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HELENA, Montana (Reuters) - The Montana Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would allow residents to harvest for food big game animals like deer, elk and moose killed by vehicles.
The Senate voted 28-21 to pass the roadkill salvage bill. It has previously cleared the House, and now goes to Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, who has not yet indicated whether he will sign it.
Under the measure, law-enforcement officers would issue permits for the salvage of deer, elk, moose and antelope struck by vehicles in the state. Currently, road kill is either destroyed or left to rot.
"It seems like a waste," said Representative Bill Lavin, the Republican sponsor of the bill, who is also a Montana Highway Patrolman. "This bill ... would allow me to legally call the food bank or allow somebody else who requests it to take it and use it," he said.
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Lavin had also originally included the likes of fur-bearing animals and game birds in the draft bill, but removed them amid concerns that it might encourage poaching because of the "high value of some of their parts."
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Van Dyk said the Montana Food Bank Network sent him a letter opposing the bill and clarifying the network cannot accept roadkill.
But Lavin noted that the state does not inspect animals killed through hunting. "In Montana, we have a lot of common sense," he said, adding that "it's pretty easy to tell when meat is rotten."
The Montana House of Representatives passed the bill 95-3 in February. Several other U.S. states have some kind of roadkill salvage laws on the books, among them Alaska, Idaho and Illinois.
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Park Dietz: The killing expert who knows too much
Published December 4, 2003, in issue #0248 of The Hook
Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children, cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, the Unabomber, and would-be Presidential assassin John Hinckley all had one thing in common. They were evaluated by Park Dietz.
A former UVA professor, Dietz is one of America's top forensic psychiatrists. But now he finds himself sitting out one of the hottest criminal case of the new century– the "sniper trials." [See sidebar for why.–ed]
Dietz is a prosecutor's dream because his method of forensic evaluation looks for a flaw in the internal logic of the defendant's purported madness, and in that way "proving" that the defendant is sane at least legally.
For example, Andrea Yates was so concerned about Satan's influence on her children that she killed them. But believing in Satan implies believing that there's a difference between good and evil. Therefore, she was legally sane because she could distinguish right from wrong.
Dietz was the original psychiatric profiler for the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI. In the 1980s, he taught in Charlottesville at the law and medical schools just after he was catapulted into national recognition as the prosecution expert in the Hinckley trial.
He took some former FBI profilers and former UVA faculty members to Newport Beach, California, where he has started his own consulting agency– which includes analyzing celebrity fan mail to assess the risk of stalking.
Dietz is, without doubt, an odd, larger-than-life character with a Charlottesville connection, who thanks to a questionable ruling by a judge– now finds himself in the unusual position of sitting out the sniper trials. Because there's still a chance he could be called to consult, he must tiptoe around certain subjects. But in the midst of the sniper trials, Dietz talks to The Hook about high-profile killers, workplace violence, and Andrea Yates.
Q: What led you to become a forensic psychiatrist?
A: One of the experiences in my younger years, which may have influenced this career path, was that I had dealings with a fellow whom I would now regard as a psychopath, or at least the juvenile equivalent. He was the first person I knew to have been expelled from schools repeatedly, the first person to provide hard-core pornography to other teenagers, the first person to sell switchblade knives, and the first person whose rape of a woman I knew caused me to know something of the pain of sexual assault victims. I'm not sure what's become of this fellow, but I think he probably sparked my interest in psychopaths.
Q: What age?
A: I was probably 12 when I first met him, and he must have been something more like 16 or 17.
Q: What was it that intrigued you about him?
A: I think it was both the charm and the allure of the dangerous and the taboo. And, he's somebody I regarded as a friend.
Q: Was that charisma unconscious on his part?
A: I've always thought that this is something of a natural skill that can be used for good or evil. When people have a sufficient degree of charisma, they discover fairly early that they have the ability to influence other people. I've come to regard charm and charisma as warning signs.
Q. So charm can be dangerous?
A: Women should be particularly cautious– there's a lot of sex appeal in charm. The problem is that it comes with a lot of things that women aren't looking for, like violence and deception.
