Katie Baker, Ben Bear, Laura Dell and Anne Wessell arrived here as strangers last October, from their homes in Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Virginia, to work on various BVS service projects around the city. In addition to their BVS projects, they've had to work at becoming a community, learning to live together. As our dinner-time conversation revealed, it's had its challenges, but they seem to have found ways of supporting and affirming one another, respecting each person's preferences about food, bathroom use, house-cleaning, work and sleep schedules, and all of the other daily decisions that enter into any living quarters occupied by more than one person.
They welcomed me on Friday evening with a delicious dinner, courtesy of Ben, the designated cook for the evening. Over dinner, they told me a little about their respective BVS projects.
Katie Baker, from Littlestown, Pennsylvania, is creating a mentoring program for women transitioning from prison to community through Talbert House . Talbert House is a community-wide network of social service agencies that collaborate to offer programs to help individuals to "overcome adversity to become healthy and productive citizens through its programs in community corrections, mental health, substance abuse and welfare-to-work." Talbert House started with a halfway house in 1965 to integrate ex-offenders back into the community and has grown to offer over 30 evidence-based programs in more than 20 different locations in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area that assist nearly 24,000 men, women and children every year. Though this assignment definitely wasn't what she thought she wanted back when she was in BVS orientation, Katie said she loves the work and loves the women she works with. She's clearly pouring her heart into this work.
Laura Dell, who hails from Beatrice, Nebraska, works with children in the local neighborhood as well as at the Cincinnati Church of the Brethren. Her big project is creating a children's community garden on an abandoned and derelict lot in a tough neighborhood. Laura's passion for living and growing things, and her extensive knowledge about vegetables, flowers and gardening is evident in her organized approach to this major project. She's taken urban gardening classes through the Civic Garden Center, applied for grant funding to support the garden project, met with city officials to secure agreements to use the abandoned lot she located for the garden, organized work days to clear trash, weeds, even old mattresses and appliances from the lot, and worked with children from the neighborhood to start a variety of vegetables and flowers from seed that they'll soon be able to plant in the garden. In her "spare" time, Laura also works with Lighthouse Youth Services and Easter Seals' Building Abilities programs.
Anne Wessell, from Hershey, Pennsylvania, handles communications and public relations for the Cincinnati Church of the Brethren and she also works with the children in the congregation and children from the local neighborhood. From Sunday school lessons to weekly conversations with kids over a free breakfast provided by church members to programs she's created to offer affirmation and positive opportunities for the kids, Anne brings a big heart and a genuine desire to make a difference to her work. She also serves at Mercy Neighborhood Ministries and Interfaith Justice and Peace Center.
Ben Bear, from Nokesville, Virginia, works for Interfaith Hospitality Network , an ecumenical organization where volunteers from the faith community and full-time professionals help families experiencing homelessness to reintegrate back into the community. Host churches supply meals, sleeping space and friendship and support to families, while professional case managers work with families on finding permanent housing. They also run a "Day Center" where family members have access to phones, computers, laundry and shower facilities, a kitchen, children's programs and adult ed classes. Ben brings his previous BVS experience, his sense of humor, and his resourcefulness (he's an avid Craigs-list and garage sale scout) to both his BVS assignment and his role within the house. Just during the weekend while I was there, Ben procured garden tools for Laura's garden project and a bicycle that all of them can share to get around the city.
•	How do I help kids who come from homes where their mothers curse at them, kids who, as young as age ten, roam rough city streets with no supervision, kids whose family is about to be evicted and who have no idea where they're going to live next?
•	After investing so much of myself, my energy and my passion into creating a children's community garden here in the city, how will I be able to leave it behind when my BVS year is over? What if there isn't anyone to take care of it and keep it going after I leave?
•	I care so much about these women I'm trying to help as they transition from prison back into the community – but sometimes it's all too much – too overwhelming, too many problems. I want to help them as much as I can – but where do I draw the boundaries? How do I keep myself from burning out?
•	Where is "home"? Just as I'm getting truly settled into a BVS assignment and location, feeling like it takes on some of the qualities of "home", the assignment will be ending and it will be time to move. Do I re-up for this BVS project? Take another one? Or venture out into the non-college, non-BVS world? And if so, doing what?
On Saturday, I spoke at the Peace Churches of Greater Cincinnati quarterly Peace Brunch. Seven congregations have joined together to "promote joint Christian ministry and urban, multicultural, youth outreach through unity, peace and reconciliation.." Member congregations include: Cincinnati Church of the Brethren, Mennonite Fellowship, and Friends Meeting (Quaker), Community Friends Meeting, Eastern Hills Friends Meeting, First Unitarian Church and St John's Unitarian Universalist Church.
Many of the folks who attended are also involved in the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) – a "coalition of faith-based organizations and individuals who work together to address concerns focusing on economic justice, women's issues, human rights, racial equality, peace and the environment." These are clearly folks who are doing more than just sitting around and talking about peace and justice. They're out there DOING THINGS.
St John's UU hosted the event. One of their members explained that our discussion of restorative justice was especially poignant and difficult for their group, as 13 year-old Esme Kinney from their congregation was murdered last spring and that tragedy has tested people's notions about justice. We talked about the difficulties of reconciling one's "hypothetical" views on crime and punishment, restorative justice, and the death penalty with personal tragedy and how opinions can change drastically when it all hits so close to home.
Pastor Ben Walters at the Cincinnati Church of the Brethren shared some further thoughts on this tragedy after the worship service there on Sunday morning where I offered a sermon on restorative justice and forgiveness.
The neighborhood where the Cincinnati COB intentionally chose to relocate a few years ago is no stranger to crime and tragedy. Drug deals, prostitution, and violence are ever-present, on every street corner and in the buildings that surround the tiny church perched on a narrow corner lot.
So, why would a group of largely middle-class suburbanites relocate from their safe and comfortable quarters outside of the city to the heart of Cincinnati?
In 2008, our congregation moved from a comfortable suburban location north of the I-275 Beltway to seek the peace of the city. In our vibrant, diverse new neighborhood of Walnut Hills we have many more questions than answers about violence, racism, income and education disparities. Yet we want to be in the dance, rather than casually observing from the periphery. Where others before us have fled and abandoned the city and its people, we seek to engage it. We come to serve and to learn and to honor all of our diverse brothers and sisters.
Our vision of ministry in an urban setting is not simply another service ministry to the impoverished. While there is a need for this work, it is only one small aspect of a thriving urban ministry. For us, ministry is about connections—connections with others and connections with God. How do we connect with the highly educated professionals that have given up on the church and organized religion? How do we connect with the young mother and her four children who have just been evicted? How do we connect with over-stressed, over-scheduled families who value their faith but can't squeeze in another obligation? Our ministry cries out for deep theological discussions and exploration, powerful worship experiences, a sense of community, and an ethic of care and compassion. It cries out for ministry that is vibrant and dynamic, that gives life to those inside and outside its walls. It cries out for the church to truly be a city on a hill.
POSTSCRIPT: The speaking engagements in Cincinnati this weekend were the last official "gigs" of this cross-country trek. I'm off to Kentucky now, to visit my mother and stepfather, then will head back home. Stay tuned for further thoughts, reflections, ponderings and wonderings as I try to process all that's happened over the past 10 weeks. Though this is the end of the official "Grace Tour", it definitely is NOT the end of this journey, nor the end of this blog. Thanks, as always, for reading and for sharing your thoughts and perspectives on all that I've posted while I've been on the road. Can't wait to get back home!


