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"Frankie Go Boom"
a review by Darby O'Gill
Last week I got to attend a cast and crew screening of the upcoming indie film, Frankie Go Boom, and are you all in for a treat! This is a Secret Stash exclusive! After checking with writer/director Jordan Roberts and the producers, I'm pleased to announce that this is officially the first review of Frankie Go Boom anywhere! Remember you read it here first! I've always wanted to say that, and now it's actually true! Okay, let's get this show on the road. Now, when I went into this movie I had absolutely zero expectations. I had no idea what it was about, and having not seen a trailer… There isn't one yet, by the way. Yeah, I told you, you were the first to know! I really didn't know what to expect, and I've got to say I was pleasantly surprised. The one thing I did know going in, was the cast. I've always enjoyed Lizzy Caplan on the big and small screen, but I became a huge fan of Chris O'Dowd's a few years ago after seeing The Boat That Rocked/Pirate Radio. That alone got me into the theatre, and I'm guessing that's why I didn't even bother to ask what the movie was about before seeing it that night. But lucky for you, your old friend Darby took some notes, and is ready to give you the 4-1-1.
Frankie Go Boom is about two brothers, the youngest Frankie (Charlie Hunnam) who is continuously being tortured and humiliated throughout his life by his older brother, Bruce (Chris O'Dowd), all the while being caught on tape as the subject matter of Bruce's "movies." I use the air quotes because Bruce's movies are nothing more than glorified home videos of his constant mistreatment and torment of poor Frankie. From Super 8 cameras to HD cellphones, the advancements of modern home video equipment over the years don't really seem to be helping Frank deter Bruce from making anymore of his movies anytime soon. And as I'm sure you can all guess by now, it was only a matter of time before one of Bruce's "movies" found its way to the internet. Fortunately for Frankie, only a few million people got to see Bruce's latest little opus which captured one of the worst days of Frank's adult life, his wedding day. After that, Frank decides to do the only logical thing, he gets himself a trailer and moves out to the middle of Death Valley, miles away from society, and more importantly his family. Of course he realizes that it's only a matter of time before they pull him back in, which is why he leaves notes to himself reminding him just how awful they can be. What's that they say about all best laid plans? Sure enough, Frank gets lured back home, and it's while he's attending Bruce's AA graduation that he runs into… Well actually she runs into him. Never the less, Frankie meets Lassie (Lizzy Caplin), who is not a dog by the way. Lassie just happens to be her name. It's not clear if it's in reference to the Scottish term for young lady, or the famous Border Collie, but I kind of love the fact that they don't even address it. I think it's hilarious that there's not even one attempt to explain why her name is Lassie.
I think this is where I'm going to stop the play-by-play story breakdown. I don't really want to give too much more away, and trust me this is only the tip of the iceberg, but I will however give you just one last little nugget. Mostly because I know it's already floating around out there on the old interwebs, but also because it has to be said, Ron Perlman gives a show-stopping performance in this movie! He plays Bruce's former prison roommate Phil, or as he/she is now known, Phyllis. I've gotta tell ya, seeing Ron Perlman in drag is not something you can actually prepare yourself for, especially when Mr. Perlman is sitting right next to you! I'm not kidding! Sitting right to my right, Hellboy himself, Mr. Ron Perlman! Trust me, after you see the movie you'll understand just how weird of a life experience that was for me.
Let's just say that someone finally makes Scott Bakula look like an attractive woman. Oh, boy.
I've got to say, I really enjoyed this movie! I've been trying to think of a movie I could compare it to, that might help you get a better idea of the film's overall tone, but it's really hard because the movie is unique unto itself. It's very much an independent movie, but it has this underlying mainstream appeal that I think will ultimately help it find a bigger audience once it comes out. But, if I had to compare it to something, I would have to say Clay Pigeons, which was one of my favorite movies from the late 90's indie film movement. It stars Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix, and Janeane Garofalo. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend NetFlixing it. As for Frankie Go Boom, the humor and pace of the movie is dead-on, and there's a nice grittiness to it that seems to really set it apart from other movies being released these days. If you're planning on attending this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival, I highly recommend seeking this one out! I have a feeling it's going to be the talk of the festival. I for one will gladly be seeing it again, and I think it's safe to say that I already have a favorite movie on my list for 2012. I'm really hoping that when Frankie Go Boom comes out, that it will go BOOM in a really big way!


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As dreamy as floats are on the Rose Parade route each year, they do not come straight out of dreams.
This year, four professional, float-building companies are producing 40 of the 46 floats gliding down Colorado Boulevard on Jan. 1. Each with their own take on the parade theme, "Dreams Come True." The remaining six floats are built entirely by volunteers from the sponsoring organizations.
Pasadena-based Phoenix Decorating Company has won the most awards with 230 trophies out of the 713 it has built over the 32 years in business. Pheonix is producing 20 floats this year.
Fiesta Parade Floats prides itself in having the best prize rate at 65 percent, president Tim Estes said. Fiesta is the second-largest builder, producing 13 entries this year. During its 27 years in the industry, the Irwindale-based company has built 280 floats, earning 176 awards.
Azusa-based Artistic Entertainment Services has been in the industry for 34 years, garnering about 128 awards in that time, said spokeswoman Andrea Zepeda. It has five floats in this year's parade.
The smallest float builder is Paradiso Parade Floats, which claims a 100 percent award rate — but that's because the company just started last year and submitted only one entry: San Gabriel's centennial float which won the Director's Trophy for outstanding artistic merit in design and floral presentation.
This year, Irwindale-based Paradiso is hoping to go two-for-two for both its clients.
Paradiso's Creative Director Charles Meier, 35, holds the title for the youngest designer in Rose Parade history. Meier worked on his first design in South Pasadena in 1992 when he was just 13. Meier has entered 10 floats in the parade since then.
Meier has the tenacity to pay attention to details, Paradiso spokeswoman Gwen Robertson said. She remembered working with him in the middle of the night on Sierra Madre's "Bollywood Dreams" float for the 2009 parade.
"We were in the pouring rain, decorating outside," Robertson said. "I was decorating the head of the bird. Charles said, 'The eye needs a glint. It needs three pulverized grains, not four.'"
He was right, she said. Four looked messy, but three made the perfect glint.
Counting his two entries for the 2014 parade, Meier has designed a total of 13 floats, Robertson notes. At Paradiso, he works with a team on each float from start to finish.
