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Preventing crime? U.S. attorney not just prosecutin'
Apparently there's a lot of money in federal grants for crime prevention floating out there, and U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy's boss thinks it makes more sense to prevent crimes rather than just prosecute them. That's why Heaphy has a new hire to help funnel federal grants into organizations that keep people out of the courtroom and the jails.
"Federal prosecutors should be community problem solvers, not just case processors," said Heaphy in a July 23 press conference, repeating the instructions of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from a recent meeting in New Orleans.
And with Holder's backing, Heaphy has hired former Roanoke city councilor Gwen Mason to be the community outreach coordinator for the massive western district of Virginia in what Heaphy calls a "trail-blazing" program.
Mason's job is to tap into federal grants to stop the big three of drugs, gangs and guns. "I can see her in the coalfields–- in a community struggling with methamphetamine addiction," says Heaphy.
Heaphy acknowledges that Charlottesville has a wealth of groups dedicated to crime prevention.
"Redundancy is a problem here," he says. "It's not in other areas."
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Remember Dems " It's the economy stup**"
On paper this sounds like an excellent idea, but now ? The Democrats would be well advised to put all their time, money and energy into job creation. Efforts such as this, although worthwhile, and needed, are for times when governments are not running huge deficits and people are not on the warpath, in the party out of power, to curb government spending.
@NancyDrew: Don't like to lose elections? Better get used to it. Folks with at least room temperature IQ aren't going to be buying the snake oil Obama/Pelosi/Reid have been peddling. Screaming "Racist!" and blaming Bush aren't going to cut it anymore. Americans won't be fooled again. Hope and change....what a crock.
Hefty salary, but bet not equal to the recent city officials of Bell Californis-sorry off topic, just couldn't resist. This has set a new standard for government job compensation.
nancydrew, you're saying the attorney general and the us attorney shouldn't be involved in crime prevention? They are federal law enforcement? How could anyone say that fewer crimes are bad?
Stop being so blindly partisan and think before you post.
Disclaimer, I am a liberal democrat, just don't like to lose elections. Jobs, jobs, jobs --for now !
It would be interesting to know the relationship between Gwen Mason and Tim Heaphy. Old friends? Relatives? Other? Was the job advertised before being filled with the "best applicant?" How many applicants applied? Were there any pre-employment interviews? What were the applicant's qualificatons?
And before the Gasbag Fan Club gets wound up tight, I am not interested in the job. I am most likely not qualified for the job. But I have a real bad taste in my mouth from watching all the friends and family hired in local government to fill magical high paying positions. I suspect this position carries a hefty "salary" with it too. I would like to know the best applicant was hired rather than just a friend or family.
Awesome - this is going to get the wingnuts and tea partiers to dig deep inside their subconscious to discover a whole new level of bats*** crazy! Will somebody PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE alert Bachmann and Palin?!?!?!?
Arlen, crawl back into your cave. I'm sure bin Laden's already missing you - probably gazing at a tear-stained picture of you as you're read this. The two of you are a perfect pair, women-haters that you are.
(Well, who says you're the only one who can bring in a totally irrelevant bit of bigoted slander?)
@realist, believe you are right, not for the reasons given, but it's the economy stu*** . Just wish Americans would smarten up and think long term, history repeats itself, and once the Republicans are back in power we'll see de-regulation and tax breaks for the wealthy, and the disappearing middle class, who voted them in, will ask -how did this happen, I'm worse off now than ever before.
Democracy cannot survive without the middle class, that is the danger we are facing.
So sad, that we point at that group and point at the other and blame, blame, blame.. let's take this into our own hands and please read what your specific congressperson has done. If you don't like it, vote them out. The longer we keep the folks who have been in forever in their comfy little seats in DC the longer we have to deal with them. Get Out And Vote !!!
One way to save money would be for the Commnwealth Attornys to stop charging everybody with felonies and rolling them back just so they can get paid their "commission" from the state budget.
It costs the taxpayers money and is unfair to people who should only be charged with a misdemeanor anyway.
This policy turns people into criminals because it gets them too involved in the system.
Prosecuters should not be paid on commision.
well they are starting off well by keeping Morgan Harrington's killer(s) out of jail. nice work, Virginia. the first state to face deportation out of the United States should be ... you guessed it: Virginia.
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Saint-Gobain North America wanted to provide a consistent level of service to its internal businesses utilizing its existing internal staff while adding a trusted third party.
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Happy New Year Los Angeles improv teams and students!!! Contact me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
I've updated my information on ImprovCoaches.com for full details visit: http://losangeles.improvcoaches.com/coa ... hristenson
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I have a very open schedule for coaching and flexible to changes on posted availability.
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Zusterke strikes again! This time, he delves into numbers to discuss that basic Priest talent: Inspiration.
Inspiration is a welcome tool, whether you're making art or healing the tank. Most combat parsers check the uptime of this buff, showing the value of this talent. Sadly logs do not tell us how inspiration evolves with respect to crit and how we can manipulate our healing to work with inspiration. That needs to worked out differently, with pretty colors and graphics.
Inspiration uptime
"Theory"! Ha! Scared you, didn't I? Due to heavy reader loss last time I wrote a guest post, I promised I'd stop aiming my theory at the readers and put the loaded math down. Still, for sake of completion I present the formula for inspiration uptime. The credit for this formula goes to Dagma at PlusHeal for he taught me both formula and its proof. The faint of hearth are invited to close their eyes for a second, it will not be pretty.
Hits denotes the amount of (inspiration able) heals within the buff's duration that we cast on the target. C denotes critical strike chance.
You may open your eyes again. We have 2 things that effect our chance to proc inspiration: critical strike chance and the amount of spells we cast on the target. This pretty rainbow below shows us by how much. Sadly, there is no pot of gold at the bottom end of this rainbow, only rotten potatoes for that's where our inspiration ends.
Each line corresponds to an amount of heals on our target. Crit quickly boosts our inspiration uptime and as little as 20% gives a good uptime for spammy scenarios. For 25% crit we obtain 90% uptime when healing the target 8 times or more within 15 seconds. That's easy with FHeal and/or penance, our tankhealing tools. Higher crit gives better uptimes, but the benefit from crit diminishes. The difference between 30% and 35% crit is only noticable if we heal the target less frequently. Beyond 35%, the benefit of crit is very low.
A grain of salt for these potatoes
I love theor.. eh.. rainbows but it isn't 100% reliable. Critical heals are still random. The numbers above give 'expected values' but in practice your buff time could differ a little. Still, the more crit we have, the more reliable our inspiration becomes.
Another factor that effects our outcome is how you heal. The formula assumes that our heals are equally spread over time. In-game, this is rarely the case. This could influence your uptime both in a positive and negative sense. While the numbers above remain good indications, they are not 100% on the spot.
Counting on Inspiration
Tankhealers are seldom confronted with this question… but support healers or OT healers might: how often do you need to heal your target to proc inspiration? The answer for pessimists is "infinitely many times". For all optimists out there, we can work out your chance to proc inspiration depending on how often you heal the target. *crushes door* Here's theory! While I would enjoy a reign of math terror, you are spared another formula. The chance to proc inspiration, depending crit and your number of attempts, can be calculated with exactly the same formula as above. Consequently, the same rainbow shows you how reliable your chances are to proc inspiration and we can draw the same conclusions.
Inspiration and Surge of Light
Surge of Light offers a free flash heal, but one that cannot crit. For our global inspiration uptime, it could be noted that SoL has a negative impact. But if we check the graph above, we can see that 1 heal less does not greatly affect our uptime. What's more: in tankhealing scenarios it is likely to be a proc from a critheal on our tank. It would thus be the same heal that resets the inspiration timer and we should have about 15s time to 'use' that FHeal and cast more spells on our tank.
While I doubt the lack of inspiration or the gain of SoL has ever caused a wipe, there is a small risk that SoL procs from PoM or CoH that crits on a player, other than your target. In the (inconceivable) case that this proc would hinder your healing, a holy priest could use Binding Heal on the target as work around. But I have rarely been in a position where this would make a difference.
TLDR, aka the conclusion
For inspiration we note that 20% crit is sufficient to provide a reliable inspiration uptime in a tankheal scenario. More crit is welcome as it gives more freedom of how often we need to heal the tank but there is a diminishing return. At 30% crit, this diminishing return becomes strong and beyond 35% crit it weighs heavily. These numbers are raidbuffed. They should be taken with a grain of salt, so adding or dropping 1% won't make a tremendous difference. If I remember correctly Jov always promoted 20% crit as minimum for holy priests. I guess I just added a piece of the proof she's right. (and I'll probably never hear the end of it) [You just said my two favorite words: Jov's right. Of course you'll never hear the end of it! -ed.]


