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For a prosecutor, there are few things more disappointing than hearing the words "not guilty." Close competition is leaving the courtroom with a guilty verdict in hand, only to learn some time later that you royally messed things up and the appellate court has overturned the conviction. To err is human, to forgive . . . not the specialty of appellate judges.
Not all blame for reversible error lies with the prosecution, of course. But prosecutors have a vested interest in ensuring their convictions withstand an appeal. As a prosecutor who recently experienced the dejection of a vacated conviction (erroneous jury instruction), I've committed myself in 2017 to learn from the mistakes of 2016—both my own and others'. To start, here are 7 ways in which closing argument got prosecutors into trouble in 2016. Examples 2 through 5 can be easy mistakes to make, especially after a high-intensity trial schedule involving little sleep. In all cases but the last, the improper closing argument contributed to reversal of the conviction (in Examples 1 through 4 the improper closing argument was the sole grounds for reversal).
(I don't know any of the prosecutors who participated in the cited cases, and this is not intended as a criticism of their competence and integrity. I've made enough mistakes that I'm in a better position to critique than to criticize.)
- Arousing Racial Animosity
Among the most notable instances of improper closing argument last year came in the penalty phase of a capital trial. The Fourth Circuit found that the prosecution suffused the trial of a black defendant with "racially coded references to a degree that made a fair proceeding impossible." See Bennett v. Stirling, 842 F.3d 319 (4th Cir. 2016). "The most egregious appeals to racial prejudice" came in closing argument, when the prosecutor compared the defendant to "King Kong on a bad day." (King Kong is a classic of cinema, but many critics regard it as a veiled cautionary tale about interracial romance.) The prosecutor also deployed a "slew of derogatory terms," labeling the defendant "a 'caveman,' a 'mountain man,' a 'monster,' a 'big old tiger,' and '[t]he beast of burden.'" These remarks, the court found, were "unmistakably calculated to inflame racial fears and apprehensions on the part of the [all-white] jury." Taken in context, the prosecutor's argument "mined a vein of historical prejudice against African-Americans, who have been appallingly disparaged as primates or members of a subhuman species in some lesser state of evolution."
Most prosecutors don't need this reminder to steer clear of anything that even has the whiff of racial undertones.
- Misstating a Central Point of Law
The law is complex, and thus it's easy for attorneys to misstate unintentionally a point of law or two in closing argument. Errors of this sort are commonly deemed harmless and do not warrant reversal. However, when the prosecution's error touches upon a point of law central to a disputed issue, it may substantially prejudice the defendant's right to a fair trial and necessitate a do-over.
That's what occurred in United States v. Williams, 836 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2016), which addressed the murder conviction of an Air Force airman, who, while stationed in Germany, was a leader of a gang known as the "Brothers of Struggle." All initiates to the gang had to endure a ritual beating. In this case the initiate died from blunt force trauma, and Williams, who partook in beating to death the decedent, was charged with second-degree murder. The initiate had consented to the ritual, but consent is not a defense to murder. The victim's consent, however, was relevant to whether Williams had the requisite state of mind for murder (as opposed to involuntary manslaughter). That is, the victim's "'continued, and enthusiastic, statements that he wanted the initiation to continue' [] suggested that Williams was not conscious of an extreme risk that [the victim] might die or be seriously injured." The prosecution erroneously argued that the jury could not consider consent at all—not even with regard to Williams's intent. The appellate court acknowledged that the prosecution's problematic statement amounted only to "a small portion of closing argument." But that was all it took to undo a murder conviction.
- Vouching for the Credibility of Your Witnesses (And Your Own Integrity)
A prosecutor's personal opinion of the strength of evidence holds no weight. Therefore, a prosecutor cannot make personal assurances of a witness's veracity (e.g., "I believe the government's witnesses are telling the truth."). That mistake proved costly in United States v. Smith, 814 F.3d 268 (5th Cir. 2016). The prosecutor asserted his personal opinion of witness veracity on several occasions. The prosecutor then compounded the error by improperly vouching for the government's own integrity ("What incentive is there for us to come in and try a person if he's not the person that did the offense?").
- Misdescribing the Presumption of Innocence
"The presumption of innocence that you came into this trial with no longer exists at this point," argued the prosecutor in State v. Lawrence, _P.3d_, 2016 WL 7441872 (Mont. 2016). The prosecutor apparently was intending to convey that the evidence presented by the state removed any reasonable doubt that the defendant had committed the crime. However, what the prosecutor actually said is legally unsound. As one Colorado court explained it:
The presumption remains in place unless and until a jury returns a guilty verdict, terminating only if the jury concludes that the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the charge against him or her . . . .
Thus, as a jury evaluates the evidence against a defendant, it must continue to presume him or her innocent until it concludes that the evidence proves the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Lawrence court concluded that the prosecutor's comments had the "potential effect of removing the presumption of innocence from the defendant."
- Shifting the Burden of Proof
In State v. Moodie, an unpublished case from the Minnesota Court of Appeals (2016WL596275), police found the defendant facedown and intoxicated in the woods near a vacant car that was parked in an intersection. On trial for DUI, the defendant asserted that she hadn't had a drink until after the car broke down and her friend went to get help. It was then that she supposedly uncorked the booze. Police didn't find an empty bottle and so the prosecutor argued: "You've got no evidence of a bottle. Certainly, if she's presenting to you now that hey, I drove and then I drank, there is no evidence of that. . . . There is no reasonable doubt that this defendant did not commit this offense. To put it another way, this defendant committed the offense. It's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no other proof."
It's proper for a prosecutor to comment on the lack of evidence supporting a defense theory, but improper to remark on the defendant's failure to present evidence. (It can be a fine distinction.) The court held that that the "the prosecutor's comments imply that Moodie had some burden to produce evidence to prove her version of events, particularly the last challenged comment that '[t]here is no other proof.' [T]he prosecutor plainly erred in improperly shifting the burden of proof onto the defendant."
- Trying Something Novel
Part of the fun of closing argument is finding fresh and engaging ways to present your case to the jury. And in that regard prosecutors have wide latitude. As one court put it, "It is well-established that a prosecutor may use wit, satire, invective and imaginative illustration in arguing the State's case and may present an analysis of the evidence in summation with vigor and zeal." If, in plumbing your creative reserves you devise a technique you've never seen another trial lawyer use, first read People v. Mpulamaska, 48 N.E.3d 853 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). The prosecutor in a sex-assault trial took the witness chair during closing to comment on the victim's courage and credibility. The court could only locate one other instance where a prosecutor had taken the witness seat during closing—a 9th Circuit case where the prosecutor delivered a soliloquy in the voice of the deceased victim. Neither court looked favorably upon the theatrics.
