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Canada (AG) v PHS Community Services Society
Docket No. 33556
Unanimous reasons by McLachlin CJ
Full case name Canada (Attorney General) v PHS Community Services Society
Citations 2011 SCC 44, [2011] 3 SCR 134
Prior history APPEAL and CROSS‑APPEAL from PHS Community Services Society v. Canada (Attorney General) 2010 BCCA 15 (15 January 2010), affirming PHS Community Services Society v. Attorney General of Canada 2008 BCSC 661 (27 May 2008) and PHS Community Services Society v. Canada (Attorney General) 2008 BCSC 1453 (31 October 2008)
Ruling Appeal and cross-appeal dismissed. The Minister of Health is ordered to grant an exemption to Insite under s. 56 of the CDSA forthwith.
Canada (AG) v PHS Community Services Society 2011 SCC 44, [2011] 3 SCR 134 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case dealing with the application of the criminal law and healthcare heads of power found in section 91 and section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867 and the principles of fundamental justice in section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The courts below
Decision of the Supreme Court
Division of powers
Section 7 of the Charter
In September 2003, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Portland Hotel Society opened Insite, North America's first supervised drug injection site, in Downtown Eastside Vancouver, an area racked by high drug use. s 4(1) and 5(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) prohibited the possession and trafficking of controlled substances, and so in order to operate, Insite was obligated to apply for an exemption for medical and scientific purposes from the CDSA. The federal Minister of Health, whose discretionary powers under s 56 of the CDSA permitted the granting of exemptions, allowed Insite's application. Insite received further extensions on their exemption in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Minister of Health Tony Clement failed to extend the exemption, casting doubt on Insite's ability to operate the facility in the future. In response, Insite launched a court challenge against the federal government.
At trial before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Insite argued that s 4(1) and 5(1) of the CDSA were inapplicable to Insite because of the interjurisdictional immunity granted them as a health facility. Insite argued that applying the CDSA provisions to their facility in the absence of an exemption would violate their s 7 rights upon application. In the alternative, Insite argued that the Minister of Health had violated their s 7 rights by failing to extend the exemption. The trial judge rejected Insite's interjurisdictional immunity argument, noting instead the primacy of double aspect in Canadian constitutional law. However, the trial judge found that s 4(1) and 5(1) of the CDSA violated Insite's s 7 Charter rights because they "arbitrarily prohibited the management of addiction and its associated risks", and they could not be saved by s 1 of the Charter. The trial judge thus granted Insite a constitutional exemption and issued a suspended declaration of invalidity regarding s 4(1) and 5(1) of the CDSA.
Upon appeal by the federal government to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the majority of the court affirmed the trial judge's decision, agreeing with the result of the trial judge's Charter and interjurisdictional immunity analyses.
The court unanimously dismissed the appeal and cross-appeal on the basis of a s 7 argument, although it found no division of powers flaw in the CDSA.
The court found that s 4(1) and 5(1) of the CDSA were valid exercises of the federal law criminal power, per R v Malmo-Levine, where the court held that "protection of public health and safety from the effects of addictive drugs is a valid criminal law purpose". The court rejected the respondents' argument that the provinces could be exempt from the federal criminal law power if they established an activity serving the public interest. The court ruled also that interjurisdictional immunity could not shield the provinces from the federal criminal law power, given the narrowing of that doctrine in the Supreme Court's ruling in Canadian Western Bank v Alberta.
This restraint arises from the SCC's 2010 ruling in Quebec (AG) v Canadian Owners and Pilots Assn, where three related concerns were identified with the doctrine:
it is in tension with the dual aspect doctrine,
it is in tension with the emergent practice of cooperative federalism, and
it may overshoot the federal or provincial power in which it is grounded and create legislative "no go" zones where neither level of government regulates.
The Court further held that the delivery of health care services does not constitute a protected core of the provincial power over health care, because:
the proposed core has never been recognized in the jurisprudence, as courts are reluctant to identify new areas where interjurisdictional immunity applies;
"the sheer size and diversity of provincial health power render daunting the task of drawing a bright line around a protected provincial core of health where federal legislation may not tread;" and
"application of interjurisdictional immunity to a protected core of the provincial health power has the potential to create legal vacuums ... [which are] ... inimical to the very concept of the division of powers."
As McLachlin CJ noted,
The court found that s 4(1) of the CDSA engaged s 7 of the Charter but operated in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. Although that provision touched upon Insite users' life, liberty and security of the person by prohibiting drug possession at Insite, the s 56 exemption prevents s 4(1) of the CDSA from acting arbitrarily, overbroadly or grossly disproportionately upon Insite users.
However, the court found that the Minister's failure to grant the exemption limited Insite users' s 7 Charter rights and breached the principles of fundamental justice. The failure to exempt Insite was arbitrary because it undermined the CDSA's purpose; namely, the "maintenance and promotion of public health and safety". The failure was also grossly disproportionate in that it denied Insite's services, which had not had any "discernable negative impact on the public safety and health objectives of Canada during its eight years of operation".
While the court did not consider whether the Minister's failure to grant an exemption could be saved by s 1 of the Charter, they found that there would have been no rational connection between the Minister's failure to grant the exemption and the CDSA's stated purpose.
The court exercised its s 24(1) Charter power and ordered via mandamus the Minister to grant Insite the exemption. The court noted that the Minister ought to grant future exemption requests when the injection facility would "decrease the risk of death and disease, and there is little or no evidence that it will have a negative impact on public safety".
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Most presentations I attend suffer from a problem: one of the main parts is way too long and the others have been shrunk accordingly to fit the time frame. You cannot predict which one it is going to be. It's almost like a horoscope; there are certain types of people who are comfortable presenting the exposition part all day long, some who prefer to discuss the problem part, others who enjoy the middle part, and finally those who over-discuss the call for action part. However, to have a complete story, you need to do all of them. Let me tell you what exactly is wrong which each of these approaches and how to deal with it.
The vast majority of the presentations I see have just an exposition. Sadly, this has become the gold standard of corporate communications. Why? Because this approach requires a minimal amount of emotional labor. If you don't want to invest emotionally, just give them a very long introduction and nothing else.


