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Eshoo seeks auction of broadcast spectrum
Lawmaker highlights Congress' technology priorities at 'State of the Net' event
by Gennady Sheyner	/ Palo Alto Weekly
Spectrum auctions and privacy protection top U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo's list of technological priorities, though with partisanship and the economy dominating Washington, D.C., progress on Internet issues may be tough to reach during the current legislative session, the Silicon Valley lawmaker told a group of tech executives and attorneys Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 27).
Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, highlighted some of the committees' ongoing efforts at the annual State of the Net West conference in the Palo Alto headquarters of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Front and center, she said, is a bill to "reform spectrum as we know it."
"Everyone wants to go wireless," Eshoo said. "There's an insatiable appetite for it."
Eshoo said auctioning off broadcast spectrum, which is currently held by TV broadcasters, would bring the nation about $25 billion in revenues. The airwaves would be auctioned off to wireless carriers, with some of the proceeds going to the TV broadcasters. A portion of the spectrum would also be used to set up a shared broadband system for public-safety departments.
Boosting the capacity of emergency responders to communicate with one another is a top priority, she said, especially given that a decade had already passed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
"Shame on Congress," Eshoo said, adding that creating a nationwide interoperable communications network for public safety was one of the key recommendations of the 911 Commission. "I still wonder to this day what lives could've been saved if in fact police and fire were able to speak to each other."
Another major issue that her committee is wrestling with these days is online privacy protections, particularly for children. The Congress passed the Children Online Privacy Act a decade ago, she said, and technology has changed greatly since then. Some in her committee believe it's time to update the rules.
Though that debate is still playing out, one thing that Eshoo said the new rules should include is greater transparency. In other words, the customer should know, when he or she is providing information, how this information would be used.
"I don't want anyone tracking me," Eshoo said. "I want to know if someone is using any information about me and selling it to someone else."
The online-privacy issue is unlikely to get settled this year, she said. With Congress debating the national economy, the potential defaults of European nations and high unemployment, lawmakers may not have the appetite these days to rewrite online-privacy legislation. Because 2012 is an election year, progress on legislation will be particularly difficult to achieve, she said.


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Tucker Carlson Exposes How the Real Threat to Democracy is the 'Billionaire Class' Propped Up by Big Tech
This is one of Tucker's most powerful segments.
Shane Trejo
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted the "billionaire class" for their war on democracy that is being supported by Big Tech in one of his most powerful segments against the globalist elite.
"They don't think you have a right to notice what George Soros is doing to your country. We disagree with that so we pointed it out. Immediately after we did, Soros' fellow billionaires came riding to his rescue," Carlson said.
"Twitter slapped a warning label on our video from last night's show. They claim it contained 'sensitive content.' For context, there are porn feeds on Twitter. Huge porn feeds with graphic video and more than a million followers that have no such warnings from Twitter. So, hardcore pornography is fine, let your kids watch, but criticizing George Soros is obscene," he added.
Carlson noted that Twitter's lies do not exempt them from culpability in enforcing thought control on behalf of the ruling class.
"We asked Twitter about this. They claimed it was all a mistake. They always claim that. They're liars. Twitter didn't block rioters from sharing a location of Mitch McConnell's house, but stating obvious facts about George Soros? Twitter's algorithm said this is dangerous content," Carlson explained.
"This is censorship, obviously, but more than that, it is a metaphor for what is happening to our country and to our politics. America's grotesquely distorted economy is making a tiny group of people richer than anyone has ever been in human history. Those people suddenly run everything, including our elections," he continued.
"They are subverting our political system far more brazenly and with much greater effect than that dastardly Vladimir Putin ever dreamed of doing. Our billionaire class is the real threat to democracy. That's obvious if you think about it, which is why you're told you can't think about it. Twitter won't let you. Democrats never even mention it. It wasn't so long ago when Joe Biden used to lecture us to get money out of politics. Remember that?" Carlson asked to conclude his rant.
The clip can be seen here:
TUCKER: Our billionaire class is the real threat to democracy. That's obvious if you think about it, which is why you're told you're not allowed to think about it. Twitter won't let you. pic.twitter.com/QvLe8lWPDt
— August Takala (@AugustTakala) September 23, 2020
Big League Politics has reported on how the billionaire class has exploited COVID-19 mass hysteria to consolidate power and squeeze more money out of the economy:
Research that the Institute for Policy Studies published on August 17, 2020 indicated that the dozen richest Americans now own more than $1 trillion in wealth.
One analyst described this development as "a disturbing milestone in the U.S. history of concentrated wealth and power."
Omar Ocampo, an analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies said, "The total wealth of the Oligarchic Dozen is greater than the GDP of Belgium and Austria combined. Meanwhile, tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or living paycheck to paycheck."
Jake Johnson of Common Dreams highlighted some of the key findings from the progressive think tank's research.
IPS noted that the 12 leading American billionaires have witnessed their combined wealth increase by 40 percent — $283 billion — since the Wuhan virus outbreak, which has propelled policymakers to implement economically devastating shutdowns.
"During the first stage of the pandemic, between January 1 and March 18, the collective wealth of the Oligarchic Dozen declined by $96 billion," IPS analysts Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo wrote. "But their wealth quickly rebounded and surpassed their September 2019 Forbes 400 wealth level. The only exception is Warren Buffett, who is still $2 billion below his September 2019 wealth, but is currently worth $80 billion."
"This is simply too much economic and political power in the hands of twelve people," Collins, director of IPS' Program on Inequality and the Common Good, declared in a statement.
Right-wing populism may be the only hope to overthrow this system that has enriched the few at the great expense of the many.
Fake News Media
CNN Pretty Boy Don Lemon Lumps All Trump Voters Together with Klansmen and Neo-Nazis in Vicious Rant
How on earth does this man have his own TV show?
On CNN Wednesday night, Don Lemon disparaged every single Trump voter by saying that they're part of the same crowd as Klansmen and neo-Nazis.
In the transition from his show to Lemon's, Chris Cuomo posed to Lemon a devil's advocate position that "you can't say everybody who voted for Trump is like the people who who went into the Capitol." Lemon responded thus:
"If you are on that side, you need to think about the side you're on. I'm never on the side of the Klan. Principled people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side. Principled people, conservative or liberal, never on the Nazi side. Principled people who are conservative or liberal, never on the side that treats their fellow Americans as 'less than,' that says that your fellow Americans should not exist, that says your fellow Americans should be in a concentration camp, or that sides with slavery, or sides with any sort of bigotry."
Cuomo jumps in to continue playing devil's advocate: "And if they say, 'I don't agree with those people, I just like Trump's policies'?"
"Then get out the crowd with them," Lemon says. "Get out of the crowd."
Cuomo then retorts, again pretending to represent the other side: "'I wasn't in the crowd, I just voted for Trump.'"
Lemon replied: "You're in the crowd who voted for Trump. If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. That's the crowd you are in. You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the Capitol and potentially take the lives of lawmakers, took the lives of police officers, took the innocent lives who were there on the Capitol that day. You voted on that side. And the people in Washington are continuing to vote on that side."
Quite the incoherent rant, don't you think? For one, Klansmen and neo-Nazis are by and large not Trump supporters. Even if some were at one point, they were among the quickest to turn on Trump, for they realized that he was not and was never going to be Hitler 2.0. Plus, none of those who breached the Capitol were found to be members of the Klan or a neo-Nazi group. So there goes the thrust of Lemon's argument.
Lemon also claims, without evidence, that Trump "incited" violence and encouraged his supporters to breach the Capitol. Even if you disapprove of Trump's rhetoric, you cannot admit in good faith that he incited or encouraged any illegal activity.
Someone like Lemon should not be on TV. He is extraordinarily divisive and full of contempt for 75 million Americans.

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Facilitated by the development of web, social network, and mobile technologies, large amounts of text data have emerged in recent years. Researchers can benefit from this trend if they can extract useful variables from text data such as news, reviews, web pages, and financial reports. However, the unstructured nature of text data often prohibits researchers from adopting text data in their research projects. In this talk, I will provide an overview of existing text mining algorithms for information extraction (named entity recognition), sentiment analysis, and topic models. These algorithms are the foundations of text mining approaches, and can serve as the processing tools for researchers who want to work with text data.


"No one has any idea where he is," said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Previous PostPerth PodCamp 07 – Straight From The Cerebral Hard DriveNext PostAvatar? My Arse!
I posted earlier but made a mistake with my email address! I asked about how avatar would advise a person who's partner is seeing someone else behind the avatar persons back? The partner is non avatar and the avatar person has been in avatar a long time.
Is it the avatar person's fault? Does the avatar person even care? Is the partner to blame? Do they encourage the couple to stay together?