"Paradiso is a boutique float builder. And what that means is that we specialize in offering a very high quality product and a very personal experience," Meier said. "It's very important to us that we make sure that every one of our floats is very unique and a beautiful entry in the parade. To that end, our goal is to build a handful of really outstanding floats."
AES distinguishes itself from the "floral pageant" look common to other floats, designer John Ramirez said.
"I tend to like floats which have a kind of cartoon-y feel, to make people laugh," he said. "I look for trying to tell a story when I'm designing a float, and to have that happen in one image is sometimes difficult. But that's the challenge and fun of designing a Rose Parade float."
Because the company's president Craig Bugajski, has an entertainment background and has been in the Rose Parade business since he was a teenager, Ramirez said AES floats bring showtime to the New Year.
"We like to have a singular element on the float that everyone remembers and to have a big show that goes around the float so that it is an event and not just another float in the parade," Ramirez added.
Fiesta considers itself a boutique builder. The company chooses not to have too many clients so as not to downgrade quality, president Tim Estes said.
It has also won the Rose Parade Sweepstakes Trophy — the biggest prize in the parade — for 20 consecutive years.
"Due to our overall prize winning rate, we have to have all of our floats look outstanding," Estes said. "A prize-winning float gets two to three times the amount of media coverage, so our clients get more out of their investment."
Phoenix has the largest number of floats.
"For more than 20 years now, we've built more than half the parade," said company spokesman Brian Dancel.
"The best part of being with Phoenix is we have a variety of designers that are able to cater to what our clients like. In addition to that, the social media aspect has gotten larger over the last couple of years. We've basically mastered the art of revealing our floats."
Contrary to what some people might think, the Rose Parade isn't a three-month time investment or a one-day reveal, Dancel said. Phoenix uses social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to keep audiences "enthralled, basically all year long," he added.
"We are the innovators in that," Dancel said. "There is no one else that has taken that time and attention."
This story has been updated from an earlier version.

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Colorado Charter Schools Introduction
What Is a Charter School?
A charter school in Colorado is a public school operated by a group of parents, teachers and/or community members as a semi-autonomous school of choice within a school district, operating under a contract or "charter" contract between the members of the charter school community and the local board of education.
In a charter school, each student, parent and teacher chooses to be there. The "charter," as defined in the Charter Schools Act (Sections 22-30.5-101et. seq. C.R.S.), spells out the school goals, standards, education design, governance and operations. The degree of autonomy to be exercised by the charter school on such issues as personnel, curriculum and facilities is negotiated between the charter applicants and the local school district and reflected in the charter. School-centered governance, autonomy, and a clear design for how and what students will learn are the essential characteristics of a charter school.
Under Colorado law, a charter school is not a separate legal entity independent of the school district, but rather is a public school defined uniquely by a charter and partially autonomous while remaining within the school district. The approved charter application and accompanying agreements are the charter which serve as a contract between the charter school and the local board of education.
The Purposes for Having Charter Schools in Colorado
In authorizing charter schools, the General Assembly created an avenue for parents, teachers, and community members "to take responsible risks and create new, innovative, more flexible ways of educating all children within the public school system."
"Different pupils learn differently," notes the act. The act seeks the creation of schools with "high, rigorous standards for pupil performance, " with special emphasis on expanded opportunities for low-achieving students. The General Assembly sought "to create an atmosphere in Colorado's public schools where research and development in developing different learning opportunities is actively pursued."
Charter schools are a means of expanding choices in Colorado public schools. The charter process provides an avenue for educators, citizens, businesses, communities and parents to direct their innovative efforts. Charter schools offer teachers a chance to be part of designing and working in semi-autonomous, creative schools under defined philosophical approaches.
The Charter Schools Act - Where are we?
A number of the stated purposes of the Colorado Charter Schools Act have already come to fruition. Specifically, charter schools in Colorado have increased the number of public school choices available for parents, students, and teachers. Fifty charter schools were operating in Colorado on September 1, 1997. By the 2018-2019 school year there were just over 250 charter schools.
Many districts are now viewing charter schools, and in a broader sense, all schools of choice as a key tool to implementing Colorado's Standards Based Education initiative.
In one big sweep, a charter school can create a delivery system that individualizes and customizes education to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse society. As academic standards become more rigorous and the expectation that more students must meet those standards increases; time, resources, and instructional strategies must be utilized differently to enable more children to meet the higher standards.
Therefore, charter schools become another tool, an opportunity for districts in Colorado to use in meeting the academic content standards which have now been set in mathematics, reading, writing, science, geography, and history. Charter schools are being viewed as one of a district's educational options from which students and parents may choose. Charter schools are beginning to deliver an educational program that will assist school districts in meeting the academic content standards which have been set for a very diverse student population. Most charter schools are becoming a real asset to public education.
Implementation of the Colorado Charter Schools Act will be an evolving process. Many questions will arise that are not specifically addressed by the law. Charter applicants, district staff, local boards of education, legislators, the State Board of Education, Colorado Department of Education staff, and others will need to work in partnership to find creative solutions to the questions and issues which will surface from time to time in fine tuning Colorado's Charter Schools Act.
Writing a Charter Application?
Contact the Schools of Choice Unit at the Colorado Department of Education: firstname.lastname@example.com
Applying for a Charter
Any group of parents, teachers and/or community members may develop a charter application. A minimum size is not defined in the charter school law. The school must be nonsectarian and non-home-based. Applications may not be submitted to convert an existing private school or non-public home-based educational program into a charter school.
A charter application is submitted to the local school board by October 1 to be eligible for consideration for the following school year. The charter applicant and local school board may jointly waive any timelines set forth in the Colorado Charter Schools Act. The school district may establish local procedures for submitting and considering applications, but may not charge an application fee. An approved charter application must serve as the basis for a contract between the charter school and the school board.
Before the school board formally approves or denies the application, it must first be reviewed by the district accountability advisory committee pursuant to the district's guidelines. The school board must also hold a series of community meetings, and then, within 60 days after receiving the formal application, make a decision about granting a charter. It is the charter applicants responsibility to obtain a copy of the district's application procedures from the administrative office of the school district.
