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Maryland high court limits prosecution's disclosure requirements
Judges draw distinction between state's attorneys' offices, jails
By: Steve Lash	Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer	December 23, 2021
"A correctional facility, like other state agencies including mental health facilities or juvenile detention facilities, do not operate for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting cases," Judge Michele D. Hotten wrote for the court's majority. "Nor does a correctional facility, unlike a prosecutor or a police officer, report to the state's attorney." (The Daily Record/File Photo)
Prosecutors need not disclose to defense attorneys the possibility that their accused clients' jailhouse telephone conversations were recorded, a divided Maryland high court ruled Tuesday.
The Court of Appeals said Maryland's detention facilities operate independently of the state's attorneys' offices and are not involved in criminal investigations. Thus, recordings of telephone conversations to and from the jail are not "in the possession or control the prosecutor" and therefore not subject to the prosecution's obligation to disclose under the state's procedural Rule 4-263, the high court said.
"A correctional facility, like other state agencies including mental health facilities or juvenile detention facilities, do not operate for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting cases," Judge Michele D. Hotten wrote for the court's majority. "Nor does a correctional facility, unlike a prosecutor or a police officer, report to the state's attorney."
The high court issued its decision in upholding the illegal gun possession conviction of Eric Antonio Alarcon-Ozoria, whose recorded jailhouse phone conversations were not sought by the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office until just days before trial and were disclosed to the defense on the morning of the proceeding.
The Court of Appeals rejected Alarcon-Ozoria's argument through counsel that the recordings should have been excluded from trial because the jail is essentially an arm of the state, thus placing the prosecutors in constructive possession of the recordings much earlier and establishing the prosecution's duty to disclose their potential existence at that point.
Counsel also argued in vain that the prosecution would have discovered the recordings earlier by simply asking jail officials, while the defense would have needed a court order in the absence of the required disclosure.
"We are not persuaded by the claim of petitioner (Alarcon-Ozoria) that requesting the records via email, as opposed to subpoena pursuant to Maryland (rules), demonstrates preferential treatment, thereby establishing a reporting relationship between the correctional facility and the state's attorney," Hotten wrote.
"If information sharing between state entities without a subpoena established a reporting relationship, then there would be no limit to the state's attorney's reporting obligations," Hotten added. "Petitioner's interpretation would significantly expand the scope of the rule … that mandatory disclosure only extends to the state's attorney's office, its support staff, and agents who regularly participate in the investigation or prosecution of a case, or who have participated in the specific case."
Hotten was joined in the opinion by Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty and Judges Robert N. McDonald, Brynja M. Booth and Jonathan Biran.
In dissent, Judge Shirley M. Watts said the prosecution's obligation to disclose to the defense expressly includes a due diligence obligation to discover "all written and oral statements of the defendant … that relate to the crime charged," which would include jailhouse communications.
"The majority's interpretation of Rule 4-263 would allow the state's attorney to obtain a strategic and indeed unfair advantage by delaying (including inadvertently) in having information that is required to be disclosed under the rule come into its possession and control," Watts wrote.
"First, under the majority's reading, a state's attorney who knows of jail calls constituting statements of the defendant would not be in violation of Rule 4-263(c)(1) by waiting, as the state's attorney did here, until shortly before trial to request the calls and disclosing to the defense the existence of the calls on the first day of trial," Watts added. "Next, would the state's attorney also be permitted to delay until the day before trial interviewing a witness known to possess exculpatory information and disclosing the first day of trial exculpatory information gained from the witness because the information did not allegedly fall within the scope of the state's attorney's due diligence obligation until the time of the interview?"
The prosecution requested Alarcon-Ozoria's recorded telephone conversations on July 31, 2019, in advance of his trial scheduled for five days later. The prosecution received the approximately 200 recordings on Aug. 2, 2019, and disclosed them to the defense on Aug. 5, 2019.
In light of the late disclosure, the presiding Montgomery County Circuit Court judge barred the prosecution from playing any recordings until the second day of trial to enable the defense to review them.
In one of the recordings, Alarcon-Ozoria responded affirmatively when the person on the call made reference to Alarcon-Ozoria's firing of the weapon in a Silver Spring alley.
The recording, which the prosecution introduced to show Alarcon-Ozoria's consciousness of guilt, was accompanied at trial by a surveillance video and eyewitness testimony of the shooting.
The jury found Alarcon-Ozoria guilty of illegal gun possession. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with all but 12 years suspended and five years' supervised probation.
The intermediate Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction, prompting Alarcon-Ozoria to seek review by the high court.
In ruling for the state, the high court said any error in admitting the calls at trial would have been harmless anyway in light of the damning video and eyewitness testimony.
Judge Sally D. Adkins, in a concurring opinion, said she agreed with Watts that the prosecution "waited too long" before requesting the recordings but added that any error in admitting the calls at trial was harmless in light of the video and eyewitness testimony.
Adkins, a retired judge, was sitting by special assignment.
Neither Elizabeth Ertle, Alarcon-Ozoria's appellate lawyer, nor the Maryland attorney general's office immediately returned messages Thursday seeking comment on the high court's ruling. Ertle is with Covington & Burling LLP in Washington.
The Court of Appeals rendered its decision in Eric Alarcon-Ozoria v. State of Maryland, No. 4, September Term 2021.
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One thing I was talking about was the importance of the monthly close in January relative to the monthly middle band. Historically, this has been very important resistance after a serious bear move has started, and since 1957, every clear monthly close back above the monthly middle band at this stage has always delivered a retest of the all time high before any serious lower lows were made. We saw that clear monthly close back above that monthly middle band at the end of January. That high retest has sometimes made the second high of a large double top of course, although on many occasions, that has been the start of a new leg up.
One caveat here is that Stan is of the view that the nature of the market may have changed since the 2009 in that Fed interventions in the market have since been frequent. I'm keeping an open mind but respecting this statistic until demonstrated otherwise.
