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25 August seminar: Now that we can use CRISPR to change genomes, should we?
Please join us for the first seminar in the 'Healthy Futures' seminar series hosted by the Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN). You can join the conversation on Twitter by following us at @SSNDeakin and using the hashtags #SSNseminar #HealthyFutures.
Click here to register and find out how to tune in.
It has been said that humanity has progressed through three ages that involved learning to speak, to write and now to write the genetic code. The last age has only just begun but already CRISPR-gene editing is changing how people think about the future of human life and other lifeforms. The first publicised applications of CRISPR-mediated editing are related to efforts to cure inherited diseases via somatic gene therapy, affecting only subsets of human cells such as blood cells. But others have talked about germ-line gene therapy which would permanently alter the genetic code and would be carried on to future generations. Some even speculate about 'genetic enhancement' and 'designer babies'. One researcher has modified human embryos with the intention of ensuring they are immune to HIV infection. There is also the question of modifying agricultural animals or plants and indeed ridding the world of pest species such as the mosquitoes that carry malaria or eliminating rats and mice. Are these things really possible and are they wise?
Merlin Crossley is a leading Australian molecular biologist, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Crossley grew up in Melbourne and completed his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and completed his doctorate in Oxford. He is widely recognized for his research in gene regulation, in particular, for his contributions to understanding two of the most famous genetic diseases, Haemophilia and Sickle Cell Anaemia. In addition, he has been instrumental in the initial identification and cloning of genes encoding several important new transcription factors and co-regulators. Crossley is also an enthusiastic teacher and science communicator, an Editorial Board Member of The Conversation, and of BioEssays, a Trustee of the Australian Museum, Deputy Director of the Australian Science Media Centre, and a former Board Member of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science.
About the discussants:
Eben Kirksey, an associate professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, is currently in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published two books with Duke University Press: Emergent Ecologies and Freedom in Entangled Worlds. His most recent book, The Mutant Project: Inside the Race to Genetically Modify Humans, is now available on St. Martin's Press.
Neera Bhatia is an Associate Professor in Law at Deakin University. She has previously held the role of Director of Research in the Deakin Law School. She is the author of 'Critically impaired infants and end of life decision making: Resource allocation and difficult decisions' published by Routledge Cavendish (UK). Her research interests are in the area of end of life decision making for infants and children, organ donation, euthanasia and more recently cryonics.
About the chair:
Associate Professor Jeff Craig is a Lecturer in Medical Sciences at School of Medicine at Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria. Prior to this, he spent twenty years as a researcher at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne. He studies the role of epigenetics in mediating the effects of early life environment on the risk for chronic disease. He is currently developing epigenetic biomarkers from easy-to-collect biosamples.


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Creating alias emails might be an extra measure of privacy you offer to the participants in your study. You can do this through a variety of methods. However, we recommend using GMail for this task.
As a concrete example, you can create an account for your study, then use aliases as a way of providing your own ID numbers to participants.
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Q: Bulkcopy inserts with DBCC CheckIdent Our team needs to insert a cruel amount of data into our SQL Server 2008 database. We're looking for a good solution. Now we came up with one, but I have doubts with it, simply because it doesn't feel right. So I'm asking here if this seems like a good solution. Extra challange is that it's a peer-to-peer replicated database over 4 servers! :)
Imagine we have 1 million rows to insert

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*Start transaction

*Increase current ident value on a table with 1 million

*Have a DataSet/DataTable ready with 1 million rows and the correct ids

*BulkCopy the data into the database

*Commit transaction

Is this a good solution, might we get into concurrency issues, have too large transactions, etc.

A: you'll only get problems (as far as I can see, so there might be things I overlook!) if the database is online and users can insert rows into that table. Increasing the identity value for new rows on the meta-level simply means that the next row inserted by the system will use that number, so if you bump it with 1 million, it means you reserved those numbers up front.
Identity columns are 'nice' but have the side effect that they're not transferable. So if you have to migrate the data to another DB, realize that you likely have to adjust the data inserted to match the database you insert it in (as that's the scope of the data which means identity fields could collide with rows already in the table).
If this is a one-time affair, it might work out. If you're planning to do this regularly, I'd look into a more higher-level migration system where you migrate the data to new identity values or use guid's with NEWSEQUENTIALID() so you get proper checked indexes and also  unique, transferable id's.

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The App performs remote, non-contact in plane measurements. It uses the phone camera and any available object with known size as a reference. Most common objects like credit card, sheet of paper, DVD/CD, etc. are included in the application. Moreover you can use your own custom objects with known size.
The user has an option to make a snapshot of the camera view and work with the image instead of live camera view. Picture upload from the picture gallery is also available.
Length Mode: measure objects in any direction and compare parts to each other.
Angle Mode: two rulers are available connected in one point to measure angle and lengths.
Area Mode: area of irregular shaped objects can be calculated using this mode.
The App shows measurement results in different units such as meters, millimeters, centimeters, feet, inches based on user settings. It also calculate dimensions of the object in relative units with respect to the reference object.
Two editing modes Edit and Zoom help the user to align the rulers or to mark an object accurately.
The App can be very useful if you need to measure bigger distances on a plane, where a simple ruler or measure tape is difficult to apply. All you need to do in this case is to place the reference object (credit card or sheet of paper) on the measurement plane, to make sure that an object of interest and reference object fit into the camera view, to take picture and do measurements.
- measure size of a big object that practically impossible to measure with a ruler or tape measure outdoor. For example, you can measure height of a house using sheet of paper as a reference object.
- measure small objects with high accuracy just by placing them on A4 or Letter sheet.
- measure bearings, roller bearings, nuts, rings.
- measurements of small objects that fit within your device screen: jewelry, rings, stones, screws, bolts, buttons, nuts, knitting needles, knitting pattern, washers, insects, mosaic tile, hooks, etc.
... and many others, depending on your imagination.
Depending on measurement conditions, reference object and distance to an object you can achieve sub-mm resolution.
Due to the angle of the camera to the object it is almost impossible to measure items with any accuracy.
My recommendation would be to add a bubble level to the camera mode as a quick fix but rather have a recorded plane whereby the phone is placed on the same plane as the object, a level taken and recorded and then another bubble during camera mode to ensure phone is held to recorded plane. This would make the app far more accurate.
I guess this is usable but not at all what I wanted or could even use. Total waste of my money.


