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Practicing criminal law is not rocket science. It's also not open-heart surgery. But it's more than just slapping a slice of cheese between two pieces of bread and calling it a sandwich.
Although there are occasional dramatic wins and devastating losses, it is often dull and technical. This is part of the reason why earning a law degree requires years of study and why a comprehensive examination must be passed before you can receive a law license.
Criminal practice – whether defense or prosecution – is guided by statutes passed by legislatures and court decisions written by judges. Equally important are the facts of each individual case – not just what investigation reveals but whether the evidence is admissible, as only reliable facts can be brought into evidence and considered by a jury. No two fact-patterns are exactly the same, and the presence or absence of a single fact can mean the difference between a conviction and an acquittal.
A large part of the power wielded by prosecutors comes from their initial charging decisions – determining under which statute the defendant should be prosecuted. Each part – or element – of each statute must be proven by the state beyond a reasonable doubt. If the prosecutor chooses a statute that doesn't fit the evidence or if the admissible facts don't fulfill all the elements required by the statute, the prosecution will fail. Similarly, if the prosecutor doesn't advance a theory at trial that is consistent with the requirements of the chosen statute, the prosecution will fail.
This is what is meant by the state carrying the burden of proof. It is one of the cornerstones of the criminal justice system.
These are just some of the thoughts I've had while following the latest uproar over an appellate court opinion in a criminal matter. This time it's a Connecticut Supreme Court decision reversing the conviction of Richard Fourtin for the offenses of attempted sexual assault in the second degree and sexual assault in the fourth degree, both of which require the prosecution to prove that the victim was "physically unable to communicate" her lack of consent to sexual intercourse.
Most of the facts are not in dispute. The victim is a woman with significant disabilities, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and hydrocephalus. Fourtin, the defendant, was her mother's boyfriend. He lived nearby, helped care for the victim, and the victim liked him. Although she is nonverbal, the victim is capable of communicating with others by "gesturing and vocalizing." She expresses her displeasure by kicking, biting, and scratching, and she can convey her feelings by groaning or screeching.
Fourtin was found guilty at trial, but because the state failed to produce any credible evidence that the victim was physically unable to convey the concept of 'no' at the time of the alleged assault, the Connecticut appellate courts reversed the conviction. As a result, Fourtin – who had served four years of a six-year sentence – was released and cannot be retried because of principles of double jeopardy.
Given the combination of such high-voltage facts as a severely disabled woman, allegations of sexual assault, and whether lack of consent was sufficiently expressed, it is not surprising that tempers have run high in the media's coverage of the decision.
Initial reports wrongly stated that a rape conviction had been reversed because a disabled woman didn't fight back. An op-ed deemed the decision a travesty of justice because a state's highest court had blamed the victim. The story quickly morphed into a broader one about the return of "rape culture" where "good girls don't get raped" and women are assumed to consent to sex unless they can prove otherwise.
Law bloggers, enraged by the mischaracterizations and inaccuracies, linked to the relevant texts — the court's opinion, the statutes, and the earlier cases upon which the decision was based. They argued that the law isn't about feeling but about thinking. One went a step further, asserting that some people "feel more strongly about rape than they feel about rights." The narrative was now about the defense bar "scolding progressives" for their reaction to the decision. A moderator for a liberal site responded to attempts to correct the record by telling a commenter to "shut the f*** up instead of being a rape apologist," a message that disappeared almost as soon as it had been posted.
As someone who practiced for a decade as a public defender, representing many clients who were charged with rape and other forms of sexual assault, I naturally gravitated toward the position taken by the criminal defense bloggers.
Why won't people read the opinion, look at the statute, and accept that it was the prosecutor's mistake for charging the guy under the wrong statute, I wondered. Why are they determined to fit this scenario into an old cliché? Why blame the court for confirming that juries can't convict someone for crimes he didn't commit?
But then I remembered how some of my female friends reacted long ago to my career choice. It wasn't just "how can you defend those people?" but "how can you defend men who victimize women?" and "how can you be a feminist and also a criminal defense lawyer?"
Each of us who does this work answers these questions differently, but the questions themselves haven't changed and they continue to be asked. I've found that responding with a statement about the Sixth Amendment right to counsel can produce eye-rolling and that attempts to talk rationally about cases where women have made false accusations of rape nearly always fail.
Yes, I do know victims of rape, and as the mother of two girls, I desperately want "no" to always mean "no," but my unqualified disgust with acts of violence against women does not lessen my commitment to the rights of the accused.
I did notice one positive sign amidst the brouhaha. It came from blog editor Xeni Jardin, the author of a post that calls the decision, "Your daily dose of rage." After being inundated with comments and tweets pointing out the errors and misrepresentations in the coverage, Jardin updated the post by linking to law blogs that had provided "a different perspective" and including an explanatory comment from another blogger.
It wasn't exactly an admission of guilt, but it was an acknowledgement that there was more to the court's opinion than what had originally been reported. As I said, it's not rocket science.


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The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
AAC&U is pleased to administer the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, which recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning.
The awards honor the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley.
A listing of all Cross Scholars from 2006 through 2019—many with links to full descriptions of their work—is included below.
Information about the 2020 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award is available here.
Recipients of the 2019 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Brianna Benedict, Engineering Education, Purdue University
- Naniette H. Coleman, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Andrew Katz, Engineering Education, Purdue University
- Aurora B. Le, Health Behavior, Indiana University
- Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Philosophy and American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Michigan State University
- Hannah Volkman, Environmental Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota
- Arley R. Ward, II, History, University of Arkansas
Recipients of the 2018 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Kelsey Melinda Boyle, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
- Arianna I. Celis Luna, Biochemistry, Montana State University
- Tony J. Cunningham, Clinical Psychology, University of Notre Dame
- Anahid Ebrahimi, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
- Darla Ida Himeles, American Literature, Temple University
- Rishi R. Masalia, Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Alexandra B. Reznik, English Literature, Duquesne University
Recipients of the 2017 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Ileana Cortes Santiago, Literacy and Language Education, Purdue University
- Peter DelNero, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
- Mona Eskandari, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
- Brian Hendrickson, Rhetoric and Composition, University of New Mexico
- Alexandra Mathwig, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
- Keri Rodgers, Educational Studies—Curriculum, Ball State University
- Danica Savonick, English, City University of New York Graduate Center
- Heather Woods, Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Recipients of the 2016 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Claire Berezowitz, Civil Society & Community Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Nusta Carranza Ko, Political Science, Purdue University
- Annemarie Galeucia, Cultural Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University
- Uttam Gaulee, Higher Education Administration, University of Florida
- Brad Jacobson, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona
- Jasmine Linabary, Communication, Purdue University
- Breanne Przestrzelski, Bioengineering, Clemson University
- Roman Ruiz, Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania
- Daniel Siakel, Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
- Desiree Weber, Political Science, Northwestern University
Recipients of the 2015 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Anya Adair, English Language and Literature, Yale University
- Rebecca Christensen, Higher Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Neil Conner, Geography, University of Tennessee
- Victoria Hortensia Febrer, Visual Arts, Stony Brook University
- Carolyn Fisher, Biochemistry, Molecular, & Cell Biology, Cornell University
- Jacob Grohs, Educational Psychology, Virginia Tech
- Rebekah Le, Developmental Biology, University of California, Irvine
- Hannah Miller, Teacher Education, Michigan State University
- Naghme Naseri Morlock, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
- Erin Marie Rentschler, English, Duquesne University
Recipients of the 2014 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Elena K. Abbott, History, Georgetown University
- Sarah J. Hatteberg, Sociology, Indiana University
- Jennifer King Chen, Education in Math, Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
- Amy Lueck, English, University of Louisville
- Yedalis Ruiz Santana, Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Michael VanElzakker, Psychology/Neuroscience, Tufts University
- Omar Villanueva, Chemistry, Emory University
- Cathery Yeh, Education, emphasis in Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine
Recipients of the 2013 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Atnreakn Alleyne, Political Science, University of Delaware
- Fiona Barnett, Literature, Duke University
- Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Sarah Lang, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
- Justin Lomont, Chemistry, University of California–Berkeley
- Laurie A. Pinkert, English, Purdue University
- Gina Spitz, Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
The awards are named in honor of K. Patricia Cross, David Gardner Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996 through 2005, the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards were administered by the American Association for Higher Education, where Professor Cross had served as Chair of AAHE's Board of Directors.
