Exactly a year from our first Open Evening, the whole school joined together in the Barbirolli Hall today to have a photograph taken to celebrate the opening of the school. As you can see in the video below, the students were organised with military precision into height order by the team from Gillman and Soame and then 'loaded' onto the stands. The whole event went smoothly, and ended with a rendition of Happy Birthday for Mr Thompson, organised as a surprise by the other staff. We look forward to seeing the finished results soon - a historic photograph which will be available for parents and friends to purchase and will no doubt be prominently displayed in our new building.
Congratulations to all the students who behaved fantastically well throughout. Your attitude, good humour and behaviour were all commented on by our visitors, high praise considering the number of schools they visit every year!


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Gabby Barrett embarked on her singing journey in a gospel choir. She has been working towards her musical career when she was nine years old.
At the age of 14, she joined Lamb of God Christian Ministries, an all-black choir. In the same year, she won a singing competition named the Kean Quest Talent Search.
In 2018, she became a participant in American Idol Season 16. It was such a huge highlight for Gabby. She finished third in the singing competition.
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She released her debut single independently titled I Hope. It became a major success as it ranked #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and got multiple platinum.
The single also brought her to win Breakthrough Video of the Year from the CMT Music Awards. Then, she launched the remix version with Charlie Puth.
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Barrett has dark brown eyes and blonde hair.
She looks up to Whitney Houston, Etta James, and Shania Twain.
Will Smith is the singer's favorite actor.
Meanwhile, Gabby's favorite actress is Emma Stone.
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Before stepping on the stage, she often shakes hands with her dad.
Gabby's father works at Goodwill in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
To pay her family bills, her father also worked to clean apartments too.
She becomes good friends with Catie Turner and Caleb Lee Hutchinson.
The woman had to face bullying in her high school.
Then, Gabby enrolled in high school online.
In 2017, she held a tour named Dreams Really Do Come True and spread anti-bullying messages.
In 2018, Barrett donated her outfits from the American Idol All-Star round to Goodwill Charities.
Along with Dr. Shellie Hipsky, she was featured in Inspiring Lives magazine in July 2019.
She engaged to singer and her fellow American Idol contestant Cade Foehner in 2019.
The couple held a rustic wedding in Texas in October 2019.
Barrett worked together with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020.
In December 2020, she joined Fault magazine for a cover photoshoot.
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The Lighting division of Royal Philips Electronics has a new CEO. Royal Philips Electronics (Philips) has appointed Eric Rondolat as CEO of Lighting and member of its Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2012. The company stated that Rondolat succeeding Frans van Houten who has led Philips Lighting on an interim base. Mr. Paul Verhagen has been the CFO of Lighting since January 1. Rondolat joins Philips from Schneider Electric.


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>   I see I left off the author title;  O'Hara BUtterfield 8   13-.
>   What's your 14? in your list?
Sorry, I just did a copy paste and left everything in.  That one is a not sure.  I don't recall the reason why, but Scot and I had reason to believe the siting was not accurate.
>   Is your complete list on Scot's website?
Yes, all the regular bindings are on ModernLib.
>   I am going to add a check box in my database for confirmed "subformats" (the tem I use in my database.  Is it Okay if mine your list for the established data?
>   I think the collecting community needs to have discussion as to what to do with all of these abberations.  It appears that some of them need to be edited into Henry's list while others simply need to be noted as occasional variants.
Right.  Where is the line between too many variants and legitimate differences.


Old Sacramento is close to home. Ironically, it is often easier to photograph unfamiliar places than something we are used to seeing. We are more observant when we don't know a place. But old-town is a fascinating window into California's past, and I could no longer ignore it. So, one morning in January, I headed early into downtown to avoid the crowds and captured the place in it's quiet winter serenity.


The contributions in this book are based on, A New Fascism – a symposium held at Fridericianum, Kassel (2016), in conjunction with the exhibition, Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz. The texts follow the questions: Is there a new fascism emerging? And how can we form a counter-acting power?
In her novel entitled Nach Mitternacht (After Midnight, 1937), Irmgard Keun describes everyday life in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s under the dominant influences of fear, government control and despotism. In her exhibition at the Fridericianum, artist Loretta Fahrenholz called attention to similar contemporary phenomena. Based loosely on Keun's exile novel, her Two A.M. was a socio-fiction film in which she presents frightening analogies to present-day surveillance, capitalism and re-emerging fascism.
One of the essential characteristics of representatives of the new Right, from the Hungarian Prime Minister to Marine Le Pen, is that they all regard themselves as democrats. And when we listen to them, they seem to become more democratic every day. Without blushing, the AfD compares itself to the Third Reich resistance group known as the Weiße Rose. And the French Front National proudly points out that it was the only party in France whose members voted in a democratic referendum on the European constitution.
Thus the obscurity of European institutions can surely be cited as one of the reasons for the emergence of new right-wing movements in all European countries. And the increasing popularity of the new right-wing and nationalist parties can also be attributed at least in part to the movements of migrants and refugees, which are certain to continue unabated in the foreseeable future.
Fascism has reinvented itself, as Alain Badiou pointed out 10 years ago. It has assumed new forms which must be analyzed. And the old theories regarding fascism are no longer adequate for that purpose.