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Almost there…
Just a little bit longer…
Hang on, Natalie. Imagine how much sweeter your terrible, cheap, back-pain-inducing mattress will feel if you make it.
And then sleep 'til Monday. Wake up and then PARTY FOREVER BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL ALWAYS BE GOOD FROM THAT POINT ON WITH NOTHING BAD EVER AGAIN.
I think I might be just about all used up in terms of things to talk about, or things I'm actually capable of talking about in my present state.
I wish there was some kind of grand, awesome, sweeping, thematically-unifying thing I could think of to write here, to somehow tie it all together, but I'm sorry, I just don't have that. I barely even remember what exactly I've written about.
There's a not insignificant chance I'll want to just delete it all when I finally wake up.
I have talked about a lot of personal things. Details of my life. "My story". Things I haven't ever openly talked about before, and I was never quite sure I wanted to ever talk about. Things I'm not so sure it was a good idea to have finally gotten into.
The thing is, I really don't trust the "story" approach. I don't trust how people clamour for them. I don't trust how everyone seems to believe that our stories and histories are owed, that they belong to some collective effort to comprehend us and what we are… an effort that positions us as alien to the "shared" culture.
It often seems like, perhaps uniquely, perhaps not so much, that trans people are reminded of our "place" through the medium of questions. People want to know the details of our bodies, our genitals, our medical history, our relationships to family and friends, what medications we're taking, our sex lives, our birth names, how we "knew", etc. etc. etc. People feel totally secure in spontaneously asking us what we think of Random Trans Celebrity X. Demanding our take on Hypothetical Question Y. Insisting we provide clarifications on Thing That They've Wondering About Z.
It ends up creating this sense that our lives, thoughts, feelings, who we are… it doesn't really belong to us. Does it? If they're to tolerate our presence, we owe them in exchange that we gladly entertain their fascination, curiosity.
What power dynamic does that suggest?
But it can always be so politely suggested. We're just trying to understand. It's interesting that the exchange is actually EXPLICIT in that framework. "If you expect us to tolerate you, you should answer our questions."
Our existence and rights both become information-commodity.
Who has the intellectual property rights to the life I've led?
What am I willing to exchange knowledge of those experiences for, and why? What does it mean when our human rights are dependent on an exchange, rather than an assumed given, something we're owed regardless of what we may or may not offer to the society that grants or withholds them?
But in withholding the information… in being scared of those dynamics… in wanting to keep my story and experiences my own… what is that suggesting?
Sometimes the best way to resist commodification is to offer something freely. Gift economies can be a wonderful answer.
I don't know who I'm exactly I'm giving this information to, or what it will result in. I don't think I divulged any of it for my own sake. But I do know that withholding it felt proprietary, and I'm not sure that was the most comfortable relationship to have to those experiences. In making them open and available, at least the possibility of them benefiting someone enters into things. I know holding onto them wasn't really benefiting me at all.
My story didn't do me any good, but maybe someone else will be able read something there.


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Video: Farming Geoducks in the Pacific Northwest
Ever heard of geoducks? First of all, they're pronounced gooey-ducks. The prehistoric-looking and, well, pretty ugly shellfish, are native to the Pacific Northwest and fascinating creatures. Though tough to raise (it involves hours of hunched-over farming), they've been called the prime rib of clams. Liza de Guia tried some for the first time on her recent trip to Washington state.
"I can honestly say as a seafood lover I felt like I had been missing out my whole life. I tried geoduck sashimi, geoduck fritters, geoduck in chowder and geoduck ceviche." She visited Taylor Shellfish's geoduck farm on Stretch Island in Puget Sound, the largest growers in the Northwest, in this episode of Food Curated. Watch the video to learn more about geoducks.
Farming Geoducks in the Pacific Northwest
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text: We're sick of watching our would-be commanders in chief descend into mean-spirited wrangling, so early into this presidential election year. If only they could take their cue from our greatest presidents. Like Lex Luthor in the Superman comics. Or Sylar on Heroes, who got to be POTUS in an alternate future. Now those were some presidents we could all salute. Which science fiction villain would win your vote for president of these great United States?


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Space portals: fact or fiction?
According to NASA, a researcher at the University of Iowa says portals, long a favorite of science fiction, actually are real.
Jack Scudder, a plasma physicist who made the portal discovery, explains:
"We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions. They're places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."
Using observations from NASA's THEMIS space weather satellites and Europe's Cluster operations, Scudder concluded that these magnetic portals, located tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth, open and close at intervals. They provide a through-way for energy from the Sun to cause geomagnetic storms, heat the upper-atmosphere, and even cause dramatic light shows known as auroras.
NASA will launch a mission in 2014 to observe the portals. Watch the video from NASA for more of the science behind the science-fiction-gone-fact.
Just like "Star Trek," right?


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August 28, 2014
City News Service
Board of Equalization Chairman Jerome E. Horton recently announced that BOE-sponsored legislation to counter California's large-scale counterfeit goods suppliers is one step away from becoming law. Assembly Bill 2681 is on its way to the governor's desk, after the Senate voted it out on August 19.
"Leveraging both state and federal laws that allow for the prosecution of criminal bosses trafficking in counterfeit goods, this measure empowers the BOE to investigate wholesalers of counterfeit goods who distribute illegal products including contraband medicine, electronics, and construction products," said Horton. "We estimate that California is losing $8.5 billion in tax revenue to criminals operating in the underworld, and Governor Brown's signature on this bill will provide us another tool to help recapture the hidden revenues."
If AB 2681 is signed, it will enable the state to impose sales tax on those convicted of trafficking in counterfeit goods at the wholesale level. Under current law, suppliers of counterfeit goods are able to avoid paying sales tax, claiming their items are being sold to retailers who are then charged with collecting and paying taxes on sales to the BOE. This legislation will make convicted criminals at any level of the distribution chain liable for the sales tax.


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Then in 1994 the computer entered my life.
The contradiction between limitation on the one hand, unlimited freedom and no physical borders on the other hand, created new impulses and insights to explore the possibilities of the medium. My fascination for this platform was born.
I have travelled a long way obtaining the necessary technical skills,studying and experiecing the do's and the don;ts, preparing and presenting concepts of visual artists for the web. It has now become the art form for myself to express and to tell my story.
The images, the words, the colours, the sounds, the motions, they're all ready there. It is like a palet with paint, a keyboard characters,covered with jpg., gif, wave, MP3,mov., doc. and other files. They're at my disposition and I will put them in a new, different context. They form the remains of my travels trough my mind, the virtual world, the real world and life.
Marjan van Mourik (1958) studied art-history and multimedia.
The DIGITAL ART WEEKS
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The DIGITAL ART WEEKS
Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday 12th to Saturday 15th July, 2006
The Digital Art Weeks PROGRAM (DAW06) is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting again this year of symposium, workshops and performances, the program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of the application of technology in the arts.
[Kon.[Text]], this year's Digital Art Weeks SYMPOSIUM focuses on the Performative Surround in the arts and the technology that drives it. The Performative Surround pertains to the immersive quality and quantity of the setting of a performative artwork that employs electronic media enhancement to communicate in part or in whole its message to the viewer, who is therewith integrated into the performative arena by the communicative powers of the applied media. In a series of lectures, demonstrations and panels, artists and researcher will examine the use of electronic media in articulating the performer's presence through the possibilities of the multi-sensuality of electronic media. The possibilities of blurring the divide between public and performer to bond them through the powers of dissemination and inclusion inherent within the technology behind the performative surround will also be considered as well as how communication between both performer and public can be interactively networked in real time through various forms of computer enhanced dialoging.
To draw a parallel between the symposium's title [Kon.[Text]] and the phrase "in the body of the text" in terms how both performer and public are virtually networked by the expansion of the real into virtual, issues in media enhanced performance and its ...
C5@ZeroOne_San Jose: C5 Quest for Success
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The C5 Quest for Success Call for Participants Enter to play the C5 Quest for Success during the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA 2006 Symposium August 9-12, 2006 http://www.c5corp.com
The C5 Quest for Success is an invited project for ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. The ZeroOne San Jose Festival will transform San Jose into the North American epicenter of art and digital culture from August 7th to the 13th, showcasing the world's most innovative contemporary artists. http://01sj.org
Quest for Success is curatorial selection as urban game, testing competitors¹ analysis, management, and cooperative decision making skills - traits needed for success in Silicon Valley. The grand prize is a six to twelve week residency at the Montalvo Arts Center co-sponsored with C5 and a Silicon Valley corporate partner - a great opportunity for the right player with the right project pitch. Contestants navigate the streets of San Jose exploring GPS controlled narratives in an attempt to locate the C5 Corporate Limo. Once there, you just might have the opportunity to pitch your proposal to a panel of distinguished experts. A single winner from each evening's competition then advances to the final round on Saturday, August 12th. Three finalists representing TALK, DEMO, PERFORM 'present' their pitch live on-stage to an audience of thousands during the ZeroOne San Jose culminating celebration.
