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Lab Test: Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite 7.0 builds on Web 2.0 tech
Injection of AJAX, wikis, and RSS, along with improved tagging and search options, make Xythos a strong choice for bringing order to unstructured content
InfoWorld has watched Xythos mature impressively over the years, starting as a highly usable, economical document manager through Version 6.0, then broadening its appeal with records management. Enterprise Document Management Suite (DMS) has now reached Version 7.0, and with the number bump comes some important enhancements.
The short story is that Enterprise DMS 7.0 has improved business process automation features (such as automatic event triggers and easier workflow), and it supports social networking with a new wiki and RSS subscriptions. Its fresh AJAX-based user interface means most features are just a right-click away. But perhaps the biggest change isn't visible: Xythos has further adopted open standards, including a JSR-170 repository; this potentially opens your content store to other enterprise systems, such as human resources or enterprise resource planning applications.
The installed software (Enterprise DMS is also available as a hosted service, Xythos on Demand) proved easy to set up on a Windows 2003 Server: I was done in less than 30 minutes. I was immediately stuck by how much has changed in the Web UI, yet how easy it is to use 7.0 without much training (or retraining). Gone is the left-hand navigation, replaced by context-sensitive Web 2.0 pop-up menus.
In my testing, this architecture greatly speeded my interactions with Xythos. For example, steps that I do all the time, such as sharing files with partners and vendors, now require just one click. Further, Version 7.0 eliminates the need for an e-mail client for this sharing process; you can access the system with just an Internet connection, such as at a hotel or airport kiosk.
Other conveniences include a simple form for uploading documents and direct access to any folder from your browser (called the Xythos Web View). This process worked smoothly using Internet Explorer, Firefox 2, and Safari 2. Alternatively, you can use any WevDAV client running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Wizards represent another usability improvement, which should help both expert and casual users. The Create Folder wizard, for instance, let me specify settings such as logging, versioning, and document classification – items that I might have overlooked in Version 6.0.
Further, with the Sharing wizard, I had no trouble creating unique permissions (read, write, and manage) for certain users, thereby increasing content security. As a side benefit, by following these standard procedures, it's easier to create a setup that meets compliance requirements; there's also an audit log. Process wizards extend to administrative tasks – such as workspace configuration and management – which can reduce the workload on IT staff.
Although social networking is almost a commodity these days, it makes a lot of sense to build in these features. That's what Xythos' developers did by including a wiki. This should improve collaboration where formal documents aren't involved, such as discussing research results from clinical trials or reviewing media files. Because these conversations are stored within the system, they're subject to the system-wide security and retention rules.
Besides the wiki's standard group editing of content, you can quickly link to documents in the Xythos repository. Importantly, Xythos automatically recognizes the original sharing and security rights of these documents. That is, if someone is viewing a wiki and discovers a page with a restricted document, then those items won't appear.
Additionally, Enterprise DMS 7.0 includes RSS, which lets me subscribe to changes made to any folder, document, or wiki. Other applications could also consume these feeds. For example, I added the Xythos RSS feed to a Microsoft SharePoint site using the RSS Viewer Web Part, so users of the portal saw when changes to Xythos documents were made.
In addition to WebDAV and the JSR-170 repository, Xythos interoperates with portals that use JSR-168 portlets, such as IBM WebSphere Portal – so you can access your Xythos content without leaving the portal. Document Manager's security lets you create a single-sign-on environment with your LDAP or Active Directory server.
Tag and ye shall find
Besides classifying documents into a broad area, I could now tag documents with free-form text. In combination with a much better search function, finding documents was quick and accurate. For instance, search filters let me locate content – in both the document repository and Xythos wikis – by file name, meta data, user-created tags, or keywords. Xythos' search explores PDFs and image files – a total of more than 100 formats. Searches can also be saved and shared.
Finally, workflow now lets you perform some significant business process automation – moving beyond the basic document routing and approval of the past version. For instance, based on an event, such as an approval, I had Xythos automatically post a document to a specific wiki. Another task that's easily automated is assigning tags based on the folder where a document is stored.
Xythos DMS is a strong offering, though there's some room for improvement. Hopefully, the company will consider expanding the product's APIs beyond the WebFile Server (the underlying content manager) so that workflow functionally, say, could be extended. Additionally, the wiki's capabilities might be updated with more collaboration options.
Xythos recently merged with Blackboard, a company that develops e-education enterprise applications. It's a natural fit: Xythos has a number of academic clients using the DMS to mange instructional content and education grants. Yet this really demonstrates the importance of cloud-based applications, especially document management – expertise both companies have and Xythos 7.0 proved during my evaluation.
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Frank Jevons
Frank Byron Jevons
|Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham
|In office
|Preceded by
|The Very Revd Dr George William Kitchin
|Succeeded by
|Prof Sir George Hare Philipson
|Master of Hatfield College, Durham
|In office
|Preceded by
|The Right Revd Archibald Robertson
|Succeeded by
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|Ellen Louisa Cox
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|Academic and Vice-Chancellor
Frank Byron Jevons (1858–1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University.
Early life[edit]
He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.
He was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from 1892 until 1897, a role he performed with "skill and humanity".[1] In 1897 he was appointed as Master of Hatfield College where he remained until 1922. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the university between 1910 and 1912 and Pro Vice-Chancellor between 1912 and 1914 and 1916 to 1921.
He was Professor of Philosophy between 1910 and 1930 and presided at the inaugural meeting of the World Congress of Philosophy in 1923. One of the last Victorian polymaths, in the twenty years before and after 1900, he gave himself successively to the study of classics, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, and comparative religion.
A portrait hangs in the refectory of Hatfield College.
Social and national issues[edit]
He was concerned with social and national issues, especially the education of the working classes and of women.[2]
Major writings[edit]
He was author of eighteen scholarly texts some of which, for example A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes (1886), An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion (1908), and Comparative Religion (Cambridge Manual of Science and Literature) (1913) remain in print.
He also wrote on other fields in which subsequent technical advances have been radical and rapid, such as evolution.[3] Such works understandably are no longer commonly in print, but they remain of interest for their clarity, logic, and sound representation of the perspective of his day.
Other writings available online include:[2]
- A Manual of Greek Antiquities (as co-author of Percy Gardner)
- An Introduction to the History of Religion[4]
- Philosophy: What is It?
- The idea of God in early religions
List of works[edit]
Jevons wrote, co-authored, or translated the following books (some titles may be duplicates):
- Jevons, Frank Byron (2011). Comparative Religion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107401754.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Graeco-Italian Magic.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Magic.
- Jevons, Frank Byron (1900). Evolution. Methuen.
- Jevons, Frank Byron (1886). A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Masks and Acting. ISBN 978-1-113-28297-2.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Personality. ISBN 978-1-112-31066-9.