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Transnational Literature
Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2009
https://hdl.handle.net/2328/3345
Click here for Contents page
Welcome to the second issue of Transnational Literature. I am delighted to note that TNL, true to its first origins in the CRNLE (Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English) Reviews Journal, is developing (inter alia) into a lively forum for book reviews. This issue contains reviews of dozens of books, fiction and non-fiction, literary criticism and anthologies, and even of one of a television program.
Several of these reviews are part of our 'Austen Abroad' feature, one of the myriad manifestations of the global reach of Jane Austen's influence in the twenty-first century. Along with the book reviews in the Austen feature, there are three articles, each originating from a different continent - North America, Africa and Australia - because Transnational Literature is also living up to its name, and our contributors have not only considered transnational themes in their contributions, but are themselves from all over the world: from Japan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, England, the USA, South Africa, and practically every state of Australia.
Transnationalism is open to a variety of interpretations, and we have chosen to be liberal in our definition. Thus, although it might be objected that Jane Austen and Iris Murdoch are both British writers, the century and a half that separate them constitutes a sufficiently significant frontier. Transnationality can also be implied by translation, and we include a new translation of a story by the great Rabindranath Tagore. Literature from languages other than English is also included for the first time in this issue, with Maik Nwosu's article on Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. We also include a review of a biography of the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez.
Without creative writing we would have nothing to write about, so it is with great pleasure that we are able to bring you new work from six poets, as well as a new short story from Christine Williams.
In our November 2008 issue we ran a symposium on the subject 'Does Literature Exist?' The originator of that discussion, Robert Lumsden, exercises his right of reply in this issue. And finally, Ron Klein offers another lighthearted afterthought, 'In the Beginning Was the Word'.
Click here for Contents page and editor's note in PDF format
Browsing Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2009 by Author
Athanassakis, Yanoula 1
Bennett, Lisa Lynn 1
Burger, Paul 1
Dalal, Sanghamitra 1
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Habel, Chad Sean 1
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Harley, Alexis 1
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Huilgol, Raja Ramesh 1
Klein, Ronald 1
Kossew, Sue 1
Lawrence, Anthony 1
Loriente, Judith 2
Lumsden, Robert 3
Matthews-Zott, Deb 2
McDougall, Russell 1
Moore, Rosemary 1
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AG: Paterson councilman, councilman-elect and 2 others charged with election fraud
Joe Malinconico and Ed Rumley
PATERSON — In a case that has cast a cloud over Paterson's political landscape, the Attorney General on Thursday announced voter fraud charges against two of the winners in the city's recent ward council elections, along with two campaign workers involved in a third race.
Councilman Michael Jackson, 48, and Councilman-elect Alex Mendez, 45, were accused of violating state law governing the way mail-in ballots are supposed to be collected and filled out, said Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Mendez, who was charged with second-degree election fraud and five other crimes, won the 3rd Ward election. He allegedly handled "one or more voter registration applications, which he knew to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, in that he knew the person for whom the application was procured was not eligible to vote in the election district identified on the application," according to authorities.
Mendez, who won by 240 votes, is scheduled to take office on July 1 and it's not clear what impact — if any — the charges against him will have on his inauguration.
A former school board member and councilman, Mendez finished second to Andre Sayegh in Paterson's 2018 mayoral election and political figures have predicted he likely would use his victory in the recent council race as a springboard to run again for the city's top job in 2022.
Jackson, meanwhile, had won reelection in the 1st Ward. Jackson, who has been a consistent critic of the mayor, was charged with four crimes, including fraud and falsifying and tampering with records.
Two men who worked on Shahin Khalique's unsuccessful election campaign in the 2nd Ward also were charged with fraud and unauthorized possession of ballots – the councilman's brother, Shelim Khalique, 51, of Wayne, and Abu Razyen, 21, of Prospect Park. Councilman Khalique, another Sayegh adversary, finished in a tie in the 2nd Ward contest, which will force him to relinquish his seat.
"Today's charges send a clear message: if you try to tamper with an election in New Jersey, we will find you and we will hold you accountable," said Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. "We will not allow a small number of criminals to undermine the public's confidence in our democratic process."
In a separate AG investigation announced on Thursday, Shelim Khalique, the owner of the A-1 Elegant transportation company, also was charged with using unsafe vehicles and unqualified drivers for student bus routes provided to numerous school districts in northern New Jersey.
Earlier:Officials disqualify 19% of votes cast in Paterson election
Recount sought:Candidate seeks another vote count over claimed disparities in Paterson election
Thursday's charges stem from a sweeping state investigation into the May elections for Paterson's six ward city council seats, a probe that had become an open secret in local political circles amid widespread allegations of fraud in the all vote-by-mail contest.
Authorities said the investigation remains open, spurring speculation among city political leaders about additional arrests. Candidates in some ward races accused each other's campaigns of stealing voters' blank ballots and fraudulently filling them out.
In early May, the Passaic County Board of Elections discounted about 900 ballots that officials said were illegally bundled, or mailed together, a sign they said of likely wrongdoing. Those 900 allegedly bundled ballots were among a total of more than 3,200 — or 20% of those submitted — rejected by the county election board for various reasons, including questionable voter signatures.
Jackson declined to comment about the charges against him.
"He's going to plead not guilty and he's going to contest this," said Jackson's lawyer, Ted Kyles. "He's a fine public servant and he's performed many years of public service in Paterson long before he ever was elected to office."
Rezyen's lawyer declined to comment on the charges against him.
"My client vehemently denies all allegations of wrongdoing," said Joseph Rotella, Shelim Khalique's lawyer. "We eagerly look forward to reviewing all of that the state claims is the evidence against him."
Mendez declined to comment when approached by a reporter outside his home on East 19th Street on Thursday afternoon. The councilman-elect was sitting in the passenger seat of a silver SUV when he rolled down his window halfway.
"I'm on the phone now, I can't talk," he said. Moments later, the vehicle drove away.
"I am not guilty and I expect to be vindicated," Mendez said later Thursday. "I look forward to serving the citizens of Paterson on July 1.
The charges come two weeks after Mendez held a press conference outside City Hall accusing Mayor Andre Sayegh of abusing his power by using Paterson police officers to spy on candidates not supported by the mayor as well as having his police bodyguard assists investigators targeting Mendez's campaign workers.
Mendez also asserted in that press conference that election officials tried to suppress Paterson's Latino vote by disproportionately disqualifying ballots from people with Hispanic surnames. At the event, Mendez called for the AG's Office and the FBI to conduct investigations.
At the time of Mendez's press conference, Sayegh supporters said Mendez was trying to deflect attention from his own wrongdoing.
William McKoy, the 20-year incumbent who lost to Mendez in this year's election despite getting Sayegh's endorsement, filed a 38-page legal challenge about 11 days ago attempting to have the results nullified.
McKoy's lawsuit frequently referred to the pending criminal investigations into the election and went so far as to name one Mendez supporter who the complaint claimed had "confessed to investigators" in the AG's Office that she had "stolen ballots out of mailboxes" at the direction of the campaign.
Mendez's allies have cited that reference to the alleged confession as evidence that Sayegh's allies had inside information about the state probe. Mendez supporters have said that shows the investigation was politically-motivated.


