Justice Don Willett of the Texas Supreme Court has no trouble winning votes. But here's why he thinks the whole system is wrong.
In early June the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the longtime progressive advocacy group, released the results of a landmark study on "the effect of campaign contributions on judicial behavior." The statistics confirmed what former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and countless other observers of our legal systems have long contended: Judicial elections impair the fair administration of justice by fostering impermissible appearances of impartiality by judicial candidates and judges. In seeking votes, in acting like politicians, judges invariably lose what they ought to prize most: their perceived credibility as neutral arbiters of cases and controversies.
When I read the study, the first person I thought of was Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, a popular and successfully reelected jurist whose campaign-style website I wrote about last year for The Atlantic. Justice Willett, it seems to me, is the poster-child for the results of the ACS study. Indeed, he should have been on its cover. So I reached out to him, asked him to read the ACS study, and to then answer for me a few questions about his perceptions about judicial elections and the role campaign contributions play in them. About a month ago, he graciously complied in a way that was both candid and frightening.
It's not accurate to portray the justice's words as a direct response to the ACS. He was responding as much to me as to it. But if you want to get a sense of the scope of the problem here, and of the mentality that campaigning judges or justices bring to an endeavor that is in inherent conflict with judicial ethics, this exchange is likely as good as you'll get. The thing to remember, as the Justice himself says below, is that he isn't an outlier in the system. Instead, he's playing the system with the skill and the diligence you would expect from a justice. And the voters of Texas keep sending him back to his post.
Over the past year, a team of independent researchers has collected and coded data on more than 2,345 business-related state supreme court published opinions, which includes opinions from all 50 states during the years 2010 to 2012. The dataset was merged with over 175,000 contribution records that detail every reported contribution to a sitting state supreme court justice over the same period, or dating back to the last time the justice ran for reelection. Data have also been collected on related factors such as individual justice characteristics, ideology, and data about state processes to ensure a complete and robust empirical model for testing and analysis.
Moreover, the data demonstrate that the empirical relationship between business contributions and justices' voting for business interests exists only in partisan and nonpartisan systems. There is no statistically significant relationship between money and voting in retention election systems.
The data also show that there is a stronger relationship between business contributions and justices' voting among justices affiliated with the Democratic Party than among justices affiliated with the Republican Party. Because Republican justices tend to be more ideologically predisposed to favor business interests, additional business contributions may not have as large of an influence on them as they do on Democratic justices. Finally, there is a stronger relationship between business contributions and justices' voting in the period from 2010-2012 compared to 1995-1998.
With the increase in competitiveness of judicial elections, campaign spending has skyrocketed. State supreme court candidates raised less than $6 million in the 1989-1990 election cycle. For the 2009-2010 election cycle, the most recent cycle for which aggregate data has been compiled, candidates raised more than $38 million, approximately $11.5 million of which was independent in nature. In three of the last six election cycles, candidates raised a total of more than $45 million. Indeed, throughout the 1990s, only $83.3 million was contributed to state supreme court candidates; in contrast candidates raised $206.9 million between 2000-2009.
During the last decade, the flow of campaign contributions has been especially powerful in partisan races. Between 2000-2009, campaign fundraising was three times greater in states with partisan elections; candidates in these races raised $153.8 million across nine states, compared to $50.9 million raised in the thirteen states with nonpartisan elections. Mirroring the increases in direct campaign contributions, the last decade has also seen a dramatic increase in spending on television advertising in judicial races. Candidates and interest groups have realized that television advertising is effective in increasing name recognition and support for favored candidates, or alternatively, attacking their opponents.
As a state judge with an active website that encourages campaign contributions what is your initial reaction to the conclusions in this report? Do you disagree with its conclusions or premise? Do you contest the findings? Why should litigants in Texas who do not contribute to your campaigns have confidence in your ability to remain impartial? What would you say to those people who read this report and have doubts about the notion of impartial justice in jurisdictions where campaign contributions play such an important role in determining who becomes (or stays) a judge?
My website only accepts contributions during campaign season. My last day to fund raise was March 6, 2013, and thankfully I can't raise another penny until summer 2017, when the 2018 reelection campaign begins. State law restricts judicial candidates in terms of when they can fund raise, from whom they can fund raise, and how much they can fund raise.
The ACS study raises difficult and consequential questions, familiar questions that frankly can't be raised enough. A former Texas Governor, Sull Ross, once said, "The loss of public confidence in the judiciary is the greatest curse that can ever befall a nation." I don't disagree. The Texas Constitution, however, mandates a judiciary elected on a partisan ballot. Calling this system "imperfect" is a G-rated description, and I'm intimately acquainted with the myriad drawbacks, and they are plentiful.
On the one hand, Texans insist on their right to elect their judges (though they can't name any of us). On the other hand, they harbor suspicions about the role of money that ACS chronicles. I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform -- every member of my court does -- and every legislative session, reform measures are filed ... and then they fail. Both major parties and lots of activist groups in Texas oppose changing the current partisan elected system. Interestingly, the business lobby and tort-reform groups all favor scrapping our current judicial-selection system.
In other words, those who allegedly benefit from the current system aggressively favor replacing it. But the status quo is deeply entrenched, and legislatively, the wheels always come off.
I haven't studied the ACS reports findings or methodology, but I understand 100% the suspicion that donations drive decisions. That skepticism siphons public confidence, and that's toxic to the idea of an impartial, independent judiciary. I can only speak for myself and say that it flatly doesn't happen.
I'd be shocked if people didn't look askance at such a flawed system. I do, too, having had close-up experience spanning several contested statewide races. Nothing would please me, or my wife, more than if my last election were my last election, and between now and 2018, Texans would opt for a smarter system. Hopeful? Yep. Optimistic? Nope.
There is an awful lot to digest here. The justice is saying that he holds his nose while he campaigns for votes by pledging to be "conservative" and by placing the endorsements of men like James Dobson and Foster Friess (and current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott) on prominent places on his website. (How would you feel, as an atheist, with Justice Willett on your case?) And he is saying that the decidedly pro-business Texas legislature is more to blame than the decidedly pro-business Supreme Court for the decidedly pro-business bent of Texas law. They have reaped what they have sown.
With respect to the basic question of whether money/contributions drive his or his peers' decisions, while we would not suggest we think he himself is influenced or approaches any cases in bad faith, obviously the public strongly believes there is a correlation -- and that perception is itself damaging to the judiciary, whether or not any judges consciously allow the knowledge of contributors to seep into their decision making. Put differently, even if donations don't drive decisions, the hit to public confidence in the courts (which he repeatedly acknowledges is an issue) is itself a serious problem; more generally, it's well established that even an appearance of bias itself raises due process concerns.
Moreover, in a national survey of more than 2000 judges about a decade ago, nearly half of state court judges -- 46 percent -- believe that campaign contributions have some or at least "a little influence" on their decisions. So his peers are a lot less confident than he is. Finally, the chummy relationships that emerge from the fundraising judges have to do almost certainly create implicit biases, even if judges aren't consciously shaping decisions to please donors.
Also, even putting aside the way special interests influence judges, he acknowledges a related problem that you need a lot of money in order to run a competitive race. One result of this is that deep-pocketed companies who litigate often -- and the lawyers who represent them -- have an outsized ability to shape the court's composition.
No lawyer, no matter how talented, has a legitimate shot at winning a seat on the bench if they can't perform well in the "wealth primary" -- so long before judges are on the ballot for the general public to vote, there's a preliminary vetting process in which only the donors get to vote. This clearly is likely to skew the bench toward judges likely to be more sympathetic to the donor's worldviews and priorities.
On a more fundamental level, the disconnect between politician on the campaign trail and neutral arbiter on the bench doesn't help to educate the public about what judges do and why they are different from politicians. Of course, this is a critique of the system more than any one judge, but it underscores another way in which judicial elections undermine the independence and credibility of the judiciary.
So there you have it. The citizens of Texas have made a conscious choice to elect their judges in this fashion. And the state's power brokers are content with the arrangement. The people who lose out in this bargain are those who almost always lose out: The politically powerless, who rarely have a strong voice in the state legislature, now have an even meeker voice on the state Supreme Court. The American ideal is that our courts are the one place in government where money is not supposed to make a difference. But in Texas, money makes all the difference in the world. Don't believe me? Just ask Justice Willett.


