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Authors: Scott Rice and Amy Harris
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Interview with: Scott Rice
Interviewer: Anne Driscoll
Description: The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro created a computer board game resembling Trivial Pursuit, which allows from one to four students to play against each other by answering questions about information literacy topics in four different categories. Evaluative exercises, which ask the player to find a specific piece of information on the site, such as author, credentials, date, etc., are also included. Two website evaluations ask the player to compare the two websites and answer questions. The game will be introduced to freshman students in first-year studies classes.
Q. What was the motivation for creating the Information Literacy Game?
A. We were searching for a way to make information literacy instruction more engaging to undergraduates when the idea of gaming presented itself.
Q. How long did the development process take?
A. The development process took about six months from start to finish. We began working on the project in June 2006 and began testing the game in January 2007.
Q. What technology did you use to create the game? Why did you choose it? Did you consider other technology?
A. We used AJAX, a combination of Javascript and XML. We chose it for a number of reasons. It was within our technical capability. It was easier to make ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant. It was easier for others to reuse it.
Q. How is the Information Literacy Game currently used? Is it required of a certain class, students, etc?
A. The Information Literacy game is still in the testing phase, with a campus-wide rollout scheduled for Fall 2007. The content of the game is geared toward first-year students, so it will be marketed to instructors of introductory courses such as English 101, Communication Studies 101 (a speaking-intensive course), University Studies 101 (a one-hour acculturation course) and Freshman Seminars. It will be marketed as a follow-up to face-to-face library instruction so that students can reinforce what they learned in class.
Q. How do faculty and students learn about the game?
A. First-year course instructors will learn about the game in an annual orientation session taking place in the fall. Faculty will learn about the game through library instruction sessions, as well as through traditional marketing avenues such as flyers, advertising on the library's homepage, an announcement on Blackboard, etc.
Q. How much feedback have you received from faculty and students about the game?
A. We have received some feedback from the students who tested the game and most of it was positive. We have had little feedback from faculty, but expect to hear more when the game is rolled out officially in the fall.
Q. What were some of the challenges that you faced developing the game and keeping the game working correctly?
A. While developing the game, some of the challenges involved simply getting it to work, deciding on the appropriate content for the questions, and making it somewhat challenging without overwhelming students. It is not easy to come up with over 190 questions!
The biggest challenge right now is making it as easy as possible for other librarians (and faculty) to adopt the game for their own purposes.
Q. What are your future plans for the Information Literacy Game?
A. There are a number of small technical refinements that we would like to do. In the short run, we are working on making a version of the game that is not specific to UNCG's Library, so that interested librarians will be able to just get the files, put them on their server, and be almost ready to go.
Q. Do you collect site usage statistics? If so, what do you do with the data?
A. We have a voluntary survey that is available for players to take after the game has been completed. Right now, we are using the data to gauge interest in the use of gaming in information literacy and to figure out weaknesses and strengths of the game.
Q. Did you conduct usability testing for the game? If yes, who was tested?
A. We did some usability testing using student library workers, as well as various librarians.
Q. What other methods have been used to assess the Information Literacy Game?
A. At this point, little assessment has been done. In the future, however, we would like to collect statistics on how students answer specific questions, both to assess the quality of the questions and to discover areas where more attention should be focused in library instruction sessions.
Q. How did you determine the questions to include in the game? How many questions are in the question bank?
A. There are about 193 questions spread over six categories. The six categories include the four types of questions that need to be answered correctly to win the game and the two types of web evaluation exercises. The question categories include "Choose Your Resource," "Searching/Using Databases," "Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism," and "Library Wild Card."
Q. Could you tell us about the web evaluation exercises embedded in the game?
A. A player that lands on one of the light bulb squares on the board is asked a web evaluation question. They are of two types. The first asks the player to examine one website and answer a question concerning information that can be found on that website, such as contact information, author or company information, etc. The second type asks the player to compare two websites and make a judgment between them to answer a question, such as: Which of these websites is more current? Which is more trustworthy? A correct answer to the evaluation exercise will get the player a free light that they did not have previously. An incorrect answer will lose them one of their lights.
Q. The multiplayer game format is highly unusual in library learning materials. Could you elaborate on the student / group interactivity while game playing?
A. The multiplayer format is there to engage students a little bit more through competition, as well as make it possible for the game to be used as a group activity in instruction sessions. There is also a single player format for individual students.
Q. How can other libraries adapt your game to their own institutions? What technologies or system requirements would be necessary?


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Don't get too excited now, but my photograph has appeared in Playboy magazine. (December issue if you're interested.) Here it is:
Okay, not necessarily what you were thinking of, but that's definitely my photo and you can take my word for it that it's a cutting from Playboy, specifically the edition shown here.
I must confess that I have never bought a copy of Playboy (no, honestly), so I was always very dubious about those people who claimed that they only bought it for the articles - but I must admit there was a lot more text in it than there were dubious photographs (and they were relatively tasteful). And, of course, all the great writers had pieces published in this august journal.
As the 'playbill' intro suggests, what is featured is a piece adapted from How to Build a Time Machine, so if you're a regular Playboy reader (for the articles, of course), you can get a bit of a preview of some of the material on offer. They've done quite a dramatic job with the opening spread, as you'll see with part of it below (though the real thing looks more impressive). I don't know if they have different versions of the magazine worldwide, but it's certainly in the US edition.
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One of the things I've been working on recently at my new company is a PHP-based managed infocard Secure Token Service, the Carillon STS, compatible with Windows CardSpace.
There's long been a PHP Relying Party freely available for CardSpace, but there's only been a Java-based open-source managed STS until now. Our new STS, combined with the firefox identity-selector plugin, makes it that much easier for anyone to experiment with CardSpace using free, interoperable tools.
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My graduate experience at RIC has been phenomenal! The program for the Certificate of Graduate Studies in Mathematics Content Specialist: Elementary has been very powerful and has had a tremendously positive impact both personally and professionally. While in the program, I was able to deepen my content knowledge and refine my practices and, as a result, improve the learning experience of my third graders. Since graduating the program, I have become a K-6 Math Specialist for my school district. This new position will draw on what I learned in my graduate work at RIC.
The professors in the program were very motivating and supportive. The cohort approach of the class was so important. The group of teachers in our program grew together and, along with our professors, really felt like an extended family. We struggled through problems, challenged each other, and supported each other's learning and instruction. We laughed, we worked and we grew! I have made friendships that will certainly continue long after the completion of our coursework.
After working all day, it was sometimes difficult to rush from school to get to a grad class each week, so the support and motivation of the program at RIC was essential. There were times when I had had a tough day at school and drove to class thinking, "How am I going to do this?" but not ten minutes into class I would be completely absorbed and excited by the course work.
The work was relevant, the assignments were applicable to what I was doing in my own classroom, and the content was current. I couldn't have asked for any more than what I got out of my Graduate Studies experience at RIC these past two years!


