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The Rebel Room
Breaking down the brackets
CBSSports.com's Jeff Borzello joins Las Vegas Sun reporter Taylor Bern to discuss UNLV's seeding possibilities in Part One, and then at the 15:30 mark Taylor is joined by SI.com's Andy Glockner who offers his insight to the Mountain West's collective standing as we approach tournament time. All rights for the intro, outro and intermission music to alt-J, so go buy their album.
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Second place is in the Rebels' hands. Considering the swoon UNLV endured in the middle of the league schedule, that's a remarkable statement.
With Colorado State's loss at Boise State on Saturday night, the Rebels moved into a tie for second place at 9-5 in Mountain West Conference play by virtue of their 80-63 victory at UNR earlier in the day. The first tiebreaker after head-to-head matchups is record against the Mountain West leader; UNLV split with league champ New Mexico while the Rams were swept, giving the Rebels the leg up for the 2 seed.
This is a big deal, because while the 2 will play Wyoming (4-11), UNR (3-11) or Fresno State (4-11), the 3 seed will likely face Air Force (7-7) or Boise State (8-6). That's a big difference, especially when NCAA Tournament seeding may change based on how far each team advances in its conference tournament.
All the Rebels have to do to guarantee themselves the 2 is win at home Tuesday against a Boise State squad that's likely one more quality victory from securing an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament, then wrap up the regular season on senior night Saturday against Fresno State. UNLV has already lost to both teams, but playing at the Thomas & Mack Center is a different animal.
If offered this scenario two weeks ago, the Rebels and their fans would have jumped at the opportunity. The best possible outcome is within their control.
Can Bennett/Moser coexist for a tournament run?
I think this is the most important question left for the Rebels, other than whatever lingering doubts you may have about them playing quality competition outside of Las Vegas.
Junior forward Mike Moser's recent surge has possibly added another dynamic (pending his consistency) but it came in a game in which freshman Anthony Bennett basically didn't play and then one in which he played the complementary role Moser filled for much of the year. It's possible this is the perfect balance between them, and UNLV doesn't need both to put up big production in the same game to win.
However, when Moser's healthy, these are arguably the Rebels' two best players. To go into a game basically conceding that only one has a chance to go off for a big game seems like a limitation of resources. That's kind of the deal with both playing power forward, though.
Before Khem Birch was eligible, Bennett put in a lot of minutes at center and Moser played power forward, and they occasionally had great success with that. And it's not that that scenario doesn't happen at all anymore; it's just rare because Birch's defense is such a valuable asset you want him out there as much as possible.
The thoughts of all three of those guys anchoring the 3, 4 and 5 spots at the same time are all but gone. It's now Moser and Bennett at the 4, and on a given day UNLV coach Dave Rice may just ride the hot hand. That's not necessarily a bad plan, and it's undoubtedly the best thing to do for UNLV's defense. It's just hard to accept the inherent limitations.
Dejean-Jones' masterpiece
Moser wasn't the only one with a stellar game against UNR. In fact, Bryce Dejean-Jones put together arguably the best game of his UNLV career, because there was nothing he didn't do.
He was incredibly efficient on offense, scoring 17 on 7-for-9 shooting (his 167 ORating was the highest of the conference season for a Rebel playing at least 30 minutes). He grabbed five rebounds and had three assists versus two turnovers. And defensively he guarded multiple positions, including moving over to defend UNR point guard Deonte Burton when Anthony Marshall left the game with three fouls.
"I was out there just playing," Dejean-Jones said. "Whatever the coaches asked me to do, that's what I was out there doing."
Dejean-Jones played 37 minutes in the victory; Rice can play him that much because of the sophomore's versatility on defense. Obviously when someone is shooting as well as Dejean-Jones was, you're not going to take him out unless he asks to come out. But when Dejean-Jones plays defense like he did Saturday, it may buy him more leeway on offense. That's big for a guy who won't be accused of having the most stringent shot selection.
Odds and ends
• Whether you really believe UNLV is peaking at the right time or not, it has to be a good sign that both Moser and Dejean-Jones played their best games in at least the past month or two in the first game of March.
• A combined four turnovers from Dejean-Jones and Katin Reinhardt is the biggest reason the Rebels were able to commit only nine of them in the game. If those two keep control of the ball, UNLV is going to have four or five more possessions in a game.
• There was a really strange moment during Bennett's first free-throw attempt in the second half. He had just taken a forearm to the face and looked like he was still trying to shake it off as he stepped up to the line facing the UNR student section. As soon as the ref bounced him the ball, the fans went nuts and Bennett actually looked back, toward Rice and the scorer's table.
It was really bizarre, almost like he was looking for help. Needless to say, he missed that free throw, but after the refs conferred about a possible whistle in the crowd (most likely the reason Bennett looked away) the freshman regained his composure and hit the second one.
Whistle or not, it was a good example of the benefits of having the opposing team shoot into the student section in the second half, when every shot potentially means more (hint hint, Thomas & Mack Center).
Taylor Bern can be reached at 948-7844 or [email protected]. Follow Taylor on Twitter at twitter.com/taylorbern.


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Essay explains conflict clearly, concisely
Thanks to the author of the Jan. 4 My Word for providing a clear, concise summary of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I hope it provides perspective to the many readers who proclaim Israel is entirely at fault for the bloody situation there. It is always disturbing to read the comments of well-meaning people who have no knowledge of the history of the region.
And to read the repeated venom directed at Israel, while so many parts of the world are ravaged by rape, torture and slaughter that we barely hear about, where is the righteous wrath of our citizens against those situations that are despairingly too many to list in this letter?
I would like to see this My Word repeated from time to time. We need to remember that there is not just one side at fault here.
Pamela Dernham
Six words won't change Mideast history
The author of the Jan. 4 My Word is mistaken in her assertion that one sentence from Mahmoud Abbas is the missing key to Middle East peace.
The Palestine Liberation Organization recognized Israel in 1993, but the Israeli government insists that Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state.
Israel can describe itself any way it wants. It is ridiculous to demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state when 20 percent of its citizens are Christian and Muslim Palestinians, treated as second-class citizens.
It will take more than six words to change Israeli-Palestinian history. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice have many resolutions condemning Israel for its violations of human rights and international law.
There are 500,000 settlers living in 121 illegal, heavily armed settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel is building walls and freeways to separate the Palestinians from the Israelis. As a result, there is not enough land left for a Palestinian state. The two-state solution is dead, and Israeli apartheid is thriving.
Israeli-Palestinian history will change course when we tell our representatives in Washington to stop sending billions of our tax dollars to Israel.
Enough is enough.
Nabil Wahbeh
About time someone told truth about Israel
Bravo. I have waited a long time to read the true facts and applaud the author of the Jan. 4 My Word for her historical truth. As long as Hamas, Hezbollah and others refuse to accept Israel as a sovereign state, there can be no viable peace in that section of the Middle East.
Israel wants to be accepted as it has accepted its neighbors since its statehood.
Marilyn Grabina-Smiler
Some inaccuracies in history of Jewish state
Historians would find something to take issue with virtually every sentence of the Jan. 4 My Word.
For example, she writes, "the Jewish state has a 2,000-year history in the Land of Israel." In fact, the history of the modern nation-state called Israel began in 1947. It is entirely different from lands inhabited by Jews in biblical times.
For centuries before 1947, the land called Palestine was home to Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians who endured occupation by many foreign powers. Since the modern state of Israel was created, the non-Jewish indigenous Palestinian people have not been free. They are second-class citizens in Israel; subjects of a brutal military occupation in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem; or in the Diaspora, still forbidden to return to their homeland.
Consider the phrase "Jewish state." More than 20 percent of Israel's citizens are not Jewish. Would non-Christian U.S. citizens be willing to live in a "Christian state"?
Israeli negotiators insist that Palestinians "recognize Israel as a Jewish state," but they have never been willing to specify the borders of such a place. In 2002, the Arab League offered to recognize a modern state of Israel as defined by its pre-1967 borders.
