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Every single Porsche 991 GT3 will get a new engine due to the engine fire issue arising from cracked blocks spilling oil. Apparently just changing what Porsche identifies as faulty connecting rod bolts (item number 7 pictured) would not appease owners or preserve the 991 GT3's value as well as a brand spanking new motor so roughly ~700 GT3's are getting their motors pulled.
Every previous generation GT3 had a flat-6 engine block designed by Hans Mezger. He was an engineer famous for designing Motorsport motors and designed what became known as the GT1 engine block for Porsche. This engine block served as the basis for the 996 and 997 GT3 models as well as the 996 Turbo, 996 GT2, 997.1 Turbo, and 997 GT2. This engine block was originally conceived for the Porsche 911 GT1 which won Le Mans in 1998.
The new direct injected Porsche engine blocks have not won Le Mans, let's put it that way. The block could not even survive the first year of 991 GT3 production. Somebody has to say it, Porsche deserves this for cutting costs and taking race bred parts out of the street cars. They deserve this and as does any other manufacturer who produces a street car using their race cars name without the race cars most vital parts.
A Porsche spokesperson stated, "We are in the process of validating the revised par. We will be replacing the engines in each of the 911 GT3s that have been built thus far."
Would this problem have ever reared its head if the GT3 was sporting an engine tested in the rigors of Motorsport? Nope. But Porsche will fix it and we will move on. There still is something here that makes you wonder if the cheaper route really comes out cheaper in the end.


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A long-awaited overdraft report, released June 11, featured some unflattering statistics related to credit union overdraft income.
According to the report, while bank and thrift service charges on deposit accounts have declined since 2008, credit union fee income has increased by 15%.
Because credit union fee income as reported to the NCUA includes several sources, the report said, defining how much comes from overdrafts and not-sufficient-funds fees is difficult. The CFPB sourced Strunk & Associates' as saying NSF and overdraft fees contributed 11.6% of credit union 2012 operating revenues, compared to 6.9% of bank and thrift revenue during the same period. However, Strunk also told CFPB that NSF and overdraft fees accounted for 51% of credit union fee income in 2012, compared to 78% for community banks and thrifts. Large banks report a small percentage of income from NSFs and overdrafts, the report said because they serve more large commercial accounts than small community-based institutions.
Credit unions did get some good news in the report when comparing the amount they charge for NSFs and overdrafts. Although credit unions were categorized along with small banks, the report said small institutions charge median NSF and overdraft fees of $30, compared to $34 by the 33 largest institutions.
The report was critical of opt-in overdraft protection programs, saying that consumers who are heavy overdraft users and opted in to comply with a 2010 regulation paid $450 more during the first six months under the new rules, compared to those who did not. Opt-in users also experienced more frequent instances of involuntary account closures, which the report said makes it more difficult for the consumer to open an account in the future.
The CFPB also referenced class action lawsuits challenging transaction ordering and other policies that have allegedly increased the incidence of overdrafts and fees. In 2012, five California credit unions were hit with similar class action suits: the $9.8 billion SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, the $6.4 billion Star One Credit Union and $1.3 billion Kern Schools Federal Credit Union, the $2.1 billion Educational Employees Credit Union and the $812 million Xceed Financial FCU. The first four suits were dismissed in September 2012, and Xceed Financial settled with plaintiff Cuthbert Shillingford in July 2012. The court documents filed by plaintiff attorneys featured language that had been copied from similar suits against big banks.
The CFPB stressed in the report that the information does not imply that banks and credit unions should be precluded from offering overdraft coverage, and in fact, the study found some progress in consumer protections.
"Nonetheless, our findings with respect to the number of consumers who are incurring heavy overdraft fees or account closures and the wide variations across institutions indicate that certain practices and procedures merit further analysis to determine whether they are causing the kind of consumer harm that the federal consumer protections laws are designed to prevent," the CFPB said.
CUNA Deputy General Counsel Mary Dunn said she told the CFPB that unlike banks, credit unions can build capital only from retained earnings from such things as fees.
In a press call, CFPB Director Richard Cordray said the bureau recognizes that regulators have addressed overdraft and NSF practices in the institutions they supervise. However, the CFPB's review intends to "help develop more consistent federal oversight of these issues across financial institutions."
Cordray said the report is just a first step in examining overdraft practices, and said the CFPB would continue to collect more data on the topic.

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ECB in Wait and See Mode
The European Central Bank left monetary policy unchanged and President Mario Draghi suggested there was little to do for Spain or Greece at this stage. Dow Jones's Paul Hannon looks at why the ECB is sitting on its hands. Photo: Getty
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by Tom Utescher
Going back a number of years, Germantown Friends had lost all of its annual field hockey matches with Shipley School, the four-time defending champion in the Friends Schools League.
In a road game on Shipley's artificial turf last Friday, the visiting Tigers not only didn't lose to the Gators, but came very close to beating them. GFS scored 10 minutes into the contest and almost made its 1-0 lead stand up until the final whistle, then Shipley got on the board with two-and-a-half minutes left in regulation play. The deadlock could not be dissolved during an overtime period, and the 1-1 tie became official.
Germantown's goal was credited to Isabel Ballester, who generously wished to share the honor with junior classmate Sydney Weigert, saying each got some wood on the ball at the same time during a scramble in front of the Gators' goal. Shipley was saved from a shutout by freshman Sage Edelstein.
"It was heartbreaking because this is the best game we've played all season," said GFS coach Maribeth Wicoff. "We passed, we played, as a team. We left it all on the field and I don't think the score really showed how we dominated the game, so it was hard in that respect."
The outcome resulted in a 3-1-1 record in for each teams in FSL competition, with each club's loss coming against the current league leader, Academy of the New Church.
"That game was intense, too," related Wicoff, "but our passing game against ANC wasn't as dominant. We played better in this [Shipley] game, played better as a team."
For the Tigers, last Tuesday's 1-0 setback against ANC was followed a day later by a 3-0 non-league loss to Germantown Academy, which received goals from Allie Carrigan, Catherine Perlmutter, and Kelsey Remig. At the conclusion of Friday's match over at Shipley, GFS ended the week with an overall record of 6-4-1, while the hosts were 5-7-1.
Each team had several players sick or injured going into the game; one of the missing for GFS was senior Allison O'Connor, a team tri-captain along with classmate Cary Anne Kane and junior Maddie Andrews.
Shipley took the initiative at the outset, but did not penetrate the GFS circle. The Tigers came back upfield and got their first solid shot from Weigert, who drove the ball a little wide to the left.
The visitors kept up the pressure, and from the right side of the circle, sophomore Sarah Kane put the ball on the leg pads of Gators goalie Hayley Silva. Both teams scrambled to control the rebound, and Ballester and Weigert got to the ball to put GFS on the board with 19:57 remaining in the first half.
The Tigers earned a penalty corner five minutes later but did not get off a shot. With the clock at 11:53 Shipley called a time-out, but when play resumed GFS continued to control the action much of the time. After the visitors came away empty from another corner play, the half ended with the count still 1-0.
Although the Tigers did not add to their lead as the second half got underway, they kept pressure on the Gators, who eventually called another time-out, now with 13:53 left in regulation time. This time, the home team responded to the peptalk and began to take the play GFS.
