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Amid Violent Crime Wave, Permissive, Soros-funded Prosecutors under Fire Nationwide
27 Jan 2022 Ryan DeLarme Leave a comment
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Across the country, left-wing district attorneys funded by progressive megadonor George Soros are facing severe backlash, including efforts to oust them from office, for pushing soft-on-crime policies during a nationwide surge in violent crime and, in some cases, allegedly engaging in prosecutorial misconduct.
Soros, 91, has spent the last several years injecting tens of millions of dollars into local district attorney races throughout the country, backing progressive candidates who support policies such as abolishing bail, defunding the police, and decriminalizing or deprioritizing certain offenses.
From 2015 to 2019, for example, Soros spent more than $17 million on local DA races, according to the Capital Research Center. That figure has likely risen in the past couple years, experts say.
In 2020, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a grantmaking foundation in Soros's network, gave $3 million to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, which provides resources to activists and organizations "working to address the harm of policing in the U.S."
Soros has provided much of the cash through his network of nonprofits to political action committees controlled by attorney Whitney Tymas, the New York Post reported.
Tymas has suggested local prosecutors shouldn't just enforce the law but also work to revolutionize the criminal justice system.
"If we are to reach a place of true progress, it will take the sustained efforts of local elected prosecutors across the country to rectify and reimagine their role in the criminal legal system — not just as gatekeepers, but as active catalysts for change," she wrote in a 2020 op-ed.
Soros's money has helped elect several such "catalysts for change" across the country. However, many of these progressive DAs now find themselves in political — and, in some cases, legal — trouble after implementing controversial policies which, critics say, have contributed to the current violent crime wave devastating U.S. cities.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner is one of the first prosecutors who Soros bankrolled in 2016 — and again for her reelection in 2020.
Next month, Gardner is set to appear before a disciplinary hearing, where she will face charges of ethics violations stemming from her office's 2018 prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.
Last year, Missouri's chief legal disciplinary officer accused Gardner of rampant misconduct in the prosecution, saying she lied to judges in court filings and testimony, withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense, misled her own prosecution team, and violated the constitutional right to a fair trial.
Gardner has denied all wrongdoing, saying she complied with state law. She could have her law license revoked if the charges against her are upheld.
During Gardner's tenure, crime has skyrocketed in St. Louis, with the city experiencing near-record murder rates. Even last year was among one of the city's deadliest in decades, despite murders being down from 2020.
Amid high homicide figures, Gardner has declined more cases and issued fewer arrest warrants, charging fewer felonies and prosecuting thousands of fewer cases overall than her predecessor as a result. She has also deferred prison sentences for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies as part of her reform initiatives.
Gardner says this is part of her "platform to reduce the number of cases unnecessarily charged in order to focus on the more difficult cases for trial."
Her campaign website boasts that she's "made jail and prison a last resort, reserved for those who pose a true public safety risk," while limiting "the arrest and detention of people accused of misdemeanors and low-level felonies."
Last year, Gardner came under fire after three murder cases under her purview were dismissed in one week due to prosecutors in her office not showing up for hearings or being unprepared.
Gardner is one of several big-name DAs backed by Soros who have struggled with high turnover in their offices. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the effect of the turnover in Gardner's office has been "a state of dysfunction, low morale, and dearth of legal wisdom necessary to safeguard the public from potentially dangerous criminals."
Beyond Gardner, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is another Soros-funded prosecutor currently under intense scrutiny.
Soros spent almost $1.7 million through the Philadelphia Justice and Public Safety PAC to help Krasner in 2017, pouring more than five times as much money into the race as Krasner himself.
Now, Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman is urging state leaders to consider impeachment proceedings against Krasner, who's been in office since 2018.
Corman blames Krasner for the recent spike in violent crime across Philadelphia, arguing the DA's policies have allowed criminals to thrive.
Krasner didn't address the substance of Corman's accusations in his response, instead criticizing the senator for playing politics.
Philadelphia ended 2021 with an all-time record of 559 homicides, far surpassing the total of any prior year since city leaders began tracking killings in 1960. So far this year, murders are outpacing last year's figures.
During his tenure, Krasner has cut the future years of incarceration by half and slashed the length of parole in probation supervision by nearly two-thirds compared to the previous DA. He has also made a priority of not prosecuting people who are illegally in possession of guns unless they hurt or kill people.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw was previously quoted as saying Philadelphia's criminal justice system has become a "revolving door" for repeat gun offenders since Krasner became DA. Outlaw said last year that she and Krasner "don't agree" on which crimes to prioritize and prosecute.
Last March, the Democratic City Committee voted not to endorse Krasner for the upcoming primary election, but Krasner won anyway.
Moving to the West Coast, Soros spent more than $2 million to elect Los Angeles County DA George Gascon in 2020.
Since then, multiple recall efforts have been launched to oust Gascon from office due to rising crime rates. The most recent one was launched last month.
As of September, at least 31 cities in Los Angeles County issued a vote of no confidence in Gascon, condemning his controversial policies.
A recent wave of package thefts from freight trains passing through downtown Los Angeles has put the spotlight on Gascon, whom railroad giant Union Pacific blames for the thefts. Los Angeles has also faced a surge in robberies, while homicides soared last year to their highest level in over a decade.
A growing number of bipartisan voices are pointing the finger at Gascon, who has eliminated cash bail in most cases and sought to put more convicted criminals in rehabilitation rather than prison.
Gascon isn't the only Soros-backed DA in California facing backlash. San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, whose parents were members of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group, won his election with the help of Soros's financial network.
This week, a 69-year-old Asian-American man who was violently attacked in 2019 said he's suing Boudin, accusing the prosecutor of mishandling the case against his alleged assailants. The announcement of the lawsuit came one day after the San Francisco Police Department revealed there was a 527% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in the city in 2021 compared with the previous year.
Boudin has said he wants to abolish cash bail and end "mass incarceration." During his time in office, San Francisco has experienced a wave of robberies, looting, and burglaries similar to Los Angeles. According to one study, San Francisco is more dangerous than 98% of U.S. cities, according to Lee Ohanian of the Hoover Institution. By comparison, Compton, Calif., which is notorious for gang violence, is more dangerous than 90% of cites and considered safer in terms of crime rate.
The situation has caused progressive Mayor London Breed to intervene and call for police to be more aggressive, saying the crime wave "has destroyed" San Francisco.
"It's time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end," she said. "And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement. More aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the bulls**t that has destroyed our city."
In the Midwest, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016 with the help of Soros's funding and reelected in 2020 with $2 million more from the billionaire.
Foxx has come under intense scrutiny for her office's dismissal of all charges in the original indictment against actor Jussie Smollett in 2019, three weeks after a grand jury had issued it. Smollett was convicted last month of staging a hate crime.
According to a recent investigation, Foxx lied to the public about cutting off communications with Smollett's sister when she was told the actor had become a suspect. Foxx is now being investigated for potential ethics violations in her handling of the case.
Chicago, a city infamous for shootings, has experienced a surge in violent crime since Foxx became state's attorney of Cook County. In 2021, there were more murders than in any year since 1994.
During her first three years in office, Foxx dropped all charges against 29.9% of felony defendants, a major increase from her predecessor, who only dropped 19.4%, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Staying in the Midwest, another Soros-backed prosecutor who's come under the gun is Milwaukee DA John Chisholm.
Chisholm conceded in November that he had set an "inappropriately low" bail amount earlier that month when Darrell Edward Brooks Jr., whom police arrested for attacking a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisc., was arrested for domestic abuse and eluding police.
Chisholm has received widespread blowback for his handling of the Brooks case. His office recommended $1,000 bail for Brooks following his prior arrest on Nov. 5 on charges that he punched his girlfriend in the face and hit her with his vehicle. Brooks was also charged with evading police officers when they tried to take him into custody.
Brooks posted bail on Nov. 11 and, days later, allegedly drove his vehicle into the Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens of others.
Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and "low-level" felonies in order to decrease incarcerations. He claims he inspired the current wave of progressive prosecutors who are pursuing similar policies.
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Britney Spears' Mother: I Stopped Them From Giving Her Lithium
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by Mike Walters Posted on October 25, 2022 at 3:15 am
Britney Spears' mother is going on the record claiming it was her pressure that stopped doctors from giving the pop star a powerful drug, Lithium.
According to new legal documents, obtained by The Blast, Lynne Spears is asking a court to pay over $600,000 in attorney's fees, which she claims were used to free Britney from powerful drugs and her conservatorship.
As you know, Lynne petitioned the court to have the six-figure fees paid to her personal lawyers, who were reportedly hired to put legal pressure on the court and Britney's conservators to end the case. At first, Britney's mom filed a petition, essentially making a legal argument the fees should be paid by the pop star. But now, she is boldly saying she is solely responsible for stopping a harsh drug regimen and Britney's current freedom.
Lynne Spears Claims She's The Reason They Stopped Giving Britney Psychotropic Drugs
"Factually, the beginning of the end of the abusive conduct, and indeed the conservatorship itself, started at that court hearing at which Lynne Spears first appeared in May of 2019. The Court ordered a medical review. The lithium stopped. Ms. Spears could see her children and was allowed to travel," the document reads.
Adding, "Five months later, in September of 2019, her father temporarily resigned as the Conservator of her Person. After nearly eleven straight years of an unchallenged Conservatorship, five months after Lynne Spears intervened as an interested party, the structure of the conservatorship was upended, and the direct beneficiary of that change was Britney Spears."
For those of you who've never heard of it, Lithium reportedly, "helps reduce the severity and frequency of mania — the elevated, euphoric end of the mood scale — and may help to treat bipolar depression. If you have been at risk of suicide, lithium may help reduce these feelings. Lithium also helps prevent manic and depressive episodes from occurring in the future."
Britney Spears' Mom Says She Hired Lawyers To Help…HER!
Incredibly, Lynne is taking credit for almost ALL of the success, including Britney's dad — Jamie Spears — stepping down from the case.
"Immediately after the resignation of Jamie Spears as the Conservator of Ms. Spears' Person, discussions began to have him removed altogether. While those discussions were ongoing, Lynne Spears proposed that a professional fiduciary serve as the Conservator of her Estate. After endless hours of Lynne Spears' counsel negotiating with the then-counsel for Britney Spears and counsel for the Conservator, such a professional fiduciary, Bessemer Trust Company, was proposed to the court as Conservator of Ms. Spears' Estate. At the request of her daughter, Lynne Spears pushed every button available to her to make Ms. Spears' life more tolerable," the filing states.
Remember, during the conservatorship Britney was unable to hire her own attorney, and Lynne claims that is why she contacted someone for legal help.
Britney Spears' Mother Owes Over $600,000 In Legal Fees
Adding, "Thereafter, Lynne Spears signed a contract with the undersigned, explaining to her attorneys at the outset that she and Ms. Spears wished them to modify the medical treatment of Ms. Spears, to exact change to the personal restrictions being imposed on Ms. Spears by her father the conservator of her person and estate at the time, to start the process of removing her father from those roles, and in the end, to terminate her conservatorship. All of those things were ultimately achieved."
Bottom line, the lawyers believed they would be reimbursed by Britney Spears, saying, "Ms. Spears was enriched by the work; it is equitable that she pay for it."
Here's the problem. It's pretty obvious Britney does NOT agree with paying her mom's bills.
In fact, the pop star blasted her mother on social media along with the rest of her family for not listening to her pleas while being locked up in a mental hospital. For 13 years, I had to meet doctors weekly to bring up my past which made it worse!!!. As for my whole family including my brother, sister, cousins, aunts, uncles, and well damn the whole audience… were either stoned or drunk off their a–es," she wrote. Adding, "Not one mother f–king person stood up for me!!! Mom take your apology and go f–k yourself !!! And to all the doctors for f–king with my mind … I pray you all burn in hell !!! Kiss my mother f–king a–!!!!"
Britney Spears BLASTS Her Mother Over Letting The Conservatorship Happen
In the end, Lynne Spears is asking the court to order Britney to pay $504,000.00 to one law firm, and $146,548.00 to another, plus a few other fees.
It's now up to a judge.
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import 'cypress-file-upload'
import cloneDeep from 'lodash/cloneDeep'
import { expectDeepEqual } from '@opentrons/shared-data/js/cypressUtils'

