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Drew Peterson's Cold Heart
Sure, the former cop with all the missing wives, could be innocent. But he also knows a lot more than the rest of us about how to get away with murder. Following yesterday's arrest, noted attorney Wendy Murphy analyzes the case against him.
Wendy Murphy
Updated 07.14.17 12:35PM ET / Published 05.08.09 4:10AM ET
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Sure, the former cop with all the missing wives, could be innocent. But he also knows a lot more than the rest of us about how to get away with murder. Following yesterday's arrest, noted attorney and Daily Beast contributor Wendy Murphy analyzes the case against him.
Former Illinois Police Sergeant Drew Peterson cracked a joke when he was arrested yesterday on two counts of first degree murder in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead at home in a bathtub in 2004. "I guess I should have returned those library books," he quipped, as cops took him into custody.
I missed whatever was funny about being accused of murder, but then this is the same guy who smiled every time he was asked about the October 2007 suspicious disappearance of another of his wives, number four, Stacy Peterson. With a $20 million bond now holding him behind bars, I'm guessing his smirk will start to fade real soon.
Savio's family was reportedly not surprised by the arrest and had been told many times over the past several months that charges were forthcoming. The grand jury that issued the indictments is still investigating the Stacy Peterson matter, which means additional charges are possible in that case—though Drew Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, said he doesn't think charges will ever be filed because "there is no body and no crime scene." Oddly enough, he contrasted this lack of evidence with the relative strength of the case involving Savio. He's right about the evidence—but it's weird for a defense attorney to showcase the relative strength of a prosecutor's case against his client.
Kathleen Savio will testify from her grave, a likely reference to the fact that she told her sister many times that she feared Peterson would kill her and make it look like an accident.
Peterson's arrest was a bit of a shock to people who weren't close to the case and who doubted that a conviction could be won in the Savio's matter given that the original autopsy said the victim died of "drowning" and that the manner of death was "accidental." Her body was exhumed after Stacy Peterson's disappearance raised new questions about Savio's death. A new autopsy confirmed that Savio indeed had died of drowning, but that the manner of death was not "accident" but "homicide."
Brodsky emphasized that the original autopsy will be a significant piece of evidence for the defense, and that his own forensic expert, Dr. Cyril Wecht, saw no evidence of "homicide" in the original autopsy.
Fair enough, but Wecht hasn't seen the new autopsy, yet, so we can't possibly know whether his opinion might change.
In any case, Peterson has bigger problems to worry about.
The grand jury's indictment identifies two different types of first degree murder charges. They allege that Savio died of an intentional killing and/or that Peterson created a risk of great bodily harm that led to her death, e.g., he gave Savio drugs or otherwise knocked her out at a time when she was in the bathtub, rendering her unconscious and thus unable to protect herself from drowning. This latter charge means the prosecutor doesn't have to establish with precision exactly what happened. They can proceed under both theories, and the jury can select either or both options.
To prove his case, the prosecutor announced that Savio would effectively be allowed to "testify" at trial. In an eerie moment during the press conference related to Peterson's arrest, the state's attorney announced that Savio would testify from her grave, a likely reference to the fact that Savio told her sister many times before she died that she feared Peterson would kill her and make it look like an accident. Such statements are often admissible under exceptions to the law that otherwise forbids the use of hearsay at trial.
Peterson's own statements will also likely be used against him, even if he never takes the stand. Things he said to family members and others, inconsistent statements, and even the comments he has made to the press, will help to build a circumstantial case for conviction. It might even be possible for the state to use evidence of Stacy's disappearance to prove the case involving Savio because prosecutors are allowed to use "prior bad acts" to show motive, intent, state of mind and "pattern" or "common scheme" of conduct. This legal doctrine applies whether or not the "prior bad acts" led to a prosecution or conviction. If evidence in Stacy's case is allowed in at trial, the jury may well hear things like the fact that a relative of Peterson's helped him dispose of a large Rubbermaid-style bucket around the time that Stacy went missing. This relative has reportedly told law enforcement that he believes the bucket contained Stacy Peterson's body because it weighed well over 100 pounds. This type of evidence can help prove guilt by establishing that Drew Peterson had a similar state of mind, and intent to kill, in both cases.
In an interesting development that may also help the prosecution, and be related to the timing of Peterson's arrest, Savio's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Peterson last month. That case was delayed because Savio's family had to file a different lawsuit against Peterson for the right to control Savio's estate and the appellate court did not finally rule in favor of Savio's family until earlier this year. Gaining control over the estate may have allowed certain evidence to be obtained by the family—and thus shared with police and the grand jury. Things like medical records and other personal files that might reveal a history of violence, for example, may have been unavailable during the time that Drew Peterson controlled his dead wife's estate.
Even the statements of Stacy Peterson might be admissible to help prove the case involving Savio because Stacy was involved with Drew Peterson at the time of Savio's death, and Stacy told cops that she could not account for Peterson's whereabouts at the time Savio died. Peterson claimed he was not with Savio when she drowned, but whether he has a viable alibi is very much in dispute. Stacy also told people that Peterson admitted to her that he killed Savio.
Notwithstanding all this evidence, Peterson has denied hurting either woman and he is entitled to the presumption of innocence. But his denials have a "protest too much quality" that just doesn't ring true.
When asked what he believes happened to Savio, Peterson told Larry King he didn't know, and then he denied that he'd ever gotten physical with his wife. He then added, without even being asked, "I challenge you to find anyone to say they have ever even seen me mad."
That's quite a challenge considering that I can't think of anyone who could truthfully say that nobody has ever seen them angry. Which got me to thinking that he may be telling the truth that nobody has ever seen him angry, but that doesn't make him a peacenik. Having worked with victims of domestic violence for decades, I can assure you that some of the most prolific batterers never hit women in front of other people. And in any case, Peterson didn't say, "I never get mad." He only boasted about how he hides it.
Maybe the guy is innocent. And maybe he's guilty, but will be acquitted anyway. After all, he's a former cop who knows a lot more than the rest of us about how to get away with murder.
One thing seems certain. The guy has a cold heart, not only because he smiles and laughs during conversations about murder, but also because he uses his children as tools in his defense strategy.
Peterson has custody of his four children, two of whom are the children of Kathleen Savio.
No doubt those poor children are suffering terribly after losing their mother, but Peterson didn't care. He put one of them (who looked to be about 10 years-old) on national television to say that he did not believe his father was guilty of killing his mother.
It's one thing to put a child through such a painful experience when a detective needs to solve a murder, or during trial when children—like all citizens—are obligated to take the stand. But putting your own son on television to gain a strategic advantage in a murder case where you are suspected of killing your son's mother is beyond unconscionable.
At least Peterson will be separated from his children now that he's in jail awaiting trial. And thankfully he didn't marry his fiancé before his arrest or she might have been granted legal custody of Peterson's children in his absence. I know it's hard to kill from behind bars, but wife number five might not have lasted very long and let's just say, the kids don't need to lose another mother.
Wendy is a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor who teaches at New England Law/Boston. Wendy is an impact litigator who specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children. She also writes and lectures widely on victims' rights and criminal justice policy. Her first book, And Justice For Some , was published in late 07 and is a scathing expose of the American legal system. A former NFL Cheerleader, Wendy lives outside Boston with her husband and five children.