Audio Messaging Solutions, LLC (AMS), a provider of telephone on-hold messaging services, launched a new software application called PromptEZ. The program enables automated and customized message delivery with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CUCME) VoIP systems that are compatible with ManageExpress iManage. With this technology, AMS can direct on hold and auto attendant content across multiple locations at national, regional, and individual sites, all from one secure web portal.
To create the program, AMS partnered with California-based ArcanaNetworks, Inc., a technology developer that provides secure, web-based management of CUCME across distributed sites. The two teams designed PromptEZ to enable effective customer communications, while providing a technical solution for clients who distribute unique voice content throughout their network.


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Q: kendo.saveAs "Download excel" is not working on server but working on local machine I have implemented the Kendo.saveAs fro download the template and it is working on local env but while uploading it on server it stop working and showing bellow error. 500 Internal server Error
Code:
 kendo.saveAs({
        dataURI: "data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh",
        fileName: "Mytemplate.xlsx",
        proxyURL: TemplateUrl,
        forceProxy: true
    });

controller:
   public ActionResult Download(string contentType, string base64, string fileName)
    {
        return File(
            System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(Path.Combine(
                ControllerContext.HttpContext.Server.MapPath("~/Areas\\MyApp\\UploadTemplates"), fileName)),
            System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet, fileName);
    }

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package jigg.util

import XMLUtil.RichNode
import org.json4s.{DefaultFormats, _}
import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods._

import scala.collection.mutable.StringBuilder
import scala.xml._

object JSONUtil {

  def toJSON(x: Node): String = toJSONFromNode(x)

  private def toJSONFromNode(node: Node): String = {
    val unescapeMap = Map(
      // For JSON escaping
      "\r" -> "\\r",
      "\t" -> "\\t",
      "\n" -> "\\n",
      // For XML escaping
      "<" -> "<",
      ">" -> ">",
      "&" -> "&",
      """ -> "\\\""
    )
    val sb = new StringBuilder
    sb.append('{')
    sb.append(List("\".tag\":\"", node.label, "\",").mkString)
    sb.append("\".child\":")
    sb.append("[")
    sb.append(serializing(node))
    sb.append("]")
    sb.append("}")
    // The "parse" method can't handle the string with several special characters,
    // because the "JString" class can't accept such kind of string.
    // To escape this issue, we replace such characters before throwing it to the "parse" method.
    val escapedStr = unescapeMap.foldLeft(sb.toString.replace("\\","\\\\")) { (text, pair) => text.replace(pair._1, pair._2)}
    pretty(render(parse(escapedStr)))
  }

  private def serializing[T <: Node](x: T): StringBuilder = {
    val subsb = new StringBuilder
    if (x.hasChild) {
      val childNode = x.nonAtomChild
      var prefix = ""
      for (i <- childNode) {
        val retsb = serializing(i)
        subsb.append(prefix)
        prefix = ","
        subsb.append(List("{\".tag\":\"", i.label, "\",").mkString)
        var prefix2 = ""
        if (!i.textElem.isEmpty) {
          subsb.append(prefix2)
          val text = new StringBuilder
          Utility.escape(i.textElem, text)
          prefix2 = ","
          subsb.append(List("\"text\":\"", text, '"').mkString)
        }
        if (!i.attributes.isEmpty) {
          for (elem <- i.attrs) {
            subsb.append(prefix2)
            prefix2 = ","
            subsb.append(List('"', elem._1, "\":\"", elem._2, "\"").mkString)
          }
        }

        if (retsb.length > 0) {
          subsb.append(prefix2)
          subsb.append("\".child\":")
          subsb.append("[")
          subsb.append(retsb)
          subsb.append("]")
        }
        subsb.append('}')
      }
    }
    subsb
  }

  def loadJSONFile(name: String): JValue =
    parse(IOUtil.openIterator(name).mkString)

  def toXML(json: JValue): Node = {
    implicit val formats = DefaultFormats
    val jsonList = json.extract[Map[String, Any]]
    generateXML(jsonList)
  }

  // Since the `&` character contained in an escaped string, e.g. `>`,
  // is automatically escaped, the returned nodes is not semantically equal
  // to the original nodes.
  // To avoid this issues, all such strings is unescaped before throw into
  // the RichNode.addAttributes method.

  private def replaceAllEscape(x: String): String = {
    val unescapeMap = Utility.Escapes.escMap map { case (c, s) => s -> c.toString}
    unescapeMap.foldLeft(x) { (text, pair) => text.replaceAll(pair._1, pair._2)}
  }

  private def generateXML(x:Map[String, Any]): Node = {
    val tagString = x get ".tag" // Option[Any], but this should always exist.
    val textString = x get "text" // This might be None.
    val children: List[Node] =
      x.get(".child").map { _.asInstanceOf[List[Map[String, Any]]]
        .map(generateXML) } getOrElse List()
    val attrs: Map[String, String] =
      x.filter { case (k, v) => k != ".tag" && k != "text" && k != ".child" }
        .map { case (k, v) => (k, replaceAllEscape(v.toString))}

    val node = textString match {
      case Some(text) =>
        <xml>{replaceAllEscape(text.toString)}</xml>
      case None => <xml/>
    }

    val tagChanged = node.copy(label = tagString.get.toString)
    val childAdded = tagChanged addChild children // do nothing when child is empty