describe('Protocol fixtures migrate and match snapshots', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    cy.visit('/')
    cy.closeAnnouncementModal()
  })

  const testCases = [
    {
      title: 'preFlexGrandfatheredProtocol 1.0.0 -> PD 5.0.x, schema 3',
      importFixture:
        '../../fixtures/protocol/1/preFlexGrandfatheredProtocol.json',
      expectedExportFixture:
        '../../fixtures/protocol/5/preFlexGrandfatheredProtocolMigratedFromV1_0_0.json',
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal: true,
      unusedPipettes: false,
      exportModalCopy: null,
      genericMigrationModal: false,
    },
    {
      title: 'example_1_1_0 -> PD 5.0.x, schema 3',
      importFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/1/example_1_1_0.json',
      expectedExportFixture:
        '../../fixtures/protocol/5/example_1_1_0MigratedFromV1_0_0.json',
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal: true,
      unusedPipettes: true,
      exportModalCopy: null,
      genericMigrationModal: false,
    },
    {
      title: 'doItAllV3 -> PD 5.0.x, schema 3',
      importFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/3/doItAllV3.json',
      expectedExportFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/5/doItAllV3.json',
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal: false,
      unusedPipettes: false,
      exportModalCopy: null,
      genericMigrationModal: false,
    },
    {
      title: 'doItAllV4 -> PD 5.0.x, schema 4',
      importFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/4/doItAllV4.json',
      expectedExportFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/5/doItAllV4.json',
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal: false,
      unusedPipettes: false,
      exportModalCopy:
        'Robot requirements for running module inclusive JSON protocols',
      genericMigrationModal: true,
    },
    {
      title: 'doItAllV5 -> import and re-export should preserve data',
      importFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/5/doItAllV5.json',
      expectedExportFixture: '../../fixtures/protocol/5/doItAllV5.json',
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal: false,
      unusedPipettes: false,
      exportModalCopy: 'server version 3.20 or higher',
      genericMigrationModal: false,
    },
  ]

  testCases.forEach(
    ({
      title,
      importFixture,
      expectedExportFixture,
      newLabwareDefsMigrationModal,
      unusedPipettes,
      exportModalCopy,
      genericMigrationModal,
    }) => {
      it(title, () => {
        cy.fixture(importFixture).then(fileContent => {
          // TODO(IL, 2020-04-02): `cy.fixture` always parses .json files, though we want the plain text.
          // So we have to use JSON.stringify. See https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/5395
          // Also, the latest version v4 of cypress-file-upload is too implicit to allow us to
          // use the JSON.stringify workaround, so we're stuck on 3.5.3,
          // see https://github.com/abramenal/cypress-file-upload/issues/175
          cy.get('input[type=file]').upload({
            fileContent: JSON.stringify(fileContent),
            fileName: 'fixture.json',
            mimeType: 'application/json',
            encoding: 'utf8',
          })
          cy.get('[data-test="ComputingSpinner"]').should('exist')
          // wait until computation is done before proceeding, with generous timeout
          cy.get('[data-test="ComputingSpinner"]', { timeout: 30000 }).should(
            'not.exist'
          )
        })

        if (genericMigrationModal) {
          cy.get('div')
            .contains(
              'Your protocol was made in an older version of Protocol Designer'
            )
            .should('exist')
          cy.get('button')
            .contains('ok', { matchCase: false })
            .click()
        }

        if (newLabwareDefsMigrationModal) {
          // close migration announcement modal
          cy.get('div')
            .contains('Update protocol to use new labware definitions')
            .should('exist')
          cy.get('button')
            .contains('update protocol', { matchCase: false })
            .click()
        }

        cy.fixture(expectedExportFixture).then(expectedExportProtocol => {
          cy.get('button')
            .contains('Export')
            .click()

          if (unusedPipettes) {
            cy.get('div')
              .contains('Unused pipette')
              .should('exist')
            cy.get('button')
              .contains('continue with export', { matchCase: false })
              .click()
          }

          if (exportModalCopy) {
            cy.get('div')
              .contains(exportModalCopy)
              .should('exist')
            cy.get('button')
              .contains('continue', { matchCase: false })
              .click()
          }

          cy.window()
            .its('__lastSavedFileBlob__')
            .should('be.a', 'blob')
            .should(async blob => {
              const blobText = await blob.text()
              const savedFile = JSON.parse(blobText)
              const expectedFile = cloneDeep(expectedExportProtocol)

              assert.match(
                savedFile.designerApplication.version,
                /^5\.0\.\d+$/,
                'designerApplication.version is 5.0.x'
              )
              ;[savedFile, expectedFile].forEach(f => {
                // Homogenize fields we don't want to compare
                f.metadata.lastModified = 123
                f.designerApplication.data._internalAppBuildDate = 'Foo Date'
                f.designerApplication.version = 'x.x.x'
              })

              expectDeepEqual(assert, savedFile, expectedFile)
            })

          cy.window()
            .its('__lastSavedFileName__')
            .should(
              'equal',
              `${expectedExportProtocol.metadata.protocolName}.json`
            )
        })
      })
    }
  )
})