- Plutarch (1892) [c.100]. Jevons, Frank Byron, ed. Plutarch's Romane Questions. based on 1603 translation by Philemon Holland. David Nutt in The Strand. ISBN 978-1-117-10776-9.
- Jevons, Frank Byron (1908). An Introduction To The Study Of Comparative Religion. The Macmillan Company. ISBN 9781178627886.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Prehistoric Antiquities Of The Aryan Peoples: A Manual Of Comparative Philology And The Earliest Culture Being The Sprachvergleichung Und Urgeschichte Of Dr. O. Schrader. ISBN 978-0-548-09482-2.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. Religion In Evolution. ISBN 978-1-172-27073-6.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. The Development of the Athenian Democracy. ISBN 978-1-241-40147-4.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. The Evolution of the Religious Consciousness.
- Jevons, Frank Byron. The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Ancient Greece. ISBN 978-1-148-28157-5.
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|Preceded by
The Very Revd George William Kitchin
|Warden & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham
1910 - 1912
|Succeeded by
Prof Sir George Hare Philipson
- ^ Tudor, Henry, 'St. Cuthbert's Society, 1888-1988: the history of 'a modest but exciting institution in the University of Durham'. 1988.
- ^ Davies, Douglas James. Frank Byron Jevons, 1858-1936 An Evolutionary Realist. 1991.
- ^ Jevons, Frank Byron; Evolution; Pub. Methuen 1900; available online from e.g. [1]
- ^ "Review: An Introduction to the History of Religion by F. B. Jevons". The Athenæum (3610): 11–12. 2 January 1897.
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Sony VPL-VW40 Home Theater Projector Review
Sony VW40 Lens Throw and Lens Shift
Like both the VW50 before it, and the VW60, the VW40 has a 1.8:1 zoom lens, which provides for excellent flexibility. Owners can choose between ceiling mounting or shelf mounting in most rooms. And yes, of course, you can put it on a table.
To fill a 100″ screen (16:9 aspect ratio), the closest the VPL-VW40 can sit to the screen is approximately 10 feet, 2 inches, and the furthest back, 17 feet 6 inches.
If you consider the 19 inch depth of the projector, and leaving some space behind that for ventilation, in conjunction with a 100″ screen, you can shelf mount in a room up to approximately 20 feet deep, with a 2 foot shelf.
This Sony, unlike the VPL-VW60, lacks the necessary vertical stretch aspect ratio needed to support an anamorphic lens. For those of you interested in adding an anamorphic lens, you could always go to an outboard processor, except that it would likely be the same, or cheaper, to just buy the VW60, which does have onboard support.
On the subject of anamorphic lenses, there are several less expensive 1080p projectors that do support one, although the Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB, easily the toughest competition the Sony has at this price point, also lacks support.
The Sony has motorized vertical lens shift. It will allow the projector (measured at the center of the lens), to be about as high as almost 7 inches above a 100″ screen (surface), or as low as 7 inches below the bottom of the screen. The projector also has a very small amount of horizontal lens shift, which is set manually. This is enough if you have to mount the Sony just slightly off center, or if your measurements were off slightly. This differs from other projectors with horizontal lens shift, most of which have significant range. The adjustment is not handy, rather designed to be accessed by your installer, if needed.
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On Monday, Governor Kasich signed House Bill 487—also known as the Mid-Biennial Review Bill [MBR]—including a $42 million allocation for the Clean Ohio Fund. Greater Ohio would like to thank the General Assembly and Gov. Kasich for supporting the Clean Ohio Fund, which contributes to the quality of life and economic development of many Ohio communities.
The MBR, subtitled the Management Efficiency Plan (MEP), is a new effort by Gov. Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to evaluate and refine Ohio's $55.7 billion budget at the midpoint of the two-year budget cycle, as opposed to solely at its conclusion. The stated purpose of the MEP is to "streamline operations, reduce costs and improve delivery of services for Ohio taxpayers." The Governor used his line-item veto authority multiple times, but he kept appropriations for Clean Ohio Fund intact.
The Clean Ohio Fund is a state fund authorized by Ohio taxpayers in 2000, and again in 2008, to support brownfield revitalization, farmland preservation, green space conservation, and recreational trails. The allocated $42 million will be shared between Clean Ohio's Green Space Conservation and Farmland Preservation programs. Communities can apply for the Clean Ohio funding, which requires a private match of 25-50 percent, and then applicants are scored and peer reviewed in a competitive process so that only the most qualified projects are ultimately funded. Private organizations and local communities become the owners of the projects and they are responsible for ongoing maintenance and improvement costs. Since the upfront cost of land is often prohibitive, the Clean Ohio Fund allows communities to protect land that they might not have been able to otherwise.
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The July 27 fatal midair of two television news helicopters over Phoenix has prompted the industry and federal regulators to re-examine the sector's operating procedures, including the practices of using a combination single pilot/on-air reporter and allowing multiple news helicopters to cover police chases.
While broadcasting a police chase, a pair of Eurocopter AS 350B2s collided when their pilots apparently lost sight of each other, killing both pilot/reporters and their cameramen. KNXV Channel 15 pilot/ reporter Craig Smith and cameraman Rick Krolak and KTVK Channel 3 pilot/reporter Scott Bowerbank and cameraman Jim Cox were killed in the accident. Both pilots had considerable news-flying experience. The AS 350s were part of a covey of five television news helicopters and one police helicopter following a stolen pick-up truck.
In the moments before the crash, Channel 15 pilot Smith could be heard over the radio asking, "Where's [Channel] 3? Like how far? Oh geez. Three, I'm right over you. Fifteen's right over you."
At that point the helicopters collided and the television signal from the Channel 15 helicopter went dead at 12:47 p.m. The helicopters met at approximately 1,100 feet agl. Wreckage from both fell into a city park and burned. There were no injuries on the ground, but debris was strewn over a half-mile area.
Channel 15's helicopter was a 1998 AStar owned and operated by U.S. Helicopters of Marshville, N.C., a firm that specializes in outfitting and providing helicopters to television stations. Of the approximately 175 electronic news-gathering (ENG) helicopters operating nationwide, 75 percent are owned by U.S. Helicopters, Helinet or Helicopters Inc. These firms provide turnkey leases that cover the helicopters and/or their pilot/reporters, according to Scott Wallace, president of the National Broadcast Pilots Association (NBPA). Channel 3's AStar was a 1995 model owned by the parent company of Channel 3.
New Operating Procedures Possible
The NTSB's preliminary report on the accident suggests that the crash occurred when the Channel 15 helicopter settled on top of the one from Channel 3. It is the first midair collision between a pair of ENG helicopters and the second involving a news helicopter. That occurred four decades ago when a Bell JetRanger operated by Los Angeles radio station KMPC collided with a fire department helicopter over Dodger Stadium. All four aboard both helicopters were killed in that crash.