On one rush the Gators forced Germantown's Andrews to make a pair of kick saves, then they earned a penalty corner. This did not immediately produce a shot, but a little later Shipley freshman Whitney Harris dribble the ball into the circle and whacked a strong shot a little outside of the right post.
With a tenacious performance from junior midfielder Katharine Cusick, among others, GFS weathered this storm.
"All of our defenders have been consistently tough," Wicoff said. "Dana Schulman, Emma Newman [both juniors] and Cary Anne Kane have been very steady, and [senior] Lindsay Freed has been pulling off some big plays."
The Tigers regrouped after the Shipley onslaught, and as the clock wound down in the second half, play drifted back and forth across midfield. On a free hit from outside the GFS circle the Gators sent the ball down towards the goal, and after several touches in front of the cage, Edelstein scored off an assist from Harris. With 2:28 showing, the score was now tied 1-1, much to the relief of the large and vocal home crowd.
In the final minute of regulation, GFS escaped a soul-crushing blow when a well-struck Shipley shot from the left side banged into the post on the near side. The match proceeded into overtime, and here Shipley finally resembled the Gators of old, dialing up the heat on the Tigers for the first eight minutes of the 10-minute extra session.
The visitors finally countered and crowded into the Shipley circle with about two minutes remaining, but back-to-back shots by Cusick and Sarah Kane were both stopped by Silva. On the final assault of the afternoon, Kane took the ball back into the Gators' circle, but could not get off a viable shot.
Shipley earned the only two corners of the overtime period, but still trailed in that department for the game, 5-6.
While ninth-graders Harris and Edelstein excelled for Shipley, GFS had its own freshman standout in Abigail Gard, who was often in the thick of the action in the midfield and on offense.
Wicoff concurred, "She certainly has a lot of skill, and we plan on putting that to use as we look forward to the playoffs."


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The first single I bought was "Snow Coach" by Russ Conway. It was at a school jumble sale, St. Cuthbert's Primary, sometime in the late 1960s. I bought it because I loved winter, and Christmas, and the idea of traveling through some snow-covered landscape to the sound of jingling sleigh bells . I also knew my great Aunt liked Russ Conway, so if I didn't like it….
I bought it together with a dog-eared copy of a Man from U.N.C.L.E. paperback (No. 3 "The Copenhagen Affair"). These were the very first things I had chosen and bought for myself, with a tanner (6d) and thrupenny bit (3d). I played the single from-time-to-time on my parents' Dansette Record Player - its blue and white case and its BSR autochanger, which allowed you to play up to 7 singles one-after-another. My brother had a selection of The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Elvis and The Move, which he played alternating one A-side with one B-side like some junior DJ. It meant I didn't have to buy singles, as my brother bought most of the things I wanted to hear, so I could spend my pennies on books and comics and sherbert dib-dabs. It was a musical education, and though Conway was a start, the first 45rpm single I really went out and bought was John Barry's The Theme from 'The Persuaders', which I played till it crackled like pan frying oil.
As this documentary shows 45rpm singles were an important part to growing up: everyone can recall buying their first single - what it looked like, its label, its cover, the signature on the inner groove - and the specific feelings these records aroused. With interviews from Norman Cook, Suzi Quatro, Holly Johnson, Noddy Holder, Richie Hawley, Paul Morley, Jimmy Webb, Jack White, Neil Sedaka, Trevor Horn, Miranda Sawyer, Brian Wilson, The Joy of the Single is a perfect piece of retro-vision, that captures the magic, pleasure and sheer bloody delight of growing-up to the sound of 45s.


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Pandora's Fed Up With The Lies The RIAA Has Been Spreading About It: Presents Some Facts
from the let's-rethink-this deptWe've pointed out that, recently, the RIAA and various front groups and attack-for-hire firms that it funds have been really turning up the attacks on Pandora, the hugely successful internet service that already pays significantly more in royalties than pretty much anyone else out there. This strategy is very much in the RIAA's tradition of attacking any successful internet company in the belief that 100% of the benefits of any successful internet company should flow to the RIAA.
In this case, the RIAA and its front groups have done a masterful job of misleading a group of artists into parroting RIAA talking points pretending that Pandora's royalties are too low, not too high. Most of these claims are based on a either base ignorance, or conscious deception, often focused on comparing apples to oranges. In some cases, this involves comparing totally different businesses (like Pandora to retailers), or, at times, it means comparing Pandora's "per play" royalties to the "per play" royalties of other services like terrestrial radio or satellite radio. Of course, that's insanely misleading, because the real metric is never "per play," but per listener. With Pandora, a single play is to a single listener (or, possibly a few people in a room or a car). But, terrestrial and satellite radio plays are broadcast, meaning that they usually have tens or even hundreds of thousands of listeners per play. Comparing "per play" rates is just a really dumb metric. There's a separate issue in terms of how some have misrepresented the various payments, implying that Pandora's payments are much, much lower than they really are -- something that an eager media picked up on without even the slightest bit of fact checking.
It would appear that Pandora has finally had enough of the smear campaign and the attacks and has posted a detailed response to these attacks, highlighting how wrong almost every talking point has been concerning Pandora, and how this level of dialogue has done a lot more harm than good.
The first falsehood being disseminated is that Pandora is seeking to reduce artist royalties by 85%. That is a lie manufactured by the RIAA and promoted by their hired guns to mislead and agitate the artist community. We have never, nor would we ever advocate such a thing. I challenge the RIAA to identify a statement from Pandora that says we seek to reduce royalties by 85%. On the contrary, all of the key principals including Cary Sherman (the head of the RIAA) and Mike Huppe (the head of SoundExchange) know that we have been advocating for solutions that would grow total payments to artists. The 85% sound bite preys upon the natural suspicions of the artist community, but it is simply untrue. And although we compete directly with AM/FM radio, which pays zero performance royalties, we have always supported fair compensation to artists.It has also hit back on the claim that Pandora has been seeking to cut songwriter fees, explaining that it had come to a direct agreement with ASCAP on higher fees, and then ASCAP went back on the agreement and started playing games -- such as withdrawing tracks, but refusing to tell Pandora which tracks, such that it risked huge statutory fines if it played the wrong tracks. For all of ASCAP's claims that it is protecting artists, the reality looks like it was harming artists' best interests in trying to kill Pandora:
The next issue concerns the publishing side. Historically, Pandora has paid essentially the same rate as all other forms of radio, a rate established unilaterally by the performing rights organizations, ASCAP and BMI, in the late 1990s. In November of last year, following a lengthy negotiation, Pandora agreed with ASCAP to a new rate, an increase over the prior amount, and shook hands with ASCAP management. Not only was our hand-shake agreement rejected by the ASCAP board, but shortly thereafter we were subjected to a steady stream of "withdrawals" by major publishers from ASCAP and BMI seeking to negotiate separate and higher rates with Pandora, and only Pandora. This move caused us to seek the protection of the rate, also recently negotiated, enjoyed by the online radio streams of broadcast radio companies. It's important to note that these streams represent 96% of the Internet radio listening hours among the top 20 services outside of Pandora (talk about an un-level playing field). We did not enter this period looking for a lower rate – we agreed to a higher rate. But in a sad irony, the actions of a few small, but powerful publishers seeking to gain advantage for themselves has caused all songwriters' royalties to go down. Any characterization of Pandora as being out to cut publishing rates flies in the face of the facts.And, amazingly, the RIAA and others have been successful in spinning this, falsely, into saying that Pandora was looking to cut back on what it paid songwriters.