What I would add though is that the most bullish thing that we could see here IMO on the bigger picture would be a retest of the December low into a test of the rising support trendline from the 2011 low. If that trendline held the next obvious target would then become the corresponding rising megaphone resistance trendline, currently in the 3150 – 3200 area and obviously rising. Food for thought.
On the weekly chart, the key resistance level here is the weekly middle band in the 2730 area. You can see from the chart comments last week on the weekly and daily charts that I was flagging the weekly middle band and 200dma (2740 area) as the next big resistance area, and these are holding so far.
On the daily chart, the high this week was a couple of handles below the 200dma, and this should be at least a decent retracement starting here. On the daily RSI, the daily RSI 14 buy signal has now reached the possible near miss target, and there is a strong possible RSI 5 / NYMO sell signal that may fix at the close today, depending on whether we see a rally into that close. If so, that should confirm the short term high here.
On the hourly chart, a decent quality rising wedge has broken down today. Subject to a topping pattern forming here and continued failure at the 200dma, I'd expect to see at least a 38.2% fib retracement into the 2588 area at this point with the obvious other target areas being the 50% at 2542, the 61.8% at 2496, and the full retracement of the wedge back to 2346. For that last option, a retest that tested and held the rising support trendline from the 2011 low not far below could deliver an impressively bullish scenario for 2019.
I'm planning another post tomorrow taking a broader view, but that's a thorough snapshot of where I see SPX being here and now. Until tomorrow.


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A grand jury in El Paso County charged Lee on August 3, but the state senator vehemently denied the accusations, according to the Associated Press.
According to the grand jury's indictment, Lee "voted giving false information regarding the elector's place of present residence," on March 3, 2020, the Colorado Sun stated.
A Class 5 felony is knowingly giving false information regarding your residence.
However, according to KDVR, there are no claims that Lee cast two ballots in a single election.
When charged, Lee remained silent but did request removal from the temporary committees overseeing judicial conduct and behavioral health in the criminal justice system.
According to a statement, he wished "to avoid having my personal circumstances become a distraction," the AP stated.
"I have been informed that Republican El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen has alleged that two years ago I violated the voter residence law for voting in a district where he claims I did not reside. There is no accusation of voting at more than one location," according to Lee and the Colorado Sun.
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The Cormorants 2016
I cormorani (original title)
1h 29min | Adventure | 1 December 2016 (Italy)
In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, adventure turns into life experience. A summer without beginning and without end, the story about a friendship, an age and a land which are obliged to change with the inexorable passage of time.
I cormorani is a diving film. Immersion in the summer of the Italian province, in the summer of the school holidays of Sam and Matte, two friends straddling puberty and adolescence. Fabio Bobbio bravely faces the theme of this strange age, because he decides to restore all the uncertainty, indolence, laziness and curiosity together. And the whole film is crossed by that nervous boredom that characterizes this moment of growth, in which the residual childhood reflexes are surpassed by new needs, new perspectives. A moment of disorientation, well represented by the summer limbo of the very long school holidays all Italian, well represented by a geography of the margins, the margins of a Po valley returned in its wild, unripe nature. Between the house, place of childhood, and society, place of adulthood, Fabio Bobbio portrays a middle world, that of the discoveries of early adolescence, made up of groves, viaducts, disused amusement park and abandoned garages: a geography of the margins that materializes the end psychological analysis of the two boys. It could bore this film, but if so it would also be for this successful: the impressive sincerity of Fabio Bobbio willingly matches the willingness of the viewer to let himself immerse in the real emptiness of the world of Sam and Matte. However, these are empty spaces constantly filled with a close, fraternal friendship, also portrayed in its evolution. Over time, playmates let individual characters emerge, even accepting the possibility of separation.
I cormorani has a documentary soul, also dictated by the choice to involve non-professional actors, but it is fortunately a film built, researched, elaborated around its core documentary. It is only a question of reality, of fidelity to a real conveyed in its naked truth, with its emptiness and its fullness. The cormorants teach us a rhythm perhaps not very cinematographic but certainly adherent to the real, guaranteeing us an experience that remains indelibly imprinted a long time after watching the film. In fact, the film works a bit like a Proustian madeleine: I believe that anyone, especially if Italian, will find the precise sensations of that uncertain age, characterized by many possibilities and few facts. An age in which the first profound experience of boredom combines an intact capacity for amazement, and in the anonymous void of everyday life, small events appear as events, events that present themselves with the force of explosions.
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Last week I rode the train for about an hour from central Istanbul to the end of the line, to Bezirganbahce, a cluster of pastel-coloured tower blocks on the fringe of the city.
I was there to do a story examining the social effects of the massive urban renewal program that the government is enacting in Istanbul and other parts of Turkey.
I was inspired in part by the film Ekumenopolis (mentioned in this previous post), and also by an interest in Istanbul's peculiarly low crime rates.
It always surprises people who do not live here when I tell them that it is relatively safe. What impressed me deeply when I first came to Istanbul was that you can pass for miles through the metropolis and not see any of the signs of poverty and desperation so evident elsewhere in the developing world – and often the developed world too. (Istanbul has its exceptions, of course: Sultangazi, for one).
Although the quality and quantity of the comparative data is not great, what I was able to find suggests that Istanbul indeed has a lower crime rate than most European cities.
The street life makes an interesting contrast with that of London. On the one hand, the state is far more visible and pervasive. But most striking is the fact that communities appear to own their streets in a way they often do not in London.
Residents I spoke to in places such as Ayvansaray, an historic but poor neighbourhood beneath the Byzantine city walls, confirmed that there is what some described as a kind of 'self-rule': everyone knows each other, problems are handled in a collective way, there is trust between neighbours.
Like Sulukule, Tarlabasi, Ayazma, and other generally poor communities, people in Ayvansaray are battling eviction. Their neighbourhood will soon be redeveloped into luxury apartments. Bezirganbahce is the kind of place they might end up.
As you walk up the hill from the Halkali train station, the impression is not a bad one. Out here the air is clean and the scrubby fields stretching away create a feeling of space that is a pleasant change to the crush of the city.
