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Abhay Parekh received a B.E.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1983, an S.M. in Operations Research from the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 1985, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. After obtaining his doctorate, Dr. Parekh was a postdoc with the MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences.
Before coming to the EECS Department at U.C. Berkeley as an Adjunct Professor in 2003, Dr. Parekh spent a number of years in industry (AT&T Bell Laboratories, T. J. Watson Research Center IBM, Sun Microsystems) working on various research problems, mostly in the area of computer networking. He was co-founder, as well as President and CEO of San Francisco-based FastForward Networks, which developed products to enable the large-scale distribution of broadcast video on the Internet. In 2000, FastForward Networks was sold to Inktomi, where its technology and products formed the basis of Inktomi's content networking offerings. After the merger, Dr. Parekh remained with Inktomi for a brief time as General Manager of the Media Products Division. From 2002-2008, he was associated with Accel Partners, an early stage venture capital firm as a Venture Partner. In 2009, he founded Flowgram, Inc. Since 2014 he has been with Lytmus Inc and serves as co-founder and CEO.
Prof. Parekh's papers on generalized processor sharing, which is a way of achieving quality of service in data networks, are among the most highly cited in the networking literature. In particular, his paper co-authored with Robert G. Gallager, "A generalized processor sharing approach to flow control in integrated services networks: The single-node case" was the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society's William Bennett Prize Paper Award in 1994 "for the best original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in the past year." (A preliminary version of the paper received the Best Paper Award at INFOCOM 1993.) In 2002, the IEEE Communications Society selected it as one of the 16 most influential papers on networking to appear in the last 50 years. Prof. Parekh is also a co-author of two patents. He is co-author (with Jean Walrand) of the book "Resource Sharing in Networks" which was published in 2014.
After spending some years focusing on the nature of interference in wireless communication systems, he is now trying to understanding large distributed peer to peer systems in the context of multimedia networks and MOOCs. He carries out this research at the Wireless Foundations Center.
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SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!! Back in DARK AVENGERS/UNCANNY X-MEN:UTOPIA, Dani Moonstar made a deal with Hela. Now, the mistress of Hel is calling in her marker. With all the Asgardians falling in the Siege of Asgard, someone needs to deal with the dead. And who better to do so than a Valkyrie. But where is Dani supposed to be bringing these dead?
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A solid issue featuring Dani. The writing was clever enough to keep this from feeling like a "filler" issue, despite the absence of the rest of the team. The history of the X-men's adventures in Asgard is lightly touched upon.
While the issue skirts the action of the Siege crossover, its story fits nicely within the boundaries of the larger crossover. The plot uses Dani's backstory as a sometimes Valkyrie and her bargain with Hela from June of last year to good effect and lays the groundwork for possible future complications.
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This one off elegant notebook has a contemporary cockatoo design in a striking palette. Each notebook contains 50 lined pages to record your notes and daily inspiration.
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Our most successful way of de-stressing at the end of the day is to pull on a pair of yoga pants, get out our favorite mug, and brew a pot of Meditative Mind Tea ($10 for 2oz loose leaf) by The Tea Spot. The white tea Chinese blend contains rosebuds and jasmine pearls for a subtly sweet flavor and an aromatherapy session you'd pay hundreds for in a fancy spa. Combined, the rose and jasmine relieve tension and leave you feeling relaxed and calm. Take a deep breath and inhale the tea vapors as you let your mind wash away your blues. Ahhh, perfect.
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Some, but not all, diaper rashes can be caused by yeast. Babies with a yeast-related diaper rash may have:
- Dark red patches of skin in the diaper area, especially in the folds of skin near the thighs.
- Yellow, fluid-filled spots that can break open and become flaky.
Call your pediatrician if your baby has a diaper rash that gets worse or concerns you. It is important to find out what is causing the diaper rash.
If yeast is the cause, your doctor will recommend antifungal medicine to place on the sore, irritated skin. This medicine comes in cream, ointment, or powder form.
Do not use any over-the-counter yeast infection products before talking to your child's doctor.
Invasive Yeast Infection
If Candida yeast gets into your bloodstream, it can spread to other parts of the body. This type of infection is also called candidemia.
This infection may happen if you have a weakened immune system and a yeast infection goes untreated. Or it may occur if you come in contact with medical equipment contaminated by the fungus.
Symptoms of an invasive yeast infection can be vague and depend on which part of the body is affected. Common symptoms include fever and chills that continue after you have taken antibiotics.
This type of infection is more often seen in people who are or have been in the hospital. It is a leading cause of bloodstream infections and death in hospitalized patients.
You are more likely to get this type of infection if you:
- Are in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU).
- Have had recent surgery.
- Have a central line (catheter).
- Have a weakened immune system.
Very low-birth-weight infants also have a higher risk for this type of infection.
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I've had endless streams of emails, (READ: three), wondering where the hell I have been and when am I coming back and whatnot, and that's when I learned the problem with disappearing off the face of the internet is that you can't come back without a missing limb or stories of rescuing orphans from mountain tops. Because simply saying "Oh, hi. I'm a lazy person with not a lot to say," doesn't quite cut it. But here's to hoping a slightly relevant video of my hand playing ukulele will trick people into forgetting what an internet-abandoning asshole I am. Why the hand? Because my hand doesn't need to put a bra on and brush its hair in order to be video taped.
If only I could send my hand to the bank and grocery store. My hand needs to start pulling its weight around here.
I turned 30, and the huz did what he could with 4 days notice, (because I lied through my teeth about my real age), and threw me a party. The man got up at 3 am to decorate so I would be surprised when I woke up. I was so appreciative of that, but then I wanted to stab him because for all the years I've known him, he has feigned decorating ignorance and his job has always been to remove the children from the house and leave everything up to me. That bastard was hiding his superior decorating skills all these years. Now his official title is Balloon-Inflating-Streamer-Hanger-Upper. It is not Cake-Picker-Outter though, since the I Hope You Die cake. In case you can't see it, this is a cake topped with the grim reaper holding a hatchet, and watching over a freshly dug grave, that is meant for me. Internets, this was an option at a bakery somewhere. Under the category: birthday.
|Because nothing says "Happy Birthday" like a shallow grave.
Later on this happened, because shockingly, everybody I know brought me wine. And shockingly, I tried to drink all of it.
So it didn't surprise anyone when this happened shortly thereafter.
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My mom says that since I'm 30 I need to be more mature and keep my house clean,(though I'm not sure it counts if my mom is still wagging her finger at me to get me to do it). Even so, I've been trying to keep on top of dishes and laundry heaps and the piles of crap that seem to have a magnetic pull to my kitchen island. I can say that here because you can't see through the screen to the hot mess that is actually happening up in this piece. Count your blessings, internets. Mackenzie turned 5 in September, and Tinkerbell and birthday banners are still dominating the walls. There is no excuse for probably anything I have done in the last two months. Maturity is overrated after all.


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While nobody could (sanely) call the Saw movie franchise a shining high point in horror films, it stands to reason that it has a fair few fans out there; enough at least to justify having just released its sixth installment, with a seventh currently in production. To be honest, I'm almost surprised that we've gone this long without a game based on the series.