Recipients of the 2012 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Benjamin L. Castleman, Quantitative Policy Analysis, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- Sarah L. Eddy, Zoology, Oregon State University
- Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Alexander Igor Olson, American Culture, University of Michigan
- Ashley E. Palmer, Sociology, Baylor University
- Ghanashyam Sharma, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville
- Martha Althea Webber, English (Writing Studies), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Timothy Wong, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Recipients of the 2011 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:
- Adam Bush, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
- Edmond Chang, English, University of Washington
- Keary Engle, Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
- Michelle Gaffey, Literature, Duquesne University
- Sam Potolicchio, American Government, Georgetown University
- Chera Reid, Higher Education, New York University
- Cara Robinson, Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware
- Jennifer Veilleux, Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Recipients of the 2010 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:
- Netta Avineri, Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
- Shauna K.Carlisle, Social Welfare, University of Washington
- Judith Flores Carmona, Sociology of Education, University of Utah
- Elizabeth Hoover, Anthropology, Brown University
- Ilana Kramer, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University
- Jonathan P. Rossing, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University
- Jentery Sayers, English, University of Washington
- Wendy Wagner, College Student Personnel Administration, University of Maryland
- Holly F. West, Higher and Postsecondary Education, New York University
Recipients of the 2009 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:
- Holly Bruland, English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Cara Gormally, Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Mitchel T. Keller, Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Tessa Lowinske Desmond, Literary Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Tamara Mann, History, Columbia University
- Elizabeth Munz, Communication, Purdue University
- Geoff Preidis, Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
- Marcella Runell-Hall, Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Lisa Thornhill, Language and Rhetoric, University of Washington, Seattle
- Kyle Whyte, Philosophy and American Indian Studies, Stony Brook University
Recipients of the 2008 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Thomas Eatmon, Jr., Public Policy, Southern University
- Andrew Farke, Vertebrate Anatomy / Paleontology, Stony Brook University
- Kyle Gobrogge, Neuroscience, Florida State University
- Frances Gratacos, Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers
- Jennifer Lavy, Theatre History and Criticism, University of Washington
- Christine Reiser, Anthropology, Brown University
- Paul Rogers, Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Cindy Spurlock, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina
- Kimberly Van Orman, Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY
- Dumaine Williams, Pharmacology, Stony Brook University
Recipients of the 2007 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Kasey Baker, English, University of Tennessee
- Bethany Bowling, Interdisciplinary Studies - Biology Education, University of Cincinnati
- Amy Cass, Sociology, University of Delaware
- Stephanie Milling-Robbins, Dance and Women's Studies, Texas Woman's University
- Evelyn Perry, Sociology, Indiana University
- Margaret Post, Social Policy, Brandeis University
- Tarsem Purewal, Computer Science, University of Georgia
- Sarah Wise, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Recipients of the 2006 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:
- Derek Cabrera, Education, Cornell University
- Michael Coyle, Justice Studies, Arizona State University
- Emily Fairchild, Sociology, Indiana University
- Molly Beth Kerby, Educational Administration, Educational Leadership, and Organizational Development, University of Louisville
- Diane Nutbrown, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Regina Praetorius, Human Resource Education, Louisiana State University
- Victor Raymond, Sociology, Iowa State University
- Joan Shin, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Ian Stewart, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
About K. Patricia Cross
K. Patricia Cross is Professor of Higher Education Emerita of the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an author of seven books on classroom teaching, learning, and assessment. Her distinguished career in higher education began as Assistant Dean of Women at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, then continued as Dean of Students at Cornell. She served as Distinguished Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service; Professor and Chair of the Department of Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and then as David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Cross is a member of the National Academy of Education and twice served as chair of the Board of the American Association for Higher Education. She is a former board member for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Berkeley Public Library, and Elderhostel (now known as Road Scholar).
New Archive: K. Patricia Cross Speeches—1963 through 2001
A new archive featuring the work of K. Patricia Cross has been launched by San Francisco State University. The archive includes more than 250 speeches presented by Dr. Cross, as well as seven papers that were commissioned by the League for Innovation in the Community College. The materials, arranged by decade and organized chronologically and by theme, are available to all—researchers, practitioners, students, and all interested individuals. The archive is expected to be of particular use for doctoral students and researchers who began their careers after the retirement of Pat Cross in 1997.
Complete information about the new archive can be found here
For more information, contact Jamie Krovontka at (202) 884-0810 or email@example.com.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Harvard University Department of Athletics is proud to announce the launch of its redesigned official athletics' website, GoCrimson.com. The website continues to provide Crimson fans with in-depth coverage while improving features and user-friendly site navigation.
Among the improvements provided by PrestoSports are enhanced graphics and state-of-the-art statistical presentations which couples live statistics and up-to-the-minute career statistics. Improved search functionality and historical information for each team will also be added. New to each team's schedule page, fans can now compile additional information of each team, including win streaks and league standings.
RSS feeds, social networking bookmarks and sharable releases are offered as well. GoCrimson users also have the opportunity share content through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google Bookmarks, Digg and Del.icio.us.
Crimson fans are invited to check back throughout the summer for updates on their favorite teams, as well as news about upcoming events and promotions. Team archive pages will be reformatted and posted shortly.


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JOB TITLE:Registered Nurse (Inpatient) Life-Flight
LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Hospital
DEPARTMENT: Life Flight
WORK SCHEDULE: Days/Nights
WORK TYPE: Flex
Provides nursing care to Life Flight and Emergency Department patients. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range on their assigned clinical area. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients from birth to 100+ years age range on their assigned clinical area.