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"Prepare your dog in such a manner that the work he is normally called upon to do under-whelms him, not overwhelms him." ~ Evan Graham
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
― George Bernard Shaw
The Smartwork System for Retriever Training (link)
Evan Nailed it I think. And you may take this to all walks of life(work, romance, financial, etc...). As a consultant, this is an every day occurance. You learn to let it roll off your back. It is even fun to grin when they come back with a tail of woe. I don't bother with "I told you so's".
The difference is, with your examples, the life (or quality of life) of an animal and/or it's loving family is at stake.
Everyone is a dog trainer and even some hang out their pro shingles with minimal experience. I have the same thing even with family members, ask questions, then do whatever they want to do. An old saying, you are a moron in your own town and 20 minutes away you are a expert. Human nature I guess.
Earl Dillow
The ones that annoy me the most are the ones who ask a question, you take the time to then them and answer and the next thing you know they are asking another person the exact same thing. I have no patience with them and the next time they ask my reply is I don't know ask so and so.
I think that that many do not think that they need to be so particular BECAUSE they only want a PET. After all you and people like you need something different than just the pet.
Too bad they don't understand that our "performance" dogs are also pets. Too bad they don't understand that encouraging poor breeding practices, often times produces animals who suffer from poor structure, are miserable with allergies, and other problems.
When it quits being fun...we retire!
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Skeeter, my avatar (Deepwoods Off and Fly'n High, MH, MNH, MN09,10, 11.
Gypsy (Windigo Deja Voodoo Gypsy Pearl, D List, QAA, MH) MN10 & to MD11
Mary (Stellars Proud Mary) first Lean Mac dog
Ted (Deepwoods Spirit of the Wild), now the baby & Suzie's grandson...
Suzie (Watermarks Slough Foot Sue, MH, 2000-2011 - Farewell dear companion)
I can think of a couple folks who generalize about their whole pack of dogs. (My dogs won't pick up ABTs/Dokkens. My dogs don't like to (XYZ)"
This happens in so many aspects of life, and it seems to be highly correlated with how much something costs, or how hard you have to work to attain it. There is nothing cheap or easy about quality. That's why it's so valuable.


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Tue, 2 Oct, 2012
Sometimes seeing the organization of other courses can assist you in planning your own course.
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In a distance education program, quality not quantity should be the focus. Quality of the courses and programs offered not quantity of courses and programs.
But how do you assess quality without infringing on academic freedom? Distance Education has begun a strategic enhancement initiative to address quality.
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For quite sometime, the Basic Blackboard Training has needed a complete overhaul. Originally, the training began with a tool focus, but a tool focus is exactly what we did not want faculty members to do in the online environment. I suppose you could say an entirely different approach was needed.
Faculty members often have a difficult time translating their in class "traditional" versions of the course to an online or blended format. If only it were that easy. If only there was some "traditional to online" or "traditional to blended" translation guide. It isn't that easy!
Of course, faculty members could video their lectures and post them in the online course shells. Certainly, they could type out their lecture notes and post them for students to read. But, would this be considered teaching? Does this engage the students? Does this result in that knowledge transfer that we are trying to complete?
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NEW ORLEANS — It's been a year since pieces of Jaren Lockhart's body began washing up on Mississippi's Gulf Coast and almost that long since two people seen leaving a Bourbon Street strip club with the dancer were named as suspects in her death and dismemberment.
One, Margaret Sanchez, 29, is free. "We think she's somewhere near Las Vegas," says Glenn Grannon, an investigator with the Hancock County, Miss., Sheriff's Office.
The other, Christopher Speaks, 40, is in a federal prison awaiting his December 2014 release after a guilty plea for failing to register as a sex offender in North Carolina.
Neither has been charged in Lockhart's death, but authorities say they remain the chief suspects.
On Bourbon Street, the beat goes on at Temptations, the historic French Quarter building-turned-neon-lit-strip club where Lockhart, the 22-year-old mother of a small child, was last seen alive. A barker enticed visitors in with an offer of two-for-one drinks as women in lingerie wandered out onto the marble steps on a sunny afternoon earlier this week. None would talk about Lockhart. The club's management declined an interview.
Except for the way it ended in death, the story of Lockhart appears familiar to that of other young women who dance at French Quarter strip clubs, says social worker and former New Orleans Police Department employee Cecile Tebo, who at one time was helping pregnant women, including strip club dancers, put children up for adoption.
"They had found this an easy, flexible way to make money," she said. "Many of my girls did have a background of trouble but they were pretty doggone mature."
She also says they're typically street-smart. "A lot of the dancers I worked with were pretty protective of themselves," Tebo said.
But Lockhart may have let her guard down when she left Temptations with two strangers after her June 5, 2012, shift ended. Police said her boyfriend, who lived with her at a rundown motel in an area known for crime and drug trafficking, reported her missing the next day.
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Studies of Gulf currents at the time indicate the body was dumped somewhere off the Mississippi coast, Grannan said.
Still, it remains unclear where she was killed and exactly where the body parts were disposed of.
Surveillance video from Temptations put police on the lookout for Speaks and Sanchez, who shared a house in suburban Kenner. Both were picked up later on unrelated charges in Tangipahoa Parish, northwest of New Orleans.
Speaks, his short hair dyed a brilliant red-orange, sat quietly in a New Orleans courtroom a few days later as his transfer to North Carolina was arranged. After the transfer, he was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison with extensive conditions for his December 2014 release, including registering as a sex offender, drug treatment, and prohibitions on alcohol use.
A charge of harboring a sex offender eventually was dropped against Sanchez. Grannon said authorities can keep tabs on her through family contacts she has in southeastern Louisiana.
Grannon and police in Kenner, La., the New Orleans suburb where Sanchez and Speaks lived, say evidence has been turned over to the forensics experts at the FBI. Grannon says some came from the house, some from the car in which the two were arrested last June. He declined to discuss the type of evidence except to say there wasn't much of it.
"We're certainly dealing with two areas that were cleaned up and cleaned up very well," he said.
Aside from homicide charges, Grannon said authorities are considering lesser charges, such as the illegal disposing of the body. "We're looking at these alternative charges because, you know, maybe if we can get them back incarcerated maybe we have an opportunity to visit with them again," he said.
He acknowledges frustration in the case — frustration stoked by a video that turned up last year: an ABC television show about Adriane Hall, who was murdered and dismembered in her French Quarter apartment in 2006 by her boyfriend, who later killed himself. That show included a 2011 interview of their friend, Margaret Sanchez.
"I can imagine, just, shock. 'What am I going to do? Get rid of the body.' That would be anybody's first thought," Sanchez said at one point of the program, which interspersed re-enacted scenes from Hall's life with interviews of police and people who knew her.
New Orleans police have never publicly connected Sanchez to the Hall killing. The boyfriend who killed himself confessed to the murder in a suicide note.
But Sanchez's comments on the Hall case strengthen Grannan's belief that she was capable of such a crime.
"It'll really spook you if you listen to it close," said Grannan. "It'll spook you."