Developed by Zombie Studios, Saw was originally due to be published by Brash Entertainment. However, Brash folded last year, leaving the rights to get picked up by Konami instead. Konami have been vocal about their plans for Saw, positioning it as a franchise to sit alongside their flagship horror series, Silent Hill. Will the game grow a procession of sequels rivaling its cinematic sibling? Or will it be unable to escape a deathtrap more deadly than the worst Jigsaw has to offer – being a horrible licensed tie-in? We'll take a look on the other side of the jump.
In the timeline of the series canon, Saw takes place after the first film. The game casts players in the role of Detective David Tapp, (played by Danny Glover onscreen, though he provides neither the voice nor likeness for his virtual counterpart) having survived the seemingly fatal gunshot wound he suffered near the end of the movie. Tapp awakens in an abandoned asylum with the series' iconic, jaw-splitting reverse bear trap attached to his head, now himself in the clutches of the Jigsaw Killer. After disarming the device, Tapp will have to navigate the asylum's halls, solving puzzles and saving some of Jigsaw's victims, while dealing with the others, who've been told their only means of escape lies in his murder, a bit less kindly.
What follows is a tedious, uneven trek with no real scares to speak of. What little tension the game manages to muster up and the few good ideas it presents are marred by the rest of the experience. It's a lot like hunkering down in a darkened movie theater seat and opening a box of Junior Mints, only to find out after popping a few into your mouth that three-quarters off them are stuffed full of human feces; sure, the rest may be tasty and sweet, but what sane person would still willingly keep eating in order to find them?
The majority of the gameplay involves a lot of fumbling your way around the darkened hallways of the asylum and being funneled from puzzle to puzzle, with occasional bouts of stiff, unresponsive combat tossed in, almost as an afterthought. While the puzzles are at least of a better caliber than the typical fare you see in most survival horror games, there's a bit too much repetition; by the time you see your tenth circuit junction rotation box, the fun has worn a bit thin. Likewise, the "stick your hand into X to grab Y" segments – where X equals toilet full of used hypodermics or corpse full of razor wire and Y is generally a key of some sort – were potentially cool concepts that completely failed in execution by being far too easy. Many parts of the game feel like this – neat concepts buried in a mountain of failure.
But let's return to the combat for a moment. Calling the game's combat slow with clunky, cumbersome controls is an insult to games with slow combat and clunky, cumbersome controls; Saw makes Silent Hill look like Batman: Arkham Asylum by comparison. There's a delay that sometimes feels like seconds between pressing a button and seeing it actually trigger, assuming your opponent's attack doesn't interrupt you first, that is. The game world is strewn with improvised weapons, from pipes to mannequin arms to scalpels. Most are good for four or so hits before breaking (don't worry – assuming you connect, the average enemy drops after about three), while a few (scalpels and syringes) are only good for one, but also are insta-kills.
The pacing at which weapons and other consumables are meted out to you doesn't match the flow of the game. Good horror is elicited when fear of pain and death arise, but these items are virtually heaped upon you at the start, whereas you'll only face a couple of enemies per section in the game's early stages. They do increase the instances of combat a little the deeper you get into the game, but you still will never lack for things with which to beat wandering homicidal minions to death. In fact, the main deciding factor in picking your weapon of choice will be "have I already gotten the achievement for this one?", as the game dishes out awards for making a kill with each individual implement at your disposal. It's kind of like playing a metagame in itself, searching around to find each weapon and holding on to it until the next fight occurs; Lord knows I had to find fun in the game somewhere, so I decided to make my own.
On the plus side, Tobin Bell's work as Jigsaw is excellent and spot-on creepy (even if the rest of the voice actors feel like they're phoning it in) and the atmosphere of the game is appropriately oppressive, which is helped greatly by the game's use of lighting and ambient sound. The ability to disarm and re-rig deadly booby traps throughout the levels was also nice, but sadly limited by the small scope of options available. The large setpiece traps that end each section are definitely the highlight of the game. It's just a shame that so many of them are simply larger, more complicated versions of the puzzles you've already been solving – more unique ones along the lines of the poison IV or the magnetic sliding block puzzle would have been great.
I wish I enjoyed this game more, but the pluses simply don't stack up to the overwhelming negatives. Saw contains a handful of good ideas, but overall, the game is just rote and boring. I'd even be hard pressed to recommend this one to any but the hardest of hardcore Saw fans. Achievement farmers may find something worthwhile, as I managed to unlock all 1000 points just by being methodical in my weapon selection and taking advantage of the game's checkpoint system to reload prior to the final section so I could see both endings. Give it a rent if you absolutely must, but you'd be better off with a cage of starving rats strapped to your face than you would be spending $60 on this game.
Things We Liked: Visual presentation is pretty decent. The gory tableaux of those who didn't escape their deathtraps in time are a nice touch. Setpiece traps are appropriately nerve-wracking. Puzzles are fun (at first). Tobin Bell earns his voiceover paycheck. Cheap, easy achievements.
Things We Disliked: Would it be harsh to say "everything else"? Fine – Combat, controls, non-Tobin voice acting, poor pacing, super-linear level design, too much puzzle repetition, poor item distribution, poor checkpoint distribution, the totally-useless-as-a-light-source camera flash, distracting occasional flat textures… I could go on, but my fingers are getting tired – I think you get the point.
Target Audience: Gamers into self-punishment. The most hardcore fans who think Saw is the greatest thing EVAR! Achievement whores.
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Settled in the U.S. two years ago, Vitor Shaolin will do the main event of Strikeforce Challengers on Friday, in Mississippi (USA). The Brazilian will face Justin Willcox and spoke to us before the confrontation.
How are you getting for this fight? How was your preparation?
The preparation was great. I brought a big boy from Brazil, Gabriel Migliaccio, who is a student of Veras and staff from Sao Paulo. He came to spend a month and a half here with me helping me. He helped me in the boxing part and at the gym helping me with classes and everything. He was certainly a great help in training. I went, he and Loro, and Jim Miller and Dan Miller who also came here to train. We have a wrestling coach here, Rob, who is from Michigan and is also spectacular. I swear it was a month and a half of focused training. I am very well and full of health, so it was great. I have nothing to complain about.
Your opponent has some good fights in the curriculum. What have you seen of him? What are his strengths?
This guy is a wrestler and they are generally strong. He is a little shorter than me and gives some good right blows. He is a good wrestler, but from what I saw, he did not drop much. He is the type of those guys like Josh Koscheck. He has a good wrestling, but likes to give a few strokes on top. Nevertheless, if he needs a lot of wrestling he uses. He is a guy with good card and made some good fights against tough guys. He lost to Ishida that he made a fight in Strikeforce. I'll look for the ground game, but I can exchange a little on foot. My head is good, so there isn't any stress. I am very confident and the workouts are good. This is what matters for a MMA fighter. With the head being good, just go there and do my job. Winning is consequence, but with the head being good is already halfway there.