Performs duties to provide the highest level of patient care and maximize patient satisfaction.
Works under supervision of the Life Flight Program clinical leadership team, Operations Manager, and Medical Director.
Demonstrates good organizational skills and effective communication skills.
Demonstrates excellent clinical nursing skills, knowledge, judgement and leadership in an independent and uncontrolled environment.
Demonstrates ability to be confident, personable, self-motivated, and function with tact and poise in stressful situations.
Demonstrates ability to make rapid and clinically accurate decisions and provide innovation under adverse conditions.
For Registered Nurses with less than five (5) years work experience as an RN, a BSN degree is required or enrollment in a BSN program within 12 months of hire date with BSN degree completed within 4 years of hire date is required.
For Registered Nurses with more than 5 years of work experience as an RN in an acute/inpatient capacity, a BSN degree is not required.
For current Geisinger Registered Nurses who transfer into this position, BSN degree is preferred.
BLS certification preferred and required within 60 days of employment.
ACLS/PALS may be required within 1 year of employment (unit specific).
Duration of on-the-job training to become familiar with job duties varies by individual unit.
Successful completion of Life Flight training program or equivalency required.
BLS, ACLS and PALS certification required. Health Professional certification required. NRP certification or equivalent within six months. Completion of trauma nurse course within six months of assignment required.
Certification in CCRN, CEN, CTRN, or CFRN required.
Minimum three years experience as a registered nurse, including minimum two years experience in critical care setting (i.e. ICU, CCU, ED, PICU, NICU, Flight) required. Prehospital care education and experience preferred.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Must be in excellent physical and mental health with no physical limitations to working aboard aircraft.
Crew members must be able to wear a program provided flight helmet with NVGs. Crew members do the have option to purchase a program approved alternative helmet that is compatable with GMC's NVGs.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
ABOUT GEISINGER: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.


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Complete coverage on
Fashion Week
1970s are 'staying alive' for spring
What will you be wearing in 2015? CNN Living was on the scene as designers showcased their spring 2015 collections at New York Fashion Week from September 4 to 11.
GALLERY: Best runway looks
What you'll be wearing in 2015
Gwen Stefani thrives at Fashion Week
Model behavior
Kendall Jenner comes into focus
Fashion flips for fiery redhead
Is America ready for this top model?
Fashion tips
A minimalist approach to fashion
How to wear lingerie outside the bedroom
Runway-ready hair and makeup
Trend watch
The colors you'll be wearing
Festival fashion: Then and now
Caftan comfy, caftan chic
Global style
Dress to protest
Pakistan's wardrobe change
Why is Paris Fashion Week so important?
Runway rundown
World's most coveted shoe
GALLERY: Fall fashion
GALLERY: Beauty backstage
Fashion in the digital age
A virtual dressing room
Hug it out, from a thousand miles away
Home is where the stylist is
The conscious consumer
Designer turns nature into 'bling'
Custom denim while you wait
Vegan fashion: Where faux meets fabulous
Designer's corner
Elie Tahari's true 'rags to riches' story
Tory Burch: Ambitious women face stigma
Jimmy Choo taking on men's fashion
The basics
Shoes that we flat-out appreciate
Democracy in a dress
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The Light Princess
The Light Princess brings together iconic singer songwriter Tori Amos with playwriter Samuel Adamson and director Marianne Elliot (Curious Incident) in this spectacular coming of age story. A dark fairytale about grief, rebellion and the power of love.
Once, in opposing Kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, unable to cry, became light with grief and floated and so was locked away. Digby became so heavy hearted that he could never smile and so was trained as a warrior.
One day, he declares war. Althea is forced out of hiding and down to ground but in defiance of her father, she escapes only to encounter the solemn prince on contested land. Beside a lake the warring heirs begin a passionate and illicit affair. But for Althea to find real love, she must first comfront the world's darkness and face her own deepest fears.
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Wednesday, 29th January 2014
Wednesday, 29th January 2014
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Academic Innovation: A Leader in the Lab
Donald Bertolini '71 hopes his contribution will give more students a chance to learn the ropes of scientific research. by Khrista Trerotola '07
Failure. Donald Bertolini '71 believes in it. As the director of global clinical research on treatment for morbidly obese people at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, Bertolini knows that failure is the key to success.
"In the lab, you fail more than you succeed," he says. "But failure teaches; you advance from there. It's normal in research."
Bertolini's failures and successes led him to contribute $10,000 — half of which came from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, which matches charitable gifts for employees — to the campaign. His gift brought the academic innovations initiative to its goal of $6 million and established the Bertolini Endowment, which will fund an annual summer research opportunity for a biology professor and student(s). Who does the research and what it focuses on are up to the department.
"I hope this gift gives students the opportunity to find out if they want to be researchers," Bertolini says. "You have to do research full-time to know."
When he started doing research his sophomore year with biology professor Rich Wodzinski, his interest in research as a career evolved into a goal. While most of his peers in biology were applying to medical schools, he was looking at graduate schools. He received his master's degree from Long Island University and Ph.D. from Wesleyan College, both in biology. "After working in the lab at Ithaca, I realized I'd rather work with rats than people," he says with a chuckle.
Seriously, though, Bertolini says, "At IC I received a solid background in science — not just in the classroom, but in the real world. A lot of my success has come from the training I had there, even more than where I earned my other degrees." This is what inspired him and his wife, Maria, to support IC in a philanthropic portfolio that also includes the Make-a-Wish Foundation and a women's shelter close to their home in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
What he learned at the lab in Ithaca has helped him not only in his career, but in life as well. "How you take the information from one experiment and drive it into the next, and then learn more, is a general thought process," Bertolini says. "And that can be applied to life, too — for instance, in raising children."
Bertolini also left IC with his first publication (of many that would follow), on his study, funded by the College Center of the Finger Lakes, of soil bacteria that could break down hydrocarbons (oil). "That first research publication came out of Ithaca," Bertolini says. "It started my career."
Now he is happy to offer such opportunity to others.


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Quanta Plus 3.0 Final Rolls Out
The Quanta team is pleased to announce the availability of Quanta 3. Quanta
xml editing features of quanta?
I can't seem to find a straight forward list of features on
I do more XML than HTML or PHP or anything like that, and have
By corey at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: xml editing features of quanta?
> I can't seem to find a straight forward list of features on the site anywhere.
That's because I can't keep up with the feature set in any detail and still have any semblance of a life. In fact I often open Quanta from CVS with exclamations of "Wow, I didn't know we had that".
> How well does Quanta do as an XML editor?
Well first off there is also kxmleditor, a tree based XML editor you might look at. Quanta has it's roots in HTML but has been uprooted so to say. We use DTDs. I would have to verify with Andras our current status on our DTD parsing code. As I say, it's difficult to keep up with everything in quanta. Our end objective is to provide full auto-completion from a DTD. Enhanced functionality comes in our definition .rc files and tag files which exist in in their own DTD directory. These files are XML.