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There were no surprise additions or omissions on the list of non-roster players invited big league camp for the Cubs announced today.
The 40-man roster currently sits at 39, with the deal for reliever Brad Brach still pending, which would bring the roster to capacity. Since the contract agreement was announced approximately two weeks ago, it is possible the required physical was delayed due to the recent weather or perhaps a minor injury by Brach, or the physical took place and an issue was discovered which required the two sides to hold off and re-examine the issue after a certain amount of time, or perhaps re-negotiate or void the previous agreement. As of right now, we simply don't know.
With the rotation in place (Hendricks, Lester, Darvish, Hamels, Quintana), and closer Brandon Morrow projected to miss the opening month of the season, the main battle this spring is definitely for the final 3-4 spots in the bullpen. If they remain healthy, four of the relievers are set for Opening Day: Pedro Strop, Steve Cishek, C.J. Edwards, and Mike Montgomery. Assuming the Brad Brach deal is eventually approved he would make five.
That leaves three (or four depending on Brach) open to competition that will come from some combination of Tyler Chatwood, Brandon Kintzler, Brian Duensing (who are all out of Minor League options and possess guaranteed MLB deals), and then additional 40-man roster options Tony Barnette, Dillon Maples, Rowan Wick, Alec Mills, Duane Underwood, James Norwood as well as lefties Randy Rosario and Kyle Ryan. The 14 relievers on the NRI above will also compete. Allen Webster and George Kontos are the mostly likely in my eye to receive consideration.
Dakota Mekkes is the lone prospect receiving an invite that I could see forcing his way into consideration, but I believe he is more likely to be an in-season addition, after the team sorts through the veterans they are bringing in for looks. If he shows improved control this spring he could force the team's hand though.
Three bench spots are projected to be occupied by Daniel Descalso, Victor Caratini and Albert Almora (or Ian Happ depending on who you view as the starter in CF). I do not believe any of the position players receiving non-roster invites have much of a chance to unseat David Bote for the final bench spot. With off days built into the early schedule a true backup SS for Javier Baez is not an important factor and the team could simply choose to get by with Bote and/or some combination of Descalso and Zobrist. Addison Russell, if he remains with the team by the time his suspension ends would eventually displace Bote in May.
Pitchers and catchers report to Mesa next Tuesday.
No true backup for Baez concerns me.
He won't really need many, if any, days off until Russell returns. The Cubs have a scheduled day off in each of the first 5 weeks of the season, and there is usually at least one weather cancellation each April as well. If he develops any kind of nagging injury that requires additional rest they can always change their mind and add someone like Adames or Evans. Bote has two more option years.
Still got the most unpopular guy on the roster coming back after his suspension but yeah until then hopefully Javy stays healthy. I feel like the team is basically so reliant on Russell's presence on this roster that they almost can't release him despite the criticisms from fans. I know Russell hasn't been great lately but let's be honest the team is way better with him the season would essentially be over if Javy got injured for 2 months if Russell weren't on the roster.
Carlos Ramirez looks pretty good from his stats. Too many walks I guess. Ryan Court seems OK. Can he play short(well)?
Court is more of a 3b but he can play SS a bit.
The primary SS at Iowa figures to be Zack Short with Christian Adames and Philip Evans as the primary backups. Court and Giambrone can also play it a little if needed.
No. Given how little he has pitched in recent years I doubt the club views him as someone that could hold up over the course of an entire season. I expect they take their time with him again and let him slowly build up in EXST again before he considering a Minor League assignment for him.
Glad to see Mekkes and Robinson in camp.
They are the two prospects not on the 40-man most ready for the Majors so they definitely deserve it.
Barring trades &/or injuries, I'd be shocked if Chatwood, Duensing & Kintzler are not on the opening day roster. With Brach, pending his physical & if he's not injured, I believe there's only one true opening for the pen & that's only until Morrow returns. I'm really hoping there's some sort of move brewing in the works.
Those three have to have decent springs. All are capable, and will likely be given benefit of the doubt, but if any of them are still throwing like they did in the 2nd half of last year I don't think the Cubs will gift them roster spots. They have to show improvement.
I hear ya, but I don't see the Cubs just releasing them. I don't think Duensing or Kintzler have options & is being paid well. Chatwood is making $12.5 mil this yr & $13 mil next year. That's a lot of money to eat.
In a perfect world I would agree. And Edwards is another guy I'm a little bit concerned about. He'd look good for 1 or 2 batters then the wheels would wobble off.
Kintzler probably most assured of roster spot given need and salary.
Chatwood might be convinced to go down to Minors to stay stretched out and/or work on control if problems from last year return.
Duensing's salary is not prohibitive enough where they wouldn't just release him if he pitches poorly in spring.
I don't see Chatwood going to the minors. I think he will veto that option as stay with the major league club.
If he is still walking guys at the same rate as last year he isn't going to fix himself by pitching once a week in the Majors. It would benefit not just the team, but him, to go down and actually get to pitch in order to right himself.
I would hope that Chatwood has been working on his issues over the offseason and will become at least a decent reliever in 2019. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Cubs include him in a minor deal and pay most of his salary just to move him off the roster.
I'm sure he has been working on it. But he still needs to prove it in games.
All of the IFs will.
A few of the OFs will fill out Iowa roster.
Mekkes, Robinson and Brooks among the relievers.
As for the veteran pitchers they will likely be fighting for 1-2 roster spots in Iowa, unless injury opens up more. The Iowa pitching staff is already mostly filled out by 40-man guys. A couple could be convinced to stay back in EXST and wait for an opening. Kyle Ryan did that last year and eventually joined Iowa, then pitched well enough to earn 40-man spot.
Zobrist, Hamels, Cishek, Strop, Kintzler, Duensing are all in final year of their deals.
Rizzo, Quintana and Morrow have team options.
The three prospects that I believe will have the most impact down the stretch for the Cubs are Mekkes, Alzolay and Steele. I could see all three in the bullpen come September. And then Alzolay and Steele could compete to replace Hamels in rotation next year.
Mills, Ryan, Wick and Rosario all have MLB experience and should be able to help if needed. Who knows what we get out of Maples. Norwood and Underwood have MLB caliber arms if they can harness enough consistency.
As for position players, Zack Short might be ready in the 2nd half to provide some SS depth in the event of injury or something happens with Russell. Giambrone might be MLB ready sooner, but he is more like Bote in that he is stretched at SS. Evans and Adames have plenty of SS experience and Adames has plenty of MLB experience in the meantime if something happens. Zagunis could obviously help out a bit if OF injuries occur. Taylor Davis is the 3rd catcher for now.
Harper and Boras want everything. The want the biggest AAV/contract and they want to play for a top contending team. But the top teams already have spent their budgeted salary money and the teams with money under the cap are the white sox, padres and phillies who are not top teams right now. Should be interesting where Harper and Machado end up. They have to make a decision between good postseason chance and most money. Boras IMO will choose money. I am not sure what Harper will pick.
Harper will go where he gets the best deal.
At least they had to give up sanchez who is easily their best prospect and a borderline top 25 guy. The cardinals trade for Goldschmidt makes me sick give up a loser like Luke Weaver who is a BOR guy and no top prospects really. Dbacks got hosed as they always seem to in trades. I still can't believe that Shelby Miller trade even in the moment it was made.
Totally agree the Diamondbacks got their clocks cleaned on the Goldie trade. They jumped too soon. Would've gotten a much better package if they waited.
Exactly if I was another teams GM that had some need for a 1B I would've beat that offer immediately if that's all it takes to get a hall of fame caliber talent. Not only did the dbacks essentially get none of the cards valued young talent but they've basically ruined the balance of power in the NL central in the process. I honestly think Goldschmidt is the best move any team has made this offseason that's a huge pickup all for essentially spare parts.
I'm sure he was shopped around and this was his best offer.
Well then Dbacks management isn't doing a very good job because they got a guy coming off a 5 ERA season and a catching prospect that is a career .154 hitter. Many analysts also criticized the dbacks for making the trade so quickly at the beginning of the offseason instead of waiting out a better offer. They literally got spare parts that trade was criticized almost as much as the disastrous Shelby Miller trade that everyone also agreed was a fleecing.
OT, but anyone see that PECOTA projects Cubs to finish in 3rd place at 82-80 in 2019? Ouch. Where's the love?
Saw it. They rate the Cubs as an overall bad defensive team (Contreras especially, but also Javy for some reason) and their projections are not kind to older pitchers (and the Cubs staff is the oldest in the league). So those two things drag overall record down.
For me at least my reasons for optimism is I disagree with their assessments that we have the worst pitching staff and best offense within the division. RIght there that basically contradicts my opinion that this is the best starting rotation in the division. I personally don't care that they expect Lester to mightily regress that guy always pitches his peripherals as does Kyle Hendricks so it's what I've come to expect from both. In division how in the heck are Javy Baez and Albert Almora rated as negative defenders. That shows me major flaws in their system and to me it's why John said Pecota is his least favorite projection system.
To both of your points, and contrasting PECOTA, Fangraphs Team WAR Projections have Cubs at 44.5 WAR, best in the division and fifth best in baseball.
Thanks for the info Denizen good to know. For me I wouldn't even be surprised if the brewers and cards are loaded this year. For me the reason I was skeptical at Pecota's projections were the overall low projections for a lot of successful pitchers like Lester and Hamels. And if Baez is a bad defensive player and the cubs are as bad as their defensive projections indicate then they're watching a different team then I am. The funny thing is with all the concern about the offense they project the cubs to score the most runs and they expect them to be the worst of the 3 in terms of run prevention.
What does "Outpitches his peripherals" mean? I do not understand what that means. Thanks.
Stats like BB% and K%, among other stats, are usually good predictors of a pitcher's actual success (and their ERA). The group of stats that are used to build things FIP and xFIP which try to assess the pitcher's actual contribution and eliminate the play of his defense and randomness from fluke events are generally referred to as peripherals.
So the term outpitch his peripherals means that a pitcher's actual performance in terms of runs and ERA is better than what is expected.
Keep this in mind though with Lester (and why PECOTA's low projection for him may end up accurate).
Lester's fWAR has declined steadily, from 5.6 to 5.0 to 4.3 to. 2.7 to 1.7 last year.
Lester's xFIP has in turn increased from 3.10 to 3.06 to 3.47 to 3.85 to 4.43 last year.
But his ERA has not been steady at all: 2.46 to 3.34 to 2.44 to 4.33 to 3.32 last year.
So it is not actually accurate to say Lester always outpitches his peripherals. In his 4 years with the Cubs he has only done so twice, while providing less value in each successive season. His K rate has dropped every season and his walk rate has increased every season with the Cubs. His first year with the team his K/BB ratio was 4.40, last year it was 2.33. Lester also stopped generating ground balls last year.
Eventually that is going to haunt him, maybe as soon as this year, especially if the Cubs defense regresses around him.
What Lester has done is make 32 starts in every single one of those past 5 seasons. His innings pitched has steadily declined though. He used to go 200-220. The past two years he has been just over 180. That is why he is less valuable (and his fWAR drops). He still reliable enough to take his turn in rotation every five days, but he is more often just getting by, and is no longer able to sustain his performance beyond the 6th inning.
Michael touched on the subject well but for example Lester had a 4.43 xFIP last year yet only a 3.32 ERA. Pecota doesn't care that this is Jon Lester we're talking about they think he's going to have a sub 4.50 ERA based off last years peripherals. To me at least some pitchers just know how to outpitch their peripherals I don't know if it's an intelligence thing or not but Kyle Hendricks for example has outpitched his peripheral numbers 3 years in a row so the point is some guys are anomalies to the general rule that FIP is the best predictor of future results for pitchers.
Michael and kkhiavi, thanks for the explanation.
Could Eric Leal make the club? He pitched well last year.
He did pitch well last year at the A+ level. I would guess they wouldn't use a pitcher from down there since they are overloaded with pitching at the AA and AAA levels. But you never know.
I wouldn't completely rule out a September call up but he is likely ticketed to spend most of the season in AA. THere are just so many guys ahead of him with more upside. He will be a Minor League Free Agent at the end of the year.
I note there is no mention of Luke Hagerty in this column. Is that because no one gives him a chance of making a comeback? You would think a left-handed RP who throws 99 mph would be a good thing to have. ESPN had an excellent article about how the Cubs edged-out the Brewers to sign him last month.
I think they want him to go to the minors 1st. He can still appear in games in ST while in the minor league camp. Things could change if he's dominating.
Hagerty has not pitched in a competitive game in over a decade. He will be in spring training, but not big league camp. He will likely not even get assigned to Minor League team for some time. He is most likely to be treated like a pitcher rehabbing from injury and will stay back in EXST once the season starts as they get him used to working against live hitters and build up his stamina. If he is able to maintain the stuff he showed in his workout and is able to throw strikes with it (remember his career was ended by the yips) he could get assigned to a Minor League team in the second half, and then from there, who knows.
I have to believe that if he demonstrates he can control his upper 90's fastball and has command of at least one secondary pitch, he'll find his way to the MLB bullpen quickly. It's a great story and will make a great movie if he pulls it off, but he's gotta earn it.
I do not see that happening. It's possible, but Cubs would have to take a lot of money back, and a lot of the "bad contracts" they would be expected to take back from around baseball are guys whose performance has declined worse than Heyward or come with significant injury risks.


