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The annual North Wales Cross-Country Championships at Rhug, Corwen, proved to be another triumph for Prestatyn Running Club, not only through the success of the athletes but for the organisation of the event.
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Two Prestatyn Running Club members "doubled up" at the weekend as they turned out for the club in the fourth Borders League fixture at Deeside less than 24 hours after competing in the annual Twin Piers 10k in Colwyn Bay.
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Philpott v. Virginia DOT
No. 7:21-CV-00274, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 145338
Federal Court quashes subpoena for years of social media content.
Plaintiff, William S. Philpott, wasbefore he was terminated. Mr. Philpott alleged that he was terminated and race. His theory of the case was that a group of VDOT employees did not want an African American supervisor and conspired to have him fired. Mr. Philpott issued subpoenas to three VDOT employees and one retired former employee, seeking social media content which dated back to January 1, 2014.
VDOT filed a Motion to quash. Judge Ballou construed the Motion to quash as a Motion for protective order and ordered that the non-parties to whom the subpoenas were addressed had to preserve their social media information through the rest of litigation. Judge Ballou also took the Motion under advisement to “permit Plaintiff to establish that the discovery sought . . . is relevant to Plaintiff’s con.” Ultimately, Judge Ballou found that the Plaintiff failed to establish a “sufficient connection” between the non-parties and the adverse employment actions at issue in the case so as to warrant production of years’ worth of social media activity, text messages, instant messages, letters and phone records. Judge Ballou then granted the Motion for protective order. Mr. Philpott objected to this decision.
In construing VDOT’s Motion to quash a protective order, Judge Ballou cited allows the Court, on its own Motion, to take a proactive role in the limitation of ongoing discovery. Mr. Philpott argued that the subpoenas were not overbroad and would certainly lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, citing as support for this contention his requests for social media posts made by the non-parties about each other and Mr. Philpott from January 1, 2014 to present, andracial hate groups made from January 1, 2014 to present. However, the Court ultimately found that Mr. Philpott failed to connect the large amount of information requested in the subpoenas to the claims in his case. Furthermore, even if the above-mentioned requests were not overbroad, Mr. Philpott had also asked for “all posts and other communications posted or otherwise made by you on anyaccount or page, or made by any other party on anyccount owned by you, for the period January 1, 2014 until the present.” His previously cited requests would be subsumed by that one.
Even if the Court were to strike that very broad request, Mr. Philpott requested large swaths of irrelevant information because his requests started on January 1, 2014, while the events at issue in the suit occurred in 2019. For these reasons, Judge Ballou’s refusal to allow such a wide-ranging productMr. Philpott’s objections were overruled.
AV Auto., LLC v. Gebreyessus
Attorney’s fees awarded as sanction must be limited to those fees incurred as a direct result of responding to the sanctionable pleading under Va. Code § 8.01-271.1.
AV Automotive, LLC, AV Imports, LLC, and Geneva Enterprises, Inc. entities who own and manage a group of car dealerships, discovered a fraudulent scheme by several employees to manipulate customer reviews to increase their bonuses under an incentive scheme with Audi of America, Inc. One such perpetrator of this scheme was Betelehem Gebreyessus, among others. Plaintiffs filed suit against the individuals who participated in the scheme, alleging business conspiracy. Each count alleged that Plaintiffs had been penalized by Audi of America, Inc. and that Plaintiffs would have to repay the $700,000 in bonuses they paid as a result of the scheme.
However, Audi of America stated that it had not penalized Plaintiffs and had no intention of penalizing Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs accordingly promised Defendant that they would withdraw their claims related to the penalty; they did so four months later. Defendant filed a Motion for sanctions against Plaintiffs pursuant to Virginia Code § 8.01-271.1 for the bad faith filing and prosecution of the lawsuit against her. She asserted that Plaintiffs did not have factual support for asserting the penalty claims against her, as they had never been penalized by Audi of America. The Fairfax County Circuit Court granted Defendant’s Motion for sanctions and awarded her $213,196.95, which were Defendant’s total attorney’s fees against Plaintiffs, but not against Plaintiffs’ counsel.
A court’s imposition of sanctions(1) its decision to award sanctions against a party, or (2) the particular sanction employed. While the Court upheld the award of sanctions against Plaintiffs’ overall, even though Defendant was not paying her own legal fees, the Supreme Court held that the total amount of the sanction was inappropriate. The language of Code § 8.01-271.1 requires that the attorney’s fees awarded as a sanction be sustained as a direct result of the sanctionable conduct. An appropriate sanction must be restricted to fees incurred acting in response to the sanctionable pleading. As the Trial Court failed to even attempt to segregate the fees incurred because of Plaintiffs’ sanctionable conduct, namely the cost of defending the penalty claim, the award was improper and an abuse of discretion.
Questions about this case can be directed to Mackenzie Payne at (571) 47-1906 or [email protected].
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- The Region 21 Fall Meeting has been cancelled. Thank you to everyone in the Sioux Empire Iris Society who has been working to prepare for this meeting.
- Region 21 Fall Board Meeting – Plans are being made to meet via video conferencing this fall.
- The Region 21 newsletter has been temporarily suspended. Updates for Region 21 will be posted to the Region 21 website.
- The AIS 2020 Convention, three mini-conventions, and all Regional Spring Meetings have been cancelled.
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Patton’s army is best known for dashing armoured attacks, its commander combining the firepower of tanks with their historic lineage as cavalry. But when the Germans stood firm the greatest fighting was done by Patton’s long undersung infantry; the foot sloggers who were called upon to reduce enemy strongpoints, and who took the brunt of German counterattacks.
Michael Bilder, a member of the 5th Infantry, played a unique role in the Third Army’s onslaught. A rifleman foremost, he was also a German-speaker, called upon for interrogations and special duties. An astute observer, he relates dozens of fascinating insights into the campaign, from dealing with German snipers to intoxicated Frenchwomen, as well as relaying the often morbid humour of combat. Laughter, for example, erupts among Bilder’s unit when a hated Graves Registration officer, known for robbing the pockets of the dead, gets his hand blown off by a German booby trap.
When the 5th Infantry comes up against the fortress of Metz, the battle is detailed in all its horror, as is the sudden drive into the flank of the Bulge, where the Americans face their first winter battle against enemy veterans of Russia. Incidents common to the ordinary GI, but which seldom see the light of day in histories, are routinely related in this book, enriching the reader’s sense of the true reality of World War II combat. |
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So this fascinates me. The tone is obviously pure Geico and Capital One. But I don't know of a time when a company was introducing its brand to the masses and they used multiple tag lines. Make no mistake, these are not ad "headlines" or "slogans." They are positioning statements that speak to the core of their brand. In short, Ticket City wants us to know THEY CARE. Which actually rings true when what you do is known as "scalping." |
en | N/A | N/A | I moved into my new home last April and have notice that the material called KLEER lumber used on the eve facia shrinks at cold temps – a lot. Factory rep inspected it at 33 degrees. I have photos at 15 degrees with joints open enough to see the framing material under the trim. Does it continue to shrink as temps go down? Is this a material that was not intended for exterior use?
What have you used for siding/trim/etc?
Recommendations for exterior trim in the Northeast?
Kleer is made of cellular PVC (vinyl), and cellular PVC has a high coefficient of thermal expansion. That means re are ways to disguise this expansion and contraction, and your builder should have been aware of this fact and should have employed the tricks that builders use to disguise these changes.
Many years ago of Light Construction. Here is a link: Engineered Exterior Trim.
In that article, I wrote, "Unlike engineered wood trims, which expand and contract with changes in humidity, plastic trimn the case of cellular PVC, for instance, a 55 deg.in length by about 3/8 inch. 'It is important to remember that this stuff shrinks in cold temperatures,' says Steve Roth, director of marketing at Style-Mark, a manufacturer of polyurethane trim. 'That's why you need to spring-fit the butt joints, and always use adhesive. Otherwise there will be a gap when it shrinks.' Thermal movement in fascias can be disguised somewhat by the use of scarf joints."
It's worth remembering that PVC doesn't so much shrink at low temperatures as expand or shrink depending on how warm it is. Unless installed at the hottest temperature it is likely to experience, it needs to be installed with a gap, or it is as likely to bulge or buckle when it heats up as it is to shrink in the cold. As Martin said, builders need to take this movement into account when installing PVC trim. |
en | N/A | N/A | Speaking only for myself, I don’t think I’ve managed a decent opinion piece since this one on the EDL which is already long out of date with respect to its specific references. If I’ve not reneged on promises, I’ve certainly delayed fulfilling them. About a month ago, I began ‘an epistle to the Coffee’ in wake of their decision to allow women to become bishops. Around the same time, someone requested that I write a piece on why I refer to myself as non-denominational, though I have yet to begin that. I’ve barely managed to touch the ‘personal catechism’ series I began earlier this year. As for the ‘origins and nature of morality’, I keep looking at it and find myself unable to write a convincing sentence.
The trouble seems to be that the times at which I feel myself most able to write are those times when it is most inconvenient. I cannot write when I am work, yet if I am doing a more mundane task and my mind wanders, then all sorts of creative avenues appear before me. But when the time comes to sit at home and write, all those avenues are blocked off. It might be by a blank page in front of me. It might be by a reluctance to even turn the computer on. Yet when I am at home, the time at which thoughts flow most freely are late at night when I know I ought to be heading towards bed if I’m to function properly the next day. I write this at sentence at quarter to 11 in the evening.
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I’ve stopped blogging so much mainly from personal circumstances.
My advice for Greenbelt is do not go with a plan! Decide what are must sees, but accept you may not even get to them. be prepared to go with the flow, the wonderful part of Greenbelt is meeting people on your way to somewhere and never getting there.
And yes – take a torch!
That sounds like I could struggle. Opiritual effect of living and working in London. I get drawn in to seeing other people as obstacles to be passed around. So the idea that I would let people get in my and stop me from getting where I want to go is an infuriating prospect.
I haven’t been bloggingn’t been feeling like I have thoughts that are important enough to post about. Not entirely sure where that comes from, but I imagine I’m not the only blogger who feels that way.
Certainly not. My reason for getting back into blogging 4 years ago was to express thoughts I already had. If I go looking for thoughts *to* express, then the raison d’etre has shifted and I get a bit lost. |
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When it comes to the urban grid, you want a slick and highly-flexible bike to tackle the streets. Something with a little zip, with a little zag, and a whole lot of spunk. Two bikes come to my mind, first off: The 2018 Suzuki GSX-S750 and the 2018 Honda CB650F.
These bikes are very similar in the best ways possible, especially in terms of quality craftsmanship and brand reputation. Suzuki and Honda motorcycles are both powerhouses in their own right. But, as we all know, the devil is in the details. It's time to compare stats and chime in with your vote for the ultimate conqueror of the urban grid. Help me make up my mind. These user-friendly, budget-friendly bikes are pretty awesome, but who should be the champion? Leave me a comment, I want to hear your thoughts! |
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What is the best advice you gotten from your brother?
I always put my team before myself. Since I have been playing for 10 years, I think I possess a high football IQ. I know I'll continue to develop physically to be able to compete at any collegiate level. I just love the game! |
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so fun! we often go to flickr to see lots of good pictures of what we are learning. here are some snowflake pictures.
It may snow a little here before March, you never know.
Snowing those light great flakes right now.. off to get some felt into the freezer!!! Thanks!
now I'm jealous! i guess snowflakes via the internet are better than none, thanks for the link;)
dawn, let me know how it goes! :^)
Way cool! We're majorly snow-deficient here in central MO at the moment, but hope springs eternal (especially for two little boys with brand-new sleds). I'll get my dark-colored felt ready! (My 10-year-old is going to be ecstatic when he hears about your equally long-haired son, by the way...)
Cool! We have a snowflake book from the library we are reading. We have done the hairspray on a board to catch snowflakes, but not a cold piece of dark felt. We'll definitely have to try this - going to be snowing for days now! :)
Lori - such a neat tip! I can't wait to do this with my boys. :) </s> It was a beautiful opening with 'From Silence'. When the curtain was up, we saw a ballerina with stunning scarlet costume gracefully floating up in the air by a male dancer, with meditative piano music by Michael Nyman.
This was followed by four small pieces. I particularly liked 'Little Atlas' with music by my favourite Ludovico Einaudi. Very cool costume and lighting effects as well.
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While some employed college basketball fans would like to downplay the March Madness impact on productivity, the fact is nearly 51 million American workers could participate in office pools this year.
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NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis makes his controversial Troubles legacy announcement in parliament (PIC: Jessica Taylor)
Mr Lewis told the house the move wasn”.
It has since been roundly condemned by all Irish Government, with Taoiseach Micheál Martin branding the proposal “wrong for many, many reasons”.
Mr Martin told the Dáil: "I don’tState actors, or whether they’re involved in terrorist or illegal organisations. I just don’t believe in that."
Families of and campaigners for victims on both sides of the Troubles have called the proposal an “insult” to those who lost lives during the conflict.
Archbishop Eamon Martin has spoken out against the proposals
ArchbishopHe added: “At this painful time.”
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has slammed the proposal by the British Government
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Stormont is expected to return briefly from its summer recess on Tuesday, July 20.
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en | N/A | N/A | Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Michigan › Eastern District of Michigan › 1999 › Mitchell v. Mason
Mitchell v. Mason, 60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan - 60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (1999)
*656 Rolf E. Berg, Detroit, MI, for Petitioner.
Jeffrey W. Caminsky, Detroit, MI, for Respondant.
ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND REJECTING THE MAGISTRATE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION (DOCKET # 29)
Petitioner, Charlie Lee Mitchell filed an application for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on the basis that the trial judge denied him the constitutional guarantee to be represented by counsel as provided for by the Sixth Amendment. Mr. Mitchell informed the court several times prior to the start of his trial that he had never met privately with his attorney.[2] A week and half before trial was scheduled to begin, Mr. Mitchell requested that the court assign him new counsel to provide an opportunity to confer with a practicing and responsive attorney prior to and during his trial for first degree murder.
Having taken Mr. Mitchell's request under advisement to await the reinstatement of the attorney, the trial judge revisited the request with the attorney present in the courtroom. The trial judge informed Mr. Mitchell that subjective dissatisfaction with counsel does not require the court to assign a new attorney and, therefore, denied Mr. Mitchell's request. The trial court was correct, a subjective test of a defendant's satisfaction with counsel does not dictate an order for new counsel. However, the attorney's neglect of his client met the objective test of a denial of counsel. The Court grants Mr. Mitchell's petition of habeas corpus, because the state trial court committed constitutional error denying his request for new counsel.