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When the dog is delivering the bird, does it have to come to heel and sit and hold the bird or can you squat down and take the bird as it comes to you?
When the dog is delivering the bird, does it have to come to heel and sit and hold the bird or can you squat down and take the bird as it comes to you?
I always take the bird as the dog comes in on the first initial test on a new dog but after that they are expected to heel and sit and is just my preferance but you can take the bird when then come in in any jr tests.
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The dog does not have to come to heel. Don't know about squatting down but you can lean over and grab (or catch in the air if dog starts to drop it) the bird as soon as the dog is back on the line. Don't drop it in the middle of catching it like I did, if the dog won't pick it back up you are SOL. My dog didn't have enough real bird experience.
It sure looks better if they truly deliver to hand (and heel), and you may be the butt of some jokes if you have to do the junior bird dive like me!
Do not run any tests, either UKC, AKC or NAHRA until your dog is coming to heel and delivering to hand! You are just wasting your time in the long run. Don't run any entry level tests until your dog is ready to run the next level. Of course if your only goal is a JH, SHR than go for it. JD
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Ahhhh the ole junior swoop....yes you can snatch it as they run by...but I would advise against it. Uphold your standards...even at a test. It's not about a $3 ribbon...
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Candler Creek Retrievers
GRHRCH UH "Hooch" MH (HRC 1500 pt. club) R.I.P.
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If I were to make a diving catch, there probably would be someone coming out to investigate the earth tremors.
AS long as you get the bird in the air before you touch the dog you are okay but to repeat earlier comment. Why do that, have the dog ready before you get to the test.
John Cottenham aka jacduck in many circles before the internet
"Duck hunter's minds are like concrete. All mixed up and permanently set."
Yeah, no one here who has ever trained a dog has had a dog do unexpected things at a test. Train with a high standard but expect and be prepared for the unexpected. It's a good idea to train with some nasty, waterlogged ducks as ducks at tests look like three miles of bad road pretty quickly. Many a young dog has gotten to the water only to drop the first waterlogged bird at the shore and leave it there. Don't be caught napping if your dog's grip starts looking tentative. Be ready to take the birds. The only rule is that the dog must deliver to hand.
"When a good trainer stops learning about dogs, he stops being a good trainer." the late Gene Hill
"If you want to find out what kind of trainer you are, leave your transmitter in the truck." the late Rex Carr
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This isn't a social event!!! Get a dog on the line!!


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well, i took the Mail example and finally did something with it that i've been meaning to do for a while: actually got it to really read real email messages. the other application which does that is http://beammail.org which thomas did, a year ago, and i must update it. thomas actually did send, login and even read contacts and TODO information, so it's a worthwhile exercise to update it.
but the List Archive reader is slightly different. firstly, i decided to read the pre-processed json data, not the Maildir stuff. this will reduce the load on my happy server. if lamson has already gone to the trouble of splitting out the headers, splitting out the attachments and so on, why do it again?!
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SailorDeath wrote:Just a quick question for you oh great neko Jingoro that I'm sure others would like to know. Is there a page where we can check the status of our entries? I know it's an all new way of doing it, but not knowing if you've received my entry has me biting my nails in anxiety waiting to hear.
I second this. I was hoping to get a conformation email for my expo entries, so that I knew that they were received and that I didn't have to send them again.


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Irish writers present works, Sept. 28
Posted September 20, 2007; 10:19 a.m.
Irish writers Anne Enright and Colm Tobin will read from their works at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, at the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Enright's novels include "The Wig My Father Wore," "What Are You Like?" "The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch" and "The Gathering" as well as the nonfiction book "Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood." She has received numerous honors, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her collection of stories, "The Portable Virgin." Enright's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Granta.
Toibin's novels include "The Master," "The South," "The Heather Blazing, "The Story of the Night" and "The Blackwater Lightship." He also has published travel books and edited several anthologies. His book "Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives From Wilde to Almodovar" is made up mainly of pieces from the London Review of Books, to which he is a regular contributor.
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This is probably a stupid question, however I'm not afraid of being laughed at so here goes.
I am just starting to get into this hunting thing. I've shot squirrels a time or two and went deer hunting ONCE but I was younger and didn't have the patience then. Now I THINK i have matured enough(HA HA) to take up the challenges of hunting and am actually going to start with yeah you guessed it TURKEYS!!
I have the gun part covered and I recently bought some realtree ap camo but it seems to me that what I bought is more fall-ish in its coloration. Our turkey season starts 4-18 thru 5-8 so I know things will be greening up. Will this camo be sufficient or should I buy different and use what I have for deer and fall turkey? Also, besides a couple of calls, what other gear do I NEED to carry into the woods with me?
No one I know turkey hunts so I'm having to do this on my own and am sure I will be asking a lot of other stupid questions, but please try not to laugh too much. I have thick skin but a chainsaw will cut thru the toughest bark.