    childAdded addAttributes attrs // the same
  }
}

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» Major Programs
» PREVENT Cancer Preclinical Drug Development Program (PREVENT)
» Application Instructions
This is NOT a grant application and, if successful, funds will not be transferred to your institution to support your project. Instead, this is an application to access the scientific capabilities and resources of NCI with the goal of moving promising cancer preventive agents into clinical testing. If successful, you will partner with NCI through a drug development pipeline. Depending on the drug development stage of your agent, your agent will be optimized and tested in appropriate task(s) increments with the goal of filing an IND with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and entering your agent into clinical testing.
Applications to PREVENT are evaluated for scientific merit, potential prevention efficacy, study feasibility, toxicity and pharmokinetic (PK) concerns, clinical need and opportunity, and alignment with NCI mission.
Applications must be submitted in an Adobe Acrobat® PDF file format to: NCIPREVENT@mail.nih.gov
Clearly indicate in the body of the proposal what resources you would like NCI to provide in response to this application.
The submission deadline is February 3, 2020.
PREVENT_Concept_Application_v09-17.docx (DOC, 31 KB)
The concept application document should be prepared using the PREVENT Concept Application form. Applications that do not conform to this requirement may be returned without review. Applications should outline the scientific nature and rationale of the proposed project and should include:
A. Background and Rationale
Provide a summary of the field sufficient to allow an appropriate understanding of the scientific and medical context from which the opportunity emerges. Describe the targeted high-risk cohorts (i.e. individuals with an increased likelihood of developing certain types of cancer, such as current or former smokers, individuals with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, Lynch syndrome, or familial adenomatous polyposis, etc.), target cancers, targeted molecules and/or pathways, and molecular mechanism of action, if known. Please be concise and specific; it is not necessary to address cancer incidence.
B. Hypothesis and Research Objectives
Include a clear statement of the hypothesis or hypotheses to be tested and define the objectives of your proposal. Specifically, address the scientific merit of your proposal by providing supporting evidence from the field. Provide evidence to validate the target or approach for pharmacological or immunological intervention based on in vitro, in vivo, or clinical studies from your research or the literature. Provide a summary of the key experiments you have conducted to date and preliminary data that are crucial to support your proposed research. Manuscripts (published or in press) and supporting material can be included as an appendix (see the list of allowable appendix materials below). Include an assessment of the safety and therapeutic index, if known. When available, include information on the competitive landscape and comparator efficacy studies.
C. Research Strategy
Clearly describe the intended research strategy, defining the specific activities requested from NCI for the proposal; if the research activities necessary to move the concept forward to the clinic are not established or clear, please indicate this. Include specific details to demonstrate that the project has been well thought out (for example, if requesting assistance in the development of a pharmacodynamic assay, include a description of the analyte to be measured, strategy for biospecimen acquisition, assay platform, etc.). Address the feasibility of the proposed research strategy.
For preclinical drug development projects, describe the proposed development strategy, readiness of the primary assays, animal models for in vivo studies, biomarker analysis, and any supporting secondary assays, including structure-based, virtual, and selectivity assays. Supporting data can be included as an appendix (see the list of allowable appendix materials below). If specific animal models are to be proposed, clearly indicate that animals of both sexes will be used in accordance with NIH guidelines unless studies in a single sex are justified (e.g., ovarian or prostate cancer models), provide the estimated number of animals required for the proposed research, and describe at minimum the following properties of the proposed animal models: (1) whether the proposed models recapitulate the target human disease(s), (2) whether the models are known to develop consistent tumor burden within a reasonable timeframe, and (3) whether the models are known to produce data predictive of cancer preventive efficacy vs. non-efficacy in humans.
If the research involves the use of marketed drugs for new indications (drug repurposing), describe (1) whether new molecular mechanism(s) of action are proposed, (2) if new dosage, scheduling, and/or an alternate route of administration need to be established, (3) if new or previously unknown safety concerns are emerging from post-marketing surveillance, and (4) how the clinical translation is envisioned.
For new molecular entities, describe the development status of the compound and optimization strategy (for guidance, please refer to the PREVENT Stage Gates, at https://prevention.cancer.gov/major-programs/prevent-cancer-preclinical). Indicate whether the compound has undergone medicinal chemistry optimization; if not, describe the proposed strategy. Describe available enzymatic, cell-based, and absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) assays. Where appropriate, also describe access to a structure-based drug design platform, available pharmokinetic (PK) and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) assays, and clinical readiness of the assays. Include an evaluation of functional activity, potency, and the PK/PD relationship, with an emphasis on therapeutic index, if available; supporting data can be included as an appendix (see the list of allowable appendix materials). Please also indicate whether you have had meetings with the FDA (see the list of allowable appendix materials).
For immunopreventive agent development projects (e.g., preventive vaccines), describe the proposed development strategies, including the characteristics of the proposed immunomodulatory agent(s) or strategies, readiness of pertinent immune response monitoring assays, the availability of appropriate preclinical animal model(s) with key information as requested above for preclinical drug development projects, and primary and secondary study endpoints as envisioned. Describe immunological and/or molecular biomarkers deemed useful for the research. Supporting methods and data can be included as an appendix (see the list of allowable appendix materials).
D. Specific Work Request
Specify the technical expertise and resources required to implement the proposed research and to facilitate advancement of the agent into first-in-human studies, and which of these are expected to be provided by NCI. Examples of resources that can be provided by NCI include, but are not limited to:
In vitro and in vivo efficacy studies and preclinical pharmacology
Various carcinogen-induced and genetically engineered animal models of cancer
Identification and evaluation of intermediate biomarkers
PK and PK/PD modeling to evaluate efficacy and optimize dosing regimen
Characterization of immune responses to vaccines and immunomodulatory agents
Formulation optimization for enhanced bioavailability and clinical usefulness
Analytical method development for investigational agents in bulk form and in biological fluids and tissues
Scale-up cGMP and non-cGMP production of an investigational agent
Stability testing for bulk and formulated material
Preclinical investigational new drug (IND)-directed GLP toxicology studies
Other resources to support drug development
E. Justification
Provide a statement to indicate whether your proposal adequately addresses unmet needs in cancer prevention. Include in the statement how the proposed agent or intervention differs from existing cancer preventative interventions. Specify how the proposed agent or approach will advance clinical practice. Address the novelty of the concept with respect to the target and approach, and indicate the likelihood of the concept advancing into the clinic without the assistance of the NCI PREVENT program.
F. Appendices
1. Intellectual Property (IP) Information
The applicant should include a list of any patents issued or pending, either with respect to the agent or to any non-commercially available technology or material required for development of the agent. If an application requires the use of non-commercially available technology or equipment that is patented by a third party, the applicant must provide documentation that the patent holder does not object to the applicant's use with the proposed project.
Each PREVENT application must include the information described below signed by an authorized staff member overseeing IP and/or technology transfer at the applicant's institution. The signature verifies that the staff member has reviewed the PREVENT request and determined that the technology is or is not eligible for consideration by the PREVENT program. If the technology is found not to be eligible for use as outlined in the PREVENT application, and it is central to the applicant's proposal, submission to the PREVENT program is not encouraged.
2. The following information is requested
Details of all the following rights that your institution owns and that are used in the project (the "institution's IP"):
Patents and patent applications
Registered trademarks, applications for registered trademarks, and other marks
Registered designs, applications for registered designs, and significant other designs
Significant know-how
Significant copyright works and other IP rights
Details of all employees, consultants, and other parties involved in the development of the institution's IP related to the PREVENT project submission. (Are there contributors outside the institution and, if so, what was their role in development?)
A complete list and brief description of all agreements with third parties related to the PREVENT project submission:
Granting rights to those third parties under the institution's IP
Granting rights under the third-party IP to the institution
A complete list and brief description of all confidentiality agreements with third parties related to the PREVENT project proposal
Details of any:
Claims made by third parties against the institution related to the project proposal that the institution has infringed a third party's IP rights
Circumstances where a third party has or may have infringed the institution's IP or other IP used in the institution's business related to the project proposal
G. Principal Investigator Biosketch
The principal investigator (PI) biosketch should follow standard NIH format. In the list of PI publications, please highlight any that are directly related to the proposed project by preceding them with a double asterisk (**).
H. Additional Documentation as Appropriate
Additional information that is relevant and crucial to support the proposed concept can be submitted as an appendix (see the list of allowable appendix materials below). Applications with appendix materials that are not specifically listed below may be withdrawn and not reviewed.
Allowable Appendix Materials
Articles (published or in press) that describe relevant data
Supplementary materials and methods describing animal models and experimental protocols in detail that cannot be accommodated in the main body of the application, but are integral to the proposed concept
Supplementary data (figures with legends and tables with footnotes) that cannot be accommodated in the main body of the application, but are integral to support the proposed concept
For applications proposing clinical trial support (for example, CGMP synthesis, IND-enabling preclinical studies, etc.):
Clinical trial protocols that are approved by the applicant's relevant institutional review board (IRB)
Pre-IND meeting minutes, if appropriate
Please do not include PDF files of PowerPoint presentations or entire RO1 grant applications.
About PREVENT Cancer Preclinical Drug Development Program
PREVENT and Consortia Project Results Presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019
Technology Transfer Considerations
Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial


Cleveland went to the World Series last season, lost in seven games to the Chicago Cubs, and is probably even a better team in 2017. Realistically, then, the Royals could be in a dogfight for a wild-card spot, best-case scenario.
But can the pitching hold up?
Left-hander Danny Duffy and right-hander Ian Kennedy are givens. They are the guys at the top of Kansas City's rotation and both should be able to give a lot of quality innings among the 200 or so they'll be expected to pitch.
Duffy was 12-3 last season and there was a long stretch during which he was one of the best pitchers in the game. From June 1 through Aug. 21, covering 16 starts, Duffy was 11-1 with a 2.50 ERA over 108 innings.
Kennedy is a workhorse who was much better than his 11-11 record in 2016 indicates. He struck out 184 in 195 2/3 innings.
Ventura was slotted somewhere in that 1-2-3 starter mix.
Instead, right-hander Jason Hammel, who won 15 games for the Chicago Cubs, is that guy. You know the thanks Hammel got for his 2016 season? The Cubs left him off the postseason roster.
Yes, Chicago had Jon Lester, Jake Arrieta, John Lackey and Kyle Hendricks to take the four starting spots. So Hammel was the odd man out. That will not be the case in Kansas City, where the Royals hope he'll be the normal man in and will once again approach 200 innings with an ERA in the 3s.
Jason Vargas, whom the Royals hope is completely healthy after missing most of two seasons with Tommy John surgery, is being asked to be that crafty left-hander in the rotation while 29-year-old Nate Karns, who has intrigued several organizations with his power arm, has landed in KC to get a crack as the No. 5 starter.
Karns has a big arm and has been with Washington, Tampa Bay and Seattle over the previous four seasons with a 4.41 ERA. Perhaps he'll blossom with the Royals. That's always the hope for a guy like Karns, who has averaged more than a strikeout per inning.
So while Duffy and Kennedy look like they can be taken to the bank, there is more apprehension about what the Royals will get from Hammel and especially from Vargas and Karns.
How good can Kansas City's rotation be? How good can this pitching staff be?
In 2013, 2014 and 2015 — when the Royals were improving to the point of getting over .500, getting to the World Series and winning a world championship — they ranked first, fourth and second in the American League in runs allowed. Last season, KC ranked seventh.
The Royals ranked second, first and second in saves, but dropped to 12th in 2016.
They ranked fourth, third and second in home runs allowed, but were 10th last season.
And they were first, fourth and third in ERA before finishing ninth in the AL a season ago.
Pitching is a pretty big deal. And the better the starters are, the more effective the bullpen will be.
It's a bullpen now in which Kelvin Herrera, once the "seventh-inning guy," has moved into the closer role previously occupied by Wade Davis, now with the Cubs.
Filling in the spots in front of Herrera will be a key, with Matt Strahm, Joakin Soria, Travis Wood most likely to get the most meaningful assignments.
The Royals had ERAs of 3.45, 3.51 and 3.73 from 2013-15. Last season the ERA jumped to 4.21.
That's a big reason why the record fell from 95-67 to 81-81.
Kansas City still has the offensive pieces to make a run, potentially the Royals' last run with pending free agents Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain still wearing blue.
For that to happen, though, the pitching must be better. Duffy has to be the ace and Kennedy has to be just a tick behind. Hammel is a professional pitcher, proven to be reliable. Vargas and Karns are wild cards.
Is this staff good enough to allow the Royals to push Cleveland? That's probably asking too much. But KC should be able to contend for a wild card playoff spot — if the pitching holds up.