Charged with first-degree murder, Mr. Mitchell faced a jury trial without ever having spoken with his attorney in private. The only conversations that took place between the two of them occurred in the bullpen of Recorder's Court, Detroit, Michigan, certainly not a private setting. Defense lawyers can meet with their clients in the bullpen, but the presence of others chills any meaningful or confidential exchange. In addition to the exposed atmosphere, Mr. Mitchell, without his needed hearing aid, could only understand about half of the things Mr. Evelyn said to him in the bullpen. Even these harried conversations were early in the process. From the delivery of discovery materials to Mr. Mitchell until the time of trial, a period of approximately six months, the attorney never communicated with his client.
Mr. Mitchell informed the system by writing six letters explaining the difficulties he endured as he tried to garner meaningful and private communication with his attorney of record, two letters to Judge Farmer, two to Judge Roberson, one to the clerk and one to the Attorney Grievance Commission. A week or so before the commencement of the trial and during the attorney's suspension period, Mr. Mitchell appeared before the trial judge in pro per to ask the court for withdrawal of counsel. After Mr. Mitchell told of the absence of communication with his attorney, the judge took the motion under advisement until he had a chance to *657 reexamine the issue with both the attorney and client present.
When trial began, Mr. Mitchell renewed his motion for withdrawal of counsel; counsel had not visited him the prior evening, a meeting ordered by the judge. The court recommended an adjournment of the trial at one o'clock that day to give Mr. Mitchell the opportunity to discuss matters with counsel. Mr. Mitchell, not satisfied with the proposed solution, posited the simple, yet poignant question of, "How can I make it all the way to trial when Mr. Evelyn has never heard my true side of the story?"
Counsel suggested that should Mr. Mitchell have discontent with counsel in the future, the court could afford him an opportunity to reassess the motion. The judge responded,
"I will listen to him at any time, but I don't want to mislead you with the impression that just because you're still dissatisfied with your attorney that the Court is going to discontinue the trial and appoint new counsel."
The trial judge denied Mr. Mitchell's motion for new counsel without prejudice and Mr. Mitchell did not raise the issue again. Counsel proceeded to represent Mr. Mitchell at the trial, cross-examining witnesses and addressing the jury. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned with a guilty verdict for second-degree murder. The judge sentenced Mr. Mitchell to 10-15 years of imprisonment.
Mr. Mitchell appealed as of right to the Michigan Court of Appeals and in an unpublished per curiam opinion, dated January 5, 1994, the court affirmed the conviction. The Michigan Supreme Court granted leave to appeal the decision. The majority held in part that no deprivation of effective assistance of counsel occurred, because the Court did not consider trial preparation a critical state of the proceedings. People v. Mitchell, 454 Mich. 145, 166, 560 N.W.2d 600 (1997). The majority focused on counsel's performance at trial, not the relationship between Mr. Mitchell and his attorney. Id. "If counsel is a reasonably effective advocate, he meets constitutional standards irrespective of his clients' evaluation of his performance." Id. at 167, 560 N.W.2d 600 (quoting United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 657 n. 21, 104 S. Ct. 2039, 80 L. Ed. 2d 657 (1984)).
The dissent, however, would have ruled that counsel's failure to ever interview his client translated into a per se violation of Mr. Mitchell's Sixth Amendment rights. The case should not have been analyzed under an ineffective assistance of counsel doctrine. The "facts of this case justify a presumption of ineffectiveness without inquiry into actual performance or prejudice." Id. at 178, 560 N.W.2d 600. The dissent, in criticism of the majority's narrow view of the facts, expanded the analysis from a focus on the attorney's one month suspension to the absence of communication between attorney and client during the entire pretrial preparation period of approximately six months. The dissent analyzed the facts under a totality of the circumstances' test, including the thirty-day suspension, the gravity of the charge, all of Mr. Mitchell's unheeded attempts to arrange a private meeting with Mr. Evelyn and the court's refusal of Mr. Mitchell's timely request for substitution of counsel. The dissent concluded that Mr. Mitchell had been denied his Sixth Amendment right per se. Mitchell at 193, 560 N.W.2d 600.
The Petitioner's application is governed by the provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) because his application was filed after April 26, 1996.
*658 (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or
28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); Harpster v. State of Ohio, 128 F.3d 322, 326 (6th Cir. 1997); cert den ___ U.S. ___, 118 S. Ct. 1044, 140 L. Ed. 2d 109 (1998). Habeas relief cannot be granted unless the state court's legal decision was contrary to, or was an unreasonable application of, "clearly established" United States Supreme Court law or the state court's application of the law to the facts was an "unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence ...". Id. at (d) (1)-(2).
The factual determinations of a state court are presumed correct unless rebutted by convincing evidence. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e) (1). A federal court must apply the presumption of correctness to state court findings of fact for habeas corpus purposes unless convincing evidence is offered to rebut this presumption. Warren v. Smith, 161 F.3d 358, 360-361 (6th Cir.1998); 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e) (1).
The Sixth Circuit has recently adopted a standard of review in Nevers v. Killinger, 169 F.3d 352, 1999 WL 97993 (6th Cir.1999) cert. denied, ___ S.Ct. ___, 119 S. Ct. 2340, 144 L. Ed. 2d 237 (1999). The Sixth Circuit held that the deference to the state courts' judgments required under the AEDPA would be achieved by adopting the rule that the unreasonableness of a state court's application of clearly established Supreme Court precedent will not be debatable among reasonable jurists if it is so offensive to existing precedent, so devoid of record support, or so arbitrary, as to indicate that it is outside the universe of plausible, credible outcomes. See also Tucker v. Prelesnik, 181 F.3d 747, 753-54 (6th Cir.1999) (discussing the Nevers decision); Lakin v. Stine, 44 F. Supp. 2d 897 (E.D.Mich.1999);French v. Jones, 41 F. Supp. 2d 726 (E.D.Mich.1999).
The trial court denied Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." U.S. Const. amend. VI. The actual or constructive denial of counsel can never be considered harmless error, because the right to counsel is core to our system. Holloway v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 489, 98 S. Ct. 1173, 55 L. Ed. 2d 426 (1978) (quoting from Chapman v. State of California, 386 U.S. 18, 23, 87 S. Ct. 824, 826, 17 L. Ed. 2d 705 (1967)).
As the trial judge correctly stated, no weight is attached to a defendant's expression of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with counsel. United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 657, n. 21, 104 S. Ct. 2039, 80 L. Ed. 2d 657 (1984), Ward v. United States, 995 F.2d 1317, 1321 (1993). Instead, an objective reasonableness test is applied to counsel's effective advocacy. Id.
Giving form to the relationship between attorney and client, the Supreme Court held that critical to the attorney's representation, communication between the two must exist. Geders v. United States, 425 U.S. 80, 91, 96 S. Ct. 1330, 47 L. Ed. 2d 592 (1976). The denial of the opportunity to confer with an attorney results in reversible constitutional error. Id.
The great lengths to which the system extends to protect attorney-client communication demonstrate the importance of conversation between attorney and client in the legal world. Swidler & Berlin, et al. v. United States, 524 U.S. 399, 118 S. Ct. 2081, 141 L. Ed. 2d 379 (1998) (Attorney-client privilege survives the death of the client). Habeas relief has been granted in similar circumstances where a petitioner had been denied the ability to speak in *659 private with his attorney and then forced to endure trial. See Lakin v. Stine, 44 F. Supp. 2d 897 (1999). Meaningful, confidential and private conversation creates the attorney-client relationship, without communication the attorney can only posture as one, the communication derives an attorney, a necessary element composing a lawyer. Id.
Mr. Mitchell's inability to secure private communication with counsel prior to trial rendered him without representation at his trial in violation of the Sixth Amendment. Pretrial preparation is a critical stage of the proceeding. Geders and Lakin, supra. The trial judge throughout the renewed motion to dismiss counsel kept voicing his concern that the trial had begun and he did not want to postpone trial. The repetition of the statements implied that the delay in Mr. Mitchell's request for new counsel was Mr. Mitchell's fault. Such a conclusion, however, could not be further from the truth, because Mr. Mitchell made substantial efforts prior to the commencement of trial to secure responsive counsel for himself.
He called his attorney collect in order to converse with him, but the attorney would not accept the charges. Mr. Mitchell had his mother phone and stop by the attorney's office in hopes of capturing some response from the attorney, but to no avail. Mr. Mitchell wrote six letters to the courts in an attempt to inform the system of the fact that counsel never met with him once to discuss the case. Mr. Evelyn broke promises to meet with Mr. Mitchell on many occasions, including failing to meet with him the night before the beginning of trial. A meeting that had been ordered by the trial judge. Mr. Mitchell brought a motion for appointment of new counsel a week and half before the trial was scheduled to begin. This was held in abeyance by the trial judge to the day of trial, not Mr. Mitchell. Thus, the trial judge was aware of all of Mr. Mitchell's efforts. He should not have blamed Mr. Mitchell for his delay in raising the issue.
Respondent conceded the factual underpinnings that no private communication took place between Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Evelyn, but argued that the Sixth Amendment does not guarantee such communication. Further, that pretrial preparation should not be considered a critical part of the proceeding. Respondent concluded that the contours of the Sixth Amendment have not been held to embody the chance to confer one-on-one with an attorney, and presents a case of first impression for the court. As such habeas relief cannot be granted for non-established law, only for the denial of a known federal or constitutional right.
The court holds that the Sixth Amendment does secure communication between attorney and client. It is not a new rule of law. See, Geders, supra. As the Supreme Court held in Geders, for an attorney-client relationship to exist, the two must communicate. Without the crucial condition of conversation between them a constitutional violation occurs. Given Supreme Court precedent that confidential and meaningful communication is critical to an attorney relationship, the fact that Mr. Evelyn never once spoke in private with Mr. Mitchell prior to a murder trial translates into a denial of Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel.
The reduction in the charge from first-degree murder to second degree is irrelevant to the instant analysis, because as the dissenting opinion of the Michigan Supreme Court in Mr. Mitchell's appeal indicated, the fact that an attorney can put on a good show in court does not mean that a defendant had been provided counsel. Furthermore, one cannot speculate as to what takes place behind the closed jury door. It may be that an attorney who had put forth a modicum of pretrial preparation would have been able to obtain an acquittal for the client. The jury's lowering of the charge does not provide a useful barometer as to Mr. Evelyn's representation of Mr. Mitchell, because no one knows why or how the jury decided to find Mr. *660 Mitchell guilty of second-degree murder, but not first degree. Consider also the fact that Mr. Mitchell's co-defendant, Mr. Lamont Mason, tried concurrently, but with a separate jury was acquitted of all charges by his jury. It is anybody's guess as to what the result would have been for Mr. Mitchell had he been given adequate representation at his trial.
In summary, prior to trial, Mr. Mitchell attempted many times to speak with his attorney in private, but could not. Once informed of this reality, the trial court should have taken proper steps to rectify the problem. For example, the judge could have removed Mr. Evelyn, found him in contempt, fined him and appointed new counsel, as Judge Vonda R. Evans for the Wayne Circuit Court did on the day of trial to a defense attorney, who failed to speak with his client for a period of 10 weeks. See David Shepardson, Court Delays Trial in Cop's Killing, The Detroit News, June 8, 1999. The trial judge's failure to correct the problem resulted in a denial of Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel. Therefore, the court grants habeas relief.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Magistrate's Report and Recommendation is rejected and the Petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus is conditionally granted. Unless the state takes action to afford Petitioner a new trial within ninety (90) days of the date of the July 8, 1999 judgment, he may apply for a writ ordering respondent to vacate the sentence for the conviction.
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[2] The State Bar of Michigan had suspended his attorney from practice for thirty (30) days one month prior to the commencement of Mr. Mitchell's trial. This is not the basis of this court's ruling. |
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Calories in Blade Roast 3 ounces Excellent source of zinc, rich in heme iron. Half the fat is saturated. 213
Calories in Bottom Round Roast 3 ounces, lean only Rich in zinc (promotes blood clotting/assists white blood cells in fighting off infection/speeds wound healing). High in cholesterol. 178
Calories in Brisket 3 ounces, braised Zinc enriched. 206
Calories in Eye Round Roast 3 ounces, lean only, roasted Good source of protein and zinc. 143
Calories in Filet Mignon 3 ounces, lean only High in fat and cholesterol. 179
Calories in Flank Steak 3 ounces, lean only Rich in zinc; eat with carbs to offset fat. 176
Calories in Ground Beef (Extra-Lean) 3 ounces Cook in microwave which will rid the meat of more fat than conventional cooking. 218
Calories in Porterhouse Steak 3 ounces, lean only As with all red meats, eat in moderation due to high fat content and an increase in your cancer risk factor. 185
Calories in Pot Roast, Arm 3 ounces, lean only Niacin, riboflavin, zinc, magnesium, potassium; moderate amount of fat and cholesterol. 184
Calories in Rib Eye Steak 3 ounces, lean only Zinc, protein, iron, B vitamins-specifically B-12. 191
Calories in Shank Cross Cut 3 ounces, lean only
great for making soup Superior source of B-12. 171
Calories in Short Ribs 3 ounces, lean only Extreme in fat with over 1/2 of the total calories attributing to the count. 251
Calories in Sirloin Steak 3 ounces, lean only Good source of vitamin B-12. Contains niacin, zinc, heme iron. 166
Calories in T-Bone Steak 3 ounces, lean only Zinc, vitamin B-12. Extreme in fat content. 182
Calories in Tip Round Steak 3 ounces, lean only If you must have beef, this is perhaps one of your best choices with about 1/3 of the total calories derived from fat. 157
Calories in Top Loin Steak 3 ounces, lean only Vitamin B-12, niacin, zinc. Drain excess fat thoroughly from meat. 176
Calories in Top Round Steak 3 ounces, lean only Another good choice if you must have beef. 153
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en | N/A | N/A | When Jesus died on the Cross of Calvary, it was done openly in view of the whole universe. After “…having spoiled principalities and powers [evil angels and their domain], He made a shew of them openly [in front of all the multitude of heaven and hell], triumphing over them…” (Colossians 2:15). The powers of darkness were overcome by Him alone at the Cross. All who believe in Him are now able to walk in power and continual victory themselves, due to the victory He won there.
The power of the Cross is what we need to understand. Christ didn’t die as a martyr on the Cross—this was His extreme triumph! Our refuge therefore is God, without a doubt, and we can be confidently convinced that He will help us. He’ll do for us what no other power is able to do. If we have God on our side, who among us needs to be afraid?
We can only be victorious over sin, death and the grave through the Lord Jesus. He conquered the grave by rising out of it Himself, and by living forevermore. Therefore, victory has already become ours, since Christ alone already won the victory for us!
At the Cross, Christ also gained a victory over the law. This was confirmed when He was resurrected from the dead. And, since He won the victory, and we’re believers in Him, we have become more than conquerors—in Him! Only through the Lord can this victory be ours, and it can only come by placing our faith in Christ and what He did on the Cross.
