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The physician being investigated in Michael Jackson's death was due in a Las Vegas courtroom Monday to ask a judge to let him make minimum child support payments to a California woman and her son.
Dr. Conrad Murray's court appearance was scheduled after prosecutors sought a warrant for Murray's arrest for failure to appear for previous hearings.
Murray's lawyer, Christopher Aaron, filed written documents arguing that Murray has been unable to pay because he had to close his medical practice and move to an undisclosed location due to threats following Jackson's death June 25.
"He's radioactive," Aaron told The Associated Press. "He's unemployed and unemployable. But he wants to be able to pay the minimum $100 a month until this blows over."
Prosecutor Gerard Costantian said Murray needs to provide financial information justifying his claim that he's unable to pay more than $14,000 owed in support payments dating back to October 2008.
The deputy Clark County district attorney said Murray last made a payment of $1,500 on June 30.
In Oct. 27 court filings, Costantian asks the court to find Murray in contempt and send him to jail unless Murray can demonstrate an inability to pay.
The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Jackson's death a homicide, caused primarily by propofol and another sedative.
Murray told investigators he administered propofol as a sleep aid, along with multiple sedatives, in the hours before the 50-year-old pop singer died in a rented Los Angeles mansion.
Murray has not been charged with a crime but is the focus of the Los Angeles police investigation, according to documents made public with search warrants served as his home and offices.
Murray, a cardiologist licensed in Nevada, Texas and California, had been hired to a lucrative $150,000-per-month contract to be the pop star's personal physician during a world tour.
At the time, the financially troubled physician owed at least $780,000 for settlements against his business, outstanding mortgage payments on his large Las Vegas house, delinquent student loans ,credit cards and child support.
Another judge in Las Vegas is due Wednesday to consider unsealing search warrant documents stemming from a police raid Aug. 11 at a Las Vegas pharmacy from which authorities say Murray legally purchased propofol.
Clark County District Court Judge Valerie Adair last month allowed the records to remain shielded from public view after hearing behind closed doors from Los Angeles police investigators.
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Concerto op.7 n.6
Alessandro Baccini first studied early wind instruments and then the oboe at the "Benedetto Marcello" Conservatory in Venice with first-class honours. He continued his postgraduate studies in Heinz Holliger's class at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. His concert début was in Italy when, at 22, he was invited to perform as a soloist at the Gran Teatro La Fenice, in Venice. Baccini has won numerous oboe and chamber music competitions. His discographic debut was in Mozart Concerto k314, recorded with European Chamber Orchestra on 1992. He has performed almost all over the world in festivals, and with ensembles such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra of the RAI Milan and the European Community Chamber Orchestra... He's afterward attending to discography both for soloist and chamber music, but for contemporary music too (his recordings for ASV, Pick Wick, Dynamics, Stradivarius, Tactus, Bongiovanni, Edi Pan, C.I.R.S.).Baccini teaches in Italian conservatories and regularly holds masterclasses at home and abroad.


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Jealousy 2
>> Sunday, July 11, 2010
This was the scene we drove up to when getting
gas for our car. What had just happened? It looked like a sledge hammer went through the wind shield and it was done on purpose. We were on our way home from church and saw the gas tank near empty. As my husband got out of the car I could not stop staring as I had never seen this before. A man who worked at the gas station, Harold, who said it was o.k. to state his name, said, "You missed it. This happened about twenty minutes ago." (It was 1:30 p.m.) He was animated in his gestures while he told us the story of the driver and his lady friend.
Harold continued to tell us how the man who was driving this car
parked at this gas station and convenience shop, meeting up with a lady friend. As they were parked in the car, a taxi drove up behind them and out came a woman with a New York Yankees bat that Harold says was a Lou Gehrig edition. Many people who were stopping for gas drove by to find out what had happened. It could have also appeared as if someone left their car parked at a Bronx gas station overnight and someone vandalized the car.
Suddenly, she proceeded to run up to the car and started smashing
in the windows, with the bat, while they were still in the car! He did not give all the details of what this woman must have been saying while smashing in the windows or if she even said anything, stating what she needed to say, with the bat. Harold stated from what he witnessed she was his wife who wanted to catch him cheating and she followed him in the taxi, prepared with the bat on hand. While she was beating in the car "both her husband and lover ran for cover". "They were running for their lives!"
At that point, I remembered all of you and jumped out the car with my cell phone camera, pulling myself away from Harold's story. After taking the first picture I remembered my last post and that I wanted to do a series on Jealousy. This was perfect timing. I felt like a news reporter in the right place at the right time to document the evidence of a woman with Jealous Fury. She had followed her suspicions and must have been absolutely sure as she planned to take the bat. They are lucky she only damaged the car.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States filed a fraud lawsuit against Bank of America Corp, accusing it of causing taxpayers more than $1 billion of losses by selling thousands of toxic mortgage loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Wednesday's case, originally brought by a whistleblower, is the U.S. Department of Justice's first civil fraud lawsuit over mortgage loans sold to the big mortgage financiers, bailed out in 2008.
It also compounds the legal problems that Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan faces over the second-largest U.S. bank's disastrous July 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial Corp, once the nation's largest mortgage lender.
According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Countrywide in 2007 invented and Bank of America continued a scheme known as the "Hustle" to speed up processing of residential home loans.
The program, also known as HSSL for "High Speed Swim Lane," operated under the motto "Loans Move Forward, Never Backward," and tried to eliminate "toll gates" designed to ensure that loans were sound and not tainted by fraud, the government said.
The program removed underwriters from all but the riskiest loans and replaced them with loan specialists, previously considered unqualified even to answer borrower questions.
This led to "defect rates" approaching 40 percent, roughly nine times the industry norm, but Countrywide concealed this from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and even awarded bonuses to staff to "rebut" the problems being found, the government added.
Defaults and foreclosures soared, yet the bank has resisted buying back many of the defaulted loans from the scheme, which ran through 2009, the government added.
"The fraudulent conduct alleged in today's complaint was spectacularly brazen in scope," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said. "Countrywide and Bank of America made disastrously bad loans and stuck taxpayers with the bill."
Wednesday's lawsuit seeks civil fines, as well as triple damages under the federal False Claims Act, which the government has used several times in recent years against Wall Street.
Lawrence Grayson, a bank spokesman, said in response to the lawsuit: "Bank of America has stepped up and acted responsibly to resolve legacy mortgage matters. The claim that we have failed to repurchase loans from Fannie Mae is simply false. At some point, Bank of America can't be expected to compensate every entity that claims losses that actually were caused by the economic downturn."
In February, Bank of America agreed to a $1 billion settlement of False Claims Act allegations over home loans submitted for insurance by the Federal Housing Administration, in a case from the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, New York.
Since Moynihan's predecessor, Kenneth Lewis, paid $2.5 billion for Countrywide, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank has lost nearly $40 billion on mortgage litigation and investor demands to buy back soured loans, Credit Suisse said on October 5.
Some of these costs related to Merrill Lynch & Co, which Lewis bought at the beginning of 2009. Last month, Bank of America agreed to pay $2.4 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors about that takeover.
According to court records, Wednesday's case was originally filed under seal in February by Edward O'Donnell, a Pennsylvania resident and former executive vice president at Countrywide Home Loans who had worked there between 2003 and 2009.
In that complaint, O'Donnell said Countrywide and later Bank of America dismissed his "numerous" objections to the Hustle, and that he became "one of the lone voices" in his division pointing to escalating loan quality issues and defaults.
O'Donnell could not immediately be reached for comment, and his lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Bank of America shares closed down 5 cents at $9.31 on the New York Stock Exchange. They have fallen 61 percent since the Countrywide takeover closed, while the Standard & Poor's 500 has risen 10 percent.
Federal regulators seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on September 7, 2008 and put them into a conservatorship.
The mortgage financiers are now overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and have repaid only about one-fourth of the more than $188 billion of taxpayer funds they have drawn down. Fannie Mae alone has drawn down more than $116 billion.
Wednesday's lawsuit was also brought under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, which was enacted after that decade's savings-and-loan crisis.
It overlaps other cases that federal agencies have brought against Wall Street over the financial crisis, including the FHFA's 18 lawsuits last year over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
These lawsuits covered losses on the sales of roughly $200 billion of securities, including more than $57 billion linked to Bank of America, Countrywide and Merrill.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have in recent months stepped up their own efforts to force Bank of America and other lenders to buy back soured home loans.
Bharara's office has in the last 1-1/2 years brought five civil fraud lawsuits under the False Claims Act over FHA-insured loans against other lenders.
In February, Citigroup Inc settled its case for $158.3 million and Flagstar Bancorp Inc settled for $132.8 million, while Deutsche Bank AG settled in May for $202.3 million. Cases are pending against Wells Fargo & Co and Allied Home Mortgage Corp, Bharara said.
The case is U.S. ex rel. O'Donnell v. Bank of America Corp et al, U.S, District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-01422.
(Additional reporting by Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina and Aruna Viswanatha in Washington, D.C.; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, Tim Dobbyn, Steve Orlofsky and Ron Popeski)