The Phoenix crash has prompted calls for new operating procedures for ENG helicopters. One solution might be to restrict the number of ENG helicopters allowed to cover car chases over an area and to force stations to pool their pictures.
The long-established practice in most markets of using pilots who double as reporters while flying also drew fire from several quarters as unsafely over-taxing pilot concentration and abilities. David Willis, whose Houston law firm specializes in helicopter crash litigation, told AIN that the practice was "stupidity," adding, "With as many chase scenes as they [ENG helicopters] do, they've been really lucky."
Indeed, compared with other helicopter sectors, such as medevac and offshore operations, ENG enjoys an exemplary safety record. "ENG usually has a very low accident rate," said Jack Drake, acting director of safety for the Helicopter Association International (HAI). According to the HAI database, ENG averages one fatal accident per year.
NBPA's Wallace, who flies for Channel 4 in Dallas, said, "I was proud to stand up at the HAI annual convention last year and note that we had not had a fatal accident in two years." Wallace said that most ENG accidents occur during ferry or repositioning flights, and he surmised that when they do crash in the line of duty they
receive disproportionate news coverage. He pointed to the 2004 crash of a WNBC AStar onto a Brooklyn rooftop, an event broadcast live by helicopters from competing stations.
Wallace said that voluntary agreements between stations in the same market that provide for filming from different altitudes and sectors has improved safety, as has the advent of a new generation of camera equipment with better range and higher-resolution optics. "We can actually fly 500 feet higher now and get a better picture."
Having a skilled cameraman aboard to operate the complex ENG equipment and provide "another set of eyes out the window" also enhances safety, Wallace said. However, he commented that using pilot/reporters was not unsafe. "I'm a pilot first. If I have to stop talking to the studio to talk to another aircraft or ATC, then that is what I do. I don't see a large problem with regard to safety, and I hope that the government will not overreact to this tragic accident. This kind of thing has never happened before."


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George Jones Health Problems, George Jones, the American country music star, has been hospitalized in Nashville for a respiratory infection, however, he is likely to be released later on Friday (March 30, 2012). Jones, 80, was kept in hospital overnight on Thursday for observation, according to a statement on his website.
Despite his increasing years, Jones' last health problems arose 13 years ago when he survived a car accident that required rescuers to spend two hours cutting him out his vehicle, according to Usa Today. After the incident, he developed pneumonia while in hospital and was placed on a ventilator, though he recovered strongly.
He began recording in the mid 1950′s, and churned out hits such as He Stopped Loving Her Today, White Lightning and She Thinks I Still Care – eventually being inducted into the Country Hall of Fame in 1992.
However, the musician is as well known in the country world for his "substance fuelled exploits" as he is for his music, according to E! Online. He married Tammy Wynette in 1969, though the couple divorced just six years later.
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For a time over the past couple of seasons, it appeared as if Alex Ovechkin's reign as the most dynamic and dangerous offensive player in hockey were over. Fans and media were sure they had him figured out. Pegged by some as a 'one-dimensional player' who had shown his cards to the league, many felt that unless he re-invented himself, he would no longer strike fear into opposing defenders and goalies. As it turns out, everyone who was of that opinion was wrong. Very wrong. Alex has once again emerged as a full-out superstar in the NHL. After a slow start to the lockout-shortened 2013 season, Ovechkin has taken charge of the Capitals and is leading them as they surge towards the playoffs as the NHL's hottest team. His overall play and leadership have made the Capitals a team that no one wants to play in the first round of the playoffs, and his point production has seen him shoot up the stats charts and into the MVP discussion around the league. With his game back on track and a potential motivation to continue proving his detractors wrong, Ovechkin and the Capitals have their sights set on continuing their strong play well into the playoffs.
- Alex had another strong game on Tuesday night, scoring his league-leading 28th goal and adding an assist, as the Capitals recorded their eighth straight victory
- He has been scorching hot of late, notching four points in his last two games
- Alex has re-emerged as one of the most dynamic players in the league in 2013, while rocketing up the offensive statistics ranks. His name is now being mentioned in MVP discussions
- Born in Moscow, USSR (Russia) on September 17, 1985
- Drafted by the Washington Capitals in the 1st round, 1st overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft
- Is a three-time recipient of the NHLPA's 'Most Outstanding Player' award (Lester B. Pearson 2007-08, 2008-09, & Ted Lindsay Award 2009-10); and a two-time winner of the Hart Trophy (2007-08, 2008-09), among his many accolades
- Has appeared in 5 NHL All-Star Games
- Continues to be a pillar of the Russian national program, and has suited up on the international stage countless times, bringing home gold medals from the 2003 World Juniors, as well as the 2008 & 2012 IIHF World Championships


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Monday, August 01, 2011
Thoughts on Ramadan
Like any aspirational ideal this is not always the case. Family is far, and though I love my friends as sincerely as one can the community at large is distant from where I stand for reasons too complicated to venture into here. My complex relationship to my Maker- the questions that ebb and flow- remain, well, complex. And fasting? The act of not eating or drinking from sun up to sun down? To be perfectly honest, its hard. Just as difficult as it is indescribably beautiful to feel the first drops of water rush down your throat and travel through your body- something you have to experience to appreciate in all its beauty.
Life doesn't become roses and daffodils this month. But I guess that's the point. Life is not easy or perfect. But it is also to a great extent, what we make of it. Tonight I feel blessed to have another year to try to be a better person and make the most of what I've been given. This month will not erase my worries but it will help me refocus and strive to see them in new ways because "with all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."
Ramadan Kareem to you and yours.
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Ramadan Kareem to you too, Aisha!
- 12:33 AM, August 01, 2011
- Maleeha said...
Ramadan Mubarak Aisha :) May all our struggles be a source of blessings and a means of bringing us closer to our Maker. Ameen.
- 1:19 AM, August 01, 2011
- C said...
Ramadan Mubarak. I feel such immense respect for all of you. It takes a lot of faith to make it through this month. I was engaged to a Muslim guy for 4 years and fasted along with him once. tough as hell...I wish I could share the hustle bustle of Hyderabad evenings. Hyderabad comes alive during Ramadan.
- 3:16 AM, August 01, 2011
- Sprogblogger said...
Ramadan Kareem to you and your family! I've always been a tiny bit envious of people who have such a rich, spiritual ritual to (look forward to? dread?) anticipate each year. (Somehow, the cultural ritual of a month of christmas shopping just doesn't seem to fill the same deep-seated need...) Will be thinking of you and wishing you cool days and joyful evenings.