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Conference focuses on photography of American West, April 29
Posted April 20, 2006; 11:28 p.m.
An academic conference titled "Framing the Frontier: A Day of
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Saturday, April 29, in 101 McCormick Hall.
Organized by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, the conference will focus on the early photography of the American West and contemporary issues surrounding its collection, display and ownership. It is intended to honor Alfred L. Bush, who retired as curator of Western Americana in December 2002. Bush voraciously collected photographs of the American West during his 45-year tenure at Princeton, ultimately gathering some 5,000 images that recently have been cataloged by Heather Shannon, who will curate an exhibition that also opens April 29.
In the conference's first panel, "Picturing the West," the speakers will explore the place of photography in early expeditions to the West, in the rise of the western cityscape and in Native American consciousness. The speakers in second panel, "Western Americana Photographs in the Archive," will discuss collecting Western photographs, their display in exhibitions and the ethics and politics of photographic images in the age of intellectual property.
The conference will be followed at 4 p.m. by a lecture by Martha Sandweiss, professor of history and American studies at Amherst College, in 101 McCormick, and the opening of the exhibition, "Framing the Frontier: Photographers and the American West, 1850-1920," at Firestone Library's Main Gallery.
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Caught=Trapped. He is like Frank Buck and brings them back alive. I guess he tranquilizes them when he has one in a trap.
The white dot is there, in fact there are two. We put some toilet paper in a tree before we left to mark the spot so it would be easy to find the next morning. I can see them because I know where to look.
If I had Evan's computer skills I would mark the spot.
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Bill in Legislature would help homeowners refinance
MADISON, Wis. - State lawmakers will hear testimony on a bill tomorrow that could help thousands of homeowners lower their mortgage rates.
The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority offers first-time homebuyers low-interest loans to purchase homes. But the same agency isn't allowed to refinance these loans, leaving some homeowners stuck with high-interest loans.
Lynette Hansan bought her home in 2006 at a 6.4 percent interest rate.
"I was lucky enough to get it without a down payment, and I'm one of those people that would otherwise not be able to get a loan," said Hansan.
Seven years later, she has a different job that pays half as much, and her home has dropped drastically in value. She wanted to refinance the loan through WHEDA, but found she couldn't. She called WISC-TV's Call For Action Team to let them know about the problem.
"I've done everything right," said Hansan. "I continue to make the mortgage payment, even when it is difficult."
Sen. Paul Farrow, R-Pewaukee, has heard from others in this situation. Of the 18,100 thousand outstanding WHEDA loans, more than 16,000 of them have interest rates above four percent.
"The world that we're in right now, when you see the rates below three percent or two-and-a-half percent in the 30-year fixed, they realized they are trapping people who could best use that renewal," said Farrow.
Farrow's bill, which has bipartisan support, would allow WHEDA to buy loans for refinancing. That would open the door for Hansan's mortgage to be helped.
"I can't be the only person in this situation," said Hansan. "I've worked my whole life and paid taxes. I know a lot of people walk away from their homes because they feel like they have no choice, and quite frankly that's been looming large for me."
WHEDA said Tuesday this change would allow them to help homeowners who have equity in their homes, or those who don't who purchased their homes after 2009. For homeowners like Hansan, WHEDA said it is still looking for a solution to allow those underwater on mortgages bought 2008 and prior.
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Create a drive-through in your kitchen and serve the best homemade nuggets! Cereal is the secret ingredient.
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down $3.30, or 0.9%, at $402.83, as analysts cut price targets and estimates following last night's fiscal Q2 report, which saw the company beat estimates, but offer a weak forecast for this quarter, and boost its capital payout strategy through 2015 by more than double.
In response to the announcement Apple will tap the debt market, Jim Cramer on CNBC this morning raved "Apple is better than Treasuries!" The company got favorable initial credit ratings from S&P and Moody's last night. David Einhorn with Greenlight Capital, who had lobbied for a special class of preferred shares, this morning applauded Apple's decision.
But as far as sell-side equity research, there is one downgrade this morning, that I can see, from BMO Capital's Keith Bachman, who cut his rating to Market Perform from Market Outperform, writing that "We think the March Q results were also consistent with our longer-term concerns about Apple having to trade off revenue growth vs. margins."
Steve Milunovich with UBS maintains his Buy rating but cuts his price target to $500 from $560, writing that offsetting the enormous dividend plan is the "summer lull," which will pressure Apple's September quarter.
Milunovich was on CNBC this morning saying it is amazing to see the shares down today despite Apple saying they will buy back 15% of the stock. He takes that as an indication of how worried investors are about growth.
Meantime, Apple's arch-rival, Samsung Electronics (005930KS), sees its Galaxy S4 handset become available in the U.S., although T-Mobile this morning said it was having some delays in making the unit available through its online system for pre-orders, and will delay availability until the 29th.
Also today, Best Buy (BBY) is having opening day ceremonies for its "store-within-a-store" concept for Samsung. The company hosted Samsung executives at one of its New York stores this morning, as CNBC noted.
Shares of AT&T (T) this morning are down $2.05, or 5.3%, at $36.95 following its Q1 report last night that featured growth in its wireless data business, but also revenue that missed consensus. The stock got at least three different downgrades this morning, from Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and FBR Capital. FBR's David Dixon, explaining his downgrade of the stock to Market Perform from Outperform, writes "We believe management is caught in a bind, having enabled application service providers to a greater-than-expected extent, and we see more limited opportunities to innovate going forward, as well as increased network costs to service these applications."
Shares of MetroPCS (PCS) are down 9 cents, or 0.8%, at $11.60, after shareholders voted to approve the company's proposed merger with Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit, as related by Lisa Maria Garza of Reuters.
Shares of Broadcom (BRCM) are up $2.03, or over 6%, at $35.01, following Q1 results last night that beat analysts' estimates, and a Q2 view that was higher as well. There are no upgrades yet, that I can see, but price targets are rising all around.
Pacific Crest's Michael McConnell, raising his price target to $44 from $41, writes that Samsung should be a "major contributor to growth" for Broadcom this year, given an aggressive roll-out of the Galaxy S4, but also a more than doubling in tablet shipments by the Korean giant.
Shares of Juniper Networks (JNPR) are down $1.66, or 10%, at $15.70, after the company last night missed Q1 estimates, and forecast this quarter lower as well. Sanjiv Wadhwani of Stifel Nicolaus, reiterating a Hold rating on the shares this morning, after trimming estimates for this year and next, writes, "Part of the issue we believe is the security business, which was down 19% sequentially and y/y. The company continues to struggle in its campus and branch office security portfolio and needs a focused strategy to build a more robust portfolio and market share."