Does the smell of gasoline and oil perk you up like caffeine? Do lat and long coordinates make your heart sing? Then apply for a chance to win the Montalvo Arts Center C5 artist residency. Six to twelve weeks in picturesque Saratoga, California, working on the project of your dreams with the assistance of one of Silicon Valley¹s corporate powerhouses. Does mapping make you giddy? Does your imagination swell ...
Beijing Accelerator
Marnix de Nijs is one of my favourite artists. His works are non-pretentious and understandable by anyone. Some of them seem to be inspired by playground attractions (run, motherfucker, run), others that explore our relationships with machines are uncannily compelling (Spatial Sounds or Push/Pull)
Beijing Accelerator clearly belongs to the recreation ground. The inspiration for it came when the artist was visiting Beijing, and realized how quickly the dynamics of a city could transform into such apparent modernism. Similar to an earlier prototype, Panoramic Accelerator, it explores the effects of a tempo-driven society on the individual, this new version has an enhanced cinematographic experience as well as a superior interface.
The participant takes position in a racing-chair on a motorized structure equipped with a joystick. While the participant controls both the direction and speed of the chair, rotating panoramic images are projected on the 160x120 cm screen in front of him/her. The aim is to synchronize the moving image with the rotation of the chair in order to view the images properly and block the disorientation associated with the uncoordinated spinning. If the user cannot synchronize the speed of the chair with the images his balance system will send different information to the brain then the eyes do, causing an intense feeling of discontrol and can eventually lead to nausea.
The target square in the top panoramic image needs to be matched with the same position shown on the magnified image below. As soon as this is achieved the images �¢ï¿½ï¿½snap into place�¢ï¿½ï¿½ and rotate in sync with the participants movement. After a short period of time however, a new rotating-panorama appears with a higher preset speed. This is determined as the next level (there are ...
'Brainmirror' by Adam Somlai-Fischer(hu) Bengt Sjölén(se) and Danil Lundbäck(se)
BrainMirror is an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head movement as an interface to explore volumetric visuals of the human brain. Designed and built by 3 independent artist and technologist, putting our skills together we aimed for creating an interface that works without learning for all age groups, and fosters communal interaction, interaction among the different visitors.
Jonathan Schipper
"Attempt at an Invisible Sphere," a globe made from 215 cameras and screens, was our first introduction to Jonathan Schipper's work. When we had the chance to visit the Brooklyn-based artist in his studio recently, we got to check out more of the "mechanical paradoxes" that make up Schipper's ouevre and watch him tinker on his latest undertaking, an animatronic sculpture set in motion by a player piano reel of Slayer's "Raining Blood." The piece debuted in a group show that opened last Friday, 23 June 2006, called "Factitious" at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery, and will run through 31 July 2006.
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(The Root) —
"I read something about a woman who was dating a guy for six months and he didn't introduce her when they ran into people. It got me thinking — does it matter if your boyfriend introduces you like 'This is Gina' instead of saying, 'This is my girlfriend, Gina'? Does saying 'girlfriend' first mean anything more than just saying the name?" —C.W.
I'll probably tick off a lot of people and upset a lot of "relationships" by saying this, but yes, it means something more. It changes the way you are treated and perceived; a title or lack thereof is one indicator about the seriousness of the relationship.
Over the weekend, I attended a birthday celebration for a friend of my parents. It was a grand event with lots of people they didn't know. We all had the honoree in common, so it made it easy to mingle. Without fail, everyone we met introduced themselves and whoever they were with as, "my wife, Gina," "my husband, Martin" or "my daughter Ashley."
There's a reason for that. Not only does it establish the relationship, but it also gives a cue as to how you should respectfully proceed in engaging each of the parties.
"This is Gina" tells the person that you're being introduced by nothing but your name. Gina could be a co-worker or a random woman he just met, and she could be fair game to approach about a date. It's unclear and can make for awkward situations.
"My wife, so-and-so, or "my girlfriend" — that is, claiming someone — lets the person you're speaking to know that there is a relationship in place and what kind. The title used denotes the importance of the relationship. Titles are also subtle signals that say, "Hands off. She's taken. Do not approach."
Our group has been introduced to various women over the years — so many that we've lost count. He introduces them as "This is Gina" or even, like the guy you referred to, not at all, which, frankly, is just poor manners, likely combined with a lack of any real interest. We all note when there is no title or no introduction, so we engage in minimal small talk to be polite. The unspoken assumption, however, is that he's not serious about this one and she'll be replaced soon enough, so there's no sense in getting to know her too well or making a big to-do. She's a date for the evening. Maybe we'll see her again, but likely not.
At this very swank affair, my friend arrived with a woman I'd never seen before, which was expected. Usually my interactions with him include some sort of teasing about him soon running out of women in New York's tristate area to date. He knows this and I know this. And that is why promptly, upon spotting me, he came over with his lady beside him and said, "D, this is my girlfriend, Gina."
This required a new approach. "Gina! It's so nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you," I lied (about the last part) while going in for a hug. I was headed to the bar and invited "Gina" to go with me to keep her company while her man took her coat to be checked. I bothered to get to know her and her details. The title said that she was special, so she was treated as such.
And not just by me. Everyone made a fuss to make sure she felt welcome. Her title as "girlfriend" meant that she was an extension of our friend and not another random woman he was bringing around, like all of the others.
Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root, a life coach and the author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She answers your dating and relationship questions on The Root each week. Feel free to ask anything at email@example.com.


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Yesterday, we reported the sad news that Joe Carnahan's pitch for the reboot of Daredevil failed to gain any traction at Fox. As if to make us even more disappointed, Carnahan took the sizzle reel he made to convince Fox execs and posted it online so we could get a better idea of how cool his take would have been. We're not seeing any period-piece superhero movies, and Daredevil would have fit in nicely with the 1970s.
As we've seen from his tweets and posting of the sizzle reel, Carnahan has no problem keeping people updated about what he's working on. With that in mind, he called in to The Radio Dan Show to talk about why he was interested in Daredevil, and why the project didn't get off the ground (the rights will likely now revert to Marvel Studios). He also talks about his upcoming remake of Death Wish, when it will take place, its similarity to the original, and more. Hit the jump for what Carnahan had to say about these projects.
Speaking to The Radio Dan Show, here's what Carnahan had to say about why he found appealing about Daredevil, and why Fox probably passed on his take:
I was brought in pretty late in the game, and my take probably didn't help matters since they had an existing script. But I just thought that if you were going to do it, this was the way to go. This is the way that intrigued me… It was initially something I passed on because Christopher Nolan had done such a lovely job with Batman and unless you're going to go after that trilogy, then that's how you have to think. You can't out-hurdle that, then what's the point of trying? So it set the bar extraordinarily high, and I thought 'Well, if we're going to do this, let's have a discussion about Hell's Kitchen, and how it was really Hell's Kitchen in the 70s," so that got me really excited. But as I mentioned, the clock ticking and this kind of October drop-dead date, it wasn't tenable. And having gone down this road in the past when you're trying to write something and shoot it at the same time is disastrous, and I think you'd need an adequate amount of time to put that script together in the right way. My brother [Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom)] was interested in writing it with me, so we'll see.
He also mentioned about why he wanted his Daredevil movie to take place in the 1970s.
As I'm finishing my kind of reimagining of Death Wish, I think the 70s is figuring into my conscious and subconscious mind right now. I think it was the last time music and movies were just tremendous. We just cranked out some great stuff. I think that's why the sizzle reel is able to be kind of abstract because people have such great fondness in their hearts for that decade, particularly the early part of that decade. I'm excited; you know the idea of having Daredevil on top of a building somewhere with the Serpico marquee in the background was enough, that image was enough, for me to want to make the movie.
The Radio Dan Show also asked about the current status of his Death Wish remake:
JOE CARNAHAN: I'm winding it down. I haven't really talked about this at length, but I'm getting to the end, and I'm extremely pleased with the way it's shaping up. The movie business is a tricky business, it has its flows and it drops precipitously, so you just don't know. We're in very uncertain times, so that's why a movie like Daredevil and Death Wish resonate because it's current. It reminds us of the time when this country was on its ear. We were losing a war, and the President who was disgraced, and no body trusted anybody. And I think that's where we're at right now.
Is Death Wish taking place in the 70s as you have it?
CARNAHAN: It will feel like it's taking place in the 70s. Let's put it that way. In the same way that in No Country for Old Men, there's really only one reference to it being 1980. Hopefully it will feel like that. I don't want it to be so specific you can pinpoint it to a time like 2012 or 2013. That will certainly be a challenge. And it's also portraying L.A. as a walking city, which we've kind of never done. To treat it was the same sprawl that New York was treated in the first film.