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Museums & Heritage Regular - more than 6 months Whiteman WA
About this opportunity
We are looking for tour guides who can ride the trains with our customers providing them with commentary as the trains wind their way around Whiteman Park. Many of our customers are young children so you would need to be able to communicate with people of all ages in a interesting and engaging fashion. As part of our team of volunteers you would also be working on the station and in the ticket office.
Interest in engaging with the community in a customer service role.
Ability to communicate with customers of all ages.
Be willing to go on a roster. The Bennet Brook Railway is open at weekends, school and public holidays.
Centrelink Volunteers
Tour Guides, Information & Heritage
All training and information provided to enable you to fulfill this role.
All our volunteers are given honoury membership to the Bennet Brook Railway
To let the organisation know you're interested, we'll forward your details to them. After that, they'll take it from there.
About this organisation
Bennett Brook Railway (Swan) - Museums & Heritage
The Bennett Brook Railway has been running trains for the public at Whiteman Park for over 30 years. It is also the keeper of Western Australia's ...
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Richard Sieburth's translations include Georg Büchner's Lenz, Friedrich Holderlin's Hymns and Fragments, Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary, Gérard de Nerval's Selected Writings, Henri Michaux's Emergences/Resurgences, Michel Leiris' Nights as Day, Days as Night, and Gershom Scholem's Greetings from Angelus. His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/ Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. His recent translation of Maurice Sceve's Délie was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.


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Ram raiders use vehicle to smash into Ashby Tesco Extra fuel station
Significant damage has been reported
Tesco petrol station at the superstore in Ashby has been ram raided.
Thieves stole cigarettes from a Tesco Extra fuel station in Ashby during a ram-raid.
The incident occurred at around 1.15am today.
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The objective of this Working Group is to bring together members of the policy community from the United States and the Middle East to evaluate the evidence for and against an emerging realignment of the interests, objectives, and policies of the United States and its traditional Middle Eastern allies. Issues that will be explored in the Working Group meetings will include the significant changes in the world energy markets, the Obama administration's efforts to develop a new relationship with Iran, and Washington's rising strategic interest in Asia. Discussions will also center on the underlying tension between American liberal values and the unmistakable authoritarian trend in the region, post-Arab Spring.


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El 1928 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics de Sankt Moritz, on guanyà la medalla de bronze en la competició d'hoquei sobre gel.

Amb l'HC Davos, amb qui jugà entre 1921 i 1933, guanyà la lliga suïssa el 1926, 1927, de 1929 a 1933. Amb la selecció suïssa va guanyar la medalla de bronze al Campionat del Món d'hoquei gel de 1930. També guanyà l'or al Campionat d'Europa de 1926 i el bronze al de 1925.

Entre 1947 i 1948 i entre 1951 i 1954 fou president de la Federació Internacional d'Hoquei sobre gel.

