]
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to use drag and drop while editing a task
Nov 30, 2014 - [v0.5.0]
• Added drag and drop to reorder your tasks
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to edit tasks from previous days
Oct 29, 2014 - [v0.4.0]
• Added the ability to allows users to plan ahead for tomorrow
• Fixed a bug scrolling bug in Focus Mode
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes make the extension "stuck" while loading a new tab
Oct 15, 2014 - [v0.3.3]
• Fixed a bug where loading a new page gets interrupted if you enter the URL too quickly
July 31, 2014 - [v0.3.1]
• Fixed a bug where the history graph doesn't show up for new users
• Fixed some UI issues on the History page
July 30, 2014 - [v0.3.0]
• dayboard.co users can now log in to the extension to sync their tasks with their team
July 16, 2014 - [v0.2.0]
• Bug fixes
• Updated screenshots
• History page now works: you can now see a full list of all the tasks you've completed, the number of tasks you've completed, and a chart that quickly shows your 14-day work history
June 4, 2014 - [v0.1.3]
• Bug fixes, new screenshots
May 29, 2014 - [v0.1.0]
• Initial release


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Folded Book Art
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CD Olaf from Frozen
Recycle an old CD using some felt and fun glitter paint. Make yourself a glittery version of that beloved snowman, Olaf!
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School of Cardboard Tube Fish
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Elmo Bucket
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Turn ordinary cardboard tubes into a bright and colorful bouquet of polka dot tulips!
Cardboard Tube Polka Dot Pig
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Cardboard Tube Featherheads
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Cereal Box Animals
Cereal box animal puppets that walk, run and sit! A super cute recycling craft the kids will love.
Desk Containers
Quick upcycled desk organizing from plastic containers headed to the recycling bin.
Cardboard Box Cat House
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Mismatched Mitten Puppets
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Howse Implement 4' Pull Type Plugger SXP48P-R$878.97
This 4 ft pull type plugger has frames made of heavy angle iron and drums from heavy wall pipe. Drums can be filled with sand or water to add weight.
- Working Width: 48 inch
- Number of Spoons: 60 Core Spoon, 3.5mm
- Hitch Type: Category 1
- Approximate Weight: 270
- Warranty: 1 Year Limited Warranty
Howse Implement 6' Pull Type Plugger SXP72P-R$1,231.97
Howse Implement Red 3-Point 6' Aerator SXA723PT-R$878.97
The 6' aerator has 5 spiral rows running the full length of the barrel on approximately 8" centers. The spikes are in circles around the barrel on 6" centers. This spacing and spiral arrangement provides for the ultimate ground penetration. Aerators with more spikes won't go in hard ground as good as ours. Aerators with less spikes don't put enough holes in the ground. The barrel will hold approximately 35.22 gallons of water which weighs about 294 pounds. Add the weight of the aerator of 495 pounds and you have 789 pounds of down pressure. There are 90 spikes on this model the frame is strong enough to support the concrete blocks on top for added weight.
Product Features
- Category I 3-Point Hitch
- Aerator Drum Pipe is made of heavy wall pipe
- Frame is made of heavy angle iron
- Drum is fill-able to add weight for aerating tougher ground
Tarter 6ft. Land Grader LGY6$964.97
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- Dual blade with box side for precision grading
- Extra length for improved leveling plus a 72″ grading width
- Hardened replaceable reversible cutting edge with 1/2 inch heavy-duty slides
- Ideal for tractors from 18 to 55 horsepower
- Category 1 quick hitch compatible
- Features our durable, corrosion-resistant powder coat yellow finish only
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History of Nepali New Year / Origin of Nepalese New Year
This post is about history of Nepali New Year / origin of Nepalese New Year. Christian New Year is the world's most popularly celebrated New Year. Perhaps, everybody would like to celebrate the Christian New Year. But some few guys have known about Nepali New Year and history of Nepali New Year. Here we are going to discuss about history of Nepali New year or origin of Nepali New Year.
Do you know how the Nepali New Year celebration begins? How this Nepalese New Year celebration began? From where did Nepalese New Year originate? When Nepali New Year was originated? What is so important about the Nepali New Year? Let's give you an insight to the origin of Nepalese New Year in a brief form.
Origin of Nepalese New Year dates back to the era of emperors. Nepali New Year is the established by emperor Vikramaditya. Nepalese New Year uses lunar months and solar sidereal year. image src
That is why, History of Nepali New Year belongs to history of Bikram Samvat. History of Nepalese New Year relates to history of Vikram Samvat. Origin of Nepali New Year belongs to origin of Vikram Samvat. Origin of Nepalese New Year relates to origin of Bikram Samvat. We can also say that history of Nepali New Year belongs to history of Nepali calendar. Origin of Nepali New Year relates to origin of Nepali calendar. History of Nepali calendar belongs to emperor Vikramaditya. Origin of Nepali calendar relates to era of king Vikramaditya. Otherwords, history of Vikram Samvat relates to ancient king Vikramaditya.