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5 Things You Need to Eat and Drink in April 2019
Mark your calendars for $1 tacos, deep dish pizza and Seattle Restaurant Week
By Chelsea Lin
Spring is my favorite time of year—and not just because I welcome the thaw after winter. Summertime produce may be best, but spring's seasonal foods are the ones I look forward to for months: fresh stalks of asparagus, the first rhubarb desserts and big filets of flaky halibut. You'll want to spend plenty of this month cooking at home, but when you're tired of that, head out and hit up these new restaurants and April food events.
Gorge yourself on cheap tacos.
My neighborhood Mexian joint is Rosita's near Green Lake, and I'm so addicted to their salsa verde that I've started buying it by the tub to keep in my fridge at home. On April 9, Rosita's will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its opening date by rolling back to 1979 pricing: $1 crunchy tacos and $3 margaritas from 11:30am to 10pm. Go, eat tacos, congratulate the owners on making it 40 years in a business that many don't last 40 weeks.
Behold the new home of deep dish.
It's been months in the making, but Windy City Pie—everyone's favorite Chicago-style deep dish pizza—finally has a new home, in the space near the zoo formerly occupied by Phinney Market Pub & Eatery. (By the way, I, and every other parent I know, loved that place for the train table alone. RIP.) Look for a menu that highlights the huge pies with caramelized cheese crust—with just enough salads to make you feel virtuous. Also: cocktails!
Eat your words.
This is perhaps my favorite quirky event of the year: The Edible Book Festival is back, April 6, at the Lake Forest Park Town Center Commons. Youth and adult contestants make edible art inspired by literature; participants get to enjoy a slice after. The punnier the better.
Try something new.
Seattle Restaurant Week isn't the time to go hit up your favorite high-end restaurant, but it's a great opportunity to go somewhere you've been meaning to try. From Sunday through Thursday, April 7 through 18, grab three courses for $35 at more than 165 participating restaurants, including some of our favorites from the last year: Alcove, Seaplane, Sawyer, Aerlume, Central Smoke and more.
Revisit an old favorite.
It's been over a year since the guys behind Phorale closed their much-hyped pan-Asian South Park minimart food stand. Now, they're back—in food truck form. Some fan favorites will be making a triumphant return (here's hoping for the signature curly fries we loved back in 2017). Follow along on Facebook for exact locations.
Mix It Up. Try old-school cocktails this holiday season
These 10 drinks may not be on the menu at your local bar, but all pack a punch as well as some colorful history
Editor's note: A version of this story previously appeared in "Seattle" magazine. Impress your guests this holiday season with these 10 concoctions from a vintage bar guide from Glenn Shaw Creations – supposedly from the 1950s – found in an antique shop in Olympia a few years back. Keep in mind that these drinks may…
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Let's be Frank about Champagne
The best bubbles in Washington state may very well be found at an East Coast-style restaurant in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood. That, at least, is the opinion of The Champagne Bureau, USA, which has named Frank's Oyster House and Champagne Parlor as one of the top 10 bars and restaurants in the nation for the quality…
Seattle Buildings Just Let It Bee
There's a buzz happening throughout the region
You know the Smith Tower as Seattle's original skyscraper. You know that the 108-year-old, 38-floor tower was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi. You may not be aware that the 22nd floor is now home to an apiary containing a thriving colony of thousands of honeybees. It is one of several apiaries located…
Dining In, Dining Outdoors in Ballard
Ballard restaurateur Tommy Patrick helped reimagine Ballard's outdoor dining scene at the start of the pandemic, sparking a trend that's likely here to stay
In a past reality that seems almost like a dream, Seattle's outdoor dining existed only in the summer months, when we were all just happy to be in actual sunshine, even if it disappeared as quickly as the tables and umbrellas. Then, during the early days of the pandemic, dining stopped. Everything stopped. From a…
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Policing Gender Expression
Date(s): July 15, 1857 to July 16, 1857
Location(s): chicago
Tag(s): LGBT, Gender, Chicago Tribune, transgender, LGBTQ, police brutality, cross-dressing
Course: "Incarceration in the US," Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
In July of 1857, Chicago's "Charley H." was the topic of an article in the Tribune. The article described his as a "hard-working clerk who lived in a boarding house." The article reveals, however, Charley is actually a female-bodied person who dressed and acted like a man. The acquaintances of Charley H. were astonished that "Charley was a woman, yes a veritable woman in man's apparel." When Charley's secret was discovered, Charley left Chicago. Charley's identity as a female bodied person in men's clothing was criminalized. Throughout the early twentieth century, many people like Charley were criminalized for cross-dressing.
In 1851, 6 years before Charley's story was publicly published in the Tribune, Chicago's Common City Council passed an ordinance that made it criminal to "appear in a dress not belonging to his or sex, or in an indecent or lewd dress." In Chicago's press, many people, such as Charley, were labeled as those who enacted "cross-dressing," or "cross dressers." Reports of people "cross-dressing," such as Charley, flooded newspapers across the country. One headline read, "Eventful Career of Woman who became 'Female Husband,'" which tells the story of a woman who not only wore men's clothing, but "smoked, chewed, and shaved," enacting male gender roles. Another story read, "Young Woman Jailed for wearing men's clothing." In the story the reporter notes, "She claims she can get better wages as a man than she can dressed as a woman." Not only are these people being reported in the newspaper, but are criminalized by police.
"Women in Men's Attire-Curious Mania that has long caused Trouble to the Police," was a headlining story that focused on the cause of "cross-dressers," and how the police handled situations with "cross-dressing." The article publicly revealed the stories of individuals and shared the punishment of those caught and convicted of "cross-dressing." People were charged with vagrancy, jailed, sent to court to explain why they enacted cross-dressing," and punished with fines, prison sentences, or admitted into penitentiaries. The article also stated, "Negroes are frequent offenders, police say." In the present, the police's attitude towards African-American "cross-dressers" is often violent. Numbers of cases were and currently are being added to police records across the country. "Local governments used vagrancy and other statutes to regulate and restrain those who dressed in public as the other sex." The policing of "crossdressing" and other forms of gender expression have continued into the twenty-first century
The term transgender is defined as those "who identify with gender 'opposite' of what society would typically assign to their bodies." Although "cross-dressers," and "transgender people," are defined differently, they both share similar circumstances in being policed for their gender expression. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey attests that twenty-two percent, of transgender individuals who have interacted with police reported harassment by police. African-American transgender individuals reported much higher rates of physical and sexual harassment by police and in prisons. The policing of individuals who express gender that is opposite from their assigned sex at birth has been an issue for the "cross-dressing," and "transgender" communities for over 150 years.
"Eventful Career of a Woman Who Becomes 'Female Husband.'," Spokane (WA) Press, February 9, 1906.
"Young Woman Jailed for Wearing Men's Clothers," Abilene (TX) Daily Reporter, September 1, 1913.
"Women in Men's Attire--Curious Mani That Has Long Caused Trouble to the Police," Duluth (MN) Evening Herald, April 23, 1907.
Peter Boag, "The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West," Oregon Historical Quarterly 112 (2011): 324.
Injustices at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (Washington D.C.: National Center for Transgender Equality, 2011).
Joanne Meyerowitz, "A 'Fierce and Demanding' Drive," in The Transgender Studies Reader, ed. Susan Stryker (New York, New York: Routledge, 2006), 366.
Jennifer Brier and Anne Parsons, "Gender Crossroads: Representation of Gender Transgressions in Chicago's Press," in Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, ed. Jill Austen and Jennifer Brier (Chicago: Chicago History Museun, 2011), 27-28.


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I just read through NetMasterClass.com DOiTv2 Scenario 12, which I'm planning to do on Saturday. I like to read through the lab ahead of time, and cogitate on some of the challenges before actually doing the lab. Sometimes, I'll poke around on cisco.com or in a book, reviewing a technical concept before I tackle the scenario.
Looking through this scenario, I see I'm challenged with a security task where you've got 3 routers with ethernet interfaces all on the same VLAN. The task is to force router 1 to talk to router 3 by way of router 2. Routers 1 and 3 should not talk directly to one another. My brain was mulling this one over, trying to think of a layer 3 way to do this task. And I'm coming up dry…can't do it with ACLs…they aren't going after some funky routing protocol technique…hard-coding MAC addresses or something equally wild isn't the right idea…etc. I decided this challenge must be calling for some clever new router trick with which I was not previously acquainted.
Lesson of the day for myself – if there's no obvious way to get the job done on one layer, can you use technology from a different layer to do it? I've had this issue before, where I limit myself to a certain way of thinking about a problem, when so often there is a broader option list to choose from. It is SO natural when faced with a CCIE task to assume that the solution to that task will be complicated, convoluted and counterintuitive. And so very often, that's NOT been the case. Yes, there have been those "head scratcher" solutions where you read through the answer key and go, "Wow. I NEVER would have figured that out on my own." But much more frequently, I find that I'm making it harder than it is.
Ignorance of the possibilities is my greatest enemy now. I have a reasonably good approach to the lab – perhaps not perfect, but pretty good. And while still needing some work, my time management skills are much, much, MUCH better than they were 3 months ago. So while I can (and will) still hone my lab approach and time management skills, I think my next great push needs to be studying.


