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- TCAL roundup: Valley Christian edges St. Mary's in overtime
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Shawn Hessler threw for 207 yards and two touchdowns and Zack Fulks ran for 116 yards and a touchdown to lead the Las Lomas High football team to a 30-14 win over Dublin on Friday night.
The visiting Knights (5-2, 3-0 DFAL) piled up 460 yards of offense on the night, overmatching Dublin.
It took more than a half for the Knights to seize control, however. The first quarter was scoreless and it was after Fulks intercepted a Josh Nobida pass and returned it 25 yards to the Gael 13 early in the second quarter that Las Lomas got on the board.
That came on the ensuing play when Hessler hit Johnny Marinchak on a pretty pass to the left corner of the end zone.
It was still 7-0 late in the half when the Knights faced a third-and-20 at their own 41. Hessler hit Fulks on a quick dump at the line and Fulks did the rest, weaving his way through the Dublin defense for 48 yards. Jack Kane followed with an 11-yard run for the touchdown.
A six-play, 74-yard drive on Las Lomas' first possession of the second half resulted in a 5-yard run by Fulks for the touchdown.
E.J. Crosse rushed for 76 yards for the Gaels. Nobida finished 16 of 34 for 161 yards and two touchdowns against the one interception.
Miramonte 41, Acalanes 28: On their Homecoming night, the Matadors jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter thanks to a Drew Anderson seven-yard run and a 28-yard strike to senior Dominic Paoletti.
After a Clayton Stehr 18-yard touchdown reception, the Dons countered with a Casey Harrington nine-yard QB keeper.
With the Dons threatening to score in the second quarter, Peter Mitchell fumbled at the Miramonte 10-yard line. It only took the Mats two plays to find the end zone on the ensuing drive: A Will Fuller 40-yard catch and a Ryan Clark screen pass that went for 50 yards.
The Dons roared back in the third quarter when Mitchell rushed for a 61-yard touchdown. On the following Miramonte possession, John Lauth intercepted Drew Anderson's pass and ran it back for a touchdown.
The Matadors put it away for good in the fourth quarter with a methodical 12-play drive that spanned 4:42 and was capped off with a Clark one-yard rushing touchdown to make it 35-21 with 8:54 left.
Clark finished with 218 rushing yards and three touchdowns (one receiving) on 22 carries. Mitchell rushed the ball 20 times for 169 yards and a touchdown. Stehr had three catches for 46 yards and also came up with an interception in the third quarter.
-- Erik Stordahl, correspondent
Alhambra 40, Dougherty Valley 37: The Bulldogs withstood a team bus mechanical problem and a power
outage to emerge with a victory over Dougherty Valley.
"It was a weird night," Alhambra coach Alan Hearn said, "Our bus breaks, the lights go out, but we
had a lot of guys step up tonight to get us the win."
Nobody stepped up bigger than Bulldogs' quarterback Joshua Evans, who passed for 328 yards and three scores and also rushed for 55 yards and a touchdown.
Evans threw for two of his touchdowns in a decisive 18-0 run to end the first half that saw Alhambra turn a 21-6 deficit into a 26-21 halftime lead.
In the second half, after a Kinean Weekes field goal trimmed the lead to 26-24, Evans would go to work again, finding Grant Hill on a 20-yard score for a 33-24 lead. Evans would then find the end zone on a 8-yard keeper after the Bulldogs blocked a Wildcat punt attempt, putting Alhambra up 40-24.
It was then Dougherty Valley's turn to go on a run, cutting the gap to 40-30 on Michael Pangelinan's second score of the night. After the getting the ball back, Umar Farooq found Robert Sullivan on a 27-yard catch and run to pull the Wildcats within 40-37 with just 1:53 left.
But that would be as far as Dougherty Valley would come back as Gideon Folau fell on the Wildcats' onside kick attempt.
Pangelinan led Dougherty Valley with 137 yards rushing and two scores and Julian Williams also scored two touchdowns.
Monte Cabrera was Evan's favorite target of the night, hauling in seven passes for 101 yards and two scores.
Hill added six catches and 91 yards for Alhambra.
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Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011, 09:02 PM #1
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Top 5 Sales - Q3 2011 Analysis
Top 5 RPGs Third Quarter 2011
In an ongoing Duel of the Fates, the two major Fantasy RPG lines have vied for the top position on the sales charts for some time now. The latest quarter for which results are available, 3rd Quarter, 2011, marks the first time that the Pathfinder RPG has held claim to the #1 position for two successive quarters.
For decades, the #1 selling RPG has always been Dungeons and Dragons, only briefly losing a claim to the top position to Vampire: The Masquerade during TSRs so-called Time of Troubles just prior to the sale of that company to Wizards of the Coast. Last year, D&Ds reign as the #1 RPG was challenged again, as Paizo Publishing LLCs Pathfinder RPG was declared by industry trade magazine ICV2 to have moved into a tie position with WotCs Dungeons and Dragons in the third quarter of 2010.
In the 4th quarter of 2010 and again in the 1st quarter of 2011, Wizards of the Coasts Dungeons and Dragons was adjudged by ICV2 to be the #1 selling RPG in the hobby games retail market, with Paizos Pathfinder in the #2 position.
Earlier this summer, just prior to Gencon, trade magazine ICV2 reported Pathfinder as the #1 selling RPG by sales in the 2nd quarter of 2011.
Today, ICV2 published its findings for the 3rd quarter of 2011, once again confirming Paizo as being in the #1 sales position among retailers in the hobby games market.
The results are collected by ICV2 by way of telephone polls and inquiries of retailers, and distributors. ICV2 does release their proprietary polling data nor their methodology or weighting of store data.
In some respects, given the relatively modest number of new titles released by Wizards of the Coast for the D&D game during 2011, it would be a shock if Pathfinder wasn't in the #1 position. Put another way, in order to win a Formula 1 title, a racing team normally has to field a number of cars in each race. The reduced publication schedule pursued by WotC in 2011 for the D&D brand has almost certainly had a negative impact on the overall sales figures for the game at retail.
Moreover, as fans of either brand are quick to point out, the numbers do not reflect direct sales by either of Wizards of the Coast or Paizo Publishing LLC. WotC has a large number of subscribers to its DDI subscription service, ranging in price from $5.95 per month for annual subscribers with quarterly subscribers paying $7.95 per month. One-off monthly sales are charged a one-time fee of $9.95 for one months access to the DDI service.
In contrast, Paizo offers a far larger number of its product lines to customers to subscribe to every month as well as a large volume of sales to non-subscribers . Moreover, even the cheapest subscription price for any one of Paizos many product lines exceeds the highest one-off monthly cost charged by WotC for access to DDI.