We’ve been made to share in all our Leader’s victories, but not because we deserve it. Victory for believers is a gift from God the Father, who gave us His Son, along with everything that belongs to Him. This was God’s plan that He carried out in giving us His Son; and He presents it to us personally at our death. “Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).
We have a real enemy trying to steal our faith at every opportunity. The Devil’s primary purpose is to cause us to lose our faith, which will cause us to lose the battle.
We are in a battle. We were recruited into God’s army when we were saved. He wants us to be His soldiers. The battle is now on; therefore, the time has come to put on our battle fatigues. We need to have God with us because this battle is hot, with the devil constantly turning up the heat! But we also need to recognize that the battle we face isn’t really our battle, but God’s.
We can’t toy with the enemy—we must conquer him! And the one thing that will turn the devil away is God’s Word. The only offensive weapon we have to fight with is the “sword of the Spirit.” Since we’re outnumbered and outmatched to fight him in our own power, let’s quit trying to fight every battle ourself and allow God to do our fighting. He never asked us to fight the enemy anyway; He only asks us to just believe.
It’s in His name and His strength that we’ll be victorious over every enemy. Yet how many people fail to see the potential here—all they notice is the enemy!
Christ will appear soon at the head of His armies, with a sharp sword emerging from His mouth and wearing a garment dipped in blood. Then the people under Him will be inspired to fight valiantly. It’s in His name and His strength that we’ll be victorious over every enemy. Yet how many people fail to see the potential here—all they notice is the enemy! In fact, how many people compare themselves to the enemy! We need to compare our enemy to our God instead!
We can’t put our trust in our own power—we have to come in the armor of the Lord. Then it won’t be us that the devil sees—it will be Christ. The time has come to put on the whole armor of God, not try to carefully select what we want. And let’s make sure that we never remove that armor until we’re victorious!
It’s not because we’ll do valiantly, or tread down the enemies. The One by whom we will do valiantly will do it for us!
All our victories come from God, and therefore all credit for victory belongs to Him alone. The Israelites chalked up many victories, but not due to any virtue or power of their own. Their victories were all achieved by the favor and grace of the Lord. Those willing to submit to King Jesus will share in His glories. But those who are against Him will be put beneath His feet. Very soon the end of all the enemies of Christ and His people will come, and then we’ll all spend an eternity together with Him! But it’s not because we’ll do valiantly, or tread down the enemies. The One by whom we will do valiantly will do it for us! Praise be to our Almighty King—we are more than conquerors in Him!
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As a morally charged voice from the civil libertarian left, Hamilton punctures the lazy myth that concern about China is limited to conservatives or national security types on a “China threat roll”, who for some reason feel the need to conjure up new trouble (as if terrorism was not enough to keep them worried, funded and busy).
That said, a blunt and moralising tone can undermine the appeal or effectiveness of his argument, such as when Hamilton unfairly lumps some of Australia’s most subtle and experienced foreign-policy voices in with apparent China boosters in an imagined “China club”.
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Much is made in Hamilton’s work, and elsewhere, of the risks of scientific research collaboration leaking new dual-use technologies to China’s military and security apparatus. But does primary responsibility lie with universities or with thinly resourced government policy frameworks designed for a time when the boundary between peaceful and strategic technology was simpler?
The accusation of racism has been deployed by representatives and mouthpieces of the People’s Republic of China to discredit legitimate concerns about foreign political interference.
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en | N/A | N/A | "The Astros have a great history," McLane said. "You look at the players at the event today, starting with Jimmy Wynn. He was "The Toy Cannon," which is one of the best nicknames I've ever heard. You see how he succeeded. At the other side of the table was Craig Biggio. He got 3,000 hits for us and has a great opportunity to go into the Hall of Fame. To me, I think the single biggest event is Houston and the Houston Astros inventing dome stadiums. No one team ever had a baseball or football stadium before of that magnitude. It changed athletics all over the world."
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en | N/A | N/A | Let me tell you one of the simple, basic truths about the relationship between NBA players and the media: they don’t particularly enjoy talking with us, not usually at least.
It’s a fact that has pretty much shown itself to be true over the fifteen or so Chicago Bulls games I’ve attended this season, and over all the professional basketball players I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with. Don’t get it twisted; there are a lot of really nice guys in the league: Jermaine O’Neal, Derek Fisher, P.J. Brown, and the story I’m about to tell you is about one of those really nice guys.
But there are a ton of players who are either just too busy to chat with media, or who don’t have the necessary charisma and patience to conduct a cordial interview with me. Of course, if I was rich and/or famous, the novelty of it all would probably wear off very quickly and I’d grow bored and impatient with reporters, too. Can’t blame them, I guess.
The point is that usually I feel like I’m imposing on a player when I ask for a few minutes of his time before the game, just to chat a little so I can meet my needs for the company I work for. Last night, when I covered the Bulls-Hornets game, I had one of my best interviewing experiences of my young sports journalism career.
The way I do things is by first heading into the visitor’s locker room, since I can interview the Bulls whenever I want and only get a chance to see the guests maybe once the whole season. In this case it was the New Orleans Hornets, an extremely young team on the cusp’ve got their studs—a former rookie of the year, a dunk contest winner, and so on…
But the team also has a couple of rookies on the squad, one of whom a college teammate of Ben Gordon named Hilton Armstrong, so I had him on my list of guys to chat with. I generally enjoy talking to rookies because they don’t have that cocky feeling of entitlement yet, so they’re pretty easy-going about interviews. It’s all still pretty new, so they’re excited. Plus, they’re younger than me, unlike most of the other guys I talk to, so I end up feeling like I’m in the driver’s seat, which is a nice change of pace. Makes me less nervous.
Anyway, Hilton’s this huge kid, kind of lanky with a baby face, and I caught him chatting with a couple of teammates as I moseyed into the visitors’ locker room. I said what I always said when I initiate contact, “What’s going on man? Joel Brigham, nice to meet you. Got time for a few questions?”
To my surprise, however, Mr. Armstrong looked at me with an flabbergasted expression and gave me a rather unexpected response: “No one’s ever interviewed me yet.”
I sort of laughed, thinking he was feeding me a load of crap because come on, we’re 2/3 of the way through the season, this kid’s a lottery pick, and no one’s talked him at a game? But then I started to think about it. The kid hardly plays at all, he’s averaging something like 3 points a game, and with all the other media darlings and stud muffins on the team, I very much doubt he’s someone the Oklahoma City papers are dying to track down.
He’s just sitting in his spinny ergonomic chair looking at me like a little kid who’s just heard his father say, “Hey sport! I’ve got a surprise for you!” He’s giving me that “What is it?!” look.
So I conduct the interview, and though his answers were pretty stock and not particularly enlightening, he answered every single one of them with the fervor of a first-time interviewee. He was in the moment, loving every second of it, and I had a really nice time watching him love it.
See, so much of this sports writing this is hurried and cut-throat and political and fast, that it can surely be frustrating at times (as all jobs can be), but it was in this little poetic moment that I found a moment of peace. Just to think how cordial this young man was, how excited he was to be interviewed. He didn’t even get into the game last night, but at least in one way it was a special night for him.
I guess it’s the teacher in me to have found this so nice, but it was a cool thing. I wish more of this was like that, but I can assure you that Kevin Garnett was nowhere near as nice. Confident, funny, and informative, but not particularly nice. Like I said, though, if you’ve been that famous that long, you don’t have to be.
When you’re a rookie getting hardly any playing time, you do. And Hilton Armstrong was.
Hoopsworld.com interview with Hilton Armstrong
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en | N/A | N/A | Seven months after 15 women alleged sexual misconduct, Chef Edouardo Jordan says it's time to reopen JuneBaby again, the Seattle Times reports. Former manager Ahmed Suliman told the Times he found Jordan's announcement "disgusting" and said he still needed to apologize to dozens of people.
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"Fear, tension, and confusion are sweeping our jails nearly as quickly as COVID," the unions write in the letter. They describe one third of the jail locked in COVID protocols, 50 guards out sick and some "sleeping in the jail because they can't get home between a double shift and their next one," a lack of "fresh meals," limits on meetings with attorneys, and delayed medicine deliveries. They demand the executives immediately stop booking people accused of nonviolent crimes, stop issuing warrants to people for misdemeanors and nonviolent offenses, develop a plan to release all misdemeanor and nonviolent offenders, and improve staffing.
Following arson and community outpouring, Lumberyard Bar scheduled to reopen beforehow the new place is shaping up, with one side of the bar "modeled after the original Lumberyard" and the other side reserved for dance and drag.
COVID-19 hits the State House: Despite the mostly virtual session, COVID-19 cases keep racking up. Today Rep. Mari Leavitt tested positive. Last week, five state Senators came down with the bug.
Posters started popping up on Capitol Hill over this past week advertising a protest outside the Seattle NFT Museum, which is set to open this evening (tickets—which are sold out—cost between $175-$200). When The Stranger arrived on the scene 20 minutes after the protest was meant to start, only two people werjust down to have a conversation.
The sole protester, who requested anonymity, came out because they have a strong dislike of NFTs and NFT culture as a whole. Their dislike stemmed from the tokens'wasted mining for Bitcoin, calling NFTs a "money laundering scheme" and "power-intensive receipts." When asked about the Seattle NFT Museum specifically, the protester said they didn't have anything against the artists, but believed that NFTs are a vastly unsustainable way to support the arts. "I don't think we as a city need to have [Seattle NFT Museum] promoting this ecological negligence," they said.
Unrelated to the protest, someone apparently threw an object through the museum's front windows. (I have reached out for confirmation of this to the museum and will update when I hear back.) When The Stranger showed up, crews were putting up plywood over the broken window and painting it black ahead of the opening tonight. The protester said they anticipated more people would show up and intends to stay until guests start arriving. More updates soon...
Thanks, Jas! We'll look forward to the review of the pretty receipts they're hocking at the "gallery."
US public health experts come for Joe Rogan: 270 "s" asked Spotify to moderate the bullshit coming out of Joe Rogan's extremely popular podcast, The Guardian reports. One epidemiologist called him "'a menace to public health' for airing anti-vaccine ideology."
Netflix & fill corporate pockets: The streaming service hiked its monthly rate from $13.99 to $15.49, according to Shadow and Act. Fuck, I JUST got hooked on the new season of CHEER. One of these days I swear I'll do a streaming purge, right after I finish this season of The Bachelor, Attack on Titan, CHEER, who am I.
Four free at-home COVID tests coming soon to an internet near you: The government website portal where you can order the tests will open Wednesday. I foresee only success.
Hmmmmmm: An anonymous U.S. official told Reuters that Russia plans to launch a "false flag" operation assia dismissed the allegation as "unfounded," though they do have 100,000 troops stationed at the county's boarder, and they keep issuing a demand for NATO to promise never to admit Ukraine. |
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Interesting…I home schooled my children back in the day when we were considered pioneers and many states still considered us lawbreakers. The question of the day was "what kind of quality education could they possibly get?" and "what will you do about socialization?". Funny, no one asks those questions much anymore. Home schooli the fruit, and the educational outcomes from many public schools and accompanying issues with negative peer pressure has made many a doubter look longingly over to the other side of the home school fence. Perhaps home birthing will enjoy the same awakening if enough people buck the system to embrace birth as a normal event?
To quote again from the document: "The 'lay midwives' internal philosophy on state regulation and licensure appears to have shifted. In the past, their position on licensure reflected the dominance of midwives who did not want to be regulated, opposed state licensure, and defended within their individual guilds the right to stay unlicensed and practice underground. While there are midwives who still do not want to be regulated and who do not support the current licensure campaign, for the most part you don't see them speaking publicly against licensure in the legislature or elsewhere. Even the nurse-midwives no longer can be counted on to speak publicly against home birth or lesser trained midwives."
Excuse me while I take a moment to laugh out loud at this one. Even the nurse-midwives have turned coat and can't be counted on to speak out against home birth?Maybe a good portion of them are simply tired of following obstetrical authoritarian's non-evidenced based protocols and have had enough of a glimpse over the fence at the outcomes of their home birthing sister midwives to just decide not to say anything at all. Some of them have home birth practices of their own. I recently attended a Christian midwifery conference and there were midwives in attendance of every persuasion–'lay' midwives, CPMs, CNMs, whatever you call yourself. No one wore a name tag with their credentials, just our names. You know what sifted to the top?
Next point in the ACOG document says: "The term direct entry is used to refer to midwives who enter the profession of midwifery directly without earning a nursing degree. Both certified professional midwives (CPMs) and certified midwives (CMs) are considered direct-entry midwives, although their level of education and training varies markedly. CPMs are largely self-taught and their training is typically through aprenticeship. CPM was the title chosen by MANA and NARM in the mid-1990s for their credentialed direct entry midwives. By comparison, CMs must undergo three years of university-affliated training, and while there is no nursing prerequisite, these direct-entry midwives must complete the same science requirements and sit for the same certification exam as a nurse-midwife. ….More states are adopting the CPM credential as a requirement for midwifery licensure, and not the CM credential which both ACOG and ACNM recognize. Of the roughly 21 states that license midwives to attend home births, all use the CPM credential. By their lack of training and because they do not work collaboratively with hospital-based obstetric providers, CPMs are the least qualified midwives to attend a home birth."
So much is wrong in that one paragraph, I hardly know where to start. True that all midwives who enter the field without first becoming a nurse are called direct entry. It is odd that both the ACOG and ACNM recognize and approve of this route, as long as you can pass the certification exam and will work collaboratively with a hospital-based obstetric provider (can you say CONTROL?). But if you get an equal didactic education somewhere other than their own hallowed halls and your clinical experience occurs in a home birth setting, then you are seen as decidedly inferior. Anyone who calls the process to become a CPM a 'lack of training' has not actually seen the hoops you must jump through, nor understood the knowledge required to pass both the clinical and written exams. In this situation, I think 'lack of training' can be interpreted "we can't control them!
"To bolster their case for licensure, midwives like to cite European countries' experience with midwives and home birth. This may play well with an uninformed public, but the analogy is flawed. The conditions that make home birth relatively safe in some countries–the Netherlands for example–do not pertain to much of the US. The Netherlands is a geographically small, densely populated country where everyone lives within 20 minutes of a hospital."
"In their recent testimony to state legislators, midwives have been citing a 2005 study on the safety of home births by direct entry midwives in the US. (J30;1415) This study concluded, "certified professional midwivesn." ACOG continues to assert and out of the hospital are problematic, not scientifically rigorous, and unconvincing."
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"Physician back-up for midwives and out-of-hospital deliveries is a growing concern in some states. …In 1993, California licensed midwives to do home deliveries under physician supervision. But implementing regulations for the 1993 law were only recently finalized after years of wrangling over key issues including the physician supervision requirement in the authorizing legislation. Medical liability insurers in the state were refusing to cover physicians who back-up midwives and midwifery proponents in the legislature threatened to waive the requirement for physician supervision altogether."