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Say you have recently constructed and uploaded your own home page to the World Wide Web. The design, due to your basic lack of experience with advanced HTML, is modest yet attractive, with a few clip art images decorating the borders of your document and several links embedded throughout the page. Traffic to your homepage is good. Yet, you want more.
Seeking inspiration, you browse sites representing major companies and people well-seasoned in HTML and graphic design. You are awed by their colorful client-side and image maps, textured baskgrounds, colorful fonts, unique stationery and animated graphics. You wonder, "How can I add such graphics to my web page without paying a high price to a web design firm? Can my site look like this?"
It can, with a little help from Macromedia's latest release of Freehand Graphics Studio 7. Billing itselfas a package of "the most powerful design tools for print and the Internet," Freehand Graphics Studio 7 is the one stop shop for Macintosh image design and editing, animated graphics, unique fonts, and third-dimensional modeling.
Composed of four different design programs and enhanced by Macromedia plug-in Shockwave, Freehand Graphics Studio 7 is great for professional web designers, small businesses specializing in graphics-laden publications, and anyone wanting access to powerful Internet graphics authoring tools.
What is it about Freehand 7 that puts it head-and-shoulders over other Macintosh-compatible software, such a Adobe Photoshop and CorelDraw? Aside from the simple interaction between the four programs included in the package (Macromedia Information Exchange, or MIX, allows the user to switch from program to program without problems), Freehand 7 is also compatible with non-Macromedia products -- documents created with Photoshop and PageMaker may be easily exported by Freehand 7 programs and edited and/or enhanced.
Add an increased number of tools found within floating palettes, "drag-and-drop" features not available in other programs, and support for third-party plug-ins, and you have a package able to create high quality products at a low total production cost.
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How many times has it happened that two people working on the same project discover each is using a different computer platform? Situations like this are common and frustrating, especially since most Macintosh software will not work on PC computers. Freehand 7, however, can. Since the file format is the same for Freehand programs of both platforms, documents created in Macintosh are readable on Windows 95, and vice versa.
If the ease of cross-platform capabilities were not enough to entice one into buying this package, consider this other useful qualities of the programs. Freehand imports and exports files from older versions of the program as well as various image and text files (RTF, ASCII, TIFF, GIF, etc.) and interacts well with applications such as Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress.
Freehand also offers many extensive editing features sch as multiple-page design and layout, copyfitting, columns spell-check capabilities, search and replace functions, and specialized style sheets. Special effects tools found on Freehand supply endless ideas for design : users may choose from new roughen, bend, smudge, and fisheye lens tools, among others, when constructing new images.
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System requirements : 12 MB of RAM (16 MB+ recommended); 25MB of available hard disk space; PostScript-compatible printer (recommended); CD-ROM drive; 68040 processor or faster (Power Macintosh recommended), System 7 or higher.
High-resolution graphics, built-in World Wide Web functionality, and an array of creative design tools make Macromedia xRes one of the most used programs among Macintosh web designers. This program takes the MacPaint concept several steps into the future, with advanced design tools and cross-program compatiblity to allow for graphics and digital photographs that enhance any web site or company newsletter.
Where on more primitive design programs brush and texture styles and limited, Macromedia xRes offers a wide range of style -- from charcoal to chalk to watercolors. Users can simulate calligraphy on rough paper or oils on a canvas using any of the available options found within the program's floating toolboxes. Photographs imported into xRes may be manipulated and blended with other images and colors to create unique digital designs.
System requirements : 12 MB of RAM (18 MB recommended); 10 MB free disk space for software; 500 MB minimum free disk space for swap file; 8-bit color; CD-ROM drive; 68040 processor or faster Power Macintosh, System 7.5.
Okay, so you have finally mastered the creation and implementation of two-dimensional graphics. You have them pasted all over your Web site, and you have received many compliments. However, you are still not satisfied. What now?
Take your flat, lifeless images to the next dimension with Extreme 3D 2, Macromedia's powerful Internet design and multimedia authoring program. Professional and amateur graphics, Web designers, and multimedia developers will find this software a blessing, with easy-to-use tools for creating full and animated art, all of which are compatible with Macromedia's Shockwave, Director, and Authorware Plug-ins.
Simple designs may be twisted like pretzels, bent, tapered, skewed, and trimmed to one's content. One of Extreme 3D 2's most important features, the Metaform tool, creates organic shapes that flow together naturally, as water does from a jar. Import graphics created with xRes and Freehand (as well as any JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF file) to add life to Macromedia documents. Extreme 3D 2 can help turn any flat World Wide Web page into a shocked site.
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Fontographer 4.1 also generates Multiple Master fonts, PostScript-language Type 1 fonts, and TrueType fonts to use. EPS files created with this program may be imported and exported into other Macromedia programs in the FGS 7 package to create super Web documents. Fontographer 4.1 may be the smallest program of the four, but it packs a punch just as powerful.
System requirements : Any Macintosh computer with 5 MB RAM and a hard drive; System 6.07 or greater, CD-ROM drive.
For ease of use, mass compatibility, and dynamic results guaranteed to turn heads and generate Web site hits, Freehand Graphics Studio 7 is a must for any computer graphic artist's library. There is no image these programs cannot enhance and animate, and therefore make any company's Web site, newsletter, or annual report more attractive and professional.
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2020 SheBelieves Cup – USA vs. Japan
MATCH PREVIEW – 2020 SheBelieves Cup – USA vs. Japan
March 11| Toyota Stadium; Frisco, Texas
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USWNT FACES JAPAN WITH SHEBELIEVES CUP TITLE ON THE LINE: The U.S. Women's National Team has won its first two games of the 2020 SheBelieves Cup -- 2-0 over England and 1-0 over Spain – and now will face Japan in the tournament finale on March 11 at in Frisco, Texas needing a win or a tie to lift the trophy. The match at Toyota Stadium is expected to be another capacity crowd. Japan has had a tough go so far, falling 3-1 to Spain in its first match and 1-0 to England on a late score in its second game. After outscoring its opposition 25-0 at the 2020 Concacaf Women's Olympic Qualifying tournament and qualifying for the 2020 Olympics in Japan, the U.S. Women's National Team has embarked on an ambitious pre-Olympic preparation schedule, beginning with the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, Presented by Visa. The USA has participated in all six Olympic Games in which women's soccer has been contested, winning four gold medals (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) and a silver (2000).
CHAMPIONSHIP SCENARIOS: The USA needs a tie or a win against Japan win the championship at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup. It would be the USA's third SheBelieves Cup title in the five tournaments that have been contested. A positive result for the USA against Japan would render the England-Spain result meaningless in regard to winning the tournament, but as that match occurs first on March 11, the USA will know its scenarios heading into the Japan game. If England and Spain happen to draw, the USA would win the tournament before it even kicks off against Japan. There are several scenarios that makes it possible for the USA to win the tournament even with a loss to Japan.
2020 SHEBELIEVES CUP, PRESENTED BY VISA, SCHEDULE/RESULTS
Date Matches Stadium City Kickoff (TV)
Mar. 5 Spain 3, Japan 1 Exploria Stadium Orlando, Fla.
Mar. 5 USA 2, England 0 Exploria Stadium Orlando, Fla.
Mar. 8 England 1, Japan 0 Red Bull Arena Harrison, N.J.
Mar. 8 USA 1, Spain 0 Red Bull Arena Harrison, N.J.
Mar. 11 England vs. Spain Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas 4:15 p.m. CT on ESPN3
Mar. 11 USA vs. Japan Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas 7 p.m. CT on ESPNews, TUDN XTRA 1
2020 SHEBELIEVES CUP STANDINGS
10TH TIME IN FRISCO: The USA is 9-0-0 at Toyota Stadium, home of FC Dallas of MLS. Those games included three Olympic Qualifying matches in 2016 and two World Cup qualifiers in 2018, which was the last time the USA played in Frisco. The USWNT hasn't allowed a goal in Frisco in the most recent seven matches played here.
TEAM EFFORT: U.S. head coach Vlatko Andonovski has played 15 of his 20 field players on the roster during this tournament. The USA has scored three goals in two games, the same as Spain. Andonovski made four changes from the first game to the second, the five players who have yet to play could get some minutes against Japan.
USA VS. JAPAN
The USA has an all-time record of 28-1-8 against Japan and has scored 106 goals while allowing 29.
The most recent meeting between the USA and Japan came at last year's SheBelieves Cup, a 2-2 tie that features goals from Megan Rapinoe and Tobin Heath and Emi Nakajima and Yuka Momiki from Japan.
The USA took the lead in the 23rd minute, Japan equalized in the 67th, the USA went ahead again in the 76th and then Japan tied it again in the first minute of stoppage time.
The USA and Japan have a rich history dating back to 1986, the second year of the U.S. WNT program, but of course it's the more recent meetings which have forever linked these two countries in women's soccer history.
While the streak ended at the 2016 Olympics, the USA and Japan met in the three previous world finals, with the USA losing the 2011 Women's World Cup in penalty kicks after a 2-2 tie over regulation and overtime, then winning the 2012 Olympic goal medal game, 2-1, and the historic 2015 Women's World Cup Final, 5-2.
Of course, the 2015 final featured the epic hat trick in 16 minutes from Carli Lloyd and included goals from Lauren Holiday and Tobin Heath.
The first meetings between the two teams after the 2015 Women's World Cup Final came in June of 2016 with the teams playing to a wild 3-3 draw in Commerce City, Colo., as hometown hero Lindsey Horan scored late to make it 3-2, but Japan equalized in stoppage time. The USA then won 2-0 in three days later in Cleveland, getting goals from Julie Ertz (then Johnston) and Alex Morgan, in a match that was called in the 76th minute due to weather.
At the 2017 Tournament of Nations, the USA won 3-0 at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., and at the 2018 Tournament of Nations, the USA won 4-2 on goals as Alex Morgan scored a hat trick and Megan Rapinoe also added a goal. In that game, the USA scored in the 18th minute, Japan tied it in the 20th, and then the USA scored three in a row (26th, 56th, 66th) before Japan pulled one back in the 76th minute.
The USA's lone loss in regulation to Japan occurred on March 5, 2012 in Faro, Portugal, during the 2012 Algarve Cup, a 1-0 setback. The 2011 Women's World Cup Final officially counts as a tie.
Since falling in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, the USA has gone 6-1-4 against Japan, outscoring them 27-15.
USWNT SheBelieves Cup Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals):
GOALKEEPERS (3): Adrianna Franch (Portland Thorns FC; 3), Ashlyn Harris (Orlando Pride; 25), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 63)
DEFENDERS (8): Abby Dahlkemper (North Carolina Courage; 60/0), Tierna Davidson (Chicago Red Stars; 25/1), Crystal Dunn (North Carolina Courage; 103/24), Ali Krieger (Orlando Pride; 107/1), Kelley O'Hara (Utah Royals FC; 130/2), Becky Sauerbrunn (Utah Royals FC; 176/0), Casey Short (Chicago Red Stars; 31/0), Emily Sonnett (Orlando Pride; 45/0)
MIDFIELDERS (5): Julie Ertz (Chicago Red Stars; 101/20), Lindsey Horan (Portland Thorns FC; 85/18), Rose Lavelle (Washington Spirit; 44/12), Samantha Mewis (North Carolina Courage; 66/18), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit; 16/0)
FORWARDS (7): Tobin Heath (Portland Thorns FC; 167;33), Carli Lloyd (Sky Blue FC; 293/123), Jessica McDonald (North Carolina Courage; 19/4), Christen Press (Utah Royals FC; 137/57), Mallory Pugh (Sky Blue FC; 62/18), Megan Rapinoe (Reign FC; 167/51), Lynn Williams (North Carolina Courage; 26/9)
U.S. ROSTER NOTES TEAM
Ten players have scored so far for the USA in 2020: Lindsey Horan (6), Christen Press (6), Samantha Mewis (4), Lynn Williams (3), Rose Lavelle (2), Carli Lloyd (2), Jessica McDonald (2), Tobin Heath, Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz. Fourteen different players scored for the USA over 2019. Lloyd led the team with 16 goals and Alex Morgan and Rapinoe had nine each.
The USA is riding a 30-game unbeaten streak and have scored two or more goals in 26 of those games.
All 20 players that were a part of the Olympic Qualifying were chosen for the training camp roster prior to the SheBelieves Cup and also made the final 23-player roster for the tournament.
Of the three players on this roster who were not on the Olympic qualifying squad, two were on the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup championship team in forward Mallory Pugh and defender Tierna Davidson.
Three players who were not on the World Cup Team made the 2020 SheBelieves Cup roster in defender Casey Short, midfielder Andi Sullivan and forward Lynn Williams.
In just his fifth event as head coach, Vlatko Andonovski has already looked at 50 different players.
Since its inception in 1985, the USWNT has compiled a record of 528 wins, 66 losses and 77 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 301-20-31 (90% winning percentage) at home, 53-18-13 away (71%) and 174-28-33 (81%) on neutral ground. Of the USA's 66 losses, 12 (18%) came at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.
The USA has scored in 58 consecutive matches and has averaged more than three goals per game in that time. Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 101 matches and has an 86-5-10 record.
Lloyd has 59 WNT goals since the start of 2015. Morgan, who has 57, is the only other player with more than 30 goals over the four years.
The U.S. Women are unbeaten on home soil over its last 47 matches, 42 wins and five draws. The last loss at home was July 27, 2017 vs. Australia, a 1-0 setback in Seattle.
Twelve of the USA's 50 goals in its last 14 games have been headers, including two vs. Haiti, one vs. Panama and one vs. Costa Rica in Olympic qualifying. Julie Ertz' game-winner vs. Spain was also a header.
The U.S. scored 21 goals from set pieces in 2019 (27% of the goals scored), including nine at the Women's World Cup. In 2018, the USA scored 21 of 65 goals (32%) on set pieces and in 2017 there were 8 of 40 goals (20%) scored on set pieces.
Nine players scored in Olympic Qualifying, led by Lindsey Horan (6 goals) and Christen Press (5). Samantha Mewis had four goals from two braces and Lynn Williams found the net three times, including the game-winner in the title game against Canada.
All 23 players on the U.S. roster play in the NWSL. The roster features five NWSL No. 1 overall draft picks in Crystal Dunn (2014), Emily Sonnett (2016), Rose Lavelle (2017), Andi Sullivan (2018) and Tierna Davidson (2019).
USWNT is unbeaten in its last 14 matches in all competitions against European nations, winning the last 12 in a row by an aggregate score of 32-5. The last European nation to beat USA was France in January of 2019 in Le Havre.
IN FOCUS: JAPAN
Japan Football Federation
FIFA World Ranking: 10
UEFA Ranking: 2
Olympic Appearances: 4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020)
Best Olympic finish: 2012 – Silver Medal
Record vs. USA: 1-28-8
Head Coach: Asako Takakura
Japan Women's National Team Roster by Position:
GOALKEEPERS (3): 1- Sakiko Ikeda (Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies), 18- Ayaka Yamashita (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 21- Chika Hirao (Albirex Niigata Ladies)
DEFENDERS (7): 2-Risa Shimizu (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 3-Shiori Miyake (INAC Kobe Leonessa), 4-Saki Kumagai (Olympique Lyonnais, FRA), 5-Moeka Minami (Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies), 16-Asato Miyagawa (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 20-Arisa Matsubara (Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara), 22-Mayo Doko (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza)
MIDFIELDERS (7): 6-Hina Sugita (INCA Kobe Leonessa), 7-Emi Nakajima (INAC Kobe Leonessa), 10-Yuka Momiki (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 12-Hikaru Naomoto (Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies), 14-Yui Hasegawa (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 17-Narumi Miura (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 19-Jun Endo (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza)
FORWARDS (6): 8-Mana Iwabuchi (INAC Kobe Leonessa), 9-Yuika Sugasawa (Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies), 11-Riko Ueki (Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza), 13-Mayu Ikejiri (Mynavi Vegalta Sendai Ladies), 15-Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe Leonessa), 23-Mami Ueno (Ehime FC Ladies)
JAPAN NOTES
As host, Japan gained an automatic berth into the 2020 Olympics.
Japan opened the 2020 SheBelieves Cup with a 3-1 loss to Spain, but it did feature a world class equalizer on the cusp of halftime from Mana Iwabuchi which might be the goal of the tournament so far. Japan made two mistakes in the back in the second half that led to two goals for Lucia Garcia, albeit on fantastic finishes.
Japan played England tough in its second game but gave up an 83rd minute goal to Ellen White in a match that saw each team fire 10 shots.
At the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Japan finished second in Group D behind England but then lost 2-1 to eventual finalist Netherlands in the Round of 16.
Following its failure to qualify for the 2016 Olympics, Japan fell from fourth in the world to seventh (and is now 10th), and long-time head coach Norio Sasaki, who led Japan to its greatest triumphs, including three straight world finals, stepped aside.
Asako Takakura, who is one of the pioneers of Japan women's soccer, was appointed as the first female coach of Japan's senior Women's National Team on April 27, 2016. The four-time Asian Women's Coach of the Year made her national team debut at the age of 16 and was a midfielder in her playing days. She earned 79 caps for Japan while scoring 30 goals. She played in the 1991 and 1995 World Cups, as well as the 1996 Olympics. She has been an integral part of the Japanese coaching infrastructure for years, having coached every age group from Under-13 upwards. She led Japan to the 2014 Under-17 Women's World Cup title and the 2015 Asian U-19 Championship while also serving on the FIFA technical study group at the 2015 Women's World Cup. She also coached Japan to third place at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea, defeating the USA 1-0 in the bronze medal game.
Japan has rebuilt its team and features many younger players with a strong focus on winning a medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but the core of the roster still features some vastly experienced players. Midfielder Emi Nakajima (78/14) and forwards Mana Iwabuchi (69/27) and Yuia Sugasawa (69/20) lead the attack while the defense is anchored by Saki Kumagai (110/1), who plays for UEFA Champions League title holders Olympique Lyonnais and is the only play on the roster playing outside of Japan as Japan has a Japan, has a strong and engaged domestic league.
Japan has just three players on its SheBelieves Cup roster who played in the 2015 Women's World Cup Final. The USA has seven on its SBC roster who played in the Final.
USWNT vs. Japan - 3/11/2020
2020 SheBelieves Cup

