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How Far Should You Go for a Client?
By Brian L. Tannebaum
As advocate, a lawyer zealously asserts the client's position under the rules of the adversary system.—Preamble to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Every lawyer has seen it. The 5:00 p.m. fax, the 6:30 p.m. e-mail, the setting of a hearing or deposition without coordinating with opposing counsel, the attempt to prejudice juries and the public during litigation, the threat of a bar grievance to force settlement. It has become far too common in the practice of law.
Civil Law vs. Criminal Law
To the offense of those who ignore the truth, this discussion must begin by separating the criminal and civil bars. As a lawyer recently said, "civil law pushes you to go to places you don't want to go. There's nothing 'civil' about civil law. Criminal law is the most civil type of practice."
For criminal defense lawyers, opposing counsel is a prosecutor. This prosecutor works in an office with all the other prosecutors in that jurisdiction. They talk, and so does the defense bar. Inherent in criminal practice is dealing with many of the same lawyers and judges on a daily basis. Any hardball, "overzealous" tactic will be broadcast throughout the prosecutor's office within a few hours, the judges will all be talking about it at lunch, and as things go today, it will be on the local blog as "anonymous" starts a new post with the words, "Anyone see what happened in court today?"
Those who practice criminal law know that the prosecutor they abuse today will be assigned their new case tomorrow. Or worse, a different prosecutor assigned to the can't-be-trusted defense lawyer will proceed cautiously and be unwilling to extend courtesies because she's "heard" about this lawyer. For defense lawyers, too, the fact or mere "rumor" about a prosecutor being less than ethical can resonate throughout the courthouse.
Civil practice is different. Civil disputes revolve around money, not liberty. Nothing causes a nasty fight like a theoretical pile of money on a conference table. Also, civil lawyers don't usually deal with the same opposing counsel over and over again, so there is less of a concern that a bad experience with opposing counsel on one lone case will matter all that much in the future.
Criminal lawyers spend their days in court. Civil lawyers work to avoid court. Civil lawyers use the threat of court to settle. Criminal lawyers use court itself to settle. These are not criticisms; they are the reality of the practice of law. Civil lawyers would agree.
Rules of Professionalism and Civility
Whether in the practice of civil or criminal law, a lawyer's behavior is governed by the rules of professional conduct. Evidence of the diminishing role of professionalism beyond the rules is that it is no longer good enough to have state or national bar rules governing ethics alone; today, many local bar associations add their own "codes of professionalism" directing lawyers to act courteously and friendly to each other, as well as to third parties and judges.
While we publicly slap ourselves on the back and pride ourselves in the creation of these professionalism codes, we are only acknowledging that incivility and unprofessionalism are part of our everyday discourse. We acknowledge that we need to have in writing the manner in which we treat each other and that we are professionals who need supervision to behave.
Bar associations throughout the country continue to establish codes beyond the standard ethical rules. In 1989 the Los Angeles County Bar Association established "Litigation Guidelines," with a blunt preamble:
Many believe that relations between lawyers have so deteriorated that our profession nears a crisis—one that not only implicates how we deal with each other but threatens our usefulness to society, the ability of our clients to bear the cost of our work and the essential values that mark us as professionals.
The guidelines go on to include directives such as, "A lawyer should advise clients against the strategy of granting no time extensions for the sake of appearing 'tough.'"
Not to be outdone, the Boston Bar Association has its own "Civility Standards for Civil Litigation," including the declaration that a lawyer should "be guided by the principle that representation on behalf of his or her client ought to be characterized by good faith and honesty."
The Standards of Courtesy and Decorum for the Courts of Wisconsin tell lawyers to "abstain from knowingly deceiving or misleading another lawyer or the court" and to "act in good faith and honor promises and commitments to other lawyers and to the court."
Under the Utah Standards of Professionalism and Civility, lawyers "shall adhere to their express promises and agreements, oral or written, and to all commitments reasonably implied by the circumstances or by local custom."
This is a sad commentary on our profession. To express pride in these "civility" codes is to admit that even basics of human courtesy must be legislated into the practice of law. I am embarrassed by them. All of them. That we look to the formal rules for guidance on how to behave and everything not mentioned there is fair game is a large part of why we "enjoy" the reputation we have today.
Toward a Personal Code
I have my own code of conduct, and I suggest each member of our profession have one as well. I believe the best way for lawyers to deal with hardball tactics of opposing counsel is to let them know at the outset of the case how you practice law.
I give all lawyers I am dealing with for the first time the benefit of the doubt, regardless of what I've been told about them. I start with the premise that new opposing counsel are normal human beings and will act with courtesy and professionalism. My first communication with them will be a phone call, not a "lawyer letter," regardless of whether they initiate communication with a letter or demanding e-mail. I will coordinate all hearings and depositions with them and will not place unreasonable demands on their time that will only cause me to be brought before a judge to hear that I am being unreasonable. I will cancel any hearing or deposition if opposing counsel is sick, has an emergency, or just calls and asks if it can be reset because something "came up." I do these things because I may need and probably will need that same courtesy some day.
Outside of my bar defense practice, which is more like criminal defense in the sense that opposing counsel is a small group of the same lawyers, my civil practice is limited to defending lawyers in legal malpractice cases. So when hardball tactics are used against me, I notice. I cringe. Recently, I received a notice of hearing in a legal malpractice case. I called the lawyer to ask why he didn't coordinate with me. His response: "Most lawyers don't coordinate hearings with me, so I figured. . . ." Then his voice trailed off, and he apologized. Although he initially seemed surprised that I had an issue with his tactic, he realized that doing this, based on what most other lawyers do, was wrong. On a case where my criminal client was attempting to settle a civil component of the case, the civil lawyer sent me an e-mail at 6:30 p.m. beginning with a list of documents he was demanding "by tomorrow morning." He never thought to write, "do you think you can get these documents to me by tomorrow morning?" He just demanded.
These tactics are not unethical. None of them are mentioned in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Even in the section dealing with "fairness," there is not a single rule that governs these tactics.
We as lawyers are taught to "push the envelope," to be "zealous," to do everything within the bounds of ethics to represent our clients.
And I agree. A lawyer who doesn't zealously represent the client is doing a disservice to the client and the profession. But there is zealous representation, and there is incivility and unprofessionalism. I believe the basics of incivility are taught in law schools and then, in turn, to associates by their "more experienced" colleagues.
In law school, future lawyers are asked ethical questions that test the bounds of reasonableness. They— we—are taught black letter law, and black letter deadlines. In law school one learns that an answer to a complaint is generally due in 20 days. Students are not taught the concept of agreeing to delays in deadlines out of courtesy, nor are they taught that the best lawyers resolve cases as ladies and gentlemen, not as warriors on a battlefield with guns blazing. Professional responsibility classes concentrate on the rules, not the essence of crafting a reputation beyond the rules. Creating a personal code of ethics is only for those lawyers who wish a reputation other than that of "warrior" or "tough and aggressive."
The problem in our profession will always be that the lawyers who cause bar associations to write codes of professionalism don't read them, don't go to continuing legal education seminars on ethics, and certainly aren't reading this article. No lawyer who entertains a discussion about these hardball tactics is one who engages in them.
This problem isn't limited to U.S. lawyers, either. The article "Uncivil Law" from Canadian Lawyer magazine ( www.canadianlawyermag.com/Uncivil-law.html) reports that in Ontario.
The Advocates' Society compiled a 16-page set of guidelines, Principles of Civility for Advocates. There were calls for law schools to do a better job of teaching courteous conduct and for law firms to provide better mentoring. Judges and leaders in the legal profession pleaded with their peers to reign in their tempers, hold their tongues and restore the sense of collegiality and dignity that the legal profession has long prided itself on possessing.