Overall, given its extensive subscription business model and its many different product lines sold through its webstore, Paizos revenue per subscriber is probably significantly higher than that that earned by WotC from its own subscribers. In order for the volume of direct sales to be large enough to tip the scales back in its favour as the top selling RPG, it is likely that WotCs DDI subscriber base would have to be many times larger than the monthly subscribers and other customers of Paizos online webstore to make up the difference in terms of revenue per customer. To date, there is no evidence of that, one way or the other. Neither WotC nor Paizo discloses its internal direct sales figures.
In the end, the ongoing duel between the Dungeons and Dragons and the Pathfinder brands for a claim to the title of the #1 selling RPG will inevitably continue into the next quarter and beyond, with fans of either brand claiming that each quarters results are definitive, or not, as each camp of fans may prefer over time.
If there is a loser during this ongoing epic struggle for market dominance, that loser would appear to be both the hobby games retailers and to a lesser extent, the distributors of RPGs. The hobby games specialty retailer already faces withering price competition from large online resellers of hobby games like Amazon. As the competition for the consumers dollar moves increasingly to a direct sales distribution model, both distributors and specialty retailers alike seem destined to see their overall customer base for RPGs decline -- instead of grow -- absent a large influx of new gamers to the hobby.
I'm uncertain as to how that sales model benefits the RPG hobby as a whole in the longterm. New customers to the RPG hobby need to be exposed to the game in order to first become a customer. It seems to me that customer acquisition through direct sales is unlikely to be a model for longterm market success. My expectation is that the RPG hobby games business simply cannot function in the longterm without a significant retail presence to maintain customer awareness and to provide a gateway to the RPG hobby. This is especially important when trying to sell RPGs to younger gamers who do not own a credit card to even be able to purchase RPG products online.
Whether that significant retail presence will continue -- and to what degree -- remains an open question.
Top Five RPG Sales
3rd Quarter 2010: ICv2 - Top 5 RPGs--Q3 2010
4th Quarter 2010: ICv2 - Top 5 Roleplaying Games--Q4 2010
1st Quarter 2011: ICv2 - Top 5 RPGs--Q1 2011
2nd Quarter 2011: ICv2 - Top 5 RPGs--Q2 2011
3rd Quarter 2011: ICv2 - Top 5 RPGs--Summer 2011
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Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011, 10:18 PM #2
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Re: Top 5 Sales - Q3 2011 Analysis
As I see it, it becomes the responsibility of various gaming clubs to expose the hobby to more & more new people. The sales, as such, haven't really been the driving force of the growth of the industry. With little real advertising outside of the hobby, new players were always drawn in by friends providing the exposure. Everybody I know was introduced by a person. I have only recently met anybody who sought out anybody to learn the hobby from. That was ONLY because I started an OGREs chapter on my college campus. Over half of my members are console gamers that are wanting to try out tabletop games. That shocked me, as most people complain about video games stealing players. as soon as my chapter becomes official, I want to try & organize some kind of event/con within the next year. That is the way to expose people to the hobby.
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Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011, 11:01 PM #3
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This would've never happened if WotC followed the "3.75" model Pathfinder did instead of hitting the "RESET" button on everything.
Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011, 11:03 PM #4
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It is interesting to read their overall summary: "Paizos Pathfinder, #1 in the roleplaying game category, continued to gain momentum, with sharp differences in the number of releases between It and WotCs category-defining Dungeons and Dragons. Some retailers told ICv2 of differences between the customers of the two games, with D&D 4.0 appealing to new players and people that dont want to get super-involved in an RPG, and Pathfinder the choice of players that want to spend more time on playing."
That seems consistent with what Encounters might provide WotC in terms of sales, bringing casual players into stores. Also, 4E is generally seen as a more friendly and easier to master rules set than Paizo's version of 3E. The intro boxed set might change that, of course, and both companies have reason to worry that the wall of books they have for their games can be intimidating even with intro sets.
For stores, it seems organized play may increase as a way to promote the game. Play-anywhere Pathfinder Society is clearly a big point of emphasis for Paizo. And store-only Encounters is no slouch at all (and Lair Assault extends this). Other RPGs would love to have either program.
One of the big questions remains whether we could ever get some sort of comparison between DDI subscribers and Paizo subscribers. It is really hard to get any decent data, though there have been some that think the DDI base is pretty enormous and the number of new sign-ups per month (due to Encounters?) substantial. The reality is that we just don't know for sure.
A much more important question is whether this competition is good for the two companies and for the RPG industry as a whole. It seems it has been good for Paizo and WotC, helping them make better products. It also seems to produce some different approaches. For example, D&D closes its collectible mini line, Paizo opens one up, D&D opens up a non-collectible line. That may be healthy for both companies and the industry as a whole (compare/contrast to 3rd Edition's start and how it seemed to turn all other RPGs into d20 versions... many saw this as a low period for the industry). ICV2 says the summer was good for stores all around, so it suggests that all is well in this competitive landscape.
For me, on a personal level, the "edition wars" have been good for innovation but very bad for gamers. The wars create rifts in the gaming population, preventing many players from seeing the other innovations. D&D players really should be seeing what Pathfinder has to offer and vice-versa, instead of being blind to the benefits of the "other" game. But, perhaps that opens them up to trying out other RPGs and presumably those can learn from both Paizo and WotC.
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DarkHeresy/Deathwatch/RogueTrader on the 3rd spot. Huzzaah. If you haven't checked it out you really should
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I'm glad to see Shadowrun in the top 5. I love that game.
Now if I could just find people to play it with.
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Shannon Applecline wrote a piece a few days ago discussing the top selling RPGs over the years. Shannon has written a number of really good columns examining the history of gaming companies and recently published a book on the history of all the major RPG companies.
In this latest article he shares data he gathered on the most popular RPGs over the years. It can be interesting to see how various lines (such as Shadowrun mentioned above) improve or worsen in popularity over time. It is also interesting to note how in the 90s you could still see an 11 year-old Fiend Folio, whereas in 2010 no release is older than 3 years.
He also provides data from three large stores for their 2010 top selling RPGs. It is interesting to note the variance across each store (Gamma World boosters were #2 at EndGame???!!! That store has a pretty big variety!). The numbers show a strong 2010 D&D dominance, though this clearly sets Shannon up to write an interesting piece (if he can get some better data) for 2011 and how Pathfinder has done. I hope the same three stores can share their data (as well as others) for a great 2011-2010 comparison.
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The foreword of that book can be found here among other places, I am sure, but it raises the question, if this is the "post d20 market" as the author contends, why do the sales figures seem to indicate that d20 games are still the overwhelming dominators of the market?
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That doesn't surprise me at all. I've posted several times in older threads that I had noticed Rogue Trader suddenly having a huge spike in interest here in the local area. I know that different areas can be (and often are) vastly different in what sells and what doesn't, but the sudden surge of popularity for the game here seemed like more than just a local fluke. I don't play the game, but I know plenty of people who do.
