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Meet Judge Cupcake
Shortly after Jeffrey Douglas Law nearly strangled his estranged wife Erika to death, he called his mother. Telling her how he'd "really fucked up this time," Law said he had tried to kill his wife. He didn't want to face the 15-year prison sentence that would surely be his punishment, so he was about to kill himself.
If Law was serious about killing himself, Brooklyn Park police--called by Law's mother Susan Law--arrived before he could do it. And as it turned out, his guess of the number of years he would likely spend in prison for his crime was just about right. In Minnesota the recommended sentence for those found guilty of second-degree attempted murder is 12-1/2 years. And unless Law's attorney could prove there was a compelling reason for treating him otherwise, Law was almost certain to do the time.
Law pleaded guilty, and at his sentencing hearing on March 16, 2000, Ramsey County prosecutor Michael Hutchinson argued for an even harsher sentence, telling the court that it was obvious Jeffrey Law was a man who cared only for himself. When he tried to kill his wife the previous October, she had been holding their five-month-old son and another infant in her arms. As he choked Erika, she'd dropped the babies. They had lain unattended in the upstairs hallway. When Jeffrey realized he had not killed Erika, he left her barely conscious on the basement floor, and walked out without calling for help.
Law told the judge he was sorry for what he had done. He said he was a "selfish jerk" and a longtime "manipulator" who had done little to overcome his problems with drugs and alcohol. He was angry that his wife was planning to divorce him, he said, and he had intended to kill her.
But, he argued, he was a changed man. In the 18 weeks since the attack, Law told the court, he had been seeing a counselor. He had joined a men's group, stayed sober, and consistently attended AA meetings. He and his attorney urged the judge to disregard the guideline sentence and give Law a chance to put his shattered life back together outside of prison.
After Jeffrey Law told the court why he should not go to prison, Ramsey County District Court Judge James Campbell took a brief recess. When he returned, he began talking. "The most difficult decision that any judge has to make obviously relates to the personal freedom of people who stand in front of them," he said. "After a dozen years of doing this, I think people know that I don't believe a single day in jail longer than necessary is an appropriate sanction. And I'm certainly aware of that in this case."
What happened next can never be fully appreciated by anyone who wasn't actually in the courtroom that day, says Erika Law. Jeffrey Law's crime was serious, Campbell conceded, especially because it involved children. And Law, the judge continued, had better not be lying about being a reformed man. "Mr. Law," Campbell cautioned, "if what you are doing here today is in fact an act, then you should go to prison for the statutory maximum. That's the reality."
But, Campbell hastened to add, he believed the young man who stood before him was telling the truth. So, while he was going to sentence Law to the 20 years in prison that prosecutors had asked for, he wasn't actually going to send him to prison. Instead, Law would spend a year in the workhouse, and then be put on probation for 19 more years, on the condition that he attend family counseling and AA and submit to random drug testing.
"I do not believe, Jeffrey Law, that you are a threat to your wife," the judge said. "I am cautiously optimistic. I have seen a lot of failures in my life, having dealt with this. I have seen a lot of successes. And I prefer to call them miracles. I pray this is one of them."
Erika Law couldn't believe her ears. "I felt victimized all over again," Law recalls. "I felt like [Campbell] made me feel ashamed for the crime that was committed against me. It was clear that he didn't value me, or the safety of my son. Nor did he value women in general. When he said I have nothing to fear from my husband--I mean, he tried to kill me. Of course I have something to fear from him. [Campbell] needs to reevaluate who it is that he is protecting in his courtroom, because it isn't the victim."
Friends introduced Erika and Jeffrey in 1994. She was 25 and he was a year older. They liked each other immediately and soon moved in together. In October 1996 they got married and bought a house in Roseville. Six months later things started to fall apart. Jeffrey had been working steadily as a transportation broker, but he quit and began drifting from job to job. (Jeffrey Law could not be reached to comment for this story.)
"I thought what was going on was a mental-health issue, and I was willing to work that out," Erika Law says. She dragged her husband to counseling. Later she found out he was using drugs.