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Preprint 17/12
UV MCP Detectors for WSO-UV: Cross Strip Anode and Readout Electronics
Sebastian Diebold (1), Jürgen Barnstedt (1), Stephan Hermanutz (1), Christoph Kalkuhl (1), Norbert Kappelmann (1), Marc Pfeifer (1), Thomas Schanz (1), Klaus Werner (1)
(1) Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, University of Tübingen
To be published in: IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science
Abstract. The main instrument of the WSO-UV satellite covers the wavelength range of 102 - 176 nm and 174 - 310 nm with two high resolution echelle spectrographs. The essential requirements for the associated detectors are high quantum efficiency, solar blindness, and single photon detection. To achieve this, we are developing microchannel plate (MCP) detectors in sealed tubes. It is planned to use cesium activated gallium nitride as semitransparent photocathode, a stack of two microchannel plates in chevron configuration, and a 33mm x 44mm cross strip anode with 64 horizontal and 64 vertical electrodes. This type of anode requires a lower gain of the MCPs (~106) compared to other types of anodes. Therefore, it extends the expected lifetime of the detectors to about five to ten years.
The challenge for the use of a cross strip anode onboard the WSO-UV satellite is the combination of contradictory constraints on the readout electronics: On the one hand it should be able to handle a maximum count rate of 3*105 s-1 with a spatial resolution better than 15 µm. On the other hand the power consumption is limited to about 8 W. One feasible solution is the so-called Beetle chip. This chip provides 128 input channels with charge-sensitive preamplifiers and shapers. It stores the sampled data temporarily in a ring buffer and multiplexes it to four analogue readout channels. The output is then digitized by four ADCs and processed in a radiation hard FPGA, which also contains the space-wire interface to the satellite bus.
Preprint (1,74 Mb PDF file including figures)
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What should the law do about out-of-network ER docs?
I wanted to join Aaron in venting some spleen about Elizabeth Rosenthal's maddening story from this morning's New York Times. How can it possibly be legal for your doctor to charge you out-of-network rates when you show at up an in-network emergency room? And how can we change the law to get at the problem?
I answered the first question last week in response to an earlier installment in Rosenthal's series. Briefly: when you show up at an ER, you're given an incomprehensible contract to sign. Among the terms you don't read, you agree to pay the on-call ER physician for her services, whether or not the physician happens to be in-network. Given this "agreement," the out-of-network physician can name her price.
Now, the courts won't generally enforce contractual terms to the extent they deviate from what a reasonable person would agree to pay. That's especially so if you were in medical distress when you signed the contract. It should be possible, especially in these ER cases, to persuade courts that the out-of-network doc should only be paid a reasonable fee—maybe the rate that the patient's insured would have paid, maybe Medicare rates.
But the amounts in dispute will rarely be large enough to justify litigating. From the patient's perspective, the smartest thing would be to pay the damn bill.
What's to be done about this? One straightforward move would be for HHS to invoke its authority under the ACA to "establish criteria" to assure that exchange plans have adequate networks. From Rosenthal's article, it sounds like a bunch of insurers have no in-network ER docs at all. Why not require exchange plans to contract with ER docs at each of their in-network hospitals?
That'd be a good first step, but HHS's authority under the ACA does not extend to employer-based insurance purchased outside the exchanges. To get at those plans, state insurance commissioners would have to step up to the plate. State network-adequacy laws vary widely, but most give the commissioners a measure of flexibility in crafting new rules. Following HHS's lead, or blazing a path on their own, they could require insurers to include ER docs in their networks.
Even if state insurance commissioners acted, however, we'd still be left with a regulatory gap. A federal law—ERISA—strips states of the power to regulate self-funded employer-sponsored plans. And there's no federal law requiring self-funded plans to have adequate networks.
So does Congress need to act? Maybe. But the Department of Labor, which oversees ERISA plans, could perhaps implement a partial solution even without new legislation. Here's what I'm thinking. The ACA caps the amount that an individual or family can pay out of pocket in a given year. Typically, out-of-network bills don't count toward the out-of-pocket cap. The idea is that, if you choose to go out of network, your insurer shouldn't be on the hook.
The absence of meaningful choice when it comes to emergency care may provide an opportunity for Labor to enact a rule treating the costs of such care differently. What if Labor issued a rule saying that payments to out-of-network ER docs would count toward the out-of-pocket spending cap, so long as the care was received at an in-network hospital?
This would be only a partial solution. Before they reach their out-of-pocket cap, patients would still be on the hook for out-of-pocket payments to ER physicians. But at least they'd have some financial security in the event that they racked up extraordinary out-of-pocket costs.
In any event, these sorts of abusive billing practices have got to end. Regulators have considerable latitude to act, even without legislative action. They should act, and soon.
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Some Luck: A novel (The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga) (Hardcover)
By Jane Smiley
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The first book of Smiley's trilogy that follows the lives of an Iowa farm family from 1920 to the near future. All three of the books are now published in this trilogy so you can read them one after another. Since there are many charterers as the family grows over five generations, reading them together makes it easier to keep track of everyone. Smiley chronicles the history of the 20th century and early 21 century as wars, financial boom and bust and person crises challenge the Langdon family. Smiley is a great storyteller and you will not be disappointed with any of these books. — From Sandi's Picks
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father's heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you'd seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
"This sweeping, carefully plotted novel traces the history, from 1920 to the Cold War era, of a single Iowa farming family. Each chapter focuses on one year, setting the minor catastrophes and victories of the family's life against a backdrop of historical change, particularly the Great Depression. As the children branch out from their tiny town, so, too, does the story, eventually encompassing several generations, cities, and cultural movements. Smiley, like one of her characters contemplating the guests at the Thanksgiving table, begins with an empty house and fills it 'with twenty-three different worlds, each one of them rich and mysterious.'" —The New Yorker
"What's unusual about Some Luck is how closely it's meant to mimic real life, and yet how important Smiley's gifts as a novelist are to achieving that effect. The way the story unfolds makes it feel not so much like reading a novel as catching up with relatives every couple of months, finding out who's been up to what and comparing stories. Characters reminisce about scenes from earlier in the book that start to feel like our memories, too. Smiley's ability to sketch a scene, to bring to life the quiet incidents as well as the big ones—the moment when something finally makes sense, or a decision is reached, or someone lets slip something they shouldn't—are what transform the family stories into literature . . . Some Luck draws the reader in with easy charm." —Christine Pivovar, Kansas City Star
"A magnificent achievement . . . Pulitzer Prize-winning Smiley has embarked on an audacious project: the first volume of an epic family chronicle that spans the past century. She pulls it off handily; her touch is light and assured. With each passing year, the Langdons respond to the events that shaped America itself . . . While written with humor and affection, Some Luck is a constant reminder of how fleeting life really is. Babies arrive with little warning. Children die in freak accidents. Families care for their aging and failing elders. Walter and Rosanna both worry constantly—about their farm and their family. In the end, it all comes down to luck." —Amy Goodfellow Wagner, Examiner.com
"The fertile first installment of Smiley's century-spanning trilogy of fatalism, farm life and family—a big story of a big family in a big country. [But] the focus is up-close and intimate: Smiley cultivates her characters in scenes that are sometimes lightly comical, touchingly sad, sweet, or slightly strange, and they are always perfectly, beautifully true to life. She gives every Langdon careful consideration—endowing each of them with discrete likes, dislikes, private thoughts, and secret hopes and fears—but it is Frank, the baby born on New Year's Day, 1920, who breaks the mold . . . The reader longs for the Golden Age of the early chapters and the way of life we know will not survive, even as we eagerly await the sequel. And all we can do is wait, patiently." —Sandra Levis, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Engaging. . . . Smiley is a self-assured writer, a skillful stylist who launches her story from a baby's-eye view. She plumbs the drama in ordinary life, hitting all our nostalgia buttons on the way, from the one-room schoolhouse and horse-drawn plow to the TV set. As the landscape changes, from a vista of corn fields and self-sufficiency to green lawns and consumerism, Smiley is a master of the telling detail . . . Populated by sympathetic characters who take what life brings, [this] is a look back at what feels like simpler times. Family is Smiley's turf, and she plays it well." —Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times
"The wonderful first installment of Smiley's The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, which tells the story of an Iowa farm family from 1920 to 2019. As far as I'm concerned, the next two cannot follow soon enough . . . Over the years, the Langdons will have six children, each with their own interesting life, messy desires and flaws that will compel them out into the world, some far from the farm that the family both loathes and loves. There are deaths, blizzards, droughts, and accidents, as well as births, celebrations and beautifully narrated family meals, like a particular Thanksgiving near the end of the novel . . . Extremely satisfying." —Natalie Serber, The Oregonian
"Brilliant . . . Smiley is one of America's most accomplished and wide-ranging novelists, [and] Some Luck finds her in her most tender mode. I happened to be reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder to my daughter at the same time I was enjoying Some Luck; and Some Luck holds up well against Wilder's classic in its lovely, precise portrayal of the day-to-day rhythms of agriculture and what it's like to be a child growing up inside the close, hardworking, economic unit of the family farm. But it also extends beyond Wilder's scope, as you'd expect in a novel for adults. There are cow milking and field plowing in Some Luck, but there are also duplicity, romance and despair . . . Smiley moves through several characters' perspectives, writing in an old-fashioned, Tolstoyan omniscience that even explores the mind of [a] baby . . . As the Langdons' five children grow up and scatter from coast to coast, Some Luck demonstrates how events on an isolated, unsophisticated farm in the middle of the country represent and influence the larger story of America." —Jenny Shank, Dallas Morning News
