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Unlike Miami's austere courthouses, such as the Flagler Street tower or the fortresslike behemoth on NW Twelfth Street, the sprawling Juvenile Justice Center on NW 27th Avenue has all the dignity of an elementary school. And form speaks to function. In the adult courts, both civil and criminal, grownups suffer the consequences of their actions under the harsh glare of reason. But in the juvenile system, emotion threatens to swamp every minute of every day. In delinquency court, where kids are tried for criminal acts, red-faced parents drag their youngsters before judges who try to determine whether transgressions are the result of youthful ignorance or the first buds of a blossoming life of crime. Across the courtyard in the building's south wing is dependency court, where the state intervenes in the messy emotional life of our most dysfunctional families. It is here that prosecutors argue to terminate a parent's right to raise a child, usually because of alleged abuse or drug use. These cases can last for years, with parents reappearing frequently to defend their actions. The hearings can become a quagmire of competing interests. There are usually three sets of lawyers: the parents', the child's, and the state's. The family portraits that emerge often are more Hieronymus Bosch than Norman Rockwell.
To control a juvenile courtroom, a judge must be decisive and firm. Judge Cindy Lederman, who oversees the place, goes one step further. In the hallways she is known to be downright draconian. Dwarfed by her high-backed chair, Lederman glares through large glasses at defendants and at times barks that they should sit down and shut up. One defendant, who declined to give her name for fear of retribution, recalls Lederman announcing to no one in particular: "I don't like this family. This is a problem family." Indeed Lederman recently threw an eighteen-year-old mother into jail just because the judge suspected the girl had lied about writing a letter to the court. "This judge is incredible; she hates our family," says the girl's mother, Valeria Howard.
To admirers Lederman's certitude is the antidote for the maladies of a system that allows cases to drag on indefinitely. "She really moves things along," says one lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous, even though he praised the judge. Her sharp intelligence burns through the twisted emotional lives of families like an acetylene torch clearing a car wreck. Lederman is a nationally renowned lecturer on domestic law and children's rights. She was elected president of the National Association of Women Lawyers. In 1997 the local chapter of the National Association of Jewish Women honored her as a woman of "valor" for her efforts "to defend the rights of children to live in a safe and loving environment."
In 1998 she was appointed administrative judge for the juvenile system, which comprises delinquency and dependency courts, and handles more than 1000 cases per year. Part of her job is to oversee the procedure of appointing lawyers for indigent defendants. By law neither Lederman nor anyone else is supposed to interfere with the assignment of attorneys. The court is required simply to pluck the first available name from a list commonly referred to as "the wheel," because it is more or less a rotation. Established after a notorious corruption scandal that included payoffs to judges to suppress evidence, the system is designed to prohibit judges from selectively meddling in court cases.
Yet at least eight lawyers and court officials who regularly work in dependency court contend Lederman illegally blacklists attorneys from taxpayer-funded cases. Critics believe she rejects those who advocate too aggressively for their clients or successfully challenge her rulings. The claim is corroborated by two years of monthly activity reports on the wheel, minutes from meetings of a committee that considers lawyers' complaints, and the accounts of thirteen others who work at the court. Only five lawyers would allow their names to be used in this story. Others interviewed would talk only on condition of anonymity, largely because of Lederman's reputation for vengefulness.
If Lederman blacklists lawyers, it could be construed as interference in the administration of justice, possibly a violation of the judicial code of conduct. The ultimate victims of such action would be clients who do not receive solid defense. "Everybody's terrified that one day they'll be too aggressive in court in front of her and lose their appointments," says a lawyer who has practiced in juvenile court for more than a decade. "Believe me, when I disagree with her in court, my sentences are filled with, 'respectfully, judge,' and, 'with all due respect, judge,' just to let her know I've got a job to do here. I haven't been blacklisted -- yet."
Adds another counselor, who has practiced in dependency court more than five years: "Personally I have not been blacklisted, but it affects how I do my job. I don't have the freedom to strongly advocate for my client, because I rely on these cases for my livelihood."
"It's a culture of fear," says still another.
Lederman denies blacklisting lawyers or doing anything improper. She acknowledges excluding three lawyers, Virginia Stanley, Karl Hall, and Alberto Batista, from her courtroom during the past two years. But she claims she properly withdraws from cases involving those lawyers. When pressed for the reason, she said only that the defendants in her court deserve the best representation available. "I'm not going to get into negative statements," the judge says. "If I don't appoint Ms. Stanley or Mr. Hall, it's perfectly in accordance with the policies of this court."
But Hall, Stanley, and others say the judge is obligated to publicly state the reasons she is withdrawing from a case. In Stanley's experience, Lederman has only once made such a public declaration: when Stanley requested it. Hall says he doesn't recall any such statements by Lederman about his exclusion from the court. Instead, the lawyers say, the judge simply nixes their appearance.
The first complaints surfaced two years ago. At one point a committee associated with the court even prepared a letter of complaint to Lederman's boss, Chief Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Joseph Farina. But before the missive could be delivered, the committee was disbanded. Committee members (including Stanley) believe Lederman orchestrated the coup.
At five feet three inches tall, Cindy Lederman appears unlikely to inspire fear in anyone. But her diminutive size conceals a formidable, even fierce, intelligence.
Lederman has been a government lawyer for nearly her entire career. Although such experience could dull a less-ambitious mind, she has thrived. During the past 21 years she has honed savvy political instincts and networking skills to become one of the most well-known judges in Miami. Her rise has prompted the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily Business Review to write many adulatory articles, from which much of the following chronology was assembled.
She grew up Cindy Shellenberger in Philadelphia, but left the City of Brotherly Love behind in the 1970s to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville. She graduated and enrolled at the University of Miami Law School. She married Robert Lederman in 1976, then graduated from UM in 1979. After a couple of years in private practice, she took a job as an assistant city attorney in North Miami Beach. "She was a general all-around good advocate," recalls North Miami Beach city attorney Howard Lenard. "She was very dedicated to what she was doing, and she worked very hard." Asked what made her stand out, Lenard reiterated; "She was just a very hard worker."
She also pursued extracurricular résumé builders. In 1985 she won a spot on the Dade County Commission on the Status of Women. That same year she was elected vice president of the local chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers. (She eventually became president.) In 1988 she was elected as a county court judge after running unopposed. She was 34 years old at the time.
In the 1990s Lederman joined the fight against spousal and child abuse. In 1992 she helped craft a new court designed to handle misdemeanor cases of domestic violence, focusing on treatment and strict monitoring. In 1994 the U.S. Information Agency invited her to tour Italy and lecture on family violence and women's rights. Even her detractors admit she has been a tireless advocate for women and children. It made perfect sense when then-Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed her in 1994 to fill a vacancy as a circuit court judge. Lederman requested to serve in the juvenile division.
Almost immediately she had a national case on her hands. In 1995 Lederman terminated a mother's right to raise her infant daughter, and granted custody to the woman's cousins, who wanted to adopt the child. Previously the state placed the child with a foster mother, Kathryn Reiter, a former Bay Harbor Islands councilwoman. Reiter protested the adoption. The Baby J case exploded in headlines around the nation in March of that year, when Reiter fled with the baby. After 25 days on the lam, Reiter surrendered. During the final hearing on the case, Lederman showed her stern hand by warning Reiter and her attorney George Metcalfe they had no legal standing in the case and could not speak, according to an August 1995 Herald article. When Reiter cried out that the judge did not have all the facts, guards hauled her from the courtroom. Metcalfe protested, but Lederman warned that he would also be removed if he continued talking. Metcalfe wrote a letter expressing his displeasure. Some say his defiance later cost him. (Metcalfe says he is unsure whether he ever suffered retaliation from Lederman.)
"She has a healthy intolerance for a bureaucratic system that often grinds on," says one former Department of Children and Families (DCF) lawyer who has worked with Lederman and requested anonymity. "Unfortunately [that attitude] spills into her case-by-case dealings."
Adds another: "She's assertive and efficient but also disrespectful and condescending. It's often inappropriate."
In 1998 Judge Farina appointed Lederman as the administrative judge of juvenile court. The take-no-crap reputation she cultivated as a jurist would not be tolerated in her role as administrator.