It's slightly amusing that this review refers to legislative handbook developed by MANA as being full of "lobbying advice, tactics and propaganda". Is everyone aware that the ACOG is basically a lobbying organization for the advancement of obstetricians and gynecologists?Lastly, the document mentions the problem of hospitals refusing to do VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) deliveries as being one of the reasons many women are seeking out other alternatives, including home birth with midwives. The most up-to-date studies all support VBAC attempts as being the safer approach to subsequent births in the majority of situations. Yet hospital after hospital have closed out this option, choosing to bow under the pressure of regional medical standards and insurers demands, rather than evidence-based studies. What are women to do who don't wish to undergo major surgery to birth their babies again, especially when the number of primary unnecessary cesareans is so unreasonably high?
Pennsylvania reverses rulings against midwife Diane Goslin!
It's about time we had some good news on the legal front. Why are we allowing the financial and philosophical 'competition' to control this vital right of women to birth where and with whomever they desire?
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I'm going. This conference is sponsored by Ancient Art Midwifery Institute and Carla Hartley. She says it will be her last one and it is worth putting everything else aside to attend. Some of the biggest names in the birth community will be there. Dr. Sarah Buckley, Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. John Stevenson, Jan Tritten, Heather Cushman-Dowdee (Hathor, the cow-goddess), Rixa Freeze, Henci Goer, Mindy Goorchenko, Gail Hart, Ricki Lake, Gloria Lemay, Sheri Menelli, Shonda Parker, Karen Strange, Sheila Stubbs, Debby Takikawa, and many others. Everyone is talking about it… |
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The boost in volume from the first half to the second would have been substantial just based on the changes in arrangement and personnel. If Concerto No. 22 is a walk in the park, Bruckner’s Ninth is a major ground invasion — even with the unfinished fourth movement. But Eschenbach and the expanded forces also leaned in harder, playing with an intensity and commitment of emotional resources that Bruckner — arguably more than Mozart — demands.
A work of dark romantic allure and enveloping soulfulness, it was Bruckner’s last, just as he said it would be before he died. Whether he was contemplating The End or just retirement due to ill health or creative exhaustion, Bruckner was communicating, in musical language, a heightened sense of retrospection, feeling and finality.
With three movements, and the central Scherzo as its thumping pizzicato heart, the hourlong Ninth unfolded elementally. The sound of brass, including Wagner horns, was an immediate and striking contrast to the more burnished woodwind contours of Mozart’s concerto. The few glimmers of pastoral lightness in the opening Feierlich movement were swept away, by design, by a seething, shape-shifting mass of instrumentation that threw off endlessly surprising configurations.
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Fardagafoss can be found just off the road on the way from Egilsstaðir towards Seyðisfjörður. It’s about a 30-minute walk from the parking lot to the thundering falls. Keep an eye out for fresh berries growing along the way.
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Hallormsstaðaskógur is Iceland’s largest forest, and an important and precious area for a country that’s devoid of trees in most other places. Beautiful walking trails, picnic areas and campsites can be found all through the forest. In the summertime, it’s obviously one of the most popular spots with Icelanders who like to get outdoors in the good weather that East Iceland sees.
Vestrahorn just outside of HöfTake the road marked to Stokksnes to find a beautiful black sand beach with tufts of grass growing on it, in the background the majestic mountains.
Stórurð is one of the more well-known spots in the East. Also referred to as ‘The Giant Boulders’, Stórurð isn’t any one thing; it’s the area. Just to the west of a small glacier along the Dyrfjoll Mountains, the hike from the parking spot on the road to Borgarfjörður Eystri will take you about 2.5 hours. Along the way you’ll pass by some beautiful meadows, gushing streams and intimidating mountain peaks; two of which once represented the gateway to Hell for local Icelanders in the area. The final destination of the hike is an area of large rocks strewn about glittering glacial pools of teal.
Papey Island is just off the coast of Djúpivogur and could quite well be the very first place in Iceland that was inhabited by humans. Named after the Irish Monks (papar) who were the first to settle here, possibly in the 8th or 9th Century, on this small island you’ll find Iceland’s smallest church and a large colony of puffins and guillemots. To get here you can catch a ferry across from Djúpivogur, which will also come with a tour guide who takes you around the island.
Borgarfjörður Eystri is another spotIcelandic puffins. The viewing point is one of the best in Iceland, with an inside part to keep you warm on those extremely windy days.
For the avid hikers, this is also one of the best spots to base yourself. Hiking over the peninsula into the abandoned bays to the east will provide you with some much-needed solitude, and there are multiple trails. For something more long-distance, you can attempt the 3-day hike all the way down to Seyðisfjörður.
The wildlife in the region is rich and varied. On the coast you can often find seals, particularly on the boat out to Papey Island. Hikers often report seeing whales splashing in the waters off the coast, traversing their way up and down the fjords. Of course, there are the two big puffin colonies in Borgarfjörður Eystri and on Papey Island. . Norwegians originally brought them over to farm, an industry that never took hold with Icelanders. Now, the population of about 3000 reindeer is strictly controlled, but mostly left to roam throughout the East. They’ll come down closer to the coast in the winter time and head back up to the desolate plains of the highlands near Mt Snæfell in the summer.
As mentioned above, Egilsstaðir is the unofficial capital of the Eastern region. Built as a service and supply point for the main route 1, life here moves quite slowly. It can feel busy at times, as it’s the main intersecting point for people catching/departing the ferry that arrives in Seyðisfjörður, just over the mountain pass to the east. The campsite is right next to the tourist centre in town, which could be possible the busiest in the entire country during the summer months.
Seyðisfjörður itself is a great little town, deserving much more than a passing glance. Its here where the ferry from Denmark docks, unloading travel-hungry tourists into the small town of just under 1000. Founded by Norwegian fisherman in the late 1800s, the town’s buildings are all very colourful and prefabricated, all of them with an interesting history. The beautiful pale-blue church is very photogenic with a rainbow road leading to the front door, and there’s an amazing sushi restaurant that uses the fresh ingredients brought in by the fishing boats called Norð Austur.
The small towns along the fjords south of here are all very old fishing villages with a lot of history. There’s Fáskrúðsfjörður, originally built in the mid-1800s by French fisherman, and Djúpivogur has committed to the slow-lifestyle and slow-travel way of life. In Breiðdalsvík you can find the Beljandi Brewery, a local pub that serves beer to the reindeer hunters and locals from neighbouring fjords.
Höfn is at the very bottom of the East, with commanding views of the spectacular Vatnajökull glacier. The town is famed for its lobster, so make sure to get some or sample the local lobster soup before you move on - it’s considered some of the best in Iceland.
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I vividly recall Baszler’s leg kick TKO loss as a big fan of leg kick TKOs. I had no idea, however, that Amanda was the one who had done it. It’s crazy to think I was watching the future women’s GOAT at the time and had no idea who she was.
Except for Valentina, who will always be at a disadvantage due to her height, she has no competition. And, as we saw on this weekend’s card, when you have two highly qualified fighters, size does matter.
If they run it back, I still believe Cyborg can get her.
Since she beat Nunes in the standup department, Germain should be able to develop her ground game even further.
Nunes might be nice, in my opinion.
There is no middle ground in all of the fights; they either end early or go all the way to the final round.
All you have to do now is keep lining them up. No one is deserving, worthy, or capable of challenging her, so Amanda can continue to set records.
She should simply begin battling the top bantamweight and featherweight contenders simultaneously.
Nonetheless. A barn is impossible to sell.
I believe she has defeated more than half of the female fighters who have won a UFC championship. It’s insane.
Edit: She has defeated 6 of the 12 champions, but naming Nicco Montao a former champion isn’t fair, so I’ll stick with saying she has beaten more than half of them.
Valentina is the only one who has come close to defeating her, and she has done so twice. I have no idea how long it will be before she loses or meets another serious opponent.
WMMA Goat, without a doubt—but I’m hoping they will find better challengers than Spencer and Anderson here. Oh, no.
I’ve never seen a fighter look when defeated as Anderson did as he entered the ring.
If Max vs Volk 3 takes place, Valentina vs Nunes 3 must take place as well.
Anyone other than the GDR and Shevchenko has no chance.
And though she’s 2-0 against both, she should fight them again.
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Nunes’ latest win streak is now longer than Ronda’s entire MMA career, according to a statistic I saw over the weekend.
Given that the win streak is almost entirely made up of championship fights, it’s very impressive.
The number of posts I saw claiming Megan has it all together and would make people money was hilarious. Betting odds gives a false sense of optimism.
I’m able to discuss the G.O.A.T. and everyone else who might be superior to herher some better challengers than Spencer and Anderson. Oh, no.
If only she could box like Ronda.
She’s a level 100 character who’s always on Easy mode.
And Shevchenko was the only one who caused her any trouble; none of the other fights were even close to being competitive. It’s a little crazy. Like her previous decision with Spencer, it seemed as though she just wanted to harass the girl for five rounds.… and look at how many of the women’s elite of all time are on the same streak.
The only living legend she hasn’t faced is Roxanne Modafferi… and we all know how that ends for Roxy.
Now I have to learn how nunes will beat men once more.
Val is the only woman who has ever come close to succeeding against her. There are a few names that may be considered the men’s GOAT, but Nunes is without a doubt the women’s GOAT.
Valentina is someone she wants to fight again.
She is the only woman who has dared to question her.
She was forced to a three-round decision in her first match.
Second place was lost due to an SPLIT vote.
Since then, she’s been in charge of her own division.
It’s the only thing that makes sense if we want to see Amanda actually fight.
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Seemingly overnight, my face, my arms, and legs were bright red, shiny, weeping and very, very sore.
After going to the doctors, and his first words being to me ‘Oh my, you have it bad’, I just burst into tears. I did have it bad, and it really hurt.
I’d take handfuls of vitamins, oils, and aloe vera juice and still no change.
I have to admit, I was completely sceptical. I’d never even heard of kinesiology before, but nothing else was working. I had nothing to lose, and I was running out of options.
And so, the session went on.
I left there rolling my eyes and wondering what on earth I could try next.
But…. My skin started to clear up! Even as sceptical as I was, I couldn’t dismiss this as a coincidence!
At the time I thought to myself that I didn’t care if I stayed bright red, it was the weeping skin that was the most painful and inconvenient for me.
I also felt more confident in myself and my choices.
I just felt different, more me.
Things in life aren’t very often caused by what we think they are.
We want a nice tidy answer, so that we can ‘fix’ the symptoms and move on with our life.
In my mind, the Doctor was supposed to be able to fix me, and if they couldn’t I hadn’t realised there were other avenues available for me.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am super grateful for Doctors, their training and their knowledge. There have been times in my life where medical intervention has probably saved me, and my little boy, and for that I am eternally grateful.
But that’s the great thing about being alive today, we can explore both.
As humans we’re complicated, intricate and oh so messy.
One thing I’ve learned after decades of working with thousands and thousands of clients, is there is no ‘one-size’ fits all, and no magic bullet.
When people come to me with a symptom, even if it’s a symptom I’ve seen time-and-time again, the way that it’s resolved is different for every person, because every person is different, with their own unique set of experiences, traumas, and beliefs.
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Their suppressed words, feelings and emotions found another way to be expressed (or rather expelled) from their bodies.
I saw guilt at being unhappy even with all they had.
I saw sadness at not having honoured their true desires and callings.
I saw frustration for all the time they felt they’d wasted.
I saw overwhelm at the thought of what they now had to do.
And yet there I was with my angry, weeping skin.
I thought I needed a pill, or to eliminate a food group.
But what I actually needed was to heal unresolved anger at events from my childhood that had been triggered by circumstances in my twenties.
I needed to acknowledge what I really wanted in life.
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But more specifically, we’re told that how we should behave and what we should aspire to depends on whether we were born male or female.
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20+ years ago I started work at a thriving Natural Health Centre, practising the energy therapy kinesiology; the art of using muscle testing to identify imbalances in the body’s energy system.
At first, this attention often started as a niggling feeling, a small voice encouraging them to do something new, follow a dream, or dream bigger.
Often when I asked my clients when their symptoms first started, it usually coincided with a significant event in their life, or a choice that they made, but they’d never realised the connection before.
It’s my experience that when we ignore, reject, or suppress, that small voice, the niggling feeling, or our intuition, the body will send you signs that will become ‘louder and louder’, until they get your attention.
One client would insist on working all hours, even though she was exhausted, saying that ‘she didn’t have time to stop.’ And every time she ignored the cries from her body, she would end up in bed for over a week with sciatica, and no choice, but to rest!
As time went on, these clients, now symptom free, would then come back for routine tune-ups to ensure that everything was running smoothly and to nip issues in the bud to make sure that symptoms didn’t return.
Today, I often hear that women are doing the internal work, but still feel as if they’re going around in circles, that they’ve lost their drive, lack passion and purpose, all of which causes them to feel down and often powerless.
Basically, they feel disconnected.
When these patterns are re-balanced my clients re-discover who they are at the core of their being – their fully expressed Divine SHEro Goddess, Wild Woman self.
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I love supporting my clients by helping them to release what no longer serves them. When you can let go of the patterns that have been holding you back, you are then ready to move forward with your life.
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Growing up in a sleepy fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, I found myself reading ‘Teach Yourself Yoga’ books, whilst my friends around me were reading the latest teen magazines.
I’ve no idea what drew me to yoga, but something woke inside of me, and I found myself on a quest.
I didn’t have the language for this quest I embarked on, but it ignited within an insatiable desire for knowledge.
I found myself seeking.
Asking questions about life, and my purpose in life.
I’d heard the term ‘soul purpose’, and it resonated within me.
I wanted to know my soul purpose.
I created this idea that once I knew what my soul purpose was, everything in my life would make sense, and everything would fall into place.
I didn’t know what that ‘place’ was, or looked like, but I knew I’d arrive there once I knew my soul purpose.
I searched for books (these were the days before Amazon!).
I read the books.
Took more personality profiles than I can remember.
And still I kept searching for more.
I was searching for meaning, and that meaning for me looked like a quest to find my soul purpose – whatever that actually was…
For years, well more like decades, I read, attended courses, had healings, trained in modalities.
And carried on seeking for my elusive soul purpose.
What was I here to do and contribute?
Each time I learnt something new, uncovered a bit more about my personality profile, astrological chart, Human Design… I thought ‘Yes, this is it! This is who I am and what I’m meant to do.’
What felt great initially, started to wear off.
It wasn’t quite right.
Something was ‘missing’, so off I’d go again in search of the next thing, in search of that one ‘missing’ part.
Now of course, all of these things were valuable to me.
Fascinating in their own right.
And each piece useful in learning more about myself.
But it wasn’t filling the hole I was trying to fill with my seeking.
Then one day, BOOM!
I’m not sure what or why, but I had the realisation that my seeking wasn’t me following the ‘spiritual’ path.
