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Snow covered fields and inundated land
Agricultural fields lies between the Japanese city of Sendai and Sendai Bay, and the area was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA™s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of the area on March 18, 2011.
One week after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami, the fields nearest the ocean were still covered with standing water. It is possible that some areas could remain that way, as the ground level sank along the east coast of Japan during the earthquake. The same tectonic forces that lifted up the seafloor to create the tsunami also caused land to subside on the mainland.
On the outskirts of the Sendai suburbs, fields that had escaped inundation or had already drained were later covered with snow, as was much of the Sendai metropolitan area when a cold front brought winds and snow to northeastern Japan. The iced highways hampered search-and-rescue efforts and added to the misery of 500,000 evacuees, reported Agence France-Presse. In some places, the snow was heavy enough to add dangerous weight to already damaged buildings. According to aid groups, however, most of the quake and tsunami survivors had access to adequate shelter, water, food, and medical attention.
Unfortunately for the displaced, harsh weather was expected to continue. As of March 19, 2011 (Japanese time zone), forecasts from Japan™s Meteorological Agency called for continuing cold temperatures along with rain or snow for much of the country over the next week. The forecast for Sendai included low temperatures and high probabilities of rain.
A view on Earthquake Intensity in the Quake hit areas
The earthquake shook buildings and damaged infrastructure hundreds of kilometers away. Closer to the main shock, coastal regions were devastated by the quake and the resulting tsunami.
This map shows the ground motion and shaking intensity from the earthquake at dozens of locations across Japan. Each circle represents an estimate of shaking as recorded by the USGS, in conjunction with regional seismic networks. Shades of pale yellow represent the lowest intensity and deep red represents high intensity. The ground shaking data is overlaid on a map of population density provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
A shaking intensity of VI is considered œstrong and can produce œlight damage, while a IX on the scale is described as œviolent and likely to produce œheavy damage.
The pattern of shaking appears to run parallel to the offshore subduction trench, with the intensity decreasing more from east to west, as opposed to north and south. Ground motion also seems to be more intense in coastal and riverine areas, where settlements are built on softer sediments and less bedrock.
Note the number of VIIs and VIIIs near Tokyo, well away from the epicenter; the lack of a severe human toll in that metropolitan area is surely a testament to the quality of the nation™s earthquake preparedness.
Images and text : NASA Earth Observatory


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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Still Hunting and Travelling PicStitch Bloghop Hexagons
Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, I will never fail you. I will never abandon you. ~ Hebrews 13:5, NLT
I've gotten a little sewing done, very little but I did find time to work on my entry for the "Travelling PicStitch Bloghop."
Here's what this is all about:
Take a photo of somewhere you've traveled to.
I took this picture when we visited our daughter in October. The photo was taken in Clovis, California. I love the rock formations.
Degrave's Color Palette Generator or Play-Crafts - (there are a number on the web.)
Here's my palette.
3) Pick a selection of fabrics which match the photo palette (name it if you like).
I'm calling mine the "Clovis Rocks," makes it sound like Clovis comes alive when it's actually a quiet little town.
4) Choose an English paper pieced block and sew it in those fabrics.
I sewed up two hexagon blocks. I will use them along with my other "Hexathon" blocks. I can't decide which I like better. I tried to get the sky and rock formation effects in. Whatever.... (Don't you hate it when someone uses that word? Me too. Sorry.)
5) Write a post or flickr post it.
For now, wishing all of you a happiness during this Thanksgiving holiday.
That is all.
8 comments:
- Needled Mom said...
That is such a great idea. I love the colors and the hexies look wonderful done in them. Nature does have the best natural palettes, doesn't it?
- November 24, 2012 at 7:36 AM
- Kari @ The Purple Quiltapotamus said...
Good luck with your hunting, I don't blame you for not wanting to sit out in the blind first thing in the morning when a soft bed is waiting at home for you!
Your Clovis Rocks hexies are fantastic.
- November 24, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Doniene said...
Lovely creation!! Hope hunting goes better. Our son got a very nice 8 point last night! He was happy. Our SIL got turkeys last week and I was very happy!! It was yummy!!
- November 24, 2012 at 6:42 PM
- My Sister Made Me Do It.... said...
Love the Clovis Rocks Hexathons. The match your color palette very well. You guys are going to have to go to the shed and pull put the "fake" pig before E and family go back home! Jaja
- November 25, 2012 at 2:57 AM
- Julie Fukuda said...
How different those two blocks look even made with the same pattern and colors. Happy trails to you.
- November 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM
- Celtic Thistle said...
I can't decide between them either Irene, they are both great!
- November 25, 2012 at 4:11 PM
- Janet said...
Clovis Rocks is a great title. Wonderful idea. And amazing how different the two hexies look even though they use the same colours and fabrics!
- November 25, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- Kat McNally said...
Hi Irene,
How have you been since Blogtoberfest? I just wanted to let you know that I'm hosting another (albeit gentler and more introspective) blog challenge over the month of December called #reverb12. Would be so rapt if you joined us!
There's a little giveaway too. :-)
Details here: http://isawyoudancing.blogspot.com.au/p/reverb12.html
Take care,
- November 26, 2012 at 3:52 AM