In a bit of poetic justice, the system Lederman allegedly subverts was put in place five years ago as a corrective measure following one of the most notorious scandals to hit the Miami-Dade court system.
In 1991 the FBI concluded a massive sting on courthouse corruption known as Operation Court Broom. By its end three former judges, one retired judge, and eleven lawyers had pleaded or been convicted of various misdeeds. With the help of an informant, federal agents used marked $100 bills to prove some judges could be bribed to assign cases to lawyers, return seized property, and order evidence suppressed. The last defendant in the case, former Judge Alfonso Sepe, pleaded guilty to racketeering only this month. The delay occurred after he was acquitted of 29 counts in his original 1993 trial and then retried on five remaining counts.
As a result of Court Broom, Leonard Rivkind, the former chief judge of the eleventh judicial circuit, ordered the creation of committees to explore ways to safeguard against such abuses. In juvenile court a team of experts (including allegedly blacklisted lawyer Stanley) studied the issue. The result was administrative order 94-27, establishing a system to blindly assign private lawyers in publicly funded cases.
Dependency court employs a lot of private attorneys. One reason is that the Office of Family Reunification, the equivalent of the Public Defender's Office, only handles the simplest lawsuits. Private attorneys are called on to handle more complex litigation. And when OFR takes a case, it can only represent one of the three parties that are usually involved; sometimes the father, mother, and child all need their own counsel.
When someone can't afford an attorney, and the OFR cannot handle the case, a court clerk consults the wheel, a list of roughly 95 barristers. The clerk calls the lawyer at the top of list. Once that name has been called, it goes to the bottom. Only under rare circumstances is the lawyer at the top to be skipped. According to the administrative order: "In the event that the court determines that unique requirements exist in a particular case which the attorney selected cannot satisfy, the court, with the concurrence of the administrative judge of the juvenile division, may appoint another attorney."
To ensure that the wheel remains fair and impartial, the court established the Juvenile Court Dependency Standing Committee in 1994. It was to include seven attorneys who monitor the system's fairness. The committee was to certify that lawyers had sufficient experience in juvenile court. It also was to review payment when lawyers' bills topped $500. And finally, the committee was to hear complaints about lawyers and judges.
Karl Hall is a sandy-haired man with a predilection for blue blazers and chinos. But his prep school image blurs the fact that he's worked in juvenile court for ten years, first as a prosecutor for the state, then, beginning in 1997, as a defense lawyer. He contends that while in private practice, he has never been appointed to a case by Judge Cindy Lederman, a statistical impossibility if the system is being correctly managed.
"It's common knowledge in the juvenile-court building that there are a number of attorneys who are blacklisted, including myself," Hall says. "The blind appointment system is designed to ensure the judiciary doesn't interfere with the right to counsel by selectively picking attorneys to handle certain cases.... Even my five-year-old daughter understands that concept."
Alberto Batista, a stout lawyer with a bushy black beard and an eccentric demeanor, has practiced in juvenile court since the late 1980s. Like Hall, he says Lederman has blacklisted him. "Judge Lederman has violated the whole spirit of the administrative order, establishing a blind selection system," says Batista, who complained two years ago about blacklisting by both Lederman and fellow dependency court Judge Jeri Cohen in a letter to Cohen. Lederman promptly filed a bar complaint against him in July 1998 for violating the code of professional responsibility.
When New Times first confronted Lederman with the accusations in early March, her response was, "You've got to understand; what we're dealing with here is the most basic right of parents: to parent their children. Parents who find themselves before this court are entitled to the best representation possible. It's my job and my duty to make sure the best representation is afforded them." When pressed on whether that meant she was blacklisting certain attorneys, she responded, "No, that's clearly not true."
In an interview two weeks later, Lederman again denied the claims. But she acknowledged that she recuses herself from cases involving Hall and Batista, in effect banning those attorneys from her courtroom. She declined to explain her motive. Lederman pointed out that the administrative order gives her discretion to appoint lawyers in some cases without consulting the wheel. New Times then referred to the administrative order, which states a judge can only do this when "unique requirements exist in a particular case that the attorney cannot satisfy." Hall and Batista translate that to mean a hearing is required to disqualify an attorney. "I guess we'll have to differ on our interpretation of the order," Lederman said.
Beginning in 1998 the blacklisting complaints of Hall, Batista, and about eight other lawyers filtered to the Dependency Standing Committee, the group that certifies lawyers for inclusion on the wheel. There they fell upon the receptive ear of committee chairperson Virginia Stanley, a 53-year-old Miami native and highly regarded juvenile-court lawyer. In 1988 Stanley founded the Juvenile Justice Attorney's Association, the equivalent of the bar association for lawyers practicing in juvenile court. She also co-wrote the report recommending the wheel system in the wake of Operation Court Broom.
Stanley says she was well acquainted with the issue of blacklisting.
The antipathy between the two is a matter of public record. In 1996 Stanley successfully forced Lederman to recuse herself from a case because she conferred with opposing counsel when Stanley was not present. Ever since then Lederman has voluntarily removed herself from any case involving Stanley. "That's no rumor," Lederman declares. "It's a matter of public record."
Stanley says the matter goes further. "While the judge does recuse herself if one of my cases happens to come before her, she also definitely blacklists me from wheel cases," she asserts. "She has never appointed me to a case in her [courtroom] since about 1998."
Why would the judge appoint a lawyer to a case from which she'd have to recuse herself? Because she has no choice. If Stanley's name came up on the wheel, Lederman would be obligated to appoint the lawyer to the case and then bow out.
After lawyers complained they were being excluded, committee members asked Paul Indelicato, director of juvenile-court operations, to investigate. Indelicato assured the attorneys no one was losing work; those who were not appointed to cases in Lederman's courtroom made up for it in front of the other two judges in the division. "Individual attorneys concerned about this particular issue approached me, and I assured them that the distribution of cases was being upheld, irrespective of whether they appeared less in one [judge's courtroom]," Indelicato says. Asked whether that meant he was acknowledging blacklisting, Indelicato replies: "That term is not my term. I'm familiar with that term being bandied about by a certain group of lawyers." Then he adds: "I want to be very clear, I have not acknowledged that allegation in any way, shape, or form." He explains he simply pointed out to the lawyers that they were receiving roughly the same number of assignments from the wheel.
During the committee's March 3, 1999, meeting, Stanley broached the subject. "Judge Lederman better do something about this before she reads about it in the papers," she said, according to several people present. Stanley declined to comment about that meeting.
"Yes, she said that," committee member E. Joseph Ryan recalls. "She wasn't the first attorney to say that. The issue [of blacklisting] had been brought up by a lot of attorneys over the preceding year." Ryan, who says he is not blacklisted by the judge, was taking the minutes for the session. He made a note: "Memo to be drafted re: selective appointments by judges." The memo was to be sent to Chief Judge Joseph Farina. A rough draft of the memo reads in part: "Over the past several years, committee members have received repeated complaints that the Administrative Judge, Cindy Lederman, has engaged in a pattern of 'blackballing' and 'handpicking' attorneys. The past several months the committee has been grappling with a means to address this problem."
But on March 9, 1999, before the memo could be sent or the committee could again meet, it was disbanded suddenly and without warning. The order terminating members' tenure was signed by Farina. But as administrative judge, Lederman was in charge of the group. "Nothing happens over there without her okay," one lawyer says. In an April 9 letter, Lederman explained that members' terms had expired. "Additionally it appears that the old committee was unable to function due to lack of a quorum," Lederman added in her note. Several members flatly deny a lack of participation and say Lederman never complained about their work.
Ryan, Stanley, and others believe the dissolution was a direct result of the fact their preparing to raise the issue of blacklisting with Farina. Lederman then appointed a new committee. That group has made no formal statement on blacklisting.
Judge Farina declined to respond to New Times about the alleged blacklisting. But he faxed a statement that reiterated judges are allowed to make off-the-wheel appointments in unique circumstances "with the concurrence of the administrative judge of the juvenile division." Then Farina noted: "The [standing] committee is the proper vehicle through which issues of appointment of attorneys should be addressed."