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Molly Kelly supports abortion without any legal restrictions up to the date of birth. She also believes taxpayers should pay for them. Even in a blue-ish state like New Hampshire, is this pro-abortion extremism a winner?
During the Democratic primary for governor, Molly Kelly faced a challenge on the choice issue from her opponent Steve Marchand. Marchand staked out the most extreme position possible: Taxpayer funding for abortions up to the date of birth with no parental notification requirement for minors.
Molly Kelly didn't quite match him, but she's managed to get to the left of most Americans on the subject. Kelly also opposes a ban on late-term abortions and she has pledged that if a woman in New Hampshire wants an abortion, money will not be an issue.
"As your governor I promise you, that all women–all women–no matter, regardless of your income will have access to a safe, legal abortion. Period," Kelly said during the Democratic primary.
As a result, it was Kelly and not Marchand who received the endorsement of Planned Parenthood. And she's received $62,000 from the abortion-activist group Emily's List.
There's no doubt that, based on polling, New Hampshire would be viewed as a pro-choice state. In 2013, Pew Research asked Granite Staters if abortion "should be legal or illegal in most cases," and 66 percent said "legal"–one of the highest percentages of any state in the country.
However, the question of whether abortions should be legal in general is a broad one, and while Americans have consistently supported abortions in the first trimester, support for late-term and "partial-birth" abortion is far lower. While polling on New Hampshire on this specific aspect of abortion policy is hard to find, Gallup has consistently found that fewer than a third of Americans support Marchand's "abortion on demand" policy. More than half support some restrictions on abortion and another 20 percent support an outright ban.
In fact, as of May of this year, Americans are evenly split on whether they consider themselves pro-life or pro-choice at 48 percent. And 81 percent of all Americans reject Marchand's policy of allowing abortion in the third trimester.
Molly Kelly's position is so far Left that even Hillary Clinton rejected it during the 2016 campaign. Indeed, running for governor on the platform that Catholic taxpayers should be forced to pay for a third-trimester abortion seems a bit outside the political mainstream.


I will be speaking on Wednesday, March 2 at the Carlisle Christian Businessmen's Connection Luncheon. CBMC has a mission of connecting Christian businessmen together, which they do through various breakfast and lunch meetings.
I am humbled to have this opportunity to share and I plan to talk about what I call "The Generosity Approach." If you are interested in attending, the event is being held at the Carlisle Bonanza Restaurant. This link has more details.


Coming to Hamilton's Funeral Home with an understanding of people's needs and sales experience, Scott became the Director of Hamilton's Advanced Planning Division in March of 1999. Scott grew up in Ankeny and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. Scott and his wife Marcie live in Urbandale and have two grown daughters, Meredith (Sam) Smith and Maddie Eriksen. Scott and Marcie are members of First Federated Church where Scott sings in a men's quartet. Scott enjoys time with family & friends and loves working in his yard.


Dubowitz L, Mercuri E, Dubowitz V. An optimality score for the neurologic examination of the term newborn. J Pediatr 1998 Sep;133(3):406-16.
This paper describes how the original examination was updated and how it was applied to 224 healthy term newborn infants. It also explains the concept of optimality score and how this was obtained.
Mercuri E, Guzzetta A, Haataja L, Cowan F, Rutherford M, Counsell S, Papadimitriou M, Cioni G, Dubowitz L. Neonatal neurological examination in infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: correlation with MRI findings. Neuropediatrics. 1999 Apr;30(2):83-9.
This paper examines the correlation between abnormal findings on the HNNE and different patterns of brain injury on neonatal MRI in a cohort of full term infants with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). The predictive value of the HNNE in infants with HIE was also tested.
McGready R, Simpson J, Panyavudhikrai S, Loo S, Mercuri E, Haataja L, Kolatat T, Nosten F, Dubowitz L. Neonatal neurological testing in resource-poor settings. Ann Trop Paediatr. 2000 Dec;20(4):323-36.
This article describes the development and testing of a shortened version of the HNNE to be used by paramedical staff in a low-resource setting.
Mercuri E, Guzzetta A, Laroche S, Ricci D, Vanhaastert I, Simpson A, Luciano R, Bleakley C, Frisone MF, Haataja L, Tortorolo G, Guzzetta F, de Vries L, Cowan F, Dubowitz L. Neurologic examination of preterm infants at term age: comparison with term infants. J Pediatr. 2003 Jun;142(6):647-55.
The neonatal neurological examination was performed at term age in 157 low-risk preterm infants born between 25 and 34 weeks' gestation who had cranial ultrasound scans that were normal or showed minor abnormalities. The distribution of scores was obtained and is shown in this article. These results are explained in the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological examination video and in the supporting scoring information. The distribution of scores is included in one of the HNNE proformas.
Guzzetta A, Haataja L, Cowan F, Bassi L, Ricci D, Cioni G, Dubowitz L, Mercuri E. Neurological examination in healthy term infants aged 3-10 weeks. Biol Neonate. 2005;87(3):187-96.
A group of healthy full-term infants was examined with the HNNE in the first 48 hours after birth and then again between 3 and 10 weeks of age. The paper describes how scores changed with time, and the definite shift in their distribution observed around 6 weeks of age.
Romeo DM, Ricci D, van Haastert IC, de Vries LS, Haataja L, Brogna C, Gallini F, Romagnoli C, Cowan FM, Mercuri E. Neurologic assessment tool for screening preterm infants at term age. J Pediatr. 2012 Dec;161(6):1166-8.
This article presents a short version of the HNNE that can be used as a screening tool in low-risk preterm infants at term equivalent age.
Hagmann CF, Chan D, Robertson NJ, Acolet D, Nyombi N, Nakakeeto M, Cowan FM. Neonatal neurological examination in well newborn term Ugandan infants. Early Hum Dev. 2015 Dec;91(12):739-49.
Spittle AJ, Walsh J, Olsen JE, McInnes E, Eeles AL, Brown NC, Anderson PJ, Doyle LW, Cheong JLY. Neurobehaviour and neurological development in the first month after birth for infants born between 32-42 weeks' gestation. Early Hum Dev. 2016 May;96:7-14.
This study provides normative data (means, standard deviations and 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 95th centiles) for the HNNE, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioural Scale (NNNS) and Prechtl's General Movements Assessment, which were administered within the first weeks after birth in a sample of 80 moderate preterm infants (32-33+6 weeks), 129 late preterm infants (34-36+6 weeks) and 201 healthy full term infants.
Eeles AL, Olsen JE, Walsh JM, McInnes EK, Molesworth CM, Cheong JL, Doyle LW, Spittle AJ. Reliability of Neurobehavioral Assessments from Birth to Term Equivalent Age in Preterm and Term Born Infants. Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics, 2017;37:1, 108-119.
This study assessed the interrater reliability of the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE) and the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS), when used both preterm and at term age in a group of 35 preterm infants and 11 term infants. The analyses showed that interrater reliability for the HNNE was excellent (ICC > 0.74) for optimality scores, and good (ICC 0.60–0.74) to excellent for subtotal scores, except for 'Tone Patterns' (ICC 0.54).
Romeo DM, Bompard S, Cocca C, Serrao F, De Carolis MP, Zuppa AA, Ricci D, Gallini F, Maddaloni C, Romagnoli C, Mercuri E. Neonatal neurological examination during the first 6h after birth. Early Hum Dev. 2017;108:41-44.
A cohort of 124 low risk term born newborns was examined with the HNNE within 3 h from birth or between 3 and 6 h. Each infant was re-assessed at 48 hours, and the range and frequency distribution of neonatal neurological scores at each time point were recorded and compared. The results showed that for 23/34 of the neurological items, the range and median scores were similar across the 3 time points. In the remaining 11 items the three groups had a similar range of scores but the median scores were different with different rates of changes. In 6 of the 11 the median scores at 3-6h were similar to those observed at 48h but they appeared to be 'less mature' at 0-3h. Only in one item the median scores were consistently different at the 3 time points. This study provides information on the very early neurological assessment of term newborn infants and shows that a complete neurological examination can already be reliably performed soon after birth.
George JM, Fiori S, Fripp J, Pannek K, Guzzetta A, David M, Ware RS, Rose SE, Colditz PB, Boyd RN. Relationship between very early brain structure and neuromotor, neurological and neurobehavioral function in infants born <31 weeks gestational age. Early Hum Dev. 2018 Feb;117:74-82.
A large cohort of preterm infants underwent early and term-equivalent-age MRI as well as several neurological clinical assessments: General Movements Assessment, Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE), NICU Neonatal Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS), the Premie-Neuro, the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) and a visual assessment. The analysis showed that brain structures on early and term MRI were associated with concurrent motor, neurological and neurobehavioral function.