- Acting Unprofessionally
State v. Robinson, 134 A.3d 828 (Me. 2016), is not about a prosecutor's misconduct during his own closing, but during defense counsel's. Testimony from a neutral observer at a post-trial hearing indicated that the prosecutor had attempted to communicate with the jury during the defense counsel's closing argument. How? In response to defense counsel's rhetorical questions, the prosecutor repeatedly mouthed to the jury, "He did it." (The prosecutor denied the allegation.) The prosecutor also closed his eyes, put his head back, and feigned sleep during defense counsel's closing argument. The prosecutor admitted he did this to annoy defense counsel. The prosecutor's conduct didn't undermine the conviction, but it may have undermined his reputation within the bar.


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My Favorite Inspiring Quotes
Unconditional Love
Commentary by Peter Shepherd
"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy." ~ Sai Baba
Love is the healing factor for all of the challenges we face in life from painful feelings, experiences and circumstances. The opposite of love is fear, and fear results in suppression and eventually depression: hiding things away, pretending they don't exist or never happened, not facing up to one's responsibilities, and not simply being one's true self. Refusing to let go of the painful past may serve as a roadblock to love. But leaving behind your old self and taking a leap of faith into the unknown, might just reveal what you are truly capable of becoming.
"If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you." ~ Kute Blackson
Without receiving love we feel uncared for; without giving love we feel disconnected; without recognizing the source of love within us - an unlimited resource - we feel lacking.
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." ~ J.M. Barrie
You can stimulate your heart's energy by sending loving kindness to the next person you see or think of. You are essentially a loving being; if your heart is overflowing with love, it is continually being refilled with more love from Source.
"He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed." ~ Ramana
The heart chakra is the meeting point between energies from the earth and energies from the Higher Self exterior to this dimension... Between the body-mind and the soul. Between the human animal and the spiritual being. Between physicality and the ethereal - between Earth and Heaven. Therefore being centered in the heart, being open to love flowing in and out, being Love itself ... this is the ideal position to be in, following the Middle Path. One is open to both the wisdom of the body and of the Higher Self.
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment - or unlearning - of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life." ~ Marianne Williamson
Love is the antidote to fear, just as the way that light illuminates and vanishes a shadow. Inject love and fear disappears... then we are naturally guided by our own inner truth, in place of the old and shady motivations that were governed by fear.
"Tears are liquid love. Tears of sorrow, tears of joy - either way, tears of love." ~ Peter Shepherd
It's best not to hold back your tears, nor inhibit the tears of others. Tears mean we care. Our tears reflect the compassion we feel for ourselves or for others... we share the suffering of love lost, the triumph of love gained and the relief of love regained. We feel the exhilaration of freedom discovered, the contentment of hopes fulfilled, and the beauty of self expressed. In truth, tears are divine.
"We can remain in a state of love when we recognize that everyone is doing the best they can to get their needs met." ~ Jim Manske
Speaking from the heart requires getting clear on your own feelings and recognizing your needs. Listening from your heart requires getting clear about another person's feelings and understanding their needs. What you or they say and do may not be authentic and may be misguided, but at heart the individual is doing their best. Because we always have a motive for feeling and acting the way we do, a reason based on fulfilling our needs. The reason may or may not be misguided, intolerant, negative, exaggerating, illogical, shortsighted, mistaken or inconsiderate. But it's our best shot at reasoning in that moment in time.
True love, or spiritual love, the kind of love that Jesus and Buddha taught, the spark of God within us all, has a fundamental quality of unconditional acceptance. Acceptance doesn't mean necessarily to like or agree but it does mean recognizing what exists without resistance and with compassion. To allow what is to be. It is easy to love those who are like ourselves but to love those who differ and not to be judgmental - that is the attribute of an evolved soul. Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength and beauty that brings music to our souls.
Here's some further reading on this theme...
The Path of Love ~ by Peter Shepherd
Much of the time, our choices are the path of least resistance. But we can change what we choose. We can choose to stop compromising, to believe in ourselves and our values, to move forward with our lives guided by our own truth. Continues...
Creating with Love ~ by Harold W. Becker
Finding your heart and soul on a daily, moment-to-moment basis is a process of going within and realizing the power you have to create every moment. When you come from balance and understanding, wisdom becomes your true power and your decisions begin to reflect a new way of thinking and feeling. Continues...
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Activity Based Costing in Water Resources Managementby James P. Heaney, (M.ASCE), Univ of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States,
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This paper examines the relatively new accounting tool, Activity Based Costing (ABC), and describes its potential application in water resources planning, management, and operations. The accurate determination of fixed and variable costs is essential input for simulation and optimization analyses of water management problems. The purpose of this paper is to introduce this subject to water resources professionals by way of defining ABC, summarizing application in the related electric utility industry, and presenting sample results of an application of ABC to a water resources problem.
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Flying the Standard: Part 2 – Achieving The Standard
Welcome to part two! This time, I'm going to put forth two of our greatest contributors to the comics Canon. They are creators who consistently create works that strive for and achieve the Standard. Even at their worst, they deserve discussion. Will Eisner pushed comics into the forms in which they exist today, and Art Spiegelman so successfully achieved the Standard with Maus, that his book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
In the same way that we could not discuss the Standard without establishing some ground rules, we can't discuss creators and the forms they use to tell comics stories without figuring out what those forms are. Just as film encompasses features, shorts, and animation, and as prose includes novels, short stories, and poems, comics has its own key forms. Some are far more common than others, and each has its own standard of quality.
We cannot compartmentalize our Canon by form, and I am not purporting that we apply rules of form to our Standard. These forms are our contexts, and allow us to include a variety of different works. The Standard works within them.
Caveat aside, there are four basic forms that comics stories tend to take1:
The Comic Strip
The comic strip is the most widely read form in America and tends to take on two forms: the gag strip and the serial strip. Comic strips have their own rich history, intricately tied to the development of other media, and mentioning the most well-known strips of recent history as Peanuts or Calvin & Hobbes isn't appropriate to isolating the Canon of this form. This is fodder for the future, because, frankly, I'm still hip deep in researching and discovering fantastic things about the form every day. For this series of essays, we'll keep our focus on the others. We'll discuss strips in depth later.