The depths to which the RIAA has sunk in its attacks on Pandora are really quite despicable, but it's par for the course for them. Anything successful in the music space created "outside" the record labels is bad and somehow "building on the backs of our copyrights." They won't rest until they've killed each off. The past decade and a half are littered with the remains of internet and tech companies who built great products in the music space that fans loved, each one systematically killed by the major record labels and the RIAA, who demand ever higher royalties.
Filed Under: internet radio, lobbying, music royalties, royalties, songwriters
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Tech Thursday: Patch For A Pack
If you are using the recently released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) then you need to apply a patch. That's right; you will need to patch your operating system applying one of the security updates that Microsoft released.
The patch is included in Microsoft's Security Bulletin MS11-015 which is designed to resolve two vulnerabilities. The first is in DirectShow and one in Windows Media Player and Media Center.
The DVR-MS Vulnerability – CVE-2011-0042 that is considered to most severe, rated Critical by Microsoft, and also impacting Windows 7 SP1 RTM.
Below is a link to the MS-015 patch package for Windows 7 SP1 RTM. Keep in mind other copies of Windows are also affected by the Critical DVR-MS vulnerability and they need to be patched.
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Snowden speaks, Obama goes quiet
Soon after sensitive national security documents were made public last week, President Barack Obama weighed in, delivering a forceful defense of the surveillance policies described in news stories about the leak.
But since Edward Snowden revealed himself as the source of those documents Sunday, the president has gone silent on the subject.
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He has good reason to stay out of the fray: speaking even generally about an ongoing investigation and a potential prosecution is a dangerous gambit for a president, one that could interfere with the Justice Department's work while leaving him open to criticism for politicizing a sensitive security issue.
( PHOTOS: 10 famous/infamous whistleblowers)
Instead, Obama is taking the well-worn path of moving on to other issues — on Tuesday, he applauded the Senate's progress on immigration reform and met with Peru's president — even as he faces shouted questions about a storyline that sizzles just about everywhere else.
And it isn't just the president who's steering clear of Snowden.
The White House press office has been directing requests for comment to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or the Justice Department, or just about anywhere other than the West Wing. At his daily briefings, press secretary Jay Carney has repeatedly declined to comment.
"I am not going to discuss the subject of a recently opened investigation. So the whereabouts of this individual, his status, any details about the investigation, I would refer to — questions about those matters, I would refer to the Department of Justice and the FBI," he said Tuesday, echoing what he said the previous day as well.
Even when asked whether Obama had viewed The Guardian's video interview with Snowden, Carney was vague, saying only that the president had been briefed on the leaker's identity when it first emerged in news reports.
While it's frustrating to face a wall of "no comment," bipartisan observers who've been where the president's team is say the White House is doing just what it should.
"It's always a tough spot to be in when you are constrained because there is an ongoing investigation," said Tracy Schmaler, the top spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Holder until earlier this year. But the administration is "absolutely doing the right thing" in keeping its distance from anything that could be seen as interfering with the Snowden case.
Though the storyline of a government contractor sharing classified information with journalists and then revealing himself is "intriguing, significant and newsworthy," the Obama White House is right not to get too specific in its responses, said Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush's White House press secretary.
For the time being, the president's aides are able to point to what Obama has already said, and then decline further comment because of the sensitivity of the situation.
( Also on POLITICO: 10 things to know about Snowden)
It's particularly helpful for the White House that Obama did stake out his ground on phone and internet surveillance shortly before Snowden emerged — and leakers — at an unusual event on his health care law that ended with him taking formal questions from just one reporter. "I welcome this debate," he said. Later, responding to a shouted question, he added: "I don't welcome leaks, because there's a reason why these programs are classified."
Carney has since pointed back to those remarks, using the word "debate" 35 times during his daily briefing on Monday. The press secretary also referred even further back, to the major counterterrorism speech Obama delivered in May, saying the president's general comments on having a discussion about national security in the post-post-9/11 era were proof that this is a debate that the president wants to have, though clearly not in response to a leak.


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For those of you who haven't stopped thinking about a tomorrow when Christine McVie returns to Fleetwood Mac, your wishes have been granted.
The return of McVie, a songwriting and vocal linchpin of the group, was confirmed onstage by the band's Mick Fleetwood during a concert in Maui on Saturday. According to various sources including Consequence of Sound, he told the crowd, "This is the worst-kept secret there is, but Christine McVie will be rejoining Fleetwood Mac."
McVie, who wrote such Mac staples as "Don't Stop" and "You Make Loving Fun," had previously appeared with the group during a London concert last year, and had expressed interest in returning in a Guardian interview. "I miss them all. If they were to ask me I would probably be very delighted…but it hasn't happened so we'll have to wait and see," she told the paper.
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In response, Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks told Billboard, "I said to her, 'It's your band. I don't really think you have to ask. Because it's your band. McVie. Fleetwood Mac-vie? So, it all depends, Chris, on you.' "
The band is currently on hold while Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie (and Christine McVie's ex-husband) undergoes cancer treatments. Nicks, meanwhile, has cameoed on FX's "American Horror Story: Coven" this season.
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Paramore, Fall Out Boy to mount joint summer tour
Coachella music festival strikes big with OutKast reunion
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The following items need some love. Please post to the list if you are interested in helping out:
- Real mode support: VT support for real mode is terrible, so we need to do it in software. This means extending the x86 emulator (x86_emulate.c) to handle more instructions, and changing the execution loop to call the emulator for real mode (in progress).
- Emulate the architectural performance monitor counters/msrs, for Linux nmi watchdog support.
- Emulate MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTL for guests which use it
- Emulate x86 hardware task switching
- Bring up Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests
- Support connecting the host's /dev/sg* to qemu's SCSI emulation. This allows controlling tape drives and media changers from qemu. (in progress)
- Batch writes to 4-plane vga memory and other side-effect-free mmio to improve performance
- Implement MSR_EFER on i386, on processors which support it
The following smaller scale tasks can be a nice entry point to someone wishing to get involved:
- Store command line options in an empty snapshot in a qcow2 format image file. This allows an image file to be self contained:
qemu file.imgshould be enough to launch a fully configured virtual machine.
- Allow all cpuid features supported by kvm to be passed to the guest; add a command line option to specifiy the cpuid explicitly to allow migration in a heterogeneous server farm.
- Add a Unix domain socket device. With this, the guest can talk to a pci device which is connected to a Unix domain socket on the host.
- Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. Using a pci device to expose the shared memory is probably a good starting point.
- Allow userspace to manage which msrs are emulated as no-ops (read zero, write ignored) to hack support for some guests
MMU related:
- Support large pages (in conjunction with npt/ept) so that if the guest uses a large page mapping and the guest memory is backed by hugetlbfs, a large-page pte is created.
- Improve mmu page eviction algorithm (currently FIFO, change to approximate LRU).
- Add a read-only memory type.
- Implement AM20 for dos and the like.
- Implement direct page tables on paravirt_ops enabled Linux guests (in progress)
- Change memory slot locking so that we can read and write guest memory without kvm->lock. RCU or a reader/writer lock may help. Maybe use mm->mmap_sem.