Entering the housing project, we could hear the din of children playing in the local school. There's a medical clinic too and a little row of shops: baker, greengrocer etc. The buildings are a series of widely-spaced, identikit tower blocks with landscaped walkways, verges and playgrounds.
We spoke to residents who had come from Ayazma as well as those who had moved here through choice. There were things that people liked. The Kurdish family who gave us a lavish breakfast said they could not complain about the comfort of their apartment. Others mentioned the fresh air and open space.
But no one I spoke to said they could ever imagine this place feeling like a community. Even the owner of the local bakery, a former taxi driver who was now pursuing his lifelong dream, said this place would never feel like his old neighbourhood in Bagcilar.
It was surprisingly difficult to find people to talk to. In spite of the landscaped public spaces, everyone seemed to be rushing somewhere.
When we first arrived, my translator walked up to a passerby and asked if he knew the family we had organized to meet. We told him the name and he looked at us as if we were crazy. 'A needle in a haystack,' he said (or the Turkish equivalent of it).
We approached one young man who had a cut on his face and his arm in a cast and asked him what life is like here. "Ask Recep Tayyip," he replied as he walked off.
Cihan Baysal, a human rights activist and lawyer who knows the neighbourhood well, told me that when the families moved here in 2007, the Kurdish and Turkish teenagers set up rival gangs and started to fight one another. The authorities responded by giving over six tower blocks to police officers and their families.
There is little to do here for teenage kids, said Baysal and others. In Ayazma, they never had much cause to stray far from home, but here they have taken to roaming round other neighbourhoods, seeing the wealth of the city that is denied them. There is no work for the parents either, and the fathers are commuting three or four hours to find anything that pays.
Osman, the patriarch of the family who gave us breakfast, was due to leave only a few days later to take up a construction job in Northern Iraq. In Ayazma, he said, he had been able to get by in tough times by doing odd jobs: someone always had something that needed doing. Here there was nothing, and his family is financially crippled by the monthly instalments due on their new home.
Fatma, the wife of Osman, described Bezirganbahce as 'an open air prison'. One unnervingly confident police officer who lived here with his family said that security was difficult in the neighbourhood because people 'lived in closed boxes, no one knows what anyone else is doing'.
As we left, two young men planted themselves firmly in front of us. The elder of the two asked us for a few lira, but his body language said he wouldn't take no for an answer. The exchange was in that uneasy halfway house between begging and mugging.
We gave them some money, but seeing I was foreign they tried to get more. It was the first time in two years in Istanbul that I had been in that kind of situation. As I automatically looked around to see if anybody else was coming, it struck me how unhealthy was the anonymity and emptiness of this place. One of the most comforting things in Istanbul is the incessant street life, the people standing at their shops, sitting in the teahouses, talking, everyone knowing everyone else.
The boys said they were from Erzincan and had come here looking for work, had been unable to find any, and were now homeless. One said he had a child back home and they were looking to get the money to return. I wasn't sure if they really were from Erzincan.
It might be a stretch to say that a random encounter such as this is emblematic of anything much. But generally speaking, what is so depressing about the situation is that the mistakes being made by Turkey are both predictable and avoidable. Mass housing policies in which people are stuck in tower blocks far from any economic centres or opportunities have been proven to fail in European and American cities from the 1950s onwards. The evidence is in the Paris 2005 riots, or the ones in London last summer.
The future of the city as envisioned by one interviewee, Yves Cabannes, a former UN advisor on forced evictions, is of a glitzy, gentrified core ringed by ghettoes. Not many people seem to appreciate what a rare and precious thing it is that – to some degree at least – Istanbul is an exception to this familiar pattern.
The whole experience put me in mind of a passage in a book I read recently, Secret Tibet, by Fosco Maraini. The correspondence to what I've been discussing is not perfect, but the relationship should be clear; nor is the idea by any means original, but here it is too beautifully expressed (or rather, translated from the Italian) not to quote.
The writer spoke Tibetan and travelled around the country during the 1930s and 40s. The following passage was prompted by his reflections on the happiness he believed he saw in the people in what was at that time an essentially medieval, theocratic society:
"Happiness does not necessarily depend on social structure or system of government as our contemporaries seem to think. To me it seems to be primarily a question of equilibrium between the world by which man is surrounded and the world which he carries in his heart. We live in an age of terrifying disequilibriums and should be equally unhappy under kings, presidents, Popes or tribunes of the people, whether organized in republics or empires, soviets or theocracies. Our science offers us one picture of the universe; our traditional religion another. Physics and chemistry have advanced a thousand years ahead of the social sciences and the education of the will… Ideals and standards are in a state of continual flux; professional standards and ideals, sexual standards, class ambitions, the kind of life that people aim for at different ages – all important elements in a stable society – are subjected to constant criticism and revision; everything is changing, becoming, perpetually fluid. New equilibriums unknown to us are perhaps on the way, in which future generations may perhaps find greater peace. But we are caught up in the grinding of the gears. Some of us succeed in extricating ourselves, but the majority are crushed."
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Turkey's wildlife: ignored and in crisis
Hatay Province, where scientists recently discovered a hitherto unknown breeding population of the globally endangered mountain gazelle.
While much is made of its status as a major emerging economy, most people do not realize that Turkey is also the biodiversity superpower of Europe – a title it is in danger of losing due to the woeful under-protection and destruction of crucial habitats.
The threats to Turkey's biodiversity and the efforts to save it have been mapped out in detail in an academic paper published last month in the journal Biological Conservation.
The principal author is Cagan Sekercioglu, a leading Turkish ecologist and founder of the Kuzeydoga conservation NGO. He was recently the subject of a brilliant New Yorker article by Elif Batuman, about his efforts to save the rich but imperilled wildlife in the bleak northeast of the country.
Full of useful data, the latest article is an invaluable document for anyone interested in environmental issues in Turkey. The picture that emerges from it is a depressing one: a vast and unique biological heritage is in crisis amid an atmosphere of ignorance and indifference.