In recent years you have not had that rhythm of fight that you had before. It's a plane back to doing his three fights per year, or you're holding a little because of your new gym?
The first year I was moving and I focused on this. After I was hoping to fight in Japan, but you know, the guys call you on the spot or they not call you. Now I'm here and I'm training right. I think four fights a year is a little tricky, but I think I can do three. The event, which begin to call me I'll be in there. I'm super into. So much that I was called to fight in this event and I was twat to get something. When they called me, I accepted right away. Sometimes the fighter wants to fight, but the event is with great number and little show. Sometimes the input gets a little complicated, but I'm practicing. Nevertheless, you can not get over the event or create confusion. I train because I want to fight. For this I have to wait my time. I did a fight in May, but the guys gave the victory to the other guy. Now is the time to recover. Let's see if after this fight I'll have some other fights. After all, I'm working. I am 31 years old and I am calm. I have no major injury and thank God I'm slowly getting into the swing.
How do you see the structure of Strikeforce since you were fighting for some time in Japan? Now you're living in America, how are you seeing this show?
The event I'm fighting is a challenger event. I am the main event here, the structure is very cool and transmissions is similar than in other events. You walk into the city and see a big outdoor of the event. The whole gym will be there watching on Friday. Have a restaurant there that we close and they will be able to attend. After all, the event is talked about and watched. The guys are more excited and investing more. They are realizing that good events have great champions. Strikeforce don't have why not grown. The guys are there and working on various shows. God willing the challenger, the main event and the CBS shows will be good, and the event will have everything to keep growing. Today is the league that is behind the UFC, but has everything to stay together. If all goes well, I do not know, suddenly comes close.
How is your life, your gym and your family in the United States? How long you're there?
I'm here for two years and I love. I think that was the best decision that I made. The biggest decision of my life was choosing Dedé's academy and it certainly changed my life. That moment was certainly a watershed in my life where I came from a lazy teenager to a proactive person. After that I became a family man. This was the first and second turning point was when I came to live here. The experience I'm getting and what I'm learning have been instrumental in my development. Life is hard and it is not too easy. Despite this, after all I spent in Brazil that was exactly what I needed for myself. I needed that rush and that range of opportunities. Also had a thing that is make new friends here and to be able to open new horizons for Brazil. While I maintain contact with Brazil, I also seek to open a larger supply of the Nova União and the United States. What is missing for me is be able to give my seminars and when that happens I'll be completely happy. Dedé is now giving me a notion of business people and I will invite him to come here. Soon I'll bring him or his wife. I'll call for her to have some fun in New York and he came along.


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Mythcon 45
Where Fantasy Fits
Guests of Honor
Richard C. West – Scholar
Winner of the 1976 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies for Tolkien Criticism.
Where Fantasy Fits:
Fantasy literature does not fit comfortably into any scheme. Both old and new, traditional and innovative, popular and elite, mainstream and esoteric, escapist and engaged, high-tech and anti-technology, fantasy defies definitions and transcends categories, dramatizing the incompleteness of our understanding of our own imaginations. At Mythcon 45 we will discuss the place of fantasy in our culture, our institutions, and our hearts.
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Record-setting running back/return man for the Oregon football team is also a Pac-10 scorer at 100 meters and on the 4x100 meter relay squad. Became one of only three Oregon student-athletes to win both a Pac-10 track and field and football championship in the same academic year. In 2010, he and teammate Kenjon Barner became the first to accomplish that at Oregon in 74 years; the only other Duck to do the same was Bob Parke, a member of the 1933 Pacific Coast Conference football champions and the PCC track winners for the Webfoots while throwing the javelin in 1934. James and Barner accomplished that feat again in 2011. The 2006 Texas 100 meter state champion.
2010-11: Outdoors - Concluded track season on the 4x100 meter relay team at the NCAA West Preliminary meet. Anchored 4x100 meter relay team to a season-best 40.09 in a fifth-place finish at the Pac-10 Championships. That was the seventh-fastest time in school history. Also ran a seasonal-best 10.62 in the 100 meters. Outdoor debut came in the 100 meters at the Oregon Twilight, where he won his heat in 10.76. Also ran on the 4x100 relay. Indoors - Opened season at the Husky Classic, where he ran 6.87 in the 60 meter preliminaries and tied for second in the final (6.88). On the football field, was the 2010 Doak Walker Award winner as the nation's top running back, after setting school record with 1,731 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns. Season Bests: Outdoors - 100 Meters - 10.62, Pac-10 Championships, Tucson, Ariz. (5/13/11). Indoors - 60 Meters - 6.87, Husky Classic, Seattle, Wash. (2/12/11).
2009-10: Pac-10 scorer in the 100 meters and the 4x100 meter relay. Outdoors - Helped Oregon win its fourth straight Pac-10 title by taking fifth in the 100 meters in 10.72 and anchoring the fourth-place 4x100 meter relay team (40.36). Opened season with a third-place run against UCLA in 10.90. Won the 100 at the Oregon Twilight (10.62). Clocked best time of the season, a wind-aided 10.52 in the Pac-10 100 meter preliminaries. Anchored the 4x100 meter relay team four times, including the top two times of the season, 40.57 (prelims) and 40.36 (finals) at the Pac-10 meet. Indoors - Competed twice in the 60 meters with a best of 6.77 at the Husky Classic. That time is tied for fourth all-time at Oregon. Football - Set a Pac-10 freshmen record with 1,546 rushing yards for the 2009 conference champions. Season Bests: Outdoors - 100 Meters - 10.52 (w+2.7), Pac-10 Championships, Berkeley, Calif. (5/15/10). Indoors - 60 Meters - 6.77 (PR), Husky Classic, Seattle, Wash. (2/13/10).
2008-09: Redshirted the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Prep: Won the 2006 Texas 100 meter championship in 10.51 for Liberty-Eylau High School. Also ran on Liberty-Eylau's state runner-up 4x100 meter (42.28) and 4x400 meter (3:23.31) relay teams. In football, was an all-state selection at running back following his junior and senior seasons. Set city and season and single game rushing records with 2,043 yards and 322 yards, respectively, following his senior year. Helped lead team to football state title in 2006. High School Bests: 100 Meters - 10.51, 2006.
Personal: Major is undeclared.
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100 Meters - 10.51,
Texas State Championships,
60 Meters - 6.77 (i),
Husky Classic,
Seattle, Wash, 2/13/10
Pac-10 Track Championships
2011 - 100 Meters, p-5th, 10.62
2011 - 4x100 Meter Relay, 5th, 40.09
2010 - 100 Meters, 5th, 10.72
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DENVER—Jenny Coleman matched the best score in the final round with a 1-under par 71 to earn low amateur honors at the 2012 HealthONE Colorado Women's Open here at the Green Valley Ranch Golf Club Friday.
Coleman shot a 2-over par 218 through the three rounds and finished in fifth place. She birdied two of her final three holes while Somin Lee, a Denver native and last year's low amateur who plays for Pepperdine, bogeyed two of her final three holes to finish one stroke back at 3-over par 219.