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'I Am Proud Of My Boys'- Super Eagles Boss Gernot Rohr Speaks After 2018 World Cup
Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has declared support for his players who campaigned at the Russia 2018 World Cup for putting up what he called "a very encouraging performance."
Speaking at the Ogunlana Drive offices of the Nigeria Football Federation in Lagos yesterday, the German tactician said, "I am proud of my players who went to the World Cup. They only lacked experience.
We had a very young team that was very good and did very well. They were the least ranked team but put up a good fighting spirit.
"It is disheartening that we did not get past the group stage. The future is bright." Rohr had some reservations for the Video Assistant Referee(VAR), which he said had different interpretations for different teams.
"VAR recognised handball for France but refused to award us handball in a similar situation," he said, adding quickly, "but I do not like talking about referees."
Another factor Rohr counted worked against the Super Eagles in Russia was lack of support.
"Nigerian supporters were outnumbered and the general atmosphere was not good enough for concentration. It was an experience worthwhile."
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New Database Explains If Your Medication Is Safe To Take During and After Pregnancy
Kara Jillian Brown・August 18, 2020
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When you're pregnant or lactating, certain medications are off limits. Drugs are designed with certain populations in mind, so what works for an adult might be unsafe for a fetus or breastfeeding baby. But pregnant and postpartum people are often not told "why" a drug isn't safe. Chelsea Allison, CEO and founder of Motherfigure, is changing that with a new pregnancy and lactation database.
"My pregnancy and postpartum experience was marked by a lot of uncertainty and fear because I didn't have the kind of information I felt I needed," says Allison. "If I had a headache, I'd avoid taking Tylenol because I didn't understand what made it okay versus some of the other NSAIDs. When I needed a local anesthetic, my dentist suggested I just pump and dump; I decided to postpone the procedure instead of risking the breastfeeding relationship I was still working to establish. In countless situations, I'd get a simple yes, or no, or maybe, when I asked if something was okay—but never the why, which is really what I yearned for."
From anti-anxiety medications to constipation aids, you can find information on lactating– and pregnancy-safe medications and others that are unsafe. Each listing includes classification, any scientific names and common brand names, what it's used for, pregnancy risks and recommendations, and lactation risks and recommendations. You'll also find links to references, in case you want to dig a bit deeper into the sources cited.
"The information is drawn from primary sources including research studies, the National Library of Medicine's peer-reviewed Drugs and Lactation database, and FDA research and direct labeling," says Allison. "We also regularly consult healthcare providers and lactation consultants to understand questions they often receive."
This database aims to provide supplemental resources to inform conversations with your provider.
"It's not meant to substitute for consulting with healthcare providers. Instead, it's to help empower families as they make decisions and offer a credible, easy-to-use counter to so much of the confusion and panic waiting for people online," says Allison. "We launched this directory with hopes to bring some clarity, resources and peace of mind to moms no matter where they are on their journey. Our hope is to make this information accessible so that people can feel more informed as they follow up with their healthcare providers and take control of their care."
At Motherfigure, they believe that knowledge is power, says Allison. She and her team hope that this database will help empower moms and families during this confusing time
"Motherfigure is focused on empowering moms and moms-to-be—which includes helping them get better support and care and bringing greater awareness to their health," says Allison. "Many moms are not empowered in making choices around medication, pregnancy, and lactation—they're told to ask their doctors, and told a binary yes or no. Our hope with this database launch is to provide continued resources and transparency for moms and moms-to-be to ensure they are getting the best and most accurate information during these pivotal times in their lives."
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The National Health Service (Superannuation Scheme, Pension Scheme and Injury Benefits) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009
Executive Note
Insertion of new regulation M6A
This section has no associated Executive Note
11. After regulation M6 (special terms for transfers out (bulk transfers etc.)) insert–
"Member's right to transfer a preserved pension to the 2008 Scheme
M6A.—(1) If a member meets the conditions referred to in paragraph (3) and subject to the following provisions of this regulation, the member may require the Scottish Ministers to use the cash equivalent of the member's rights under these Regulations to acquire rights referred to in the 2008 scheme.
(2) A member's right to require the Scottish Ministers to use the cash equivalent of the member's rights in the way referred to in paragraph (1) may only be exercised once.
(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that the member–
(a)is entitled to a deferred benefit under regulation E6 (preserved pension);
(b)may not join the scheme in respect of any further NHS employment by virtue of regulation B2(1)(i); and
(c)becomes an active member of the 2008 scheme before attaining the age of 60.
(4) The Scottish Ministers must provide a member to whom this regulation applies with a statement of the amount of the cash equivalent of the member's benefits accrued in accordance with these Regulations at the guarantee date ("a statement of entitlement").
(5) In this regulation "the guarantee date" means any date that–
(a)falls within the required period;
(b)is chosen by the Scottish Ministers;
(c)is specified in the statement of entitlement; and
(d)is within the period of 10 days ending with the date on which the member is provided with the statement of entitlement.
(6) In counting the period of 10 days referred to in paragraph (5)(d), Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday are excluded.
(7) In paragraph (5)(a), "the required period" means–
(a)the period of three months beginning with the date that the Scottish Ministers receive notification from the member's employing authority that the member has joined the 2008 scheme; or
(b)such longer period beginning with that date (but not exceeding six months) as may be reasonably required if, for reasons beyond the control of the Scottish Ministers, the requisite information cannot be obtained to calculate the amount of the cash equivalent.
(8) Subject to paragraphs (9) to (11), the member's guaranteed cash equivalent shall be equal to the capitalised value of all of the member's rights to benefits accrued under these Regulations and any associated rights under Part I of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(1).
(9) The Scottish Ministers must–
(a)take advice from the scheme actuary before determining the factors to be used in the calculation of the member's guaranteed cash equivalent; and
(b)calculate and verify the amount of the guaranteed cash equivalent in accordance with the Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations 1996.
(10) Except in the case of a transfer payment accepted under regulation N3A (transfers in respect of members to whom regulation B6 applies who elect to rejoin the scheme), a member's cash equivalent will be at least equal to the amount of any transfer payments accepted in respect of the member under regulation N1(4) (which deals with the crediting of additional service upon transfer), plus the amount of the member's contributions to the scheme.
(11) Any part of the cash equivalent that relates to the service before 29th January 1988 will be calculated as described in the 1980 Regulations as applicable immediately before that date, if this would be more favourable to the member.
(12) A member who has received a statement of entitlement in accordance with paragraph (4) may apply to the Scottish Ministers for the cash equivalent of the member's rights under the scheme to be used to acquire rights under the 2008 scheme.
(13) An application under this regulation must be made in respect of each and every portion of the cash equivalent and shall be–
(a)made in writing on the form provided for this purpose by the Scottish Ministers;
(b)made before the end of the period of three months beginning with the guarantee date; and
(c)irrevocable.
(14) On the making of such an application–
(a)a member becomes entitled to be credited with a period of pensionable service or an equivalent increase to the member's pensionable earnings in the 2008 scheme in respect of the cash equivalent value of the member's benefits under the scheme calculated in accordance with whichever of regulation 2.F.17 or 3.F.17 of the 2008 scheme apply to the member, and
(b)the member's rights under the scheme are extinguished on the day that the member is credited with a period of pensionable service or pensionable earnings in accordance with regulations 2.F.17 or 3.F.17 (transfers across from the National Health Service superannuation scheme for Scotland 1995) (as the case may be) of the 2008 scheme.".
1971 c. 56.
Executive Note sets out a brief statement of the purpose of a Scottish Statutory Instrument and provides information about its policy objective and policy implications. They aim to make the Scottish Statutory Instrument accessible to readers who are not legally qualified and accompany any Scottish Statutory Instrument or Draft Scottish Statutory Instrument laid before the Scottish Parliament from July 2005 onwards.