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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scuffled with police in Cairo on Saturday and troops were deployed in Suez after nine people were shot dead in nationwide protests against President Mohamed Mursi, exposing deep rifts two years after Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
After a day of clashes on Friday, tension remained high with a court expected to rule later on Saturday in a case against suspects accused of involvement in a stadium disaster that killed 74 people. Fans have threatened violence if the court does not deliver the justice they seek.
Eight people including a policeman were shot dead in Suez, east of the capital, and another was shot and killed in Ismailia, another city on the Suez Canal, medics said, after a day when police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths.
Another 456 people were injured across Egypt, officials said, in Friday's unrest fuelled by anger at Mursi and his Islamist allies over what the protesters see as their betrayal of the revolution that erupted on January 25, 2011.
"We want to change the president and the government. We are tired of this regime. Nothing has changed," said Mahmoud Suleiman, 22, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, near where youths were still hurling stones at police on the other side of a concrete barrier early on Saturday morning.
The protests and violence have laid bare the divide between the Islamists and their secular rivals. The schism is hindering the efforts of Mursi, elected in June, to revive an economy in crisis and reverse a plunge in Egypt's currency by enticing back investors and tourists.
Protesters accuse Mursi and his Islamist allies of hijacking Egypt's revolution that ended 30 years of Mubarak's autocratic rule. Mursi's supporters say their critics are ignoring democratic principles after elections swept Islamists to office.
"The protests will continue until we realize all the demands of the revolution - bread, freedom and social justice," Ahmed Salama, 28, a protester camped out with dozens of others in Tahrir Square, the cauldron of the 2011 revolt.
The court hearing over the Port Said stadium disaster in February last year has fuelled concerns of more unrest.
Live images were shown from inside the court shortly before the session began. Some of those attending chanted for justice and held up pictures of those killed.
The court on the outskirts on Cairo, and in the same police compound where Mubarak was tried and jailed, is due to rule on Saturday in the cases brought against 73 people, 61 of whom are charged with murder in what was Egypt's worst stadium disaster.
However, the public prosecutor has said new evidence has emerged, meaning a verdict may be postponed.
Alongside the 61 charged with murder, another 12 defendants, including nine police officers, are accused of helping to cause the February 1, 2012, disaster at the end of a match between Cairo's Al Ahly and al-Masri, the local side.
Expecting a verdict, hardcore Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, have protested in Cairo over the last week, obstructing the transport network. The Port Said disaster triggered days of street battles near the Interior Ministry in Cairo last year.
In a statement in response to Friday's violence, Mursi said the state would not hesitate in "pursuing the criminals and delivering them to justice". He urged Egyptians to respect the principles of the revolution by expressing views peacefully.
The president was due to meet later on Saturday with the National Defense Council, which includes senior ministers and security officials, to discuss the violence and deaths as a result of the protests.
Troops were deployed in Suez after the head of the state security police in the city asked for reinforcements. The army distributed pamphlets to residents assuring them the deployment was temporary and meant to secure the city.
"We have asked the armed forces to send reinforcements on the ground until we pass this difficult period," Adel Refaat, head of state security in Suez, told state television.
Street battles erupted in cities including Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and Port Said. Arsonists attacked at least two state-owned buildings. An office used by the Muslim Brotherhood's political party was also torched.
The Brotherhood decided against mobilizing for the anniversary, wary of the scope for more conflict after December's violence, stoked by Mursi's decision to fast-track an Islamist-tinged constitution rejected by his opponents.
Inspired by the popular uprising in Tunisia, Egypt's revolution spurred further revolts across the Arab world. But the sense of common purpose that united Egyptians two years ago has given way to internal strife that already triggered bloody street battles last month.
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TSU Returns to Action at Kennesaw State
The Tennessee State University women's basketball team will look for its first win of the young season when the Lady Tigers face Kennesaw State on the road Monday night. The contest is slated for a 7 p.m. (ET) start in the KSU Convocation Center.
A relatively young squad, the Lady Tigers (0-1) are coming off an, 85-53, season-opening loss to Kansas State on Friday night in Bramlage Coliseum. Chelsea Hudson was the only Lady Tiger to score in double-digits as the offense struggled against the Wildcats. The game at KSU will be the second contest of a five-day road trip for TSU.
The Lady Tigers, under second year head coach Larry Joe Inman, returned four letterwinners from last year's squad and added eight newcomers, including seven freshmen, to the roster.
TSU finished last season with an overall record of 13-15 and a 9-7 conference mark. In an Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll that was released in October, TSU was predicted to finish fifth in the East Division standings.
Tennessee State dropped its season opener on the road to Big 12 member Kansas State. The Lady Tigers fell to the Wildcats, 85-53, in Bramlage Coliseum. Redshirt junior Chelsea Hudson led the Lady Tigers with 16 points and four steals while freshmen Diamond Beatty and I'mani Davis each tallied nine points. Davis also pulled down an team best seven rebounds.
Kennessaw State (0-1) dropped its season opener against the College of Charleston Friday night on the road, falling to the Cougars, 87-66.
In the loss, freshman Ty-Nita Baker Baker scored 23 points while junior Kristina Wells posted 13. Freshman Chloe Branch added 12.
A member of the A-Sun, K-State has four letterwinners and only one starter returning from last year's squad. The Owls, under second-year head coach Nitra Perry, have 11 newcomers. KSU finished last season with a record of 7-24 (3-15) good for a ninth place finish in the conference.
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Tennessee State and Kennesaw State will meet for the first time in the two programs' history.
Live audio and live stats will be available for the TSU vs. Kennessaw State game. . Links the live stats and audio can be found on tsutigers.com.
Tennessee State will briefly return home before another two-game road stint. The Lady Tigers will face Troy on Friday, Nov. 15 before a match-up at Florida A&M on Sunday, Nov. 17.


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For the amateur horticulturist, Thurston Gardens in Fiji's capital city of Suva is a botanical haven of towering fig trees heavy with fruit and fragrant blooms both familiar and exotic. History buffs can head indoors to the Fiji Museum to peruse 3,700 years worth of archaeological artifacts while lovers of the outdoors may wish to recline in the shadow of the 1918 clock tower, admiring pink tangles of bougainvillea against Fiji's cloudless blue skies.


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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) wants to hear from deer enthusiasts and those who have deer farms or hunting preserves about a proposed rule change that would prohibit the importation of live captive deer into Florida from out-of-state sources.
The change is being proposed in an effort to reduce the chances of chronic wasting disease (CWD) being introduced into the state. CWD is not known to affect people.
The disease, which has been discovered in 22 states, two Canadian provinces and in South Korea, is a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose. It is similar to mad cow disease, always fatal, and there is no known cure or vaccine for the animals.
The rule-change proposal will go before the Commission at its June 13 meeting in Lakeland, and the FWC encourages all those who have an interest to go to MyFWC.com/Deer and select "Captive Cervids" to read about what is being proposed and offer any comments, questions or concerns they may have.
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The Athlete's Foot: 5 steps to keep your workout goals on track
The beginning of a week, a month or even a reason is the perfect time to work on any resolutions we've set ourselves, or check in on existing goals to see how well we are sticking to them. To avoid stepping back into bad habits, it's important to break down our goals into small steps so that they are more of a reality.
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4th Annual Face Forward Gala hosted by Sara Rue with headling performance by Macy Gray and special performance by Stacey Francis honoring Dr. Phil & Robin McGraw and Jake Kloberdanz held at Fairmont Miramar Hotel 101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA on September 28, 2013. The event was put on by the PEAK PR GROUP
A victim told her heartbrreaking story of how she was beaten and left in the street to die, her face so badly disfigured she was barely recognizable. Face Foward brings awareness and gives hope to these victims informing them of corrective surgery and introducing them to some of the best doctors in the country.
This Gatsby Gala Affair was done in traditional Gatsby style as if Gatsby himself was attending and looking on from his private window. All attendees were dressed to the theme and live entertainment included roaring 1920's dancers and live painters. It was as if you walked through the doors and went back in time to the 1920' era.
A full hosted bar included some of the best champagne I have ever tasted and a variety of delicious appetizers. Inside the setting of beautiful chandeliers and subtle lighting was again a fit for the theme. A full course dinner menu was served, salad with bourbon syrup, roasted bosc pears frisee, endive and lolla rossa point reyes cheese, champagne vinaigrette, the entre, brioche crusted chicken root vegetable puree', brussel spriut, salsify and pearl onion ragout chicken jus or butternut squash raviolli, roasted apples, kabocha squash, sage and dessert pink lady apple, and pear crumble vanilla bean ice cream, while Stacy Francis, highly acclaimed singer, actress and X-Factor finalist, sang with her amazing voice. The headliner of the evening was Macy Gray. There was a live silent auction with traditional place cards.
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|The Name of Maspero's martyrs
After one year of this horrible massacre that could have dragged Egypt in to a civil war , no one has really been punished. General Hamdy Badeen , the head of military police then whom men kissed his shoe on video in order he would not give his orders to his soldiers to attack the protesters , is currently our military attache in China. Osama Heikal , the former minister of information who is accused of incitement and spread lies from Egyptian TV is off the hook. News reader Rasha Magdy who called the "Egyptian people to help and aid the army against the Christian attackers" still appears on TV without even apologizing for her mistake. "She kept defending herself but did not bother to say I am sorry for what I said"
Only 3 soldiers that are regarded to be scapegoats were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced between 2 and 3 years only in Early September 2012 !!
|Daniel wearing the crown
Mina became one of the most famous faces , most famous icons of revolution like Sheikh Emad Effat. In fact Daniel and Effat have become the proof on the Egyptian 25 January revolution unite Muslims and Christians.
By the way one of the big questions that have not been answered regarding this massacre is who attack the rally in Shubra ?? Nobody even cared till this day to answer this question. Who attacked the first authorized rally and protest in Egypt in Shubra !?
This day brings too many memories to me including that I was going to pay a visit to friends in 25TV channel but as I stayed late in work and the clashes news I did not go. May be I was lucky otherwise I would have seen dead bodies in its building's entrance or even worse to witness the hysterical attack on 25TV on air studio !!
I forget to ask the generals in that SCAF presser after the massacre on why the military police stormed the TV channels.
By the way after one year of what happened on that black Sunday that I have to confess that despite many attack the position of late Pope Shenouda III after the attack describing it as hypocrisy , I respected his position not to escalate the matter otherwise it would turn in to a real civil war considering the amount of sectarian incitement then.
May Allah bless the soul of our martyrs.


