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Do the Documents Speak for Themselves?
Editor's Note: This article is primarily intended for non-attorney advocates who assist parents and attorneys in preparing to present a child's case at an IEP meeting, mediation or a formal due process hearing. Regardless of the forum, these concepts about evaluating and using documents are the same.
So - there they are - boxes, three-ring binders, school records, and other stuff written on paper - paper that is occupying a disproportionate amount of floor space.
There they sit, growing as if the little monsters have some sort of expansionism population policy. Sometimes the little monsters obstruct pathways to other parts of the room in which they reside. I like to use them as footstools or convenient places to set a coffee cup. At least they have some utilitarian value. Over time, they take on a comfortable patina.
They sit on the floor, occupying space, while we concentrate on the more interesting aspects of the case. We know these papers contain some sort of mystical potential. But, we rationalize, we will dig around and find what we need when the "right time" presents itself.
Everyone knows the real stuff of advocacy is doing battle with "them" - right?
During the "real" battle, we will rely on our hottest documents and our superior argumentative skills to zing the other side because the documents speak for themselves, right?
Addressing the "document speaks for itself" concept in his decision in Mid-Continent Resource Recovery, Inc. v. Shred Pax Corp., No. 94 C 6689, 1995 WL 12229 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 10, 1995), Judge Shadur noted that the "Court has been attempting to listen to documents for years in the forlorn hope that one would indeed give voice."
Witnesses and trial advocates give voice to the evidence contained in documents. The experienced trial advocate artistically weaves these silent documents into compelling testimonial evidence through sound planning and tactical choices.
Almost without exception, current deficiencies with regard to the appropriateness of a child's IEP, placement, or classification are related to early events that followed the initial evaluation of the student. Sometimes the problem relates to the initial contact at a new school after the child transfers from another school, town, or state.
Because human memories are fallible, we must rely on information contained in the child's education records. To unravel the facts and to develop a compelling and easily understood theme for the story that we will eventually present to a decision-maker, we must learn to love reading documents.
There they sit. Fourteen billion pieces of paper stuffed into boxes or notebooks designed to hold only a tiny portion of fourteen billion pieces of paper.
"Well," you say, "the school district's attorney will not look at each one of these papers. Besides, everyone knows that school district attorneys do not look at the records until a week or so before the hearing."
Let me dispel this myth.
The school district's attorney, unlike the you and me folks out here, have legal assistants and paralegals who sift, sort, put into chronological order, categorize, summarize, copy, identify, and neatly store the stuff in numbered boxes and folders.
Some school attorneys even have former special educators, nurses, and other professionals on their staff who can help them analyze these fourteen billion documents. Some school district attorneys have lower level associate attorneys who do preliminary legal research (uninteresting work for grunts).
If you and I had that kind of support, we too could blow into a meeting room looking like Perry Mason.
We do not, so we must even the odds by making fact-finding one of our top priorities.
Organize documents and other potential evidence that supports and diminishes the value of your case. Become knowledgeable about every possible defense that the school district has available.
Know the strengths and weaknesses of your case. This knowledge is the key to formulating a credible argument. Good advocates do not enter into serious discussions with the other side without knowing both sides of the issues in question.
Organize your information in a usable, easily referenced manner. If you do not do this, your case is doomed to spend its natural life in a quagmire of petty argument.
Use a method to organize and analyze information in the file. Special education matters are paper intensive.
Pare down your evidence documents to a precious and lovely few.
We want to trust other folks, and we generally do. We learned to trust good old "Dr. Says." When we trust Dr. Says, our trust manifests itself in dangerous behavior if we skim over reports.
Train yourself to read every line of every document or report. Read the documents without a preconceived notion of what those papers contain. Look at them with child - like enthusiasm. Hunt for inconsistencies, obscure conclusions supported with mostly subjective reasoning. Learn to look for patterns of "cut and paste" observations, conclusions, etc.
Often, evaluators carry forward erroneous information from early parent or teacher comments. When these "cut and paste" statements are included in a critical evaluation or report, we need to be able to show that the information is erroneous - and where it came from.
Correctly identify the date of the document. Who among us has not mistaken the date of the report for the date of the evaluation? You can eliminate these kinds of mistakes by careful reading and use of checklists.
In our society, we learn to trust Mr. or Ms. School Says. I do not want to suggest that all school folks are untrustworthy individuals - far from it.
Frequently, documents that have been previously released by third parties to the district are those that were selected by the third party for release that relate only to "education." Typically, however, there is additional information contained in the third party's files, including psychiatric and other medical information that could be significant to the defense of the school district's case. Thus, it is extremely important that all documentation is obtained from third parties to the extent possible.
If the parents have not yet initiated a due process hearing and the parties are in the process of discussing parental concerns, it is important for district representatives, not the attorney, to request that the parents execute a release that would allow the district to obtain copies of all of the child's records from third parties. Obviously, the district would assume the responsibility for securing the documents, copying the documents and providing copies of the documents to the parents if requested.
Special Education Law and Practice: A Manual for the Special Education Practitioner, Chapter 9, Section II (A), ((2001 Ed.) Gary M. Ruesch, Editor, LRP Publications, Horsham, PA.
When parent attorneys read these two paragraphs, I suspect most expressed a few "Hmmmmms".
We often assume that two identical appearing documents are indeed identical. Look carefully. Do not do a screening peep to determine if two documents are identical.
Look carefully. You will often find text differences. Sometimes a handwritten notation appears on one document, but not on the other. These differences turn what appear to be identical documents into documents that are different. Compare the dates. Look for evidence of the creative "white out" snooker. Only by developing a discipline will we be able to be certain that the document we are relying upon is actually the document we believe it to be. Analyzing documents is a learned skill.
Organizing those fourteen billion documents is the first step to understanding what is in the documents.
There are too many methods for organizing documents to list here. I suggest that you look at how successful advocates and attorneys do this. You need to devise a way to know where your evidence is and how to retrieve it when you need it. Nothing makes weary bones quicker than realizing that you spent two hours to find a document that required only 10 minutes to use.
Make working copies of documents that you will use for study or note taking.
Review documents with total objectivity. Do not look for what you would like to find. Look for what is there.
Purchase and use a good dictionary if you do not own one.
I recommend the Oxford American English Dictionary and Thesaurus a combined work that is not expensive. Get the paperback version of this dictionary. Carry it with you. Add yellow stickies, write in it, circle stuff. Above all, check every word, term, concept, or utterance that you hear or the school district uses.
Do not - Do not - Do not assume that you understand a term, no matter how familiar you THINK you are with the meaning of the term.
As an initial step, the school attorney should request that the client collect all school files relating to the child. Caution must be exercised in this area because many schools maintain separate files, e.g., the "main file," the attendance file, the school file, the teacher's file, the psychological services file, the health services file, the special education file, etc. Thus, the school attorney should ensure that the district has identified all files generated or maintained that relate in any way to the child and/or to the child's family.
In addition to educational records, the files maintained in a particular case frequently contain documentation from third parties, such as physicians, hospitals, residential and private treatment centers, or other public schools. Because documentation from third parties often contains information critical to the district's case, it should be determined whether and how such documentation can be obtained.
WARNING: What follows sounds like a lot of work and a lot of time - and it is. If you can do this, you may be able to prove your claims without much expense. If you need to hire an attorney later, you have saved yourself a wad of money because organizing documents is a major pre-hearing expense.
If you do this, you may get hooked on document peeping and find that you have volunteered to help other parents prepare their files.
Approach school personnel as if they want to help. Give them a chance to help you. Do not go in with an attitude of blame and hostility - they have not let you down yet.
Ask the school for a private room. You do not want someone who is looking over your shoulder to intimidate or frustrate your review. Have these tools: plenty of sticky notes for marking pages you want to copy; plenty of paper for your personal notes; patience.
Keep the file in order. Go through the file, page by page. You do not need to read every document while you are at the school because you can get copies of everything.
Make an inventory of all documents in the file. When school provides you with a copy of the file, you will know if the file has been vacuumed or sanitized.
Examine all documents in the file. School people often make notes on stickies and attach these notes to documents. Make a note all documents that have sticky note attached to them. Make a note of what was on the sticky note. A copy machine may not pick up or show highlighted portions of documents. Or the highlighted portion may turn into a black, opaque unreadable mark on your copy.
Examine the file folder. You will often find handwritten notes on the front, back, or inside covers of the file. Make a note of everything written on the file. A telephone number or obscure comment may correlate with a nice piece of evidence later.
Look for a contact log. Education records often include a contact log or record of incoming and outgoing telephone calls, letters, etc. relating to the student. These logs often contain interesting information. Note the "tone" of comments. For example, you may find an entry that reads,"Ms. Gripealot called AGAIN and was told you were NOT available."
Look for letters to or from the school's attorney. If you find correspondence with the school attorney, there are several things you can do. You may put flags on this correspondence and ask that this not be copied for your use. The information in these letters or other communications may be protected by a privilege. Unless you are a lawyer, you may not know how to determine this. Do make a note for yourself about each of these letters. Your note should contain the date, the author, the recipient, and the subject (not a word-for-word recitation) of the letter(s). If you follow this practice, you will demonstrate to the school board attorney that you are honest and worthy of respect.
Never assume that the school provided you with the entire record. Schools file documents in different places. You may find files in the office of the 504 coordinator, the school nurse, the special education director, and so forth. These files may include documents that are not in the child's "main" or cumulative file. (Refer to the quotation from the LRP publication above).
Determine which support staff seems to be the ramrod support person. Before you leave, ask this person if you can have a copy of the school's 504 policy, attendance policy, and other policies that you know about. These documents are the stuff of which due process dreams are made.
Look at posters, inspirational quotes, and brochures. You may find delightful quotes or policy statements that run counter to how school personnel are handling your child's education. Look for warm, fuzzy statements that are printed and displayed for all to see. Write down what the poster says, where it was displayed, and the date you saw it. Don't forget to pick up brochures about the school or school district. The people who write these things tend to go overboard when they say "No student is left behind," etc.
Make a second set of copies to use as your working copies. Bind the original copies with a rubber band. Attach a note that includes the date you received the copies and from whom you received them. Do not mark, write on, spindle, mutilate or otherwise disturb these original documents from the school. If you need to prepare for a hearing, these are the documents you will use.
Organize your working copies chronologically. File the oldest document on top, most recent document on the bottom.
Do not organize documents by category. Do not file IEPs, letters, or evaluations together. Instead, file documents in chronological order. This will give you a clean picture of events.
Some documents have more than one page. For example, most IEPs have many pages. These pages may have different dates. Find the date of agreement or execution that relates to the entire document or set of pages. Use this as the date for the document or set of pages.
Use documents to make a timeline. Make an index of the documents by listing the date, author, and a brief description of the subject matter of the document. For example, a letter may be described as follows: Letter, dated ***, written by ***, sent to ****, subject: notice of IEP meeting date. This process will save you many hours. When you use this process, you avoid the headaches that you would get if you had to dig through piles of papers to find the "smoking gun" document you recall seeing several months ago.
Examine each document carefully. Look at the dates. Are there discrepancies? Do the date sequences follow the rules?
For example, if the document about the initial placement decision is dated before the initial evaluation report, BINGO. Is the date on the IEP before or after the date on the notice of the meeting?
Check everything. Take nothing for granted. We have fallen into the trap of reading documents with an uncritical eye when we assume that all evaluators are qualified and all dates are correct.
Regardless of whether your claim will be resolved informally by mediation or negotiation or in a formal due process hearing, you must understand the basis of the claim and prepare to present your claim.
Having to plow through and understand hundreds or thousands of documents is time-consuming and exasperating. But the payoff comes when you know the real facts and issues and how to prepare, when you can show evidence that supports your perception of how the facts apply to your issues.
Above all, this process provides parents and non-attorney advocates with the tools you can use to avoid case-killer arguments. What are case-killer arguments?
"The evaluator was a bozo"
Anything that looks like Latin and is not a misspelling of a perfectly good word or words.
Finally, may I suggest that learning how to evaluate and use documents takes great patience and discipline? Others can help you with the learning process.
Join organizations like the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA).
Brice Palmer lives in Benson, Vermont. In addition to his work as an active non-attorney advocate, Mr. Palmer is managing editor of The Beacon and pens Observations from the Transom.