The application process should consist of a series of meetings, dialogues and negotiations between the applicants and appropriate district staff and school board members. The open sharing of information and ideas between all parties is essential to the process and the development of a successful charter school. Early, informal discussions between the applicant and the school district are highly encouraged before the official application is submitted to the local board. This may help in the development of a quality and successful application. In the best case scenario, most issues can be informally resolved before the official application is submitted to the district and the short 60 day statutory review process and timeline begin. All new charter schools must be approved for at least three years, but not more that five years.
The governing body of an existing charter school must submit its renewal application to the local board of education no later than December 1 prior to the year in which the charter expires.
Whether the charter is denied or approved, an appeal process to the State Board of Education is provided pursuant to Section 22-30.5-108 C.R.S. The State Board may also, upon its own motion, decide to review any charter decision of a local board of education. Under the act, the State Board has the authority to direct the local board to grant, deny, or revoke the charter. The timelines for the consideration and appeal processes are built into the act.
For information on:
- Applying for a Charter
- Required Elements of a Charter Application
- Other Considerations and Programs for Applicants
- Summary of Colorado Regulations
- Organizations and Resource Persons
- Resources and Research Information
View the complete Colorado Charter School Handbook (the handbook is currently being updated)
For additional information please contact the Schools of Choice Unit at email@example.com.


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There's quite an art, as you'll be finding out all this week, to brown bagging.
We're co-hosting a Brown Bag Challenge with a host of other bloggers, including our home site, Big Girls, Small Kitchen. The challenge is sponsored by BuiltNY, and all week we'll be posting recipes and guides on our site and on SKC, and hosting live lunchtime chats with twitter and facebook fans. Tune in!
As for brown bagging, there's a way to make leftovers satisfying and a way to make sure that lunch isn't breaking your diet. But there's another kind of lunch, one that's maybe just a little less practical. It's the kind of lunch that makes you especially antsy all morning, in anticipation, the kind of lunch you look back on with a smile all afternoon. In our book, we call this the "Aesthetic Pleaser," the kind of food that delights all your senses, not just your tastebuds.
In other words, it's a perfect lunch. One that's not just the scraps from your fridge repurposed, no matter how delicious that may be. It's a lunch that's attractive, even after sitting around for hours, and delicious, perhaps having gotten better with time.
The Curry Chicken Salad that sits inside these lunchtime wraps is just the thing. I don't know if any of you have ever even eaten Curry Chicken Salad, but if you haven't, you're really missing something. See, the curry takes to the mayo in this salad like peas to carrots, the celery and shallot add an awesome crunch, and the raisins provide a haunting sweetness that in turn makes the curry taste even better. A sensory feast indeed!
Cara is the co-founder of Small Kitchen College and Big Girls, Small Kitchen.
Curry Chicken Wraps
Makes 3 sandwiches
The most crucial element here is very fresh curry powder. If you've had your jar for more than about 9 months, it's time to refresh. Pick up a new packet of curry powder before you start. This makes enough for 2-3 lunches; either find a friend to share it with (and then make her bring you lunch another day this week), or embrace the fact that you'll be eating this for a couple meals. I promise, it won't be a hardship.
1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1 carrot, cut into chunks
1 small onion, halved
3 medium celery stalks, 1 cut into rough chunks, the other 2 halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 sprig parsley (optional)
2 tablespoons chopped toasted pecans*
2 tablespoons raisins, chopped
1 shallot, finely diced
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Madras curry powder
1 tablespoon honey
freshly ground pepper
3 8-inch flour tortillas or wraps of your choice
1/2 bunch arugula, rinsed well, trimmed, and dried
*Note: to toast nuts, place them in a small, dry frying pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally and watching carefully, until the nuts have darkened and are fragrant. Pour the nuts into a small bowl to cool, then chop.
Poach the chicken: add the chicken thighs, the carrot, onion, the roughly chopped celery, 1 teaspoon salt, and parsley if using to a medium pot with a lid. Cover with water and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Skim any foam from the top, and reduce heat to low. Partially cover the pot and simmer until the chicken is very tender, about 40 minutes. Remove chicken to a plate, let it cool, then cut it into about 1-inch cubes.
In a medium bowl, place the nuts, 2 stalks of sliced celery, raisins, shallot, and the cubes of chicken. Add 1/2 cup mayonnaise, curry powder, honey, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and several cranks of freshly ground pepper and stir until the sauce is blended and the vegetables and chicken are incorporated. You can make this salad up to 3 days in advance; assemble each wrap on the day you're going to eat it.
Wrap the tortillas in a clean dishtowel and place in the microwave. Nuke for about 30 seconds, until the tortillas are steamed and quite pliable.
Place one wrap on a cutting board. Scoop about 1/3 of the chicken salad onto the center of the tortilla, then top with a handful of arugula. Wrap, folding the ends in and leaving the seam on the bottom. If desired, slice the wrap in half. Pack for lunch with a handful of baby carrots!
Originally posted on Monday, July 11th, 2011
I love this! I was thinking of making it using soe leftover roast chicken
made this last week and it was delicious! definitely making again sometime soon.


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Mars Express PFS spectrometer back at work
The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago.
The instrument had been successfully investigating the chemical composition of the Martian atmosphere since the beginning of 2004, when Mars Express began orbiting the Red Planet.
PFS is a very sensitive instrument, capable of measuring the distribution of the major gaseous components of the atmosphere, the vertical distribution of their temperature and pressure, and determining their variation and global circulation during the different Martian seasons.
PFS is also capable of detecting minor gaseous species and the presence of dust in the atmosphere and, during favourable observing conditions, even deducing the mineralogical composition of the soil.
PFS was the first instrument ever to make direct 'in situ' measurements of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, and provided first indications of traces of formaldehyde, both candidate ingredients for life.
To identify the nature of chemical compounds of the Martian atmosphere and their physical status, PFS detects the distinctive infrared radiation re-emitted by different molecules when they are exposed to the light of the Sun.
The complex PFS instrument uses the interferometry technique, a high-precision measurement method in which beams of electromagnetic radiation are split and subsequently recombined after travelling different path-lengths. The beams interfere and produce an 'interference pattern'.
This pattern, or 'interferogram', is then used to measure physical properties such as temperature, pressure and chemical composition.
The PFS instrument was unable to produce scientific data from July to September 2005. A series of tests and investigations took place between September and October this year.
The 'pendulum motor', used to drive various elements in the instrument optics, was shown to be at fault. The recovery was made possible through using internal instrument redundancy.