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Eric is German American and Charles is from New Mexico and of mixed Mexican and Isleta Pueblo heritage. I mention this contrast because it helps them work well together. Charles has his hair braided down his back to his waist and wears a black leather jacket. He looks more like a drug pusher than a cop. Eric, on the other hand, wears an MTA jacket with his badge on the front.
"We're like Yin and Yang," Charles told me. "Nobody could figure us hanging out but we work great together."
What they want to do is give the tickets to the limo drivers before they have a chance to take off. The usual M.O is for Charles to scope out the limos and write down the information then give it to Eric who makes the bust.
"I do my Pueblo Indian thing," Charles says, "You don't want to spook the deer ... you don't want to spook the fish..." And, indeed, he did his job without the limo drivers ever noticing that they were targets.
Charles and Eric start out most days by checking out the Park 55 and moving on to the Hilton, the Nikko, the Westin and Union Square. On Tuesday, we ended up at the Grand Hyatt.
They gave out a couple of tickets at the Park 55 and the Mason Street side of the Hilton. Then, they pulled a double on the Taylor Street side of the Monaco Hotel.
On the far right side of the frame you can see the Monaco's doorman trying to gesture to a limo driver to leave before Charles (behind the doorman) can give him a ticket. The driver understood the gesture too late and got nailed.
Of course the limo drivers and the doormen collude with each other. Giving out a few tickets has a reverberating effect when the drivers and the doormen begin calling each other and their friends. Tuesday's ticketing turned out great for the cab drivers in front of the Nikko, four of whom were given airports that probably would've gone to limos a month ago.
"All these white zones used to be lined with limos before we started handing out citations," Eric said, "One driver told me that he hadn't had an airport out of a certain hotel in five years. Now almost all the white zones are open" so cab drivers are getting better loads.
Eric ticketed a limo in front of the Clift (See lead photo.) The driver didn't like this very much and argued that the hotel had told him that he could park there.
Eric politely told the limo driver that parking in a white zone was illegal.
The doorman of the Clift (looking in the window of a Yellow Cab) gave the taxi driver an airport while the limo driver yelled expletives after Eric.
I was impressed by the professionalism of both Charles and Eric as they dealt calmly and politely with sometimes angry limo drivers.
Cab drivers, on the other hand, were applauding or shouting words of encouragement to the duo. "The real satisfaction of the job," Eric said, "is getting thanked by the taxi drivers."
Charles added that both he and Eric come from working class families so they can relate to the problems that drivers have earning a living and putting food on the table. He said that they, "want to help out and go to bat" for the drivers "to help make a level playing field."
We ended up in the parking garage across from the Grand Hyatt spying on the infamous "Big Mike" who is reputed to be the greediest and most arrogant doorman in the city. We watched as Big Mike talked with a limo driver and then pocketed a bill (below) as he walked away.
The limo drove into an alley where the vehicles usually wait until Big Mike signals them. This, by the way, is a tribute to the work of Charles and Eric who have chased the limos off the white zones and forced the doormen into backdoor deals. The usual scenario now, according to Eric, is for Big Mike to give a hand sign to a limo driver if there is an airport and then limo comes around the block to pick it up. But, if there is a short, Big Mike blows his whistle for a taxi.
One consequence of this, Eric told me, is that many cab drivers don't stop when Big Mike whistles because they know the ride has to be a short.
On this day, however, Big Mike has heard about us on the grapevine and knows he's being watched. For a change, he blows his whistle for taxis to pick up the airport rides. There are no limos around.
All in all, I saw about 15 airports being picked up by beaming and delighted cabdrivers during our short tour of the hotels.
Charles and Eric have only been ticketing for five weeks but they've already had a huge effect on the business. So far they've given out 28 white zone violations including the seven they handed out during their time with me. They have also given out three of the $5,000 citations that Chris Hayashi drew up the legislation for and these tickets all were given to people without A-cards driving Long Term leases.
This is a good start but problems remain. For one thing, Eric is fairly sure that hotel managers are getting kickbacks from the doormen. The hotels have been notified that accepting tips from limo and taxi drivers is now criminal conduct but there is a lot of money involved and, just like with tipping at cab company windows, the laws are hard to enforce.
Another problem is that limos are regulated by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and Taxi Services has no control over them except for where they park. Citations for illegal limos can only be given by the PUC or the police. Fortunately, Charles and Eric have recently contacted the PUC's investigative arm and they have been very co-operative. A PUC investigator has begun working with Taxi Services and has photographed and cited several illegal limousines. The police department apparently has also set up stings for limos playing flags.
The final problem is that the District Attorney's office so far has been reluctant to prosecute. Apparently, they see this as a lot of work for very little gain. Eric and Charles are hoping to show multiple and repeated offenses that the District Attorney would find worth pursuing.
At least progress is being made and we are seeing the signs already.
Charles wanted me emphasize the "appreciation and respect" that he and Eric feel for Deputy Director Chris Hayashi's "leadership, courage and vision" and say that this "motivates them to do better" work.
In fact, Hayashi created the Taxi Investigator civil service classification; recruited, hired and trained the Investigators; got authority from the Board of Supervisors to tow, write parking tickets and create a new misdemeanor against doormen; got permission from the SFMTA Board of Directors for adjustments to penalties; and took numerous other steps before Charles and Eric could hit the streets.
All in all, Hayashi worked for two years to make these busts happen. She's now hoping to get a few more investigators soon - which would become a much easier and faster task if she became the Director of the Taxi Services Division of the SFMTA.
Eric and Charles