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MPA 101: Freshwater Protected Areas
By CPCIL
By Hameet Singh and Rachel Goldstein
Hameet Singh and Rachel Goldstein are part of a team of CPCIL Research and Knowledge Gatherers producing content and compiling resources on themes such as inclusion, ecosocial justice, partnerships, conservation, organizational sustainability, climate change and biodiversity, connection to nature, conservation financing, and ecotourism, to support effective and equitable leadership and inclusion in parks and protected areas across Canada.
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MPAs are increasingly receiving more coverage and recognition as an invaluable tool in the protection and rejuvenation of important marine species diversity. However, freshwater biodiversity still continues to decline in rivers, lakes and wetlands, threatened by irrigation, invasive species, changes in hydrology, pollution, and industrial and domestic overuse (1). Freshwater fish have become the world's most endangered group of vertebrates after amphibians and may become extinct in the next 20-25 years (2).
Figure 1: Algal Bloom in Lake Erie. Credit: Canadian Freshwater Alliance.
It is also projected that the extinction rate of freshwater species will be about five times more than of terrestrial species and three times more than coastal marine species. Canada constitutes 20% of the world's surface freshwater (3) and is considered abundant in this precious resource. Nevertheless, freshwater here is also in peril, with the Great Lakes falling victim to algal blooms (4) (Figure 1), the South Saskatchewan River in Alberta being overexploited (5), and the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories becoming contaminated by mining run-off and waste (6). Freshwater protected areas (FWPAs) are one solution proposed to combat such changes, established to safeguard inland freshwaters that are crucial to human society and wildlife. FWPAs and the conservation of freshwater resources have been found to be central to sustaining biodiversity (7), as freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area (8). They also provide ecosystem services and sustain economies and communities, providing benefit for fishing, tourism and agriculture to name a few.
Despite their benefits, few FWPAs exist, and freshwater habitats are usually included as a part of terrestrial reserves, which does not ensure their protection. Activities such as dam building (Figure 2), road infrastructure or the diversion of water can still occur within or on the fringes of park boundaries, having negative impacts on freshwater ecosystems (2). An effective FWPA system is lacking in most parts of the world, and many of those that are implemented are by chance due to being a part of a larger encompassing terrestrial protected area (9). Research and study in the area of FWPAs is also deficient, with traditional theories of conservation misaligning with the freshwater realm and insufficient monitoring to support their implementation (10). Furthermore, conservation planning in the case of freshwater has been traditionally lagging largely due to the spatial and temporal connectivity complexities that characterize freshwater systems (8).
Figure 2: Dams and water crossings located within Ontario's protected areas. Credit: MNR
A myriad of political, economic and cultural facets can also make FWPA planning difficult, with jurisdictional divisions within and across national boundaries (as is the case in the Great Lakes) obstructing efforts to create freshwater exclusive protected areas (2). Such problems are worsened in the case of river systems due to the long distances that they can traverse. Freshwater habitats are also central sites of human settlement, and as such, the formation of FWPAs can require several negotiation and consultation phases with local communities and relevant stakeholders (11).
Several prospects and management strategies exist to unlock the potential of FWPAs. One such method is the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (RAMSAR), the first of the global nature conservation conventions (12) and the most extensive list of sites focusing on wetland conservation (9). Signed in 1971, RAMSAR provides an international framework for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands around the world, including lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, brackish estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, mangroves and other coastal areas, coral reefs, and all human-made sites such as fishponds, rice paddies, reservoirs and salt pans (12). Canada has 37 designated RAMSAR sites, implemented through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and the Canadian Federal Government Policy on Wetland Conservation (13). This includes the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary (Figure 3), which is also the second largest RAMSAR site in the world (11). In addition, a system for heritage or wild rivers can serve as a good representation of traditional protected area management better fitting the freshwater environment (14).
Figure 3: Ross's and snow geese at the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a RAMSAR designated site. Credit: Canada C3
The Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS), created in 1984, is one such example of this (15). It is a collaborative effort between the federal, provincial and territorial governments, aimed to promote, protect, and enhance Canada's river heritage (16). The CHRS works with local managers and stewardship groups to ensure the ecological integrity of their associated designated rivers. However, a gap that remains to be addressed is that the CHRS does not prohibit or mandate any activities (14). Furthermore, to overcome multi-jurisdictional obstacles, the International Joint Commission (IJC) was set up by the Boundary Waters Treaty as a bi-national organization between the governments of Canada and the United States to cooperatively manage waters along the border (17). The IJC is an example of a collaborative freshwater management approach to the improvement of water quality and other issues that benefits both nations. Other examples of freshwater stewardship within the vein of protected areas include inland fishery reserves, riparian buffer zones (14), integrated connectivity and watershed planning (8), and increased research and monitoring (18).
The Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area
The Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area (NMCA), operated by Parks Canada and located near Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the largest FWPA in the world (19) (Figure 4). It has a surface area of 10,000 km2 , covering a third of the Canadian portion of Lake Superior, and is home to 70 species of freshwater fish, including lake herring, walleye, yellow perch, lake whitefish, lake trout and brook trout. Other species include herring gulls, woodland caribou, cormorants, great blue herons, wolves, bald eagles, osprey, peregrine falcons, bears, moose and white pelicans.
Figure 4: Extent of the Lake Superior NMCA. Credit: DFO
The extent of the NMCA includes the lakebed, islands and shorelands. In addition to the ecology, it also houses important historical and geological structures – fossils that date back 2.1 billion years ago, showcasing the beginnings of life on earth, shipwrecks, and indications of human presence going back at least 5000 years by the pictographs found in the park (20). Besides protecting the region's ecological, geological and historical significance, the NMCA has a high potential for tourism, providing boating, fishing, kayaking and other recreational opportunities (21).
FWPAs such as the Lake Superior NMCA have a strong potential to conserve falling freshwater biodiversity and protect it from ongoing threats. While they cannot be the only strategy, FWPAs should form a larger, encompassing management approach to safeguard freshwater ecosystems and ensure their life-sustaining functionality.
Read the rest of the report:
Ecology of Marine Protected Areas
Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Marine Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas Management Tools
Marine Protected Areas Networks
Combes, Stacey (2003). Protecting Freshwater Ecosystems in the Face of Global Climate Change. Retrieved from "Buying Time: A User Manual" – Land Trust Alliance
Saunders, D. L., Meeuwig, J. J., & Vincent, A. C. (2002). Freshwater Protected Areas: Strategies for Conservation. Conservation Biology, 16(1), 30-41.
Statistics Canada (2018). Environment. Retrieved from: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-402-x/2011000/chap/env/env-eng.htm
Environmental Defence (n.d.) Safeguarding Canada's Water. Retrieved from: https://environmentaldefence.ca/campaign/water/
Weber, Bob for Global News (2019). Canada's abundance of fresh water under threat from toxic algae, climate change. Retrieved from: https://globalnews.ca/news/6190102/fresh-water-canada-climate-change/
Piper, Liza for The Canadian Encyclopedia (2016). Great Slave Lake. Retrieved from: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-slave-lake#:~:text=Pollution%20from%20local%20mining%20activities,now%20stored%20in%20underground%20chambers.
Finlayson, C. M., Arthington, A. H., & Pittock, J. (Eds.). (2018). Freshwater ecosystems in protected areas: Conservation and management. Routledge.
Pittock, J., Finlayson, M., Arthington, A. H., Roux, D., Matthews, J. H., Biggs, H., … & Viers, J. (2015). Managing freshwater, river, wetland and estuarine protected areas. Protected area governance and management, 569-608.
Juffe‐Bignoli, D., Harrison, I., Butchart, S. H., Flitcroft, R., Hermoso, V., Jonas, H., … & Van Soesbergen, A. (2016). Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 to improve the performance of protected areas and conserve freshwater biodiversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26, 133-151.
Hermoso, V., Abell, R., Linke, S., & Boon, P. (2016). The role of protected areas for freshwater biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing world. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 26, 3-11.
Pittock, Jamie for WWF (2005). Challenges of freshwater protected areas. Retrieved from: https://wwf.panda.org/?uNewsID=17772
Government of Canada (2020). Internationally important wetlands: Ramsar Convention. Retrieved from: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/corporate/international-affairs/partnerships-organizations/important-wetlands-ramsar-convention.html
Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (n.d.). Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance. Retrieved from: http://www.ramp-alberta.org/management/framework/treaties/ramsar.aspx
Abell, R., Allan, J. D., & Lehner, B. (2007). Unlocking the potential of protected areas for freshwaters. Biological Conservation, 134(1), 48-63.
CHRS (n.d.). About Us. Retrieved from: https://chrs.ca/en/about-chrs
Government of Nunavut (n.d.). Canadian Heritage Rivers. Retrieved from: https://www.gov.nu.ca/environment/information/canadian-heritage-rivers
International Joint Commission (2020). Role of the IJC. Retrieved from: https://www.ijc.org/en/who/role
Acreman, M., Hughes, K. A., Arthington, A. H., Tickner, D., & Duenas, M. A. (2019). Protected areas and freshwater biodiversity: A novel systematic review distils eight lessons for effective conservation. Conservation Letters.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2017). Spotlight on Marine Protected Areas in Canada. Retrieved from: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/publications/mpaspotlight-pleinsfeuxzpm/index-eng.html
IJC (2015). Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Protects World's Largest Freshwater Lake. Retrieved from: https://www.ijc.org/en/lake-superior-national-marine-conservation-area-protects-worlds-largest-freshwater-lake
Lemelin, R. H., Koster, R., Woznicka, I., Metansinine, K., & Pelletier, H. (2010). Voyages to Kitchi Gami: the Lake Superior national marine conservation area and regional tourism opportunities in Canada's first national marine conservation area. Tourism in marine environments, 6(2-3), 101-118.
Canadian Freshwater Alliance (2020). NOAA's Lake Erie algal bloom forecast proves that governments need to do more work to save the lake. Retrieved from: https://www.freshwateralliance.ca/algae_forecast_2020_media_release_2
MNR (2019). State of Ontario's Protected Areas Report. Retrieved from: https://www.ontario.ca/page/state-ontarios-protected-areas-report
Canada C3. (n.d.). Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary. Retrieved from: https://canadac3.ca/en/expedition/the-places/queen-maud-gulf-migratory-bird-sanctuary/
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Szucsán András (Szegvár, 1935 – Csongrád, 2013. június 13.) fizikatanár, a Mikola Sándor-díj és a Rátz Tanár Úr-életműdíj kitüntetettje, Csongrád város díszpolgára.