In general -both here at home and elsewhere I've traveled over the past year- I've noticed quite a few non-D&D rpgs gaining steam. Right now, none of them are anywhere near a position to challenge for the number 1 spot. However, my point in bringing it up is to say that gamers (both old and new) seem more willing to think outside the red box when it comes to their rpg experiences. I feel that's a good thing.


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Second place: V-Que, Spartanburg
Third place: Mac's Smoke Shop, Charlotte, N.C.
First place: The Trough Boys, Mauldin
Second place: St. Louis Pit-Que, Moore
Third place: Bud's BBQ Shack, Spartanburg
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Thirty-five teams competed in three categories: brisket, ribs and butt. Berry Patch, a two-man team from Newberry, took top honors in the overall category and also won third place in the ribs category.
It was the first time Brandon Turner and Jamie Motts won in an overall division, although they've won smaller categories in other contests. The lifelong friends have been cooking together for two years and said they're most proud of their ribs since they make their own rub.
"It's a great feeling," Turner said just after receiving his trophy. "There are a lot of good teams out here, so it means a lot. A lot of heart goes into our cooking."
Spartanburg brothers Grey and Cal Wicker organized the event, with the help of sponsors.
"The level of competition was all over the board," Grey Wicker said. "Each team was extremely talented, and they all had their strengths. We had people out here with patio grills, some with campers, pop-up tent; it ran the gamut. We had a very talented and very competitive group."
Lake High, a South Carolina Barbecue Association master judge and marshal, said the event was unique in that about a third of the teams were first-time competitors. Thirty-five judges rated them on appearance, aroma, tenderness and texture, taste, and overall impression.
"If the weather would have been a little better, they would've had two or three times the crowd because this was well-organized and everybody seemed to have a great time," High said. "Everyone was in good spirits — lots of good-natured people who like to cook."
Wicker said the event likely will become an annual one, growing each year.
It was too early late Saturday to predict how much was raised, although early estimates were the event brought in thousands for Mobile Meals.
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Tchotchkes, Smchotchkes: Oracle Wearable Tech Meetup #OOW14
By Ultan O'Broin Oracle UX-Oracle Paas4SaaS-Oracle on Sep 21, 2014
If you've got an Oracle OpenWorld or JavaOne 2014 pass of any sort, then drop into the OTN Lounge on Tuesday, September 30, for the Dress Code 2.0 - Wearables Meetup. Here's more about the event:
Come along in your wearables best and share your wearables experiences, meet the UX team and friends, see some cool innovation, and find out how to do more with wearables using Oracle technology. You can also your hands on some "tchotchkes" (yes, I had to look it up too).
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Foreign Banks Account for Nearly Half of Reserves at Fed Due to FDIC Changes
Because of changes in charges levied by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., foreign banks accounted for almost half of the reserves held at the U.S. Federal Reserve in December, according to a paper published by the Bank for International Settlements Sunday.
Written by BIS economists Robert McCauley and Patrick McGuire, the paper says that "perhaps counterintuitively," the Fed's bond buying program led to "a massive inflow" of bank funds into the U.S. as the U.S. branches of foreign banks took advantage of a risk-free opportunity to make a small profit. The branches raised dollars abroad with the aim of holding them as reserves at the Fed, where they earned interest.
After the FDIC's decision to levy fees not just on deposits but also on banks' short-term borrowings from April 2011, the U.S. branches of foreign banks that didn't pay the charge had a competitive advantage, the two economists said that.
"With wholesale rates of 10 basis points or less, the new FDIC charge made bidding for such funds and parking them at the Fed at 25 basis points unattractive for many US-chartered banks but not to the US branches of foreign banks, which pay no FDIC fee," they wrote.
According to the authors, at the end of 2013 these foreign bank branches held almost $1 trillion of the $2.2 trillion in reserves at the Fed, or 43% of the total. They did that largely by reversing their traditional role as providers of dollar funds to other parts of their bank group. Before the financial crisis, foreign bank branches had borrowed from U.S. money market mutual funds to fund their parent banks. But according to the authors, having been net lenders to their offices outside the U.S. to the tune of $400 billion, by the end of last year they had become net borrowers of $200 billion.
"Seemingly small differences in regulation across banks from different jurisdictions can trigger huge and rapid adjustments in bank behavior and balance sheets," the economists conclude.
The authors speculate that the Fed's recent experiment with its repurchase agreement program, or "reverse repo" facility, could similarly alter foreign bank behavior, since it could reduce the attractiveness of holding reserves at the central bank.
"Just as the uptake of claims on the Fed by branches of banks headquartered outside the United States led to large changes in the global dollar flow of funds, so too could the Fed's draining of its excess reserves," the economists said.
In publishing the paper in its quarterly review, the BIS said the views expressed reflect those of the authors, and not necessarily the institution.


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17th Annual Law Review Symposium on Antitrust Law "The FTC: 100 Years of Antitrust and Competition Policy"
Event Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Location: Le Méridien Arlington1121 19th Street N, Arlington, VA 22209
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The proceedings of this symposium were published in the George Mason Law Review, vol. 21, no. 5 (2014).
Law Review Program Co-Sponsored by the LEC
Program Description: The George Mason Law Review and the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law proudly present the George Mason Law Review 17th Annual Antitrust Symposium "The FTC: 100 Years of Antitrust and Competition Policy." In commemoration of the Federal Trade Commission's centennial, the symposium will focus on the FTC's unique contributions to the development antitrust policy. The symposium will feature an opening keynote address by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez and a keynote lunch panel featuring several former FTC Chairs including Jon Leibowitz, Timothy J. Muris, and James C. Miller III. The remainder of the day will consist of panel discussions on the Commission's role in several developing areas of antitrust and will feature the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Commissioner Julie Brill, Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, and Commissioner Joshua D. Wright.
Opening Keynote Address
The Honorable Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, Federal Trade Commission
Intellectual Property and Antitrust
The Honorable Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
John "Jay" Jurata, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP
C. Scott Hemphill, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Moderator: James C. Cooper, Director, Research and Policy, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law
William Blumenthal, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Chetan Sanghvi, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Luncheon Panel
Keynote Panelists:
Jon D. Leibowitz, Partner, David Polk & Wardwell LLP
Timothy J. Muris, Of Counsel, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; George Mason University Foundation Professor, George Mason University School of Law
James C. Miller III, Senior Advisor, Husch Blackwell LLP
State and Professional Restriants
The Honorable Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law
Thomas G. Krattenmaker, Formerly Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and Formerly Dean, William & Mary Law School
Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, Director of the Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program, New York Univeristy School of Law
Section 5 Policy
The Honorable Joshua D. Wright, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Sharis A. Pozen, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Justin "Guz" Hurwitz, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebrasksa College of Law
Carl W. Hittinger, Partner, DLA Piper and Co-Chair, US Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group
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Oh My Teen discusses Straw House Wood House Brick House Blow, a collection of four short stories all composed on an iPhone by Daniel Nayeri. Following the discussion there will be a question and answer session with the author via text. Oh My Teen book group is a program for teens that meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the Trails West branch library. Copies are available for checkout at the branch library.