"When I found out about the drugs, I was even willing to deal with that. I mean, I know I had blinders on in some ways. I just wanted everything to be okay," she says. "After a while he just didn't function anymore and I took care of everything. He lost his job, and I was working 50- and 60-hour weeks to keep up our household."
Two years later, in May 1999, Erika found marijuana in the house and decided enough was enough. Even though their son was just two weeks old at the time, she asked Jeffrey to leave. "He'd been telling me over and over for months that he wasn't using anymore when he was," she says. "When I found the stuff I just couldn't have it going on in my house anymore, and I asked him to leave."
Jeffrey got an apartment in Brooklyn Park, and Erika stayed at the house in Roseville with the baby. He wanted to reconcile, but first Erika wanted him to attend an in-patient chemical-dependency treatment program, go through aftercare at a halfway house, and promise to attend AA meetings on a regular basis for the rest of his life. In June Jeffrey entered a program at Twin Town, a chemical-dependency facility in St. Paul, but he dropped out. Erika began seeking a divorce and applied for a daycare license so she could stay home with her son and still make ends meet.
She was caring for her first six-month-old customer on the morning of October 25, 1999, when Jeffrey came in through the back sliding glass door and announced that he was going to kill her. Erika was holding the couple's son when she saw her husband. Grabbing the other infant, who was sleeping in the bedroom, she tried to escape.
"I ran to go out the front door and Jeff blocked my way," she later testified. "And I ran to go out the sliding door and Jeff blocked my way. And I went to reach for the telephone and he ripped it out of the wall. And I started screaming. And the baby started screaming. And then I ran down the hall and he grabbed me and we all went down."
At five-foot-three-inches tall and little more than 100 pounds, Erika Law was no match for her husband, who weighed more than 200 pounds and stood nearly six and a half feet tall. "He smothered and choked me with his hands," she continued. "And I had the children in my arms and I had to let go of them because he was choking me and I needed to defend myself. And he trampled the children and kicked the children and they were screaming. And then I passed out."
When Erika came to, Jeffrey was wrapping the belt from her bathrobe around her neck. Choking her as he walked, he dragged her down the basement stairs. Erika's memory of what happened next is hazy, but Jeffrey Law later told police that the attack continued in the basement. After he stopped, he checked her pulse. She was still alive.
Jeffrey Law says he stayed with his wife for about 40 minutes before leaving, but Erika doesn't recall her husband being there after the attack. All she remembers is coming to and thinking that he must have loosened the cord because she could breathe again. Confused, Erika lay on the basement floor unable to stand or yell and afraid that her husband would come back. Eventually she made her way upstairs, put the visiting baby in a crib, gathered up her son, and stumbled to a neighbor's house begging for help.
Jeffrey Law went back to his apartment and called his mother.
Four and a half months later, Law appeared before Judge James Campbell, admitted what he'd done, and pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder. Law might as well have won the lottery; the man who was to decide his fate is widely described as one of the most lenient judges in Ramsey County. Campbell himself jokes about it, quipping that some of his friends call him "Judge Cupcake."
A tall man of medium build, Campbell looks right into people's eyes when he speaks. Campbell appears to cultivate a regular-Joe demeanor, favoring sportcoats and simple shirts and ties. His voice is deep and buttery, like that of a late-night radio jazz-show host. He seems genuinely perplexed by the amount of attention the Law case has drawn.
"I don't know what to tell you," Campbell says with a sigh. "Every time you utter a sentence somebody is going to either be happy or unhappy. But you know I've never sentenced anyone by the name of guidelines. They're all different. Yes, they're all different."
Campbell is tight-lipped about his background. Born in St. Paul on May 12, 1949, he was raised by a single mother. As an undergraduate, he attended the College of St. Thomas. From there he went on to William Mitchell College of Law and graduated in 1975. He was in private practice before being appointed to the Ramsey County District Court by then-Gov. Rudy Perpich in 1988. Two years later he was elected to the same position. He was reelected in 1996.