Életpályája
Szentesen, a Horváth Mihály Gimnáziumban érettségizett 1953-ban.
A Szegedi Tudományegyetemen szerzett fizika-matematika szakos diplomát 1957-ben.
Szegváron, majd Csongrádon volt általános iskolai tanár.
1960-tól a csongrádi Batsányi János Gimnázium és Szakközépiskola tanára.
Szervező munkájának eredményeként jöhetett létre Csongrádon a fizika tagozatos középiskolai képzés.
Ennek köszönhetően több tanítványa kiemelkedő eredményeket ért el az országos versenyeken.
Tíz évig dolgozott az Eötvös Loránd Fizikai Társulat Csongrád megyei vezetőségében.

Kitüntetései
1989-ben Mikola Sándor-díjat kapott, ezt a kiemelkedő munkát végző fizikatanárok kapják az Eötvös Loránd Fizikai Társulat tanári szakcsoportjainak javaslata alapján. A díjat Mikola Sándorról (1871-1945), a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia rendes tagjáról, a Budapesti Evangélikus Gimnázium tanáráról nevezték el. A díjhoz 1982 óta Mikola-érem is jár, Renner Kálmán szobrászművész alkotása.

A Rátz Tanár Úr-életműdíj egyik első kitüntetettje volt 2001-ben. Az ekkor alapított és a Thália Színházban átadott díjat Rátz Lászlóról (1863-1930), a Budapesti Evangélikus Gimnázium legendás hírű tanáráról neveztek el.

2003-ban Csongrád város díszpolgárává fogadta.

Tanítványai

A kiváló tanári munka, a tehetséggondozás eredményességét tükrözik a versenyeredmények mellett a tanítványok további pályája is. A Szucsán tanítványok között, akik mindannyian büszkék volt fizikatanárukra, szép számmal találunk akadémiai doktorokat, kandidátusokat, Akadémiai Díjasokat, Széchenyi Professzori ösztöndíjasokat. Közülük többen töltenek be kutatóintézeti és egyetemi vezető pozíciókat, váltak kiváló műszaki szakemberekké, lettek elismert tanárok, vagy váltak világhírűvé, mint Losonczi Áron, az üvegbeton feltalálója.

Szucsán András munkássága, elhivatottsága példaértékű a fizika tanítása, népszerűsítése terén. Az egyik volt tanítványa szavaival: "Az ő munkássága eredményeként alakult ki a csongrádi Batsányi Gimnáziumban az a tündöklően termékeny légkör, amelyben sok évfolyam diákjai fejlődhettek egészségesen pozitív élményekkel, rettegéstől mentes körülmények között a fizika nem könnyű tudományának területén."

További információk
 Szucsán András honlapja
 A Rátz Tanár Úr-életműdíj honlapja (Díjazottak → 2001 → Szucsán András)
 Elment Szucsán Tanár Úr!  (Csongrádi Hírek, 2013. június 13.)

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1935-ben született személyek
2013-ban elhunyt személyek
Csongrádiak
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Csongrád díszpolgárai
Rátz Tanár Úr-életműdíjasok
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Syria Rejects Cooperation with Turkey against Kurdish Militias
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By Drago Bosnic On Jan 15, 2020
DAMASCUS – An informed Syrian source denied reports by Reuters that the Syrian-Russian-Turkish meeting in Moscow has discussed potential coordination against the presence of the Kurdish militants in northern Syria and the possibility of joint action against People's Protection Units (YPG).
The source rejected the Reuters report on a joint campaign against the Kurdish militias and further stressed that the talks concentrated on the Turkish withdrawal from all of the Syrian territories, from the northwest of the country and elsewhere, SANA reported.
Reports had also mentioned that the Syrian-Russian-Turkish tripartite meeting which was held in Moscow called on the Turkish side to fully adhere to the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic, its independence and territorial integrity as well as the immediate and full withdrawal from the whole Syrian territory.
In a relevant development in late October, the Syrian Army deployed a number of its troops in the northern countryside of Hasaka province as part of its plan to counter Ankara's aggression and defend the locals, further strengthening its military positions along the Syria-Turkey border.
The Syrian government continued to deploy its forces to the Syrian-Turkish border after the Kurdish militias had retreated from the areas. The over 90-kilometer deployment area straddles the northeastern towns of Ras al-Ein and Qamishli.
Army units which started to deploy to the area of Tel Tamar in Hasaka northwestern countryside have entered the villages and towns of Doudan, Qasir Sharak, Hasda Fouqani, Amouda, al-Jawharyia, Tal Hamdoun, Kharaza Fouqani, al-Dar, Abu Jarada, al-Qarmanyia, Karbashik, al-Salam Aleik, Rabet Haj Ibrahim, al-Arrada, Laboua, Faqira, al-Ibrahimiya, Msheirfet Asaad, Bab al-Faraj and al-Shukryia.
Kurdish militants started to withdraw in late October from the borderline. Damascus welcomes the withdrawal of the Kurds in Syria's northwestern regions to a depth of 30 kilometers from the Turkish border as part of a Russia-Turkey deal, saying the pullout rids Ankara of the pretext to keep up its acts of aggression against the Arab country.
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There I was, happy as a clam, watching the season finale of SURVIVOR, working out on the Pilates and wondering big time if it would be Colby or Parvati who would be voted out at the first of tonight's two Tribal Councils. Here's a couple of hints about what is going to follow: (1) I capitalized "Tribal Council" and (2) I know that Colby's last name is Donaldson and Parvati's is Shallow.
I called a friend who lives nearby and left voice mail, somewhat frantic sounding I'm sure, to find out if her cable was out too. I waited a short time then called Brent to find out if Colby was still safe or if he, indeed, got the boot tonight. He did.
Then I called Time Warner. A recording told me there was no need to hold for a representative because they were working on the problem. Hmpf. So, OK, I hung up. Then I remembered that, theoretically, I can watch TV on my computer because it is equipped with a "TV Tuner". Sure, maybe someday I will figure out how that works. Then I roamed around the Internet searching for some way, some how, to watch tonight's program. No luck. Fingers crossed I didn't pick up any wormy little viruses during my exploring.
I finally threw in the towel and went to Twitter and read that Sandra won as the player who "Out Played, Out Lasted, Out Witted" the others (at least I think that's what the three Outs are). I thought "OK, I can watch the show this week on CBS or Hulu. Then…..
I started to realize how hooked in I am to "my shows". And how, OK, I'll admit it, how angry I was when I realized that the cable was not coming back on anytime soon. I don't think it is wrong to enjoy TV, or movies, or reading, or making art, or any of the other things I enjoy. I just found it revealing to know how much I could be affected by such a little thing as…. the cable going out.