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In a fierce battle between prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges, guess who won? That's right, the judiciary.
Weighing in on a dispute that has rocked and roiled the Bay State's legal community, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously Thursday that state judges in the Commonwealth have a "judicial deliberative privilege" that substantially protects them from having to testify in ethics investigations involving cases over which they have presided. The case was seen by advocates on both sides as a referendum on judicial independence in the age of open government and politicized criminal dockets.
Massachusetts is not the first state to recognize such protections. And no decision by a state court is binding upon the courts of another state. But Thursday's decision out of Boston is nonetheless notable for several reasons. First, it comes at a time when judges all over the country are under political attack by partisans critical of particular rulings -- or even of the right of courts to exist at all. Just this spring, remember, Republican presidential candidates were threatening to subpoena federal judges to Capitol Hill.
The ruling also is significant because it is a rare example of judges explicitly defending the workings of the judiciary against overzealous intrusion by the executive branch. Finally, the ruling is interesting as a reminder that our judicial systems are designed to weed out bad decisions, or even biased ones, primarily by subjecting those rulings to layers of appeal. No matter where they are, no matter what the jurisdiction, prosecutors almost always win their criminal cases. Here, when they started losing, they cried foul.
The ruling, in a case styled In the Matter of the Enforcement of a Subpoena, is good news for Judge Raymond G. Dougan, a veteran jurist in Boston's Municipal Court, who is under investigation (by a local prosecutor, following this Boston Globe report) for being biased in favor of criminal defendants. ("Judge Let Me Go" Dougan is just one of the many ways in which the Globe, quoting criminal defendants, described the judge's "pattern of rejecting police testimony while extending second chances to criminals...")
It was Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, a prosecutor with daily business in Judge Dougan's court, who first pushed the issue. In 2010, frustrated with the judge's rulings and concomitant refusals to recuse himself from criminal cases, Conley filed a bias complaint with the state's Judicial Conduct Commission. In turn, the Commission recruited a seasoned attorney named J. William Codinha, himself a former prosecutor, to serve as "special counsel" and lead the investigation into Judge Dougan's work.
Codinha's investigation -- at least as it related to information from Judge Dougan -- didn't get very far. Last December, Codinha sent a subpoena seeking from the judge "any notebooks, bench books, diaries, recordation or other written recollections of any of the cases described in the complaint." Codinha wanted to know the rationale and the reasoning behind Judge Dougan's decisions in dozens of old cases, including those described in detail in the 2011 Globe article. The judge moved to quash the subpoena.
Instantly, the Dougan dispute became a symbol for all the ancient enmities that surround any state's criminal justice system. Suddenly, it was Prosecutors v. Defense Attorneys and Prosecutors v. Judges. Judges like Dougan must be held accountable, the prosecutors said. Leave the judges alone, defense attorneys said. Judges get corrected every day upon appellate review, said a group of retired federal and state judges who filed a brief asking the state's supreme court to protect Dougan from Codinha's questions.
Citing federal and state precedent, and quoting Massachusetts' own John Adams, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Judge Dougan will not have to share with Codinha and company any information relating to the judge's "mental impressions and thought processes in reaching a judicial decision, whether harbored internally or memorialized in other nonpublic material." The court ruled that "the privilege also protects confidential communications among judges and between judges and court staff made in the course of and related to their deliberative processes in particular cases."
"In this case," wrote Justice Robert Cordy, "we conclude that although holding judges accountable for acts of bias... is essential, it must be accomplished without violating the protection afforded the deliberative process of judges fundamental to ensuring that they may act without fear or favor in exercising their constitutional responsibility to be both impartial and independent." If you listened hard enough Thursday morning, you might have heard the howls of protest coming from prosecutors' offices all over the Bay State.
The justices, however, placed limits on the scope of the protection afforded judges like Dougan. The court ruled, for example, that the privilege "does not cover a judge's memory of non-deliberative events in connection with cases in which the judge participated. Nor does the privilege apply to inquires into whether a judge was subjected to improper 'extraneous influences' or ex parte communications during the deliberative process." For now, those avenues of inquiry are still open to special counsel Codinha.
Here is the heart of Thursday's ruling:
The threat that any of the many such decisions a judge must make-- very frequently unpopular with one party or another -- might lead to a requirement that the judge details his internal thought processes weeks, months or years after the fact would amount to an enormous looming burden that could not help but serve as an "external influence or pressure," inconsistent with the value we have placed on conscientious, intelligent, and independent decision-making.
Even the most steadfast jurist would be led to consider picking his or her way through some of the decisions of the day by a way of a route less likely to disturb the interests of those with the greatest ability to bring about such an intrusive examination.
Such a threat is even more profound, the court noted in a footnote, when it is a local prosecutor making the allegations. "While theoretically any disgruntled litigant could bring a misconduct complaint against a judge, we note the concern that this risk is greater in the case of a district attorney, whose office is generally involved in all criminal prosecutions before a criminal court and is thus uniquely able to exert the pressure that may arise from the probing of deliberative materials."
Judge Dougan will immediately benefit from this ruling. But he will still have to answer questions, under oath, about the cases at issue in the investigation. His attorney, Foley Hoag's Michael Keating, told me Thursday afternoon that the long-awaited deposition of the judge may happen relatively soon. So, for now anyway, it is still an open question whether he ultimately will be cleared of the bias allegations of him. Here's how the Globe characterized the problem:
A Globe review showed that, overall, prosecutors challenged Dougan's decisions more often than those of any other sitting judge in the Boston Municipal Court system. In addition, appeals courts have reversed or modified Dougan's decisions more than those of any other sitting judge since the mid-1990s.
Is that enough to find bias? We'll see. As Justice Cordy noted in the ruling Thursday:
Judicial misconduct investigations have been pursued successfully, not by examining the judge's thought processes, but rather by identifying the judge's outward expressions of partiality or by examining the judge's conduct over time through which that partiality or other abuse has become apparent.
Meanwhile, Keating says that Judge Dougan was pleased the High Court had finally recognized an "absolute privilege" over judicial deliberations. Not just for himself but because the ruling applies to every other judge in Massachusetts. Ironic, no, that a judge who has earned the wrath of so many prosecutors could be the cause of a ruling certain to make them even more frustrated and angry. It's just too bad John Adams, the judiciary's eternal friend, isn't still around to weigh in.
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Zathura is coming on cable in a few minutes. We loved Jumanji and I think it has a few of the same elements.
So hold on...popcorn and one last moment of family-time fun await once I pound these links out.
Windows Incident Response: RegRipper Update - Harlan has now released his great tool RegRipper in version 2.02 which now includes the "Advanced" version features. Download via SourceForge from his post link. Only at the moment, it looks like SF is choking a bit as none of the mirrors will successfully download it. Hopefully it will be cleared up soon.
Does a Site Have Malware? Google Provides Diagnosis - Tip via GoogleBlogoscoped. I have previously posted tips for Pre-Scanning of URL Links for Safe Web Surfing. Now If you know the correct Google-code for searches, you just need to "append any domain – your domain or another site you want to check on – to the end of the URL "google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=" That link also has a form box you can use if you want to bookmark.
Java SE 6u10-build 24 is now available - I use these cutting-edge beta Java versions which are optimized for added Firefox performance. Build 24 was just released. Just download and install over the old 6u10 version. I do have the current "standard" version of Java 6 also installed.
Quick and easy HP JetDirect firmware updates - Tip via "the back room tech" blog. Use HP JetDirect Download Manager to keep your HP network printers happy and updated. Pretty neat. See Julie's post for GUI screenshot.
Lavasoft released 2008 edition of Ad-Aware - Donna's SecurityFlash. And here I was just downloading and installing version 2007 on a friend's pc the other day. Oh well. Ad-Aware 2008 Free. Not quite my favorite or most powerful any longer, but still easy anti-malware protection and scanning for most home users.
Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC3 - dcunningham.net. More improvements are seen in this latest project installment from Dan Cunningham. I'm sitting on a pretty big post about this and some other GUI-based Workstation Migration Assistant tools. Hope to get that posted in the near future.
Outlook Attachment Remover - (freeware) - Little Outlook add-in to save and extract attachments. I haven't loaded it on my system yet. Looks handy, but I have been in the habit of removing and filing attachments to my Outlook messages at work for quite a while now. Really cuts down on PST file sizes. Only wish I could find a way to add in a note to the emails which would record the original file-name in the email. Maybe someone knows a solution? Related: Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in - Review via gHacks and Windows Tip: Remove Outlook Attachments Without Deleting the Message via Lifehacker.
Firefox Ponders Suicide - [sarcasm] -Calendar Of Updates. Basic premise here is that Mozilla might find a way to leverage the pretty massive install base of Firefox to collect (ostensibly "anonyomized" data on surfing habits of its users for statistical outsourcing. Read also: Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm - The Register and Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs - TechCrunch. Appears participation would be optional by Mozilla users. Still seems kinda creepy and no word if "opt-in" or "opt-out" will be set by default. I'm thinking someone will be struck by logic and reason and decide this isn't a good thing for Mozilla to play around with. Good way to get burned by your fans, even if the "Fire" is in your product's name.
SpecialFoldersView - (freeware) - New Nirsoft utility that might not be useful to most Windows users, but is still a bit cool and handy to have around. Basically it displays all the "special" Windows folders and allows you to quickly navigate to them by double-clicking the folder. So if you are a hard-core Windows System folder jock, this might be right up your alley. I've added it to my USB stick collection.
Security Process Explorer - (freeware) - I'm always on the lookout for Windows process explorer tools and utilities. I have a very good collection now and yet another mega-massive post just for these waiting in the wings. Anyway, found this one this weekend. Good? Well, it provides a semi-useful bar for most processes showing a "unique security risk rating". You can see details, Google search items directly, block and end processes. It lets you monitor processes and has some good info. Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista (32-bit only). If you decide to play with it, take a moment to click on the "view" file-bar and see additional column items you can add. Bad? Comodo Firewall kept firing off serious warning alerts when I would try to view the properties of items. I'm still not sure what that was about. Processes are displayed, but apparently not in a helpful (to me) process-tree/dependency view. Also, it's not nearly as powerful as the venerable Process Explorer from Microsoft's Sysinternals. Might be good for newbies to teeth on as a step-up from Task Manager, but real sysadmins won't find any reason to replace Process Explorer. It remains the paragon of Windows Process management utilities.
There you have it.
Time to put the pop-corn in the microwave!
See you in the skies!