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Successes in 2021 for Work Wallet
As the year draws to a close, we are taking a little bit of time to reflect on a year of successes for Work Wallet.
2021 has been a challenging year for everyone, personally and professionally, throughout the UK and around the world. It has been no different for Work Wallet, but we are proud to have risen to the challenge. We are able to look back on a year of improvements and successes in 2021. Here are some of our highlights.
Advanced safety solutions
In a global pandemic, people have been remote from their workplaces and minimising physical contact wherever possible. Therefore embracing digital technology and transition has never been more important.
Our Chief Executive, Jonny Gray, discussed this theme during a well-received presentation to industry peers. He gave this at the Safety in Construction trade exhibition in Loughborough in October. This was the team's first physical outing in a long time!
We have always been proud of our app technology. Our digital, mobile-first approach to helps people to connect their people, places and processes. Together we pursue better workplace safety.
We are always improving our offer and service for our clients. We put significant development resource into new modules and enhancements to our existing features this year, including:
NEW: Permit to Work
Enabling users to get an instant, real-time view and updates of site permits. See at a glance which permits are currently open, with helpful alerts and reminders of upcoming or expired documents.
NEW: Site Diary
Easily see all your health and safety site activity recorded in one place, from inducted contractors, expiring permits, and completed audits. It includes additional elements such as weather forecasts accurate to the hour. Automatic feeds from all other connected modules means you keep an accurate diary of your events.
NEW: Site Gateway
This digital self-service tool onboards visitors and contractors before they arrive on site. Consequently, it boosts productivity by shifting face-to-face compliance processes online – including Inductions, Briefings and issuing Permits to Work. It frees up your valuable time for other site management essentials.
ENHANCED: Risk Assessments
Our most popular module now includes flexible formatting bespoke method questions, and flexible templates. Tailored question can now be included, to better reflect the needs of your business. Question responses auto-populate RA page content at the start (prefix) or end (suffix) of the document.
ENHANCED: Audits & Inspections
Users now have greater choice of configurability and question scoring options in their audits and inspections. The data collected better reflects users' specific needs if required. This includes: percentage grading and scoring; base scoring and quality scoring; custom bandings for score results; and our new 'tag a checklist' option which helps to manage audits and inspections more easily.
Award-win successes in 2021
We were thrilled that our hard work in 2021 has seen us win not one but two awards this year:
Best Construction Health and Safety Management Software – BUILD Construction and Engineering Awards 2021
Best Digital Transformation – DerbyshireLive Business Awards 2021
Industry peers have therefore recognised Work Wallet for providing excellent products and service, and maintaining high standards, and supporting industry in overcoming the challenges it faces.
New clients, and new partnerships
Work Wallet has steadily taken on clients throughout the year, as more and more businesses embrace the need for digital services and have selected our best-in-class products to do so.
Health and safety is an important consideration for everyone. Consequently, this is reflected in the breadth of new clients we have had the pleasure of onboarding in 2021. They come from a range of sectors and industries, from small community organisations and charities to large corporates.
We were very pleased to kick the year off by providing our market-leading products to support Derbyshire Blood Bikes. The local charity provides an urgent medical courier service to the NHS in Derbyshire, its riders traveling thousands of miles across the East Midlands delivering blood to hospitals and critical medicines to patients at home.
In September, we also officially launched a partnership with SMAS Worksafe – one of the largest SSIP safety schemes in the UK. Consequently, over 25,000 SMAS members now get a free subscription to Work Wallet's Essentials modules: Audits and Inspections, Incident and Accident Reporting, Job Management, and Safety Briefings.
Expanding our team
Our last highlight but by no means the least, shows that our commitment to maintaining and improving our service for clients goes well beyond our tech.
No business succeeds without great people working for it. Therefore, that's why we've invested in our employees, expanding our Client Support team, our Development capabilities, and our Marketing and Communications function.
There was unprecedented pressure on the UK workforce this year, but we are pleased to have bucked the trend and taken on more staff, adding to our successes in 2021.
In the true spirit of a digital-first business, we have embraced home working and been able to take people on from all over the country as a result – though we remain committed to sourcing our suppliers and contractors from our local area in Derby, UK. We also maintain links with the University, giving students vital work experience and post-qualification employment opportunities.
Our successes in 2021 give us a great foundation to from which to work and drive further improvements in the coming year.
We will straightaway be kicking the new year off with further tech improvements to some of our existing modules, so keep an eye out for more information on that soon!
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"We clearly still have a digital divide," said Sunne McPeak, president and chief executive of the California Emerging Technology Fund.
"The big takeaway from this report is the many disparities that exist for broadband access," said Mark DiCamillo, director of The Field Poll.
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a proposal to update lifeline rates for communications services — much like low-cost lifeline services for conventional wired telephones — to include broadband services.
"The problem with access only through a smartphone is there are all sorts things you can't do, including productivity tasks, or kids doing school work," Bajarin said.
"The most encouraging part of the survey is to see the increase in broadband adoption in all of our targeted demographics and our targeted regions," McPeak said.
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Must a Defendant Prove Innocence of Uncharged Crime to Reverse Wrongful Conviction? (7/26/13)
In United States v. Caso, ___ F.3d ___, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 14624 (D.C. Cir. 2013), here, the Court dramatically opens its opinion as follows:
Russell James Caso, Jr. is innocent of the crime for which he was charged and convicted. The government does not dispute the point. Nonetheless, Caso was denied an opportunity to collaterally attack his conviction and sentence because he could not demonstrate that he is also innocent of a separate and uncharged offense that has a lower sentencing range under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Because Caso was not required to make such a showing, we reverse the order denying his motion to vacate his conviction and sentence.
Now, that got my attention and perhaps yours as well. What is the concept that a defendant wrongfully convicted of one crime must prove -- "demonstrate" -- that he is innocent of another uncharged crime in order to secure reversal of the conviction of the crime for which he is innocent?
The defendant previously served on a Congressman's staff. He was compromised by a nonprofit consulting firm's engagement of his wife to perform editing services. She appeared to do de minimis work and was paid $19,000 which did not appear commensurate with the work performed. The defendant did not include the payment on the disclosure form he was required to file as a congressional staff person. The defendant was charged with "conspiracy to commit honest-services wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1343, and 1346." The defendant pled to that charge. The defendant was sentenced to three years probation and 170 days home confinement. The defendant apparently did not appeal, perhaps because his plea agreement waived appeal.
Shortly after Caso was sentenced, the Supreme Court handed down Skilling v. United States, 130 S. Ct. 2896 (2010), a decision that substantially limited the permissible reach of 18 U.S.C. § 1346, the honest-services fraud statute. Prior to Skilling, the government had used that statute to prosecute public officials who failed to disclose conflicts of interest, on the theory that such nondisclosure constituted a "scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services," 18 U.S.C. § 1346. See Skilling, 130 S. Ct. at 2932-33. In Skilling, however, the Court interpreted § 1346 more narrowly. In an effort to avoid a "vagueness shoal," id. at 2907, the Court held that § 1346 "proscribe[s] bribes and kickbacks -- and nothing more." Id. at 2932.
The Skilling opinion is here.
In response to the Skilling holding, the defendant brought a 28 USC 2255 proceeding "to vacate and set aside his conviction and sentence on the ground that 'the conduct to which he admitted in the statement of the offense -- which did not stipulate [his] receipt of a bribe or a kickback -- does not constitute an offense under § 1346 following Skilling.'" The district court denied the defendant relief. The district court held that, since the grounds for relief had not been raised in the first proceeding, the defendant "had presumptively defaulted his claim for collateral relief." That presumption is not conclusive, so the district court looked to Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (1998) for the conditions in which the presumption could be overcome. The district court concluded that Bousley required "the defendant [to] first demonstrate" one of two conditions: (i) 'cause' for the default and 'actual prejudice' resulting therefrom, or (ii) that the defendant is 'actually innocent.'" The defendant relied only on the second condition -- that he is actually innocent. So, what does actually innocent mean? The district court said this required two showings: (i) it is more likely than not that, in light of all the evidence, no reasonable juror would have convicted him; and (ii) "In cases where the Government has forgone more serious charges in the course of plea bargaining, petitioner's showing of actual innocence must also extend to those charges." Skilling established that the defendant met the first condition. As to the second condition, the district court found that, in the plea agreement, the Government had forgone an 18 USC 1001 (false statements) charge; that that false statement charge was equally serious charge to the count of conviction, and that the admissions in defendant's plea agreement established that he could not show his innocence of that charge.
On appeal, defendant raised three arguments. The Court of Appeals discusses the three arguments, but finally decides only one because that was sufficient to give the defendant the relief he sought. All of the arguments are interesting, so I summarize the Court's discussion of all of them.