Straw House: A Western sizzling with suspense, set in a land where a rancher grows soulless humans and a farmer grows living toys.
Wood House: A science-fiction tale plunges the reader into a future where reality and technology blend imperceptibly, and a teenage girl must race to save the world from a nano-revolution.
Brick House: A detective story set in modern NYC features a squad of "wish police" and a team of unlikely detectives.
Blow: A comedic love story told by none other than Death himself, portrayed here as a handsome and charismatic hero who may steal your heart in more ways than one.


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A new hire was sworn in as a Stockton police officer Tuesday, increasing the force to 347 sworn officers.
Gary Galbreath worked for the University of the Pacific Police Department at the McGeorge School of Law campus in Sacramento before coming to Stockton.
He graduated from the Sacramento Regional Public Safety Training Center in November.
Galbreath began reporting to Capt. Scott Meadors in the field operations division Tuesday.
The department was able to hire Galbreath with funds from a federal grant that will eventually pay for 17 positions.
Two other new officers were sworn in last month.
Officer Joe Silva of the Stockton Police Department said Tuesday that the goal is get up to the department's authorized staff level of 363 officers.
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Pakistan's One UN Programme (OP I) was signed on 4 February 2009 in the presence of the UN Secretary General and the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Initially for a two-year period from 2009 to 2010, OP I was extended until December 2012 by mutual agreement of the Government of Pakistan and the UN.
About UNDP in Pakistan
UNDP is a key development partner supporting the Government of Pakistan in achieving its own development objectives as well as the internationally agreed anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNDP promotes transformational change by fostering strategic partnerships with national counterparts in the federal, provincial and regional governments, civil society, the private sector and the local and international community. UNDP supports transformational change by providing technical assistance focusing on developing capacity within national and local authorities, providing solutions with strong monitoring and evaluation tools, and delivering programs with maximum efficiency, transparency and accountability.
The ultimate goal of UNDP is to improve the lives of the people of Pakistan through the broad thematic areas of democratic governance, environment and climate change, crisis prevention and recovery, development policy, poverty reduction and the empowerment of women.
What do we want to accomplish?
UNDP is working with the Government of Pakistan, civil society, national partners and the people of Pakistan to help find solutions to persistent development challenges. We work to build lasting institutional capacity, provide technical expertise to improve development outcomes, and help link the Government and people of Pakistan to innovative global solutions in areas such as improved data quality and collection, better environmental management, climate change finance and adaptation, strong and accountable governance mechanisms and capacities to respond effectively to conflict and disasters.
We continue to provide strong policy advice and advocacy on normative UN issues such as gender equality, tackling social and economic inequality, human rights and the rule of law. In responding to natural and man-made disasters and crises, UNDP works closely with the National, Provincial and District Disaster Management Authorities for strengthening, capacity building and risk reduction response systems throughout Pakistan.
UNDP Pakistan promotes transformational change by fostering strategic partnerships with national counterparts in the federal, provincial and regional governments, civil society, the private sector, and the local and international community. UNDP Pakistan supports this change by providing technical assistance focusing on enhancing capacity within national and local authorities, developing solutions with strong monitoring and evaluation tools, and delivering programs with maximum efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
What are our results?
Some key results include assistance and support to 5.5 million people in more than 4,000 villages affected by the 2010 floods from activities aimed at strengthening resilience, rehabilitating communities and restoring livelihoods.
UNDP Pakistan supported the Election Commission of Pakistan in the training of 330,000 polling staff officials to ensure credibility of the polling process for the 2013 General Elections. More than 17,000 police officials were trained in election security. Around 40 million people were reached through a voter education campaign via the media, social media and Civil Society Organizations. For the first time in Pakistan, an elections results database was created containing results from polling stations.
Our Rule of Law programme takes a holistic view of the justice sector involving all the key government and non-government stakeholders.
We supported the Ministry of Climate Change and other stakeholders in developing the first ever National Climate Change Policy for Pakistan.
Who are the decision makers?
The Resident Coordinator heads the UN System in Pakistan and is also the Resident Representative for UNDP in Pakistan. The UNDP Country Office in Pakistan is led by the Country Director Mr. Marc-André Franche supported by Ms. Tracy Vienings, Deputy Country Director Programmes and Mr. Vitalie Muntean, Deputy Country Director Operations.
There are four programme units in the Country Office: Crisis Prevention and Recovery; Environment and Climate Change; Democratic Governance and a Development Policy Unit, each headed by an Assistant Country Director.
UNDP works with the Government of Pakistan and respective ministries and through our designated counterpart, the Economic Affairs Division (EAD) of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs. All UNDP Pakistan activities mentioned in the Country Programme Action Plan are approved by the Government of Pakistan.
Current Staff Count for Pakistan
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|Electoral Cycle Support to the Election Commission of Pakistan
|Electoral Cycle Support to the Election Commission of Pakistan
Contact UNDP in PakistanMedia Enquiries Phone: +92-51-835-5600
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Linda Beckman
Personal Information
California School of Professional Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Los Angeles Campus
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Alliant International University Los Angeles
1000 South Fremont Ave, unit #5
Alhambra CA 91803
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
Research Practicum I, II and III, Social Bases of Behavior, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Women's health; substance abuse; population psychology; social-psychological models in health promotion.
Harvey, S. M., Beckman, L. J., Gerend, M. A., Thorburn, S., Posner, S., Huszti, H. C., & Galavotti, C. (2006). A conceptual model of women's condom use intentions: Integrating intrapersonal and relationship factors. AIDS Care, 18, 698-709.
Beckman, L.J. & Harvey, S.M. (2005) Current reproductive technologies: Increased access and choice? Journal of Social Issues, 61,1-20. (reprinted in Stombler, M. Baunach, D. Burgess, E., Donnelly, D., & Simonds, W, [Eds.] (2007). Sex matters: The sexuality and society reader. Allyn & Bacon.
Beckman, L. J. (2005). Women's reproductive health: Issues, findings and controversies. In J. Worell & C. D. Goodheart, Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health: Gender and well-being across the life span. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ciccarelli, J.C., & Beckman, L. J. (2005). Navigating rough waters: An overview of psychological aspects of surrogacy. Journal of Social Issues, 61,21-43.