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Aubin, Benoit and John Geddes. "Harper's Love-in with Quebec". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/harpers-love-in-with-quebec. Accessed 18 January 2020.
Aubin, B.,, & Geddes, J., Harper's Love-in with Quebec (2013). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/harpers-love-in-with-quebec
Aubin, Benoit, and John Geddes, "Harper's Love-in with Quebec". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published September 25, 2006; Last Edited December 16, 2013. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/harpers-love-in-with-quebec
Aubin, Benoit, and John Geddes . The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Harper's Love-in with Quebec", Last Edited December 16, 2013, https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/harpers-love-in-with-quebec
Harper's Love-in with Quebec
Article by Benoit Aubin, John Geddes
Published Online September 25, 2006
Last Edited December 16, 2013
In four short months, Prime Minister Stephen HARPER has been able to manoeuvre his minority federal government into a powerhouse of sorts.
In four short months, Prime Minister Stephen HARPER has been able to manoeuvre his minority federal government into a powerhouse of sorts. For now, he is the only politician in a position to undertake significant initiatives in the minefield of QUEBEC politics - while the federal Liberals are searching for a leader and a purpose, and the Bloc Québécois is mourning the downfall of their symbiotic bogeyman. The situation is even murkier on the provincial front. There, the Parti Québécois is tanking, torn anew by raging debates over ideological purity vs. strategic savvy, Premier Jean CHAREST's ruling Liberals are bleeding from a hundred self-inflicted cuts - and third parties are proliferating left and right, threatening to disrupt traditional voting patterns.
Voters' dissatisfaction is such that, recently, a poll indicated that Lucien Bouchard - former federalist minister, former separatist premier - would sweep everyone if he came back as head of the Action démocratique du Québec, a party that tries hard to be neither federalist nor separatist by calling itself "autonomiste." But Bouchard, 67, is unlikely to return to politics. And so it is Harper's show - and if he keeps playing his hand as well as he has since the Jan. 23 federal election, he could, almost singlehandedly, prop up an ailing federalist government in Quebec City, decimate the Bloc Québécois in Ottawa, condemn the federal Liberals to a decade in hell - and make another referendum on Quebec's secession a political impracticality for the foreseeable future. That and, perhaps, alter the way Canada works and currently sees itself in the bargain.
How did Harper get there? In part by tearing a page off John Sleeman's book. The brewer from Guelph, Ont., was able to steal a significant share of Quebec's distinctive suds market by directly addressing his potential customers - "Bohnjoowr, eecee John" - thus turning his halting, broken French into a likeable trademark. The key, Sleeman's local advertiser told Maclean's at the time, is that Quebecers are generally not hostile to other Canadians. Quite the contrary, said François Lacoursière: "Make an effort to reach out to them, they'll love you back." What worked for John also worked for Stephen.
So, there. Since he baffled most pundits by making an unexpected breakthrough in Quebec on Jan. 23 - capturing 10 ridings and close to a million votes - Harper has seen his support increase by four percentage points in Quebec to 29 per cent, according to a Léger Marketing poll released last week. The figures most likely to please Harper, though, are that 72 per cent of Quebecers say they are satisfied with his May 2 budget, 70 per cent like what they have seen of his government so far, and 52 per cent trust him to live up to his word and fulfill his promises. There is a word for these kinds of figures for a newly elected leader: honeymoon.
As a result, "Harper has become the political standard in Quebec at the moment," pollster Jean-Marc Léger says. The new PM's arrival has forced the other parties to review their positions, and reassess their strategies and options. In Léger's words, "everything is fluid in Quebec at the moment, nothing has gelled yet." Harper's Quebec-friendly approach has driven a wedge into the formerly tightly knit separatist coalition - the Bloc Québécois approved of his budget, the PQ criticized it. And it has thrown a lifeline to the very unpopular Liberals - one that Charest was quick to grab. Harper's election "provides Quebec with the opportunity of working with a federal government whose vision of federalism is more in tune with ours - with greater respect for our competences, one which allows us more freedom in the way we choose to operate," Charest said in an interview. "An improved relationship with the federal government will allow for significant progress in several key areas."
It has been awhile, a long while, that news, any news, from Ottawa was received with such enthusiasm in Quebec. Charest stopped short of calling Harper's approach a revolution - he settled for "significant progress" instead - but Mario Dumont went all the way. The head of the right-of-centre Action démocratique said Quebec is in fact witnessing a double-whammy revolution. "First, here is a federal leader who is not hitting us on the head, or looking for new fights with Quebec," Dumont told Maclean's. "Harper says he wants to help solve problems, then he does it! We haven't been exactly used to that in the past 10 years." Even Jean Lapierre, former Bloc co-founder, former Paul Martin Liberal lieutenant, had positive things to say about a Harper-Charest tango. "I'm happy about it, frankly. If improved federal-provincial relations can help improve the cause of federalism in Quebec, and help premier Charest's prospects, so much the better." As for the separatist forces, their predicament was best summarized by a recent political cartoon showing Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe and PQ chief André Boisclair looking on, horrified, and saying "more bad news" as Charest and Harper walked arm in arm ...
It wasn't supposed to be that way. Remember what the pundits wrote in the Toronto dailies prior to the election: the emergence of an Anglo prime minister, a right-winger, and from Alberta of all places, was going to light a fire under Quebec's fence-sitting soft nationalists, and blow more wind into the sails of the separatists, who were already coasting at around 50 per cent support in the wake of the federal sponsorship scandal. Instead, support for separation has declined since Harper became prime minister. Actually, it started to decline even before that: shortly after wunderkind André Boisclair beat PQ lifer Pauline Marois for the leadership last November. Back then, the PQ's polling figures were at 49 per cent. Now, they're at 43.
How could Harper - largely unknown in Quebec, and equipped with only a skeletal organization - ingratiate himself with Quebec voters, so easily, and in so short a time? He first attracted some attention with a campaign stop in Quebec City on Dec. 19 - during which he outlined a vague vision of "open-minded federalism" and promised to tackle "fiscal imbalance" between Ottawa and the provinces. Harper has made several visits to la vieille capitale since. But, as former PQ premier Jacques Parizeau once quipped, voters don't fight at bus stops over tax points. They wouldn't embrace a stranger over fiscal imbalance either - even if that stranger threw in a seat for Quebec at UNESCO sessions.
There has to be more. The fact that Harper is not a Liberal certainly helped. But mainly, he succeeded because his advisers had a very good read of the electorate's mind - and of where the separatist drive came from. Remember John Diefenbaker? No stand-up comic, that man, but the former Conservative prime minister is, still today, credited with one of the best one-liners ever uttered in this province's rich political lore. When Dief asked his fateful "What does Quebec want?" question in the early sixties, Canada was still very much a British Dominion, the Red Ensign was our flag and, even in Montreal, bilingual meant a francophone who spoke English. And Canada's main problem lay, of course, in the fact that the medium - the prime minister of the day - was so perfectly in tune with the message: clueless as to why the county's largest minority and co-founding nation was becoming increasingly restless.
A lot has changed since then, of course - the advent of the PQ, the hair-rising referendum of 1995 - but the dominant attitude in Ottawa has been to consider Quebec a problem, a threat, a delinquent child worthy of tough love. That, at least, seems to be the lingering feeling, even among soft federalists in Quebec. "National unity" here is code for "denying Quebec's special identity." "Clarity Act" translates into "coercion"; Ottawa cooking up a national education program becomes "barging into a field of provincial jurisdiction."
Because he understood these codes, Harper was able to send equally subtle messages that his Canada would not be a love-it-or-leave-it proposition, and that the presence of Quebecers - as they are, warts and all - would be fully acknowledged. His bet was that the outstretched hand, some courtesy (Harper routinely speaks in French first while in Ottawa) - and a homeopathic dose of asymmetrical federalism - would go a longer way toward keeping the country together than a $300-million sponsorship program and a Clarity Act to boot. Harper could make that bet because he had understood that Quebecers cannot be forced into calling themselves Canadians, but could easily be coaxed into doing it.
Pay dirt for him was the nearly one million votes in Quebec last winter, a federal Liberal party that's in shambles everywhere in Quebec outside of Montreal - and, potentially, a ticket to a majority next time around. And Harper was on to something, says Jean-Herman Guay, a political scientist at Université de Sherbrooke, because "SEPARATISM is not an aggressive force, but more a reactive one. Support for separation rises to perceived hostility in Canada or Ottawa, and subsides in better moments."
So, separatism dead, again? "That'll never happen," says Alain Giguère, head of the CROP polling firm in Montreal, "because separatism is not a clear-cut, black and white issue. It's about identity." A number of Quebecers have made a final decision about their identity and are either staunch separatists or dedicated federalists. Neither group makes up a majority - because there are a large number of dual citizens. "They're Québécois first, but also Canadian, and happy that way," Giguère says. "They don't want to have to choose, but if they feel forced to, they'll withdraw toward their Quebec identity." That explains why support for sovereignty yo-yoes up and down - and why separatists can become federalists, and vice versa, to the puzzlement of other Canadians.
The last time a Conservative prime minister emerged, in 1984, Brian Mulroney had to make a deal with the devil. He promised major constitutional reform - Meech Lake, RIP 1990 - to get Robert Bourassa's Liberals and René Lévesque's Péquistes on board. This time, Harper had to go it alone; the separatists would not be burned twice, and the provincial Liberals are not in a position to deliver much to anyone at the moment.
Has Quebec gone conservative all of a sudden? Not really. It is just that conservatives here are slowly coming out of the closet, and finding their voice. In this province, public discourse has been formulated, and controlled, by a resolutely left-wingy coalition of artists, unionists, journalists and social activists who were also mainly nationalists and separatists. A lot of people felt left out of that picture of their society. That is changing. Of course, a Quebec conservative would probably pass for a pinko in Calgary and a flaming-red commie in Dallas. But a genuine conservative discourse is taking shape in the province nonetheless.
Lucien Bouchard, for one, made a big splash last fall with a manifesto - "Pour un Québec lucide" - lambasting fat-cat, unproductive unions and warning there will be hell to pay down the line if Quebecers don't shake things up. Recently, Alain Dubuc, a senior editorialist at Montreal's La Presse newspaper, published a book, Éloge de la richesse (Celebrating Wealth), in which he argues that Quebec is a poor province due to its dependency on governments - the famous, old Quebec model.
It is a good illustration of Jean Charest's political flair that he took eight long years to morph from Tory into a full-blown Liberal - just in time to see a Conservative land in Ottawa, possibly for a long run. Charest came to power in Quebec City three years ago with a heady agenda of reforming the economy, re-engineering the government, privatizing public services - and ran at high speed into a big concrete wall. The outcry by public service unions - in sync with the chorus of artists and social activists - was strident. Charest had to tone down the rhetoric, and his image was seriously tarnished. After that, the premier kept digging deeper holes for himself and his government, mainly through gaffes and blunders, picking the wrong fights, letting minor local problems puff up into major political catastrophes. Even Liberal insiders now pull their hair at their leader's apparent political insensitivity, his authoritarian, executive style, and his propensity to find new traps to fall into. Charest's polls are abysmal. "People just don't like him - there isn't much to add," Giguère says. "Whether that will be a reason not to vote for him remains to be seen."
Privately, some Liberals now admit that they would be really worried had Bernard Landry kept his job, or had Pauline Marois become the head of the Parti Québécois. That's because André Boisclair, the new leader, hasn't cut much ice at the helm of this notoriously fractious party that thought nothing of lunching on leaders of the stature of René Lévesque, Lucien Bouchard or Pierre-Marc Johnson.
But Charest must in no way be dismissed as roadkill. He is a formidable campaigner, and his previous career in Ottawa shows that he has more lives than an alley cat. Already, pundits here are saying that Charest's government hasn't been so bad after all - what's been off is the premier's way of presenting it to the public. And the Liberals have made a number of crowd-pleasing announcements lately - more money to municipalities, a program to help the families of victims of violent crime, a deal to offset pay inequity for women. But Charest insisted in an interview last week that these are not pre-election goodies, and that a fall election campaign is not in the cards. We'll have to see who, Harper with his minority or the unpopular Charest, goes to the polls first.