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"The Hobbit" has suffered more stops and starts than anyone cares to recount, but Peter Jackson seems to think it may at last be freed from limbo.
Warner Bros. is "making progress untangling the MGM situation, so we should have certainty with 'The Hobbit' sometime soon," Jackson told The Dominion Post.
Jackson went on to say that the issue of who will direct should be cleared up soon enough, thereby allowing him a chance to map out a five-year plan, one would that also include the second "Tintin" film and possibly a WW I epic.
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It turns out that Jackson's been toying with an idea for a film about the Anzacs -- the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- who fought at the WW I battle chronicled in Mel Gibson's "Gallipoli."
"I choke back the tears every time I watch it," said Jackson.


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Howdy All
It was an incredible day on Baldy -- an enormous turn out to honor our heroes. I met other team members of the Whitney Portal Store Message Board at the staging area. I also got to hug two of my personal RMRU SAR heroes -- Dana Potts and Rob May. Due to the volume of attendees, groups were sent off about every 15 minutes. Our bibs were checked off and we received tokens at each of five "Camps" which we exchanged for swag at the finish. The positive energy on the mountain was just unbelievable.
Due to being with so many wonderful people, I was completely distracted walking up the road to the Notch. At Camp 2, Tim Medvetz of the Heroes Project drove up and asked us if we wanted a ride Tim is on the left and Doug Thompson (our team captain who has given so much to so many of us) is on the right (picture by Baldy legend Shin Nimura).
At Camp 3, USMC Retired SSGT Charlie Linville (first combat wounded veteran to summit Everest a year ago) kindly took a picture with me and signed my bib.
Then we started up the Devil's Backbone (picture by Shin).
The eroded area of the DBB (picture by Rick Graham).
At Camp 4, photo with USMC CPL. Kionte Storey who summited the Vinson Massif (photo by Shin who is on the left).
WPSMB summit photo. Wild man Patrick (aka Lilbitmo) is on my left (right in photo).
At the Notch, I stopped and enjoyed a yummy blue cheese/bacon burger and a lovely draft IPA before heading down the road -- hey it's a long, dusty walk
Reflecting on the event -- lots of participants told me that I was amazing and inspirational, probably because I look old and limp I am 63 but look older due to skin damage from numerous years in young adulthood as an endurance athlete. I also have a weird hiking style due to seven spinal fusions, a badly broken/plated/screwed left ankle and a baldy broken/plated/screwed right shoulder.
For the record, my "challenges" are nothing compared to those of the combat-wounded veterans we met on the mountain. I am completely in awe of their courage and persistence. I also have the highest respect for those who serve and have served our country.
This was an emotionally powerful mountain party celebrating our heroes -- I'll be back next year. Thank you to our heroes, the organizers, volunteers and participants.
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Category: 300 News Posted by: DaisyMay If you haven't seen 300 yet, you should drop what you're doing, call Mr. Moviephone, go get tickets, or whatever it is you do, and go see it. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. This movie kicks ass on so many levels, it's hard to decide where to begin. First, a bit of back story I think.
Spartans Versus Persians and the Debut of Gerard Butler's Nekkid' Ass!
Article Date: April 11, 2007 | Publication: Pop Snark Hooligan (Blog) | Author: Dan Traeger
Source: Dan Traeger Blogspot
In a nutshell, in 480 BC, Persia invaded Greece with what was at the time, the largest army ever assembled. What we know of the invasion, we get from several sources, but the most detailed account, and the one with the most interesting bits, is by the Greek Historian Herodotus. The great Persian God-King Xerxes made a play to conquer Greece by threat and bribery, and when the two great city-states of Athens and Sparta told him to get bent, he invaded. While Athens navy held off the bulk of the invading ships, Sparta, which was hamstrung by an outdated set of laws that required the King to get approval from their oracle before declaring war, did nothing.
In a desperate ploy, the Spartan King Leonidas hand picks 300 elite soldiers to accompany him to a mountain pass known as The Hot Gates near Thermopylae. The mountain pass acts as a natural funnel where the Greeks can make a stand against an army whose numbers suddenly count for little. The rest is history as 300 Spartans and about seven thousand other Greek soldiers hold off an army of at least 100,000 strong, for three days. On the third day, the Persians are told of an alternate route around The Hot Gates. About to be outflanked, Leonidas orders the remaining soldiers into a retreat. He stays behind with his remaining Spartans and about 1,000 Thespian soldiers to cover the withdrawal.
Later, Leonidas' martyrdom galvanizes Sparta into action, and together with their Athenian counterparts, they hand Xerxes a defeat that begins a downward spiral that will end 150 years later when Alexander the Great ends the Persian empire on a more permanent basis. And you all thought history wasn't fun!
In 2003 the great comics writer and artist Frank Miller created a masterful retelling of this historical account. Setting up the characters with fully fleshed personalities and rendering them in his highly stylized trademark drawing style, resulted in a modern classic of the comics art form.
Enter Zack Snyder, fresh off his success remaking George Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead, Zack dives into the 300 project headfirst.
The result is 117 minutes of fun, and one of the best movies ever made. Because the Grecian topography has changed radically in the 2,500 years since the battle, location shooting would prove impossible. Instead, Zack filmed the entire movie in front of a blue screen. The backgrounds and scenery were filled in later by CGI. While I'm not completely sold on this technique (previously used in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, as well as the Matrix movies,) in this case, as with the previous Miller adaptation Sin City, the CGI allows the cinematographers and the set designers the freedom to adapt the comic panel by panel. It's a perfect fit. Not only do the characters look and act true to Miller's work, but even the scenes that were added to pad the story for motion picture pacing, look and feel like they're right out of Miller's story.
Gerard Butler is absolutely perfect as King Leonidas. He looks the part as do all the actors playing the Spartans. There are more six packs in this movie than at a frat house on pledge night. Butler turns in an Oscar worthy performance that makes Russell Crowe's Gladiator look like a little girl in a pink frilly dress. Leonidas opposite number Xerxes is played to absolute perfection by an almost unrecognizable Rodrigo Santoro. When these two fine actors are on scene together they bring every acting skill they've ever learned to bear, resulting in some of the most intensely brilliant scenes ever filmed. It's like watching a precision practice run from the George C. Scott school of caffeine frenzied scenery chewing. You will believe these two actors are opposing battlefield generals.
The writing is dynamic and fluid, allowing plenty of breathing room for the battlefield action. Scriptwriters Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon, with an able assist from the director, should be commended for turning out an outstandingly tight script. It even has the requisite one-liners, several of which are right out of Herodotus. When the Persian field commander yelled, "Spartans, throw down your weapons and surrender." and King Leonidas retorted, "Persians, come and get them." The whole theater cheered. Of course, with source material this good, it's hard to go wrong.
Larry Fong turns out a feast for the eyes, bringing his cinematography skills honed on several seasons of the TV show Lost. The combat is period specific, so there's lots of spraying blood and flying heads, but Fong shoots it all so well, that it hardly matters. Every scene is altered to look like it came right out of the 300 graphic novel, so it has the effect of making the gore more tolerable.
300 is a violent story, so it's not for younger kids. There's a lot of on screen gore, but again, it's stylized so the effect is muted, and I would have no problem taking a teen to see this. Just make sure you're a good parent and you watch this with them in case you have to explain things. This movie earned its R rating so go see it with that in mind and you'll be fine. It's a terrific, grandiose spectacle of a movie, based on one of the most enduring stories ever told. It's destined to become classic fare, and it'll definitely be a must own when it finally comes out on DVD.
Category: 300 News
Posted by: DaisyMay
If you haven't seen 300 yet, you should drop what you're doing, call Mr. Moviephone, go get tickets, or whatever it is you do, and go see it. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. This movie kicks ass on so many levels, it's hard to decide where to begin. First, a bit of back story I think.