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Try this quick way to jazz up refrigerated sweet rolls with marmalade and semisweet chips.
With only a 10-minute prep, this bread is perfect for special yet easy holiday breakfasts.
Generously grease the pan's grooves. If the marmalade sticks to the pan after baking, remove it with a small spatula and spread it on the baked bread.
This bread is best served immediately. If you must prepare it a bit in advance, let the bread cool, but do not frost it. Just before serving, wrap the ring loosely in foil and reheat it at 350°F for 10 minutes, then frost and decorate it. Reheat any leftovers the same way.
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It's astonishing to think that Rickie Lee Jones would turn out an album this organic and free of cynicism 30 years after her debut with the star-making, retro-hipster hit "Chuck E.'s in Love." Particularly since her songwriting has always been so acutely self-aware.
Nonetheless, this beautiful disc needs only her sweet muted-trumpet voice and optimistic viewpoint to sail gracefully through its 10 songs, which range from the '40s-style guitar chamber jazz of "The Moon Is Made of Gold" to the moaning, feedback-dappled hymn to transcendence that's "His Jeweled Floor." So it's a bonus that Vic Chesnutt and Victoria Williams join her to form a chorus on the latter, and that Ben Harper adds his honeyed pipes to "Old Enough," a song about an ebbing relationship, with a sunny doo-wop arrangement.
Alison Krauss also appears, crystallizing the country weeper "Remember Me" with her warm, expressive violin. Brimming with hope, Jones's 14th album is a balm indeed.
RICKIE LEE JONES | Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston | December 6 at 7 pm | $33-$50 | ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000
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With something of interest for young and old alike, Manor Farm Country Park offers the ideal venue for a special daytrip or group outing.
Farm admission concessions and free coach and minibus parking are available for groups of 15 people or more, if booked in advance. Coach parking at the farm and Barnfield. Tel 01489 772811
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By Carlie Kollath Wells/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – You have 10 days left to get your Halloween costume.
But many Northeast Mississippians have been shopping all month for their perfect look.
John Wood, owner of Halloween Headquarters, said the temporary store next to Hancock Fabrics has averaged about 1,000 customers daily since it opened in September.
"At this point, I've been extremely happy," he said.
Seven in 10 Americans will participate in some kind of Halloween activity, according to the National Retail Federation. It's the highest participation rate since the NRF started doing the survey 10 years ago.
Consumers are expecting to spend more too. The NRF survey said the average person will spend $79.82 on decorations, costumes and candy, up from $72.31 last year, with total Halloween spending expected to reach $8 billion in the U.S.
About 45 percent of the respondents said they plan to dress up this year – good news for the region's costume vendors.
Witches, vampires, princesses and superhero costumes are the most popular nationally, according to NRF.
In Northeast Mississippi, Wood said he's seen a variety of costumes selling.
"It's not any one big thing this year," he said. "A lot across the board."
He said Power Ranger costumes have made a comeback this year for boys.
Indeed, 4-year-old Anderson Shoemaker is dressing up as a blue Power Ranger. His mom, Nanette, said he's trying to convince her to be a pink Power Ranger.
"He wants somebody on his team," she said.
Nanette Shoemaker also was shopping for a rock star costume for her tall, 10-year-old daughter, Kendall.
"Finding the right costume – an appropriate costume – is a dilemma," she said.
Cute monster costumes have been hot sellers for women and teens at several of the costume stores in Tupelo, such as Halloween Headquarters, Costume World and Party Works.
The costumes are in neon colors and include a furry hat with big eyes and sometimes horns. Some have furry, fox-like tails and furry, knee-high leg warmers.
Carolyn Shelby, owner of Costume World at Crosstown, said neon, candy-inspired costumes also are popular for female teenagers and women. They play off singer Katy Perry's fanciful outfits. Shelby said customers are pairing them with bright, neon wigs and leggings.
"Teenagers are having a fit over the colors," she said.
Elvis costumes also sell out quickly in Halloween Headquarters, as do prison jumpsuits printed with "Mississippi Department of Corrections." And Wood said he's had success with stocking more plus-sized costumes in his stores for men and women.
Shelby said her collector's edition masks continue to sell well this year. She's had to reorder the masks modeled after the band Slipknot. The masks are thicker than regular masks and are meant to hold up for several years.
Masks for Michael Myers, Chuckie, the Living Dead and the Goat from Hell also have sold well this year.
"You'd be surprised how many collectors there are," she said.
Male customers typically buy the masks, while her female customers this year are leaning toward the monsters or sexier costumes, such as the Lusty Leopard outfit that comes complete with boots and a hood.
Shelby's store is smaller than Wood's temporary store, but she said she competes by offering personalized dressing services and free alterations on costumes sold in her store.
At Party Works, the walls are lined with pictures of the costumes available for customers to try on. Employee Paula Chunn said superheros have been popular so far.
"We have a blast during Halloween," she said. "We get to meet all kinds of people coming in. … It gets hectic."