Short Story
Next in length is the short story. It ranges from a page to roughly forty-eight pages. We can apply the rules for the comparable prose form here. If it's meant to be read in one sitting, it's a short story. In America, their primary outlets are in serial-superhero comics or in the occasional, undersold anthology. Although wonderful voices do arise to greater prominence from time to time. I've seen it happen with Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve and the works of Will Eisner.
Graphic Novella/Novel
The graphic novella is longer than the short story, allowing for a greater development of theme and character without the formal demands of longer works. A common length for the comics novella is sixty-four pages, though we can place its length at forty-eight to 120 pages. One-shots and short mini-series are the dominant format for this form. Will Eisner's The Dreamer and the works of Actus Tragicus are solid examples. For simplicity's sake, I will roll it into the next one on the list…
The graphic novel is one of two very popular formats right now. It's a longer work with a greater depth of literary and artistic storytelling than the shorter ones. I'm willing to put the lower limit at 128 pages, as that's the average length the book trade tends to support, with the maximum length being the upper limit of what can be bound into a single volume. Their initial publication can be a serialized story, or it can be the whole graphic novel at once. Black Hole, Maus, Blankets and From Hell are perfect examples.
Long Form Serial
Finally, we have the Long Form Serial. This is a work of multiple volumes serialized in either single issues or larger books. It is a complex form, comparable to works like Dune or Lords of the Rings, with farther reaching thematic breadth The stories are too long and complex for an individual book, so they are expanded and woven within multiple volumes. The form was pioneered with Cerebus and Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. And it is also the most popular format for Manga. Though it didn't come into its own until Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
So, skipping the great strip creators for now, I'm still left with an enormous number of comics to apply the Standard to as we begin cutting into the meat of our Canon. To wit, there are two creators we have to talk about first, Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.
There are important works by these two creators that achieve the Standard and belong in our Canon. The point is to start arguing over them, not to give you a final word. All I ask is that you stick around long enough to see exactly what I'm talking about.
Eisner is obviously one of the most prolific and influential cartoonists of the American comics medium. He is the cartoonist who broke new ground with The Spirit, and he coined the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book, A Contract With God. While he didn't pioneer the strip or the long form serial, he did show us how to achieve the Standard through short stories, graphic novellas, and graphic novels.
I won't talk about The Spirit here. There's a creative development through that series that stands on its own. What I do want to talk about is his literary work in the latter part of his career. It is his most important work – a distillation of what he learned in his years on The Spirit and working for the military and in education.
Some people like to think of Eisner as our Shakespeare, but I like to think of him as our Hemingway, in style, not content. Where Hemingway honed his prose down to its most necessary components, Eisner honed his pen down to its essentials, tapping into visual stereotypes to create a shorthand for comics storytelling. Visual stereotyping is a deliberate and conscious effort on the part of Eisner, and it is one of the major component he puts forth in Graphic Storytelling. It is a hallmark of his style, and a perfect example of theory in action.
Let's apply the Standard to some well-known and thematically tied works of Eisner's and see what happens. We'll start with the "first" graphic novel, A Contract with God.
First, we isolate the form. A Contract with God is not a graphic novel. It's a collection of graphic novellas. Sure, the stories are loosely interrelated through their setting, but a unified setting alone does not make a novel. Each story's moral argument is different. Each story stands on its own and does not require the other in order to be understood. They are novellas, containing more depth than a short story, but without the additional literary baggage needed for a novel.
So, in order to give these works a proper examination, we need to break the collection apart and look at the individual stories.
Starting with the title story, "A Contract with God," Eisner tells us the tale of Frimme Hersh. Hersh feels that God violated their contract in taking his daughter's life. Hersh lead a good life, hoping that God would reward him. He finds earthly success when he turns his back on God and lives for profit, and falls dead when he tries to enter a new contract. It's a simple story, full of depth and multiple interpretations.
While there are several ways to interpret Hersh's moral need, he is a man who expects agreements to be honored for mutual benefit. What he doesn't learn (or perhaps he does in death, we don't know) is that in life, there are no guarantees.
Or, you can also interpret the story as being about a man who loses, then rediscovers faith in God, however, he is unable to resolve his earthly needs with the spiritual.
Or, it's about a man who thinks all of life is about bargaining, without realizing that he is attempting to bargain with something that may or may not exist, making his attempts futile.
And these interpretations aren't mutually exclusive. Eisner gives us a depth of character and theme in the scant fifty-seven pages of the story that can include all three interpretations to varying degrees. This is a degree of thematic depth that we rarely see in comics. Without hesitation, I can say this story meets the literary standard.
But what about the art? It is appropriate to the story; the style elicits images of New York in the early twentieth century. There's something in Eisner's style that evokes the time period, much like Al Hirschfeld's caricatures do, or the music of Gershwin. It's a visual cue that embodies the city during the Great Depression.
He draws Hersh in the opening as a simple man, donning the traditional garb of Hassidic Jews to show his piousness. But as the story goes on, Hersh changes, and is drawn in his profiteering years as a fat businessman in expensive suits and his nose in the air. These deliberate visual stereotypes advance the changes in plot and character immediately, communicating the difference between spiritual and earthly gain. Its deft and deliberate style and tight storytelling achieves our artistic standard.
In "The Street Singer," Eisner attempts to show the desperation of the Depression. Juxtaposing a failed stage singer against a poor street singer, Eisner explores the similarities and differences of their situations. The street singer sings to escape his plight and to make whatever extra buck he can. Diva Marta Maria hopes to escape by riding the street singer's talent. There's a desperation to both characters that ends with the street singer missing his opportunity.
In applying the Standard, the art succeeds in the same way it does for every story in this collection. But the story itself fails for a simple reason: it is thematically obvious, too "on the nose," lacking a depth of plot and character. There is nothing unique or challenging about the deliberate and obvious use of juxtaposition. Eisner's intent, as he mentions in the book's introduction, is to "immortalize [the street singer's] story." While he does try to capture it, he does so with literary stereotypes–the starving depression era artist, the fallen star, the beleaguered, abused wife. We can accept visual stereotypes in art, but character and literary stereotypes are too much of a shortcut to telling a story, and because of that, this work does not meet the Standard.