- With the above, don't hold kvm->lock during instruction emulation.
- Move set_pte_common(), set_pte(), set_pde(), and fetch() from paging_tmpl.h to mmu.c. These functions depend very little on the current paging mode.
x86 emulator updates:
- Trap #UD and emulate sysenter/syscall/sysret/sysexit. These instructions don't exist on all cpus in all modes, so they hinder cross-vendor migration (in progress)
- Add a NonPT flag (or maybe its inverse, Paging) to instructions that are never used for page table updates (like add, sub, call). Teach the mmu to unshadow page tables if a NonPT instruction is executed on them.
- Change the emulator initialization sequence not to read all segment registers (this is slow), instead read them on demand. On 64-bit, no segments are usually needed while on 32-bit only cs and ds are commenly required.
- Add a String tag to the decoder tables, and use it to eliminate special rep_prefix processing
- Unify the various switch (b) into just two: one for regular insns and one for two byte insns.
Interactivity improvements:
- If for several frames in a row a large proportion of the framebuffer pages are
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- When detecting keyboard/video/mouse activity, scale up the frame rate; when
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Before the kimomo, there was the kosode. Kimono, a familiar Japanese word meaning "thing-to- wear" came into use during the late 19th century. Its function was to distinguish between Japanese dress and the Western-style dress that Europeans brought with them as they flooded into a country previously closed to outside influences. In practical terms, the most noticeable difference was the size of the sleeve opening or armhole of the garment, and kosode translates .as "small sleeve."
This is by way of explaining why I have placed two kosodes from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum next to paintings by the Franchman Pierre Bonnard. As a participant in the group of young artists who called themselves Les Nabis (the prophets) in the 1890s, Bonnard was nicknamed le nabi tres japonard for his wholehearted admiration of Japanese art. Bonnard executed Woman in a Checked Dress (at left) and three other panels (now in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay), first by painting on silk fabric and then gluing it to canvas. The French call this technique maroufle.
In fact, the exuberant juxtapositions of patterns and lines, rendered flatly, that Bonnard and others were introduced to through the medium of Japanese woodblock prints, were images of courtesans wearing kosodes mostly, not kimonos. It was a major exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1890 that introduced le tout Paris to those ukiyo-e prints. From courtesan to bourgeois, the translation was dazzling. The Game of Croquet (below) was set at the Boonard family home in Iseres, and some of the players have been identified as (from left to right) the artist's father, his sister Andree, and her husband Claude Terrasse, a composer.
About his early works, Bonnard later said, "We were trying to go farther than the Impressionists and their naturalist impressions of color. After all, art is not Nature!" But this could give an incomplete impression of Bonnard's intentions. "I am of no school, I am only seeking to do something personal.".
1. Silk kosode with design of gingko leaves, waves, and butterflies, Edo Period (1603-1868), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
2. Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) - Woman in a checked dress, 1891, Musee d'Orsay, Paros.
3. Pierre Bonnard - A Game of Croquet, 1892, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
4. Silk kosode with design of plum blossoms and clouds, Edo Period, Metorlpolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
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Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI)
National banks may purchase and hold certain types of life insurance called bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) under 12 USC 24 (Seventh). Banks can purchase BOLI policies in connection with employee compensation and benefit plans, key person insurance, insurance to recover the cost of providing pre- and postretirement employee benefits, insurance on borrowers, and insurance taken as security for loans. The OCC may approve other uses on a case-by-case basis.
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1. An illegal sentence is defined as either a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction; a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized; or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served.
2. An illegal sentence may be corrected at any time. The issue of whether a criminal sentence is illegal is a question of law and an appellate court's review of a question of law is unlimited.
3. Once a fraudulent act is done, the crime is complete. Under the facts of this case, defendant's crime was completed, although undiscovered, when he converted the victims' money to his own use.
4. Under the facts of this case, the defendant was properly sentenced under the penalty section in effect when his crime was competed.
Appeal from Sedgwick County; PAUL W. CLARK, judge. Opinion filed March 26, 2004. Affirmed.
Sandra Carr, assistant appellate defender, for appellant.
Lesley A. Isherwood, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before PIERRON, P.J., HILL and McANANY, JJ.
Hill, J.: Thomas Honton appeals the district court's denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence. Honton contends that he should have been sentenced for his securities fraud violation under the lesser 1989 penalty for his crime instead of the more harsh 1990 penalty. Because his misappropriation of funds took place in January 1991, the 1990 penalty applies, and we affirm the district court's denial of Honton's motion.
HISTORY OF THIS MOTION Honton was convicted in January 1996 of one count of securities fraud in violation of K.S.A. 17-1253 (Ensley 1988) (penalty section K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 17-1267). He received an indeterminate sentence of 3 to 10 years for the Class D felony as well as 2 years' probation and was ordered to pay restitution. Honton's conviction was affirmed by this court in State v. Honton, No. 77,317, unpublished opinion filed May 1, 1998. His probation was extended in January 1999. Probation was revoked in November 2001 when the district court ordered Honton to serve his 3- to 10-year sentence.
Honton filed a pro se motion to correct an illegal sentence in July 2002, arguing that he had been improperly sentenced to an indeterminate 3- to 10-year sentence under K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 17-1267 when he should have been sentenced under K.S.A. 17-1267 (Ensley 1988) that provided for a maximum sentence of 3 years. Honton also argued that the district court erred when it extended his probation in 1999 because he was not present for the hearing. The district court denied Honton's motion and ruled that Honton was not eligible for sentence conversion from an indeterminate sentence to a determinate sentence. Honton appeals this order, contending his is an illegal sentence, and asks us to remand his case for resentencing. He also argues that his probation could not have exceeded 3 years (matching the maximum 1989 sentence), and, therefore, the district court could not have extended his probation past 1999.
CASE BACKGROUND Lee and Dorothy Hansen initially retained Honton as their C.P.A. in a tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service. Lee Hansen testified during Honton's trial that he later wired $58,000 to Honton in 1989 in accordance with a tax shelter and investment plan they had discussed. The Hansens thought that Honton was going to invest the money in mutual funds. Without the knowledge or consent of the Hansens, Honton spent the money in January 1991 on a worthless Colorado water rights investment and some personal business expenses. The Hansens tried to contact Honton for 2 years. His fraud was not discovered until 1993, after Lee Hansen filed a complaint about Honton with the Kansas Securities Commissioner.
An illegal sentence is defined
"'"'[as] either a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction; a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized; or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served.'"' [Citations omitted]." State v. Sisk, 266 Kan. 41, 43, 966 P.2d 671 (1998).
An illegal sentence may be corrected at any time under K.S.A. 22-3504(1). The issue of whether a criminal sentence is illegal is a question of law, State v. Reed, 23 Kan. App. 2d 661, Syl. ¶ 1, 934 P.2d 157, rev. denied 262 Kan. 968 (1997), and an appellate court's review of a question of law is unlimited. State v. Robinson, 261 Kan. 865, Syl. ¶ 1, 934 P.2d 38 (1997).
Honton contends that because of the way he was charged, the manner in which his jury was instructed, and the fact that his jury rendered a general verdict that did not specify the date of his offense, he should have been sentenced under the 1989 penalty for his crime and not the more harsh 1990 penalty. The complaint filed against Honton alleged that he committed securities fraud "on or about the 12th day of April, 1989 . . . through and including on or around the month of August, 1993."