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Charles Mazel is a scuba diver/scientist/engineer/entrepreneur living in Bedford, MA. His photography started as a means to document his exploration of fluorescence underwater, especially on coral reefs. A simple question – “What happens when you swim around underwater at night with an ultraviolet light – does anything glow and can you photograph it?” – led unexpectedly to a scientific career researching fluorescence underwater and developing equipment to measure, observe, and document it. That underlying interest has expanded to an exploration of fluorescence wherever it may occur in the world around us, and he is now exploring this hidden dimension of light as a medium for art.
Mazel’s underwater fluorescence images were featured in a solo show in MIT’s Strobe Alley in Cambridge, MA, and in a two-person show at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. He has had individual images, from both below and above water, in a curated show at the Joyce Goldstein gallery in SoHo and in juried exhibitions at the Griffin Museum for Photography, the Bedford Free Public Library, and the Providence Center for the Photographic Arts.
To view more of Charles Mazel’s work please visit his website.

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This is the ideal partnership of French Champagne with Belgian chocolates.
A bottle of Lanson Black Label Brut Champagne.
These are delivered in a beautiful cane picnic hamper with a message card inside. Bespoke hampers are available – please just ask!


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When speakers are warning of the imminent danger of an investment bubble forming in the impact investment market it can sound familiar and very mainstream, writes business advisor and freelance writer, Peter Morris who attended the recent Social Enterprise World Forum.
The warning of the imminent danger of an investment bubble forming in the impact investment market, sounded at the Social Enterprise World Forum in Milan recently, came from Lucian Balbo of Oltre Ventures, a seasoned Italian Venture Capitalist and one of the pioneers in the nascent Impact Investment market in his country.
He blames information gaps on both the investor and entrepreneurs’ side for the potential danger. Other speakers in the session talked about a lack of the quality proposals being presented to funders and the exclusion of practitioners from the due diligence assessment process.
Balbo’s comments carry additional weight when examined alongside the statistics gathered by the OECD in its “New Investment Approaches for Addressing Social and Economic Challenges” identifying a near doubling of the number of Impact Invest funds around the world between 2007 and 2012. In dollar value terms investment has been growing 10 per cent pa or faster each year for the past four years.
And there are other indicators of the sector’s buoyant position. On a continent still feeling the ravages of the 2008 financial crisis the European Commission points to the far greater resilience and lower failure rate of SE firms which has meant they now account for 10 per cent of employment and 11 per cent of GDP across the region.
Adding to the “our-day-has-come” feeling at the Forum was the presence of a good sprinkling of national Ministers along with representatives from various arms of the United Nations, the European Commission and the European Bank for Reconstruction. Circling around are various corporates as either sponsors or players, their presence triggering unfinished exchanges over the appropriate balance between financial return and social impacts.
The sector’s successes – and with it its path to the mainstream – is and will continue to be littered with uncomfortable choices around the inevitable compromises. Nowhere is this more challenging than in relation to the fundamental issue of growing scale. Who to partner with, on what terms, is the social value being squeezed out by the imperative of a sustainable financial return?
These questions hung around the Forum but in the understandable – and intoxicating – mix of positivity and success stories they were never really engaged with.
Muhammad Yunis, founder of the Grameen Bank, inventor of microfinance, Nobel Laureate and the sector’s undisputed “rock star” made direct reference to this danger when he spoke about the potentially disastrous impact on microfinance lending caused by the adoption of the term by many loan sharks and pay-day lenders to describe their activities. As Prof. Yunnis said, “these were exactly the people we established the Grameen Bank to run out of business”.
It is clearly a case of imitation being the greatest form of flattery but as the stakes get greater clearly defining and holding onto the jewels will become and increasingly challenging and but important task.
The Forum kicked off with an updated recitation of the presentation Mike Green CEO of the Social Progress Initiative gave to TED last year on their work to date and the insights it is revealing.
For anyone who has participated in a conversation on the challenges presented by our current economic system and its singular focus on financial inputs to measure progress this is essential viewing. The Index proposes a coherent and compelling alternative and with it a path forward for action.
Conveniently for the SE faithful the picture it presents and the logical answer to the global scale question it poses is that social enterprises are the only option on the ground. The SPI has now mapped the performance of more than 120 countries. In two years of operation it is gathering significant attention as a viable alternative to the narrowness of GDP numbers, including looking at sub-national performance and the position of groups within national borders.
About the author: Up until mid 2014 Peter Morris worked as a Business Adviser in the Government's Enterprise Connect program, servicing more than 100 SME clients. Since then he has been building his expertise and experience in Social Enterprise to enable him to pursue his interest in the sector. In his early career Morris worked as a journalist for the ABC (radio and television) and across all forms of print (regional and daily newspapers and industry magazines).