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Welcome! This document gives you the information needed to become a **please** contributor. Our goal is to make contributing as smooth and as painless as possible.

If you experience problems or have feedback on this document, please [submit an issue](#issues).

## Preparing to Contribute

We use git and GitHub to store and manage our content. Content is not just source code—it's code, documentation, scripts, notes, etc.

To contribute to **please**, you should complete the following steps:

1. Set up a [GitHub](https://github.com) account.
1. [Install git](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git).
1. If you will be running or building the programs locally, install [Ruby and bundler](#ci).

>Technically, simple contributions (e.g., fixing a typo in a document) can be made entirely through GitHub without needing to install git locally. However, this document assumes the user is using git and the user's local drive to push contributions to GitHub.

###IDEs

If you're contributing source code, you'll probably want an IDE. Take your pick based on your preferred operating system.

- Windows: [Microsoft Visual Studio](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34673). Current solution is VS 2010.
- OSX: [Xamarin Studio](http://xamarin.com/download) works great. The install will also install Mono.

## Submitting Issues

We use GitHub [Issues](https://guides.github.com/features/issues/) to track the backlog of work, including bugs.

>You must have a [GitHub account](#preparing) to submit an issue.

1. Before submitting an issue, please browse the [current list](https://github.com/ResourceDataInc/please/issues) to see if your issue has already been identified.
1. If your issue is unique, or if it isn't clear whether it is unique, enter a new issue.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

## Contributing Content

You can contribute content using using GitHub [Pull Requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests), which allow team members to review contributions before they are merged.

To contribute content, follow these steps:

1. [Fork](https://github.com/ResourceDataInc/please/fork) the **please** repository.
2. Create a feature branch.
3. Push your feature branch to your fork repository.
4. Create a Pull Request from your feature branch to `ResourceDataInc:master`.

### Branches

The `master` branch is the "edge" branch and should be the basis for all Pull Requests. Other important branches should be associated to an open Pull Request.

If you are building **please** for production use, you should use the latest release version of the source. Each **please** release is [tagged](https://github.com/ResourceDataInc/please/tags).

### When to Create a Pull Request
We prefer that you do a Pull Request as soon as you have something that can be shared with the team. It isn't expected to be perfect. The idea is to get feedback from team members early so that we can turn good ideas into great ones to avoid wasting effort going down a wrong path.

### Identifying Open Tasks in the Pull Request
In the Pull Request, list the remaining open tasks as a list of checkboxes by using a [GitHub Flavored Markdown trick](https://github.com/blog/1375%0A-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-comments). The list will be rendered like the following.

Remaining Tasks
- [ ] Refactor hacks
- [ ] Squash commits

You can find examples in the list of [closed Pull Requests](https://github.com/ResourceDataInc/please/pulls?direction=desc&page=1&sort=created&state=closed).

## Using Continuous Integration

We strongly believe in the benefits of [Continuous Integration](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) (CI).

For CI to be successful, all of the steps to achieve CI must be automated. We use [Rake](http://rake.rubyforge.org/) tasks to drive this automation. To run Rake tasks, you'll need to have Ruby and bundler installed .

>If you don't plan to ever run or build the programs locally, you can skip the CI steps.

### Installation Steps

1. Install Python.
1. Install Ruby.
1. Run `gem install bundler`.
1. Run `bundle install`.
1. Run `rake install`.

###About Rake Commands

`rake` commands are issued from the root of the repo. Run `rake -T` to see the list of tasks. The current output is shown below.

```
$ rake -T
rake build:debug    # Build for debugging
rake build:release  # Build for release
rake clean:all      # Clean all output
rake clean:release  # Clean release output
rake clean:test     # Clean test output
rake default        # Run tests
rake install        # Install NuGet dependencies
rake release        # Pack and push NuGet package
rake release:pack   # Pack NuGet package
rake release:push   # Push NuGet package
rake test           # Run tests
```