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CMS Finalizes Rule on Medicare Part B Discarded Drug RebatesNovember 8th, 2022
On Friday, November 4, CMS finalized a rule to implement mandatory rebates (called "refunds") for discarded amounts of separately paid Medicare Part B single-source drugs packaged in single-dose or single-use containers. For a summary of the rule, we refer readers to our July 2022 post …
Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUSNovember 7th, 2022
We previously blogged about Pfizer's copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS's interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company's proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. Now, after an unfavorable HHS Office of the Inspector …
4th Circuit En Banc Judgment Affirms District Court Decision in Best Price Stacking CaseSeptember 30th, 2022
In November 2020, we blogged about a decision by the Federal District Court of Maryland dismissing a Federal False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam suit alleging that Forest Laboratories knowingly reported inflated best prices under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), resulting in underpayment of rebates. The …
Patient Groups Sue HHS, CMS for 2020 Rule Allowing the Use of Copay Accumulator ProgramsSeptember 8th, 2022
Three patient advocate groups have sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), challenging HHS's 2020 Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters (NBPP) rule. As it stands, the rule allows insurers and pharmacy benefit managers …
Landmark Drug Pricing Bill Set to Become Law; HP&M Releases Summary Slide DeckAugust 15th, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ("IRA") has now passed both the Senate (on August 7) and the House (on August 12), and is headed to President Biden for signature. We have prepared a slide deck that summarizes Subtitle B of the IRA, entitled "Prescription Drug …
CMS Proposes Rule to Implement Mandatory Medicare Part B Discarded Drug RebatesJuly 18th, 2022
Last November, we blogged about a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that requires new rebates for discarded amounts of drugs that are covered under Medicare Part B, and that are packaged in a single-dose container or single-use package. An example of such …
Gun Violence Reduction Law Further Extends Moratorium on Trump-Era Rebate RuleJune 27th, 2022
We have blogged before (for example, here and here) on amendments to the Federal health care program antikickback law safe harbor regulations that were finalized by the Trump Department of Health and Human Services in November 2020. If and when implemented, the amendments will likely …
Supreme Court Finds CMS' Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by StatuteJune 16th, 2022
In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price ("ASP") plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. 82 Fed. Reg. …
CMS Releases Guidance on Multiple Best Price Reporting for Value Based ArrangementsApril 1st, 2022
In January 2021, we reported on a CMS rule that, among other things, revised the Medicaid rebate best price regulation to remove impediments to value-based purchasing (VBP) arrangements in Medicaid. The rule, which will go into effect on July 1, 2022, defined a VBP is …
HP&M's Sophia Gaulkin to Present on Changes to State Drug Pricing Transparency RequirementsMarch 17th, 2022
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. is pleased to announce that Sophia Gaulkin will be presenting and speaking on an expert panel at Informa Connect's Drug Pricing Transparency Congress, which is being held virtually and in-person in Philadelphia on March 28-29, 2022. Ms. Gaulkin's presentation on Changes …
District Court Interprets EKRAJanuary 7th, 2022
"EKRA" refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M's …
CMS Hammers Final Nail in the Coffin of International Reference Pricing for DrugsDecember 29th, 2021
We reported in August that CMS proposed to rescind the Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing interim final rule issued in the latter days of the Trump regime. Today, CMS finalized that proposal, effectively putting an end to the concept of international reference pricing as …
Ensuring the ACA Contraceptive Mandate Meets the Original Intention of CongressOctober 28th, 2021
Having a hand in the FDA approval of important new prescription drugs is one of the things that makes our work at HPM so gratifying. FDA approval is a significant hurdle to overcome, occurring only after scrupulous review of data collected over many years confirm …
PhRMA Sues Arkansas for Meddling in the Federal 340B Drug Discount ProgramOctober 7th, 2021
Last week, we blogged about a growing list of drug manufacturers that have refused to follow a 2010 guidance issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA"), which permits 340B covered entities to contract with multiple pharmacies to dispense drugs to covered entity patients. …


Climbing to Good English 3 first reviews all of the language skills, grammar, and phonics taught in Climbing to Good English 2. Old concepts are repeated for reinforcement and as a base on which to build extensions and new concepts.
This level is excellent as in introduction to grammar for older children who have not had any training. It is also very good for adults learning English as a second language as it is not childish in its presentation.
Climbing to Good English 3 takes 170 days to complete 12 units, unit reviews and test pages. This is approximately one page per day for the average school year.