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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the U.S., a time to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect. Our mandate as child advocates is to ensure that all children within our care and those we interact with every day enjoy a loving and safe environment.
Compassion is committed to protecting children from all forms of abuse and exploitation. Our board policy communicates this clearly by stating that:
"Concern for children is the cornerstone upon which Compassion International has been built. We are opposed to all forms of abuse and exploitation and will do everything within our power to ensure that no harm comes to any child registered in our program due to his or her involvement in the ministry of Compassion International."
By protecting children, we are responding to Christ's mandate to care for and protect His little ones.


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Solutions and Winners (2008)
Activity 1: If the cups are ranked from most Splenda to least Splenda, cup "D" should be ranked second.
Activity 2: When the red lead is hooked to the top of the stiff wire, the compasses should move to look like picture 2. However, many people's stiff wires became magnetized in transit and even with the current flowing through the wire, the compasses looked like either picture 1 or picture 4. With no technical problems such as that, picture 2 would be the correct answer.
Activity 3: This activity had by far the most technical difficulties. If all the equipment worked correctly, then when the magnet was dropped north side first with the tube held vertically, then the red LED should have lit up. However, more than one person had a malfunctioning red LED and would have seen nothing.
Activity 4: The 2nd and 3rd set ups caused the pinwheel to spin counterclockwise when looking down from the top.
PhysicsQuest 2008 Winners Announced!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in PhysicsQuest 2008: Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair. I hope everyone had a great time.
Grand Prize:
Jason Holstege's 7th Grade Science 6th Hour
Heritage Christian School
Hudsonville, MI
Grand prize winning class will receive a class set of iPods, $500 gift certificate to Educational Innovations and assorted other physics toys.
Second Place:
Patricia Lanning's St. Mary's 8th Grade
St. Mary's School
Greenville, SC
Second place class will receive a $300 gift certificate to Educational Innovations and assorted other physics toys.
Third Place:
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McKinley Middle School
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Third place class will receive a $100 gift certificate to Educational Innovations and assorted other physics toys.
Winner Selection
This year we chose the PhysicsQuest winning classes using a true random number generator. Random number generators are often used in physics research. There are two types of random number generators, pseudo random number generators and true random number generators. If someone programs a computer to produce a random number, that number is not totally random because a human had to program the computer. These are called pseudo (or false) random number generators. They can be quite useful because they are quick and easy to put into other computer programs.
Then there are true random number generators. This is the type we used to choose the winning classes. True random number generators use some sort of random event such as radioactive decay to generate a random number. One true random number generator even used the patterns from a lava lamp to generate its numbers. To choose the PhysicsQuest winners the PhysicsCentral team used a random number generator that uses radio static to find random numbers. To learn more about random numbers and random number generators, go to random.org or http://faculty.rhodes.edu/wetzel/random/intro.html


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Now, it's Mike Brophy over at The Hockey News opining on the matter of Alex Ovechkin and whether or not he should be moved.
Brophy frames his argument with a question...
But what if Ovechkin doesn't want to play in Washington any longer? What if the young superstar tells the Caps he'd prefer to play someplace a little more cosmopolitan than Washington? You know, it could happen.
Uh, Mike? With the possible exception of New York City, there might not be a more "cosmopolitan" city in North America than Washington. If you want to make the argument that there might be more "hockey-centric" cities, be my guest. There are probably scores of them.
He dips his toe into the waters of a trade discussion by suggesting that, "Caps GM George McPhee should, at the very least, explore the possibility of trading the 22-year-old sniper." But that is something of a red herring. He gets right to the point soon...
Let's face it, with Ovechkin in their lineup, the Capitals have shown no signs of being a playoff team. There are no guarantees re-signing Ovechkin will make the Capitals a successful franchise.
It always comes down to that...Washington. It isn't enough of a hockey locale to suit the likes of Brooks, Kulfan, and now Brophy. There is a fair amount of window dressing in the form of dredging up the Lindros-for-the-world trade between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Quebec Nordiques that led (so the argument goes) to Stanley Cups for Colorado (after their move out of Canada) and "squat" for the Flyers. And, if Wayne Gretzky could be traded, anyone could. But the argument seems to boil down in some manner, shape, or form to "Washington doesn't deserve Ovechkin." We won't mention too loudly that the Nordiques also had a guy named "Sakic" who came in a deal wholly separate from the Lindros caper (Caps fans will certainly remember the particulars), not to mention some goalie that came from Montreal..."Roy," I believe his name was.
Hey, here's a thought. Pittsburgh is sitting two games over .500...they have a goalie on the shelf who was playing rather inconsistently (not to mention hasn't won anything of note in the playoffs as a pro at any level), and have a rather pedestrian defense. Think they ought to be sending out feelers for Sidney Crosby?
Larry...Ted...Mike. The NHL is a 30-team league. It isn't just New York, Detroit, and Canada, much as the TV types would wish it so. There are the Carolina's, Tampa Bay's, Calgary's, and Edmonton's that can and do reach a Stanley Cup final from time to time...even Washington has done it. So, please, stop trying to move Alex Ovechkin. And maybe look past Ovechkin when assessing the prospects of the Capitals...a couple of Calder Cup final teams in the AHL that have graduated the likes of Mike Green and Jeff Schultz...the emergence of a Nicklas Backstrom...guys like Karl Alzner waiting in the wings to join young guys like Alexander Semin and Boyd Gordon. The prospects for this franchise might not be as bleak -- with an Alex Ovechkin -- as your opinion suggests.


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Civil War books filling every nook and cranny
A couple of weeks ago, I had to purchase a new bookcase for all of the Civil War books I've purchased. This is troubling in that I'm only in my first graduate course on the topic. OK book purchasing is a serious addiction of mine and always has been. Ask anyone who knows me.
Note on my "the courses" page the list of required books for my classes and then the very long list of "recommended" books. The latter are in the syllabus as…"in case you have extra time." I DO try to make the time although I never have enough. But I manage to buy most of the recommended books just in case. I must be the "target market" of Civil War publishers.
The encouragement to purchase the bookcase came from those who live in my household and became concerned by the stacks of books in walkways. Go figure. Unfortunately, the bookcase wasn't big enough and it has four shelves!