Emily Wheeler
Glad to see fair article on Israel
Thanks to the paper for the Jan. 4 My Word. I agree, and was glad to see this commentary.
Norman Licht
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2013 goldwing 1800 touring champion!
2013 honda gl1800 goldwing. A state of the art touring motorcycle. Finely tuned after almost 40 years. yep 2014 is the 40th year anniversary of the honda goldwing. Starting out in 1974 with the gl1000. There have been over a million wings made since 1974. All of them produced in the United States till 2010. Now they are made in japan, using the tooling from the original plant in the USA. If any motorcycle could lay claim to the title of touring champion. It would the honda goldwing. Of course that was not what honda motorcycles had in mind when it designed the first gl1000 goldwing. They actually didnt have anything in mind when they released the goldwing. They listed it as a touring motorcycle but didn't even bother to sell any bags or fairings for the bike. The motorcycle was big and heavy. And wasnt a really good seller the first couple of years. But something about the motorcycle caught on with the buying public and soon the goldwing took off. Aftermarket companies started selling bags and accessories for the goldwing. Before long even honda understood what the motorcycle was built for and they started selling the wing with a complete touring kit.
Honda goldwing evolved from the gl1000 to the gl1100 in 1980. This was the first year you could actually buy a goldwing with a fairing on it from the factory. Pretty crazy if you think about it. It took Honda 6 years to decide to sell the king of all touring bikes with a full fairing on it. The gl1100 was just a modest change from the gl1000. They basically upped the cc's and added a few bells and whistles. Of course in 1983 honda did reach out a little bit and add a few state of the art changes to the wing. Starting with a LCD gauge assy. A linked braking system. And anti dive forks. All great improvements for the handling of the motorcycle.
The first real change for the honda goldwing came in 1984 when Honda released the gl1200. This was a completely redesigned new goldwing. Everything on the motorcycle was improved and made for touring. In my opinion this is the wing That I love to drive the most. It is a solid motorcycle. Comfortable in its skin. A motorcycle that can be used for touring and also be used for running around the mountains. The beefier frame and better suspension made this a joy to drive. This definitely where the title of touring champion starts to fit the model. Honda has finally learned what a goldwing is and how to build them
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We can't get enough of our favorite celebrities and their beautiful families. So to finish up our 5th Annual Readers' Choice Awards, we're asking you to vote for the best celebrity picture of the year.
Did Chris Hemsworth make you swoon as he cradled his newborn daughter India? Did you love the photo of Alicia Silverstone breastfeeding her son Bear Blu in the baby carrier? Did Pink and daughter Willow melt your heart as they celebrated their first Mother's Day together? Cast your vote in the comments!
In the comments below, please tell us your favorite celebrity photo of the year.


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To the market, to the market, the Union Square Greenmarket to be exact! Picked up a few seasonal treats today and cooked a swell summer supper for Monsieur P and I :)
1. Squash Blossoms.
Wash and pat dry. Local goat cheese + basil chiffonade + sea salt -> mix all together with a bit of olive oil. Stuff the squash blossoms. Be gentle, they break easy! Bake 20 minutes at 350F. Absolutely gorgeous. Next time, will deep fry them, hehe.
2. Basil.
…to make pesto! This huge bunch was only $2.25 today! Pine nuts, olive oil, Parmigiano-Reggiano, garlic, and salt to taste. Food processor, done in five minutes. As easy as that. I diced and roasted Yukon Gold potatoes in the oven, and tossed the potatoes with a generous helping of the fresh pesto. It served as the "carb" for our dinner :)
3. Fairytale Eggplant.
…as cute as the name would lead you to believe. Pricey – they were $8/pound at the Greenmarket today. Slice each eggplant in half lengthwise. Mince garlic. Heat olive oil in pan, brown garlic. Add eggplant. Saute 2-minutes till cooked. Splash in aged balsamic vinegar, deglaze pan. Eat!
Hope you are having a great start to the week :)


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So many of you loved our first Pinterest competition we held that we're doing it again, with an even bigger prize and a new theme for the season. All you need to do is create a 'Winter Wonderland' themed Pinterest board of DaWanda products, and you could win a 100 Euros to spend at DaWanda.
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The DaWanda 'Winter Wonderland Pinterest Competition' starts on 07.12.2012 at 00:01 CET and ends on 21.12.2012 at 12:00 CET. Anyone can participate by re-pinning our specially designed entry card to their 'Winter Wonderland' themed Pinterest board, and filling the board up with 'Winter Wonderland' themed products which are currently available for sale on the DaWanda website. Products can be chosen from any of the different DaWanda language platforms. This competition is open to members of all DaWanda platforms. Each participant may only submit one board as one entry. Each board should have a minimum of 10 pins and a maximum of 20 pins, all taken from dawanda.com.
The winning board will be chosen by the DaWanda Jury. The winner will receive a 100 Euro DaWanda voucher as their prize. The winner will be announced in the DaWanda blog and will also be informed via an email, in which their DaWanda voucher will be sent, by 31.12.2012 at the latest. Prizes are non-transferable. The prize is not redeemable in cash. If the winner should not be able to claim their prize, no alternative prize will be offered.
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Radical Joy for Hard Times
February 29th, 2013
Juliana Schneider
An interview with Trebbe Johnson by Juliana Schneider
JS: Could you tell me about the course you are teaching at Schumacher College in May and your non-profit organisation Radical Joy for Hard Times?
TJ: People are deeply connected to the places where they live and that they love to visit. When those places are damaged, there is no way in our culture to deal with the grief, anger, fear, and sense of complicity that arise in us in response. So what do we tend to do? We tend to ignore those places because we're afraid that facing them will be too painful. We drive around them, we go somewhere else to hike or have picnics. Many people think there's something wrong with them if they feel grief for a lake or a honeybee or an ash tree.
Radical Joy for Hard Times says: Yes, we are connected to these places, and when they are hurt, we hurt too. And we can't truly change the way we live on Earth until we have a way of reconnecting with these places and reaffirming our vital relationship with them. By bringing attention and beauty to what we call "wounded places," we empower ourselves to confront what's difficult, gain courage to deal with problems in new ways, discover sources of creativity in ourselves and our community, and recognize that all places on Earth, no matter what has happened to them, are part of the whole web of life.
JS: Could you share how this work came into being in your life?
TJ: I like the way you phrase this. I really do feel that the work "came into being in my life," rather than that I invented it in some way. The seed of the idea actually started to grow in 1987. I was living in New York City and writing multimedia shows. For one of them I interviewed an Oneida Indian man named David Powless. A few years earlier he had received a very prestigious grant to recycle steel waste. He told me that he was very excited when he received this news, and he drove out to an enormous mound of steel waste. He climbed to the top of the mound with two buckets that he planned to fill with samples to take back to his laboratory for analysis. When he got to the top, he exclaimed to the steel waste, "I will conquer you!" Then he realized that, according to his Native American traditions, this was an entirely wrong attitude. He told me, "I realized that the waste was an orphan from the circle of life, and that my job was to bring it back into the circle".
I was very touched by this idea. It seemed to me a new and beautiful way of thinking about what is damaged, what is waste, what has been cut down, polluted, spoiled, broken. That waste is not bad, it is simply lost. Over the next few years, I became more and more drawn to this concept. I began to think about what an ordinary person could do when confronted with waste and waste places. Most of us can't recycle steel waste. But we can bring attention and compassion and beauty to places that have been damaged and ignored. I've been a vision quest guide for many years, and it was on a fast of my own in the mountains of western California in 2008 that it came to me to create Radical Joy for Hard Times as a non-profit organization.
JS: And how can this act of healing people's relationship with the earth reach more people?
TJ: A colleague of mine says of Radical Joy for Hard Times, that it is a path with a very deep philosophy and very simple practice. Our primary, most basic event is the Earth Exchange. Every group, every individual does the Earth Exchange in their own way, but we have five simple steps that we suggest:
1. Go with friends to a wounded place. The place can be anything that you consider wounded. If your heart aches when you think of what's happened to it, it's wounded. We insist that people do not risk the health or safety of themselves or anyone in the group, and do not break laws, but if you use your imagination you can find ways of doing the Earth Exchange for any place.