Now, three years later, people are beginning to wonder whether anyone was listening. Family court lawyers are still complaining about clients being bullied and berated by opposing counsel. The consensus among litigators is that lawyers generally manage to keep the lid on any proclivity to incivility in open court, but the mask comes off in pre-trial discoveries when the judge isn't watching.
The call for civility has sounded for years, yet we seem to be moving away from the goal of making the bar a place where professionalism reigns, where ethics and courtesies go hand in hand, where clients are advised that lawyers are not there to take out the client's desire for revenge or justice against the opposing party. The lawyer is the buffer between the client and the dispute. The lawyer's job is to educate the client on the possibilities of success and advocate within the bounds of ethics and professionalism. These two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
I imagine the lawyers reading this are saying, "Okay, we know there are jerks in our profession, so what's your suggestion for how to handle these bad apples?"
A personal code of ethics. A code that is in writing and sent to each opposing counsel in every case you handle. I once received one, from a prosecutor. It advised how to reach him, when he was normally available for depositions, how he handled discovery issues, and other aspects of his "way of doing things." When I first received it, I took offense. Was he trying to tell me how to practice law? Then I called him and arrogantly asked if he thought I didn't know how to practice law and whether his letter was directed at me. He explained that he thought sending his "code" to all defense counsel made it easier to deal with him.
So write one. If you don't want to call it a "Personal Code of Ethics," simply make it part of an initial conversation with opposing counsel, or a letter. Let your opposition know how you do things, how you deal with routine issues of extensions and setting dates. Don't rely on the rules to determine your level of courtesy and professionalism. Make your own. Be different.
Lawyers who have been practicing for more than a couple years have (one hopes) developed a sense of how they want to practice law, and how they don't. Lawyers are agents of change, people who sought an education for the purpose of understanding how law intersects with everyday life.
Understanding legal concepts and how to advocate them on behalf of a client is no replacement for understanding basic concepts of civility and professionalism. It's time for lawyers to go beyond understanding the black letter concepts of ethical rules and write their own codes of basic good behavior, instead of having them written for us.


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Top Party Schools of 2014-2015
Did your school make the list?
Elizabeth Hoyt
August 05, 2014
Whether you love or love to hate college rankings, it seems that everyone buzzes about one list in particular: the Princeton Review's Top Party Schools.
SPOILER ALERT: A new champion, Syracuse University, has taken the top slot from last year's #1 party school, University of Iowa, quickly moving up the list from #5 in last year's list and #10 in 2013's list.
As you likely know, the Princeton Review ranks pretty much everything college category – from student life to political agendas. Try as they might to gain student hype around academics or other categories, one of the most highly anticipated rankings remains both coveted and despised: top party colleges.
Nevertheless, the top party schools list seems to reign among the most watched – whether it is by students who wait to see which schools they will apply to for their chance at the party headquarters or for students looking at which schools to avoid.
The results of the rankings come from surveying students on each school's academics, study habits, Greek life, as well as student body and campus life. (You can find additional detailed notes about the how they find the rankings at the bottom of this article.)
The list is finally out – so, without further ado, here are the Princeton Review's top ten party school rankings for 2014-15:
10. University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
The Gators fell from #6 the past two years in a row to bringing up the rear as the #10 party school in 2014-2015.
The university's other Princeton Review list rankings include: #2 Lots of Beer, #10 Best Career Services, #11 Jock Schools, #12 Best College Newspaper, along with several other rankings.
It was also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, among the Top 10 Best Value Public Colleges, the Best Value Colleges for 2014 (Public), The Best 379 Colleges and amongst the Green Colleges.
With more than 50,000 students making up the school body, the school is the second largest public university in Florida, one of the largest in the nation and holds the distinction of being the state's oldest university.
One of 17 public, land-grant universities belonging to the Association of America Universities, the University of Florida also holds a unique claim to fame: it's where Gatorade, the sports drink, was born.
9. Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA
Coming in at #9, this small private liberal arts university was founded in 1846 as a "literary institution." Today, it offers much more than its original literary roots – the school has expanded to offer academic programs in everything from the arts and humanities to social and natural sciences including almost 50 majors and over 60 minors.
The university's other Princeton Review list rankings include: #7 Lots of Greek Life, #10 Lots of Beer, #12 Little Race/Class Interaction, #18 Best Athletic Facilities and #20 Lots of Hard Liquor.
It was also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Northeastern College, among The Best 379 Colleges, and amongst the Green Colleges. Additionally, Bucknell University ranked among the Best Value Colleges for 2014 (Private).
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Students love Madison's beautiful main campus, which includes four National Historic Landmarks.
The school is also noted on other Princeton Review list rankings in addition to being the #8 ranked party school this year.
The rankings include: #4 Best Health Services, #5 Lots of Beer, #7 LGBT-Friendly and #10 Best College Newspaper.
It's also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Midwestern College, among The Best 379 Colleges, and amongst the Best Value Colleges for 2014 (Public).
The University of Wisconsin also has more than 750 registered student organizations, which means that there is something on campus for every student to enjoy getting involved in.
7. Pennsylvania State University-University Park
University Park, PA
Ranked as #9 last year, the school better known as Penn State jumped to #7 this year.
As one of the largest universities in the United States – with more than 44,000 undergraduate and graduate students on the main campus at University Park alone, we're willing to bet it's always easy to find someone who wants to party.
However, they do more than just party at Penn State. The university offers more than 160 majors across all of its campus locations and the university also hosts the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) – the world's largest student-run philanthropy.
The school is also ranked within The Princeton Review's other lists, including: #1 Best Health Services, #1 Lots of Beer, #2 Best Career Services, #2 Financial Aid Not So Great, #4 Everyone Plays Intermural Sports, #4 Students Pack the Stadiums, #6 Best College Newspaper, #9 Jock Schools, amongst many more.
It's also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Northeastern College, among The Best 379 Colleges, and amongst the Green Colleges.
6. Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this private residential research university was originally established as a four-year technical school, but includes a variety of other degrees in modern day.
The university has four colleges, the largest of which is the College of Arts and Sciences – which roughly 40 percent of the university's students attend.
Lehigh is commonly known as one of the 24 "Hidden Ivies" in the Northeastern United States. This year, however, the school boasts another title: jumping from last year's #10 slot to this year's #6 on the top party schools list.
Lehigh University isn't just a top party school, it's also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #3 Town-Gown Relations are Strained, #7 Lots of Beer, #10 Little Race/Class Interaction, #10 Lots of Greek Life and #14 Best Science Lab Facilities.
It's also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Northeastern College and among The Best 379 Colleges.
Founded in 1865, the school is home to nearly 5,000 undergraduates and more than 2,000 graduate students.
5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Amongst the many prestigious academic rankings, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fell from last year's #3 to the middle of the list at #5.
One of the founding members of the Big Ten conference, this university isn't just a top party school, it's also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #1 Best Athletic Facilities, #8 Lots of Beer, #9 Lots of Greek Life, #11 Lots of Hard Liquor and #14 Financial Aid Not So Great.
It's also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Midwestern College, among The Best 379 Colleges, one of the Best Value Colleges for 2014 (Public) and amongst the Green Colleges.
Around 140 miles south of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers 17 colleges and over 150 programs of study. It's also considered a "Public Ivy" and is research-intensive – it's even designated as a RU-VH Research University (very high research activities).
4. West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Holding on to the #4 slot for the second year in a row, West Virginia University is clearly full of over 30,000 steadfast partiers.
West Virginia University (WVU) isn't just a top party school, it's also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #3 Best Athletic Facilities, #6 Students Study the Least, #12 Students Pack the Stadiums, #8 Best College Newspaper and #11 Best College Library.