We've chosen to profile Ellany as she has visited more than 110 countries, 50 of those in 2017 alone.
Ellany Lea at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world's largest salt flat.
Welcome to our first Vancouver Sun: Traveller Profile, a conversation with Ellany (Ella) Lea from Vancouver. We'll try to introduce you to one prolific traveller each month – to get their insight, tips and recommendations.
We've chosen to profile Ellany for our first as she has visited more than 110 countries, 50 of those in 2017 alone.
Ellany Lea at Wadi Rum in Jordan.
We caught up with Ellany through email, in Malaga, Spain.
Hahaha, I used to say that I was a novelty junkie, so travel and personal development would give me my fix. Now, as my soul has matured, hehehe, travel gives me a taste of what paradise feels like, where everything seems shiny and new, where everyone is warm and welcoming, where everything is neat and different, and where every place is a new home.
It gives me a sense of oneness, where we are all the same, with neurotic chatter in the brain, and loving kindness in the heart. Travel is soul food for me. Countries call to me when it's time for me to visit them. It's eerie, I can't describe it any other way.
Your favourite place is? And why?
Oh my god, I can't answer that. I've got so many memories of place that felt like a spiritual awakening! But if I were to give recommendations to travellers, I'd say Thailand because it's got scuba diving in the south, big city spas/shopping in Bangkok and waterfalls/amazing forests in the north, all bathed in warm hospitality and inexpensive living expenses.
I'd also recommend Tromso, Norway in November, oh man, the Northern Lights were mesmerizing. I cried, it was so plentiful and beautiful and everywhere, all the time!! And it wasn't that cold at 69 latitude in Tromso! And I'd recommend Ubud, Bali, a haven of healing, spas and luxuriating at a fraction of the cost. Example: a full day spa treatment, 10am-4pm, including lunch, for $97 CAD. Yeah, uh-mazing!
I went on an elephant ride in the Nepalese Chitwan National Park. My best friend had to pee, so she climbed down the elephant and squatted in the jungle. Suddenly a rhinoceros appeared a few metres behind her. Do you have any idea how effin' rare that is?!? They're known to charge forcefully. So our guide gestured to her to move ever so slowly. I couldn't stop laughing with both my hands pressed firmly over my mouth, to make as little noise as possible. Talk about being caught with your pants down lol!. I laughed so hard I almost fell off the elephant. That's what I'll remember most when I die, not all my degrees and accolades.
Hands down my stay in Dominica with Lilly and Christina.
On a whim, I booked a treehouse on Airbnb in Portsmouth. My hosts picked me up at the airport, gave me the good seat in the truck while Christina rode in the back in the pouring rain. I mean, how sweet is that. The treehouse was the cutest thing I'd ever seen, tucked away in the jungle, amongst papaya and avocado trees. I had the best sleep ever! Like a full system reboot. I peed in a bucket, slept in a treehouse, I felt like the coolest person on the planet!!
In the morning, Lilly made me a fresh breakfast grown from his land. It was a short stay, but I loved every moment of it. I asked him to show me around the island and everywhere we stopped, everyone knew, patted him on the back and thanked him for giving them a hand. I felt so safe and so cared for, it was glorious!
My favourite part was lazying in hammocks and asking them to tell me how they first met 20 years ago. I loved their bi-continental love story, it made me feel all squishy and inspired!
I am an introvert, and I need and cherish my quiet time or alone time, and even so, I love knowing that my host is right next door or right downstairs if I need anything. And, I adore the sharing economy model, god I adore it!
Any times it didn't work out?
The only time it didn't work out was when my bestie and I arrived in Bali late at night and couldn't reach our host for the 3 week stay. We called, the number didn't work, the address didn't exist, we borrowed a nearby guesthouse's phone and called again, nothing. So we skyped Airbnb and they said to stay the night at the guesthouse we were at and we'd get refunded for that night and sort out the rest during the day.
Since Airbnb weren't able to reach the host either, they cancelled our reservation… which turned out fabulously because we were no longer tethered to that place for 3 weeks, and could wander all over the island. So, meh, it all worked out in the end.
I book 4.5 and 5 star hosts, so it usually works out. A few times, I had to wait 30 min to 2 hours for the host to show up, but…most places had nearby cafes with wifi I could use for free.
Once in a while, I had to activate roaming (ugh, Canadian mobile roaming charges are THE WORST) data for $10/day, price of "doing business" I suppose.
An Airbnb private room with loft in Budapest.
What's your advice on how to go about finding Airbnbs?
First, I give myself a time limit, max 30 minutes. Airbnb is like canva.com or even Facebook, you can spend hours or days sucked down the vortex of tweaks and analysis paralysis lol!
So I enable the Superhost badge. I put in my dates. Set the number of people/ beds/ rooms, air-conditioning (always a must in hot countries!!! Not cheapin' off this life saving amenity!) I want. Then set the price limit based on "Western prices", "Middle prices" and South-east Asia prices. Then center the map around the "beige" pedestrian zone of the city/town centre(Google Maps shows beige terrain for city centres).
I click the first 8 that catch my eye. I scroll through all the photos. I save my top 3. Then sleep on it for a few nights. Then spend 1 minute picking from the top 3, giving extra weight to those that have instant-book.
Ellany Lea in Kyoto Japan.
Anything our readers should know before trying to follow in your travel footsteps?
1. Freedom isn't for sissies. If one wants to be free geographically, financially, creatively (which are the effects), it's gonna require a lot of self work to become free emotionally, mentally, spiritually (which are the causes). Cause and effect. When it comes to freedom, the price is high and the reward is great!!!
2. Just because you hear of someone taking their laptop to Bali does NOT make them a digital nomad. The part they haven't told you is how they failed at "making it" or borrowed $50k from their parents, or cashed out all their retirement savings and still are figuring out cashflow. I have clients/friends who have 50,000 instagram followers or 37,000 facebook likes, but they aren't making a cent and are living on crackers and beer.
I also have clients/friends who are making millions and spending millions… So don't let the image of a freedom lifestyle (fool you into) forgetting that there is sweat, stamina, resiliency, courage and soul maturation that goes with that.
3. Moving around constantly isn't for everyone, some love nesting. Love what you love, don't compare yourself to others, there is no trophy for Best Burnout or Best Case of Comparisonitis. Live your life, do it your way. Comparing only causes suffering.
Don't try to shove as many sights and experiences in as possible, and it's OK to come home needing a vacation from vacation. "There is no trophy for best burnout," she says.


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from retriever.lib.templates import Script
from retriever.lib.models import Table, Cleanup, correct_invalid_value

class main(Script):
    def __init__(self):
        Script.__init__(self,
                        tables={'trees': Table('trees', cleanup=Cleanup(correct_invalid_value, nulls=[-999]))},
                        name="Tree growth, mortality, physical condition - Clark, 2006",
                        tags=['Taxon > Plants'],
                        urls={'trees': 'http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E087/132/LS_trees_1983_2000.txt'},
                        shortname="Clark2006",
                        description = "The data set helps to examine the post-establishment ecology of 10 species of tropical wet forest trees selected to span a range of predicted life history patterns at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.",
                        ref = "http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E087/132/",
                        citation="David B. Clark and Deborah A. Clark. 2006. Tree growth, mortality, physical condition, and microsite in an old-growth lowland tropical rain forest. Ecology 87:2132.")
    def download(self, engine=None, debug=False):
        Script.download(self, engine, debug)

        self.engine.download_file(self.urls["trees"], "LS_trees_1983_2000_original.txt")
        data_path = self.engine.format_filename("LS_trees_1983_2000.txt")
        old_data = open(self.engine.find_file("LS_trees_1983_2000_original.txt"), 'rb')
        new_data = open(data_path, 'wb')

        last_line = None
        for line in old_data:
            if last_line: new_data.write(last_line)
            last_line = line

        new_data.close()
        old_data.close()

        self.engine.auto_create_table(self.tables["trees"],
                                      filename="LS_trees_1983_2000.txt")
        self.engine.insert_data_from_file(data_path)

SCRIPT = main()


News items related to renaissance surgical arts as issued by the Send2Press Newswire service on behalf of the noted news source.
COSTA MESA, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Renaissance Surgical Arts at Newport Harbor, a new multi-specialty outpatient surgery center committed to setting a new standard of care in South Orange County, has named Sid Kamali, M.D., as director of anesthesia. Dr. Kamali is a board certified anesthesiologist. In his role at Renaissance at Newport Harbor, Dr. Kamali will lead a team of anesthesiologists who are top in their field and can deliver care consistent with the center's patient-focused approach.