How long before you start shooting?
CARNAHAN: I don't know. I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, "What the hell is this?" I'm not trying to turn a Dostoyevsky, this tome of thousand of pages, but it's probably bigger than it needs to be right now, so I have to do a little editorializing, a little finessing. But the action is there. It's short and ugly and violent, but it's characters I'm interested in. The simplicity of violence versus the complexity of vengeance is what that movie's about.
How much are you looking back at the original version of Death Wish?
CARNAHAN: I'm not. I thought it was important to have my own ideas and let that idea inspire the story. I think you get into trouble when you start having to get too—his name is Paul Kersey, I'm not going to change that—but I've changed some other things, but beyond that are spoilers that I shan't be revealing at this time. I think everybody's going to be pleased.


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William Charles Zeigler, a resident of Berrien County, GA, was among the victims of the Otranto tragedy in the closing days of World War I.
William C. Zeigler grew up in Lowndes and Berrien county Georgia. It appears that he had a difficult boyhood. He was a son of Jesse William "Jake" Zeigler and Lula Tyson, born October 25, 1889 at Blanton, Lowndes County, GA. His mother suffered from mental illness and allegedly mentally and physically abused his father before abandoning the family.
For the 1900 Census, the family was enumerated in Berrien County, GA in the 1487 Georgia Militia District, the Sparks district. William was then ten years old .
Although court testimony later assert that Lula Tyson Zeigler was institutionalized about 1898, it appears from the census records that she was still with her family in 1900 and was sent to the Georgia State Sanitarium at Milledgeville, GA shortly thereafter.
After the institutionalization of his mother, William C. Zeigler continued to live with his father and siblings near Lenox in Berrien County. They were enumerated at Lenox, GA in the Census of 1910. Lenox is situated about 7 miles north of Sparks, GA on the route of the Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad.
At the time of the draft for World War I, William Charlie Zeigler was 27 years old. He gave his home address as Sparks, GA,. He was still unmarried and listed his occupation as farming in the employment of his father. He registered for the draft for WWI on June 5, 1917. His physical description was medium height, slender build, with grey eyes and light hair.
On July 16, 1918 William Charlie Zeigler was inducted into the Army, along with other Berrien county men at Nashville, GA.
The men boarded a train at Nashville, GA. William C. Zeigler along with Early Stewart, Benjamin F. McCranie, Jim Melvin Boyett, John Guy Coppage, Shelley L. Webb, Hiram Marcus Bennett, Lafayett Gaskins, Ralph Knight, James Grady Wright, James M. Deloach and other men of Berrien County were bound for training camp at Fort Screven, GA.
Colonel Archibald Campbell confirmed the arrival of the men at Ft. Screven, GA on July 19, 1918. Fort Screven, on Tybee Island, GA was a part of the U.S. Atlantic coastal defense system and served as a training camp. The fort's six batteries of coastal artillery defended the port of Savannah, GA.
After training, the men were sent to the Port of Embarkation at Hoboken, N.J. The Embarkation Service reported the steamship Otranto sailed for England from New York, N.Y. on September 25, 1918 at 12:40 P.M. with 699 military passengers, including the men and officers from Fort Screven, GA.
But the troop ship Otranto went down on October 6, 1918 off the coast of Islay, Scotland after a collision with the SS Kashmir. The Army could not immediately produce a list of the soldiers who were on board. It was not until October 18, that a passenger list for the Otranto was finally cabled to General Harbord in Europe. The name of Zeigler, William C. 2595855 Pvt. was on the list.
Ray City and Berrien County, GA paid a heavy toll in the disaster. Among the hundreds of Otranto dead were dozens of soldiers from Berrien. For weeks news of the disaster trickled into American newspapers. Facts were sketchy at best – In some cases, soldiers who perished in the sinking were incorrectly reported as survivors. It would nearly two months before the names of the lost were known to the folks at home…
A number of soldiers, including James Deloach were rescued by the heroic efforts of the HMS Mounsey, first to arrive on the scene. Many others went into the sea and were lost forever. Only a slim few who went into the water survived the swim to the Isle of Islay, Scotland. The bodies of 489 soldiers washed up on the coast where the ship went down.
William C. Zeigler, of Berrien County, GA was among the dead recovered at Islay. He and the other American dead from the Otranto were buried in the little churchyard at Kilchoman in wide graves accommodating twenty bodies each.
William C. Zeigler and the other Otranto victims lay in the Bivouac of the Dead at Islay for nearly two years. In June 1920, the Graves Registration Service made the decision to bring the bodies home, and exhumation began on July 1, 1920.
William's body was transported on the U.S.A.T. Antigone arriving at Hoboken, August 7, 1920, from Southhampton, Brest and Liverpool.
According to the New York Times, Antigone carried the largest number of coffins brought home on one ship, 1,575 dead soldiers. "The dead were landed at Pier 4, Hoboken, where preparations were completed to forward the bodies to their last resting places in home cemeteries, as has been the custom with all returned dead soldiers." There was no ceremony or funeral observance at the pier, as that detail of honor was rendered when the bodies were consigned to their temporary graves in foreign lands.
William's father elected to have his son's final interment at Arlington National Cemetery. The body was accompanied by a guard of honor on the final journey.
The re-internment of William C. Zeigler occurred August 20, 1920 at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1934, a headstone of marble from Tate, GA was ordered for his grave.
After William C. Zeigler died, his father finally filed for divorce from his mentally ill mother. By this time she had been institutionalized for nearly 20 years. It was an unusual case; as a mental patient, Lula Zeigler was deemed not responsible for her actions. Therefore, any cause brought for divorce could only be valid if it occurred prior to the time her mental capacity was diminished.
The divorce case was reported in the Valdosta Times:
Tifton Gazette
April 4, 1919
Unusual Divorce In Berrien.
Husband Asks Separation From Wife Who is Inmate of the State Sanitarium
Most unusual grounds are given as a reason for securing a divorce in a suit which has been filed in Berrien county. It is believed that no similar case has ever been filed in the state says the Valdosta Times.
Mr. Jake Zeigler has filed papers asking for a total divorce from his wife, Mrs. Lula Zeigler, charging that she treated him in a cruel manner some years ago. The unusual part of it is that Mrs. Zeigler is now an inmate of the state sanitarium at Milledgeville and has been there for several years, with the prospect that she is a permanent inmate. It is charged in the petition for divorce that the cruel treatment occurred before she became an inmate of the sanitarium.
When the case came before Judge Thomas last week, it being so unusual he passed it until this week. Judge Thomas designated Solicitor C E Hay to act as attorney for the defendant in the case and also named Rev. L L Barr, pastor of the Nashville Methodist church, and Rev. Jackson H Harris, pastor of the Nashville Baptist church, to act as representatives of Mrs. Zeigler, who could not appear for herself in the hearing. The designation of these representatives by the court is for the purpose of seeing that the defendant, unable to help herself, may have a fair and impartial consideration of the case from every standpoint.
Later: The demurrer prepared by Solicitor Hay in the divorce case of Zeigler vs. Zeigler was sustained, and the case will go to the Supreme Court, says the Nashville Herald.
Reverend Lewis L. Barr, who represented Mrs. the interests of Lula Tyson Zeigler, had served as the second pastor of the Ray City Methodist Church from 1911 to 1915. The case of Zeigler v. Zeigler et al was referred to the Georgia Supreme Court:
Zeigler v. Zeigler et al. (No. 1384.)
(Supreme Court of Georgia. Nov. 14, 1919.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Divorce 27(18), 37(5) – Pleading; Cruel Treatment; Desertion.
In the petition for divorce it is alleged: Petitioner and defendant were married in 1889. Defendant was adjudged to be insane, and was committed to the Georgia State Sanitarium for insane persons in 1898, where she has since been confined as an insane person. In September 1899, defendant struck petitioner, thereby inflicting a serious wound upon his person. "From October 1, 1897, until May 1, 1898 defendant continued in a constant state of quarreling and cruelly treating petitioner until such conduct became unbearable; and defendant, without cause on the part of the petitioner, left him and remained away until she became insane." Petitioner was without fault during the time he and his wife lived together. "Petitioner did not directly or indirectly condone the treatment of his wife, nor did the relation of husband and wife ever exist after she became in the rage and left him without cause." Held, that no cause for a divorce was set forth in the petition, either on the grounds of cruel treatment (Ring v. Ring, 18 Ga. 183, 44 S. E. 861, 62 L.R.A. 878; Stoner v. Stoner, 134 Ga. 368, 67 S. E. 1030; Black v. Black, 101 S. E. 182, this day decided), or on the ground of desertion (Civil Code 1910, 2945), as it appears from the petition that defendant was adjudged to be insane within less time after the desertion than three years, and has since remained insane, and therefore not responsible for her acts during that time. Accordingly, the court did not err in dismissing the petition on general demurrer.