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Shortly before the fall of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, in 612 B.C., Nahum uttered his prophecy against the hated city. To understand the prophet's exultant outburst of joy over the impending destruction it is necessary to recall the savage cruelty of Assyria, which had made it the scourge of the ancient Near East for almost three centuries. The royal inscriptions of Assyria afford the best commentary on Nahum's burning denunciation of "the bloody city." In the wake of their conquests, mounds of heads, impaled bodies, enslaved citizens, and avaricious looters testified to the ruthlessness of the Assyrians. Just such a conquest was suffered by Israel, when its capital Samaria fell to the Assyrians in 722/721 B.C., and by Judah, when its capital Jerusalem nearly fell to invading Assyrian armies twenty years later. Little wonder that in 3:19 Judah is shown as joining in the general outburst of joy over the destruction of Nineveh!
But Nahum is not a prophet of unrestrained revenge. He asserts God's moral government of the world. Nineveh's doom is evidence that God stands against oppression and the abuse of power. As an ancient Near Eastern superpower, Assyria had terrorized its smaller and weaker neighbors, exploiting their economies and subjugating their people for its own ends. Thus Nineveh's demise is viewed as an act of divine justice, and it is greeted by the small, oppressed countries as a time of deliverance, as a moment of renewal, and as a message of peace (2:1; 3:19).
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Oteia Prince Named OVC Runner of the Week
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State women's cross country runner Oteia Prince has been named adidas Ohio Valley Conference Runner of the Week. Prince led from nearly start to finish in taking first place in a dual with Alabama A&M at TSU on Friday. The sophomore covered the 2 mile course in 13:23.59, which was 31 seconds ahead of second place.
The honor is the fifth in school history and the first since 2002 when Monique Demmons was named on two separate occasions. Rhonda Ward was the first to win the honor in 1991 and was followed by Candice Simon in 2001.
Prince has run in three 5K events this season and has improved her time in each outing. The Antioch native dropped two minutes from her first to second meet and another minute to her third run. Prince is ahead of her pace as a freshman with three meets to go in the 2013 season.
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Succession planning, like one's mortality, is something advisors are often reluctant to think about.
But just as your clients need to get their affairs in order in case untimely but far-reaching events affect the lives of their loved ones, so too must advisors have a succession plan in place — for solid business reasons in addition to mere contingency planning.
That message was brought home, poignantly, by Michelle Barbiere of Placemark Investments, who told an audience of investment advisors at the MarketCounsel conference how an advisor she worked with a decade ago suddenly contracted West Nile virus.
Speaking at a wide-ranging session devoted to succession planning, Barbiere said the advisor — in the prime of life, with a wife and young children — was put into an induced coma. When the 43-year-old came out, he was paralyzed. Other practitioners at the firm were, fortunately in this case, in place to make decisions and serve clients during this period. Unfortunately, the advisor died shortly thereafter.
In the ensuing period, the lack of clear planning made sale of the business a challenge. The moral of Barbiere's story was that advisors need to plan for all eventualities not only for their clients but for their business: Sole practitioners particularly must put in place and test mundane matters such as billing authorization and check-writing authorization.
But there are other surprising lessons that emerged from the panel discussion at the Las Vegas conference.
One is that a business involved with investing a person's life savings is not likely to experience significant growth absent an understanding that the business itself has a future beyond the life of the practitioner.
That point was brought home by Greg Friedman of Private Ocean, the firm which resulted from a merger of two predecessor firms, Friedman & Associates and Salient Wealth Management.
Friedman expressed surprise that the dazzling boutique they thought they put together wasn't getting referrals, even from their best clients, for two years after the merger.
"'We don't know what we're referring people into,' clients would say. "'We want to see what's going to be. Are you staying?'"
It wasn't before the third year that those doubts dissipated and the referrals started coming in.
While getting on that organic growth trajectory may sound appealing — Private Ocean just passed $850 million in assets under management and brings in $7 million in annual revenue — Friedman did not romanticize advisory practice mergers.
"It was the hardest thing we've done in our lives," Friedman said, adding that the consultant advisors most "need to help you on this is a therapist or psychiatrist."
Waxing poetic, Friedman told the assembled advisors that "your business is like a tree and all those leaves represent clients. Leaves have various strengths [as to] how tightly they're attached. A merger is like taking the bottom of the tree and shaking it," he said, while violently shaking his hands to underscore the point.
Other difficulties included profitability, deal structure and turnover.
"It takes longer [to be profitable] than anything you think it's gonna take," he said; it took three years in his case.
Another panelist, David McKinley of McKinley Carter Wealth Services, supported that point, saying that owners must be prepared to financially backstop the firm and its employees through the inevitable downturns that will ensue. "I remember pumping cash into the business," McKinley recalled.
As for turnover, employees replacements reached the 60% level for Friedman in the early stages, resulting mainly from cultural differences between the merged firms, he said.
But those cultural differences turned out to be significant in other ways which, with perfect hindsight, Friedman says he would have reflected in how they structured the deal, had he to do it all over again.
Friedman's firm was "built for financial planning," while Salient was oriented toward beating the markets.
That chasm was not initially obvious to Friedman, since Salient had CFPs on staff, but in the culture of that firm, planning was available to those who requested it, rather than being of the essence as it was for Friedman & Associates.
Friedman's initial reaction was the merger would therefore be a huge opportunity to raise the service model. In fact, however, Salient clients were unimpressed. "'You're spending all your time [in planning]; you're not making the stock market go up faster'" was the attitude he described.
Friedman's advice to advisors contemplating a merger:
"I wouldn't merge without surveying their clients…I would have had some metrics in there that would protect me. I would have reflected it back in the deal structure" if he could do it over, he said.
While Friedman was frank about some of the difficulties involved in merging firms, he said he'd never seek to dissuade an advisor from a merger or other succession plan. But he was emphatic that it is so complex that "we are [just] scratching the surface."
He (and the other panelists) invited advisors in the audience to contact him and ask about what it all entails.
But he closed with a pertinent tip: Citing the 80-20 rule, he advised that rather than spend 80% of your time on deal structure, "I'd spend 80% taking out your spouse to see if you could live with this."
Greg Friedman regularly contributes commentary to ThinkAdvisor. For more on advisor M&A, see his blog, Solving Succession Planning Via M&A: Getting Started.
To view his latest blog, see Overcoming RIAs' Top 4 Business Hurdles: Managing Technology
View his six-part series of blogs on succession planning.