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Hi again! It has been a while (again) since I have written. To tell you the truth I am having a hard time with this pregnancy....this is not unusual for me...I recognize all these same feelings and experienced them all with the pregnancies of the last 2 boys. I don't remember much of how I felt when I was pregnant with Aidan to compare. Anyways, today is another Sunday! I LOVE Sundays! Sundays revive me! Another great church service this morning, an afternoon filled with a bit of shopping for some "bigger" clothes, supper with my family and finally a meeting of our small group at our home. Everyone in our group was here tonight...it was so nice. I am going to focus on the positive and not even get into what time I got all the kids to bed as Wes had to go into work for an OT night shift.
So, today the question that has stuck in my mind....are you going to heaven? Is your name written on the Wall of Eternity? Before I became a Christian, I only really thought about God and heaven when someone I knew died...and I really thought I would go to heaven because I was a "pretty good person." Then I started attending church and started reading and learning more about Christianity and have learned that in order to receive Eternal Life one must admit and claim that Jesus died for my sins and that He is Lord. He loves each and every one of us so much that He forgives us when we repent...when we confess to Him what we did wrong. He doesn't hold our past against us. Yes, once we make that choice and claim that Jesus is the King of Kings He starts working in us...the Holy Spirit is available to us...to each of us every moment of every day. That is a pretty incredible thought.
Being a Christian is not easy in this world, that is for sure. But through Him we find the strength to do it. I have experienced this personally over the last few weeks, but only when I seek Him and ask Him. I can't do this on my own, and so many people think they can. So, back to my question...if you aren't going to heaven, if you chose not to believe in Jesus and have a personal relationship with Him...where are you going? And why would you want to go there? There is so much good to be done in this world...if we all just put our thoughts on Him and not on ourselves how would this community, this city or even this world be different? I can't understand why people wouldn't want to look forward to meeting our Maker, to looking forward to going to a place so indescrible once their flesh life is over. In no way does this mean I am "ready" to go to Heaven, but when my time on this Earth is done according to Him...I know I will be in the loving arms of Jesus.
I want to see you there...there is nothing that makes me more sad then thinking of my loved ones dying and not believing that they will be taken care of by Jesus. Consider it....consider where you will go when you die. Please have your name written on the Wall of Eternity.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wall of Eternity
Hi again! It has been a while (again) since I have written. To tell you the truth I am having a hard time with this pregnancy....this is not unusual for me...I recognize all these same feelings and experienced them all with the pregnancies of the last 2 boys. I don't remember much of how I felt when I was pregnant with Aidan to compare. Anyways, today is another Sunday! I LOVE Sundays! Sundays revive me! Another great church service this morning, an afternoon filled with a bit of shopping for some "bigger" clothes, supper with my family and finally a meeting of our small group at our home. Everyone in our group was here tonight...it was so nice. I am going to focus on the positive and not even get into what time I got all the kids to bed as Wes had to go into work for an OT night shift.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Hi out there! I have looked at my blog for days now wondering what to write about. There are so many things I could say...so much on my mind these days. Darn near all of it brings me to tears. Yup, I am sooo hormonal.
Sunday I had a most wonderful day! It started out by a great church service. The worship was rockin' and I was happy with it...I like it loud sometimes...gives me more freedom to really sing so no one can hear me (terrible tune, but perfect for the one and only Listener). The message was okay...we had a guest speaker and he encouraged us to read the book of Esther later that day in the bible. Every Sunday, I almost dread when church is over....why can't it last longer...why can't we be free of distractions all day? Why does the chaos start again once the doors are opened and we go out to gather our children?
Sunday was a little different this week though. Aidan was at his dads because we did a schedule change to accomodate a sleepover on this end and after church Wes' parents (just back from a 3 month stint in Texam Wycliffe) arrived home the evening prior so they were excited to take Addison out for lunch. Wes had to work day shift that day. When Asher and I were driving home, I thought...wow this is easy...only one child...we could do anything Ash. But we didn't...we went home and ate lunch then he was ready for his afternoon nap. I was excited to sit down and read Esther. The speaker said it would take 10 minutes to read...ummm...well no it took me a while longer but I enjoyed it all the same. Read the scripture then read the study notes. I have always wanted to do that on a Sunday....expand more on what was talked about earlier that day. So many times I have an afternoon nap. But I did laundry, I "tidied" just like Wes likes it, I had a wonderful afternoon coffee in silence. I made supper AND berry cobbler for dessert. Wes parents and Addison came home around 4:30 and it was nice to visit with them. I love how they love to eat dessert...cause then I have an excuse to make it without looking like I am the only one who wants to eat it :) Aidan came home after supper and gave me such a nice cuddle. He rarely does that anymore. Then I had the energy to put laundry away and change our bedding after the little ones were in bed. I even gave Wes a hand massage before we closed our eyes and went to bed. I gave...and I enjoyed it!
Wow, what a day it was. I can't explain my feelings of purpose and productivity other then I dove into the Word and He gave me the energy to be able to do all that. You may not think that is a lot...but for me lately, it is a lot. Even my husband noticed.
David Wilkerson writes "All true strength comes from drawing near to the Lord. The measure of our strength is proportionate to our nearness to him!" Simply put, the closer we are to Jesus, the stronger we're going to be. And all the strength we're ever going to need will come only through our secret life of prayer. If we'll just draw near to Christ, he will draw near to us, giving us a fresh supply of strength daily. This is the secret of his presence!"
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Watch It!
My husband, my encourager sat me down to watch/listen to this...I tried to put it off but he insisted...I am so very glad I did.
If you have time...no no...you should make time at some point today or tomorrow to listen/watch this YouTube video. There are five little series...go through all of them if you can....no no...watch them all, each one offers something new and exciting!
Let me know what you think!
Click here to watch, or watch below.
Posted by Shauna at 4:32 PM 2 comments
Monday, March 9, 2009
Yesterday we celebrated Addison's 3rd birthday! He has been asking for an "Incredibles" cake for months now...but I couldn't find an Incredibles cake pan anywhere but I did find these cupcake picks on E-Bay as well as some Incredibles balloons...not to mention some Incredibles figures for Addison's gift. He is so into "guys" right now...so he was thrilled with these figures. He has been playing non-stop today with the wonderful gifts he received yesterday...even doing pretty well on the little scooter too! Not sure how long we will let him ride it around in the house but for today it is ok....maybe even tomorrow too since it is his real birth "date" on Tuesday. He has a little competition though...Asher seems to think he should ride on it too...and I have even seen Aidan take it for a spin around the kitchen.
Thank you to all the people who could come and celebrate with us! Oh ya, I have to tell you that I have the most wonderful husband in the world...he did so much to get everything prepared for the party and has been super supportive these last few days...he even did all the laundry (so I have no laundry to do today..yah!!!). I am so glad he is mine :)
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Some News...
So...2 weeks ago we found out some news:
We were surprised to say the least. The last few months we have been thinking about whether or not our family should grow...well maybe me more then Wes. I was kind of in a place where I needed something...I began seriously looking into starting a photography business and was more and more excited about this as the days went on. Wes was on board with the business but he was excited about a route he was taking himself with buying a boat, booking us a house on the Shushwap in the summer, and things like that.
We didn't go to church in 2 weeks. We both got sick. We didn't meet with our small group for 2 weeks. We weren't consulting God in the major decisions we were making. There was definitely a wedge between Wes and I as he was so excited about "his dream boat" and I was so not excited about the boat.
Then...I counted the days on the calendar...hmmm...35 days. Positive pregnancy test. Didn't know how to tell Wes...I was a little excited and a little scared. When he went to tuck Aidan into bed, I sent a text message to his phone. When he came upstairs, he heard his phone beeping so he went to check it. I sat at the kitchen table and took the photo of his reaction after reading the text.
It was a rough night. We both were being consumed by other things, driven by other things...and here I could do nothing but believe that this was God's work. He was bringing us back to him with a blessing. How loving a Father is that?? When our children aren't behaving and following what we think they should do, or listening, or making major decisions before consulting us...would we bless them instead of disciplining them? God could discipline us....but He didn't. He blessed us with another pregnancy. Wow!
God knows how our past pregnancies have gone...3 premature births. We need Him more then anything with this pregnancy. I am fully trusting Him to see a miracle in what he has created. I will post more on this later...thought the whole pregnancy idea might be enough for you to deal with for today :) It has been 2 weeks since we have known and I still am not used to it.
Wondering how my body just seemed to jump back into pregnant form already?? The baby is the size of a bean and my belly looks like I am 5 months pregnant?????
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Dog Shoots Owner During Hunting Trip
CNN released this article:
Utah hunter shot by his dog.
The incident happened over the weekend during a duck-hunting in the Great Salt Lake near a bird refuge outside Brigham City, (Utah?) One of the men, a 46-year-old from Brigham City, got out of his boat and laid his 12-gauge shotgun across the bow of the vessel.
"The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the (man) in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake City Tribune.
The man was apparently setting up decoys when the gun went off, said Potter. The man is expected to recover.
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This packet sows up to three 10" x 20" flats
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When to sow outside: 2 to 4 weeks before average last frost, when soil temperature is at least 50°F, ideally 60°?70°F. Successive Sowings: Every 2 weeks until 2 weeks before the first fall frost.
When to start inside: RECOMMENDED. Sow indoors any time of year, with indoor temperatures 60°-75°F. Successive Sowings: Every 2 weeks for a continual supply.
Special sowing instructions: Use a shallow container with 1"-2" of potting soil. Sow seeds in a single layer, and cover with 1/8"-1/4" of soil.
Harvesting: When seedlings emerge, the first pair of leaves to show are the cotyledons, which can look very different from the leaves that follow, called "true" leaves. Kale baby greens are ready to harvest 25 to 30 days after sowing, when they have true leaves at 2"?4". Cool growing temperatures may slow germination and growth. Harvest by cutting just above the soil line.
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pinnath is a dialectical Númenórean Sindarin word meaning "slopes; crests; ridges; group of downs".[1][2]
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The word appears to be a blend of the proper plural Sindarin form pennath + another plural form pinn, pind.[1][2]
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- Pinnath Gelin ("Green Hills")
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 24, 173
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 525 (citing from the Unfinished index)