You'll use `rake` (shortcut to `rake default`), which builds the project and runs the tests, 99% of the time. After running `rake`, you should inspect the output and verify that no errors were found.

```
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Tests run: 52, Errors: 0, Failures: 0, Inconclusive: 0, Time: 5.237 seconds
  Not run: 0, Invalid: 0, Ignored: 0, Skipped: 0

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Kaddish: The Ultimate Way to Be a Child Again
January 2, 2014 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo 5 Comments
In memory of my mother, Bertha Lopes Cardozo z"l
on her 7th nachala (yahrtzeit)
27 Tevet 5774, December 30, 2013
I still remember it as if it were yesterday. Six years ago. The year of mourning for my dear mother z"l had just ended. It was a most unusual experience, which I did not anticipate. Suddenly, I was once again allowed to listen to music (one of the great loves of my life), go to celebrations like chatunot, and buy new clothing. Finally, I had returned to being like everybody else. So I was told. The world was back to normal.
But it wasn't. My experience was completely different. I suddenly realized that I couldn't "just like that" get myself back to my music and enjoy chatunot. Something had happened, and it took a long time before I realized what that was. I had stopped being a child. For 60 years, including the 30 years after my father had died, I had been a child; for much of that time, I had children and grandchildren of my own. But at that split second and not a second earlier, when my mother's neshama left its earthly dwelling, I had entered adulthood. Totally unexpected.
As long as my mother was alive, I was still a child. I had a mother, and I lived in her life. She cared for me, even when she was very old, frail and plagued by Alzheimer's. She was there, and that was all I needed to know and feel. I could continue to live in my comfortable childhood surrounded by her unconditional love.
But there was also something else. On a deeper level, she represented the world into which I was born, totally different from the world in which I had come to live. My mother had given birth to me while living in a gentile world and had helped me on my journey to a deeply Jewish and religious world. She was not really Jewish, although through her marriage to my Jewish father she became closely connected to an assimilated Jewish milieu where everything was Jewish except religion.
As a result of her unconditional support, I have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who walk around with large, knitted, colored kippot and tell me that they are sorry I am not a Kohen like they are because it would have been so nice "if we could do the avoda (the priestly service) in the future Temple with all of the family together." Other grandchildren wear black velvet yarmulkes, learn in cheder, and anxiously await their turn to sing "Yimloch" (1) in the Sephardic synagogue.
And then there is this: One of my granddaughters wants to marry a Chossid (2). Yes, you read well: a Chossid! How did that happen? A picture comes to mind when I, as a boy of 10, wanted to marry the non-Jewish girl next door whose parents used to go to church on Sundays! (Yes, I still remember her name!) And now my granddaughter wants to marry a Chossid! What happened? Well, now that I think of it, all my granddaughters wear blouses with long sleeves, while I sat in a class of only gentile boys and girls and don't remember any girl with long sleeves. And if there was a girl who wore long sleeves, there were questions asked as to whether she was "okay"!
I sometimes look at my wife and family and reflect on them and on the lives they live. They are the loveliest people I know. Each one is precious and has a big neshama. I feel very blessed. They are all proud religious Jews. My children-in-law are very special, as are their parents, our mechutanim; they are the cream of the crop. And then I realize: they are all really a gift from my mother.
When I look at an album of my childhood and see photos of me with my parents and dear brother; or when I stare at a large oil painting hanging in my front room, of my brother (age 2) and myself (age 4), inherited from my mother after she had passed away, I ask myself: What happened? Is that me? How did I get from there to here? Do my children understand what happened to me? Do I myself understand? Sometimes I feel like an existential stranger among my own family and then feel blessed again because I can do what other people cannot – live in radical wonder and perplexity.
But I know that my mother is smiling from afar. She is the only one who really understands. Not just because she was my mother, and mothers can comprehend things concerning their children that others cannot, but also because she accompanied me on this strange journey. She, together with my unforgettable father z"l and my dear brother (may God bless him and his family), were there when it happened. The Change. The first daring steps into a world that was unknown to all of us – Religious Judaism.
And as it happened and developed, it was she who was there to support me. Nothing would stand in her way. A small kosher corner in her kitchen was unacceptable. Everything had to become kosher, she decided, and so it was. Shabbat would not be spent at someone else's house, and everything was done to make it possible for me to stay at home. At the time I took it all for granted, but now I realize the radical uniqueness of her personality. She was sui generis.
Over the years, my mother started to recognize the religious world of Judaism and, together with my father, began to take part in its experience. It was a slow development of inner awareness, and she eventually became a full-fledged Jewess. When I later joined the famous Chareidi Gateshead Yeshiva in England, it was they who let me go, although today I fully understand how much of a challenge this must have been. Yet there was never a complaint, though they must have been scared to death, especially when I turned into something of a religious fanatic!
My mother z"l saved many people's lives in the Holocaust, including my father's family. The courage of a 19-year-old girl to stand up to the Nazis and pull the wool over their eyes was unprecedented (3). It could have cost her her life, but when my children asked her years later whether she was ever afraid, she didn't even understand the question. Afraid of what?
On her first nachala, our dear son Shimon Moshe Chizkiyahu quoted a midrash, which he correctly said described my mother in the most eloquent way. When Moshe stands before Pharaoh and his brother Aaron throws down his staff, which then swallows the sticks of Pharaoh's chartumim (master magicians) (4), the sages tell us that the staff of Aaron got no fatter. This, says the Midrash Rabbah, was a siman tov (a good sign) that Aaron's staff would later be able to perform many miracles. Why, ask the commentators (5), was the fact that it didn't get any fatter an indication that it would later work miracles? Because, they answer, it remained humble and never showed off that it had defeated the sticks of Pharaoh's sorcerers and become weightier. So Aaron's staff could do miracles because it was made of a miracle. To have swallowed all the other sticks and have still remained humble was a miracle.
Indeed this was my mother, just as our son suggested. She did great miracles—in fact, she was one herself—but she never felt any pride or showed any haughtiness because of it. She remained as unassuming as she was before.
It is now seven years that she is no longer with us. I remember having the strangest feeling when after 11 months of saying Kaddish for her, three times a day, I had to stop. But I couldn't! It was a traumatic experience. As long as I said Kaddish for her I was connected to her. But now that I had to stop, I was forced to let her go a second time.
The fact that I could say Kaddish for her—only for her—while she was over there and I was over here, was deeply comforting. We were still together. And I was sanctifying God's name in her name. True, she probably never needed it. She could stand there before the Divine Throne on her own merits; she didn't need me to help her.
But I needed the Kaddish so as to stay connected to her. It was a struggle to have to stop reciting this marvelous prayer, and I resisted it vehemently. I still do. Yes, I know that there are other ways to honor her, by my becoming a living Kaddish, sanctifying God's name in whatever I do. But besides the fact that it's a daunting task and an almost impossible mission, how would it help me to feel this very special connection with her?
Still, once a year I get some relief, on her nachala. So last Monday on her seventh yahrtzeit, I was able, for just one day, to return to my childhood and be a child once more; to connect with her, just as in the first year after her passing. To say Kaddish. Just for her. I had the feeling of having her around, again. How wise were our sages to institute this custom. It is like touching Heaven.