It's also ranked by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, among The Best 379 Colleges and amongst the Green Colleges.
In addition to offering a great time, WVU has 14 colleges for students to choose from 184 study programs and is in a location that allows students to easily travel to Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, PA, as well as Cleveland and Columbus, OH.
The school has also produced 24 Rhodes Scholars, amongst many other academic award winners.
3. University of California – Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
This college, commonly known as UCSB, is home-sweet-home to over 18,000 undergraduate students and nearly 3,000 graduate students, who enjoy the views from the cliffs of the Pacific and the college's very own lagoon.
The University of California – Santa Barbara also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #6 Lots of HRD Liquor, #12 Lots of Beer and #13 Happiest Students.
Plus, it's one of the Best Value Colleges for 2014 (Public), ranked a Best Western College, among The Best 379 Colleges and Green Colleges by The Princeton Review. Sounds like a sweet deal!
UCSB was bumped from last year's #2 spot to taking this year's bronze medal, ranking at #3.
2. University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
What's there to do in Iowa? Party, of course! Located in Iowa City, this school is part of the Big Ten but still manages to feel like a smaller college, despite over 30,000 students in attendance.
Not only is it ranked as a top party school, the University of Iowa also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #1 Lots of Hard Liquor, #9 Lots of Beer, #13 Students Pack the Stadiums and #17 Lots of Greek Life.
Bumped from the #1 slot last year, this school is known for producing athletic and academic stars alike – the University of Iowa boasts successful alumni from Pulitzer-Prize winners to football heroes. A fine choice for #2, don't you think?
It's also ranked a Best Midwestern College, among The Best 379 Colleges and Green Colleges by The Princeton Review.
Comprised of 11 colleges, the University of Iowa offers a broad range of more than 200 areas of study for its students, including the infamous Iowa Writer's Workshop.
The school has a strong Greek life presence, in addition to packing stadiums with sports fans game after game – as any great Big Ten school does.
1. Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Syracuse University jumped five slots this year to grab the gold medal, coming in as the #1 party school for 2014-2015!
Thanks to its strong basketball team and crazy rivalries, students tend to party hardy at this school. Cold winter months and concentrated sports fanatics is a surefire recipe for becoming the top party school, if we've ever heard one!
Notably, Syracuse finally broke the tradition of large state schools that usually rank as #1 on the list.
In addition to being ranked the #1 party school, Syracuse University (SU) also ranked on some other Princeton Review lists, including: #2 Best College Newspaper, #2 Lots of Hard Liquor, #3 Students Pack the Stadiums, #4 Lots of Beer, #4 2014 Top Entrepreneurial Programs: Undergraduate, #5 Best College Radio Station, and #15 Most Popular Study Abroad Program.
It's also ranked a Best Northeastern College, among The Best 379 Colleges and Green Colleges by The Princeton Review.
Founded in 1870, the private university has a large campus, which is organized into 13 distinct schools and colleges. SU has nationally recognized programs in information studies and library science, architecture, communications, business administration, public administration, engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Syracuse University claims many famous alums including recording artist and actress, Vanessa Williams (1986), fashion designer, Betsey Johnson (1964) and football star Donovan McNabb (1998).
NOTE: Princeton Review Rankings should be reviewed with a grain of salt. The Princeton Review surveys students and their answers determine how the school ranks. According to the Princeton Review, "each college is given a score (similar to a GPA) for its students' answers to each multiple-choice question. These scores enable us to compare student opinion from college to college and to tally the ranking lists. Most of the lists are based on students' answers to one survey question; some lists are based on students' answers to several questions. But all of our lists are based on our student survey results. They are the sole factors that determine which schools make it onto our 62 ranking lists and at what rank."
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Looks dry and sunny today.
Hopefully everyone makes it past the first chicane and then Vettel and Kimi get past traffic.
Looks dry and sunny today.
Hopefully everyone makes it past the first chicane and then Vettel and Kimi get past traffic.
Massa's advice to Stroll in P2: 'Just go for it'
Felipe Massa has told Lance Stroll to "go for it" as his Williams teammate prepares to start alongside Lewis Hamilton on the front row of the Italian Grand Prix grid.
I hope Stroll and Ocon really do go for it down to the first corner. Potential for some carnage.
Fingers crossed for Seb and Kimi. Under circumstances, desperately, I wouldn't mind some force majeure intervention today - Lewis DNF for instance.
I don't get angry. I'm a professional.
We just need to keep our noses clean into turn one. Races are not won in the first corner
My wish: Seb takes Ocon and Stroll by turn 1. Pushed Hamilton wide like he did to Alonso. 1st by the second chicane lol.
Apparently the car Alonso was in for the drivers parade lap broke down. He had to jump in with Palmer. Alonso has no luck with cars
Locked and loaded for the race. Forza Ferrari!!!!
I don't get angry. I'm a professional.
I hope we have something up our sleeves for this afternoon.
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What tyres are we starting on?
We need to displace Ocon and stroll quick as we cant afford to be sat behind them.
Ohh ok. I thought we were going for an alternative strategy or we split our strategies
Is it a 1 stopper or 2? The track is greener from all the rain yday so has not rubbered in over the weekend like other tracks so tyre deg might be higher
hope this will be our lucky 13
I think it's better to use Kimi as buffer for vet. By trying him on alternate strategy.
Longer stint as mercs will pit n Kimi can come into play.
Forza Ferrari!
Best of luck everyone.
Hopefully whatever setup we did will work well under this sunny condition
Tyre graining will be a factor. As track is fresh again.
Hopefully we can jump bottas being behind him would be a disaster
damage limitation to day?
A flurry of grid penalties have been applied, so here's how the grid lines up today:
1 Hamilton
2 Stroll
3 Ocon
4 Bottas
5 Raikkonen
6 Vettel
7 Massa
8 Kvyat
9 Magnussen
10 Perez
11 Ericsson
12 Wehrlein
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LODI - The Lodi Boys & Girls Club did not renew the contract of Chief Executive Paul Bonell, ending the former banker's one-year tenure at the club after it was revealed he consulted for a federally indicted medical marijuana dispensary.
LODI - The Lodi Boys & Girls Club did not renew the contract of Chief Executive Paul Bonell, ending the former banker's one-year tenure at the club after it was revealed he consulted for a federally indicted medical marijuana dispensary.
Bonell, 51, said he is disappointed in the decision - which was announced Saturday - but he "understands" and has "no regrets." The club's vice president of operations, Eddie Cotton, has been named interim CEO.
Bonell applied for the Boys & Girls Club position in February 2011 and was hired in October 2011 to replace longtime CEO Richard Jones, who retired. With 21 years of experience as president of Premier Credit Union in Stockton, Bonell was hired to help fix a dire financial situation that required a significant debt restructuring plan, he said. Bonell was able to help the board of directors work with creditors to restructure $180,000 in notes and increase the flow of community donations in his one-year tenure.
But he surprised the board of directors two weeks ago by publicly backing a Stockton man, Matt Davies, who is under federal indictment for operating a large-scale medical pot dispensary that cultivated thousands of plants and returned a multimillion-dollar profit. Bonell consulted for Davies starting from August until October 2011, when the dispensary was raided by federal drug enforcement officers.
Bonell told The New York Times that he is an advocate for Davies and talked about how the dispensary was working toward being fully compliant with the law and above board at every turn.
"I didn't keep it off my r�sum� because I thought it was negative," said Bonell, who began consulting in 2008 after leaving the banking industry for personal reasons. "It was an afterthought. I didn't list any of my consulting jobs."
Bonell said his role with the medical marijuana venture was in ensuring it was compliant with state law. His work is not under federal investigation, and he believes firmly that Davies' indictment is in conflict with statements made by the federal government that they would not prosecute medical marijuana users or operators in states where it has been made legal.