First, the defendant argued that the other more serious charge to under Bousley must be a charged offense that is formally dropped after plea. The Court ultimately found that the relevant language of Bousley was ambiguous on that subject, so it did not decide the issue. But, in its discussion, the Court noted that "There is nothing strained about concluding that a prosecutor can forgo 'charges' either by dropping them after an indictment or by never bringing them at all. Notably, Bousley referenced charges forgone by the prosecution 'in the course of plea bargaining,' id., a process that may either follow or precede the issuance of an indictment (or information)." This suggests that the Court, on a clean slate, might have rejected this argument.
Second, the defendant argued that the uncharged offense, false statements, is not more serious than the honest services charge of conviction. The issue is how you measure seriousness and whether, when the Supreme Court said "more serious" it really meant "equally or more serious." In Caso, both charges were 5-year charges. If the maximum incarceration is the measure of "more serious," then the uncharged false statement crime is not more serious; it is at best equally serious. Bousley's language requires more serious. Despite Bousley's language, the Court of Appeals decided Bousley generated ambiguity on this issue. A close reading of Bousley's application of the rule suggested that perhaps equally serious might suffice. Nevertheless the Court of Appeals decided to forgo resolving this issue, because it ruled for the defendant on the third issue.
Third, in testing whether the foregone charge is equally or more serious, the Court rejected a simplistic application of the maximum sentence provided in the statute. The dynamics of the plea bargaining process is not determinative of the equal or more serious issue. Rather, it is the Sentencing Guidelines that would have applied that determines that issue. Under the Guidelines, the defendant's sentencing range for the uncharged false statement offense would have been less than for the wrongfully convicted offense. Here is the Court's reasoning (some footnotes omitted), which I think is helpful, particularly to students, for its discussion of the plea bargaining process and the Sentencing Guidelines:
Bousley did not tell us which measure of seriousness to employ in determining which offenses are "more serious." Nor did it explain the rationale for requiring habeas petitioners to demonstrate their innocence of "more serious" offenses. Although intuiting the Court's unexpressed rationale is a tricky business, we must attempt to do so because determining which measure of seriousness most closely satisfies that rationale is the best way to decide which measure to apply.
1. The parties appear to believe that the rationale for the "more serious offense" requirement rests on the dynamics of plea bargaining -- i.e., that it represents an effort to recreate the bargaining outcome that the parties would have reached absent the invalid charge. It is not clear, however, how the "more serious" requirement meshes with those dynamics. The government suggests that, in a case in which it has forgone a more serious charge, a showing of innocence regarding that charge is required because it would have demanded a plea to the more serious charge had it known the charge of conviction was invalid. That may well be true. But surely the government would have made the same demand if the only other charge had been a less serious one, and yet the Bousley rule does not encompass such a charge. Moreover, even if the government had demanded a plea to the more serious charge, it is by no means clear that the defendant would have acceded to that demand. It is possible that he would have agreed to plead rather than go to trial, in the hope of receiving leniency from the court. But it is also possible that he would have chosen to take his chances at trial rather than plead to a more serious charge carrying the risk of a higher sentence. n4 In short, the dynamics of plea bargaining are complicated -- even more complicated if we factor in offenses of equal severity -- and it is not at all clear that the "more serious" rule goes very far toward recreating the bargaining outcome the parties would likely have reached had they known the charge of conviction would be invalidated. n5
n4 There is similar uncertainty regarding the scenario in which the remaining charge carries a lower sentence. It is possible that a defendant who agreed to plead to a more serious charge would have pled to a less serious charge if he had known that the offense of conviction was invalid. But it is also possible that, with his exposure limited to a lower sentence, the defendant would have preferred to take his chances at trial.
n5 See generally Stephanos Bibas, Plea Bargaining Outside the Shadow of Trial, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 2463, 2464-67 (2004) (noting that a host of structural distortions, including imperfect heuristics, psychological biases, lawyering problems, information deficits, and risk preferences all affect plea bargaining decisions).
Another, possibly more plausible, rationale relates to the equities of plea bargaining rather than to its dynamics. The Court may have regarded it as fair that, if the uncharged offense is more serious than the offense of conviction, the lesser penalty for the latter should stand unless the defendant can show that he is innocent of both offenses. This ensures, the Seventh Circuit has said, that the defendant does not receive an unjustified "windfall." Lewis, 329 F.3d at 936.6 But if the only uncharged offense is less serious than the offense of conviction, it would plainly be unfair to force the defendant to suffer the greater penalty associated with a crime of which he can demonstrate his innocence. Whether or not the defendant is guilty of the less serious uncharged offense, there is no justification for making him bear a greater penalty for a crime that he did not commit. To put the point more sharply: we should not require a person to spend 30 years in prison on an erroneous murder conviction because he was guilty of an uncharged theft offense that would carry a sentence of one year.
2. In the end, it does not matter whether the rationale for the Bousley rule is rooted in the dynamics of the plea bargaining process or in its equities (or in both). Either rationale leads to the conclusion that the appropriate measure of the seriousness of an offense must be derived from the Sentencing Guidelines rather than the statutory maximum penalty.
There is no doubt that, in deciding whether to plead and what to plead to, defendants rely primarily on their expected Guidelines exposure rather than on the statutory maximum for the offense. See generally Peugh v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2072, 2085 (2013) (plurality opinion) (explaining that a defendant who is contemplating a plea "will be aware that the [Guidelines] range is intended to, and usually does, exert controlling influence on the sentence that the court will impose."). n7 The United States Attorneys' Manual makes clear that the government makes the same calculation in deciding the charges upon which it will insist. See U.S. Attorneys' Manual § 9-27.300(A) (instructing United States Attorneys to charge "the most serious offense that is consistent with the nature of the defendant's conduct," and explaining that "[t]he 'most serious' offense is generally that which yields the highest range under the sentencing guidelines").
n7 Indeed, our cases have made clear that a defense counsel's conduct may be constitutionally deficient if counsel fails to advise his client of the correct Guidelines range he would face upon taking a plea. See United States v. Hanson, 339 F.3d 983, 990 (D.C. Cir. 2003); United States v. Booze, 293 F.3d 516, 518 (D.C. Cir. 2002); United States v. McCoy, 215 F.3d 102, 108 (D.C. Cir. 2000); United States v. Gaviria, 116 F.3d 1498, 1512 (D.C. Cir. 1997); cf. U.S.S.G. § 6B1.2 cmt. ("The Commission encourages the prosecuting attorney prior to the entry of a plea of guilty . . . to disclose to the defendant the facts and circumstances . . . that are relevant to the application of the sentencing guidelines.").
This reliance on the Guidelines is plainly logical. Although the government correctly notes that the Guidelines are no longer binding on district courts, see United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the Supreme Court reminded us just this Term that they nonetheless remain the "lodestone of sentencing." Peugh, 131 S. Ct. at 2084 (majority opinion). "Even after Booker . . ., district courts have in the vast majority of cases imposed either within-Guidelines sentences or sentences that depart downward from the Guidelines on the Government's motion. In less than one-fifth of cases since 2007 have district courts imposed above-or below-Guidelines sentences absent a Government motion." Id. Nor is this mere happenstance. Guidelines calculations are still "the starting point and the initial benchmark" for every sentencing decision, and "district courts must begin their analysis with the Guidelines and remain cognizant of them throughout the sentencing process." Id. at 2080, 2083 (quoting Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 49, 50 n.6); see United States v. Turner, 548 F.3d 1094, 1099-1100 (D.C. Cir. 2008).8 "These requirements mean that '[i]n the usual sentencing, . . . the judge will use the Guidelines range as the starting point in the analysis and impose a sentence within the range.'" Peugh, 131 S. Ct. at 2083 (quoting Freeman v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2685, 2692 (2011)). Accordingly, in deciding what charge to demand or to accept, the parties must necessarily look to the Guidelines.
Looking to the statutory maxima, by contrast, would provide the parties with little useful information. The statutory ranges are far broader than the Guidelines ranges. Compare 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (authorizing a sentence between 0 and 5 years absent special circumstances), with U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1 (generating Guidelines ranges as narrow as six months). And courts rarely sentence defendants to the statutory maxima. See U.S. Sentencing Comm'n, SPSS Datafile for Fiscal Year 2012, available at http://www.ussc.gov/Research_and_Statistics/Datafiles/index.cfm (data set indicating that approximately 1% of offenders sentenced in fiscal year 2012 received the applicable statutory maximum).
As we discuss below, Caso's Sentencing Guidelines range for both the § 1001 and the § 371 offense are well below the statutory maximum for each offense. Hence, if the rationale of the Bousley rule is to recreate the bargaining outcome that the parties would likely have reached absent an invalid charge, we must appraise any forgone charges just as the parties would have -- by reference to the Guidelines.
An equity rationale likewise requires resort to the Guidelines. On that rationale, a defendant should not be absolved of his conviction and sentence if he cannot show he is innocent of an uncharged crime that carries an even longer sentence. At the same time, a defendant should not be required to serve a longer sentence associated with a crime he did not commit, just because he cannot demonstrate his innocence of another crime that would have yielded a shorter sentence. Once again, knowing the statutory maxima is largely irrelevant to this analysis. The operative question is how severe a sentence the forgone charge would likely have yielded. Only the Guidelines can generate a reasonable answer to that question.