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One Price in California
Two-tier pricing at California community colleges faces longer odds under new chancellor, who says differential tuition clashes with the state's laws and open-access commitment.
California community colleges will not find an ally in their new system chancellor, Brice Harris, if they try to cope with crushing student demand by raising tuition for certain programs or courses.
In an open letter to leaders of the system's 112 colleges, Harris last month made clear that he is opposed to attempts at charging "differential tuition." That includes the controversial two-tiered pricing structure that Santa Monica College proposed last year or the online bachelor's track Coastline Community College has been developing with three public universities in other states.
Harris said that such efforts, even if proposed for seemingly good reasons, go against California law and the deep commitment to affordable, open access at its community colleges.
"Suggestions such as moving the system to outcomes-based funding, charging differential fee by program and increasing fees per unit to leverage more federal financial aid, have increased in frequency and intensity," he wrote. "I strongly believe that charging different students different fees depending on demand, ability to pay or program of interest would ultimately be devastating to open access and has the potential to undermine a system that has been the gateway to a better life for all Californians regardless of their background."
However, Harris also said he supports incremental tuition increases.
The Santa Monica College proposal set off a fiery backlash last spring, capped by the pepper-spraying of student protesters. The college's leaders wanted to create a self-supporting private foundation to offer courses at four times the price of state-financed versions. They said the plan would have helped to meet student demand in overbooked courses, but later shelved the idea.
Santa Monica has hardly been the only community college in the state to try to get creative to serve more students. A recent report found that budget cuts, and resulting faculty layoffs and hiring freezes, have forced the system to turn away 600,000 students in recent years.
Coastline Community College, for example, has been working on a plan to allow its students to enroll simultaneously in online bachelor programs at the University of Massachusetts Online, Pennsylvania State University's World Campus and the University of Illinois at Springfield.
The partnerships would have allowed students to attend Coastline full time for their first year of course offerings. Then they would have simultaneously attended the college and one of its university partners for the next two years. The final year of enrollment would be university-only, in "capstone" courses.
The project's leaders predicted it would cut Coastline's waitlist in half and allow the college to enroll an additional 10,000 students.
The three partner universities had promised to charge Coastline students their in-state tuition rates. So a bachelor's degree from UMass Online would cost about $25,000. Degrees would have been substantially cheaper than those offered by for-profit institutions, which have aggressively recruited in California, according to the project's leaders.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had funded the pilot program, which has been overseen by the League for Innovation in the Community College.
But the chancellor's office put the kibosh on the idea earlier this year. A system official told the college that it would have run afoul of the state's prohibition on differential tuition.
Harris last month wrote to Andrew C. Jones, Coastline's chancellor, to concur with the earlier decision by Barry A. Russell, the system's vice chancellor of academic affairs. He said it wasn't an easy call.
"Let me say that I understand your motivation to create this innovative approach in association with some extremely impressive partners," he said. "My concerns, and those of Vice Chancellor Russell, are not with the content of the program, but rather the fact that this group of students must pay considerably more for their education."
Harris, who took the helm last fall, said he had taken a "consistent and firm stand" on differential tuition in his letter to the California Community College CEO Board. The state's education code does not allow differential tuition, he said, and that has been the basis for the system leadership's previous denial of such requests.
And in addition to concerns about legality and student access, Harris said in the letter that charging different tuition rates would raise several other thorny questions. It could have a disparate impact by gender, race, ethnicity or age. Or it could open the door for policy challenges, like further budget cuts or changes to funding formulas for different academic programs.
"Instead of differential fees, I encourage, as has our system for many years," he wrote, "a fee policy that would only allow for modest and predictable fee increases in response to the increasing cost of living."
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We've waited long enough to fix our voting process
In the exhilaration of his victorious moment, newly re-crowned President Obama cheered not only those who voted for the first time, but also those "who waited in lines for a very long time." And to loud cheers he added: "By the way, we have to fix that."
I hope the president indeed will correct this system of long lines that rolled on for miles and hours, because the voting infrastructure is a national disgrace that can rob thousands, especially the elderly, of the right to vote.
To some, long voting lines extol the hallmark of effusive democracy; after all, we vote rather than flood the streets with tanks. No argument there, but voters still deserve better. Too many voters are paying a "wait tax," where voters -- often disproportionately black or Latino -- are forced to wait in lines so long it is difficult not to give up and not vote.
All too often, those long lines are not flaws but intentionally created infrastructure. For example, the number of voting machines in Democratic-leaning districts in key Ohio counties was reduced between 2000 and 2004, despite a sharp rise in registered voters.
In Franklin County, which includes my home town of Columbus, Ohio, 65 of its 146 Democratic-leaning wards had fewer voting machines, while 45 of the GOP-leaning wards had more, according to the Huffington Post. This occurred within the county's Democratic wards despite a 25 percent increase in registered voters there.
In 2008, the flawed system plagued my father. He lived in a heavily Democratic-leaning section of Columbus and was ecstatic about voting for a black man, his party nominee. It was a cold, wintery voting day, and my father, fresh from a knee replacement, arrived early to vote but could not brave the four-hour wait at the polling place.
The decision really hurt him, especially when he heard reports that voting was swift and uncomplicated in the white, suburbanite areas.
My father died in July 2010 and of course did not realize his desire to vote for Obama. As I stood in line at a Prince George's County, Md., polling place Tuesday, I felt the pain of the hour-long wait almost unbearable.
Nevertheless, I was joyful as I saw the hundreds of African Americans -- many coming directly from work, others carrying babies -- who were determined that nothing, not even long lines, would deter them from voting.
Nevertheless, I will be 74 in 2016. Can I stand for hours to vote? Should I have to?
On Tuesday, Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said: "When you look at the lines that formed in Ohio, they are longer than the lines in Baghdad and Kabul."
One often-mentioned fix is to jump-start the Election Assistance Commission, which was created after the embarrassing 2000 election but has been allowed to remain dormant. All four commission positions are vacant.
Too many activists have fought and died for the right to the ballot, a victory that is a vital contributor to Obama being elected president.
The president's promise to fix the system is the right step to ensure that the constitutional right continues.
Barbara Reynolds is a frequent contributor to TheRootDC.