Harvey, S.M., Henderson, J. T., Thorburn, S, Beckman ,L. J., Casillas, A., Mendez & Cervantes, R. (2004). A randomized study of a pregnancy and disease prevention intervention for Hispanic couples. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36,(4), 162-169.
Harvey, S. M., Beckman, L. J., & Bird.S.T. (2003). Feeling powerful in heterosexual relationships: Cultural beliefs among Mexican couples. Culture, Health, and Sexuality, 5(4), 321-337.
Bird, S. T., Harvey, S. M., Beckman, L.J., Nickels, M.D., Rogers, K., & Blumenthal, P. D. (2003). Similarities in women's perceptions and acceptability of manual vacuum aspiration and electric vacuum aspiration for first trimester abortion. Contraception, 67(3):207-212.
Harvey, S.M., Beckman, L.J., & Branch M.R. (2002). The relationship of contextual factors to women's perceptions of medical abortion. Health Care for Women International,23, 654-665.
Beckman, L.J., Harvey, S.M., & Satre, S.J. (2002). The delivery of medical abortion services: The views of experienced providers. Women's Health Issues, 12, 103-112.
Beckman, L.J., Harvey, S.M., Sherman, CA. & Petitti, D.B. (2001). Changes in providers" views and practices about emergency contraception with education. Obstetrics and Gynecology., 97, 942-946.
Bird, S.T., Harvey, S.M., Beckman, L.J., & Johnson, C.H. (2001). Getting your partner to use condoms: Interviews with men and women at risk of HIV/STDs. Journal of Sex Research, 38, 233-240.
Sherman, C.A., Harvey, S.M., Beckman, L.J., & Petitti, D.B. (2001). Emergency contraception: Knowledge and attitudes of care providers in a managed care organization. Women's Health Issues, 11, 448-457.
Beckman, L.J. & Harvey, S.M. (Eds.) (1998). The new civil war: The psychology, culture and politics of abortion. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Morarkhani, A., Beckman, L.J., & Tabibian, J. H. (2013). Health-related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease: Psychosocial, clinical, socioeconomic and demographic predictors. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 7, 467-473. doi: 10.1016/j.crohns.2012.07.012
Abdolsalehi-Najafi, E., & Beckman, L. J. (2013). Sex guilt and life satisfaction in Iranian American women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42,1063-1071. doi: 10.1007/s10508-013-0084-2
Ferrer, R. R., Ramirez, M., Beckman, L.J., Danao, L., & Ashing-Giwa, K. T. (2011). The impact of cultural characteristics on colorectal cancer screening adherence among Filipinos in the United States: A pilot study, Psycho-Oncology, 20, 862-870. doi:10.1002/pon.1793
Kraft, J.M., Harvey, S. M., Hatfield-Timajchy, K., Beckman, L. J., Farr, S. L., Jamieson, D. J., & Thornburn, S. (2010). Pregnancy motivations and contraceptive use: Hers, his or theirs? Women's Health Issues, 20, 234-241. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2010.03.008
Major, B. Appelbaum, M., Beckman, L., Dutton, M.A., Russo, N.F., & West, C. (2009). Abortion and mental health: Evaluating the evidence. American Psychologist, 64, 863-890.doi: 10.1037/a0017497
Beckman, L.J., Harvey, S.M., Bird, S. T., Maher, J. E., & Burns, K, (2006). Women's acceptability of the diaphragm: The role of relationship factors. Journal of Sex Research, 43, 297-306.
Acceptability of new methods for prevention of unintended pregnancy and sexually-transmitted disease
Prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among Latinos
Psychological, cultural and political aspects of abortion
Academic History and Background
B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 1963
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969
American Psychological Association, (Fellow, Divisions 9, 34, 35 and 38)
Professional Practice and Community Service
American Psychological Society (Founding Fellow)
Associate Editor, Psychology of Women Quarterly
Co-Chair, Task Force on Reproductive Issues, Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35, APA)
Editor, Society for the Psychology of Women book series (published by the American Psychological Association)
Polsky, K. Multidimensionality of lesbian women's body experience: Relationship between objectified body consciousness, body esteem, and disordered eating.
Guerrero, D. The relationship between self-concept and recognition of psychological abuse.
Huang, C. Acculturation, Asian cultural values, family conflict, and perceived stress in Chinese immigrant female college students in the United States.
Walker-Bauer, M. Attachment and condom use among heterosexual college students: The mediating effects of sexual motives and outcome expectancies.
Davis, K. Gender role attitudes, gender self-esteem, and relationship power in married women.
Rosen, M. Beyond body dissatisfaction: The relationship among attachment, self-esteem, and body dissatisfaction in Asian American and European American women.
Callow, J. Adult women's experience of their bodies: The connection between perceived control, physical appearance, feminist ideology, and body image satisfaction.
Horowitz, J. Culture bound-syndromes of anxiety disorders and multicultural competence.
Daryoush, D. Factors that predict attitudes toward Muslims post-September 11th.
Van Acker, C. College women's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to acquaintance sexual aggression.
Rohrer, S. Covariance structural equation modeling of the development and/or maintenance of body image dissatisfaction and disturbed eating.
Kutsunai, S. The relationship of perceived control and spirituality to psychological adjustment to chronic illness.
Lee, A. Ethnic identity and risky sexual behavior of Asian American Women: Implications for the prevention of HIV infection.
Calandra, J. Body image in menopausal and lesbian heterosexual women.
Jurkowitz, I. Reducing stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: Testing the Effectiveness of Parents Matter.
Nourmand, R. Emotional intelligence, attachment style and ambivalent sexism.
Lombardo, A. (2013). A self-concept group intervention pilot study for individuals with an acquired brain injury: The relationship between self-concept, depression and quality of life.
Grace, K. The Black misconception of self: An examination of internalized racism, adult attachment style, and perceived stress
Coutin, R. Perceptions of psychological abuse in intimate partner relationships.
Estiaghpour, D. Understanding the roles of socioeconomic status and perfectionism in negative body image and disordered eating in Iranian-American women.
Ghoddousi, J. Religious involvement, perceived social support and general psychological distress in Muslims living in the United States.
Moradkhani, A. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): variables associated with health-related quality of life, stress and health behaviors.
Frank, J. Successful weight minding: a phenomenological study of long-tem weight loss and maintenance.