Jess Wallace, making her professional debut, shot a final round 4-over par 76 to finish at 11-over par 227 and earn her first check.
Coleman's fifth place finish is the top performance by an active member of CU's women's golf team at the Colorado Women's Open. Last year, Emily Talley was in second place after two rounds but finished tied for 13th. Coleman's 2-over par final score is tied for the fourth best for an amateur and she turned in just the 12th top five finish for an amateur in the event's history.
Coleman joins Erin (Kerr) Houtsma as active Buffs who were the low amateur. Houtsma was the low amateur in 2001 when she finished tied for 10th and then won the event as a professional in 2005. This year, she finished tied for 34th at 12-over par 228. Houtsma's is the career money leader for the Colorado Women's Open at just under $28,000.
Coleman is also just the third current or former CU golfer to finish in the top 10 in the event's history. Kelly Heffer finished ninth in both 1996 and 1997 while Houtsma has seven top 10 finishes. Additionally, CU coach Anne Kelly finished ninth in 1998 and Kris Franklin, wife of CU assistant coach Brent Franklin, finished second in 1999.
Next up for Wallace and rising junior Alex Stewart will be the U.S. Women's Open Qualifier on June 3 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, in one of the final qualifiers. The U.S. Women's Open will take place at Blackwolf Run Golf Course in Kohler, Wis., July 5-8.


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It's been a long time since Ghostbusters, but the name Ivan Reitman still carries plenty of weight among geeks. You don't strap an unlicensed nuclear accelerator to Bill Murray's back and let him joke about it without leaving a mark, it's just that simple. And that's why you should be very excited to hear today from Reitman, who, with Montecito Picture Co. partner Tom Pollock, offers some updates on a few notable projects fans have been waiting for.
The one you want to hear about the most is also the one that Reitman offered the smallest amount on in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Ghostbusters III: "There's a lot of talk about Ghostbusters III. And there's a very good script that the other cast members have read and liked. We're just waiting for Bill Murray to read it."
C'mon, Bill! You're the man and everything, and we'll always love you … BUT READ THAT ALREADY.
Next up is Baywatch, an adaptation of the titillating '90s TV series starring (among others) David Hasselhoff. It has already been confirmed that the movie will skew more towards outright comedy as compared to the unintentional comedy that was a highlight of the TV series. Reitman says that things are moving right along … but they're not there yet.
"We still don't have a script that's makeable. I think it's a big opportunity. This is a comedy, and I think we have a very interesting take — a classical idea that will be fresh for the world audience. It's one of the best-known titles that's out there."
Finally we come to the Private Parts sequel. Reitman was one of the producers on the 1997 bio-comedy about and starring radio shock jock Howard Stern. There has long been talk of a sequel, but it sounds like it is probably the least likely of the three to ever get off the ground.
Said Reitman, "I spoke to Howard. He brings it up all the time. There is a great sequel story in it. But I doubt it will happen. If he's going to do another film, my guess is that it's probably not going to be the sequel to Private Parts."
As a final note, Reitman added that while he won't be producing his son Jason's Up in the Air follow-up Young Adult — "Not for us." — he expressed hope that father & son can come together to co-direct a future project.
"I'd like to direct with him somehow. I'm talking about a movie we would co-direct that has a kind of dual story perhaps that can be divided up."
Back in January of this year, Amy Poehler expressed a desire for Bill Murray to guest-star on a tv show. What concerns me is, she said he can sit in a chair the whole time, and would only have to work for a couple of hours (Found at blog.sabdesi.net/tag/amy-poehler-bill-murray-parks-and-rec-can-sit/). Something else which concerns me is an article (here: montereyherald.com/prepsports/ci_17400735?nclick_check=1 ) which as I am reading it, questions whether Bill Murray will attend a function in July. Steve Worthy's comments seem to indicate this is due to question regarding Bill Murray's health.
I started to worry about Bill Murray's health a long time ago. He has not been looking 100% for a while. After the end of the recent Howard Stern interview though, I really started to wonder what is going on with him.
Being a Bill Murray fan, this scares me. It hurts my feelings too a little though (selfish and silly, perhaps) because while I don't know this man, I am among many of have had a high affection for him which stands for the reason of buying movie tickets, and thereby being among many (probably millions) who helped to further the successful career and life he has enjoyed from over the years of his hard work. I think Mr. Murray's response to that should be a little humble, maybe even unselfish and heaven forbid: grateful. If something has happened to Mr. Murray, it would be awfully thankless and just plain nasty for him to take these people for granted. If he is ill and has lied about the reasons for not doing Ghostbusters 3, then he must think nothing at all of these people who care about him; support him; and so, so, many people (mostly young people) on twitter who speak highly of him. Some of the kids out there almost worship him.
If Bill Murray is ill, this is a public request for him to please, please, please tell his fans what is happening. I think it would be a nice (and gracious) thing for him to do. Maybe it'll take some humility for him to do that. Mr. Murray that is certainly nothing you have to do, but it would surely be something nice for you to do.
All of the above being said, it is important to note a possibility that Mr. Murray is not ill (reserving questions as to whatever "when healthy" meant in the Monterey Herald article) and may be fine. The comments posted are out of sincere concern. I hate the feeling of not knowing what has happend to someone who I care about. That's torture, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels that way. I do not have any desire to start rumors or anything of the like. For that reason, it is asked that those who do not have true information or do not have permission to share it, please not respond to my post with any information about Bill Murray's health. If Mr. Murray approves the solving of this mystery though (preferrably from his own mouth), his kind cooperation (and mercy to speak up) would be sincerely appreciated.
That's all I have to say. Thank you.
He's not ill, he just doesn't give a shit, and is notoriously difficult to (1) contact; (2) get to sign a contract. He has no agent; you call him up, and if you hear back eventually, that's the best you're going to do. And then he says he'll show up, and you pray he does. That's how the Murray system works now.
The script has been written for months if Murray wanted to read it he would. At some point you have to say screw this psychotic asshat and start over. Which I could see Sony doing a reboot of the whole franchise.
let's be honest, bill murray seems to be the only one of the ghostbusters that seems to have a sense of what is good and what is shite, that is why his career has continued to grow and evolve and theirs have floundered. so, if he thinks it's a bad idea (you don't need to read a script to know it's a bad idea) and doesn't want to be involved then i'm proud of him for not just doing it for an easy buck. just leave it alone and make something new and original (that goes for the rest of hollywood too)
GB3 will happen. It use to be said that Bill Murray wanted nothing to do with project and that's why it's taken forever for it to get this far. The last couple years, though, he's been warming up to the idea of being a Ghostbuster one final time. Not only did he lend his voice to Ghostbusters: The Video Game, he practically cameoed as himself as Peter Venkman in Zombieland. I'd definitely say he'll be ready to strap on a proton pack sooner than later.
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Jazzanova have dropped a fun geometric lyric video for the uplifting "Now There Is We" featuring Paul Randolph.