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I've learned Arabic and made my first steps in Oriental studies at the Jagiellonian University in 2000-2001; I've been a member of Polish Oriental Society, participating in various conferences and initiatives fostered in that academic circle. Quite another qualitative step is my stay as guest researcher at Leiden University in 2018-2020.
Initially, I used my Orientalist competences mostly to enlarge my comparative insight concerning the Mediterranean cultural crossroad, both in Middle Ages and in our times. In 2013-2018, the main focus of my research in Islamic studies was on the emergence of the Islamic intellectual and the fusion of modern and modernising instance with the religious aspect that is quite alien to the secularised, Western figure. In such a way, an area of post-secular Islamic studies might be defined. To do so, I tried to follow the interaction between contemporary European and Islamic thinkers. I was also interested in the European penetration of Arabia, and more precisely, in the hajj performed by the European converts, treating it as a transcultural experience crossing the boundaries of late colonial identities. More recently, I've returned to the study of al-Andalus as an early laboratory of cultural transgression.
"Cyrkulacja", Humanistyka, która nadchodzi, Warszawa, DiG, 2018, p. 56-109.
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"Nowa geografia teorii. Francja i jej partnerzy w debacie postsekularnej" ["New geography of theory. France and its partners in the post-secular debate"], Sensus Historiae, vol. XX, nr 3/2015, p. 149-160. ISSN 2082-0860.
As the main thesis of this article, we claim that the Atlantic circuit of ideas, in which the classical postmodernism took its definite shape, has been replaced by a Mediterranean one. In this new "geography of theory," France, Italy and Maghreb are the main partners of the post-secular debate. The seminar on Capri in 1994, where Derrida met several Italian thinkers to pose the emergent problem of the "return of the religion" is considered as a symbolic breakthrough in this domain. The participation of the Islamic thinkers has been thence posted as a requirement. Nonetheless, the essential point to be taken into the account is the symptomatic turnover: the Maghrebian thinkers speak the language of the Enlightenment, while the European ones tend to incarnate the "spirit of the Desert." The scheme identifying "knowledge" with Europe and "faith" with the Maghrebian counterpart is no longer valid. The new circuit of ideas is put into practice on account of the lack of synchronisation between the theoretical approaches, which oscillate between "too late" and "too early," "not yet" and "no more." The deconstruction of religion is realised through the dismantling of the theology (and of the concept of community based on theological consensus); its place is taken by the individual mystical experience. Due to this process, the metaphor of the "automaton chess player" proposed by Walter Benjamin is no longer valid; breaking the circle of revolution and terror, forming the catastrophic paradigm of the modernity, becomes possible. In ultimate terms, the utmost challenge of the deconstruction epitomised by the "spectre of Derrida" is to support yet another translation and to carry out a crucial mediation in the Mediterranean.
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Philips starring in 'Brothers in Arms' level
>> Sunday, April 6, 2008
Remember back in January I posted about the news that Philips amBX would get supported by Ubisoft games, Brother in Arms being one of them. One of the very cool features I found about today is a deal between Philips and Gearbox (The developer of "Brother in Arms: Hell's Highway"): Gearbox includes a special level which takes places in the old Philips factories of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This means you can follow the war stories at the famous Light Tower and the "Witte Dame" as many dutch people will know about. The game will be released in June on Xbox 360 and PS3.
Gearbox comments about the Philips detail: "Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway takes place in the historical Operation Market Garden. In the town of Eindhoven, in the center of the 101st Airborne Division's operational area, there was a factory for a company called Philips. You've probably heard about Philips – they invented the CD and some other neat technology (like CD-i, editorial) over the years. One of our missions happens to take place in that factory. Philips was eager for us to use their physical logo in the factory as it was then, and we placed an old version of their mark. Without that agreement, we would've had to leave that authentic detail out."
Devin, April 6, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Seems to be much fuss about this but I don't see a problem as long as it's tastefully done. Although it has to be said this is nothing new. Take the heavy advertisement in games like Cool Spot! Anybody would think this is some new trend thanks to the networked capabilities of games!
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The term heat-tracing refers to the continuous or intermittent application of heat to a pipeline or vessel in order to replace heat loss to ambient. The major uses of heat-tracing include freeze protection, thawing, maintenance of fluids at process temperature (or at pumping viscosities), prevention of fluid component separation, and prevention of gas condensation.
The following examples are typical of the diversity of heat-tracing applications: freeze protection of piped water; transfer of molten process chemicals such as phosphoric acid, sulphur, and p-xylene; low-viscosity maintenance of pumped fluids including petroleum products, vegetable oils and syrups, polymeric and resinous materials, and aqueous concentrates and slurries; avoidance of condensation and subsequent improper burning of fuel gas in refineries; preventing moisture from condensing out of piped natural gas; preventing freezing of control valves and compressor damage; elimination of pipeline corrosion due to wet hydrogen sulphide resulting from condensed moisture.
Heat-tracing may be avoided in situations where heat loss to the environment can be effectively minimized. In cold climates or areas with severe winters, water pipes are often buried below the frost line. Alternatively, they may be kept from freezing by running them through heated buildings.
In cases where flow is intermittent, tracing might be avoided by designing a self-draining system such as those used for steam condensate returns. Pipes may also be cleared after use by means of compressed air, steam, or solvent flushing or ''pigging.'' The self-draining method is suitable only for infrequently used pipes due to the high labor costs involved in cleaning and the potential cost and scope of repair, should a pipe not empty properly.
A third approach in the avoidance of tracing is to design for 100 percent flow. This practice is not recommended since equipment breakdown or process interruption may result in an irreversible drop in the temperature of the piped fluid.