The elements instruction given to his jury provided:
"In this case, the defendant, Thomas B. Honton, is charged with the crime Unlawful Acts in Connection with The Offer, Sale or Purchase of Securities. The defendant's plea to this charge is not guilty.
"To prove this charge, the State must prove the following:
"3. That one or more of these acts and/or omissions occurred between the 12th day of April, 1989, and the month of August, 1993, in Sedgwick County, Kansas."
Between April 1989 and August 1993, there were three possible sentences for violating the securities fraud statute. First, K.S.A. 17-1267 (Ensley 1988) stated the maximum sentence available was not more than 3 years. Then in 1990, that statute was amended and the crime was reclassified as a class D felony with a possible minimum sentence of 1 to 3 years' confinement and maximum of 5 to 10 years. See K.S.A. 1991 Supp. 17-1267. After that, on July 1, 1993, with the advent of sentencing guidelines, the crime was described as a level 6, nonperson felony. See K.S.A. 1993 Supp. 17-1267.
Honton does not argue in this appeal that his sentence should have been converted from an indeterminate to a determinate sentence under the sentencing guidelines. Instead, he argues that because the jury did not specify when his crime took place and since the State alleged a range of dates, he should have been sentenced to the lesser of the two available sentences and cites State v. Mullins, 267 Kan. 84, 977 P.2d 931 (1999), as support.
The Mullins court vacated Mullins' 15 years to life indeterminate sentence and ordered that a lesser determinate sentence be imposed because the evidence at his trial showed that the acts constituting the offense occurred after July 1, 1993, which was the effective date of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act. The complaint charged Mullins with aggravated criminal sodomy against his son from sometime in December 1992 until January 1995. The jury instructions listed the same time span for the crimes.
Like Mullins, Honton's charges were just as broad, but the facts introduced at his trial indicated Honton removed the money for his own use in January 1991. Honton was sentenced in accordance with the statute that was amended in 1990 and in effect in 1991 when he converted the money. This fact distinguishes this case from Mullins because Mullins was sentenced under a statute not in effect when his criminal acts took place. Just as the Mullins court looked beyond the jury verdict, so do we.
While the State alleged a course of fraudulent conduct on the part of Honton with a scheme to defraud "[o]nce the fraudulent act is . . . done, the crime is complete." See State v. Micheaux, 242 Kan. 192, Syl. ¶5, 747 P.2d 784 (1987) (holding that welfare fraud is complete once the defendant obtained welfare assistance by use of a false statement or other fraudulent device). Honton's crime was completed but undiscovered when he converted the Hansens' money to his own use. Once the money was taken, Honton continued to engage in acts of concealment of the crime. Had his misappropriation been discovered earlier than 1993, he could have been charged earlier. Honton did not receive an illegal sentence. Defendant was properly sentenced under the penalty section in effect when his crime was completed.
Honton raises an issue on appeal about the period of his probation. He contends that his probation could not have exceeded 3 years, the maximum sentence possible under the 1989 penalty. Because we are affirming his sentence, we think his probation could have been extended to 10 years. The district court, therefore, did not lose jurisdiction to extend Honton's probation.


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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Waterlogged cotton bales discovered in warehouses in the north-central Cotton Belt are embarrassing for the cotton industry, and a situation that ginners and cotton producers must monitor closely, according to Teresa Lasseter, administrator of the Farm Service Agency.
Lasseter, a Georgia native, made her remarks at the National Cotton Council's annual meeting. She was named to head the agency in October 2005. As FSA administrator, Lasseter oversees farm programs, farm loans, commodity operations, conservation programs, disaster assistance and field operations at FSA offices in all 50 states.
"We have started getting reports of widespread mold and mildew showing on a large quantity of bales in storage in a warehouse and merchant facility in the north-central region of the Cotton Belt states," Lasseter said of the water-packed bales.
"The average moisture content at several gins in the region exceeded the 7.5 percent maximum allowed. The exterior of the bales fell within the standards, but the core of several bales measured greater than 16 percent moisture. Since then, we found several problems at another warehouse."
FSA regulations state that for a cotton bale to be pledged as collateral, "it must be in good condition and not water-packed." The situation has prompted FSA to clarify its position on what constitutes a bale in good condition, and could include making bales with excessive moisture ineligible for loan.
"It's somewhere we really hesitate to go, because we really don't know exactly what the definition should be. But the input of cotton producers is valuable for us as we work to establish the policy.
"Whether intentional or accidental, the incident has an adverse effect on this industry," Lasseter said. "Customer confidence is shaken. I urge you to closely monitor your cotton ginning process, especially now.
"We all make mistakes, but it's how we respond to those mistakes that signals our worthiness as trusted partners. There is nothing more important than safe, affordable, abundant food and fiber. We need to keep America's cotton industry where it needs to be — on the top, expanding global markets, producing the highest quality product in the world and profitable."
Another problem was created by U.S. cotton growers producing the largest crop in history in 2006. "Production outpaced U.S. storage capacity, particularly in the Southwest. In anticipation of the problem, new storage space was added to accommodate about 500,000 bales. Unfortunately, we needed enough space for 1.5 million bales."
One solution was to allow temporary, outdoor storage, which FSA permitted in 2005. "But current Commodity Credit Corporation rules prohibit loans on cotton bales that are stored outside. USDA is considering temporary storage on open yards that meet specific requirements. Those yards are currently limited to Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
"All loan cotton must be inside an approved warehouse by April 1, 2006," Lasseter told the attendees. "We are seeking input on longer-term solutions. We want to know if USDA's storage requirements for loan cotton should be revised. A formal request for comment is forthcoming. We need to consider all sides of this issue before we make a decision."
Lasseter noted that the United States will officially terminate Step 2 payments on Aug. 1, 2006, to meet WTO requirements. "That means the last time a cotton bale is eligible for Step 2 support will be July 31, a Monday. However, you will have another 60 days to file paperwork for these final transactions. Since the due date of Sept. 30 falls on a Saturday, the effective last day is Sept. 29, 2006."
Lasseter also addressed FSA office structure under the president's proposal to cut $3 billion from USDA's budget, reducing it to $93 billion.
There is a possibility that FSA may have to consolidate offices. "Each FSA state director is being asked to form a review team and make a recommendation for FSA structure in their state. This review must formulate a plan to operate within budget.
"One solution offered in individual states might include some consolidation of county offices. This may create a short-term inconvenience, but a long-term viability for the state's successful operation. If closure and consolidation are warranted in a state, I'm suggesting that each farmer in the affected county be given a choice of where they want to conduct their business."
Lasseter noted that FSA will be able to use nearly $1 billion from USDA's Section 32 program to help farmers adversely affected by last year's hurricanes. "This is part of a $2.8 billion package in addition to the $250 million already available. If you are among those growers and ginners who suffered a significant loss, you should be confident that help is available."
Cotton producers and ginners can now sign up for the 2004 Cottonseed Payment Program. The CPP provides up to $10 million in assistance to producers and first-handlers of the 2004 cottonseed crop.
Cotton producers and first-handlers must operate in counties receiving presidential disaster declarations due to 2004 hurricanes and tropical storms. Final program guidelines appear in the Federal Register. Authorization for CPP comes from the Military Construction Appropriations and Emergency Hurricane Supplemental Appropriations Act.