The job has changed a lot since 1988, Campbell says, and he's not sure he will run for reelection in 2002. "It's becoming a younger person's job. I mean, you really have to think about whether you want to be doing this when you're 60. The volume (of cases) just keeps increasing, and they're not going to increase the number of judges. With so many cases coming before us, you can see why judges make mistakes."
Most of the prosecutors and advocates interviewed for this story would not speak on the record, citing their need to maintain cordial relations with the judge, before whom they must continue to appear. Privately, however, they say that the Law case has drawn much-needed public attention to a longstanding problem. Certainly, everybody makes mistakes, they acknowledge. The problem is that Campbell tends to err in favor of defendants appearing in his courtroom, they say, particularly those there on domestic-violence charges.
"There are a lot of lenient judges in Ramsey County, but Judge Campbell is more than lenient," says one prosecutor. "He doesn't seem to take his job seriously. He doesn't take victims seriously, and he sometimes acts like his job is just a big joke."
"It's really too bad, because he is understanding in some ways and he does listen to people in a down-to-earth way," says another prosecutor. "I do think he has the ability to have been a good judge. But, for whatever reason, he does not take his job seriously. He does not hold defendants accountable."
St. Paul defense attorney Kyle White has found the judge to be more down-to-earth and caring than others. "Campbell is considered to be a very favorable judge by the defense bar, and the Law case was certainly a best-case scenario from the defense's perspective," says White. "But typically I've found him to be one of the most thoughtful and compassionate judges in the state of Minnesota. My own personal opinion is that judges are human. The key is to ask, 'Are they fair and can they hear a case and be civil to everyone involved?' Campbell really listens and extends himself to everyone."
At the same time, White explains, Campbell's critics are not entirely off the mark. "But I've got to be honest with you," he says. "Even the people who like him also think he's gone too far."
Ramsey County courts are like most others in that they don't track the practices of individual judges when it comes to handing down sentences or dealing with certain types of cases. Judges are supposed to have the maximum amount of independence and flexibility to decide how to deal with the individuals who appear before them. If their hands are tied by strict oversight, judges won't be able to make allowances for compelling circumstances.
So right now the only way to really know what is going on in a particular judge's courtroom is to go there and see. In Hennepin County a group called WATCH sends volunteers into courtrooms to monitor judges' performance from the point of view of victims and witnesses. But there is no such group in Ramsey County.
In Minnesota, judges are overseen by the Board on Judicial Standards, a state agency that investigates complaints of misconduct or wrongdoing. Complaints to the board are almost always confidential, says David Paull, executive secretary of the board. The agency can recommend that the state supreme court censure judges, remove them from the bench, or force their retirement. Only when severe wrongdoing is uncovered, says Paull, are the board's proceedings and decisions made public.
Paull can't comment, but Campbell acknowledges that he is the subject of at least three pending complaints before the board. One concerns his handling of Ronald Bakken. According to police reports, on June 19, 1999 Bakken came home late and started arguing with his girlfriend. Bakken dragged the woman out of bed and said he was going to throw her out of the house. She fought him as he dragged her toward the door and ended up with a gash in her forehead that took eight stitches to close. Under the terms of a plea agreement, the main charge against Bakken was reduced to a misdemeanor and an accompanying charge of disorderly conduct was to be dismissed at sentencing.
When the case came before Campbell for sentencing a month later, however, the judge did not follow the original plea agreement. Instead, he dismissed the more serious assault charge and allowed the man to plead guilty to only disorderly conduct. Bakken, who could have faced up to a year in jail, was ordered to pay a $50 fine.
Campbell acknowledges he made a mistake. He says the problem was a jammed court calendar. The day he sentenced Bakken, he says, his morning schedule was packed. "I had eight domestics on it. Seven of the eight had pled out to reduced charges from domestic assault down to disorderly conduct. The last guy had pled down to simple fifth-degree assault, and in the pandemonium of the morning calendar, I mistakenly confused that case with the seven others and sentenced him to disorderly conduct. It was strictly an error of volume."