There's an old saying, "You are only as good as the company you keep." That has never been more true than today.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is exacerbating this as perhaps one of the most transformational technology trends in recent history. According to Gartner, there will be 21 billion connected devices by 2020. Vertical-specific applications in retail, transportation and manufacturing are expected to nearly triple from 1 billion to 2.9 billion in the next five years. How do you quickly develop technologies that tie into multiple emerging IoT systems across many business sectors?
Enter the business ecosystem. Ecosystems refer to business networks that work together to generate value and competitive advantage along every part of the business and product lifecycle. We turned Avnet's business model into an ecosystem so we could provide more value to our customers as trends like IoT, and others such as AI and deep learning, reshape our world. Specifically, we aimed to address three major issues we see many companies facing today, whether they be a small startup or a large multinational: increased technological complexity, the need for greater efficiency, and speed to market.
The problem isn't access to technology. In some respects, that is the easy part. The problem is quality. That is, knowing which technologies amongst the thousands of options available are best suited and most reliable for what you are trying to achieve. For example, a typical IoT solution includes dozens or even hundreds of power or battery options. But do you know which one is optimized for your device's design and functionality? Do you know which power source will work best under water, exposed to sunlight, or is best in a dim and dusty enclosed factory? A sound ecosystem of partners and experts can provide the answer.
Second, there is the task of finding efficiency amongst complexity. Success isn't just finding the right technology or software, but having the ability—in as few steps as possible—to combine that with the right design, financing, manufacturing, distribution, and market support. We know from our experience that it can take up to 10 partners to bring an IoT solution to life. It means coordinating platforms and application programming interfaces (APIs), along with the best-in-class components like sensors—in addition to the various business stakeholders and sometimes their disparate objectives. A strong ecosystem makes it possible to manage this complexity in a cost-effective and efficient manner. A strong partner orchestrating that ecosystem can make sure that if something goes wrong, you can quickly pinpoint the problem and identify a solution.
To keep pace, much less get ahead, companies must move quickly from idea to prototype and production to distribution. First you need to know the right steps and the right skill sets for product development. Just as important is insight and knowledge into technology roadmaps– understanding what's going to be available next quarter or next year. Working within the right ecosystem, developers can tap into this information to accelerate time-to-market, compress production timelines, and realize higher levels of reliability.
All of this is why we drew upon our nearly 100 years of experience in the industry to reorganize our business to be a true, integrated end-to-end ecosystem for our customers. Our ecosystem focuses on the journey in taking a product to market – from the idea, to the design and sourcing of the technology, making the product, delivering it anywhere in the world, and ultimately providing the maintenance. Avnet is always at the center orchestrating solutions that meet our customers' needs.
We also stay laser-focused on broadening and deepening our engineering and supplier ecosystems. Our element14 and Hackster.io communities are at nearly a million members strong in 100 countries, and combined with our 1,200-plus supplier partners, digital capabilities and fast shipping of small quantities for prototypes, we're better positioned than ever to help individuals and organizations of any size navigate the maze of technology options available at any stage of product development.
Reliable and vibrant ecosystems are the only way that businesses can master a market defined by complexity, efficiency and speed. But don't just take my word for it. Ask the folks at McKinsey, Gartner, and Harvard Business School. They will tell you the same thing, which is why a connected ecosystem is not just at the heart of Avnet's business strategy, it is, in fact, our business. We don't operate alone so our customers won't either.
So consider "the company that you keep" and whether your business ecosystem is helping, or if it is holding you back.
Bill Amelio is the CEO of Avnet. From idea to design and from prototype to production, Avnet supports customers at each stage of a product's lifecycle.


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Sartoria Lamberti by MEGRE INTERIORS
MEGRE INTERIORS have been shortlisted for Restaurant within a Hotel – Europe Award in The International Hotel and Property Awards 2020.
Sartoria Lamberti, a fashion and dining experience like no other, where Italian chefs and Italian designers compete for your attention. Located in the famous Ritz Carlton hotel in Moscow, this new Italian restaurant combines a fashion museum, onsite working tailor shop and a new age kitchen.
The space by Uilliam Lamberti, designed in partnership with Yuna Megre of MEGRE INTERIORS, was designed to create a gastronomic atelier that captivated all five senses.
Your eyes will be drawn to the walls where dressmaking patterns and famous Hollywood Fashion costumes on loan from the archives of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber of Italian Fashion) sit on display behind glass. For example, Pierce Brosnan's Brioni Tuxedo from Die Another Day and Ava Gardner's dress from the Barefoot Contessa can be seen hanging on the wall. Mannequins surround the room, with tape measures hanging from their neck. Rows of paper pattern pieces and clothing blocks are hung together, creating a beautifully striking feature along the walls.
To top off the fashion forward experience, the waiting on staff are dressed in custom pieces designed by Gennaro Annunziata, who is known in Italy for his luxury menswear brand. Annunzuiata was named the best young tailor at the Sartorial Thread awards.
The restaurant design concept was inspired by a classic tailor shop. With a needle woman's workshop in mind, the waiters take orders like a tailor would take measurements. The orders are then handed over to the chefs, like sketches would be handed over to a seamstress. The food is then prepared like that of tailored garment and handed over as a beautifully crafted finished product to the customer. From start to finish, every aspect of this restaurant has been designed with the key concept and story line in mind.
When visiting Sartoria Lamberti, you are sure to be immersed into the full, fashion and dining experience. Full of inspiration, education, iconic garments and delicious food, it is sure to be an experience that you will never forget.
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Since Em and I work as freelancers in a young start-up business, it's often difficult for us financially to 'do our bit' and donate to worthy causes. By that I mean organizations and activities that toil to improve the states of the planet and humanity. I did however just stumble upon the website Everywun which makes spreading positive messages and raising money for charitable causes exceptionally easy for anyone with an internet presence.
My first encounter with web 2.0 charitable giving came through the Causes application for Facebook back in 2007, and it's good to see that the process is evolving. Unlike many alternatives who require viewers to donate directly, simply displaying sponsored 'badges' like these drives financial donations from the sponsoring businesses, directly to the causes you care most for.
Signing up is quick, simple and doesn't ask for any personal information beyond your name and email address, and your account can be linked to your Facebook profile with a simple click of a button. Code is also generated so you can embed the badges, as they appear below. The process is painless and takes well under 5 minutes… time well spent in reducing the disparities in education, health and welfare between developed and developing countries. It's not all about people either, and badges supporting progressive environmental action and animal welfare are also available, no doubt with more great causes to follow. In short, if you're a sensitive, altruistic internet user with a web presence (even if it's just a Facebook profile) spend a few minutes at Everywun and brighten up the planet's future.
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Stella Brings the Family
Miriam B. Schiffer and Holly Clifton-Brown
Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do? It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night.
Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special and supported every day. She just doesn't have a mum to invite to the party. Fortunately, Stella finds a unique solution to her party problem in this sweet story about love, acceptance and the true meaning of family.
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The One Thing You Can Do to Position Yourself for Your Next Career Move
By Gabrielle Bill | Career | No Comments
What do Tina Fey, Justin Timberlake, and Ellen DeGeneres have in common? Aside from being excellent and hilarious entertainers, each of these influencers has done an exceptional job with personal branding.
Though the meaning has fluctuated over the years, what I mean by "personal branding" here is your unique promise of value. That is—your personal brand is the story only you are able to tell. It's the one that makes you stand out from the rest of the pack.
200 Lawyers on What Career Fulfillment Looks Like Today—and What it Takes to Get There
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Every law school graduate knows the classic career trajectory: snag an associate position at a firm after graduation, work crazy hours to prove your worth, and then, hopefully, make partner and ascend to the next level, financially and otherwise.
But that typical path may be shifting. The rise in emphasis on overall quality of life and career fulfillment has produced a sea change in the next generation of lawyers, who have found the traditional route to success leaves much to be desired.
At least, according to a recent survey we conducted. We asked lawyers across the spectrum—from associates to partners, to in-house counsel for companies to attorneys working in government—questions about their values, where they plan to go next, down to the most basic question of all: Are they happy in their careers?
Looking toward the future, plenty of lawyers laid out a big question mark. One lawyer admitted they enjoyed their day-to-day, but doubted the path ahead: "I like my firm, but I always wonder if one day I will burn out." Another worried about balancing it all: "Will I have a life, and if so, will they pay me enough to keep up with the cost of living?" Their responses circled the same topics' from figuring out their career to money concerns. One respondent basically summed it up: "Where am I going, where do I want to go (career-wise), and can I make it work financially?"
The overall results are pretty fascinating, and provide understanding into how lawyers are defining their careers today, as well as what it means to achieve fulfillment in the current job market.
Facing a Post-MBA Career Crossroads: How To Pull a Successful Career Pivot
You worked hard to earn your MBA and land a prestigious job upon graduation. But after a couple of years in, you might be thinking, Is this all there is? If you're unfulfilled because you're not passionate about the day-to-day reality of your job—don't worry, you're not alone. Not by a long shot.
I've worked with many MBA alumni who faced this challenge. While going with the highest salary offer to relieve some of the financial pressures of their student loan debt made practical sense at first, a taste of financial freedom allows them explore positions better aligned with purpose and interests. Simply put, they focus less about the ROI of their MBAs, and more on finding engaging, yet still lucrative, work. Others focus on getting married and starting families; as their priorities changed, career tracks offering flexibility and work-life balance became more desirable.
If you're a couple of years removed from business school and now at a career crossroads, here's how to develop expert career management skills that will help you find a great next step.
6 Signs You Won't Make Partner at Your Law Firm (And What You Can Do Next)
If you're a young lawyer working at a law firm, you probably envision being named partner someday. But, as you know, the road to partnership can be tough to traverse, even for the most prepared associate—and it's only gotten more rigorous in recent years. Consider this: The number of equity partners at firms has increased by only 27% over the past 15 years, while the number of all other attorneys has increased by nearly 86%. Additionally, the demand for law firm services has been fairly stagnant for the past eight years, with the exception of a brief rise in 2011, according to the 2016 Report on the State of the Legal Market. The increasing competitiveness among firms has resulted in a thinning of the ranks for equity partners, which means a much longer timeline to being named one, if at all.
While you can't predict whether you'll be named partner, you still have significant ability as an associate to steer your career in the right direction. Because it's now more difficult than ever to make partner, you'll want to know if you are on the right track, so you can come up with a game plan to reach that goal more quickly—or decide whether you want to pursue other options.
Our 16 Favorite Podcasts for Your Career and Money
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For people focused on their careers, finances, and relationships, podcasts are the self-help books of the 21st century. They're typically pretty short (most under an hour) and easily accessible, allowing listeners to take in episodes while driving, working out, or whipping up something for dinner.
Because we know how important career success, wealth, and personal connections are to our members, we've handpicked 16 podcasts that offer everything from advice on achieving business success to finance tips to lessons on how to enrich your life.