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text: Goodwill Industries and Wesleyan College-First For Women proudly present Eat, Drink, & Be Scary at the Fourth Thursday Artist Reception: Dina Deason at the Goodwill Retail Store on Forysth Rd in Macon, GA Oct. 26 from 5-7 p.m. Dina Deason has studied with various artists evolving into an abstract/impressionist artist, incorporating different textures and papers in her work. She likes trying new styles and different techniques in her creations. Show dates are Oct. 25 - Nov. 22 at 4560 Forsyth Rd, Macon, GA 31210. Mondays – Saturdays 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sundays 12 – 6 p.m.

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On this trip, I visited Zambia between 31-Jul-2018 and 10-Aug-2018 and I travelled with 4 other people.
Great trip. Really enjoyed all 3 of the camps. I agree that it would have been a little better to visit in a different order (as Expert Africa recommended, it was availability that forced us to do it in a different order) but it wasnt a big deal. Really enjoyed lack of wifi - a real treat.

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A team of astronomers has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended local neighborhood, showing the past motions of almost 1,400 galaxies within 100 million light years of the Milky Way.
The team, including co-author Brent Tully of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi, reconstructed the galaxies’ motions from 13 billion years in the past to the present day. The main gravitational attractor in the mapped area is the Virgo Cluster, with 600 trillion times the mass of the Sun, 50 million light years from us.
More than a thousand galaxies have already fallen into the Virgo Cluster, while in the future all galaxies that are currently within 40 million light years of the cluster will be captured. The Milky Way galaxy lies just outside this capture zone. However, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, each with 2 trillion times the mass of the Sun, are destined to collide and merge in five billion years.
These dramatic merger events are only part of a larger show. There are two overarching flow patterns within this volume of the universe. All galaxies in one hemisphere of the region—including the Milky Way—are streaming toward a single flat sheet. In addition, essentially every galaxy over the whole volume is flowing, as a leaf would in a river, toward gravitational attractors at far greater distances.
Representations of the orbits can be seen in a video and, alternatively, with an interactive model. With the interactive model, a viewer can pan, zoom, rotate and pause/activate the time evolution of movement along orbits. The orbits are shown in a reference frame that removes the overall expansion of the universe. Viewers are shown the deviations from cosmic expansion caused by the interactions of local sources of gravity.
The study, “Action Dynamics of the Local Supercluster,” was published in the The Astrophysical Journal.
Lead author Ed Shaya of the University of Maryland conducted this research in collaboration with Tully, Yehuda Hoffman of Hebrew University in Israel, and Daniel Pomarede of the University of Paris-Saclay in France.


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While Kate Bosworth’s jewelry site seemed a bit of a stretch, Christian Siriano’s new Send The Trend accessories site makes perfect sense. He already has your feet covered with Christian Siriano for Payless, and his new membership site features “favorites” in jewelry, scarves and sunglasses. Like Kate Bosworth‘s site, you start by taking a personal style quiz, then provide a credit card number (don’t worry, they won’t charge).
This Lisbeth Spike Necklace ($29.95) has a cool, punky vibe – and no wonder, it’s named after the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. These Stella Flower Earrings ($29.95) are anything but dainty – the oversize dangly earrings are larger than they appear.
Still looking for that perfect piece of jewelry? Shop our guides to the best jewelry staples, cocktail rings and bracelets.


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Two men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly beating and tobbing a 60-yr old man on Ave M and E 19th in Midwood. The incident was videotaped on camera Monday. The victim was beaten so badly that he needed 70 stitches in his forehead.
Baskim Huseinovic, 19, and Eldin Sabovic, 17, were charged with robbery and assault. Police say they have not yet determined whether the assault was a hate crime. The two men both live just a few blocks from where the beating took place in Midwood.
A getaway driver has not yet been arrested, according to cops.
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said that based on what he's heard of the investigation, he thinks the attack is a hate crime. Both suspects were silent and showed no emotions as they walked out of 66th Precinct.


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That wagging tail means love. Celebrate the unconditional canine affection with this pair of eye-catching kitchen towels.
Reads: "Love is wet noses slobbery kisses and a wagging tail"


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This tutorial introduces the new Rich Tool Tips feature in Photoshop CC 2018 which adds instructional video clips to the Tool Tips when you hover over a tool in the Toolbar. You'll also learn how to switch back to Photoshop's traditional Tool Tips.
Photoshop CC 2018 is here, adding great new features to Photoshop like better integration with Adobe Lightroom, the Curvature Pen Tool, the redesigned Brushes panel, and more! But one new feature in CC 2018, Rich Tool Tips, maybe isn't quite as great as the others, at least in my opinion. In this quick tutorial, we'll look at the idea behind Rich Tool Tips and how they work. And then, if you agree with me that they're not as useful as Adobe was hoping for, you'll learn how to turn them off and restore the more traditional Tool Tips that Photoshop has been using for years.
Rich Tool Tips are only available as of Photoshop CC 2018, so you'll need CC 2018 to use them. If you're a Creative Cloud subscriber and not sure how to update to CC 2018, see our How To Keep Photoshop CC Up To Date tutorial for everything you need.
The way Tool Tips in Photoshop used to look.
The new Rich Tool Tips in Photoshop CC 2018.
In theory, Rich Tool Tips sound like a good idea. Who wouldn't want an animation showing how the tool works? Of course, the simple answer is, anyone who already knows how it works. And even if you haven't yet learned how to use the tool, you still won't know just by watching a 5 or 6 second animation. So while they sound great in theory, Rich Tool Tips don't offer much value in the real world. In fact, they can quickly become annoying, taking up too much space on the screen without any real purpose for being there.
If you like this new feature, great! Rich Tool Tips in Photoshop CC 2018 are enabled by default so there's nothing you need to do to keep using them. But if, like me, you prefer the older-style, traditional Tool Tips, here's how to bring them back.
Opening the Tools preferences in Photoshop CC 2018.
Toggle Rich Tool Tips on and off using the "Use Rich Tooltips" option in the Preferences.
And there we have it! That's a quick look at the new Rich Tool Tips feature in Photoshop CC 2018 and how to switch back to Photoshop's traditional Tool Tips. Also check out the brand new Curvature Pen Tool in Photoshop CC 2018. Or visit our Photoshop Basics section for similar tutorials!