Q: Do you better understand Jeffrey Dahmer and John Hinckley because of your interaction with that young psychopath?
A. If you were to look across a broad range of people who've done terrible things, the two things that you'd find most prevalent would be this trait of psychopathy and the trait of narcissism. These are personality attributes that allow one to either function without conscience, with minimal concern for one' impact on others. It's very hard to do destructive things to other people if one has a conscience– or a high degree of empathy.
Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer.
At the 1992 trial of the man who kept the heads of some of his victims in his freezer, Dietz was quoted as saying, "There was no force pushing him to kill. There was merely a desire to spend more time with the victim." The jury sentenced Dahmer to 15 consecutive life terms, and he was slain in prison two years later.
Q: Many of these people did things which were not only highly destructive but also made a big splash. They were not indifferent to what was thought about them, as a psychopath might be, but, perhaps, like a narcissist, wanted to say to the world, "Hey, look at me."
A: I think that's a primary factor for Hinckley. I think it's a primary factor in the Columbine shootings. I don't think it played any role in Dahmer's crimes. I don't think it plays much role in the average murder.
Q: Is there a sense that any of those people, even Dahmer, took pleasure in inducing terror in their victims, or even in the public at large?
A: Certainly, all sexual sadists thrive on the creation of terror for their victims. That's the primary motive. While it's very common for adolescents to include some minor sadistic elements in their sexuality, like giving a hickey, most adults don't find the infliction of pain or trauma on a victim erotically arousing. Likewise, while most adolescent boys enjoy scaring girls– or the kinds of provocative pranks that would cause someone to shriek– most adults no longer find it entertaining. But some do. Some people have a lifelong desire to terrorize others, to cause fear, to intimidate them, and they do it for a variety of reasons. Probably the most common reason is that they learn that this is a way to influence people and have a degree of power, by intimidating them.
Q: As a forensic psychiatrist, hired by the prosecution, don't you often encounter some kind of rationalization on the part of the defendant of why they did something?
A: Sometimes defendants are very straightforward in saying why. Sometimes they're lying. Sometimes they say they don't know why, and that may be true or false, just like the reasons they give. I think that one can learn more about the truth by looking at how the crime was committed than by asking people why.
Q: Or comparing their explanations of why they did it with your determination of how the crime was committed?
A: Yes, that's actually my method. If their explanation of why they did matches how they did it, I'm more inclined to believe them.
Malvo and Muhammad
Dietz has to sit this one out. Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, seated far left, watches as fellow sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, is identified in court at Muhammad's trial in Virginia Beach in October.
Q: What if they're delusional, and conflicted, and psychotic? Would you expect their account to be internally consistent or consistent with the external evidence?
A: I do expect the account of someone who's psychotic to match what they did. That is, I expect them to behave as though the delusions are true.
Q: Are spree killers or thrill killers doing the same thing as hunters during hunting season, a form of pastime or recreation? Or is it an upheaval in an otherwise normal life?
A: I don't think it's either for spree killers. I think these are fundamentally flawed people who commit a spree when they feel they have little to lose and get themselves armed. A fellow like Charlie Starkweather [the inspiration for the 1973 film Badlands] was not a normal person before he went on a spree.
John Hinckley Jr.
Twenty years ago, Dietz was unable to stop a jury from finding Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan and James Brady, not guilty by reason of insanity. Shown here late last month at U.S. District Court in Washington, psychiatric hospital patient Hinckley is arguing that his improving mental state should make him eligible for unsupervised visits with his parents.
Q: What prompted his spree?
A: He didn't feel that he had much to lose. If he had had good prospects for education, a career, and a girlfriend, he wouldn't have gone on the spree.
Q: Even if he has nothing to lose, what does he have to gain?
A: When somebody has so little to lose, so that it all seems meaningless to them, then they're likely to consider revenge as having considerable value. They may think of suicide as an escape from it all. That's a terrible combination, being suicidal and wanting revenge. That's at the heart of most of the workplace and school mass murders of the last 20 years.
Q: Is there universal lethality in people?
A: I think so, although this is one of the views for which I've been criticized. I think people are born with the inherent ability to be cruel and harmful and destructive and selfish and acquisitive. It's the function of many of the institutions of society to train us out of that.