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Students will use the law of reflection to reflect a laser beam off multiple mirrors to hit a sticker in a shoebox. Since X-ray telescopes must use grazing angles to collect X-rays, students will design layouts with the largest possible angles of... (View More) reflection. This activity is from the NuSTAR Educators Guide: X-Rays on Earth and from Space, which focuses on the science and engineering design of NASA's NuSTAR mission. The guide includes a standards matrix, assessment rubrics, instructor background materials, and student handouts. (View Less)
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Students participate in a series of activities to discover how astronomers use computers to create images and understand data. No programming experience is required; students will use pencilcode.net to complete such activities as creating a color,... (View More) exploring filters and color-shifting, and creating individual images of star-forming regions. These activities demonstrate a real world application of science, technology and art. (View Less)
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This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. (View Less)
This is the third module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and utilizes online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore,... (View More) research and build knowledge about how the Sun's varying activity impacts Earth and space weather. Each activity provides opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide are included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 3A: Sun-Earth Interactions, students gather information from online videos and create a 3D model to demonstrate the relationship to Earth's place in space and the affect of Earth's axial tilt on our seasons, then film a short video explaining the reasons for the seasons. Activity 3B: Space Weather, students use online videos to gather information on what space weather is, and its causes and effects, to create a concept map. They then use real-time SDO data to forecast space weather. Activity 3C: Solar Research in Action! Make a Magnetometer has students view information in online videos about to Earth's magnetosphere and the impacts of space weather, then create a magnetometer to detect and visualize changes in the Earth's magnetic fields to monitor solar storm impacts. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. (View Less)
This is the fourth and culminating module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Student teams use information and resources from the other three modules in the project suite to create a 3D interactive solar exhibit to... (View More) educate others about the Sun and how SDO informs scientists about the Sun's activity, structures and features, and Earth-Sun interactions. Students then self-evaluate their team's solar exhibit. Both a teacher and student guide are included, as well as tools for students to self-direct and track project process, and record reflections and information. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. (View Less)
Building Intuition for In-water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Spectrophotometer Activity with littleBits™
This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum. Inexpensive, off-the-shelf components are used to... (View More) build a light sensor and source, creating a simple spectrophotometer that can measure light absorption. In the second part of this activity, principles of ocean color remote sensing are applied to measure reflectance. Using components that are clearly visible allows students to configure them in different ways. Playing with the instrument design gives students a practical understanding of spectrophotometers, in-water optics, and remote sensing. As an extension of this concept, students are encouraged to think about how ocean color is used to estimate the concentration of chlorophyll to infer phytoplankton abundance, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. (View Less)
This is an online lesson associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun. This activity is scheduled to occur during Monday of... (View More) Solar Week. The lesson introduces the concept of astronomical filters and their connections to imaging different objects in space. Learners will explore perceptions of images as seen using different colors of light, construct a filter wheel, and practice investigating various astronomical images using the filter wheel. This material was designed to highlight how filters are useful to astronomers and show how a real astronomical telescope uses filters to image the Sun. Outside of Solar Week, information, activities, and resources are archived and available online at any time. (View Less)
This iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about the Sun at home, at school, or anywhere. It provides 13 free, easy to use, hands-on activities, plus live images of the Sun from NASA's SDO... (View More) satellite, videos of the Sun, and more. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. Some of the activities and media pieces are also available on the project website. The activity materials are widely available and inexpensive. (View Less)
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This is an activity about image resolution. Learners will recreate a solar image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) using various sizes of building bricks, and discuss how their recreations relate to image resolution. Learners will also... (View More) compare SDO images to solar images from older spacecraft to see how improved technology helps scientists learn more about the Sun. (View Less)
This activity is about planetary rovers. Learners will simulate the challenges in communications that engineers face when driving a rover on Mars. They will particpate as part of a rover team to design and execute a series of commands that will... (View More) guide a rover made of people through an obstacle course simulating the Martian surface. Students will learn the limitations of operating a planetary rover and problem solving solutions by using this simulation. The lesson models the engineering design process using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes, vocabulary, student journal and reading. (View Less)


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Meth related arrests made across from Laconia courthouse
Deputy Justin Blanchette observed one of the two men, who he did not identify, engaged in suspicious activity outside the apartment building. He was subsequently found in possession of methamphetamine and arrested.
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The American Cancer Society recently recognized Phelps County Regional Medical Center (PCRMC) for its dedication to the fight against cancer by reaching the Relay For Life team fundraising Ruby Level of $50,000.
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OAKLAND -- Unable to complete dozens of Occupy Oakland-related internal affairs investigations within the time constraints set by a court order, Oakland is budgeting $750,000 to outsource those cases, as well as some future ones, to law firms and private investigators.
The added expenditure, included in Mayor Quan's amended budget proposal, is roughly equal to the annual cost of four police officers. The department also has transferred at least two officers into internal affairs to tackle the investigation backlog.
State law mandates that internal affairs investigations be completed within one year, but Oakland is required to complete its investigations in half that time under the terms of a 2003 agreement that settled the Riders police misconduct case.
The department failed to meet the deadline for complaints filed in connection with the first two major Occupy protests last year. In response, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson has ordered the city to prepare a detailed plan with deadlines for when the investigations will be completed and threatened fines if the deadlines aren't met.
To satisfy Henderson, the city has proposed contracting with up to 10 firms to handle 38 of the most complex Occupy-related complaints stemming from the Oct. 25 and Nov. 2 protests.
The Oct. 25 clashes, which included an Oakland officer shooting and injuring Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen with a beanbag, generated more internal affairs complaints than any incident in city history, according to a report last month from City Administrator Deanna Santana.
The department's effort to complete the cases was hindered by the fact that several officers in internal affairs, including the unit's former leader, were working the Oct. 25 protests. Additionally, a new state law forced the police department to release several retired officers who had been helping with the internal affairs investigations.
Santana told council members on Tuesday that the loss of those retirees could force Oakland to continue outsourcing additional internal affairs complaints.
The police department has three officers working full-time -- and authorized to work overtime -- on the Occupy Oakland-related complaints, according to Santana's report. The department last month also proposed temporarily transferring five additional officers to internal affairs should there be delays in outsourcing the complaints.
Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente criticized the cost of outsourcing the investigations and the overall cost of complying with the settlement agreement.
"It's just a systemic problem when we are spending all this money and we don't have investigators who investigate crimes in Oakland," he said.
Jim Chanin, an attorney who represents the plaintiffs in the Riders case, noted that other cities such as San Francisco didn't get nearly as many Occupy-related complaints as Oakland.
"The solution was not to get the number of complaints they got," he said. "You reap what you sow and, the taxpayers are paying the price for their failure to follow their own rules including their crowd control policy."
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A story misidentified a bioethicist with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. His name is Ryan Holmes, not Randy Holmes.
Declaring death used to be simple: The deceased turned blue and stiff. The heart became inaudible, the pulse faded and the chest stilled.
That's not Jahi McMath's story. The 13-year-old Oakland girl's skin is still soft and warm. Her pulse still strong. And her lungs fill with air.
Advances in modern medicine are complicating her final chapter, sustaining her heart but unable to revive her brain. As she lingers in the Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital Oakland after lethal complications from tonsil surgery -- dead, according to five medical evaluations, but seemingly asleep -- the beloved girl has become the subject of a wrenching conflict that is drawing national attention as it spins into a court battle to keep her heart beating.