Turkey is an extraordinarily biodiverse nation. Despite it being the world's 15th largest economy and a cradle of civilization for more than 10,000 years, new species are still discovered on a weekly basis, sometimes even large animals. The critically endangered mountain gazelle was found to be living in Hatay province in 2009, and it is possible that the Anatolian Leopard may still cling to survival in the Taurus Mountains.
There are more bird species than in any European country, and as many reptiles species as in the whole continent combined. Due partly to its varied terrain and mountains, there is a high level of endemism (species unique to Turkey). A third of its 10,000 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, and these include the wild forbears of many of today's food crops. Lying at the junction of Europe, the Caucasus and the Middle East, Turkey is the only country that is covered almost entirely by three of the world's 34 biodiversity hotspots.
Pitted against this extraordinary diversity is a government that suffers from what the authors call a 'developmentalist obsession'. Macro-engineering projects, hydroelectric dams, mining, and the poorly planned expansion of cities and towns are decimating Turkey's natural heritage. Meanwhile the government is striking down, almost at will, the legal safeguards protecting it.
As the authors point out, the problem is not development per se, but rather that there is little attempt to balance conservation and development concerns. They draw attention to the infamous 'Draft Act on Nature and Biodiversity Conservation', discussed previously on this blog:
"While this bill was supposed to enact a more rational conservation framework in agreement with the European Union norms, the accepted version is cynically and decidedly pro-development. The law has redefined terms such as 'sustainable use,' 'common good,' and the 'balance between use and conservation' in order to enable development in protected areas."
One of the most depressing symbols of the Turkish government's approach to environmental issues is the reorganization of government ministries following the July 2011 elections. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry was split up into the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning and the Ministry of Forestry and Water Works.
In conservation terms, this is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coup. The government ministries tasked with protecting the environment have been subordinated to those playing the biggest role in destroying it. The Environment and Planning Minister, Erdogan Bayraktar, is former head of TOKI, the country's mass housing administration. The Minister of Environment and Water Works is Veysel Eroglu, former head of the State Water Works, and a man who once said that 'my job is building dams.'
Dam and hydroelectric power plant construction remain the biggest single threat to biodiversity. Under current plans, there will be some 4,000 dams and HEPPs in Turkey by 2023.
According to the paper, around half of Turkey's 61 endemic freshwater fish species are now critically endangered. Eighty-three out of 319 breeding bird species are threatened with local extinction due to the construction of dams. Meanwhile, 1.3m hectares of Turkey's important wetland environments have been destroyed since 1950. Bird numbers in four crucial lagoons on the Mediterranean coast have declined 40-fold since the 1960s.
Turkey lags behind almost every European nation- and most Middle Eastern nations- in the level of protection afforded to its natural environment. Just 0.6 percent of the total land area is protected (the Middle Eastern average is 2.6%, the European average 5.4%), and Turkey ranks 140th out of 163 countries in biodiversity and habitat conservation.
Most disturbing is the ignorance of, or indifference to, these problems among the population at large. Opinion polling in 2010 showed that only 1.3% of Turks view environment-related issues as a major concern.
This is reflected by a lack of proper research and the relative weakness of the NGO community. The paper's authors estimate that there are only 50 full-time conservation professionals with adequate training and experience employed in Turkey's conservation NGOs.
Part of the problem is that Turkey lacks a charismatic animal to spark public imagination and enthusiasm. It is particularly sad that until very recently, such animals did exist. The Asiatic Lion died out at the end of the 19th century. The Asiatic Cheetah still clings on in neighbouring Iran. The last Caspian Tiger was shot in Hakkari in 1970. The last verified Anatolian Leopard was shot in 1974, though there is evidence that they possibly still survive.
So what can be done? The authors bemoan the increasingly antagonistic relationship between conservation organizations and the Turkish government. They also note that many Turkish conservation NGOs do not engage in enough of the on-the-ground work necessary to earn the respect of local communities whose support and understanding is crucial to conservation.
In this regard, Sekercioglu's own Kuzeydoga offers a good model. Based in northeast Turkey, it conducts year-round conservation operations such as bird ringing and has opened Turkey's first 'vulture restaurant'. It works closely with the Kars governorate, the municipality and the local Kafkas University. Thanks to its work with government ministries, it is now poised to secure the creation Turkey's first wildlife corridor, linking the Sarikamis Forest to large national parks in northern Turkey and Georgia.
Kuzeydoga's success powerfully demonstrates that it is far more fruitful to work with the government than to oppose it.
Another interesting tactic that the authors suggest is to play on Turks' fondness and pride in their history to arouse an interest in conservation. For a people with more-than-usual pride in their own soil and territory, Turks generally show remarkably little interest in how their natural resources are managed. The authors write:
"While many Turkish people may not be aware of basic ecological principles or natural history, most are very familiar with and passionate about the history of Turkey. This passion could be exploited such that, for example, rather than starting a conversation on the Sarikamis forests in eastern Turkey with a description of the area's diverse plants and animals, one might introduce the forest as the location of the martyrdom of 90,000 brave Turks fighting the Russians. In fact, this was the main reason for the creation of the Sarikamis Forest-Allahuekber Mountains National Park."
The more I consider it, the possible creation of a network of wildlife corridors is perhaps the most exciting prospect in Turkish conservation. Such links between fragmented wildernesses allow for the continuing existence of large animals such as bears, wolves and the like amid increasingly human-dominated landscapes.
In Britain, where a relatively meagre biological heritage is intensely cherished by the general public (a British bird protection society, the RSPB, is the biggest conservation NGO in Europe), there is discussion of reintroducing some of the large animals that once roamed the land such as bears, lynx and elk.
But Turkey's wildlife and wilderness is on a different scale. Could Turks one day be discussing the reintroduction of tigers and leopards? There's no harm in aiming high.
