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By Wayne Bartlett: Frankie Gavin looked every inch the potential superstar after a masterful seven round win over Jason Welborn (January 18).
Following up his capture of the British welterweight title in his November win over Junior Witter; Gavin oozed class from start to finish at the Walsall Town Hall in this his first defence.
Hands low out of his southpaw stance, the Birmingham stylist walked the big punching Welborn onto his punches while slipping and sliding his way out of danger.
The challenger had put together a good run of wins prior to this crack at the title but by the second round blood was already trickling from the 26-year-old's nose.
Despite failing to overcome the superb lateral movement of his unbeaten adversary, Welborn continued to push forward and caused momentary discomfort to Gavin when landing a flush one-two combination in round four.
The successes proved to be few and far between for the Tividale man though, and his resistance was broken after rounds of Gavin superiority when shipping a wonderful short left to the body in round seven.
With the wind knocked out of him, Welborn reached his feet to take a count of eight but succumbed to the follow up assault at 2:35 of the round and drop to 11-2(5).
For a while it was feared the development of the former world-class amateur would be cut short, as personal problems earlier in Gavin's career plagued him to the point where he pulled out of a fight at just a days notice.
"A couple of weeks ago I had a sore arm and I was close to pulling it (out of the fight)," said the Birmingham fighter to BoxNation afterwards.
"But imagine if I pulled out of a fight, 'I've done this I've done that', I'd get abuse.
"Last night my youngest was rushed into hospital again with suspected pneumonia. The things that have happened in the last few weeks have proved I'm mentally as strong as anyone."
Re-joining former amateur trainer Tom Chaney for his last four fights has given the 27-year-old stability after previous tutelage under Anthony Farnell and Jimmy Tibbs, for which he acknowledges were troublesome times in his personal life as he praised his former trainers.
"My mental problems are well behind me," said the now 15-0(11) Gavin.
"I'm just living the life, I'm a perfect athlete now and I'm only going to get better."
Also on the Walsall bill, Martin Gethin pounded the tough Ben Murphy to defeat in nine rounds to capture the vacant British lightweight title.
Sparser work coming back from Murphy as the rounds went on finally culminated in an unanswered barrage that prompted the stoppage 56 seconds into the ninth round.
There were no protests from the 5ft4ins tall danger-man, who after a bright start was gradually steamrollered into defeat, as the 29-year-old Gethin impressed with a flowing attack of hooks and hurtful body shots behind his jab.
New champ Gethin racks his up 9th straight win, following up his excellent win over Carl Johanneson to move to 24-3-1(11), whilst 32-year-old Murphy drops to 9-6-1(5).
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The day division students who are accepted into LADR begin
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The evening division students who are accepted to LADR begin
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To learn more about this program, you may contact Prof.
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memorandum in Room 600.
Please submit your application to the Law Offices Receptionist
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Informational Meeting
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. in
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Judicial Externship enables a student to become involved
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Depending upon the judge, an extern may have the opportunity
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Student interns in the IP-Patent Clinic will assist faculty
and students at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and other tech transfer
or school related companies or institutions on selected
"real-life" patent related matters. The student
interns will work with and be supervised by the newly-appointed
adjunct clinical faculty who are patent lawyers at Bell,
Boyd, and Lloyd in providing patentability opinions, performing
clearance searches, and guiding clients through the range
of intellectual property legal issues that typically face
start-up inventors and companies. In addition, the student
interns will make presentations to Illinois Institute of
Technology faculty and students on patent issues in an attempt
to educate and market the IP-Patent Clinic to the faculty
and students.
Prerequisites: Prior completion of Patent Law required.
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those students in selecting clinic interns.
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individuals and organizations in all areas of immigration
law, including professionals, aliens of extraordinary ability
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immigration benefits for family members, asylees and individuals
threatened with removal from the United States by the government.
Students will work under the supervision of Professor Matthew
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on immigration and nationality law for over a decade. He
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by legal and community organizations and is a regular volunteer
advisor to nonprofit organizations such as Asian Human Services,
where he is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award
of the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation.
Students who intern with the Immigration Program will be
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work. They will learn the basic legal requirements for immigration
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Appeals and Federal Court. After receiving authorization
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the Citizenship and Naturalization Service and the Immigration
Chicago-Kent College of Law offers a clinical
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on a sliding scale fee basis, depending on the financial
circumstances of the parties. The clinic represents clients
in matters limited to cases to be brought before the Cook
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Attorney Ira C. Feldman has been named
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Naumark, Bonner and Feldman. Between 1975 and 1981, he
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practitioner of family law. He will expand the services
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Tillage operations performed prior to planting cotton should make a firm, well-drained seedbed that will provide a warm environment for seed germination and vigorous seedling growth. Since cotton is a semi-tropical, perennial plant, it grows very slowly early in the growing season compared to other Missouri crops such as corn and soybeans. The slow, early growth nature of this crop requires a grower to provide a seedbed that will allow the young seedling to get off to the best start possible.
With new equipment, especially planters and cultivators, developed to handle high residue conditions, it is possible to plant cotton into stale beds or fields that have received minimal tillage. Clean-till approaches are still the predominant tillage system for cotton, but using fewer tillage operations is one way cotton growers have found to reduce costs yet produce yields equal to those in conventional, clean-till systems.
Conventional tillage
The goal of most conventional tillage systems has been to produce a clean-tilled seed bed with no residue on the surface. This approach has a long history in cotton production. Since a cotton plant produces a woody stem that is difficult to destroy, several tillages are needed to completely remove the residue from the surface. Good seed placement was difficult if any residue or cotton stalks were present at planting until the latest generation of planters were developed. Table 1 outlines a typical tillage system for cotton using the clean-till approach.
Table 1
Conventional tillage operations for Missouri cotton
Conservation tillage
Tillage systems with less tillage operations have become a growing trend across the Cotton Belt in recent years. The trend is due in part to Conservation Compliance requirements for fields classified as highly erodible, but an interest in cost-saving and time-saving production techniques have been factors as well. A wide range of new systems have been tested in several cotton growing states. The following guidelines were developed from research at the MU Delta Center and across the Cotton Belt. Results from recent research indicate, in general, that several systems can be implemented that will reduce costs and keep yields stable.
Reduced tillage guidelines
If you are considering less tillage in your cotton production scheme, the following principles of reduced-tillage cotton should serve as a guide. Remember, if you are considering a reduced tillage system, try it on a few acres before changing your entire tillage approach.
Planting date
Decisions regarding planting of cotton in Missouri can impact the crop for the entire season. A vigorously growing crop usually starts fruiting earlier, matures earlier and may have greater yield potential. Planting dates for Missouri cotton need to balance the need for as long a growing season as possible with the need to wait for good growing conditions. A general guideline for planting date for cotton in Missouri is from May 5 to May 15. Cotton planted before May 5 probably will encounter greater risk of cool soil temperatures, but may be able to establish a stand in some years. Cotton planted after May 15, until May 20, probably will not have significantly lower yields, but maturity delays begin to be a problem. Cotton planted after May 20 usually has reduced yields due to the shorter season.