"Satisfying . . . captivating . . . the reading experience is rewarding." —Rebecca Kelley, Bustle
"Unforgettable, graceful . . . The characters in Smiley's latest novel take what life throws at them—drought, freezes, economic catastrophe, death, war, progress—and carry on. Despite its epic scope, which embraces political and social changes, Some Luck is also intimate, and deeply observant. Smiley uses small moments and events to build a bigger, multifaceted picture of a country during decades of great change. What seems simple at first grows profound in her hands—and her skillful prose. With plain materials she builds rich portraits of her Langdons: Walter, Rosanna, [and] their five children are rendered in vivid, indelible strokes . . . A simple, remarkable scene—nothing fancy, just a loud, large family gathered for a Thanksgiving meal—leaves you with that warm feeling you get when you flip through old family photo albums, marveling at the past. In Some Luck, Smiley brings that past to life. You don't have to have been raised on an Iowa farm to think: That sounds like my grandmother, my aunt, my father, my brother. That sounds like us." —Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
"A ravishing and defiantly old-fashioned novel set on the same Iowa soil Smiley tilled in her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres . . . . Reminiscent of the work of Willa Cather and Alice Munro, Some Luck chronicles one family's triumphs and travails as they work to wrest a living from their farm. Opening in 1920, [it] tracks the fates of Walter and Rosanna Langdon and their children over three decades. Their union endures, roiled by doubt at times, yet rooted in a bone-deep connection. Some Luck ingeniously spirals outward from the farm and back again, capturing the arc of personal and historical change in forthright prose that unexpectedly takes flight." —Hamilton Cain, O, The Oprah Magazine
"Fans of old-fashioned family sagas featuring historical sweep are in (ahem) some luck. Like A Thousand Acres, Some Luck conveys a deep understanding of both the endless work and worries of agrarian life and the foremost question among children raised on the land—whether to stay or go. Some Luck's narrative shifts focus among various members of the Langdon family, including its youngest. What's it all about, having a family? Rosanna's reflections during a Thanksgiving gathering in 1948—a perfectly written scene [and] the climax and beating heart of Some Luck—captures the payoff, the sudden moments of grace that can astonish and melt even the most exhausted, unsentimental readers. An intimate, telling portrait of the changing landscape of hearth and home in twentieth-century America . . . The writing positively soars." —Heller McAlpin, The B&N Review
"Sweeping, bold, and completely engrossing . . . arguably Smiley's finest work—she delivers with Some Luck. It moves swiftly, keeping the reader turning the pages. Smiley's reach is wide and assured. Few authors are able to write equally well about war strategy, Communism, cover crops, and postpartum depression. Smiley can, and does, such that when Some Luck closes it feels sudden, despite the novel's length. The reader isn't ready to leave the Langdons behind. Take consolation in knowing there is more to come: Some Luck is the first installment of a promised trilogy. In this case, the luck is all ours." —Diane Leach, PopMatters
"Sweeping . . . Smiley's most commanding novel yet. She is a master storyteller—that rare 'three-fer': meticulous historian, intelligent humorist and seasoned literary novelist . . . But what makes a Smiley novel identifiably and deliciously hers alone is a unique brand of impassioned critical patriotism. She makes us see, in the kindest, gentlest way, that we're a lot more wonderful, and a lot more screwed up—as a nation, as a people, as families, as individuals—than we think we are. Some Luck contextualizes three decades of American history by zooming in on one multi-generational farm family. Births and deaths, triumphs and tragedies are rendered in a [way] that mirrors the Midwestern landscape, language and temperament. The low, quiet hum of the narrative voice provides a contrast for the family's crises, each of which serves to connect the reader to her characters . . . The rolling out of all those life events, big and small, have a cumulative effect, [and] by the end, the attachment to the Langdons is enough to make the reader count down the days to Book Two." —Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times
"Midwestern farm country has proved fertile soil for fiction writers, and no one has cultivated it to such fine effect as Smiley. This new novel, the first in a Balzacian project—the saga of the American family sprung from immigrant stock rooted in farmland—follows a family through major events of the first half of the 20th century. Smiley's range is, as ever, remarkable: she inhabits the heroic firstborn, the diffident little brother, the angelic girl, the bookish boy, the [child who is an] afterthought, always managing to convey the specific nature of each character's experience, even as her narrative balances birth order as fate against character as destiny. The cumulative experiences of these people, all depicted with such convincing care and detail, convey a sense of the relations that create a world." —Ellen Akins, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Delightfully engaging, a novel full of pleasures both large and small. History makes its way into the story realistically and unobtrusively—the history is personal, told in stories passed down through generations. The chronological approach allows the novel room to breathe . . . Smiley clearly enjoys her characters without being besotted by them. Her writing has an edge of gentle humor about a place that has four seasons: 'mud, heat, harvest exhaustion, and snow.'" —Margaret Quamme, The Columbus Dispatch
"Engrossing . . . While Some Luck evokes the Iowa landscape Smiley knows well, the novel is as much about the passage of time as the people inhabiting it. As the years pass and crops grow, so does the Langdon family. Parents Walter and Rosanna have their first child, Frank. Smart, charismatic and restless, he's followed by sensitive, reliable Joe; sweet-natured Lillian; bookish Henry; and baby Claire. From birth, each is an indelible character . . . 'All ordinary people are extraordinary,' she says. 'I don't actually believe in the concept of ordinary people. I think individuals are always interesting . . . They have unique lives, and things happen to them. They all have adventures.'" —Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News
"Fascinating—an impressive accounting of family life . . . Some Luck would qualify as Smiley's magnum opus if this, her 14th novel, were a single work and not the first in her trilogy. [As] the story, told from the multiple viewpoints of the Langdon family, moves through history, Smiley portrays her characters with such clarity that we care about their fate . . . The book's message [is] that farm life is a harrowing enterprise, needful of great reserves of fortitude. Frank will grow up handsome, brilliant and heartless—the mesmerizing center of the book . . . No one captures the rhythms of ordinary life like Smiley does: babies, sewing, cooking . . . In 1992 Smiley's A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer for fiction and looked to stand as her epic achievement, retelling King Lear in Iowa. Now, with Some Luck and a return to the heartland, the remarkable Smiley just got a little more remarkable." —Barbara Liss, Houston Chronicle
"A masterpiece in the making . . . intimate, miraculous—the auspicious beginning of an American saga every bit as ambitious as Updike's magnum opus, anchored in the satisfactions and challenges of life on a farm, but expand[ing] to various American cities and beyond . . . Frank is one of the most fascinating and complex characters in recent fiction. The way Smiley gets deep inside [all] the children's heads is a staggering literary feat in which we see human character being assembled in something that feels like real time. An abundant harvest." —Kevin Nance, USA Today
"Engaging, bold . . . Smiley delivers a straightforward, old-fashioned tale of rural family life in changing times, depicting isolated farm life with precision . . . It is especially satisfying to hear a powerful writer narrate men's and women's lives lovingly and with equal attention. Subtle, wry and moving." —Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post
"Convincing . . . A young couple, Walter and Rosanna Langdon, are just setting out on their own [in] 1920. Eventually they will have five children; Smiley gives each of them a turn in the spotlight, filling in the details of their lives and drawing the reader into a story meant to last a long time . . . Smiley has been compared to some of the great writers of the 19th century, [and] in that tradition, she gives her trilogy the sweep of history. But what interests her most is the way historic events play out in the lives of one family whose roots are deeply embedded in the middle of America." —Lynn Neary, NPR Weekend Sunday Edition
"Smiley is prolific [and] seemingly writes the way her idol Dickens did—as easily as if it were breathing . . . She made up her mind at an early age that she was going to master not just one genre, but all of them. Her new book is the first volume of a trilogy—one of the few forms left for her to tackle . . . Some Luck starts in 1920 and follows the fortunes of a Midwestern farming family; each chapter covers a single year. What most surprised her, she said, was the way that, more than in her other books, the characters took on lives of their own. 'I got the feeling that I got on a train and sat down, and all these people were talking. I was eavesdropping, and the train was just heading into the future.'" —Charles McGrath, The New York Times
"Audaciously delicious . . . Every character here steals our heart. Smiley has turned her considerable talents to the story of an Iowa farm and the people who inhabit it. The suspense is found in the impeccably drawn scenes and in the myriad ways in which Smiley narrows and opens her camera's lens. Her language has the intimacy of a first-person telling; her stance is in-the-moment. Always at the narrative hearth stand Walter and Rosanna and that Iowa farm, a character in its own right, a landscape remembered by those who flee to Chicago, Italy, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York . . . We read these lives, and we find our own." —Beth Kephart, Chicago Tribune