The sole argument the government makes for using statutory maxima as the measure of seriousness for Bousley purposes is that the maxima reflect Congress' judgment regarding the relative seriousness of offenses. It is not even clear that this is correct as a matter of congressional understanding, as it was Congress that authorized the Sentencing Guidelines and mandated that district courts consider them in imposing sentences. See 28 U.S.C. § 994; 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(4). But even if the statutory maxima do suggest Congress' view of the relative seriousness of offenses, a focus on Congress' perception responds to neither of the possible rationales for the Bousley rule: it is irrelevant both to the dynamics of plea bargaining and to its equities. And the government proffers no reason why the Bousley Court would have wanted congressional perceptions to govern a defendant's right to have his habeas claim heard if he was convicted of a crime of which he is actually innocent.
In sum, we conclude that the appropriate measure of the relative seriousness of offenses for purposes of the Bousley rule must be derived from the Sentencing Guidelines rather than the statutory maxima. Accord United States v. Halter, 217 F.3d 551, 553 (8th Cir. 2000); United States v. Lloyd, 188 F.3d 184, 189 n.13 (3d Cir. 1999).
After concluding the the Sentencing Guidelines were the appropriate metric, the Court of Appeals then did the Sentencing Guideline calculations and determined that the uncharged false statement crime was not the more serious crime. Defendant wins!
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Cheerful evening greetings, my wonderful dears, how are you each doing? You've all been in my thoughts a lot lately, for your see I haven't been feeling well due to harsh flare-ups with some of my conditions, which have resulted in less time spent on the computer (and thus less time with you).
There are soooo many posts that I want to write and have had ideas for CV popping up in my mind faster than a garden of new spring flowers lately, yet right now I'm just grateful to be able to bring you some of the regular Chronically Vintage posts (Vintage Friday Fashionista, Saturday Snapshots, etc). I'm keeping notes on these new ideas and will strive to bring many (or all!) of them to you down the road, when I can.
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Jaw Dropping New Dinosaur Skull Discovery Reveals Evolution of Bizarre Crest
TOPICS:Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceDinosaursEvolutionPaleontologyPopular
By Denver Museum of Nature & Science January 25, 2021
Life reconstruction of the head of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus based on newly discovered remains. Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin
The first new skull of a rare species of the dinosaur Parasaurolophus (recognized by the large hollow tube that grows on its head) discovered in 97 years.
Exquisite preservation of the new skull gives paleontologists their first opportunity to definitively identify how such a bizarre structure grew on this dinosaur.
For the first time, this study found characteristics to link tube-crested dinosaur species found in southern North America (New Mexico, Utah), distinct from the only northern species (Alberta).
The locality, in northwestern New Mexico, is dated to about 75 million years ago, a time when North America was divided by a shallow sea and teemed with duckbilled dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs and early tyrannosaurs.
Fossils from the region are part of the natural heritage of the Diné (Navajo Nation) and Puebloan peoples. The new Parasaurolophus fossil, from Bureau of Land Management Wilderness lands in northwestern New Mexico, underscores the importance of protecting public lands as natural laboratories and repositories for scientific discoveries.
Life reconstruction of Parasaurolophus group being confronted by a tyrannosaurid in the subtropical forests of New Mexico 75 million years ago. Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The first new skull discovered in nearly a century from a rare species of the iconic, tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was announced today in the journal PeerJ. The exquisite preservation of the skull, especially the bizarre tube-shaped nasal passage, finally revealed the structure of the crest after decades of disagreement.
Despite its extreme morphology, details of the specimen show that the crest is formed much like the crests of other, related duckbilled dinosaurs. Joe Sertich, curator of dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the leader of the team who discovered the specimen said, "This specimen is a wonderful example of amazing creatures evolving from a single ancestor."
"Imagine your nose growing up your face, three feet behind your head, then turning around to attach above your eyes. Parasaurolophus breathed through eight feet of pipe before oxygen ever reached its head," said Terry Gates, a paleontologist from North Carolina State University.
"Over the past 100 years, ideas for the purpose of the exaggerated tube crest have ranged from snorkels to super sniffers," noted David Evans, the Temerty Chair in Vertebrate Palaeontology and Vice President of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum. "But after decades of study, we now think these crests functioned primarily as sound resonators and visual displays used to communicate within their own species."
New skull of Parasaurolophus as originally exposed in the badlands of New Mexico. Credit: Copyright Doug Shore, Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Usage restrictions: This image may be used by news organizations in reports describing the research of research of Gates, Evans, and Sertich on Parasaurolophus. Credit: Copyright Doug Shore, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Among the most recognizable dinosaurs, the duckbilled Parasaurolophus sported an elongate, tube-like crest on its head containing an internal network of airways. Three species of Parasaurolophus are currently recognized, ranging from Alberta to New Mexico in rocks dating between 77 and 73.5 million years old. The new skull belongs to Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, previously known from a single specimen collected in the same region of New Mexico in 1923 by legendary fossil hunter Charles H. Sternberg. Both specimens display a shorter, more curved crest than other species, a feature that may be related to their immaturity at death.
The partial skull was discovered in 2017 by Smithsonian Ecology Fellow Erin Spear, Ph.D., while exploring the badlands of northwestern New Mexico as part of a Denver Museum of Nature & Science team. Located deep in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness of New Mexico, only a tiny portion of the skull was visible on a steep sandstone slope. Museum volunteers led by Sertich were surprised to find the intact crest as they carefully chiseled the specimen from the sandstone. Abundant bone fragments at the site indicated that much of the skeleton may have once been preserved on an ancient sand bar, but only the partial skull, part of the lower jaw, and a handful of ribs survived erosion.
Today, the badlands of northwestern New Mexico are dry and sparsely vegetated, a dramatic contrast to the lush lowland floodplains preserved in their rocks. 75 million years ago, when Parasaurolophus lived in the region, North America was divided into two landmasses by a broad seaway. Laramidia, the ribbon of land to the west, extended from today's Alaska to central Mexico, hosting multiple episodes of mountain building in early stages of the construction of today's Rocky Mountains. These mountain-building events helped preserve diverse ecosystems of dinosaurs along their eastern flanks, some of the best-preserved and most continuous anywhere on Earth. Parasaurolophus shared lush, subtropical floodplains with other, crestless duckbilled dinosaurs, a diverse array of horned dinosaurs, and early tyrannosaurs alongside many emerging, modern groups of alligators, turtles and plants.
"The preservation of this new skull is spectacular, finally revealing in detail the bones that make up the crest of this amazing dinosaur known by nearly every dinosaur-obsessed kid," said Sertich. "This just reinforces the importance of protecting our public lands for scientific discoveries."
"My jaw dropped when I first saw the fossil," said Gates. He continued, "I've been waiting for nearly 20 years to see a specimen of this quality."
"This specimen is truly remarkable in its preservation," said Evans, who has also worked on this iconic dinosaur for almost two decades. "It has answered long-standing questions about how the crest is constructed and about the validity of this particular species. For me, this fossil is very exciting."
For decades, the family tree of Parasaurolophus placed the two long, straight-crested species of Parasaurolophus (P. walkeri from Alberta and P. tubicen from younger rocks in New Mexico) as most closely related despite being separated by more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) and 2.5 million years. Analysis of additional features of the skull excluding the crest, together with information from other Parasaurolophus discoveries from southern Utah, suggest for the first time that all of the southern species from New Mexico and Utah may be more closely related than they are to their northern cousin. This fits patterns observed in other dinosaur groups of the same age, including horned dinosaurs.
Reference: "Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus on the basis of new cranial remains" by Terry A. Gates, David C. Evans and Joseph J.W. Sertich, 25 January 2021, PeerJ.
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10669
The research was funded by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science through generous donations to the Laramidia Project. The paper describing the new skull of Parasaurolophus appears in the January 25, 2021, release of the journal PeerJ.
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3 Comments on "Jaw Dropping New Dinosaur Skull Discovery Reveals Evolution of Bizarre Crest"
William Adama | January 25, 2021 at 11:59 pm | Reply
The headline predicted, to the letter, my response to this article: my jaw did, indeed, drop.
Now I have to work out how to pick it up.
Ryan Reynolds | January 28, 2021 at 10:19 am | Reply
My jaw dropped when I saw the picture of the Parasaurolophus because I have seen that dinosaur before
Madisol | January 31, 2021 at 12:54 pm | Reply
I was so amazed by what I was reading I went and told my daughter's and they started reading the article themselves. They both were so exited and they talk about what they had just read and they turned to me and said, (That's cooly mom we live N.E ,New Mexico.
We look for interesting artifacts and anything that is unusual .We have a great interest in old artifacts in our home town of Sandia Park,New Mexico
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Q: JTextBox always has newline I'm building a chat program. The user has the option to press a JButton SEND or just press ENTER on the keyboard to send the message. This is my code.
private void chatTextAreaKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {

        if(evt.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {

            this.sendButtonActionPerformed(null);
            this.chatTextArea.setText(null); // Clear JTextBox
        }
    }

The problem with this, is that after pressing ENTER, it sets the JTextBox with a empty new line. So that whatever I type next will always be on the second line instead of starting with an empty text box.
Anyone has any ideas? Much appreciated.

A: You need to consume the event with evt.consume() to ensure it isn't processed by the text field itself.
This indicates that all processing of the event has finished and no other listeners should act upon the event.

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The Husband and I had an interesting "conversation" this morning during breakfast, though I say "conversation" in quotes because our exchange lasted approximately 30 seconds and was about as deep as a baby pool.
— How often do you feel guilt? I asked him.
— About once a week. Why? How often do you feel guilt?
— Maybe four times a day?
Setting aside any thoughts you might be having about how this mostly indicates my need for medication, guilt might be one of the differences between — I was going to say a man and a woman, but that's not specific enough — a mom and a dad.
I feel slightly (not very but just a little) guilty that instead of going to Related Arts Curriculum Night at Elder Girleen's school next week, making dinner for the mother of one of Elder Girleen's classmates who just had a baby, attending a School Work Day, answering Michelle Obama's personal email message to me to man the phone banks, visiting Miss Nell next door (eighty years old and extremely lonely), I am going off to the Hambidge Center for Artists, where, I imagine, for ten days I'll sleep, walk in the woods, read, research and — god willing — write 7-10 pages a day on my novel.
But do I feel guilty enough not to go? Not just no, but hell, no.
That the vegetarian dinners the artists there gather for each week night are very very good.
That bear have been seen. And mice. (The former outside the studios, the latter inside).
Though I know home will tug at me every moment I'm there, I'm also as excited as if I were going to Disneyworld. Actually more so, since I'm extremely disinterested in ever setting foot in Disneyworld.
But because it would be helpful to my loved ones left at home* if before I go I get caught up on the laundry and stock the house with enough food to last a midwestern winter, this entry probably the last you'll hear from me for a few weeks.
But because reading columns in the New York Times by Judith Warner has lately turned my morning coffee-drinking into an even more delicious experience than it usually is , I leave you with her latest, here.
What with the way politics hangs like a dark cloud on the horizon these days, we all need a reason to laugh.
*Or because I think it would be helpful to my loved ones left at home.


Wednesday, October 1st will be the first Forum on Agriculture, Climate, & Energy Technology Sustainability – (FACETS) — workshops and seminars for innovation and action sponsored by Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS), Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, and the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. This forum will bring together experts in various fields to provide an opportunity for the generation and evaluation of ideas related to agricultural production, bioenergy, and land use, and how they interact with climate change mitigation and adaptation (download a flyer).
Though these forums will generally take place in the Madison area, we have just arranged a way for these discussions to be accessible from remote locations. Through streaming video, electronic copies of materials, and an interactive chat session, interested parties can both watch the presentation and participate in the discussion – from your desktop!
This series kicks off October 1st from 12:00 – 1:30, in Taylor Hall 115 with a presentation by Gary Radloff (DATCP) and Allison Hellman (DNR), which will focus on the agricultural and forestry components of the Governors global warming task force recommendations.
Depending on your location, there will be a slight delay (20 -30 seconds) between what you see on your desktop and what is happening in "real time," but we will be sure to field questions and comments that come in from the chat session and address them during the discussion. Additionally, there will be a blog that will respond to any questions that do not get addressed during the session. This is our first attempt at this technology, so your feedback on this system would be GREATLY appreciated. Please direct that feedback to Alan Turnquist: alturnquist@wisc.edu.
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Supporters of Birstall BAGS have helped raise enough funds to purchase three new hysteroscopes for the gynaecology outpatients clinic at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
The £8,457.75 donation from Birstall BAGS paid for the much needed hysteroscopes which are used by medical staff to investigate and diagnose conditions for patients.
The new hysteroscopes are the latest in design and much smaller, therefore more comfortable for patients. They also produce better quality images than the older ones. In total, the hospital received funding for five new scopes which means patients can be seen and diagnosed much sooner, reducing long waits for diagnosis and delays in treatment.


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35. ceremonia wręczenia francuskich nagród filmowych Cezarów za rok 2009, odbyła się 27 lutego 2010 roku w Théâtre du Châtelet w Paryżu. Dnia 22 stycznia 2010 roku zostały ogłoszone nominacje do nagród.

Przewodniczącą tegorocznej ceremonii została Marion Cotillard. Samą ceremonię poprowadzili Valérie Lemercier i Gad Elmaleh.

Nagrodę Cezara Honorowego otrzymał aktor amerykański Harrison Ford. Nagrodę wręczyła mu rodaczka Sigourney Weaver.

Najwięcej nominacji w tej edycji nagród otrzymał film Prorok w reżyserii Jacques'a Audiarda. Obraz ubiegał się o dwanaście nagród. Jedenaście nominacji otrzymał film Początek Xaviera Giannoli. O dzisieć nagród mógł rywalizować film Witamy Philippe'a Lioreta.

Najwięcej nagród − aż 9 − otrzymał faworyt tegorocznych nagród, film Prorok, który został nagrodzony w najważniejszych kategoriach: najlepszy film, reżyser i scenariusz oryginalny. Dwie nagrody przypadły aktorowi Taharowi Rahimowi, który został nagrodzony Cezarem dla najlepszego aktora i najbardziej obiecującego aktora.

Isabelle Adjani otrzymała nagrodę dla najlepszej aktorki. W przeciągu całej kariery aktorki, to już piąta nagroda otrzymana od Francuskiej Akademii Sztuki i Techniki Filmowej.

Dwie nagrody otrzymał film Koncert w reżyserii Radu Mihăileanu. Film został nagrodzony za najlepszą muzykę i dźwięk. Film Witamy pomimo dziesięciu nominacji, nie otrzymał żadnej nagrody.

Najlepszym filmem zagranicznym okazał się amerykański Gran Torino w reżyserii Clinta Eastwooda.

Laureaci i nominowani
 Laureaci nagród wyróżnieni są wytłuszczeniem

Najlepszy film
Reżyser / Producenci − Film
 Jacques Audiard / Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat i Marco Cherqui − Prorok
 Xavier Giannoli / Edouard Weil i Pierre-Ange Le Pogam − Początek
 Radu Mihăileanu / Alain Attal − Koncert
 Alain Resnais / Jean-Louis Livi − Szalone trawy
 Jean-Paul Lilienfeld / Bénédicte Lesage i Ariel Askénazi − Pokolenie nienawiści
 Lucas Belvaux / Patrick Sobelman, Diana Elbaum i Sébastien Delloye − Porwanie
 Philippe Lioret / Christophe Rossignon − Witamy

Najlepszy film zagraniczny
Reżyser − Film • Kraj produkcji
 Clint Eastwood − Gran Torino • Stany Zjednoczone
 James Cameron − Avatar • Stany Zjednoczone
 Gus Van Sant − Obywatel Milk • Stany Zjednoczone
 Xavier Dolan − Zabiłem moją matkę • Kanada
 Stéphane Aubier i Vincent Patar − Miasteczko Panika • Belgia
 Michael Haneke − Biała wstążka • Austria
 Danny Boyle − Slumdog. Milioner z ulicy • Wielka Brytania

Najlepszy pierwszy film
Reżyser / Producenci − Film
 Riad Sattouf / Anne-Dominique Toussaint − Przystojniaki
 Philippe Godeau − Po jednym na drogę
 Nicolas Saada / Michael Gentile − Espion(s)
 Lucien Jean-Baptiste / Pierre Kubel i Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar − La première étoile
 Suivront Lea Fehner / Philippe Liégeois i Jean-Michel Rey − Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront

Najlepszy reżyser
 Jacques Audiard − Prorok
 Lucas Belvaux − Porwanie
 Xavier Giannoli − Początek
 Philippe Lioret − Witamy
 Radu Mihăileanu − Koncert

Najlepszy scenariusz oryginalny
 Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri i Nicolas Peufaillit − Prorok
 Xavier Giannoli − Początek
 Jean-Paul Lilienfeld − Pokolenie nienawiści
 Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol i Oliver Adam − Witamy
 Radu Mihăileanu i Alain-Michel Blanc − Koncert