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there is (a) method to (one's) madness(redirected from there is a method to her madness)
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There is a specific, rational purpose in what one is doing or planning, even though it may seem crazy or absurd to another person. I know you don't understand my motivation for this decision, but after the dust settles, you'll see that there is a method to my madness. There may be method to your madness, but these radical changes to the business could still prove catastrophic.


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openSUSE 11.3 released
openSUSE have released version 11.3 of their popular Linux distribution, with added support for smartphones, touchscreen and the Btrfs file system.
Here's what they have to say about their latest release:
The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the latest incarnation of openSUSE, with support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. openSUSE 11.3 is packed with new features and updates including SpiderOak to sync your files across the Internet for free, Rosegarden for free editing of your audio files, improved indexing with Tracker, and updates to Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird.
Among these many new features, openSUSE also provides support for netbooks and the Btrfs file system support. Users can expect to see improved hardware support with the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers. And support for the next generation of interactive computing for touchscreens like the HP TouchSmart.
openSUSE continues its tradition of delivering the popular KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments, and now also provides the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. With GNOME, you can use the latest 2.30.1 version or take your installation for a drive with a preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.0. Or choose KDE SC 4.4.4 for the latest updates. They all feature the polish and integration that the openSUSE distro has been known for.
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Mel Gibson won't be filing for unemployment after losing his proposed cameo gig in the hot sequel "The Hangover 2."
According director Todd Phillips, despite public perception the controversial Gibson wasn't fired from the movie – he was only planning to do a favor for friends, until a reported backlash within the production nixed the idea and ultimately replaced him with Liam Neeson.
"Just for clarification, no one was ever fired," Phillips told reporters at the press conference for his film "Due Date" starring Robert Downey, Jr. and "Hangover" star Zach Galifianakis.
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"It's a term that is so obscene to me," added Phillips. "Someone was doing me a favor to come in for a two-minute cameo and we changed it. I mean, it wasn't like we fired somebody. It was doing a favor from the beginning."
"As was the intention with Mel, the scene is maybe not what you'd expect in 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover 2' will be an epic comedy, but not every scene – just like in the first one – is full of comedy. This had a little bit gravity to it, and I thought that both guys [Gibson and Neeson] really can add that gravity – and that's where we're at."
Downey – who during his own controversial personal-life period during the mid-90s found his own Hollywood exile ended by Gibson when the "Lethal Weapon" star cast him in "The Singing Detective" after his drug conviction – responded ruefully when it was suggested press reports had gotten the details of Gibson's "Hangover" scuttling wrong.
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The tree is further distinguished by the brown balls which hang from the branches in winter. These are the seeds which will hold together until spring when the wind will blow them apart and fill the air with them like a child blows a dandelion puffball.
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Don't worry... The spanish website will come back soon.
There're problems with the cluster where portal-hispano is hosted in.
If you use Telefonica ISP you will not get access because in our cluster in powweb.com (our hosting server) there was an illegal website (phishing) and Telefonica has blocked the cluster.
Powweb has shut that website down now and we're waiting for Telefonica to unblock the IP address of the cluster.
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New Secretary of State John Kerry met with Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore at the State Department on Monday, and both spoke of the close ties between Ireland and the U.S.
Kerry and Gilmore met earlier this month at Shannon Airport during a stopover visit that Kerry made, and he said he appreciated the brief hospitality.
"He was kind enough to come all the way to Shannon Airport the other day to meet me when I was coming back from the Middle East. And we had a wonderful – I can't even remember, it was early morning or late afternoon, it was such a mix. But we had a great visit," said Kerry.
"You know what Ireland means to America, and particularly to those of us from Boston. We are so appreciative for the partnership for the EU presidency and the agenda of Ireland right now as the EU president. And in addition to that, the trade initiatives, the economic initiatives, their leadership on human rights and other issues, and the process that continues to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Gilmore said Ireland was grateful for American support for the peace process.
"We're hugely appreciative of the support that the United States and successive administrations have given to the efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland and to maintain the peace in Ireland," he said.
"We have a particular relationship now because Ireland holds the presidency of the European Union at this critical time when we are beginning the process of developing a trade and investment partnership between the United States and the European Union, which I believe will be to the mutual benefit of both the U.S. and Europe, and particularly Ireland because of the large amount of direct investment that we got from the United States."