2. Sit a while and share your stories. During this part of the practice, people talk about what the place has meant to them, both before and after it was damaged.
3. Spend time getting to know the land as it is now. Take about 20-30 minutes to sit or walk on the land, see what you notice. Find the life, find instances of beauty, resilience, adaptation.
4. Share with the group what you discovered. Everyone has a story and it's often by telling it that you realise what it is!
5. And finally, make an act of beauty. The act of beauty must be created by everyone present. This is a way of affirming that, no matter what has happened to a place, it has within it absolutely everything necessary to make beauty. It also affirms that, no matter who is present, everyone is an essential part of the creative process. Everyone contributes to the wellbeing of the land. The act could be a dance, a song, a prayer. But we do ask every group to make a bird out of materials they find on site. That's important because it affirms that all places, like all people, are complete and whole and beautiful unto themselves.
In June of every year we do an international event called the Global Earth Exchange, when people all over the world make beauty at wounded places. In 2012 people made beauty at wounded places in 19 countries and on all seven continents. You can see the slide show on our website: radicaljoyforhardtimes.org.
JS: Do you get to hear the earth's responses to this healing? Could you give any examples?
TJ: Many people say they definitely feel the Earth respond after they have given it attention and beauty. In fact, one of the things people most often say is that they feel great love for this damaged place after just a short time being with it in this mindful, open, personal way. People have even said this about what we call in the United States "Superfund sites," places that have been designated by the government as the most toxic places; places that are top priorities for cleaning and restoring.
Is this sense of love coming from the Earth or is it coming from the individual or from the group working in harmony together? I don't have the answer to that, and I'm not sure at this point that it matters.
We call our event an Earth "Exchange" because we are giving back to places that have given so much to us. And what is so extraordinary is that, as a result of this attention, people feel the Earth giving back to them yet again, and in a new way!
JS: When you say wounded places do you mean areas which have been exploited by man?
TJ: Most of the places people go to were wounded because of human acts, but not all. For example, for our Global Earth Exchange a group in Japan made beautiful origami birds in honor of people who were victims of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear crisis. A man in America went to a Civil War battlefield and made beauty. We have been in contact with people in Israel and Palestine and hope to do an event there in a place where there has been so much wounding of people and place over a very long time.
JS: As I was listening to you I thought of my country, Brazil, and the Amazon forest - of how many places there must be deeply wounded. Have you heard of anyone that has tried this in the 'Brazilian part' of the Amazon?
TJ: Thank you for asking this. As far as I know, no one has yet done an Earth Exchange for the rain forest. It would be wonderful if that would happen next year for our Global Earth Exchange on June 22. People all over the world are aware of the plight of the rain forest, and that beautiful, beneficial, endangered place could really use some attention, compassion, and direct acts of beauty.
Trebbe Johnson teaches on the forthcoming short course: Finding Beauty and Power in Wounded Places - Earth Action for our times, 13-17 May, 2013 at Schumacher College for more details visit:
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Full of vim, vigor and sackfuls of cash the Texas Rangers front office travelled to Puerto Rico on Friday.
They made free-agent Carlos Delgado a four-year, $48-million US offer.
The Rangers sent owner Tom Hicks, general manager John Hart and manager Buck Showalter.
Texas looked like Delgado's probable destination yesterday afternoon. Now, it has all turned around and Texas has withdrawn its offer.
The favourites to land the former Blue Jays first baseman are either the Florida Marlins or the Baltimore Orioles. The New York Mets, apparently, also have pulled out. Both the Mets and the Rangers had set a deadline of last night.
There are two side of a story to any breakup.
David Sloane, who represents Delgado, says he was told yesterday that if the slugger signed with Texas, he would be a DH most of the time. A shock to Delgado and Sloane.
"From the first conversation with the Rangers, we made it crystal clear that Carlos had no interest in being a full-time DH," Sloane told The Associated Press last night. "If we had 25 conversations with the Rangers, we were told in 24 that the question of him playing first was not an issue.
"Then we were told that is changing and that 75% of his at-bats, would be as a DH."
Hicks was lusting after Delgado's services this week telling people "you know he's hit a homer every eight at-bats in our park."
Delgado homers once every 15 at-bats everywhere else.
"After three months of negotiations, we were given less than five hours to tell them yes, to make a decision that affects not only the rest of Carlos's baseball career, but the rest of his life."
The Orioles, the Marlins and the Mets also have made four-year offers. On the Rangers' side of the story is the fact they wanted a yes-or-no answer on what has turned out to be a take-it-or-leave-it offer.
"We could not get a commitment, so we are withdrawing from discussions with him, after making a very strong offer to Carlos," Hart said. "We had a great meeting on Friday and exceeded the limits of our initial proposal."
The Orioles have been talking with Sloane since the winter meetings and the Marlins remain interested.
The Mets were Caribbean visitors last week with Jeff Wilpon, son of owner Fred Wilpon, and general manager Omar Minaya in the travelling squad.
Initially, the Marlins ($36 million) and Mets ($34 million) made three-year offers. But all three teams have since made four-year offers.
Delgado has watched other free agents sign.
The Seattle Mariners gave Adrian Beltre a five-year, $64-million deal and Richie Sexson a four-year $50-million contract. The other free agent corner infielder to sign was third baseman Troy Glaus, who went to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a four-year, $45-million deal.
Even though he has better career numbers than all three, Delgado is at least two years older.
Where should Delgado go?
Well, we haven't been asked but for out two cents, the place for Delgado to stay is the AL. He knows the pitching.
The problem with signing a four-year deal with either the Marlins or the revamped Mets, is what happens down the road? Delgado is 32. How many years does he have left at first base?
Then what happens in the NL? He would have to be dealt, for they can't shuttle him to DH the way the Orioles can. Upon further review we think the Orioles are the best fit.


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Pakistan Drone Airstrike Base Vacated by US Forces
All U.S. forces have vacated the Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan.
According to CNN, Islamabad had asked the U.S. to vacate the base by Dec. 11 after a NATO drone attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border on Nov. 26.
The U.S. will also no longer be able to use ground supply routes through Pakistan. Islamabad also decided on Tuesday to pull out of a U.S.-backed meeting planned for next week in Bonn, Germany over Afghanistan.
Pakistani military officials said that 51 American personnel had left the base and that they had taken drone planes and other equipment along with them. Pakistani military has taken over the base.
Voice of America reports that U.S. intelligence experts have said that the withdrawal from the base is unlikely to have a big impact on the drone war in the region because the U.S. can still fly the planes out of Afghanistan.
Shamsi Airbase, located in western Pakistan, was one of two bases that Islamabad had allowed the U.S. to use for its military operations in the area.
The U.S. has been carrying out the drone attacks since 2004 as part of its War on Terrorism campaign against al-Qaida and Taliban militants along the Pakistani-Afghan border.


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Neonatal Immunization With Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Papua New Guinea
This study has been completed.
Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
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First Posted: September 22, 2005
Last Update Posted: July 12, 2011
The University of Western Australia
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The National Health Plan 2001-2010 calls for investigation of the feasibility of pneumococcal vaccines for Papau New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Institute of Medical Research, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Western Australia will collaborate to examine very closely the safety of neonatal vaccination, particularly with regard to impact on the development of immunity and response to other vaccines given to infants. This study will also provide a unique opportunity for training of PNG and Australian scientists in both countries.
|Pneumonia Meningitis Otitis Media
|Biological: Pneumococcal 7 valent conjugate vaccine (Prevenar®)
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Neonatal Immunization With Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Papua New Guinea
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Immunogenicity and Safety [ Time Frame: 5 yrs ]Serum PCV serotype-specific IgG antibody at 2, 4 and 9 mths. Mucosal PCV serotype-specific IgG antibody at 1, 3, 4 and 9 mths. PCV-induced T-cell memory (against vaccine protein carrier) at 3 and 9 mths. Local and systemic reactogenicity 48-96 hrs after vaccination. Monitoring of serious adverse events during 18 mth follow-up. T-cell development to bystander antigens at 3 and 9 mths.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Immunogenicity [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Serum PCV and non-PCV serotype specific IgG antibody at 10 mths, after 23vPPV vaccination at 9 mths
- Pneumococcal-specific acquired immunity [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Assessment of cellular immune responses to pneumococcal protein antigens at 9 and 18 months of age.