Still, Bonell said he believes the stigma attached to that activity was a big concern for the Lodi Boys & Girls Club board. Lodi has maintained a conservative outlook on medical marijuana. The City Council has banned dispensaries and is working on an ordinance to regulate cultivation by individual users.
"I think the association with the word 'marijuana' was a hurdle we could not overcome," Bonell said, noting that the Boys & Girls Club had the right to release him without cause.
Lodi Boys & Girls Club board of directors Chairman Marc Bregman would not comment Monday on Bonell's dismissal. He said he expects to issue a statement through the organization's national public relations office as early as today.
Bonell said he did help set a stronger financial foundation for the Boys & Girls Club than was in place before he took the job. He said he thinks the board and Cotton can thrive. He said he doesn't regret revealing his role in the dispensary.
"The one thing I didn't do was build a prudent reserve account. I was still working toward that," he said. "But they can take the momentum and continue to be a gem."
Cotton, 49, is the adopted son of retired Boys & Girls Club CEO Richard Jones. He has been a longtime Boys & Girls Club employee, including executive roles in Merced and Galt. He also served in Sacramento as an operations director. His role in Lodi for the past year has also been running day-to-day operations.
"I'm elated that I can continue the outstanding work that my dad did in this community," Cotton said. "We did not close one time last year, and I'm confident we can raise the kind of money we need to continue that and do what's best for the kids in this community."
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I have a 4 month old baby girl. She was a large baby, 9lbs 15 oz when I was induced at 38 weeks, 22 inches long. I was pressured to start formula in the hospital as she was jaundiced and required light treatment and daily follow up for the first couple weeks. Other than that she has been very healthy and latched well.
She has continued to be large, is now 18 pounds and I have struggled but been unable to meet her needs without some supplemental formula. This is probably for multiple reasons. I'm also a first time mom at 43 and she was a donor baby. She has a large appetite and often wants 8 ounce feedings if taking a bottle. We use slow nipples but she is insistent, especially if a long time since she ate. She goes 6 hours often at night now.
I nurse and pump and am back to work since 8 weeks. I pump about 6 times a day and nurse about 3. One of my pumping times is always in the middle of the night. I find I have to pump 30 to 40 minutes and get from 1 oz to rarely 8 ounces. Lately my pumps have been about 3 hours apart and I'm getting 2 or 2 and 1/2 ounces. These are not pumps that follow a nursing session, so I should be fuller. I take a lot of galactagogue herbs such as fenugreek, eat oatmeal everyday and drink plenty of water.
I wonder if power pumping for an hour is more beneficial at all if I already pump for 45 mins straight? I also do heat and compression. thanks


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Hey there,
I've played a few sessions of CT and find it a game of high tension terror when done right -- depending on the GM & players, of course.
I'm a long time GM, but I've decided to only play CT -- unless our current GM stops GMing it -- so that the mystery is kept for me, most of the other GMs/Players are doing the same. This allows our GM to do what he needs -- to give us a good storyline -- and not have to worry that the players know how much doodoo they're in when the bigger Migou show up. (He did let it slip that he had underpowered a mecha that we met "by mistake" -- lucky for us too, or we would have bit the dirt!)
To answer your question:
It's only a TPK if you let it be... this is Anime Horror -- anything and everything can happen.Check out the game logs @ http://gamenight.wyldeside.com/ under "CthulhuTech" for the full details -- from my PC's perspective -- on how our sessions went.
Hell we had a "slip up", which I thought would kill us all, but our GM took our role-playing chatter and the roll and came up with a really cool (for me the player, not for the PC) thing that allowed us to slip by, instead of becoming meatsicles


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My mother in law ate a roasted turnip at my house the other day. It was unfamiliar enough to her in that form (she'd had mashed turnips before) that she had to ask me what it was, and it was a reminder of the fact that this time of year truly is the only time that many Americans come in contact with the lesser-known root vegetables. While carrots, potatoes and onions are part of our daily lives, and sweet potatoes and beets are at least intermittenly familiar (if commonly hated), few Americans know celeriac, turnips, parsnips, taro, rutabagas, yams, jerusalem artichokes or many others well enough to pull them out of lineup, much less include them in daily life.
If they do have some familiarity with these foods, it is on the once-a-year thanksgiving table in most cases, rather than as part of daily life, and that's a pity. Most are prolific, cheap if you are buying therm, easy to grow, nutritious, filling and delicious. Moreover, for those in cold climates they will keep a long time in natural cold storage or in a winter garden. Moreover, if we imagine needing to live in part from our gardens, these crops, along with the familar roots, are likely to be central.
In his book _African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South_, Richard Westmacott notes that a good bit of Southern African American agricultural practice derives from West African and Caribbean practices of "vegeculture" as opposed to European style-seed agriculture. The term, coined by D.B. Grigg in his classic _Agricultural Systems of the World_ is based primarily on root crops, including manioc, sweet potatoes, yams, taro, arrowroot, and in cooler climates was adapted to potatoes as well.
Vegeculture has several advantages over grain culture. For example, you don't have to till up a lot of ground at once, since these crops are adapted to "patch" culture. They often can be stored in the ground and dug up as needed, and can tolerate being integrated with perennial tree plantings. The tradition of planting in patches and leaving grown fallow to restore fertility in West Africa translated well in slave gardens in the US and Caribbean islands because such gardens often had to be hidden.
Often slave and later share-croppers had only hilly or otherwise difficult to use land, which is best served by being kept in perennial or semi-perennial root crops. Because slaves and tenant farmers had very little time to work their land, they needed high yielding crops that could provide nutrition and caloric density together, with little attention.
In her essay "They have Saturdays and Sundays to Feed Themselves: Slave Gardens in the Caribbean," Lydia Pulsipher observes that there is considerable evidence that islands that included many slave gardeners didn't suffer the classic malnutrition of slavery. In fact, the available data on the history of produce sales by slaves (who sold their surpluses to both white and black customers), suggests that white people were considerably healthier on islands that had large numbers of gardens grown by enslaved people. The implication seems to be that the starchy, vegetable poor diet of Europeans on these islands was significantly inferior to the root vegetable and green rich, nutrient rich diet of the slaves, and the influence of slave gardens improved the European grain seed diet enormously (probably to the less-than-total delight of the slaves themselves).
Only 2.5% of American agricultural land produces vegetables, fruits and nuts. The other 97.5% is largely devoted to the production of grains and seeds for things like feeding livestock, feeding cars (ethanol and biodiesel) and transformation into processed food.
What strikes me about this is how small an impact we would on the industrial agricultural juggernaut even if we were able to replace every single vegetable, fruit and nut we eat with locally, sustainably produced produce. That is, if we are looking to home production to help end the tragic power of industrial grain production with its heavy greenhouse gas outputs, water consumption and soil degradation, we need to start thinking in terms of producing more of our total calories at home. Growing our lettuce and tomatoes is a good start, but the next step is a return to home production of calorically dense foods, and vegeculture is part of the answer.
Now the majority of that 97.5% of agricultural land is producing feed for meat, so obviously, and as I've said before, we simply must stop eating feedlot animal products – period, no negotiation. All of us need to eat less meat altogether, but also must, if we continue to eat meat at all, choose better sources of grassfed local or home produced protein.
In addition to producing some of our animal products in cities and suburbs from food waste, we may want to get more of our calories from our own yards and from local farmers wherever we are, we need to choose high-nutrition, calorically dense, satisfying foods – root vegetables fit the bill here.
We simply have to change our diets, and eat more whole foods. We also have no choice but to live off a much smaller amount of agricultural land. In a 1994 paper, David Pimmental and Mario Giampietro document the falling amount of available arable land in the US per person.