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Q: Local workstation as Mercurial server I am trying to follow the instructions posted here  but am getting stuck at step 3.  After setting up my local workstation to serve the Repository; I cannot clone it from my server.  When I run the following command
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What am I missing?  I am running TortoiseHg on my Windows XP laptop and a Server 2008 set up on a VM.  Thanks.

A: Are you sure your server is able to reach the work station by name?  Try this on the command line:
ping COMPUTER-XXXXX.hsd1.va.comcast.net

It looks like the DNS lookup is failing, but that's just a guess.
Perhaps try cloning by IP?
hg clone http://192.168.1.134:8000

or whatever the IP of your desktop is?
(also there's no trailing period after your clone command, right?)

A: Reading this issue: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/bts/issue535 it seems that other people had problems with their http proxy settings on windows. Could you try editing the proxy settings in IE and set "direct connect to the internet" (or something like that) instead, to see if this works around your problem ? Then as someone suggested it might be a firewall problem: you might want to try to "telnet < machine > 8000" to see if the port is blocked somewhere or not (but the error messages looks more like a name resolution problem..).
Hope it'll help.

A: Try changing 'HTTPS' to 'HTTP'.
Also check your proxy settings. If you're behind a corporate firewall, you may need to go into Global Settings --> Proxy and copy your proxy server address and port into the Host field.

A: I had same problem but i was connecting to CVS through VPN and VPn was not active on my machine resulted in this error....once i started VPN, it went through