(1) Sephardic prayer recited before the Torah scroll is brought back to the heichal, the ark in the synagogue.
(2) Chossid, Chassid, follower of the Chassidic movement started by the famous Baal Shem Tov, a few hundred years ago.
(3) See Thoughts to Ponder 203: www.cardozoacademy.org/
(4) Shemot 7:10-12.
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Norman Tarshish says
Reb Natan,Absolutely beautiful! Thanks and Shabbat Shalom
Michelle Ish - Shalom says
Dear Rabbi Cardozo, thank you for a beautiful prelude to Shabbat. I see you surrounded by your loving wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren – all deeply committed to religious Judaism as naturally as night follows day. I confess I feel somewhat envious in my distance. However I wanted to share with you that when I heard the first faint calls of Judaism, I was 37 and in Kiental, Switzerland, studying Macrobiotics. My father had died and although I was converted to Judaism by the Beit Din I hadn't lived it. I was desperate to contact my father, quite beside myself. Lo and behold! Michio Kushi – our teacher- had a secretary. An Orthodox Jewish woman who reminded me of the Kaddish. Having learned to read and write Hebrew I was able to stand with her and pray the Kaddish. I am convinced this action triggered my lighting candles with other Jews on the course and led directly to Pablo Finkelstein inviting me to work for him in Jerusalem a year later. As you know, that trip changed my life, returning me to my Jewish roots and my Dad laughing all the way! Shabbat Shalom,Michelle.
elisabeth Barkany says
I listened to you a couple of times in London. And I read your letters from time to time with great interest. But this time you made me cry, even after reading the first line. What you said is very very moving.
Thank you so much for sharing not only your thoughts but also your deep and personal feelings. I wish you a long life.
My own son who is 17 chose to spend his most recent school holidays at Gateshead. He intends to study in yeshiva in Israel after finishing his A levels. He can't wait. His father comes from a family where indeed everything is Jewish except religion and I therefore relate to your story on a personal level. Your words about your mother have certainly touched me and inspired me and will help me support my son in his Torah studies.
howard rutman says
I wondered when saying kaddish,why my brothers and I had an opportunity to connect morning and evening on a daily basis with my father whereas my sister did not.
The most difficult day for one of my brothers and I was day number 8 the day following the shiva. We were continuously visited all day every day during the 7 days sometimes including meals. I did not consider the above an intrusion but an honour.
The contrast on day 8 being left on my own albeit with my immediately family was not a lessening for me on day 8 but a beginning of my morning.
Rabbi Lopes Cardozo says
Dear Howards. Thanks. In according to strict Halacha a daughter can also say kaddish. Today it happens much more. Yes, the day after the 7 days is an anticlimax unless you make it a new morning as you did!!! Nathan Cardozo.


This plaque marks the end of the Mission Trail; alternatively, it marks the beginning of mine. The plan is to visit all 21 missions in California. Visiting Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma last weekend was my first.
Anyway, I'm at a point in my life where regular blogging might become a thing again. I am learning so much about bikes and computers, I want to share!
As far as long term goals? I'm really not sure. I recently closed my academia/linguistics chapter of my life, and am starting down this path of the tech world. I'll do this for a while, and then see where my next "lifetime" takes me.


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The incredible true story of the NBA's once future star, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, who finally fulfills his basketball promise when he takes over coaching the Lester Middle School team in the roughest section of Memphis--eventually leading the boys all the way to the state finals and earning him his first-ever championship.
Former NBA star Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway grew up in Binghampton, one of the roughest sections of Memphis. Due in no small part to the self-discipline and strong values his grandmother instilled in him, plus his singular talent, Penny beat the incredible odds and made it to the NBA. He was such a special player that it seemed inevitable that he would win at least one championship and end up in the Hall of Fame. But dogged by injuries, Penny was never able to live up to his full basketball star potential.
After retirement Penny returned to Memphis and struggled with the question most professional athletes face when their bright-lights careers come to an end: What now? The unexpected answer came from Desmond Merriweather, one of Penny's oldest friends. Desmond had recently been diagnosed with colon cancer and needed someone to replace him as head coach of the Lester Middle School basketball team in the same dangerous neighborhood where Penny grew up. Without hesitating, Penny said, "I'm all in."
On These Courts is the moving story of Coach Penny helping his young players navigate their way through impossible circumstances: failing grades, incarcerated fathers, gang pressures, and the crime-ridden streets of Memphis. But Penny never shied away. He selflessly provided on-the-court coaching, helped kids with homework, and became a positive role model who is committed to staying involved in their lives. But this is not just a story about Penny; the true stars are the kids on the Lester Lions team--Robert Washington, Reggie Green, Kobe Freeman, and Desmond's own son Nick Merriweather-- who rewarded Penny with his first championship season, winning the state title by one point. A penny.
A story of hope and inspiration, struggle, and triumph, On These Courts reveals the importance and power of taking a stand in a community and learning what it truly means to give back.
A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Penny's FastBreak Courts, part of Penny Hardaway's ongoing efforts to help at-risk youth in the Memphis community.
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I'm finally in Canada! Yippie!
Finally Marie and I are together and able to start our new lives here. Although we're together, we're still very busy and things around here will still be slow at times.
The reason for this is that when Marie isn't busy with her head in medical text books, she's at classes and when she's not in class, she's doing her internship. All the while I'm sitting at home waiting on things from the government (Tax numbers, Residency cards etc) and moving all our accounts (website store and other things) accross to our address here in The Great White North. So she has very little time to draw up the comics I come up with.
Now on to some bad news, while I'm here and everything is great, I don't have my computer. What that basically means is that I won't be able to produce any content for youtube or do any live shows. I would use Marie's computer, but sadly one of the video cards has decided to up and kick the bucket, and since it's an older machine, it simply can't handle our needs. It even takes her quite some time to get a comic done now due to the aging machine.
It'll be some time before I'm able to get my computer here since we have no room for it in our current accomidations, so until we get our own place, we're kind of stuck with slow comics and that's about it.
In other news, we've been thinking about setting up a Patreon page for those who wish to contribute to keep Panda and Boo up and running. While we do have the donation link (on the right), and the store, some of you have bought nearly one of everything in the store and even donated money on top of that. While this is very much appreciated, we really like the idea of subscriptions for something you come back every week/day for. If you're not sure Patreon is, it's basically a subscription service for youtubers/webcomics/musicians etc. If you have heard of it, we'd like to hear your thoughts on what we could do with it. Whether we offer Patreon exclusive content, maybe rewards for certain subscription amounts (Drawings, P&B T-Shirts etc).
Take a look around and let us know your thoughts, ideas etc on how we can make it work for us. We haven't set any goals, but rest assured one of them is new hardware so Marie can do comics in a timely manner.
I'll try and keep people updated more often, maybe write some nonsense articles to keep you all ammused while we get into the swing of things around here.
Thanks for being patient with us guys, and remember, keep circulating the links!


I invest in people. I think: people first, projects second.