Anecdotal evidence of Lederman's thin skin abounds. Many who have crossed her in court say they have experienced retaliation.
In late 1998 lawyers with the University of Miami's Children and Youth Law Clinic appealed Lederman's decision to incarcerate a juvenile in a mental-health facility. The appeals court overturned Lederman's ruling. (The court later reversed itself). Shortly thereafter clinic director Bernard Perlmutter says the dean of UM's law school, Mary Doyle, called him into her office. "She said, 'I was just reamed out,'" Perlmutter recalls. "Judge [Lederman] was incensed the court granted this petition. I was told [by Doyle] the judge wanted the university to defund the clinic. I don't have direct knowledge of this; you should really contact Mary Doyle."
Although Perlmutter was under the impression Lederman had called Doyle, in fact it was Senior Judge William Gladstone, the former administrative judge for juvenile court and a Lederman admirer. "I didn't say they should be defunded, not that I recall," Gladstone says. "I read a newspaper article and was very concerned. This child needed help." Lederman, he says, never asked him to make the call. "That would be improper," he remarks.
Doyle, who is working at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., while on sabbatical, declined to comment.
But Lederman isn't beyond making a call herself to criticize her detractors. Last December a brief item appeared in the Miami Herald announcing the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade County gave a grant to the law clinic. Lederman called the fund, according to executive director Claudia Kitchens. "She just wanted to express her concerns about the clinic's approach to handling the legal representation of children," Kitchens says.
Another incident occurred in early 1999, when County Court Judge Wendell Graham was serving as an interim judge in the dependency division. During open court one day, Graham scheduled a case on Lederman's calendar and assigned George Metcalfe (the lawyer who clashed with Lederman during the Baby J case) to handle it, after taking Metcalfe's name from the wheel. Within minutes Graham's clerk received a call, according to two witnesses. The clerk said, "'Judge [Graham], you can't assign Metcalfe to that case,'" one witness recalls, adding that Graham questioned the statement. "[The clerk] told him: 'Because Judge Lederman doesn't get along with him.'" Metcalfe was not appointed.
Graham refused to comment. Metcalfe says he has heard rumors of the incident. "I'm receiving appointments now, so it's a nonissue," he adds.
Lederman responds: "I have no knowledge of this and can't be responsible for someone else's actions. I get along with George Metcalfe."
Lederman's influence was also made clear on February 28, 2000, when Karl Hall says a court clerk called him to confirm that he was no longer taking cases before Lederman. Hall asked for the source of that information. The clerk cited a female DCF prosecutor. "She told the clerk that I didn't take appointments in Lederman's division," Hall says. Incensed, he confronted the prosecutor and her supervisors.
DCF district administrator Charles Auslander acknowledges the exchange took place and says he cautioned the prosecutor. "I think she realizes this was a mistake," he offers. "She was trying to be helpful to the clerk making the appointments. But it's clearly a mistake. The DCF should have nothing to do with the blind appointments on the wheel."
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Critics of Cindy Lederman say she is winning. The attorneys she dislikes are leaving. Alberto Batista recently withdrew his name from the wheel. He still practices in juvenile court, taking only private clients.
Virginia Stanley, in many ways the doyenne of juvenile court's defense attorneys, recently announced plans to move to Maine and write books. "I'm getting the hell out of Dodge," she says.
Lederman, meanwhile, faces re-election this November.


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I've been documenting correspondence with the prescribing psychiatrist that led to the acute and chronic withdrawal syndrome I now live with for a few years. I've written what is most likely a final email to him. I do not regret any of the correspondence and would do it again, but this is what it has come to for now.
To be clear, in the years I've been doing this work and authoring this blog I've seen people come around and wake up to the harm that psychiatry can cause quite a number of times and I personally never give up on the possibility that people can come to the truth. I'm also clear that I do not know how what I've shared has affected those who read what I write or if it may take root in the future. I've communicated at every step what I felt moved to communicate with this man who was responsible for my iatrogenesis (drug induced illness) and now it's time to walk away.
This is my final note to him:
Sadly, communicating with you has been greatly disappointing over these past few years. At the end of our phone conversation you were unable to answer in the affirmative when I asked if we might speak again and you've never volunteered a word about what you think or feel about what I've shared. So this is the final time I will contact you because it's nauseating me to think that I was unable to impact even you.
I have a friend who was harmed much like I've been. Another benzo victim among the 1000s I now have encountered. When he told the doctor who medicated him the saga of his withdrawal the doctor began to weep. The doctor began to weep when the impact of what his "medicine" had done to his patient hit him. I've heard about one other story like that. Most of us, otherwise, are met with denial, disbelief and sometimes additional violence as they are forced to stay on the very medications that have made them so sick.
Anyway…I made mention of our discussion in this post on psychiatrist's David Healy's website.
Monica's story: the aftermath of polypsychopharmacology
If you read the comments at the end of that post you'll see that other victims of psychiatry have a hard time understanding why I try to communicate with you at all. I've always understood where they come from…it's painful to reach out and not be heard. Of course on occasion for some people it's downright dangerous. And it's tragic that you can't probably recognize that fact.
I responded to those who criticize me for speaking to you here:
Talking to the MD who prescribed the drugs that made me so very ill
Goodbye. I will not contact you again because it leaves me with great sadness that you remain unable to see or hear or recognize pretty much anything I've tried to alert you to. Or worse, perhaps, if you do, you cannot say so to me.
Oh just in case you ever care to speak to a psychiatrist who deeply gets it, Dr. WP is there in your neighborhood. He'd most assuredly be interested in helping you understand too. He's a profoundly wonderful, loving and healing man with very clear vision.
See here for more letters to my shrink (and other various MDs I've written to over the years too)

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It's spring, the weather is warming fast, and when you can't go hiking, what could be better than reading about the world's best walks? In Walking Distance you'll find trails you may never be lucky enough to traverse yourself, but you can still image and enjoy the photographs. The locations are gorgeous: Peru, New Zealand, Australia, the Alps, Alaska, and Sweden among others. The book also shares many inspiring quotes such as this one from Thoreau, "It is a great art to saunter." Walt Whitman wrote in a poem, "Afoot and lighthearted / I take to the open road," which I used above for the blog title.
Also included is a history of walking where the authors describe how the Romantic writers adopted walking and hiking enthusiastically as Europe turned increasingly polluted and gritty due to the Industrial Revolution. Did you know that it's estimated that Wordsworth walked over 180,000 miles in his lifetime? Dickens, too, spent no less than four hours on most days walking - this is how he filled his novels with such interesting characters and authentic details.
I was happy to note that I had walked sections of several of these trails including my first out-of-state trail, the Long Trail in Vermont. The other two I hiked were the Superior Trail in Minnesota by the lake and (truly superior the last week of September), and parts of the John Muir Trail in California.
The authors, a husband and wife team, explored each trail. They have included lots of practical information: such as available lodging, whether camping is allowed, access points, pubs (in Europe), weather, nearest city for travel, the level of expertise required and whether you can easily hike just part of the trail. Also, there are book lists at the end of each section. Adding to the fun, the Mannings also provided more personal information: their favorite places, whether they did it in season or not, and how prudish they felt enjoying a Swedish sauna in the nude, and oh yeah, where the best blueberries are. Also, I discovered in case you go there without reading this book, moose are called elk in northern Sweden. Got that?
After reading this book, my wish list of "dream trails" has grown longer. Heading it is the Great Ocean Walk in Australia. Also on it is the Cotswold Way in England and Kungsleden in northern Sweden. And topping the US list for me is the Paria River Canyon in Utah and Arizona and the Lost Coast Trail in California.
So if you must stay home this summer, try some trails in our local Deam Wilderness or further south on Indiana's Knobstone Trail, and for night-time reading, dive into this collection.
If you'd like to learn more about wandering on foot, try Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust: a history of walking.


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From this post on the Zend Developer Zone, we learn about an article over on the Sun Developer Network by Joe McCabe about installing PHP on a Sun Java System Web Server version 7.0.
un Java System Web Server is a mature, highly scalable, and secure web server that provides process redundancy, request scalability, and a wide range of application programming interfaces (APIs) to create and serve dynamic content. This document describes how to install and use PHP with Sun Java System Web Server (hereafter Web Server).