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|May 2005
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|May 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Neonatal 7vPCV
Receive study vaccine (Prevnar) at birth, 1 and 2 months
Biological: Pneumococcal 7 valent conjugate vaccine (Prevenar®)
Accelerated PCV vaccinaton.
Experimental: Infant 7vPCV
Receive the study vaccine (Prevnar) at 1, 2 and 3 months
Biological: Pneumococcal 7 valent conjugate vaccine (Prevenar®)
Accelerated PCV vaccinaton.
Placebo Comparator: Control
Do not receive study vaccine (Prevnar)
Biological: Pneumococcal 7 valent conjugate vaccine (Prevenar®)
Accelerated PCV vaccinaton.
Detailed Description:
In order to obtain the earliest possible protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, achieve optimal coverage and reduce burden of early carriage, neonatal pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) immunization needs to be considered. This study in the PNG highlands will enrol 312 infants at birth, who will be randomised to receive PCV either at 1-2-3 months (infant schedule according to PNG national EPI schedule) or 0-1-2 months of age (neonatal schedule) or receive only routine immunizations (controls). Blood samples will be taken at birth-2-3-4 months of age, pre- and post-pneumococcal polysaccharide booster (23vPPV) at 9-10 months of age (to assess immune memory) and at 18 months at study completion. Carriage will be assessed weekly for the first month of life and at regular intervals thereafter. There will be ongoing surveillance for respiratory and other diseases throughout the study. In addition to serotype-specific IgG, we will examine IgG avidity, IgG subclasses, mucosal IgA and T-cell cytokine responses to PCV and pneumococcal protein antigens. To ensure immunological safety, particularly for neonatal PCV, immune responses to concomitant vaccines and viral and environmental antigens will also be examined as well as overall T-cell maturation.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 3 Days (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
New born babies with birth weight >2000 g (2 kgs) and parents giving consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute neonatal infection;
- Severe congenital abnormality;
- Children of mothers known to be HIV positive will be excluded;
- Serious asphyxia at birth;
- Intended migration in the next 2 years;
- Parents withdraw consent;
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00219401
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00219401
|Papua New Guinea
|Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
|Goroka, EHP, Papua New Guinea, 441
Sponsors and Collaborators
Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
The University of Western Australia
|Principal Investigator:
|Peter Siba, PhD
|Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
|Principal Investigator:
|Deborah Lehmann, MBBS, Msc
|Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
van den Biggelaar AH, Richmond PC, Pomat WS, Phuanukoonnon S, Nadal-Sims MA, Devitt CJ, Siba PM, Lehmann D, Holt PG. Neonatal pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunization primes T cells for preferential Th2 cytokine expression: a randomized controlled trial in Papua New Guinea. Vaccine. 2009 Feb 25;27(9):1340-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.12.046. Epub 2009 Jan 14.
van den Biggelaar AH, Pomat W, Bosco A, Phuanukoonnon S, Devitt CJ, Nadal-Sims MA, Siba PM, Richmond PC, Lehmann D, Holt PG. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccination at birth in a high-risk setting: no evidence for neonatal T-cell tolerance. Vaccine. 2011 Jul 26;29(33):5414-20. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.05.065. Epub 2011 Jun 7.
Francis JP, Richmond PC, Pomat WS, Michael A, Keno H, Phuanukoonnon S, Nelson JB, Whinnen M, Heinrich T, Smith WA, Prescott SL, Holt PG, Siba PM, Lehmann D, van den Biggelaar AH. Maternal antibodies to pneumolysin but not to pneumococcal surface protein A delay early pneumococcal carriage in high-risk Papua New Guinean infants. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2009 Nov;16(11):1633-8. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00247-09. Epub 2009 Sep 23.
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Pomat WS, van den Biggelaar AH, Phuanukoonnon S, Francis J, Jacoby P, Siba PM, Alpers MP, Reeder JC, Holt PG, Richmond PC, Lehmann D; Neonatal Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Trial Study Team. Safety and immunogenicity of neonatal pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Papua New Guinean children: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056698. Epub 2013 Feb 22.
|Responsible Party:
|A/Prof. Deborah Lehmann, University of Western Australia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00219401 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
303123 NHMRC Australia
|First Submitted:
|September 15, 2005
|First Posted:
|September 22, 2005
|Last Update Posted:
|July 12, 2011
|Last Verified:
|July 2011
Keywords provided by Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research:
Pneumococcal vaccine
Antibody responses
Cellular immunology
Th1/Th2 immune responses
Infectious diseases
Papua New Guinea
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Otitis Media
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Trailer Choir's 'Big Vinny' Hickerson Felt Like He'd 'Won the Lottery' When He Got Cast on 'The Biggest Loser'
As a member of the country duo Trailer Choir, "Big Vinny" Hickerson has done things most people only dream of, including scoring a top 20 album and a top 40 single. And as evidenced by his nickname, as well as his vocals on Trailer Choir's hit 'Rockin' the Beer Gut,' he's learned to use his ample girth as an asset.
A recent health scare made Hickerson see things differently, however — and now that he's a contestant on the latest season of 'The Biggest Loser,' starting Tuesday night, he says he feels like he's "won the lottery."
Miranda Lambert Urges Young Songwriters to 'Know Who You Are' [VIDEO]
If you want to make a living as a songwriter, Nashville is unquestionably the best place to be — even after a decade of dwindling record sales, it's still home to a thriving publishing industry, as well as some of the most seasoned tunesmiths in the business.
But that doesn't mean a good song is necessarily easy to find. In fact, Miranda Lambert found the experience so frustrating that she ended up learning how to play guitar just so she could write her own material.
How Was Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott Inspired by 'Sister Act 2?'
With millions of albums sold and a growing list of hits to their name, Lady Antebellum are one of the fastest-rising young acts in the music business. As they gear up to promote their just-released third album, 'Own the Night,' they're on the verge of delivering one of the biggest sales successes of 2011.
And according to singer Hillary Scott, none of it might have happened if it wasn't for Whoopi Goldberg.
Brad Paisley's First Book, 'Diary of a Player,' Set for November 1 Release
For most people, it would be more than enough to achieve success as an award-winning recording artist, prolific hit songwriter, and highly-respected musician. But Brad Paisley is not most people.
Having conquered the Billboard charts, Paisley decided to tackle a different kind of bestsellers' list with his upcoming book debut, titled 'Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me.'
Martina McBride Plans Cross-Country Train Tour to Promote New Album, 'Eleven'
In today's crowded musical landscape, it's more important than ever for an artist plugging a new release to find new and interesting ways to attract the attention of potential listeners — even if that artist is a multi-platinum fixture on the radio dial.
Martina McBride is one artist who seems to have learned this lesson well — instead of booking just another tour as part of the promotion for her descriptively titled eleventh album, 'Eleven,' she'll be embarking on an 11-stop, cross-country train ride.
Lee Ann Womack Announces Plans for New Album
It's been a few years since Lee Ann Womack had an album to promote, but she's finally ready to get back in the studio and record some new music for her fans.
Womack, whose last release was 2008′s Grammy-nominated 'There's More Where That Came From,' announced her return during her appearance at George Jones' recent 80th birthday party.
George Strait's 'Here for a Good Time' Debuts at Number One
I say it all the time on XL Country...I am a George Strait fan! Love all of his music. So with that, Congratulations are in order for George Strait, who just added yet another number one record to his awe-inspiring list of chart-topping hits.
Strait's new album, 'Here for a Good Time,' debuted on top of the Billboard country charts this week, surging past Jason Aldean and Jake Owen with more than 91,000 copies sold.