- 6:36 AM, August 01, 2011
- Aisha said...
Thanks Rasha and Maleeha! To you as well!!!!
C- that's impressive! I wish I could be in a place like Hyderabad or Lahore during this time- its a different experience I'm sure!
Susan, look forward to and dread is a good way to put it :) I am not going to lie, I struggle with the act of fasting, but each time the day ends- I'm so thankful I did it. Thanks for your well wishes!
- 12:42 PM, August 01, 2011
- Mrs. F said...
Ramadan Mubarak! Great blog. Ramadan makes me homesick for my Mother's cooking. I love this month.
- 12:48 PM, August 01, 2011
- Aisha said...
Welcome to the blog Mrs. F and thanks for your comment- I too miss Ramadan with my parents :( Still- like you I love it anyways.
- 1:26 PM, August 01, 2011
Ramadan Mubarak!
- 1:31 PM, August 01, 2011
- iamstacey said...
I hope this years' Ramadan will be a wonderful time of spiritual cleansing and renewal. Wishing you the best!
- 2:58 PM, August 01, 2011
- Aisha said...
You too Anon :)
Stacey- you are as always, ever so sweet, thank you!
- 5:02 PM, August 01, 2011
Ramadan Kareem!!!!!! May Allah accept our fast and duas this month! Pixie
- 6:13 PM, August 01, 2011
- Leigh Ann Ahmad said...
Ramadan Mubarak. It is hard to admit that there is a certain level of dread, regarding long/ hard days of fast, the weeks prior to Ramadan. In the end, that sense of dread and the annual "talk to yourself" about undergoing the fast is all part of the humbling process that makes our faith even stronger- we are after all, only human!
- 9:45 PM, August 01, 2011
- Aisha said...
Insh'Allah Pixie!!! :)
Leigh Ann, I hesitated sharing my nervousness about it but figured I couldn't be the only one! lol- yes it is a humbling process- its a beautiful struggle- and nothing worth having is gained easily. Hope your Ramadan goes well!
- 10:54 PM, August 01, 2011
- PandaBear said...
I am not Muslim but have fasted several times for Ramadan, as well as attended mosque with friends. Strangely enough this morning I woke up determined to do a fasting cleanse to "reset the clock". Maybe it is a sign that I should be fasting for Ramadan ;) I wish you As-salamu Alaykum and may this year bring you renewal and insight.
- 1:21 PM, August 02, 2011
- 2:38 PM, August 02, 2011
- Aisha said...
Thanks Anon :)
PandaBear- that is so impressive that you are as open minded as you are- I hope you had a good cleansing fast [since I know you are on top of your health stuff, was curious if you knew anything about if fasting did actually reset anything?] and walaikum asalaam! :)
- 9:52 PM, August 02, 2011
- PandaBear said...
Thank you! I think fasting (for me at least) really is about mental clarity as well as being able to put yourself in a place (again mentally) to understand the suffering of others, like those who may be hungry or in need. I think it takes alot of willpower and determination to fast even for a short period of time, but if you have the determination and willpower to do it you really do find a renewed sense of inner peace. So for me anyway I see that as the benefit, and I suppose you can say it resets your internal clock for spiritual renewal. However, I don't know if physically a cleanse has any benefit, unless of course you are eating nothing but junk food, and then of course it will help remove toxins from your body. But if you are eating normally then I don't think the cleansing aspect of a fast really has as much benefit as some "health experts" say it does.
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A RUDD government faces the prospect of an unruly Senate, with the real chance that it will have to depend not only on the Greens but also on independents to pass legislation.
While the Coalition is expected to lose its Senate majority, it could still retain the numbers to block legislation with support from Family First and the new independent senator, Nick Xenophon.
The Coalition is tipped to lose two Senate seats, reducing its numbers to 37 in the 76-seat chamber, and Labor is expected to gain four, giving it 32 seats, according to the forecasts of the ABC's poll computer.
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Thank you for this piece. I was disappointed for Martin — when you meet your goals, master everything under your control, you're supposed to be rewarded. Doing everything right and still ending up in the wrong place is a story that isn't told enough. It's a theme that should resonate quite a bit these days.
Friction & Discipline: An Epilogue, Part Five
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An interesting word, disappointed. It doesn't mean the opposite of appointed, which is something you say of cabinet members or hotel rooms. Does disappointed even have a direct opposite? It seems to stand alone, an isolated feeling, which suits it.
J. D. Martin had what they call a career year, winning a well-deserved honor as the International League's Most Valuable Pitcher. He didn't have a single really bad start all season, although the uncharacteristic run he allowed against Omaha last Tuesday ultimately cost the Bulls the Triple-A National Championship game. With two outs and no one on in the sixth inning, Martin had two strikes on the Storm Chasers' Manuel Pina. He then threw cutter after cutter away, but Pina kept fouling them off to almost the exact same place. Finally, on the ninth pitch of the at-bat, Martin walked him.
Martin had the lowest walk rate in the International League this season. It was the secret of his success. Annoyed with himself after walking Pina, he proceeded to allow consecutive singles to Paulo Orlando and Irving Falu (they should be a pair of heartthrob crooners from the fifties, no?). Falu's hit ticked off the glove of the leaping Tim Beckham, who almost caught it. Instead, Beckham only slowed the ball down, effacing what small chance center fielder Kevin Kiermaier may have had to throw out Pina, who scored Omaha's second run. That run proved to be decisive in the 2-1 final score.
Close games have pivot points. I made a habit of circling them on my score sheets this year, as soon as they happened, so I could see at a glance where games were decided. Perhaps it's better to call them friction points. I circled Pina's walk right after he came around to score, two batters later, because Pina had progressed past a friction point in a way Martin rarely permits. The walk, and what it led to, had the feel of something momentous even with three innings left to be played. And it was. In retrospect. Martin's rare walk of Pina was the game's most important friction point.
For Martin, though, the true friction point came after the game was over. I congratulated him on his great season and asked him, a free agent to be, if he'd be happy to come back to the Rays organization in 2014. He was quick and firm with his answer: "No, no." He elaborated: "I would love to. This team [the Bulls] was awesome, and I like the organization, but if [the Rays] don't give me a [major-league] opportunity after my season, there's no point. There's nothing more I could have done."
I asked him if he thought his modest velocity was the reason he wasn't called up. Martin's fastball tops out at just eighty-eight miles an hour. Like Leslie Anderson's, his numbers were discounted by the means with which he compiled them. In defense of the Rays, Martin was hit pretty hard in the majors when he pitched there in 2009 and 2010. He allowed twenty-three home runs in just 125 innings. That would be the fourth highest home run rate in the majors this season among pitchers who have thrown at least that many innings. Martin is a wiser and better pitcher now, but he throws softer than ever. Did that explain why he had never been, well, appointed to the major-league roster?