The tutorial is divided up into seven sections (including some reference material):
- Understanding PHP and Web Server
- Running the PHP Engine
- Installing the PHP Engine as a CGI Program
- Installing the PHP Engine as a FastCGI Server
- Installing the PHP Engine as an NSAPI Plugin
- Conclusion
- References


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Launch milestone –
last-ever look at MetOp
As preparations for the launch of MetOp on 17 July continue on schedule, engineers said farewell to the satellite as it was sealed inside the rocket fairing at the weekend.
The fairing will not be opened again until just under five minutes after launch when the spacecraft is almost 200 km above the surface of the Earth. At this phase of the launch the two half-shells will open and separate from the stage-3 of the launcher, the Fregat upper-stage and the MetOp satellite. Soon after, the stage-3 will separate from the Fregat-MetOp composite, which will continue its journey to the final orbital altitude of about 800 km.
Marking a significant milestone in the launch campaign, the encapsulation procedure required great care and precision assembly. First, the MetOp satellite, which had already been joined to the Fregat upper-stage last Wednesday, was manoeuvred into a horizontal position in front of the fairing.
The design of the fairing has recently been enlarged for the upgraded Soyuz launch vehicle and will be used for the first time for the launch of MetOp. Protecting the satellite against aerodynamic forces for the first 4 minutes and 49 seconds of the mission, it measures 11.4 metres in length and has an external diameter of 4.1 meters.
The encapsulation procedure involves the gentle movement of the fairing, which is mounted on rails, centimetre by centimetre so that it eventually engulfs the MetOp satellite and the Fregat upper-stage. Engineers check progress every step of the way to ensure that the procedure, which takes about an hour, is carried out smoothly.
Once the MetOp/Fregat was inside the fairing, the bolts were tightened and the remaining openings were firmly shut and sealing the satellite from the outside world, becoming part of the so-called 'upper composite'.
Peter Edwards, ESA's MetOp Project Manager stated, "I am very satisfied with the launch campaign activities, which have all gone smoothly. Everything has been performed according to plan and to schedule and we are looking forward to the launch in less than one week".
With the success of the encapsulation procedure at the weekend, the remainder of the launch campaign activities now rest with Starsem and the Russian launcher engineers who prepare the Soyuz-ST Fregat launcher. The next steps include integration of the upper-composite with the launch vehicle, the formal confirmation that everything is ready for launch, and then on Friday 14 July the transfer to the launch pad in readiness for launch on Monday 17 July at 18.28 (CEST), 22.28 Baikonur time.


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By DAVID GREEN
Marie Double of Delta remembers the day she spoke with a friend at church.
"She had just gotten a Habitat house and she said we should apply," Marie said.
Marie and her husband, Scott, made their application with Fulton County's Habitat for Humanity agency and they were chosen as a candidate family.
Habitat representatives visited the family and the Doubles were soon designated for a future building project.
That project is now almost in the past. The Doubles expect to move into their new Fayette home by Thanksgiving.
"Our goal was to have them in for the holidays," said Fulton Habitat director Kristene Clark. "They might not be all settled in by Thanksgiving, but they should be living there."
At a work session Saturday, a crew of volunteers was busy hanging drywall and the dusty house looked far from completion.
"Once we get past the drywalling stage, it goes fast," Clark said. "You'd be surprised."
As soon as the drywall finishers complete their job, the paint crew will get busy. As soon as that group finishes a room, the floor covering squad will follow closely behind.
Bob "the Builder" Sauder—the supervisor of the Fayette project—said the project is close to being on track and he expects the Doubles to be moved in by Thanksgiving.
That sounds good to Marie, and she's delighted to be moving to Fayette.
"Actually that was our first choice," she said. "We wanted something more rural."
The location on the south edge of the community fulfills that desire.
The Doubles worked the required 250 hours on a Habitat build in Wauseon last summer and easily surpassed the minimum 50 hours on their own house.
"We'd like to get involved in more when we're done here," she said.
They aim to keep working because they enjoy spending time with the friendly people who volunteer with Habitat.
Their son, Daniel, 12, worked Saturday attaching drywall, but their five-year-old daughter, Salena, is too young for the work site. Soon they will all be sharing the house together.
The word "house" has a special appeal to Marie. She's spent her entire life in apartments and trailers.
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – In typical fashion, Shaun White made this one look rather easy as he cruised to his sixth straight snowboard superpipe crown at Winter X on Sunday night.
His top rival, Iouri Podladtchikov, dropped out because of an illness. Instead, White's biggest challenger was 14-year-old Ayumu Hirano, who became the youngest athlete ever to medal at Winter X when he took silver. Hirano, of Japan, just might be the future of snowboarding – once White relinquishes control, of course. Markus Malin of Finland was third.
These days, White's biggest competition may just be, well, from himself.
And even his own performances are getting more and more difficult to top. Last year, White earned a perfect 100 on his final run. He tried the same basic combination of tricks this time and scored only 98.
Tough judging, because his run looked flawless. Then again, his performances usually are.
On his winning run, White soared a staggering 24 feet into the air, drawing instant roars from the capacity crowd.
Then, on his final run, White did something that has become so routine – he took a victory stroll through the pipe. He did a couple of easy tricks and then shut it down near the bottom. Once he stopped, White fell to the snow and covered his goggles with his gloves as if he couldn't believe he really had just won.
Like he really had anything to worry about. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is simply on a different level than everyone else.
In the pipe, at least. White is still trying to hone his skills in slopestyle, which will be an Olympic sport next winter at the Sochi Games. He finished fifth the day before – a disappointing result for someone who always expects to be on the podium and usually on the top step.
Hardly a surprise, Tucker Hibbert won another SnoCross competition. He's as dominant on a snowmobile as White is on a snowboard.
Hibbert, of Pelican Rapids, Minn., became the first athlete to six-peat at Winter X in Aspen – beating White by hours – and raised his hands as he crossed the finish line.
Not bad considering last March Hibbert thought his career might be over when he lacerated his kidney in a crash at a competition.
"It definitely made me think twice about what I was doing," said the 28-year-old Hibbert, who had to lay low for months to recuperate. "But as soon as I was able to ride and train again, I knew there was no choice. It was a long time to be down. It's all right – I came back strong."
Three-time defending champion Kaya Turski had her reign in ski slopestyle come to an end as 17-year-old Tiril Sjastad Christiansen of Norway captured gold in a crash-marred event.
Turski, of Montreal, had to wait more than 30 minutes for her final run after the skier before her, Ashley Battersby, crashed on the course and slid into the fencing. Battersby was carted off on a sled and taken to a local hospital with a knee injury.
Before the event even began, Rose Battersby, who's not related to Ashley, suffered a lumbar spine fracture in a wipeout on a practice run. She was transferred to Denver for more evaluation, but was moving and had feeling in all extremities, according to X Games officials.
"It's really disappointing to hear one of your fellow competitors go down, and you don't really know what's going on," said Turski, who wound up with the silver medal. "We're keeping things as positive as possible and sending out the best vibes we can."
There have been quite a few spills at Winter X – some minor and some horrific, like when snowmobile rider Caleb Moore clipped the top of a jump during freestyle competition on Thursday. He went over the handlebars and the heavy sled rolled over the top of him. Although he walked off the course, he went to the hospital with a concussion.
While there, he developed bleeding around his heart and was flown to Grand Junction for surgery Friday.
On Sunday, Moore suffered a "secondary complication involving his brain." The Moore family released a statement, but provided no further details, only that the rider "continues to be monitored in ICU."
Another scary moment happened Sunday night when a young fan was hurt after a runaway snowmobile veered into the crowd.
The teenager was evaluated on site for a right knee injury and released to his father. It's not clear whether he was hurt jumping out of the way or was struck by the sled.
Snowmobiler Jackson Strong tumbled off the snowmobile during the best trick competition. The throttle stuck on the 450-pound machine and it swerved straight toward the crowd – fans scurrying out of the way. The snowmobile came to a rest when it got tangled up in the retaining fence.