New Release: Jazzanova – 'The Funkhaus Studio Sessions'
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So, we know it's been a while of you sitting on your hands trying to contain yourself since hearing the Alex Barck edit for Jazzanova's "I Human." Today, you can let the circulation back into your hands and rejoice with the epic group's release of The Funkhaus Studio Sessions.
The project is Jazzanova's first live album, which brings together its two producers, Stefan Leisering & Axel Reinemer along with the original Jazzanova touring band. Above, watch the magic in the video for "Believer" featuring Paul Randolph.
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Video: Makoto – "Tower Of Love" ft. Paul Randolph
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Japanese composer and producer Makoto has a new single called "Tower of Love" and it's pretty frickin rad. The funky jazzy track is topped with a very catchy retro soul melody by Paul Randolph. Sort of reminiscent of Cee-Lo at times.
Some real get up on your feet and clap your hands music.
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Fat City Recordings is set to release the much-anticipated album In The Red, by the Mancunian wunderkind Trus'Me featuring collaborations with Dam-Funk, Amp Fiddler, and Paul Randolph. His debut album Working Nights is regularly held up as "one of the finest deep house and disco albums to come out of the U.K in years", but this was just the beginning of the Trus'me sound. Since then he has become increasingly adept and inventive at taking on the sound system roots of reggae, soul, and disco, blending them with house and techno, to create a hypnotically radical sound.
Dam-Funk, Stones Throw recording artist and LA's rising star of the nu-boogie scene collaborates on a low slung interpretation of the WasNotWas disco epic "Wheel Me Out". Also on board is the jazzy Detroit innovator Amp Fiddler who features on two tracks including a bass & rhodes heavy cover of Bill Withers' bittersweet classic "Can We Pretend". Paul Randolph, Jazzanova's current front-man, provides vocals for a house'd up version of West Phillips' boogie favorite "Sucker for a Pretty Face" and Mahogani Music's longtime collaborator Pirahnahead lends his vocal skills to the title track "In the Red".
Also look for a limited edition one-sided red vinyl 7″ pressing of "Bail Me Out," coming soon from Fat City Recordings.
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Giant Step's Resident 34: Q-Tip, Jazzanova, K'NAAN and Miriam Makeba
By Mawuse Ziegbe
So, I have this crush. He's this mannish, dude-ly, male person. He builds things. He smokes things. He skies down things. It's awesome. He's also wicked different from me. When he tells me about his time on a ranch in Wyoming, all I can think is, "what the fuck is Wyoming?" When he invites me over for Scrabble I desperately hope it's a euphemism for something involving latex and candle wax. Sadly, the earnest, good-guy gleam in his eye tells me it's not. But in the interest of new horizons and all that, I accompanied him to a Reggie Watts show at Joe's Pub. Reggie Watts looks like a cross between Counting Crows' Adam Duritz and a down-on-his-luck Sideshow Bob. He beat-boxes and does all this nonsensical yet still politically biting scatting business that sounds like a cross between Doug E. Fresh and a manic Sideshow Bob. I mean, parts of it were cool – he made beats onstage by sampling his own voice – but lots of it was just…foolish.
When I'm not faking an interest in live music to get in a guy's pants, I'm drooling over Q-Tip's new album, The Renaissance. I was initially very apprehensive about this project (the internet singles like "Work It Out" were making my brain barf). But for serious, The Renaissance is gorgeous. Q-Tip has reined in his penchant for the stuttering, monotonous beats and stiff, shallow rhymes that sank 1999′s Amplified. The Renaissance is replete with dusty soul samples punched up by 'Tip's melodic flow and conscious yet not overly preachy messages. I literally gawked at my iPod when I heard Raphael Saadiq's androgynous, syrupy vocals on "We Fight/We Love." I'm all over the bendy Boogaloo beat of "Manwomanboogie" with a surprisingly sassy Amanda Diva. "Believe" is glossed with the sublime glow of D'Angelo's trademark falsetto.
Jazzanova's latest album, Of All The Things is also unexpectedly addictive. The German collective has handily produced one of the best albums of the year. There's frisky nu-jazz and buttery soul that pulses with vibrant basslines and some of the most diverse voices in music. My favorite rapper Phonté tries his hand at singing "Look What You're Doin' To Me" and absolutely floored me with a papery falsetto that is identical to Dwele's soft crooning. Detroit artist Paul Randolph flexes his dapper vocals throughout the album, including the sunny, inspirational number "Let Me Show Ya." And Ben Westbeech, who's moving feets with Kraak and Smaak's recent hit, "Squeeze Me," wields some UK soul on the groovy, "I Can See." Of All The Things is like a mixtape packed with your absolute favorite songs by Mark Ronson, Solange, Coldplay, Al Jarreau, and Donnie. This is a good album to kick off any Jazzanova obsession.
African hip hop star K'Naan is kicking off his latest project with the lead single, "ABCs." K'naan doesn't really have a reason to make dance tracks, what with being a Somali refugee and the lack of body-rockin' fodder that experience provides. So it's good to see he found a way to make a party jam by spitting about the ills of street life over a souped-up version of Chubb Rock's "Treat 'Em Right." Activists need to get down too.
And I'm lucky the first time I ever got down in concert was with the legendary African singer and activist, Miriam Makeba. I was about three and my parents took me to see her at Boston's Symphony Hall. I was just barely able to see over the seats but I remember jamming to the horns for what seemed like hours. Miriam looked far away but she was washed in bright lights, commanding the sprawling band and just moving! That concert is one of my best family memories to this day; my parents were still together and Miriam's fierceness was one of the few things they agreed on. There may not be many more Reggie Watts concerts in my future but when your first live performance is from an artist who can inspire nations, quell feuding spouses and sing until the last very last breath, you understand the rarity of greatness.


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This is the first comprehensive guidebook of the 20 Spirit-in-Nature Essences, formerly Master's Flower Essences--the oldest flower essence line outside the U.K. since 1977. Here, founder Lila Devi weaves an entertaining yet practical overview of this healing art (also see Flower Essences for Animals). Lila is a flower essence researcher, practitioner, lecturer, and seminar leader in the U.S. and abroad. Her background in psychology, education and spirituality, combined with her sensitivity to Nature and healing, makes her one of the foremost flower essence experts in the world today. To Develop Your Insight:
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Britney Spears was all smiles the other day at the mall in Calabasas. X17 reported on March 2 that the pop star wore her new red extensions during her shopping excursion.
Spears gave the paps a big smile the other day. She reportedly wore a blue stripe long sleeve shirt and navy blue leggings. She also wore her favorite platform sneakers, which she has been seen wearing a lot lately.
She also accessorized her look with a pair of bright blue sunglasses.
Spears also wore her new red extensions. Some would say that the extensions age her a bit. But it's nice to see change on the always blonde pop star.
The 32-year-old has been enjoying some time off from her "Piece of Me" concert at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. She went to the mall with her son Jayden and her boyfriend David Lucado.
Spears even tweeted that it was her last show for now. She told her fans, "Last show for a little while, thanks for making it a good one :) Viva Las Vegas!!"