After switching to the instrument's back-up motor, more powerful than the first one - the instrument has been shown to be able to produce science data just as before. Following this recovery activity, PFS will start to take new measurements routinely in early November 2005.
Notes to editors:
PFS is a 'double pendulum' interferometer. The incident radiation is divided into two beams by a mirror and then filtered before being directed into two separate interferometers. The interferometers are positioned with their planes of operation one above the other so that a single motor can be used to move both pendulums.
PFS measurements have a spatial resolution ranging from 7 to 12 kilometres when Mars is observed from an altitude of 250 kilometres.
For more information:
Prof. Vittorio Formisano, PFS Principal Investigator
IFSI-CNR, Rome, Italy
E-mail: formisan @ nike.ifsi.rm.cnr.it
Fred Jansen, ESA Mars Express Mission Manager
E-mail: fjansen @ rssd.esa.int
Agustin Chicarro, ESA Mars Express Project Scientist
E-mail: agustin.chicarro @ esa.int
Enrico Flamini, ASI Mars Express Mission Manager
E-mail: enrico.flamini @ asi.it


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Housing Starts Rose 13.2% in April
Most of Jump Came in Multifamily Segment, Leading Some Economists to Temper Enthusiasm
WASHINGTON—U.S. home construction surged in April and building permits rose to the highest level in more than five years, a sign the industry is rebounding after a weak winter and sees room for growth.
Housing starts rose 13.2% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.07 million, the Commerce Department said Friday, though the bulk of the gain came in the volatile multifamily segment. The overall gain was still the strongest showing in five months....


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mars Chocolate North America, the maker of M&M's and Snickers, said on Wednesday that it will raise its prices by an average of 7 percent "to offset rising costs," its first increase in three years.
The price hike by Mars, which did not provide an effective date, follows Hershey Co, the No. 1 candy maker in the United States, which on July 15 raised its chocolate prices about 8 percent due to soaring commodity costs.
"In the three years since our last price increase, in March 2011, we have invested significantly in the category and have experienced a dramatic increase in our costs of doing business," a spokesperson said in an email to Reuters.
Mars Chocolate North America is a subsidiary of Mars Inc, the third biggest confectionery business globally next to Butterfinger-maker Nestle SA and Cadbury-maker Mondelez International, according to Euromonitor International.
The cost of cocoa, a key ingredient in chocolate, has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, having climbed nearly 50 percent to a three-year high on Wednesday at $3,204 per tonne on ICE Futures. U.S. Dairy prices have also soared.
These price increases come three months after Swiss-based Nestle SA Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wan Ling Martello said on a conference call that "there will be pricing" action in the company's confectionery business.
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The leaves are just starting to fall..I see netting for water gardens to keep the leaves out, do they make anything like this for large ponds?
Bryan – Traverse City, MI
When fall comes around, leaves and ponds seem to have a magnetic attraction to one another. And while netting is available in essentially any size you might need, it's a cumbersome solution for larger ponds. Simply spreading the netting over a large pond is a major undertaking – and the impracticality of installing posts throughout your pond to keep leaf-covered netting from sinking makes other solutions look much more attractive.
At The Pond Guy, we strongly recommend aeration and chemical treatments to address inevitable leaf buildup for customers with large ponds. When you browse our web site, you'll notice a wide range of Airmax® Aeration products. These aeration systems enable the pond to break down leaves quickly and naturally by keeping pond water moving – and the entire pond well oxygenated. When coupled with the beneficial bacteria in PondClear™, EcoBoost™ and MuckAway™, fallen leaves break down in no time to keep water clear, and both fish and plants healthy.
As an added measure in the fight against falling leaves and debris, you should also consider the use of a pond rake. With the regular use of our Pond & Beach Rake, you can easily remove excessive leaves and debris in no time flat.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and a prominent black lawyers' organization are keeping up the pressure for repeal of "stand your ground" self-defense laws.
Martin's parents, their attorney Benjamin Crump and members of the National Bar Association discussed their plans to address what they say are inequalities in the U.S. justice system.
"The thing about this law is, it assisted the person who killed my son to get away with murder," said Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton. "We need to change the laws so people don't get away with murder."
Crump joined Fulton, speaking before the National Bar Association-- a group composed primarily of African-American lawyers.
"We shouldn't call it stand your ground, too noble, we should call it make my day laws," Crump said. "That is what we are doing here ... they feel empowered."
George Zimmerman was acquitted this month of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Martin's 2012 death. Zimmerman said he shot at the unarmed 17-year-old in self-defense.
The verdict sparked protests and calls for federal officials to charge Zimmerman with violating Martin's civil rights. Federal officials are reviewing the case.
Florida lawmakers say it is unlikely the state's "stand your ground" law will be repealed.
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Where is our beloved Puerto Rican pop star, Ricky Martin, these days? He's currently starring as Che in the Broadway revival of Evita — a role which doesn't require he belt out too many romantic love tunes. But that is not the "Livin' La Vida Loca" singer we remember! In honor of his 41st birthday on Christmas Eve, we've decided to look back at his most dreamy and passionate lyrics over the years.
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Gunda Musekamp
posted on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 6:15 am
Is it possible to estimate a latent difference model for multiple groups with Mplus?
The problem I see is as follows: Usually, in latent difference models the intercept of the later state isn´t estimated (because it is determined by the mean of the first state and the mean of the latent difference variable). In multi-group analyses, Mplus estimates the intercepts of the later states (and I haven´t found a way how to tell the program that they shouldn´t be estimated). Do you have an idea how I could solve this problem?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 2:55 pm
Yes, that should be possible.
Intercepts are fixed to zero by saying
in the relevant group.
Gunda Musekamp
posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 - 1:37 am
Thank you for your quick reply! But I guess, fixing the intercepts to zero isn´t the solution for this problem. Let me try to reformulate and clarify my question.
In latent difference models, the intercept of the later state isn´t estimated (perhaps because it can be calculated: [state2]-[state1]=[diff2-1] ==> [state2]=[state1]+[diff2-1]).
When I tried to estimate a model in a multi-group analysis (which could be estimated in single-group analysis without problems), Mplus said "THE MODEL MAY NOT BE IDENTIFIED". The output told me that I should check the mean of the latent difference variable. That´s how I came to the idea to check the means and intercepts. In the preliminary results shown I noticed that in multi-group-analysis Mplus estimates the intercept of state2 (which is not the case in single-group analysis). Then I calculated if [state2]-[state1]=[diff2-1] and saw that this was not the case! How can this happen?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 - 8:02 pm
If you want this equation to hold:
in group 2, you have to use Model Constraint to define the [state2] parameter as constrained in this way.