Between desertification, the transformation of agricultural lands to housing and a rising population, by 2050, there will be less than half as much arable land available to feed each person in the US – a total of 0.6 acres, as opposed to the 1994 1.8 rate. The current American diet requires 1.2 acres. We cannot hope to continue deriving many of our calories from "shadow" acres in other nations, in part because it would be unethical, and in part because it is likely that China, which is right on the cusp of being unable to feed itself. So while we may have the luxury of a considerable amount of land per person, our children will not. It would be unconscionable, however, for us not to begin to transition to living on a fair share.
Which means, if our children are to eat, we have to change the current American diet. One way we can do this by adding land to our stock of "arable" lands – that is, we can start growing food on lawns, in public parks and anywhere else we can fit it. There are millions of acres of lawn available to be transformed into food producing land, much of it in housing built on the planet's best farmlands. And if there is to be enough food to go around, those gardens will have to include root crops.
Traditional West African gardeners, growing food in hot, dry areas of comparatively low fertility emphasized perennial vegetable crops as their base food crops, as have many Latin American farmers. Indeed, despite their tendency to rely on grain crops, Northern Europe made much of its agricultural prosperity on the turnip, and later, the potato.
Large scale root cultivation enabled the milk culture of northern Europe, and there is archaeological evidence that in areas where turnips were cultivated, people grew taller and healthier than in areas where wheat and barley alone were emphasized. Root crops were higher yielding than grain crops, particularly when grown on a small scale. Hot weather root crops like sweet potatoes were tremendously drought tolerant and could be grown on ground of low fertility.
A few centuries later, John Jeavons at Ecology Action would pioneer an intensively grown diet for a human being based largely on calorie and nutrient dense root crops. In his book _One Circle_ David Duhon documents his life on a diet that could average less than 700 square feet, and heavily based on parsnips, potatoes and sweet potatoes. By eating these in place of grains, it becomes possible to imagine a hand-cultivated, nutritious diet. Now few of us would want to live on as limited a diet at Duhon chose to, but he closely monitored his health and tracked what he ate in such a way as to demonstrate that most of us could do so – and that a more moderate diet in a larger space could offer both balance and less dependence of industrial grain production.
What is remarkable about all of these agricultural systems is that they represent a high yielding, extremely nutritious, good tasting diet that can be produced easily by ordinary people on comparatively small pieces of land using hand tools. Hand production of potatoes, for example, outyielded corn well into the industrial age. Hand produced polycultures of one acre that emphasize roots integrated with perennial plantings a la permaculture or vegeculture and include animals to eat wastes and maintain fertility can dramatically outproduce existing monocultures of grains in terms of total caloric and nutritional output.
But this involves getting more comfortable with roots. That doesn't mean we won't eat bread or rice or other grains. But it means that most of us need to encounter roots more often than at Thanksgiving.. And the perfect time to begin such a dietary adaptation is in the autumn, when roots are at their finest. Now is the time to think in terms of beets and parsley root, salsify and carrots (where I am) and in terms of sweet potatoes and taro in hot places. By integrating vegetable proteins or very small quantities of meat with these roots, we can have sufficient protein, excellent nutrition, comparatively low levels of fat and a great deal of food satisfaction.
My family counts root meals as among their favorite – parsnip chowder and root vegetables pot pie, turnip pickles and turnip kimchi, and the ubiquitous-at-our-house pans of roasted vegetables that fill sandwiches. We eat potatoes with cold-weather greens and spicy cheese sauce, or stuff our potatoes with bean chili. Celery root soup and carrot pudding, borscht and roasted beets with tahini, salsify fritters, sweet potato pie and onion soup, the list goes on and on and we'd mourn indeed if we were limited to these things only at Thanksgiving.
In the spring, or in the winter for those in warm climates, we can begin to grow them as well. Of course, in most places, potatoes, onions and other roots are cheap and plentiful – it seems so much more sensible to focus in on high value vegetables like tomatoes and lettuces. But some potatoes on the ground, or sweet potatoes in the backyard not only are a source of security, they represent the beginnings of something important – an old new kind of agriculture, suited to a world in which fossil fuels must be replaced by human power, and old priorities must be replaced by the notion of a fair share.
Happy Thanksgiving folks – I'll be offline this week making my own root pies, but back next week!


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Slipped Disc editorial: Fat should not be an issue in opera
May 19, 2014 by norman lebrecht
Weasel words have been used by five male, middle-aged critics to describe a promising young soprano whom they deemed physically too heavy for the role. All five suggested she was fat, without actually using the 'f' word. The euphemisms were timid and dishonest.
The singer in question, Tara Erraught, may carry slightly more heft than a size eight, but what has that to do with performance? We want to know from a critic how she sang the role of Octavian at Glyndebourne, how she acted and how she interacted with the rest of the production. None of the reviews told us that. As a result, the five critics have been pilloried before the court of public opinion.
The only national female critic at opening night, Fiona Maddocks of the Observer, contradicted her male colleagues. She tweeted: Ahead of full review: Tara Erraught's Octavian is touching, innocent, beautifully sung, beautifully acted.
Among other responses, a prominent mezzo-soprano Alice Coote called for a more holistic approach to casting and more sensitive criticism than is permitted by the current obsession with body image (Richard Wagner or Gustav Mahler might well have agreed).
The Guardian newspaper, discomfited by its own critic's judgement, has published not one but two commentaries of rebuttal. Slippedisc has flared white hot with debate all day and social media are rippling with the aftershocks.
So, to brass tacks: does excess body weight affects artistic performance on stage? Obviously not, as Luciano Pavarotti loudly demonstrated, Pavarotti and as a recent entrant to Britain's Got Talent amply confirms (below).
Does excess weight affect opera casting? Yes, very often, as almost every singer will attest. Should it? No, of course not, but so long as mass media endorse body fashion there will be no end to weight discrimination in opera.
The issue here is not a proposed reform of opera auditions so much as the language of criticism. The role of opera critic, ill-paid and under-appreciated, is to inform and educate the reading public. Some do so faithfully, some magnificently. But when a critic, or a pack of critics, expresses an unpleasant prejudice – whether on race, sex or appearance – that is an offence for which they and their newspapers must answer. A public apology to the young singer is the least they can offer.
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Bravo Norman !!
Using fat singers is a way of bringing opera to a broader audience.
I could not have stated it better. This editorial is required reading.
Well said Norman, absolutely hits the nail on the head !!
My heart breaks for this woman. What she must feel reading those words after years of hard, hard work to perfect her talent. If she reads any of this, I hope she knows that the nasty words of a few men don't represent the majority of us. I hope those around her will convey this- and let her know of the support she has.
Norman, on a largely off topic note, I wouldn't have know about all of this discussion, if not for reading this particular article. Is there perhaps any way to have a comments feed so that one can see what is provoking discussion? Or even to see how many comments have been posted on each story without clicking it?
Thank you, Norman, for all you do.
Well said, Norman. Thank you for giving this matter the attention it deserves.
I hate to say this, but I'm afraid the 2004 Deborah Voigt Covent Garden little-black-dress incident cast a lingering shadow internationally on perceived British physical expectations for female opera singers. The black dress incident didn't happen at the MET, or at La Scala or in Vienna, where zaftig singers of both sexes perform regularly. It happened in London.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it seems like a logical precedent for this Glyndebourne situation. Aren't these critics also based in London, or nearby? They are all of an age to
have direct 1st hand knowledge of the Voigt case, and to have been shaped by it professionally.
Deborah Voigt's dismissal at Covent Garden simply because of her size left a lot of people
wondering about British performance standards. Is size really an issue? And now, at Glyndebourne, also in the UK, the point again is raised. It might appear to be a very important part of British opera standards, had you not written about it Norman, and encouraged others to come forth in support of the criticized singers. Again, thank you!