The dichotomy between character and visual stereotypes makes me want to pause for a moment. Why is it, as comics readers and critics, we are more willing to accept a visual stereotype and not a literary one? I believe it's the difference in communicating conceptual ideas versus immediate visual identification. Depth of character is worth getting to, it helps propel the story. Simple visuals allow immediate identification so we can start digging deep into the individuals.
We encounter the same literary stereotyping in "The Super." Like "The Street Singer," there is no subtlety, and if anything, it comes across as exploitative. The reversing of the role of victim and victimizer between the super and the little girl, feels forced to make a point. If you boil down the conflict, it's the landowner versus the (seemingly) defenseless child. While the moral argument is an interesting one – sometimes the perceived victim can be the true victimizer – it doesn't meet the Standard because it lacks the appropriate depth.
Compare "The Super" to "A Contract with God." As I mentioned above, Frimme Hersh's moral need is extremely complex and open to several interpretations. But for the Super, he's looking for an outlet to his isolation. There are no further interpretations to his actions, no gray area to hint at depth.
The characters lack subtlety. There is no further dimension to them than what I'm about to describe: The superintendent is a lonely old pervert with girly magazines lining his walls, a jar of hoarded money, and an unwholesome desire to see prepubescent girls naked. The girl is a conniving little girl who sees herself as her own resource and acts as a manipulator while hiding behind her perceived innocence.
With "The Super," Eisner's visual stereotyping, while normally acceptable, detracts from the story. For example, the consistently sinister look on the girl's face – she's all evil, all the time – reinforces the overt simplicity of the character. The visual cue, which should be a shortcut for immediate identification, becomes a crutch for the entire character. That's the fault of visual stereotyping. Without the additional literary depth, it hurts more than it helps.
Due to "The Super's" thematic obviousness and character stereotypes, it does not meet the Standard, even though it is included in a historically important book.
When we finally reach "Cookalein," Eisner is back on his game. The story wraps a series of events around a single summer at a cookalein, and explores the value of sex and social status during the depression. The theme is driven home when one of the main characters, Benny rapes Goldie when he discovers she doesn't come from a rich family. Without money, she has no value, and if she has no value, she is dehumanized in his made and made an object for rape. This also happens in a less aggressive form with Maralyn seduces the boy, Willie. To her, the act of sex has no value, making Willie nothing more than a toy to her. When Maralyn's husband finds her and has sex with her in front of the boy, it further drives home his devaluation.
More than the nicely balanced theme, Eisner puts the setting to use in a masterful way. Interweaving the tales within a specific setting – in this case, a cookalein – imbues a life into the setting that otherwise wouldn't exist, almost making it a character in its own right. This technique foreshadows the narrative style of Dropsie Avenue. With the same application of the Standard to the art as the other stories, "Cookalein" resoundingly meets the Standard.
As for historically, the entirety of the collection is considered the first book marketed as a "graphic novel" (even though it isn't). We should pay attention for that reason alone.
But the book in its entirety does not achieve the Standard. With only two of the four stories meeting the literary standard, I reluctantly include the book in our Canon due to its overarching historical importance and the almost consistently successful artistic style of the books.
But we aren't going to stop there. Time to take a breather. Check back tomorrow as we continue the discussion of Eisner's work and move on to Maus.
Today's book:
Eisner, Will. The Contract with God Trilogy. W. W. Norton. ISBN: 0393061051
As before, thanks to Paul Hanna, for applying the editorial standard and helping me to give my arguments added depth.
Scott O. Brown is a comics writer, editor, and publisher. He lurks underground consuming toxic levels of caffeine and information. You can find him online at http://sobstories.blogspot.com/.
1 I'm sure there are a couple of you out there wondering why I haven't mentioned mini-comics. So many people tackle this form, especially in their formative years or for deeply personal work, I cannot ignore its existence. While mini-comics appear on the surface to be a variation on the presentation format of a short story, I believe mini-comics have their own set of rules. My personal experience in reading hundreds of them over the years is that it's a form still curled in the fetal position, and isn't ready for the kind of discussion we're having here…yet. The more dominant forms, and their masters, by volume alone, need to be handled first.
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Northwestern University said today it will offer significantly increased financial aid to incoming freshmen who graduate from high schools in Evanston and Chicago, including eliminating loans and required work-study jobs and providing more scholarship funds.
As a result, many students from those communities who need financial assistance--estimated to be 100 in the first year and as many as 200 in the future--will receive a scholarship that covers the full cost of tuition at Northwestern.
The new Good Neighbor, Great University Scholarship Program will begin with next year's freshman class. Scholarships will replace student loans, as well as earnings from summer and work-study jobs that students normally must contribute to the cost of their education, Northwestern said.


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Employers are feeling confident about their financial futures and that means more new hires, fewer layoffs, and an increase in retirement benefits and reinstatements of certain benefits, according to the 12th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey released on Tuesday.
The survey conducted with 743 U.S. employers by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that retirement benefits and educational tools were more common among large employers, with 500 or more employees, than small employers, with less than 500 employees.
This year's study revealed that employers have had a boost in confidence, with 59% of employers expecting their company's financial situation to improve over the next year, up from 49% a year ago. Meanwhile, 48% expect the economy to improve over the next 12 months, up from 45%. In addition, employers are reporting higher levels of employment, with 55% hiring additional employees in the last twelve months. Large companies are more likely to hire more, with 69% saying they hired workers compared to 54% of small companies. Additionally, there were fewer layoffs at companies compared to last year.
The study found that for the first time since the financial crisis began, employer's rise in confidence has translated into an increase in enhancements to retirement benefits as well as intentions to reinstate certain benefits that had been suspended since 2008. The percentage of employers offering matching contributions to their 401(k) or other retirement plans is roughly the same as last year's survey, but the survey found that 51% of companies that recently decreased or suspended the match plan to reinstate it within the next two years.
"Hopefully the other half will follow their lead," said Catherine Collinson, president of the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, in a press release. "As we continue to emerge from the recession, employers can attract and retain the best employees by offering competitive benefits packages, while at the same time making a positive impact on their employees' retirement outlook."