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Music is my biggest hobby
Volunteer fundraising is one of the most exciting ways to support a charity. It allows you to have fun whilst helping children beat cancer. And it gets even more exciting when modern technologies are added into the mix!
Nearly a thousand pounds was raised recently by Gift of Life long-term supporter Evgeny Kuznetsov in collaboration with Locals.org, a new social discovery app that aims to turn every meet-up or experience into an opportunity to do good within your community.
Evgeny hosted a special piano concert, which gathered more than 80 people via the app and personal connections and raised much-needed funds to help children and young people in Russian clinics beat cancer.
Held at October Gallery in Holborn, the concert marked the 15th anniversary of Gift of Life's sister charity in Russia, Podari Zhizn. The guests were treated to a special programme comprising essential pieces by Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, as well as cover versions of hits and best songs of Metallica, Queen, AC/DC, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Chris Isaak and others. Several pieces were performed together with the amazing violinist Ramina Mukusheva, and Rodion Romanadze, who sang some all-time favourite songs.
A Moscow State University of Culture and Arts graduate, Evgeny played piano professionally before his career took a different turn. Evgeny studied quality testing for digital products, worked as a software engineer in Moscow, then moved to London few years ago and has been working for leading IT companies since. But to this day music is Evgeny's biggest hobby.
It's through music that he discovered another passion: helping to change children's lives through charitable projects including the Gift of Life volunteer fundraising programme. Back in 2019, Evgeny arranged "Let's play", his first ever concert raising funds for Gift of Life.
Concerts like this and many other volunteer fundraising initiatives are hugely important for charities. In 10 years, with the essential contribution of our volunteer fundraisers like Evgeny we have already helped over 500 patients to receive vital therapy for cancer and life-threatening blood diseases.
We are endlessly grateful to Evgeny for standing by our side and volunteering his time and talent. Huge thanks to Ramina, Rodion and all the guests of the evening for their incredible support. Thank you to Locals.org for the opportunity to introduce a community of like-minded people to our mission of saving young lives from cancer.
To join the fight with childhood cancer and support, please donate now.
If you're thinking of starting your own volunteer fundraising campaign in support of Gift of Life but don't know where to begin, drop us a line at [email protected] and we'll help you with some ideas!
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Together we make great things shine brighter
Read our anniversary feature Power of 10 with Gift of Life Trustee and Zima Group co-founder Lyuba Galkina to learn how the joint effort and community support save lives.
Hard times will pass
When three-and-a-half year old Dima developed a severe allergy to standard chemo, Gift of Life provide him with an expensive alternative medication, unavailable in Russia. It couldn't have been done without one birthday donated to the charity. Carry on reading Dima's story in the Power of 10 feature.
Long awaited remission for Kirill
Thank you ever so much for supporting Kirill's treatment and giving him a chance to beat leukaemia! He's in remission and studies hard to finish a high school in just a year's time.
There is no reason not to help
Power of 10 with Vadim Levin, our Trustee, former VTB Bank Deputy Chairman, photographer. Carry on reading to know how the Russian community in the UK unites to help children back home.
Enjoy every little gift of this life
To support the crucial needs of our patients and raise funds, Chulpan Khamatova has been pledging her birthday to benefit the charity for years now. Meet our amazing heroine of Power of 10 as she celebrates her birthday today!
Rewarded with a smile
Thanks to your kind help, in 2019 four-year-old Vanya from Belorechensk, a town in the south of Russia, received life-saving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common cancer in children.
I believe in good returns
The Power of 10 has worked yet again giving little Dasha a chance to survive cancer. Every donation from the modest to the significant can change the life of a seriously ill child and their family. We talked about this life-saving effect of collective help with Dasha's mum, Venera.
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Olga Levi from Krasnodar was just 15 y/o when she was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma localised in her iliac bone. With your help Olga underwent life-saving surgery in a clinic in Moscow. Thank you so much for this!
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Why is it important to help children in Russia? Olga Kotilevskaya, a London-based photographer explains what motivates her to support our cause.
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Savely fell ill in 2018 when he was only 12. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. His family was devastated by this news. The illness required a long and intensive treatment. Thank you for helping us pay for this treatment.


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Jury continues deliberations over David Temple's sentence
HOUSTON – The jury that convicted David Temple of murder in the slaying of his wife 20 years ago has been deliberating his sentence longer than it took them to decide on his guilt or innocence.
Jurors have been deliberating for about 14 hours in total since they handed down their verdict Tuesday in the January 1999 shooting death of Belinda Temple, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
The punishment could range from probation to life in prison.
The jury broke for about a half-hour Thursday for lunch, and later sent a note asking for the judge's guidance. On Wednesday, jurors told the judge they needed a break, and were sequestered for the night.
"The fact we haven't seen any notes from the jury means they are working through whatever impasse they may or may not have," said KPRC 2 legal analyst Brian Wice. "Usually, by this point, you'd think we'd see the inevitable, 'we're deadlocked.'"
David Temple has already served nine years in prison after his first murder conviction in 2007. He was released in 2016 when that conviction was overturned on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
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Aaron Barker has been a senior digital editor at KPRC 2 since 2016. As a meteorologist, he specializes in stories about the weather. He has covered Hurricane Harvey, the Astros first World Series win, the Santa Fe High School shooting, the ITC fire and Tropical Storm Imelda.