Gunda Musekamp
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 4:13 am
Yes that´s right, with this constraint the model can be estimated. But I noticed that the results seem implausible. In single-group analysis, the intercept of the latent difference variable is positive (e.g. 0,64). In multi-group analysis, it is negative in all groups (e.g.-3,36). That´s why I began to wonder, wether it is possible to estimate latent difference models in multi-group analyses with Mplus.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 8:55 am
If the model is identified, I'm sure it can be estimated in Mplus. I just have not done this type of analysis to know how exactly it should be set up. Perhaps you want to contact those who originated it.
Gunda Musekamp
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 10:54 pm
Dear Mr. Muthén,
thank you very much for your answers, that´s great to have this support!
posted on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 2:25 am
Dear Mr. Muthén
I am trying to conduct a multigroup latent change analysis. Therefore, I used the Steyer et al. parameterization. My question is regarding the testing for group differences in the latent change scores. I realized the model as a correlated uniqeness model as follows:
MODEL: t1 by var34
var35 (1)
var35_t2 (1)
var35_t3 (1);
diff2_1 by var34_t2
var35_t2 (1);
diff3_1 by var34_t3
var35_t3 (1);
[var34 var34_t2 var34_t3] (2);
[var35 var35_t2 var35_t3] (3);
var34-var35 pwith var34_t2-var35_t2;
var34-var35 pwith var34_t3-var35_t3;
var34_t2-var35_t2 pwith var34_t3-
model CG:
model IG:
[t1 diff2_1 diff3_1];
Usually, the intercepts of the first indicators are fixed to be "0" to freely estimate the latent mean scores; these intercepts are now constrained to be equal across time. Is it correct to fix mean scores as specified above to test for group differences in the latent means/change scores?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 3:02 pm
Looks correct.
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When we started to describe it all, we kept coming back to 'firehose' as a joke.. but we think it nails the overall idea of the platform. Potential for massive, unprecedented throughput - the full package.
Firehose is the product platform under the parent/consulting company Station, to be hosted at http://www.stationindustries.com. We're combining the request for both logos to ensure a consistent style between the two.
It all goes public in 8 days. We want to nail it.
We are also hoping that this opens the door to the *rest* of the design work we'll need, including the various logos for the rest of our platform, business cards, etc.
We'll be courting major media customers (think record labels, cable networks, large content publishers) as well as other start-ups like us and developers who want to work on something great. (The developers get free accounts. We're building a community opportunity)
To be absolutely clear - this request is for TWO logos, one for Firehose, the product platform, and the other for Station, the parent company and consulting operation.
We're looking for openness, cleverness, and a bit of edge. This is a mature product - we just don't feel like it needs to be boring to be enterprise class. We have been working with the color palette of #3399CC, black, and silver on a predominantly clean white background. Logo should take into account ability to be converted to 1 color, 2 color, and CMYK and should be delivered as a vector-based file.
Logos/brands we dig:
http://www.arnoldworldwide.com/, http://www.frogdesign.com/, http://hugeinc.com/, http://sisumedia.com, http://versionsapp.com/, http://mediatemple.net
We are open to purely wordmark logos, but hoping for a brandmark for Firehose that actually incorporates the firehose concept in a literal way.
Overall, we're looking for inspired design.
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No. 88,117
In the Matter of the Estate of
Lucy G. Petesch, Deceased,
1. The district court, in allowing an executor's claimed compensation and expenses, must find that the provided services and incurred expenses were reasonably necessary for the proper administration of the decedent's estate. Services provided or expenses incurred solely to benefit one or more of the heirs or beneficiaries to the detriment of the estate are not properly compensable or reimbursable from the estate assets.
2. An appellate court applies an abuse of discretion standard in reviewing a district court's allowance or disallowance of an executor's claimed estate expenditures.
3. An executor's expenditure of estate funds must be reasonably necessary for the management and preservation of estate assets. When an executor has sought and obtained a district court's finding that an asset is a wasting asset, the retention of which is detrimental to the estate, and has received court authorization to sell the wasting asset, the executor must proceed with reasonable dispatch to consummate the sale and stop the deterioration of estate assets.
4. An executor is not entitled to recover interest on his or her personal funds unilaterally advanced for estate expenditures, unless the court supervising the estate has specifically authorized a loan from the executor, as an individual, to the estate.
5. When litigation is carried on for the personal benefit of the administrator or executor, and not for the benefit of the estate, the costs should be personally paid by the administrator or executor.
Appeal from Doniphan District Court; JAMES A. PATTON, judge. Opinion filed February 7, 2003. Affirmed.
Phillip A. Burdick, of Gernon, Burdick & Keck, of St. Joseph, for appellant.
No appearance by appellee.
Before JOHNSON, P.J., ELLIOTT, J., and WAHL, S.J.
JOHNSON, J.: John Petesch appeals the district court's order allowing him executor's fees and expenses in an amount less than he requested. Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm the district court.
Lucy G. Petesch died testate on February 2, 1999, leaving an estate initially appraised at under $75,000, primarily consisting of 120 acres of farmland, a small herd of cattle, and two vehicles. The testatrix's principal beneficiaries were her four children: John Petesch, Dennis Petesch, Rose Marie Wigley, and Connie Beeson. Initially, John Petesch was appointed special administrator to manage and care for the farmland and cattle. He was appointed executor when the will was admitted on March 5, 1999.
On April 19, 1999, pursuant to the executor's petition, the court ordered, inter alia, that the real estate, cattle, vehicles, and other personal property be sold at a private auction involving the four children. This was the last amicable, uncontested proceeding the court would see in this estate. The auction was held and Dennis Petesch made the high bid for the cattle and real estate. Dennis, as buyer, and John, as executor of the seller, executed a real estate contract on April 30, 1999, providing for a June 1, 1999, closing date. On May 5, 1999, Dennis sent the estate a $14,500 check for the cattle purchase which was returned, uncashed. On May 7, 1999, Connie Beeson filed a petition to set aside and disapprove the real estate contract and all personal property sales effected at the private auction, essentially claiming the sales were conducted in a coercive and unfair manner. John did not disagree with that action. Ultimately, in December 1999, the court denied Beeson's petition and confirmed the sale of real estate and all sales of personalty. A $14,500 check for the cattle was deposited in the estate account on December 23, 1999. Shortly thereafter, Dennis began feeding the cattle.