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For the anonymous executioners of death row, the 'high' of pulling the lever is often followed by a lifetime of doubt.Only a fellow executioner like 59-year-old Jerry Givens would know how crushingly hard it will continue to be for those who put Troy Davis to death last week even as he continued to insist on his innocence.
Read More at http://www.newsweek.com/i-committed-murder-67463
I Committed Murder
By Michael Daly
Only a fellow executioner like 59-year-old Jerry Givens would know how crushingly hard it will continue to be for those who put Troy Davis to death last week even as he continued to insist on his innocence.
"The executioner is the one that suffers," Givens says on the day after Davis's execution in Georgia. "The person that carries out the execution itself is stuck with it the rest of his life. He has to wear that burden. Who would want that on them?"
During the 17 years that Givens worked as an executioner in Virginia, he put 62 men to death. And each time, he felt what he calls "the executioner high," an adrenalized state that always imparted a merciful unreality as he sat behind a curtain and pulled the lever, releasing a fatal cocktail of three drugs that seemed to him less humane than the electricity he previously unleashed by pulling a switch. The chemicals of lethal injection always took eternal minutes longer than the deadly jolt from the electric chair.
"I had to transform myself into a person who would take a life," Givens says. "That transformation might linger for a while. You might be on that for three weeks."
He figures this same high visited the executioners in Georgia who dispatched Davis last week, in accordance with the state's Administrative and Execution Procedures, Lethal Injection, Under Death Sentence. "I guess those people last night were on that emotional executioner high." He says the high is all the more intense with cases that receive public attention, such as when he dispatched the Briley brothers in Virginia in the mid-1980s after their seven-month spree of rape and at least 11 murders.
But once the protective high wears off, the executioner is left with the reality that he has taken a life. And in the case of condemned prisoners like Davis, who maintain their innocence to the very end, there is always that lingering doubt. The only certainty is that the penalty is irrevocable.
"You take an innocent life—that means I committed murder," Givens says.
If Troy Davis wasn't in fact innocent, there is a near certainty that some prisoners presently on death row are. A recent tabulation by the Death Penalty Information Center showed that 138 prisoners were exonerated after being sentenced to death between 1973 and 2010. That included five in Georgia, the state that remained determined to put Davis to death despite the numerous reasonable doubts regarding his guilt and the momentous public outrage joined by such varied public figures as Bishop Desmond Tutu and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.
While the prosecutors, jurors, and judge all had their say in putting a prisoner on death row, the task of actually carrying out the sentence falls to an executioner with no idea of what was said and done at trial. "You don't know," Givens says. "You don't take part in the trial. You weren't there to witness it." And even cases of undisputed guilt can continue to haunt executioners to the end of their days. In all 62 of Givens's cases in Virginia, the official paperwork bore a word that has stayed with him. "When you look at the death certificate it says, 'HOMICIDE,'" he notes. "How can it leave you?"
His career as an executioner ended 11 years ago, when he was convicted on charges of perjury and money laundering unrelated to his work—going to prison himself for four years, swearing he was innocent. Givens is now a truckdriver, but the residual horror of his time as an executioner flashed back to him as he followed from afar the news reports of the Davis case. "Whenever they have an execution, I get back to when I used to do them. It's human nature."
Also in human nature is a cumulative revulsion to taking life even when it is legally sanctioned. Those who finally have been driven to campaign against the death penalty include not just executioners like Givens, but a number of wardens who found it unbearable even to give the order that the executioners carry out. A longtime warden of San Quentin prison in California began to choke up when asked about four executions over which she presided, particularly the execution of Manuel Babbitt, a decorated Vietnam vet who killed a 78-year-old woman in a burglary. Babbitt's brother had turned him in after false assurances that the state would not seek the death penalty. "The brother had to come that night and watch him be executed," Jeanne Woodford, the former warden, recalls.
The 58-year-old lifelong corrections official says that presiding over executions actually becomes more difficult over time. "You have to appear normal," she says. "You have to appear in control ... You try to tell yourself and your staff that this is the law."
Her career of nearly four decades culminated with her 2004 appointment as the director of all of California's prisons, but soon afterward, she resigned.
"I knew I couldn't carry out another execution," she says. "I knew I just couldn't do it."
She says that, from the start, "it never made sense to me that we would believe killing a human being would make up for killing a human being."
Woodford has concluded that capital punishment also makes no fiscal sense. She figures that her state spent $4 billion to execute 13 inmates between 1992 and 2006—money that would have been much better spent on fielding more cops. She notes that nearly half of California's murders go unsolved. "If this is really about public safety, then the better option is to keep police on the streets," she says.
Woodford further suggests that the ultimate sanction is unacceptably arbitrary in its application. She has joined other former wardens, along with at least one executioner, in a national effort to save others from the experiences that perpetually haunt them.
"The death penalty shouldn't exist at all," she says.
In the meantime, executioners in 36 states will continue with the ritual that begins with swabbing the condemned's arm with alcohol, a ghoulish precaution against infection from the needle that will momentarily deliver death.
One recent addition to the protocol in Georgia is the "consciousness check," instituted this year after two of the condemned were apparently administered insufficient doses of an anesthetic that precedes the two chemicals that do the actual killing. Because of the insufficient doses, the two are believed to have suffered the horror of being suffocated by the paralyzing pancuronium bromide, and then the agony of being burned from within by the potassium chloride. A shortage of the anesthetic sodium thiopental had forced Georgia officials to purchase a batch from an English firm called Dream Pharma that operates out of a storefront driving school in London.
Besides adopting a new anesthetic, phenobarbital, Georgia adopted the new check, which involves tapping the condemned's eye and nudging his arm after the administration of the first drug, to ensure he is unconscious before the remaining two are delivered.
That was the procedure followed in the Davis execution, by a team contracted by the state through a company called Rainbow Medical Associates. Rainbow is headlined by Dr. Carlo Musso, who presents himself as a professional descendant of Dr. Guillotin, arguing that he is only trying to spare the condemned prisoner unnecessary suffering.
If Musso is untroubled by his work, he is undoubtedly an exception. The others may still be finding protection in that "executioner high" that Givens describes, and they will likely experience it again on Oct. 5, when Georgia is scheduled to execute Marcus Ray Johnson for killing a woman in 1994.
When that high wears off and reality sets in, the consciousness check will be followed by a conscience check. And, if Givens is right, the executioners will then be the ones who suffer.
Givens finds refuge from his ghosts in religion, coping more successfully than some executioners of earlier days. Two of New York's executioners committed suicide: Dow Hover by carbon monoxide in 1990 and John Hulbert with a gun in 1929 after saying, "I got tired of killing people."


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A lovely Valentione's Day to you, kupo!
Each year, we ask for the aid of crackerjack confectioners—
No, that's not right.
Give great gifts of succulent sweets—
No, that's not it either.
My brain is mashed to mush, kupo!
That's right!
Coquettish couples give grand gifts to express their enduring emotion for each other.
Some lovelorn lads and ladies even deliver delectable desserts to potential partners.
Were you aware that the amazing Atelloune, animal expert extraordinaire, has dutifully deduced that chocobos feel fondness just like people?
She is planning to present her probing research at a "collegiate conference."
What's a "collegiate"? A new snack, kupo?
Well, either way, Atelloune's dramatic discovery is going to make a magnificent splash for able adventurers! This Valentione's, I'll be busy as a bee!
Prycillia found herself quite consternated.
"Help them find love? How?"
Prycillia herself was just a girl. It's not that she didn't love love. She talked about it with her friends all the time. If someone asked for her help, she'd jump at the chance to provide her own opinion on the matter.
But that's when it comes to people. Chocobos, however...
"Atelloune's ideas have always been crazy, but this one's a bit too off-kilter!"
Still, Atelloune was quite clear; she wanted to see if chocobos really could fall in love. "Assist young, single chocobos in finding a mate. Make a detailed report on your findings." These were the research objectives laid out before Prycillia.
"So...I have to come up with a way for young male chocobos to communicate their feelings to the female chocobo they've fallen in love with.