People of ancient Nepal thought of celebrating a special day which should be a day for beginning and end of the year. First Nepali New Year celebrations were noticed in emperor Vikramaditya's period. He established and started the Bikram Samvat calendar.
This calendar just had twelve months. Baishakh is the first month of the year. The Nepali calendar (Bikram Samvat) originated by the cycles of the moon, beginning in spring and ending with autumn planting.
The Nepali New Year is the glory of Nepalese nationality. It is the assets of Nepal.
The Nepali New Year was started at the beginning of the Licchavi period by the first powerful King Bikramaditya. Nepali New Year started when the
The Bikram Sambat was started along with the beginning of the Licchavi period by the first powerful King Bikramaditya.
Baishakh 1- an Official Date of Nepali New Year Celebrations
The emperor Vikramaditya officially declared Baishakh 1 to be a Nepali New Year in 57 B.C. People began Nepali New Year celebrations on Baishakh 1 after many years. They ritualized the beginning of the year by acting and re-enacting the world of the past before peace proliferated. People learned Baishakh as first month of the year and with this the tradition of following Nepali lunar calendar.
The Nepali custom celebrates their religious merriments on a varying date because it is based on the lunar calendar as opposed to their national holidays that are observed on fixed dates.
The Nepali New Year or the Navavarsha according to the locals is a religious holiday celebrated with great significance and is observed with deep respect and devotion. Just like many other countries, they commemorate the event with the hopes of having a lot of blessings and prosperity as they face the New Year.
Nepalese New Year is celebrated as a public holiday in Nepal
Bikram Samvat Calendar
The origin of Nepali New Year relates to the legendary Hindu King Vikramaditya in 57 BC. Vikram Sambat or Vikram's Era is the calendar established by emperor Vikramaditya. It uses lunar months and solar sidereal year. It is the official calendar of south Asian country Nepal. Vikram Samvat is also termed Bikram Sambat, but is computed using the tropical year.
The Vikrama Samvat (V.S. or B.S.) is said to have been founded by the emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain following his victory over the Sakas in 56 BC. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. The Vikram Samvat calendar is 56.7 years ahead (in count) of the solar Gregorian calendar.
Bikram Sambat is the glory of Nepal. We the Nepalese people are lucky because Nepal was never captured by foreign imperialists.
Some people guess that Bikram era was from foreign land and Bikram Samvat was started from Madhya Pradesh of India. This is not true. By Historian Dirgha Raj Prasai
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Long Division is a Music and Cultural Festival that takes place in Wakefield City Centre, across multiple venues, and is a celebration of Independence and DIY Culture.
2016 will be its 6th year, and arrives off the back of a hugely successful Crowdfunding Campaign which saw well over 100 supporters pledge over £7500 towards the festival.
The festival is noted for its dedication to up and coming artists, and placing them on bills alongside the best DIY influenced artists. Previous performers include The Cribs, British Sea Power, Ghostpoet, Ash, The Fall, The Wedding Present, Gruff Rhys, Art Brut, Pulled Apart By Horses, Fat White Family, The Vaselines, Los Campesinos! and Jeffrey Lewis.
Friday June 10th will see a special guest open the festival. June 11th will feature at least 8 stages, with 70+ bands performing from midday to midnight - your ticket is swapped for a wristband giving access to all venues. June 12th will feature our traditional Live Album recording with a special guest.
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Although police officers in most countries are issued bulletproof vests, they don't necessarily wear them at all times – would you want to heave one of those things around for an entire shift? What they do often carry, however, are clipboards. Taking the "every little bit helps" approach, Ohio's IMPACT Armor Technologies has put two and two together, and come up with something that should actually offer some protection – a Ballistic Clipboard.
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I was away for the Thanksgiving Holiday~ Sophie
Thank you so much for looking and the Sophie I am happy that you like it.
This is an unsual gem, I would have expected this to be made in Chaoscope or a 4d cinema. Very surpising apophysis fractal.
I am glad you like it Thank you very much for the I was quite pleased how this came out myself
Beautiful image.
Beautiful, shiny and lovely. This reminds me of Japanese kimonos because of the wonderfully elegant, simple design and the dramatic look. Very nicely done, Barb!
muito bom
very good
very good
omg! like!
the 3D effect is awesome!
the 3D effect is awesome!
beautiful, simple and elegant, really nice
Lovin all the work!