Soil temperature
Cotton requires a temperature of greater than 60 degrees Fahrenheit for germination. Soil temperatures are typically warming during the daylight hours and cooling at night. Although the variation in soil temperature is not as great as in air temperature, cotton grows most vigorously if the soil temperature is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the day. A midmorning soil temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit is a good threshold temperature for planting cotton.
Several other factors impact the germination and emergence of cotton. If a good forecast indicates a warming trend and no rainfall, then soil temperature should rise. A rainfall of 1 inch or more can drop soil temperatures by 5 degrees Fahrenheit and it may take more than four days to rewarm the soil to the temperature level before the rain. Historically, weather trends show that planting dates after May 15 have less risk of low soil temperatures. However, to avoid problems with late planting dates, growers should probably shoot for an average planting date of May 15 and begin planting near May 5 and finish by May 20.
Planting rate
Overplanting cotton seed is costly in terms of seeds and also in terms of wasted resources. A final population of about three plants per row foot results in near-optimal yields. A planting rate of four seeds per row foot to establish a stand of three plants is recommended in most situations. Higher planting rates result in lower fruit retention, while low planting rates result in delayed maturity from the plant needing to compensate by placing more fruit on vegetative branches that mature later.
When calibrating your planter's seeding rate, remember to calibrate to seed per row foot and not pounds of seed per acre. Seed size varies from variety to variety, so you need to make sure that you are planting the correct number of seeds, not pounds of seed. Varieties can vary from 3,500 to 5,500 seeds per pound. If you calibrate for a large-seeded variety and then switch to a smaller-seeded variety, you could establish thousands of extra plants per acre.
Row spacing
Comparisons of cotton grown in 30-inch rows and in 38-inch rows in Missouri and many other states indicate a typical yield increase of 10 to 15 percent from narrowing the row spacing. Closer row spacing results in earlier canopy closure and more efficient use of solar radiation for photosynthesis. Cotton grown in 30-inch rows typically matures a few days earlier, usually related to the canopy closure response. Planting rates for 30-inch rows need to be reduced about 15 to 20 percent (in seed per row-foot) compared to 38-inch rows, to plant the same population per acre in either row spacing. Research on 30-inch rows indicates that they may require more intensive management than 38-inch rows. Since it is using solar radiation more efficiently, 30-inch row cotton has shown greater demand for nutrients and a more consistent need for Pix (mepiquat chloride) growth regulator.
Variety selection
Selecting the best varieties to be grown on your farm requires comparison of varieties in local tests that match your growing conditions, followed by fine-tuning the management of a variety on your soils. When trying a new variety, limit your acreage during the first season you grow it, no matter how great it looks in the variety test data. Although the differences between most varieties are subtle, learning to manage a variety for your farm may take some time. Concentrate on what works for you.
The varieties listed in Table 2 are those tested in Missouri locations for the last three years (1991-1993). They are listed with 3-year average yields from Portageville (silt loam) and Senath (silt loam), and 2-year average yields from Sikeston (sandy loam).
Table 2
Three-year average yields for Missouri Cotton Variety Test, 1991-1993
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The Model Deaf Community Committee promotes unity between Riverside's deaf and hearing community, promoting access, advocacy, education and inclusion.
On April 28, 1998 the Mayor and City Council approved creation of a special task force, based on the vision of several members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, that Riverside could become a "Model Community" for the deaf.
Following a year of study by representatives of public and private sector employers, nonprofit organizations and schools, the task force presented its report to City Council on March 9, 1999. Among the recommendations in the report's strategic plan was the creation of a permanent "Model Deaf Community" Committee to promote unity between Riverside's deaf and hearing communities.
Riverside has a comparatively large population of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, partly due to the California School for the Deaf, one of only two such specialty schools in the state. National studies indicate that approximately 10% of the total population is deaf. In Riverside, that number is estimated to be 17%.
The Committee is made up of up to 22 interested individuals appointed by the Mayor, from throughout the community. While affiliated with many agencies around Riverside, committee members are representative of the community, not their agencies.
The Model Deaf Community Committee meets monthly at City Hall, 11 months of the year, to discuss issues of interest to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community and to propose or host activities that raise awareness of the deaf and promote programs that encourage inclusion and interaction in the life of the City.
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Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2012 Poteau High School Sports Hall of Fame.Categories include: football, boys and girls basketball, baseball, fast-pitch and slow-pitch softball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls track, boys and girls golf, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls all-around athlete, wrestling, coaching and support and service.The deadline to submit nominations is March 30. For additional information or to submit a nomination, call (918) 839-0394.— — —Girls are needed to play for an age 12-and-younger softball team in the Green Country Softball League. Games will take place at the Poteau Area Recreational Complex.The team will practice in Cameron.For additional information or to register, call Mike House at (918) 658-5510.— — —The Poteau Lady Pirates softball program will have an age 6-7 coach-pitch league beginning in May and end its season in June.Players must have been age 7 by Jan. 1, 2012, or must turn age 6 by Jan. 1, 2013.The entry fee is $150 per team, and the league is open to six teams.For additional information, call Kathy Nye at (918) 649-4326 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.— — —The Oklahoma State University Spring Break Baseball Camp will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 20 at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater.Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m. that morning.At 6:30 p.m. that night, the Cowboys will play Central Arkansas at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.Entry fee is $100. Walk-ins are welcome, but entry fee for them will be $125.The camp is open to boys in grades two through 12.For additional information, call (405) 744-3229 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.— — —A fifth-sixth and seventh-eighth grade boys and girls youth basketball tournament will take place March 31 in Sallisaw.There will be a three-game guarantee and the cost will be $125.To enter or for further information, call (918) 776-0234.— — —The Boys and Girls Club of McAlester will put on a competitive baseball and softball league.It is believed sports encourages a healthy lifestyle in our youth, which is a rising concern to many.Sports also promotes high self esteem in children that will benefit them in many aspects.For additional information, call the Boys and Girls Club of McAlester Athletic Department at (918) 426-5144.— — —The Satchel Paige All-Stars Travel Baseball Team is looking for youth baseball players ages 13-14, 15-16 and 17-18 years old that would like to be a part of our 2012 Summer Travel Baseball Team that will include trips to Cincinnati, Omaha, Neb., Springfield, Mo., Orlando, Fla., and Puerto Rico.All interested players should contact Coach Mike Mayden for registration information at (773) 744-1040 or email to www.whsn.org.


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Going back to school, no matter what the age, can be an emotional time for children, parents and teachers. It marks the beginning of another year of learning. The rules and standards you set the first week of school can help your child be more successful for the rest of the year. Here are some ideas on how to make the transition back to school easier for everyone!
- COUNTDOWN! If you still have several days to go until the first day of school, make a countdown calendar. Cross off each day before the first day, or make a tear-off style calendar, tearing off a number as you count down to the day school begins.
- Early to bed, early to rise. Unless your child is a living alarm clock like mine, it is best to start the early wake-up time before the actual first day. Children need at least a week to readjust their sleep habits so they can be alert and ready to learn when they walk into school that first day.
- Take an early tour. If your child's school offers a "back to school" night prior to the first day, take advantage and go walk the halls with your child. If not, call the school and see if there is some time you can go up to the school and have a look around, even if it is just to see the cafeteria and gym.