"Sumptuous . . . A meditation on the things we encounter in our lives that shape our personal histories. Smiley impresses the reader by shifting perspectives that include those of the Langdon children as infants and toddlers learning how to grip, walk—and manipulate their parents and siblings. Readers will find much enjoyment in Smiley's sharp prose and finely observed details. She's in no hurry to get us anywhere, allowing readers to luxuriate in this study of character, place and time. By the time I got to the end of this big, human book I wondered where the time had gone." —Christi Clancy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Quietly suspenseful, subtle, and captivating . . . We see a changing world through the eyes of a hard-working family trying to make ends meet on their farm in the Iowa heartland. Some Luck is set against a backdrop of sweeping social, political, and economic change—the Great Depression, the rise of Communism, World War Two, and innovations like electricity and automobiles. As the landscape evolves, the Langdons' world expands beyond the corn fields to the big city, a university campus, and the battlefield . . . Their family life is filled with conflict, rivalries, and shifting alliances—the reader forms a close bond with them . . . Smiley's deft prose is succinct and clear; she covers the span of a season in a few sentences, then focuses on an ordinary event that turns out to have enormous consequences. The mundane becomes profound, and the effect is smooth and seamless." —Eleanora Buckbee, Everyday eBook
"No writer has ever captured the satisfactions and frustrations of the American farmer with more insight, humor, accuracy and grace than Smiley. In the first novel of her forthcoming trilogy, she serves up 33 years (1920-53) of American history, viewed through the particular lens of an Iowa farm. The Depression, the Dust Bowl, WWII and the early Cold War provide a compelling backdrop to the lives of Walter and Rosanna Langdon and their six children, all drawn with Smiley's signature specificity and clear-eyed compassion. The storytelling is shared among the characters, [with] each chapter representing one year of drought or plenty—an almanac to honor these harsh and beautiful lives." —Pam Houston, More
"Starting from a farm in Iowa, the Langdon family knows growth, diaspora, heartbreak, and passion over three decades. It's breathtaking to realize that this novel is the first of a trilogy!" —Philadelphia Inquirer
"From Pulitzer winner Smiley, a multi-generational saga about an Iowa farming family's shifting fortunes." —Kim Hubbard, People, One of the "Best Books of the Fall"
"Marvelous, a tour de force . . . Some Luck opens in 1920 with Walter Langdon on the eve of his 25th birthday, thinking about the vicissitudes of farming; his strict father; his wife; and his five-month-old son—the first of five children who grow into memorable individuals over the course of the novel. With her vivid, tactile depiction of rural Iowa farm life, Smiley has imaginatively recaptured the dangers and rewards—the play of good luck and bad luck—in a lost way of life . . . Some Luck moves swiftly and assuredly through 33 years of the Langford clan's experiences, [becoming] an exploration of 20th-century American culture and politics. Smiley says the novel's velocity arises from the year-by-year approach she deploys throughout the trilogy. She says she began with the concept of the trilogy but ended up being swept away by the trajectories of her characters. She writes about farm life, family life and, suggestively, near the end, national political life. There are farming scenes, sex scenes, combat scenes and table-talk scenes . . . Wherever Smiley goes in Some Luck, most readers will willingly follow. Then wait, with bated breath, for her next steps." —Alden Mudge, BookPage
"Kicking off a new trilogy that follows the Langdon family for 100 years, this novel starts with their humble beginnings on an Iowa farm, and takes them from the Depression to the Red Scare. As times change, so do relationships, hearts and minds." —Woman's Day
"Epic, striking . . . The reader becomes intimately involved with the characters amid the minutiae of family life, sharing Rosanna's anxieties over the children and Walter's worries about his crop prices, understanding Frank's desire to leave and Joey's desire to stay. The cumulative effect is a story so fully immersive and absorbing that I finished the book with a sense of loss. Masterly." —Alice O'Keeffe, The Bookseller (UK)
"The expansive American epic is Smiley's métier, and she's in top form with this multigenerational story of an Iowa farming family—sturdy sons, passionate daughters, a tough but tender existence—across the first half of the 20th century." —Time
"Pulitzer Prize-winning Smiley moves from the 1920s to the 1950s as she unfolds the life of Iowa farmers Rosanna and Walter Langdon and their five children. As the children grow up and sometimes move away, we get a wide-angle view of mid-century America. Told in beautiful, you-are-there language, the narrative lets ordinary events accumulate to give us a significant feel of life at the time, with the importance and dangers of farming particularly well portrayed. In the end, though, this is the story of parents and children, of hope and disappointment . . . Highly recommended; a lush and grounded reading experience." —Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (starred review)
"Tremendous . . . Smiley is a seductive writer in perfect command of every element of language. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres, a novel about a farming family in Iowa, and she returns to that fertile ground to tell the stories of the Langdons, a clan deeply in accord with the land . . . As barbed in her wit as ever, Smiley is also munificently tender. The Langdons endure the Depression, Walter agonizes over giving up his horses for a tractor, and Joe tries the new synthetic fertilizers. Then, as Frank serves in WWII and, covertly, the Cold War, the novel's velocity, intensity, and wonder redouble. This [is a] saga of the vicissitudes of luck, and our futile efforts to control it. Smiley's grand, assured, quietly heroic, and affecting novel is a supremely nuanced portrait of a family spanning three pivotal American decades. It will be on the top of countless to-read lists." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
"Exciting. . . In the first volume of a planned trilogy, Smiley returns to the Iowa of her Pulitzer Prize winning A Thousand Acres, but in a different vein. The Langdons [are] a loving family whose members, like most people, are exceptional only in their human particularity; the story covers the 1920s through the early '50s, years during which the family farm survives the Depression and drought, and the five children grow up and have to decide whether to stay or leave. Smiley is particularly good at depicting the world from the viewpoint of young children—all five are distinct individuals from their earliest days. The standout is the oldest son, Frank, born with an eye for opportunity. But as Smiley shifts her attention from one character to another, they all come to feel like real and relatable people. Smiley conjures a world—time, place, people—and an engaging story that makes readers eager to know what happens next. Smiley plans to extend the tale of the Langdon family well into the 21st century; she's off to a very strong start." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Smiley follows an Iowa farm family through the thick of the 20th century, [as] the Langdons raise five children to varied destinies; [there's a] sense that we've simply dropped in on a continuing saga. Smiley juggles characters and events with her customary aplomb and storytelling craft . . . Underpinning the unfolding of three decades is farm folks' knowledge that disaster is always one bad crop away, and luck is never to be relied on; it wouldn't be a Smiley novel without at least one cruel twist of fate. Smiley is the least sentimental of writers, but when Rosanna and Walter Langdon look at the 23 people gathered at Thanksgiving in 1948 and 'agreed in an instant: something had created itself from nothing,' it's a moment of honest sentiment, honestly earned. An expansive tale showing this generally flinty author in a mellow mood: surprising, but engaging." —Kirkus (starred review)
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Many years ago I took a photo of a sculpture in the Egyptian exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum that I thought looked a lot like Michael Jackson. I occasionally insert it into lectures in my museum class to add a moment of levity, but for some time now I have needed a much higher quality image. On my return visit this month I located the bust and took a much clearer and higher-resolution photo.
Perhaps the King of Pop was a time traveler from the past…or a traveler to it!
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We all vintage lovers believe that the amplifiers, turntables, and receivers from early 1960's and 70's are way superior to what we have now, don't we?
Let's not get into the debate, but vintage speakers have always been receiving a certain level of priority from people like you and me. No matter what, hardly anything can be a better collectible for us compared to a vintage speaker.
So, one way or another, we do have an intention to buy real vintage speakers for any possible price within our limit. But what if the entire investment of yours goes in vain due to lack of ability to identify the right speaker?
Well, this is what this article is all about. Today, we will be discussing 11 of the most crucial facts that you should keep in mind while buying a good quality vintage speaker.
Don't be confused with the speaker rating. It's a completely wrong concept that a 100 watt rated speaker can be possibly damage-prone by a channel amplifier with 50 watts per channel power. Speaker rating is nothing but a rough guideline to introduce it's power properties.
Some of the vintage speakers are likely to produce a good volume of sound. To understand the ability of yours, just keep in mind that a good speaker will produce sufficient volume with standard given power. Efficient speakers don't always come with the highest rated volumes.
Don't be confused and taken away by the number of components that a vintage speaker comes with. A high number of components don't always have to be in the best quality speaker. Rather, look for the efficiency of sound that it produces.
The size of the vintage speaker indicated much of what it will do as a music produces. Usually, a small speaker of bookshelf size is great in terms of portability. But these can't create powerful sounds, as they can't move much amount of air.
On the contrary, large speakers with woofers are able to move more air, resulting in a much powerful sound performance. They can play music at a higher volume without reaching damage to its parts and parcels.
While you're about to buy a vintage speaker, make it certain that there is no voice coil rub. To check that, it's best to hear some music through it before paying for it. If you get a chance whatsoever, try playing some sound with high bass.
Forgetting the most out of your vintage speaker, make sure you have the correct surround for it. Do some homework on this point before you pay bucks for your favorite vintage speaker.
True vintage speakers, even the good quality reproduced vintage speakers, are going to cost you a decent amount. In some cases, the amount is even more than typical digital speakers.
Because vintage speakers supposed to be a rich piece of your collection, it's a must to make sure that they are made in that way. Usually, proper glue around every corner and frame is important for that purpose.
Usually, the price isn't the first priority when you're out in the market to buy something like a vintage speaker. Therefore, don't forget to make sure that you're overpaying for it. Before making the purchase, make sure the price-quality ratio is perfect.
Last but not list, if you're a true seeker of good old speakers, make sure you go for an original one. A factory reproduction or replacement may not bring a smile to your face.
We know that a vintage speaker is not a source of solid, dynamic sound and music. It will be a beautiful part of the home's interior beauty as well. So, make sure that you check every box of quality that defines a good vintage speaker.