Taylor Swift and Her Amazing Music Sales Enter the Guinness Book of World Records
Over the last few years — and multi-platinum albums — Taylor Swift has taken up seemingly permanent residence on the charts, not to mention the hearts and iPods of millions of fans. And now you can see her in concert and MEET HER BACKSTAGE from XL Country and Taste of Country! Go to XL Country's Facebook page now and like us to win!
Now, she also has a pair of spots in the Guinness Book of World Records to call her own.
Jake Owen Performs Tracks and Shares Stories from 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night'
If his repeat performance at the top of the Billboard country charts with 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night' is any indication, you can't get enough of Jake Owen right now.
Fortunately for you, Owen is happy to oblige. He recently sat down for a session as part of Walmart's Soundcheck series, delivering live-in-the-studio performances of some of his favorite tracks while discussing the stories behind the songs.
Alan Jackson and Ozzy Osbourne Team Up (Sort Of) to Save Missing Boy With Autism
They're both legends in their respective musical genres, but aside from that, Alan Jackson and Ozzy Osbourne have never had much in common — until this week, that is.
Songs from the unlikely duo were used to find a missing California boy, eight-year-old Joshua Robb, who slipped through the fence at his school and ran off into the neighboring woods on Monday.
Bill Monroe's 100th Birthday Celebrated with Concerts, CDs and More
Few musicians have meant more to the history of country music than the legendary mandolin player Bill Monroe. He's no longer with us, but his legacy remains very much alive and for proof, you need look no further than the number of tributes and celebrations surrounding Monroe's 100th birthday.
To mark the event, which passed September 12, there are a number of projects are paying tribute to Monroe's pioneering work, including concerts, a documentary, a musical, CDs, and — if you've got the travel budget — some unique museum exhibits.
Winners of 2011 Canadian Country Music Awards Announced
The Canadian country music scene is arguably best known as the breeding ground for Shania Twain's early work, but there's a lot more to it than that — and the Canadian Country Music Awards have been working to get that message across since they were founded in 1976.
This year's crop of CCMA winners were announced Sunday night, in a ceremony that included appearances from Ronnie Dunn and Derric Rutan, as well as performances from Luke Bryan and Johnny Reid.


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Jeff Skinner was on the ice and going through drills Saturday morning, but the Carolina Hurricanes forward wasn't expected to return until at least Sunday, the team announced.
Skinner would miss his 16th straight game with a concussion when the Hurricanes played Saturday night against the Boston Bruins.
But after monitoring him through the team's morning skate, the Hurricanes opted to give him a little more time.
"If there's any question mark or any uncertainty, we want to make sure he's 100 percent," coach Kirk Muller told reporters.
With the Hurricanes playing two straight days, the club decided to see if Skinner could instead go against the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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Last year one of my sweetheart's friends, Sarah got married at a gorgeous place here in Lynchburg, VA called the Aviary.
He and I have been looking at venues all over town, and he remembered that her wedding was there. Unfortunately, we weren't able to attend, but we decided to check it out.
It's a charming old building. Actually, old doesn't describe it. The building is actually over a 100 year old.
Although, the building is ancient, after we went inside we saw it's charm. It's circular in design, and has hard wood floors through out, plus a banister that runs about 75% of the way around.
The Aviary is managed by the City of Lynchburg park and recreation department, and is located in Miller Park. The park is surrounded by trees, and has a fountain on the property, which would be great for pictures.
We were given a brochure which has more information on the history of the building as well as the current rental rates. The clerk in the office did tel me that rates were getting ready to change, in case we wanted to book it.
If you're interested in checking this place out, then give them a call at (434) 455-5858, or check out the City of Lynchburg's website at


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The password could become a thing of the past as security experts at Google outline ideas for new online identity solutions, according to a report in Wired.
In a new research paper, the Google security team discuss the possibility of a physical token that could be hidden in a ring or smartphone and used to confirm our identity online.
As passwords become increasingly impractical, a new solution is undoubtedly required to enhance online security.
Consumers are already encouraged to use different passwords for each account and use difficult to crack combinations of letters, numbers and symbols.
Yet now the average consumer holds 26 different online accounts – passwords are increasingly difficult to remember and are no longer the secure and sensible ID solution they once were.
Device security
In a research paper due to be published later this month in engineering journal IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Google Vice President of Security Eric Grosse and Engineer Mayank Upadhyay outline a range of possible new identity methods to replace passwords in the future.
According to Wired, the Googlers write in the report: "We'd like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorize a new computer via a tap on the computer, even in situations in which your phone might be without cellular connectivity."
Using a physical device to authenticate yourself will be considerably more secure than a password, as the device will need to be in your possession as opposed to passwords that accessed and used remotely by fraudsters located on the other side of the world.
Another idea being tested is a tiny coded card that slides into a USB (Universal Serial Bus) reader to automatically log a web surfer into Google. This form of device would need support from web browsers but could be a quick and simple ID solution.
According Wired, the Google experts add: "The future may not exactly be password-free, but it will at be least free of those complex, hard-to-remember passwords.
"We'll have to have some form of screen unlock, maybe passwords but maybe something else. But the primary authenticator will be a token like this or some equivalent piece of hardware."
Do you think the end is nigh for the password? What would you like see to replace it? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
Description :
From Red Hat Security Advisory 2013:0807 :
An updated hypervkvpd package that fixes one security issue and one
bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the
CVE link in the References section.
The hypervkvpd package contains hypervkvpd, the guest Microsoft
Hyper-V Key-Value Pair (KVP) daemon. The daemon passes basic
information to the host through VMBus, such as the guest IP address,
fully qualified domain name, operating system name, and operating
system release number.
A denial of service flaw was found in the way hypervkvpd processed
certain Netlink messages. A local, unprivileged user in a guest
(running on Microsoft Hyper-V) could send a Netlink message that, when
processed, would cause the guest's hypervkvpd daemon to exit.
The CVE-2012-5532 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red
Hat Product Security Team.
This update also fixes the following bug :
* The hypervkvpd daemon did not close the file descriptors for pool
files when they were updated. This could eventually lead to hypervkvpd
crashing with a 'KVP: Failed to open file, pool: 1' error after
consuming all available file descriptors. With this update, the file
descriptors are closed, correcting this issue. (BZ#953502)
Users of hypervkvpd are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which contains backported patches to correct these issues. After
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The Life of the Law Still Requires Logic
Justice Holmes famously declared in The Common Law that "the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Justice Alito, in his majority opinion in Kentucky v. King would appear to agree with Justice Holmes, with an added proviso. Justice Alito, like Holmes, emphasizes experience. In emphasizing experience, the majority opinion focuses not on the experience of the private individual subject to searches, but on the experience of police who must respond to the myriad factual situations they daily confront without time to engage in fine-grained legal analysis of where the limits of the Fourth Amendment reside. But, in so doing, the opinion jettisons logic altogether, producing a rule at odds with itself, at least when viewed from the perspective of the rights-holder rather than that of the potential rights-violator.
In what follows, I will briefly sketch why.
1. The Court provides the following rule to govern the case: "Where, as here, the police did not create the exigency by engaging or threatening to engage in conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment, warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence is reasonable and thus allowed." The alternative rule—the one that I think would be a more reasonable account of Fourth Amendment limitations on state power—is stated and rejected as "unreasonable": "[A] rule that precludes the police from making a warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence whenever their conduct causes the exigency would unreasonably shrink the reach of this well-established exception to the warrant requirement." If the latter would "unreasonably shrink" an "exception," already something of an odd construction, then what would count as a violation of the Court's rule? (And to register the oddity of worrying about shrinking an exception, is not the burden usually on the "exception" to justify its reach, after all the rule is supposed to be the norm, and the exception the abnormal—or is the fact that the Court is worried about protecting the exception against "unreasonable" applications of the rule mean that the rule and exception are now really in an inverse relation?). How would the police ever engage in or threaten to engage in a violation of the Fourth Amendment under circumstances that would lead to a warrantless, forcible entry, especially during a narcotics investigation?