"I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I'm really disappointed in the Rays," Martin said. I asked him if he'd prefer I leave that off the record, and he said no, it could stay on. (Why not? He had nothing to lose, or to prove.) He allowed that there was still some chance he might be added to the roster by season's end, although that was of course very unlikely; there were fewer than two weeks remaining, and the Rays had already called up Jake Odorizzi if they needed an extra starter.
"You never know," Martin said, as though trying to convince himself of something he knew full well. He paused for the briefest of moments, seeking precisely the word he wanted to leave on the record. It turned out he had already found it, and he used it twice more: "[I]f it doesn't happen, I'd be very disappointed in this organization, because I feel like I've earned it. I'm not the only guy that's earned it, but I'd be really disappointed."
Yet Martin was able to separate that disappointment from his feelings about the Bulls, one of many uses of that remarkable dual consciousness more pronounced among Triple-A players than at any other level of baseball: a kind of mental discipline that allows them to love their team while distrusting and even disdaining the parent club, which is so close and yet so far, and thus generates so much of the friction a ballplayer feels. The team is not the franchise. "The team is awesome," he said of the Bulls. "I've had a great time this year. It's the best group of guys I've played with."
That sentiment was echoed by numerous Bulls, including Steve Geltz before the game and, after it, Jason Bourgeois, who was doubtful (but hopeful) he'd be back. He thought he might have a better chance of making the major leagues with another team, even though he did make the majors briefly with the Rays this season. He hit a walkoff single for them on August 14, and added a home run on August 21. Bourgeois loved the Rays. He said it was "the best organization I've ever played with."
Why, I asked him?
"The communication," he answered, decisively, "mixed with letting you go out there and play. Especially being a minor-league free agent, signing over here I didn't expect to play that much, with Wil Myers on the team. But [Charlie Montoyo] figured out a way to mix everybody into the lineup. That's all you can ask for, and it worked out for me. I was able to get three weeks in [the major leagues]. Three weeks doesn't seem like a lot, but it kept my name alive. I was able to go up there and hit a walkoff homer. People remember that stuff. Any little thing like that, I'll take it. I'll take it."
Note that Bourgeois had confused the walkoff single he had hit on August 14 with the second-inning homer he hit a week later, on August 21, right after which the Rays designated him for assignment. But these are the kinds of little fantasies ballplayers must allow themselves, and even embrace, in order to keep playing. It is a self-discipline constructed out of friction (and fiction): the discipline of unshakable belief in one's value based on misremembered events (and misapprehended abilities) that rub up against reality. Jason Bourgeois and J. D. Martin, along with countless other minor-league free agents, must end every season committed to the certainty that they can do it next year, and the year after that, and after that, too, no matter their age. They tel themselves that their singles are homers and their career years repeatable; that the body never breaks down; that speed never declines or isn't a hindrance if it does; that command and vision never waver.
This self-distracting ability is one of the things I admire most about older Triple-A ballplayers. Although they age, although they can't stick in the major leagues or even get back at all, although they watch players younger than they are leapfrog them on the way up, still they lose no confidence. "Just keep pitching," Martin told me when I asked him what he planned to do next year. He said it again, as if anything else was out of the question, even as a consideration: "Just keep pitching." And he will.
I began yesterday by giving an example of the many ways Triple-A differs from the major leagues. These ways are legion, deep, and stark, but one of the things that has kept my interest in Triple-A fresh all these years is not just that it's different from the majors. If it was nothing but simple, plain, comparative difference, Triple-A wouldn't be worth bothering with, because it would be just an ersatz baseball environment; a cheap suburban substitute for the big leagues; a littered, anxious base camp forever shrouded from the summit.
You do still hear people use that old saw that goes something like, "Triple-A is the worst level because no one wants to be here." But it isn't true. Plenty of ballplayers want to be here, and "here" is more than just (to borrow back again from the movie I was quoting the other day) the almost-famous level sagging below the majors. Triple-A, despite its two-way relationship to other levels, and despite its protectorate status, is its own discrete, exciting, stand-alone world, totally unlike any other in baseball. It's the most real of all the levels. It's the most like life. It's all happening.
To illustrate, here is another story. After the National Championship game last Tuesday, the Bulls stayed over in Allentown one more night, a rarity in a world where most travel is done by overnight bus in order to save on hotel rooms. The team was booked at the fairly swanky (for the minors) Sands Casino in Bethlehem, the next city over from Allentown. A shuttle came to the ballpark to drive them to the Sands, and most of the players were showered, changed, packed and ready to board within half an hour of the game's final out; they weren't sitting around ruing the loss to Omaha, or exchanging long beery goodbyes. It was long past time to go. The season had reached ultima Thule.
I was outside in the parking lot, mingling with the Bulls' seasonal staff. These were mostly energetic kids in their twenties who had been rewarded for their summer's work at the Durham ballpark with a trip up to the National Championship game and its surrounding hoopla. They were waiting for their own overnight bus back to Durham (no Sands Casino for them). We watched a few of the Bulls, including veteran Mike Fontenot, the team's second-oldest player, quickly cram their things — huge bags full of gear — into the back of an inexplicably available taxi. Or maybe, knowing they had missed the first shuttle to the Sands, they had actually called the cab.
In any case, they sped off. Some of the staffers wondered aloud why those ballplayers had sprung for a costly taxi, even though another (free) shuttle was supposed to arrive any minute. It turned out that those older ballplayers knew better. There were a few other Bulls players still out there on the curb, mixed in with the congregated Bulls staff. They, too, had missed the first shuttle to the Sands. They were told that the next one was due shortly, but after ten or fifteen minutes there was no sign of it. The players who were left behind, I noticed, were all Double-A guys who had very recently joined the Bulls, including top left-handed pitching prospect Enny Romero. Two or three of the other players were not even on the Bulls' playoff roster, forming instead a small taxi squad in case big-league moves had necessitated their domino-effect activation (which never came to pass). One of the active players took advantage of the wait to ask a Bulls official whether he, the player, had been with the team long enough to qualify for an International League championship ring.
The difference was so clear. The Bulls' Triple-A mainstays knew exactly where to go and when, and they knew how to improvise, on the fly, when they missed the bus. ("It's a game of adjustments": you hear that far oftener than, "It's a game of inches.") The underclass had not been so savvy. Triple-A wisdom had left Double-A greenness in the dark. And it wasn't just that the Triple-A guys were older. Had this been the major leagues, where the players are older still, there would have been limos, handlers, chartered flights, drinks. In Double-A, there probably would have been the usual bus out there, waiting until every last man was accounted for. But here in the Triple-A netherworld — the neither/nor world — there was neither luxury nor lookout. You got to stay at the Sands, but you had better make sure you got yourself there. You were caught between a rock and a rock star.