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Annals of Surgery. 223(3):273-279, MAR 1996
Publication Date: 1996/03/01
Long-Term Survival After Curative Resection for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: Clinicopathologic Analysis of 5-Year Survivors
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ObjectiveThe authors reviewed the clinicopathologic characteristics of patients who underwent resection with curative intent for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas between 1983 and 1989.Summary Background DataRecent studies have demonstrated a reduction in the morbidity and mortality of pancreatic resection and improvement in the actuarial 5-year survival for patients with resected ductal adenocarcinoma.MethodsResection with curative intent was performed on 118 of 684 patients (17%) with pancreatic cancer admitted to the authors' institution. Clinical, demographic, treatment, and pathologic variables were analyzed. The original pathologic material for all cases was reviewed; nonductal cancers were excluded.ResultsThe head of the gland was the predominant tumor site (n = 102), followed by the body (n = 9), and tail (n = 7). Seventy-two percent of the patients underwent pancreaticoduodenectomies, 15% underwent total pancreatectomies, 10% underwent distal pancreatectomies, and 3% underwent distal subtotal pancreatectomies. Operative mortality was 3.4%. Median survival was 14.3 months after resection compared with 4.9 months if patients did not undergo resection (p < 0.0001). Twelve patients survived 5 years after surgery (10.2% overall actual 5-year survival rate). Three of the tumors were well differentiated, five were moderately differentiated, and four were poorly differentiated. Extrapancreatic invasion occurred in nine cases (75%), and perineural invasion was present in ten cases (83%). Five tumors exhibited invasion of duodenum, ampulla of Vater, and/or common bile duct, and an additional tumor invaded the portal vein. Lymph node involvement by carcinoma was noted in five cases (42%). Six patients remain alive without evidence of disease at a median follow-up of 101 months (range, 82-133 months). Five patients died of recurrent or metastatic pancreatic cancer at 60, 61, 62, 64, and 64 months, respectively. One patient died at 84 months of metastatic lung cancer without evidence of recurrent pancreatic disease.ConclusionsThis paper emphasizes the grim prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Five-year survival cannot be equated to cure. Although pancreatectomy offers the only chance for long-term survival, it should be considered as the best palliative procedure currently available for the majority of patients. This emphasizes the need for the development of novel and effective adjuvant therapies for this disease.
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Cylance Recognizes Employees for Exceptional Achievements in Innovation
Successful Innovation Incubation Fuels New Product Development, Patent Awards, and Industry Leadership
IRVINE, Calif. – November 7, 2018 — Cylance Inc., the leading provider of AI-driven, prevention-first security solutions, today recognized employees at all levels of the organization for their contributions to company innovation and cybersecurity industry leadership.
Cylance Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stuart McClure recognized outstanding employee achievement ahead of the company's quarterly business outlook meeting scheduled later this month. "We're proud of the amazing talent here at Cylance," said McClure, "It's inspiring to see such highly capable staff expand and elevate their ideas to push the boundaries of AI and security technology. Both Cylance and the broader security industry are stronger and more innovative as a result of their efforts."
Since the company's founding in 2012, Cylance employees have been awarded more than 20 patents and have over 80 applications in various stages of the prosecution process that cover a broad range of inventions in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, computer forensics, and privacy-enhancing technologies. The company has won best-in-class awards and recognition from more than two dozen globally-renowned brands, including Forbes, CNBC, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, and the World Economic Forum.
To date, more than 30 organizations from around the world have recognized Cylance for technological innovation. To keep their fingers on the pulse of new ideas and industry advances, Cylance employees participate in cybersecurity panels and deliver keynote addresses at more than 200 events in a given year, including global events hosted by industry-leading organizations such as Gartner, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.
"Our employees continually go above and beyond the routine expectations of a full-time cybersecurity job," said Daniel Doimo, Cylance president and chief operating officer. "In departments that range from sales and marketing to legal and engineering, Cylancers have held faculty positions or guest lectured at some of the country's leading colleges and universities, including Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Tulane, and UCI, allowing us to continue to attract the best talent from around the world."
Cylance employees share their security knowledge and expertise with vulnerable entities—even the U.S. government—as evidenced by many hours of congressional testimony designed to make the world safer by educating both CISOs and employees about the security threats facing businesses today. In a notable example of these efforts, the company was named by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as having played a critical role in discovering, halting and remediating the data breach at the United States Office of Personnel Management. Lawmakers behind the report note, "The significance of the cutting-edge preventative technology offered by Cylance in responding to the OPM data breach cannot be understated." Cylance was able to find things that other tools could not "because of the unique way that Cylance functions and operates. It doesn't utilize a standard signature of heuristics or indicators, like normal signatures in the past have been done."
Importantly, Cylance staffers throughout the company routinely work with internal data science and research teams to help build more robust user models and more precise AI algorithms. They also contribute to important scientific and technological journals to speed the development and adoption of new and better cybersecurity models.
To learn more about Cylance contributions to innovation or how to become a member of the Cylance team, please visit www.cylance.com.
Cylance develops artificial intelligence to deliver prevention-first, predictive security products and specialized security services that change how organizations approach endpoint security. Cylance's security solutions provide full spectrum predictive threat prevention and visibility across the enterprise, combatting threats such as malware, ransomware, fileless malware, malicious scripts, weaponized docs, and other attack vectors. With AI based malware prevention, application and script control, memory protection, device policy enforcement, root cause analysis, threat hunting, automated threat detection and response, coupled with expert security services, Cylance can protect endpoints without increasing staff workload or costs. For more information visit: www.cylance.com.


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Edward A. Terry (January 24, 1839 – June 1, 1882) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.  Following the war, he served several tours of duty at the United States Naval Academy, including a tour in the 1870s as Commandant of Cadets.

Early life and career
Born at Hartford, Connecticut, Terry entered the United States Naval Academy on September 21, 1853, and graduated on June 10, 1857. He served as a midshipman in the sloop , attached to the East India Squadron, from 1857 to 1859.

Civil War
In 1861 he was assigned to the steam sloop  and served in her with the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron throughout the Civil War. He participated in the engagement with the Confederate ram  during the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861, the artillery duel with Fort McRee and other shore batteries in Pensacola Bay on 22 November, the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the capture of New Orleans in late April 1862.

After New Orleans, David Farragut's force moved up the Mississippi, and Terry was present when the salt water fleet ran the gauntlet at Vicksburg and joined Flag Officer Charles Henry Davis' riverine fleet above the Confederate stronghold. In January 1863, Terry was promoted to lieutenant commander. On March 14, his ship joined others of the fleet in bombarding the batteries surrounding Port Hudson so that Farragut could dash past them and establish a blockade cutting the Confederacy's Red River supply line. In his last major engagement, the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Terry helped to close the last major Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico.