Let's posit that warrantless, non-exigent, forcible entry after knocking and loudly proclaiming "police, police, police" would count as a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Let's dispense with another possible scenario: if police failed to knock and announce, with or without a warrant, and forcibly entered, then there would also be a Fourth Amendment violation. But, this situation could not be a police-created exigency since there was no announcement of their presence through which they could be "engaging or threatening to engage" in lawless conduct. This conduct is simply kicking in a door, and therefore another clear Fourth Amendment violation. So knocking and announcing is a necessary condition for police created exigency. But once police presence is announced, especially in a drug case, are there any practical circumstances under the Court's rule that will count as a Fourth Amendment violation? Is there any circumstance in which the police-created exigency (where exigency need be no more than police fear that "evidence" might be destroyed) will not count as an exigency justifying warrantless entry? The short answer is: No.
In the circumstances of this case, and under the criteria of no "actual or threatened violation of the Fourth Amendment," six basic outcomes are possible after police knock and announce their presence (there may be variations on each of these 6, but not to such an extent as to undermine the basic point here): (1) the occupants are quiet as mice and the police simply go away (how long can the police stay outside the door, and how long must the occupants assume their mouse-like demeanor is unclear); (2) the occupants are quiet as mice, the police enter, and then say they heard something that led them to fear destruction of evidence (being quiet as mice is very difficult, after all); (3) the occupants make regular household noises, and the police enter claiming they heard something that could be construed as destruction of evidence (and regular noises might be quickly flushing the toilet because one has to exit the bathroom, where one as engaged in private, household activity to answer the door and would most certainly include the water-related noises the lady of the house might make when taking her "daily sauna and bath" as Justice Scalia described the paradigm of household privacy) (see this fantastic exchange with Bernard Harcourt on flushing); (4) the occupants make noises because they are busy draining and flushing their stash and the police enter to discover their worst fears realized. Under none of these circumstances is a warrantless, forcible entry not exigent. And, only under number (2) is there a "threat" to engage in warrantless conduct, but the "threat" or the "engaging in" is entirely subjective and unknowable by the occupants of the house. So far, then, no situation in which the police kick in the door counts as possible police behavior violating the Fourth Amendment under the majority's rule. That is the case only if we ignore two more, rather implausible, options: (5) the occupants are quiet as mice, the police enter, and the police admit that they did so just for kicks, so to speak (that is, they admit to entering without any exigency and without a warrant); (6) after knocking and announcing, and "without a warrant or any legally sound basis for a warrantless entry, [the police] threaten that they will enter without permission unless admitted." According to the opinion's footnote 4, "[t]here is a strong argument to be made," that the exigent circumstances rule should not apply here (though not a decisive argument). But (6) is an unavailing situation in light of the continuity, and near identity from the perspective of the police, of (2)-(4), especially given the squirrely language of "any legally sound basis for a warrantless entry," which depends on the Court's own construction of what might be a permissible basis—e.g., (2) and (3) being indistinguishable from (4). The police will be trained to make no such threats (and certainly not to admit to them if they did), and (5) is implausible on its face.
So, where does this breakdown leave us? Unless I'm missing something, here's what follows in cases like this one: nothing will plausibly count as fulfilling the conditions for an unconstitutional forcible, warrantless entry under the Court's rule governing police-created exigent circumstances.
This conclusion creates an odd logical space for a rule protecting Fourth Amendment privacy in the home. Unless, that is, the concern over "unreasonably shrink[ing] the reach of this well-established exception to the warrant requirement" is really about "reasonably" protecting the reach of an emerging rule that police must simply act reasonably, warrant or no. In which case, smelling the burning marijuana furnishes a basis at least for reasonable suspicion, giving police under footnote 4 a "legally sound basis for a warrantless entry," so long as the Court construes the operative rule as requiring the police to act reasonably in the circumstances. But if nothing can count as violating the rule regarding police-created exigency, then the police may simply knock, announce, and enter. The exigency exception becomes its own rule of permissive police practice. Stated in one more way, there will always be exigency justifying warrantless entry when police knock, announce, and fear destruction of evidence, and there are no circumstances in which persons can plausibly exercise their Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The "ample protection for the privacy rights that the Amendment protects" Justice Alito assures us exists turns out to have no content–a disappointing logical sleight of hand.
What does this opinion do? Linda Greenhouse in the NY Times, wrote that "what the court held, in an opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., is that warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence is justified." Orin Kerr disagrees, urging that "[t]he Court did not consider whether the warrantless entry was constitutional," but merely "considered the right test for police-created exigent circumstances." I would like to use a line from the Coen Brothers film, O'Brother, Where Art Thou?—"Well, I'm with you fellas." I think both can be right. Kerr provides a correct description of the question the Court "considered," while at the same time, there is good evidence to say the Court "decided" that the warrantless entry is justified. There are three bases in the text for this claim: (1) in stating the rule of the case at the beginning of section III.A, Justice Alito writes "[w]here, as here, the police did not create the exigency,"; and (2) after disclaiming at the beginning of section IV.A. the need to decide whether exigent circumstances existed in this case, the opinion concludes the section by describing the testimony of Officer Cobb and stating: "Given that this announcement was made after the exigency arose, it could not have created the exigency"–a statement that seems to affirm the existence of the exigency; (3) the Court states "we hold that the exigency justified the warrantless search of the apartment." All that is left for the lower court to do is to turn the assumption that Officer Cobb's testimony is sufficient for exigency into a decision that it is so—and the Supreme Court has in effect already decided that the exigency exists anyway. The Court mixes assumption with declaration in a way that makes it plausible to think that the Court considered the question of the right rule and also (essentially?) decided that the exigency exists in these cases. Given my analysis in Section 2, how could the "exigency" not exist in such cases? So the opinion both considers and decides the question of rule, and does not consider but likely decides the question of application.
I could write a whole blog post about the problems of section III.D. As Linda Greenhouse notes, for example, when the police show up at your door, is it even remotely plausible to think "they do no more than any private citizen might do"? I suppose that if the point is that anyone at all "might" knock on your door, then the point is trivially true, but entirely irrelevant. But to get to my point directly, I want to point out the logical contradiction in the conclusion this Section makes. Justice Alito admits that "the occupant has no obligation to open the door or to speak." It seems plausible to think that the absence of this obligation is based on the individual's right to liberty and privacy—one cannot be forced to consent. But if that is so, then a person's refusal to answer the door is equivalent to "stand[ing] on [her] constitutional rights." Yet, the Court—rather unpleasantly I would add—claims of those who stand on their constitutional rights in this manner have "[chosen] not to stand on their constitutional rights." This is a logical contradiction. Something cannot both be a choice to stand on a right and not be a choice to stand on a right. I don't see any way around this. Moreover, and regarding the substance of the right, Justice Alito quotes a prior decision instructing that in consensual encounters a person "may go on his way" and need not even "listen to [police] questions at all" (much less be compelled to answer). If we generalize this as a right to "go about one's business," which may include any number of private activities in the home, then we have the problem generated under Section 2. A person's decision to ignore the police and go about her business in the household creates the conditions for an exigency that belies her freedom to go about her business. So within the substance of the purported right, in light of the Court's rule regarding exigency, the Court commits another logical contradiction. These are the formal logical problems with the opinion—and they are serious.
I lack the skill that my friend Scott Aiken has with informal fallacies (and if you haven't seen his blog, The NonSequitur, I highly recommend it to you), but there are at least a few in this opinion. I will only gesture, as this post is long, and I am increasingly inclined to alter my summer writing plans to allow time to write another article on the Fourth Amendment. But, I count at least one straw man and two non-sequiturs in addition to another formal problem with the relation of contraries. One of the more disturbing non-sequiturs comes with the final sentence of this key section (III.D): "Occupants who choose not to stand on their constitutional rights but instead elect to attempt to destroy evidence have only themselves to blame for the warrantless exigent-circumstances search that may ensue." This claim sounds inappropriately religious in its finger-wagging admonishment to the private citizen who "elects" to go about his business, but in so doing has only himself to "blame" for the police entry. Moreover, the rhetorical form "the person who elects X, has only himself to blame for consequences Y" is usually (often) used only when the conditions of "electing" X are illusory. At the very least, it is an odd and questionable rhetorical use of non-sequitur to employ in a Supreme Court decision.