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No matter what line of business you're in, eventually, you may need a lawyer. Sometimes, a business decision will lead to serious consequences. Maybe a decision didn't go as planned or maybe there was a case of negligence in your company. Whatever the case, now and then, even good businesses end up in sticky situations. It's important to find the right corporate lawyer. With all of the different corporate law firms in St Louis Missouri, however, it might be hard to find the right one. Here are the three qualities to look for, that will make your job easier.
Experience is one of the first factors that you need to look at. If the corporate firm has little experience in business law, then you may not receive the best service. A lawyer with experience will have an arsenal of tools at his or her disposal. These attorneys most likely have seen situations like yours before.
Of course, you need to think about affordability. Your lawyer needs to fit within your budget. Now, keep in mind that to have an attorney means that you will probably pay less in the end on legal fees and damages. The attorney is always there to advise you when it comes to legal matters that may cost you money. Still, you want to find out the law firm's rates. Make sure you know the typical costs of lawyers.
You need to have chemistry with the firm you choose. After all, when a legal issue arises, you're going to have to be comfortable enough to give the firm a call. If you don't get along with the attorneys then it is going to be extra hard to settle any legal business. You should be able to work together and communicate with one another.
All businesses need to have an attorney to turn to. Small businesses and large companies alike need to consider having a firm at the ready, in case of any legal issues.