A Bastokan native, Prycillia put on a determined face and went from person to person, trying to glean whatever insight she could. An up-and-coming fashionista in the markets told her with hand on hips and chest thrust forward, "If you're trying to express your love, you've got to give them a present that perfectly captures your feelings!" When pressed further, she explained, "A good subligar will get you far!" Prycillia tried to hide her dejection. Chocobos have no use for subligaria.
The young woman in the Metalworks, a samurai, also proffered cut-and-dry words of wisdom. "More than gifts, it's what you say that counts," she said matter-of-factly, battered by Prycillia's sudden request. "The sweeter your words, the more receptive your would-be lover will be." The faint blushing of the girl's cheeks as she spoke tickled Prycillia's fancy. How cute! She'd have to remember that trick the next time she ran into the boys at the...never mind.
Continuing her investigation to the port, she ran into an accommodating elderly couple. "If you don't get along, there's no future," the old woman intoned, casting a longing gaze at her husband." I count my blessings every day I look at him," she added just as the golden hairpiece adorning her white hair glistened in the evening sun.
So in conclusion, Prycillia summarized, for people to fall in love, you need an appropriate gift, a wonderful confession, and a perfect match. But which of these is the most important? Prycillia wrang her hands, deep in thought, before finally making her decision.
Atelloune sighed in half-exasperation at Prycillia's response. Two opened letters already lay on the table before her—one each from her other disciples, Niscoliette and Chabobo. It gave her no end of consternation that they, too, had arrived at the same conclusion.
"Research is all about budget," she fretted, wondering if this plan was at all feasible. Then she struck upon gold—what if the compensation for participating in this experiment was prepared by her assistants themselves?
Several days later, she gathered the three in Jeuno and set them off to work.
"One for the chocobo~ ...Two for the report~ ...Three for Atelloune.~"
"Prycillia, if you don't stop that horrendous blathering right now, Altana help me—!"
"Niscoliette, if you're really looking for a boyfriend, you'd better stop looking down on everyone from your high horse!"
"Like you're one to talk!"
"Come on, you two. If we don't keep at it we'll never have enough to give to all those adventurers!"
Chabobo's gentle chiding brought calm silence to the table, which was piled precariously high with unfinished Tender Bouquets.
Yet the truce between Prycillia and Niscoliette was not to last.
"Oh my—it just came it me!"
"What did?"
"One needs effort and tenacity to find perfect love!"
"'One' meaning...whom exactly?"
The male or the female, of course. Prycillia answered Chabobo's questions without hesitation: "The man's!"
"Oh, come on. We both know that guys are a bit reluctant with that sort of stuff, so it always falls on our shoulders!"
"To be fair, the ones we're forcing to do it are the adventurers."
"But still, in all seriousness, I think it's really up to the guys—you know, about effort and tenacity."
"You may be right. They've also gotta be more go-get-'em!"
"Yeah, and they need to be sincere, too!"
"If they had all those qualities, then we'd be getting confessed to day and night!"
"...You think all this year's chocolate is going to go to waste again? And while we're at it, anyone else sick of these stupid flowers?"
Atelloune, surreptitiously listening to their conversations from the shadows, sighed softly. "I bet they don't even realize that the reason no one confesses their love is because they set the bar too high."
Forget the chocobos—the true strangers to love are those three finicky students.
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Illustration: Mitsuhiro Arita
Event Schedule
Valentione's Day festivities will be held from 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Friday, February 1, 2013, to the same hour on Friday, February 15.
Assist a chocobo in finding their ideal mate!
Help a lovelorn chocobo find the right "kwehs" to express their affection by talking to the following NPCs:
- Niscoliette: Southern San d'Oria (I-11)
- Prycillia: Bastok Mines (J-9)
- Chabobo: Windurst Woods (K-12)
A variety of rewards can be reaped from successful matching sessions, including the all-new Tender Bouquet!
Previous Valentione's Day Event Rewards
Items won from previous Valentione's Day celebrations may be acquired from moogles at the following locations:
- Southern San d'Oria (J-9)
- Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
- Bastok Mines (I-9)
- Bastok Markets (G-8)
- Windurst Waters (north side F-5)
- Windurst Woods (K-10)
Shake that Bouquet!
This latest edition of the Mog House Decoration Contest will once again be held on the official forums.
In the spirit of Valentione's Day, the theme will be "spending time with your beloved." Using the Tender Bouquet gained from this year's event, arrange your Mog House in a manner appropriate to the season, take a screenshot, and post it to the official forums.
Once the deadline has passed, the development and operations teams will decide which houses display the most love and passion. Winners will receive two special furnishings: a rolanberry delightaru and a jewelry case!
Period of Eligibility
Friday, February 1, 2013, at 12:00 a.m. (PST), to the same hour on Thursday, February 21, 2013.
How to Participate
Read on for contest details, including specifics regarding the entry process.


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If you've never tried acting, our play reading events are a great place to start. It's essentially off-stage acting. Depending on the number of characters in the chosen play, it may be that you have the chance to read for several characters. A great chance to test your versatility. Play reading events are also a great opportunity for us to assess a play as a potential future production. You can choose to read a part or just sit and listen. We usually hang around for a chat afterwards.
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Copenhagen Theatre Circle's Open Stage event welcomes performers of all genres: poets, storytellers, stand-up comedians, singers, dancers, clowns, musicians, magicians, etc. etc. A call to artists old and new: this is the space you have been looking for to try out your work in front of an energetic and supportive audience. Copenhagen wants to see what you've got! If you wish to come along and watch, just turn up – entry is free. If you wish to perform, sign up in advance by contacting the Open Stage organisers at email@example.com. Please provide the following information: your contact e-mail, genre, time desired (maximum 10 minutes) and a short summary of your piece.


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It's crunch time on "The Ultimate Fighter 12," and in tonight's episode No. 9, we kick off the quarterfinal round with a pair of Team Koscheck vs. Team GSP fights.
With just a handful of episodes remaining in this season of the UFC's long-running reality series, the fights now come quickly and furiously each Wednesday.
This week, we get Team Koscheck's Sako Chivitchian vs. Team GSP's Jonathan Brookins and Team Koscheck's Nam Phan vs. Team GSP's Cody McKenzie.
Back at the house, Sako is talking to teammate Sevak Magakian, who wants his friend to avenge his preliminary-round loss to Jonathan.
At a subsequent Team GSP training session, head coach Georges St-Pierre says he's focusing more on tactical work than conditioning and hard training as they enter the final rounds.
"I know you'll want to push it, but please don't," Georges says. "I want you to be hungry."
In a confessional, Jonathan knows his Armenian housemates are gunning for him. But he feels far more excitement than fear and knows he must watch out for Sako's dangerous striking. Georges believes Jonathan has the tools to win and tells him so.
Soon, Team GSP convenes for its training session. Head coach Josh Koscheck says Sako needs to avoid the ground and can't give up his back to Jonathan, who's shown some submission savvy in his earlier fights. The team drills Sako on how to protect his back, specifically when he's trying to get off the ground.
Josh explains it'll be a tough but winnable fight while Sako shares his confidence in getting the victory.
Back at the house later that night, Jonathan and Nam are growing tired of the in-house antics and goofing off, and they retreat to the backyard and explain that there's got to be more than life than what they care about. Both fighters are concerned their teammates already consider themselves UFC fighters, and Jonathan is determined not to let such thoughts creep into his head. Scrapping for everything he's earned is what got the WEC vet to where he's at, and he's determined to see it through.
Before we know it, it's fight time, and we immediately jump into Sako and Jonathan getting ready for their fight. Both warm up and then head to the cage for our first quarterfinal fight.
We've got:
Team GSP's Jonathan Brookins (11-2) vs. Team Koscheck's Sako Chivitchian (5-0)
UFC president Dana White does the intros, and referee Herb Dean is the third man in the cage.
The fighters patiently paw jabs until Sako strikes first with a lunging shot. He tries again, but Jonathan easily avoids it. Jonathan tries to force the fight to the mat but is pushed into the cage and tagged with some short punches and knees. However, he quickly reveres the position and then tosses Sako to the mat. As Sako tries to get back to his feet, he gives up his back, and Jonathan pounces. Sako gets back to his feet and tries to roll out of the hold as Jonathan can secure just one hook. Jonathan looks to his corner for instruction while his opponent lies on top of him once they hit the mat, and he finally secures his other hook and methodically works for the rear-naked choke. Sako initially defends, but Jonathan slides an arm under his opponent's neck and forces the tap-out moments later.