The younger players were offered a ride on the staff bus. They gladly accepted it, even though they knew they would have to wait out a pit stop for the interns to stock the bus with long-haul refreshments halfway between Allentown and Bethlehem. It took me a long time to sort out why this moment on the curb seemed so potent, so true, and so full, right after I'd been startled by Brandon Guyer calling me by my first name. But when it arrived, it arrived all at once, as loud and large as the bus that roared up to the curb minutes later: You have to be smarter to survive Triple-A than anywhere else.
As the staff bus pulls away from Coca-Cola Field bearing the kids (ballplayers and otherwise), as the night grows cold and the lights go out in the ballpark on the last night of the Triple-A season, we would seem to have reached the end of this long epilogue. But its most important moment is yet to come. Three nights after Allentown, the cataclysm hits in Tampa Bay, in the tidal-wave form of an eighteen-inning game. This force majeure rattles the walls in Durham, and Providence, and Louisiana, and the Dominican Republic. It gives Bull City Summer its final, giant twist, and it exposes the foundations of Triple-A. This epilogue concludes Monday, but not before navigating a new beginning.
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The Benton County Rode0 is part of the Benton County Fair – and both wrapped up Saturday. I typically don't make it over to fairs – but I thought I'd brave a hot, dusty Saturday afternoon and shoot a little rodeo. Nothing fancy here – no "all access" at this gig – I paid $8 and shot from the crowd – which also meant that I left the cowboy hat at home (by the way – CNN had a great short video on photographers covering rodeos – you can find it here).
A couple of quick impressions: (1) the arena is smaller than the Philomath Frolic and Rodeo – which is good for photography – it's definitely easier to shoot the action with a modest lens and (2) as this rodeo is tied to the fair – I think it introduces folks to rodeos who might not otherwise go – a sort of 2-for-1.
Bottom line: Good rodeo action – and – if you get the chance – Tillamook Ice Cream milkshakes. Blackberry. Seriously – very good.
Photos in order: (1) bareback (2) JJ Harrison – a great barrelman (a.k.a. "rodeo clown") (3) tie down roping and (4) steer wrestling.


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A plan to build a community hall with money left to a village near Bath has attracted over 60 letters of complaint.
Patsy Townsend left her £460,000 home to Batheaston to help build a new village hall when she died in 2009.
A planning application to demolish and replace the hall has attracted 63 letters of objection from residents concerned about traffic and parking.
Carole Bond, from the hall committee, said the plans were a result of an 18-month consultation with the village.
The plan for the new £750,000 community building, which includes a main hall, activity rooms, kitchen and toilets, was submitted in November.
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Since then it has attracted more than 90 letters of support but 63 of complaint, including objections from the parish council.
According to the chair of the parish council, Veto Pecchia, the replacement hall would be more than 60% larger than the current building and "right in the middle of a conservation area".
"The parish council is not against the village hall; the existing hall is in a bad state and needs replacing," he said.
"What it's against is this particular building: it's so big it will generate a lot more traffic and it has no parking."
Ms Bond, chair of the Batheaston New Village Hall committee, said the building had been designed "very carefully" to fit within the conservation area.
"You look at what's there at the moment - it isn't the most attractive building - so actually it's an improvement."
A final decision is expected to be made by the council on 1 April.


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On Friday, Pentax announced they will be rolling out limited quantities of its K-x digital SLR in four new colors: bright blue, orange, green and purple.
Back in June of 2009, the Pentax introduced the $649.95 Pentax K-x with a feature that no other D-SLR offered: color options. At launch, Pentax offered the K-x in black and white as standard colors as well as navy and red in limited quantities.
Aside from offer a well rounded assortment of colors, after testing the camera out for ourselves we found the Pentax K-x offered a well-rounded feature set and great performance. This colorful camera offers a 12.4-megapixel image sensor, captures at 4.7 fps and is the least expensive D-SLR to offer HD video capture (720p30). (Read more about the Pentax K-x performance in our full review.)
The original K-x colors (white, navy, red, black) come with lenses that match the corresponding body color. The new body colors will not have lenses that match; however, they instead they will ship with lenses that are all black.


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October 4, 2011 by staff
Abc Dancing With Stars Vote, Tonight on Dancing with the Stars, the contestants personally, with dances that are a year that marks an important event in their lives.
We started things with Rob Kardashian and her partner, Cheryl. Choose the year 2003, when he was fifteen and his father died. While Rob is definitely much more comfortable on the dance floor which has in recent weeks, have yet to flow in between moves, but for three weeks is not a bad performance. "You put the 'script' in 'Kardashian,'" says Len happy, and the pair of eight wins in all areas, for a total of 24 points.
Chynna Phillips and Tony will be dancing to the song itself Chynna – 1990, "Hold On". Kick things in a given division and one hundred fifty percent in what is clearly a song that has a personal connection, winning praise from all three judges and two nines with an eight from Carrie Ann, for a solid 26 points .
The following is Chaz Bono, who landed in the bottom of the standings after an injury last week, and Lacey. This year is chosen as the most memorable years and dance a song his father wrote Sonny Bono. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts and some very odd costumes inspired West, Chaz moves are not much stronger than last week. "We just try to do my best every time," says Chaz. Win three sixes in 18 points.
Kristin Cavallari and Mark against Beyoncé "Crazy in Love" to commemorate Kristin year high school graduation. The judges are slightly impressed with the energy performance, earning the couple a decent 24 points. "We went last week … we are proud." Mark tells Brooke.
Carson Kressley, who has had some of the more personality-filled performances so far, is to also incorporate the technique of this week. Choose the year 2003, as was the year of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" waves hit. Once again, Carson takes a supreme effort, despite the few places where it is all over the place, its best performance by a mile. "That was incredibly good!" Bruno tells the two, and Anna Carson and walk away with 23 points.
JR Martinez is one of the most difficult stories to tell as the most memorable years, the choice of when he was wounded in Iraq at just nineteen years old in 2003. "I chose … to try to be positive after that time," he says. "This dance is a tribute to those men and women who do not at home." Karina and JR have had some of the strongest performances so far this season and tonight is even stronger with the painful impact that has an emotional win a standing ovation JR from the crowd. "You have made this extraordinary night," Carrie Ann says. Tied to the highest score of the night so far with 26.
Nancy Grace, the mother of twins, choose the year you were born. The babies were transferred to intensive care after being born prematurely, so choose the song you sang for them as a lullaby. Nancy still lacks the necessary position to carry it out, but the judges in a performance that is touching and the award of two 21 points.