Theodore Kaczynski.
The so-called "Unabomber" terrorized high-tech professors with a series of mail bombs from 1978 to 1995. After being examined by experts including Dietz, Kaczynski pled guilty on the eve of his 1998 trial and was sentenced to four life terms for killing three men and injuring two others.
Q: Do you see the prosecution of offenders as deterrence to others not to act on their lethal instincts?
A: There surely is a morality play function to criminal trials. Some cases are prosecuted more for that reason than any other. The place where this is highlighted particularly well is in the prosecution of women charged with infanticide, that is, with killing their own children.
Andrea Yates
Last year, after testimony from Dietz, a Texas jury found her guilty but spared her from execution for drowning her five young children in the family bathtub in 2001.
Q: Which of the cases you've had has been the most challenging for you professionally?
A: Undoubtedly Andrea Yates.
Q: What made it challenging– the severity of her mental illness or the severity of the act itself?
A: Neither– what made it challenging for me is that I wished she were insane, but she wasn't, not within the law of Texas. And yet, the reason I wished she were insane is that this was a very good woman before she became ill who was a very sick woman after she became ill. It's a rare combination, of the people that I see, to have someone of good character who is profoundly sick.
Q: But was she sick in the sense that she was unable to distinguish right from wrong?
A: She, despite having nearly incapacitating symptoms of mental illness, nonetheless knew that her actions in killing the children were to be condemned by God and by society, and that they were illegal.
Q: She also thought they were necessary?
A: As she described it to me, the necessity was that if she didn't kill them, Satan might influence them in such a way that one day they would grow up to be criminals or wards of the state or not good people.
Q: So she felt morally compelled?
A: I don't know about "morally compelled," but she believed that their best chance of heaven was to die now, before they were corrupted.
Q: Are you saying that view and the view that it was wrong were inconsistent? Isn't she demonstrating the inconsistency of her delusion?
A: I think it would be fair to say there's an inconsistency between her view that this is morally to the benefit of the children– while legally a crime and something that God would not want. That's an inconsistency. Whether it reflects delusion is another issue. The symptoms of mental illness that she had prior to her arrest largely weren't documented, but I believed her when she told me that prior to her arrest she believed that cartoons and ads were talking to her from TV, and that there were cameras in her house watching her. Those delusions were known only to Andrea and Rusty Yates. They were never revealed to any of the people treating her. Even so, those beliefs don't tie into the decision to kill the children.
Q: How is it that she formed the belief that the children needed to be killed?
A: I don't think she had the belief they needed to be killed. She had the belief that she could feel the presence of Satan, that he was nearby, that he was influencing her, and that Satan wanted her to commit the last of the Seven Deadly Sins, which she mistakenly thought was homicide. It's not among the Deadly Sins, actually.
Q: Okay, so her aim was to do something good, but she was acting under the influence of Satan, and thus indirectly acknowledging that what she was doing was wrong.
A: She also directly acknowledged it by saying, "I knew it was illegal, I knew that God would disapprove, I knew society would disapprove, I knew my husband would disapprove." Let me tell you something that you may not be aware of. In my report, I point out those things consistent with her knowing it was wrong, and those things consistent with her not knowing it was wrong. Likewise, I did so in my testimony and refused to answer the ultimate question [of whether she was "legally insane" under Texas law].
Q: There was a mixed and inconsistent belief system here, regarding that.
A: Yes, and we've seen this in the case of other mentally ill women who've killed their children. I think these are the most difficult cases for that reason.
Q: Did you think that because of the inconsistencies there was malingering involved in this case?
A: Not at all.
Q: So it was a case of line-drawing. That's something that the legal community does, rather than the psychiatric community.
A: That's what I think, though I've certainly taken an abundance of criticism for not having told the lie that everyone wanted to hear.
Q: Which was what?
A: Everyone would like for her to have been found insane– or at least the psychiatric community would have. I think the public was split on it.