And, during that first week, here are some habits to establish early to aid in a successful year:
- SCHEDULES: Create a time during the day for homework. Even if your child doesn't have "homework", this can be a great time to work on independent reading. Our routine in our house is to have a 15 minute break after school (for snacks and talking about our day) and then homework time before dinner. Dinnertime and beyond is our family time, so we try to knock homework out early!
- Communicate with the teacher: As a former public school teacher, I cannot emphasize enough how much of an impact it made on my relationship with a child when I developed a relationship with the parent. Remember that the teacher has 17-24 other parents as well. Be respectful of his/her time, but make an effort to introduce yourself early and make yourself available if he/she needs to talk with you. And, let the teacher know how much you appreciate them. Teachers rarely hear that!
- Set up a few chores. If your child is not already helping out around the house, adding this to the routine during the school year is a perfect time to do so. It instills a feeling of family and community; the child is helping contribute to the well-being of the family. Just make sure that the chore or chores aren't too overwhelming; taking the recycling out to the bin or setting the table for dinner are great, easy chores for children of any age.
- The debriefing. From Day One, make sure you spend some time with your child, reviewing their day. "How was your day" is not good enough. With my older son, we have a game we play as we walk home from school. I challenge him each day to tell me three good things that happened to him at school that day before we get home. More often than not, this also opens the door to things that bothered him, scared him, or confused him. And, by the time we make it home, he's really talking. His response is always far better than the typical "Fine" response. When his days aren't so great, he feels very comfortable telling me about it.
- Preparation. If possible, have everything ready the night before – clothes laid out, lunch made/lunch money packed in backpack, homework done and ready to go back to school. This will make the morning routine much easier on everyone. Don't forget to stick a note in your child's belongings – a pants pocket, in the backpack, on the lunch napkin. That little note will go a long way in helping your child feel comfortable throughout the day.
- Reward yourselves. When the first week draws to a close, try to plan something a bit more personal for your children: a special dinner, a short outing, a family night, a movie. And let them know that they've had a great week and you are looking forward to many more!


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Insidious Sid
Sid Blumenthal rearranges facts and besmirches the character of his fellow journalists. And he wonders why people dislike him.
In the fall of 1998, just as the House impeachment hearings on Clinton were gearing up, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was contacted by Jeffrey Toobin, a former colleague from The New Yorker. Toobin was trolling for sexual dirt on House Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde. As it happened, Blumenthal didn't have much. But he confided that his mother had once worked in a secretarial pool in Chicago in the 1940s, and Hyde, then a Chicago area lawyer, had had a "reputation"—apparently, all the women had "avoided his office." The details of this "reputation" didn't become known until a few weeks later when another friend of Blumenthal's, at Salon, broke the news that 31 years earlier the Illinois congressman had had an extramarital affair with a furniture salesman's wife.
This unintentionally revealing anecdote is buried deep inside Blumenthal's 822-page bloated opus, The Clinton Wars. Curiously enough, it seems to have been included because the author somehow thought it would exonerate him: Soon after the Salon story was published, Republicans in Congress accused Blumenthal of leaking it from the White House. No such thing was true, Blumenthal protests; the charge is just one more example of the recklessness of Bill Clinton's enemies and their determination to "demonize" him.
But Blumenthal never stops to explain why he told his old New Yorker friend Toobin anything (or what exactly Toobin did with the helpful steer). Nor does he consider the fact that, not too long before the day that Blumenthal gossiped with Toobin about Hyde's sex life, President Clinton had capped his semiconfessional about his affair with Monica Lewinsky with this admonition: "It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives." Wasn't Blumenthal's admittedly vague tip to Toobin a direct contravention of his president's marching orders?
The point is not that Blumenthal is a hypocrite (although he seems to be exactly that). The point is that throughout this book Blumenthal seems utterly incapable of understanding how his own uncompromising, take-no-prisoners defense of the Clintons contributed to the poisonous political atmosphere that he bemoans. Time and again, in the book as in life, he rearranges facts, spins conspiracy theories, impugns motives, and besmirches the character of his political and journalistic foes—all for the greater cause of defending the Clintons (and himself). Hyde, Kenneth Starr, Hickman Ewing, Lindsey Graham, Tom DeLay—each was malicious, narrow-minded, bigoted, buffoonish, and anti-democratic. Meanwhile, Blumenthal wonders repeatedly why so many people dislike him. At one point, bizarrely, he suggests it is because he is "intellectual" and "Jewish."
Needless to say, I am not exactly a disinterested party. My reporting on the Monica Lewinsky story is maligned repeatedly in The Clinton Wars. (At least I am in good company: Jeff Gerth, the New York Times reporter who broke the original Whitewater story, is depicted as a credulous tool of Clinton's enemies. The late Michael Kelly, who succeeded Blumenthal as Washington editor of The New Yorker, is portrayed as a hysteric who screams obscenities over the phone at the slightest provocation—"You fucking asshole! You fucking asshole! Your reputation will be nothing!") But it is abundantly clear that distortion is standard fare for Blumenthal. Although there are slivers of truth in most of what he writes, the facts are dishonestly rearranged to settle scores or whitewash his and the Clintons' actions.
Consider one small example: Blumenthal's effort to extricate himself and Hillary Clinton from a clumsy attempt to build a White House dossier on Susan Schmidt, the Washington Post's most aggressive reporter on Whitewater. Blumenthal's role in this vaguely Nixonian exercise was first reported five years ago in a story by the Post's media reporter, Howard Kurtz. When Michael McCurry, who was then press secretary, learned of the project, he proclaimed it "crazy" and killed it. Instead of admitting his involvement, Blumenthal pretends that he was a passive party. After hearing "constant complaints" about Schmidt's reporting from White House legal aides, he writes, he suggested they "should present the facts to the Post to correct any errors. Beyond that, I never knew about a study of Schmidt's reporting. I asked Hillary Clinton, and she had no memory of anything either."
But others do remember—quite differently, as it turns out. Mark Fabiani, the White House lawyer who ran the counsel offices' "damage control" team, said he recalls getting a phone call from Blumenthal strongly urging him to do a report on Schmidt. When Fabiani didn't follow up, he then got a call from Hillary Clinton's chief of staff instructing him to get moving on the job. This led to the preparation of a lengthy dossier (one that did little to effectively discredit Schmidt, according to Fabiani) and a series of meetings—including one with Hillary Clinton—about what to do with it. The White House lawyers knew exactly what had happened, says Fabiani. "We all laughed about it. We knew [Blumenthal] had called Hillary and told Hillary this should be done. … He was sort of the brooding, omnipresence over the whole thing."