People first, everything else second. It is a powerful idea and the first step in loving those you serve. But, what does it really mean to put people first? It is a statement we hear a great deal in leadership, but often find putting into practice or into action on a daily basis much more challenging. The same to-do-list sits on our desk, the same problems are still there to be solved, and the same school accountability requirements are yet to be met. How do you put people first when all of these items are staring at us each day, drawing our attention from what really matters? The people- people matter, when it comes down to the core of what we do, people matter the most. Here are a few ways to measure where people fall as a level of importance in your daily work. If you invest your time here, people are (and will always be) your priority.
How many times have you found yourself in a conversation, knowing exactly what you are going to say before the other person even stops sharing their thoughts? If we want to be approachable, we must make sure conversations focus on the other person and what they bring to the table, not on ourselves. Listen fully, stop, think, paraphrase, and then respond. As leaders, the conversation is not about us, it is about being supportive of the person who approached you. Most of the time, the advice you are quick to give is not as good as you think it is anyway. If you take time to be reflective before you answer, the advice you give will usually be more sound and taken with more merit. People have two ears and one mouth for a reason, use them in that proportion.
Ask questions that make it about the people you are talking with and their needs, not about you or your own personal needs. If we want to support others, we need to know where they need supported the most, or what support they even need. If we do not dig a little deeper into conversations, we will only help in superficial ways. Asking questions allows us to figure out where a person is starting, and then support them as they take those critical first steps.
It is always much better to take time while communicating with others. Impulsivity in responding immediately is the enemy of great leadership. While your knee jerk response may be good, it is rarely a well thought out insight into the situation. There are very few situations that need an immediate answer. In all honesty, in the complex world we live in and the complex problems that exist in our schools, rarely is there one answer that will address the heart of the matter. People need our ear and support much more than they need our advice.
In the midst of difficult, emotional situations where honest, hard conversations must be had, our honesty can be delivered with empathy or with apathy. We cannot just be warm and fuzzy, we must be real and constructive or no growth can take place. It is this place in our heart and mind where the honesty comes from truly that matters as a leader. Too often we worry about how people will feel if given constructive criticism, so we avoid the conversation all together. While on the surface, this may seem like it comes from a place of concern and love, I want you to think about what that really shows the person. If we know a person is acting in a way that is hindering their growth, and we say nothing, who are we really concerned about in this situation? If we truly cared about that person, wouldn't we want to help them improve? If we say nothing, we are only concerned with ourselves. We do not want the feedback to upset the individual and have them be angry with us. By avoiding the conversation we feel we are protecting ourselves, which is the opposite of outward, people first, thinking.
The challenge comes in how you respond in these situations. Honesty can be presented in vastly different ways, and can come from very different places as a leader. We must start with empathy and honesty first, then we can worry about results. We must start with individual relationships, and then we can focus on outcomes. If you put results and outcomes before caring, honesty, and individual relationships, your leadership is filtered down to a simple transactional interaction. When outcomes come first, people become objects used to get us the results we want, or need, for our own personal gain.
I want you to think back to a time when you were scolded. Maybe as a child, or maybe by a boss. Do you remember how you felt? Was the feedback given to you during that scolding accurate and needed at the time? Maybe the feedback was good, maybe not, but I am sure what you remember about the situation is the emotion that came along with it, not the feedback that was given at the time. I have messed up situations like this more often than I care to admit; it is not easy to come from a place of caring, and honesty in emotionally-charged situations. It takes investing in people over a long period of time, and concern for the individuals you are working with to get it right.
I also want to reiterate the fact that true love comes from a place of deep care and concern for an individual. We can love someone without always liking their behavior. Anyone who lives with, or works with, teenagers understands this. We love our kids even though we may not always like the decisions they make. You can be exhaustively frustrated with someone, and still want to help them that comes from a place of deep love and concern for them as people. Love means we treat people as they are, which is more than a sum of their actions or mistakes. They are human beings, and every human being deserves our love in action.
We tend to respond and listen to others with the general attitude we form over time towards those people. With this being true, I believe it is vital to consider our daily thoughts and emotions and how those impact our interactions with the people we serve. People appear smarter, more skilled, and having a higher work ethic when, things are going well, and we see them straightforwardly as people who are serving their purpose. As we interact with people, or hear things about them, we need to continually ask ourselves if we are regarding them as having similar hopes and needs as we wish for ourselves. Do we judge their actions in the same way that we judge our own, or do we see people as objects and their behavior as a threat, nuisance, or problem?
When we get frustrated with people, we typically respond in a few different manners. We find ways to inflate others' faults, we find ways to inflate our own morality in how we would handle similar situations, we inflate the value of an action and its impact on a situation in a negative way, and/or we blame others. When we have a view that we are somehow entitled, or superior, to those we lead, we can easily fall into these traps. This means we are not really seeing people as people at all, but rather as objects that can be used to get the results or outcomes we pursue. This means their wants, their needs, their desires all become secondary to our own. Our desires come first making others needs become less legitimate and inferior. This only leads us to inflate the value of things that justify putting our work and ideas on top and pushing others down. Success as a leader depends on freeing ourselves from these deceptions we see in people. When we see people as hardworking individuals who are giving their best and want to improve, we create an environment of openness,, trust and teamwork, where people work hard for the collective good, not for individual accomplishments.
Is the glass half-full or half-empty?… When you run into a challenge, do you believe the people you serve "can" or "can't" handle the situation?
The answer to this question is key to understanding if you truly put people first. Our role as a leader (who operates out of love) is to help people believe that no matter what has happened in the past, they can accomplish difficult things. If we believe that those we serve can accomplish difficult tasks, and we are willing to struggle through the process with them, our impact can be long lasting. On the other hand, it is not surprising that a relationship based on low expectations, typically yields less than positive results. When we remove trust and belief in a person's ability to accomplish great things, we create a culture where people do not believe they can accomplish difficult tasks and therefore, ultimately, they do not try. While this negative result is often not intentional on the leader's part (and is often born out of frustration from behavior or effort) we need to understand the damage created by setting low achievement expectations by claiming that "people can't, or won't." It takes allowing full autonomy in those we serve. It means we trust people to make decisions when we might be the one who holds the responsibility for the results.
Do not be the parent that swoops in and fixes every problem for your child. Let them struggle; let them learn. Those who jump in quickly to solve difficult problems for people (in any capacity of life) show you what they believe about that person's ability to solve the problem in the first place. If we remove the struggle, we remove the learning. If we remove the learning and solve problems for people who could solve the problem if given time, we ensure that our buildings will never be any better than the solutions we can come up with as an individual. Leadership is about turning over control and believing that people can accomplish the task at hand.