Q: What solace does the public take in attributing bad actions to mental illness, as opposed to the exercise of free will? Why is it more comforting to people to think that a mother would do this only if she were mentally ill, than to think that a mother might be able to do it at any point but chooses most of the time not to?
A: That's the heart of the matter. That's all about wanting to distance oneself from the unacceptable impulses that every mother has felt from time to time.
Park Dietz
Park Dietz returned to Charlottesville in September to deliver a lecture, sponsored by the UVA Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy, at the Omni to an audience of forensic evaluators from across Virginia.
Dietz was one of the few who knew too much. You didn't see Dietz on TV last year. Maybe you've never heard of him. Because of maneuvering by the sniper suspects, you may not hear him testify any time soon.
Although he failed in his effort on the part of the prosecution to stop a "not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict in the trial of John Hinckley Jr., the shooting of President Ronald Reagan showcased Dietz nationally for the first time.


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After three days of superb racing in Schull Harbour, the local pairing of Mark Hassett, Baltimore and Liam Manning, Schull won the Fastnet International Schools Regatta sailing a TR3.6 dinghy. With entries from Spain, Italy, USA, Belgium, UK and all over Ireland, it was a truly international event where all crews experienced varying weather conditions throughout the week.
On the first day of sailing excellent conditions prevailed throughout with the Gold Fleet sailing at the mouth of Schull Harbour and a consistent southerly breeze accompanied by bright sunshine.
Race 1 was dominated by Mark Hassett and Liam Manning followed by the all girl crew of Florence Lyden / Anna O'Regan and in 3rd place Gleb Romantchik / Sinead Barnett all from Schull Community College.
The optimist class was a closely fought race with Pablo Parias (Spain) winning from Miguel Durnas (Spain) and in 3rd place Elisabetta Fedelle (Italy).
Race 2 commenced immediately as the wind picked up with the Hassett / Manning crew tightening their grip on proceedings by winning the race again followed by Lyden / O'Regan and the Romantchik / Barnett dinghy again in 3rd place. A change in order was recorded in the Optimist class with Durnas winning Race 2 from Elias Lorenzo and Pablo Parias finishing in 3rd position on this occasion.
The trend continued on Day 2 where Hassett / Manning continued to dominate proceedings by again winning Race number 4. The only blemish on a perfect result to date was being pushed into second place in Race 3 by Aaron Griffin and Caoileinn O'Regan. Second place in Race 4 went to Isaac McCarthy-Fisher / Tolly Franklin, Pierse Ryan and Rosa Lyden, Schull Community College and Rath National School completing the top positions.
The Optimist Class, while challenged by the conditions, completed the courses with Pablo Parias (Spain) winning Race 3 from Elizabette Fedelle (Italy) and Yolanda Padilla (Italy) in third position.
As the afternoon progressed the weather brightened somewhat and the course was lengthened. The TR3.6 of Hassett / Manning led over the course and had clear water over McCarthy-Fisher/Franklin who again, were clear of a tremendous battle for third place.
Lyden and O'Regan eventually broke the deadlock and got clear of the chasing pack and each of the leading boats maintained their position to the finish line. This result gave Hassett/Manning an almost unassailable lead in the overall standing after five races.
The final day of racing was greeted with bright sunshine and a very welcome south-westerly breeze as all fleets sailed for class, fleet and overall honours. The winning duo continued as they had left off and again won Race 6 in decisive fashion from Romantchik /
Barnett and Isaac / Noah McCarthy-Fisher in third place. An additional race was agreed given the excellent conditions and here Lyden / O'Regan took line honours from the McCarthy-Fisher boat and Romantchik / Barnett on this occasion finishing in third position. The Hassett / Manning dinghy had enough done in earlier races to secure the overall victory in class and to take the Fastnet Trophy as overall winners of the event.
The Optimist Class remained very much an international affair with Miguel Durnas (Spain) winning from Pablo Parias (Spain) and Elizabette Fedelle (Italy) in third position. This result ensured overall class win for Pablo Parias.
Silver and Bronze Fleets have always been the target participants in this event and 2013 was no different.