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by Chris Mooney
In late July, two seemingly unconnected events transpired within hours of each other. First, President Bush nominated John Roberts, a conservative whose ideology-to-intelligence ratio remains unknown and perhaps unknowable, for the Supreme Court. Second, the American Journal of Public Health released a special supplement issue on scientific evidence and public policy, largely dedicated to excoriating a little-known but highly consequential 1993 Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of expert testimony in court, known as Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.
After discussing the perils of Daubert, the connection between these two events should become clear.
Daubert was a "toxic tort" case, a type of litigation in which plaintiffs claim that a particular company's actions or products damaged their health. The product at issue in Daubert was Merrell Dow's Benedictin, a drug for morning sickness that, plaintiffs claimed, caused serious birth defects. To prove their case, the plaintiffs had to present evidence on the chemical and pharmacological nature of Benedictin, as well as expert testimony in the field of epidemiology in order to demonstrate scientific causation -- i.e., that when taken by pregnant women, Benedictin can indeed induce birth defects.
Lower courts in the case had found that the plaintiffs failed their evidentiary test, ruling that the expert testimony they presented was inadmissible under the 1923 Frye v. United States standard, which required such testimony to be based on concepts that are "generally accepted" in the scientific community. Into this fray leaped the U.S. Supreme Court, overturning the Frye test and substituting a new one. Writing for the majority, Justice Harry Blackmun (of Roe v. Wade fame) laid out what he viewed as the "scientific method" as a means of determining what sort of expert testimony ought to be deemed reliable by courts. Testimony, according to the Court, should be measured by standards of testability, peer review, the disclosure of an error rate, and (as in Frye) "general acceptance" by the scientific community.
Most significantly, Daubert tasked trial-court judges with the duty of serving as "gatekeepers" over expert testimony, which they were to evaluate according to the Supreme Court's standards. In essence, then, the Court attempted to lay out a test that would allow other judges to determine what kind of evidence should count as "scientific" long before a jury had any opportunity to hear the evidence itself during a trial.
If that sounds like a perilous endeavor, the Daubert opinion more than substantiates that concern. As the American Journal of Public Health supplement exhaustively shows, the Supreme Court blundered miserably on a variety of fronts. It propounded a deeply confused philosophy of science, merging together the incompatible views of Karl Popper and Carl Hempel. It was equally naive about the sociological conditions in which scientific information is produced: Standards of testing and peer review vary across disciplines, which also have different canons for what constitutes "proof." No wonder, then, that when applying Daubert, trial-court judges have required wildly different standards of scientific proof.
After a decade, it has become clear that the Supreme Court's blunder has had serious unintended consequences. Under Daubert, defense lawyers for powerful companies have had a field day raising evidentiary challenges against plaintiffs' expert witnesses and getting their testimony thrown out before the trial takes place. This ritual has fostered a wrongheaded piece-by-piece approach to scientific evidence in which attempts are made to poke holes in each individual study or testimony, rather than allowing a court (and jury) to consider the full weight of the scientific evidence. Meanwhile, delighted by Daubert, industry groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have called for extending the principles embodied in the case to the judicial assessment of scientific evidence used in federal regulatory decision making, which would be a true nightmare given what Daubert has already done to tort litigation.
So who on the Supreme Court foresaw these problems? Not Blackmun, nor moderate David Souter. Rather, the chief critic of the Daubert decision was the archconservative William Rehnquist, who observed that questions of "scientific validity" and "peer review" were "matters far afield from the expertise of judges," whom he worried about turning into "amateur scientists." "I defer to no one in my confidence in federal judges," Rehnquist wrote, "but I am at a loss to know what is meant when it is said that the scientific status of a theory depends on its 'falsifiability,' and I suspect some of them will be, too."
What does this have to do with John Roberts? As a preface, let me say that the judge's apparent views on matters like church-state separation worry me a great deal, as do his unclear views on Roe v. Wade. However, the Daubert opinion shows that beyond these hot-button culture-war issues, matters also come before the Supreme Court where the liberals and moderates can wind up dead wrong, and where someone like William Rehnquist can put them all to shame via concurrence or dissent.
There are areas, in short, where judges aren't predictable -- and where, accordingly, having a good mind matters a lot more than one's basic political leanings. This is not my brief for allowing Roberts onto the court; I think he deserves considerable scrutiny. But at the very least, Daubert ought to make us think twice about merely examining a judge's politics when deciding whether we want him or her deciding cases of this magnitude.
Chris Mooney is the Washington correspondent for Seed Magazine and a columnist for The American Prospect Online. His first book, The Republican War on Science, will be published in September. His daily blog and other writings can be found at www.chriscmooney.com.
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If you own your own practice, and unless you're nearing retirement, ownership of the office building that you work in is one of the best investments you can make.
First of all, real estate in general is a very good investment, because it usually appreciates in value over time, and there are some excellent tax benefits. The problems of being a landlord and finding good tenants may be the biggest obstacles in commercial real estate, but that is completely alleviated in the specific instance of owning your office building, because you'll always have an excellent tenant – yourself! This tenant, an optometrist, is willing to sign a long-term lease, always pays the rent on time, takes good care of the facility, does not complain much, and you'll probably find him or her to be a very nice person!
The optometrist, in turn, generally finds the landlord (still you) to also be a great person to do business with. While the rent may seem a little on the high side, the landlord generally agrees with any ides the optometrist-tenant has, such as signage, landscaping, hours of operation, parking, remodeling, etc. And, if something changes in the practice or in the optometrist's personal life, the landlord can be very flexible and understanding with the terms of the lease.
You probably always knew you would own your own home after you got out of college, and not rent an apartment. All renters realize that their monthly rent checks could just as easily be mortgage payments, and if they were, the renter would be earning more equity in the real estate with each passing month. When it comes time to move, the house is sold and some net profit is usually earned. There are also some nice tax benefits available to home owners. It's really the same philosophy with your office building.
If this idea appeals to you, you should discuss it with your CPA first. The usual scenario for professionals who own their own building is to own the property personally, and lease it to their professional optometric corporation. You actually will sign a lease with yourself, and the rent will be based on the going rent for commercial property in your geographic area. It's common to make this a triple net lease – which means the tenant is responsible for real estate taxes, insurance on the building and all building maintenance – in addition to the rent. These become business expenses for the optometric corporation. As long as the rent payment is more than the mortgage payment, you the landlord will earn positive cash flow every month.
It's best to think of the ownership of an optometric office building as a separate asset and financial transaction from the practice. You could buy (or sell) them both together, but you certainly don't have to. The appraised value for the building would be done by a real estate appraiser, while the appraised value of the practice would be done by a practice consultant or CPA. A retiring OD who owns his or her building could sell the practice to a new doctor, but retain ownership of the building and continue to collect rent well into retirement. The new doctor also becomes a logical future buyer for the building, eventually.
There are many ways to acquire and use the real estate. You may want to buy a vacant lot in the commercial district of town, seek an architect, and design and build your own building. You may find a better deal by buying an existing building and remodeling for your needs. There are condominium medical complexes, strip malls and free standing buildings. Even homes can be converted to office space if the zoning will allow it (but make sure you can have adequate parking for future growth). You may want to make the entire office building into a clinic for your practice only and enjoy the entire identity, or only use part of the building yourself and rent the rest out to other professionals.