Error from Superior Court, Berrien County; W. E. Thomas, Judge.
Suit for divorce by J. W. Zeigler against L. M. Zeigler. Petition dismissed on general demurrer, and plaintiff brings error. Affirmed.
J. D. Lovett and Story & Story, all of Nashville, of plaintiff in error.
Clifford E. Hay, Sol. Gen, of Thomasville, for defendant in error.
FISH, C.J. Judgement Affirmed, All the Justices concur, except ATKINSON, J., absent.
Jesse William Zeigler, father of William C. Zeigler, died June 6, 1924. He was buried at Long Bridge Cemetery, Berrien County, GA.
Lula Tyson Zeigler, mother of William C. Zeigler, died August 22, 1958 at Central State Hospital (Formerly Georgia State Sanitarium) at Milledgeville, GA. During her time at Central State Hospital, the institution became known as the "world's largest insane asylum," housing some 13,000 patients with mental illness. According to an article in Atlanta Magazine, "Doctors wielded the psychiatric tools of the times—lobotomies, insulin shock, and early electroshock therapy—along with far less sophisticated techniques: Children were confined to metal cages; adults were forced to take steam baths and cold showers, confined in straitjackets, and treated with douches or 'nauseants.' …The thousands of patients were served by only 48 doctors, none a psychiatrist. Indeed, some of the "doctors" had been hired off the mental wards. "
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Johns Hopkins University professor Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the Gruber Foundation's annual cosmology prize for research he led that formed the foundation for what scientists know about the makeup, origins and expansion of the universe.
Bennett led a team of two dozen researchers from across the country and globe that used NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe to study what conditions were like about 380,000 years after the birth of the universe. The probe launched in 2001, scanned space until 2010 for data on microwave radiation, said to be a remnant of the "big bang" that scientists say marked the birth of the universe.
Bennett's team used the data for a series of discoveries, including that atoms make up less than 5 percent of the universe and that the first stars in the universe formed when it was about 400 million years old. The team's findings provided the most precise estimate of the universe's age to date and also helped substantiate predictions tied to the Big Bang Theory.
What merited the prize, Bennett said, was the general acceptance the discoveries have gained since the team first started releasing them in 2003. The findings form the basis of what has become known as the "standard model" of cosmology, the study of the universe's birth and expansion.
"To evaluate its impact, it just takes a little time," Bennett said. "The acceptance, which has always been high, has only gotten stronger and the impact of it has only gotten stronger. It has clearly stood the test of time, which is appropriate for a major prize."
Bennett and the 26-member team share a $500,000 award for winning the prize. He will accept it and deliver an address at an International Astronomical Union meeting in Beijing in August.
The Gruber Foundation honors excellence in five fields each year: cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice and women's rights. It is funded and managed by philanthropists Peter and Patricia Gruber in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.
The last time a Hopkins professor received the prize was in 2007 when a team that included astrophysicist Adam Riess was honored.
"Chuck Bennett and the WMAP team put the 'precision' in the new field of precision cosmology, and set the 'standard' for the Standard Cosmological Model," Riess said in a news release.


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Do any of you go to the theatre more than once, or do you go...and wait out the DVD/VHS offering?
Oh. How was the movie? Well, for what I can recall, it was ok. It definitely wasn't classic King Arthur and the round table, but if you want details, ask someone else cuz I didn't really get much of a chance to see and enjoy the movie. I wonder if tranquilizer gones are sufficiently small and quiet to bring into a theater. Hmm.
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CIA brainwashing to medical breakthroughs: study to look at Cold War research 7/15/07 Dene Moore – Montreal (CP) ….Suddenly, the human psyche was the new frontier and, thanks to a now-notorious CIA-funded experiment, Montreal found itself an unlikely hub of activity. At McGill's Allen Memorial Institute, Dr. Ewen Cameron believed he could "depattern" patients – an idea that cost the federal government an undisclosed amount of money this month in an out-of-court settlement with one former patient. Her lawyer said lawsuits involving other people are in the works. While Cameron's work was the most notorious, he was hardly alone. Over the next few years, Andrea Tome, a medical historian at McGill University, will try to document Canada's dubious Cold War psychiatric history. "It was happening all over," Tome said in a recent interview. "It's a race; not an arms race but a race for science, for technological improvement." Montreal became a "medical mecca" of sorts, due in no small part to Cameron's work and the research training program he established at McGill. Cameron served at various times as president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the World Psychiatric Association. His patients were put into drug-induced comas, given LSD and exposed for days or weeks at a time to recorded messages. Cameron thought he could "program" the patients without flaw, an idea that intrigued the CIA enough to provide funding, along with the Canadian federal government. Patients like Janine Huard, who picked up her settlement cheque from the Canadian government a few weeks ago, suffered lifetime effects. "I was a guinea pig," Huard told The Canadian Press in an earlier interview. The CIA previously settled lawsuits with several of Cameron's former patients, including Huard. It was unusual, even in the context of the times but it's important to understand that it was the 1950s," said Dr. Frederick Lowy, who was a junior colleague of Cameron at the institute. There was a lot of research and not a lot of rules. "Doctors who thought they could help a patient by doing something different and new, just did it," said Lowy, who went on to become head of psychiatry and dean of medicine at the University of Toronto…. With the CIA financing, Cameron's work became part of a project code-named MK-Ultra, which oversaw 149 similar experiments. More details about the project surfaced last month in declassified CIA documents. Among the 700-plus pages was a memo to the CIA Management Committee acknowledging that the agency accepted experimental drugs that were rejected by commercial manufacturers because of "unfavourable side-effects." The drugs were tested on monkeys and mice and, eventually, armed forces volunteers. "CIA projects weren't just being carried out in Montreal," Tome said. "Clearly there was something larger going on than just one lunatic fringe doctor at work." Indeed, the CIA and Cameron were not alone. In 1961, 23 inmates at the Kingston Prison for Women were given LSD, one of many studies across the country of the drug which was not yet outlawed. Not all the prisoners consented. Tome said prisons were, at the time, "the No. 1 source of clinical trial research." While Cameron was conducting his experiments, Dr. Heinz Lehmann was pioneering the use of anti-psychotic drugs at the Verdun Protestant Hospital in Montreal. Like Cameron, he was doing it without supervision and without informed patient consent. Unlike Cameron, his experiments worked. Lehmann had read about a sedative he thought would be effective for psychiatric patients. "He thought he would give it a try on some of his schizophrenic patients," Tome said. "Within weeks, he had these incredible remission rates." The drug was thorazine, the first anti-psychotic drug to offer any hope for psychiatric patients. While Cameron's experiments were partially funded by the CIA, Lowy said they were not performed at the behest of the U.S. spy agency. http://web.archive.org/web/20070821165926/http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/070715/x071504A.html
'Family Jewels' reveal CIA altered mind of four-year-old girl By Robert Lusetich in Los Angeles 6/28/07 EASILY lost, on page 425, in the mass of the CIA's notorious "Family Jewels" files is a short paragraph outlining "potentially embarrassing Agency activities". "Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects." Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency's behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims – including children as young as four – may be the darkest….In 1953, MKULTRA was given six per cent of the total CIA budget without any oversight. Only the tip of a large iceberg had been previously released by the CIA under Freedom of Information Act provisions. Yesterday's acknowledgments will comfort those who have long campaigned for truth and restitution. The nature of the experiments, gathered from government documents and testimony in numerous lawsuits brought against the CIA, is shocking, from testing LSD on children to implanting electrodes in victims' brains to deliberately poisoning people with uranium. "The CIA bought my services from my grandfather in 1952 starting at the tender age of four," wrote Carol Rutz of her experiences. "Over the next 12 years, I was tested, trained, and used in various ways. "Electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and other types of trauma were used to make me complain and split my personality (to create multiple personalities for specific tasks). "Each alter or personality was created to respond to a post-hypnotic trigger, then perform an act and (I would) not remember it later. "This Manchurian Candidate program was just one of the operational uses of the mind-control scenario by the CIA. "Your hard-earned tax dollars supported this." The US began these experiments after World War II when it made a grab for hundreds of Nazi scientists and doctors who had been researching mind control in concentration camps, fearing they would fall into Soviet hands. US military intelligence leaders were paranoid that they were falling behind the communist bloc in the brain-washing race. The programs, though carefully hidden, continued into the 1970s – when Helms ordered much of the documentation to be destroyed. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21978876-2,00.html