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Have you or your loved ones been injured from a dog bite? Do you know how to help such victims? Anyone who has suffered a dog bite knows how extremely terrifying the incident is. Besides experiencing a painful injury, the person suffers emotional damage due to anxiety and fear. It is essential to know that the dog bite victim can file a dog bite lawsuit to receive compensation for his or her injuries.
Around 4.7 million people suffer from dog bite injuries yearly in the USA. Recent research shows that every day, more than 1,000 U.S. citizens need emergency treatment for severe dog bite injuries. A dog bite lawsuit helps victims regain damages like those for lost wages, medical bills, and rehabilitation and therapy costs. Further, victims may also seek compensation for emotional trauma, pain and suffering. It is important to consult a lawyer who is an expert in personal injury cases. This is the best option to find out if one has a feasible case.
Why is it Essential to Consult a Lawyer?
A lawyer is needed in such cases as the laws can vary to a great extent from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It is somewhat complex. In fact, dog bite lawsuits fall into various different legal categories. Country, state and local laws combine to form the legal foundation that deals with personal injuries. Thus, it can beneficial to find a well-versed attorney who can make the process flow quite well. Further, seeking the right aid will ensure that all the victim’s rights are completely protected all the way through the entire process.
Attorneys specializing in personal injury laws including dog bites have immense knowledge of legal cases, state laws, local laws, and general liability laws, and help you present your case in the best possible manner. With their knowledge and experience, an attorney will strive hard to present the victim with all available opportunities for providing the victim with the most favorable settlement.
The medical treatment and rehabilitation expenses of a dog bite lawsuit are fairly high. However, the real damage a victim undergoes is actually beyond any physical injuries. As the total cost of a dog bite is quite high, it makes a legal battle a little intricate. Due to various issues including anxiety, emotional trauma, loss of wages, etc, the family of the victim may also be entitled to compensation for providing the victim support throughout the recuperation process.
Anyone who suffers injuries from a dog bite must contact a personal injury attorney as soon as possible after the attack. No matter whether you knew the dog or not, you may have a viable case. It is true that the legal rights of the victim vary to a great extent depending on the exact site of the attack. However, it is essential to start the process very early. These issues need to be investigated instantaneously.
The dog owner is well aware of the aggressive nature of the dog or if the dog has a past history of attacking people.
The dog owner did not meet or comply with leashing laws and permitted the dog to run free, which resulted in an attack.
No matter what breed of dog caused the bite or how the attack occurred, a personal injury attorney is a very important asset. An attorney will make great efforts to help you regain the damages you are entitled to.
This web site is not intended, nor shall it, create an attorney client relationship between you and this law firm or any attorney for this law firm. While you are free to send us electronic mail, you should be aware that the act of sending electronic mail does not create an attorney client relationship. Unless you are a client of this firm, who has a written fee agreement, your electronic mail may not be treated as privileged or confidential. If you are an existing client of this firm, who has a written fee agreement, please remember that electronic mail is not secure and you should avoid sending us sensitive, confidential or privileged information. This firm has endeavored to comply with all known legal and ethical requirements in compiling this web site.


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Summer Camps are in full swing here at The Culinary Classroom! Every summer for 10+ years, I have taught my Children’s Culinary Academies. It is one of the things that makes my job so wonderful… teaching youths how to cook and work in a kitchen. As a long time professional chef, it is inspiring to see the passion and drive all of the children have for cooking! Recently, my Children’s Culinary Academies were named one of the Top Ten Summer Camps on Famadillo.com.
My summer camps were also featured on Coast to Coast Newspaper. Todd Elliot, who writes for the paper, enrolled his daughter in one of my summer camps. She had so much fun learning to cook and eating all of the delicious foods! It was great having her in the classroom… we hope to see her again next summer!
Check out both articles below!
Make sure to stayed tuned on my social media platforms for recipes, videos, and pictures!
Looking for a fun experience for your child this summer?
We have limited spaces left in our Children’s Culinary Academies!
I took the Cupcake class and my cupcakes from here on out will never be the same!! Chef Eric is an outstanding instructor. There were young girls in the class with their parent and he was so patient with them which speaks volumes for Chef Eric and his personality. The tips alone that I picked up in this class added even more value to the class. Who knew I was measuring flour incorrectly all these years! I will be signing up for both his Master Baking/Pastry Class and his Master Chef Class.


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Chelsey is a lifelong Alaskan and has been working at Home Town Physical Therapy since 2009 as our insurance specialist. She graduated from West Valley High School in 2007. She enjoys spending time with her family camping, four wheeling and traveling.
Jade was born and raised in North Carolina. She decided to join the other sourdoughs of Alaska in 2014. She enjoys doing yoga, cooking, and learning Spanish. She loves spending time with her fiancé and their dog.
Niki was born and raised in Fairbanks. She graduated from West Valley in 2009 and UAF in 2014. Kickboxing and traveling are some of her favorite things to do along with spending time with her husband and two dogs.

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Anthony Rosenhagen in Cincinnati, OH provides high quality, professional tree services. Call 513-218-5851 to hear about our services. We will be glad to talk.
If you live in Cincinnati, OH or the surrounding areas and looking for an experienced tree services company, turn to Anthony Rosenhagen. We have been in business for 5 years and know what it takes to offer the best services. We handle our clients’ trees with great care and sterilize our tools before the next job. No matter how big your job is, we will fully complete it in an efficient and timely manner without skimping on quality. Anthony Rosenhagen in Cincinnati, OH is licensed and insured for your protection.
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Modifying the various brush settings in Photoshop can help achieve different effects and textures. This tutorial will show you how to play around with brush settings, as well as layer styles, to create a messy, flour-inspired text effect. Let's get started!
Create a new 1250 x 800px document, and set the Resolution to 200.
Place the wood texture3177 image on top of the Background layer, and resize it as needed. Then go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise, and use the values below.
Add a Levels adjustment layer and change the Gamma value to 0.83.
Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and change the Saturation to -24 and the Lightness to -3.
Create the text using the font Patrick Hand. The Size is 135 pt and the Tracking value is set to 75.
Command-click the text layer's thumbnail to create a selection. Then Expand the selection by 5 px and Feather it 4 px.
Set the Foreground color to #f2ece6 and the Background color to #e4dfdf. Make sure to keep those colors set the same, as they'll be used all through the tutorial.
The layers will be named according to their order from top to bottom. So make sure to also follow the naming of the layers as mentioned in the tutorial.
Create a new layer, name it 4, and fill the selection with the Foreground color.
Convert the selection you have into a work path by clicking the Make work path from selection icon at the bottom of the Paths panel.
Create a new layer and name it 6. Pick the Brush Tool, choose the brush tip 1 from the Flour Text Effect Brushes Set, and stroke the path with that brush tip. Then pick the Eraser Tool, choose brush tip 2, and stroke the path again to erase some parts.
Right-click the text layer and choose Create Work Path. Create a new layer, call it 7, pick the Brush Tool, and then stroke the path with the brush tip 3.
Create a new layer, name it 5, stroke the path three times with the brush tip 4, and then pick the Eraser Tool and stroke the path once with the brush tip 5.
Create a new layer, name it 3, and use the Brush Tool to stroke the path with the brush tip 6. Then use the Eraser Tool to stroke the path with the same brush tip as well.
Command-click the original text layer to create a selection, and then Contract it by 10 px.
Convert the selection into a work path, create a new layer and name it 1. Then pick the Brush Tool, choose the brush tip 2, change its Size to 10 px, and stroke the path with it. This will not seem to be making any difference, but it will once it's styled later on.
Create another new layer, name it 2, and then use the Brush Tool to stroke it with the brush tip 7.
Create one more layer, and name it 8. Command-click layer 4's thumbnail to create a selection and convert it into a work path.
Use the Brush Tool to stroke the path with the brush tip 8. Then, pick the Eraser Tool, reduce its Opacity value to 65%, and stroke the path with the same brush tip (8).
Increase the Opacity value back to 100%, and stroke the path two or three more times with the brush tip 5 and once with the brush tip 9.
Once you're done, get rid of the work path, and make sure that the layers are in the right order based on their numbers.
This will style the first layer.
Change layer 1's Blend Mode to Color Burn and its Opacity to 60%. Copy and paste this layer style to layer 2.
Copy and paste layer 1's style to layer 3, and then double click layer 3 to change the Bevel and Emboss's Angle to 49 and the Altitude to 42.
This will style layer 3.
This will style layer 4.
Copy and paster layer 3's style to layer 5, and then double click layer 5 to adjust some values and add more effects.
For the Bevel and Emboss change the Size to 20.
This will style layer 5. Convert layer 6 to a Smart Object and change its Opacity to 80%.
Go to Filter > Blur > Surface Blur, and change the Radius to 3 and the Threshold to 50.
Copy and paste layer 5's style to layer 7.
Convert layer 8 to a Smart Object, and then change its Opacity to 50%.
Next, we're going to feather out the flour edges surrounding the text. So create an elliptical selection around the text, excluding the edges you want to feather out, and apply any Feather amount you like to the selection. Then create a layer mask to make the edges fade out.
Go to Filter > Blur > Surface Blur, and change the Radius to 3 and the Threshold to 15.
Go to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen, and use the values you like to make the details of this layer more crisp and clear.
Since the layer is a smart object, you can change the values any time you like.
Create a new layer below layer 8, name it Shadow, and change its Fill value to 0.
Pick the Brush Tool and use a soft round brush tip to darken the area behind the text.
Create a new layer on top of the Shadow layer and name it Residue. Pick the Brush Tool, and choose any of the brush tips from the Thirty Grunge Brushes set. Click, without dragging, to add a couple around the text.
What you'll need to do next is follow the same steps to create the rest of the layers and style them, just like you did for the text. You can skip the Contract selection part if you like.
Group all the residue layers in a group and name it Residue.
Add a layer mask to the Residue group. Then pick any of the Saint Grunge Pack 1 brush tips, and click without dragging to erase some parts of the center and/or the edges of the residue.
You can use different brush tips, different sizes, and different Opacity values to get the result you like.
Add a Gradient adjustment layer, and use the colors #f2ece6 to the left and #8e857d to the right to create a transparent to fill color gradient. Change the Style to Radial, and the Scale to 450%.
Place the adjustment layer on top of all layers and change its Blend Mode to Linear Burn.
Select all the layers you have except for the Gradient adjustment layer. Duplicate and merge them, rename the merged layer to High Pass, and convert it into a Smart Object.
Go to Filter > Other > High Pass, and change the Radius to 10.
Change the High Pass layer's Blend Mode to Soft Light and its Opacity to 35%.
Finally, change the Residue's layer 4's Opacity value to 80%.
In this tutorial, we modified a wood texture background, and created some simple text.
Then, we started working with selections, work paths, brushes, and filters to create the different flour layers.
After that, we styled those layers, created the residue layers, and used feathering and masks to better blend the different elements together.
Finally, we used an adjustment layer and a simple filter to enhance the final result.