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HomeAbout Miller Avenue SchoolAbout Miller Avenue School
Miller Avenue is a Year 0 – 8 school situated in park like grounds in the middle of the rural town of Paeroa. Paeroa is a well established town with a strong historical context and supportive community. It features a strong Maori community presence with several Marae that host regional and national events, as well as those for local iwi.
The school was opened on the 3rd February 1958 with a staff of five teachers and a commencing roll of 184. Since then it has continued to reflect the growth of Paeroa itself with the roll fluctuating over the years and of late being on an increase.
It is well resourced with many facilities being added over the years including our jubilee hall, STEAM space, swimming pool, spacious library, extensive playgrounds and access to fibre networks across our campus.
The school provides a stimulating learning environment which caters for all learners' needs. Teachers, students and the Board of Trustees hold high expectations for student achievement and there has been a steady rise in progress and personal growth. There is a pleasant mix of traditional and modern in the school extra curricular activities, classroom teaching, values and skills. Students are encouraged to participate in their community and join some of the many community groups.
Students attending the school come from a range of backgrounds with an equal mix of Maori and European students. There are very small numbers from other ethnic backgrounds and fee paying students at times.
The school is inclusive of difference. We boast a strong and dedicated set of support teachers who are allocated to students with learning and behaviour needs. extension programmes are provided to provide different learning pathwayse high achievers, we are a Health Promoting School, an Energize school and has achieved well in the areas of sports, fitness and the percentage of students involved in out of school organizations. These activities are enhanced by a team of highly motivated teachers, support staff and community volunteers.
In 2021 - MAS will launch our breakfast club deisgned to relieve the growing pressures on whanau, this will be supported by the lunches in school programme which is set to begin term 1 2021.
On site we have a number of services which cater for a cluster of schools. These are: RTLB, RTLit, and Social Worker in Schools. Adult learning is also encouraged with many organisations using the school's hall and other facilities. The school campus is therefore a busy, stimulating, learning community. Our campus and beautiful facities are in and for our community, this is a genuine strength of being a rurally minded, community based organisation.
The school has a full sport and Education Outside the Classroom programme with opportunities for students who excel, as well as those who want to participate. A specialist music teacher is employed, the school choir is active and the Arts feature at assemblies and community events. Our assemblies are open to our parents, these take place each Friday from 2.30pm, we would dearly love to see you there.
The school provides a stimulating, safe learning environment for students. The contribution of parents and community is vital and always appreciated . An enthusiastic and hardworking Board of Trustees is supported by parent groups who fund and support school events and generally engage with the school, informing school policy and practice. At Miller Avenue School, the well being of our students and families are always integral to success. We invite to enrole your precious cargo at MAS - the school of choice in Hauraki.
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Some people seem to feel a deep need to announce one "bubble" after another. Here's the FT announcing another American "housing bubble". I guess as long as this practice contributes to mental health, I have no objection. Just don't let the belief in bubbles alter your behavior in any way.
BITCOIN, briefly the world's favorite cryptocurrency, is in trouble. It plummeted from a peak of around $33 per unit in June to just $2.51.
Whew! So glad I didn't buy Bitcoin at $33. Thanks Economist.
The price of Bitcoins has plunged more than 70% in the past two days, sparking a rush of activity that overwhelmed trading platforms and suggested the bubble in the virtual currency has burst. Bitcoins were down to $77.56 as of 3 p.m. ET Friday.
Prices reached as high as $266 per Bitcoin around 7:30 a.m. ET Wednesday. But the price started to fall through the rest of day and Thursday morning.
Bitcoin lost more than 60% of its value last year. The digital currency has already plunged another 30% in the first few days of 2015 — and that includes a 30% rebound on Thursday!
The price of Bitcoin (XBT) briefly fell below $200 on Wednesday, an important psychological barrier, before bouncing back. . . .
"Safely"? We can now have confidence on where Bitcoin prices will be next year? Next decade? Next century?
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Would you be indifferent between one Bitcoin and $4000 of S&P 500 ETFs, given that you couldn't sell either in five years?
One thing I've learned in interacting with many economists on Twitter, from a variety of perspectives, is that many of them think bubbles exist and think that stock market crashes cause economic slowdowns, rather than the reverse. I point to temporal precedence when it comes to Fed announcements and stock price movements, how much larger the effects of changes in NGDP on stocks are versus the reverse, and how predictable stock price movements in response to NGDP shocks are, but to no avail. It is impossible to talk an economist out of a perspective, no matter how much one applies numbers,logic, and evidence.
I hate bubble talk. Something which is only clear in retrospect is surely a deeply problematic concept. It is so often to work out what precisely is being claimed when people say "bubble!".
(1) The price of the asset will fall markedly at some undetermined time in the future.
And so on. Bubble talk does not enlighten, it obscures.
I agree that the mindset behind bubble thinking seems to lack symmetry. The opposite of a boom seems to be a downturn (or crash). But what's the opposite of a bubble? A "reverse bubble"?
Matthew, No. Bitcoin's too risky for me.
Michael, After 1987 it's hard to see how any thinking person could believe that stock market crashes cause recessions.
One of your great gifts as an economist is your grasp of the fundamentals. There are economists who've done much more celebrated research, but then regularly spew freshman-level economic fallacies. Some of them are Nobel winners. I don't see that with you.
Also, you're uniquely free of ideology, which is also no small advantage. I'm particularly struck by the market fundamentalist econonomists I follow who nonetheless believe that huge asset bubbles are building and popping all the time. They believe government creates the bubbles, but still. The disconnect is still shocking at times.
That said, I haven't been able to convince you that the 1987 market crash had market monetarist causes.
To be fair, the last bubble example ("We can safely say the ICO bubble is over now.") I think refers to companies issuing new cryptocurrencies to raise capital. It's not about bitcoin.
Michael, what are the market monetarists causes you allude to for the 1987 crash?
Maybe I found the fact that Suzuki Jimny is SUV today.
Scott. Sorry for the snarky comment, but this came to mind as an interesting example of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Where you have good insights (like on bubbles) you can easily see how superficial the Economist and FT journalists analysis is. However when they opine on matters that you have less first hand experience, such as your Brexit post a few days ago, you accept their analysis unquestionably. I have checked by the way, and really truly, families and friends are not being torn apart by the Brexit debate in the UK. People discuss it of course, but compared with the rioting going on in France (which is getting very little international press but it quite serious) the UK is pretty calm about it.
"However, the big political news came on Aug. 11, when Alan Greenspan, a New York economist, was sworn in as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, after being picked by President Reagan to succeed Paul Volcker. Shortly after the market peaked, Greenspan made a rookie mistake on Sept. 9, firing a "pre-emptive strike" against inflation fears by raising the Discount Rate 50 basis points. The Dow fell 62 points on the news. Then, the final panic began to unfold on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1987, when a tax bill was introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee. The bill would have severely limited tax deductions for interest paid on debt used to finance takeover activity, which had been running rampant.
Michael, When conservatives tell me they believe in bubbles, I like to joke that if I thought bubbles existed I'd be a socialist.
BC, OK, fair point. But I see other articles out there that are referring to prices, not quantities.
I see, and your "checking" is superior to mine, and to the Economist's and to the FT's?
Scott – without doxing myself – yes.
This is an amazing post by The Conversable Economist (who does not have a comments section on his blog).
The Phillips Curve has been prone for a long time, but this another steamroller over the carcass.
Two things are going on: The longer the recovery lasts, the more we see new adult re-entrants into the labor force. I cannot imagine a healthier turn of events. And the slight (very slight) bump up in wages is spurring investment in plants and equipment to improve productivity. Also, the jobless to job opening numbers mean little. There is a huge and waiting labor pool.
So, there is yards of slack left in the recovery. Dudes, pedal to metal.
Oddity: Trump was right to bash the Fed for tightening. The Fed got close to driving the global economy into a recession. Trump bashed the Fed, and the hysterics lost their bowels. Trump was right, though.
Note: Fed Chief Jerome Powell seems like an Intelligent, sensible guy, even if "Fedified." If we could get Trump and Powell to switch jobs….
I swore to my wife that we'd never buy a minivan or a station wagon but that an SUV was okay. Thank God they've started remarketing these minivan/wagons as SUVs so that I can finally buy a practical car while retaining my macho pride.
Ben, No, not in the ballpark, and not interesting.
Oh, come. Timothy Taylor (The Conversable Economist) is a perfectly reasonable, credentialed economist, and he thought this was an interesting idea, and devoted an entire column to it (the fact that most adults—-75%—-taking jobs are re-entrants to the labor force, not previously counted as "unemployed.").
This means there is a much larger pool of potential workers than usually imagined.
Ben, No it doesn't. Maybe they are new college grads.