For the small companies that do not currently offer a 401(k) or other retirement plan, only 21% report they are likely to begin offering a plan in the next two years because of difficult business conditions (47 percent), concerns about cost (43 percent) and perceived lack of employee interest (43 percent).
"As the jobs and growth engine of our economy, small businesses can play a vital role in helping American workers prepare for retirement," said Collinson. "By sponsoring a 401(k) plan, encouraging participation, and promoting available planning tools, these employers can help workers save and invest for a more secure retirement."
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Cal Battles USC to 86-79 Overtime Win
Feb. 22, 2007
BERKELEY, Calif. - Sophomore forward Ashley Walker posted a career-high 32 points and hauled in 11 rebounds to lead California to an 86-79 overtime victory over USC Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. The Golden Bears improved to 21-7 (11-6 Pac-10) with their second straight season sweep of USC, while the Women of Troy fell to 16-11 (10-7 Pac-10). The two teams began the game tied for third in the Pac-10.
Cal, which was coming off a 67-61 double-overtime road win over Oregon State Feb. 17, has now played a school-record four overtime games this season. The Bears are 2-2 in those games. Cal's 21 wins are the most it has amassed since the 1986-87 team went 21-10.
Walker's effort gave her 10 double-doubles on the season, equaling USC's Eshaya Murphy for Pac-10-high honors. Cal sophomore center Devanei Hampton contributed 25 points and eight rebounds, and freshman guard Natasha Vital tallied 15 points and dished off a career-high 10 assists to record her first double-double. Senior guard Keanna Levy added 11 points, including two critical three-pointers in the final 4:17 of regulation, to help the Bears erase an eight-point USC lead. Levy was 3-of-4 from beyond the arc for the game.
USC led 64-56 with 4:57 to play in the second half after Murphy posted seven straight points, helping her grab team-high honors with 22. Hampton then hit two free throws to jumpstart a 10-2 Cal run that helped the Bears tie the game at 66-66 with 2:18 on the clock. Levy's second three-pointer during the stretch brought the Bears even.
The teams then traded one-point leads until Chloe Kerr's three-point play put USC ahead, 70-68, with 56 ticks to go. Walker tied the game at 70-70 with a layup 15 seconds later. On the other end of the floor, Jamie Hagiya drew a foul and was successful on her two free throw attempts. Walker was then fouled as she drove hard to the basket and drained both of her free throws with five seconds to play to send the game into overtime tied at 72-72.
Walker, who converted 14-of-16 free throws in the game, put the Bears ahead for good at 74-72 by nailing two more free throws less than a minute into the overtime period. After Morgahan Medlock made a layup to bring USC to within 76-74, Cal responded with a 10-0 run to secure its biggest lead of the game at 84-74 with 34 seconds left in extra time. Cal outscored USC, 14-7, in the overtime period by converting 12-of-14 free throws. Hampton led the Bears with four points in overtime and made her team's only field goal.
Cal had a height advantage in overtime after Kerr, who is 6-3, joined 6-3 Nadia Parker on the bench with five fouls 49 seconds into overtime.
Hagiya scored 11 of her 14 first-half points, including three three-pointers, to help USC grab a 15-7 lead with 14:18 to play in the first half. She was 4-of-6 from three-point range in the first half and 0-of-7 the remainder of the game, matching her career high of 16 points.
Cal responded with an 8-2 run, capped by a three-pointer by Vital, to close to within 17-15 with 11:01 left until halftime.
The Women of Troy rebuilt their lead to 22-15, but the Bears dug in defensively down the stretch of the opening half. Walker scored six of her 14 first-half points to key a 13-4 run that gave Cal its first lead of the game at 28-26 at the five-minute mark. Levy drained a three-pointer from the right baseline to put the Bears ahead.
Cal led 31-30 on a fadeaway jumper by Hampton before Jamie Funn converted a three-point play and Allison Jaskowiak sank a three-pointer to give USC a 36-31 edge. Vital sank her second three-pointer and freshman guard Lauren Greif hit a free throw to send the Bears into the locker room down only one at 36-35. Vital almost gave the Bears the lead with a half-court three-point attempt that rolled around the rim as time expired.
Hampton scored on a high-low pass from Walker to help Cal regain the lead at 39-38, and Vital scored on a steal and a difficult short jumper in transition to put the Bears up 41-40 with 16:51 remaining in the game.
Murphy notched five straight points, including a three-pointer, to give USC a 45-41 advantage. Walker then converted three free throws to cut the deficit to one. The Bears never let USC build a double-digit lead and hung around long enough to make a decisive run in the final minutes to send the game to overtime.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Carrie Haddad Gallery's New Exhibit Opens This Weekend
Carrie Haddad Gallery's new show opens this weekend with three photographers - Melinda McDaniel, Joseph Putrock and Arnold Kastenbaum. The exhibit showcases, Melinda's "Pour", Joe's "Black Lea Reets" and Arnold's "Puddle" and much more. Visit this lovely gallery on Warren Street. Always an experience!
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Currently I am writing a short story and working on several novels, non of which have titles. The short story is a combination of the real and the magical, or magical realism. I refer to the one novel as the second book of Alex because it is novel two in a series and continues the character Alex. I'm also working on a novel that began as your basic police story, it's morphed. For lack of another the file is titled Sal, the main character who interestingly enough, is not the focus of the story. For those who do not write, this might sound odd, but trust me when I say, sometimes characters take over a story.
The short story has two main characters, Ankou, a fallen angel and Veronica a.k.a. Vern, who is a homicide detective. There are a few supporting characters like Ankou's brother and Vern's partner. Ankou has issues, beyond the whole fallen angel bit and an anger problem, he tends to be sarcastic and just a little self-centered. I like Ankou because he's fun to write. His voice is first person which gives me a little more leeway to be more obnoxious with the sarcasm than usual. Vern, is tight wound and head strong woman in charge of her career not about to let anyone tell her how to run her life. She's more interested in solving murders than enjoying anything beyond the job.
What brings these two characters together beyond the murders that Ankou has committed? The longing of a father's love. To find out more, you'll have to read their story.


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Vitamix vs Blendtec Blender Review
When it comes to high end blenders, two names stand out above the rest, Vitamix and Blendtec. Both brands carry a hefty price tag which many consumers are willing to pay due to their level of durability and performance over other blenders on the market. When determining which of these two competitors to choose, it pays off to compare the two brands. Let's take a look at some of the features, similarities, and differences in a Vitamix vs Blendtec comparison.