Currently we are good for XML but to be very good one needs to do a little bit of XML set up for their dialect and a little point and click. I will list out what you can get for this here. First, by defining your tag files and definition.rc XML file you will get full autocompletion as well as the full function of the structure tree for analyzing and navigating your document. By adding tagxml dialog descriptions you can get full dialog capability for any tag. Using Actions from the configure menu you can assign toolbar actions including a quick tag definition or a script defintion which can use any language that executes in the shell. This is very poweful. You can use this to validate documents or to run visually created dialogs with Kommaander which we will be releasing next week. You can create custom toolbars and even have toolbars associated with your project. In addition the upcoming 3.1 allows you to save groups of files in a project as a veiw to open and close as a group. Project views can include toolbars too.
Beyond this we currently have the XSLT DTD installed and are working to integrate a graphical version of xsldbg into either 3.1 or shortly after. We will be adding tools for XML entities too. We are also working on a pre configured DocBook DTD setup. Quanta has a plugin interface and we intend to have various XML schema validators as plugins shortly, although you can configure plugins as a user as well as program actions too. We think it's better for most users if it's already on the menu.
I don't know if you could say that Quanta is a really good XML editor yet as is. I do know that if you tend to work with a limited number of DTDs right now, with a little work you can make it virtually perfect. Our objective was not to deliver our hard coded idea of what you want so much as to deliver a tool that you could make do exactly what you want first. We hope with community imput from users to flesh out these features into a large number of preconfigured setups.
I hope this helps answer your questions. We have done our best to make sure Quanta can be configured by a user to do any task related to tagging or scripting. Feel free to contact me if I can be of any further help.
Eric Laffoon
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: xml editing features of quanta?
This might be totally outside the scope for Quanta, but it would be cool to have an XML editor that supported XML Schemas. An XML Schema is like a DTD, but it it geared towards data entry, so you can say that an element should contain a value between X and Y, and you can give an element help text etc. An XML Schema can be transformed into a data entry hierarchy (like a spreadsheet, but it's a hierarchy). If it would be possible to use Kommander to not only create dialogs, but inline the dialogs into the page (as a kpart?) then it should be possible to "compile" an XML schema using Kommander or something similar into a data entry form! That would be cool!
By astor at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: xml editing features of quanta?
I am familiar with the concept of schemas, though I haven't used them yet. It is currently possible to use various schema validation programs in Quanta using our custom actions. You can also of course write a schema in Quanta. As far as total integration goes we wanted to get DTDs mastered first and then move on to schemas. Also we wanted to look into it more WRT whether we could incorporate exsiting tools as plugins for support or whether we would need to write something ourselves to best integrate this.
As far as integrating Kommander for data entry this is a rather natural thing for it. The mechanics of it should be fairly easy to resolve as a user, but if not let us know. Kommander uses XML ui files which are essentially the QT Designer ui file with custom widgets allowing you to associate text and actions. I don't want to get into detail here. We will be introducing it next week. However it is able to send and receive via stdout and DCOP. Using a language like Perl you can access sockets too. We have on our do list making it produce embeddable parts. This would enable for instance an intranet to embed a tabbed dialog or tree into a frame in konqueror. As far as further interaction and programming it goes the rule with a program like Kommander is that it will end up doing things the designers didn't have the remotest thought of. My use of Kaptain for PHP class dialogs was essentially using a function primarily for test in an unexpected place. So we're quite happy when someone finds a use that we didn't imagine yet.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: xml editing features of quanta?
Sorry, preview lost the screenshot.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
thanx a lot
thank u for quanta.
By gunnar at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: thanx a lot
The debugger has no longer been maintained since before PHP 4.1 which had substantial changes. Installing it requires building PHP which is probably the most complex set of switches I've seen. So you can pretty much only use it on a local build of an outdated PHP. We hope shortly to look into this and address these issues. We'd like to offer solutions that are more up to date as well as possibly some that are less invasive.
One thing that is helpful right now is the ability to use the RMB on the strucutre tree and set up to parse as PHP and see all the variables and functions on a page. At least we are reducing the cause of difficulties in PHP by a better grasp of your page. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: thanx a lot
> One thing that is helpful right now is the ability
Sorry Eric,
this doesn't work for me neither in the 3.0 nor in the current CVS version (just checked out to be sure). I compiled it myself under kde3.1b2 using qt3.05.
Also interesting is that PHP is not offered as a DTD-Choice by changing the DTD via project-options or the tools-menu, it is offered only as an option for new files in the quanta- and project options but has no effect on the structure view.
clicking with the right mouse button anywhere in the structure view doe not do anything. No emty popupmenu or such.
What to do?
By Jean-P. Febreze at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: thanx a lot
Well you can see it as the first screenshot on the site. I've included a snapshot here. I can offer two possible reasons. For one I had trouble building KDE beta 2 with QT 3.0.5 and I guess I'll just build CVS. We have to look into it because our current CVS has been reported to have issues with it. As a last resort, quantarc has been known to cause oddities in the past. It has been far less lately but you might try renaming it. It's in $KDEHOME/share/config.
As far as selecting PHP as a primary DTD that's a bad idea so we eliminated it. PHP is in fact a psuedo-DTD in Quanta because it is not really a DTD. It is a preprocessor. Making it a primary DTD doesn't make sense and it makes the use of HTML in the document a problem. Only if you had no HTML at all in a file would it make sense, however the editor functionality as it is remains identical for PHP this way so nothing is lost. I hope this makes sense. The only thing affected here would be the structure tree.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Question about donations and such..
Is there any way that things like the KDE e.V. or League can sponsor development?
Unfortunatly, most people are greedy and won't pay for software unless they have to. Perhaps make Quanta closed source and make people pay a total of $100,000 to open it up again (blender :)). I'm just joking, of course.
Lastly, how about finding a company that can give donations or sponsor part of the project without taking it over. That seems quite do-able.
I'd donate to Quanta myself, but I only make use of html editors like once a year. People who use quanta everyday should contribute!
By loft at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: Question about donations and such..
> Is there any way that things like the KDE e.V. or League can sponsor development?
I could ask. Nobody in free software is rolling in money. However we are capable of making our appeal I think.
> Unfortunatly, most people are greedy and won't pay for software unless they have to.
I disagree. I think it's mostly a matter of economics. I don't rate low donation ratios at all to greed. You can only part with so much for so many causes. I think the addition of merchandise is good. I've done fundrasing for charitable causes and merchandising is the way to go. People get a cool product and the cause gets money. Traditionally causes get 10% from professional organizations which they are thrilled to have. Here we realize substantially more as all net profits are returned and no labor costs are factored in.
> Lastly, how about finding a company that can give donations or sponsor part of the project without taking it over. That seems quite do-able.