Ricki Lake elected last year as his most memorable years – his house burned down and met her fiance. The actress, who led the qualifying last week, offered again. "That was great, was awesome, it was beautiful!" Carrie Ann says, and Ricki Derek and partner high in the standings again with a near perfect 29 points.
The choice of this year's Hope Solo, along with partner Maks. She described playing in the World Cup, but not being able to win, and how it helped them learn that sometimes it really is the journey. Judges, as the improvement shown in the dance, but they are so fond of walking athletic Hope – the three take their advice on how to look more elegant, but the prize of 24 points.
David Arquette and Kym close the night with the election of David last year due to his divorce from Courteney Cox, who in the audience with his daughter. "I'm grateful, because I had to look very hard for me and I can be there for my daughter," she explains. David barns yet your high score to the dance, eight of the three judges.
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AT least half the cast of Stars on Ice will turn their attention to landing on the 2014 Olympic Winter Games podium in Sochi, Russia, when their tour ends mid-May.
As reigning three-time world champ, Patrick Chan is a favourite for gold, as are Canada's 2010 Olympic ice dance gold medallists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. World pairs bronze medallists Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford and U.S. national champion Ashley Wagner also have podium potential, as does Canadian Joannie Rochette, should she decide to return to competition.
Rochette won hearts and a bronze medal in 2010 as she grieved her mother's sudden death in Vancouver on the eve of the competition. Rochette has not competed since, but has said she would like to have "an Olympic experience that is more light on the heart."
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Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
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- What kind of doctor(s) treat E. coli 0157:H7 infections?
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Early symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 infection
The early or initial symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 infections usually appear about three to five (though occasionally in as few as one day or as many as 10 days) after a person ingests the bacteria; the symptoms include:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach cramps
- Diarrhea that often is bloody
- Fever of about 100 F to 101 F (37.7 C to 38.3 C)
- Malaise
- Loss of appetite
- Mild dehydration
These symptoms can be seen in infected children and adults.
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The majority of people (especially normal adults) that are infected resolve the infection without antibiotics in about five to seven days. However, some people (about 10% of people infected and especially children under the age of 5 and the elderly) develop more severe signs and symptoms, and these people usually require hospitalization and aggressive treatment. These patients develop the usual early symptoms listed above, but do not resolve the infection. They develop symptoms that last longer (at least a week) and, if not treated promptly, the infection may lead to disability or death.
Later or late symptoms of E. coli infections may include some of the following symptoms:
- Hemorrhagic diarrhea (large amounts of blood in the stools)
- Anemia
- Pale skin color
- Severe dehydration
- Little or no urine output
- Severe abdominal pains
- Easy bruising
- Nosebleeds
- Fatigue
- Shortness of breath
- Generalized swelling
- Kidney failure
- Jaundice
- Excessive bleeding
- Seizures
- Mental changes
- Death
These symptoms or complications fall into three main categories:
- Hemorrhagic (bloody) diarrhea: Hemorrhagic (bloody) diarrhea is defined as an increased amount of blood in the diarrheal stool that does not seem to decrease over time and usually is accompanied by severe abdominal pain. Although this may resolve within a week, some individuals can develop anemia and dehydration that can cause death.
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS): Hemolytic-uremic syndrome symptoms of pallor (due to anemia), fever, bruising or nosebleeds (due to destruction of blood platelets that are needed for blood to clot), fatigue, shortness of breath, swelling of the body, especially hands and feet, jaundice, and reduced flow of urine may be seen. HUS symptoms usually develop about 7 to 10 days after the initial diarrhea begins. HUS is the most common cause of kidney failure in children; children under 10 years old are the most likely to develop HUS. E. coli 0157:H7 produces toxins that damage the kidneys and destroys platelets that can lead to kidney failure, excessive bleeding, seizures or death.
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP): Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is caused by the loss of platelets; however, the symptoms that occur are somewhat different and occur mainly in the elderly. The symptoms are fever, weakness, easy, rapid or "spontaneous" bruising, kidney failure, and mental impairment that can rapidly progress to organ failures and death. Until the 1980's, TTP was considered a fatal disease, but since the 1980's, plasma exchange and infusion techniques have reduced the death rate in TTP patients to about 10%.
For most people (about 90%), the E. coli 0157:H7 infection clears and a good outcome or prognosis occurs. However, if any of the above mentioned complications occur, the prognosis may range from good to poor. The variable prognosis depends on the severity of the complication, the rapidity of diagnosis and treatment, the response of the individual to adequate treatment and the overall health of the individual. Children and the elderly are at higher risk for adverse outcomes.
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Monday, 17 November 2014 00:08
Upping your gameWritten by Gail J. Cohen
The annual Canadian Lawyer Corporate Counsel Survey in this issue has a strong focus on alternative fee arrangements. AFAs are what everyone — law firm management, in-house counsel, law associations, legal consultants, and anyone else who cares about the business of law — is talking about. The thing is, while everyone is talking about them, few can actually pinpoint what an AFA is. Is a discount an AFA? Some say yes, and some say no. Is a flat fee an AFA? Same thing. "What some people put in the category of AFA doesn't actually create incentives for efficiency. That's when I question whether they are truly changing the landscape and should they be called AFAs?" says Peter Gutelius, assistant general counsel at RBC, in the "Seeking alternative arrangments" story about the survey.
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Here come the algorithmsWritten by Jim Middlemiss
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All aboardWritten by Gail J. Cohen
A generous amount of this month's issue of Canadian Lawyer is dedicated to technology and the law. Technology in its various forms and permutations have and continue to transform legal practice and while this issue began with a plan for a special report on e-discovery, it organically morphed into a much wider discussion — one or all of which are going on throughout the profession.
Monday, 01 September 2014 08:00
Profits don't preclude professionalismWritten by Gail J. Cohen
The Canadian Bar Association released its report on the future of the legal profession last month. It is absolutely worth the time to read the whole thing (which is at cbafutures.org). The report's full title: "Futures: Transforming the delivery of legal services in Canada" gives you a pretty broad hint that it's a wide-reaching document examining many areas of practice and regulation. It touts innovation, flexibility, and choice as the necessary ingredients for the future health and growth of the profession. The report is one of the most potent recipes for a New Legal Universe that has come from any legal association or governing body in this country, or even in North America.
Monday, 04 August 2014 08:00
The highlight of the summerWritten by Gail J. Cohen
I say this every August, but this is my favourite time of the year at Canadian Lawyer as we present the annual Top 25 Most Influential. The Top 25 process starts early in the spring with the call going out for nominations. This gives me a chance to reach out to last year's honourees as well as touch base with leaders of law organizations and firms around the country, who almost always have some peers with wonderful achievements to highlight. This year, I was extremely pleased the first nomination that came in, after I sent out an editor's note in our weekly Canadian Legal Newswire, was from a lawyer in Washington State who had a colleague he worked with in Canada and felt she was worthy of nominating.