CIA Experiments with Mind Control on Children by Jon Rappoport "The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975, when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests….None of this prepared people for the explosive testimony made on March 15, 1995, in Washington, D.C., before the President's Committee on Radiation, however. In unpublicized sessions, New Orleans therapist Valerie Wolf introduced two of her patients who had uncovered memories of being part of extensive CIA brainwashing programs as young children (in one case, starting at age seven). Their brainwashing included torture, rape, electroshock, powerful drugs, hypnosis and death threats. According to their testimony, the CIA then induced amnesia to prevent their recalling these terrifying sessions. Both Wolf and her patients stated that they recovered the memories of this CIA program without regression or hypnosis techniques. In other words, these patients spontaneously discovered this information about themselves and their pasts." ….This article appeared in Perceptions Magazine September/October 1995 10734 Jefferson Blvd., Suite 502 Culver City, CA 90230 (310) 313-5185 – and – The Leading Edge Research Journal Issue No. 85, September 1995 Leading Edge Research Group POB 7530 Yelm, Washington 98597 http://www.netti.fi/~makako/mind/child.txt
Ottawa settles brainwashing class action – Allan Memorial Institute. CIA-funded treatments included electroshock, experimental medication Max Harrold – The GazettePublished: 7/5/07 Decades after she was unknowingly brainwashed in a program funded by the federal government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Janine Huard has found some peace of mind in a cash settlement. Exactly how much, she can't say, because she agreed to keep the amount secret as part of her deal to drop her class-action lawsuit against the federal government….On and off for 15 years, Huard received massive electroshock therapy, experimental pills and was forced to listen to repetitive recorded messages for days on end. Huard's lawyer, Alan Stein, said the amount she received Tuesday does not exceed the $100,000 the federal government paid to each of 77 other victims of the brainwashing techniques in 1994. Huard also received some interest on the money, he said. She and about 200 other victims of the treatments were denied the 1994 offer because they were deemed to have suffered less than those who were paid. In 1989, Huard was one of nine plaintiffs awarded $67,000 U.S. from the CIA. Stein plans to seek permission to launch a new class-action lawsuit in Federal Court "within weeks" with another former brainwashing patient as the central plaintiff. He knows of about 10 former patients and 20 relatives of former patients who may be part of the new lawsuit, he said. They could have access to $100,000, plus as much as $50,000 in interest, he said….Until 1964, the Allan's ex-director, Ewen Cameron, conducted experiments at the institute, often without the knowledge or permission of patients. Some patients were kept in drug-induced comas for months. The experiments were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and patrons of brothels without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee. Huard entered the Allan in 1957 after suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her second child. Her newborn had become ill and Huard was having trouble sleeping. Cameron used his experimental techniques on her, mistakenly believing they could treat depression. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=549f3d3d-65d4-4f75-b389-22b5964c2873
Brainwashed 'guinea pig' seeks more damages TheStar.com – News – Brainwashed 'guinea pig' seeks more damages – Canadian victim of CIA experiment in '50s tries to launch class-action suit against Ottawa – Dene Moore – Toronto Star Montreal "Janine Huard says she was a young mother of four with mild post-partum depression when she checked herself in for psychiatric treatment at a Montreal hospital more than five decades ago. Huard says what happened after that still haunts her today and she will be in a federal courtroom this week seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for Cold War-era brainwashing experiments carried out on her and hundreds of other patients. I was a guinea pig," she said. On and off for more than a decade at McGill University's renowned Allan Memorial Institute, Huard says she received massive electroshocks and was fed more than 40 experimental pills a day. Huard, who will be 79 at the end of the month, says she was drugged and subjected to so-called "depatterning," during which repetitive recordings were played in her ear for weeks on end, one of them telling her she was of no use to her family. "I came out of there so sick that my mother had to live with me for 10 years," Huard says. She says she lost memories and suffered from migraines. The ordeal came at the hands of Dr. Ewan Cameron, an Edinburgh-educated, New York-based doctor who pioneered "psychic driving," by which he believed he could erase the memories of patients and rebuild their psyches without psychiatric defect. The idea intrigued the CIA, which recruited Cameron to experiment with mind control techniques beginning in 1950. The McGill experiments were jointly funded by the CIA and the Canadian government. Cameron gave patients LSD and subjected them to the massive and multiple electroshock treatments. Some underwent sleep deprivation or total sensory deprivation. Others were kept in drug-induced comas for months while speakers under their pillows broadcast messages for up to 16 hours a day. The CIA eventually settled a class-action lawsuit by test subjects, including Huard. The allegations have not been proven in court. A federal court hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday to decide whether to approve a class-action suit. In 1994, 77 of the mostly unwitting Canadian patients were awarded $100,000 each from the federal government, but only those who suffered "total depatterning," meaning they were rendered to a childlike state. More than 250 others were denied compensation. In 2004, a federal appeal court overruled that decision and awarded a former patient the $100,000." http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/168792
"The experiments were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which also saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and patrons of brothels without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee."
Woman wants to launch lawsuit over 'brainwashing' 1/7/07 Montreal "Janine Huard says she was a young mother of four with mild post-partum depression when she checked herself in for psychiatric treatment at a Montreal hospital more than five decades ago. Huard says what happened after that still haunts her today and she will be in a federal courtroom this week seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for Cold War-era brainwashing experiments carried out on her and hundreds of other patients. "I was a guinea pig," Huard told The Canadian Press. On and off over more than a decade at McGill University's renowned Allan Memorial Institute, Huard says she received massive electroshocks and was fed more than 40 experimental pills a day. Huard, who will be 79 at the end of the month, says she was drugged and subjected to so-called "depatterning," during which repetitive recordings were played in her ear for weeks on end, one of them telling her she was of no use to her family….The ordeal came at the hands of Dr. Ewen Cameron, an Edinburgh-educated, New York-based doctor who pioneered "psychic driving," by which he believed he could erase the memories of patients and rebuild their psyches without psychiatric defect. The idea intrigued the CIA, which recruited Cameron to experiment with mind control techniques beginning in 1950. The McGill experiments were jointly funded by the CIA and the Canadian government. As director of the institute until 1964, Cameron conducted a range of experiments, often without the knowledge or permission of patients. Cameron gave patients LSD and subjected them to massive and multiple electroshock treatments. Some underwent sleep deprivation or total sensory deprivation. Others were kept in drug-induced comas for months on end while speakers under their pillows broadcasts messages for up to 16 hours a day. The experiments were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which also saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and patrons of brothels without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee. The CIA eventually settled a class-action lawsuit by test subjects, including Huard, and the Canadian government ordered a judicial report into Cameron's experiments." http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20070107/brainwashing_lawsuit_070107/20070107/?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory
CIA thought Cameron's techniques could be useful in the Cold War Compiled by Liz Ferguson, The Gazette 1/11/07 "Ewen Cameron, the man behind the brainwashing experiments, was a Scottish-born psychiatrist who worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill's Allan Memorial Institute. From 1950 to 1965 he subjected hundreds of patients at the Allan Memorial to unorthodox treatment involving LSD, huge doses of electroshock, drug-induced comas and tapes that they sometimes listened to for weeks at time. One woman received the treatment through most of her pregnancy. Funding came from the Canadian government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as part of a project called MK-ULTRA. In that Cold War era, the spy agency thought these techniques might be useful against the Soviet Union – perhaps LSD could be used as a truth serum, brainwashing drug or incapacitating agent, given to prisoners or foreign leaders like Cuba's Fidel Castro." http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=76d8f185-58cd-4f7a-9ef5-04c58a38bd97&k=22098
Papers: CIA knew of Eichmann Whereabouts by Hope Yen, AP 6/6/2006 Washington "Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released Tuesday. The 27,000 pages released by the National Archives are among the largest post-World War II declassifications by the CIA. They offer a window into the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence — and the efforts to use former Nazi war criminals as spies, sometimes to detrimental effect."