It didn't help that the prosecutor in the case was not present at the sentencing--something that's common practice in Ramsey County when a plea agreement has been reached in advance. Campbell says Bakken's attorney should have called his attention to the mistake. Perhaps, say the judge's detractors, but what defense attorney is going to point out that you just let their client off the hook?
Campbell has since apologized to the prosecutor, and he has attempted to correct the mistake, but correcting the mistake on paper now, when it's too late to enforce the terms of the original plea agreement, does little good.
Campbell volunteers that he discussed his version of events at Bakken's sentencing with members of the Board on Judicial Standards at the group's November meeting. He also says that he talked to board members about a complaint alleging that he made an inappropriate joke during an episode that has come to be known around the Ramsey County courthouse as "the cupcake incident."
Last year a group of teens caught drinking beer appeared in the judge's courtroom, Ramsey County prosecutors say the judicial-board complaint alleges. "Well, it's your lucky day," Campbell said as he dropped the charges against the kids, "because I'm Judge Cupcake." Campbell denies using his nickname in front of the youths.
Campbell has also talked to the board about a complaint involving an attorney he threw out of his courtroom. Campbell says the attorney was dawdling; other sources say they have heard that Campbell grew enraged when the attorney's client refused to plead guilty. Prosecutors say a fourth complaint, this one filed by a fellow judge concerning Campbell's behavior in her courtroom, is under investigation by the state board. Campbell declined to comment on this complaint.
Erika Law says she has lodged a fifth complaint with the board, which has said it will investigate. She's slightly disappointed that she was allowed to complain only about Campbell's courtroom demeanor, however. The board can decide whether a judge has violated the Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct regarding courtroom behavior, conflicts of interest, and incidents of gender or racial bias. But unless fraud is alleged, it does not have the power to look into judges' sentencing practices.
The outcome of the complaints may never be known. In 1999 the board received 144 complaints. Two judges were reprimanded and eight received warnings. None of the actions was made public.
Judges typically face losing their jobs only at election time. And the insular nature of the court system means most people have no idea who local judges are or what they're doing on the bench, says Denise Gamache, associate director of the Battered Women's Justice Project. "Chief justices will sometimes pressure judges to get in line and do things like everyone else, like urging them to follow sentencing guidelines," she says. "But if that doesn't happen, there really isn't anyone else around to ensure that judges rule fairly until it comes time for reelection, and by then most people can't remember who their local judges are."
It would be easier, say prosecutors and advocates for victims of domestic violence, to believe that the incidences of exceptional leniency that have occurred in Judge Campbell's courtroom are isolated episodes if he didn't have such a strong reputation for permissiveness. While most lawyers use all available legal means to avoid certain judges, one prosecutor quips that "defense attorneys move their cases so they can get on Judge Campbell's calendar."
Erika Law believes that Campbell relied on her husband's version of the facts of the case when he decided to be lenient. And the undisputed details of the crime, she insists, don't square with what Jeffrey Law told the judge. For example, Jeffrey Law told Campbell that he had stayed by his wife's side for 40 minutes after the attack to make sure she was all right--something that's not included in either of the statements the Laws made to police. At Law's sentencing, his attorney, Thomas Plunkett, suggested that this was because Erika Law had suffered a concussion during the assault and couldn't remember. Campbell said he believed Jeffrey Law.
"I suffered a concussion in the attack and I was very confused after having been unconscious a couple of different times as he choked me," says Erika Law. "But I don't recall him staying for 40 minutes to see if I was all right before he left that morning. Jeff says that's what happened and the judge just believed him, and that was a big reason why it seemed like he thought Jeff was not really a threat to me....The judge took the word of an attempted murderer over mine as justification for leniency in this case. What does that say to women? What does that say about our society?"
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner says she heard about the sentence and "knew right away that it was wrong." She was struck by how much weight the judge placed on testimony by several members of AA groups Law had been attending who said Law was a changed man. "The major problem we had with the judge taking these witnesses from his AA group so seriously was that alcohol and chemical dependency had nothing to do with this case," explains Gaertner. "Yes, the defendant had a history of abuse, but by his own admission he was not drunk or using drugs at the time of the crime. We were shocked by the ruling."