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Production centers on encounter between Hughes and Lorca
Posted January 4, 2009; 04:24 p.m.
An imagined encounter between famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes and Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca is the basis for "The Beat Is Sweet: Memory of a Broken Dream," a senior thesis production by Princeton's Lauren Whitehead being performed Friday through Sunday, Jan. 9-11, in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
The performances, which feature theater, music and dance, are at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Although it is not known if Hughes and Lorca ever met, the fact that Hughes translated Lorca's "Blood Wedding" inspired Whitehead to create a theatrical fantasia made up of a series of dreams and nightmares, contrasted with flashes of reality based on the known events of their lives.
"I want the audience to leave with a deeper understanding of the inner mind of the writer's eye, mysterious and chaotic, and a greater appreciation of the personal story that is the work they leave behind," Whitehead said. "I want people to listen to the message behind the music, not just the beautiful melody of the poetry, essays and plays that enchant us. The beat is sweet, but the story is timeless."
Whitehead is presenting her creative thesis for a certificate in the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance. A Spanish and Portuguese major, she also is pursuing certificates in Near Eastern studies and Latin American studies. She has been a central figure in Princeton's arts scene over the last few years, working as an actor, director, dancer, stage manager and more for shows with the Lewis Center, the Princeton Shakespeare Company, Naacho and the Black Arts Company: Drama. She has written and is directing "The Beat Is Sweet: Memory of a Broken Dream."
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students. They are available online through University Ticketing or by calling (609) 258-9220.


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Downtown Myrtle Beach St. Patrick's Day CelebrationLocation: Downtown Myrtle Beach
The fourth annual downtown Myrtle Beach St. Patrick's Day celebration has quickly become one of the biggest parties of the year in Myrtle Beach and will take place on Saturday of St. Patrick's Day Weekend. Ocean Boulevard is blocked off for this event and families and revelers are free to walk and check out the variety of food, gift and drink vendors and live music. Fun games and contests will run throughout the day and a Kids Zone with a number of inflatables with keep the little ones busy and having a blast. This is an event you don't want to miss!
A variety of bands will play throughout the day including the Myrtle Beach Regional Pipe and Drum Band, Bullfrog, Paul Grimshaw Band, Austin Mowery Band, Passafire and Weaving the Fate.
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Film screened for Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 14
Posted November 12, 2003; 06:56 p.m.
"The Great American Footrace," a film by Princeton alumna Lily Shangreaux and Dan Bigbee Jr., will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in 101 McCormick Hall in observance of Native American Heritage Month.
The film tells the story of 19-year-old Andy Payne, a Cherokee from Oklahoma who in 1928 won the momentous "Bunion Derby," a cross-country race from Los Angeles to New York. A question-and-answer session with Shangreaux and Bigbee will follow the film.
Shangreaux, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from South Dakota, was one of the first women admitted as a freshman to Princeton. She graduated with an A.B. in psychology in 1973. Shangreaux began her career in film in 1993 when she founded BIG productions with Bigbee, a Comanche from Oklahoma who serves as producer, director, editor, videographer, writer and engineer for the company.
The event is sponsored by Native Americans at Princeton, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, the Program in American Studies and the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.
For more information, contact Chris Francis .
Contact: Ruth Stevens (609) 258-3601


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Has anyone else noticed a quick drop in the gas prices? I went to town yesterday and gas had dropped from $3.89 to $3.11 in less than a week. Last night Cheryl, my wife, went to town and it had dropped to $3.03 in less than 5 hours.
Now oil is still sitting at $92 per barrel so its not down that much. So what is everyone spin on as to why the sudden drop? Elections?
Diesel is a whole diffent story. It still at $4.11 as of yesterday.


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So begins "Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture," on view at the RISD Museum (224 Benefit Street, Providence, from April 17 to July 19). Organized by Vitra Design Museum in Germany, it marshals furniture, photos, brochures, architectural models, video, and pull-out architectural plans to beautifully, clearly, dashingly enumerate the ideas and development of one of the most influential designers of the past century. It is one of the best shows you'll see in New England this year.
Breuer was born in Hungary in 1902, became a star pupil at Germany's legendary Bauhaus design school, taught there and, as the Nazis seized power, at Harvard, before setting up shop in New York, where he died in 1981. He is credited with designing the first tubular steel chair, the "Wassily" club armchair B3, in 1925. It uses the same materials as the B34 (fabric, steel tubing) but is more elaborate. Both are like line drawings turned 3D, but the B3 could be the variation for the forward-looking but august lords of an old university club.
The B34, on the other hand, is a chair pared down to its atomic particles. It has a slight recline of the back, gradual curves, and a gauge of tubing that gives it a distinctive springiness. It stands without back legs because of its cantilevered design — a favorite device of Modernists because it shows off the strength of innovative construction materials. Breuer probably wasn't the first one to come up with this basic design, but his version, widely produced and copied, is the one people remember.
"One hears the following objections to tubular steel furniture," Breuer said in 1927. "It is cold, fit for a hospital, reminiscent of a surgical chair. These comments blossom and wither from one day to the next — they are products of habit — and soon supplanted by some other habit."
Hear the 25-year-old's determination, confidence, disdain, swagger. It's the language of a revolutionary. The Bauhaus is remembered for inspiring spare, clean, geometric, minimalist design — and endless drab glass, steel, and reinforced-concrete box buildings. But it was driven by a utopian vision. They hoped to flatten class distinctions by producing elegant but affordable mass-produced designs. They saw their geometric style as a universal language that could transcend national divisions. The masses never really embraced it, but Bauhaus style proliferated because glass, steel, and reinforced concrete buildings remain the cheapest thing going.
Breuer's continued exploration of new, affordable, industrial materials led him to devise a super-slinky chaise longue from honey-hued molded plywood in 1935. As manufactured by Isokon, the streamlined seat curves like rolling water, a belly dancer, a silk scarf in a breeze.
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What to Bring: Soccer cleats and shin guards, GK glove, bring water and a ball with your name on it. If you have a goal keeper jersey and/or pants, bring them as well. (or a long shirt and sweat pants)
Organization of the sessions:
minutes / Warm-up = Fitness & Core Training & Agility & Coordination
minutes / Technical Training = Foot skills & Distribution & Receiving (hands and foot)
Day of the week: Sundays
Dates: January 19, 26; February 2, 9, 16, 23
GK Training (U9-U10) - 2/16 10-11:30 am at Oakton HS (extended 30 minutes, earlier start time)
2/23 10:30-11:30 at Oakton (no change, stays as advertised).
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Ellsberg to speak on 'Lying the Country Into War,' Feb. 13
Posted February 11, 2003; 11:45 a.m.
Anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg will discuss his new book in a lecture titled "Secrets: Lying the Country Into War in Vietnam and Iraq" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
A former Marine company commander and Pentagon analyst, Ellsberg made headlines in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times and The Washington Post. The 7,000-page, top-secret study exposed the motives behind U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
In his lecture, Ellsberg is expected to compare American foreign policy during the Vietnam War and today, as the United States prepares for war with Iraq. The talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
Contact: Tom Bartus(609) 258-3601