Documents Shed Light on CIA's Use of Ex-Nazis By Scott Shane – The New York Times 6/6/2006 Washington "The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust overseer Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to CIA documents that shed new light on the spy agency's use of former Nazis as informers after World War II. The CIA was told by West German intelligence that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name "Clemens" – a slight variation on his actual alias, Klement – but kept the information from Israel because of German concerns about exposure of former Nazis in the Bonn government, according to Timothy Naftali, a historian who examined the documents. Two years later, Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Argentina and took him to Israel, where he was tried and executed in 1962." http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606R.shtml
Professor McCoy Exposes the History of CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror 2/17/06 "A new expose gives an account of the CIA's secret efforts to develop new forms of torture spanning fifty years. It reveals how the CIA perfected its methods, distributing them across the world from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, uncovering the roots of the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo torture scandals. The book is titled "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror."….From 1950 to 1962, the C.I.A. ran a massive research project, a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind, spending over $1 billion a year to crack the code of human consciousness, from both mass persuasion and the use of coercion in individual interrogation. And what they discovered — they tried LSD, they tried mescaline, they tried all kinds of drugs, they tried electroshock, truth serum, sodium pentathol. None of it worked. What worked was very simple behavioral findings, outsourced to our leading universities — Harvard, Princeton, Yale and McGill — and the first breakthrough came at McGill. And it's in the book. And here, you can see the — this is the — if you want show it, you can. That graphic really shows — that's the seminal C.I.A. experiment done in Canada and McGill University….Dr. Donald O. Hebb of McGill University, a brilliant psychologist, had a contract from the Canadian Defense Research Board, which was a partner with the C.I.A. in this research, and he found that he could induce a state of psychosis in an individual within 48 hours. It didn't take electroshock, truth serum, beating or pain. All he did was had student volunteers sit in a cubicle with goggles, gloves and headphones, earmuffs, so that they were cut off from their senses, and within 48 hours, denied sensory stimulation, they would suffer, first hallucinations, then ultimately breakdown." http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=06/02/17/1522228
CIA agrees to release records detailing ties to former Nazis Douglas Jehl, New York Times 2/7/05 "Washington — Under pressure from Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency has formally agreed to a broad new interpretation of a 1998 law that requires disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals, a CIA document shows." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/07/MNGU8B72US1.DTL
Documents reveal CIA recruited five of Eichmann's associates by Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent "Five of Adolph Eichmann's Nazi assistants were recruited and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II, according to recently declassified intelligence documents. The information came to light after a lengthy battle waged by the non-profit group, The National Security Archive, whose goal is to expose government documents under the framework of the Freedom of Information Act. The newly-revealed documents are based on internal investigations in the CIA's history department. The agency has steadfastly refused to make the documents public for fear they would cause embarassment." http://web.archive.org/web/20050205211432/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/536364.html
CIA urged to release Nazi records 2/1/05 "The CIA has been urged to release documents about Nazi war criminals hired by US intelligence officials during the Cold War era. The call comes from members of Congress who drew up the 1998 public disclosure law, which requires declassification of all documents about the Holocaust. They say the CIA is withholding details of people it recruited after World War II for their expertise. Released documents show links between US intelligence and Nazi war criminals. The CIA has contributed 1.25 million pages of documents, of more than eight million, released under the 1998 law. One former Nazi known to have been employed by Western intelligence was Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon". He was eventually convicted of crimes against humanity by a French court. The law's authors – Senator Mike DeWine and Representative Carolyn Maloney – believe the CIA is withholding further details on the Nazi war criminals, suspects or collaborators that were hired." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4225629.stm
The CIA and Nazi War Criminals National Security Archive Posts Secret CIA History Released Under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 146 Edited by Tamara Feinstein 2/4/05 "Washington D.C. – Today the National Security Archive posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army's intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals. The use of Gehlen's group, according to the CIA history, Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49…" http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm
Brainwash victims win cash claims – Karin Goodwin 10/17/04 "HUNDREDS of mentally ill patients who were subjected to barbaric CIA-funded brainwashing experiments by a Scottish doctor could be entitled to compensation following a landmark court ruling. Doctor Ewan Cameron, who became one of the world=s leading psychiatrists, developed techniques used by Nazi scientists to wipe out the existing personalities of people in his care. Cameron, who graduated from Glasgow University, was recruited by the CIA during the cold war while working at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He carried out mind-control experiments using drugs such as LSD on hundreds of patients, but only 77 of them were awarded compensation. Now a landmark ruling by a Federal Court judge in Montreal will allow more than 250 former patients, whose claims were rejected, to seek compensation." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
US Intelligence and the Nazis – Brietman, Goda, Naftali and Wolfe, "published by the National Archives Trust Fund for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, discusses hundreds of the 8 million-plus pages of documents released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act by the CIA, FBI, NSA, Army, State Department, and other U.S. agencies. This book contains a great deal of new information about the world of intelligence, especially concerning the postwar use of war criminals by U.S. intelligence organizations. It also sheds new light on Holocaust issues, showing, for example that the Allies had knowledge of the genocide earlier than historians previously believed. By using these newly released documents to refine what was previously understood about World War II, the Holocaust, and intelligence activities during and after the war, the authors demonstrate the historical, cultural, and moral importance of the declassified information. Purchasing information: Call 1-866-272-6272, National Archives Trust Fund Board. 488 pp., 30 illus. Softcover #200120 $24.95 ISBN: 1-880875-26-8″
The Hidden History of CIA Torture: America's Road to Abu Ghraib By Alfred W. McCoy TomDispath.com 9/9/04 "From 1950 to 1962, the CIA conducted massive, secret research into coercion and the malleability of human consciousness which, by the late fifties, was costing a billion dollars a year. Many Americans have heard about the most outlandish and least successful aspect of this research – the testing of LSD on unsuspecting subjects. While these CIA drug experiments led nowhere and the testing of electric shock as a technique led only to lawsuits, research into sensory deprivation proved fruitful indeed. In fact, this research produced a new psychological rather than physical method of torture, perhaps best described as "no-touch" torture. The Agency's discovery was a counterintuitive breakthrough, the first real revolution in this cruel science since the seventeenth century – and thanks to recent revelations from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, we are now all too familiar with these methods, even if many Americans still have no idea of their history. Upon careful examination, those photographs of nude bodies expose the CIA's most basic torture techniques – stress positions, sensory deprivation, and sexual humiliation." http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1795
How brainwashing came to life and thrived – Jeff Stryker – 8/1/04 The term "brainwashing" was first popularized by Edward Hunter, in his 1951 book, "Brainwashing in Red China." Brainwashing was his translation for a Chinese term "hsi-nao," meaning, roughly, "cleansing of the mind." Lifton concluded that the Chinese interrogation techniques were merely time-honored methods of psychological coercion: isolation, humiliation and the repetition of propaganda.@ "Helen McGonigle, a Connecticut lawyer who represents victims of trauma and sexual abuse, knows she sounds like one of the nutters on the Internet when she talks about the history of military involvement in mind control. When asked if she thinks the government is still in the business of mind control, McGonigle responded without skipping a beat. "Absolutely," she said. "The history of the Bluebird, Artichoke and MKULTRA definitely raise the bar of suspicion," McGonigle said, ticking off a series of government experiments involving hypnosis, sleep deprivation and the use of psychotropic drugs. MKULTRA, underway from 1953 to 1966, involved research into mind-control agents at scores of prestigious institutions by prominent psychologists. MKULTRA scientists attempted to determine whether LSD could be aerosolized effectively; the CIA even hired a magician to teach field agents how to slip LSD into the drinks of unwitting subjects. Other experiments involved various forms of sleep deprivation and hypnosis. Consider a research question posed in CIA documents from the Bluebird experiments in the 1950s: "Could we seize a subject and in the space of an hour or two by post-H[ypnotic] control have him crash an airplane, wreck a train, etc.?"" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/01/INGRR7UIJ31.DTL
RITUAL ABUSE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations by Randy Noblitt and Pam Perskin Noblitt Allegations of ritual abuse are universal and mental health professionals, theologians, law enforcers, scholars, victim advocates, and others struggle to comprehend the enormity of the devastation left in the wake of these heinous acts. Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century addresses the concerns that naturally evolve from any discussion of this phenomenon from the perspectives of professionals, advocates, and survivors from around the world. How valid are the survivors' stories? Is there evidence? What are the consequences of these acts to the individual and society? Why have these allegations been ignored or discredited whenever they have surfaced? The authors of these chapters respond to these and other questions in an effort to illustrate the constellation of psychological, health, legal, criminal, societal, and spiritual ramifications of ritual abuse. Chapters address current issues including ritually based crime, civil suits involving allegations of ritual abuse, that are universal. The value of understanding ritual trauma for diagnostic and treatment applications is discussed. ISBN: 978-1-934759-12-7 ISBN 10: 1-934759-12-0 Soft cover, 6 x 9, 552 pages, $39.95 US Robert D. Reed Publishers, POB 1992, Bandon, OR 97411 Phone 541 347-9882 Fax: -9883 http://www.rdrpublishers.com/catalog/item/3014102/5820690.htm
Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A Shadow Report – Members of the Nova Scotia 'torture free zone' circle of the NGO Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, have submitted a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The report is entitled Torture of Canadian Women by Non-State Actors in the Private Sphere: A Shadow Report. The report includes Canadian women's oral testimonies of various forms of torture they report enduring. It also presents survey findings of Canadian and non-Canadian women's reproductive tortures. Recommendations include amendments to the Canadian Criminal Code to specifically name and criminalize acts of non-state torture; that statistical data then be kept on acts of non-state torture; that victimized persons be provided with appropriate support and resources, and research and educative interventions be implemented. The report is timely considering, for example, the UN Press Release of June 26, 2008. In this Joint Statement on the Occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, it is stated that certain forms of gender-specific violence perpetrated by State and non-state actors is now recognized as falling within the definition of torture. (See http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/64FB1409323506EAC1257473002F6E42?opendocument ) The Shadow Report can be accessed via the OHCHR website: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/cedaws42.htm listed under Canada then Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) or at TORTURE OF CANADIAN WOMEN BY NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE PRIVATE SPHERE: A SHADOW REPORT March, 2008….Submitted by Jeanne Sarson, MEd, BScN, RN & Linda MacDonald, MEd, BN, RN
The Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma (IVAT) at Alliant International University Presents: Promoting Peace; Integrating Practice, Research, and Policy – Affiliated Institutes (all day trainings by collaborating organizations) Friday and Saturday, September 12-13, 2008 Pre-Conference Workshops, Conference, and Post-Conference Workshops Sunday through Wednesday, September 14-17, 2008 For information Call: (858) 527-1860 x4270 or write firstname.lastname@example.com One workshop at this conference will be : P2 Torture-Based Mind Control: Empirical Research, Programmer Methods, Effects & Treatment – Ellen Lacter, Randy Noblitt, Wanda Karriker, Eileen Schrader – Advanced: This workshop provides current knowledge about mind control programming, its effects on its victims, challenges in the recovery process, and effective treatment strategies and healing methods. Clinical observations made by the presenters from their extensive work with mind control survivors are supported by preliminary data obtained from the 2007 series of International Extreme Abuse. http://www.ivatcenters.org/Conferences/13th-InternationalBooklet.pdf
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder – Author:Sachs, Adah & Galton, Graeme (Eds). Publisher : Karnac Books, 2008 ISBN 1855755963 "book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder" http://www.karnacbooks.com/product.php?PID=25876 In this book there is a chapter on The extreme abuse surveys: Preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder authors: Becker, T.; Karriker, W.; Overkamp, B.; Rutz, C. p. 32-49 Data on the study is included in the chapter. Eighty-four percent of those saying they had been diagnosed with DID/MPD also stated that they were survivors of RA/MC. 543 stated they had been ritually abused in a satanic cult.