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Gilbert uncertain for Li�ge
Gilbert in L-B-L last year
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Fran�aise des Jeux's Philippe Gilbert will not ride the Scheldeprijs on Wednesday this week, nor the Amstel Gold Race this coming weekend, his team has announced. The Belgian Classics contender will participate in the Fl�che Wallonne on April 25, but "It's not one hundred percent decided whether he will ride Liege-Bastogne-Liege yet," team manager Marc Madiot told Sportwereld. "We will decide on it after Fl�che Wallonne."
After the Ardennes Classics week, Gilbert will take a break, his next scheduled race being the 4 Jours de Dunkerque, May 8-13.
Nuyens to Amstel
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New Cofidis Classics leader Nick Nuyens has decided to participate in the upcoming Amstel Gold Race in the middle of next week. After dropping out of Paris-Roubaix with 30 kilometres to go, the Belgian wants to make up for his lost efforts in the Netherlands.
Nuyens suffered from respiratory problems due to the dust in the 'Hell of the North', and couldn't resist the temptation of abandoning the race when he saw the camping car of the squad he was with as an amateur on the side of the road, according to L'Equipe. "He told us he was sorry for his messed-up race," Cofidis team manager Eric Boyer said. "I don't hold it against him. He really had bad breathing problems. He assured me that in terms of recuperation, he felt much less tired that on the day after Flanders - this proves that he has good legs."
Cunego recons Giro stages
Following the good performance showed in the Vuelta al Pa�s Vasco, where he finished fourth overall, Lampre's Damiano Cunego will spend two days doing stage reconnaissance in view of the Giro d'Italia. The young Italian, winner of the 2004 event, will see the 15th stage (Trento-Tre Cime di Lavaredo) this upcoming Thursday, and the 17th stage (Lienz-Monte Zoncolan) on Friday. Cunego will be with teammate Paolo Tiralongo, sport director Martinelli and masseur Inselvini.
Eisel focuses on Tour de France
A happy Bernhard Eisel at the 2006 TdF
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Bernhard Eisel of T-Mobile was one of the favourites going into Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, but "two flat tires, a broken handlebar and a crash were just too much." Still, the Austrian sprinter wasn't disappointed with his 65th place finish, 12.21 minutes after winner Stuart O'Grady.
"First I had to give Marcus Burghardt my front wheel and catch back up with the field," he said in an interview with sport1.at. "I joined up with the big chase group after Arenberg. Then Boonen attacked, just at the moment that I was getting water bottles. At some point your oven goes out. I couldn't do any more."
Looking to the future, Eisel is sure of a place on T-Mobile's Tour de France team this year, but knows he has to deliver. "It's pretty sure that I'll be there," he said. "Gerald Ciolek is too young, Andre Greipel is still injured and has a lot of catching up to do, and Greg Henderson won't ride it. So I'm the only sprinter who is set. The Tour is my big goal, but it won't be easy. I have to win a stage, otherwise I will certainly not be there next year. Then 2007 would be my last Tour in a T-Mobile jersey."
Still, the Austrian isn't nervous. "My form is better than the results show," he concluded. "I don't have to learn anything more, just get stronger. I'm always there when it matters, when the race is decided. Nothing can surprise me any more. A little more luck wouldn't hurt. The rest will come. With success, my self-confidence will come back, and then it will happen."
Roubaix too much for Austrians
Paris-Roubaix didn't quite turn out the way that Austrian riders Paco Wrolich of Gerolsteiner and Rene Haselbacher of Astana had hoped.
After the tenth section of cobblestones, Wrolich had a big problem. "The palms of my hands were totally scraped off. I have two huge blisters on the right hand," he wrote on his personal website. "The conditions were extreme. When I finished I felt as if had smoked four packs of cigarettes, the dust was so bad. I couldn't ride with the leaders because of the blisters, and part of the time on the last cobbles I couldn't even hold the handlebars."
He finished 49th, about nine and a half minutes down of winner Stuart O'Grady. Wrolich returned to his native Austria for a few days before he will return to the Benelux for Amstel Gold and perhaps Fl�che Wallonne.
Rene Haselbacher of Team Astana had hoped that his fourth start at Paris-Roubaix would turn out better than his previous attempts - but it didn't.
"Like in my former three appearances, when I was sick each time, I didn't have any luck this year. I had two mechanicals before the forest of Arenberg, which I went into as fifth. And then, two kilometres later, the tire blew again for the third time. With the hellish tempo that was being ridden there, you have no chance to come back. I had to wait very long for a new tire." Haselbacher eventually dropped out, and decided, "This race will never see me again!"
Azanza to be operated
By Monika Prell
Last Saturday, Euskaltel-Euskadi could have been the only team that reached the last finish line of the Vuelta al Pa�s Vasco in Oiartzun with the complete team, but in the last kilometres, Jorge Azanza crashed into a wall. He had to abandon the race and to undergo medical examinations, that detected a fracture of his left collarbone, also affecting the ligament.
Azanza will undergo surgery tomorrow and rest for at least one month. "I don't want to set myself a time limit, I will go step by step," he told Diario de Noticias. "First, I'm going to recuperate and then I will train again to return to competition in May or June."
Hondo's court case hearing delayed
Hondo at the Tinkoff team presentation - he hasn't raced yet this year
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The hearing of Danilo Hondo's court case has been delayed for one day. "At the request of the UCI's attorney, the hearings in my case before the Swiss 'Kantonsgericht' (cantonal court) has been delayed for a day, to April 18," he wrote on his website, danilo-hondo.de.
"If we get a positive decision from the judge as to the question of whether I can start, I could ride with my team Tinkoff as soon as Thursday in the Giro d'Abruzzo in Italy," he hoped.
A small amount of the prohibited drug Carphedon was found in Hondo's system during the Vuelta a Murcia in March 2005, while he was riding for Gerolsteiner. In June that year, the Swiss Cycling Federation issued a two year ban, but with one year to be suspended followed by a five year probation period. The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) ruled in January 2006 that Hondo deserved a two year ban, thereby extending his ban by one year per the advice of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
A Swiss court subsequently overturned that ban and allowed Hondo to return to racing, but the Swiss Supreme Court reinstated his suspension in January 2007. Earlier this month, the CAS issued a clarification that the ban must be 'effectively' served, and the UCI subsequently ordered the suspension to run through January 2008.
Hondo has now further appealed that decision in the Swiss courts.
T-Mobile, Milram for upcoming races
On Wednesday, April 18, T-Mobile and Milram will be two of the ProTour teams contesting the GP Scheldeprijs, Flanders' oldest race. The 197 km one-day race starts in the port city of Antwerp and takes the peloton over flat terrain in northern Flanders before concluding with three laps of a circuit in Merksem, on the edge of Antwerp.
Last year, Tom Boonen won the sprint of a 22-rider lead group. "We will be making sure that we are always represented in any groups that get away," said directeur sportif Alan Peiper of T-Mobile. "Each rider can ride his own race, attack or counter-attack." In the event of a bunch showdown, the Australian will be looking to the top-end speed of Andr� Greipel and Mark Cavendish, with the likes of Greg Henderson, Bernhard Eisel and Andr� Korff ready to lead out their teammates. Rounding out the roster in Belgium for T-Mobile are Scott Davis, Servais Knaven and Aaron Olson.
On Thursday, April 19, an almost unchanged roster moves southwards to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France for the GP de Denain. Eric Baumann and the Briton Roger Hammond slot in to replace Bernhard Eisel and Servais Knaven, but tactically there are no changes.
After 99 km loop over pan-cake flat terrain, the peloton will tackle eight laps of 12.5 km circuit for a total of 199.4 kilometres well-suited to sprinters. Amongst many other squads, T-Mobile will be up against team Milram, which is sending Mirco Lorenzetto, Elia Rigotto, Alberto Ongarato, Sebastian Siedler, Niki Terpstra, Ralf Grabsch and Martin M�ller to the French one-day race.
King sole US survivor of Paris-Roubaix Juniors
As the world's top professional cyclists stole the headlines Sunday with their performance in Paris-Roubaix, the "Queen of the Classics" and arguably the most prestigious single-day bicycle race in the world, the sport's future - including a five-man American contingent - contested the junior version of the race. USA Cycling's Junior Development Program fielded a team of five riders for the Paris-Roubaix Juniors, a shorter version of the pro race specific to 17- and 18-year-olds.
Ben King form Charlottesville, Virginia, was the lone American finisher in the grueling event, crossing the line in 81st place, 14.48 minutes back from the winner, Fabien Taillefer of France. The 130km course included 16 of the 26 treacherous cobblestone stretches that makes Paris-Roubaix the most sought after victory of the spring.
King's four teammates, Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo.), Ryan Zupko (Chandler, Ariz.), Nolan Froese (Colombia, Mo.) and Taylor Kuphaldt (Yuba City, Calif.) ultimately did not finish despite their strong efforts. All of the American youngsters rode hard in the day's dusty and unusually warm conditions, but crashes and punctures prevented additional results for the remainder of the American squad.
Prior to Paris-Roubaix Juniors, the U.S. team competed at the Ster van Limburg, a four-day stage race in Belgium. King was also the top finisher for the squad in that event, placing 28th overall, 38 seconds off the pace of winner Matthias Allegaert of Belgium.
Now, the Junior National Team will return home for a few weeks before heading back to Europe to continue their pursuit of international experience as they compete in the following events:
May 3: Wortegem-Petegem - Belgium
May 9-13: Course de la Paix - Czech Republic
May 18-20: Ronde van Axel - The Netherlands
May 26-28: Three Days of East Flanders - Belgium
June 3: Tour de Condroz - Belgium
June 7-10: Pays de Vaud - Switzerland
Should Ullrich stay or go?
Sports clothing company X-Technology is asking the public whether it should keep its newest employee - Jan Ullrich. It was announced in February that Ullrich would become the 'Bionic Man' for X-Bionic sportswear.
"Every day we hear reports about doping. But in the media, only one name is associated with doping: Jan Ullrich. Our products are among the best in the world. Egged on by the media, we are now being criticized," it was stated on the company's website.
The Swiss firm hired the now-retired cyclist because of his "25 years experience in training, strength and conditioning work, and competition." But now, "We are being challenged to not use Jan Ullrich as our 'bionic measuring instrument' and want to know what you think about this."
The company has posted a questionnaire on its website (in German, www.x-bionic.com/ullrich-fragebogen/) and asks not only for the reader's clothing and shoe size, but also seeks yes or no answers to such questions as "I would buy 'Jan Ullrich' products", or "I would purposely not buy a product, because it is a 'Jan Ullrich' brand product".
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A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF PERMUTATION TESTING WITH EXAMPLES
By Tian Ge, BT Thomas Yeo, Anderson M Winkler
Permutation methods are a class of statistical tests that, under minimal assumptions, can provide exact control of false positives (i.e., type I error). The central assumption is simply that of exchangeability, that is, swapping data points keeps the data just as likely as the original. With the increasing availability of inexpensive large-scale computational resources and openly shared, large datasets, permutation methods are becoming popular in neuroimaging due to their flexibility and ease of concern about yielding nominal error rates than parametric tests, which rely on assumptions and/or approximations that may be difficult to meet in real data. This becomes even more important in the presence of multiple testing, in that assumptions may not be satisfied for each and every test, and the correlation across tests may be difficult to account for. However, even exchangeability can be violated in the presence of dependence among observations, and it may not always be clear what to permute. The aim of this blog post is to emphasize the relevance of linking the null hypothesis and the dependence structure within the data to what should be shuffled in a permutation test. We provide a few practical examples, and offer some glimpses of the theory along the way.