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After winning the last World Cup in Meribel and having trained really hard leading up to this event, I was feeling incredibly motivated and confident about the World Championship in Norway. Event Performance had built some great looking sections for the Trial which was in a great location right next to the river in Lillehammer. After having walked the sections, I knew it was going to be a very close competition with very low points because the section level wasn't very difficult. I would have preferred harder sections because it suits my riding style but at the end of the day the best rider has to ride everything.
My competition was far from perfect, having made 2 silly mistakes in the first lap which resulted in 5pts (one section I knocked a marker off and the other was making a mistake on the log section) I was out of the running for the world title jersey. My 2nd and 3rd lap were really good, I cleaned every section (even cleaned a rock section that no other girl cleaned) but kept making a mistake on the log section each lap. Overall I finished 4th which I'm really disappointed with because I was capable of cleaning every section but I just couldn't do it on the day. I have to give a big congratulations to Tatiana, Nina and Gemma for riding incredibly well. I also have to give a big thanks to Carles for doing a great job of minding me through that rollercoaster ride of a competition as well as my sponsors for all their support.
Unfortunately that's how sports go and all I can do now is focus on riding well at the last two world cups!
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The Falklands War, also known as the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was a short war between the United Kingdom and Argentina. The conflict resulted from the long-standing dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which lie in the South Atlantic, east of Argentina.
The Falklands War began on Friday 2 April 1982, when Argentine forces invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. The resulting conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, which returned the islands to British control. 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the conflict.