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3/4 cup Diced crust less day-old bread (1/2-inch dice)
4 teaspoons Parmesan, shredded fine
1 each Radish, sliced thin
As needed Pea tendrils
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1. Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan. Salt the water, then add the peas and bring the water back to a boil. Cook over moderate heat until very tender, about 4 minutes. Drain the peas, reserving the cooking liquid. Set aside 1/4 cup of peas for garnishing the bowl.
2. In a bar blender, combine the remaining peas with 1/4 cup of the olive oil and 1/4 cup of the reserved cooking liquid and puree until smooth; add more cooking liquid if necessary to make a nice, smooth soup. Work the puree through a fine sieve into a large bowl.
3. Discard the contents of the sieve.
4. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Heat only the soup needed. (If you heat the soup too long it will discolor and turn army green)
6. In a large skillet, melt the butter in the vegetable oil. Add the diced bread and brown the cubes on all sides over moderately high heat, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain the croutons on paper towels.
7. Garnish the bowl with the croutons, English peas, mint oil, parmesan, radish, pea tendrils and sea salt.
8. Pour the soup tableside for your guests to enjoy.
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1. In a medium saucepan of boiling water, blanch the mint until and bright green, about 30 seconds. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the mint to a bowl of ice water.
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A nice recognition for Project Looking Glass contributions to advance 3D desktop GUI (and Vista :-) and building a platform-independent interface to the emerging 3D Web. If you haven't tried Looking Glass, please check the latest Looking Glass 1.0 Release. Easy to install and lot of good feedbacks from the OpenSUSE and Ubuntu Linux communities.
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CC Sweeps Home-And-Home With DU
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Peter Sejna should remember his 100th career game for quite some time.
The junior from Slovakia scored twice, including the eventual game-winner, and Curtis McElhinney kept Denver in check with 30 saves as Colorado College defeated the Pioneers, 6-2, to sweep their home-and-home weekend series.
The contest, played in front of a sellout crowd at the Colorado Springs World Arena, lifts the Tigers' record to 13-1-2, 8-0-2 in the WCHA. Colorado College extended its unbeaten streak to 14 games with the victory.
The Pioneers, who have lost consecutive games for the first time since the Tigers swept them Feb. 1-2, slip to 12-4-2, 5-3-2 in conference play.
"It's great to sweep Denver," said Sejna, who added an assist and was named the first star. "They won the first two against us last year. Now we know how it feels."
Despite scoring at least six goals in a game for the sixth time this season, it was Denver that dominated play over the opening seven minutes, firing the first seven shots on goal. McElhinney denied a two-on-one breakaway with a glove save 3:15 into the contest, then thwarted another quality scoring chance four minutes later with another glove save.
"We've worked on a lot of stuff in practice that has helped," said McElhinney about his success this season. "Our defense is playing real well in front of the net."
The Tigers, meanwhile, opened the scoring at the 7:47 mark on their first shot of the game. After a scramble in front of the Pioneers' net, Sejna came out with the puck and, from his knees, wristed a shot through the legs of Denver netminder Adam Berkhoel.
Late in the first period, Colorado College doubled its lead. In the closing seconds of a five-on-three power play, Tom Preissing took a cross-ice feed from Noah Clarke, and his one-timer from a difficult angle found the top-left corner.
Denver, down two goals despite outshooting the Tigers, 10-5 in the opening period, appeared to get on the scoreboard four minutes into the second stanza. However, Ryan Caldwell's goal was waved off, as senior alternate captain Greg Barber was whistled for goaltender interference.
The Pioneers didn't stay scoreless for much longer. Less than four minutes after Caldwell's tally was disallowed, Kevin Ulanski stole the puck from James Laux behind the Tigers' net. He slipped the puck to Colorado Springs native J.J. Hartmann, whose backhand went over a prone McElhinney.
Just as Denver appeared poised to tie the contest, Sejna responded for Colorado College. With less than two minutes remaining in the second period, he took the puck at the blue line after a turnover, and fired a backhander top-shelf over Pioneers' goaltender Adam Berkhoel (19 saves).
Denver hung around early in the final period. After the Tigers' Joe Cullen notched a power-play goal 50 seconds into the frame to make the score 4-1, the Pioneers cut the deficit to two a minute later. However, that was all the visitors could get past McElhinney, who saved 11 shots in the final 20 minutes to improve his career record to 16-1-3.
"Today was just a good game for me and the team all-around," said McElhinney. "It's always nice when the team scores four or five goals a game for you."
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Victoria denies lawyers for children
We've been hearing a lot lately about the Legal Aid crisis gripping Australia.
In Victoria, judges have blasted Victoria Legal Aid for not adequately resourcing major criminal trials. In the Family Court there are worries about self-represented litigants cross-examining each other in court, even when there are allegations of domestic violence.
Now there are concerns in the Victorian Children's Court after recent changes that see children under the age of ten being barred from legal representation in child welfare cases.
Damien Carrick: Hello, welcome to the Law Report, Damien Carrick with you. First, a question of basic access to justice. We've been hearing a lot lately about the Legal Aid funding crisis all around Australia. In Victoria, Supreme and County Court judges have blasted Victoria Legal Aid for not adequately resourcing major criminal trials. In the Family Court there are worries about self-represented litigants cross examining each other in court, even when there are allegations of domestic violence that involve those very same parties.
Now there are also concerns in the Victorian Children's Court after it was recently decided that children under ten can no longer have their own lawyers in child welfare proceedings. Child welfare proceedings usually involve disputes between parents and the Department of Human Services about who is best able to care for vulnerable children. This decision to cut back on legal representation for kids is not in response to severe funding restrictions, but rather it's a deliberate policy of the Victorian government.
Howard Draper: Well, in December Legal Aid decided to stop paying for lawyers of children under the age of ten, unless they had some special circumstances I suppose. They essentially said if you're under the age of ten we're not going to give you funding to represent a child.
Damien Carrick: Howard Draper is a Victorian lawyer with 30 years experience in the Children's Court.
Howard Draper: So those of us who worked there agreed that we would represent such children essentially on a pro bono basis, and we did that until the legislation was changed in March and that legislation change was that a child under the age of ten essentially doesn't have a lawyer anymore unless there are exceptional circumstances and the court appoints a lawyer to act as an independent children's lawyer.
Damien Carrick: In the Children's Court lawyers act on the instructions of their child clients. The lawyers put to the court what the child wants. In contrast, lawyers in Family Court disputes don't put to the court what the child wants but rather what they determine is in the best interests of that child.
In January 2012 an enquiry into protecting vulnerable children, led by Justice Philip Cummins, handed down an extensive report. The Victorian government and Legal Aid Victoria both say that the March legislation implements Justice Cummins' recommendations regarding this distinction between acting on instructions and acting in the best interests. But Howard Draper sees it differently. He thinks the legislation overturns a long-standing view of the court that children should have their voices heard.
Howard Draper: The court felt that around the age of seven was the sort of age where a child was capable of giving those instructions. They formed that view on the basis of expert evidence or opinion given by the Children's Court clinical psychologist there many, many years ago, I think 20, 25 years ago. So that has been the tradition, that a child of the age of seven or a particularly capable child even younger than that, six-and-a-half or six even who is capable of giving instructions would be represented by a lawyer.