Example 1: Permutation mechanics
Let's begin by reviewing the mechanics of a permutation test. Consider a comparison between two groups, for example whether hippocampal volume is different between subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and demographically matched cognitively normal controls (that is, a group with similar age, sex, education level, etc). If we assume that in both groups the hippocampal volumes are independent samples from a Gaussian distribution, a classical parametric two-sample t-test can be used to test for a difference between means of the two groups. However, this distributional assumption may not be true, and departures from this assumption can potentially lead to incorrect conclusions. In these circumstances, permutation tests perform better than parametric tests by providing a valid statistical test with much weaker assumptions. Specifically, under the null hypothesis that the hippocampal volume has no actual difference between AD cases and controls, the group membership (or the label of case and control) becomes arbitrary, that is, any subject from one group might as well have been from the other.
While it may seem implausible that this would be the case for patients and controls, in fact this is what we are testing: all else being equal (that is, exchangeable), and any difference found must relate to the means, which is what we are interested in. In fact, a classical parametric two-sample test (with equal variance) makes not just the same assumption, but also further assumes that patients and controls come from the same Gaussian distribution. Permutation tests do not require Gaussianity; it suffices that the data are merely exchangeable. Exchangeability further relaxes another important assumption of parametric tests: independence. Data that are not independent may still be exchangeable, either globally or under certain restrictions, as presented in more detail in Example 3 below.
With exchangeability, we compute the t statistic under each permutation, and produce the permutation distribution of the statistic under the null. The permutation distribution is the empirical cumulative distribution function (cdf) obtained from the data themselves, as opposed to from some idealized distribution, as is the case with parametric tests. The observed test statistic can be considered a random sample from the permutation distribution because it is equally likely to have arisen from any case-control re-labeling given the null hypothesis.
The p-value is the probability of finding a test statistic for the group comparison at least as high as the one observed, provided that there is no actual difference (i.e., null hypothesis is true). So, the p-value can be calculated by randomly permuting the group labels many times, each time recalculating the test statistic; at the end of the process, we check how often a larger statistic was observed than the original (before any shuffling had been applied), and divide that by the number of permutations performed. Figure 1 shows an example in which there are three subjects in each group; before any permutation is done, the test statistic is t = +0.7361. After exhaustively computing all 20 possible permutations, we see that 4 of these (including the non-permuted) are higher than or equal to +0.7361. Thus, the p-value is 4/20 = 0.20. If we had decided beforehand that our significance level would be 0.05, we would say that the result of this test is not significant, that is, there is no significant difference in hippocampal volume between AD patients and controls.
Figure 1: Consider the hippocampal volume measured in 6 subjects, three with Alzheimer's disease, and three cognitively normal controls. The values measured are shown in the boxes (ranging between 3498 and 3588), controls in blue, AD patients in green. The test statistic for a difference Controls > AD is t = +0.7361. If there is no actual difference between the two groups, then the group assignment can be randomly permuted. For each such permutation, a new test statistic is calculated. In this example, four t statistics (shown in red) computed after random permutations of the group assignments, out of the 20 performed, were equal to or larger than the observed, non-permuted statistic. The p-value is therefore 4/20 = 0.20.
Example 2: Permutation with the presence of nuisance
Suppose in Example 1 that there were other variables that could potentially explain some of the variability seen in hippocampal volume. Some of these variables could even be associated with diagnosis itself. For example, it may be the case that, in this particular study, AD patients were older than cognitively normal controls. To account for these nuisance variables, we can formulate the problem as a multiple regression, in which hippocampal volume is the dependent variable, whereas the case-control status, along with other potential nuisance variables, are the independent variables. We would then test whether the regression coefficient corresponding to the case-control label is significantly different than zero. Now it is less clear what should be permuted. If we permute just the group labels, what to do with the other variables in the model? It turns out that various approaches have been considered in the literature.
Systematic evaluations show that, among a host of permutation and regression strategies, the method attributed to Freedman and Lane provides accurate false positive control in the presence of nuisance variables and is robust to extreme outliers in the data. In the Freedman-Lane method, we regress out all nuisance variables from the hippocampal volume measurements to obtain the residuals of this nuisance-only model, and use the permuted residuals as the new dependent variable in the multiple regression, from which we construct the permutation distribution for the test statistic (i.e., the regression coefficient of interest). Intuitively, once the nuisance has been regressed out, what remains should be indistinguishable between AD patients and controls if the null hypothesis is true, and thus, can be permuted.
We note that whichever regression and permutation strategy is adopted, it is crucial that what is permuted is what would render the subjects different were the alternative hypothesis true. It is not relevant to permute aspects of the dataset that would not be affected should the null hypothesis be false, that is, should an effect actually exists. This is important because, when an experiment becomes complex (e.g., with multiple factors, levels, nuisance variables, and/or multiple response variables), it can be easy to permute aspects of the data that are not informative with respect to the null hypothesis. One should not lose sight of what is being tested, and permute the data accordingly.
Example 3: Permutation with the presence of dependence in observations
Data are not always freely exchangeable. It may be the case, for example, that there are repeated measurements from the same subjects among the observations. Or maybe some or all subjects are twins, siblings, or otherwise relatives. Cases such as these restrict the possibilities for permutations, but even so, permutation tests continue to be possible. They proceed in a similar manner as in the examples above, but care needs to be taken when selecting the permutations that are allowed. Exchangeability as defined above — that is, permuting the data keeps them just as likely as originally observed — must be preserved. More technically, it means that the joint distribution of all the data points must remain unchanged under the null. For example, in a twin study, one could permute the subjects within twin pairs, and pairs of twins could be permuted as a whole, but one sibling should never be mixed with the sibling from a different family; see an example in Figure 2. These restrictions, unfortunately, tend to reduce power compared to the analyses in which all subjects are independent and freely exchangeable. However, all other benefits of permutation tests are kept.
Figure 2: Observations that are not independent restrict the possible rearrangements of the data. In this figure, each white circle represent an observation (e.g., a measurement from a subject), the blue (+) or red (−) dots indicate whether the branches that originate at that dot are or are not exchangeable, respectively, and therefore indicate observations that can be permuted with each other. On the left, 10 unrelated subjects who are freely exchangeable. On the right, 18 subjects, some of which were recruited along with their siblings (FS), and/or with their monozygotic (MZ) or dizygotic (DZ) twin. Siblings must be kept together in every rearrangement of the data, which needs be performed in blocks; subjects within a sibship can be permuted; some families may have both twins and non-twins, which requires nested blocks. (Figure licensed under CC-BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Consider a longitudinal extension of the AD patients vs. controls example, in which two measurements are obtained from each subject, one before and another after an intervention is applied. As per above, the measurements must stay together within subject. However, depending on what is being tested, we may permute the data only within-subject, or only the subjects as a whole while keeping the order of intra-subject measurements unaltered, or do both things simultaneously. Within-subject effects (that is, the effect of treatment) would require that permutations happen within-subject, whereas between-subject effects would require permutations of the subjects as a whole. Interactions in a mixed design (within and between-subject effects) could benefit from both types of permutation. Crucially, what needs to be permuted is what would be equal should the null hypothesis hold, and that would differ should the alternative hypothesis be actually true.
Example 4: Comparison between models
Now suppose that, in our AD example, in addition to hippocampal volume, we have also measured the amygdala volume for each subject, and are interested in investigating whether hippocampal volume is a better biomarker of AD than amygdala volume (for example, in terms of standardized mean difference between cases and controls as measured by the Cohen's d statistic). It is tempting to permute the case-control label, but this strategy turns out to be wrong as it completely breaks the associations between the hippocampal/amygdala volume and disease status, which should be retained under the null hypothesis. In fact, in this example, it is unclear what to permute. As a second example, if we want to test whether the mean of hippocampal volume in AD cases is significantly different from a fixed value (e.g., the typical size of hippocampus in normal aging subjects), it can be seen that there is nothing to permute. In these circumstances where a permutation test is difficult to apply, we need to resort to other methods such as the bootstrap for statistical inference.
The bootstrap is an established data-based simulation method, which is often used to assign measures of accuracy, such as standard error, bias, and confidence intervals, to a statistical estimate. It essentially uses the observed data to define an empirical distribution that estimates the unknown underlying data-generation mechanism, and then generates bootstrap samples and bootstrap replications of the statistic of interest using the empirical distribution, from which measures of accuracy can be calculated.
Bootstrap can be applied to virtually any statistic and a wide variety of situations. For example, by sampling cases and controls with replacement independently, we can calculate the standard error or construct confidence intervals for the Cohen's d statistic for hippocampal and amygdala volume, respectively, as well as for the difference of the two Cohen's d. Given the strong connection between confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, a p-value can also be produced indicating whether the difference in Cohen's d is significantly different from zero. In fact, bootstrap can be applied to hypothesis testing, including the questions described in Examples 1-3. However, unlike the permutation p-value, which is exact, the bootstrap significance is only approximate and thus less accurate.