A year can be an eternity in politics. Fully 10 years separate us from the referendum of 1995. "That's the time it took for Canada to come up with a proper response to that referendum," Jean-Marc Léger says. "What Quebecers want is for Canada to say 'Oui' to them as well." That's also an answer to Diefenbaker's question. And such a message can only come from outside the province - from someone like Stephen Harper.
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tough going tonight thus far. not unexpected.
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They say hockey is a game of battles, tonight we won most of the battles but lost the war. I actually think we played better tonight but so did BU by closing the shooting lanes down and back checking a lot more tenaciously in the NZ and OZ. As my rating is fairly red I will keep it short and simple. # 1 We are too small #2 Our D is only Fair # 3 Ruck is a B or B- goalie at best, put these all together and add the fact that we have no Nolan Bros and I smell a 5th place finish. To tell you the truth we only had 5 bad minutes in the 2nd, but during those 5 bad minutes BU scored 3 times. My son's grew up playing with John Picking and it was nice to see him really make some terrific offensive runs and get pucks deep and battle bigger BU players behind the net and dig pucks, just like he did at WHS for a couple of years. Anyway, onward and upward. On a positive note we did manage to keep the shot total fairly close and played hard. However in the 5 minutes where BU played like a team possessed we had no 5th gear to match them and that concerns me.
I don't know about that....bu had some great chances and I thought Ruck really played well most of the night and kept them in it. NU had some very nice snipes but I thought there was a lot of play in their own end...but maybe that's just me being scarred by our history of terrible defensive play (and reinforced by Williams' turnover). NU certainly had the better of OT.
You definitely did not watch the same game. Ruck fought the puck all night and saying that the 4th goal was as bad as it gets is an insult to the first and third goals he gave up. He needs to stop flopping around and get more aggressive with his stick around the net. He needs to get "sticky", too. Way too many rebounds...yes...Williams had a bad turnover but Ruck froze, flopped, and was skated around...
I thought the refs were very good for 2 periods....the third was not good. ZAR would've been goat of the game for that stupid penalty he took with 5 minutes left that gave bu the PP that put them ahead, he needs to be smarter than that.
You're delusional. IN the sequence that BU ran Ruck and did not get called, the non puck carrying forward was offsides (play was right in front of me); go ahead and look at the sequence near side forward's back skate loses contact with the ice before puck crosses line. The tripping call on Collier was idiotic as he was clearly playing the puck and the BU player dived like he was shot from the Book Depository. The second call on Kurker was a ref on LSD.
BS call on ZAR, too. ZAR had the puck...whistle blew for offsides (which it clearly was not as Sikura's backfoot is clearly in the neutral zone and replay that sequence if you don't believe me} the BU player stepped up on ZAR and he pushed him away. Maybe that's a foul in basketball but certainly not in hockey. Bad, bad sequence for the stripes...a BS offsides call led to a BS roughing call...
IF you take away that sequence and watched the game, you'd think NU won. I'm going to respectfully disagree about Picking. Talented kid for sure but he and Jozifek, who seems to not be very capable of playing the level, are fishes out of water so far. He needs to go back to Jamison and Rosenthal. The team needs experience on the 4th line if they are going to be rolled out as often as they are. < That is another issues altogether. I was sandwiched between two of BUs fattest last night and they were actually laughing that NU kept throwing the 4th line out there. Keller, Bellows, Harper were out there every 2-3 shifts and Quinn juggled all night. By my watch, we kept rolling the lines until about the 14 minute mark of the 3rd. That should have started after the 3rd goal.
The coaches really need to step up their game and start adjusting to how the game flows. Hopefully, we get JS back by Providence, if not Notre Dame.
I noticed on the score sheet that ZAR was -2 and Pond -1...think stats guy confused 12 with 22 on the 3rd goal: https://youtu.be/QM5YyWwrlag
So does anybody have any idea when the Stevens will be back or are these season ending injuries?
I heard third hand NStevens was offered a RS and he refused it. That should tell you something about the '17/'18 season. JStevens should be back for sure by Providence and, possibly, this weekend.
Why should Nolan accept the Redshirt status now? Why not wait to see how his recovery and rehab progress?
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OK, Tommy Heinsohn
You "thought" that the call on Collier was good? You thought that it was okay for Carpenter to run Ruck with no call? Did you go back to the game and see how Carpenter's back skate loses contact with the ice at the blueline just before he ran Ruck? Did you watch the replay on the offsides call just before ZAR was called for the rough? Who was offsides? Why did the BU player step up on ZAR after the whistle?
Jamie Koharski, apparently carrying on his family's tradition of being great donut eaters but very poor officials, has stepped up and quite capably taken over for Cameron Voss.
A RS assumes he'll be back next year. I wouldn't count on that.
I know you're working on a PA and I'm not trying to impugn on your field of study but he out until Beanpot, at least.
Are you referring to the second goal? There was barely any contact there. I thought it was ridiculous that they even reviewed it. If you think that was "running the goalie" I suggest you switch to being a soccer fan. No problem at all with the call on Collier, it doesn't matter if you're playing the puck, you're responsible for your stick and if you stick it between someone's legs it's a trip regardless of intent. I don't care WHAT the bu player did there, after the Greenway taunt you had to know refs were going to be looking for any overreaction and ZAR gave them one, he has to be smarter than that and you should be smarter than defending his actions there (though I've seen enough of your posts here to know you're not).
I stand by comments...after watching 4 games of terrible hockey thanks to overofficiating I thought they did a pretty good job on Friday. They let a lot of things go, there were quite a few times where I looked around a few times searching for an arm up in the air and was pleasantly surprised to see NU "got away with one"...and bu got away with quite a few too (much to ZAR's dismay leading to his 10 minute misconduct...though I loved seeing the bu fans who were confused by NU remaining at full strength there, must've been the first time they saw a 10 minute misconduct) and for about 45 minutes I had no issues with them. Heck, even now all I really would like is an explanation on the Pond penalty where it looked like he was interfered with prior to making contact with the goalie.
Actually, I'll defend GR8 to a point. If you do a little research into the average number of penalties called per game and break it down by conference, you'll find that HEA and the ECAC (which share a certain number of referees) are averaging about six more penalties per game than are the B1G and NCHC. I don't want to go into specific penalties but I've been left scratching my head about more than a few.
And the public stance taken by the league office to the effect that this is the way games are called in the NHL is pure nonsense.
Good points and I can't disagree on asking too much of Freshman too soon, that said, I while I don't completely disagree with you on JP, having played against his Dad in college I think he will be a scoring threat in the league as an upperclassman. I think 20 shifts into a HE career he sees and finds lanes, works and digs pucks to create scoring opportunities better than many of the Fresh I have seen so far. I think the best offensive players are those who play from behind the net and he did that well last night again and you should expect to see more of him I would bet he is in the top 4 or 5 fastest skaters on this team. Other than that, I agree and have always agreed on JM, he got a little lucky last year and even a blind squirrel finds a nut every so often. I never expect much from behind our bench so don't expect a great decision to evolve from behind the bench, except on occasion. I do think the team is talented and has a good chemistry that they most likely have built on their own. As a result, they will win some games and could go deep. However, I do not think they will take many pts against the metal of the league, UML, BC, BU and PC.
Are you referring to the second goal? There was barely any contact there..
i too have to disagree on this..it was goalie interference to the head but for whatever reason they decided to play on.. resulted in bu goal few seconds later and that was that..we have to play to the whistle, our guys decided to ease up & paid the price. Gotta play intil the whistle.
but to say there was 'barely' any contact.. let's respectfully agree to disagree on that one.
and i know koharski reviewed it.. he barely reviewed it & could tell had his mind made up and was not going to overturn the G. Luckily for us that night.. the players moved on.. were resilient and played full 3 periods & more. not so much on saturday. was a weak 2nd & team paid for it. hopefully take all this as learning and keep getting stronger as the season progresses.
McBain75
I made the trip out this weekend for the series, here's what I thought.
bu seems like a team with a lot of potential but still a work in progress. Albeit one with a high ceiling, depending on how long they stick around.
Friday night - first of all, great job by the Dog House and the pep band. I thought things had gotten kinda stale about five years ago but there's a lot more life to it now. And the band sounds great. I agree with RossiRules that NU was outplayed by bu but the Huskies kept answering the bell. bu had much more composed possession in the offensive zone and I was worried every time they got a shot from the point, as evidenced by the goals they were good at getting deflections and rebounds. I thought the penalty on Pond in the third was bogus, looked to me like he was pushed into the goalie. It was important that they never went down by more than 2 - that early third period goal by Gaudette was huge. The team weathered the storm in the second period and was in a position to get at them in the third. Lots of energy in the building and the team picked up on that.
Saturday night - I thought NU actually played much better hockey even though they lost 3-0. Other than a 5 minute spell late in the second, I thought their defense was much tougher and better organized than on Friday. Once bu moved that puck around a little quicker, and got on those rebounds, they were able to capitalize.
Pond - as others have noted, he gives you everything he has. Not sure how high his ceiling is though.
Leraro - a lot of fun to watch. He took on Greenway even though he was vastly outsized. Could be a really useful guy in the future.
Gaudette - he's good, plays very confidently, and has the potential to be great. A big opportunity for him to step up in the Stevens' absence.
Filipe - ditto. Uses his size and strides to power past people.
Freshmen defenders Shea and Davies - lots of potential. However, they're the team's achilles heel right now. They're going to learn on the job this year, trial by fire.
Ruck - I couldn't fault him for most of the goals, depending on how much you expect him to deal with those deflections and rebounds. I thought he kept them in it with a strong second period on Friday, and made the saves he was supposed to make on Saturday.
What has really impressed me most about Madigan is how the team seems better mentally prepared than the teams before him. After what I saw this weekend I'm not worried about being able to compete this year, though without the Stevens' it may be tough to crack the top 4. Big chance for Gaudette and Filipe to step up.
My first trip to Agganis. A nice, clean place, but still sterile and kinda lifelessly corporate. It wasn't loud and intimidating like their old place. I was surrounded by some absolutely ancient bu fans. Did they measure wrong when they designed the rows? I'm 5'6" and I had no leg room there. I can't imagine being tall (or wide) and trying to fit in those seats. From the tone of their promotions it seemed like they're really trying to challenge BC for getting casual fans (non alums or students) from around the area. Not sure how well that will work. Is NU on a Saturday not a draw for them? NU got several times as many students there on Friday with half as large a student body to draw from.
Are you referring to the second goal? There was barely any contact there.
You are not to be taken seriously.
Did you watch the same game that I did? Huskies totally outplayed BU for most of the night.
Wow Rossi Rules. Didn't know a post complimenting your team was worth of (an attempt at) negative rep. My apologies. I'll do better next time!! :)
I asked in the game thread but no one responded - how come you moved your band? I thought they always sounded great above the net over the suite. They didn't sound as loud in the corner.
They move around on an annual basis, likely at the whim of whatever administrator was hired that year. They were in the corner one year, in the lower bowl below the DogHouse one year, across the arena one year, now they're back in the corner. I personally prefer them in the corner because they make that side of the arena seem fuller on the sparse days and they can be more of a part of the student section there. After October that other end pretty much ever fills except for a few special games (Homecoming, the first game of spring, vs. BU or BC) so they're always over there alone, which I'm sure isn't much fun.
Maybe it's because I only go there when BU plays that it seems like it's never sparse. The balcony was pretty full on both ends on Friday.
Tater
I got a neg rep from RossiRules also because I disagreed with the poster that said Greenway is very dirty. Little does he know that because he is in the red, his neg rep comes as gray and doesn't take any rep away. So petty. :p