Najlepszy scenariusz adaptowany
 Stéphane Brizé i Florence Vignon − Mademoiselle Chambon
 Anne Fontaine i Camille Fontaine − Coco Chanel
 Philippe Godeau i Agnes De Sacy − Po jednym na drogę
 Laurent Tirard i Gregoire Vigneron − Mikołajek
 Alex Reval i Laurent Herbiet − Szalone trawy

Najlepszy aktor
 Tahar Rahim − Prorok
 Yvan Attal − Porwanie
 François Cluzet − Początek
 François Cluzet − Po jednym na drogę
 Vincent Lindon − Witamy

Najlepsza aktorka
 Isabelle Adjani − Pokolenie nienawiści
 Dominique Blanc − Inna
 Sandrine Kiberlain − Mademoiselle Chambon
 Kristin Scott Thomas − Odchodząc
 Audrey Tautou − Coco Chanel

Najlepszy aktor w roli drugoplanowej
 Niels Arestrup − Prorok
 Jean-Hugues Anglade − Zagubieni w miłości
 Joey Starr − Le bal des actrices
 Benoît Poelvoorde − Coco Chanel
 Michel Vuillermoz − Po jednym na drogę

Najlepsza aktorka w roli drugoplanowej
 Emmanuelle Devos − Początek
 Aure Atika − Mademoiselle Chambon
 Anne Consigny − Porwanie
 Audrey Dana − Witamy
 Noémie Lvovsky − Przystojniaki

Nadzieja kina (aktor)
 Tahar Rahim − Prorok
 Firat Ayverdi − Witamy
 Adel Bencherif − Prorok
 Vincent Lacostein − Przystojniaki
 Vincent Rottiers − Je suis hereux que ma mere soit vivante

Nadzieja kina (aktorka)
 Mélanie Thierry − Po jednym na drogę
 Pauline Etienne − Qu'un seul tiene et les autres suivront
 Florence Loiret-Caille − Kochałem ją
 Soko − Początek
 Christa Théret − LOL (Laughing Out Loud)®

Najlepsza muzyka
 Armand Amar − Koncert
 Alex Beaupain − Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser
 Alexandre Desplat − Prorok
 Nicola Piovani − Witamy
 Cliff Martinez − Początek

Najlepsze zdjęcia
 Stéphane Fontaine − Prorok
 Christophe Beaucarne − Coco Chanel
 Laurent Dailland − Witamy
 Éric Gautier − Szalone trawy
 Glynn Speeckaert − Początek

Najlepszy montaż
 Juliette Welfling − Prorok
 Célia Lafitedupont − Początek
 Hervé de Luze − Szalone trawy
 Andrea Sedlácková − Witamy
 Ludo Troch − Koncert

Najlepsza scenografia
 Michel Barthélémy − Prorok
 Aline Bonetto − Bazyl. Człowiek z kulą w głowie
 Maamar Ech Cheikh − OSS 117 – Rio nie odpowiada
 François-Renaud Labarthe − Początek
 Olivier Radot − Coco Chanel

Najlepsze kostiumy
 Catherine Leterrier − Coco Chanel
 Chattoune & Fab − Chanel i Strawiński
 Charlotte David − OSS 117 – Rio nie odpowiada
 Madeline Fontaine − Bazyl. Człowiek z kulą w głowie
 Virginie Montel − Prorok

Najlepszy dźwięk
 Pierre Excoffier, Bruno Tarriere i Selim Azzazi − Koncert
 Pierre Mertens, Laurent Quaglio i Eric Tisserand − Witamy
 Francois Musy i Gabriel Hafner − Początek
 Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier i Jean-Paul Hurier − Prorok
 Jean Umansky, Gerard Hardy i Vincent Arnardi − Bazyl. Człowiek z kulą w głowie

Najlepszy film dokumentalny
 Serge Bromberg i Ruxandra Medrea − Inferno – niedokończone piekło
 Marianne Chaud − Himalaje. Gościniec do nieba
 Yann Arthus-Bertrand − Home - S.O.S Ziemia!
 Frederick Wiseman − La danse. Balet Opery Paryskiej

Najlepszy film krótkometrażowy
 Claire Burger i Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq − Dziewczyny za darmo
 Foued Mansour − La raison de l'autre
 Alban Mench − Les Williams
 Fabienne Godet − Moja najlepsza ucieczka
 Cheng Chui Kuo − Séance familiale
 Edouard Deluc − Gdzie jest Kim Basinger?

Cezar Honorowy
 Harrison Ford (aktor)

Podsumowanie ilości nominacji
(Ograniczenie do dwóch nominacji)
 12 : Prorok
 11 : Początek
 10 : Witamy
 6 : Coco Chanel, Koncert
 5 : Po jednym na drogę
 4 : Porwanie
 3 : Szalone trawy, Pokolenie nienawiści, Przystojniaki, Mademoiselle Chambon, Bazyl. Człowiek z kulą w głowie
 2 : Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront, OSS 117 – Rio nie odpowiada

Podsumowanie ilości nagród
(Ograniczenie do dwóch nagród)
 9 : Prorok
 2 : Koncert