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Police Investigate Collision Involving Pedestrian
MODESTO – Traffic officials with the Modesto Police Department investigated a collision involving a pedestrian Wednesday night.
The collision happened at about 8:00pm near the intersection of Carver Road and Standiford Avenue. The westbound lanes were closed down by police during the investigation.
Arriving officers located a pedestrian suffering from major injuries, who was then rushed to a hospital. The pedestrian was said to be an adult male.
Officials at the scene said a witness reported the involved vehicle had the green light at the time of the collision. It was unclear if the pedestrian was in the crosswalk or not. The driver of the silver Nissan sedan remained at the scene and cooperated with authorities. Police said impaired driving did not appear to be a factor in the crash.
Police noted a significant issue with collisions involving pedestrians. Officials urge the public to be mindful of pedestrian laws, especially in heavily traveled intersections.
"We have more of these than we should," said Sergeant Patrick Kimes. "People need to use better judgment when crossing the roads."
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Investigators use an imaging device to document Tuesday's collision scene on Fulkerth Road in Turlock.
TURLOCK – A pedestrian was killed during a collision involving a motor vehicle Tuesday afternoon, closing down a busy roadway.
The collision happened at about 3:45pm on Fulkerth Road west of North Tully Road. Traffic was impacted while officers investigated the collision. Westbound Fulkerth Road between Tully Road and Countryside Drive.
On a social media post, the department asked motorists to avoid the area until further notice. Vehicles used a nearby shopping center to navigate around the scene. Eastbound traffic was not affected.
Anyone with information regarding this collision is encouraged to contact Turlock Police.
SALIDA – A motorcyclist was seriously injured Saturday night after being struck by a vehicle that fled the scene.
The crash happened shortly after 10:00pm near the intersection of Kiernan Avenue and Sisk Road. Arriving emergency personnel found a motorcyclist down in the roadway. The rider was rushed to a hospital by ambulance in unknown condition.
Early reports indicated that a vehicle was seen fleeing the area north on Highway 99. A CHP officer located a Mitsubishi vehicle with major front end damage near Hammatt Avenue, but at time of publication it was unclear if there was any relation to the crash.
Anyone with information regarding this crash is encouraged to contact the Modesto CHP office at (209) 545-7440 or Crime stoppers at (209) 521-4636 where callers can remain anonymous.
MODESTO – Emergency personnel responded to a report of a truck that rolled off of Highway 99 down an embankment Tuesday afternoon.
Shortly after 6:00pm police and fire emergency responders were dispatched to the area of Southbound Highway 99 near North 9th Street just south of the Carpenter Road overcrossing. Police and CHP Officers located a truck and trailer that had rolled off the highway. The truck came to stop behind a construction company building against an iron fence.
Police and fire responders worked to remove the driver who was said to be unresponsive. He was placed in an ambulance to be transported to a hospital. Rescuers were performing aid as they left.
The circumstances regarding the crash were under investigation Tuesday.


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Q: Problems with Symbolic summation over unknown values I'm having some real trouble with Mathematica wrongly evaluating various symbolic sums at the moment. I have this function:
$$h_{ij}(x) = \binom{j-1}{i-1}-\sum_{r=0}^{j-x-n-(k+1)/2-1}\binom{r+x+n+(1-k)/2}{i-k}\binom{j-r-x-n-5/2+k/2}{k-2}$$
and I use it in the following double summation:
$$\sum_{1\leq s<t\leq2x+2n+1}h_{is}(x)h_{jt}(x)-h_{it}(x)h_{js}(x)$$
and I want to know what this summation is as a polynomial in $x$. The values $i,j,k,n$ are all integers, and it can be assumed that $x>0$. Here is my Mathematica input for $h(x)$ (with a slight change of variable in the summand):
h[i_, j_, k_, x_, n_] :=
 (Binomial[j - 1, i - 1] -
  2*Sum[Binomial[r + i - k, i - k]*Binomial[j - i - r + k - 2, k - 2],
  {r, x + n + (k + 1)/2 + 1 - i, j - i}])

and here is my code for the double summation:
summ[i_, j_, k_, x_, n_] :=
 Sum[h[i, s, k, x, n]*h[j, t, k, x, n] - h[i, t, k, x, n]*h[j, s, k, x, n],
  {t, 2, 2*x + 2*n + 1}, {s, 1, t - 1}]

Now the thing that is really bothering me is a discrepency between evaluating these functions where $x$ is undetermined. I know from other calculations that when $x=1,i=1,j=3,k=3$ and $n=2$, the function summ should return 96, which it does. However if leave $x$ undetermined I get the following output:
summ[1,3,3,x,2]

1/3 (x + 2) (x + 3) (2 x + 5)^2

Which gives 196 when $x=1$, which is a) in disagreement with my other calculations; and b) in disagreement with Mathematica's answer for when I specify $x=1$. Please can someone help me understand why this happens? It's driving me up the wall.