* Similarities
Both of these blenders are capable of grinding and blending food items that most other blenders cannot. But the similarities don't end there. Both Vitamix and Blendtec are priced in the $450 range, give or take a few dollars. Both come with seven year warranties, although the details of the warranties may differ ever so slightly. Both blender brands are available in three color choices of red, black, and white. Another big advantage to both of these blenders is that they will both allow for the addition of whole, or nearly whole fruits and vegetables, and both can create a top notch smoothie.
* Differences
The main difference found between these two high end blenders in our Vitamix vs Blendtec comparison, is the power and speed control options. While both blenders give virtually the same results in the same amount of time, there are some differences that might make a difference in which product a consumer chooses.
Vitamix has a larger RPM range, allowing for more precise control over operation. Vitamix allows users to manually control the speed with a dial setting, giving users more control over how much more power they add in smaller increments. With the Vitamix blender, nothing is pre-programmed so that you can blend the food for as long as you desire.
With the Blendtec model, speed and operation is controlled through the use of 10 buttons. Many of these buttons are pre-programmed, meaning that the blender will perform a task at the push of a button. Because of this pre-programmed feature, the blender only operates for a set amount of time, which may not be enough time to achieve the desired texture of whatever you may be preparing.
Another thing to consider when comparing these two blenders is that the Vitamix comes with a tamper that permits food to be pushed closer to the blade without having to stop the blender, while Blendtec does not come with this feature. Blendtec offers a similar option in something called a twister jar, however, you will be paying an additional $129 for this extra product, in addition to the price of the blender.
* Overview
Aside from these few differences, both blenders prepare food in relatively the same manner, and both offer fairly easy cleanup. The Vitamix models offer a larger capacity jar for blending foods, but the Blendtec jars are easier to store under cabinets in the kitchen. Both operate with noise expected to be found when using any blender, although the Vitamix is a bit less noisy. When it comes down to it, it is more a matter of personal preference when choosing in the battle of Vitamix vs Blendtec.
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More Intelligence Now for a More Intelligent Future: Interview with Founder Tyron Stading
The launch of IdeaScout is a project that's been in the works for nine years. We took a moment to chat with its ideator (and founder of Innography), Tyron Stading, about the project, and why he thinks it's a game-changer for innovation management and how ideas will be brought to market in the future.
Q. Give us your elevator pitch for IdeaScout?
A. IdeaScout is a trade secret and idea pipeline management platform that streamlines research and development efforts and paves the way for strategic value. Using an intelligent agent, like a Siri or an Alexa, it seamlessly integrates into a user's current workflow, while making a huge impact on the company's lifeblood for innovation. Early studies show that it increases idea generation and pipeline 2-4x, saves up to 90% of a researcher's time, and eliminates up to 33% of redundant efforts for corporations.
Q. You said that you've been working on IdeaScout for nine years. Why has it taken so much work to pull off?
A. There are many technical and cultural-social barriers to this adoption. While we had some of the technical pieces nine years ago, it has taken a lot of data and usability pieces to really make this a reality. Just being able to search on information is not the answer. You need a mixture of patent data, scientific research data, and a true semantic response engine that allows you to put a description together in natural language and have that feed a search for the landscape. But beyond that, what's really challenging, that has been plaguing me for the last five to six years is, how do you get cultural adoption? How do you change a users behavior? How do you make it so that the person actually wants to use this? The idea behind IdeaScout is not new or novel. People have been trying to do this for a long time, but the biggest issue is why would a person want to change what they're doing today? When you have thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of employees that don't want to change their workflow and behavior, it's not effective unless you can actually impact and influence the idea pipeline upstream. So, usability becomes the most paramount feature and function in this system, so that people want to use it, and it's easier for them to do it, and it integrates into their workflow process.
We've had to develop and research quite a bit on psychological profiling of inventors — understanding their motivations and needs, ways to trigger that, and the biggest breakthrough in all of this is our "LinkedIn for inventors," that enables us to reverse engineer resume profiles for all of the inventors in the world, and then create a social fabric to be able to connect all those people together. And then using that as an underlying infrastructure platform to then communicate back to the inventors — not only about their own inventions, but about their colleague's inventions, around ideas in their company, and in the network of their area of expertise. All of this becomes an underlying capability that allows us to tailor the information to the user, streamline a lot of the input so they don't have to input redundant information, and push information to them instead of having them submit information. We know a lot about them, so we can help them by giving them contextual information to do their jobs better. It tailors a lot that way.
So the inventor network that we've created is technically extremely difficult to do because of all the name variations, etc., but more importantly, it enables mechanisms to reduce the barriers for an engineer to use this — so it's easy to incorporate into their workflow. All of which makes it a higher likelihood that when you get to tens or hundreds of thousands of people, that this will positively influence their workflow, and capture information that's not being captured today. No one wants to deal with an outdated interface; they want something that's elegant, easy and…enjoyable.
Q. Why was this project so important to you?
A. Most of the people involved in intellectual property are the inventors and the researchers, yet they're really underserved in the market. My background is in the R&D space, as an inventor, and I've experienced — first-hand — the lack of support and infrastructure to be able to invent and achieve the engineering goals that you want from your professional career goals. Everything in the IP space is more focused on the administration side of things, but the vast majority of users — probably 99% of all the people involved with IP — are on the R&D side. Yet, there's no real tools or capabilities to help them.
Plus, I get frustrated that people are coming up with great ideas all the time, but the vast majority of them will never see the light of day. Historically, there have been many times where companies have invented something they were never able to commercialize. So being able to empower the inventor or researcher to look at how they can commercialize their ideas through better information, awareness of the competitive landscape, how to improve their idea, and how to not spend a lot of their time on the legal aspects of it but more of the meaningful pieces that can impact their commercialization aspect. Plus, the connectivity of the community. There's a lot of people who want to help and communicate around new ideas in making the world a better place, and yet there's so many barriers for them to improve that through technology and cultural issues, and there needs to be a better way to really empower the inventor and engineer to make their ideas a reality.