Therefore, permutation is a natural and favorable choice when the null/alternative hypothesis is well defined and what to permute is clear. Bootstrap is useful when the primary goal is to quantify the accuracy of an estimate or when a permutation test is not available in a hypothesis test (e.g., nothing to permute). That said, we also caution that bootstrap relies on an accurate empirical estimation of the true underlying probability distribution. Thus the sampling procedure requires careful consideration in order to respect the data generation mechanism in the presence of complex data structures. For example, block bootstrap is often used to replicate correlations within the data, while variants of the wild bootstrap are used to capture heteroscedasticity in the sample.
Permutation requires weak distributional assumptions that justify the exchangeability
Permute what is exchangeable, and that would differ under the alternative hypothesis, while retaining other dependence structure in the data as much as possible
Consult statisticians when unsure about the permutation procedure
Practical advice: It's easy to get started with permutation methods in brain imaging. Most software packages have some sort of permutation test implemented. AFNI's 3dttest++ now uses permutation by default for cluster inference with the -ClustSim option; BrainVoyager has a randomisation plugin (permutation tests are sometimes called randomisation tests); Freesurfer can do permutation with mri_glmfit-sim; FSL has its randomise tool; and SPM has the SnPM toolbox. Finally, PALM is a standalone tool for permutation that works with different types of input data and has various advanced features.
Q&A with OHBM Multi-Modal Imaging Task Force members
By AmanPreet Badhwar, Nils Muhlert & Jeanette Mumford
At its best, multi-modal imaging offers rich insight into a many aspects of brain structure & function. At the same time, its development has been thwarted by challenges, for example simultaneous EEG-fMRI has additional safety concerns, and the EEG data requires extra analysis steps to account for artifacts from the magnetic field and rapidly changing field gradients. Despite these issues, there is increasing attention to the merits of this approach, with high profile journals dedicating special issues to multi-modal data fusion.
To find out about the promises and pitfalls of multi-modal imaging, we sent a series of questions to members of the OHBM Multi-Modal Imaging Task Force. This team is comprised of experts in different imaging domains, and aims to promote and develop multi-modal imaging. We found out the state of the field from Alain Dagher, neurologist and PET/fMRI expert in the Montreal Neurological Institute, Urs Ribary, cognitive neuroscientist and EEG/fMRI expert in British Columbia, Gitte Knudsen, neurologist and translational neurobiologist at Copenhagen University, and Shella Keilholz, physicist and fMRI expert at Emory University and Georgia Tech.
From left to right: Shella Keilholz, Alain Dagher, Gitte Knudsen and Urs Ribary
OHBM: First, what advice would you give to those who are keen to get into multi-modal imaging?
Alain Dagher (AD): Make sure you have a strong grasp of both methods.
Urs Ribary (UR): First, focus on understanding the neurophysiological and biochemical aspects of the brain; then learn individual methods (MRI-fMRI, MEG/EEG, PET, or others…); finally, learn the additional technologies and techniques that will allow you to integrate these different sources of information.
Gitte Knudsen (GK): You need to train at a site where there is high-level expertise in both modalities, and preferentially integrated. If you cannot readily become attached to an academic site that masters true multimodality, do your master thesis/PhD in a centre where they master one or two of the modalities and then move on to another site with the complementary expertise.
Shella Keilholz (SK): Well I would tell them that if they want to do it, just go for it! It's a great way to increase the impact of your research, especially when the additional modality allows you to make inferences about causality or fundamental mechanisms that you can't obtain with a single methodology. Sometimes it seems overwhelmingly difficult to add another modality but we have always been able to find collaborators who generously help us get started.
OHBM: It seems the tools for collecting the data are more readily available (e.g. MRI compatible EEG setups). What is the biggest remaining hurdle in conducting multimodal studies? Is data-fusion between modalities improving?
AD: The increased cost and complexity is generally what holds this back. [Further note from Jean Chen, OHBM blogteam member: "For example, an integrated PET/MRI system is more costly than a regular PET or MRI system. Whilst it may not be as expensive as buying a PET and an MRI system separately, new money is often required to get into multi-modal imaging."].
GK: The biggest hurdle is, first, to master more than one tool to perfection and second, to ask the right scientific questions that can only be addressed using a multimodality approach. Data-fusion between modalities is a challenge, but slowly improving.
UR: Yes, data fusion is improving, but not so much the underlying knowledge of neurophysiology (why to integrate). There are also clearly issues with money (more recordings are more expensive) and with time (it requires more knowledge and work, and everybody wants to publish quickly). On the other hand, data fusion is not something that has to be done alone, and can be done efficiently in collaborations.
SK: One of the biggest challenges in multimodal research is designing experiments and analyses that maximize the use of the information obtained from both modalities. It requires thinking beyond the conventional paradigms for each of the modalities involved.
OHBM: The increased use of simultaneous PET-MR scanners has clear advantages for cancer imaging. What benefits do you feel it may hold for other areas of neuroimaging?
UR: A clear benefit would be the ability to combine biochemical information with information about brain structure, function and dynamics.
AD: There are many benefits. For example if you take the combination of BOLD and neurotransmitter imaging, since neurotransmitter signalling fluctuates, simultaneous measurement of, for example, dopamine signalling and task-related BOLD has great potential. This then also allows powerful task designs with pharmacological manipulations.
GK: It allows us to measure neurotransmitter release and receptor occupancies and hemodynamic responses simultaneously. We can then use this with pharmacological, physiological or other stimuli. Another great advantage is that it saves time (becoming a one stop shop) for patients with neurological or psychiatric disorders, and so can be useful for those who are not able to tolerate multiple scanning sessions. Unfortunately, despite saving time and possibly resources, the simultaneous acquisition of these different types of information has not yet been truly exploited.
OHBM: The last decades have seen the development of a number of new radioligands for imaging tau and amyloid pathology, microglial activation with translocator protein, phosphodiesterases, and other exciting clinical markers. Are these helping drive multi-modal imaging research? Which emerging PET tracers are you most excited about and why?
AD: For me, the most exciting tracers have been those used to image tau and amyloid, providing otherwise unavailable information about neurodegenerative diseases. Previously we only had brain atrophy as a proxy of disease.
GK: If we're still talking about hybrid scanners, then we are most interested in developing tracers that target components in the brain that are under rapid regulation. In these cases the methodology can capture these regulations and relate them to, for example, the hemodynamic responses. I'm currently excited about radioligands that are sensitive to neurotransmitter release, as well as emerging PET tracers that are informative of brain processes key to many different types of functions/pathologies. For example, tracers that indicate neuroplasticity or stem cells.
UR: Everything helps! I've been impressed with recent research relating imaging of neurotransmitters to cognitive functions in health and disease. In addition, the ability to image GABA as an inhibitory substance has been fascinating to see how it may contribute to, and even control, brain development and dynamic network functions. Last, it's helped us understand the brain as a fine-tuned electrochemical system which controls all brain functions.
OHBM: Simultaneous EEG-fMRI offers high spatial and temporal precision - but how have labs coped with the challenge of integrating and analysing this wealth of data?
AD: This has been especially problematic for EEG. What we need is good open-source processing software for integrating this information, along with online tutorials and courses to teach people how use them.
UR: I believe that there's still not enough work in this area. We need to have a much greater understanding of how structure, overall function and brain dynamics integrate in order to understand how typical/atypical brain networks function. Here the question is not so much about using information from different methods to prove each other but instead to complement each other.
OHBM: EEG-fMRI has clear benefits in conditions like epilepsy, for identifying seizure focus and spread. What applications has it had in other conditions - and what do researchers hope to achieve with it?
AD: Cognitive neuroscience can certainly benefit from the combination of higher spatial and temporal resolution in brain mapping.
GK: EEG-fMRI also has promise for use in sleep physiology, sleep disorders and coma.
UR: Any typical cognitive functions and any pathology which are ALL based on structure, function and dynamics....
OHBM: What do you think are the main strengths of multi-modal MRI work? Do you feel it offers hope for developing valid and reliable MR-biomarkers?
UR: Absolutely! Science is not a mystery, the more complementary information we have, the better we understand the human brain. It will help us to diagnose/monitor sub-types of pathologies and give much greater precision when tracking the effects of interventions....
AD: I do believe using multiple MR measures makes sense for biomarker development and understanding pathophysiology. Pathological processes (e.g. in Alzheimer's Disease) can affect the brain in multiple but likely stereotyped ways. We can also Increase our power to detect pathology (e.g. inflammation, white and grey matter tissue loss, connectivity information) by combining multiple measures.
OHBM: What additional challenges do animal studies have in terms of sequence development or protocol considerations? How do you find these studies enrich those in humans?
AD: Clearly a major issue is the small size of animal brains. We also have to account for the animals typically being anaesthetised when scanned, which has implications for physiology.
GK: Sometimes data from preclinical studies can help optimize a project to be conducted later in humans.
UR: The real benefit of these preclinical studies is that it allows us to perform complementary invasive studies not possible on humans, such as MRI-histology studies. We do however need to continue developing better, or more realistic, settings in animal research in order to better correlate those findings with human brain research.
SK: One of the challenges that we've found is that tools that are available on human MRI systems (simultaneous multislice EPI, for example) are not easily implemented on animal systems due to hardware limitations. As Alain says, the other main issue is the use of anesthesia in animals, a special challenge for functional neuroimaging studies, as discussed in our review. Luckily, many of the basic properties of the brain remain relatively intact under light anesthesia, which has been critical of the validation of human neuroimaging methods against "ground truth" modalities like microelectrode recording. People talk of animal research as preclinical or translational, but we like to think of it more as circular. For example, one can take a neuroimaging finding in humans (e.g., fMRI response to tactile stimulation) and look at its basis in the rat using MRI and electrophysiology. Then perhaps one sees that this response is altered in human patients with a particular disorder (maybe stroke). One can then go back to a rat model of stroke and see if the same alteration is present, which helps to validate the stroke model. Then one can look for the neural basis of the alteration using MRI and electrophysiology and identify specific alterations in patients that may be detectable with EEG…etc, etc. We think that human and animal neuroimaging work should inform each other.
OHBM: Thanks all for your insight! We look forward to the multi-modal imaging symposium at OHBM 2018 in Singapore.