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You may be hungry again for responsibility in an hourWritten by Neill May
Harry Truman famously had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that said: "The buck stops here!" Certainly this is not what Harry meant, but a buck is not worth now what it was during his presidency. Truman probably would not recognize how political responsibility has evolved either. What has not changed, though, is the visceral appeal of that slogan, and how it speaks to a leader's assumption of responsibility. Its simplicity, however, masks an important consideration: just because it is courageous, comforting, and evidence of strong leadership for an institution's ultimate directing mind(s) to assume responsibility, it does not always mean in all cases responsibility should rest there. (My children often point out to me when I identify issues like this I express them in a manner as confusing as the message in a fortune cookie, which I could accept until the characterization was recently refined to say this would only be the case if the fortune cookies were baked large enough to house the pompous verbosity of an old lawyer. Ouch.)
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A new and exciting frontierWritten by Bob Rae
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Everybody need applyWritten by Gail J. Cohen
It seems the federal government has pissed lawyers off again, this time over who's applying for spots on the federal bench. "I was just so pissed off," Avvy Yao-Yao Go, a well-known social justice activist and lawyer, wrote in the Toronto Star after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made comments at a recent Ontario Bar Association meeting that women and visible minorities aren't applying for judge jobs and that's why they're under-represented on the bench. He reportedly also said a woman's bond with her children might also be the reason few would apply for judicial positions on the federal "circuit courts" where they may be forced to travel away from family (say for a week in another big city or something crazy like that).
Monday, 02 June 2014 08:00
Making it rain moneyWritten by Jim Middlemiss
I am a dominant, driven individual who likes to act independently and is reasonably extroverted, according to the McQuaig Institute of Executive Development Ltd. Among my traits, I am an assertive, goal-oriented individual, who is ambitious, works best under deadline, finds pressure exhilarating, and seeks variety in a job.
Monday, 02 June 2014 08:00
Standing up for the chiefWritten by Gail J. Cohen
The legal profession in Canada by no means speaks with one unified voice. Nothing brings a community together, however, like a politically motivated attack on one of its most respected leaders.
I'm going to suggest Stephen Harper had no idea the hornet's nest he was stirring when he publicly characterized as "inappropriate" and "inadvisable" a phone call Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin made to the government regarding a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
I'm going to suggest Stephen Harper had no idea the hornet's nest he was stirring when he publicly characterized as "inappropriate" and "inadvisable" a phone call Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin made to the government regarding a vacancy on the Supreme Court.


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Majesty of the Seas 2/23/09: Majesty of the Seas Cruise Review by JohnGaltny
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Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Miami
Embarkation: We stayed overnight in Miami (Holiday Inn Downtown) and got to the port at about 11:30 AM. Walked into the terminal and pretty much right onto the ship. Naturally, we had the usual stops at security, check-in and picture taking but we kept looking for the lines and they never appeared. We had done our stuff online and it seemed everyone knew their job and actually wanted to do it. After our Carnival disaster, we were amazed at how efficient this was.
Cabin: We stayed in 5562, a standard Oceanview. I have friends with bigger walk-in closets, but we knew that going in so there was no disappointment here. We did miss our usual balcony a lot and the electricity was kind of a "guess when" proposition but the bed was comfortable. Besides I enjoyed having my wife climb over me to get out of bed. It's been awhile since More she had to do that. Once we worked out the stowage, we got used to it pretty easily.
Staff: Uniformly friendly and competent everywhere on board. Steward Rudy did a fine job although we only saw him twice. First time was when we got there and second time was when he mistakenly walked in on my wife at an inopportune time (I was there). WE just laughed it off but he took it pretty hard and disappeared for the rest of the trip. MDR staff also very competent and when they blew it, they fixed it right away. My only problem here is that job duties apparently were assigned by General Motors. We had one guy for alcohol, another for wine, somebody else for desert, another for soda and our main waiter was more choreographer than anything else. I never did figure out from whom to order what but we always got whatever we asked for so no big deal. It was like sitting in the middle of the Mikado with everyone whirling around all over the place.
Food: MDR room was banquet typical. Nothing great but nothing bad either. Windjammer was a superb combination of food and crowd control. The food was actually better and more varied than the MDR (hear that Princess? You might want to fix that wreck of yours) and even at peak times there were tables for all and nothing even approaching a long line. On carnival we couldn't evaluate the buffet because we could never get to it. Great job here RCCL. Midrats are basically Pizza and room service. The Pizza is Domino's meh but not bad and we didn't try the room service menu.
Itinerary: Nassau, Cocoa Cay and Key West so the only non-English country we visited was Miami. Nassau was ok as long as we stayed within 3 blocks of the dock. Besides, since we were traveling with seven models on location shoots, the locals were really friendly and the police stayed nearby at all times. Cocoa Cay is really nice once you get by the Disneyland souvenir shops. I might feel differently in July at 106 degrees but I enjoyed our time there and the models in swimsuits didn't bother me at all. RCL throws a BBQ buffet which was also terrific. Not the normal cruise/ballpark fare. Key West was also fun although we were reminded that we were back in the US with it's entertaining legal system. The Westin people tossed us (models and photographers) off the area next to the dock because they didn't want us "taking pictures without insurance". I don't blame them at all given our McDonald's jury system and we found a ton of other interesting places to shoot gorgeous women.
Debarkation: Another miracle of crowd control. Went to the lounge, they called us after about 15 min. and a crew member walked us off the ship into the delighted arms of US Customs. Not even Customs clearance was a problem especially since the economy has relieved us of the necessity to buy anything. We're off the ship, on the dock about 45 minutes after leaving the cabin. No possible complaints there and the concept of friendly and efficient federal officials gave a Twilight Zone feel to the entire vacation.
The only hitch of the trip, which had nothing to do with RCL, was Avis. Our flight out of FLL was at 8:20 PM, so we rented a car and drove to Jupiter to see a ballgame. Since I don't know the area, I rented a GPS. In fact, I rented two. The first one didn't work and was immediately replaced by the second one, which worked until we got on the road and away from the rental counter. Since the GPS didn't work, we didn't get off the highway and went straight to the airport. That meant I didn't gas up the car (my bad) and I fully expected to pay for that, but $63.00 ($7.00 per gallon - get real)and an argument about credit for the non-functional GPS pretty much insures that I'm done with Avis.
Aside from the little niggles, the trip was eerily perfect, which makes it hard to write a funny review. I can only hope for a real disaster next time so I can be more amusing.
By the way, here are the pictures from the trip. You might want to take a look. http://www.pbase.com/bilsen/cruise Less
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