Post-war assignments
Following the Civil War, Terry alternated between sea duty and a series of shore assignments at the Naval Academy. In 1866–67, he served in the Pacific Squadron in the steam frigate .

His first tour of duty at the Naval Academy followed in 1868–69. He assumed his first command, , in 1870 and cruised with the Asiatic Fleet until 1872. During that assignment, on October 30, 1871, he was promoted to commander. Terry returned to the Naval Academy in 1873, and in 1875 was appointed Commandant of Midshipmen, a post he held until 1878.

Terry was then ordered to the Pacific Squadron to serve as Flag Captain in ; first to Rear Admiral C. R. Perry Rodgers, then in 1880–81 to Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens.

In 1881, he went on leave due to illness. On June 1, 1882, Commander Terry died at Manitou Springs, Colorado.

Namesake
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named  for him.

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Domino offers digital printing solutions that are designed & engineered to minimise operator intervention and maximise your throughput. Print high-resolution variable data such as bar codes, serialisation, 2D codes, QR codes, addressing, personalisation, graphics, and more at the speed of light…with unmatched quality.
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Domino Printing Sciences' new China factory opens up increased business opportunities
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Founded in 1978, Domino has established a global reputation for the continual development and manufacture of its total coding and printing technologies that meet the needs of manufacturers and sets new industry standards in quality and reliability.
Domino India is leading supplier of coding solutions in the country. Our primary & secondary coding technologies find application in large and key areas of Industry segments which include: Food, Pharma & Healthcare, Dairy, Beverages, Paints & Chemicals, Cosmetics & Personal Care, Engineering, Breweries & Distilleries and a host of other industries.
We bring global expertise, in-depth domain knowledge and vast local industry experience to successfully cater to wide ranging coding needs across various industry segments. We offer reliable products, innovative solutions and dependable services at the best possible value to our customers. Domino India has pan-India presence, to give caring support to our customers.
A foundation stone laying ceremony was recently held for Domino China's new factory in Changshu – Domino Printing Technology (Changshu) Co. Limited.
The foundation stone laying ceremony was attended by the Domino Asia-Pacific Management Team, leaders of the Changshu Economic Development Zone and representatives from the construction party.
The new Domino factory is located in the Changshu Economic & Technological Development Zone, among the chemical industries concentrated area along the river. The planned area covers 26,667m2, with the total investment figure approximately £19 million. The primary plan is to build 3 production lines, including ink production, Inkjet printer assembly testing, as well as Thermal Transfer Overprinting (TTO) assembly testing. An annual output of 14,000 labelling devices and 2,500 tonnes of ink are both part of the company's plans.
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Domino Printing Sciences is a leader in research & development and manufacturing of coding, marking and labelling equipment. It has ten production bases throughout Asia, Europe and the United States of America.
The Chinese market is an integral part of Domino's overall vision for its future development. Domino China has been present in Beijing since 1995, and the rapid growth in sales performance has made Domino the preferred ink jet printer supplier in the region.
In May 2002, Domino's Asia Pacific Headquarters were established in Shanghai. Since then, the Company has invested in 4,500m2 of production facilities, providing improved service to customers in China, and concurrently providing products and technical support services to the Asia Pacific Region.
Mr Johnny Tan, General Manager at Domino Printing Technology (Chang Shu) Co. Limited, said in his speech during the ceremony: "Domino's development strategy is to strengthen its relationships with its customers, and the regional manufacturing base is a key part of this strategy."
He continues: "China is one of Domino's biggest regional markets. In order to support the company's development strategy, we chose Changshu, which is close to our Shanghai headquarters. With this location for our new factory, we will be able to serve the Asia Pacific Region more effectively, especially the Chinese market, by improving the efficiency of productions and logistics."
The Vice-Chairman of the Changshu Economic & Technological Development Zone, Mr Wang Gang, also gave a speech during the ceremony. He wished Domino a smooth and successful completion of the construction of the new factory. He then performed the lion eye dotting ceremony together with Domino's CEO for the Asia Pacific Region, Mr Xiang Min. The lion symbolises courage and joy, which is brought to life by the eye dotting ceremony, and shows that Domino is heading towards even greater heights in its future development.
Rachel Hurst, Group Operations Director at Domino Printing Sciences, concludes: "Domino is constantly looking into growing markets abroad and China has proven to be a region worth investing in. With the launch of the new factory in Changshu, we will be able to introduce new products to the Chinese market, while also providing the high level of service that has become synonymous with the Domino brand."
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It has been for quite some time now that Real Madrid has been searching around the transfer market for a player who can follow the legacy and replace the 34 year old goal-keeper IkerCasillas.
For the past few weeks rumors have been linking Manchester United's David de Gea with a move to Real Madrid. David de Gea is 24 years old but he is already being considered to be one of the best players in the world in his position.
David de Gea has been one of the few players of Manchester United who has managed to stand out and still play at a very high level despite the recent struggle that the Premier League club has experienced and it seems hard to believe that Manchester United would be even interested in selling one of their starlets but according to IkerCasillas, the deal has already been completed.
Former Real Madrid star Raul reckons that the club will bounce back from their recent run of poor form. Raul held the record for the most number of goals scored for the Spanish club in the Champions League.
Even though this record has been broken by Cristiano Ronaldo in recent months, Raul still remains a legend at the club. The former Spain international recently retired from playing football and he has voiced his opinions about the poor form suffered by Carlo Ancelotti's team in the last couple of months. After a fantastic end to 2014, the club has been struggling to produce a consistent set of results in 2015.


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That sounds about right to me — the call wasn't about furthering controversial elements of President Obama's agenda, but it was about deliberately politicizing art — that is to say, encouraging artists to advance particular public policy goals rather than enabling them to spend their time and energy creating works of truth or beauty to the best of their ability….It is that effort that I find objectionable, as should anyone who values art or the autonomy or creative people.