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Alphabetical: S
Seven Seeing Stones
The palantíri of Middle-earth
A group of seven palantíri or Seeing-stones given by the Eldar of Eressëa to Amandil of Númenor. Amandil was the leader of the Faithful, the oppressed party of the Númenóreans who remained in contact with the Elves, and the Stones allowed them to keep secretly in touch with the Elves (who had other palantíri of their own) and with one another.
Amandil left Númenor to attempt a journey into the West, and passed the Seven Stones on to his son Elendil. Elendil and his sons took the palantíri aboard ship, and thus they escaped the Downfall of Númenor and were brought to Middle-earth. There they were divided between the Two Kingdoms founded by Elendil and his sons: three for Arnor in the North, and four for Gondor in the South.
Over the centuries, many of the Seven Stones were lost or destroyed, but at least three of them survived to the end of the Third Age. Two of these were were held in Gondor (the Anor-stone and the Orthanc-stone), while the third (the Elendil-stone of the Tower Hills) was returned into the West by the Three Keepers when they left Middle-earth aboard the White Ship.
For a complete list of the Seven Seeing Stones, see the entry for Palantíri.
Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2012. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ.
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Why It Is Getting Harder to Prosecute Executives for Corporate Misconduct
By Peter Henning June 13, 2017 by renholding
The era of large corporate penalties certainly looks to be over, and it is an open question whether we will continue to see companies pleading guilty or settling cases with deferred prosecution agreements. The notion of not imposing costs on "innocent" shareholders has taken hold, so the large fines extracted from banks in the wake of the financial crisis and manipulation of benchmarks like LIBOR are likely a relic of a bygone era.
Whether that is good or bad is a different question, and there are reasonable arguments that corporate criminal liability is a poor way to regulate business behavior. Scaling it back substantially, however, may well send a message to companies that they need not be too worried about government enforcement imposing significant costs on the enterprise, and so executives can foster a culture that pushes the limits of the law with little fear of the consequences.
So what will ensure that corporations follow the law? The new emphasis has been on targeting the individuals responsible for a company's violations. Send a few managers to prison, the thinking goes, and companies will straighten up and fly right. Thus, the Justice Department issued the Yates Memo[1] in September 2015 to shift the emphasis toward individual prosecutions rather than the corporate resolutions we were used to seeing in the wake of the financial crisis.
A key feature of the new approach in the Yates Memo was that "[t]o be eligible for any cooperation credit, corporations must provide to the Department all relevant facts about the individuals involved in corporate misconduct." Federal prosecutors were told that investigations into corporate misconduct must start by identifying individuals involved in any violations, and resolutions that did not include the prosecution of those individuals "must be memorialized and approved" by senior management in the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors are not alone in focusing on individuals. Jay Clayton, the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said at his confirmation hearing, "I firmly believe that individual accountability drives behavior more than corporate accountability."[2]
Relying mainly on prosecuting individuals to police corporate misconduct assumes that someone high enough in a company to change its culture and decision-making can be charged and convicted. Even if it is possible to hold executives responsible for encouraging or at least failing to prevent misconduct, that may not deter their counterparts at other companies or in other industries.
It is, in fact, unlikely that more executives will be held accountable for corporate misconduct, which means large companies may well act with impunity. Although we may see a few mid-level executives charged with crimes, they will be far from the C-Suite. In an article published recently in the Vermont Law Review, "Why It Is Getting Harder to Prosecute Executives for Corporate Misconduct,"[3] I raised the issue this way: "Does the shift to emphasizing individual culpability mean there will be an upsurge of prosecutions of corporate executives who oversee companies that engage in misconduct? The short answer is no." There are any number of reasons why top management is largely immune from prosecution. The most important may be that executives who set the direction of an organization but don't implement corporate policy or transactions have little to do with day-to-day conduct that might violate the law. The days are probably gone for seeing a chief executive like Bernie Ebbers or Jeff Skilling on trial for accounting fraud or mismarking the value of assets. Professor Samuel W. Buell, a member of the task force that prosecuted the Enron executives, recently described this as the "responsibility gap" in holding executives accountable in criminal prosecutions for corporate misconduct. These individuals cannot be convicted, except in increasingly rare cases, because for the most part they fail to take the steps necessary to ensure a corporate culture that complies with the law. As a result, "settled criminal law does not contain tools to punish this sort of thing."[4]
It is not just that executives are hard to reach through the criminal law. More frustrating is that senior management rarely pays a price when the company finally agrees to resolve a case. A recent article by Professor Brandon L. Garrett, whose work is well known on this Blog, and two co-authors points out that the impact on chief executives may be exactly the opposite when a company pleads guilty or otherwise settles a criminal prosecution. They note that, while some CEOs lose their jobs, "for the prosecuted firms that did not have CEO turnover after prosecution, there is little evidence of a reduction in compensation. Indeed, we observed a spike in CEO bonuses in the year of prosecution—confirming concerns expressed by judges, prosecutors, lawmakers, and academics that corporate prosecutions do not sufficiently impact high-level decision-makers like CEOs."[5] How often do we see a company's stock price increase when it announces a settlement with the government, reflecting Wall Street's desire for certainty in assessing future corporate returns rather than punishing misdeeds?
Another issue is whether we will see fewer corporate prosecutions under the new leadership of the Justice Department. No one, of course, will come out in favor of corporate misconduct, and claiming that it is equally important to punish white-collar offenses and street crime is a staple of any discussion of prosecutorial priorities. Thus, in a speech on April 24, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told an ethics and compliance conference that "under my leadership, the Department of Justice remains committed to enforcing all the laws. That includes laws regarding corporate misconduct, fraud, foreign corruption and other types of white-collar crime."[6]
Reassuring words, to be sure, but as our mothers and teachers used to say, "Actions speak louder than words." And those actions do not foretell a continuing focus on corporate criminal liability. The budget request for the next fiscal year seeks a $1.1 billion cut in Justice Department funding, with a shift in emphasis to combating violent crimes and immigration-related offenses. The proposal does call for 300 new prosecutors, but they will be used to prosecute violent offenders and "to protect our borders and restore our sovereignty by prosecuting immigration law violations."[7] Does anyone want to hazard a guess at where the impact of the budget cuts will be felt? White collar investigations are lengthy and resource-intensive, so cutting back on them when there is push for quick results will be an easy option.
We may already be witnessing how companies that were trying to resolve investigations may shift instead toward a more aggressive stance in the hope of receiving more favorable outcomes. The New York Times reported[8] that Devon Energy decided to re-evaluate its desire to settle environmental violations after new leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency signaled a rollback of some regulations so that it would not take as hard a line on violations. Walmart has been enmeshed in a long-running investigation of possible bribery in Mexico and elsewhere in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and objected to a proposed settlement with the Justice Department of as much as $1 billion. Now, the settlement amount appears to be only $300 million. That is still a lot, but for a company with annual net income of over $10 billion, it looks like a parking ticket.
Antipathy toward Wall Street remains a staple of political discourse, although a cabinet boasting billionaires and Goldman Sachs alumni and defenders in the administration suggests this is more rhetoric than an expression of actual concern with corporate misconduct. The talk has not changed, but walking back from aggressive oversight of corporations through criminal prosecution and perhaps even civil enforcement seems to be upon us.
[1] The actual title of the memorandum is "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing," and like numerous predecessors was named for the Deputy Attorney General, in this instance Sally Q. Yates. https://www.justice.gov/archives/dag/file/769036/download.
[2] Dave Michaels and Andrew Ackerman, "SEC Chairman Nominee Jay Clayton Calls for Scaling Back Regulations to Encourage IPOs," Wall St. J., March 23, 2017 at 5:19 p.m., https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-chairman-nominee-jay-clayton-says-past-wall-street-work-is-a-strength-1490281093.
[3] 41 Vt. L. Rev. 503 (2017), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2974429.
[4] Samuel W. Buell, "The Responsibility Gap in Corporate Crime, Criminal Law and Philosophy (2017), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2975537.
[5] Brandon L. Garrett, Nan Li, and Shivaram Rajgopal, "Do Heads Roll? An Empirical Analysis of CEO Turnover and Pay When the Corporation is Federally Prosecuted," available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2975537. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2966823.
[6] U.S. Dept. of Justice, "Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks at Ethics and Compliance Initiative Annual Conference," April 24, 2017, available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-delivers-remarks-ethics-and-compliance-initiative-annual.
[7] U.S. Dept. of Justice, FY 2018 Budget Request, available at https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/968216/download.
[8] Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, "How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt's E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas," N.Y. Times, May 20, 2017, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/business/energy-environment/devon-energy.html.
This post comes to us from Professor Peter Henning at Wayne State University Law School. It is based on recent article, "Why It Is Getting Harder to Prosecute Executives for Corporate Misconduct," available here.