The CD Order Form for The Eleventh Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference – 2008 is now available at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/smart-2008-conference.htm
MEDIA PACKET – Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children – Documentation that torture-based, government-sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of these crimes against humanity….SURVEYS – EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 – March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from 31 named countries. P-EAS: Professional – Extreme Abuse Survey (An International Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1 – June 30 2007 with 451 respondents from 20 named countries. Contact: Wanda Karriker, PhD firstname.lastname@example.com http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments-MediaPacket.pdf
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Contains additional published data on the above study http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/extreme-abuse-survey-final-results/
mk-ultra links – Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/category/mk-ultra/ or http://members.aol.com/smartnews/mk-ultra.htm
Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM-IV-TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct, MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/basic-information-on-dissociative-identity-disorder/ or http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder.htm
Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory. http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/recovered-memory-data/


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The fact that Turkey had such an influence should not be surprising, as the Jewish history of Turkey is very long. As far back as biblical times, the people of Turkey were trading partners with the Israelites. During the time of the expulsion the Sultan Bayazid II of the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to the the Sephardic Jews being driven out of Spain and Portugal, where they would be free from persecution. In fact, over hundreds of years before the expulsion, Jews fleeing many countries found refuge in the land. Some of them included;
- Early 1300's. Karaites from Europe.
- 1370's. Jews expelled from Hungary.
- 1390's. Jews expelled from France by Charles VI.
- 1400's. Sicilian Jews who were expelled.
- 1530's. Jews from Italy arrived
The country of Turkey became an independent state in 1923, and have been able to maintain its history of neutrality and of being a refuge for those that need help. During World War II, Turkey became a safe haven for those fleeing the Nazis. Today the Jewish population of Turkey, which is over 90% Sephardic, numbers about 20-25,000. The majority are in Istanbul, but smaller communities are in places such as Izmir.
The Knowles Collection - Jews of Africa and the Orient is now beginning to add some records from Turkey. The records of Altindag Jewish Cemetery in the city of Izmir, are now being entered. These incredible records, thousands of them will soon be available.


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Had a great time on this set – really looking forward to the movie!
Had a great time on this set – really looking forward to the movie!
I leave for Romania soon to play the role of Valerie in Toronto Pictures new film Abused in America. I am very impressed that Daria Trifo is so compassionate about Human rights and uses her smart business sense to make successful movies that embrace social issues. I admire successful women and try to learn from them. I look forward to working with both her and Bruno Pischiutta next month and am honored to be cast out of thousands who auditioned for my role. I plan to blog along the way about my adventures in Romania and on the film set. Due to a non-disclosure form I will limit my writings to approved subjects and I will also post a lot of pictures of beautiful Romania. I hope you enjoy it as much as I know I will!
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Global coverage of the history of architecture, encouraging consideration of the pragmatic, innovative and aesthetic attributes of buildings and how these may have been praised or criticised by contemporary observers. Various contexts are also discussed, such as artistic, social and economic.Lawrence Wodehouse is the author of 'A World History of Architecture', published 2008 under ISBN 9780071544795 and ISBN 0071544798.[read more]
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Betty White can add another Emmy to her collection. She won number seven for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for hosting Saturday Night Live.
The 88-year-old sensation beat out Jane Lynch for her guest role in Two and a Half Men, and Kristen Chenoweth's guest performance in Glee at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards held Saturday in Los Angeles, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
White tickled audiences with her potty mouth and sexual innuendos in the Mother's day edition, which earned the show's highest ratings of the season.
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In one memorable skit, SNL alumni Molly Shannon and Anna Gasteyer revived their double entendre NPR talk show, Delicious Dish. "If there's one thing I'm known for, it's my muffin," joked White.
White has been riding the wave of a landmark year. Her hit new comedy series, "Hot in Cleveland" was just renewed for a second season, she has two books in the works, and will play a recurring role on NBC's Community.
White got the "SNL" hosting gig after a social media campaign on Facebook where more than half a million fans convinced producer Lorne Michaels to give Betty the job.
In her opening monologue for the show, White said before the campaign she had never heard of Facebook. "And now that I do know what it is," she said, "I have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time."
Other winners at the Creative Arts Emmys included Neil Patrick Harris for his guest spot on Glee, John Lithgow took the statue for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his season-long role in Dexter, and Ryan Seacreast was honored as a producer for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.
The primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Jimmy Fallon will air Sunday, Aug. 28 at 8pm ET on NBC.


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March 8, 1924 - May 4, 2013
Boynton Beach, FL - Formerly of Monticello, NY
Leona Effel of Boynton Beach, FL (formerly of Monticello, NY), died May 4, 2013. She was 89 years old. Leona was born in Bronx, NY on March 8, 1924, to Sam and Ida Novick.
When Leona was a teenager she began spending time in Sullivan County, NY, where she eventually met and married the love of her life, Jack Effel. They began their life together in Harris, NY and then moved to Monticello, where they raised their daughter, Adrianne. She spent many years working as a bookkeeper for the family business, Monarch Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, which was run by Jack and his brother, Pete (Harry Effel). She also worked for a time at Sullivan County Office for the Aging and also Planned Parenthood.
Leona was the kind of person, that, when you met her, you gained a new friend. She always enjoyed entertaining and being surrounded by the people she loved. Most dates on her calendar were marked with the birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions of her many friends and family members. Not one of those dates ever passed that Leona did not send out a special card with a thoughtful note, month after month, year after year. She had to have been Hallmark Card's best customer.
Leona loved the arts. Her home was constantly filled with classical music and she always looked forward
to her next opportunity to attend a concert, theatre performance, lecture or ballet. She was also a meticulous housekeeper. Her friends always kidded her about how neat and clean she was. Her husband, Jack, would often joke, "there is clean, and then there is Leona clean."
After many enjoyable years in Monticello, Leona and Jack retired to Boynton Beach, FL for some well deserved "fun in the sun" and of course, a brand new set of beloved friends. They created a new life there.
Leona is survived by her loving daughter, Adrianne Dollard and her husband, Mike, from Monticello, NY;
her grandson, Justin of Wellington, FL; her brother, Morton Novick and his wife, Ruth, from Westchester, NY; sister, Judith Cash and her husband, John, from Sag Harbor, NY, and many nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her husband, Jack Effel and brother Bernard Novick.
Leona was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and, most of all, a very good friend. She will be missed by many.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Leona's name to the Big Dog Ranch Rescue, 10948 Acme Road, Wellington, FL 33414.
Arrangements and Cremation are being provided by Weiss Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach, FL.