It wasn’t me being virtuous on a quest to know myself fully.
It was me avoiding living my life fully.
I’d been seeking for my soul purpose as if it was a job title.
But in fact, what I’d been searching for was permission to be me.
Each book I’d read, training I’d attended, or reading that I’d had done, I wanted it to confirm what I wanted. I wanted it to validate who I was, I wanted to know I was ‘right’ in my interests, dreams, and desires.
I’d been looking for external validation of who I was and what I wanted to do, as I’d been too afraid to give that same permission to myself.
If it was ‘written in the stars’, well it couldn’t be my ‘fault’, it was just destined to be that way.
If it was in my birth chart, my personality profile, or Human Design, how could I be ‘blamed’ for following a particular path?
When we grow up, we often find ourselves trying to fit in.
We subconsciously find ourselves asking ‘Who do I need to be to fit in or to be loved’ within this family/situation/group of people?’
And because I wasn’t directly asking other people, I didn’t realise I’d still fallen into this pattern.
I wasn’t asking people, but I was still looking outside of myself.
A couple of times people would say to me ‘all the answers are within’, and I’d roll my eyes, smile politely, and go seeking elsewhere.
Annoyingly, it was true.
All of those years of seeking, and the answers had been within.
Deep down, I did know who I was and what my life purpose was, but it had been buried under more than enough life events to keep it from being seen clearly by me.
Then that one day, I realised that I’d been hiding the truth from myself.
I’d been pretending I didn’t know the answers to the questions I’d been seeking.
Because if I did know.
Because if I stopped pretending.
Then I’d have to make changes.
I’d have to do what I knew to be true and stop doing what other people expected of me.
I’d have to disappoint other people and prioritise myself.
I’d have to let other people down, so I could focus on me.
I’d have to say ‘No’ to others, so I could say ‘Yes’ to me.
Now being British I’m all too familiar with ‘Being too big for your boots’, and the feeling of ‘Who does she think she is to put herself first?’.
Unfortunately, it’s not unique to us here in the UK.
In Australia they have ‘tall poppy syndrome, and in the USA I believe the term is ‘being too big for your britches’. And no doubt there are similar phrases all over the world.
The result being that when you realise that you do know what you want or need to do, it is way easier to pretend that you don’t.
At least on the surface, and in the short-term, it feels easier.
But actually, to betray yourself, your needs, and desires, is in fact the harder option in the end…
You have to give yourself permission to disappoint others, to let them down, to say no to their ideas and dreams for you, so that you can:
Say ‘Yes’ to your own dreams and desires.
Say ‘Yes’ to knowing who you are and what you want from life.
Say ‘Yes’ to loving yourself first.
Say ‘Yes’ to living a life that you love.
Because when you don’t, when you hide, and pretend that you don’t know who you are and what you want from life, that leads to disappointment, disloyalty, heartache, anger and resentment from yourself, directed towards yourself.
You learn not to trust yourself.
You dismiss your feelings, insights, and dreams.
You become a shell of who you are here to be.
And that’s no fun for anyone!
PS. You might wonder what my big realisation was….
I simply realised that my soul purpose in life, was the same as yours, the same as I believe everyone’s is…
And that’s to be more of ourselves.
I’d spent all those years looking for someone else to tell me who I was, what my purpose in life was. When all the time it had simply been looking for permission to be more of myself.
I’d been seeking permission to be me.
No finished article, no job title, no destination. Just the beautifully messy, perfectly imperfect, unfolding, unravelling, unfurling process of being more me.
I’m aware that I could sound crazy… But… I saw a dragon
It all started last week when a yellow dragon was circling my room.
Yes, I know that sounds crazy, and no it wasn’t ‘real’ like a cat wandering into my room, but it was ‘real’ in that I could see it and sense it…
I was in the middle of an energy activation for the year ahead for my Re-Enchant community. The session itself focused on activating confidence and releasing the need for validation from others.
And interestingly TRUST was becoming a clear theme in the session.
As I was working through the session, I suddenly became aware of a huge golden-yellow dragon circling in my office.
I often sense energies whilst doing energy work, but this dragon was clearly trying to get my attention.
At first I ignored it.
But it was clear that it wasn’t about to leave any time soon
I didn’t initially share what I could see with the group – as yes, I’m aware at how weird it sounds, but it was so insistent that I had to share.
I also wanted to share what I could see with the group, as I knew it wasn’t my dragon (more on that in a minute lol).
So I asked the group if any of them worked with dragons and a few of them did. Then I asked if anyone worked with a golden-yellow dragon and I got a very strong ‘yes’ from one of the members (maybe the response actually included words not suitable for children lol), as she had indeed been ignoring this dragon. Among other things she told me that this dragon reminded people to trust their intuition – one of the themes from the session!
Anyway the golden-yellow dragon eventually left.
I really don’t want my office to be home to the energies and allies that people are ignoring lol!
But the archetypal dragon energy didn’t leave.
Back in 2018 I had a very strange experience with dragons – but that’s a whole other story that included a visit to hospital, emergency surgery and ‘giving birth’ to a ‘dragons egg’ (which the Dr. named Pete!)… Does that make me a Dragon Mother? 😉
Anyway… my dragons aren’t the flying dragons I experienced during the energy session last week, the dragon energy I’ve encountered in the past has been much more earth-based. More like giant serpents undulating through the ground.
Showing my age… I described them as looking more like the creatures in the film Tremors, to which my friend responded she had imagined them to be like from the film Dune. and when I did a quick google ‘Yes’ to Dune creatures (a film that I hadn’t seen), and ‘No!’ to Tremors – those creatures were waaaay more gruesome than I remember haha
Anyway… after the experience with the golden-yellow dragons, my own dragons are back and wanting me to work more with the land energies.
The call to walk the land and connect with nature, and in particular the trees, was so strong that I asked the members of the Re-Enchant Community if they want to join me in some land connection work too, which involves working with the eight Sabbat/Earth Festivals, and includes:
Creating our own Ogham
Creating Sacred Tree healing discs
All from an energy clearing session that woke my dragons haha
As I said at the beginning, I know sharing this makes me sound a little ‘out-there’. I often joke that if my sister, who’s a mental health nurse, sat in on one of my sessions she may well be concerned for me…
But this is my reality. Of course I don’t see dragons all the time, but I do believe we can be much more aware of things than we can typically see with our senses, and that we’re taught are ‘real’.
I’d love to hear if you have any experiences of things that make you sound ‘out there’.
I look forward to hearing your experiences!
As soon as I heard the term ‘Sacred Pause’, my body recognised it and sighed ‘yes’.
The Sacred Pause is a term I learnt from Molly Remer, who learnt it from Joanna Powell Colbert and is a central theme in my work.
I loved that there was a phrase that matched the energy I knew was needed and essential to everyone of us.
In a world that values doing and achieving, giving yourself time to be and brew, to honour the need of the Sacred Pause can be hard.
Yet the Sacred Pause is at the heart of life.
When you breathe, you breathe in, pause, and then breathe out. Without this pause you’d likely faint!
I like to think of it along the lines of walking the labyrinth.
When you walk a labyrinth, you enter with intention, often to seek the answer to a question you hold in your heart.
As you spiral in, you let go and release all of the things that are preventing you from finding the answer you seek.
Then when you get to the centre you pause.
The Sacred Pause where you allow yourself to assimilate. To allow the answer a chance to come to you. This is where the transformation and inspiration occurs.
Then when you’re ready, you spiral back out of the labyrinth, transformed, a new person, never to be the same again.
The Sacred Pause being quite literally the heart and the centre of this transformation and experience.
And then you really *KNOW*
I often think you know things and then you really *know* things.
I had this experience about the Sacred Pause – although I didn’t have a name for it then, when I started doing Kundalini Yoga.
I’d been dabbling with Yoga for years, and for me it had always had a focus on fitness and flexibility.
I was surprised when I started Kundalini Yoga, as we’d hold a pose, and then rest for longer than we’d held the pose.
Initially I noticed I was frustrated by this. I wanted to stretch and feel like I was ‘doing’ something.
And immediately noticed that in the Pause, in the rest, I could feel my energy releasing and moving around my body.
I started to value the importance of the rest, rather than the doing.
I realised that in the rest we were making the space for the magic to happen.
Ever since then I have honoured the Pause as much as the doing, understanding that both are needed.
I definitely have a tendency to be prone to more doing, but I always ensure that each day I take moment to pause and check in with myself.
To Pause and allow the integration to happen.
To Pause and allow life to come to me.
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Inspired by a jumpsuit…
Here’s something you probably don’t know about me… It’s not very important, but it did make me think about change today… And that’s…
I’ve never known what colour or style suits me.
I go snow blind as soon as I walk into a clothes shop.
I’m not sure where this has come from, but I’ve never enjoyed it.
Shopping is too hard….
My bum has always been ‘too big’ compared with my waist, so finding trousers that don’t ridiculously gape at the back is a nuisance, my legs seem to be in between lengths lol… I could go on… but I’m sure you get the picture…
I think I missed the part of being a teenager where you learn how to dress and find what suits you.
And now of course I’m on the other side of 40, still wondering what clothes I should buy!
So I choose another way
Last month I booked a consult with a stylist who tells you what colours you look best in and what styles work for you.
It was such fun! If you haven’t done it before, I highly recommend it!
And if you know colours and are curious… I’m ‘Summer’ and need to wear cool colours, like blues, dark green and burgundy.
But knowing what to wear and buying it are two completely different things!
So I booked a session with the same inspiring woman to go personal shopping, and oh my… what a totally different experience!
She loved shopping and knew exactly what to look for that would suit me.
She picked things for me that I wouldn’t have even looked at
I kept shaking my head… and am still shaking my head chuckling, as I now have
All of which I would never have bought without her help.
And all of which I actually now love! In fact I’m writing to you in one of my jumpsuits! (yes I have more than one now!!)
And it go me thinking…
The jumpsuit got me thinking about change.
As humans we’re not really good at change…
Whether it’s a change to how we see ourselves, change in the type of clothes we wear, or the relationships we have.
We can resist it, ignore it, fight it …
I know that I’ve even resisted change that I knew would be beneficial to me in the long run!
I could despair at myself lol, but instead I look to nature…
Nature has so much to teach us about change. About starting over, again, and again and again.
As humans we’re taught that time is linear.
There’s a start, and a series of steps that moves you towards an end goal.
Each of those steps builds on the previous step, and you’re expected to become bigger, stronger, and more successful with each of those steps.
But in this model, there’s no space for failure, for stumbling a few steps back, for starting over. No place for rest or a reset.
But when we remember that we are intimately connected to nature, and we can model our experience on hers, we realise that life is in fact a spiral path and not a linear path.
On a spiral path we can allow ourselves to start again.
We can give ourselves permission to rest and pause. To change our minds, to reset, to revisit, to regroup and start over.
On a spiral path there’s no comparison, so no place for fear, blame or shame.
When we remember that we are intimately connected to nature we can embrace the spiral path and give ourselves permission to start over, to start again and change.
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I was recently asked by a startup I'm consulting (BigPanda) to give my opinion about the structure and flow of data science projects, which made me think about what makes them unique. Both managers and the different teams in a startup might find the differences between a data science project and a software development one unintuitive and confusing. If not stated and accounted for explicitly, these fundamental diffe
challenging to incorporate new types of inputs, such as product and business needs, tighter infrastructure and compute constraints and customer feedback, into their research and development process.
The flow was built with small startups in mind, where a small team of data scientists (usually one to four) runs short and mid-sized projects led by a single person at a time. Bigger teams or those in machine-learning-first, deep-tech startups might still find this a useful structure, but processes there are longer and structured differently in many cases.
Figure 1: Data Science Project Flow for Startups
ce, and data engineering.this case, the data scientist is usually in charge of working with developers to help him with these aspects (or does them himself, if he happens to be the rarest of all of God's beasts: the Full Stack Data Scientist! You can thus replace data engineer with data scientist whenever it is mentioned, depending on your environment.
On the time axis, I broke the process down into four distinct phases:
(Model) Development
I'll try and walk you through each of these, in order.
Defining the scope of a data science project is crucial more than in any other type of project.
A project should always start with a product need (even if the original idea was technical or theoretical), a need validated to some degree by product/business/customer success people. The product person should have an idea of how this feature should (roughly) end up looking, and that either existing or new customers will be willing to pay for it (or that it will prevent churn/drive subscriptions / drive sales of other products / etc.).
A product need is not a full project definition, but should rather be stated as a problem or challenge; e.g. "our customers need a way to understand how they spend their budgets" or "we do not manage to get our older users to keep taking their medicine; this increases churn" or "customers will pay more for a product that can also predict rush hours at the airports they run".
1.2. Initial solution ideation
This is where the data scientist, together with the product person in charge, the data engineer and any other stakeholder, come up with different rough sketches for possible solutions. This means both the general approach (e.g. unsupervised clustering vs boosted-tree-based classification vs probabilistic inference) and the data to be used (e.g. this specific table from our database, or some specific user behavior that we do not yet monitor or save, or an external data source).
This usually also involves some level of data exploration. You can't go real deep here, but any promising "low-hanging fruits" can help guide ideation.
The data scientist should lead this process and is usually in charge of providing most of the solution ideas, but I would urge you to use all those taking part in the process for solution ideation; I have had the good fortune to get the best solution ideas for a project handed to me by a back-end developer, the CTO or the product person in charge. Don't assume that different, and less theory-oriented backgrounds, invalidate people from taking part in this phase; the additional minds and viewpoints are always valuable.
1.3. Data preparation and accessibility
The team should now have a good idea of the data that would hopefully be used to explore possible solutions (or at least the first such data set or source). Thus, the process of providing data access and preparing it for exploration and use should already start, in parallel with the next phases.
This can sometimes entail dumping large data sets from production databases into their staging/exploration counterparts, or to colder storage (for example, object storage) if its time availability is not critical in the research phase. Conversely, it can mean pulling large data dumps from very cold storage back into table or document form to enable fast querying and complex computations. Whatever the case, this phase is required for the research phase to start and frequently ends up taking more time than expected, and so that's the right time to initiate it.
1.4. Scope & KPIs
This phase is about deciding together on the scope and the KPIs of the project.
KPIs should be defined first in product terms, but in much more detail than before; e.g. with respect to the three aforementioned product needs, they might become "customers could now use a dashboard with CTR stats and projection per category", or "missed medicine days by users over 65 will be reduced by at least 10% over the next two quarters", or "customers will receive weekly predictions of rush hours in their airports with granularity of at least an hour, and approximation of at least ±50%".
These KPIs should be then translated into measurable model metrics. With luck, these will be very hard metrics, such as "predicting the expected CTR of an ad with approximation of at least X% in at least Y% of the cases, for an ad that runs for at least a week, and for any client with more than two months of historical data". In some cases, however, softer metrics will have to be used, such as "time required for topic exploration using the generated expanded queries will be shortened, and/or result in quality will improve, when compared to the original queries". This is especially true when the model is meant to assist some complex human function.