Damien Carrick: So up until now children as young as seven have been having their own legal representatives, but that situation has just changed in Victoria. What changes have been introduced?
Howard Draper: Look, the Cummins enquiry…Justice Cummins conducted a very thorough enquiry and looked at all the issues, and he made a recommendation, number 53, which was that essentially all children under the age of ten should cease to be represented on the instructions model and be represented on the best interest model. We've considered that and essentially we accept that. If that is what the government did, we would be saying that's what Justice Cummins recommended, that's a fair enough approach to take because there are difficulties in acting for children under the age of ten. In fact there are difficulties acting for anyone, quite frankly, but the younger they are the more difficult it can get because clearly young children perhaps don't understand the issues, perhaps aren't all that realistic sometimes, and if Justice Cummins has made that recommendation we are quite prepared to accept that.
The difficulty now is that the government has taken away the right completely, unless there are exceptional circumstances, and my experience so far is that exceptional means exceptional, like one in 50 or whatever, one in 100. We believe that if you are going to adopt Justice Cummins' recommendations you should adopt all of them, which is that every child under the age of ten should be represented on the best interest model.
Damien Carrick: Now, can you tell me about some of your clients and why you think this change to the law would not be in their best interests?
Howard Draper: As a lawyer I have a fundamental problem with taking away the right to representation because the current legislation still says that the court has to satisfy itself that the child can participate in the proceedings and understand the proceedings, understand the orders made and participate fully in the proceedings. Without a lawyer they can't do that, and at this stage…I mean, the court is doing absolutely nothing to satisfy itself that the child is able to participate or understand or have any idea of what's going on in court, they are simply shut out entirely.
Damien Carrick: Howard Draper says many of his young clients are feeling the effects of these changes.
Howard Draper: We're not just talking about children who have recently been appointed a lawyer. I have clients that I might have represented for one, two or three years because I started representing them when they were six-and-a-half or seven and they are now nine-and-a-half, nearly ten, and I have to say to them, sorry, you might have had a lawyer all this time, you don't have one now, sorry, your older brother and sister may have a lawyer but you don't get one. I can't even do it pro bono, I can't even do it as a friend of the court, I just can't do it.
Damien Carrick: Tell me about some of your clients, in a de-identified way.
Howard Draper: Well, for instance I had a situation where I represented three children from one family, two girls who were older, they were 16, one was a little boy about the age of nine. It was a situation where there was domestic violence. The father had been abusive to the mother in the presence of the children. The older girls said to me, well, yes, there are problems, mum and dad shouldn't be together, we don't want to live with both of them, they are separated now, but we don't mind seeing dad, he is okay with us, he treats us well, we want to go and visit him, stay with him. That's all good.
The little boy on the other hand said, well no, I'm scared because of what dad has been doing in front of me to my mother, I'm scared to even see him at all, let alone in a supervised capacity. Now, the reality is that I had to represent the two girls' interests because they were 16 and they still had a lawyer and I had to abandon the little boy and he didn't have a voice in court. So there was no one in court to tell the court what his fears were, what his concerns were. The court was going to hear that the 'children' wanted to see their father, they weren't going to hear that the nine-year-old was scared of their father.
Damien Carrick: And what happened in that case?
Howard Draper: Well, luckily he turned ten before any final decisions were made, so he got a lawyer, and I kind of manipulated it so that that would be the case. I adjourned it long enough so that he would turn ten, he could get a lawyer and he could say that. So that wasn't so bad, but if he had have been eight it would have been so bad, in my view. Sure, the mother and whoever might have said to the court, hang on, the little boy is not the same as the older sisters, but it's much better if he's got his own lawyer who can say those things and ensure that the appropriate orders are made.
Damien Carrick: And presumably there are a lot of kids who are not on the cusp of turning ten.
Howard Draper: Absolutely. I've got a little girl who has been placed out of the care of her mother a long time ago because her mother had drug issues, mental health issues and all the rest of it, she is living with her aunt. That aunt developed her own mental health issues and drug issues, she was removed from the care of her aunt. Her father is either dead or off the scene completely, I can't remember, there are no other family members. So this little girl was placed into foster care.
Her mother doesn't have a voice, her aunt doesn't have a voice in the sense that they don't come to court to put any point of view, they are so dysfunctional they are not coming to court. So this little girl is going through the system without any lawyer to say what she wants or what she doesn't want, whether she is happy where she is, whether there are other family members she could live with, whether she would like to go back to the aunt if the aunt just got some treatment for her mental health issues, and so on and so forth. She's just sitting back wondering what is going on.
Damien Carrick: As, what, Department of Human Services caseworkers tell the court what they think is in her best interests?
Howard Draper: Correct.
Damien Carrick: Maybe the argument could be put that they are best placed to tell the court what the options are and what her best interests are.
Howard Draper: You'd hope so but unfortunately it's not always the case. They are busy, they've got a high workload, they've got to talk to a lot of people. If they do an apprehension, for instance, which means they take a child into custody and bring it to court and say the child has to be removed from the family, they might have to talk to 20 people in the course of one evening—the police, the family, the grandparents, the aunts, the uncles, the parents themselves, whoever, the school, the doctors, everything—and the child often comes a distant third or fourth or 20th in the list of people that they really take proper instructions from. And it's a very highly emotional time, a crisis time, and everyone is upset. It's very hard to get a clear view from a young child as to what they want.
I can tell you of a specific example, it wasn't me but it was a colleague of mine who was asked to speak to a child when we were doing a pro bono, the child was eight, the department's view was that she was too scared to even come to court, she was so scared of her parents because of the domestic violence and everything that had happened recently. My colleague went to the DHS office, spoke to the child who not only said, 'No, I'm not actually scared of my mother anyway, I want to live with and I miss her greatly and I'd be very sad if I wasn't placed with my mother.' My colleague went back to the court, had to run a contest because the department said the child should be out of the parents' care. He ran the contest, the child went back to the care of the mother and by all accounts it has worked out very well for everybody. Now, without that voice, that child would most certainly have been placed in foster care and most certainly the mother would still be trying to get the child back into her care and most certainly it wouldn't have worked out very well.
Damien Carrick: Do you have clients who are in foster care as well?
Howard Draper: Oh yes, lots and lots. I couldn't tell you the numbers.
Damien Carrick: Foster care is somewhere which is designed to be safe, away from perhaps dysfunctional families, but do you have clients who tell you otherwise?
Howard Draper: Oh yes. If you want another example of a child under the age of ten, I saw him recently, he'd just turned eight, I saw him on a pro bono basis a little while ago. He said to me, 'Well, as a matter of fact I'm very, very, very unhappy where I am. I am scapegoated, they wash my mouth out with soap, they do all sorts of nasty things to me, I'm very unhappy at school, no one is doing anything about it, my siblings bully me, no one is doing anything about it.' The best I could do in that situation was alert the department to the issues, which I did at court. They've done a quality of care assessment. They say that they are working on the situation and it's a lot better than was described to me by my client a couple of months ago. And the next thing I can do is write to the Children's Commissioner and raise those issues, because one of his roles is to look at children in care. Again, if that child hadn't spoken to me, no one would know anything.