For a society that invests the beating heart with such symbolic importance, it can be difficult to accept medicine's now-universal definition of death: loss of all brain function.
"That is such a very, very hard thing to come to terms with -- to understand, and make peace with," said Ryan Holmes, assistant director of Health Care Ethics at Santa Clara University.
And it's doubly hard to accept when that final verdict is delivered by the same hospital that is accused of botching a procedure, said experts. Jahi was declared "brain-dead" on Dec. 12, three days after seemingly routine surgery.
Her stunned family is challenging Children's Hospital's determination of death -- based on an evaluation of five doctors, two hospital-based and three independent -- and is demanding the hospital continue sustaining their child's body. The final search for any sign of brain activity will be made on Monday by a court-approved doctor, selected from a list of neurologists at UC San Francisco. The findings will be presented in court on Tuesday.
The advent of artificial respirators, specialized medical teams and intensive care units can seemingly keep "alive" patients who have lost all brain function and who, without artificial support, would have no breath, pulse or circulation.
"The same technology that is used to keep someone alive is also being used to sustain the functions of the body of a person who has died," said bioethicist Nancy Berlinger of The Hastings Center, co-author of the book "Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life."
"That is just so tough to wrap our heads around, especially when it is a child. ... The family needs compassion, support and a trusted truth-teller."
The family of Hiram Lawrence, a 23-month-old shot in the head outside a West Oakland liquor store in November 2011, unsuccessfully fought to keep his heart beating long enough to celebrate his second birthday and the holidays.
"It was pure hell," Hiram's aunt, Annette Jointer, said this week. "You spend so much energy fighting with the hospital that you almost can't be present for your sick loved one. It felt like it was a battle of wills."
The family brought in their own doctor, who performed a test to see if Hiram would react to a shot of water in the ear. The boy didn't move.
"That was one of the worst days of my life," said Oakland Pastor Rosevelt Taylor, who spent the 11 days with the family at Children's Hospital Oakland. "If it comes back negative, then that's it. I pray and I feel for anybody that has to go through that."
The brain is the organ most vulnerable to loss of oxygen. It suffers permanent damage if its blood supply is interrupted for more than a few minutes. Jahi's surgery initially appeared to have gone well, but then she went into cardiac arrest and was deprived of oxygen, according to her family. For ten days, the hospital has kept her on mechanical support but under California law 1254.4 "has no duty ... to continue medical intervention," the hospital's lawyer wrote, because "tragically, Ms. McMath is dead and cannot be brought back to life."
There are times that hospitals do decide to keep dead people on machines. For instance, they may seek to sustain organ donors or pregnant women until birth.
And California law allows "reasonable accommodations," usually just several days, to be made to allow families to travel long distances to gather in a hospital room. "It is a better place than the morgue," said Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
But hospitals seek time limits. High-tech intensive care units are designed for those with a chance of recovering. Prolonged care of the dead is traumatizing for health care workers too, experts said.
It is also expensive. Hospitals can't discharge the deceased, because nursing homes won't accept them. And because private and government insurers only cover the costs of the living, not the dead, hospitals must cover the expense.
For millennia, death was defined by heart stoppage. In 1968, a Harvard University committee proposed adding "brain death" to "cardiac death" in end-of-life protocols. Two trends led to the broader definition: medicine's ability to keep people on machines, even if they'd never regain mental function; and a growing demand for transplant organs from head trauma patients, whose beating hearts kept their organs healthy.
"Brain death is death," Caplan said. "It sounds like it's not really death, but it is. ... The term creates false hope and expectations," he said. "It would be far better to say: "The patient has died, and the reason is brain death.' "
Forty-three states -- including California -- now recognize "brain death" through laws or court decisions. Brain death laws also have the backing of the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association.
People who are "brain-dead" offer no response to any stimulus: pinprick to the skin, light in the eyes. Their pupils are fixed and dilated, their eyes don't move when their head is turned, and they cannot breathe without a ventilator. A brain scan detects no sign of activity. (They are not patients like Terri Schiavo, whose brain damage was not complete before she was removed from life support in 2005.)
The shift has been profound, and disconcerting to some.
Some members of religious groups, such as Orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians, still equate death with the ceasing of the heartbeat.
And minority groups are more likely to oppose limits on care at the end of life, bioethicist Nancy Dubler wrote in her essay "Conflict and Consensus at the End of Life."
Because of the nation's history of providing unequal care, "it is neither paranoid nor ungrounded for families of color to question whether the care they are receiving is the best that medicine can offer," Dubler wrote.
Yet, while families have the right to insist on treatment of living patients, there is no legal or ethical duty for hospitals to to treat the dead, ethicists say.
"We don't revive people by judges," said Caplan.
Hiram's family relented after the boy spent 11 days on a ventilator, but Jointer insists it was against the family's will. Hiram and his family were moved to a large room at Children's Hospital that Taylor, the family's pastor, said had the feeling of a Death Row gas chamber.
After six hours of saying goodbye and a final relative arrived from Reno, the family watched as the boy was removed from the ventilator. It took an hour before his heart stopped, raising more doubt within the family that he was truly gone before.
"It makes you question everything," Jointer said. "It's heart wrenching for them to turn the machine off and watch him living." She urged Jahi's family to keep fighting. So did Taylor.
Tuesday's verdict, if it supports previous evaluations, will end a tragedy that is no longer just medical, but emotional and judicial.
"Brain death is death," Caplan said. "It sounds like it's not really death, but it is."
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"We are thrilled to kick off our winter wine dinners with this amazing California winery," said Topple. "Last season, we found that the dinners were a guest and local favorite so we're happy to continue the tradition."
Having moved from the Tuscany region of Italy to California, the Martinelli family has been growing grapes in the Russian River Valley since 1887. Regina Martinelli will join the dinner this evening to share her knowledge of the Martinelli wines with Ludwig's guests.
The menu pairing includes: amuse bouche; jicama-fennel salad and toasted pecans with pear vinaigrette paired with 2008 Lolita Ranch Chardonnay; seared Kobe mini beef New York steak with polenta fries and cherry steak sauce paired with 2010 Bondi Home Ranch Pinot Noir; cranberry-orange crusted elk tenderloin with wild rice pilaf and juniper berry sauce paired with 2007 Lolita Ranch Syrah. Finally, for dessert, caramelized peach phyllo crisp with Muscat poached apricots with Indian cinnamon ice cream paired with Late Harvest Muscat Alexandria.