We have that. The company is Kittyhooch LLP. Unfortunately it's a relative start up and it's my company so if it doesn't have a good month it just pays me less and I do without satellite TV another month and limit my spending on cigars and supplements so I can pay my guys. It's worth it. When I begin pursuing web work again shortly I will be phenominally more productive.
I am open to corporate sponsorship. If you think about it any company using free software like Quanta would be incredibly well served to take a small fraction of their income and divert it to tool development. I'd be the most incredible tech support you could imagine for 1% of the revenue generated by any company using quanta to generate income with. It is foolish to limit or risk limiting your efficiency by determining that your tools are really free. It is free to use, not to produce.
I consider myself the fortunate one. I really do believe it's better to give than receive. The emotional rewards for this project are impossible to describe. I did not start out to make free software. I started out wanting an editor. I fell in love with what I was doing and the lives I was touching. You can't imagine what it feels like to know you are touching the lives of potentially millions of people who appreciate you. Do you get that at your anywhere else?
> I'd donate to Quanta myself, but I only make use of html editors like once a year.
It's okay, we don't exclude you. You can buy a mouse pad (or $5 woth of Quanta satisfaction). ;-)
> People who use quanta everyday should contribute!
As their heart leads. I appreciate your encouragement. I finally decided to begin asking when I realized how much I was really giving in time and money. I don't want anyone to feel bad if they use it and never give anything. There are a lot of people I want to give Quanta to and I never want anything from them. That gift is my reward. You just can't assume the next guy will give your gift.
Our choice is to become an outstanding first class tool. Many people may have been perfectly happy editing only (depricated) HTML. People may think we should just stick with the basics or try to reach our goals in 5 or 10 years instead of 1-2. Not contributing is a good way to vote for that. ;-) If you like where we're going our mouse pads and T-Shirts are reasonably priced.
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Congratulations on the 3.0 mark release. I think Eric's loving devotion to Quanta Plus is an inspiration to many, and certainly goes to show Free Software's advantage over proprietary software in being a labour of love.
Also, Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame uses Quanta Plus. Shouldn't you? ;-)
By Haakon Nilsen at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: Kudos!
Aw come on... you're making me blush. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2002/10/10 - 5:00am
XML word wrap mode
I have a question about XML editors. Is there any XML editor, preferably on KDE, that handles word-wrap correctly when used with XML indentation? Editing DocBook in Kate or KWrite is really painful. You have to manually insert newlines, which breaks formatting if you want to add more text in the middle of the paragraph. If you use word wrap, then indentation gets screwed up, the next line starts entirely left-justified, instead of following the previous line's indnetation.
By Rayiner Hashem at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
Kate-cvs has word-wrap.
By buba at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
It's had word wrap. I think they are referring to a more intelligent soft wrap. Last I heard Christoph was working on that. I heard they did not think it would make it into 3.1 and I have not noted it in either beta. Regardless as soon as your version of KDE/Kate has it then it appears in Quanta.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
It's in CVS, but a bit hard to find. There's a switch "Dynamic Word Wrap" in Menu "View". It isn't in the configure dialog.
By eva at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
Wow, and I was still using kedit for soft wrap. Thank you!
By Moritz Moeller-... at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
Thanks! It seems it snuck in on beta 2 but not beta 1. We will address this setting promptly.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
Yep. It went in just after beta2 was tagged (we've been working on it in a branch for a while). Please test it and report any bugs you find so it's solid for 3.1 - I don't know of any bugs at the moment. It also needs some usability testing (what should the behaviour of the home / end keys be?).
You can turn it on by default in editor -> view defaults.
By Hamish Rodda at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: XML word wrap mode
Hey, cool. Didn't notice yet, that the dynamic wrap already made it into the configuration :-)
To me the dynamic word wrap already seems to be very stable. Didn't have any problems yet. Great work!
BTW, some configuration of dynamic word wrap dependent on the current file type would be great. E.g. I'd like to have dynamic word wrap in tex files, but not in C++ source code. (Sorry, couldn't resist to post this wish ;-)
By eva at Sat, 2002/10/12 - 5:00am
Per-mimetype configs
There's some work going on towards a Kate plugin to fulfill this need... :)
By Hamish Rodda at Sun, 2002/10/13 - 5:00am
thanks !!
just wanna say thank you for this great piece of software.
By markus at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Quanta 3.1
> Quanta 3.1 will be released with KDE 3.1 too so it's coming very soon.
Are you in a hurry to rush version numbers like this? :-)
By Anonymous at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta 3.1
> Are you in a hurry to rush version numbers like this? :-)
Yes, you got me. Shucks! We were hoping to slip out 5.1 by the end of the year. ;-) Okay, actually it's just our hyper speed programming...
Okay, I'll stop clowning. We have been adding features and haven't got the full feature set we want. We didn't want to have a 3.0 PR7 just to get the features in... so as soon as we had a feature set we were happy with we froze it and shipped 3.0 because we know lots of people don't want to use a pre release and there's no reason to hold it up for features we can do in a point release. So when I contacted Dirk he said he'd like to ship it with KDE 3.1 and when we looked at our code base we could only do a few new features and enhance some of our in process features... so when I asked if we should do a point release one morning as I was waking up I was shouted down for being an idiot as we do have feature improvements... (I really do love this project but I need to be awake when I type as Andras is 10 hours ahead of me.) Of course I knew someone would ask your question.
You get the gold star. Look for version 3.5 later next month. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Sat, 2002/10/12 - 5:00am
By Markus at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: WYSIWYG ?
Hi, see this link http://dot.kde.org/1031680234/ and look under kafka and wysiwyg topics. I've addressed this at some length. If I missed something let me know. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Well, first of all this dot article caught me a bit by surprise since I thought
Anyway, I want to say a big thanks to the Quanta developers. I am currently
I am also very impressed by Quanta's ability to "detect" html tags
Amazing piece of work guys! I thought Eric was exaggerating when he
BTW I would really like to donate money (because I'm *earning* money
By Dimitris Kameno... at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: Thanks!
Actually I'm terribly emberassed because I have been so busy I have not put up new PHP docs. You can download the docs (which I will put up today) and install them in Quanta. This will give you context help. You will also have off line help with your PHP.
Since you're new to PHP let me introduce you to some other cool features you may not know about. I created a sites directory in my server root on my local system with my user as owner. I then linked it to my home directory. Now my PHP files are actually on a live server. Now in the project settings on the Network tab you can click the box "Use project prefix" and enter your location like so... http://localhost/sites/kittyhooch/public_html/. Now when you preview a dynamic page in Quanta you will see your PHP rendered correctly. Now to sort it out select the structure tree tab on the left, right click and select Parse as->PHP. Now you will see your functions and variables listed on the left. We still have work to do like parse off page, respect scope and add classes but we're working on it as fast as we can. ;-) BTW you can add dialogs to PHP tags using tagxml described in our docs in the PHP tag files. However with the introduction of Kommander next week you will be able to draw dialogs for very custom use and include them on project toolbars. Look for the demo soon.