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|For Immediate Release
January 7, 2002
|Ron Harris
Ian Stirton
Kelly Huff
WASHINGTON Robert W. (Bob) Biersack has been named Deputy Press Officer at the Federal Election Commission, filling a vacancy created by the retirement last year of Sharon L. Snyder.
Biersack has served in the Data Systems Development Division (DSDD) at the FEC since April 1983, specializing in analysis and web-posting of campaign finance data. For the past several years, he has been instrumental in defining, planning, implementing, and executing statistical studies related to campaign finance information filed at the FEC. He is also a key participant in the design and implementation of the FECs electronic filing program and Internet-accessible database.
He holds degrees in economics and political science from Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has been recognized by media, academic, and campaign-finance communities for his analyses and presentations of complex data. In addition to authoring a number of articles about campaign finance, he is in demand as a panelist at conferences focusing on campaign finance, and has been an adjunct lecturer for the departments of politics at numerous universities in the Washington, DC, area.
Biersack will assume his new duties in the FEC Press Office on February 11.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on his family's estate in Albi, France in 1864, and returned to die in the south of France two months before his thirty-seventh birthday. Most of his life was spent in Paris where, as he matured, he adopted thepalette and rapid brushwork of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionistsbut never aligned himself with one particular style. Lautrec's obsession withthe underbelly of Parisian society set him apart from his predecessors. The divesand haunts of the demi-monde (underworld), the café-concerts, the masked balls and the dance halls of late nineteenth century Paris enthralled him.
A driving force behind Lautrec's art was his desire to portray character.He possessed extraordinary powers of examination and scrutinised his subjects' expressions, their gait, and their body language.He never aspired to simply paint portraits, his ambition and skill was far more complex and provided him with an uncanny insight into the personality of his sitters.


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Binghamton University offers certificate training in medical field
The Binghamton University Office of Continuing Education & Outreach is offering three certificate courses in the medical field: medical billing and boding professional, medical assistant administration, and pharmacy technician.
The medical billing and coding professional program, starting October 6, 2009, is a 70-hour course that offers the skills needed to solve insurance billing problems, manually file claims (using the CPT and ICD-9 manual), complete common insurance forms, trace delinquent claims, and use generic forms (CMS 1500) to streamline billing procedures.
The medical assistant administration certificate program, starting October 5, 2009, is a 50-hour course that covers background information on medical terminology, insurance billing and coding, medical ethics, customer service, and legal aspects.
The pharmacy technician program, starting October 5, 2009, is 50-hour comprehensive course that will prepare students to enter the pharmacy field and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certificate Board (PTCB) exam. Course content includes medical terminology specific to the pharmacy, reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic and brand names, and more.
The courses will be held from 6-9:30 p.m. at the Binghamton University Downtown Center, 67 Washington Street, Binghamton. For more information or to register for one of these certificate programs call (607) 777-6857, toll-free 1-877-313-2508, fax (607) 777-4544, or visit http://continuinged.binghamton.edu.