I have never seen the young singer in question but I offer two thoughts:
First, I find it very unusual that a multiplicity of critics would all zero in on the same problem; thus, I conclude that there may well be an issue here. Moreover, if a singer's self-esteem is damaged by negative reviews, then she has more significant problems with which to deal than what a critic writes.
Second: the idea that how singers look is not important is so outdated as to be laughable. Sorry to disappoint you but live opera is both a visual and an aural experience. We don't close our eyes when we enter the opera house and we care about more than just the singing. Otherwise, why are so many people outraged at new productions? In fact, why do new productions at all? If a singer's looks detract from how their portrayal comes across, then it's a problem and it's worth a critical comment. BTW: Andrew Clark, in the FT (the one online entry I could find) balanced his view of her looks by saying the role was "gloriously sung."
Bob,If you've seen the singer in question then it would be best not to assume. It is not too hard to see her. There is a lot of rave reviews from her work in Munich and some Bayerische Rundfunk coverage of her singing the most amazing Handel. The German critics and public adore her.She is a beautiful woman and an outstanding actress. She is not tall and not slender,but nor is she obese. She is certainly attractive. We expect critics of singing actors to give intelligent criticism of both singing and acting.Not irrelevant and offensive comments about the body. It would appear from photos of the production that costuming may have been a problem.But that is not the singer's responsibility.Would it be relevant to my criticism of the critics' dubious taste and intellect to point out that at least three of them are decidedly unattractive physically?
A pox on all their houses!
No, it would not be relevant. Critics are not supposed to recite their reviews to the audiences from stage, so their appearance is completely irrelevant. That of the opera singers is not.
No, it would not be relevant. Critics are not supposed to recite their reviews to the audiences from stage, so their appearance is not relevant at all. That of the opera singers is.
"If a singer's self-esteem is damaged by negative reviews, then she has more significant problems with which to deal than what a critic writes" — Perhaps. But even so, her career chances could well be significantly affected by what the critics write — I don't know how these things work, but I daresay a singer with good reviews to his or her credit stands a better chance of finding professional engagements than a singer who received bad reviews.
For me, the stage appearance of the singer in opera IS important — more so than in Lieder or oratorios. But by this, I refer to their acting, not their physical appearance. If I were an opera critic, I'd find it acceptable to refer to a singer's body LANGUAGE (bearing in mind, however, that this might well have been influenced by the stage director rather than the singers themselves) — whether their gestures were appropriate for the music they're singing and for the characters they're portraying. That's not the same as casting aspersions on their bodies.
Bob, I'm taking my cue from your logic — quick gander at your photo I'm immediately discounting whatever you say.
in the video of the pole-dancer it may have been a slip of the mouth to describe her as a 'massive example'
Voice may be the most important element in opera but it certainly isn't the only one. Singers' appearance is as much a part of the operatic presentation as sets, costumes, direction, and other visual aspects of the whole thing. Critics should be able to express their opinions about all elements of the production, but of course I agree that voices and musical side in general should retain their predominant role.
Even in terms of visual appearance on the stage, however, opera singers' acting is more important than their physique, in my view. This even applies to theatre actors — and even more so to opera, where the suspension of disbelief is greater.
Fine, physical appearance may be less important than certain other qualities, but it definitely isn't irrelevant in staged opera productions.
Bravo indeed. Now I hope to read the apologies of each of those critics. And I fervently hope that Tara Erraught will rise above the insults and sing even more splendidly in the coming Rosenkavalier performances, if only to prove the miserly critics wrong.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Deborah Voigt in this context. In 2004, she was removed from the role of Ariadne at Royal Opera House when she could not fit into one of the costumes, a "little black dress" the casting director, Peter Mario Katona, wanted her to wear. She was replaced by Anne Schwanewilms, a German singer of slimmer appearance. These new standards of appearance have become quite common. The mentality reflected by the journalists under discussion was initiated by the opera community itself.
Voight later underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost about 100 pounds. She was later rehired by the ROH for the role she was fired from. Her performances have been well received.
Casting agents in Germany (and I suspect elsewhere) also often reject women singers if they are too tall. The thinking is that they should not be taller than the hero. The standard line is that tall women should only do Wagner.
So opera is changing. For better or worse, directors and audiences increasingly want to see roles filled using Hollywood standards of appearance, especially now that opera is most often experienced on video. This is especially true for contemporary opera which often strives for a stronger integration of music, text, drama, and theater. A new opera like "Anna Nicole," for example, obviously requires a certain appearance for the lead role.
Opera's focus on the bel canto voice is one of its greatest achievements. It's also one of its greatest failings. As we move forward toward more theatrical forms of music theater, journalists will need to comment on all aspects of theatricality, but they need to better consider their language. In the meantime, there will still be a big market for good old fashioned bel canto opera.
William, I also thought immediately of the Voigt little black dress incident at Covent Garden. I think that unfortunately it may have set a powerful precedent, giving critics like these 5 men the green light to attack the physical appearance of women singers.
The cruelty exhibited by the five middle-aged boorish "critics" is inexcusable. They should be fired or forced to resign in favor of critics who would faithfully help us understand the quality of production and performance. I have now taken the time to listen to some of Ms. Erraught's work and it was magnificent: lyrical, plaintive and a joy to the heart and ear. Bravo Ms. Erraught! I for one can not wait to enjoy your efforts at a live performance!
Norman, I fully agree with you that a) there's no need for top models on stage, but for good singers, and b) that it's a shame what the mentioned critics wrote.
However, as you mention Pavarotti, for me there's one caveat: In a staged performance, a singer should be physically capable of acting – and, I'm afraid, the old Pavarotti was not. Around 2003 or 2004, he performed as Cavaradossi at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and one (friendly and respectful) review had the headline "Der Sänger sitzt."
That said, I enjoyed two performances with someone (a singer in one case, a theatre actor in the other) acting in a wheelchair, in both cases due to previously suffered on-stage-accidents. Most impressive in both cases! The physical capability of acting is thus neither bound to physical appearance nor to (the lack of) physical disabilities.
Though we must recognize that opera is show business and a svelte figure never hurt ticket sales, I find it disturbing that even in a TROUSERS ROLE a female singer can't catch a break from the critics. How many male suitors in worlds real and imagined have been permitted some pooch without being demeaned for it? Even by the most sexist of double standards, this singer cuts an appropriate figure for the role. And anyone who thinks a lady's size should be a filter for whether she gets to perform this challenging repertoire at the best houses just doesn't care about great singing, which comes in every size and shape and is always in short supply.
Actually, I believe it was largely due to it being a trousers role that these critics raised the issue. She sang the role very well, I thought, and I expect she would make a lovely woman on stage. Yet I have to agree that I found the portrayal of Octavian the least credible I have seen in performance, partially because you could not forget that she was a woman. This is hardly her fault, but it was all the more noticeable when placed next to Kate Royal, which I suspect is part of the problem; they simply were too difficult to accept as a couple. She worked splendidly as Mariandel, but the first act in particular was less convincing.
This is hardly her fault, and I think the production team could certainly have done a better job to find a way to make her look the part of the dashing knight. Nevertheless, I think it fair enough to mention that it was hard to take seriously the romance between her and Ms. Royal's Marschallin, as this–as well as Octavian's capacity to come across as somewhat dashing in Act II–forms a basis of the underlying stage drama of the work.
Though some (though not all, I feel) critics expressed this badly, I suspect this was what they were ultimately getting at, and this is something I do think they were fully justified in commenting on. I do feel, however, that some could certainly have commented in a less offensive fashion. Had I written a review, I would probably have mentioned this aspect, as it did impact the production. However, I would certainly have worded it in terms of the dramatic credibility of the relationship as opposed to anyone's particular body type.