On Day 1 a mixed fleet of dinghies competed in both flights which also included a Topper and Feva RS Class in the Bronze Fleet. Three races were held within the harbour giving crews plenty opportunity to calm any early regatta nerves. The new Feva fleet were to the fore in all three Bronze races with Race 1 being won by James O'Leary and Isobel O'Leary of Aston College / Rockboro School, Cork followed by Marx Legrix and Mark Murphy, Schull Community College / P.B.C., Cork and the Topper of Molly Richardson Egan, County Down in third position. Race 2 saw a change in order with the Legrix / Murphy Feva winning from O'Leary / O'Leary and a further Feva of Caoimhe O'Leary / Culann McCarthy, Aston, Cork / Schull Community College in third place. Race 3 brought little change with Legrix / Murphy winning from Celine Egan, County Down in a Topper followed again by the O'Leary / McCarthy Feva.
Silver Fleet racing was run in conjunction with the Bronze Fleet and here a consistency emerged early in the day with Noah McCarthy-Fisher of Schull Community College winning all three races in an Optimist therefore leaving him clear overnight leader of the fleet. Consistency also prevailed in the runner up position with the TR4.2 of Tolly Franklin / Elysa Curran of Schull Community College repeating the performance of McCarthy-Fisher and lying in second spot. Third position overall was secured by Spaniard Eduardo Marella sailing a Laser while third place race positions went to Jake McConnell, Friends School, County Down in a Topper and Michael Murphy and Gill Murphy, Tipperary in a TR 4.2 were third in Race 1.
Racing for these fleets was cancelled on Wednesday due to winds gusting up to 24 knots however, the deficit was compensated for on Thursday with 3 excellent races.
There was tremendous consistency in the Silver Fleet results in Races 4, 5 and 6 with an identical finishing order in all three races. The winner, Noah McCarthy-Fisher secured the overall Silver Fleet trophy in an Optimist followed by Marc Legrix / Mark Murphy and Jake McConnell, Friends School, Co. Down in a Topper coming in third.
Racing in the Bronze fleet was also very competitive and provided three different winners over the day. Race 4 was won by James & Isobel O'Leary, Ashton / Rockboro in a Feva RS followed by Celine Egan from Co. Down sailing a Topper and Robbie Dwyer / Eoin McGrath, CBC / Douglas Community College in another Feva in third position. The Dwyer / McGrath combination were buoyed by this result and went on to win Race 5 from Caomhe O'Leary and Culann McCarthy, Ashton / Schull Community College again followed by the Egan Topper. Positions were reversed in the sixth and final race with Egan winning from Dwyer / McGrath and the O'Leary Feva doing enough in third place to secure the Bronze Fleet honours overall. After three days sailing, the fleet, class and overall awards were made at the Fastnet Marine & Outdoor Education Centre by Gail McAllister of the Irish Sailing Association.
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By Bart Spreister, Sr. Director, IP Video Systems, Cisco
Today we announced our collaboration with Red Bee Media, an international media management company, to offer broadcasters and media companies the means to provide TV and other kinds of digital media through streaming video players and VOD portals.
That's kind of a mouthful. Allow me break it down into my top three reasons why this is one of the more exciting deals I've had the good fortune to be involved with:
- Red Bee is cool, –plain and simple. Those who hang out on the U.S. side of the Atlantic may not have heard much about Red Bee Media before, so let me explain it this way: Imagine going to another country to hang out with your new colleague, who knows everybody and is doing all the coolest stuff in video. Red Bee is that kind of partner. They're a highly respected TV and media aggregator in Europe, and especially the U.K. For instance, of the five major broadcasters there, Red Bee provides the online portal and client. They're creative and connected and fun, which is a great combination.
- It positions us right where we were aiming, in terms of "cloud" and "client" for online video. In the arrangement, we're providing a "Software as a Service" (SaaS) component, plus a white-labeled "soft client" that Red Bee can brand as they wish for its clients. SaaS is a hosted cloud thing; "soft client" is in essence an online video player.
- It validates our Videoscape plans. If you spend much time with we "Cisco people", chances are that you've heard us mention Videoscape a few times. Videoscape is the integration of cloud, network, and client, so as to deliver a more immersive consumer experience. Our partnership with Red Bee contains all three components.