Another more serious example of Blumenthal's malleable relationship to the truth involves his testimony before Kenneth Starr's grand jury. It was during the early days of the Lewinsky scandal, and Starr's prosecutors were convinced that Blumenthal was at the center of an organized campaign—complete with private detectives—to dig up dirt about their pasts. So, the prosecutors subpoenaed Blumenthal. After a brief session with Starr and his prosecutors, Blumenthal emerged on the courthouse steps and, as if mimicking Joseph Welch before Joe McCarthy, indignantly portrayed himself as a First Amendment martyr. "I never imagined that in America I would be hauled before a federal grand jury … and forced to answer questions about my conversations, as part of my job" with news organizations, he proclaimed. He then named eight of the news organizations he was "forced" to answer questions about, including the New York Times, CNN, and CBS. Months later, the transcript of the Feb. 26, 1998, grand jury session became public as part of Starr's impeachment report. It showed that Blumenthal wasn't asked about any news organizations at all. He was asked if he had ever leaked to the press DNC "oppo research" about two members of Starr's team. It was Blumenthal, not the prosecutors, who brought up the names of the news organizations—apparently so he could later claim that the questioning was more sinister than it really was.
That wasn't even the worst of it. After his second grand jury session, on June 4, 1998, Blumenthal called up his friends Anthony Lewis and James Bennet [Correction, May 22, 2003: Bennet is not a friend of Blumenthal's] at the New York Times and fed them another set of outlandish questions that he said Starr's prosecutors had forced him to answer, including "Does the president's religion include sexual intercourse?" and "Does the president believe that oral sex is sex?"—each of which showed up in Lewis' column. But the transcripts later showed that none of those questions were asked. No prosecutor ever brought up Clinton's religion. The closest things came to any of this was when one prosecutor, in the midst of questioning Blumenthal about a Jan. 21, 1998, meeting with Clinton, in which the president denied having done anything "wrong," asked him: "Did you specifically ask the president whether he had received oral sex from Monica Lewinsky?"
Blumenthal's post-courthouse antics irritated the grand jurors. By the end of his third and final session on June 25, they decided to give him a lecture. "We are very concerned about the fact that during your last visit that an inaccurate representation of the events that happened were retold on the steps of the courthouse," the grand jury forewoman told him, according to a transcript of the session.
I wrote about Blumenthal's courthouse deceptions in my own book Uncovering Clinton. So I when I picked up The Clinton Wars I was mildly curious to see how he would handle the subject. Would he show the slightest contrition for his deceptive public statements? Not at all. In The Clinton Wars, Blumenthal recounts in exhaustive, self-congratulatory detail how he turned the table on Starr. The day after his courthouse press conference, he writes, he attended a White House staff meeting where "I sat down to raucous applause." He tells how Starr's poll ratings tanked after his courthouse attack on the prosecutors. But he never concedes there was the slightest discrepancy between what he said took place before the grand jury and what actuallyhappened. True to form, he slams the anonymous grand jury forewoman for what he calls her "highly inappropriate" comments and suggests darkly—without any evidence—that she was put up to it by Ken Starr.
If The Clinton Wars has any central point it is that the scandals that beset the Clinton presidency—from Whitewater to campaign finance to Lewinsky to Marc Rich—were each and every one of them entirely concocted, from start to finish. This is patently absurd.It is, of course, true that many of Clinton's critics made wild, unsubstantiated charges and that Starr's prosecutors overreached. But Blumenthal's blanket whitewash is close to ludicrous—and sustainable only by erasing huge chunks of the historical record.
How, for instance, do you write about the campaign-finance scandal—another Republican "pseudoscandal," Blumenthal claims, in which "all the charges were revealed to be empty"—without even mentioning the Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers or Clinton's connivance with Dick Morris to circumvent the campaign laws by crafting soft-money sponsored "issue ads" from his White House office? There is not a single reference to Johnny Chung or any others in the long parade of Democratic donors who later pleaded guilty to federal crimes in connection with Clinton's re-election campaign. Blumenthal defends the pardon of commodities fugitive Marc Rich. He calls Rich "a financier of the peace process"—and entirely skips over the role of Beth Dozoretz, a Democratic fund raiser who had pledged $1 million to the Clinton library and who peppered Clinton with phone calls about Rich during his final days in office.
About Whitewater, Blumenthal has this to say: "There was never anything to in the beginning, middle or end." What convinced him? In January 1994, Hillary Clinton called him into her office and told him so. "I believed Hillary Clinton," he writes. "Her telling of the story … sounded convincing; her demeanor struck no false notes."
As for the Lewinsky matter—it was all very simple: It was about the efforts of rigid, culturally repressed conservatives like Starr to use sex as a "tracer" and a "code" to thwart progressive politics. Remember Vernon Jordan's phone call to Revlon to get Lewinsky a job—made just days after Clinton's lawyers learned that Lewinsky was on a witness list in the Paula Jones case? There's barely a mention of that. What does Blumenthal have to say about Clinton's famous session with presidential secretary Betty Currie right after he testified falsely in his deposition? ("I was never alone with Monica, right?" he said. "Monica came on to me and I never touched her, right?") He never talks about it.
"It is my serious intent to have written this as a history," Blumenthal recently told the New York Times, insisting that his book was written "dispassionately." But not to belabor the obvious, to write history, you have to have some basic respect for the historical record. You have to make at least some effort at understanding the motivations and thinking of political antagonists—including those you happen to strongly disagree with. Blumenthal has done none of this. His book isn't history; it's one big orgy of political spin.
Correction, May 22, 2003: James Bennet is not a friend of Blumenthal's.


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Leadership Development Program
Collaboration in Action Workshop by Diane H. Sonnenwald
Sunday, October 28, 2012, 5:30-7:00pm
Effective leaders need a toolkit of skills, and collaboration has become a key component. To provide an opportunity for ASIS&T members to develop their collaboration skills, the ASIS&T Leadership Committee is pleased to offer Diane H. Sonnenwalds Collaboration in Action workshop as part of the ASIS&T Leadership Development Program at the Annual Meeting.
Collaboration is often needed to solve complex problems that require expertise from multiple disciplines (or domains) and organizations. In addition, collaboration can help promote various economic, educational, research, political, and social agendas such as sustainable development, economic growth, and increased cultural understanding. However, collaborating with others who may have different ways of working and communicating can be challenging.
The 90-minute workshop consists of a small-group hands-on exercise, in which participants will practice collaboration skills and strategies, and a group discussion about collaboration and take-away lessons from the exercise. Three main collaboration challenges attendees will experience and learn about are:
- Consequences from sharing and withholding different types of information
- Authority and equity in participation, especially with respect to domain-related tools
- Resolution of opposing constraints
This workshop is free to ASIS&T attendees. Registration is required to ensure that we have sufficient materials for the hands-on exercise.
Please register for the program on the conference registration
Program Schedule
- Welcome & introductions: 5 minutes
- Hands-on exercise: 65 minutes
- Discussion: 20 minutes
Diane H. Sonnenwald is currently President of ASIS&T and the Head of School and Professor of Information and Library Studies as well as the Head of Subject in Library and Information Studies at the School of Library and Information Studies at University College Dublin (UCD). She is also an adjunct professor in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Diane conducts research on collaboration and collaboration technology in a variety of contexts, including inter-disciplinary and inter-organizational collaboration in police work, emergency healthcare, academia, and industry. In addition, she has been awarded over 20 research grants from U.S. and international foundations, corporations, and funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, the European Science Foundation, and most recently the Motorola Foundation.