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NEW YORK — What will it be on the Oscars red carpet from Jenny Packham? The gold gown with the sparkly diamond pattern up top or one of her cherry reds with crystals?
If Anna Kendrick had a preference watching from Packham's front row Tuesday, she wasn't giving it away. The "Pitch Perfect" star has developed a poker face as she makes the rounds at New York Fashion Week.
Packham, the Londoner who has dressed Kate Middleton and numerous Hollywood stars, said in a backstage interview the collection was partly inspired by Bianca Jagger's ease and elegance in flowing one-shoulder gowns and silk kaftans during the 1970s.
Her runway ode to Mick's ex included loose satin jumpsuits with chunky jewel accents.
Packham trimmed beaded cocktail dresses with feathers at the hem and sent out a long ostrich-feather coat in blue. Her silky satins came in soft caramel, bluebird blue and rose pink, in contrast to metallic glitter on tulle and Swaravski crystals scattered on mesh.
The mood was playful disco in spots and old glamour in others, thanks to another era in fashion Packham admires: the 1930s.
"I play with those two eras a lot," she said. "The '70s did actually take quite a lot inspiration from the '30s. I love the '70s, the bold colour. There's something very sophisticated about it now, looking back."
In addition to Middleton, Packham has dressed Angelina Jolie, Amy Adams, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet.
She has been a growing presence on the red carpet and her phone will likely start ringing Wednesday ahead of the Academy Awards now that she's revealed her latest gowns.
"We've got pieces being held for people," she said, declining to name names.


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[Silver Spring, October 14. Image via Getty]
County healthcare workers make announcements to residents waiting in a long line for the H1N1 vaccination shot at a clinic held by the Montgomery County Health and Human Services on October 14, 2009 at the Dennis Avenue County Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Swine flu is killing fewer people than seasonal flu but is causing greater alarm due to its impact on children and higher healthcare costs, according to a top disease surveillance expert. Denis Coulombier, who heads the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's preparedness and response unit, warned that a second wave of swine flu infections could be expected within weeks. AFP PHOTO / Tim Sloan (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)


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As much as a third of US wind projects counted as under construction and scheduled to come online before the end of 2015 could fall by the wayside because of difficulty securing financing and too aggressive bidding for power purchase contracts.
Projects had to begin construction by the end of 2013 to qualify for the $0.023/kWh US federal production tax credit, either by spending 5% of total project costs or actually starting physical work on the project.
As much as 4GW chose the latter path and are now in a grey area where there is uncertainty whether they did enough. "It now appears banks and tax equity investors are not comfortable enough with that physical work evaluation to be able to finance on that basis," Keith Martin of the law firm Chadbourne and Parke said during the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) annual conference in Las Vegas.
Another challenge is that developers may have been too aggressive in trying to lock down power purchase agreements (PPAs) before the PTC expiry. "With a PTC deadline looming people took a lot of risk," Duncan Koerbel, CEO of Suzlon's North American arm, said during a turbine manufacturers panel.
"The tag line is there is more wind under construction in the US now than anytime in history. But there are lot of deals out there that are pretty thin. I think you are going to see people out there who say we have a PPA, we took a risk, and the guys in this panel are going to say we can help you so much, but we can't go that far."
Koerbel believes a large chunk of the 11GW under construction at the end of 2013 will ultimately not pass muster.
"I would bet you'd see at least a 30% fallout."


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Designed for amputees and individuals that have difficulty walking, Exmovere's Chariot is a wearable robotic vehicle that can be controlled by subtle movements in the hips.
Because of it's compact size, users can move about in tight spaces easier than they could in a wheelchair or scooter—and it can travel at speeds of up to 12 mph making it a efficient method of transport. Essentially it's a Segway that you can wear. Yeah, it sort of makes people look like a vacuum, or like they are wearing some sort of robotic skirt—but there is no doubt that this concept is certifiably badass.
Production versions of the Chariot should be available sometime in the near future, and there are plans to integrate a feature that would allow users to switch from a standing to a seated position as needed. [Business Wire via Gizmowatch via Botopolis]


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Give me the ability to right-click on the map and drop a point (or pushpin) then label it. I may not need/desire a fence around a certain location, but I might want to mark it for future reference.
In lieu of a right-click, a tool could be available to click a button prior to moving the cursor to the map to then click the location and have the point dropped.
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Manufactured with injection moulding: highest convenience and safety in knee joint prostheses
Only materials and components that can be relied upon are used for prostheses. Especially for leg prostheses, it is important that the user can trust his prosthesis when he is running and standing with it. Therefore, Otto Bock SE & Co. KGaA, the world market leader in technical orthopaedics, has been relying on iglidur plain bearings made of high-performance polymers for more than 20 years.


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Leaders of communities that have abandoned town meeting agree their streamlined new governments can deal more effectively with financial, political and licensing issues.
Leaders of communities that have abandoned town meeting agree their streamlined new governments can deal more effectively with financial, political and licensing issues.
Mayors Susan Kay and Joseph Sullivan, of Weymouth and Braintree, respectively, said centralizing leadership has resulted in higher bond ratings, improved municipal services and less government waste without sacrificing public representation.
"Having a strong independent mayor is a huge plus. I believe a mayor can lobby better for his or her community,'' said Kay, recently re-elected as Weymouth's second mayor since it revised its charter in 2000. "I truly believe having a mayor has been better for our community because it's given us a louder voice at the State House.''
Kay recalled she initially shared some residents' reluctance to jettison Weymouth's Town Meeting, the first in the nation, because it represented a valued tradition in their history. "Town Meeting was a social event. It was very, very democratic but it wasn't efficient. It'd pass a multimillion dollar budget in one night and then spend two nights on other, often less significant things.''
Weymouth had a population of about 53,750 in the 2010 Census.
Since taking over as Braintree's first mayor and then winning re-election, Sullivan said he's been able to cut nearly $1 million from the operating budget, increase the bond rating to AA and approve government accountability by reducing department heads by more than half.
"I'm not going to be critical of our previous form of government but it is clear we are operating more efficiently,'' he said, of the city of about 35,750, as of the 2010 Census.
While noting he might not be "objective'' about a change he supported, Sullivan, a former six-term state representative and executive director of the Massachusetts State Lottery, said the mayor's centralized authority allowed him to make difficult but necessary changes to improve Braintree's finances and efficiency. He reduced the number of department heads from 27 to 12 and now meets with them weekly. He reduced 31 "primarily administrative positions but no police officers, firefighters or teachers.'' And he "tightened management'' on seemingly small expenses by "pulling in cell phones'' from municipal employees who were using them for personal calls.
"We stepped on a lot of toes,'' said Sullivan. "I think we have implemented changes in a way that, based on any objective analysis, have been successful.''
The endorsements of Kay and Sullivan for a mayoral form of government reflect growing sentiment in Framingham that its 216-member Town Meeting has become an outdated institution that limits the town's ability to react efficiently to daily needs.
And leaders in Franklin, Randolph and Bridgewater which traded town meeting for a manager and elected council broadly agreed they can cope more effectively and professionally with their communities' everyday needs without waiting for annual and occasional special meetings of volunteers.
Franklin Town Administrator Jeffrey D. Nutting said many Bay State communities are still wrestling with "the never-ending debate over choosing between giving people a direct voice or governmental efficiency.''
Since revising its charter in 2010, Franklin is governed by nine Town Council members and an administrator whom they appoint.
"When communities debate this you always hear people's concern about losing their representative voices. The love of town meeting is an emotional issue. People say it's the purest form of democracy,'' he said. "But towns can't be run like they were 200 years ago. I just see the world is changing and I think this is the best way to deal with it.''
For Nutting, working in concert with Town Council has helped Franklin move quickly to offer businesses tax incentives to move to town, fine tune zoning changes and resolve unexpected problems.
"Without Town Meeting, you don't have to wait six months or a year to address issues. Having a Town Council is like having Town Meeting twice a month,'' he said.
While serving as interim town manager, Richard Kerbel said he wanted to limit his comments because most of his experience had been in Rhode Island and not in Bridgewater before it replaced Town Meeting and five selectmen with a manager and nine-member Town Council.
"The manager form of government leads to consistent decision-making, continuity and efficient operation. I believe trained professional managers or administrators who work for elected (councilors) have advantages over a mayor. And I don't think doing away with town meeting eliminates citizen participation. There's still plenty of opportunities for people to express their opinions,'' he said.
Andrew Azer and Paul Meoni, Town Council members in Randolph, which revised its charter in 2009 and eliminated Town Meeting, said they have already seen financial benefits, including an improved bond rating, and a more civil political environment.
The council's president at-large, Azer said he'd come to regard Randolph's annual 240-member town meeting as "antiquated'' and too slow to respond to issues that needed immediate attention. While a committee exploring ways to improve Randolph's "decentralized'' government considered having a mayor, voters in 2009 had the choice between a town manager and town council form of government or town manager, selectman and 120-member town meeting. Azer said about 60 percent of voters supported the manager and council form.
"Having nine councilors makes things more transparent. With town meeting, the public didn't always know how they voted,'' he said. "With a town council, I view it as having a town meeting every two weeks. People still have a voice because we have public comments and we've simplified the process to file petitions.''
The council vice president, Meoni said last year the body passed several ordinances that improved public safety and quality-of-life while passing other measures to improve schools.
"Town meeting was invented at a time people could be more casual about running a community,'' he said. "In the 21st century, things need to happen quickly. Since the change, I've never heard anyone say we should go back to town meeting.''