So, all in, what's the buzz about us and Red Bee? It's that they'll use our Videoscape software suite, to be their online engine. For a video guy eagerly watching the connected device horizon, it's all very exciting!
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I'm interested to know whether people think relegation is healthy for a sport or if the ring-fencing of the top echelon in any sport improves quality? To take League as an example, there's little doubt that the overall quality of the NRL is higher than the ESL, but with it being franchise-based great old names like North Sydney & Western Suburbs have no immediate prospect of a return to the top flight. When the Super League was first proposed over here there was talk of merging several clubs, which the fans violently opposed, even if it meant their club being out of the ESL (Widnes & Hull KR both missed out).
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Alan Pennington, an actuary in Nashville, Tenn., testified that his projections showed that the plan would have paid Rizzo $7.5 million over his lifetime, and Spaccia, who is younger, $8 million.
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Pennington testified that most of his dealings were with Spaccia but that she told him that Rizzo was calling the shots.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- About 6,000 fans of "The Twilight Saga" were treated to a surprise look at the first seven minutes of the final film installment, "Breaking Dawn - Part 2," which hits theaters in November.
Many slept overnight for a chance to attend the panel presentation at Comic-Con on Thursday, which featured appearances by the stars of the vampire-romance series, including Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
A "Twilight" fan who had camped out since Sunday for a chance to attend the panel was killed Tuesday when she was hit by a car while crossing a street near the San Diego Convention Center. Comic-Con's head of marketing addressed the fans gathered in the convention hall to say he was shocked at the woman's death and said, "our heartfelt condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to her family."
The panel's moderator also began by paying tribute to 53-year-old Gisela Gagliardi of New York, saying she "will always live in our hearts and memories."
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Director Bill Condon appeared via video from London, where he is recording the score for the film.
"Everyone knows the phenomenon of 'Twilight' really exploded here (at Comic-Con), and we're all aware, too, this is the last time," he said. "Twilight" first inspired a Beatlemania-style response when the cast of the beloved best-seller was introduced at the annual pop-culture convention four years ago.
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"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" opens Nov. 16. Comic-Con continues through Sunday.


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One of the most efficient ways to run an eBay business is to stock the same item in quantity. After getting some eBay experience under your belt, you're bound to find several items that you're comfortable selling. When you have all these items lying around the garage, your goal is to get them into buyers' hands at a profit.
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Boo! Your Dansk Maribo dinner plate didn't sell. Don't take it personally. It's not that someone out there doesn't love you. It doesn't mean your merchandise is trash. It's just that this particular week, no one was looking for Maribo plates.
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eBay is a supply and demand marketplace. If the supply exceeds the demand, prices go down. If you have an item that sells as fast as you can list it, prices go up.
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eBay gives you many ways to relist an item. The seller's version of a sold item (only the seller sees this when he or she is signed in) includes the Sell a Similar Item link. If you happen to be at the item page, this link will work. The most convenient place to handle relisting will be from your my eBay page.
To sell a similar item, from the my eBay: Sold page, click the More Actions drop-down list next to the listing and choose the Sell Similar option. Now the review step of the Sell an Item form appears. You can make any changes you want — or not!
You can go to the my eBay: Unsold page to relist unsold items for a possible listing-fee credit (in the case of auctions) in the same fashion.


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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti handed in his resignation to the president on Friday shortly after parliament approved the country's 2013 budget, paving the way for early elections on February 24.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti tendered his resignation to the president on Friday after 13 months in office, opening the way to a highly uncertain national election in February.
The former European commissioner, appointed to lead an unelected government to save Italy from financial crisis a year ago, has kept his own political plans a closely guarded secret but he has faced growing pressure to seek a second term.
President Giorgio Napolitano is expected to dissolve parliament in the next few days and has already indicated that the most likely date for the election is Feb. 24.
In an unexpected move, Napolitano said he would hold consultations with political leaders from all the main parties on Saturday to discuss the next steps. In the meantime Monti will continue in a caretaker capacity.