In 2002 Diane was a Fulbright Professor in Finland. Other awards and recognition include a U.S. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Contribution Award, UNC Junior Faculty Research Award, ALISE Research Methodology Best Paper Award, and Bell Communications Research Award of Excellence.


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EXCLUSIVE: Investigators Reach Out To News Corp. Whistleblower In U.S.
Blog ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
In another sign that allegations of News Corp. misconduct are being closely reviewed by law enforcement in the United States in the wake of the company's sweeping phone-hacking scandal in Britain, Media Matters has learned that investigators have reached out to Robert Emmel, a former News Corp. employee turned-whistleblower.
Emmel has been a key source of insider information regarding alleged misconduct at the News Corp. subsidiary, News America, which previously admitted that its computers were used to hack into a competitor's secure website. That revelation that has attracted new attention in recent months.
In 2005, a News America competitor based in New Jersey, along with members of competitor's Congressional delegation, began urging federal investigators to look into the computer hacking allegation, but no active criminal case was ever pursued. (The New Jersey U.S. Attorney's office – run by none other than Republican Chris Christie – declined to prosecute Murdoch's company at the time.) In fact, no investigators ever interviewed Emmel about the News Corp. misconduct he claimed to have witnessed.
Now, in the wake of the widespread phone-hacking done by Murdoch's tabloid journalists in Britain, U.S. investigators are taking a fresh look at the News America allegations and for the first time have reached out to Emmel, confirms Philip Hilder, an attorney for Emmel.
When the phone-hacking story first broke, U.S. investigators began looking into the claim made in the British press that News Corp. had tried to hack into the phone messages of 9/11 victims. In addition, investigators are seeing if there is a broader problem at News Corp. (Earlier this week, an attorney representing News Corp. shareholders who are suing the company,suggested there is a "pattern of misconduct" inside the company.)
News Corp. is feeling the heat. It recently warned investors that on-going criminal investigation on both sides of the Atlantic "could damage our reputation" and "impair our ability to conduct business."
For the last five years, Robert Emmel has been doing his best to "damage" News Corp.'s reputation, accusing News America of engaging in "criminal conduct against competitors," using "deceptive and illegal business practices," breaking antitrust laws, and defrauding News Corp. shareholders.
Indeed, since having a falling out with his employer in 2005 and then being fired in 2006, Emmel has gone from being an account director at Murdoch's powerhouse grocery-coupon agency, to becoming the company's most public and persistent business critic; with the internal documents to back it up. According to an estimate made by the Guardian, News Corp. has paid 29 lawyers more than $2 million in legal fees to stop Emmel from telling his story.
Forced into bankruptcy because of his long legal battle with News Corp. (the company sued him for misappropriation of trade secrets; a judge threw out all six charges), Emmel is currently under a court-ordered, non-disclosure injunction. However, the injunction does not prevent him from cooperating with any law enforcement officials formally investigating News America.
Emmel first became problem for News America when it was sued by its competitor, Floorgraphics Inc. (FGI) after company executives discovered FGI's secure website had been broken into nearly a dozen times and confidential information had been obtained. They alleged Murdoch's company was spreading lies about FGI and using its proprietary information to steal away clients.
Unable to interest federal prosecutors, Floorgraphics filed a civil suit against Murdoch's company. At the trial, Emmel provided a damaging insider's view of News America:
Emmel testified that News America took money from clients to place ads in hundreds of supermarkets that had gone bankrupt or had been closed; that the company maintained a "stores not called on" list and a "do not pay list" of supermarkets where News America allegedly kept revenues from clients even though no ads were placed; and that a "freeze" policy maintained by News America kept lists of its vendor supermarkets frozen in time so they appeared to clients to be available for in-store ads when in fact they were no longer in business.
He also testified that News America's CEO, Paul Carlucci, once denounced as "bed wetting liberals" people inside the company who were concerned about doing the right thing.
Soon after Emmel testified, and just six days into the trial, News Corp. settled with FGI. Looming right behind FGI though, were two more News America competitors (Insignia and Valassis), each bringing legal action, each charging anti-competitive practices, and each featuring Emmel on their possible witness list.
In a video deposition for the Valassis case:
Emmel testified that News America paid excessive amounts to retailers for exclusive in-store advertising rights in order to exclude competitors. News America paid Eckerd drug stores substantial guarantee payments because they wanted to exclude Insignia. News America allegedly lost money on the contract, as News America was unable to sell enough ads to cover the payments.
News Corp. eventually settled all the lawsuits, at a cost of nearly $700 million.
But since the allegation of computer hacking is more than five years old and the statute of limitations has run out without any criminal case being persued, that means prosecutors likely can't act on it, and the charges cannot come back to haunt Murdoch's company, right?
Wrong. With the FBI investigating News Corp.'s questionable business practices and trying to determine if there is a larger pattern of corruption, the Los Angeles Times recently detailed how previous transgressions could still prove costly when coupled with more recent conduct:
"They absolutely will look at past conduct," said Rebecca Lonergan, a former prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office who teaches at USC's Gould School of Law. She said past behavior is a factor that the government would consider in determining whether a criminal investigation is merited and to show a corrupt corporate culture.
"Old information can be relevant to a prosecution based on new, recent conduct, and can even be part of such a prosecution," said Anthony S. Barkow, executive director of the New York University School of Law Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.
In the wake of the U.K. hacking scandal, U.S investigators are trying to determine if, over the years, there has been a pattern of business misconduct within News Corp.
According to Emmel, there has.
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October, 2016: The Legendary LeanLA is BACK!
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Since starting the community in 2010, LeanLA quickly became recognized as hosting the best tech meet-ups in Los Angeles. In fact, we became legendary.
The formula was simple, bring the smartest and most accomplished thought leaders in tech to LA to share their stories with you. Our guests included Eric Ries, Dave McCLure, Jason Calacanis, Steve Blank, Noah Kagan, Janice Frasier, Lane Halley, just about every local VC and many more.
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Some of our most legendary events were hosted by people you never even heard of. How about Andy Johns who was on Facebook's and Twitter's early growth team and shared Facebook's secret tactics for growing the social network from 40M to 140M users? Let's just say we had to bury the video so Chamath Palihapitiya and Mark Zuckerburg wouldn't come after him.
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Man killed in Merritt Parkway crash
WESTPORT -- A North Haven man was killed Tuesday night when he was ejected from his car on the Merritt Parkway, State Police said.
Vincent D. DeLucia, 37, was travelling northbound just before Exit 41 when his 2005 Mazda left the roadway on the right side, and struck a rock and a road sign on the embankment, according to the accident report.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by Westport EMS technicians at 9:38 p.m. DeLucia was alone in the car, and the accident remains under investigation.
The accident blocked the right lane between Exits 40B and 41, which is east of the Route 7 interchange, for more than two hours.


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All MomoFood Natural Dog & Cat Treats are packaged in 100% Biodegradable Cellulose packaging. This packaging is not only biodegradable it is also compostable! This is because the package is made of cellulose, a plant material from non-rainforest tree farming. Once our packaging is disposed of it will break down rapidly. Our supplier says the shelf life is 6 months, 10 to 30 days when buried. We carry just the one size of cellulose bag and it can accommodate up to 150 grams of dehydrated treat. With orders containing larger weights we will use several bags. For a pound we use 3 bags.