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Dane Cook's half brother has been ordered to pay the comedian $12 million in restitution after embezzling money from him, reports People.
Darryl McCauley served as Cook's business manager from the late 1990s until 2008. He started diverting funds from Cook to his personal accounts in 2004. In October, McCauley, 45, pled guilty to 27 counts of larceny over $250, three counts of forgery and embezzlement, among other charges. He was sentenced to 5-6 years in prison and his wife - who was involved in the plot - received 2 1/2 - 3 years of prison time.
Per a statement from the Massachusetts attorney general's office, the court will tally the couple's assets in an effort to start the payment process. The McCauley's purchased a home in York Beach, Maine, and also invested in both a hotel and restaurant there.
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May 24 (Reuters) - EMED Mining Public Ltd said Andalucia, one of Spain's autonomous regions, gave a key approval for the company's plans to restart its flagship copper mine, formerly owned by Rio Tinto , sending its shares up by a fifth.
The approval from the culture and heritage department of Andalucia — the first from any government body there — follows a March announcement by the regional government, recognizing the company's legal claim to the project's mineral rights.
The approval will help EMED Mining's plan to start production in 2012.
The company, which explores for gold and copper from Europe to the Middle East, is now seeking permission from Andalucia's departments of environment and industry.
Tuesday's approval drove EMED shares up 18 Canadian cents, before losing a penny to trade at 17 Canadian cents, on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They had lost 40 percent in the last three months, hit mainly by uncertainties about the project. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)


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Maine gears up for same-sex marriage; law goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � A handful of communities are gearing up for special hours when Maine's same-sex marriage goes into effect.
Maine's largest city, Portland, will open at midnight to provide licenses as soon as the law goes into effect. So will a neighboring town, Falmouth. Others including Bangor, Brunswick and Augusta will open later with special Saturday hours to issue marriage licenses.
Portland will have notaries for those who want marry immediately.
Voters approved gay marriage in November, making Maine and two other states the first to do so by popular vote. The law is already in effect in Washington state; Maryland's takes effect on Jan. 1.
Suzanne Blackburn and Joanie Kunian of Portland hope to get their license at midnight. They say their grandson wants them to get married on Valentine's Day.


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Best definition
This is a compound word for a homeless black individual. Nigger + Hobo = Nigbo! They can often be
found aimlessly wandering the downtown area with some kind of alcohol in hand. They originated in the legend Zelda game Ocarina of Time in the market after you become an adult as the undead that like to jump on your back, suck your blood, and ask you for spare change.
Oh no, roll up the windows before that Nigbo comes up to the car and asks us for our change.
Nigbo: define #2
Old school military jargon for a gung-ho, decked-out black soldier. Comprised of the words Nigger + Rambo=Nigbo. AKA a black Rambo. This is racially offensive and should not be used except within the brotherhood of Soliders and Marines. Term originated from the "American Ninja" movie (1985) starring Michael Dudikoff. There is a scene towards the end in which the black platoon Sergeant rolls up to the fight manning an M-60 machine mounted on a jeep to kick some ass.
(Between a white and a black soldier in a combat zone)
"Are you ready to go kill some taliban today, Nigbo?!"
"Are you ready to go kill some taliban today, Nigbo?!"
"Fuck yeah, you honky cracker!" "Get some!"
Nigbo: define #3
racist term usually light hearted
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Australia's premier airline, Qantas, will provide an iPad to each and every passenger on its fleet of Boeing 767s, beaming free in-flight entertainment using what it dubs its "QStreaming" technology.
"Following the successful trial of our QStreaming service this year," Qantas Domestic CEO Lyell Strambi said in a statement, "we will partner with Panasonic and use their eXW solution to provide over 200 hours of on-demand IFE content via iPads to every passenger in Business and Economy travelling on our B767 fleet."
The Panasonic eXW to which Strambi referred is that company's Avionics Division's in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) system, introduced last September. One eXW Wi-Fi system, Panasonic says, can offer 40 full-length films and 100 short subjects, enough music to fill 100 audio CDs, digital newspapers and magazines, and cached web content.
The QStreaming tech was tested in a trial run beginning last September. At that time, "customer experience" manager Alison Webster cited the weight – and thus, fuel – savings of the system as one of its advantages. "We are all focused on fuel burn being environmentally friendly and we have huge commitments to sustainability targets," she said.
Strambi was apparently pleased with the results of the trial run. "Our customers were the first in the world to experience the ground-breaking Wi-Fi entertainment technology," he said, "and we received great feedback from our customers during the trial this year."
The Canberra Times reports that the freebie fondleslab lagniappe is "the latest shot in an ongoing war" between Qantas and Virgin Australia.
Qantas certainly seems to have outclassed its rival with its new service. Virgin Australia, the Times reports, is testing its own tablet-based in-flight entertainment system, but it merely preloads Samsung Galaxy tablets with content, and it plans to provide them free to business class passengers only, and to charge economy class flyers for the privilege.
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Pandawa Beach is a peaceful beach concealed behind lush greenery and 5 dramatic statues carved into the limestone cliffs. It is easily accessible off of the main road of Jalan Raya Uluwatu and there is a large parking area for cars and bikes. There are minimal crowds during the week, especially before lunchtime. Here you can rent two beach chairs for IDR 50,000 ($5 USD) or bring your own umbrella and ditch the beach traffic. For an even less populated area, turn left at the sand upon arrival to Pandawa and just walk a few minutes down.