It's another quick and impressive win for Jonathan. And it came exactly in the manner Team Koscheck hoped to avoid.
"I'm amazed how quickly he tapped him out," Dana says of Jonathan. "This guy is the real deal."
In a confessional, Josh is exasperated.
"Did that just happen again?" he asks dejectedly.
Back in the dressing room, Sako has a tough time accepting his first loss. Josh calms him down and reminds him he made his a simple mistake. Sako vows he'll learn from it.
Back in the Team GSP dressing room, Jonathan and Georges are all smiles. But the focus soon turns to Cody and his upcoming fight with Nam.
In the van on the way to the gym the following day, Team GSP talks about Cody's streak of guillotine wins. His confidence continues in the dressing room, and Georges is impressed with the fighter's mindset.
In a confessional, Cody says his unorthodox style is tough on opponents, and he expects Nam to be no different. Georges, though, is concerned that the rival team may be too familiar with his guillotine, and they work on moves to put Nam on his back to negate his striking.
Cody knows it'll be a tough fight and that someone as experienced as Nam likely has seen his whole bag of tricks.
Cody then enters the gym and sees Josh sitting with Savek, Nam and the rest of the team. Cody, who's had a long-brewing and humorous feud with Josh, just laughs. Josh makes Nam vow that he'll kick his ass.
At the Team Koscheck training session, Andy Main helps Nam work on his guillotine defense. Nam thinks his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt gives him an edge on the ground, but he's also confident his striking can lead him to victory.
Soon, it's weigh-in day, and both teams return to the gym for the festivities. Cody is 155 pounds, and Nam is half a tick heavier at 155.5. With the staredown, it's obvious Cody has a huge reach and height advantage.
Back at the house later that night, Nam and Cody actually have a pretty detailed conversation in the kitchen. Cody thinks he's fishing for information on the eve of their fight, but Nam plays it off and says that's not his intent.
The next morning, Cody meditates in the backyard and talks about how he's not a normal fighter. The long-haired Alaskan, though, says his style has worked fine so far in his career.
In a confessional, Nam admits that his opponent's unorthodox style isn't "correct" but that it's damn effective.
After some warmups at the gym, both competitors head to the cage, and we have:
Team Koscheck's Nam Phan (16-7) vs. Team GSP's Cody McKenzie (10-0)
Josh Rosenthal has officiating duties, and we're underway. Cody quickly crosses the cage to throw body kicks and follows with punches and a takedown attempt. Nam fends it off against the cage. He hits a knee but hops back up, but Cody smothers him and throws short knees and punches to the body while pressing him against the fence. Cody again looks for the takedown and briefly wrestles his opponent to the mat, but Nam again pops back up. Cody keeps him pinned against the cage and throws more knees and punches before putting his opponent on his back. Cody works from inside full guard and throws punches to the head and body. Nam deflects most of it, but Cody soon pushes him into the cage, where Nam has less room to work. Nam, though, scrambles and gets back to his feet and safely retreats to the center of the cage to reset. Cody again swarms with punches and a takedown attempt and pushes his opponent against the cage. Josh yells for Nam to get off the cage. Nam tries, but Cody overpowers him and puts him back against the fence. Cody is relentless with the takedown attempts and clings to him. Nam, though, stays upright as he eats some additional short punches. Nam fights off another takedown attempt and finally circles off the cage. The fighters restart in the center of the cage, and Nam finally lands some punches form distance. Cody looks tired and eats some head shots. He then shoots, but Nam collapses on top of him and delivers punches and then stands over Cody when he rolls to his back. He ultimately, though, calls for a standup. Cody fires off kicks to create distance and lands a couple nice low shots before the round ends with Nam fending off a takedown. Nam survived well, but MMAjunkie.com scores it 10-9 for Cody due to his aggression.
The fighters receive instructions between rounds. Cody is told to lean on his opponent to wear him down while Nam is told to work his combinations.
As the round starts, the fighters trade punches and kicks, and Cody's reach is paying dividends. Nam, though, hangs tough and becomes the aggressor. He can't get close enough to land much, though. The fighters trade sloppy strikes until Cody shoots and presses his opponent against the cage. Nam breaks off but eats a body kick in the process. Nam works a nice combo to the body, retreats, and then looks to engage again. Cody lands a nice body kick, shoots, but is fended off by the quicker and better-conditioned Nam. Cody moves in and partially eats an overhand punch. The fighters again trade sporadic shots, but Nam is more accurate and snaps Cody's head back with a stiff left. Cody continues pressing forward but gets tagged a few times more. Nam then lands a right-left combo to the body that drops Cody, and before Nam can move in, the ref waves off the fight and awards him the TKO win.
Josh is the loudest to cheer and jumps over and into the cage as Team Koscheck rejoices. The celebration is a bit over the top, but it's clearly a win they needed.
Georges admits that Cody may have gassed out in the second rounds. Dana believes Cody's quick wins likely didn't give him the cage experience he needed. Josh brags like he's the one who scored the win.
"He was not very (good with) sportsmanship," Georges says of Josh. "He tried to get under my skin. He got under my skin and in my mind, which is a good thing. In training, I'm going to be thinking about him and how I'm going to beat him."
Josh does shake hands with Cody after the fight but admits in a confessional that it was personal and that he loved to see Cody "shut up."
It's a tough loss for Cody, who admits embarrassment because he let his family down.
And this week's episode concludes with him sitting on a bench in a bit of disbelief.
Up next week we've got the final two quarterfinal matchups and the unveiling of the semifinal pairings.
For the latest on this season, stay tuned to "The Ultimate Fighter 12" section of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
Catch new episodes of "The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck" every Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Spike TV. MMAjunkie.com recaps each episode of the reality series, and full series coverage can be found on "The Ultimate Fighter 12" page.


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About the School of Professional And Career Education
- Tradition and history
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- Credit for professional experience and life long learning
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Tradition and History
Barry University is a Catholic institution of higher education founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Originally founded as Barry College for Women, the college became known as Barry University in 1981. Barry has grown into a coeducational university that is one of the leading centers for education, with academic centers throughout Florida. Grounded in the liberal arts tradition, Barry University is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate, graduate and professional education.
In 1971, Barry University recognized the unique educational needs of the working adult learner, and established what is now known as the School of Professional And Career Education (PACE). By 1982, PACE operated in 25 off campus sites to serve the adult learner population with schedules and academic support that accommodated their busy lifestyles and work demands, while still maintaining the highest quality education upon which Barry University's reputation was founded.
Designed for you, the adult learner
Specifically, PACE provides flexibility in degree completion at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Learners can self pace their degree pursuits – classes are offered once per week for 8 weeks, and they can determine if full time (2 courses every 8 weeks) or part time (1 course every 8 weeks) works best for them. PACE operates sites throughout the state of Florida; learners may also conveniently access degrees and individual courses online as well as in class. Non credit, professional development programs are also available.
Credit for professional experience and life long learning
Barry University is committed to transformative education achieved through life-long learning. Our internationally recognized Portfolio program is evidence of this core commitment of the university. The essence of the portfolio is the value of the adult learning experience throughout one's professional journey; through this process, adult learners can utilize a variety of sources to validate college level learning, and apply this knowledge to their undergraduate degree, up to 30 credits. Sources include military service, CLEP testing, licenses and certifications, DANTES, PONSI and other methods. A maximum of 90 credits, including transfer credits from other accredited institutions is considered, which reduces the time and tuition costs needed to complete a degree program.
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Leek with Lamb
(Etli Pirasa)
1 bunch of leeks (3 sticks), cut in chunks, washed several times
1 small carrot, peeled, sliced
150 gr lamb, cut in cubes
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp flour
1 + 1 1/4 cup hot water
1 egg yolk
4 tbsp lemon juice
Cook the lamb cubes in their own juice at medium-low heat. Then add 1 cup of hot water, cook at medium-low heat until most of the water evaporates and the lamb pieces soften. Add the leek, carrot, butter, olive oil, 1 1/4 cup hot water, salt and pepper. Sprinkle the flour all over, stir.