Gaertner and her staff immediately decided to appeal the sentence. Campbell was free to "depart" from the recommended sentence, the prosecutors say, but there's too much of a difference between one year in the workhouse and twelve and a half years in prison.
"The most outrageous part of this whole case was that this defendant was treated differently than other defendants," says Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Jean Schleh, who prepared the appeal. "The sentencing guidelines are there so that people, including judges, know that anyone who commits a certain crime gets a particular sentence. In this case, 99 percent of 100 defendants would have gotten the guideline sentence but it seems like this somehow struck a chord with Judge Campbell."
In the late 1970s, the Minnesota Legislature appointed a commission to draw up guidelines for appropriate sentences for different crimes. In 1980, the first set of sentencing guidelines went into effect. In addition to noting how a defendant's criminal history should be taken into account, the guidelines limit how severe sentences can be. Judges can deviate from the guidelines, but drastic departures can occur, according to commission rules, only when there are "substantial and compelling reasons" for them. Gaertner and her colleagues did not believe that Campbell had substantial and compelling reasons for giving Law so much less than the guideline sentence called for. In fact, they'd asked for an "upward departure" to the statutory limit of 20 years.
The guidelines don't apply to misdemeanors, though. And even when domestic assaults should be charged as felonies because of the severity of the crime, they are often charged only as misdemeanors, says Beverly Balos, a law professor at the University of Minnesota. Prosecutors, she explains, are often hesitant to push for felony convictions because they are harder to prove in court. "To me, that speaks to the bias in the system that must be changed," cautions Balos, who studies and lectures on violence against women. "The system puts a priority on resolving cases quickly. It takes time to gather the evidence to prove a felony case."
That gives judges an awful lot of power when it comes to domestic-violence cases. "The court system takes felonies much more seriously than misdemeanors," Balos says. "Judges are expected to stay within the sentencing guidelines when it comes to felonies. There are no hard and fast rules on misdemeanors. Not only does this system minimize the seriousness of misdemeanors when it comes to domestic abuse, but it sets up the question of just how seriously does someone need to be hurt before an assault is considered a felony?"
Campbell has also been criticized for his handling of the case of a White Bear Lake man charged with killing his wife and then setting fire to her home. In fall of 1999 Jean Weaver, who had recently asked her husband Gordon Weaver for a divorce, was found beaten in the basement of the burning home. Investigators say she was still alive when her body was set ablaze, and that she died of carbon monoxide poisoning. At the time of his arrest, Gordon Weaver's bail was set at $1 million. But Campbell reduced it to $300,000 against the urging of Ramsey County prosecutors who said they believed Weaver would be able to post bail and flee.
Campbell counters that Weaver's defense attorney told him that his client "was almost bankrupt. They say he has no money and that one of the motives is that his business is shot and he's penniless. I thought $300,000 might as well have been a million."
Weaver, who had denied having anything to do with his wife's death, posted bail within a week. When he didn't show up for a scheduled court appearance, police discovered he had left town. His abandoned car was found in Chicago last spring, but there was no sign of Weaver.
In 1988, when Campbell accepted his judicial appointment, he hoped he would have a role in solving people's thorniest problems. "I wanted to be a judge because I wanted to have an impact on people's lives," he recalls. "I wanted to have an impact on the system. I hope I've done a good job. I try to do the best that I can."
Campbell can't understand why his critics haven't stopped to consider what he was trying to do when he gave Law such a seemingly permissive sentence. Domestic violence is the most important crime judges deal with, he says; it's just that doing time isn't always the best way to motivate abusers to change their behavior. "What you want is the longest possible supervision for someone, which is what I attempted to do in the Law sentencing," he explains. "What's going on in my mind is that he's got an infant son, and [20 years of probation] will hang over his head for as long as his son is underage. If he violates, he's out of his son's life.