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Fresh off winning the Oscar for Best Screenplay, David Seidler has moved on to two more films, one a murder mystery, the other about a POW Olympics.
Seidler has been hired to rewrite "The Judge," a screenplay by Nick Schenk ("Gran Torino"), with Robert and Susan Downey producing and David Dobkin ("The Wedding Crashers") directing, according to Variety.
The story revolves around a lawyer who returns home following the death of his mother, only to learn that his estranged father, a judge, is a murder suspect. Naturally, the lawyer sets out to learn the truth about his father, while at the same time reconnecting with his family.
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What has traditionally been the most transcendent event in the world of sports had its Opening Ceremonies in London on Friday and the competition started Saturday. In total, NBC is planning to telecast a record 5,535 hours of Olympic coverage on nine different channels.
This will include NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo and the NBC Sports Network. It will be a multiple-platform, digital extravaganza with all of the events available for viewing live online. Laptops, smartphones and tablets with the right apps will receive the programming. By way of contrast, NBC broadcast 2,000 hours from the 2008 Games in Beijing. With this unprecendented exposure, will the Olympics retain their impact and relevance?
The Olympics have normally created a global village of billions of viewers sharing the same experience in an intense two-week period. The normal interest of followers of sports like gymnastics, swimming, diving and track and field are eclipsed. Americans who not normally have much focus on these sports are engaged in massive numbers. One of the stimuli is nationalism, pride in American athletes at a discouraging economic time.
The audience consists of many more woman than normal. Advertisers feel that woman are drawn to the human interest back stories about individual Olympians. This is why there will be an unending parade of features on athletes who have overcome hardship and challenge to become Olympic hopefuls. There have been less of these stories and less focus on the individuals competing than in years past. This means that the broadcasts themselves will have to work hard to engage viewers.
These games provide a dramatic opportunity for star building. When the television audiences are large the games transcend the narrow genre of hard core enthusiasts, and engage the whole country. A dramatic performance combined with an interesting back story can vault an athlete to national prominence. We have a powerful celebrity oriented media which can transform athletes into national icons.
Hundreds of television shows, websites and publications are dedicated to highlighting interesting people. Winning athletes can be featured on Leno, Letterman, morning shows, talk shows and become hot. This would normally lead to high level marketability. The challenge is to keep that profile high when sports like gymnastics and swimming don't have heavily watched competitions once the games end. If there are not continuing opportunities for exposure, that Olympic heat can fade rapidly.
In 1988 I helped gold-medal ice skater Brian Boitano when he returned home. We were able to create an ice show featuring him and gold-medal winner Katerina Witt. They had ownership interests and the show toured the country to large crowds. Brian was gifted and creative and designed a prime time television show that ran on ABC, "Carmen on Ice." These activities helped to keep him in the public eye.
In 1996 I worked with Kerri Strug, whose dramatic vault with a broken leg to win a gold medal for the women's gymnastic team transfixed the country. When Bela Karolyi carried her to the medal stand it created vivid imagery. But who follows gymnastics in between Olympic Games?
So the challenge was to design activities which would keep her center stage. We had her ring the bell on Wall Street, be carried by Steve Case of AOL as Bela did, onto the field of Monday Night Football at halftime, and be a presenter with Bob Hope at the Family Film Awards. We were able to convince the Ice Capades that she would be an attraction in between skating, so they set up equipment for her to perform. We created her own Gymnastics Show to tour the country. Saturday Night Live agreed to do a skit where Chris Kattan played her "evil twin" Skippy in a lampoon. It required her charming personality and creativity to extend her shelf life.
Michael Phelps, who was multiple medal winner in swimming in Beijing, is the best known star and he now has a handsome challenger in Ryan Lochte. Usain Bolt is the highest profile track and field competitor. Jordyn Wieber is the face of the women's gymnastic team and Missy Franklin is the young hope for women's swimming. Which of these stars will be able to excite American audiences?
NFL training camps are open and this sport has doubled any other in viewer and popularity polls. Major League Baseball is in the midst of pennant races. Soccer has penetrated American television en masse for the first non-World Cup time. Arguably the World Cup has surpassed the Olympics as the top sports event. The scenery and history of London adds appeal to these games, but will the television audiences respond?
And of course there are the inevitable off-putting decisions of the out of touch International Olympic Committee. Forty years ago Israeli athletes were slaughtered by terrorists at the Munich Olympics. Avery Brundage, head of the IOC, had no perspective and declared "the games must go on." There have been moments of silence at Opening Ceremonies for the 9/11 victims and individual athletes who had died, but none for the Israeli Olympians. Politics and anti-Semitism trumped decency once again.
So the Games have begun once again and it will be intriguing to see if they still carry the same world-wide fascination and focus.
-- Leigh Steinberg has represented many of the most successful athletes and coaches in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, boxing and golf, including the first overall pick in the NFL draft an unprecedented eight times, among more than 60 first-round selections. His clients have included Hall of Fame quarterbacks Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Warren Moon, and he served as the inspiration for the movie "Jerry Maguire." Follow him on Twitter @SteinbergSports.