Is this the same Norman Lebrecht who, in his book "Covent Garden: The Untold Story" described Lilian Baylis as "Stout, bespectacled, thick lipped and almost execrably ugly" and Harold Rosenthal as "an exceptionally ugly man"? Irrespective of the issues, he is surely in no position to comment on this. Pot, please meet kettle.
I entirely agree with your comments, but I feel it was the casting director who was at fault in casting her as Octavian, the amour of the slender, and taller, Sophie. I found the romantic duo quite distracting, and mentally likened it to watching a school play, with the disparity in heights of talented lead children having to be accommodated on stage. Unfortunately poor Tara Erraught has had to contend with unkind critics' comments on her physique, when she shouldn't have been put into this invidious position by the director in the first place.
I applaud the OPEN letter sent by Alice Cootes to all critics.


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Motivated by Curiosity: Tawni Paradise
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Inside USD -- March is a national celebration of women and women's history. This year's theme is "Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)." To honor this celebration, Inside USD is doing a few articles to spotlight some of the inspiring female students on campus who, in turn, can and do inspire others.
If curiosity were a person, they'd be named Tawni Paradise.How else could one describe this University of San Diego student, one who arrived in September 2010 with a healthy appetite for subjects such as math and physics, but who, when she graduates in 2015 will do so as an Honors Program student with dual BA/BS degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE) and an undergraduate degree in computer science. (Full Story)


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Grayness at the dawn of 2013 outlined a lonely time at Florida Polytechnic University. Eyes around Florida were watching the 12th state university.
Grayness at the dawn of 2013 outlined a lonely time at Florida Polytechnic University. Eyes around Florida were watching to see if the polytechnic could shine as the 12th state university.
In January, its board of trustees was finally operating with a full complement of 11.
On Feb. 20, the chairman of the State University System's Board of Governors wrote to poly board of trustees Chairman Rob Gidel, asking him to appear before the governors in March. Not only did Dean Colson, chairman of the governors, seek an update of the polytechnic's progress but justification for a request for an additional $25 million in funding, which was withdrawn subsequently.
On March 20, the state Senate's first budget draft was released and contained not the $22.4 million requested by Florida Poly, but zero.
"Before I included that in our budget, I wanted to see what the plan was," said Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education. For the second time in exactly one month, the polytechnic had been criticized by one of its overseers for not providing information about its requests and progress.
Poly interim Chief Operating Officer Ava L. Parker was in the Capitol at the time and worked quickly to provide the details. Within a week, $16 million in poly funding had been added to the Senate budget.
In the meantime, Speaker of the House Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Florida Poly should consider joining with another university such as the University of Florida, MIT or an out-of-state polytechnic to aid its development.
This shows that Florida Polytechnic University must prove itself as a beacon of brightness, not only in clarity of purpose, but in smart programs that will benefit its students and the state of Florida.
Parker makes a convincing case that the university can do so and that going it alone — without an umbilical to another institution — will allow it to remain nimble, basing adjustments on the needs of students, research and the business markets that its high-tech curriculum is intended to satisfy.
In a meeting with Ledger news editors, a reporter and the Editorial Board on Thursday, Parker related a discussion with Weatherford:
"We are able to give him a first-hand look at what we're planning for our institution. I think he was pleased with the direction we are taking with Florida Polytechnic University.
"He reminded us of his interest of partnership because he expressed his concerns about having an unbranded, unaccredited entity. In response to that, we talked about how it does create an opportunity to create something that is very different and unique, and could it be very beneficial for the state."
Further, on communication with state leaders such as Weatherford and state Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, Parker said:
"We make it a practice to make sure the speaker and his staff, and the president's office and Sen. Gaetz's staff, are aware of the decisions the board is making, and we definitely want to make sure that the delegation from this area is also aware.
"So, we stay in contact with Rep. McKeel. We stay in contact with Sen. Stargel and Sen. Grimsley so that they are aware of what we are doing, and that they are not surprised by the decisions the board is making and they can feel comfortable that we are building something that will make a difference."
Rep. Seth McKeel of Lakeland is the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee — the House budget chief. Sen. Kelli Stargel is from Lakeland and Sen. Denise Grimsley is from Sebring. All are Republicans.
Such updates are smart and beneficial.
Before it begins teaching in the fall 2014 semester, Florida Polytechnic still has a lot of learning to do. However, its plan is sound and its leaders' aim is straight. The polytechnic can become a Florida university like no other, educating in a manner beneficial to Florida and Polk County.
[ Note: A podcast accompanies this editorial at TheLedger.com/podcast. Listen to The Ledger's full interview with Ava L. Parker. The podcast will play on a personal computer. Or download it free at the iTunes Store for use on an iPod or similar player; search: Ledger Editorial. ]


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Can you find Corona Borealis?
Thursday's new moon is hidden amid the glare of the sun, but it reemerges Friday as a most slender, young crescent that you just might be able to see. You'll need clear skies, an unobstructed view to the west-northwest and spot-on timing, as this moon appears low against the horizon for 15 minutes at most immediately following sunset. Brilliant Venus is just two degrees away, but you may need binoculars to pick out either from deep within the glare of twilight.
Night by night, the waxing crescent moon is easier to spot, appearing higher in the sky at sunset and remaining visible longer. Saturday at dusk it hangs below Jupiter in the west with Venus to its lower right. Sunday the moon is perched 10 degrees above Jupiter. By Tuesday evening, the moon shines close to the twin stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux. To the other side of the moon is brighter Procyon.
While Jupiter and Venus appear briefly following sunset, Saturn is only then rising. The ringed planet rises in the southeast within an hour of sunset and is at its highest in the south around midnight. As daybreak nears, Saturn sets in the west-southwest.
This week's moonless nights provide a dark background to explore the stars. Nestled between the bright stars Vega and Arcturus and to the east of the familiar shape of Hercules, look for a near-perfect semicircle of seven stars high in the east after sunset. This is the Northern Crown, or Corona Borealis. In the middle of the crown is its brightest star, Gemma, or Alphecca, the Pearl of the Crown, shining at second magnitude. In Arabic, Alphecca translates to the broken one. Gemma is a blue-white star 75 light years from Earth. It is more than twice the size of our sun and 60 times brighter.


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Warner's decision to reverse course and not release "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" in 3D has drawn applause from advocates of the format but also illustrates the problems all studios are facing as they grapple with the 3D boom.
"Deathly Hallows: Part 1" becomes the first major pic to cancel a previously announced 3D release due to production problems.
Though the decision reps a financial hit to Warner, which will have to absorb whatever it's already spent on the conversion and forego tens of millions in box office from premium tickets, 3D pros see it as an important step forward in the evolution of the format.
For the first time, the argument goes, a studio has drawn a line, preferring no 3D to bad 3D. The hope is that now there will be more pressure to do 3D well than to do it everywhere.
"We applaud Warner Bros. for championing quality," said Barry Sandrew, founder and president of conversion company Legend 3D. "The only way to produce quality conversion is to allow for enough time."
Damian Wader, VP of business development at conversion pioneer In-Three, agreed with Sandrew's comments. Time is the "biggest problem we've all faced," said Wader. "This is a very time-consuming process, and we're asked to get these things done in a timeframe that's not commensurate with what there is to do. We hope a greater understanding of what it takes to do 3D well will come from this." Neither Legend3D nor In-Three worked on the "Deathly Hallows" conversion.
Warners' decision also underscores the elevated value it places on the "Potter" franchise — particularly since there could eventually be more "Potter" films. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, author J.K. Rowling said she hasn't ruled out writing more "Potter" books.