Applications, instructions and a complete list of eligible counties receiving Federal Emergency Management Agency designations for individual disaster assistance are available by request and online at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/psd/Cottonseed.htm.
USDA calculates the payment rate (dollars per ton) by dividing total program funds ($10 million) by the total eligible payment quantity (tons) of cottonseed. The total payment to an eligible applicant cannot exceed $114 per ton of cottonseed multiplied by the applicant's total eligible payment quantity.
In 2005, FSA began a transition from paper applications for loan deficiency payments to electronic applications. Although most electronic applications still came through a local county FSA office, more were filed on computers from home. In 2004, less than 2 percent of LDPs were applied for electronically. In 2005, more than 90 percent were processed using computers and the Internet.
"In 2004, there were fewer than 16,000 electronically-filed LDPs," Lasseter said. "In 2005, there were more than 936,000 e-LDPs. Growers got their money back from the process in less time and it meant that local FSA employees were able to devote more time to other projects."
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The New York Times > Arts > Music > How to Watch the Grammys Like a Proby springnet
There I got to see amazing live performances but also the many minidramas that the television cameras miss. In that spirit, here are a few rituals you won't see as you watch the show tonight.
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8:14 — It's a sign of how far pop culture has shifted in the past four years that the Dixie Chicks, once reviled for singer Natalie Maines' comment about the shame of sharing a home state with President Bush, are now on TV during the music industry's bi
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2005 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 - Rising ForcePosted in Features on November 1, 2008
When Toyota rolled out its redesigned Tacoma in 2005, it was with much fanfare and the slogan "moving forward." Longtime Toyota owners weren't so sure. Was the new truck one step forward or two steps back? The powerful 4.0 V6 was a welcome addition, but the added girth of the new Taco' made for clearance problems when the trails got tight.
Wyatt Scott was one Tacoma owner who moved forward with Toyota and embraced the change. For Wyatt and his newly purchased prize, it was an opportunity to prove two things: One, that the new Tacoma was a worthy successor, and two, that Wyatt and the team at DeMello Off-Road have the in-house talent to transform the latest Tacoma into a trail beater. The end result is a dirt-worthy Tacoma that's every bit as good as the highly touted version that came before it.
As it sits, Wyatt's Tacoma is part prerunner and part crawler. Up front, Bilstein coilover shocks work in tandem with racing-style limit straps, but they're connected to a Dana 60 solid axle in place of the factory IFS. At the stern it's a similar story: Long-travel Deaver leaf packs and smooth-body Bilstein shocks bolt to another Dana 60. In the drivetrain department, the 4.0 V6 has the guts to go fast, but the transfer case has been augmented, Marlin-style, with the goods to go slow. This truck straddles both worlds and does it with style.
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WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy says agriculture holds the key to the resumption of the Doha Round negotiations, and, until agriculture's issues are resolved, he expects little progress toward reaching a new global trade agreement.
An article on the Bloomberg.com Web site says Lamy told European Parliament members in Brussels today that he is trying to get the five-year-old negotiations restarted by meeting with countries and groups of countries to find a solution to the impasse in the Round.
"We are going to try to exert more pressure so negotiations can restart," he was quoted as saying. "We want to support the tacit work that's being done, by whichever group, whichever coalition."
Lamy suspended the talks after it became apparent that negotiators for the United States, the European Union and Brazil were unable to find common ground in disputes over agricultural subsidies and tariff rules during a meeting in Geneva July 24.
The Bloomberg article said the collapse came after the United States refused to make further cuts in agricultural spending, according to Brazil, the European Union and Japan. It did not mention the latter's refusal to reduce tariffs on agricultural imports by more than token amounts, which U.S. officials have blamed for the breakdown.
Since July, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns have met with negotiators for a number of countries to try to find a way to restart the talks.
"There is no way this negotiation will resume if the agricultural stumbling block remains," the Bloomberg article quoted Lamy as saying. "If it happens, the whole train of the negotiation will restart. But we are in a political situation and, whether we like it or not, agriculture has taken precedence."
Although no official deadline has been set, WTO leaders have said a general agreement must be reached before President Bush's trade promotion authority expires next July. Under TPA, Congress must consider trade agreements on an up-or-down vote without amendment.
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Philip Jacobs studied printed textiles at Hornsey College of Art from 1973 to 1976. He then worked freelance designing dress fabrics and designs for bedding for the American, Japanese and English markets. In the early 1980's he started designing furnishing fabrics for most of the major English companies including Sanderson, Libertys, Bakers and Osborne and Little eventually becoming Design Director of Rammson & Crocker. Through Rammson & Crocker he designed furnishing collections for the major American companies including Brunschwig, Lee Jofa, Rose Cummings, Hinson, Baker Furniture etc., as well as collections for Marks & Spencer in England.Philip now works freelance again and has over the years built up a vast archive of antique textiles and wallpapers from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The archive is stored in an old converted stable at his home in Dorset and acts as a source of inspiration for new designs. He is now producing furnishing and wallpaper designs for Andrew Martin, Colefax & Fowler, Sanderson, Zoffany and is working with Kaffe Fassett producing the quilting designs for Westminster fabrics.His other interests include digging up fossil dinosaur bones on the Jurassic coast of Dorset near his home, and he has recently had a book of practical philosophy published in England and in the States.


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Vanessa H. Merton
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JD, New York University School of Law
Vanessa H. Merton, B.A. Radcliffe College 1970, J.D. N.Y.U. Law School 1973, teaches and directs the Immigration Justice Clinic at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York.
The Clinic provides free legal services to noncitizens who otherwise could not afford legal assistance, including representation on applications for family-based status, in removal proceedings (both detained and nondetained), and on petitions for crime victims and juvenile immigrants. Clinic student attorneys meet with clients and conduct public education programs at community centers, schools, and places of worship throughout the Hudson Valley, as well as at state and federal detention facilities, and litigate in Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Federal Circuit Courts, and the United States Supreme Court.
In 2008, Professor Merton was honored with the Alternative Chance/Chans Alternativ Human Rights Award for her advocacy on behalf of indigent Haitian refugees; in 2010 she received the Servant of Justice Award from the Haitian-American Cultural and Social Organization of Rockland County, New York, for her leadership in mobilizing lawyers and law students to assist earthquake-affected Haitians applying for Temporary Protected Status. In 2012 the American Immigration Lawyers Association presented Professor Merton with its Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Immigration Law Award, the highest honor an immigration law professor can aspire to receive, and she also received the Pace Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.
Professor Merton served as Pace Law School's Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Executive Director of John Jay Legal Services (JJLS), the law school's free legal clinic, while creating and teaching clinical programs in Access to Health Care and Criminal Prosecution of Domestic Violence. She also directed the clinical and externship curriculum at City University of New York Law School, where she co-founded the Health in the Workplace Clinic. Her career in legal education began as a clinical professor of criminal law at New York University School of Law. Professor Merton had been a trial attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York City. For five years she also served as volunteer Special Trial Counsel with the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division, First Department, prosecuting lawyers who neglected clients and violated professional duties.