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desert penguin wrote: I don't think anyone points to the emotional nature of Breaking Bad as it's strong suit. Above all, it was a psychological thriller. We really only were given a chance to feel for two characters, Jesse and Walt, both of whom betrayed us as the protagonist multiple times. Breaking Bad was about surprises and technical writing. Maybe that's why the ending felt a little flat to me, but that's not to say I wasn't sweating out every minute last night. I don't think anything in television has come close to what it did in 62 episodes with regard to unpredictability while staying true to consequence.
Honestly, tommi, you should be laughed out of this topic for bringing up Lost. Seriously, bro? And Mad Men is just a soap opera set as a period piece. Don Draper is AMC's answer for people who don't find Walter White attractive enough to watch on screen for an hour every week.
Quote: The narrator switches from the past to the present for the remainder of the song, describing the yearning that drives him to return to El Paso: "It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden / My love is stronger than my fear of death." Upon entering the town, he is attacked and fatally wounded by a posse or his victim's friends. At the end of the song, the cowboy recounts (or hallucinates) that he is found by Feleena, and he dies in her arms.
Quote: Maybe tomorrow
A bullet may find me.
Tonight nothing's worse than this
Pain in my heart.
And at last here I
Am on the hill overlooking El Paso;
I can see Rosa's cantina below.
My love is strong and it pushes me onward.
Down off the hill to Felina I go.
Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys;
Off to my left ride a dozen or more.
Shouting and shooting I can't let them catch me.
I have to make it to Rosa's back door.
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side.
Though I am trying
To stay in the saddle,
I'm getting weary,
Unable to ride.
But my love for
Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen,
Though I am weary I can't stop to rest.
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle.
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest.
From out of nowhere Felina has found me,
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side.
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for,
One little kiss and Felina, good-bye.
Juan wrote: If it was a dream it would ruin it for me. That's the default plot line that 5th graders use when writing a story in English class. "it was all a dream!"
and the Jesse sequence where he was making a box is more of a flashback than a dream sequence. And BB has used flashbacks or fastforwards at the beginning of most of it's episodes
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ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - Bouncing, forehand, backhand and getting the feeling of how to hit the ball; these were the basic tennis instructions for kids at the Zephyr Cove Park last weekend.
The 29th Annual Tahoe Tennis Classic organizers offered free clinics to children starting at 6 years and up.
Zephyr Cove Tennis Club's head coach and pro Rob Wheatley and Hersh Herschman invited the kids to practice just like the pros Roger Federer or Serena Williams at Roland Garros or the U.S Open.
"It was a very good clinic and everybody was happy and very appreciative," Herschman said.
Herschman, together with Wheatley and other members of Zephyr Cove Tennis Club, taught the kids all basic swings and serves and served a pizza lunch that was sponsored by local restaurant Capisce.
"They got a tennis racquet and they are ready to go," trainer and volunteer John Gianotti said. "We only do this every year and normally 25 kids participate."
Overall, 55 kids participated in this year's clinic on both Saturday and Sunday.
"We had two exceptional girls and one boy so far," Herschman said, praising his new young talents.
After the kids ate lunch, they got to practice the second and harder part of the tennis game - serving.


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Patrick Lee's extraordinary Breach trilogy comes to an explosive and breathtaking conclusion with Deep Sky—as Travis Chase of the ultra-secret government agency Tangent finally comes face to face with the decision that could determine the ultimate fate of the world. With The Breach, Ghost Country, and now Deep Sky, Patrick Lee has established himself as a major voice in the thriller genre, combining ingenious scenarios with non-stop action and X-Files-like strangeness. His electrifying fiction has earned exuberant praise from a host of New York Times bestselling masters of suspense ("Audacious and terrifying" —Lee Child, "Brilliant…Pure exhilaration from the first page to the last" —James Rollins, "WOW! Double Wow!...Makes Tom Clancy look like the slowest child in the class." —Stephen Coonts). Everything ends here…and there is nowhere on Earth to hide.
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Stevie G: No longer attacking midfielder?
Looking at the players being brought in and if the reports of buying Mkhit.. are true, I was thinking 'What is Stevie's role gonna be this year?' - I can only see him playing alongside Lucas in a 4-2-3-1 formation. I cant see him playing that attacking position any more. Its good Brendan is actually planning the team for post Stevie G, its only 2 seasons away now.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Hey Loki.
I agree that we have to prepare for life without Stevie but it seems odd that BR has just been quoted as saying SG is central to our plans. Like you say, maybe he sees SG in the "Alonso" role slightly forward of Lucas although I'm not certain he's best suited for that (he can obviously play it). Personally, I'd like to see us managing his season a bit better so that we have him at his rampaging best as an attacking mid against the best teams. That way Mkhit (if it gets done) can ease himself into the prem.
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I think like you both suggest, we've been seeing Gerrard deployed deeper over the past few years, and particularly Rodgers where I would have called him our new Xabi Alonso. Hence the reason why we may never see a Xabi return, if other than a last hurrah in front of the home fans.
We know Stevie likes surging into the box, but as the past few years have gone on, we've seen far less of those long range shots go on, and does anyone spray the ball around the pitch better than Stevie? I think he's perfectly suited to sit back there, especially because he won't shy away from a challenge or mix it up in the air. If we did sign another big boy in the middle, I'd choose Stevie over Lucas to hold, if forced to choose of course..
Well, that is where he has been playing for 3 seasons now! Last seen as the no,10 when Benitez was still manager!
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jul 5, 2013 13:42 Flag
Hobbs I agree with you he has been playing much deeper of the last several seasons, but that tendency to sit rather than roam (from deep) seems to have increased since BR came in, and with the players coming in, it looks more likely he'll be much more the holding rather than roaming midfielder.
But I'd also point out that playing that more disciplined role may well have added another season or two to his career. I'm not sure its a coincidence that we got almost an entire season out of him (other than what turned out to be a couple meaningless end of season matches) last term. Now some of that might be down to the medical staff taking better care of him, but I do think a major factor was actually better monitoring of his clock and telling him to not be so much the box to box superman he was in his 20's, but be the man pulling the strings ala Xabi or Pirlo.
Hi Hobs - not quite he's had a lot of license to get forward. What I am talking about is sitting alongside Lucas and not getting forward so much if at all and just spraying the ball around. Basically the way Xabi and Mascherano used to.


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Paleo Diet Meal Plans: What to Serve at a Party
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If you make the food fun and engaging, chances are no one will notice how healthy it is. For a party, try setting up a burger bar with all the fixings and invite guests to build their own burgers. Put out colorful bowls of raw vegetables, guacamole, Tangy Paleo-approved BBQ sauce and homemade mayonnaise, pickles, and jalapeos, and shakers of spices and seasoned salts. Or set out a build-your-own taco bar with chicken and ground beef taco meat, salsas, avocado, and a variety of lettuce leaves for wrapping. By encouraging everyone to play with their food, you amp up the fun as well as the nutrition.