Warner's focus now shifts to converting "Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which the studio said will go out in 2D and 3D on July 15, 2011, as previously announced.
The studio worked feverishly to salvage "Part 1" in 3D. But on Friday, Warner issued a statement conceding the conversion couldn't be completed in time for the Nov. 19 release and announcing that the pic will go out only in 2D and Imax.
Imax was the lead vendor on the 3D conversion effort on "Part 1," responsible for subcontracting to other conversion vendors, tracking and quality control. It will retain that role on "Part 2." Conversion to 3D is a new business for Imax, which had converted 12 minutes of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to stereoscopic but had never converted an entire picture.
Imax was given the "Deathly Hallows" contract in May but was not given the greenlight to begin work until August, putting the company behind schedule even from the start.
According to several people who have seen converted footage, quality was high but the count of final shots had fallen well behind schedule. It didn't help that the cut was only recently locked and visual effects were still being completed.
In the last few weeks, as it became clear that deadlines were slipping badly, both Imax and the studio began to scramble for alternatives. Imax put out "911" calls for emergency help to other 3D conversion companies but couldn't find enough takers to catch up.
The studio had taken one option off the table: releasing in 3D no matter what. Earlier this year, the studio converted the filmed-in-2D "Clash of the Titans." Though it earned a handsome $493 million worldwide, there were vocal critics, including some studio insiders, of the visuals. But Warner learned from the experience, and execs decided they didn't want to take a risk with "Harry Potter," one of the studio's crown jewels.
Last week, the studio went so far as to pull visual effects producer Randy Starr from the Hawaii set of New Line's 3D "Journey to the Center of the Earth" sequel and whisk him to Burbank to help on "Deathly Hallows."
Work continued into Friday as execs wrestled with whether to release only selected scenes in 3D, as was done on the previous "Potter"; move the release date; or cancel the 3D release. Moving the release date proved impractical, and on Friday morning, they decided to pull the plug on the 3D conversion.
Without 3D, Warner misses tens of millions in potential grosses on the pic. The last "Potter" grossed $302 million in the U.S. If the next one were to do similar business, and if 30% of admissions were for 3D — a low figure compared with recent tentpoles — it would add $45 million to the domestic gross alone. That assumes a 50% premium for 3D tickets. A higher 3D percentage and more admissions would raise that figure substantially.
Warner's statement did not rule out the possibility of a limited 3D re-release of "Deathly Hallows: Part 1" in 2011, shortly before the July 15 release of "Part 2." In an indication Warner was still pondering its next move, as of Friday, some crews on the 3D conversion of "Part 1" had not been officially released.
Those artists may be retained to start on "Part 2." In any event, Warner will want to be sure "Part 2" is safely completed before diverting more of its scarce conversion resources to "Part 1."
Any re-release of "Part 1" would have to be limited, perhaps only to Imax theaters. The 3D release sked for the weeks leading up to that date already includes "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" May 20, "Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom" May 26, Warner's own "The Green Lantern" June 17 and "Cars 2" on June 24.
There has been some fallout within Warner Bros. over the "Potter" problems and other issues with 3D.
Responsibility for 3D supervision has shifted from the post-production department to the visual effects department. That reflects a growing realization, at Warner and at other studios, that existing processes for overseeing 3D aren't reliable.
More generally, the industry is awakening to the fact that the 3D conversion business is in its infancy and is far less robust than the visual effects business.
Vfx can be done quickly at the last moment because the vfx industry has a great deal of excess worldwide capacity. Execs and filmmakers can postpone creative decisions and add f/x shots until shortly before their delivery date and count on the availability of dozens of companies and hundreds of artists to help meet their deadlines. As a result, no major tentpole has missed a release date due to vfx delays since "Titanic."
For 3D conversion, by contrast, there are few proven vendors and little excess capacity, so there simply isn't a pipeline wide enough to do large amounts of quality 3D conversion quickly.
Advocates of conversion say it is possible to deliver high-quality converted 3D with enough time and resources — Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and "G-Force," for example, featured converted footage without controversy.
Lucasfilm has allotted 15-27 months to convert "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace" for a still-unannounced release date in 2012. Nor has it announced a schedule for conversion of the rest of the franchise.
"Titanic," which is also to get a 3D conversion, is targeting April 15, 2012, the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, for 3D release. With 18 months to go, producers remain mum on whether work has already begun.


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October 26, 1982
To: All Faculty and Staff
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: United Way Campaign
Dear Colleagues:
The very young and the very old. The disadvantaged and the disabled. Those with troubled lives. All these and many others are helped by your gifts to the United Way.
San José State University is part of a larger community, as are those fine people that work here. We are not an island, and in many ways, as individuals and as an institution, we have turned outward to instruct, support, and to work with other peoples and agencies.
As a group, however, in at least one important respect, we have fallen short. Our record of contributions to United Way -- the single mostcomprehensive charitable agency in our area -- has not been commensurate either with our stature or with our ability to contribute. Although certainly not true for all of us, many here would have to say, "Thanks to someone else, it's working."
Let us all do as much as we can. I will pledge my "fair share." I urge you to do the same. Let us say with the others in our community, "Thanks to all of us, it's working." Between November 1 and November 12, your department or division head will talk to you about the United Way and give you some material describing its many activities. He or she will also give you a pledge card or payroll deduction slip. Please consider what you are capable of giving and think of what your gifts can do for people in need of help.
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Understanding Glues: Part I
Delve into the characteristics and properties of the 7 families of glue and adhesives.
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OK, so you consider yourself a woodworker. Let's say that your neighbor asks you what appears to be a simple woodworking question: "What's the best glue to use when making something out of wood?" How would you answer that? Most modern woodworkers use pretty much one type of glue or more specifically one "color" of glue. So with some trepidation you answer by saying, "Yellow glue (sometimes referred to as carpenters' glue) is the best glue for woodworking." Would you really be comfortable with that response or would you question your own answer?
Really, in the world of woodworking, "What's the best glue?" is one of the toughest questions, with lots and lots of varying opinions. However the fact is that yellow glue is one of many choices, but not always the best choice.
I tell people all the time that the goal of woodworking is to make furniture that your children's children will fight over to see who gets those pieces grandpa made – not fight to see who has to take those pieces.
In 20 plus years, if your work requires maintenance because the glue joints have fallen apart, your title as a world-class craftsman would no longer stick. (I just couldn't resist that.)
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Children who have juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are first treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that often provide relief and reduce inflammation. NSAIDs are considered the first-line treatment for JIA. Second-line drug therapy-known interchangeably as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and as slow-acting antirheumatic drugs (SAARDs)-for JIA may be recommended when a child continues to have joint pain, swelling, or both despite rest, exercise, use of NSAIDs, and physical therapy.
DMARDs/SAARDs include azathioprine, cyclosporine, etanercept, methotrexate, and sulfasalazine.
DMARDs/SAARDs have a lot in common.
- They are slow to take effect. It may take 8 to 24 weeks for the drug to show a benefit.
- They have a small risk of serious side effects (on blood cells, eyes, kidney, or liver). Side effects can be detected with close monitoring and are reversible if the drug is stopped.
- They have a moderate risk of side effects that may be uncomfortable but are not serious (nausea, skin rash, mouth sores, diarrhea, hair thinning).
- While these medicines offer effective treatment for many children, they are not a reasonable treatment option for others. Side effects or ineffectiveness, or both, are common reasons that children are withdrawn from DMARD/SAARD treatment.
- NSAIDs are often used together with one of these medicines.
Although these medicines are often called "disease-modifying," it has been hard to prove that they truly prevent long-term joint damage. But they often relieve pain and swelling.
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