As for your compliments... they are very satisfying. Thank you. Knowing that we are helping you to deveolop and to earn money with Quanta is the most rewarding currency for me... though I will still accept donations. ;-) If you are in a country where PayPal is available they do a bank transfer so you do not actually need a credit card. Also many banks offer debit cards that function as credit cards too. If you do not have these options and still feel compelled to donate please contact me directly to look for a means.
BTW check out our links for good resources on PHP. I wish you much success and satisfaction in your web development efforts. I hope we play some small part in your success.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
www.knome.org ?
By KDE User at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: www.knome.org ?
By Anonymous at Fri, 2002/10/11 - 5:00am
Kudos to Eric (and not only for the code)
I'm sure you recieve a lot of positive replies on your releases. But this time I don't want to give you kudos for the code. We all know it's great. I want to give you kudos for the way you manage this project. You are a great inspirator. I don't do anything with webdevelopment at all but the way you promote Quanta makes me follow it's development and even try it. Also kudos to the design and long terms goals of Quanta. The fact that you don't let WYSIWIG pushed in Quanta before it's ready for it, although a lot of people want it, makes you an excellent maintainer/developer. Last but not least: kudos to all the people that help Eric with this great product.
By John Herdy at Sat, 2002/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: Kudos to Eric (and not only for the code)
What can I say? This is candy.
I can only credit my passion and obsession with the project. Much of this has been fueled by the decisions I've been faced with along the way and the numerous emails which have shown me that a simple piece of software can in fact touch people's lives. For all the people who nitpick at free software but never actually play a part I wish I could convey how incredible it feels to know your efforts are apprciated. Perhaps I should post my favorite Teddy Roosevelt quote. It's long. To paraphrase, its better to go down in flames with purporse than to sit in the cold without one.
At any rate, I just happen to be out front. There's a long list of people to thank but I will just do the short list and say that some of the most influential people on our team are Andras Mantia, who I cannot praise enough in this lifetime, Marc Britton, whose enthusiasm and efforts on Kommander should be legend and Robert Nickel who is always there with some little piece of the puzzle to make things better. There are more too. Without these people and many others I would have little to talk about.
By Eric Laffoon at Sat, 2002/10/12 - 5:00am
Vim as the editor?
Now that Vim is in KDevelop, any chance of using it as the editor for Quanta? I'd really like to use the Document Structure piece of Quanta, but non-modal editing is for the birds.
By Smampy at Mon, 2002/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: Vim as the editor?
KDevelop and quanta are two different projects with different teams. Of particular note is how many people you find credited on KDevelop as opposed to Quanta. Gideon has a great plugin architecture that makes using Vim possible. For us it was like looking at a Ferarri. It's very impressive but we just can't make the payments.
We have a long list of things we want to do and we focus on efficient web development. Hopefully there is much more than our structure tree to like. I would say that short of several very talented people joining out team with the sole focus of a pluggable editor you will not likely see Vim editing in Quanta before you see it doing WYSIWYG. However Quanta can do some plugins and it can also do programmable actions that can zip files back and forth. Have a look at Settings>Configure actions.
By Eric Laffoon at Mon, 2002/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: Vim as the editor?
Thanks for the response.
I realize that they're different projects, but I thought the whole point of being part of a desktop environment... hell the whole point of shared libraries was so that applications wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel and would be able to take advantage of new features. I know it's not that simple, but I don't think it should be all that complex either.
I haven't used Quanta for years because I really can't handle non-modal editing.
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"We like to start with a good product because it helps us manage the crop well all the way through," said Wiebe.
Studies have shown that an added benefit of certified seed can be a boost in yields. Research at Kansas State University indicates that the use of certified seed can increase yields two to three bushels per acre over bin-run seed.
Beyond the benefits of quality and yield that certified seed brings, labor costs associated with cleaning your own seed can add up.
"If you want to maintain a variety in good condition, you need to take the same steps that a seedsman takes. This means taking the extra time to clean out equipment, storing the seed in a quality location, and cleaning the seed," Schuler said.
The Kansas Crop Improvement Association believes planting with certified seed gives a producer confidence that their legal purchase of professionally produced seed supports research and development that will bring forth the varieties that will be used in the future.
New varieties are developed to provide disease resistance, better performance and higher yields. Planting with certified seed is the only way to obtain access to these pure and new varieties.
Quality assurance of certified seed provides clean seed to the producer that has met minimum standards for varietal purity, test weight, germination, amount of inert material, cleanliness and seed size.
Schuler said, "In a wheat crop, seed is not your most expensive input. It seems unwise to me to skimp in the quality of the seed you are planting because you base the success of all your other inputs and income on your farm on that seed."
To purchase certified seed, log on to www.kscrop.org to find a producer in your area. The Kansas Seed Book, which contains the certified seed directory and KansasStateUniversity performance data can also be found on the KCIA website.


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Melissa Stoddard, 11, died from a lack of oxygen to the brain after prosecutors said she was regularly restrained and had her mouth covered with duct tape.
UPDATE: An 11-year-old autistic girl who lost 40 pounds over the course of three months before she died in December was not mistreated by her parents, defense attorney David Taylor argued Thursday.
Melissa Stoddard lost so much weight because she refused to eat as a result of her mental health problems — not because her parents withheld food, said Taylor, who is representing the child's stepmother, Misty Stoddard.
Stoddard, 36, stared down at the floor in the Sarasota County Jail's courtroom as Taylor spoke in a brief hearing Thursday.
Misty and Kenneth Stoddard are charged with aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm. Authorities say Melissa died Dec. 17 from lack of oxygen to the brain as a result of tortuous abuse that left her tied up for hours at a time — sometimes with duct tape over her mouth so she could not scream.
At Thursday's hearing, Sarasota County Circuit Court Judge Fred Mercurio denied Taylor's request to lower Stoddard's $50,000 bond. The judge also forbid her from having contact with children younger than 18.
Officials have said Stoddard and her husband kept Melissa from moving by using rope to tie her to a board that had holes drilled into it.
Doctors found ligature marks on the girl's upper arms, wrists, ankles and thighs.
The couple made Melissa eat and sleep on a blanket in what they called a corral, a fenced area outside their Sarasota County house, the prosecution said.
In court Thursday, Taylor said all of the allegations are false — the duct tape, the board, and the corral.
"We're going to show these allegations by the state are not true," he said.
Deputies believed a customized helmet they found was made to restrain the child.
But Taylor says the girl's father made her wear a helmet for her safety because she banged her head on the wall.
Stoddard, who is pregnant, wore a baggy orange inmate uniform and said very little during the hearing.
She took a long look at her attorney as Taylor examined photographs that depicted Melissa's injuries.
After her husband was arrested following Melissa's death last month, Misty Stoddard tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized, St. Petersburg police and sheriff's deputies say.
Melissa's mother, Lisha Stoddard, of Greensboro, N.C., could not be reached Thursday for comment.