A: Selecting a regularization option (ok, this is a hack), e.g.,
SetOptions[Sum, Regularization -> "Abel"]

will prevent sums such as
summ[1,3,3,x,2]

from being (incorrectly) evaluated. To determine the correct closed form for these cases, one can then use interpolation, e.g.,
Factor@InterpolatingPolynomial[Table[{x, summ[1, 3, 3, x, 2]}, {x, 20}], x]

1/6 (x + 2)^2 (x + 3) (5 x + 11)

which gives the correct result for all x.
It may be useful to provide more context on the problem, to see if the issues you're facing here can be avoided (e.g. by using generating function methods).

A: I've solved this by expanding out all of the summands and playing around with the ranges over the various summations. I had to analyse which values of k, n, s and t actually contributed to the sum, and change the summation ranges accordingly for each individual summand in the expanded expression for summ.

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"A Great Resource for 5th Grade Math, Science, Reading"
26 what tool is used to measure weight?
Weight is measured using a spring balance. Weight is many times confused with mass. Mass can be measured with a simple balance. If you were to use a balance on ground and on the top of a mountain you will get different results.
That is why a spring balance is needed to measure weight which takes into account not only mass but also gravitational pull.
24 Does weight change based on gravity?
Weight changes based on gravity. A object is a bit lighter on the top of a tall mountain. An object is much leighter on the surface of a moon. In fact the object has almost no weight in empty space. The object still has mass to it but no weight because there is nothing pulling the object.
Weight is a measure how heavy something is. How heavy something is depends on two things. One of them is gravity. Something that is heavy on earth might be lighter on the moon as moon has less gravity than earth.
The other one weight depends on is how much mass there is in the object. More mass then more weight.
Because weight is a measure of both mass and gravity one uses a "spring balance" to measure weight. A "spring balance" tells us how much force is applied on the string. This force is proportional to the mass and also the gravity and hence is a measure of its weight.
12 what kind of tools can you use to measure physical properties?
10 what are physical properties of an element?
Here are some physical properties of an element like Iron or Gold.
Typically physical properties can be measured with out changing the object.
08 what are chemical properties of an element?
Chemical properties of an element describes how it mixes or combines with other elements to form new materials.
An element is identified by its properties. There are two kinds of properties. Chemical properties and Physical Properties.
Most elements are metals. In fact 3 out of every 4 elements are metals. Out of the 102 or so elements, about 75 are metals.
Metals are smooth, shiny, bendable, and conduct heat and electricity well.
Metals are shiny, bendable, and conduct heat and electricity. Iron, copper, Silver, and Gold are all metals.
18 Can metals conduct heat and electricity?
Metals conduct heat and electricity well. Copper is an excellent conductor of electricity. The electrical wiring in a house is made with copper.
20 why do you think pans are made of metals?
We use pans to cook. Because of this pans must be able to trasmit heat well to the food. Pans are also smooth and shiny and hard. These are all properties of metals.
04 what we see in the world, are they pure elements or combination of elements?
Most things in the universe are a combination of other elements. For example water is a combination of 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. When iron mixes with oxygen in the air it gets rusted.
There are only 102 known elements as we know of today in the universe. Everything else in the universe is a combination of these elements. For example iron is an element and so is gold. Hydrogen and Oxygen are also basic elements.
28 What is a "combination" reaction?
Replacement Chemical Reaction: Molecules instead of joining or decomposing simply get rearranged changing partners like in a dance.
30 What is a "replacement" reaction?
Combination Chemical Reaction: Smaller molecules join together to become a larger molecule like hydrogen and oxygen coming together to become water.
26 What is a "decomposition" reaction?
Decomposition Chemical Reaction: A large molecule gets broken down into smaller molecules or atoms like water breaking down to become hydrogen and oxygen.
1. Decomposition Chemical Reaction: A large molecule gets broken down into smaller molecules or atoms like water breaking down to become hydrogen and oxygen.
2. Combination Chemical Reaction: Smaller molecules join together to become a larger molecule like hydrogen and oxygen coming together to become water.
3. Replacement Chemical Reaction: Molecules instead of joining or decomposing simply get rearranged changing partners like in a dance.
22 How do you test for acids or bases?
You can use and identification paper strip. When this strip is dipped in acid it will turn red. It will turn purple for a base.
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Liquids or solutions like lemon juice and vinegar are called acids.
Cleaning liquids like bleach and ammonia are called bases.
Liquids like water are considered neighther acids nor bases but neutral.
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Carbon is an important element of polymers.
Nylon is a man made replacement material for silk. Like silk it is smooth, light yet strong and durable. Carbon is an important element of Nylon. There are other man made materials like Nylon. Plastics are another example. These materials are called Polymers. Polymers have their molecular structure arranged into long connecting chains like a long train with attached trailers. This chaining gives them their strength.
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Q: Is ORM an Anti-Pattern? I had a very stimulating and interessting discussion with a colleague about ORM and it's Pros and Cons. In my opinion, an ORM is useful only in the rarest cases. At least in my experience.
But I don't want to list my own arguments at this time. So I ask you, what do you think about ORM? What are the Pros and the Cons?

A: Very broad question.. I wrote something about ORM/PHP here. So IMHO I disagree with you, it should be the other way round. Don't use it in rare cases..

A: Your question is very broad and ambiguous. That reminds me of the quote about capitalism being bad, but nothing better is known.
Just to briefly express my opinion on this topic:
Actually ORM helps you to quickly implement a data-base connectivity and implement your application logic without paying much attention to the actual connection to database. You are allowed to use the entities of your programming language while implementing the logic and you don't have to care about how these are then translated into the relational model of database. This is the main advantage for me and that is why ORM is so popular -- you can develop a simple data-driven application in just a couple of hours.
So, ORM, as many other technologies like managed code, garbage collection, generics etc. is optimized for developer productivity, e.g. to minimize the number of developer hours (that are normally quite expensive) needed to implement certain functionality.
As long as you have other criteria that may override the above mentioned one, like performance, application size, flexibility of the logic, network throughput, code size (both of the source and compiled) ORM is not your friend anymore. But since this is not a common scenario people usually don't care and take ORM for their applications.