"Come Rameses we are going to show Pharaoh your new baby brother, Moses." - Tuya after adopting Moses.
A mural depicting the royal family playing together (Tuya bottom right).
Tuya was the queen of Egypt and the wife of Seti. She was the mother of Rameses II and she adopted Moses after saving him from the Nile when he was a baby.
She is very loving and cares for her sons (especially Moses) and everyone. Warmhearted and broadminded she openly shows shame and embarrassment when her sons humiliate an arabic slave-girl named Tzipporah. She probably never learns that this slave-girl will become her daughter-in-law.
When Moses found out that he was a Hebrew, Tuya comforted him. After that she isn't seen anymore, leaving the viewer to assume that she may have passed away sometime between Moses fleeing Egypt and his return.
In the Jewish Bible, the Pharaoh's daughter, Bithiah adopted Moses not his wife.
In the Islamic Bible, She is Pharaoh's wife but her name is Asiya.
According to Josephus, her name was Thermuthis.
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NS Vol.6 No.4 , February 2014
The ecological context of bilateral symmetry of organ and organisms
Author(s) Danilo M. Daloso
Max-Planck-Partner Groups at the Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Vi?osa, Vi?osa, Brasil.
A particular phenotype is generated through numerous networks of interactions from within the cell to the whole ecosystem. The level of the environmental noise and the ability of a given genotype to render different phenotypes under different environmental conditions, called phenotypic plasticity, determine survival or death at individual and/or population level. It is important to highlight that non-lethal environmental changes are important for generating genetic variability and promoting biological adaptations. However, when the level of environmental noise starts to be stressed, the developmental stability (DS) of the organism can be perturbed. The DS has been analysed through the symmetry deviations in organs or organisms with bilateral structure. The symmetry deviations occur due to inability to contain disorders from environmental or endogenous conditions during its development. This deviation is called fluctuating asymmetry (FA) when is a non-directional deviation in the symmetry of a bilateral structure normally distributed in a population. Low FA has been associated with greater DS. The analysis of FA has often been used to measure the effects of environmental perturbations. In this review, I discuss the concept of plant stress and phenotypic plasticity connecting both to the generation of an asymmetry phenotype, highlighting the usefulness of FA as an indicator of the level of stress which the organism is subjected to. Further, although this review explores mainly the connection between FA and stress in plants, the ecological context of symmetry in animals and plant-insect interaction is also discussed. Finally, I provided some methodologies used to detect symmetry variations in organs or organisms with bilateral structure.
Bilateral Symmetry; Fluctuating Asymmetry; Stress; Phenotypic Plasticity; Developmental Stability
Daloso, D. (2014) The ecological context of bilateral symmetry of organ and organisms. Natural Science, 6, 184-190. doi: 10.4236/ns.2014.64022.
[1] Pastori, G.M. and Foyer, C.H. (2002) Common components, networks, and pathways of cross-tolerance to stress. The central role of "redox" and abscisic acid-mediated control. Plant Physiology, 129, 460-468.
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Libby Judge Issues Orders on Journalists and Document Disclosure
By Jeralyn, Section Lewis Libby Indictment
Posted on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 01:50:36 PM EST
The Judge issued three orders in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby case today. The first two are no big deal. One set a schedule for subpoenaing jounalists, filing objections to the subpoenas and holding a hearing in April on the objections. No further court permission must be sought before either side issues the subpoenas.
The second order denied a request by Libby that Fitz not be allowed to continue filing ex parte affidavits with the court. (Ex parte means one-sided -- only the party who files it and the judge get to see it.)
The third order indicates to me that Libby is going to lose his request for being provided with the Presidential Daily Briefings, and even the documents he will receive will be for a much shorter time period than he had requested. I have uploaded the two page order here.
Essentially, the Judge says he believes Libby's memory defense requires only a description of the subject matter of the daily briefings and documents attached to them, not the entire documents. He also says the relevant time period is not the year of briefings Libby had asked for but only three short time intervals: (1) when he spoke to Miller, Cooper and Russert, (2) when he was interviewed by FBI investigators and (3) when he testified before the grand jury.
The judge suggests that two days leeway on each side of (2) and (3) should suffice.
The Order asks Fitzgerald to advise the Court whether he can create the subject matter summaries and how much time and resources the compilation would require.
Bottom line: Libby is going to get a fraction of what he wanted, if that.
This judge is going to keep the trial to the issue of whether Libby lied, and not let him go off on a fishing expedition into who else may have leaked the information on Valerie Plame. I think Libby has boxed himself in on his memory defense. He now has a huge burden to show that he was so preoccupied with other matters on six or seven different occasions that he couldn't accurately remember what he told or was told by Miller, Cooper and Russert. It's almost like using the space cadet defense many drug defendants offer, rarely sucessfully.
Speaking of Cheney, if today's rumor that Cheney may resign a few months after the November elections is true, he may be feeling more heat from Fitzgerald than we know about. I'm not convinced Libby will let his lawyers call Cheney as a witness at trial. He's too loyal to Cheney for that. I don't see why the Government would want to call him either.
I think Fitz is getting information from cooperating witnesses inside the White House, State Department and CIA that could lead to a second round of indictments....and Cheney's in Fitzgerald's line of sight.
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Libby Judge Issues Orders on Journalists and Document Disclosure | 13 comments (13 topical)
Re: Libby Judge Issues Orders on Journalists and D (none / 0) (#1)
by TomStewart on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 02:59:26 PM EST
If I was Cheney, I'd be thinking I shot the wrong man...
by squeaky on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 03:38:07 PM EST
Sounds like a good compromise. As you cautioned against the waffling about the PDB's request by the judge in the last thread now Libby's appeal is not going to be enhanced by the judge disallowing the PDB's. By limiting them to the few days in question he calls Libby's bluff. This judge knows how to trim the fat enough to expose the paucity of meat in team Libby's defense. Again, I marvel at Fitzpatrick's foresight (experience) and ability to attain justice by limiting the charges to Perjury and Obstruction of Justice.
by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Feb 27, 2006 at 03:51:30 PM EST
I've always felt that one of the reason Rover is still un-indicted is Fitz is waiting for Libby to roll over and turn on his him and his WH pals. Lets face he is lookin at some real time here. We're not talking about a blow job, we talking National Security. If he was covering up for a BinLaden plan to burn the Capital we would realize how serious his lies were.
I'm not sure I understand Libby's defense. If he was arguing that he didn't remember Plame's connection to Wilson (or Wilson's wife's employment)UNTIL he read it in a PDB, I could see the rationale for wanting to use at least that one PDB. But I don't understand how all that classified information is necessary to establish simply that he was busy. As someone wrote (and I'm sorry that I don't remember who), Fitz could stipulate that he was busy and read a lot. I just don't understand how this issue could require the WH to hand over the family jewels.
Ed-I do not agree, as appealing your idea is. Libby and Fitzpatrick know that Bush will pardon the creep(s) just before he leaves office. Libby is not so old that he can not resurface again and needs to keep his friends. Money is no object for Libby; Comstock will see to that. The big bucks needed for defense was an issue for the lesser officials that Fitzpatrick has already squeezed.
by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 09:33:28 AM EST
Isn't Libby just trying to kill time until he can get pardoned?
by Tom Maguire on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 09:53:26 AM EST
This judge is going to keep the trial to the issue of whether Libby lied, and not let him go off on a fishing expedition into who else may have leaked the information on Valerie Plame. The test of that will come when Libby starts trying to subpoena reporters - my assumption is that the judge has to approve the subpoenas, so we will see then how much fishing is allowed. As to the PDBs, this seems like a sensible compromise - getting all the PDbs was never going to happen.
The judge will rule on any motions to quash the subpoenas, but neither party has to have the subpoenas pre-approved before they are served. That was a part of yesterday's order.
And one more thing! Since the judge is going to allow reporters to be subpoenaed, how is he going to deny Libby'sz request for access to the testimony of, for example, Russert? At a minimum, I would think that the testimony of any reporter for whom a new subpoena is not quashed would be given to Libby, just in the interests of time management.
Re: Libby Judge Issues Orders on Journalists and D (none / 0) (#10)
Ooops, Russert is a terrible example - the prosecution has already disclosed the directly relevant testimony. Well, then - *if* the judge upholds a subpoena to Pincus, won't he also order the Pincus testimony turned over?
by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 12:49:55 PM EST
Well, then - *if* the judge upholds a subpoena to Pincus, won't he also order the Pincus testimony turned over? yes, because the defense would have the right to make sure that Pincus's story remained the same. The question, of course, is whether the judge will allow Pincus to be supooenaed. Pincus's testimony has never been cited by FitzG, and as it does not appear that FitzG plans on calling Pincus as a witness. Unless Libby knows something we don't about Pincus' testimony, its likely that any attempt to supoena Pincus will be quashed by the court because of a lack of relevance.
by squeaky on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 06:32:28 PM EST
According to ThinkProgress
Scooter Libby "has hired a renowned memory-loss expert to assist him with his legal defense. Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter tells NBC News he has been retained by Libby as a consultant." Libby's lawyers have suggested that memory loss will be one of the "central themes" of Libby's defense.Â
The Hypnotist, Channeler and ESP experts will be next.
oops...here is the ThinkProgress link