"I wanted to hang the biggest hammer over his head for the longest period of time," he continues. "Then, if he got out of the workhouse and smoked a joint, he'd go to prison for 19 more years. If he had a drink, he'd go to prison. If he called Erika, he'd go to prison.
"People object to that kind of sentence because it doesn't give people enough front-end time for their crimes," he adds. "But that's my philosophy for dealing with domestic abuse."
Jeffrey Law's attorney, Thomas Plunkett, maintains that Judge Campbell made the right decision. He thinks it is "unfair the way people are portraying Judge Campbell as a defense-oriented judge. He's just being scapegoated, I think."
Campbell disagrees with those who say it is his job to protect the victim. "It's a balance," he explains. "One of the things I learned from a psychiatrist who spoke to us as judges [is that] if a person is angry they won't listen to anything that you say. And so when somebody is standing in front of me in those ridiculous orange and green pajamas with plastic slippers--and in the case of African-Americans whose rubber bands have been taken away so their hair is wild--they're standing there and they don't feel good about themselves. It's not very dignified, so you try to boost them.
"So what you have to do as a judge, if they're going to listen to what you're telling them, is you've got to try to restore some dignity back to them," he continues. "And you do it in such a way that you're not being offensive to the victim and you're balancing that out."
Campbell may be well intentioned, says Denise Gamache of the Battered Women's Justice Project, but she feels that the controversy his rulings have sparked illustrates that the criminal-justice system still needs to work on its approach toward domestic violence. "After nearly 30 years of organizing and education on domestic-violence issues, judges are still making the kinds of statements that Judge Campbell made in the Law case in their courtrooms," she complains. "That just shows how they don't understand or aren't sympathetic enough to these issues to be qualified to rule in these cases."
Mary Louise Klas, a former Ramsey County District Court judge, believes that judges should be able to use their own discretion when it comes to sentencing, but, she's quick to add, they should also be held to some standard when it comes to ensuring that domestic violence is taken seriously. In 1987 the Minnesota Supreme Court appointed a task force to raise awareness about gender bias within the court system; Klas served on the panel from 1989 to 1999. (She retired last July.) During that time the group focused on educating judges on domestic violence and other family-law issues. It was a lot of work, Klas says, and it didn't do much good.
"I must say that I am discouraged by the lack of progress we made in improving judicial response to domestic violence," says Klas. "We brought in advocates and lawyers and prosecutors--everyone we could think of to speak. In the end it was my opinion that we needed to institutionalize judicial practices around the state. We need to hold judges accountable for their actions, because we trained up the kazoo and you know what? Training, shmaining--nothing has changed. Now it's time to watch what is actually going on in the courts and report on what judges are really doing and get the word out."
Klas says judicial accountability starts with keeping an eye on the courts. She would like to see an organization similar to WATCH set up shop in Ramsey County so the public has someone to call with questions on particular judges. "We also need some kind of centralized system where people can just type in a judge's name and get their sentences," says Klas.
Denise Gamache agrees, adding that there also needs to be a way for people to complain about judges without fear of retaliation. Attorneys can't usually speak for them, she explains, because they need to be able to return to a judge's courtroom.
In November a three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals considered Gaertner's appeal and reversed Campbell's decision in the Law case. The judge's decision, the appeals court said, "unreasonably depreciates the severity of the offense." The appellate court ordered Campbell to impose a stricter sentence.
The appeals-court ruling, says prosecutor Schleh, set a new legal precedent. Not only are there established maximum sentences in Minnesota, but now there is also a minimum. "We were thrilled to have gotten this result," she says. "There really haven't been any successful appeals on such huge downward departures before this. Precedent-setting law up until this point has all been about how high justices can go when imposing sentences. It's very rare for the appeals court to reverse the decision of a trial-court judge. The appeals court basically sent out a wake-up call to judges, saying, 'Hey, this is real life you're dealing with and there are restraints on being too lenient.'"