Cover the lid halfway and cook for about 20 minutes over medium heat. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk with lemon juice. Take a few spoon of juice of the dish and blend well with the sauce. Slowly pour this mixture into the pot while stirring. Cover the lid and simmer for about 3-4 minutes. Serve it while still hot with the bread.
2 servings.
Meal Ideas:
- Red Lentil and Mint Soup, Potato Borek and Tahini & Grape Molasses.
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Bluebell is coming to Albuquerque. I'm never leaving. The end.
Ps. Do you think this is an answer to my prayers that I learn to love the idea of living here for the next 4 years? (and no, this is not an announcement of med school yet. Tune in March 15th for that one) Because I kind of think it is. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for sending me Bluebell.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
stop the presses
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harem pants a la benson
My son could be a budding fashion designer. The other day he created homemade harem pants. And now I know why those pants really look ridiculous; it's just a long sleeve tee on your legs.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
on coloring trucks
Ability to draw garbage trucks and tractor thingies (that's the technical term) is not a requisite for being mom to (almost) three boys. But they sure think you are cool if you can.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The war would now be over.
We would be just coming back from tibet.
Our bad luck from that broken mirror would end today.
That chapter 13 would finally be gone.
All this if something else had happened 7 years ago today.
But thankfully none of that did, because instead we were busy getting ready to spend the rest of eternity together.
Someday 7 years will seem so few, but today I am amazed. 7 years! And although it's cliche, each one has truly topped the last.
7 things I love about being married to you, love:
You let me warm my freezing feet on your warm legs any time I want to.
I can cry whenever I need and you are always there to tell me things will turn out okay. Even if I cried about that same thing yesterday.
When I make dinner, you do the dishes! (usually)
You never make me feel bad about taking a nap when I have ten thousand other things I should be doing.
You don't get mad that I move your movies down in our Netflix queue so I can move the Coco Chanel movie to the top.
You think I'm awesome because I make hot fudge and bread from scratch.
You are my perfect other half. All that I am not, you are.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
squash pasta (don't be scared)
Squash covered pasta. What can I say? I was scared to try it frankly, and anticipated cold cereal for dinner following this culinary disaster. Boy was I wrong. THIS STUFF IS AMAZING. Amazing! So good that Ben (extreme squash hater) took it for lunch the next day, and the children (don't get me started on their hatred for all things vegetabley) thought it was macaroni and cheese and had second helpings. You do not like squash in any form? Try it try it, you'll conform! (wow that was clever)
Squash Pasta (adapted from Giada's Kitchen)
3 Tbs olive oil
1 lb butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon salt (I use Kosher)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup vegetable or chicken broth
3/4 to 1 cup whole milk
1 lb pasta (I used cellentani)
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil (very optional-- I didn't use it but it would be pretty for color)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (again, mostly for garnish and I actually preferred it without)
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over med-high heat. Add the squash, garlic, the salt, and the pepper. Saute until the squash is golden and tender, 5-7 minutes. Add broth, bring to a simmer, then cover and cook until squash is very soft, another 5-7 minutes. Transfer to a blender (BE CAREFUL, I've had hot things explode in there too many times) or food processor and puree until very smooth.
Cook pasta in salted boiling water until desired doneness.
Combine pasta, squash mixture, and 3/4 cup milk in a large pot. Stir to combine and heat through if necessary. Add remaining milk as desired to loosen the consistency. Add basil and cheese (if using), season to taste with salt and pepper and serve! I served mine with parmesan focaccia and green salad.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
if i had $90 to spare
I waaaaaant this dress. Look at the profile view of it here. That mannequin has the cutest baby bump.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
cupcakes of all kinds
These are the best homemade cupcakes I've ever made, without question. You MUST try them.
Key Lime Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting
{adapted from CuisineNie, adapted from Food Network}
Makes about 18
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp grated key (or regular) lime zest
1 1/2 Tbsp freshly squeezed key (or regular) lime juice
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
The Frosting:
5 ounces good quality white chocolate, chopped into small chucks
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
Pinch salt
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 Tbsp lime juice (bottled or freshly squeezed)
1/4 cup sour cream
lime zest or candied lime peel for garnish
* Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. With the mixer on low speed, add the eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down the bowl after each addition. Add the vanilla extract, key lime zest and juice and mix well. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In 5 parts total, alternately add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk to the batter, beginning and ending with the dry. Mix until just combined. Line a muffin pan with paper liners and fill each liner almost to the top with batter. A spring loaded 1/4 cup ice cream scoop works great for this and ensures the cupcakes are all the same size. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the tops begin to barely brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then transfer cupcakes to a baking rack to cool completely.
FROSTING: In a small heat proof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, carefully and slowly melt the white chocolate. Remove from heat and let cool until just slightly warm. Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, gradually add the powdered sugar until well combined. Add the salt, vanilla extract, key lime juice, and sour cream and mix until very smooth. Add the melted white chocolate and mix just until incorporated. Frost the cupcakes and garnish with a bit of grated lime zest or candied lime peel.
Oh and ever so sorry for the photobooth photos of photos... ye olde scanner died 3 days after we turned down our free printer with computer purchase option. Thanks a lot Murphy.
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The second beta of Windows Live Essentials 2011, the application bundle containing Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Sync, and more besides, was released today.
The update includes a load of stability and performance enhancements, along with several new or improved features: publishing videos to flickr from Movie Maker, better support of Gmail's special spam and trash folders, and larger video uploads to SkyDrive, to name a few.
Arguably the biggest new feature is in Windows Live Messenger. The first beta included the new social view with Facebook updates; with beta 2, this has been extended to include integration with Facebook chat. The 300 million Windows Live Messenger users can now use Messenger to chat with the 500 million Facebook users.
Once Messenger has been associated with Facebook and given permission to log in, Facebook contacts work in much the same way as regular contacts. Their online status shows up in the contact list, and you can converse with them in the normal way. Facebook chat is a great deal more limited than regular Messenger chat, of course, but all in all, the feature works exactly as it's supposed to.
To avoid crushing the Windows Live Messenger servers under the load of half a billion Facebookers, the support for Facebook chat will be rolled out in a staggered fashion. At the moment, the feature is only available in the US, UK, France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia. More countries will be available over time.


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Recipe Provided By: Allison Chadwick of Rossville, GA
Prep Time and Total Time: 10 prep and 13 total
Ingredient List and Recipe Steps:
1 package wheat pita bread
1 Rotisserie chicken, pull half the meat off, shred
1 handful of white grapes, halved
1 half can of manderine oranges, drained (in juice)
1 Tbsp of finely chopped purple onion
1/4 cup finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/2 cup of salted roasted almonds
1/2 cup mayo (full fat or light)
fresh cracked black pepper to taste
Mix together in a bowl all of the ingredients except for the pita bread. (You can warm this salad up a bit in the microwave for about 30 second per 1 cup serving)
Put chicken salad in halved pita bread and enjoy!
Servings: 4-5
Comments: Pair this up with homemade chicken noodle soup or broccoli coleslaw for dinner
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The Holy Eucharist (or Mass) is celebrated daily at the Cathedral.
The St Dyfrig Chapel is in the north-eastern corner of the Cathedral. Named in honour of St Dyfrig, a Welsh saint from the sixth century and one of the patron saints of the Cathedral, this small chapel is a haven of peace reserved for quiet prayer and reflection.


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Fashion Night Out and Corrie Nielsen
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DeLauro: Brother of slain Newtown teacher to attend State of the Union address
HARTFORD -- A Connecticut Congresswoman says the brother of one of the teachers slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School will attend the president's State of the Union address as her guest.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says she will be accompanied by the brother of Victoria Soto, who died trying to shield her students from the gunman inside the school in Newtown, Conn.
Carlos Soto is a student at Stratford High School. DeLauro said Friday that having him at the address will be a reminder that victims of gun violence are not statistics.
The gunman killed six staff members and 20 first-grade students inside the school on Dec. 14 before committing suicide.
President Barack Obama is expected to try and rally support for his proposals to curb gun violence in the address Tuesday.