EARLIER: A judge this morning declined a request to reduce the bail of Misty Stoddard, who is accused of aggravated child abuse in the death of her stepdaughter.
Melissa Stoddard, 11, died Dec. 17 from a lack of oxygen to the brain after prosecutors said she was regularly restrained and had her mouth covered with duct tape. The girl, who was midly autistic, recently moved to Sarasota County from North Carolina to live with her father, Kenneth Stoddard, and her stepmom.
Thursday morning in court, Stoddard's defense attorney, David Taylor, denied the allegations, saying his client did not restrain or duct tape the child.
Taylor spoke briefly during the hearing at the Sarasota County Jail where Circuit Court Judge Fred Mercurio kept Stoddard's bail at $50,000 and told her that if she bails out of jail, she is not allowed to see children under the age of 18.
Stoddard, who is pregnant, said very little during the hearing.
Her common-law husband, Kenneth Stoddard, is also charged with aggravated child abuse in Melissa's death.
Taylor declined to comment further after the hearing.


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I am looking for a succinct way to describe a subset of the natural numbers which has ``measure zero" in the following sense: Let X_1 \subset X_2 \subset .... be any strictly nesting sequence of finite subsets of natural numbers, I want to describe a subset S \subset \N which has the property that the limit of the usual counting measures applied to S restricted to X_i is zero.
I don't know that much about measure theory and am having trouble finding any measures on countable sets such as the natural numbers. There should be a natural measure on them such that the sets I describe above have zero measure with respect to it. Is there a name for such a natural measure on the natural numbers?


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Humana, Inc. announced on September 26, 2018 that it has collaborated with Heritage Provider Network (HPN) on a value-based agreement designed to offer a coordinated, patient-centered experience to help Humana Medicare Advantage members in Southern and Central California achieve better health.
All 9 Medical Groups rated among the top in the nation with Elite Status.
The collaboration of Dr. Francesco Prada and Dr. Frederic Padilla, both Merkin Fellows working with the Focused Ultrasound (FUS) Foundation, brings advancements in neurosurgery and surgical oncology closer to reality.
The dedicated team responsible for this innovation development and design speaks to its features and functionality to highlight the many benefits of qHMO and its goal to streamline processes across HPN and its affiliates, thus creating improved and expedited information sharing and capturing to bring patient experience to a completely new level.
Heritage Provider Network Professor in Immunotherapy, Christine Brown, Ph.D., at City of Hope applies CAR T cell therapy directly into the brain to eliminate tumors.
Improved energy. Fun challenges. Better health. These are just some of the benefits that High Desert Medical Group (HDMG) employees gain at HDMG's Fitness Zone – an in-house, full-service gym.
Even after decades of anti-smoking messages and public service campaigns, many primary care physicians continue to report tobacco usage from their patients. This news isn't surprising to VJ Sleight, Health Educator, who works with Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC) specializing in tobacco dependence.
To say that Professor Feng Zhang's groundbreaking work with CRISPR is enabling other scientists to pioneer their own discoveries would be an understatement to the enormous and profound contribution this 36-year-old scientist has already accomplished during his career.
Heritage Victor Valley Medical Group (HVVMG) continues to develop its preventive medical model, which includes diet, nutrition and locally produced food. To that end, HVVMG's newest dietitian, Naoko Nagaya, comes to the medical group with an expertise in medical nutrition therapy for disease management.
Dr. Richard Merkin, CEO and Founder of the Heritage Group, was honored by the Milken Institute Global Gourmet Games benefit with the Inaugural Tommy Lasorda Leadership Award.
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Social media and insurance? Hard to imagine those words together, but the new report by the Insurance Information Institute is pretty interesting reading.
Most of us rely on social media more and more these days - whether for work or to keep with friends and family. But we probably never think about the insurance impact (ie. liability issues).
Find out if you or your business could be at risk - here's the report.
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What URL's do I use for 'webcal' publish/subscribe, with Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird, Apple iCal, etc.?
The Basics
If you have WebCit v6.80 or newer, you can use the simplistic but effective "webcal" protocol to connect calendar clients such as Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal, Evolution, etc. Basically, this means you use WebDAV to access and store and ical calendar file.
Caveats / Warnings
When you perform a webcal/webdav "publish" operation, any calendar items already existing in the room will be deleted, and replaced with the calendar items you are publishing. Be sure that this is what you want to do. The typical user (or more accurately, the typical client side calendar program) will subscribe to the calendar, edit it locally, and then publish the modified calendar back to the server.
Accessing your accounts main Calendar room
These urls assume that you can reach your Webcit login screen via:
When publishing or subscribing your calendar on a Citadel server, you can use any of the following URL's – they all point to the same calendar:
In the above examples, the word "Calendar" is the name of the primary calendar room for your Citadel account. That's the room you can access via the menu on the left, when you login as a user to your citadel groupware.
Depending on the application you are using, a dialogue should pop up and ask your for your login credentials.
Accessing other rooms that have a Calendar View
You may replace that with the name of any other calendar room to which you have access, for the same effect. For example, if you have a room called "Meetings" on the "Main Floor", you would use this URL:
Free / Busy
If your client supports free/busy lookup of other users via HTTP, point that function at this URL:
(This assumes that your client will append the name of the user being queried to this URL.) By the way, Citadel automatically publishes free/busy data based on the contents of your calendar – you don't have to configure your client to do this manually.
You can test wether you use the correct URL easily by entering it into your browser. Simply log in to your webcit instance with your username and then try the url. Your browser should automatically download a calendar file with .ics extension.
Application specific hints
Subscribing in read/write mode with Apple iCal/Calendar
In short: You can not subscribe to a calendar and write to it directly. But it works if you do the following.
What you need to do is this:
- Download your webcit calendar.ics file via the appropriate URL with your browser.
- Import this calendar.ics into your iCal/Calendar app as a local calendar and name it.
- Now publish this local calendar to your webcit using the same URL you used to download the ics file.
- Publish as: calendar (the .ics extension will be added automatically by iCal/Calendar)
- URL: As mentioned above, something like http://citdomain.com/groupdav/Calendar/
- Username: Your Citadel User
- Password: Guess what…
- I am not entirely certain about the remaining options, I marked them all and it is working for me
List of known working applications
Apple OS X
- iCal (10.6, 10.7, 10.8)
- Calendar (10.9, 10.10)


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Thy Servants Are Prepared
31243, Hymns, Thy Servants Are Prepared, no. 329
1. Thy servants are prepared
To teach thy word abroad,
To gather in thy sheep
To thee, O Lamb of God.
2. Let these, thy servants, speak
With heart and voice of youth,
And fill the world's dark lamps
With light, the flame of truth.
3. In all of Zion's stakes
Thy love shall conquer night,
While darkness draws away
From thy revealing light.
Text: Marilyn McMeen Brown, b. 1938. © 1985 IRI
Music: Willy Reske, 1897-1991. © 1985 IRI


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Town of Marlborough Police found themselves investigating two back-to-back traffic fatalities — followed by three other local deaths — in the span of just one week.