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G-D'S WORD IS OUR GUARANTEE
(A Biblical Analysis of our Times)
by Gary M. Cooperberg
There are those who complain that, without a true prophet, we are like sheep without a shepherd. Yet the fact is, we have in our possession solutions to all of our problems in G-d's word, as revealed in His Holy Torah, and in the word of the prophets of old. Would that the leaders of the Jewish State but turn to the Fountain of Living Waters which lies at their fingertips rather than search the four corners of the earth to devise foolish plans which they think will placate our enemies, but which will only plunge us deeper into the abyss of confusion in which we find ourselves today.
Let us see what the Bible says to our modern purveyors of "peace" who claim that forces greater than we leave us no choice but to give up on G-d's promise to our father Abraham. One can also better understand, through the following words, why peace will never be achieved by Jewish rejection of our G-d given land as its basis:
Ezekiel: 13:3,10,12,14,19,22, and 23 -
Thus saith the L-rd G-d; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying "peace"; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, other daubed it with untempered mortar: Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I am the L-rd. And will ye pollute me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? Because with your lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, not divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the L-rd.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin sat with President Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat and, in the name of "peace", signed a treaty which recognized legitimate rights for a fraudulent entity and paved the way for Israel's enemies to destroy her from within. To further the catastrophic precedent of Begin, his follower, Yitzchak Shamir, proposed yet another plan for "peace" by offering the enemy within "elections" whose end result would only strengthen the ability of Arab migrants to "peacefully" put an end to the Jewish State. An Prime Minister Rabin, too impatient to wait for elections, arbitrarily transformed an arch murderer into a hero as he appointed Arafat King of "Palestine". And today, as a result of these policies, Arabs continue to murder and maim Jews, even as Peres turns murderous criminals loose from our jails, gives them weapons, police stations, fortresses and our holy cities while referring to the PLO army as "policemen".
Are we then to be surprised to watch our enemies laugh at us as they defeat the IDF with a fight? When it had been suggested that Arab terrorist inciters who vow to destroy Israel be transferred out of the Jewish State, so called "defenders of citizens rights", rushed in to save "democracy". They decry such a suggestion as "racism". Those self hating Jews are so riddled with fear that they do battle for their enemies in the hope that the Arab victors will one day show mercy to them. And now, since the infamous handshake on the White House lawn, the concept of peaceful transfer of Arab terrorists is no longer an option.
Deuteronomy VII vs. 17-19, and XI vs. 22-25:
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember what the L-rd thy G-d did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the L-rd thy G-d brought thee out: so shall the L-rd thy G-d do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the L-rd your G-d, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him; Then will the L-rd drive out all these nations from before you and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness even unto Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the L-rd your G-d shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon al the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath said unto you.
The cunning Arab squatters, whose ancient historical connection with the Land of Israel spans nearly 100 years, include among their slander of the Jewish people, their complaint that Jews have come from other countries and taken away what is rightfully theirs. If one would but trace the history of these fraudulent Arab migrants and thieves, he would discover an abundant lack of authentic history, or legal acquisition of the land upon which they live. But rather than waste time on trivial mundane pursuits, one has but to open his Bible to clearly see what is taking place in the Promised Land today:
Deuteronomy XXX vs. 3;5:
Then the L-rd thy G-d will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the L-rd thy G-d hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the L-rd thy G-d gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee: And the L-rd thy G-d will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
And today one finds those who claim that the Jewish people are no longer worthy of G-d's promise and that there is no hope for Jewish return to succeed any longer. This claim too, is not an item for debate, only for scholarly research. For G-d foresaw our weaknesses and transgressions, yet determined to keep his promise to our Father Abraham in any event. For it is through us, his chosen people, that G-d has decreed to demonstrate His greatness in the world:
Ezekiel XXXVI vs. 20-24:
And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. And when they entered unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned My holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the L-rd, and are gone forth out of His land. But I had pity for Mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations whither they went. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the L-rd G-d: I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for Mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the nations whither ye went. And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the L-rd, saith the L-rd G-d, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and bring you into your own land.
Isaiah LXVIII vs. 9-11:
For My name's sake will I defer Mine anger, and for My praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For Mine own sake, even for Mine own sake, will I do it: for how should My name be polluted? and I will not give My glory unto another.
The Bible was written by G-d to teach Man how to use the precious gift of life. Knowing that education by example is truly the best way to teach, he chose one people and entered into an irrevocable covenant with them. They would learn and follow the teachings of His Law so the nations of the world could see the good resulting from submitting our will to His; and He would not destroy the world. The very foundations of the world shook on that day, seven weeks after our exodus from Egypt, as the existence of the world stood in the balance, awaiting our agreement. With one voice the Children of Israel declared, "We will do and we will learn", and the heavens resounded with the joy of the singing of myriads of angels.
It was G-d's will to bring peace and good to the world through the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jewish people. As He warned through His Bible, we were dispersed throughout the world and exiled from our country. We were humiliated, degraded, spat upon, defiled, murdered, raped tortured and nearly annihilated...all of which was predicted. Now that our enemies have gloated at our misery and labeled us as a people condemned to eternal wandering in exile, they are stunned to observe the rest of G-d's predictions coming to pass as this beaten, dispersed, weak and persecuted people have picked up their bedraggled remnants, survivors of Hitler's war against the Jews, and in the face of impossible odds, returned to their ancient homeland where they have resurrected a sovereign Jewish state.
Today Prime Minister Peres continues to surrender to Arafat and Asad, despite the increase of terror, and the obvious fact that peace is further away than ever.
Real peace will only come as a result of the Divine Process of Zionism. Jewish return to the Land of Israel from all four corners of the Earth, to reestablish a Jewish Kingdom based upon the Law of G-d is the purpose of redemption. G-d's Will is to bring genuine peace to all Mankind through His People, Israel. This too explains His very special blessing to our Father, Abraham:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the Earth be blessed. Genesis 12:2-3
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Foramen Ovale Definition: Foramen Ovale is a foramen in the greater wing of sphenoid bone, and it gets its name from the latin word Ovale, which means oval window. It is one of the two foramens of the greater wing, alongside foramen spinosum.
Where is Foramen Ovale located?
The foramen is located in the middle cranial fossa, at the posterior base of greater wing of sphenoid bone. It is present lateral to lingula, and posterolateral to foramen rotundum, and anteromedial to foramen spinosum.
This is the easiest way to remember about the structures passing through the foramen – (Otic ganglion, V3, Accessory meningeal artery, Lesser petrosal nerve, Emissary vein). It is said that occasionally, the anterior trunk of middle meningeal artery passes through foramen ovale.
In newborns, the foramen ovale is about 3.85mm in length, while it is 7.2mm in length in adults. The variations seen in Foramen Ovale are similar to others as it differs in size and shape. The presence of this Foramen was found to be as early as 7 weeks and as late as 3 years of age. The anatomical variations range from irregular to rough borders to the foramen ovale being divided into two or three components.
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Learn about the other foramina of skull – Foramen magnum, foramen lacerum, foramen spinosum, infra orbital foramen and supra orbital foramen.