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Handmade/Homemade Exhibitors
January 31, 2010
Handmade/Homemade Blog Cover Art, Jill Magi, "Tongues", 2007
Cara Benson is author of (made) with BookThug and Protean Parade (forthcoming, Black Radish Books 2010). She edited the interdisciplinary book Predictions for Chain Links. Other work is included in: Belladonna Elders Series #7 with Anne Waldman and Jayne Cortez, and NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books). Spell/ing ( ) Bound, a tri-partite art objet with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi (ellectrique press), and Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation (BookThug), which co-won the 2008 bpNichol Prize, will always be two of her favs. Benson edits the online Sous Rature and is a proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv. She teaches poetry in a NY State Prison.
Elizabeth Bryant's debut book, nevertheless enjoyment, was published in January 2010 by Quale Press. Other forthcoming titles include a second volume, Reality Visits the Land of Illusions (Black Radish Books 2010), and her fourth chapbook, No Subject (Dusie 2010). Her work appears in numerous print and online journals, including: Delirious Hem, Wheelhouse, Dusie, Gerry Mulligan, Intercapillary Space, Key Satch(el), Bombay Gin, and Coconut. She edits the intermittent lit experiment, Defeffable, and is co-curator of the Bard Roving Reading Series. For more information, visit http://www.elizabeth-bryant.org.
JenMarie Davis lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she co-edits/designs Fact-Simile Editions (www.fact-simile.com) and works as a book artist for Renaissance Art. Former editor-in-chief of Bombay Gin, her work has been published in The Pulchritudinous Review, Little Red Leaves and Court Green.
Amanda Deutch is a poet, whose work has appeared in various online and print journals including Watchword, Barrow Street and 580 Split. peripatetic for the last two years, Deutch was most recently living in France and Portugal. her new book, a noir detective poem, is seeking a publisher.
Jennifer S. Flescher's poetry publications include The Harvard Review, Fulcrum, Lit and the Blog for the Best American Poetry. Her non-fiction publications include Agni-Online, Jubilat, Perihelion, and Poetry Daily. Jennifer S. Flescher holds an MFA in poetry, and an MSJ in journalism. She teaches writing and publishing to college students. She is editor and publisher of Tuesday; An Art Project.
Brenda Iijima's recent titles include revv. you'll–ution (Displaced Press, 2009) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press, 2010. She runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs from Brooklyn.
Noah Saterstrom is a visual artist, writer and independent curator. His paintings, drawings, print and sculptural installations have been shown most recently at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, the Lodging House Mission homeless shelter in Glasgow, Scotland, the Central School Project in Bisbee, Arizona, and Yardmeter Editions in Brooklyn, New York. He works with writers on text/image collaborations, and is the founder and curator of the on-line curatorial quarterly, Trickhouse. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Kathrin Schaeppi is the author of two chapbooks: Cancer Mon Amour and A Frog Jumps In (Dusie). Creative and critical work has appeared in Interim,
Jacket, Sous Rature, Tarpaulin Sky and OSL Verlag. She is the editor of
http://www.ellectriquepress.com which has issued Spell/ing ( ) Bound, a
collaborative objet d¹art in a limited edition, and a forthcoming anthology
on Frottage. Also forthcoming in 2010 is her chapbook Circumambulating
(Dusie) and a full-length poetic biography of Swiss poète-peintre Sonja
Sekula (Black Radish).
Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks with Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope-A-Dope Press and horse less press, as well as her own kitchen-table imprint, In Hand Books. She runs the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence, Rhode Island.
Helen White was born in Britain in 1977 and now lives in Ghent, Belgium, where she co-organizes festivals and other events as a member of the Krikri polypoetry collective. In March and April 2009 she curated 'infusoria,' an exhibition of visual poetry by women. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus and Argentina. Her poem holding recently appeared as a poster from Paper Kite Press and several poems are forthcoming in the anthology Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010). She has work online at http://www.krikri.be/helen/.
Student Exhibitors
Melissa Capozzi is currently a sophomore at Pace University. She is double majoring in English and Film Studies. Her poetry has been published in VOX, Pace's arts and literary journal on the Westchester campus.
Vinnie Lobue Junior is a Media and Communications major with a focus on Journalism. He has a lot of writing which he aims to publish one day.
Handmade/Homemade Exhibit 2010
January 31, 2010
Pace University, Westchester, welcomes the following artists and writers for the second annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit:
Cara Benson
Elizabeth Bryant
JenMarie Davis
Amanda Deutch
Kai Fierle-Hedrick
Jennifer S. Flescher
Brenda Iijima
Noah Saterstrom
Kathrin Schaeppi
Kate Schapira
Helen White
The Dusie Kollektiv
Hex Presse
This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions and broadsides. The exhibit takes place the entire month of March in the Mortola Library at Pace University. This year we are pleased to welcome two Pace University student exhibitors: Melissa Capozzi and Vincent Lobue.
Several events accompany the second annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit at Pace:
A Bookmaking Workshop/Demonstration, Thursday March 25th at 12:00PM
Artist, writer and educator Brenda Iijima provides a bookmaking workshop Thursday, March 25th at 12:00PM in the Art Gallery of Choate House, Pace University Westchester.
Opening/Reading, Thursday March 25th at 2:30PM
A reading and celebration of the work takes place Thursday, March 25th at 2:30PM in Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center, Pace University Westchester. Readers include Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Amanda Deutch, Brenda Iijima and Kate Schapira. Student exhibitor Melissa Capozzi will open the reading with a poem.
Sister Exhibit
A sister exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico will be hosted during the month of May at the Santa Fe Complex (http://sfcomplex.org/wordpress/). A bookmaking workshop and reading are planned, and details for those can be found here by March 1.
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All Arkansas Dems Vote For Obamacare!
From the Lonoke County Republican Committee
Oh not directly. But yesterday their "Yea" votes on House Resolution 1190 are, without a doubt, votes for Obamacare. And votes against the will of their constituents in Arkansas!
HR 1190 was a Republican attempt to block Democrats' "Slaughter Solution" (aka "Deem & Pass") that is being considered by Democrats as an end run around the Constitution's Article I, Section 5 requirement for an up or down vote on the Senate's version of Obamacare. Our Democrat Congressmen are so rash, narcissistic, and condescending they believe this unconstitutional tactic to avoid a direct vote on the bill will fool their constituents in Arkansas.
Pelosi and her Democrat allies (all the other 221 Democrats who voted for this resolution) think their constituents are stupid enough to believe yesterday's vote isn't a vote for Obamacare. But voting to avoid a direct vote and consider a bill passed without voting on it can't be considered anything but a "Yea" vote for the bill being avoided. (If that sentence seems a little confusing, it's because we want you to get the idea just how this Democrat play is designed to confound and confuse voters.)
In the last two days calls to Marion Berry's (AR-01)office yielded assurances that he will read the entire bill before voting on it, and no final bill was even out yet. Mike Ross (AR-04) outright lied when he declared his opposition to Obamacare. And Vic Snyder (AR-02) never made any bones about his disdain for his constituents' will. Now this.
Even President Obama admitted yesterday's vote IS a vote for the unpopular Obamacare in his contentious interview with Brett Baier on Wednesday. When asked by Baier if he supported the use of the "Slaughter Rule" he responded,
"What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don't think we should pretend otherwise."
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This kind of Democrat shenanigan is exactly the reason we must send a conservative Republican to Congress from the 1st District in November. Doing so will guarantee a vote against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House and put an end to this chicanery.
Rick Crawford, one of two GOP candidates for Berry's seat spoke out against this unconstitutional tactic in his blog post, "Crawford Speaks Out Against 'Deem and Pass'."
On a day where a Fox News poll shows only 35% of Americans favor the health care reform bill, Pelosi is attempting to use a tactic dubbed "deem and pass" to push through the Senate's health care reform bill, without having members of Congress actually vote on the bill. FoxNews.com reports this plan is being considered because, "…many House Democrats don't want to cast a vote in favor of the unaltered Senate bill, which they oppose for numerous reasons."
Republican central Arkansas businessman Scott Wallace, running for Vic Snyder's 2nd District seat says it's time to "unequivocally say NO to government run health care" and put this issue to rest for good. Wallace's primary opponent Tim Griffin, a US Army reservist and former US attorney, called the vote against this "common sense resolution" a vote for Nancy Pelosi, and against the people of Arkansas. From Griffin's press release:
"It is clear Arkansans must elect a new conservative majority to Congress in 2010. More importantly, we need to elect conservative leaders who will represent our values, not Speaker Pelosi's, and work for the people of Arkansas, not against them.
Garland County Tea Party President and GOP candidate for Mike Ross' seat in the 4th District, Glenn Gallas slammed all three Arkansas Democrat congressmen in his press release. Gallas says,
" [Ross] allowed the bill to go forward to the detriment of his constituents to please Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. When the Republicans moved to stop the "Slaughter Rule", Mike Ross, Vic Snyder, and Marion Berry, voted along their party line as they often do, shooting down the chance of stopping the Slaughter rule, thereby permitting the Obama Health Care bill to move forward…"
These Arkansas turncoats can't hide behind the dishonest Democrats' devious tactics.
They voted for the bill, they voted for Obamacare, and they voted against the will of their constituents in Arkansas!
Help us remove Nancy Pelosi's gavel as Speaker of the House by electing conservative Republicans this fall!


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