Technically even these metrics can be defined very strictly (and in academic research, they usually are), but depending on resources and time constraints we might settle with approximating them using human feedback. In this case, each feedback iteration might take longer, and so we will usually try to find additional hard metrics to guide us through most of the upcoming research iterations, with the costlier feedback being elicited only once every few iterations, or on significant changes.
Finally, scope is especially important here because research projects have a tendency to drag on and to naturally expand in size and scope as new possibilities arise while researching or when an examined approach answers the demands only partially.
Scope limitation 1: I find it more productive to limit scope explicitly; for example, if you've decided that a Multi-Armed Bandit based model is the most promising approach to start with, you might define the project scope to a single two/three weeks iteration of model development, deploying the model regardless of its accuracy (as long as it's over 60%, for example). Then, if improvement in accuracy is valuable (in some cases it might turn out to be less so), developing a second model might be thought of as a separate project.
Scope limitation 2: Another variation on scope limitation is using increasing degrees of complexity; for example, the first project might aim to deploy a model that only needs to provide a rather large set of candidates of ad wording and color variations for your own customer success people to work with; the second might attempt to build a model that gives a smaller set of suggestions that the customer can see himself; and a final project might try for a model that highlights a single option, ranking below it a couple more, and adding CTR projections and demographic reach for each variation.
This is already a huge departure from software engineering, where usually components are iterated over for increased scale rather than complexity.
Nevertheless, the metric-to-product-value function might be a step function, meaning that any model performing under some X value has no use for the customer; in these cases, we will prefer iterating until that threshold is suppressed. However, while this X might be very high in some cases, I believe that both product/business people and data scientists tend to overestimate the height of this step; it's very easy to state that anything under 95% accuracy (for example) provides no value and can't be sold. In many cases, however, careful examination and challenging of product assumptions can lead to very valuable products that might not be as demanding technically (at least for the first iteration of the product).
1.5. Scope & KPIs approval
Finally, the product person in charge needs to approve the scope and KPIs defined. It is the data scientist's job to make sure everybody understand the implications of the scope - what was included and what was prioritized - and the relation between the product KPIs and the harder metrics that will guide him during model development, including the extent to which the letter approximate the former. Stating this explicitly can prevent cases where the consumers of the models being developed - product and business people - understand only during or after model development that the wrong metric was optimized.
General remarks on scoping
In many places this phase is skipped, with the data scientist eager to start digging at the data and explore cool papers about possible solutions; in my experience, this is almost always for the worst. Skipping this phase can result in long weeks or months spent in developing cool models that end up not answering a real need, or failing in a very specific KPI that could have been explicitly defined with some premeditation.
2. The Research Phase
2.1. Data exploration
This is where the fun starts! The main advantage of having this phase commence after scoping is that our exploration can now be guided by the actual hard KPIs and model metrics we have decided on.
As always, there is a balance to be struck here between exploration and exploitation; even when having clear KPIs in mind, it is valuable to explore some seemingly unrelated avenues to a certain degree.
By now the initial set of required data should have been made available by data engineering. However, some deficiencies in the explored data will often be discovered during this phase, and additional data sources might be added to the working set. The data engineer should be prepared for this.
2.2. Literature & solutions review
Both academic literature and existing code and tools are reviewed in this phase. Balance is again important; both between exploration and exploitation, and between diving into the intricacies of the material and extracting takeaways and possible uses quickly.
In the case of academic literature, the choice of how deep to go into aspects like formal proofs and preceding literature depends heavily on both the time constraints and the context of the project: Are we building a strong basis for a core capability of the company or devising a solution to a one-off problem? Do we plan to publish our work on the subject in an academic paper? Are you planning to become the team's expert on the topic?
For example, take the case where a data scientist embarking on a project to help the sales department better predict lead generation yield or churn feels he has only a shallow understanding of stochastic process theory, on which many common solutions to these problems are built. The appropriate response to this feeling can be very different; if he works for an algo-trading company he should definitely be diving into said theory, probably even taking an online course on the topic; if, on the other hand, he works for a medical imaging company focused on automatic tumor detection in liver x-ray scans, I'd say he should find an applicable solution quickly and move on.
For example, if the production environment only supports deploying Java and Scala code for backend uses and the solution is thus expected to be provided in a JVM language, the data scientist will have to go deeper into Python-based implementations he find even during this research phase, as going forward with them into the model development phase entails translating them to a JVM language.
Finally, while reviewing literature, keep in mind that not only the chosen research direction (or a couple of directions) should be presented to the rest of the team. Rather, a brief review of the field and all examined solutions should accompany the choice made, explaining the upsides and downsides of each direction and the justifications for that choice.
This is an important check to perform at this stage both because some data and software engineering can begin in parallel to model development. Additionally, a suggested solution might turn out to be inadequate or too costly in engineering terms, in which case thisWhen technical issues are considered before model development starts, the knowledge gained during the research phase can be used to suggest an alternate solution that might better fit technical constraints. This is another reason why the research phase must also result in some overview of the solution landscape, and not just in a single solution direction.
2.4. Scope & KPIs validation
Again, the product manager needs to approve that the suggested solution, now stated in more technical terms, meets the scope and KPIs defined. Possible technical criteria that usually have easily detectable product implications are response time (and its relation to computation time), the freshness of data and sometimes cached mid-calculations (which are related to querying and batch computation frequency), difficulty and cost (including data cost) of domain adaptation for domain-specific models (domains are most often clients, but can be industries, languages, countries and so on) and solution compostability (e.g. do data and model structures allow to easily break a country-wise model down to a per-region model, or compose several such models into a per-continent model), though many more exist.
The amount and complexity of setup required for model development to begin to depend heavily on the infrastructure and amount of technical support available to the data scientist. In smaller places, and in places not yet used to supporting data science research projects, setup might sum up to the data scientist opening a new code repository and firing up a local Jupyter Notebook server or requesting a stronger cloud machine to run computations on.
In other cases, it might entail writing custom code for more complex functionalities such as data and model versioning or experiment tracking and management. When this functionality is instead provided by some external product or service (and more and more of these are popping up these days), some setup in the form of linking data sources, allocating resources and setting up custom packages might follow.
3.2. Model development
The extent of what is considered the model to be developed here varies by company and depends on the relation, and the divide, between the model to be delivered by the data scientist and the service or feature to be deployed in production. The various type of approaches to this divide can perhaps be captured somewhat by considering a spectrum.
On one end of the spectrum lies the case where everything is the model: from data aggregation and preprocessing, through model training (possibly periodically), model deployment, serving (possibly with scaling) and continuous monitoring. On the other end lies the case where just the choice of model type and hyperparameters, and commonly also advanced data preprocessing and feature generation, is thought of as the model.
Your company's location on the spectrum can depend numerous factors: the data scientists' preferable research language; relevant libraries and open source availability; supported production languages in the company; the existence of a data engineer and devs dedicated solely to data science related code; and the technical capabilities and work methodology of your data scientists.
In case of very full-stack-y data scientist, combined with enough support from a dedicated data engineer and devs - or, alternatively, with enough existing infrastructure dedicated to the operation and automation of data lake-ing and aggregation, model serving, scaling and monitoring (and possibly also versioning) - the wider definition for a model can be taken, and an end-to-end solution can be used throughout most of the iterations on model development.
This usually means building the complete pipeline first, from data sources all the way to scaleable served models, with simple placeholders for data preprocessing, feature generation and the model itself. Iterations are then made on the data-science-y parts while keeping the context to what is available and deployable on the existing infrastructure.
This end-to-end approach can take more time to set up, and each iteration on model types and parameters make take longer to test, but it saves time later paid for in the productization phase.
I personally love it, but it's complex to implement and maintain, and it's not always appropriate. In that case, some parts of the start and the end of the pipeline are left to the productization phase.
should ic. This gives a rough estimate of progress and also allows the data scientist to decide when the model seems to be working well enough to warrant the overall KPI check. Do note that this can be misleading, as getting from 50% to 70% accuracy, for example, is much easier than getting from 70% to 90%
Figure 2: Model failure entails iteration, but an approaching failure might send you back to research
When tests show that a model is off the mark, we usually investigate it and its output to guide improvements. Sometimes, however, the gap in performance is very large, with different variations of the chosen research directions all falling short - an approaching failure. This might warrant a change in the research direction, sending the project back into the research phase. This is the aspect of data science projects that is hardest to accept: the very real possibility of backtracking.
3.4. KPIs check
In the more common case, the hard metric is a good approximation of the actual product needs, but not a perfect one. This phase is thus an opportunity to make sure that the softer metrics, that cannot be checked automatically, are also satisfied. This is done together with product and customer success. If you can additionally check the actual value to a customer directly- e.g. when working with a design partner - then it's the best guide you could find for your iterations.
For example, let's say that we're dealing with a complex task such extracting relevant documents, given a query, from a huge corpus. The team might have decided that to try and increase the quality of the result set, focusing on variance in content and topics of the returned documents, as clients feel the systems tend to cluster quite similar documents in top results.
Model development might have progressed with some measurable metric for content variance in the results set - each model is scored by how varied are the top 20 documents it returns, given a set of test queries; perhaps you measure overall distance between document topics in some topic vector space or just the number of unique topics or flatness of significant word distributions.
4.1. Solution Productization & Monitoring Setup
This phase, as mentioned earlier, depends on the approach to both data science research and model serving in the company, as well as several key technical factors.
Productization: In cases where research language can be used in production, this phase might entail adopting the model code to work in a scalable manner; how simple or complex this process depends both on distributive computing support for the model language, and the specific libraries and custom code used.
When research and production language are different, this might also involve wrapping the model code in a production language wrapper, compiling it to a low-level binary or implementing the same logic in production language (or finding such an implementation).
Monitoring: Finally, a way to is set up; in rare cases, when the source of production data is constant, this can perhaps be safely skipped, but I'd say that in most cases you can't be sure of the stability of the source data distribution. Setting up such a performance check, then, can help us to not only detect problems in the model that we might have missed during development and productization, but more importantly changes in the source data distribution above which the model operates - commonly referred to as a covariate shift - that can degrade, in time, the performance of a perfectly good model.
Take, for example, the case where our product is an app that detects skin marks and evaluates whether to recommend the user to go see a skin doctor. A covariate shift might happen in our data when a popular new phone goes to market, equipped with a camera significantly different from those present in our data.
If everything is set up correctly, then this stage can sum up to, hopefully, pushing a button to deploy the new model - and any code serving it - to the company's production environment.
Partial Deployment: It is possible, however, that in order to test the effectiveness of the model (for example, in reducing churn, or increasing average monthly spending per user), the model will be deployed to in a manner that only part of the user/customer base is exposed to it. This enables a direct comparison of the effect on any measurable KPIs between the two (or more) groups in the user base.
Another reason you might not want to deploy the model to everyone is if it was developed to answer the needs of a specific customer or a group of customers, or if it's a premium feature or part of a specific plan. Alternatively, the model might have some element of personalization per user or customer; this is can sometimes be achieved by actually having a single model which take customer characteristics into account, but sometimes entails actually training and deploying a different model for each customer.
Whatever the case, all these scenarios increase the complexity of deploying the model and depending on existing infrastructure in the company (e.g. if you're already deploying some of the product features to subsets of your customers) theyby your back-end team.
This phase is even more complex when the model is to be deployed on end-products, like user phones or wearables, in which case model deployment might only happen as part of the next app or firmware update deployed.
Generating Bias: Finally, all cases of partial deployment are actually a pressing issue to the data science team for another reason: this naturally introduces bias into the future data the model will start accumulating - the model will start operating on data by a subset of users with possibly unique characteristics. Depending on the product and the specific biased characteristics, t in the wild, and possibly on future models trained on data accumulated during this period.
For example, in the case of device update, users who updated their apps/firmware earlier tend to fall into certain demographics (younger, more tech-savvy, higher income, etc.).
I've added another KPIs check here because I think a solution cannot be marked as delivered before its performance and successful answering of product and customer needs has been validated after deployment and actual use.
4.4. Solution delivered
Users and customers are happy. Product people have managed to build or adapt the product they wanted around the model. We're done. Toasts are toasted, cheers are cheered, and all is well.
The solution is delivered, and I would call the project done at this point. It does, however, keeps on living in a specific way - maintenance.
Having set up health checks and continuous performance monitoring for the model, these can trigger up short bursts of working on the project.
This is a suggestion for the flow of data science projects. It is also very specific, limited in scope - for the sake of simplicity and visibility - and obviously cannot cover the many variations on this flow that exist in practice. It also represents my experience.
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He added the upgrades to the pharmacy are most urgent and will be taking place while the funds are being raised, with a goal of having that phase completed during this calendar year.
As for the tower D renovation, the plans are for more space to accommodate the growth so patients can easily be viewed by staff from a central location for safety purposes, and improved waiting areas with new furnishings with a focus on comfort.
For more information on the Cancer Care Campaign or to make a donation, visit https://prhfoundation.com/cancercare/. |
en | N/A | N/A | As most of you know, I have a tendency to be “ahead of the curve” in a lot of my writing and research. I have been researching both Chaos Theory and Happiness for years, and wanted to review some of my past findings with you – because the world is catching up with some of the trends I saw coming a number of years ago, as written about in the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal:
Integrating the Chaos Theory and Positive Psychology came as an instinctive response to finding a way to help my clients solve their career issues. My purpose in suggesting the study of these two fields to my colleagues was the realization that a basic (not necessarily a deep) understanding of the fields of physics and psychology is essential. Both of these are now generating cutting edge concepts which are moving from their original narrow science subject to countless other applications. Read More→
Green Careers – Client Perspectives
Updated perspectives on Green Energy and Its Impact
Current Careers in Energy – What It Means to Be Green
“The future is uncertain . . . . but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.” According to Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in 1977 and author of Order Out of Chaos, and The End of Certainty. This uncertainty and the necessity for creativity is exactly where we are in our energy world today!
Though I am a long time career consultant and confirmed futurist, providing the last word on green careers pushed me to use my more experienced clients and contacts as resources. My company, Career Design, sponsors Pathfinders for the Future, to provide career information and mentoring sessions on careers and for the past six months we have focused on the energy field. Authorities from varying energy areas have presented programs which were all videoed for others to view later at no charge. As a result, Bruce Thomas, a former marketing professional in radio & TV and an early retiree seeking his next career, initiated a non-profit organization, North Texas Advanced Energy Collaborative (NTAEC), dedicated to the development of North Texas as an economic and innovation zone for advanced and emerging energy technology industry. This is a rapidly growing group focusing on collaborative business development and launching a website in May for posting articles and information statewide, nationally and worldwide.