Prezenterzy nagród i nominacji

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona Cezarów

Nagrody Cezary
2010 w filmie
2010 we Francji

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This letter raises some serious issues about continuing dental education (CDE) points instituted by the Dental Council of India (DCI) – the apex body that regulates dental education. The DCI has recommended 150 CDE points over a period of 5 years with a minimum of 20 points a year and a maximum of 50 points annually (1).
In India, CDE points are awarded to dental professionals only for attending lectures or conferences or workshops (1), whereas CDE points should also be awarded for publishing and reviewing articles in indexed national and international journals (2). Since August 1, 2011, the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is offering CDE credits for reviewing manuscripts for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (3). Reviewers may earn 1.0 CDE credit per review and up to a maximum of 12 reviews per volume, ie 12 credits per year (3). The Academy of General Dentistry is also offering CDE credits for reviewing manuscripts for the Journal of General Dentistry (4). These journals are also offering CDE points for readers (3, 4).
In India, dental professionals in the government health sector (ie in dental colleges and hospitals) are working with feasible salary and fresh younger dental undergraduates work with meagre salaries in the private health sector, and many opt for other better-paying jobs (5). On the other hand, some dental colleges, after they get recognition of BDS/MDS degrees, remove their teaching staff abruptly leading to vacant staff positions for a considerable time. They deprive the students of jobs and lower teaching standards (6).
Postgraduates in dentistry have to spend an exorbitant sum for attending national and international specialty conferences to get the essential CDE points (7). It was observed that specialty national conferences were accreditated with 18 CDE points for a 3-day conference (8).
The DCI should conduct a study on the living standards of dental surgeons working in the private health sector in India. Based on the results, the DCI should revise the CDE points for dental professionals.
Sivapathasundharam B. Continuing dental education. Indian J Dent Res. 2009;20(4):393. doi: 10.4103/0970-9290.59427.
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Penn State vs. Northwestern: Joe Paterno Addresses Nittany Lions' Injuries
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Penn State is dealing with a number of key injuries heading into its game at Northwestern on Saturday night, and coach Joe Paterno addressed the situation at his weekly press conference on Tuesday.
Paterno said quarterback Matthew McGloin has been practicing normally despite taking some heavy hits last weekend against Purdue. He expects the junior to be ready to go.
The news wasn't quite so good for wide receiver Curtis Drake, however, as Paterno said his status remains up in the air as he continues to nurse his leg injury.
"We have to be careful how much we depend on him because he is still not 100 percent," Paterno said. "[If] you watch him run he's got a slight limp."
Wide receiver Derek Moye, who broke his foot last Tuesday in his apartment, has been at practice without football gear this week according to Paterno, but there's a chance he might not make his return in the two-week time frame the school announced last week.
"Derek...he's anxious to get in there," Paterno said. "I don't think we're going to have him for another couple weeks."
That timeline would have Moye falling short of returning for next week's game against No. 23 ranked Illinois at Beaver Stadium, a game that could have serious Big Ten Leaders Division ramifications. We'll see if Penn State offers any further updates on his status this week.
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Soft drinks – why to avoid them!
Soft drinks; we all tend to love them, our bodies tend to hate them. For many soft drink regulars there is the added conundrum of sugar versus sugar-free. While they realty should be avoided all together; on this episode of 32Gi Sports Nutrition, hear why natural is always better.
Welcome back to 32Gi Sports Nutrition with myself Mr Active, David Katz and Mark Wolff. We talked about sugar in the previous one. Today we're going to give you the lowdown on soft drinks or in South Africa as we like to call them, cooldrink. You go overseas, you ask in a shop for a cooldrink and they give you a very funny look. But very common phrase for a soft drink in South Africa.
You get, of course, ones with a lot of sugar in, but over the years there are the sugar-free ones. So we're going to look at it across the board and if there are any benefits to it. First of all, Mark, that's my opening question to you; is there a case when soft drinks are actually good for you?
Mark Wolff: I don't think anything unnatural is good for you, that I need to state upfront. That word 'soft drink' it might be soft from a drink point of view, but it's hard on the system. So it should maybe be a hard drink. The problem is that it's basically, if you're looking at the sugar based drinks and not the alternatives like you've mentioned.
As far as the sugar-free products go, I think there's a very big problem here, and that's what I tell people. Even when you make a smoothie, sometimes you can put too much health into a smoothie. When you swallow it, the amount of calories that are in that particular drink are excessive, they can be in the thousands.
The problem is that when somebody consumes a soft drink, they land up doing the same thing, they over-consume. Maybe also because of the addictive properties, but the amount of calories that are in there are also, they become very excessive.
Because they don't stop at one glass, they can go 2, 3, 4, 5 and it goes on and on. I think that's something that's important to realise. If you are going to drink a soft drink, I would say it needs to be a treat drink, very rare. As far as a proper nutrition programme goes, not something that should be consumed frequently.
The danger of sugar-free soft drinks
Since sugar got the bad rap we're seeing more and more people switching, as you mentioned earlier, switching to sugar-free soft drinks. Those can be far worse because of the unnatural properties of those drinks. They're very much chemical. To me consuming chemicals is just not what we're meant to be consuming as far as human beings go. Because we don't know what the damage is going to be on a physiological level.
It's a very big problem. People want to lose weight, they love their soft drinks, so they switch to a sugar-free version and is it better? Not necessarily. Fizz has also got its issues, in actual fact, consuming carbon dioxide, even fizzy water can cause weight issues. In fact, there has been that research that has shown that it actually assists in generation of fat production and that's soda water for example.
The question is not just soft drinks, it's also a carbonated drink that we should be talking about. If you look at the components of these drinks, they're very much unnatural, most of them are unnatural. If you've got the choice between a sugar drink which is natural. A soft drink which contains sugar and is natural and a non-sugar based drink which is unnatural. I would say rather go for the sugar based drink which is natural. That to me would be a better solution. But again, and I mentioned this in the podcast we spoke about sugar, limit the intake and take it at the proper time as well.
DK: Mark, yes, you can overload your system with sugar, put your liver under some real stress. But it's something natural, it's something that your liver does know how to breakdown and work through the system. Looking at the stuff that's not natural, what happens in the body when these things are added?
You talk about the difference, for people who want weight loss and they don't want the sugar. But from a brain point of view, what message do they tend to see? Or is that research not quite clear yet? Could the research show that your brain is thinking the same thing? But at the same time your body can't process it?
The danger of putting chemicals in your system
MW: I think it's a very interesting question. I'm not sure how to answer it exactly accurately but I do want to say a few things. Firstly, when you're consuming a replacement sugar drink, again, you're still training your brain to crave sugar. So you're not really getting away from that. You are taking in something that's unnatural.
Interestingly enough, I'm actually studying through another university and one of the courses that I'm doing at the moment is something called epigenetics. It is how consumption of certain nutrients or foods can trigger a disposition, a gene to specific disposition. If you've got a gene that has got a cancer disposition, for example, certain foods that you take in could trigger that cancer gene.
It's a very interesting course and when I think about natural versus unnatural, the chances of triggering these things would come probably mostly from glutens to the body. I would say that is in an unnatural format. Taking chemicals, the risks of triggering such a thing would be a lot higher than taking in something that's natural.
You mentioned it, yes, our bodies know how to break down sugar. Many years ago Asker Jeukendrup, a very top sport scientist, did what's called the mouth-rinse test. What they did, they took two sets of athletes, during exercise. They basically wanted to measure performance with carbohydrate intake.
The one group of athletes, all they had to do was consume the drink completely and they would measure a slight increase in performance with that intake. Then when they went to the other group of athletes, they didn't allow them to consume the drink, they only allowed them to do what's called the mouth-rinse.
In other words, put it into the mouth, swirl it around and spit it out, so they weren't allowed to swallow. Both sets of athletes reached the same level of performance after consumption or non-consumption. Just the mouth-rinse which shows you that the minute the palate touches something sugar like that, the brain already identifies it and knows exactly what it needs to do to the body.
The question is, what is the brain going to do when something that mimics a sugar goes into the body and then tries to process it. Because it's going to try and process it in a specific manner and we don't know how it's processed in the body and what it exactly does.
Yes, there's a lot of science and evidence and research before these things are released in the market to show what happens with the body. But over time, like I mentioned this epigenetics is, we don't know what kind of trigger it will cause at a later stage or what kind of health issues it will bring up later in life. I'm very against any unnatural soft drinks. I'm against soft drinks completely, but again, if you go for something, rather go for something completely natural.
Sweetness is only part of the soft drink problem
DK: Another problem, sugar and non-nutritive sweeteners aside is the weird and whacky and wonderful colours that soft drinks tend to come in. So it's not just sugar that's an issue.
MW: That's something that I always think about. Because I am in the sports nutrition industry and I understand colours and flavours in products, one of the things that 32Gi that we do, we make sure that our colours and flavours are completely natural.
Just as an example, if you're looking at our raspberry drink, yes, you might see E numbers. But the E number that is for our raspberry drink, from a colour perspective, is actually beetroot, which is a natural derivative. We use carrot in our orange products and in our blue products we actually use Spirulina.
Which is extremely expensive but one of the colours in the world that is very common is something called 'brilliant blue'. If we had to put that colour into our products, we would be forced from a European standard, we would be forced to label the product 'this will cause concentration issues in children'. That is not something I would ever want to have on a product.
That has been researched and proven by the European Food Safety Authority. There's a lot of things that go into products. South Africa, I don't think is at the level of the European standards right now. But consumption of unnatural colours is definitely going to impact you from a health perspective, there's absolutely no doubt at all.
If you are going to consume a drink and it's got colour to it, make sure it's completely natural. Parents will come to me and say to me: What soft drink is suitable for my children? I'm like water is a brilliant soft drink, it's absolutely brilliant, it's the source of life!
From a treat perspective I would look at something that's a clear liquid and probably got sugar. It's sugar water. Why don't you just add a teaspoon of lemon and honey and make your own lemonade at home or something, that's just a brilliant drink. But if you take something that's a clear liquid, as far as a soft drink goes, it's got no unnatural additives to it, you're far safer.
Some people have said to me: What about a purple compared to a black. The interesting thing is, is that purple and orange and green and all these colours are generally very unnatural. Black is generally caramelised sugar, so it's burnt sugar, so it's probably more natural than going with a different colour. Colour represents taste, so it's a very good marketing tool. When people see colour, that taste is already inside of them and they know what to expect.
Does the risk outweigh the benefit for sportsmen?
DK: Mark lastly, when it comes to soft drinks, it can be a favourite for a lot of sportsmen. Be it a runner, be it someone who cycles, mountain biking or road cycling. There's a culture in South Africa, a running culture, of guys just running on a little bit of soft drink mixed with water. Yes, it can spike the sugar and it does do that, but in that case, I don't know what to say. There is obviously a benefit, but is the benefit of having it worth taking it?
MW: I think there's a big legacy where people are drinking soft drinks combined with water. In the States as well, it's been quite a thing through some races but South Africa has definitely got a culture. It does work for some people, for some people it doesn't work.
I always say: The way you train is the way you should fuel yourself. Everybody's stomach has got different rates of absorption. It's got a different impact on the system. Again, you've still got to worry about these endurance events, the long endurance events, taking Comrades into account etc, about blood sugar spiking and dropping all the time.
Because all these people are considered to be sometimes wow, they're such great athletes or elite athletes and they do so well in what they're doing. The truth of the matter is, maybe some of them can get away with quite a bit. But the thing is that later in life you see that a lot of these people do land up with health issues and they do land up with diseases like diabetes for example and that's just a simple example.
You just never know how it's going to impact you. The choices you make when you're younger are definitely going to impact you when you're older. I think it's very important to try, I still believe in trying to keep it as natural as possible. One of the other things we haven't spoken about is the flavours in the drinks.
I think flavours are another issue. You get different types of flavours. You get natural flavours, you get nature identical. Which is actually as close to natural as it will come, from a molecular structure. But then you also get unnatural flavours. Unnatural flavours generally, there's a much broader range of unnatural flavours across the globe.
Obviously you've got so many different strengths of unnatural flavours but again, it's chemical. If you're going to look at a product, especially if it's a soft drink or whatever drink it is, rather go for a natural flavour as opposed to an unnatural flavour or at least natural identical. At the very least because that's probably a lot better for your health in the long run than something that's unnatural.
I think the bottom line is, from what we're discussing here is that sugar has been given a bad rap. But again, it's natural. Why should you go to a chemical based drink to avoid something that's natural because you're worried about maybe weight gain etc. Again, everything in moderation and I'd say keep it as natural as possible, but if it's in moderation, I think you'll be okay.
DK: There you have it, some valuable advice. One thing I like, I also try to stay away from the soft drinks, I know you talked about the carbon issue as well. But to have a soda water with lime. Again, a decent lime, not a cheap lime. One that's made with, as Mark talked about, more natural colourants and more natural flavours. So that's a good alternative possibly, if you are looking. From Mark Wolff and myself, Mr Active, David Katz, we will catch up with you again on the next edition.
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I was performing some maintenance on a few VMFS LUNs and came across a few files for a VM that I knew were no longer in use. There were a couple of old snapshot files and a VMDK that had been renamed when doing a restore.
After some quick research, I realized it was likely a file lock that was causing the error. VMFS allows access from multiple ESXi servers at the same time by implementing per-file locking. That likely meant that an ESXi host other than the current owner of the VM had a lock on the file. The cluster was small enough that I was able to simply log in to each host and attempt the delete. After 3 attempts, I found the host with the lock to the files and was able to successfully delete them from the VMFS store.
I had tried removing the files via the datastore browser in vSphere hoping that it would be smart enough to know which host had the lock on the file, and issue the delete the command on that host – but no such luck. There was a way to detect which host had a lock on the files in ESX, but I have not found a similar mechanism in ESXi. Until then, trial and error will suffice.
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HPE and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have delivered a converged world-leading HPC and deep learning platform that received the Green500 Award for energy-efficiency leadership.
In the age of digital advancement, technology is rapidly expanding the boundaries of human knowledge. Evolving compute capabilities are enabling us to better predict climate change, make astronomical calculations, simulate 3D prototypes, sequence genomes, and much more.
Innovation is crucial to success, and today's IT developers are racing to deliver the fastest, most powerful, and most efficient machines. High performance computing (HPC) technologies are paving the way to a new era of intelligence, helping us derive insight from explosive data volumes in order to solve increasingly complex issues. From life, earth, and space sciences, to banking, manufacturing, and national security, HPC solutions are transforming the way we see the world.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is empowering IT innovation with new optimized systems designed to increase productivity, accelerate HPC workloads, and deliver unmatched levels of energy efficiency.
HPE is committed to delivering a better compute experience with superior speed and efficiency. To achieve this, we recently introduced the HPE SGI 8600 (formerly the SGI ICE XA), a sixth-generation system designed to execute HPC workloads at petaflop speed. The 8600 is purpose-built to optimize IT capabilities while reducing deployment time, maintenance, and support costs.
Powered by this robust system, the TSUBAME 3.0 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is ideal for powering data-heavy research environments. With dir ect liquid cooling of high-wattage components, including CPUs and GPUs, this HPC cluster leverages low operating costs and energy expenditures for increased return on investment. TSUBAME delivers optimal energy efficiency and performance, and the industry is taking notice.
According to the TOP500, HPE now makes up 28.6% of the list (143 machines), surpassing runners-up Lenovo by 55 machines and Cray by 86. With the addition of SGI-based systems, HPE also ranks second in overall performance at 16.6%, up from 15.8% in November.
In addition to climbing the TOP500 list, HPE has gained recognition in the Green Pictured Left to Right: Prof. Jack Dongarra, Nic Dubé, Bill Mannel, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Prof. Akira Nukada, and Prof. Wu Feng.500, which acknowledges energy-efficient performance for sustainable supercomputing. On June 19th, TSUBAME 3.0 (#61 in the TOP500) received the Green500 Award for the most energy efficient system. For the first time ever, this secured HPE the #1 ranked system in the Green500 and largest presence in both the TOP500 and Green500 extending our leadership in energy efficiency and HPC innovation.
Delivering the world's fastest clustered system. Based on industry standard x86 socket servers, the 8600 remains one of the fastest distributed memory supercomputers, facilitating industry-leading performance and accelerating insight.
Creating a powerful and easy-to-use infrastructure. This server enables clusters to run commercial off-the-shelf operating systems and applications, which dramatically reduces time-to-solution and creates an environment that is integrated and simple to manage. The HPE SGI Management Suite supports provisioning thousands of nodes in minutes and provides detailed system monitoring for enhanced power management and even greater productivity.
Ensuring cost-effective, high-level performance. Through superior power and cooling capabilities coupled with advanced power management, the 8600 leverages greater density, scale, and efficiency than ever before. Its E-cell based design provide power, cooling, system control, and network fabric for up to 9 compute trays and scaling to thousands of nodes, while direct cooling liquid moderates energy consumption to execute HPC workloads at petaflop speed.
Today, HPE received the Green500 Award for our petascale system. Our next goal is the quest for exascale leadership. Don't miss a second of this exciting journey into the new frontier of HPC. Follow us on Twitter at @HPE_HPC, and visit my channel at @Bill_Mannel for the latest HPE news and updates.