What happens often enough, unfortunately, is that prosecutors try to game the rule. Any game-playing by a prosecutor is abhorrent, beyond unethical, as it abuses the overwhelming power of the government. But gaming the very rule intended to prevent such game-playing is perverse.
How do they do it? One simple way is to just not hand it over, secure in the expectation that the defense won't ever find out. The prosecutor can justify this by claiming it wasn't really Brady material. Perhaps they spin it as something that isn't really helpful to the defense, as if their perspective is the only correct one. Perhaps they spin it as just discovery-type stuff, which unfortunately is not discoverable at this time, if ever. Or they can just cross their fingers and hope nobody ever gets wise.
Another way to game the rule is to claim ignorance. There may in fact be exculpatory evidence, but law enforcement never let the prosecutor know of it, and the prosecutor didn't try all that hard to look for it, if at all. That's no excuse — law enforcement is the government, and what it knows is imputed to the prosecution — but the prosecutor's failure to obtain the information keeps it out of the defense's hands.
Another way to game the rule is to rely on an office's "open-file discovery" policy to make the defense think they've received everything they're entitled to, when in fact the critical evidence was either withheld, knowingly excluded from the prosecution's file, otherwise not made part of the file, or deemed "not discoverable." This game involves a level of deception, essentially lying to the defense that they've been given everything.
A particularly nasty game gets played when the defense has reason to believe the evidence is out there, but for some reason — such as when it's possessed by the police — the defense isn't able to get the specifics. So the defense notifies the prosecution, and the prosecution claims not to have a Brady obligation, because the defense already knows about the information. This also happens when the prosecution tells defense counsel that the defendant was there, so go ask him what happened. That's not the rule. If the defense actually possesses the evidence (or could reasonably get it), then there's no need for the prosecution to provide a second copy. But anything short of that imposes an affirmative duty on the prosecution to collect and share that evidence. Prosecutors like to hide in the penumbra of what a defendant might, with reasonable diligence, discover on his own. But that's avoiding a constitutional duty, not complying with it.
There are any number of other games that get played — like all the procedural obstacles that get thrown in the way of post-conviction attempts to establish actual innocence — but these are all examples we've come across in our own experience. Suffice it to say, prosecutors are playing games with people's lives all the time.
So it was with some cautious optimism that we saw the resolution that the American Bar Association adopted today, basically telling courts to devise detailed laundry lists of things that count as Brady material in their courthouse, and to provide them to prosecutors and defense counsel in the cases that come before them. If adopted, this practice would make it at least more difficult for prosecutors to claim ignorance of material that could have existed. And it would make it easier for defense attorneys to spot particular bits of police paperwork and other kinds of evidence that they might not have known to ask for, if not disclosed. It would help the hard-working defense lawyer to root out the Brady that might be there, and it would help the ethical prosecutor collect such material that they might not otherwise have obtained.
RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local courts to adopt a procedure whereby a criminal trial court shall, at a reasonable time prior to a criminal trial, disseminate to the prosecution and defense a written checklist delineating in detail the general disclosure obligations of the prosecution under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny and applicable ethical standards.
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local courts in implementing the above procedure to require a criminal trial court to create a standing committee of local prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys to assist the court in formulating and updating the written checklist delineating in detail the prosecution's general disclosure obligations.
FURTHER RESOLVED, That any omissions or deficiencies in the written checklist provided by the court should not relieve either the prosecutor or defense counsel of their legal and ethical responsibilities with respect to providing and seeking disclosures.
Now let's see if it has any effect.
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Thank you for posting this. I'm a 1L and we were just discussing Brady in class this month. I'll share this with the class and it should stir up some conversation.
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