I have asked two members of this group to write a brief summary of their insight and possible opportunities and challenges for careers in this exploding industry:
“What is “Green” is by Tony Robinson, M.S. He has been in the construction industry since 1979. Tony spent more than twenty-five years working on the design and development of energy efficient building products.
The 2nd submission, “Profitable Green Solutions” is by Eric Woodroof, Ph.D. He has been in the energy efficiency and environmental field for over 15 years, helping businesses and governments reduce their environmental impact. Dr. Woodroof serves on several advisory boards for professional associations.
Five Points to Consider at Midlife (From Don’t Stop the Career Clock)
Just as there is no automatic system to successfully guide our career for us, there is no prescription for how we are to live our later life. Society and its institutions and professionals are trailing at least ten years behind in dealing with the process and problems of integrating aging and working.
Those of us who are embarking on our first or second midlife are asking ourselves some critical questions: What is the purpose of our later years? Does aging have any intrinsic purpose? Is there work to be done after rearing children? What are the rules, rights, and responsibilities of older people? What are the strengths and virtues of old age? What is a good old age? Who can teach us how to grow old well? How can we deal best with time? Can we expect new thresholds to cross as long as we live?
Regardless of our chronological age, the most meaningful thing we can live for is to reach our full potential. We must find and develop the skills we enjoy using and pursue a positive idea of aging. And we must keep on a growth and learning curve. Read More→
Identify Your Success Criteria for Career Satisfaction and Success
By Dr. Helen Harkness
Psst – Want the secret of “How to Create Career Satisfaction?”
Know What You Want From Your Career
Seems simple, right? It’s not that simple, but that is where the secret comes in. Career Design (CDA) has successfully helped countless clients transition their career since the ‘70s. They go through an in-depth self-exploration process to identify skills, interests, motivation, talents and much more.
One of the things all CDA clients do is identify their Success Criteria, which is a guide for them to use as they make decisions, especially those that relate to their career life and its effect on their personal life. Read More→
Make a New LIFE Resolution: Find Your Purpose. . .
Find Your Purpose You Can Pursue with Passion As Long As You Live!
It’s a New Year and now is the time for finding meaning in your life and work! This is exactly what CDA client, B.A. Norrgard, set out to do in February 2012. She started her journey of self-exploration with a battery of CDA Career Assessments and participating in the In-depth Skills Identification Workshop Series that countless Career Design clients have found to be one of the most insightful processes to add value to your life and work.
B.A., a woman of action, is making her mark on the tiny house movement in Dallas with a big splash! In December, she was interviewed by the Dallas Morning News and featured on the front page of the Sunday edition. Read the story here.
Dr. Harkness is Blazing a Trail to Fulfillment
Dr. Harkness was recently interviewed by Hanah Cho, Staff Writer for the Dallas Morning News and featured in the Senior Living Section. Dr. Harkness shared the story with Hanah of how she started Career Design Associates, Inc. back in 1978.
Now at 85, Dr. Harkness tells Hanah, “I don’t sweat my chronological age. Forget the clock. Focus on your functional age”. She will continue to blaze her trail to fulfillment for the next 20 years.
As Dr. Harkness says “Live Long and Die Fast”!
Guest post by Lissa Duty, a Dallas based Social Media Coach, who can attest to Dr. Harkness’s passion for helping career clients. Lissa, after being the long time office manager and administrative assistant at Career Design Associates, Inc. found her passion and opened her social media coaching and consulting practice in 2009.
Stop Aging in the Workplace! 4 Ways to Defy the Myths of Aging
Shattering the Mindless Myths & Misinformation of Aging is one of the greatest challenges for the Baby Boomer Generation!
Develop an innovative model integrating aging and working based on current research and rapidly shifting environmental realities
Realize that today’s model for aging and working can be destructive, deplorable, depressing, and invalid; and that redesigning and implementing a new pattern is essential.
Shatter the stereotypes and recognize the myths, misinformation, and negative effects of ageism in our society, workplace, and ourselves.
Know that age does not automatically spell decline.
Aging Myths: Physical – growing up/running down; Mental – shrinking brain; Psychological – nothing to live for; Creative – wilting inventiveness.
Congratulations Are In Order! Career Coach, Helen Harkness Inducted into the Hall of Fame!
Dr. Harkness Inducted into West Virginia University Education Hall of Fame
This past week career coach and career counselor, Helen Leslie Harkness, Ph.D. was one of four others recognized by The West Virginia University College of Education and Humans Services.
At the Hall of Fame reception, Dr. Harkness was inducted by Carolyn Atkins, Chair of the Selection Committee. Carolyn said “By recognizing these well-respected individuals, we emphasize the value we place on a strong work ethic, intelligence, creativity, motivation and achievement.
Five Tips to Change Your Career
The Five Tips to Change Your Career
Do you read the Dallas Morning News “Five” column? In this popular column by staff writer, Hanah Cho, local experts provide five recommendations on a topic useful to small business owners and individuals. Read More→
Categories : Latest Thoughts From Career Design Associates
Jeff Brady – Brand Echonomics
As many of you may know I am an avid reader. I will sit down with my pen, paper and a book and start to read and write. I take notes about every book I read. This helps me to recall them easier, but also serves as a reminder of the things I need to take action on.
I recently read Brand Echonomics: Building a Message that Matters by Jeff Brady. Jeff is a former news anchor for WFAA and is currently host of The Texas Daily. In addition, he owns public relations firm in Dallas, Brady Media Group, that focuses on storytelling for big brands.
My message to all about this book is that you need to read it to understand how to create your Brand ECHO, not only for business owners but as an individual. Storytelling is the major key to success in your personal and professional life. You tell your story to others and they amplify your story to others creating the echo. We all need more story tellers!!
Below are some of my notes from reading Jeff’s Book, Brand Echnomics and I highly recommend you read it to get the rest of the story.
Dr. Harkness on Pathways
Nancy Wiese on Fulfilling a Need
The best first step you can take to gain insight and sound information for your next career move. In Level 1 of our comprehensive career change services, CDA generates the Career Design profile from your answers to a series of validated, well-researched vocational assessment tools to provide you with a greater understanding of skills, interests, values, motivations and personality to match compatible careers. More information |
en | N/A | N/A | By Jinia Shawdagor on June 15, 2018
In his pre-written remarks, Hinman said that based on his understanding of Ether, the entire networks, and the decentralized nature, allHinman also took the opportunity to refute the idea that a utility token could also fail to be a security. He said that even when a digital asset with a utility functions only as a means of exchange, it could be sold as an investment strategy. This would thus make it a security.
Mr. Hinman also informed the attendees that other crypto could still be considered securities. He said that a token by itself was not a security. However, the expectation of the buyer during the sale could be used to determine whether it was a security or not. He said that if a purchaser had a reasonable expectation that they could make a profit from the purchase, based on the actions of the seller, it is then a security.
He made it clear that the SEC was open to working with ICOs and their legal advisors to establish if a project should be registered. This is a sentiment, which has been expressed by many other SEC officials.
This announcement by the official will clear a major obstacle for the establishment of Ether’s future. This is something that the COO and President of Cboe Global Markets Inc, Chris Concannon has been considering since the launch of Bitcoin futures in December 2017. Since last year’s surge in the price of crypto, financial regulators have intensified their crackdown on the crypto world.
What do you think about this surprise declaration by HinmanECSecurity Exchange CommissionWilliam Hinman |
en | N/A | N/A | Of unprecedented retrospective reach in Europe, this immersive exhibition is based on the work of the filmmakers constituting this movement and, particularly, on the photographic and artistic practice by Ben Caldwell, one of the most emblematic figures of this generation, holding an impressive career as an arts’ educator and independent director.
Stemming from the historical context of the african-american demonstrations for civil rights’ equality, the conquests, personalities and key-productions of L.A Rebellion are introduced. Ben Caldwell’s documental contributions - traces of the collaborative spirit of the filmmakers while shooting seminal L.A. Rebellion films - and audiovisual records of his artistic initiatives in the L.A. community will punctuate the exhibition space. Hence, the museum’s rooms should make an essential contribution to the contextualization of the films planned for this cycle of LEFFEST 2022 - to be watched in Cinema Nimas, in Lisbon - and elucidate the revolutionary essence of this movement, with social and aesthetic repercussions beyond L.A. Rebellion’s temporal boundaries.
Conversation: Where are you now, John Malkovich?
Conversation: The Gaza Strip, an open-air prison? |
en | N/A | N/A | I had a few different jobs like working in the Marks and Spencer bakery, working in the café in Waitrose and temping in a pension company before joining Specsavers. I was also doing some exams in basic accounting to increase my knowledge in that area.
I am currently a tax accountant managing a team of four people. This is a new role that I have only been doing for a few months.
I run daily KPIs, do some training, attend meetings, do emails and assist the team with issues they face. I am also do ad-hoc projects when I have free time.
In my five years at Specsavers I have managed to complete an accounting qualification and have gone from an administrator in my first role to a manager in my current role.
I was able to attend college courses that were paid for by Specsavers, and I was able to take time off to study and take exams. My managers were flexible with study days and supported me when I needed extra help whether that was giving advice or letting us take a longer lunch to go to college to sit with one of the tutors when something wasn’t making sense.
I have recently changed role because I wanted to take on a new challenge, I had been in my previous team for almost 5 years, so it was time to try something new. I am currently learning about the world of tax and even though it is very challenging to learn a whole new job I am enjoying it.
Energetic, ever-changing and engaging.
If you work hard there are a lot of opportunities to develop and grow within the company. It is a really nice environment and the people are great. |
en | N/A | N/A | We’re big fans of anything which encourages young learners to read and write, so we’re excited about the BBC’s 500 Words short story competition. The winners will be announced this Friday, so if you haven’t heard of 500 Words, here’s the info… |
en | N/A | N/A | Will Partner Poaching Stop This Rumored Biglaw Merger In Its Tracks?
Legal community meets relief challenges after hurricanes Harvey and Irma • ABA mobilizes aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
NCCU Law to shrink next first-year class in response to ABA accreditation issues
The 25 Biggest Lateral Moves of 2017
The continuing evolution of law firm finance
When texting hits the courtroom: Lawyers Faced With Emojis and Emoticons Are All ¯\_(?)_/¯
Law Prof Using ‘Big, Beautiful Gold Scissors’ In Trump-Era Regulatory Reform
UC-Berkeley Law School Worker Felt ‘Mobilizing Anger,’ Then Won $1.7 Million In Harassment Case
Obstruction chatter intensifies around Trump • Rosenstein approved surveillance extension of former Trump adviser Carter Page • Trump Repeats Nixon’s Fateful Panic • Legendary investigative journalist Carl Bernstein calls Trump-GOP attacks on the FBI and DOJ a 'turning point' • House Intel Committee Republicans vote to release secret memo in a move that the DOJ said would be 'extraordinarily reckless' • Trump reportedly blew up at his staff aboard Air Force One after being warned against releasing the secret Russia investigation memo • Republicans Show Little Urgency on Bill to Shield Mueller • Mueller's Days May be Numbered • FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was reportedly forced out amid Trump's attacks • FBI Director Wray reportedly pressured McCabe to step down • 'America needs you': James Comey sends a heartfelt message to Andrew McCabe and other FBI officials • Timeline: Trump's turbulent relationship with Andrew McCabe • Report: Trump went after McCabe's wife in call about Comey • Trump Mad at McCabe's Wife's Politics • Here's Who Takes Over the Trump-Russia Investigation • White House: Trump was not involved in McCabe's decision to step down • We may now know why Trump wants the controversial Russia memo released • Top Dem Senator Admits Fusion GPS Dossier Hasn’t Been Verified • The Unlikely Martyrdom of Carter Page • Carter Page Surveillance is Hardly a Smoking Gun in the Anti-Trump DOJ Conspiracy Theory • Ken Starr sees grounds for Trump impeachment if president lied about trying to fire Mueller • Trump lawyers reportedly look to 1997 case that could lend leverage in special counsel negotiations • Report: Trump exploded at Justice Department over Russia probe • On Flight to Davos, Trump Erupted Over DOJ Role in Russia Probe • Russian Bots Retweeted Trump's Twitter 470,000 Times • 10 undisputed facts behind the Russia probe
Clients Have No Idea How To Deal With Harassment, So Gear Up For That Work • Former Clinton campaign manager "disappointed" by harassment case • Wynn’s stock plunges again as analysts warn of significant risk from CEO allegations • The Age of #MeToo: Wynn Resorts is the biggest test for investors’ tolerance • Steve Wynn has lost $463 million since assault report • Legal experts say Wynn Resorts board may face civil liability over payouts for alleged misconduct • London financial firms slammed for closing ranks in Presidents Club scandal • Kansas intern confidentiality rule: What happens in a lawmaker’s office stays there • There's a Harassment Epidemic on America’s Farms • The Conversation #MeToo Needs to Have • Harassment training for lawmakers: Where’s the line? • How a gymnast-turned-lawyer helped bring Larry Nassar to justice
Real Life ‘Dilly Dilly’ Moment Lands Escapee Back In Jail
Lawyer for stars launches do-it-yourself divorce website
Defendant Implicates Himself In Second Crime After Asking Judge About His “Other Murder Case”
Federal Judge Slams ICE, Compares Them to 'Regimes We Revile'
Don’t Call Sonia Sotomayor ‘Honey’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Better Things To Do Than Attend Donald Trump’s State Of The Union
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Thinking On Harassment Evolved
Misconduct complaints against federal judges rarely become public, and few face consequences
Stocks open lower, slip from records as interest rates pop • Stocks retreat as 10-year bond yield rises to highest since 2014
Goldman: 'High probability' of a stock market correction in the coming months
90 layoffs reported for DISH manufacturing division
Coca-Cola Plant Closing, 246 Jobs
Skepticism greets proposal to nationalize 5G wireless network • 'Nonsensical': FCC Blasts Reported White House Push for Nationalized Wireless Network • Wireless industry throws cold water on plan to nationalize 5G • FCC chairman slams Trump team's proposal to nationalize 5G • Key GOP lawmaker criticizes Trump team's 5G proposal • The Trump administration says it has no plans to build a 5G wireless network • Plan to nationalize 5G data networks has spurred widespread backlash • Why everyone is freaking out about a White House plan to nationalize the country’s 5G data networks
A powerful House Republican's retirement is the clearest signal yet that a Democratic wave could be coming • Powerful House Republican chairman won't seek re-election
All Signs Point to Big Democratic Wins in 2018 • Republicans' hopes this fall will rest on good economic news outweighing negative views of Trump • Here's why Democrats face a tough Senate campaign this year
The Governing Wing of the GOP is Near the End
President Trump likes controversy, conflict less so
Close Friend: Trump is a Pathological Liar
Bizarre feud erupts between Ivanka Trump and celebrity chef who claims she prevented him from entering swanky Washington after-party • The restaurant at the center of a celebrity chef's bizarre feud with Ivanka Trump is a secretive Washington, DC go-to that's been a favorite of politicians since the '90s
President says State of the Union will cover immigration and trade
Melania Trump was reportedly blindsided by reports a lawyer paid p--- star to keep quiet about an alleged encounter with Donald Trump
'Enemies of the USA': Russia slams America's list of oligarchs with ties to Putin • The US 'oligarch list' is strikingly similar to Forbes’ richest Russians ranking
If 1 In 8 Community-Based Organizations Are Insolvent, The Answer Is?