As I suggested in my prior post on this case, and argue elsewhere, Fourth Amendment protections often depend on whether the Court focuses on privacy or on guiding police practice. But in either case, the life of the law requires both experience and logic.


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Review of Mutual Recognition Schemes
The mutual recognition schemes linking Australian states and territories and New Zealand have contributed to the creation of a seamless national economy in Australia and a single economic market across the Tasman, according to a report by the Productivity Commission. This, and other findings are contained in this review of the schemes the Commission presented to Australian Heads of Government and the New Zealand Prime Minister in early February 2009. In an assessment of the two main mutual recognition schemes - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA) - the Commission found that they brought benefits through increased mobility of labour and greater movement of merchandise between jurisdictions. The Commission found, however, that ambiguities and omissions in the legislation create frictions in the operation of the schemes. Moreover, a lack of awareness of mutual recognition means that businesses, individuals and regulators do not always use the schemes fully or appropriately. The Commission recommended a suite of administrative, regulatory and legislative changes to mutual recognition arrangements which, if implemented in the near-to-medium term, would reinvigorate the schemes and allow them to reach their full potential.
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Bahrain: 1. Please provide information about a 1994 petition calling for nullification of state security law, reinstatement of the 1973 constitution and the return of the dissolved elected parliament? 2. Please provide information about the arrest of political activists around 1996, in particular whether an activist would have been tried and sentenced if he was in detention for three years? 3. Please provide any information about continued harassment by the authorities today, of those who have been detained in the past? 4. Please provide information on any arrest or detention of Bahrainis returning from overseas travel on the basis of being involved in terrorist plots or training against the Sunni elite?
3 June 2009 | Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal | Document type: Query Responses


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District Attorney John Morganelli
Pennsylvania's most senior elected district attorney with 25 years experience as a state prosecutor; experienced courtroom prosecutor who has personally tried to verdict 25 First Degree Murder cases including a conviction in a case in which the body of the victim was never located; argued First Degree Murder cases in both the state and federal appellate courts; testified numerous times before State House and Senate Committees as well as U.S. House of Representatives on criminal justice issues including capital punishment, insanity defense, powers of the judiciary, racial profiling, illegal immigration and violence issues; often seen on national television – has appeared on 60 Minutes, "The O'Reilly Factor", "The Lou Dobbs Show", Connie Chung Tonight, "Donahue", and the Nancy Grace Show. Cases prosecuted have been the subject of documentary's aired on HBO, A&E Network, America's Most Wanted and the Discovery Channel. Author of "The D-Day Bank Massacre: The True Story Behind the Martin Appel case", published by Sterling House Publishing of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* Impanelled County's First Sitting Grand Jury in 30 years to focus on public corruption and unsolved homicides
* Established Mental Health Court to address non-violent crimes committed by the mentally ill. The program assures that mentally ill offenders who commit non-violent crimes get the help they need and are not left trapped in the criminal justice system.
* Created Cold Case Unit to track and investigate unsolved homicide cases.
* Led the Fight to Study Racial Profiling in Pennsylvania
* Restructured Office of District Attorney by creating specialized units to bring expertise to the prosecution of criminal cases; created Sexual Assault Unit and Domestic Violence unit to focus on crimes against children and women.
* Established Nuisance Bar Program to eradicate nuisance bars in neighborhoods.
Professional Experience
- District Attorney, Northampton County, Pennsylvania 1992-present; Elected in 1991 with approximately 60% of vote in primary and general elections; defeated 3-term incumbent District Attorney; reelected in 1995,1999, 2003, 2007, 2011,2015
- President of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute 2002-2003; President of Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association 1999-2000; served as Vice-President and Secretary Treasurer of Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and Member of the Executive Board 1995-2003.
- Instructor of Criminal Law Evidence and Constitutional Law, part-time, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1982-1984; 2003-present.
- Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Attorney General, 2008.
- Appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Committee on Capital Litigation, 2003.
- Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Sub-committee on Immigration matters, 2003.
- Appointed Special Deputy Attorney General 1996-1997 by Attorney General investigating matters in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties.
- Appointed to Attorney General's Transition Team, 1996; served as Chairman of Drug Law Committee and wrote final report of Committee.
- Appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency 1995; Chairman of Technology and Automation Committee 1996-1998.
- Appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to Governor's Transition Team 1995; served on Governor's Crime Task Force and Corrections, Probation and Parole Task Force.
- Represented Lehigh Valley at White House Briefing on President Clinton's Crime Bill 1994.
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association; Legislative and Governmental Affairs Committee 1994-1996.
- Lecturer at Pennsylvania Bar Association Statewide Criminal Law Symposium 1999, 2001.
- Solicitor to Bethlehem City Council 1986-1991.
- Served as special counsel to City of Easton investigating alleged Ethics Act Violation 1989.
- Assistant Public Defender, Northampton County 1982-1986.
- Assistant City Solicitor, City of Bethlehem 1981-1982.
- Served as Independent Special Counsel investigating alleged police misconduct, Moore Township, Pennsylvania.
- Served as Solicitor of Northampton County Constables Association.
- Trial attorney, private practice of law, civil and criminal practice 1980-1996.
- Juris Doctor: May 1980, Villanova School of Law
- Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085
- Class Rank: 31/196
- Moot Court Board Member – Selection based on outstanding academic achievement at end of first year.
- Bachelor of Arts, Political Science: May 1977
- Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18018
- Class rank: 5/305
- Summa Cum Laude Graduate
- Final cumulative quality point average 3.90
- Perfect 4.00 average in major field of study
Legal Associations
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Federal District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Northampton County Court of Common Pleas
- Northampton County Bar Association
- National District Attorneys Association
- Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, past member
- Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, past member
Renald Baratta Memorial Legal Award, 2013 Roseto UNICO
Lehigh Valley Crime Stoppers Award , 2012
Easton Area Community Center Larry Holmes Humanitarian Award, 2011
Social Security Administration, Philadelphia Regional Anti-Fraud Award for prosecuting Identity Theft cases, 2003.
Bethlehem UNICO Man of the Year 2003
Easton UNICO Man of the Year 1998
- Bethlehem Area Jaycee Distinguished Service Award 1994
- Outstanding Young Man of the Year 1983
- Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities 1976-1977
- Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society 1976
- Triangle Honor Society, Moravian College 1976
- Citizenship-Leadership Award from Veterans of Foreign Wars 1973
- History Award from Daughters of the American Revolution 1973
- John F. Kennedy Award for Leadership in Student Government 1973
Community Involvement
- Notre Dame High School, Middle States Evaluation Committee 2005-2006
- Allentown Catholic Diocese Board of Education 1996-1998
- Bethlehem Northeast Little League, Assistant Coach, 4 years
- St. Anne's Church Finance Council 1995-1998
- Bethlehem School District Task Force on violence in the schools 1993
- Board of Directors, Bethlehem Y.M.C.A. 1989-1991
- Easton Area School District Task Force on school safety 1995
- Bethlehem Area Jaycees – past member
- Moravian College Alumni Association – past member
- Boy's Club of Bethlehem Fundraising Project 1984
- South East Neighborhood Association, Board member
- Born November 12, 1955
- Married, 1981 to former Diana Goretti
- 3 children


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The 2006 Junior Tour du Pays Vaud, Switzerland - Congrats to two-time Pays du Vaud winner and program participant Geoffrey Curran!
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USA Cycling's National Development Program (NDP) is primarily funded by a grant from the Foundation. This program annually supports approximately 350 American junior, U23 and women athletes in European and other international racing programs, in all Olympic cycling disciplines. All the young riders on the 2012 London Olympic Road team, Tyler Farrar (Garmin), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team). Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) and Timmy Duggan (Saxo) are program graduates, and the same for the entire Women's Olympic road team. Almost every young American professional rider starting the 2012 Amgen Tour of California and Pro Cycling Challenge UCI stage races has participated in the National Development programs during the last 14 years.