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HomeWashington State University Achieves Creation of Elusive Negative Mass
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Matter can have positive and negative mass
Most of us, including non-scientists, have a basic knowledge of the laws of motion. We observe this every day, when we throw a ball to our child or drive our car down the street. We all understand that if we push something, it moves away from us. Whether or not we know that this is called Newton's Second Law of Motion is irrelevant because the matter will continue to behave in this way regardless.
We never tend to think of matter as having positive and negative mass and as a result, we tend to think of all matter as behaving in the same way. When we delve a little deeper though, we find it is in fact possible to create matter that defies convention.
To achieve negative mass you need Einstein's help
What scientists at Washington State University have created is something truly bizarre, known as 'negative mass.' In this case, when pushed, instead of accelerating away from the force as we would expect, the object actually moves towards the force.
Involved in the team was Michael Forbes, an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University and also an Affiliate Assistant Professor of the University of Washington. Forbes explained that this process of negative mass is extremely rare, particularly in a relatively stable form.
The research, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, explains that in order to achieve the elusive state of negative mass, the team used something which is called a Bose-Einstein condensate. This state was first theorized as early as 1924, by none other than, of course, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose. In this state, atoms are cooled to nearly absolute zero. The atoms of choice for Forbes and his team were rubidium. Once super cooled, the rubidium atoms travel extremely slowly, eventually forming something which is known as a superfluid. The superfluid flows without losing any energy and also behaves like a wave.
Experimental TOF images of the effectively 1D expanding SOC BEC for expansion times of 0, 10, and 14 ms. (phys.org)
Next, the team, which includes Peter Engels, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University, used lasers to slow the particles down. This also had the effect of making them colder. Any particles which did not follow this pattern and remained hot were allowed to escape, which also cooled the remaining matter even further.
Once this Bose-Einstein condensate state was achieved, the next stage was for the researchers to apply another laser which altered the way the rubidium atoms were spinning. Now, amazingly, when the rubidium was moving fast enough, it acted as though it had negative mass. Forbes said "once you push, it accelerates backwards. It looks like the rubidium hits an invisible wall."
The stability of this negative mass is impressive
Whilst negative mass has been achieved previously, what's different this time is the incredible level of control the researchers have been able to achieve this time. Michael Forbes said "what's a first here in the exquisite control we have over the nature of this negative mass, without any other complications."
This new level of control means that researchers can now use this technique to study negative mass in more detail, but also to potentially provide us with a greater insight into other phenomena including black holes, dark matter and neutron stars.
Top image: Scientists create new method to pair Rubidium atom (frenchtribune) & Experimental TOF images of the effectively 1D expanding SOC BEC for expansion times of 0, 10, and 14 ms. (phys.org)
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Emma qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Equine Science in 2003 and has had a passion for horses since a young age. She continued her academic career with an MSc in Applied Marine Science, gained in 2004. Emma's main scientific focus was the navigational techniques of sea turtles and whether they use the acoustics of the surf-zone as a cue for nesting. She then worked for a sea turtle conservation project on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica before travelling to New Zealand where she worked as a Mari...Read More
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Choose a revenue management solution that handles your customer service.
When you're running a large fitness center or gym, you might have anywhere from a few hundred members to a few thousand. In fact, some of the larger gyms in the country that have locations all across the country will have hundreds of thousands of members. Each of these members is paying a membership due, either annually, semi-annually, or monthly. For some gyms, they'll have members paying their dues in all three ways, which can get rather complicated. If the gym were to rely on an accountant to process all of those different types of memberships and all of that volume, they would run into huge problems. It's simply not possible or feasible for an individual to accurately process that kind of volume.
That's why the vast majority of gyms turn to a revenue management solution. Such a solution is a form of software that processes all of the gym memberships itself. These solutions are automated. All the gym has to do is have their customer service representative input the necessary information when someone signs up, i.e. how much the membership is, when it's going to be debited, and the billing address, and then the system takes over from there. It will automatically process that new member's payment information on the correct date each month, and then the gym will be able to collect that revenue and spend it accordingly.
Although the most important and primary function of such a payment solution is to accurately debit each member's account on the correct date, a great revenue management solution will take things a step further. Such a solution will not only process payments each month, but it will also work to retain members who the solution has identified as possibly terminating their membership in the near future. The solution will be able to determine how often someone is visiting the gym, and from that data will be able to identify which people might end their membership. It will send those people an email with information about why the gym is so great in an attempt to retain them.
An outstanding revenue management solution will also handle all of the customer service requests coming from members. When there's a dispute about a membership charge or a question about how membership works, the revenue management solution provider, not the gym, will handle those requests and answer those questions. This makes life a great deal easier for the gym, because they're not bogged down with membership questions all day. Instead, their staff members can focus their attention on the people who are actually in the gym. Thus, a great revenue management solution will process your payments, answer questions that members might have about those payments or their membership, and even try and retain members who the system believes might be leaving soon based on their number of visits to the gym.
That's precisely what solutions like Debitsuccess offered by TSG do. They take revenue management solution to a whole other level, which benefits the gyms that use their revenue management software solution.
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As I've been progressing on the sous vide controller, I've been playing with the LCD 16×2 character display screen that I'm going to put on it. It's a negative display, RGB backlighted steal of a deal from Amazon.
In this process I got interested in ways to drive the LCD, things like using shift registers and even this amazing Shift1 system to control a whole LCD through a shift register with 1. single. pin. Rather than download various hacked libraries from different sources, I wanted a "standard" library that yet supported all these methods. I wanted support for latching shift registers, registers without latches, and of course shift1, all in the "standard" lib.
So, I did some minor refactoring of the arduino core LiquidCrystal library and extended it with a few more constructor options. You can pass it 3 pins to use a latching shift register where everything goes through the register using just shiftdata, shiftclock, and shiftlatch. You can also pass it a separate enable pin, for 4 pins total, which should speed things up marginally as it doesn't have to shift the whole register for each LCD enable clock edge up and down. And of course you need that enable pin to use a non-latching register (or a latching register with latch tied to clock), and you can pass 255 as the shiftlatch pin and the library won't try to use another pin for it.
Then there's my favorite, the callback function method. You simply define a function that takes three uint8_t types, value, mode, and nbits. The value parameter is the bits the library wants to pound into the LCD, the mode is what it wants the RS pin set to, and nbits is just somewhat of a sanity check, but you can safely ignore it if your function assumes the same nbits that you passed to the constructor. You could write a single function that can do either 4 bit or 8 bit mode, and checks nbits to do either one.
Here's an example of just how easy it is to use the callback, as well as a link to the github project. If you just use the shift1 library, your custom callback can easily call into the shift1 library to drive your LCD, no need for hacking shift1 directly into the LCD library!