Bunker debtor favored amicable agreement with the creditor
On ITT and the Education Department, no more excuses
Rates are shooting higher on inflation fears, 10-year yield its highest in nearly 4 years • Dollar rebounds, helped by rising U.S. rates
Economic State of America in Eight Charts
Sectors to Watch in Trump's State of Union Speech • Americans Assess State of Union as Trump Prepares Speech • Trump’s Agenda Faces Tough Fiscal Reality After State of the Union • 6 things to watch at Trump's State of the Union, including the big Russian elephant in the room
Consumer spending rises as savings plummets to a 10-year low • Why the savings rate falling to a 12-year low is not a death knell for the U.S. economy
Very few US adults report receiving bonuses or raises from the Republican tax law • Tax overhaul means a $4,000-a-year pay raise for the average family, Trump advisor says • Here are the Trump tax cuts’ hidden stock-market winners • Exxon Mobil to invest $50 billion in US over 5 years, citing tax reform • New Jersey will do 'whatever it takes' to push back on tax law deduction limits, governor says • Here Comes the GOP Tax Cut Nightmare
Wage increases reported by highest number of companies in 18 years, survey finds • An economic indicator is signaling paychecks could get significantly bigger this year • Personal Income increased 0.4% in December, Spending increased 0.4%
EU warns it will retaliate if Trump starts a trade war
U.S. cites NAFTA progress but rejects Canadian proposals on car sector • Auto industry exposes NAFTA’s blind spot • Lawyers optimistic on NAFTA talks • NAFTA negotiators remain divided but see some progress in trade talks • Trump official still looking for ‘major breakthrough’ on NAFTA • As NAFTA talks continue, your hamburger hangs in the balance • NAFTA Stalls: World Moves On Without the US
Mr. President, Chrysler Isn't Leaving Mexico
These 10 countries have the best quality of life
Study finds $14.3 billion hit coming as Pa. residents lack retirement savings
Trump Still Dreams of a 1950s-Era Economy
More Than 50,000 US Bridges are Failing
WI: Foxconn Wants 7M Gallons of Water Daily
Puerto Rico board says utility in urgent need of $1.3 bln loan
Hurricane Maria Worsened Puerto Rico Health Care Crisis
Privatization of Puerto Rico's PREPA Augurs Disaster
The Ticking Time Bomb in the Municipal-Bond Market
After Shale Slump, Oil Boom Gives U.S. New Edge in Energy and Diplomacy
Oil Slips as Dollar Kills Crude's Mojo, Storage Withdrawals End
What's driving Exxon's $50 billion spending surge in U.S.
US crude's price is catching up to the rest of the world, creating a risk to the export boom
FourWinds official testifies he altered bank statements • FBI: FourWinds investor money kept Uresti law firm’s accounts in the black
Judge again approves deal to prop up hospital pension plan
Trios cuts 3 therapy services to save money
When Insurance Won't Pay the $12K ER Visit
Trump says the argument that climate change is real 'wasn't working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place' • Trump: Polar Ice Caps Actually Doing Great • FactCheck: "The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level." |
en | N/A | N/A | Removal of skunks can be a complex process that must handle by a trained professional. Anyone who a skunk wakes will know the results of burning and watery eyes, a sour smell, and breathing problems, even if it’s not a problem for the person. The smell of skunks can enter your home from a myriad of sources. For example, you or your pet could be mistreated, or a skunk might spray something else outside your home.
Skunk smell can last for days or even weeks, according to the intensity. Here are some helpful tips to eliminate the skunk smell in your home.
Make sure all your windows are open to let in as much sun as possible, to degrade the odor and decrease its life span. Also, you can run the fan of your heating central or cooling system to circulate air.
Put vinegar-filled bowls in every room for two to three days. Be sure that they are safe from the reach of curious pets and children. You can also put the vinegar into plastic containers and make holes in the lids. The vinegar will absorb and neutralize the smell.
Place any bedding, clothing, or other laundry-friendly fabrics in a washing machine set at the highest temperature. Add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda to the load, and add the regular detergent. Launder, and repeat the wash process a few times. Ensure you air dry your laundry outdoors if you can rather than putting your clothes in the dryer since the heat of the dryer can cause the smell to be baked in your clothes.
Choose an extensive steam cleaning for carpets, couches, curtains, mattresses, and other soft surfaces that are not washable.
For surfaces made of hard materials, using a ratio of 1:9, bleach and water can eliminate the smell. Make sure you try it on a small amount to ensure that the bleach won’t alter the color or cause damage to the surface.
Mix one quart of three before you use it, but not before use.
Use rubber gloves while applying the solution and keep it away from the pet’s mouth and eyes.
Rinse right away, and then follow it up with shampoo for pets. Some pet shampoos are designed to neutralize the smell of skunks, like this one.
Be sure to eliminate the smell from the people’s pets, items, and people as quickly and thoroughly as possible. The longer an odor remains present on any object more excellent the difficulty it is to eliminate.
If you’re able, do outside and work so that you don’t breathe the smell into your home or spill the oil on furniture, carpets, or other household objects.
Take a shower thoroughly and wash with hot water following any de-skunking treatment.
If the skunks heavily sprayed clothes or other things, you may decide to throw them away because the material could keep the odors of skunks for quite a long duration.
Specific pet and veterinary stores offer commercial skunk smell removal products. Most of these items depend on a non-toxic chemical, Neutroleum Alpha, to neutralize the smell of skunks. and follow their guidelines.
What Can You Use to Get Rid of Skunk Smell?
How do you eliminate the smell of skunks in your home?
It is essential to ensure that your pet is kept in a secure area after being spray-dried by a skunk until you’ve treated them with good products. If some of that stink of skunks makes it to your home, There are several ways to alleviate the smell. The boiling of vinegar inside a saucepan is a DIY method that has been found to be safe and effective in removing the smell of skunk within. Just setting up open vinegar bottles in rooms that smell (away from children and pets who could spill them or drink them, obviously) could be helpful as vinegar can absorb smells over a few days.
Liquid bleach can remove the smell of rugged outdoor surfaces such as your porch and deck. Be sure to dissolve the bleach with the water before using it (one one-cup of bleach per one gallon of water works great). Also, try a small area to test as it may cause discoloration. If it’s unable to vanish entirely in a matter of minutes, you’ll need patience. Trying one of these methods may require several times before it is completely gone. |
en | N/A | N/A | It is now possible for your reps and managers to belong to multiple Territories. This will allow you to better manage your team, no matter your structure.
We have introduced the Territory builder. It is located in Settings under Territories.
create, edit (move with drag & drop) or deactivate a multilevel hierarchy from the Territory builder.
edit Place and Representative User assignments from the Territory builder.
multi-select territories for assignment to Representatives.
Back office users can use the Territory builder to create & edit a multi-level hierarchymanage the assignment of Places and Representatives.
Places can be assigned only to lowest level territories (leaves) in a hierarchy.
if the newly added place will be assigned by default to the Rep’s current Territory. |
en | N/A | N/A | In franchising, which of the following is not a benefit that the franchiser gains?
Which of the following services would a wholesaler least likely provide to a manufacturer?
Which of the following is not a factor used to classify wholesalers? |
en | N/A | N/A | The Definitive Wood Guide: Walnut
The history of Walnut wood is rich. The advent of furniture made from this timber came about in the Middle Ages. New technologies of the time made it possible to craft furniture from this hardwood.
It was developing woodworking techniques that created the entire profession of cabinet making. Cabinet makers became the master builders of furniture.
By the Victorian consumer revolution, people used this wood to make all furniture types.
- Solid, Veneer & Laminate
- How Does Walnut Age?
- Is Walnut Eco Friendly?
It is a very durable wood. It doesn’t often warp even when there are changes in the humidity and the heat. It’s also resistant to rot. But all woody it is not recommended to place walnut furniture outdoors.
There are examples of treated woods for outside furniture. Maintenance of the finish needs doing every year.
When buying walnut furniture be sure it’s the real deal! There are examples of furniture sold as walnut because it is a similar colour to the natural wood.
Walnut timber derives from the Juglandaceae tree family. This is native to the Americas, Southeast Asia and Eurasia. Black Walnut is from the Juglans nigra tree. It’s also called North American Walnut because that’s where many are grown. But Black Walnut is also cultivated across Europe. Its typical use is for woodworking.
Much English and European varieties are from the related Juglans regia tree. It’s also known as:
The Common variety is especially prevalent in the UK. This latter example is an Old World walnut tree species. It is also native to a region that stretches from the Balkans to the Himalayas and southwest China.
Because walnut is dearer than many other hardwoods, people use it as a veneer. In this guise, walnut offers the look while saving on material costs. But, veneers can work out more expensive. This is because the trees that are chosen to make them can be more interesting and better quality.
To make veneers a waterproof adhesive attaches thin layers of hardwood to a core. This is often made of MDF or plywood.
Veneer wood allows for intricate placement of wood grains. It also enables the incorporation of more varied grains. This means there is more scope for design when producing a piece of furniture.
The cheapest option when it comes to furniture is laminate. Laminate also offers designers more scope. There are so many colour variations available. These include wood effects along with other patterns and textures.
Laminate is very durable. It doesn’t fade in the sun and the finish does not wear off. Maintaining laminate involves wiping it with a damp cloth. It does not stain. And because it contains no wood on the outer layer, it’s cheaper to manufacture.
How Does Walnut Age?
When walnut changes colour, the effect is most dramatic in the first year. It can even happen in the first few months. It’s well worth moving new walnut furniture around. This is so it doesn’t end up in these early months with spots that are darker or lighter.
Many things change walnut’s natural colour. The elements for one will tend to lighten dark wood and darken light wood. Sun exposure can cause walnut wood furniture to fade.
Some people use a stain on walnut wood. It maintains darker hues for longer. But people tend to choose clear-coated or oiled furniture. Clear coats don’t stop the colour changing altogether. But they can minimise the problem. Especially if maintained regularly. Oil-finished pieces need regular oil applied. This gives furniture richer hues over time.
Harvested wood keeps living and breathing, even when shaped into furniture. It continues to respond to the environment. Wood expands and contracts with humidity changes. It also changes colour when it’s exposed to sunlight and air.
What are the Most Common Finishes?
As well as furniture, woodworkers use walnut to make knickknacks and carvings. They also make walnut gunstocks. But, it’s particularly popular for furniture. This includes cabinets, wood flooring, all manner of tables and chairs. Walnut veneers are also popular.
In general, walnut is straight-grained. It can sometimes have waves and curls that enhance a piece’s character.
Linseed oil penetrates and hardens in the pores of walnut wood. After sanding, use a cloth. You should saturate this with penetrating oil. Then allow the oil to soak into the wood for about 30 minutes before wiping it off. After 24 hours, repeat by wiping the surface with oil and again wiping it immediately.
Then once a week for a month, apply further light coats of oil, wiping immediately. Six months later apply another coat of oil. This will protect and finish the wood. Regular maintenance of oil-treated furniture is very effective.
Lacquer is a good choice for finishing walnut. It not only dries fast, but it only needs two coats to seal and protect.
Choose airless or pressurised spray equipment. Begin by filling a spray gun with the lacquer. With the gun eight inches from the walnut and at a 30⁰ angle, spray an even coat of lacquer on the wood. After 30 minutes, sand the walnut by hand with a piece of folded 180-grit sandpaper. Finish with another spray coat of lacquer.
Although two coats are enough, four coats would give a deeper lacquer finish. You only have to sand after the first coat.
To maintain lacquered surfaces wipe the surfaces with a soft cloth. This should be wrung out with clean lukewarm water daily. Lacquered furniture is not affected by daylight. But, the furniture does darken with time.
Solid wood is a living material. Daylight, humidity and temperature affect it. Perfect relative humidity for walnut is generally between 30% and 60%. The furniture should never sit close to sources of heat. So position the furniture away from radiators or wood-burning stoves.
Daylight matures wood. This means it’s important to move items like vases and candlesticks. It will stop them creating undesirable colour differences. There are several methods for keeping your walnut furniture healthy. These include applying linseed oil and lacquer to make the most of the finishes.
Its slim legs make the most use of legroom making it enjoyable for six to ten people to sit at. Storage of the extension leaves is inside the table.
The best furniture makers get their wood from sustainable sources.
And when it comes to eco-friendliness, it’s a good option. Harvests are overseen by tight regulations. This means that tropical deforestation is not a concern.
Because the wood is durable, each piece of quality furniture lasts at least 50, and often many more, years. |
en | N/A | N/A | 2020 has been a year of change, not all of them great and many havIt can be easy to get swept up in the ever changing landscape. It is important, however, that we try and find a new normality this year, especially for our students’ sake.
Year 6 is often a year that students look back on with much fondness and full of memories. This year will be no different, but for other reasons. It is important however that the ‘show goes on’ and the great things that were planned at the start of the year continue, even if they are implemented in a new format. As we venture into Term 4, Transition into the Middle School for our Year 6 students continues to be very much front and center of our weekly program. This is something that remains at the top of our priority list. While there have been small tweaks to how this program runs, it does form the backbone of our last term’s work with the Year 6s.
Some years ago, MECS leadership saw it as pertinent to have someone in the role of transition coordinator. Student numbers were increasing, especially when taking into account that the number of external students coming into Year 7 was the same, if not more than the number of students coming up from the Primary School. It became more an in depth role than what it has been previously. Caz Nyhouse is our new transition coordinator, and continues on the hard work, passion and dedication that Olivia Dyer brought to this role over a number of years.
Tneeds to be done well, and also requires the time and space given so as to ensure that this happens. Teachers work hard behind the scenes compiling notes and an education overview summary for each child. Primary School students tour the Middle School on a number of occasions and have lessons in the classrooms. In the next couple of weeks, teachers and current Year 7 students come down to the Primary School and have a Q and A session as part of this journey. Fortunately, we have increasing resources in the Ed Support Space as well, with Jo Miller now overseeing this portfolio across both Primary and Secondary Sections.
Tra remains as important as it has ever been. While the world around us has changed this year, some of the fundamentals that have been in place years before, we believe, must hold firm. These remain a vital part of the MECS philosophy of valuing every child as a unique learner, each with their own giftings from God, all of whom add their own distinct flavour and character to this beautiful school, God’s school. |
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