Unfortunately, the court's confirmation of the sales did not expedite the administration of the estate. Attorneys withdrew; new attorneys entered the fracas; Dennis moved to compel John to comply with the confirmed real estate sale; John petitioned to terminate the real estate contract. At an October 20, 2000, hearing the trial court ordered that the real estate sale was to be closed within a designated 10-day time period. The estate deposited the real estate sale proceeds on October 26, 2000, albeit the journal entry of the October hearing was not settled and filed until April 26, 2001. Whereupon, John filed a notice of appeal, which he subsequently withdrew. A petition to close the estate was filed July 13, 2001, in which John claimed executor's fees and expenses of $29,034.31. Predictably, objections were lodged to the amount of executor's fees.
The claimed fees and expenses covered the period from John's February 2, 1999, appointment as special administrator through the October 26, 2000, real estate sale closing. John used an hourly rate of $15 and claimed a total of 982 hours, which included daily trips to the farm. In addition, John claimed a mileage reimbursement of 7,710 miles at $.32 per mile; the majority of the miles involved the daily trips to the farm. The claim also included: (1) expenses that John had paid personally prior to the closing of the real estate sale, but which had been reimbursed from estate funds following consummation of the real estate sale; (2) interest on John's "loan" to the estate; and (3) expenses personally paid by John, but not yet reimbursed by the estate.
The trial court found the hourly rate of $15 to be reasonable and found no fault with John's management of the estate from initial appointment until December 1999 when the sales were confirmed. Thereafter, the court opined, proper estate management only required two trips to the farm per month and the executor's total claim for hourly compensation and mileage reimbursement was reduced to $11,115.96. Interest on John's loan to the estate was disallowed. Also, the court specifically designated the expenditures it would allow as being necessary for the administration of the estate. John now asserts the trial court erred in reducing his compensation and reimbursement for mileage and expenses. Further, he argues he is entitled to additional compensation and reimbursement, as well as additional attorney fees and costs.
John's brief structures his appeal as involving four issues: (1) The district court erred in not allowing the full amount of John's requested compensation and mileage; (2) the district court erred in not allowing the full amount of John's requested expense reimbursement; (3) John is entitled to additional compensation and reimbursement; and (4) John is entitled to additional attorney fees and costs incurred as executor. There were no other briefs filed.
John cites to the 60-year-old case of Foss v. Wiles, 155 Kan. 262, 124 P.2d 438 (1942), overruled on other grounds In re Estate of Goodburn, 210 Kan. 740, 504 P.2d 612 (1972), for the proposition that probate courts are to exercise equitable powers in determining any matter properly before them. Thus, John argues, we are imbued with the same equitable powers, which makes our standard of review unlimited. We disagree. "The determination of the amount of a reasonable administrator's fee is a question which rests largely in the sound discretion of the trial court." In re Estate of Eyth, 157 Kan. 268, 277, 139 P.2d 378 (1943). Our scope of review is limited to determining whether the trial court abused its discretion, i.e., whether the decision was arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable. See State v. Whitesell, 270 Kan. 259, 276-77, 13 P.3d 887 (2000).
Initially, John points to K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 59-2249, the statutory provision governing, inter alia, the hearing on the petition for final settlement and the final decree. He argues that since this provision directs that the executor's account "shall be settled and allowed," the court must award all requested fees and expenses so long as the executor actually expended the claimed time and money. This argument ignores the specific statute governing an executor's compensation and expenses, which provides: "Every fiduciary shall be allowed his or her necessary expenses incurred in the execution of his or her trust, and shall have such compensation for services and those of his or her attorneys as shall be just and reasonable." K.S.A. 59-1717.
An executor is a fiduciary of the probate estate. K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 59-102(2) and (3). The executor owes a duty to the estate as a whole, not to each individual heir. See Quinlan v. Leech, 5 Kan. App. 2d 706, 623 P.2d 1365 (1981), and K.S.A. 59-1703. Thus, the district court, in allowing an executor's claimed compensation and expenses, must find that the provided services and incurred expenses were reasonably necessary for the proper administration of the decedent's estate. Services provided or expenses incurred solely to benefit one or more of the heirs or beneficiaries to the detriment of or without any benefit to the estate are not properly compensable or reimbursable from the estate assets.
Here, the district court allowed compensation and mileage to John for his daily trips to the farm up to the date the court confirmed the sales of the farm and cattle to Dennis. There is no one before us contesting that decision. Evidence was presented from which one might infer that daily farm trips were unnecessary, even before the sales confirmations. Further, one might look askance at an executor's fee that constitutes approximately 10 percent of the total estate. On the other hand, the evidence would also support a finding that initially, John was conscientiously performing his fiduciary duties to preserve and manage the probate estate. Therefore, we find no abuse of discretion in allowing John the full amount of claimed compensation and mileage from his appointment date through the sales confirmation date.
Following the confirmation of the sales, Dennis commenced feeding the cattle which were located on the farm. Thereafter, the district court opined that the executor could reasonably accomplish proper management of the estate assets by making only two farm trips per month. The court applied John's proffered hourly and mileage rates to compute the allowance for the number of trips found to be necessary and disallowed John's claim for the remaining trips. John may well have had an interest, as an heir and beneficiary, in making daily farm trips. However, the district court's decision that the estate only benefitted from two trips per month was in no way arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable. The district court's allowance of executor's fees and mileage reimbursement is affirmed.
The district court reviewed John's estate expenditures and allowed those it determined to be necessary; the remaining expenditures were disallowed. Reimbursement was allowed for nearly all of the expenditures from February through April 1999. After April 1999, the court disallowed reimbursement for farm utilities; insurance and license plates for an estate automobile; dog and cat food purchases; and interest on John's purported loan to the estate.
Although appellant designates his expenditure disallowance challenge as a separate issue, he makes no separate legal argument in support of his position. He simply refers us to his argument on the second issue and states: "Certainly, Lucy Petesch would not have wanted her animals to go unfed or cared for simply because the trial Court [sic] made a verbal ruling on December 17, 1999."