In summary, the ideas that come from putting people first apply to many aspects of our lives: teaching, parenting, being a great spouse or a great friend, and ultimately leadership. When people feel valued and appreciated they always seem to do more than what is expected. If we start by valuing people first in our conversations and actions, we will become stronger as a leader. Spouting off advice, fixing problems for people, or belittling those around us is how people who put products before people operate. If we truly want to put those we serve first, we must be open to, and grateful for, every opportunity we have to work with people — the good and the bad. Each opportunity is a way to build a better relationship with the students, teachers, staff members, or whoever else it is you are aiming to serve.


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Pula holidays are linked to a lovely mild climate and surrounding countryside that is both fertile and natural. Virtually unspoilt, the landscape cannot escape the shimmering waters of the Adriatic which lap at the toes of the harbour. A myriad beaches (many pebbly) with the cleanest, clearest water imaginable are dotted along the indented coastline for almost 100 miles. Some are secluded, some are deserted, some are hidden; others are full of joyful children splashing in the shallows with adults swimming and snorkelling amongst the rocks. Pula nature parks are justly famous too and these green refuges throughout are restful oases and a peaceful retreat from city life.
As the Istrian Riviera is a coastline spattered with a thousand offshore islands, a holiday to Pula should and must include a day trip (or more!) to any of these delightful local islands. Each island has a unique personality and a topography that is riddled with wooded hills, green forests and parks and surrounded by silver beaches and undiscovered inlets and pretty coves. Raw nature is present and correct.
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The False Claims Act and PPP: Practical Considerations
By Daniel C. Oliverio on February 1, 2021
Much has been written over the past several months about the application of the False Claims Act to PPP loan fraud. While, at first look, the cases seem appealing, it is important to consider the practical implications of bringing such a case and whether, in the general scheme of things, a PPP case is worthwhile.
There is little doubt that the PPP Program has seen its share of fraud. Most of the fraud, however, seems to be intentional and criminal. Buying a new Ferrari and a vacation home in Las Vegas likely does not fall within the PPP guidelines. Nor does misrepresenting the size or even the existence of a corporate entity and making up information certified on an application for PPP funds and then submitting it for consideration.
While there have been numerous reports of this type of plainly illegal conduct, there is no doubt there will be more and more as the SBA's audit process continues. And as, in some cases, whistleblowers come forward. Many of whom may have participated in the PPP fraud they are reporting and others blowing the whistle on a former or current employer. These cases, when proven to be factually true, are easy ones for the United States Attorney's office on the criminal side. But there will also be the cases where a whistleblower contacts a lawyer with an eye towards commencing an FCA case and profiting from the as-of-yet undetected fraud.
What should an FCA lawyer do when one of those cases walks in the door? The initial reaction is "take it" because it might be easy. That may not be the right answer. Here are some reasons why.
First, take a hard look at the defendant and whether there is anything there to collect even in the case where the relator can prove egregious fraud (see above). Professional fraudsters don't often keep the money. They buy things. And most of the time, are unable to pay a civil judgment, especially after criminal forfeitures and restitution.[1] So, consider whether there is a recoverable defendant at the end of the case. Simply put 15% of nothing is nothing. So unless counsel is doing these cases for a hobby, collectability is something to really think about where the fraud is obvious and likely criminal.
Second, the PPP program was an enormous undertaking, cobbled together in a very short period of time, and as a result, was constantly changing, sometimes in the middle of the night when new regulations or advice was issued by the SBA. So what may appear to be fraud, may well need to be tempered by what the rules say, what changes were made, and what a particular defendant thought was correct at the time. In short, you are not going to win any PPP False Claims Act cases for technical oversights, random misapplication of funds, or even sloppy accounting. The US Attorney's offices will be busy enough with outright criminal fraud cases and will likely not want to be bothered with marginal cases where there are possible intent defenses and where the SBA's constant modification of the program will be in play.
Remember, too, US Attorney will also look to collectability. If the fraud is egregious, and the defendant has no real financial substance, good luck. The US Attorney's office will not be interested in that case, either. It will be a criminal case, perhaps some jail time, a large restitution judgment, and done.
PPP loans are typically in the neighborhood of $5-$6 million dollars. Some less and some more. Assume all of it is fraud and the defendant is collectable, and assume, hypothetically, a settlement with a relator is made for double damages.[2] So let's say the recovery is $12 million dollars. A relator's share of 15% of $12 million is $1.8 million dollars. If relator's counsel has a 1/3 contingency (I pick 1/3 to make the math easy), the case generates a $600,000 premium and the possibility of recovering some attorney's fees. That is in a perfect world in a large PPP case. When everything goes right, when the US Attorney is interested, when the proof is solid, and when the defendant is totally collectable at the level of double damages as seen in settled cases.
The question is simple. Is the chance of a $600,000 premium in a perfect world the type of case that a wise FCA firm will want to take in lieu of other more-profitable opportunities that may come into the office in the meantime?
In short, look not only at collectability, but also at what a likely settlement might be in an absolute perfect world. Then discount that number substantially for what usually happens.
Bottom line, there is a lot of work to be done before taking a PPP case which, on its face and at initial intake, might look easy. The US Attorney's office will examine the same factors as FCA counsel should, including collectability and whether there is fraud or not in light of the ever-changing program requirements. Relying on the alternative remedy section of the statute in cases where the disclosed matter is prosecuted criminally is not good a bet, either. The law is uncertain, and the criminal defendant may well have the same collectability issues. And both might result is in a meager recovery, if any.
[1] While the alternative remedy provision of the FCA may be helpful, it generally is a long way around the mountain, and the cases addressing that section are sparse.
[2] Note this is a hypothetical. It will likely not be that easy.
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Terrell expects lengthy hearing over Robinson evidence
The Rapides Parish District Attorney's Office late last week requested a full hearing on claims of misconduct made by convicted killer Darrell Robinson's defense team that they assert are enough to have his conviction and death sentence vacated.
Terrell expects lengthy hearing over Robinson evidence The Rapides Parish District Attorney's Office late last week requested a full hearing on claims of misconduct made by convicted killer Darrell Robinson's defense team that they assert are enough to have his conviction and death sentence vacated. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2016/05/15/terrell-expects-lengthy-hearing-over-robinson-evidence/84230434/
Melissa Gregory, mgregory@thetowntalk.com, (318) 792-1807 Published 3:00 p.m. CT May 15, 2016 | Updated 3:06 p.m. CT Oct. 29, 2017
Title: Darryl Robinson arrest, from files(Photo: The Alexandria Town Talk Copyright 2000)
The hearing, which is slated to begin on July 19, could go on as long as a month, says Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell.
Terrell told The Town Talk late Thursday that he had signed the request for the evidentiary hearing that afternoon after a satisfactory agreement on briefs couldn't be reached by his office or with the family of Robinson's four victims.