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702 Alauda , provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and binary system from the outer asteroid belt, approximately 190 kilometers in diameter. It is the parent body of the Alauda family. Discovered in 1910 by German astronomer Joseph Helffrich at Heidelberg Observatory, it was named after the lark (alauda). Its small moon, named Pichi üñëm, was discovered in 2007.

Satellite
Alauda's satellite Pichi üñëm, provisionally known as , was discovered on 26 July 2007 from observations using adaptive-optics imaging with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 8-m Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal, Chile. It is about 3.5 km in diameter (assuming it has the same albedo as the primary) and orbits Alauda in a nearly circular orbit at a distance of . Pichi üñëm takes 4.91 days to complete one orbit.
It was named Pichi üñëm (Mapuche pronunciation: , approximately ), meaning "little bird" in the Mapuche language of Chile, the country from which the moon was discovered.

Orbital characteristics
Alauda has been identified as the largest member of the Alauda family, a dynamical family of bright carbonaceous asteroids with more than a thousand known members. Other members of this family include: 581 Tauntonia, 1101 Clematis, 1838 Ursa, 3139 Shantou, 3325 TARDIS, 4368 Pillmore, 5360 Rozhdestvenskij, 5815 Shinsengumi, and many others. Alauda's moon may be a result of the collision that created the asteroid family.

Physical characteristics
The discovery and tracking of Alauda's moon enabled Alauda's mass to be determined. The discoverers of the moon, Patricio Rojo and Jean-Luc Margot, estimated Alauda's mass to be (6.057 ± 0.36) kg and its density to be (1.57 ± 0.5) g/cm3.

Occultations
Alauda has been observed to occult stars on several occasions, providing important information on its size and shape. It produced occultations on 2001-07-12 and 2004-04-21. It may have occulted an apparent magnitude 9.5 star in the constellation of Gemini on 2009-10-17 at 08:18 UT. This event should have been visible from Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.

References

External links
 Asteroids with Satellites, Robert Johnston, johnstonsarchive.net

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Josh Eppard Rejoins Coheed and Cambria
Earlier this month, drummer Chris Pennie left Coheed and Cambria, and now Pennie's predecessor, Josh Eppard, who played with the band from 2000 to 2006, has rejoined.
In a press release on its website, Coheed says, "Chris Pennie is a dear friend, a superb bandmate and one of the best drummers in the world. He brought a workmanship and sense of professionalism to Coheed that completely improved us as a band, and allowed us to reach new heights. He will always be a member of the Coheed family, and we ask you to support all his endeavors.
"As the songs for the new record began twisting into shape, it slowly became apparent that these songs could truly flourish with the groove-oriented approach that Josh naturally brings to the table. We also missed Josh as a person—what he meant to us as friends and the energy and humor he exudes. But this isn't about nostalgia; it's about who we are now, and what we can achieve musically and as a family, together going forward."
In his own statement on the band's site, Eppard says, "Life is odd. I honestly never thought I'd see the day I would be reunited with my bandmates and lifelong friends. I regretted not being a part of Coheed from the day they moved on. After my time in Coheed, I eventually got clean and got real with myself. With the help of my loved ones I got back on my feet and that meant playing music again. I'd like to extend an enormous debt of gratitude to Fred Mascherino, who I played with in Terrible Things for the last 2 years. It's no secret that with the damage I had done to my reputation, no one was taking any chances on me. Fred did and I thank him for that. That being said, it was always clear to me playing with anyone that it would never be the magic that I felt with Coheed. I can't believe I get a chance to play for the best fans in the world again. Not many people get a chance to put back together the things they broke long ago. It's good to be back."
Coheed and Cambria's press release says the band has entered the studio with Eppard to begin work on its sixth album.
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EMO is such a simple technique that even children can do it. It is so natural that you can do it anywhere. It's so fast you won't believe how easy it is to use on it's own or integrated with other therapies. When you know it's only an energy, healing becomes simple and logical.
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