Our case law does not provide a clearly defined standard for reviewing a district court's allowance or disallowance of an executor's expenditures. However, the issue is sufficiently analogous to the determination of a reasonable executor's fee for us to apply the same standard of review. See In re Estate of Eyth, 157 Kan. at 277 (applying an abuse of discretion standard to review the trial court's determination of a reasonable administrator/executor's fee); Whitaker v. Estate of Whitaker, 105 Ohio App. 3d 46, 59, 663 N.E.2d 681 (1995) (applying an abuse of discretion standard to an executor's claim for reimbursement of certain expenses).
Again, under K.S.A. 59-1717, an executor is entitled to recover "his or her necessary expenses incurred in the execution of his or her trust." Part of that trust is the duty to marshall and take possession of decedent's tangible personal property. K.S.A. 59-1401. Decedent's domestic animals were not included in the executor's inventory and valuation. Nevertheless, we will assume, for the purposes of this opinion, that the domestic animals were estate property. As such, the purchase of dog and cat food was initially necessary for the management and preservation of those assets. Therefore, the district court's allowance of domestic animal food purchases through April 1999 was appropriate.
However, on April 8, 1999, the executor filed a petition for partial distribution and for authority to sell all estate property at a private auction. The petition alleged: "The sale of all of the property of the estate is necessary because said property is a wasting asset, the retention of which will be detrimental to the estate." The district court included that statement in its findings in the April 19, 1999, order authorizing the private auction. The private auction was conducted on April 30, 1999.
We are not presented with a challenge to the district court's "wasting asset" finding; we proceed on the basis that all estate assets were, in fact, wasting assets, the retention of which was detrimental to the estate. Faced with the district court's findings and armed with the court's sale authorization, John had a duty to the estate to proceed with reasonable dispatch to consummate the sales and stop the deterioration of estate assets.
John has not presented any credible justification for retaining the domestic animals or the automobile as estate assets, following the scheduled, authorized auction sale. Indeed, John personally bought the automobile at the auction. Therefore, the district court's disallowance of estate expenditures in connection with these assets, after the sale date, was a reasonable exercise of its discretion.
The evidence indicated the utility services provided to the farm were unnecessary for the management and preservation of estate assets. The district court found no justifiable reason to maintain utility services to the farm, following the auction sale date. When it became readily apparent that the transfer of assets would be delayed by protracted litigation, John had a duty to the estate to minimize asset deterioration by terminating unnecessary expenditures. Again, the district court did not abuse its discretion.
John personally paid certain estate expenses because, he contends, there was insufficient cash in the estate at the time the expenditures needed to be made. He characterized his advancements as a $7,757.30 loan to the estate, upon which he was entitled to receive $1,473.88 interest. John "reimbursed" himself $9,231.18 to pay the loan and interest. The district court allowed the reimbursement of the actual expenditures, but disallowed the interest reimbursement. John's claim for imputed interest on his expenditures is fundamentally flawed on multiple levels. John's claimed interest is 19 percent of the total advanced expenditures which were made in increments over a period of time; the interest claim appears to be unreasonably high. As the estate fiduciary, John should have obtained prior court approval to self-deal and personally profit from the advancements. Further, K.S.A. 59-1703 provides that "where a fiduciary neglects or unreasonably delays to raise money by collecting debts or selling property," and the estate incurs unnecessary interest expense, the fiduciary is charged with the damage sustained by the estate. John neglected or refused to consummate the sales, at least with regard to returning Dennis' $14,500 cattle purchase check dated May 5,1999. The district court was compelled to deny John's claim of interest.
We confess to being confused as to what appellant is presenting in this issue. The entire argument presented reads: "For the same reasons as stated above, based on K.S.A. 59-2249 and the Foss case, this Court should allow the additional compensation and reimbursement of the executor's fees for Mr. John Petesch for fulfilling his duties as executor of the estate of Lucy Petesch."
We would need to speculate as to what additional compensation and reimbursement John is claiming. Supreme Court Rule 6.02(e) (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 34) requires the appellant to include his or her arguments in his or her brief. See Enlow v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 249 Kan. 732, 744, 822 P.2d 617 (1991). A point incidentally raised but not argued is deemed abandoned. Campbell v. City of Leavenworth, 28 Kan. App. 2d 120, 126, 13 P.3d 917 (2000), rev. denied 270 Kan. ____ (2001). We can proceed no further with this issue.
In arguing his last point, John again relies heavily upon our powers of deduction, if not clairvoyance. His brief cites us to Supreme Court Rule 7.07(b) (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 52): "Appellate courts may award attorney fees for services on appeal in any case in which the trial court had authority to award attorney fees." Then follows the one sentence argument: "Since the trial Court [sic] ordered the attorney's fees to be paid, this Court must allow the attorney's fees that have been incurred on appeal and a separate motion will follow."
John is apparently asserting that we must award attorney fees to an executor who appeals if the trial court awarded attorney fees to the executor for the estate administration. We disagree.
John has not filed this appeal for the benefit of the Lucy Petesch estate. If the appeal is successful, the estate assets available for distribution will be diminished and John will personally receive more money from the estate. Previously, our appellate courts have not directly considered whether an executor may recover attorney fees from the decedent's estate while advocating for the payment of the executor's compensation and expenses. Other jurisdictions have held adversely to John's position. "When litigation is carried on for the benefit of the administrator or executor personally, and not for the benefit of the estate, the costs should be paid by the administrator personally." Edwards v. Lane, 331 Ill. App. 442, 451-52, 163 N.E. 460 (1928); see Matter of Kolouch, 128 Idaho 186, 197-98 (Ct. App. 1996); Succession of Hirt, 612 So. 2d 1054 (La. App. 1993); Oliver v. City of Larimore, 540 N.W.2d 630, 635 (N.D. 1995). We adopt this rule for our state.


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Prized pitchers await Cy Young Award results
Pitching has become the dominant asset in baseball in recent years, with runs down, strikeouts up and some of the biggest stars in the sport seen every five days on the mound.
Pitching has become the dominant asset in baseball in recent years, with runs down, strikeouts up and some of the biggest stars in the sport seen every five days on the mound.
Two of those talented arms will be bestowed with the highest honor in the pitching profession when the Cy Young Award winners for 2013 are revealed Wednesday. The awards for each league, as voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, will be announced on MLB Network at 6 p.m. ET.