So if this conference call had been with, say, a bunch of educator types, urging them to promote public service among schoolkids, would that have been OK? Or how about law enforcement groups? Or veterans groups?
Because I don't quite see the difference. Artists don't exist on some kind of pristine plane of their own and they don't do their work in a vacuum. They're all part of the same culture as the rest of us, and they react to it and try to influence it just like everyone else. In fact, artists themselves probably view their work as more explicitly political, in the broad sense of the term, than practically any group of people outside of politicians themselves and the professional pundit/lobbyist/think tank industry that hovers around them. The whole idea of "politicizing" art is as redundant as the idea of militarizing the Pentagon.
It seems to me that trying to persuade people to promote public service is either a good idea or it's not. If it's too heavy handed, it's not. If there are overtones of political payoff, it's not. If there are insinuations that people who play along will get more grant money, it's not. But I have a hard time buying the idea that it's affected one way or another by the allegedly delicate artistic sensibilities of the people involved.


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Miami and Arizona, a pair of 9-2 teams knocked down in the rankings by late-season upsets, hope victory in the Fiesta Bowl will give them momentum heading into the 1994 season.
The 10th-ranked Hurricanes have 14 consecutive winning seasons and national titles in 1983, 1987, 1989 and 1991. The No. 16 Wildcats are playing on New Year's Day for the first time since the 1949 Salad Bowl."Our guys feel like this is an opportunity for them to take the next step," Arizona coach Dick Tomey said.
The Wildcats credit their 8-7 loss last year at Miami with starting a renaissance which carried them from 4-7 in 1991 to their first 9-win regular season since 1975.
Miami won when Wildcats kicker Steve McLaughlin missed a 51-yard field goal on the final play. Still, Miami lost the No. 1 ranking it had held since the previous season. Even though the Hurricanes got back to No. 1, a 34-13 loss to Alabama in the Sugar Bowl ended Miami's 29-game winning streak.
Arizona won seven straight before a 37-17 loss to UCLA. California beat the Wildcats 24-20 to prevent Arizona from winning its their first Pac-10 title.
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Rick Santorum is an Idiot
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And he needs to be removed from a leadership role in the GOP, just like Lott was. Here's why:
Santorum says homosexual acts are threat to American family
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Santorum, the Senate's third-ranked Republican who is under fire from gay-rights groups and Democrats, says he has "no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts."
In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press two weeks ago, Santorum, R-Pa., said he believes homosexual acts are a threat to the American family. He drew criticism from gays and Democrats after parts of the interview — during which he compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery — were published Monday.
"I have no problem with homosexuality — I have a problem with homosexual acts, as I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships," Santorum said during an interview taped April 7 in his Senate office.
"And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual," he said. "I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it's not the person, it's the person's actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions."
Note that this means he says that it's okay to be gay, but you should never fall in love and have a romantic relationship with some one of the same sex if you are. You should be celibate and single all of your life, or you should do something terribly destructive like have a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, which would be based on a lie and harm both parties. But if you have a romantic relationship with someone of your own sex, you should do so under fear of being arrested.
Given a chance to clarify his comments before the story was published, Santorum said: "I can't deny that I said it, and I can't deny that's how I feel."
During Santorum's interview with the AP, he brought up a pending Supreme Court case over a Texas sodomy law within the context of his discussion on homosexual acts.
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
First of all, note that he said "consensual sex" not "gay consensual sex" — so he's asserting that the government has the ability to come into the bedrooms of heterosexuals as well as gay people. That should scare everyone. Lots of news services are mis-quoting this by adding the word gay in parentheses, but that's not what he said, and he's clarified that's not what he meant. Second, how does it follow that gay people's right to consensual sex would somehow lead to societal approval of incest? The vast majority of incest occurs under non-consensual conditions. Also, this is based on the "slippery slope" argument, read here why this argument is completely invalid (this is Logic 101, folks.)
On Tuesday, Santorum's office released a statement to underscore that those comments were made in the context of the court case.
"My discussion with The Associated Press was about the Supreme Court privacy case, the constitutional right to privacy in general, and in context of the impact on the family," Santorum said in the statement. "I am a firm believer that all are equal under the Constitution. My comments should not be misconstrued in any way as a statement on individual lifestyles."
No? You're condemning an entire group of people to celibacy under fear of arrest, and somehow suggesting that is equal protection under the Constitution? How do you figure that?
Santorum also criticized, during the April 7 interview, what he called "a whole feminist movement that's built around the fact that fathers are unnecessary." He answered "absolutely" when asked if liberalism takes power away from the family.
There has never been any part of the feminist movement that says that fathers are unnecessary. This is nothing but bull-shit rhetoric. It's true that many lesbians have children. Most of them have some type of father figure. Some don't. There are many single women in this country, either divorced or widowed, that don't have father figures for their children. Should they be forced to get married to "provide a father" for their children? Scores of studies prove that children raised without a father or without a mother are not harmed in any way by the lack of a "role model." Does this mean that fathers are "unnecessary"? No. But they aren't mandatory, either.
"The basic liberal philosophy is materialistic, is relativistic, to the point of, you've got candidates for president saying we should condone different types of marriage," Santorum said. "That is, to me, the death knell of the American family."
How? How How How? I've never heard a real answer to this one. How does my falling in love with women have any effect on the "American Family"? If a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman want to get married and have a bunch of kids, how is my love life interfering with their decision? I'm certainly not standing in front of the church door tripping them as they go in. If I get married to my female partner in a church, that has no effect on the "traditional American Family."
And what does he mean by "materialistic, is relativistic"? I'm sorry, but the whole "moral relativism" critique is again, a simple-minded repeating of the slippery-slope argument. Ethics hasn't ever been that simple, and shouldn't be dumbed down because the Republicans have cut their own school budgets so far that their own Stepford children are too ignorant to understand the world around them, and thus feel they should force everyone into their own tunnel-vision of the world.