For her work setting up a 200-student emergency operation to assist people affected by the 9/11 tragedy, in 2002 Professor Merton received six national and local awards: the Mark of Distinction Award from the National Association of Law Placement; the Father Robert Drinan Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Public Service; the PSLawNet Pro Bono Publico Award; the Pace Law School Pro Bono Award for Excellence in Service to the Public Interest; the Lifetime Achievement Award in Public Interest Lawyering from the Pace Law School Public Interest Law Students Organization; and the Public Citizen of the Year Award from the National Association of Social Workers, New York State Chapter, Westchester Division. She received the 1995 Pace University School of Law Graduating Class Award for Outstanding Full-Time Law Professor and the 1988 CUNY Law School Distinguished Service Award for Teaching Effectiveness. She has been both a Mellon Foundation Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hastings Center Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. In 2012 she was designated "Woman of the Year" by the Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff Occupational Health Clinic, whose Advisory Board she has belonged to for more than twenty years.
Professor Merton is especially proud of her work as co-founder of the local Empire Justice Poverty Law Center, an independent law office serving immigrants whom federally-funded legal services offices are prohibited from helping.
"I was drawn to Pace because so many Pace faculty bring extensive practice experience, refreshingly undogmatic views about legal education and a strong student-centered focus to their work. Here I can use all that I have learned from my thirty years of teaching through client representation clinics, simulated lawyering, externships, and classroom courses. Becoming a lawyer, especially a lawyer representing the disadvantaged and disabled, has empowered and enriched me far beyond what I could have dreamed when I entered law school so long ago. Helping new lawyers become the best advocates they can be for those whom they choose to serve is a rewarding renewal for me of the best parts of my life."
"Mission Statements that Accurately Define, Distinguish, and Reflect the Law School's Praxis," by Vanessa Merton & Irene Scharf in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez eds., 2015)
"How Derrick Bell Helped Me Decide to Become an Educator, Not Just a Faculty Member," 2 Colum. J. Race & L. Spec. Feat. 34 (2012)
"What Do You Do When You Meet a Walking Violation of the Sixth Amendment If You're Trying to Put That Lawyer's Client in Jail?" 69 Fordham Law Review 997 (2000).
"A Chance for Justice. (For the Poor, Responding to the Opponents to Funding the Legal Services Corp.)," with Richard L. Ottinger, New York Law Journal, July 24, 1995, at 2.
"Review Essay: Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies," 22 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 272 (1994).
Guest Column, "What Should We Do About Bad Lawyers?" Newsday, Sept. 25, 1994, at A51.
"The Exclusion of Pregnant, Pregnable, and Once-Pregnable People (a.k.a. Women) from Biomedical Research," 19 American Journal of Law & Medicine 369 (1993). Reprinted in 3 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 307 (1994).
"Community-Based AIDS Research," 14 Evaluation Review: A Journal of Applied Social Research 502 (1990).
"The Work of a CUNY Law Student: Simulation and the Experiential Learning Process," 37 UCLA Law Review 1157, 1195 (1990). Published as Appendix to "Infinity in a Grain of Sand: The World of Law and Lawyering as Portrayed in the Clinical Teaching Implicit in the Law School" by Howard Lesnick, 37 UCLA Law Review 1157 (1990).
Editor and Contributor, "Final Report: Sex Bias in the Teaching of Criminal Law" by Nancy S. Erickson, 42 Rutgers Law Review 309 (1990).
"The City University of New York Law School: An Insider's Report," 12 Nova Law Review 45 (1987).
"Confidentiality and the 'Dangerous' Patient: Implications of Tarasoff for Psychiatrists and Lawyers," 31 Emory Law Journal 263 (1982).
Book Reviews
Review of A Measure of Malpractice: Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation, and Patient Compensation by Paul C. Weiler, et al. 120 Annals of Internal Medicine 444 (1994).
Review of Families and the Gravely Ill by Richard Sherlock and C. Mary Dingus, 100 Annals of Internal Medicine 579 (1989).
"Ethical Obstacles to the Participation of Women in Biomedical Research." In Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, edited by Susan M. Wolf. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
"The Impact of Current Relevant Federal Regulations on the Inclusion of Female Subjects in Clinical Studies." In Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1994.
"Basic Bibliography for Research in Professional Ethics". In Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, 3rd ed., edited by S. Gillers & N. Dorsen. New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1992.
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Skyworks Introduces BAW Filters to Enable WiMAX and WLAN Co-existence
Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, introduced the industry's first bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters for customer premise equipment (CPE) to allow co-existence between wireless local area networks (WLAN) in the home and enterprise, and WiMAX networks which cover wider areas including neighborhoods and cities. As both networks operate at very closely spaced frequency bands, these unique BAW filters reject the interfering frequencies while allowing the desired signals to pass for the selected network.
"WiFi and WiMAX are converging markets and OEMs have a critical need for both signals to co-exist on the same device," said Stan Swearingen, Skyworks' vice president and general manager. "Skyworks is uniquely meeting this design challenge and has introduced filtering technology to address these requirements and, in turn, support a variety of applications including access points, PCMCIA cards, USB dongles, notebook and ultra-mobile personal computers, as well as femto and pico base stations."
BAW filters are integral components of radio frequency (RF) architectures and according to Strategy Analytics demand is projected to exceed $1.5 B by 2010. Given their particular combination of small footprint, low profile and high performance, they are extremely valuable in enabling next-generation wireless products, which increasingly require greater functionality and reduced form factors.
Combined with the company's portfolio of switches, power amplifiers (PA), front-end modules (FEM) and transceivers, Skyworks is a one-stop supplier for wireless equipment manufacturers requiring highly integrated RF solutions for a wide array of air interfaces and system architectures. Skyworks entered the BAW filter market three years ago as part of its strategic effort to develop diverse, differentiated and more highly integrated products.


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Friday, February 10, 2012
* Felt Heart Valentine Barrettes Tutorial
for my sweet girls to wear to school on
Valentine's Day.
I actually sewed them during breakfast before we went to the bus stop.
For "E"s barrettes I sewed 3 felt hearts to a barrette with a button in the center.
I just tied the ribbons to the barrette underneath the hearts.
For "C"s barrettes, I just stitched smaller hearts to little clip-on style barrettes
and clipped them through her ponytail holders. She didn't want ribbons.
It's funny to look back and see how long "E"s hair was in first grade,
I'm so used to it being short now, that seems like a really long time ago.
She won't let me put anything in her hair now.
Perhaps some of you mamas out there still have little girls who are willing to "accessorize" : )
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- Molecular weight: 234.205
- IUPAC Standard InChI:
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – It may have not been a good looking victory, but the record books will reflect a Lipscomb win and the Bisons will seek to learn from the game as they enter conference action next week.
The Lipscomb University Bisons (1-4) came from being down ten points a minute into the second half and held on to a three point lead with a minute left to defeat SIU Edwardsville (0-5) 67-64 in Edwardsville, Ill.
"I was proud of our guys that we hung in there, especially in the second half," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "We held them to 29.6 percent shooting and eight field goals in the second half. A lot of that had to do with mixing back and forth between our zone and man-to-man defenses."
Lipscomb fell behind by as many as 12 points as the Bisons struggled to control the ball over and were unable to stop a strong shooting performance by SIUE.
Lipscomb turned the ball over 10 times and allowed SIUE to shoot 53.3 percent in the first half.