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Greetings from San Francisco. I am here delivering a paper and chairing a panel at the Law & Society Conference (both are about technology, but more about that in a future post) in a fortuitous bit of travel that makes posting about the circumcision ban apropos. Alas, my amazing colleagues on this site have spoken so well on this topic that I was content to offer my thoughts to my regular Towleroad readers yesterday. The post was mostly about the federal constitutional arguments should the ban pass, but the topic elicited high pitched emotions from the small sampling of the gay community that has the time and inclination to post comments online.
Admittedly, I was shocked at my commentators' near-unanimity in support of the ban, and that's not even including those who simply attacked the motives of their opponents and used the kind of rhetoric that Dave Hoffman advised against here. Circumcision may have special cultural significance in the gay community, but if so, that's news to me. So, I decided to test the theory.
When the post reached near 100 comments, I took a friend to the Castro district, a historic gay enclave, put on a nice shirt and my best smile and asked random passers-by about their opinions on the ban. In a few hours, I spoke to nearly 85 people, 80 of whom identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. My friend spoke to 53 people, all of whom identified as LGBT. (By the way, that shocked me, as well. Does no one else visit the Castro? Or did we subconsciously self-select? Or were gay people drawn to a gay guy?). I asked very simple questions:
1. Do you support the proposed ban on circumcision of males under the age of 18?
2. Why? What's your reasoning in one or two sentences?
This sample is also small and I could not very well ask Likert questions and do a regression analysis in time, so we must take the results with a healthy dose of salt.
Of the 133 LGBT respondents, only 19 supported the ban. The quantitative and qualitative results conformed to my expectations.
The 19 in support used words and phrases like "male genital mutilation," "like the horrors of rape," "Jews need to modernize," "trauma," "I will never forgive my parents," "dehumanizing," and so on. A few also decided to register their personal sexual preferences.
The 114 opposed to the ban used words and phrases like "parents should decide," "parents make decisions for their children all the time," "its not a big deal," "why do we have to keep banning [bleep]," "live and let live," "if someone wants to do it, who am I to say no," "why should I get involved in how you raise your children." More than a few also registered their personal sexual preferences, but there was little correlation between those who volunteered that they were circumcised, or preferred circumcised partners, and those who opposed the ban.
I expected this libertarian streak, if only because I see it in my students when I teach gay rights. Students who support marriage equality, for example, offer libertarian legal and policy arguments as to why marriage equality is constitutional and why it is a good idea. They decry conservatives' interest in what they, or their gay friends, do in their bedrooms. They wonder how marriage equality can really affect anyone else. These views and questions make sense, and while I have some sympathy for the perspective, I always push back for pedagogical purposes, to make them offer constitutional and precedential arguments rather than just giving me their policy preferences and because it is hardly the best argument for marriage rights.
Libertarianism is like a Monet: it seems awesome from afar, but the devil is in the details. I find myself fighting against its implications in my scholarship and in conversations with students.
In your teaching experiences in any subject area, do you see increasing libertarianism in your students? For those who teach classes about minority and gender rights, are your students libertarians?


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I've read on msdn that for Visual Studio 2005 the MFC ISAPI extension template was discontinued and that for new development "ISAPI entry point functions" should be used instead.
I'm interpreting that as the MFC isapi classes are problematic. Could you give some honest commentary regarding the issues?
I've looked at my mfc isapi that I would like to update and can eliminate the dependency on mfc with own C++ classes.
From a practical standpoint, I was wondering if 2005 Standard Edition would do me any good since MFC is included, but since it isn't being encouraged I thought I would just continue my project using Express and really get to know ISAPI (which has been fun so far and not as hard as I thought).
I presume you are referencing the following documents:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcedit/html/vcgrfVisualCppStandardEditionFeatures.asp
- http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910382
Actually, I do not interpret the removal of MFC ISAPI Template as an indication of it being problematic. Instead, I will phrase its removal as closer to:
- "Low popularity" relative to other project types (i.e. is it really as popular as a CLR Console Application or Windows Forms Application?)
- ISAPI is not intrinsically .NET-anything
- ATL Server actually provides a usable framework on top of ISAPI that connects with .NET, while MFC ISAPI Template offers little
In other words, from a .NET perspective, pure ISAPI development is out-of-date, so the costs of maintaining such a template project does not make sense. Plus, ATL Server has a future while MFC ISAPI Template never offered much... so the choice is pretty clear.
Frankly, I have no problems with the removal of MFC ISAPI Template. If I could roll back time, I actually wish that the Visual C++ team never introduced the MFC ISAPI Template because it simply introduces ISAPI developers to an abstraction and dependency layer on top of ISAPI which offers no benefits to the developer. How so?
The Template attempts to snap a MFC Windows Application-like feel on top of ISAPI, which is a fundamentally incompatible paradigm that never made sense. And it does not help with the tricky parts of HTTP and ISAPI that developers actually need help with.
Why NOT MFC ISAPI Template
For example, the global CMyApp object makes no sense for ISAPI because HTTP is intrinsically stateless - so it is more important to keep per-request state and global "Server functions". But, CMyApp does not provide those useful things that developers want, like configurable per-request state (i.e. custom session state implementation) nor any global "Server functions" (i.e. customizable response caching implementation)... so it really fails to make the ISAPI developer's life easier.
Another example is the PARSE_MAP. It is a wonder abstraction for Windows Applications, but in the HTTP world, all it does is force a certain proprietary querystring parse pattern, and PARSE_MAP is not so good at malformed querystrings nor malformed PARSE_MAPs, either. It is infinitely more useful for PARSE_MAP to provide the standard parse/decoding for HTML Form variables because that is a more likely source of input values - an ISAPI handing a FORM POST or FORM GET - and the ISAPI needs an easy way to parse/retrieve form variables by name and act on them. Once again, opportunity missed.
Then, there is the debacle with its wrapping of ISAPI Filter HTTP_FILTER_CONTEXT or ISAPI Extension EXTENSION_CONTROL_BLACK. Instead of introducing a secure paradigm of request handling and helping developers correctly use ISAPI function calls like GetServerVariable(), WriteClient(), or GetHeader(), it basically thinly wraps those API calls and leaves the developers to fend for themselves. This provides absolutely no value-add to the developer; you are just as likely to misuse the ISAPI function call with or without the framework; so where is the value-add for taking a dependency?
My Take...
MFC makes sense for Windows Application because it introduces a compatible paradigm which removes much of the boiler-plate code you otherwise have to write for Win32. This is not what MFC ISAPI Template offers.
So... I would never recommend anyone use the MFC ISAPI Template. It is useless from my perspective - offers no benefits and adds a complexity and dependency layer into my ISAPI. I always write my ISAPIs as a plain Win32 DLL which exports the required ISAPI function signatures for IIS to load and use. Lean and to the point.
Now, I do not recommend rolling your own C++ classes to handle a lot of the basic ISAPI chores... that's the stuff that a real framework/template SHOULD provide you. So, what ISAPI framework do I recommend people to use? For an example of a good lightweight ISAPI Framework, check out ISAPITools.h from the latest IIS Platform SDK.
Wade wrote it to make ISAPI easier to use, providing useful abstractions like an efficient and resizable buffer, functions for logical ISAPI tasks like retrieving server variables, reading entity body, decoding common HTTP encodings, avoiding all the classic ISAPI mistakes, and generally illustrating the Right Way (TM) to do things in ISAPI.
In other words, the MFC ISAPI Template is not a deciding factior between Visual C++ 2005 Express or Standard. I am actually pretty happy with Visual C++ 6.0 for ISAPI development; Visual C++ 2005 Express does the job as well, but it does not improve the ISAPI development experience. I use it because Visual Studio Express Editions are powerful, functional, and free.
MFC ISAPI Template looks like someone's attempt to make writing an ISAPI like writing an MFC Windows Application for the Web... without understanding how the Web works.
Now, we are planning to fix this for IIS7 where the IIS team (not Visual C++ team) is going to come up with the Application Wizards, Framework, and Templates for native and managed modules extending IIS7 behavior. And we'll get an UI designer to make it look nice, too. 🙂 In fact, I am authoring some of those pieces right now...