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The haegeum is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. It is popularly known as kkangkkangi.It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
The haegeum is one of the most widely used instruments in Korean music. The haegeum is used in court music as well as madangnori (ordinary people's music). The haegeum's range of expression is various despite having only two strings, with sounds ranging from sorrowful and sad to humerous. The haegeum is made using eight materials: gold, rock, thread, bamboo, gourd, soil, leather, and wood, and so it is called paleum (eight sounds).
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There is still time to change the road you're on and you are the only one who can decide to do it. Once you do, there are people who cleared the way.
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text: the gates of the temple of Janus.  Domestic war now rendered the admonition superfluous, and the ceremony was superseded by the establishment of a new religion. But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces directed to the east and west. The double gates were likewise of brass; and a fruitless effort to turn them on their rusty hinges revealed the scandalous secret that some Romans were still attached to the superstition of their ancestors.


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Are You Talking to All the Right People?
It’s the fundamental definition of marketing: meeting the needs of customers at a profit. And that includes offering the right products or services, at the right price, where and how the customers want to purchase. But who are these customers? Are you sure you know? And are you sure you are talking to all customers?
The Nike swoosh is iconic. Recognized by athletes, spectators, and people the world over, the Nike Swoosh is valued at over $26 billion. Business people love to tell the story that this essential corporate asset was created by a graphic design student at Portland State University in 1971 who was paid about $35 (under $300 in 2017) for her work.
Marketers are in love with storytelling, and for good reason. Human beings are hardwired to listen to, connect with, learn from – and most importantly, remember – stories.
“Just as the brain detects patterns in the visual forms of nature – a face, a figure, a flower – and in sound, so too it detects patterns in information. Stories are recognizable patterns, and in those patterns, we find meaning. We use stories to make sense of our world and to share that understanding with others. They are the signal within the noise,” according to Frank Rose, writing in Wired.


text: A Building Permit is a general permit type. It is required for new construction; for additions, alterations, repairs and partial demolitions to buildings and structures; and for moved buildings. A Building Permit may also include the required plumbing, electrical and mechanical work on the project.

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Repositioning of antibiotic levofloxacin as a mitochondrial biogenesis inhibitor to target breast cancer.
Targeting mitochondrial biogenesis has become a potential therapeutic strategy in cancer due to their unique metabolic dependencies. In this study, we show that levofloxacin, a FDA-approved antibiotic, is an attractive candidate for breast cancer treatment. This is achieved by the inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis in a panel of breast cancer cell lines while sparing normal breast cells. It also acts synergistically with conventional chemo drug in two independent in vivo breast xenograft mouse models. Importantly, levofloxacin inhibits mitochondrial biogenesis as shown by the decreased level of mitochondrial respiration, membrane potential and ATP. In addition, the anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects of levofloxacin are reversed by acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALCAR, a mitochondrial fuel), confirming that levofloxacin's action in breast cancer cells is through inhibition of mitochondrial biogenesis. A consequence of mitochondrial biogenesis inhibition by levofloxacin in breast cancer cells is the deactivation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MAPK/ERK pathways. We further demonstrate that breast cancer cells have increased mitochondrial biogenesis than normal breast cells, and this explains their different sensitivity to levofloxacin. Our work suggest that levofloxacin is a useful addition to breast cancer treatment. Our work also establish the essential role of mitochondrial biogenesis on the activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MAPK/ERK pathways in breast cancer cells.

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text: Remarks - LAND/LOT FOR SALE at Lot 10 HIBISCUS DR. Cape San Blas, FL - Beautiful property with bay and gulf views in a well-appointed subdivision. Because of its location across the street from Rish Park, a home built on pilings here should have amazing gulf views. Amenities include deeded bay and gulf access with elevated walkways to the beach, gulf side community pool and gazebo, 500' pier out over St. Joe Bay, two stocked ponds, underground utilities and beautiful landscaping. Enjoy world class fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, scalloping, and snorkeling, just a short stroll from your own back yard! Conveniently located about two miles south of the entrance to the state park so easy to launch your boat nearby.


text: Billy’s Furniture is a family owned business with locations in both Beardstown and Jacksonville! They carry a variety of furniture, accessories, rugs, mattresses, etc. at a variety of price points! Financing and Delivery are available! Visit Billy and Leonard and their staff at one of their two locations! Watch Billy’s Furniture on Facebook for sales and new arrivals!


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The Anterior cruciate ligament tear is most common injured ligaments of knee especially in athletic peoples. This injury commonly due to hyper flexion of knee. An overall IR of 60 knee ligament injuries per 100000 people was seen in a knee injury clinic. About 50% of these ligament injuries were ACL tear, for 30 ACL tear/100000 persons,72% patients were male and 28% were female. Now days it is mostly treated by surgical methods. Its urge to research and execute an alternative, non-invasive treatment needed for ACL injury. Here takes place, Siddha systems unique method ’VARMAM’ for the management of ACL injuries. Varmam therapy is based on life energy termed as „VASI’. The vasi (life energy) continuously circulating through out body. Accumulation of vasi is called VARMA PULLIGAL. The varmam point used in the treatment of ACL tear are Mootu Varmam, Aga Thodai Varmam, Sirattai Varmam, Suzhi Pozhigai Varmam, Veeradagal,, Viruthi Kalam, Ida Moorthi Kalam,. The above varmam therapy capable of alleviate ACL injury was easily applicable, most effective in pain management, and cost effective. This study is all about the varmam points that have been followed by Varmam department OPD, Govt Siddha Medical College. for ACL tear.
Keywords: Anterior cruciate ligament tear (ACL), Siddha, Ayush, Varmam, Siddha therapy, Knee joint varmam.


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WomenWeave employs more than 80 women weavers in a region where traditionally, weaving has been done by men.
Handwoven from merino wool and handspun khadicotton yarns, this amply sized shawl is available in three soft color ways: grey, brown and chestnut. Enjoy as a casual wrap for cool autumn days, or a cozy throw ready for snuggling on the couch.