Damien Carrick: And as of March you can't act for him and you can't instigate proceedings in the Children's Court.
Howard Draper: Correct. But I can tell you of another example of a child who was placed in foster care, and that child…it hasn't been proven but from what the child says and what my understanding of what the investigation is that she was probably sexually abused in foster care. If a child doesn't have a voice, the child can't talk to their lawyer about what's happening, isn't it more likely to happen than if the child does have a lawyer?
Damien Carrick: Why is this happening? Is it simply a question of resources?
Howard Draper: The short answer is we don't really know. There has been a push from certain powers that be, I guess, in government areas, like the department and perhaps other areas, to say that children under the age of ten shouldn't be represented because they don't really understand what's happening.
Damien Carrick: There's a sense, isn't there, that perhaps lawyers acting for children complicate a situation, they just make the situation a lot more litigious and difficult and it's not the best way of resolving a problem or working out the best solution.
Howard Draper: Lawyers, we are not litigious because we think it's amusing, we are not litigious because we think it makes us more money, we desperately try to resolve matters in a collaborative fashion. The court has a system of new model conferences. Why are they new? Because the old model wasn't that good, they brought in a new model and we participate in them, and we work to resolve matters. Lawyers only litigate something when we have to. We only litigate something or argue about something if our client expresses to us that they have a genuine issue that needs to be resolved, and if the other parties aren't prepared to talk about it we will try and force them to talk about it through mediation, and if necessary we will take it to contest.
Damien Carrick: Realistically there is not a big bag of money which is about to be thrown at Legal Aid.
Howard Draper: No.
Damien Carrick: Do you see this changing at all?
Howard Draper: Well, Justice Cummins would like it to change. He said funding has to be increased dramatically, and I've got to say the Legal Aid funding deficit is around $3 million this year I believe, that's what they say.
Damien Carrick: In the Children's Court?
Howard Draper: No, all over, everywhere, in the whole state, which isn't much, quite frankly. I don't know what Justice Cummins' report cost the state of Victoria. I do know that it wasn't the only report. There was a Law Reform Commission report, there has been other reports. I'm guessing those reports in total over the last two or three years have cost far in excess of the $3 million. $3 million is a drop in the ocean. Anyway, having said that, no, no one is going to throw money at us because it doesn't seem to be of any political advantage to anybody.
Damien Carrick: Howard Draper, a lawyer who has been working in the Victorian Children's Court for the last 30 years.
I'm Damien Carrick and you're listening to the Law Report, broadcast each week on RN, ABC News Radio and Radio Australia.
- Howard Draper
- Victorian lawyer with thirty years' experience in the Children's Court
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Comments (8)
me :
22 May 2013 12:52:17pm
Thankyou for your continuing coverage of Legal Aid & CLC funding disaster.
What a cruel & false economy it is to take representation, phone advice & systemic advocacy from the most vulnerable in a complex & alienating system. Piling injustice on injustice will blow up in our face &/or pull us down into the depths of cracks full of despair so complete it is death.
Marney MacDonald from ALECOMM. :
23 May 2013 8:48:49am
i couldn't have said it better myself. and thankyou too ABC for this coverage.
NSW is much the same. Women only receive 26% of the funding of legal aid, and many of these women are being denied representation in child proteciton proceedings, even when they have won their cases to have children returned home.
If child protection had 50% of funds cut and given to the parents for legal aid, instead of the workers it would be a much fairer system and many children would benefit as a result.
crank :
31 May 2013 9:59:35am
The plain truth is that each new generation of Rightist regimes, here in the states and with Abbott to come and overseas, particularly in the Anglosphere, is more hate-ridden and vengefully vicious than those that came before. The targets of this positive lust to harm others and do them ill are principally welfare recipients, environmentalists, refugees, unionists, the low-paid etc, but a little sally to harm the interests of litigants in our fraudulent 'injustice' system brings its own peculiar pathopsychological rewards. And we ain't seen nothing yet-when Tony 'Mr Austerity' Abbott and his henchmen are finished, you will not recognise this country, unless you've been to the UK or USA lately.
Paul McDonald :
23 May 2013 10:02:40am
Hi Damian, I have just heard your segment in relation to the Children,s court. Firstly congratulations on the Law report choosing to cover the issues. However whilst howard draper is a fine Children's Court lawyer, your exploration of the issues of children unser 10 not receiving representation and wider children court matters was very one sided and under informed. Its great to spend 15 minutes on the much neglected issues of the Children's Court, but interviewing just one person on the topic did not pay due consideration of some of the issues for what is a generous amount of radio time. As the former head of the Child Protection program in Victoria and now CEO of the state's largest foster care organisation I think a more well rounded approach to the topic seeking a view from the dept, Commissioner office or elsewhere may of also shed light on the shortfalls of what howard was proposing. Kind regards Paul McDonald
Charles Bellis :
24 May 2013 3:15:47am
With the legal aid funding crisis, now might be a good time to examine new and different ways of dealing with the laws relating to children. The present adversarial system is already highly disadvantageous to parents, it rarely reaches conclusions in the best interests of children, and is a hugely costly process. In Family Law cases parents are thrown immediately into high conflict by the system, rather than seeking conciliation and cooperation, and children are denied a reasonable opportunity to participate in the decision-making processes which will determine their future lives.
Replacing it with a Inquisitorial system would have many advantages, particularly for the children and young people involved and would be far less costly by minimising legal representation and the engagement of pseudo-professional expertise.
crank :
31 May 2013 10:06:02am
Charles, the 'adversarial' system is central to Rightwing psychopathology. In their perverted and desructive worldview, all social and inter-personal relations are adversarial. Their ideal society is the 'bellum omnium contra omnes', with everybody divided into 'winners' and 'losers'. That's why they worship competition and loathe co-operation and collaboration. Competition doesn't bring the best results-it divides people into the victors and the vanquished. It justifies the growing and deepening inequality seen in all late capitalist societies, of wealth, income, opportunity and general well-being. The Right prefer this system, and have been relentless in destroying any other types of social arrangements that have appeared on earth throughout history, because they fear and hate others.
Allan Gardiner :
31 May 2013 8:08:33am
Given the fact that a child below the age of 10 in Australia cannot be charged with a criminal offence, one can so easily draw the inference that the Victorian government, in attempting to redress the balance somewhat, has now -- by the same tok_en'joined --determined that its authority won't be offended against by being charged with fees.
This predicament of children below the age of 10 in Victoria now no longer being represented by a lawyer will definitely not endure as does always a sound law proven, and accordingly, I can only grant the Victorian legislators a minimal mark well below 10 out of ten_tative.
Isabel Field :
02 Jul 2014 10:20:18am
ICL's throughout Australia are worthless. In some places, they are also corrupt.


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