European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso have called for Monti's economic reform agenda to continue but Italy's two main parties have said he should stay out of the race.
Monti, who handed in his resignation during a brief meeting at the presidential palace shortly after parliament approved his government's 2013 budget, will hold a news conference on Sunday at which he is expected clarify his intentions.
Ordinary Italians are weary of repeated tax hikes and spending cuts and opinion polls offer little evidence that they are ready to give Monti a second term. A survey this week showed 61 percent saying he should not stand.
Whether he runs or not, his legacy will loom over an election which will be fought out over the painful measures he has introduced to try to rein in Italy's huge public debt and revive its stagnant economy.
His resignation came a couple of months before the end of his term, after his technocrat government lost the support of Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party in parliament earlier this month.
Speculation is swirling over Monti's next moves. These could include outlining policy recommendations, endorsing a centrist alliance committed to his reform agenda or even standing as a candidate in the election himself.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) has held a strong lead in the polls for months but a centrist alliance led by Monti could gain enough support in the Senate to force the PD to seek a coalition deal which could help shape the economic agenda.
Berlusconi in the wings
Senior figures from the alliance, including both the UDC party, which is close to the Roman Catholic Church, and a new group founded by Ferrari sports car chairman Luca di Montezemolo, have been hoping to gain Monti's backing.
He has not said clearly whether he intends to run, but he has dropped heavy hints he will continue to push a reform agenda that has the backing of both Italy's business community and its European partners.
The PD has promised to stick to the deficit reduction targets Monti has agreed with the European Union and says it will maintain the broad course he has set while putting more emphasis on reviving growth.
Berlusconi's return to the political arena has added to the already considerable uncertainty about the centre-right's intentions and increased the likelihood of a messy and potentially bitter election campaign.
The billionaire media tycoon has fluctuated between attacking the government's "Germano-centric" austerity policies and promising to stand aside if Monti agrees to lead the centre right, but now appears to have settled on an anti-Monti line.
He has pledged to cut taxes and scrap a hated housing tax which Monti imposed. He has also sounded a stridently anti-German line which has at times echoed the tone of the populist 5-Star Movement headed by maverick comic Beppe Grillo.
The PD and the PDL, both of which supported Monti's technocrat government in parliament, have made it clear they would not be happy if he ran against them and there have been foretastes of the kind of attacks he can expect.
Former centre-left prime minister Massimo D'Alema said in an interview last week that it would be "morally questionable" for Monti to run against the PD, which backed all of his reforms and which has pledged to maintain his pledges to European partners.
Berlusconi who has mounted an intensive media campaign in the past few days, echoed that criticism this week, saying Monti risked losing the credibility he has won over the past year and becoming a "little political figure".


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A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard.
Holler House owner Marcy Skowronski said she and some of her friends started the tradition 45 years ago, when they had a few drinks and threw their bras onto skis hanging from the bar's ceiling.
They've amassed dozens of all sizes and colors over the years, even replacing old bras with new ones at the bar's 100th anniversary five years ago. Many times people sign and date the bras or leave notes on them.
But an inspector that visited in April apparently wasn't as accepting of the tradition. She said the bras were a fire hazard and Skowronski needed to take them down.
"They've been hanging there for 45 years," Skowronski said Friday. "I had inspectors here for 45 years. Every year they come and nobody's said anything."
The 87-year-old great-grandmother, who has worked at the bar for 59 years, went to the city Tuesday to appeal but missed the deadline. So her son-in-law took the bras down for fear they would get a fine, which according to the official inspection order can run from $150 to $10,000 a day.
Taking the bras down made Skowronski even more frustrated. She called a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist, hoping publicity would help, and her alderman, Bob Donovan. Donovan made some calls, and within a day the city backed down.
"Long story short, common sense prevailed and the city backed down," Donovan said.
"We're going to have a rehang the bras party over there and perhaps charge at the door," he added. "And any money we are able to bring in, the proceeds will go to buying a little common sense for the Department of Neighborhood Services."
Besides the bras, the bar started by Skowronski's in-laws in 1908 is also known for its two downstairs bowling alleys, which are the oldest certified in America according to its sign.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.