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Cooper Supreme Court Reporter However, prosecutors are usually judged on their conviction rate. Russell Sage Foundation Publ. In a plea bargain the defendant gets a reduced sentence or the dismissal of some of the charges.
Bush, just to remind us that this is not some story from the s-era, but that this sort of thing still happens all too often in today's America.
However, for other clients, they may have to choose between vigorous advocacy and maintaining a good relationship with the prosecutor. It is not some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system.
The case is resolved by a "bargain," a deal between the defendant and the prosecutor. The stakeholders are the prosecutor, the accused person, victims and society as a whole. After the clip has been shown implement the post-viewing discussion strategy that you have chosen.
The judge can only accept the Criminal justice in american violet bargain or reject it. Guide the class discussion to at least the following points, supplying the information if the class cannot respond to the questions: Alex was arrested, and while in custody he was interviewed by the police for more than an hour.
Worse still, this situation has largely been hidden from public scrutiny -- left to the shadows, it has greatly undermined both the fairness and effectiveness of our criminal justice system. Its critics accuse it of meddling and causing trouble, and of stretching the constitution beyond its real meaning.
American Violet tells the story of legal injustice and systemic, institutionalized racism -- and the struggle to overcome such prejudice. Any law enforcement action must be based upon some hard evidence rather than merely informant information; moreover, unreliable informant information should be discounted.
That can't happen in Texas anymore. Most criminal defense attorneys like to maintain good relations with the prosecutors. What factors in the makeup of the victims of the excesses of the District Attorney may have led to their unwillingness to seek justice along with Dee Roberts?
The "bad cop"officer was intimidating and threatening. This was the only compensation I received to write this of any form. From the standpoint of the public, do you agree or disagree with this public policy choice? However, plea bargaining spares victims the agony of a trial and the risk of feeling very badly if the defendant is acquitted.
This impressive new film tells one woman's story of abuse at the hands of a hostile legal system. One of the key elements in the plea bargain system is the "trial penalty," the fact that a defendant who insists on a jury trial and is convicted will get a longer sentence than a defendant who pleads guilty and enters into a plea bargain.
Select the discussion questions and the suggested assignments to use in the lesson. Tell the class that as they watch the film clip, they should think about the benefits and costs of the plea bargaining system to persons accused of crimes, to prosecutors, and to society.
How does this affect the plea bargaining system? One played the role of the "bad cop," correctly and repeatedly telling Alex that the government had a great case with good witnesses and strong physical evidence, and that if Alex was convicted after a trial, he would be in jail for at least 25 years and possibly for life.
Dee Roberts is the stage name for Nicole Beharie, who plays the role of a spirited African-American woman. What happened in Hearne is far from an isolated incident.
Throughout the movie, news clips are shown in the background which chronicle the election and aftermath between Al Gore and George W. Owing largely to the courage and commitment of Hearne's Regina Kelly -- portrayed in American Violet by Nicole Beharie -- in the aftermath of the case, Texas became the first state in the nation to enact comprehensive reforms of the confidential informant system.
Innocent people who are eventually acquitted still incur the costs of a defense. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Plea bargaining should be replaced with a criminal justice system in which plea bargaining would not be allowed and an accused person could only plead guilty or go to trial. Tonry, Michael Malign Neglect: She faces a no-win situation.
Solicit ideas about how to reform the plea bargaining process to improve the results without substantially increasing costs; have the class debate their efficacy; if the ideas are very good, have the proponents write them up and send them to their legislative representative.
Trials are extremely expensive and time consuming.Plea Bargaining in the American Justice System-- An Introduction Using a Clip from the film American Violet.
Subject: The U.S. criminal justice system is primarily a system of plea bargains. 95% of all persons prosecuted for crimes in the U.S. end up pleading guilty in return for reduced charges or a lighter sentence. see American.
May 16, · American Violet is a story of one woman fighting back against such a system, with the help of the ACLU. If that isn't enough reason to go see this film, then go see it. Introduction The film "American Violet" presents a major issue that still exists in today's criminal justice system.
The criminal justice system in America enforces the standard conduct our country finds necessary to protect all of its citizens and lower crime. Post-Viewing Enrichment Worksheet for American Violet A Plea Bargain System of Justice: Plea bargains are an important part of the criminal justice system throughout the United States.
Apr 17, · Watch video · Powerfully produced and directed, "American Violet" is a film based on the racially charged drug war scandal that rocked the town of Hearne,Texas,several years ago,which explores the devastating impact of America's "war on drugs"/10(K).
Aug 07, · Set in the midst of the presidential election, American Violet tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four, living in a small Texas town (based after Hearne, Texas where the real incident took place).