Q. Why are you excited about it?
A. I think it's the first time that we can actually make an impact upstream — empower the IP professional to impact the roadmap and strategic direction for a company, instead of being at the tail-end of the process, where all the information flows down to them. This gives them a way to gain early insight into where things are going, shape where people are going, proactively engage with a larger community in an efficient way (instead of having to do one-on-one conversations), and communicate strategy at the corporate level. So they are able to influence where the company is going — or at least explain where the company is going — and why IP is critical to achieve that. Also, it addresses a completely different class of intellectual property that no one's ever tackled before — trade secrets. No one understands how to capture, inventory, or manage it, and this is the only product that is even trying to address that problem. It opens up a whole new world of IP management that has transformative capabilities from a legal perspective, as well as a strategic direction for a company, especially with the regulations and laws that are now in place to protect and enforce trade secrets.
Q. Why do you think customers will be excited about it?
A. IP professionals today spend a massive amount of time trying to communicate intellectual property and pulling teeth from engineers to change their behavior. But I think they'd rather be spending their time helping and collaborating with those engineers about how to make their ideas better, rather than just asking them to submit the information. I also think it creates a transparency between the IP team and the engineers that fosters trust and excitement because it's more about the future of where things are going, and empowers the IP professional to be much more effectively. At the same time, it allows them to focus on the strategic questions, instead of a lot of communication barriers in influencing social behavior. I think it makes the IP professional a valued partner and a rock star in this relationship by giving them insight into where they're going in the future.
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7 Days Maasai Mara-Lake Nakuru-Lake Naivasha & Amboseli
This 7 Days Adventure Tour is the best of Kenya National parks and game viewing opportunities that gives you the opportunity to visit the great rift valley lakes. The Massai Mara National game reserve is Kenya's best wildlife park. In just 7 days you will have a good chance of seeing the big five and millions birdlife ending with Amboseli National park with Kilimanjaro at the backdrop.
Tour Conclusion:
- This tour can be customized
- Single travelers can book this tour and join a group
- This tour departs daily with atleast two people
- No age limit
- Can be organized as a private tour on request
- Can be organized in a 4 x 4 landcruiser at a cost
- Accommodate can either be in tented camp/budget hotel or luxury lodge
- This tour visits Masai Mara, lake Nakuru, lake Naivasha and Amboseli and is offered by African Home Adventure Ltd.
- A transfer from the airport in Nairobi/Hotel is included
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for extra cost
- Accommodation on safari shall be at Enchoro Wildlife Camp, City Max Hotel in Nakuru, Taphe Guest House in Naivasha and Kimana camp in Amboseli.
- Transport based on our customized seven
- seater safari Vehicle with specially modified suspension, full
- length photographic roof hatches and seats designed with seat belt and all clients are guaranteed window seats.
- All game Park Entrance fees
- Meet and greet by a tour representative upon arrival at the airport
- Services of an English speaking tour driver-guide
- Game drives as per itinerary
- Entry for Driver/Vehicle
- All Government taxes and levies
- One litre drinking water daily
- International flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips on safari and at camps/lodges
- Items of personal needs
- Government taxes where applicable
Tour Specifics.
Safari Itinerary
Day 1: Nairobi-Masaai Mara
Pick up from your Hotel at 7.30 am drive to the view point of the Rift Valley, descend the escarpment and drive via Narok town then to Masai Mara for lunch at the camp. After lunch proceed for afternoon game drive in Masaai Mara game reserve famous for its black manned lion and yearly migrations of wildebeests from Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya, dinner and overnight at the Enchoro Wildlife Camp.
Day 2: Masaai Mara
After early morning breakfast, full day spent game viewing and exploring this spectacular park with picnic lunch served in the park at the Mara river border of Kenya and Tanzania, return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Masaai Mara-Lake Nakuru.
After breakfast leave maasai mara game reserve with the last game drive as you drive to Nakuru with lunch enroute, arriving in Nakuru late in the afternoon for dinner and overnight at a Nakuru hotel.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru-Naivasha
After breakfast, proceed for an extensive morning game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park to see the many animals that inhabit this unique park. Lake Nakuru is known for it's millions of flamingoes and other water birds. Leave Lake Nakuru with late lunch to drive to Lake Naivasha for dinner and overnight in a budget hotel.
Day 5: Lake Naivasha-Amboseli
After breakfast, leave the hotel for a drive to Lake Naivasha National Park, on arrival a visit to the Hell's Gate National Park Park[one of the few parks where you can walk or cycle to see the wild animals]. Packed lunch will served in the park or at a budget hotel. There is a Geothermal power station and very beautiful scenery. Leave lake Naivasha National Park to proceed to Amboseli National Park arrival for dinner and overnight at a campsite in Amboseli.
Day 6: Amboseli
After breakfast, full day spent in Amboseli National Park with an optional tour to maasai village to experience their traditional way of life and dances, Meals and night at the campsite.
Day 7: Amboseli-Nairobi
After breakfast leave campsite for the last game drive in the park as you leave the Amboseli park for Nairobi with Picnic lunch served enroute arriving in Nairobi late afternoon with sweet memories.


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Voltari a "Bottle Rocket" or a Pump and Dump?
Icahn heavy into Voltari - I'm in on the ride
Am I learning a lesson or is there a chance this will go up again? Reminds me of a classic pump and dump that cost me big time once before. Back before the 2008 collapse when I was actively day trading I got caught in a classic pump and dump with a penny stock called ACTC.
I broke nearly every rule in the book and lost a lot of money. It was so painful I don't even want to remember how much I lost on that one particular trade but to set the table for today's lesson, I must recall as many of the ugly details as possible, so here goes.
Lesson from the Past – ACTC is a Penny Stock Pump and Dump
I think it was around 2006 or 2007 and I was riding a high. Nearly everything I tried was working and I was consistently adding to my portfolio using the swing/day trading strategy discussed in previous articles.
I had a rigid set of rules that was keeping me out of trouble and allowing me to make money on "teenies" – small moves with large amounts of capital behind them yielded me decent gains nearly every day.
Unfortunately I acted on a tip from a friend (another absolute "no-no') and bought a large position in a penny stock in the same manner I worked the large caps. I had tens of thousands of my hard earned dollars tied up in a worthless, no good company that was pumping garbage into the media.
The stock "rocketed" (remember that term because we will come back to it in a minute) over two or three days and people were blindly jumping into a company that had no revenue, no profits and from what I could tell, no place to call home. "ACTC" was the figment of some scoundrel's imagination and before I was done, I doubled and tripled down and most of my two years' worth of trading capital was wiped out.