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By Patsy R. Brumfield / Daily Journal
NEW ORLEANS – Attorneys for former Oxford attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs today asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out his 2009 guilt plea in an alleged scheme to bribe then-Hinds Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter.
When Scruggs, now 66, pleaded guilty to seeking to improperly influence DeLaughter, he was serving a five-year sentence for his 2008 guilty plea to scheme to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City.
Both judges presided over Katrina-related legal fees lawsuits against Scruggs and others.
In today's oral arguments hearing, Scruggs' attorney Edward "Chip" Robertson Jr., with former Mississippi attorney general Michael Moore, insisted their client did not offer DeLaughter the required "anything of value" when he had the judge's long-time friend and former boss, Ed Peters of Jackson, tell him Scruggs would suggest his name for a federal judgeship.
The government, represented by Robert Norman, insists the name suggestion is the thing of value.
Scruggs is free on bond while the appeal is considered. He's completed his sentence in the Lackey affair.
The three-judge panel includes Chief Judge Charles Stewart, Judge Jerry Smith and Judge J.L. Wiener Jr.
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(Below is a running account from the 5th Circuit hearing. Please forgive the typos and glitches likely as I type rapidly. Some of this is paraphrase and in no way attempts to be all inclusive of remarks and questions.)
10:35 – Robertson opens for Scruggs
ROBERTSON – Cites Skilling … criminalizes only bribery and kickback core of a (certain case). No other conduct falls within this section. I believe that most people would agree that if he had directly appealed, it would be overturned. Don't rise to a quid pro quo bribe. Judge Davidson couldn't find it. WE couldn't find it … in that information. If it does, we're wasting your time. WE believe district court was without jurisdiction to decide. Scruggs had cause not to appeal. Prejudiced by not pleading guilty.
(QUESTION – Why not raised?) Raising them unsuccessfully. Could be …. we were concerned … (Stewart – we see a lot of cases that raise lots of errors… to preserve for purposes of an appeal. Lo and behold, those who preserved it, had done so when opportunity came. How is this different from standpoint of not raising?) Your honor … if court wants to continue to invite those things, so be it. (Raising no defense is foreclosed… simply preserving for appeal. How do we differentiate with other cases that appeals are foreclosed? How do I write around it to say it's different?) We have jurisdictional questions. Cites various cases…. two kinds of indictment defects. One is technical issue, that's Cotton. But Peter and Rosa Ortiz say if thing charged is no crime at all … we think this falls into this category. Because this information, after Skilling, could only have stated bribe or kickback … or factual basis something like that. WE suggest that those words just aren't there.
In district court … Davidson wrote … about non-crime. In Rosa Ortiz, is opposite of what case states. When doesn't constitute a crime and defendant is innocent … (Wasn't this argument rejected in Zach Scruggs case?) No, opinion was that he had committed misprision and was another crime. This is different … a 1346 violation… bribe or kickback. No a crime under the laws of the U.S.
In Peter and Rosa Ortiz, no jurisdiction in district because crime isn't cognizable by U.S. (question) Not familiar with George. Govt says we pled honest services violations. Skilling put it on another plane. Said it was unconstitutional to be guilty of something other than bribery or kickback. If it's not there, it's not there. Skilling put the onus on whether information pled this case. (Judge reads George to him.) Peter would disagree and I hope you would too.
Trying to put everything under Cotton, which draws a distinction. Skilling says no other conduct falls in. Altogether different.
We also say that 1st Amendment has some implications here. Whatever you think of this conduct – it was an endorsement to become a federal district judge. Indictment says quid pro quo was secret access to judge in turn for Lott's call. Began August 2005, almost 9 months before Lott's call and months before opening on court. When we're dealing with right to speak on political matters… must be careful. That something has to be very specific. Indictment doesn't charge that. Says Secret access were in return for the phone call, but the access began six months before. We have to be very careful to make sure … that it is tied very tightly to the act. You know, people make phone calls.
You know people can't say no to a judge for this favor. Was this a quid pro quo? Answer is no. In 1st Amendment, we have to be very careful… to say right to call a U.S> senator … must be protected … no evidence of explicit in this case.
Falls … it is different than George. Falls under Peters. We are left where Mr. Scruggs has served five years concurrent with another, potentially to be in jail for something that is not a crime.
NORMAN – 10:50 – Disagree respectfully. Skilling did not decriminalize bribery. Quid pro quo is the key to the case… because makes it a paradigmatic bribe. Takes it outside the 1st Amendment. Quid Pro quo takes it outside.
Charge itself – information does not use words quid pro quo. If I were ti draft it post Skilling, I would use those words. It predates Skilling, so does Whitfield, a 5th Circuit case which was cited with approval of Skilling. What USSC used to describe what a paradigmatic bribe is. In Whitfield… words quid pro quo not used … court says govt must prove exchange of something of value despite the official intent. Give and take. Precisely the argument counsel makes.
In this information, Mr. Scruggs in second guilty plea admitted he and legal team devised a scheme to defraud… they used the U.S. mail. Defraud includes honest services. That's what's alleged in the information. May only describe offense against the U.S. in language like the statute. Doesn't use quid pro quo.
Looking at jurisdictional objections, I don't now where Peters and Meacham stand after Skilling. But is clear they deal with offenses that aren't violations of federal law. But Cotton, USSC says an indictment or information may not be artful … but if it conveys the violation of law, jurisdiction remains. That's what defendant defaulted when he didn't appeal directly.
After that, he tried actual innocence. Skilling didn't change the law… simply drew it into its core offenses to bribes and kickbacks. Not a sea=change in the law. Any defects … fall within Cotton. Those who believe Bousley is unfair. Cites another precedent… defendant defaulted but wanted to pursue by habeas. Our district court judge held two-day hearing … he took into account other guilty pleas (Langston, Patterson) to prove actual innocence. He found defendant totally failed. He also found Patterson not credible and Langston not credible.
Quid pro quo is critical. Takes many forms. Powerful testimony – Tim Balducci, spring 2006… conversation at the airport when Peters complained that DeLaugher had kept his end of the bargain and that Dickie Scruggs had not kept his end. Judge didn't get an open seat. Shortly after, DeLaughter got the call from Lott. He said never indicated he was under consideration, just a courtesy, he didn't tell DeL he was just joking because DeL wrote a letter next day to the senator, thanking him and gushing about how honored he was to be considered, etc. Created in mind of DeL exactly what defense wanted… made him feel it was his last best chance to become a federal judge. He was willing to sell his soul to get it. He did. He was a distinguished jurist and prosecutor. He sold his soul in his quest to become a federal judge.
He granted secret access to the court… via Peters… but entered rulings shading findings of fact to give Scruggs what he wanted. What they wanted in quantification order … when filed, Team Scruggs felt it was objectionable. Asked court to set the value. But then realized it might be an opportunity. Had to know which way judge would go. That's when they hired Peters with reverse contingency plan. … most of us don't get that opportunity.
Peters told them they should embrace it, then he provided last page showing zero additional funds owed to Mr. Wilson. Also knocked out punitive damages. It was a done deal. Wilson didn't know he had been had. They embraced it and it saved Scruggs millions and millions of dollars. Wilson never knew what hit him.
That is what we're trying to prevent (HEAVY SIGH) Long, arduous case. Goes to the heart of what we do for a living. Submit that charge before the court, even if not artful, jurisdiction vested in the court per Whitfield and Cotton… defendant failed to prove his actual innocence. Pled guilty to a scheme to defraud a sitting judge. trying to escape that liability with Skilling, but it did not change honest services fraud statute, only pared it down to core offense – this is one of them. It was set forth in the information with enough particularity …. 11:05.
ROBERTSON – Respectfully disagree. It was a sea-change. Skilling says it uniformly changes the statute. It was an ethical violation. But at no point did he say where in the information or factual basis it was "quid pro quo." Peters says this: If everything in the information is proven, is it a crime? No, because of Skilling – there's no crime. Doesn't criminalize that. Norman asking 5th Circuit law that we don't have to say in honest services what the violation is. He says not he would do it differently now. An Admission isn't not there in 2006. Suggest it was a sea-change. It is not a crime. Difference between this and Cotton.
It is an ethical violation. This is the best one you'll ever see. Absent interchange of money … in a political endorsement … says quid given 6 months before the pro, if you give it away free, you can't do it later. At heart – is not what we do for a living. It's more important. Core concept of liberty – people are charged with crimes passed by Congress and courts recognize. Not allow prosecutors to throw you in jail by saying you've committed a crime.
Absent a bribe or kickback, there is no crime. First thing 2255 says. 11:10


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