The National League finalists include the Marlins' Jose Fernandez, the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw and the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright. In the American League, it's down to the Rangers' Yu Darvish, the Mariners' Hisashi Iwakuma and the Tigers' Max Scherzer.
As pitching continues to take center stage, these arms delivered some consistently dominant work, each contributing a full season of days when his team was happy to have him on the mound -- and the opponent was not.
In the NL, Kershaw is the only finalist who has previously won the award. Having taken top honors in 2011, the 25-year-old left-hander has to be considered a front-runner.
Kershaw posted a Major League-low 1.83 ERA, good for his third straight NL ERA title, and an NL-high 232 strikeouts in helping push the Dodgers back to the postseason. Kershaw was named the NL's Outstanding Pitcher in the Players' Choice Awards last week.
But Fernandez, who Monday was named the NL Rookie of the Year, had an impressive season for a rookie -- or any pitcher. He posted a 2.19 ERA that was second only to Kershaw, and he allowed a Majors-low .182 opponents' batting average.
Wainwright, who has finished second and third in previous Cy Young voting, was the veteran rock of the Cardinals' pitching staff. He had NL highs in wins (19), complete games (five), shutouts (two) and innings pitched (241 1/3).
In the AL, Scherzer started off the season with 13 straight victories to end up 21-3, and he kept up with the AL leaders with a 2.90 ERA for a Tigers team that won the AL Central. Like Kershaw, he was named his league's Outstanding Pitcher by his peers in Players' Choice voting.
Darvish and Iwakuma are two pitchers with outstanding credentials, and they both hope to become the first Cy Young winner born in Japan. Darvish, in his second year after the Rangers signed him as a much-heralded free agent from Japan's Pacific League, led the Majors with 277 strikeouts. Iwakuma was third in the AL with a 2.66 ERA.
The presentation of Cy Young Awards will mark the third of four straight days of BBWAA awards, all televised on MLB Network at 6 p.m. ET through Thursday. This week's awards schedule:
Monday: Rookie of the Year
American League: Wil Myers, Rays. Runner-up: Jose Iglesias, Tigers.
National League: Fernandez, Marlins. Runner-up: Yasiel Puig, Dodgers.
Tuesday: Manager of the Year
American League: Terry Francona, Indians. Runner-up: John Farrell, Red Sox.
National League: Clint Hurdle, Pirates. Runner-up: Don Mattingly, Dodgers.
Wednesday: Cy Young Award
AL finalists: Darvish, Iwakuma, Scherzer.
NL finalists: Fernandez, Kershaw, Wainwright.
Thursday: Most Valuable Player
AL finalists: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers; Chris Davis, Orioles; Mike Trout, Angels.
NL finalists: Paul Goldschmidt, D-backs; Andrew McCutchen, Pirates; Yadier Molina, Cardinals.
John Schlegel is a national reporter for MLB.com.


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Fighting The Power
Danesha Jackson says Black people have no choice at this point. "Yes if a police officer attacks me I am going to defend myself,� she says.... "They are killing our Black men, this is why I feel this way,� she adds.
In the wake of the murder of Sean Bell in a hail of more than 50 police bullets, African Americans are increasingly saying "enough is enough" and many people are talking about taking the law into their own hands in order to defend themselves against police, as evidenced by the angry protests in recent weeks throughout New York City. The Black Star News asked people on 125th Street in Harlem, which is a major barometer of the Black community's views, what people believe: Do African Americans have the right to defend themselves against police brutality, using violence if necessary?
Danesha Jackson says Black people have no choice at this point. "Yes if a police officer attacks me I am going to defend myself," she says. "I will also talk back to them the same way they talk back to me," she adds, referring to the confrontational manner in which police often address Black people. "They are killing our Black men, this is why I feel this way," she adds.
Arleen Williams also feels that Black people have the duty to defend themselves against police brutality. "They stop people for no reason sometimes and assume just because you dress nice that you are a criminal," she says. Why can't Black people with good paying jobs dress decently without raising suspicion, she wonders.
"If police officers were not so rude then there would not be a reason for people to defend themselves," concurs Quintae Washington, also interviewed in Harlem.
Joe Williams, a Harlem resident, has a more measured response. He believes the best thing is to try to prevent a confrontation through dialogue between police and civilians on the street. "Whether it is a Black police officer against a Black civilian or a white police officer against a white civilian no one has the right to use excessive force against anyone," he says.
However, when a civilian tries to make peace with a police officer and yet he ends up being beaten even after obeying the officer's command, then that person has a right to defend himself or herself. Moreover, he blames the police for profiling. "If you've stolen something once in one store and then another store happened to be robbed the previous week then they assume it is related to you."
At the same time, Williams believes young Black men have a responsibility to improve their image in society. "It is important for our male youth to realize that how they dress and how they carry themselves have an impact on how the police officers perceive them," he says, giving an example of gold teeth being associated with drug dealers. "A cop is going to respond to you based on your appearance and that is the reality."
Another commentator on 125th Street, Kamilah Liverman, outright rejects any notion of anyone defending themselves against police. "The law will not protect that person," she says.
The most interesting response comes from Arvell Harris, who is an African American police officer who works in the Harlem area. "We are living in a society within a society, wherein the laws almost give police officers the right to do what they want to do with us," he says.
Harris says he drives a Mercedes Benz and that he's often pulled over by police officers, who assume that every Black person who drives a fancy car is a drug dealer. "The attitudes of some of my fellow officers are a trip," he explains. "When they see that they were wrong for stopping me, instead of apologizing they accuse me of not immediately identifying myself as a police officer."
While Harris does believe that, there is a right of "every citizen to defend themselves when attacked," he adds, "the laws do not support that person once they have retaliated."
However, what also bothers Harris is crime committed within Black communities. "How can you rape, murder, and steal from someone that looks like you?" he asks.
Queen Watesha Allah, who is a teacher at LIU Cultural Center in Harlem, feels that the entire system is stacked against Black folk. "Logically if you are being attacked then you should defend yourself, but the reality is we do not have any rights in this society," she says. It goes beyond police brutality, she notes. Watesha Allah has seen many cases where
a single parent is struggling to pay her bills while ACS keeps threatening to take her
child away.
Moreover, as Blacks lose their homes through gentrification, the family unit is being torn asunder, she says. All these issues combine to weaken Black people's capacity to resist. "They can throw you up against the wall and even if others are witnessing it they cannot do anything because the officer has both a gun and the laws of society to justify his actions."
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