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These knife-wielding criminals have been taken off Wales' streets
Here are some of the most shocking cases of knife crime we've seen at court in the last year
Liz DayCourts Reporter
Last week three drug dealers were locked up for their roles in the killing of a 32-year-old dad who was stabbed and left to bleed.
Theirs was one of dozens of knife crime cases we've covered at court in the last year involving terrifying weapons from kitchen knives to ninja swords, hunting knives to machetes.
Knife crime has risen to a record high in Wales, with police recording 1,375 serious crimes involving knives or sharp instruments in the country in 2018/19 - up 20% from the year before.
Last year there were seven murders using a knife and 27 knifepoint rapes or sexual assaults.
Here are some of the most shocking cases of knife crime we've seen at court in the last 12 months.
James Jones, John Phillips and Harvey Huchet
James Jones, John Phillips, and Harvey Huchet (Image: South Wales Police)
Anthony Winter was 32 when he was subjected to a "ferocious beating" then stabbed in woodland in Cardiff and left to die.
Cardiff Crown Court heard he was killed after getting into debt to drug dealers who lured him to a flat in Newport where they punched, kicked and stamped on him.
Sentencing his killers, Mrs Justice Jefford said: "How Anthony Winter's life ended was horrific and cruel."
Mr Winter was found lying in a pool of blood in Cath Cobb Woodlands on the morning of November 22 last year.
James Jones, 19, from Bedwas Close in St Mellons, admitted murder and was sentenced to custody for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
"Ringleader" John Phillips, 28, from Baird Close in Bettws, Newport, was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 22 years.
Harvey Huchet, 17, from Chapel Wood in Llanedeyrn, was also found guilty of manslaughter and sent to a young offender institution for 12 years.
Killers of adoring dad Anthony Winter locked up
Tyler Partridge, Leighton Drew and Kyle Richards
Kyle Richards (left), Tyler Partridge (centre) and Leighton Drew (right) (Image: South Wales Police)
A man was left bleeding after being wounded with a machete as three robbers likened to "a pack of wolves" stole his cash, phone and keys.
Kevin Gamble was left with a deep cut to his hand when he put his arm up to protect himself during the unprovoked attack in the middle of the afternoon.
Speaking at Cardiff Crown Court, Judge Eleri Rees described the weapon which had a 15in blade - shown in the video above - as "fearsome".
Tyler Partridge and Leighton Drew admitted robbery, while Kyle Richards pleaded guilty to robbery and possessing an offensive weapon.
The incident happened just after 3pm on May 15 on Everard Street in Barry.
Richards, 28, from Aneurin Road in Barry, was jailed for five and a half years.
Partridge, 25, from Pontalun Close in Barry, and Drew, 27, who does not have a fixed address were jailed for four and a half years. An order was made for the machete to be destroyed.
Robbers armed with machete went after victim 'like a pack of wolves'
Kane Burns
Kane Burns (Image: South Wales Police)
The weapon found by police hidden in woodland (Image: South Wales Police)
A man killed his victim with a 2ft-long ninja sword before burning his body and burying it in a shallow grave in woodland in Cardiff.
Kane Burns fractured Mohamed Megherbi's skull with the weapon and then went to buy matches, fuel and a shovel in a bid to cover up the evidence of his crime.
Speaking at Cardiff Crown Court, prosecutor Michael Jones QC said the steps the defendant took to conceal the body were "extreme".
A witness who lived directly below Burns' flat in Pennsylvania, Llanedeyrn, heard an argument in the early hours of October 10 last year.
Burns, 26, of Pennsylvania in Llanedeyrn, denied murder and pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of manslaughter on the second day of his trial. He was jailed for 10 and a half years.
Kane Burns jailed after fatal fight which ended with killer buying petrol, bleach and a shovel
Steve Baxter
Steve Baxter (Image: Dyfed-Powys Police)
A killer stabbed his next-door neighbour through the heart before spending a month on the run.
Steve Baxter was convicted of murdering granddad Simon Clark.
The incident happened at Grove Caravan Park in Pendine, Carmarthenshire, on September 27 last year.
Mr Clark's body was found the following day and Baxter was found hiding on Marros Beach in Carmarthenshire a full month after the incident.
Baxter, 52, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years.
Killer who knifed next-door neighbour through the heart jailed for life
Daniel Roberts, Christopher Griffiths, Awez Jamshaid and Saif Shahzad
Clockwise from top left: Daniel Roberts, Christopher Griffiths, Saif Shahzad, Awez Jamshaid (Image: South Wales Police)
Three "cowardly" murderers were locked up for life for a vicious knife attack which killed a 20-year-old man on a residential street in Cardiff.
Drug dealer Daniel Roberts, his flatmate Christopher Griffiths and driver Awez Jamshaid were all handed life sentences for the murder of Malaciah Thomas that left his family devastated.
In a victim impact statement read out at Cardiff Crown Court, his sister Ashanti Thomas said it was "impossible" to describe the effect the killing had on the family.
The incident happened on Holmesdale Street and Corporation Road in Grangetown just before 2am on July 23 last year.
Roberts, 20, who does not have a permanent address, initially denied murder, but changed his plea part-way through the trial. He was sentenced to custody for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
Griffiths, 30, from Newport Road in Roath, denied murder but was found guilty by a jury after trial. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
Jamshaid, 19, from Moore Close in Ely, also denied murder and was found guilty by the jury. He was sentenced to custody for life with a minimum term of 11 years.
Shahzad, 19, from Fidlas Road in Cyncoed, denied murder and was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to seven years and six months in a young offender institution.
Three 'cowardly' murderers locked up for life for vicious knife attack in Cardiff
Gemma Janes
Gemma Janes (Image: South Wales Police)
Armed police were called when a woman took two knives and a Samurai sword to a playing field.
Gemma Janes – who had previously been convicted of a New Year's Day knife attack against members of her own family – was found with the weapons near a community hall.
Police were called to Pontardawe on July 2, 2018 following reports of a domestic incident.
The defendant was suffering a drug-induced psychotic episode when police found her in the park with a kitchen knife, Stanley knife and 10in Samurai sword, a court heard.
Janes, 27, of March Hywel, Pontardawe, admitted three counts of possessing an offensive weapon and two counts of possessing a Class B drug. She was jailed for 16 months.
Armed police called when woman took Samurai sword and knives to playing field
Kalib Facey and Philomena McDonagh
Drugs runner Damian Hill was murdered by addicts Kalib Facey and Philomena McDonagh who stabbed him in the heart with a kitchen knife in their desperate bid to get drugs.
He died of blood loss after the blade was plunged 14cm into his chest puncturing his lung and heart.
In a statement read out at Cardiff Crown Court, his aunt Dot Patterson said: "The heartbreak we have endured since his senseless murder will live with us for the rest of our lives."
The court heard the "brutal" attack happened on Oakfield Street in Roath, Cardiff, in the early hours of May 27, 2018.
Facey, 19, who did not have a fixed address, was sentenced to custody for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
McDonagh, 35, who did not have a fixed address, was sentenced to imprisonment for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Family's horror over 'brutal and savage' murder of dad-of-two who was stabbed and left to bleed to death
Lisa Savage
Lisa Savage (Image: British Transport Police)
The sustained knife attack by Lisa Savage was caught on camera
A woman tried to murder her friend on a train in a "frenzied and sustained" attack with a knife.
Lisa Savage, who was fixated with programmes about serial killers, stabbed her friend's face and neck repeatedly leaving other passengers terrified.
She pulled a knife out of her handbag and stabbed her friend Sarah Hayton over and over again for four minutes.
The attack happened on an Arriva Trains Wales service at around 11pm on Sunday, April 15, 2018 as it approached Chepstow railway station.
Savage, 42, from Weoley Park Road in Birmingham, admitted attempted murder and two counts of possessing a knife.
She was jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years and four months.
The moment a woman repeatedly stabbed a friend on a train leaving passengers terrified
Rueben Brathwaite
Rueben Brathwaite (Image: Dyfed-Powys Police)
A teenager was jailed for life after he admitted murdering a dog rescuer who was killed with a samurai sword at her remote farmhouse.
The body of 54-year-old Fiona Scourfield was found at Broadmoor Farm, near Laugharne in Carmarthenshire, on March 6, 2018.
Rueben Brathwaite, her 17-year-old stepson, admitted her murder in July last year when he appeared in the dock at Swansea Crown Court.
The court heard the killer had become fascinated with murder and visited a graphic American website showing images of "killings of some brutality".
Brathwaite was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
Teenager murdered stepmum with samurai sword and axe then tried to post pictures online
James O'Driscoll
James O'Driscoll (Image: South Wales Police)
A dad-of-two plunged a hunting knife into a man's chest during an argument about a drugs debt and left him needing emergency heart surgery.
Cardiff Crown Court heard James O'Driscoll, 20, lunged at his victim with the "Rambo" knife and inflicted life-threatening injuries and permanent scarring.
Judge Eleri Rees said: "He could have easily killed this man."
The court heard the incident occurred in the Ely area of Cardiff on April 16.
O'Driscoll, from Caerau Road in Caerau , Cardiff, admitted possessing an offensive weapon and wounding with intent.
He was sentenced to eight years' detention in a young offender institution.
Dad-of-two plunged 'Rambo-style' hunting knife into man's chest
Jamie Challis
Jamie Challis (Image: Facebook)
A man stabbed his former friend near the heart with a 2in blade in a "revenge attack" in the street following a fight about £10.
Jamie Challis, 20, who was showing off to a crowd that gathered in Newport city centre, left his wounded victim to collapse against a lamp post bleeding from his chest.
Sentencing him at Cardiff Crown Court, Judge Patrick Curran QC said: "The position of the wound was close to the heart. It could easily have killed him."
The court heard the incident occurred in Griffin Street in Newport at around 3pm on Friday, April 13.
Challis, from Medway Road in Bettws, admitted wounding with intent, intimidating a witness, and taking a car without the owner's consent.
He was jailed for five years and disqualified from driving for eight months from the time of his release.
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Comanche peoples are Native Americans who lived in an area called the Comancheria. This is where Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma and most of Northern and Southern Texas are today. There once were as many as 20,000 Comanches. Today the Comanche Nation has 10,000 members, most in Oklahoma (centered at Lawton) and the rest in Texas, California, and New Mexico. The Comanche speak a language of their own, the Comanche language that is related to other Native American ones, called Uto-Aztecan language family.
The name Comanche was given by the Mexicans and it was the word the Comanche used to call them, komantsia (enemy, foreigner). But the Comanches' call themselves Numunuu, meaning "human being" or "the People". They were very good warriors and fought the white settlers and army for many years until they gave up in 1875.
The woman in the family made the teepees. They gathered wild potatoes, fruits, nuts and berries. The woman in the family cooked, cleaned and made their clothing. The clothing was made out either bear, deer, bison, buffalo, wolves or coyotes.
↑ "2011 Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory" (PDF). Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
Wolff, Gerald W., and Cash, Joseph W. (1976) The Comanche People Phoenix, Arizona: Indian Tribal Series.
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package sumus.mobile.sopt_7;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.location.Geocoder;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