Join alumni, friends, and family as we gather in Minneapolis to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth's founding. Actress and playwright Sharon Washington '81 will headline an evening of storytelling that celebrates and inspires the Dartmouth spirit and connects us as a community.
We also invite you to join The Call to Serve, a Dartmouth 250th anniversary initiative to contribute 250,000 hours of service in 2019. Please consider bringing a new pair of adult socks to donate to Sharing & Caring Hands to help community members in need.


Building on over three generations of Leahy musicianship, Doug Leahy, together with wife Jennifer and their children, is keeping those traditions alive through music, song and dance.
Doug, as a member of Leahy, and Jennifer, having played music throughout her life, both understand the joy and exhilaration only music can provide. It's no wonder their children innately understand that music will be a huge part of their lives. Even the smallest children feel the music pulsing through their veins. They are drawn to it and they are passionate about it. Even at their young ages, as most are still in elementary school, the children are accomplished multi-instrumentalists.
Led by Doug, live performances are filled with the high-energy, infectious Celtic-based music people associate with the Leahy heritage. Fiddle, cello, French accordion, singing, piano, and French-Canadian step-dancing all find a voice on stage.
Photo: The Next Generation Leahy Christmas performance is set for Dec. 22 at Flato Markham Theatre.


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What Is Psycholinguistics?
Learn More With This Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms
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Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental aspects of language and speech. It is primarily concerned with the ways in which language is represented and processed in the brain.
A branch of both linguistics and psychology, psycholinguistics is part of the field of cognitive science. Adjective: psycholinguistic.
The term psycholinguistics was introduced by American psychologist Jacob Robert Kantor in his 1936 book, "An Objective Psychology of Grammar." The term was popularized by one of Kantor's students, Nicholas Henry Pronko, in a 1946 article "Language and Psycholinguistics: A Review." The emergence of psycholinguistics as an academic discipline is generally linked to an influential seminar at Cornell University in 1951.
Pronunciation: si-ko-lin-GWIS-tiks
Also known as: Psychology of language
Etymology: From the Greek, "mind" + the Latin, "tongue"
On Psycholinguistics
"Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental mechanisms that make it possible for people to use language. It is a scientific discipline whose goal is a coherent theory of the way in which language is produced and understood," says Alan Garnham in his book, "Psycholinguistics: Central Topics."
Two Key Questions
According to David Carrol in "Psychology of Language," "At its heart, psycholinguistic work consists of two questions. One is, What knowledge of language is needed for us to use language? In a sense, we must know a language to use it, but we are not always fully aware of this knowledge.... The other primary psycholinguistic question is, What cognitive processes are involved in the ordinary use of language? By 'ordinary use of language,' I mean such things as understanding a lecture, reading a book, writing a letter, and holding a conversation. By 'cognitive processes,' I mean processes such as perception, memory, and thinking. Although we do few things as often or as easily as speaking and listening, we will find that considerable cognitive processing is going on during those activities."
How Language Is Done
In the book, "Contemporary Linguistics," linguistics expert William O'Grady explains, "Psycholinguists study how word meaning, sentence meaning, and discourse meaning are computed and represented in the mind. They study how complex words and sentences are composed in speech and how they are broken down into their constituents in the acts of listening and reading. In short, psycholinguists seek to understand how language is done... In general, psycholinguistic studies have revealed that many of the concepts employed in the analysis of sound structure, word structure, and sentence structure also play a role in language processing. However, an account of language processing also requires that we understand how these linguistic concepts interact with other aspects of human processing to enable language production and comprehension."
An Interdisciplinary Field
"Psycholinguistics... draws on ideas and knowledge from a number of associated areas, such as phonetics, semantics, and pure linguistics. There is a constant exchange of information between psycholinguists and those working in neurolinguistics, who study how language is represented in the brain. There are also close links with studies in artificial intelligence. Indeed, much of the early interest in language processing derived from the AI goals of designing computer programs that can turn speech into writing and programs that can recognize the human voice," says John Field in "Psycholinguistics: A Resource Book for Students."
On Psycholinguistics and Neuroimaging
According to Friedmann Pulvermüller in "Word Processing in the Brain as Revealed by Neurophysiological Imaging," "Psycholinguistics has classically focused on button press tasks and reaction time experiments from which cognitive processes are being inferred. The advent of neuroimaging opened new research perspectives for the psycholinguist as it became possible to look at the neuronal mass activity that underlies language processing. Studies of brain correlates of psycholinguistic processes can complement behavioral results, and in some cases...can lead to direct information about the basis of psycholinguistic processes."
Carroll, David. Psychology of Language. 5th ed., Thomson, 2008.
Field, John. Psycholinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. Routledge, 2003.
Garnham, Alan. Psycholinguistics: Central Topics. Methuen, 1985.
Kantor, Jacob Robert. An Objective Psychology of Grammar. Indiana University, 1936.
O'Grady, William, et al., Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction. 4th ed., Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.
Pronko, Nicholas Henry. "Language and Psycholinguistics: A Review." Psychological Bulletin, vol. 43, May 1946, pp. 189-239.
Pulvermüller, Friedmann. "Word Processing in the Brain as Revealed by Neurophysiological Imaging." The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Edited by M. Gareth Gaskell. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Our ministerial division consists of Anthony & Ashley Tesoro Ministries and Life Is For Living TV. Our charitable division is GlobalLife Outreach.
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Anthony & Ashley Tesoro provide prayer and ministerial counseling for individuals and families.
Anthony & Ashley Tesoro speak at churches, Bible studies, and conferences both nationally and internationally.
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