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I did a quick search on the site and didn't see any info on hot start problems. I have 64 Comet. I had my carb totally overhauled here a year ago by KP carbs on recommendation and I highly do the same. Fantastic. Here is the link to his site. http://www.kpcarbs.net/home.html. Also, I installed Pertronix electronic ignition.
Anyway, car is running good. Cold start, No problem at all, fires right up. After tooling around town a little bit (it's been in the 90's down here in Georgia), it gives me a hard time getting started if I don't get it on the first turn over. Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it is flooded. FYI, I replaced the sending unit to get the old fuel gauge functional within the week. I have fuel filter inline. I don't think it is contaminate. I have done minimal adjustment on the carb since it came all preset from KP carbs but, advice on adjustments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks ya'll. I just thought I'd go to the best resource.
Float level set too high is my guess, i had pretty much that exact issue and i could hold the pedal to the floor let the carb air out and after about 5-7 seconds of cranking i could finally get it to start. I pulled my carb off lowered the float level a little say about 1/16-1/8 inch and solved my problem. Basically what was happening was all the fuel in the carb bowl would hot soak and expand so much that a bunch of fuel would dump down into the intake, if i let it sit for long enough it would still start no problem but if i wanted to start it up right away it was a hassle. After lowering it starts up every time and never had a hot soak issue since.
I have the exact same problem. I've just lowered my float a fuzz and will post later this evening if it solves my problem!!!
I have the same problem on extremely hot days. if you don't already have one, consider a carb spacer.
Thanks for the input. I adjusted the float and I'll report back my findings as I drive it more. I just ordered some new tires too as one of the oldies finally threw a radial on my test drive!! It's always something and they were on borrowed time anyway. I've had to make some mixture adjustments to keep this girl idling as well so we will see.
How did it work out for you 65_Rat_Merc????

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After finally arriving in New Orleans Thursday evening, we went in search of a late dinner to the Roadfood-recommended Tujague's (pronounced Two-jacks), New Orleans' second oldest restaurant.
Tujague's offers a five-course meal with a single choice, that of main course. There are four choices given, and chicken bon femme is always available if you know to ask for it.
The first course was shrimp remoulade. This is not the mayonnaise-based sauce that I've encountered under the name of remoulade elsewhere; this was a complex, brownish-red mixture of I-don't-know-what. It was spicy enough to be too spicy for Lori; I think I tasted cayenne and mustard in it, but those were only a small fraction of the whole flavor profile.
The second course was seafood gumbo. It was a very thin gumbo, unlike most gumbos I've encountered that it wasn't served with rice; it was mostly just broth with a few discs of spicy sausage and a crab body that I didn't extract the meat from. It too was too spicy for Lori, and I wasn't very pleased with it myself.
Things improved with the third course, beef brisket with creole sauce. The brisket was splendidly tender, falling into shreds at the touch of a fork. The sauce was much like a cocktail sauce.
For the main course, I ordered the chicken bon femme. "Chicken bon femme" translates as "good woman chicken", but what was not clear to me from the reviews I've read was that the good woman has an interest in a garlic farm. It was a layered dish. Layer one on the plate was a layer of salad greens. That was topped with four pieces of fried chicken. The chicken was almost hidden from view by a layer of housemade potato chips. Then the whole thing was topped with a double handful of chopped raw garlic and parsley - mostly garlic. I've had platters of nachos with less cheese than there was garlic atop these potato chips. I tried to keep the garlic on the chips and chicken as I ate them, but despite my attempts, enough garlic spilled off to pile up in drifts on the table. I was very conscious that Lori and I might be risking an unfortunate garlic imbalance, like the imprudent Stinking Rose incident on our honeymoon.
The chips didn't thrill me; they were decent, but a bit too greasy for me to enjoy eating them for long.
The fried chicken, however, was excellent: very juicy and flavorful, with an exceptional herby crispy skin. I really enjoyed it a lot.
By the end of the course, I could feel the garlic emanating from my whole body. But on the plus side, I felt totally proof against vampires.
Lori got a filet mignon, served with mashed potatoes and cabbage sauteed with onions. The filet was cooked with a sauce of butter and (cooked) garlic. I was surprised to find that I could clearly taste the garlic in the sauce even though I had eaten so much raw garlic from my plate; it gave me hope that we might avoid garlic imbalance catastrophe.
Dessert was banana bread pudding with caramel sauce. It was very good.
One last remark about Tujague's: the bar area has a huge mirror, probably 8'x16'. The history of Tujague's we read said that the mirror was brought from a restaurant in France. The thought of transporting such a huge mirror safely with 19th-century technology daunts me.

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(York, Pa., Jan. 2, 2018) - The York Revolution announced today the team has completed the trade that brought slugger Rubi Silva to York late last season. The Atlantic League champions traded infielder Chase Simpson to the Can-Am League’s Sussex County Miners to finish the deal for Silva that filled an injury-prompted hole on the Revs roster in 2017.
Silva was acquired by York for the final week of the regular season and made an immediate impact. Inserted into his first game on September 11, the day he was acquired due to injury to another player, Silva cracked a game-tying home run on the first pitch he saw in a Revolution uniform, helping lift York to a 2-1 win over Long Island as the Revs moved toward clinching a second-half division title. Silva batted .379 (11-for-29) with four RBI in seven regular season games and was the Revs' everyday second baseman and number three hitter during the team's playoff run en route to the Atlantic League championship.
Silva batted .452 (14-for-31) in seven playoff games and led all playoff hitters with a Revs playoff-record seven runs, 14 hits, 19 total bases, three doubles, one triple, and four extra-base hits. He notched five multi-hit games during the postseason, including a 4-for-4 performance in the championship clincher, punctuated by an eighth inning leadoff bunt single that set up Telvin Nash's championship-winning two-run home run.
After beginning his career in his native Cuba, Silva joined the Chicago Cubs organization, reaching Triple-A Iowa, where he batted .282 with 11 home runs during the 2015 season. The 28-year-old spent five years in the Cubs system, posting a career .282 average, including a strong 2013 campaign at Double-A Tennessee, where he batted .284 with a career-high 15 home runs.
Simpson batted .199 with six home runs and 22 RBI in 57 regular season games as the Revs' third baseman. He went on to hit .346 with a home run and four RBI in seven postseason games. Simpson's biggest highlight came in the regular season's penultimate game on September 16, when he crushed a seventh inning grand slam to help cement a 13-7 victory over Lancaster and a second-half division crown. It was one of four home runs hit by Simpson over the season's final eight games.
Simpson spent each of his first four career seasons in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, reaching Double-A Altoona last year.
The Revolution begin their defense of their Atlantic League championship against the Lancaster Barnstormers on April 26 at PeoplesBank Park. For more information, visit www.yorkrevolution.com.

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India’s first report on 'The Laws Relating to Fantasy Sports Games in India’ was unveiled at IFSG's GamePlan 2018.
The Indian Federation of Sports Gaming (IFSG), India’s first industry body formed for protecting consumer interests through the self-regulation of the Sports Gaming industry, has unveiled India’s first ever report on the ‘Legality of Fantasy Sports in India’.
An initiative of the Sports Law and Policy Centre, the legal report brings contributions from experts in sports and gaming laws from India’s leading law firms like Nishith Desai Associates, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co. & LawNK. This report delves into the skill element of Fantasy Sports games, need for self-regulation by online Sports Gaming companies, the use of third-party intellectual property in Fantasy Sports games and the recent developments in the Supreme Court of India relating to the determination of Dream11’s Fantasy Sports format as a game of predominant skill.
The Fantasy Sports ecosystem has been growing exponentially in India over the last few years. From 20 lakh users in 2016, the base has grown to over 2 crore Fantasy Sports users in 2018, with estimated projections of over 10 crore Indian sports fans playing Fantasy Sports by 2020. India now has 56 Fantasy Sports operators, with 2017 alone seeing 30 new entities entering this exciting space. Popular sporting tournaments such as the IPL, NBA, ISL, PKL and others are increasingly relying on fantasy sports as their primary tool for fan engagement.