I was amazed to learn that you could actually still buy this piece of %$#*& but if you want to find out anything about the company, they are nowhere to be found.
That brings us to the Present and the Voltari Sequel
I am writing this "as it happens," live and real time! I've lived this movie before and it was a painful lesson. Don't play with fire! How in the world could I blindly jump into a stock I know virtually nothing about just because a chart looks attractive? Remember my reference to a "rocket" and the penny stock game. Here are the two news headlines I read AFTER I entered but should have seen BEFORE:
- "Carl Icahn Plays The Penny Stock Game With Voltari"
- "Icahn Investment Turns Penny Stock Voltari Into Bottle Rocket"
Here is how it played out. I was tweaking my screen and did not realize I left the market cap field open so a couple of very small companies "slipped through my screen.' That reminds me of a song I will listen to the next time I get "full of myself," and think this is an easy game:
Trading with a screen that is not well thought out is as useless as a screen door on a submarine! If I sound miffed at myself, I am! Here are the rules I broke in no particular order but it all happened very quickly and before 11:00 on a Monday morning all my winnings from a couple of weeks work went up in smoke.
Is there Good News in these Two Trades?
As I am writing this, my second trade of the day also went up in smoke. The second company I actually bought before VLTC so now this article expands to discuss how I also blindly bought into Memorial Resource Development Corp (MRD) and was in and out within the same hour. I actually bought MRD before VLTC but was so consumed in getting out of VLTC that I had to let MRD ride while I bailed on VLTC.
This is sounding a lot like a Greek Tragedy but the good news is nobody was killed and I was not risking more than I could afford to lose. Yes, I quickly lost my gains from the previous trades but it caused me to SLOW THE BUS DOWN until I get my act together again. "Eating humble pie, we are and I am!" Humility is certainly one of my new found traits!
Never Throw Good Money after Bad
The good news is that I am out and my base portfolio is intact. I was in essence "playing with the house's money," and I remembered the most valuable lesson of all, "don't throw good money after bad," or as one of my new virtual mentors, Oli Hillie says, "Never, Ever, Under any Circumstances Add to a Losing Position – Not Ever!
This is a mistake I have made a number of times and I pretty much lost money every time."
I am relearning so many of my own lessons from the past it's hard to get them all down on paper, but here goes with what I have already "re-learned" early on a Monday morning:
- Never trade before 10:30 in the morning – that time is reserved for the sharks. They are circling the waters waiting for unsuspecting shmucks to enter positions they can later take out and take their money with you. BTW, the same advice applies to after 3:00 in the afternoon because the sharks are also active during that time of the day.
- Never buy a stock before researching the company and reading the latest news – This one was so obvious that had I taken the time to see that Voltari was a pumped up penny stock, I NEVER would have made the trade!
- Avoid trading on a bad night's sleep! – I slept lousy last night for different reasons and was barely awake before I was in front of my computer making trades! WOW!
- Double check screens to make sure all the proper fields are in place – This is actually a new one because I don't think I made that particular mistake before. I always trade mid and large caps and somehow left that field open so Voltari slipped through the "screen door on the submarine."
We Live to Fight another Day!
I'm actually out of space for this article so will pick up my story in the next article. More lessons learned and how to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again!
Thankfully I was trading with money I could afford to lose and my base nest egg was not touched so the most valuable lesson is trading is a deadly serious game and I need to be deadly serious moving forward.


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A Crest Hill man who told police he used child pornography as well as some 1,700 photos of dismembered women to keep himself from killing his wife and two young daughters was ordered held on $1 million bail Wednesday.
Joshua Price, 26, was arrested in March after leaving a flash drive with child pornography on it at a Joliet Junior College computer lab. His bail was originally set at $250,000.
Police searching the computers seized from Price's apartment later found more child pornography as well as images of dismembered women.
Detective Joseph Fazio of the Will County sheriff's office testified Wednesday that Price told him he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after his military service in the Middle East and that the child pornography was "the only thing that kept him from killing his wife and children."
After hearing that, Judge Edward Burmila abruptly halted the hearing –- at which prosecutors sought to increase Price's bail and his defense attorney sought to reduce it -– and increased Price's bail to $1 million.


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The Carnegie Hill CSA along with the Church of Heavenly Rest and the Lower East Side Ecology Center are sponsoring another Electronic Recycling Day on Tuesday, Sept 22, on the sidewalk in front of the Church during regular CSA hours (4:00 – 7:00 PM).
This has become a popular annual event, and we always collect a huge amount. Please save your unwanted, unused or nonworking electronics, and get them to the church on time. Businesses aren't allowed to drop off electronics, but household items like TVs, cell phones, computers and computer components, printers, etc. are accepted. Tell your friends and co-workers.
We'll have flyers at the membership table soon. You can also check the list of what's accepted at www.lesecologycenter.org.


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Hello could you please add words here as we don't allow image only posts in serious discussions: http://kh13.com/forum/topic/97859-what-id-like-to-see-in-the-crash-bandicoot-remasters/?p=1833150Jun 16 2016 03:38 PM
hawk222Not exactly sure how it constitutes a serious discussion, but whatever.
Jun 16 2016 03:45 PM
MythrilMagicianSerious discussions are anything that isn't in the fun and games section of the forums. The birthday threads in the forum lounge are an exception.
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So, I was talking with a friend about a post I'd made here back before the site's most recent visual update, and I was wondering if the threads from back then are still out there somewhere.Apr 30 2013 01:34 AM
DChiuchYeah, they're still part of the forum. Threads aren't removed or anything when we do a visual update, so you should be able to find everything still.
Apr 30 2013 01:38 AM
hawk222I ask because my posts only seem to go as far back as around the time the site switched looks, according to the My Content section.
Apr 30 2013 03:28 PM
DChiuchYeah, My Content has some issues with displaying really old stuff. The really old stuff is still there, though. You just have to find it some other way.
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Xigbar!? hm as if!Jul 29 2011 09:45 AM
hawk222See, that would work... if I were just any old dude. 'Cept I'm not. I'm with the Organization. Nothing 'any old' about me.
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Oh hey, I've seen you around on Dissidia Forums (at least I think I have lol), I've been good, how are you :)Apr 15 2011 02:18 AM
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Hey there FS. Didn't know you were here, too. How goes it?Apr 14 2011 09:06 PM