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Hecho En Dumbo, Now On the Bowery
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354 Bowery, New York NY 10012 (b/n Great Jones and East 4th; map); 212-937-4245; hechoendumbo.com
Service: Charming and efficient
Setting: Predictably dim-lit, noisy Bowery restaurant with seating at open kitchen in back
Must-Haves: Tostadas de ceviche, queso fundido, chorizo burritas
Cost: Most small plates under $10; $35 should buy a drink and dinner
Grade: B+
First things first: Hecho en Dumbo is not in Dumbo. Not anymore, that is. Back in 2007, Ethan Smith and chef Danny Mena (formerly of The Modern) opened makeshift restaurant Hecho en Dumbo—that's "made in Dumbo"—in the Dumbo General Store. From that unlikely home, they turned out cheffed-up Mexican street food in the style of Mena's native Mexico City—winning over first their Dumbo neighbors, then a wider audience of discerning eaters and critics.
But after years of sharing Dumbo General space, Smith and Mena have jumped the river in search of larger digs of their own, taking the name with them. Though nothing is still, well, hecho en Dumbo, their tortillas and salsas are still made in-house; and though the menu of antojitos (essentially Mexican appetizers) has changed a bit, it's still largely based around small bites such as sopes, tacos, and burritas.
As such, most portions are dainty; and on the ever-expanding Bowery restaurant row, prices aren't cheap. But if you see a $10 price tag on a plate of Mexican food and expect three meals' worth of eating, you're in the wrong place. This is a place of clean, layered flavors, memorable salsas, and beautifully crafted dishes—all evidence of a serious chef in the kitchen.
Whether you order barbacoa, queso fundido, or the burritas, you're likely to encounter Hecho en Dumbo's tortillas, and that's a very good thing. Both flour and corn are made in house; the flour amply salted, nicely plaint, and a little bit bouncy; the corn, toasty and slightly nutty, and as delicate as corn tortillas could be.
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The flour tortillas appear wrapped around steak, vegetables, or chorizo in the five-bite burritas, and alongside the queso fundido, a bubbling dish of housemade Oaxacan cheese hiding a layer of chorizo or mushroom or poblano pepper. (In both cases, we'd go with the crumbly Berkshire pork chorizo. But maybe that's just us.)
Several improbable-sounding dishes wowed us, including the Tacos de Gobernador, chunks of firm swordfish with a tomato-onion fricassée and Oaxacan cheese. Others sounded better than they were: picaditas de jaiba promised a drizzle of jalapeño oil atop a mound of Dungeness crab and avocado, but we could barely taste it; the resulting dish tasted simple, bulky, and nearly flat.
Still, there were far more hits than misses—even away from the snackier bits of the menu. The barbacoa's beautifully confited lamb shank was far more tender than I'd dared to hope, in a consommé that managed to be both clean-tasting and intensely lamb-y.
See more dishes in the slideshow above »
The impressive thing about Hecho en Dumbo back in Brooklyn was its ability to serve imaginative restaurant-quality fare in what was a slapdash, barlike setting. With the move to Manhattan came the move to a full-service restaurant—raising the bar that much higher. Perhaps the allure of the unexpected has gone. But when you're seated with a glass of sangria and a crispy plate of pork, or a steaming bowl of pozole, or every possible incarnation of antojito, there's nothing you feel like you're missing.
Ed Levine is off this week.
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Grey Cliffs are in the same location. They are controlled by House Karstark.
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Christina Swarns L'93, Honorary Fellow in Residence, offers Public Interest Week keynote address
In 1993, the year that Christina Swarns, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a young black man named Kenneth Reams was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for his involvement in the killing of a white man in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Having spent the past two decades on death row, Reams is now Swarns' client.
Swarns, who is the Director of the Criminal Justice Practice of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, returned to the Law School as the Honorary Fellow in Residence during Public Interest Week.
In her keynote address to the Law School community on Feb. 25, she used Reams' story to illustrate how our nation's history of racial prejudice and cruelty continues to reverberate in the criminal justice system and society at large.
Swarns' passionate talk on the role of race in the administration of the death penalty wove together past and present and touched on the controversial verdicts in the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis.
"Both of those verdicts," she said, "stand as our most recent national reminders that – notwithstanding the extraordinary racial progress that has been made – this country remains haunted by the demons of its most racist and lawless past."
Swarns' Arkansas client received the death sentence for his involvement in an ATM robbery-murder. At the time of his conviction and sentencing in 1993, Reams was the youngest person on Arkansas' death-row. He had just turned 18 when the shooting took place.
Reams was an accomplice to the killing; his co-defendant, who was the shooter, pled guilty and received a sentence of life without parole. "There are a lot of things wrong with Mr. Reams' case," Swarns said, "but for purposes of this discussion, it is enough to repeat that the shooter got life and the non-shooter got death. That deeply unjust and paradoxical result is enough to warrant some curiosity about the integrity of the system that produced it."
LDF's Criminal Justice Practice uses litigation, advocacy, and public education to eliminate the improper role of race in the criminal justice system. As Swarns' investigated the Reams case, she discovered that there were two small law firms that received contracts to serve as public defenders in Jefferson County, where Pine Bluffs is located. One was a law firm with two black attorneys; the other was a law firm staffed by at least one white attorney.
Her investigation revealed that the cases of the black public defender were sent to the black judge. The cases of the white public defender were sent to the white judge. Trials before the black judge sometimes included black jurors. Trials before the white judge rarely included black jurors.
"None of this was in writing anywhere, of course," Swarns said. "It was just the way things were in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, [in 1993]. I hope I don't have to tell you that this is not a recipe for a healthy criminal justice system. It's not likely a constitutional system. It is certainly not the kind of place that I would expect a fair adjudication of a cross-racial stranger murder at an ATM machine."
As she dug even deeper into the case, she discovered something else: "The black people of Pine Bluff were afraid to come to court. Not just as defendants – which would be understandable – but for any reason at all…. I found it all but inconceivable that a community of black people were afraid to go into a courthouse. So it made me wonder how on earth that could happen."
Swarns began researching the history of Pine Bluff and discovered that it had been the site of an appalling lynching of 24 men, women and children in 1866.
"This literally almost stopped my heart," she said. "Good Lord. At that point, I knew we were on the trail of understanding how Pine Bluff became what it was in 1993. So I did more digging. And it turns out that lynchings took place all over Arkansas. And Jefferson County was in the group of counties with the highest number of recorded lynchings."
Ultimately, Swarns discovered that, besides the mass lynching in 1866, six additional people were lynched in Pine Bluff between 1878 and 1926. Two of those lynchings took place at the Courthouse.
"With that discovery, it suddenly made sense that the people in Pine Bluff believed that the courthouse was a bad place for a black man to be."
She continued: "I represent a young black man who was condemned to death for the murder of a white man. He was not the shooter. The shooter got life. The shooter was represented by the black public defender who understood the enormity and the uniqueness of the risk associated with taking a young black man to trial for the murder of a white man in Pine Bluff. So he built a relationship of trust sufficient to enable him to convince his client to accept a non-death deal. My client was represented by the white public defender. He had no relationship with his lawyer. He did not trust his lawyer. His lawyer did not understand or appreciate or care about the challenges facing black people in Pine Bluff. He certainly did not attempt to explain to my client how those challenges would severely disadvantage him at any trial. And the black people were largely absent for Kenny's trial.
"Why did all this happen? I don't think it's from just today's dynamics. I think that this is a perfect example of how, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' And how this saying is so utterly true in the context of race."


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Prosecutor: terror proof strong against Fla. imam
Evidence is overwhelming from hundreds of recorded conversations and financial records that an elderly Muslim cleric enthusiastically supported the violent Pakistani Taliban terror organization, a prosecutor said in a closing argument Monday.
Quoting several passages from FBI intercepts of Hafiz Khan's conversations, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sivashree Sundaram said Khan repeatedly praised Taliban suicide bombers and grenade attacks that killed both Americans and Pakistanis. She pointed to other recordings in which Khan said he wished a 2010 attempt by a Taliban-linked operative to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square had succeeded.
"This is a straightforward case," Sundaram told jurors as the two-month trial drew to a close. "This defendant convicted himself with his own words and actions. These are not the words of a peace-loving man."
Khan, the 77-year-old imam at a Miami mosque, is charged with conspiracy and terrorism material support for allegedly sending about $50,000 between 2008 and 2010 to the help the Taliban cause in his native Pakistan. If convicted, Khan faces up to 15 years in prison on each of the four charges. He has been jailed since his May 2011 arrest.
Khan, a naturalized U.S. citizen who came from Pakistan in 1994, testified over four days in his own defense, insisting that he opposed Islamic extremists and lied about supporting them in hopes of getting $1 million from a man he believed was another Taliban backer. In fact, that man was an FBI informant who wore a wire to record many of their discussions.
Khan also claimed the money he sent overseas was for family or business purposes, or for a religious school called a madrassa he owns in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Khan's attorney, Khurrum Wahid, said in his closing argument that the imam was simply speaking out strongly about Pakistan's political situation and that prosecutors had failed to show that the Taliban received the money he sent. Wahid said the prosecution's case was "cobbled together" with phone calls over a two-year period involving an "elderly man who clearly has problems with impulse control."
"This is America. You're able to say. You're able to think. You can't take that extra step and do something illegal," Wahid said.
Authorities have acknowledged that not every dime from Khan went to extremists. But Sundaram said Khan contradicted his own words on FBI recording in which he talked about helping wounded mujahedeen fighters and buying weapons.
"He told you the most fantastic stories," she said. "He had answers - just nothing that made sense or rang true."
Jurors are likely to begin deliberations Tuesday. While Sundaram laid out the U.S. case, the white-bearded, bespectacled Khan sat hunched at the defense table listening to a Pashto translation, occasionally grumbling aloud in that language.
Earlier Monday, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola denied a defense request to acquit Khan on all charges based on lack of evidence. To the contrary, Scola ruled that there was "more than sufficient evidence" for jurors to potentially convict Khan on all charges. Jurors were not present when the ruling was made.
Two of Khan's sons were previously charged in the same case, but Scola ordered the acquittal of one and prosecutors dropped the case against the other. Three other people, including one of Khan's daughters and his grandson, were also indicted but remain in Pakistan, which does not extradite its citizens to face U.S. criminal charges.
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