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Alabama freshman LB Dylan Moses suffers foot injury
Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
Matt Zenitz | mzenitz@al.com
Alabama has lost yet another linebacker to a significant injury.
Standout freshman inside linebacker Dylan Moses suffered what's feared to be a season-ending foot injury during the Crimson Tide's practice on Monday, AL.com has learned.
Moses' injury is a broken foot, according to sources.
This is the latest blow to Alabama's linebacker group, which has been without several top players at various points during the season.
Moses, who was selected to the SEC All-Freshman team, had started the last two games.
With Moses out, redshirt junior Keith Holcombe or sophomore Mack Wilson will be depended on to start at the inside linebacker spot next to Rashaan Evans.
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Railway's losses at end of 2018 totalled almost RM3 billion
By the ned of 2018 KTMB had accumulated losses of close to RM3 billion.
Salient points in Auditor-General's 2018 report Series 2:
KUALA LUMPUR — Dec. 2, 2019: The Auditor-General's Report 2018 Series 2 released today disclosed findings on weak financial management that needs to be improved among ministries, government agencies and federal government companies.
Among the salient points are (edited by The Mole due to length):
Accumulated losses of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) as at December 31, 2018, totalled RM2.829 billion.
The audit on the compliance of grant management showed that the remainder of grants amounting to RM83.67 million for 67 completed development projects and programmes had not been returned to the Treasury.
Of the 47 Minister of Finance (Incorporated) companies evaluated based on the audited financial statements, only four were financially sound, 33 stable and 10 unstable. Financially sound companies were Petronas, Prokhas Sdn. Bhd., MyCreative Ventures Sdn. Bhd. and Syarikat Jaminan Kredit Perumahan Berhad.
Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the organisation of Kuala Lumpur Games 2017 (KL Games 2017) in terms of procurement, preparation and delays in signing contracts, and control of ticket sales as well as expenses that did not comply with financial regulations.
Affordable home ownership scheme MyHome had been poorly managed, resulting in delays in project completion, incentive payments to dubious developers and incentives to buyers that had not yet been returned by developers.
Two projects — namely geothermal power plant in Sabah and University Perdana in Seri Kembangan with financial support from Dana Mudahcara involving Unit Kerjasama Awam Swasta amounting to RM248 million failed to materialise. Almost 90 per cent or RM191 million of the total funds had been withdrawn for the university.
An overdue debt amounting to RM107.1 million with regards to tourism advertisements since three years ago was still unpaid. A
Auditor-General Datuk Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid said in a statement that as of last August 30, the National Audit Department had conducted the audit of financial statements of 113 federal government agencies for the financial year 2018.
Of the total, 99 financial statements were given advice without reprimand, six with advice without reprimand with emphasis of matter and eight were given advice with reprimand.
Another 35 financial statements had not yet been finalised while two agencies had yet submitted their financial statements.
Besides that, 12 performance audits were carried out at the federal government level and 21 at the state level, comprising various fields, including programmes/activities management, maintenance and revenue management.
NAD also had conducted seven management audits on government companies at the federal government level and nine at the state level.
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