The motion came at the end of a busy week in the case that went to trial in 2001. On May 9, a hearing had been held because Robinson's attorneys and the DA's office had signed a joint stipulation of facts. That and other exhibits, plus a defense motion to vacate Robinson's conviction and sentence, were entered during the hearing before 9th Judicial District Court Judge Patricia Koch.
A copy of the transcript from that hearing shows that the stipulation, which is a legal document that spells out facts in a case that both side agree upon, took months of discussion between Robinson's attorneys and the DA's office. But the man who prosecuted the case, Assistant District Attorney Mike Shannon, came into court that day and pleaded for the right to submit a brief for her consideration.
The stipulation was signed by Robinson's three attorneys, Terrell and Rapides Assistant District Attorney Greg Wampler.
Shannon did not sign. The document does state that Shannon, if called to testify, would say that "he never intentionally withheld or failed to disclose evidence that he believed to be exculpatory."
Terrell said Shannon most likely would be called to testify, as would Robinson's original defense attorney, Mike Small.
"(Mike) Shannon is a witness now," said Terrell. "Small is a witness. I don't see how either one of them, if a new trial were granted or even in this proceeding, we don't believe either one of them are in a position to go forward representing the state or the defendant because they are now witnesses."
As for accusations of misconduct, Terrell backed Shannon. He also said that, if Robinson were granted a new trial, it didn't mean that he would be a free man. Robinson's indictments on four first-degree murder charges would keep him behind bars until a new trial could be held.
"We're adamantly opposed to him being granted a new trial," said Terrell.
What was playing out in the courtroom in the May 9 hearing wasn't lost on Koch, who told Shannon that she knew the subject of the hearing was "very sensitive, very personal" for him. Shannon agreed.
And the transcript also reveals Koch admonishing the attorneys as Shannon requested the right to file a brief.
"Today, today is unusual. I mean, it's a given," she said according to the transcript. "I mean, that's why I've got so many lawyers in one place. It is unusual. And where I see the state — and once again, there is six of you, however many is in here, y'all have got to get on the same page. There seems — or the obvious — there's some conflict or disagreement about what facts cannot be agreed to, or with explanation."
Robinson was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in the May 28, 1996, slayings of Billy Lambert, 50; Carol Hooper, 54; Maureen Kelley, 37; and Nicholas Kelley, 10 months. The four were found by another family member in Lambert's home in the Poland community.
Nicholas Kelley (Photo: Town Talk file photo)
All the victims had been shot in their heads; Lambert had been shot twice. Witnesses testified that they saw Robinson leaving the scene in Lambert's truck, and he later was captured in Evangeline Parish, according to Town Talk archives.
The case was heard by jurors brought in from St. Landry Parish who were sequestered in Alexandria for the duration of the trial, which lasted about a month.
After The Town Talk broke news of the hearing on Tuesday, questions were raised about whether the family had not been notified of it or of the motion to vacate, despite Louisiana law that requires a registered contact be alerted in many instances in the pre-trial and post-conviction phases of cases. On Friday, the family released a statement in which they requested "consideration of their privacy regarding the current issues surrounding this case.
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Attorneys want conviction, sentence of Poland-area killer tossed
"We have 100 percent faith in Phillip Terrell and his staff and the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office in the resolve of this matter," reads the typed statement left at The Town Talk's office. It was initialed by 12 people.
In the years since the 2001 trial, Robinson's post-conviction appeals were picked up by the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, part of the Louisiana Public Defender Board. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case in December 2004, months after the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and sentence.
At least two execution dates have been set, but those dates passed as appeals continue. According to Rapides Parish Clerk of Court records, legal work has continued in all the years since.
Then, in October 2014, defense attorneys began issuing subpoenas and motions that were filed under seal. Documents from those subpoenas were filed with Koch the next month. A status hearing was set for February 2015, and the pattern continued.
At the May 9 hearing, seven attorneys representing both sides introduced themselves for the record. Terrell, Wampler and Assistant District Attorney Greg Gravel were in court on behalf of the state. For Robinson's defense, there was Matilde Carbia, representing the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, and attorneys Edward Cassidy, Lousene Hoppe and Kevin Riach from the Minneapolis firm of Fredrickson & Byron, P.A.
Robinson also was present at the hearing, but he did not say much.
Darrell James Robinson in 2001. (Photo: Town Talk file photo)
Shannon initially wasn't present, but the transcript shows that an attorney — his daughter, Misty Shannon Antoon — was present on his behalf, and asked Koch to wait so her father could get to the hearing.
Once present, Shannon told Koch that he he'd read the final stipulations, but that he "didn't have a whole lot of time to read them.
"And I am in basic agreement with all of it and the changes that have been made," he told Koch. "My only request to the court is that the state be given an opportunity to brief the law and the facts, period. That's all I'm saying."
That drew an objection from Cassidy.
"Your honor, on behalf of Mr. Robinson, we oppose that request. Number one, there's no point in briefing the facts if we've got a stipulation of facts," he said. "I don't know what the point of that would be. Number two, we've had months' worth of discussion on this and I think the parties are in agreement that based on this stipulation there were Brady violations that rise to the level of vacating the conviction. And we see no point in writing briefs on facts that are stipulated at this point."
A good deal of discussion followed, and Koch eventually did allow both Shannon and the defense to submit briefs on the law, which Shannon said would not change the stipulation.
"It does not change a stipulation, but it might be something in the record that explains a stipulation," he said. "That's all I'm saying."
But Koch took issue with Shannon's insistence that exhibits also entered into the record on May 9 allowed for explanations of some of the stipulations, and that he should be allowed to do the same.
"All I'm asking, I'm not asking for a lot, all I'm asking is there might be a reference to sworn trial testimony that might explain a stipulation, as they have done themselves in their position paper, and you're saying I can't do it," he said. "That is not fair."
Following that, both Wampler and Terrell clarified with Koch that the brief to be submitted would be a "brief of the law."
Joint Stipulation of Facts
The joint stipulation states, among other things, that a prisoner who testified against Robinson during his trial had Lafayette Parish charges against him dismissed, that DNA and photographic evidence was withheld from Small, that the existence of a $50,000 life insurance policy held by the husband of one of the victims wasn't shared with Small, and that Small never was told that a Rapides Parish sheriff's detective consulted a New Jersey psychic during the investigation.
Submitted to the court in June 2015 was the criminal history of Leroy Goodspeed, the then-prisoner who shared a Rapides Parish Detention Center cell with Robinson in 1997. He testified that Robinson confessed the murders to him and that he claimed to have thrown the murder weapon off a bridge.
The murder weapon never was found, but investigators believed that it was a .38-caliber pistol that had belonged to Lambert. The gun, which Lambert kept in his bedroom, was missing after the murders, and it never was found.
Just before the hearing ended, Carbia submitted the motion to vacate Robinson's conviction. Terrell acknowledged that a copy of the motion had been served to the prosecution, and Wampler thanked Koch, but no one else spoke about the motion.
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One of the most significant ways to raise awareness and increase acceptance of a disease or any campaign is to literally wear it on your back.
And now, one company is doing the same thing for mental illness, with shirts that say things like, "It's okay not to be okay," "Sick but not weak," "Your story is not over," "Stressed by well dressed," "Self-care isn't selfish," "Struggle vs. Strength," and "Sad but Rad."
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