Throughout time the human race has understood that was outlast most everything is stone and so has used stone to create beautiful structures, as well as messages for future generations.
These photographs are a testament to that.
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beautiful earth stones, the canvas of all for all time - thank you so much for allowing us on this journey into the rock world and beyond!
Bellas imagenes para un buen reportaje de esta zona del mundo tan impresionante.
Bonitas imagenes,alguna de ellas llenas de curiosidad para nosotros.
I love the whole series.Being who I am, I would have loved to know in which conditions the fourth picture was taken. It seems to me that the horse and the woman are slightly deformed. I'm not saying that the picture is not good as it is. Out of sheer curiosity though, I would have loved to know, and Picasa has this trick of stripping a picture of all metadata.
I like the lighting.It makes this photos dream like. Nice photos.
thank you Elizabeth for to share these works .
Wonderful pictures. Around Guizhou has to be a very interesting region, a place to visit!
Amazing photos. The subject matter is extremely interesting. The lighting and colors are dreamy.


Find pumpkin patches near Burlington, Montpelier, Middlebury and Rutland on our list of Vermont pumpkin patches. Enjoy a day on the farm with your friends and family, take a hayride out to the pumpkin patch, and pick out the perfect pumpkin to carve up. Indulge in the rest of the fall fun offered by your local farmer and end the day with a photograph to remember it forever.
The pumpkin patch at Snug Valley Farm has thousands of pumpkins. The address is Snug Valley Farm, 824 Pumpkin Lane, East Hardwick, VT 05836. The farm is 63 miles east of Burlington.
A 40 acre certified organic farm along the Connecticut River only 10 minutes north from Hanover, Vermont that also offers a pick your own pumpkin patch. They offer educational guided farm tours, events and classes as well. One of their popular draws is the Hello Café which is open daily. The farm is located at 225 Pavillion Road, East Thetford, VT 05043.
A family owned nursery, garden center and landscape company in Mount Equinox valley since 1979. Walk through the pumpkin patch to find your pumpkin, take a wagon ride to fall foliage, and try some cider doughnuts! Also enjoy their pumpkin carving festival (normally just after Columbus Day weekend), corn maze, pumpkin ice cream and apple cider. The location is Route 7A, Manchester, Vermont. They are 35 miles south of Rutland.
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Q: Access data of fusion table in Google drive under service account When i am trying to insert permission to fusion table in my service with group it works fine but i am not to access the same table in my map application where i am using fusion layer API
insertPermission(drive, tableid, "XXXXXXXXX@developer.gserviceaccount.com","group", "writer");

But when i try same piece of code to insert permission with anyone i get response back with 500 (internal server error )
insertPermission(drive, tableid, "XXXXXXXXX@developer.gserviceaccount.com","anyone", "writer");

I prime aim is to use the data in the fusion table in my service account in my Map application .

A: You cannot have write permission with anyone to access .I tried with
insertPermission(drive, tableid, "XXXXXXXXX@developer.gserviceaccount.com","anyone", "reader");
and it worked fine with me and i was able to populate that in the map as well.

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