At MomoFood we also reduce our carbon foot print by trying never to use plastic. We deliver all meals and treats to our local clients by bike or transit, use multi use containers, reusable bags, compact Florissant bulbs, compositor, and other environmental initiatives. We are always trying to find ways we can make our natural meals and treats more naturally. We are not perfect but we are trying to reduce our carbon foot print and our clients appreciate it as they too are trying to reduce their carbon foot print.


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Book-writer, tennis enthusiast and USTA employee Richard Dedor has sent us this dispatch from St. Louis as a lead-up to the wheelchair competition at the US Open, which begins on Thursday. More info here. A great snippet of info from Richard. -NM
It may not have the glitz and glamour of Flushing Meadows, but St. Louis does know how to produce good and entertaining tennis. Durring week one of the US Open, The Gateway City hosted the US Open USTA Wheelchair Championships, an ITF Super Series event on the NEC Wheelchair Tour.
The tourney brought the very best athletes in the world to the Midwest, including Arthur Ashe Kid's Day star and winner of 394 consecutive matches, Esther Vergeer. People have often asked Vergeer how she keeps winning, but I saw it first-hand. After participating in Monday night's opening ceremony in New York, Vergeer flew to St. Louis mid-day, came to the courts for a short hit around and was in the hotel gym before dinner. Simply put: that's how the 29-year-old from the Netherlands remains the best.
The same goes for men's world no. 1, Singo Kunieda. After winning his 100th straight singles match, the 26-year-old Japanese player told me about his training regime, which includes seven days of on-court work, intensive cardio and short- and long-distance training.
They are athletes of the first order and if you have the chance this week in New York, get out and watch them play. You will not be disappointed.
More: Check out this video of Vergeer from a couple of years ago, working her magic. In wheelchair tennis, players are allowed two bounces of the ball instead of one.
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Bighorn and Cyclone Jump to No. 1 in January
March 27, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Bighorn and Cyclone Jump to No. 1 in January
Matching distinctive product design with a heightened focus on dealer relations, Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC continues to harness market share in 2013 as two of its key fifth-wheel brands stood as January sales leaders according to data compiled by Statistical Surveys Inc.
Following up on a No. 3 overall ranking for 2012, Heartland's high-profile Bighorn line for the first time finished as the market leader among all fifth-wheel brands for the month. According to a press release, the company's Cyclone also posted strong sales, recognized as the top brand in the growing toy hauler segment while holding the No. 5 spot in fifth-wheel retail registrations.
"January's performance is testament to our team's ability to combine best-in-class quality with attractive pricing, backed by the strong support from our dealer partners across the U.S.," said Chris Hermon, president of the Elkhart, Ind.-based builder. "I have charged every area of the company to step up our commitment to working closely with dealers, ensuring that we bring product to market that is firmly in step with consumer trends while representing a true value in the marketplace. We are seeing the results of that partnership with market share gains in some of the most competitive pockets of the industry."
Bighorn, a consistent sales leader for Heartland, gained serious momentum following the 2012 Elkhart County Open House when two major marketing initiatives were introduced – the rebranding of the line as a fully-laminated, four seasons coach and the launch of the mid-priced Silverado by Bighorn series.
"We made a huge push with Bighorn and Silverado at the show," said Coley Brady, vice president of sales. "Those moves in product development and increased eye appeal are paying big dividends as we move into spring."
He added, "Bighorn is targeting the hot-button segments in the marketplace while providing logical, salable step-ups for our dealers. As more Baby Boomers retire, they are looking for the durability, quality and homelike features of an extended stay coach. If cost is a challenge, Silverado meets their needs with upper-end amenities at an aggressive price point."
Cyclone, which has added five models over the last six months, has seen particular success with these "fresh, innovative floorplans," according to Brady. Featuring painted front caps, optional washer/dryer and a large shower area in some models, Cyclone represents the shift in the toy hauler market from a no-frills toter for motorcycles and ATVs to one of the industry's most versatile RVs.
"The Cyclone offers a mix of floorplans that address today's wide-ranging interests from toy hauler buyers," Brady said. "Our dealer body has been doing a tremendous job selling the unique features of the Cyclone brand."


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Car Review
2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class: New Car Review
Pros: World-class luxury; leader in new technology; wide selection of powerful engines; innovative safety features; extremely refined ride.
Cons: Very expensive; features and technologies can be overwhelming.
What's New: Premium 2 option package is now standard on S350, S400 and S550.
When it comes to large luxury sedans, no car makes a stronger mark than the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. For decades, the S-Class has been on the leading edge of automotive evolution on every major front: technology, performance, safety and upscale feature development. Still the ultimate flagship, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class continues to serve as the benchmark for executive-level motoring.
With no fewer than six engine choices available for the S-Class, Mercedes offers varying degrees of economy and performance. The diesel-powered S350 Bluetec that joined the lineup last year is the thriftiest of the bunch. There's also the mild hybrid S400 that pairs a gas V6 with a battery and electric motor. The S550 remains the standard V8 offering. Two high-performance models, the AMG S63 and S65, deliver massive engine output and include special AMG components. The flagship of the lineup remains the V12-powered S600.
The S-Class's competitive set might be impressive, but the 2013 S-Class is still the leader by consensus, and with good reason. It offers virtually every desirable automotive characteristic except affordability. And for affluent buyers in this segment, price is rarely the most important concern anyway.
The S-Class exterior hasn't changed much over the last few years. Aside for some minor styling updates, this big Benz continues to be defined by its familiar executive-sedan appearance. Spearheaded by a prominent aero grille flanked by large wraparound bi-Xenon headlamps and LED lighting, the S-Class has enormous presence. Its long profile and expansive greenhouse further add to the S-Class's yacht-like character. The car's back end is adorned with integral exhaust pipes and the distinctive Mercedes stacked taillight design. Overall, the S-Class sedan might not be the most stylish car in the Mercedes lineup--some may even call it stodgy--but it's certainly the grandest.
Except for an equipment revision for the S350 Bluetec, S400 Hybrid and S550, the lineup arrives unchanged for the 2013 model year. Those three models now include the Premium 2 option package as standard equipment.
Comfort & Utility
The S-Class cabin is equal parts attractive, luxurious and spacious. Passenger room and amenities are abundant for all occupants, front and rear. Aside from supreme ergonomics and craftsmanship, this interior offers an enormous list of standard and optional equipment, including some first-ever applications in the realms of driver assistance technology, safety innovations and upscale features. Mercedes has met the challenge to impress even the most discerning buyer in this category and has created a car that's ideal for long-range cruising as well as the daily commute.
The S-Class passenger compartment is the most sophisticated in the large luxury sedan segment. Standard features for all S-Class models are too many to list, but here are some of the notable creature comforts: power front seats with heat and ventilation; leather upholstery; dual-zone automatic climate control; power rear sunshade; and a 15-speaker premium stereo system with HD radio.