Town of Marlborough Police found themselves investigating two back-to-back traffic fatalities — followed by three other local deaths — in the span of just one week.
According to chief Gerald Cocozza, police were investigating the deadly Dec. 1 SUV crash on Western Avenue that claimed the life of 16-year-old Marlboro High School sophomore Sarah Smith of Newburgh when, the next day, 48-year-old Donald Dawson of Marlborough was killed in a two-car crash on Route 9W.
Dawson had been very close to his ex-brother-in-law, Marlborough Detective Joseph Lofaro, who was investigating Smith's death, Cocozza said, adding that Lofaro took bereavement leave to mourn the loss of his friend.
Meanwhile, three other Marlborough residents died of natural causes last Tuesday and Wednesday. Cocozza said that his officers found themselves very busy investigating each tragedy.
"Here in Marlborough, we've had a very tough week," he said.
Pauline Liu
We were talking, the other day, about Uptown Kingston and the changes it has seen.
Primarily, the Uptown story is all about its changing — and improving — lunchtime restaurant scene. A new one seems to pop up every month or so. And that, it seemed to us, is about as good an indicator of municipal growth as any.
For every restaurant that's been shuttered, new ones have opened. And then some.
If you can no longer get a fried-baloney-and-cheese at Dedrick's departed lunch counter, you can get an even more esoteric dish — a bowl of chicken curry broth — with seaweed — at the Yum Yum Noodle Bar on Fair Street.
Next door, fans of sidewalk cuisine can indulge themselves at the newly opened Lunchbox.
Almost as new and just down the street is Rene's Bistro, easily the most elegant place to lunch in the Uptown.
And while we eagerly await the promised re-opening of a new Gabriel's restaurant on Wall Street, its replacement on John Street, Duo Bistro, features sandwiches to die for.
Sissy's Cafe on Wall Street, whose proprietors are sisters, features vegan fare and an elderberry kombucha — a sort of fizzy mushroom drink — that its fans say is good for you and tastes good, too. Dominick's, kitty-corner from Sissy's, has recently expanded its menu of Italian fare. Its salads and desserts — check out the biscotti — are as good as anything you'll find in Little Italy. Or maybe even Big Italy.
That's just a partial list, but it gives you a good idea of how Uptown has been blossoming of late.
Jeremiah Horrigan
The fate of embattled Newburgh Free Academy executive principal Maxine Nodel continues to fascinate commenters at a local website.
Newburgh parent Andrew Johnston's comments about Nodel's fate were responsible for an uptick in traffic at his Newburghedinfo.com website. At the end of November, 19 comments, both criticizing and supporting Nodel, had been posted, he said,
Nodel, who is Newburgh Free Academy's executive principal, has been on a leave of absence for the past week. Some NFA teachers and the Newburgh Teachers' Association have accused her of "inappropriate behavior," claiming she told them to "drink the Kool Aid" as she discussed teacher evaluations at an October meeting.
Nodel began her $155,000 a year job in July, but it's not clear how much longer she'll remain at NFA.
Her lawyer, Michael Sussman, said a tentative deal has been struck with the district, and the school board is expected to vote on the deal later this week.
Pauline Liu


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The Premiere 2.5mm Pressed Flute Pads are MusicMedic.com's first professional offering for flutes. These yellow double skin pads are made with our super premium Deep-Weave pressed felt.
We developed this special felt with a European manufacturer with the resulting felt containing fibers that are woven together deeper than other premium felts and to our exact specifications.
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Q: What are my shipping options from AdvoCare?
A: AdvoCare offers standard, two-day, and priority overnight shipping via FedEx.
Q: How much does it cost to ship?
A: Standard shipping rates are based on the total retail value of your order rather than the weight of your order or where the order is being shipped. The minimum shipping charge for every standard delivery is $7.45.
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Last month my friend Mario took the whole month off and traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico for a vacation.
Before he left, he generously offered to take one of my recorders and roll some audio when he was down there. Now, Mario is a brilliant chef but he's got about zero experience rolling audio so when he made the offer to take some gear down there with him I figured my Sony PCM M10 would be the best choice for a few reasons:
- The M10 has top shelf battery life. I figured he'd need to change batteries one time max for the whole trip, and that's if he was recording a TON. The more likely scenario was that he wouldn't have to change batteries at all. Battery life on this device is the best of any that I own, and far superior to most others on the market.
- The M10 has the most storage. It has 4 Gb built in, and another 8 on the micro SD card that I have in it. The storage also rolls over seamlessly from the internal to the SD card with no user interaction required. Thats an advantage it has over my PCM D50, and over many other handheld recorders on the market.
- The M10 doesn't require wind protection. Sure, if it gets up to 15 mph or so it'll blow out, but south of that the built in wind protection works fine. That can't be said of my D50 or of most other devices with exposed electret condenser mics. In fact, my D50 often requires wind protection indoors, since even the slightest AC gust will blow it out.
- The M10 is about the size of an iphone, and can easily fit in a pocket. Its about half the size of the D50 or H4n.
-The M10 costs about $200. If it gets destroyed for any reason I won't feel too hard of a loss.
So low maintenance, high capacity, super portable, and moderatly expendable. I have higher resolution rigs obviously, but this is the only one I could really send out in this capacity with a non-audio guy as the recordist.
And oh man did Mario deliver. I've only posted a small compilation of some of the stuff he brought back to me, but it really was impressive. Mario took great pride in his recordings, he just nailed his gain structure and technique, and enjoyed taking some time in the various locales to just sit and listen to what was going on around him.
|This horse was pulling a cart that rode on the railroad tracks. He had pretty good speed too!
|Great peacock recording right at the outset.
|That's Mario on the right.
|Even the traffic ambiances had a smattering of jungle creatures in them. I love it!
I couldn't be more happy with how it went, and I'm super impressed with the quality that the internal mics on the M10 were able to deliver.
When an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to seize it. The process of sorting out and listening through all of his recordings from that trip is one of the most enjoyable things I've done all year.
Thanks Mario!


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CTAN update: nicematrix
Correction of a bug in relation with the options 'first-row' and 'last-row'.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicematrix More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nicematrix CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
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nicematrix – Improve the typesetting of mathematical matrices with PGF
This package provides new environments similar to the environments matrix, pmatrix, bmatrix, etc. of amsmath and mathtools.
In these new environments, a PGF node is created for each cell of the matrix.
The user can use these nodes directly but nicematrix also provides commands which use these nodes to draw continuous dotted lines from two cells of the matrix (the result is more aesthetic than the classical result obtained using \cdots, \vdots, \ddots, etc.).
This package also provides a control over the width of the columns and the possibility to add an exterior line and an exterior column.
nicematrix requires and loads amsmath, array, expl3, l3keys2e, xparse, pgf, as well as the TikZ library fit.
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