Down 31-19 with 5:17 left in the first, Lipscomb hit four of its next five attempts including threes by Michael Teller and Johnny Lee to make it a 33-31 game. SIUE made two field goals before halftime to take a 37-31 lead into the locker room.
SIUE's Mark Yelovich drained two jumpers to start the second period and put SIUE up by ten points. Yelovich finished with 26 points and 13 rebounds.
Josh Slater, who did not score in the second period, gave the Bisons the jumpstart they needed. He scored the first eight points of the half for Lipscomb to bring Lipscomb within six, 45-39, with 16:52 left.
With the Bisons back in the game, Adnan Hodzic turned on his guns in the low post. He propelled Lipscomb on an 8-0 run scoring seven of those to put Lipscomb up 48-45 with 12:35 remaining.
Hodzic finished with a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds. He was 10-of-17 from the floor and three-of-four from the free throw line.
Lipscomb had its best defensive stretch this year through the middle part of the second half.
SIUE did not hit a field goal for a stretch of 8:40 until Yelovich hit a three pointer with 9:54 left to tie the game.
"For the last ten years we have been known as a defensive team," said Sanderson. "Right now people have been scoring on us at a high clip. We got some stops by going zone for five or six possessions. It slowed them down and we were able to rebound.
"I think the zone really helped us change the momentum of the game for them offensive. I think they went 2-of-13 against our zone."
Teller hit a free throw and Hodzic connected on three more field goals before Brandon Brown stole the ball from LeShaun Murphy and took it for a fastbreak dunk to give Lipscomb its largest lead of the afternoon, 57-50.
Yelovich would not let the Bisons pull away draining two free throws and hitting another three to bring SIUE within two points.
Lipscomb stretched its lead back to seven points with just under two minutes left in the game before SIUE went on a 6-0 run capped by a jumper by Yelovich to make it a 64-63 game with 23 seconds left.
Slater went to the line for two free throws after being fouled. He hit the first and missed the second.
Murphy had an opportunity to tie the game from the line with 12 seconds left but he missed his second attempt.
Slater pushed Lipscomb's lead back to three points with 10 seconds left on two free throws.
SIUE missed two three-point attempts before time expired.
Lipscomb held a 42-34 advantage on the boards.
Brown finished with 14 points and nine rebounds for Lipscomb.
Lipscomb shot 25-of-59 from the field for 42.4 percent. The Bisons were 4-of-18 from the three-point line for 22.2 percent and 13-of-18 from the free throw line for 72.2 percent.
SIUE finished 24-of-57 from the field for 42.1 percent. They were 3-of-17 from beyond the arc for 17.6 percent. SIUE was 13-of-20 from the free throw line for 65.0 percent.
Lipscomb opens conference play Thursday night against Mercer in Macon, Ga. Game time is 6:30 p.m. CT.
Jonathan Seamon and Benjamin Seamon will be on the call for the Lipscomb Sports Network. Free online audio streaming is available at www.LipscombSports.com/sportsnetwork/.


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In 2003, I bought my C860 as an aid in my Japanese studies. I stayed with the original Sharp ROM and installed kanjidic + a few dictionaries. With its recognition of kanji written on screen, it was a dream dictionary. However, a few years later, I hardly had anything to do with Japan anymore and reflashed the ROM to some sort of Linux. It boots and gives me a login prompt. I can log in as root without a password, but I don´t know which ROM or version it is.
I'd like to flash it back to something similar to what I had before. The only requirements are: a good dictionary (extendible with more edict files), recognition of hand written kanji. I don't require networking, X, whatever in particular. Just give me back the greatest Japanese-English dictionary on earth
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A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit: Lessons From Project-Specific Analyses
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A May 2012 report on value capture mechanisms for funding transit has been added to the Resource Center best practices database. "A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit: Lessons From Project-Specific Analyses" examines tax-increment financing (TIF), special assessment districts (SADs), transit impact fees, joint developments, and air rights.
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Reconnecting America and its partners in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development are out at Rail~Volution in Washington, DC, Oct. 16-Oct. 19. A list of their workshops and seminars is here.
How Does Employment Affect Development on Transit Lines?
May 17, 2011
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About two months ago the Center for TOD released a report called Rails to Real Estate. The basic gist of the report was that development along three new light rail lines was influenced by a number of different factors, some of which include income, employment proximity and walkability. But to me one factor stood out specifically. No matter where the vacant land was available, development was happening proximate to employment destinations along the corridor. As you can see below, along each of the lines that were studied, development followed employment.
Elmo Loves Value Capture, So Should You!
May 16, 2011
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We've been talking a lot about the website lately and highlighting special pages, but I wanted to focus on one in particular today. Value Capture. Our colleague at Strategic Economics, Nadine Fogarty, has written extensively on the subject including a paper called "Capturing the Value of Transit". There has been a lot of research on this subject recently and lots of attention has been paid to it as a way to plug the funding gap. But if you want to know where to find more papers and resources on the subject, look no further than our Value Capture featured topic page. There you'll find over 30 papers that focus on the subject. But don't take our word for it, Elmo loves it too.
Innovative Transportation Finance and Equity 101
May 3, 2011
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The US Government has historically facilitated public infrastructure development overseas by providing low-interest loans, loan guarantees, and favorable tax treatment for companies. Through our participation in multilateral banks, such as the World Bank, and helping to found and capitalize regional development banks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we have increased private sector investment in infrastructure in developing economies. These projects have a mixed history, and in some cases have had environmental and human rights impacts. Innovative Transportation Finance seeks to bring these tools home to the United States.
A Virtuous Circle
May 2, 2011
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New research by David M. Levinson and Emilia Istrate from the Brookings Institute looks at capturing the value generated by improved transportation access in order to pay for more improvements. Key to this concept is the "virtuous circle."
Options For Financing Transit
February 1, 2011
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A trio of reports from the past five years detailing various transit financing methods have been added to the Best Practices section. Value Capture for Transportation Finance This 2009 report to the Minnesota Legislature was written by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies. "As vehicles become more fuel-efficient and overall levels of travel stagnate in response to increases in fuel prices, conventional sources of revenue for transportation finance such as taxes on motor fuels have been put under increasing pressure. One potential alternative as a source of revenue is a set of policies collectively referred to as value capture policies. In contrast to fuel taxes and other instruments that impose charges on users of transportation networks,…
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January 9, 2011
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High-speed rail continues to move forward in key states, such as California and Florida. The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) just released a report on how to generate supportive land-use and intermodal transit connections for California's high-speed rail network.
Value Capture And The Federal Role
July 29, 2010
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The Government Accountability Office has sent a report to congressional committees exploring what the federal government might do to facilitate the efforts of state and local agencies to fund transit systems by capturing the value generated by the transit-oriented improvements.
Notes From Transit-Oriented Development Financing Forum
May 27, 2010
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), Transportation for America (T4America), the National Housing Conference (NHC), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors hosted a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Financing Forum on May 17, 2010 in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. The event brought together more than70 participants from the housing, development, public and private finance, transportation and policy sectors to discuss the complexities of financing TOD. The Forum was designed as an opportunity to exchange policy ideas between TOD practitioners, advocates and federal policy makers. CTOD released a set of 10 federal policy recommendations to accelerate equitable TOD through upcoming transportation, tax, and livable community legislation. AIA also released its…


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