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Next week at the Society for the History of Technology annual meeting in Philadelphia, I will be presenting “Manufacturing the Horse: Understandings of Inheritance in the Long 18th Century” as part of the Maintaining Natures II panel (and I won’t be the only equine paper! Felicity McWilliams of Kings College London will be presenting “Maintaining Tractors and Caring for Horses: Looking after Draught Power Technologies in Twentieth Century British Farming.”) What began as a simple question– what were the genetics behind the unusual colors of the Hanoverian Cream and Hanoverian White– uncovered some surprising features of early modern horse breeding.
Before returning to academics, I was a horse trainer. When I started out, I was taught to breed ‘like to like.’ You selected for your mare a stallion of same type, the same general size and shape, regardless of whether he was of the same breed. Among thoroughbred breeders the saying goes “breed the best to the best, and hope for the best.” This very unscientific method of breeding selection has been assumed to be the norm prior to advent of modern genetics. Because early modern treatises often included detailed accounts of correct star positions for auspicious breedings, humoral theory, telegony, and even suggestions on how to influence the color of a foal through what the mare saw while being bred or while pregnant, this assumption has seemed well founded. However, there is often a disconnect between canonical knowledge and applied knowledge, and in early modern breeding that disconnect is a gulf. It is clear that a great deal more thought went in to the choosing of well matched mates than in to following the rules of the stars.
If we look only a short time back, it is easy to suggest breeders simply bred like to like. The development of modern breeds (of dogs, cattle, sheep, and other livestock as well as among horses) at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries relied heavily on inbreeding to fix desired traits. The studbooks that were rare in the eighteenth century were not only increasingly common but also increasing closed, moving from recording progeny and achievements to codifying what animals were allowed to belong, and allowed to be bred. However, this was not a continuation of prior practices, but rather a break from them. The creation, and subsequent closing, of studbooks represented new concepts of breeding, relying on the previously taboo “in and in” breeding, being then defined as loosely as mating two animals produced by the same farm. The word “breed” itself changed, from meaning a group bred by a particular person to meaning an animal belonging to a pedigreed, reproducible family.
Stop by Maintaining Natures II, or follow #SHOT2017 and #HorseHistory, to hear more.
I had to share a few of these. Our names for coat colors seem so normal until we look at them in translation (or try to explain them to a non-horse person! “What do you mean he’s not brown?”). We think nothing of calling a horse mouse dun, but pél de rata- coat of rat- elicits a giggle.
Mohrenkopf = German “moor head,” for blue roan.
Windfarben = German “wind colored,” for silver dapple.
Alézan Brulé = French “burnt chestnut,” for liver chestnut.
Valk = Dutch “falcon,” for buckskin.
Schimmel = German “mold,” usually for grey but also roan, varnish.

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What does it mean to be a diverse campus? How does structural racism operate in higher education? What connections are there between the fight to end racist policing and to fight to build a more just educational system? What can we do to build a university that is accessible to and supportive of all people?
Come hear scholar-activists Austin McCoy and Jennifer Alzate discuss these questions and more. Both Austin and Jen were heavily involved in last year’s Speak Out and have continued to do anti-racist organizing on the U of M campus. They will talk about some of the ways that structural racism operates in higher education, looking in particular at why policies presumed to be “race-blind” have a systematic deleterious impact on people and communities of color.
Jen and Austin will also talk about strategies for engaging the University and improving diversity on campus and ideas for how we can tackle these issues here in Ann Arbor.
“Fighting Racism in the Academy: Diversity and Structural Racism in Higher Education” is the first in a series of talks about structural racism and local anti-racist organizing sponsored by the group AA2 to Ferguson. For more information about subsequent events, please see the attached flier and like our facebook page: Ann Arbor to Ferguson.


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The 2-way full range TPX122M is a passive 12" 1000W loudspeaker system that is ideally suited for a wide range of portable speech and music sound reinforcement, including FOH, side fill and monitor applications. Engineered as a standalone 2-way system not requiring any external equalization or filtering, the TPX122M achieves optimal performance when paired with a subwoofer and TURBOSOUND loudspeaker management systems. The TPX122M loudspeaker features a high excursion 12" low frequency driver with a low mass voice coil for improved transient response, and an aluminum dome 1" compression driver mounted on a 70° horizontal by 50° vertical low distortion waveguide. All drivers are matched with an internal passive crossover network in a reflex-loaded enclosure.
Covered in rugged black carpet, the cabinet features 18 mm (¾ ") wood construction and includes a tough, powder-coated perforated steel mesh grille backed with reticulated foam, a dual-angle pole mount socket for use with 35 mm poles/speaker stands to optimize audience coverage, and durable handles for easy transport. The symmetrical wedge angle and high frequency dispersion pattern enable the TPX122M to be utilized as mirrored left/right floor monitors. A side panel connector plate carries Neutrik speakON* NL4 connectors for input and link connections to additional enclosures.


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2 Corinthians 12:1 If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. 2 Corinthians 12:3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth): 2 Corinthians 12:4 That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter. 2 Corinthians 12:5 For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing but in my infirmities. 2 Corinthians 12:6 For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. 2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. 2 Corinthians 12:8 For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 2 Corinthians 12:10 For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.
2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. 2 Corinthians 12:12 Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. 2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 2 Corinthians 12:15 But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less. 2 Corinthians 12:16 But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile. 2 Corinthians 12:17 Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you? 2 Corinthians 12:18 I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the same steps? 2 Corinthians 12:19 Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. 2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.


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In some radiative transfer processes, the time scales are usually on the order of 10−9–10−15s, so the transient effect of radiation should be considered. In present research, a finite element model, which is based on the discrete ordinates method and least-squares variational principle, is developed to simulate the transient radiative transfer in absorbing and scattering media. The numerical formulations and detailed steps are given. Moreover, two transient radiative transfer problems are investigated and the results are compared with those by integral method and finite volume method. It indicates that the present model can simulate the transient radiative transfer effectively and accurately.
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Hamidullah Baloch, director of Independent Election Commission (IEC), said that holding such conferences would help bring better amendments to the election law and counter threats and violation in the election process.
He said the participants stressed the IEC should provide immoveable polling system which was more efficient system in the world.
A number of people stressed on transparency in the election process.
Fazlullah Yaqubi one of the participants, told Pajhwok Afghan News he suggested three issues including immediate distribution of computerized ID cards, transparency in election and recruitment of professional individuals in the election commissions.
He stressed the commissions should not face shortage of employees during their work because shortage of employees could lead election process to face problems.
Syed Rahim, a resident of Chahar Dara district, said the polls system should be changed and the election law amended. He said the election commissions should be provided with database system.
The previous presidential and provincial election processes were faced problems by some powerful individuals, warlords, relatives of candidates, insecurity and fraud, he said, adding that Kunduz people want a transparent and free elections free from interference by warlords.
ACSEN head Dr. Mohammad Haroon said that based on their assessment, most of the participants demanded amendments in election law and formation of election commissions.
The participants were divided into eight groups and each of them had provided their own suggestions regarding reforms in the election system, he said, adding that suggestions would be shared with Kabul election commission officials.
The Electoral Reforms Commission (ERC) is scheduled to share their suggestions about the reforms for the election system with the president.
Shah Sultan Akefi, head of the panel, told Pajhwok Afghan News they had collected views and suggestions from more than 1,500 people regarding elections reforms from all seven zones of the country.
These people, he said, were members of civil society, political parties and legal experts. He did not go into detail, but hoped the suggestions could pave the way for parliamentary elections.
According to Akefi, 90 percent of the people whose views and suggestions have been obtained said those accused of electoral fraud should be prosecuted.

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Government officials can’t seem to make their minds up about bitcoin. Politicians like the underlying technology, they are prone to insist, but aren’t sure about the cryptocurrency itself, which is used by criminals to launder money, they reiterate. In as many weeks, European Commission-affiliated groups have issued two seemingly contradictory statements on the matter. Either bitcoin and its accompanying blockchain are tools for money laundering or they are tools for providing accountability and auditability. Which is true?
The 900-word press release makes no mention of bitcoin or cryptocurrency, which is quite an achievement given that blockchain would not exist were it not for the invention of decentralized currencies. The EC isn’t obligated to shout out bitcoin while extolling the benefits of blockchain technology of course, and the very fact that Europe’s primary legislative body is throwing its might behind distributed ledger technology bodes well.
This contradicts the findings of a recent report which concluded that bitcoin transactions associated with illegal activities have fallen to just 0.61%, and which found a 40% drop in such activity since 2013. It is beyond dispute that criminals have and continue to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder cash, just as they do with all monetary systems. The extent to which this occurs, however, is a matter of some debate.
Moving illicit funds around on a blockchain is certainly easier than transferring millions of dollars between banks. But concealing the route those funds take on public ledgers is all but impossible. As criminals are starting to discover, cryptocurrencies really aren’t suited to money laundering. While there are means of obfuscating or partially masking a bitcoin’s origin, doing so at scale is extremely hard. As this week’s EU press release notes, blockchain is a great means of storing information, immutably and indefinitely. Given the “high levels of traceability and security” which the European Community rightly talks of, some may question whether bitcoin and its ilk are the hive of criminal activity they’re frequently painted to be.
Perhaps the best interpretation of the opposing statements of Europol and the European Commission Blockchain Observatory and Forum comes down to departmental needs. It is in the interests of law enforcement to highlight online criminal activity, as to downplay the threat would be to effectively write off funding to combat it. Similarly, it is in the interests of a blockchain incubator to play up the technology’s many benefits, whilst omitting all mention of its downsides. The truth surely lies somewhere in between: blockchain is inherently neither good nor bad, but can be purposed in many ways. Beware the sound bites of officials with agendas to push.
Do you think laundering cash with cryptocurrencies is easier or harder than with fiat currencies? Let us know in the comments section below.