Voice-command navigation and a USB interface are both standard on the 2013 S-Class. The roster of available high-end conveniences, depending on model and package, includes such features as a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, a backup camera and keyless start. One particularly useful feature is Speed Limit Assist, a system that can identify posted speed limits and alert the driver when the allowable speed has been exceeded. Another impressive innovation is Benz's SplitView interface, a dash-integrated dual screen that allows the driver and front passenger to view different content simultaneously.
Performance & Fuel Economy
Offering a broad range of powertrain technologies, the S-Class delivers robust performance and even some efficient green choices.
The most mainstream S-Class sedan is the S550, powered by a twin-turbo 4.6-liter V8. Output is 429 horsepower and 516 lb-ft of torque. Energy flows through a 7-speed automatic transmission to the rear wheels; all-wheel drive is optional. EPA-rated fuel economy is 15 mpg city/25 mpg highway for the RWD model and 15/24 mpg with AWD.
The flagship S600 utilizes a mammoth 5.5-liter twin-turbo V12 yielding 510 hp and 612 lb-ft of torque. This engine pairs with a 5-speed automatic transmission and feeds the rear wheels. Fuel economy is 12/19 mpg.
On the green front, the S-Class offers a hybrid and a clean diesel. The S400 Hybrid is propelled by a 3.5-liter V6 and an electric motor tied to an advanced lithium-ion battery. With its 7-speed automatic transmission, this setup is good for an ample 295 hp, 284 lb-ft of torque and EPA-estimated fuel economy of 19/25 mpg. Because it uses a mild hybrid arrangement with a relatively small battery in the engine compartment, the S400 sacrifices no trunk or cabin space.
The clean-burning, 50-state-legal S350 Bluetec gets a 3.0-liter V6 turbodiesel yielding 240 hp and a stout 455 lb-ft of torque. All-wheel drive and a 7-speed automatic are standard. The S350 is rated at 21 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway.
On the super-high-performance side, a pair of rear-wheel-drive AMG variants round out the S-Class model range. The S63 AMG finds power from a 5.5-liter V8 tied to a 7-speed automatic. Output is 536 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque, and fuel economy is 15/22 mpg. The top-tier, extremely robust S65 AMG powertrain is defined by an astounding 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 making 621 hp and a tremendous 738 lb-ft of torque. A 5-speed automatic transmission comes standard. EPA-estimated fuel economy is 12 mpg city/19 mpg highway.
With six distinct powertrain options, the S-Class offers a configuration for virtually every kind of buyer in the segment.
Passenger safety is complemented by 12 airbags, Mercedes's mbrace emergency telematics and a pre-collision system that adjusts seats and tensioners when it anticipates an unavoidable crash. A full suite of advanced safety systems is also at the S-Class's disposal. These include optional blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control, all with automatic brake intervention. There's also a night vision system with pedestrian detection.
Driving Impressions
Each S-Class comes with a distinct personality based on its powertrain characteristics. From the smooth and seamless on-road experience of the S400 Hybrid to the obscene acceleration and redline performance of the S63 and S65 AMGs, it's all here. The more conventional S550 and S600 offer fantastic performance throughout the rev band, while the new S350 Bluetec delivers the stout low-end torque you'd expect from a strong diesel.
Regardless of model, the S-Class delivers a level of poise and nimbleness that defies its oversize proportions. Essentially, it is the automotive equivalent of an NFL running back performing in a ballet. Further enhancing the car's handling and cornering prowess are such features as Active Body Control with Crosswind Stabilization and Torque Vectoring Brake, which triggers rear wheel braking to maximize stability in fast corners.
Beyond performance, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is the ultimate benchmark in ride comfort, thanks to a proven chassis. Its smooth roadgoing feel redefines premium motoring. The S-Class is stellar for any kind of commute or long-range driving.
Other Cars to Consider
BMW 7 Series - The BMW has a little more emphasis on handling dynamics than the S-Class, but the S-Class is more luxurious and technologically advanced.
Audi A8 - The Audi's design is considered more attractively modern, and for that reason, it's more appealing to younger buyers. Both the Mercedes and Audi enjoy a plush ride, but the Mercedes remains ahead in technology.
Hyundai Equus - The Equus is hands down the best value in a large luxury car. It certainly doesn't have the refinement, features or prestigious nameplate of the Mercedes, but it's tens of thousands lower in price, making it worth a look.
AutoTrader Recommends
Our S-Class recommendation is the S350 Bluetec diesel. With this model, you get the best of both worlds: performance and green credentials. Outputting 455 lb-ft of torque, the Bluetec enjoys fantastic acceleration. At the same time, it is very efficient and eco-friendly relative to most large luxury sedans, especially considering it has standard all-wheel drive. And with the Premium 2 package now standard, you get parking assistance features, keyless access and even massage front seats. Sure, it's expensive, but if you're shopping in this category, substance is probably more important to you than price.


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The PSP2 might not officially be unveiled, but that has not stopped Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai from speculating on the immersion aspects that touch screens provide.
Speaking with the New York Times, Hirai talked up touch screens, stating that they would be the key to competing in a world owned by Nintendo and Apple.
Will Sony ever learn? They're late to the party with their motion wand, and now they're going to add touch controls to a handheld. Yippee!
*Will Sony ever learn? They're late to the party with their motion wand, and now they're going to add touch controls to a handheld.*
But no other handheld will have as good as graphics as the psp2 although the 3ds has pretty good graphics.
It's as powerful (relatively) as a 360! Sony know how to create godly devices!
You might say the are only copying Nintendo, but I believe SONY Does what Nitendo did 10x better.
It doesnt matter how much power the psp 2 has.
If it doesnt have a good physical medium (memory sticks) and in turn a store precense, it will fail immediately to the 3ds.
Thankfully sony hasnt lost its mind entirely and memory sticks should be as good as nintendos carts.
This gen should of taught sony, on handhelds graphics are irrelevant. Pretty much same with consoles in terms of sales.
@ disagrees, dont be childish. You know graphics have no relevance on handhelds or consoles. The wii outsold everything, and last gen the ps2 did, and the snes before that which were all less impressive graphically.


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The New York Police Department is telling its officers to clean up their act on the Internet.
An internal order made public on Thursday advises members of the nation's largest police department to "demonstrate professionalism" when using Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
It warns that sharing personal information and opinions has the potential to put them in danger and undermine their credibility.
The same order urges officers to not even mention they're members of the force. And it bars them from posting photos of themselves in uniform.


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URBANA, Ill. - With bad weather in the Midwest delaying the action and moving some matches indoors, California's Ben McLachlan and Campbell Johnson both completed their matches but lost in the round of 64 at the NCAA Men's Tennis Singles Championship on Wednesday at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex at the Atkins Tennis Center.
Johnson's season will continue on Thursday, when he and senior co-captain Christoffer Konigsfeldt compete in the NCAA Doubles Championship in Urbana.
McLachlan, ranked 38th in singles, lost to 12th-ranked Blaz Rola of Ohio State, 6-2, 7-6(4), while the 60th-ranked Johnson fell to Oklahoma's 58th-ranked Guillermo Alcorta, 6-2, 6-4.
"It was pretty windy outside today, which made conditions harder for both of us," McLachlan said of his match. "I thought the quality of the match was pretty good. I wasn't disappointed with my match. I had my chances."