import retrofit.Call;
import retrofit.Callback;
import retrofit.Response;
import retrofit.Retrofit;
import sumus.mobile.sopt_7.LocationService.GpsInfo;
import sumus.mobile.sopt_7.Models.FriendRankFood;
import sumus.mobile.sopt_7.component.ApplicationController;
import sumus.mobile.sopt_7.connect.ConnectActivity;
import sumus.mobile.sopt_7.network.NetworkService;

public class WithFreidnRankActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener{

    private NetworkService networkService;
    String myId,friendId;
    String results;
    TextView foodFriendReusltTv;
    TextView firstName,secondName,thirdName;
    ImageButton firstFood,secondFood,thirdFood;
    String[] spChars = { "=", "{", "}"};
    public  String rankResult[]={"","",""};
    private GpsInfo gps;

    double latitude , longitude ;

    int[] imageArray = {R.drawable.f_1,R.drawable.f_2,R.drawable.f_3,R.drawable.f_4,R.drawable.f_5,R.drawable.f_6,R.drawable.f_7,R.drawable.f_8,R.drawable.f_9,R.drawable.f_10,
            R.drawable.f_11,R.drawable.f_12,R.drawable.f_13,R.drawable.f_14,R.drawable.f_15,R.drawable.f_16,R.drawable.f_17,R.drawable.f_18,R.drawable.f_19,R.drawable.f_20,
            R.drawable.f_21,R.drawable.f_22,R.drawable.f_23,R.drawable.f_24,R.drawable.f_25,R.drawable.f_26,R.drawable.f_27,R.drawable.f_28,R.drawable.f_29,R.drawable.f_30,
            R.drawable.f_31,R.drawable.f_32,R.drawable.f_33,R.drawable.f_34,R.drawable.f_35,R.drawable.f_36,R.drawable.f_37,R.drawable.f_38,R.drawable.f_39,R.drawable.f_40,
            R.drawable.f_41,R.drawable.f_42,R.drawable.f_43,R.drawable.f_44,R.drawable.f_45,R.drawable.f_46,R.drawable.f_47,R.drawable.f_48,R.drawable.f_49,R.drawable.f_50,
            R.drawable.f_51,R.drawable.f_52,R.drawable.f_53,R.drawable.f_54,R.drawable.f_55,R.drawable.f_56,R.drawable.f_57,R.drawable.f_58,R.drawable.f_59,R.drawable.f_60,
            R.drawable.f_61,R.drawable.f_62,R.drawable.f_63,R.drawable.f_64};

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_with_freidn_rank);

        setTitle("친구와 비교결과");

        networkService = ApplicationController.getInstance().getNetworkService();

        firstName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.firstName);
        secondName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.secondName);
        thirdName = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.thirdName);

        firstFood = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.firstFood);
        secondFood = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.secondFood);
        thirdFood = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.thirdFood);

        firstFood.setOnClickListener(this);
        secondFood.setOnClickListener(this);
        thirdFood.setOnClickListener(this);

        Intent intent = getIntent();
        friendId  = intent.getStringExtra("friendId").toString();
        Log.d("SOPT", "friendId : " + friendId);

        myId =  ((ConnectActivity)ConnectActivity.mContext).mPref.getString("apps", "default");
        Log.d("SOPT", "myId : " + myId);

        HashMap<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<>();
        parameters.put("myId", myId); //'result'라는 parameter에는 15를
        parameters.put("friendId", friendId);

        Call<List<FriendRankFood>> contentCall = networkService.getFriendResult(parameters);
        contentCall.enqueue(new Callback<List<FriendRankFood>>() {

            @Override
            public void onResponse(Response<List<FriendRankFood>> response, Retrofit retrofit) {
                if (response.isSuccess()) {

                    List<FriendRankFood> friendRankFoods = response.body();

                    Log.d("SOPT", "  friendRankFoods.get(0).food_name : " + friendRankFoods.get(0).food_name);
                    Log.d("SOPT", "  friendRankFoods.get(1).food_name : " + friendRankFoods.get(1).food_name);
                    Log.d("SOPT", "  friendRankFoods.get(2).food_name : " + friendRankFoods.get(2).food_name);
                   // Log.d("SOPT", "  friendRankFoods.get(2).food_index : " + friendRankFoods.get(0).food_index);
//                    rankResult[0] = foodname[ friendRankFoods.get(0).food_index];
//                    rankResult[1]  = foodname[friendRankFoods.get(1).food_index];
//                    rankResult[2] = foodname[ friendRankFoods.get(2).food_index];
                    rankResult[0] = friendRankFoods.get(0).food_name.toString();
                    rankResult[1]  =friendRankFoods.get(1).food_name.toString();
                    rankResult[2] = friendRankFoods.get(2).food_name.toString();

                    //foodFriendReusltTv.setText(results);
                    Log.d("SOPT", "########  rankResult[0]: " + rankResult[0] + " rankResult[1]: " + rankResult[1] + " rankResult[2]: " + rankResult[2]);
                  //  firstName.setText( rankResult[0]);
                  //  secondName.setText( rankResult[1]);
                  //  thirdName.setText(rankResult[2]);
                    firstFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(imageArray[friendRankFoods.get(0).food_index]));
                    secondFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(imageArray[friendRankFoods.get(1).food_index]));
                    thirdFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(imageArray[friendRankFoods.get(2).food_index]));

                } else {
                    int statusCode = response.code();
                    Log.d("SOPT", "응답코드: " + statusCode);

                    firstName.setText("");
                    secondName.setText("");
                    thirdName.setText("");
                    firstFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.alpha));
                    secondFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.alpha));
                    thirdFood.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.alpha));
                    firstFood.setClickable(false);
                    secondFood.setClickable(false);
                    thirdFood.setClickable(false);

                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"비교 결과가 존재하지 않습니다",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }

            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(Throwable t) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "아이디나 비밀번호를 확인해주세요", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                Log.d("SOPT", "에러내용: " + t.getMessage());
                //
            }

        });

    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        String foodnames = "";
        Intent intent;
        switch (v.getId())
        {
            case R.id.firstFood:
                foodnames = firstName.getText().toString();

                gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                // GPS 사용유무 가져오기
                if (gps.isGetLocation()) {

                    gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                    Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(this);

                    latitude = gps.getLatitude();
                    longitude = gps.getLongitude();

                    Log.d("SOPT", "위치 x: " + latitude + " / 위치 y: " + longitude);

                    intent = new Intent(WithFreidnRankActivity.this, RestaurantActivity.class);
                    intent.putExtra("menu",foodnames);
                    startActivity(intent);

                } else {
                    // GPS 를 사용할수 없으므로
                    gps.showSettingsAlert();
                }

                break;
            case R.id.secondFood:
                foodnames = secondName.getText().toString();
                gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                // GPS 사용유무 가져오기
                if (gps.isGetLocation()) {

                    gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                    Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(this);

                    latitude = gps.getLatitude();
                    longitude = gps.getLongitude();

                    Log.d("SOPT", "위치 x: " + latitude + " / 위치 y: " + longitude);

                    intent = new Intent(WithFreidnRankActivity.this, RestaurantActivity.class);
                    intent.putExtra("menu",foodnames);
                    startActivity(intent);

                } else {
                    // GPS 를 사용할수 없으므로
                    gps.showSettingsAlert();
                }

                break;
            case R.id.thirdFood:
                foodnames = thirdName.getText().toString();
                gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                // GPS 사용유무 가져오기
                if (gps.isGetLocation()) {

                    gps = new GpsInfo(WithFreidnRankActivity.this);
                    Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(this);

                    latitude = gps.getLatitude();
                    longitude = gps.getLongitude();

                    Log.d("SOPT", "위치 x: " + latitude + " / 위치 y: " + longitude);

                    intent = new Intent(WithFreidnRankActivity.this, RestaurantActivity.class);
                    intent.putExtra("menu",foodnames);
                    startActivity(intent);

                } else {
                    // GPS 를 사용할수 없으므로
                    gps.showSettingsAlert();
                }

                break;
        }
    }
}

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