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In my last post (link above)I looked at the links between Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) and Progressives for Obama (PFO).
Both organisations link former members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its terrorist splinter Weather Underground, with Marxists from the Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America.
All of these groups are using their influence in the Democratic Party, media, unions, churches, academia, protest organisations and social movements to make Barack Obama the next president of the USA.
This post looks at two MDS activists from Texas, Thorne Dreyer and David Hamilton.
Both are former members of the original SDS and are endorsers of the Progressives for Obama website.
Dreyer and Hamilton are very active MDS members and have made their Austin Texas branch, one of the most active in the US.
The Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) is a multi-issue activist organization affiliated with the newly revived Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Many of its members are veterans of the New Left in the 60's and 70's. The goal of MDS is the creation of a more egalitarian society in both the political and economic spheres. MDS believes in participatory democracy, the expansion of human rights, universal healthcare, the rejection of discrimination based on race, gender or sexual preference, the preservation of the earth's environment, the expansion of workers' rights, a more equitable distribution of wealth, and the rejection of militarism and war as a way of resolving differences among peoples and nations.
Both men are dedicated, practical supporters of Barack Obama. Hamilton has served as an Obama delegate at a Travis County Democratic Convention.
Both believe that Obama, is like them, a socialist and that an Obama presidency would place more socialists in key governmental positions. They believe that communist/socialist/Democratic Party unity is necessary to elect Obama and to change society. They accept that Obama will have to lie about his true beliefs in order to get elected.
We believe the election of a progressive Democrat at this time in history would result in a quick end to the tragic War in Irag, the introduction of such progressive measures as universal (or virtually universal) health care, and would produce judicial and other governmental appointments that would make a very real difference in people's lives.
This would result in real, tangible changes in the lives of struggling lower income citizens, of racial minorities, of those rotting in jail because of race or victimless crimes, and, significantly, of oppressed peoples in other parts of the world.
And, taking into account that both major parties, in the long haul, represent similar if not identical vested interests, we believe that the Republicans, with their corporate masters, with their oppressive and mean-spirited politics at times verging on the neo-fascist, must be stopped.
It is of critical importance that we never latch on to a political candidate in this electoral system and herald him or her as some kind of a savior. Bottom line, the problems in this country are not based in who runs the system. The system itself is the problem. The shameful disparity in distribution of wealth between the obscenely rich and those left to struggle for their daily needs.
All that taken into account, we believe that there is much to like about Barack Obama, and that there are substantial and valid reasons to work for his election.
In 1936, the French Communist Party ended years of conflict with the French Socialist Party and established a united front that elected Leon Blum as the first socialist prime minister of France. That united front passed reforms that have characterized the socialist aspect of French society ever since.
I am not a Democrat. I have not voted for the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party since 1972 and have not participated in their primary process since the Jackson campaign of 1988.
Purists who reject him have no alternative other that “build an anti-imperialist movement." That is a false dichotomy. In November, hopefully you will have the opportunity to vote for Barack Obama for president. The ideal anti-imperialist won’t be on the ballot. Relate to that reality. He may disappoint somewhere along the way, but he is by far the best major party candidate I’ve ever seen.
Thorne Dreyer and David Hamilton are not MDS bosses. They are not in the league of Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Bill Fletcher, Tom Hayden, Carl Davidson, Robin DG Kelley, Charlene Mitchell or Gerald Horne.
They are good soldiers, working hard for Barack Obama and the revolution.
Trevor, you might want to do an Obama file on Obama supporters being linked with some hackers known as Anonymous which I refer them as Fascist Anonymous because for just simply no real reason they seem to hack websites they disagree with and also protest Scientology which I'll never follow but I ask the question why the online persecution then?
You may wish to take a gander at Gawker.com for starters which was one of the many rabid left-wing sites which promoted Sarah Palin's private email messages and contacts. The same site in question also displays, and linkens Obama to Superman but they make every charge against any remote right-winger to not dare misuse their political leanings to promote to be more than greater than life itself.
Also, feel free to use the Obama "=" Superman photo on my blog if you want to do another Obama file on Leftist Internet sites such as Gawker.com.


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Two inspirational twins have launched the landmark anniversary of a charity fundraiser.
Teenager Erin McCafferty - who beat cancer - has been chosen with her twin sister Nicole to launch the 25th birthday celebrations of Race for Life in Scotland.
The twins shared almost everything together growing up but never the same birthday. Despite entering the world just 25 minutes apart, they were born on separate days with Erin arriving at 11.50pm on November 1 while Nicole was born in the early hours of November 2, 2000.
But after Erin was diagnosed with leukaemia only three days before her 15th birthday, Nicole vowed to do everything she could to share that heartache, standing by her every step of the way through treatment.
Now Erin has been given the all clear, the twins are marking another milestone - the 25th birthday of Cancer Research UK Race for Life in Scotland.
Scotland’s first Race for Life event was held in Glasgow in spring 1995. Since then, millions of pounds have been raised to fund vital research in to gentler and more effective treatments for cancer.
Thousands are set to take to the streets again to take part in Scotland’s biggest Race for Life at Glasgow Green on May 19. Money raised will help scientists find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease, helping save more lives.
And there’s a chance to join the Race for Life 25th birthday celebrations at a special event on Argyle Street, Glasgow on Saturday March 30 between 10am and 5.30pm. Shoppers can decorate a sign to say who they’ll join the Race for Life for this year as well as submit their entry for this year’s event and take part in some fun glitter face painting.
Erin, now 18, said: “I’ve just celebrated the first year of being cancer free and it’s been the best year of my life.
“Nicole may be my little sister by 25 minutes but she’s also been like a best friend. I’m lucky to have a twin sister who I’m so close to. When I had my hair shaved off after I was losing it due to the side effects from chemotherapy it was Nicole who held me for ten minutes as we cried in the toilets. But I didn’t actually cry the first day I was told I had cancer. I think I was just in shock. When you’re a teenager you feel that you’re invincible. Cancer was something that happened to other people. It didn’t even enter my head that I might get the disease.
Erin endured two and a half years of treatment including eight cycles of chemotherapy in total. Her lowest point was in May 2016 when a chest infection led to pneumonia and Erin was in the intensive care ward, watched over anxiously by her parents, Yvonne McCafferty and Vincent Mooney, both 47.
“I thought I was going to die,” she said.
rallied family and friends to raise more than £31,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. It was fixed up for the twins to meet the Britain’s Got Talent stars including Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and comedian David Walliams and they also jetted to London to a gig where they met singer Olly Murs. But the greatest highpoint was on February 27 last year after Erin took her final chemotherapy pill and was able to ring the ‘End of Treatment bell’ at hospital. Now Erin is keen to train as a nurse to help others.
Organisers are appealing for Scots of all ages and abilities to stride out to help beat cancer with Scotland’s first Race for Life 5K and 10K events of the year kicking off in Stirling and South Queensferry on May 12, closely followed this spring by events across the country, everywhere from Edinburgh to Irvine, Falkirk to Fife. Scotland’s biggest Race for Life event is on Sunday May 19 at Glasgow Green.
Lisa Adams, Cancer Research UK’s spokeswoman in Scotland, said: “We’d like to thank Erin and Nicole for helping us celebrate Race for Life Glasgow’s 25th birthday this spring.
Online entry for Race for Life events is open now.