The Cal junior was serving at 3-1 in the second-set tiebreaker when officials moved his match indoors due to the threat of lightning. McLachlan and Rola played the rest of the way indoors as it began raining in Urbana, and the Golden Bear ultimately lost the tiebreaker and the match.
With his season now over, McLachlan reflected on Cal's season, including the run to the round of 16 in the NCAA team tournament, in which the Bears fell to eventual champion Virginia.
"We had some bad losses that we hadn't really had the last couple years," McLachlan said. "But we also got some big wins. It was pretty big we made it to the sweet 16 after traveling to Florida, so we were pretty happy. We put up a fight against Virginia, but they were too good."
Johnson and Konigsfeldt will play Auburn's sixth-ranked Daniel Cochran and Andreas Mies in the round of 32/first round at a time TBA. Konigsfeldt and Johnson form the nation's 26th-ranked doubles team that also claimed the 2013 Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year award.
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In 2005 I blogged about a trial balloon released by the formerly esteemed, but now very in-the-tank pro global warming magazine Science. They called their new idea "global dimming." The idea was that pollution, rather than causing global warming—as they had always asserted—both caused and reduced it. Their contention was that the particles of pollution in the air blocked some of the Sun's light from reaching the Earth, thereby reducing the warming effect and reducing the effects of Global Warming.
Draw your own conclusions from the fact that the post has been removed from their site.
Now we have a new approach to the same "dim" idea. From the AFP:
Through photosynthesis, vegetation transforms sunlight, CO2 and water into sugar nutrients.
Common sense would suggest that air pollution in the form of microscopic particles that obstruct the Sun's rays -- a phenomenon called "global dimming" -- would hamper this process, but the new study shows the opposite is true.
"Surprisingly, the effects of atmospheric pollution seem to have enhanced global plant productivity by as much as a quarter from 1960 to 1999," said Linda Mercado, a researcher at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Britain, and the study's lead author.
"This resulted in a net ten percent increase in the amount of carbon stored by the land," she said in a statement.
What does this mean?
The findings underline a cruel dilemma: to the extent we succeed in reducing aerosol pollution in coming decades, we will need to slash global carbon dioxide emissions even more than we would have otherwise.
"Aerosols offset approximately 50 percent of the greenhouse gas warming," Knut Alfsen, research director at the Centre for International Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway, said by phone.
Without this particle pollution, he said, average global surface temperatures would have increased by 1.0 to 1.1 Celsius (1.8 to 2.0 Fahrenheit) since the start of industrialisation, rather than 0.7 C (1.25 F).
Let's recap. Pollution, which is bad, causes global warming, which is reduced by pollution, which is bad. And aerosols, which are so bad that we banned a whole bunch of them, are reducing greenhouse gas warming (bad) by 50% (good?).
This self-contradictory mess is typical of the mental gymnastics required by those who would have you believe that carbon dioxide, which you are breathing out right now, is a pollutant that is causing the world to heat up and become uninhabitable. Despite the fact that their hypothesized connection between carbon and global temperature is contradicted by the the temperature record itself.
Don't think about it too much, you'll sprain something.


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Defense rests case in Jodi Arias murder trial
PHOENIX (AP) — Defense attorneys in Jodi Arias' murder trial rested their case Tuesday after about 2 1/2 months of testimony aimed at portraying the defendant as a domestic violence victim who was forced to fight for her life on the day she killed her one-time boyfriend.
The trial is expected to continue at least several more weeks before jurors begin deliberations. Testimony in the trial began in early January with the prosecutor making quick work of the state's case, concluding in less than two weeks. Defense attorneys began their case Jan. 29 and concluded a dramatic run of witnesses with a simple, soft-spoken sentence.
"At this point, the defense rests," attorney Kirk Nurmi told the judge Tuesday morning.
Arias faces a possible death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home.
Authorities say she planned the attack in a jealous rage. Arias initially denied involvement then blamed it on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said it was self-defense.
Arias testified she was taking pictures of Alexander in the shower after a day of sex when she dropped his camera and he became enraged, forcing her to defend herself.
Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the head and had his throat slit. Arias' palm print was found in blood at the scene, along with nude photos in the camera of her and the victim from the day of the killing that authorities say Arias tried to delete.
Arias said she recalls Alexander attacking her in a fury. She said she ran into his closet to retrieve a gun he kept on a shelf and fired in self-defense but has no memory of stabbing him.
She acknowledged trying to clean the scene, dumping the gun in the desert and working on an alibi, even attending a memorial service for Alexander and sending his family flowers before her arrest.
Arias' grandparents reported a .25-caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California home about a week before Alexander's death — the same caliber used to shoot him — but Arias said she didn't take it. Authorities believe she brought it with her to kill the victim.
Later Tuesday, Martinez called to the witness stand a state-hired clinical psychologist who evaluated Arias. With her testimony, the prosecutor tried to discredit two defense witnesses — one who diagnosed Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder and amnesia and another who said the defendant suffers from battered woman's syndrome.
Martinez accused both defense witnesses of shoddy, biased work.
Clinical psychologist Janeen DeMarte addressed the more than 40 hours the defense's domestic violence witness — psychotherapist Alyce LaViolette — spent interviewing Arias in jail, explaining that amount of time was extreme to come to a diagnosis.
"It becomes therapeutic," DeMarte explained, adding that such a relationship could skew findings.
Martinez then worked to the attack the credibility of another defense witness, psychologist Richard Samuels, who diagnosed Arias with amnesia and PTSD.
DeMarte said Arias' responses to certain questions on tests administered by Samuels were untruthful, meaning the conclusions by Samuels were invalid.
DeMarte said Arias suffers from borderline personality disorder, showing signs of immaturity and an "unstable sense of identity." People who suffer from such a disorder "have a terrified feeling of being abandoned by others," DeMarte said.
Based on her evaluation and testing of Arias, the defendant doesn't suffer from PTSD or amnesia and wasn't a victim of domestic abuse, DeMarte said.
DeMarte said none of Arias' behavior after the killing fit the criteria for the diagnoses, including telling several psychologists different stories about how many times she says Alexander physically abused her, from twice, to four times, to "numerous times."
She said Arias' memory problems from the day of the killing were concerning, given Arias testified that she didn't realize what had occurred until she had driven far away from Alexander's home and saw blood on her hands.
"She said, 'I knew this meant I killed him,'" DeMarte said Arias told her.
That response was "illogical," the witness said.
"You wouldn't think, 'I just killed someone,'" DeMarte said. "You might think, 'I just cut my finger, what happened?' Not, 'I killed somebody.'"
DeMarte said that someone suffering from dissociative amnesia from the trauma of a killing, as the defense witness testified, wouldn't have the wherewithal to clean the scene, delete photos, dispose of the gun, or immediately begin to work on an alibi.
"That's organization and planning," she said.
Arias has said that Alexander grew more physically abusive in the months before his death, yet no other evidence or testimony has supported her claims.
DeMarte stated Arias was not a battered woman.
"The inconsistencies (in her stories) give the appearance that she wasn't being truthful," DeMarte testified.
She resumes testimony Wednesday.
Brian Skoloff can be followed at https://twitter.com/bskoloff


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