Rebeca Bermejo has been awarded the Best in Home Staging for Customer Service, Staging Excellence and Industry Leadership.
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11/06/2014�� Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high speed for 30 seconds. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturers� directions, �... It was the first few days of vegan month and Ed Levine was not doing well. Today, halfway through his 28-day vegan diet, he has a good handle on things, but Ed's first few days of pork, dairy, and egg deprivation hit him hard.


Verizon wants to sell you a bucket of data to use on all of your family devices.
Customers with multiple devices on a mobile carrier plan have long wanted a big bucket of data that can be shared among all the devices. Verizon has announced the Share Everything plan that lets customers share a bucket of data among up to 10 devices on the plan.
The way the new plan, effective June 28, works is first you add all of the devices to the plan for a fee which all get unlimited voice and messaging. This monthly fee depends on the type of device, with smartphones costing $40, laptops $20, and tablets $10. All devices then share a bucket of data which ranges from 1GB for $50 to 10GB for $100.
This is not cheap but is more economical than the individual plans required before the Share Everything plan. A family of four with smartphones and two tablets will run $160 for the phones and another $20 for the tablets. You would then likely need a lot of data to share so with the 10GB maximum plan you'd end up paying $280 per month.
Not cheap, but cheaper than the 6 different data plans currently required. Especially when you account for the free mobile hotspot that is included, meaning any of the smartphones can be used as a mobile hotspot for other devices.


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Drone.io, the start-up behind the eponymous CI/CD platform, is reaching out to the open-source community with the release of a hosted service solution.
Drone.io, the start-up behind the eponymous CI/CD platform, is reaching out to the open-source community with the release of a hosted service solution. The so-called Drone Cloud is being released to the open-source community for free, powered by infrastructure, freely donated by cloud provider Packet.
The service will be available to run on x86, Arm32 and Arm64 bare-metal services (i.e. services where for multi-architecture CI/CD capabilities.


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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo proverb
Sam Bass
Born in 1851 in Mitchell, Indiana - Sam Bass lost his parents early in live. Sent to live with an abusive Uncle, he could not wait to get old enough to run away. His childhood wish was to live the "free life" of a Cowboy. He ran away in his mid-teens and made his way to Mississippi (taking work in a Sawmill). Eventually, he made his way to Texas, and made his dream a reality - as a Cattle Drover.
Just why Sam Bass turned to a life of crime is unclear - but in 1876, it happened. He and a soon to be Conspirator were "trusted" run a herd of cattle from Texas to Missouri. Once paid, they were to return to Texas. Bass had learned of another Beef Procurement Company willing to pay much more per head. Diverting from their route , Bass sold the herd and he and his Associate netted $8,000 (USD). Bass and his man took the money and headed farther West - now wanted men.
Making it to the "Sin City" of the Era - Deadwood, Colorado - it took little time for Bass to lose all his money on gambling, Whiskey and other "diversions". Needing money, Bass set about to form his Gang. Settling on Stagecoach robberies, The Bass Gang spent the end of 1876 as the scourge of both The Well- Fargo and Butterfield Stage Lines. However, their takes were never quite large enough. Bass changed his direction. They would rob trains.
1877 was spent robbing The Union-Pacific Line. In fact, on one "job" - The Bass Gang netted the sum of $1 Million (USD) - The largest train heist in history. Past this point hiwever, Bass and his Gang never really stole more than $50,000 (USD) total. Having enough, The Union-Pacific hired the infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency. Not much more different in their tactics than the Outlaws they hunted, the Private Police Force converged on every "tip" leading to Bass.
In an ambush near Texas (to where Bass and his Gang were heading to plan another heist), several of his men were captured. One of the Gang Members father was very sick and in custody of The Pinkertons. The deal for the man was simple. Deliver Bass or his father would be denied medical attention and die! The criminal had no choice but to inform
In 1878 outside of Round Rock, Texas - Bass and his men were ambushed by several local Sheriff Posse and The Pinkertons. Bass as shot in the back but escaped. Later, the body of the 27 year old Outlaw was found in a nearby pasture. So popular was Bass with locals as a "Anti-Hero", that over the years, his tombstone was literally torn apart for souvenirs. A new larger granite one was erected in the 1920s - complete with an accompanying iron gate to protect it.


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Stunning Calendars to Start the New Year Right
Sure, we all have access to calendars on our tablets and phones. But there's something to be said for going the traditional route and hanging a pretty calendar on the wall. From the art lover to the world traveler, there's something for everyone in this roundup of stunning calendars for 2016.
By EMILY CLARK
Whether you're a real-life adventurer or just dream of being one, this beautifully illustrated calendar will take you inside suitcases headed for some of the world's best destinations. From Paris to the Canadian Rockies, it's all stylishly covered over the next 12 months. Little Low Studio, $22
Enjoy a new cocktail each month of the year with this 13-month calendar. Each page contains a pretty hand-painted drink, along with the recipe. Perfect for your kitchen or above a bar cart! Fox & Fallow, $39.95
Wall Art (to Enjoy and to Reuse)
This colorful calendar is full of exclusive Paper Source artwork, with a totally different theme each month. Besides that, it's Earth-friendly, made from 100 percent recycled materials, and the back of each page contains ideas and templates for how you can reuse it (for gift boxes, file folders, note cards, etc.). Paperie & Pen, $30
This collection of illustrations by Anna Bond is sure to be a crowd-pleaser for adults and kids alike. The whimsical illustrations for each month will also be featured in the upcoming book release of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and would be perfect for framing in a playroom or nursery after you're finished with the calendar. Rifle Paper Co., $26
The Year in Stitches
This fun calendar kit is a modern version of the classic cross-stitch sampler. A great gift for all ages--no sewing skills necessary! Just use the included needle and embroidery floss to stitch your way through each month. Etsy seller HeatherLinsHome, $25
Pantry Organizers
Laundry Organizers


Wow, only two more days to go on this thing. To be honest, I wasn't sure I would make it this far. But hey, guess I was wrong. Kudos to me and all that stuff. Also at the flickr page.
Two days in a row, nice. Can you dig it? Here's the second photo in my thirty days of photos experiment. Two down, twenty-eight to go. You can also find these at my flickr page.
Here's the first of the series of pictures I'm going to be taking each day for the next thirty days. One down, twenty-nine more to go. I'll also be putting these up at my flickr page as well.


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Austin's Amazing Christmas Light Show!
You've seen this kind of thing in huge cities, but you don't need to drive that far to see an amazing home-made light show for Christmas. Just head to Northwest Austin!
CREDIT: Mike Carter Click for link.
Mike Carter is the guy responsible for the Christmas display, going on four years now. There are so many people coming by to see it, he had to ask people not to block driveways and the street!
Usually, when I see these, I figure they just put 'em up and luckeed out with the timing. Or had someone else do the hard work. In this case, that is NOT true.
The project took six months of careful coding and another month to set up all 31,000 lights, but Carter said it's a labor of love. "When I was a kid I loved Christmas lights and they always brought joy to me, so when I grew up I thought [I] might as well give that joy to other kids that I received when I was a child."
Just head to 710 11th Avenue Northwest in Austin to see the show seven days a week, starting at 5 PM. Mostly it shuts down at 9, but Friday and Saturday he turns it off at 10. He doesn't charge to watch, but please feel free to donate...all donations go to the Girl Scouts.
Want to know more? Check out his website HERE.