Everyone rises as Judge Campbell enters courtroom 1340 in the Ramsey County courthouse in downtown St. Paul. He's been in Ft. Lauderdale following his "beloved Gophers" over the Christmas holiday and his face looks tan against his black robe even under the harsh institutional lights of the courtroom.
It's January 4, 2001, and Jeffrey Law is back in court to receive a new sentence from Campbell. Erika Law is sitting in the front row of seats. On the other side of the courtroom, Law's relatives sit whispering about how thin he looks. "He's wasted away," one woman says, shaking her head. It's been a rough two months for Law. He had behaved himself in the workhouse and been released from jail early. He was a free man for a few days in early November before being hauled back to jail.
Campbell knows of Law's good behavior. And he seems upset as he sits, head in hand, listening to Law's attorney tell how Law now attends Bible study, and to Schleh, who stresses that children were endangered during the assault.
Finally it's Law's turn. He approaches the bench dressed in the baggy light-blue shirt and pants issued by the jail. His dark hair is smashed flat against his head and looks slept-on. He barely glances at his ex-wife. He looks up at Campbell and pleads for leniency. "I was a different man on October 25, 1999," Law says. "I was a miserable man, a selfish man doing drugs every day. I regret what I did. I wish I could change it, but I cannot. See me for the man before you today and not the man that choked my wife."
Campbell sighs. "Three judges of the court of appeals believe one year is not enough punishment," he tells Law. "They have directed me to give you a prison sentence." Law must serve 12-1/2 years, minus the 307 days he has already done. It cannot be argued, the judge says to no one in particular, that this sentence does not meet the guidelines. Law says nothing before being led away.
When it's over, Campbell takes a walk around the block to relax. Returning to the empty courtroom for the few minutes he has before hearing a rape case, he acknowledges that the Law case has been difficult for him. "[Law] participated in every single program imaginable at the workhouse and was a model prisoner and did all of the things you require a person to do, and then he got released," Campbell says. "When the appeals decision came down several days later, of course I put him immediately back in custody. Well, obviously his hopes were dashed and that's just an added thing on top of what I had to do today. His hopes had soared and he went on the roller coaster up and now he's down and that obviously makes you feel sad to do it.
"But you know what? He strangled his wife. I didn't. I mean, you get punishment."
City Pages interns Julie Madsen, Natasha Uspensky, and Ben Ganje contributed research to this story.
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The highlights: "Our specialty is glamour, pinup, pregnancy and couple photos," Scott says. Photo packages start at $50 and clients receive their photos the same day. Additional makeup services such as face and body painting (starting at $50) are on hand, too. Go ahead and Splurge — your friends will "like" it.
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I have a little problem with a POST request using AJAX. The data just doesn't seem to get stored in the database. When I used GET instead of POST it worked, but the problem is that it sends a huge amount of data since it is imagedata from a canvas on the page. I tried to print out the size of the data that is sent to make sure it actually is correct before it is sent (it was about 10500 characthers long).
Here's the Javascript/AJAX-code:
if(type == "DrawingData" && Drawer)
var CanvasData = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
var url = "DB_Com.php";
var params = "DrawingData="+CanvasData;
xmlhttp.open("POST", url, true);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
And here is the PHP-code:
$Image = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['DrawingData']);
$query = "UPDATE BlackboardDrawing SET Data = '$Image'";
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
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Delevan, NYUSA
November 14, 2012
Any, hiking, kayaking, bird watching, outdoor photography, camping preservation and conservation. Did i miss many?
Hello My Name is Laurie Gerstenslager; I am so happy to have found this local group. I have become a bird watcher more intensely in the last 4 years. I am a Audobon member.
Excellent so glad to have this group locally. We need to get the word out to the community,tell your friends!!
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The maps on maps.nokia.com are pretty amazing. I assume they're generating their own tiles but, does anyone know about the infrastructure behind site: the tile server used? and their JavaScript Library?
Nokia owns Navteq (acquired in 2008 for $8.1bn)
4 Tile Servers with pre caching
They do generate their own tiles from this vector data into raster tiled png format (256px x 256px) files
one example is http://1.maptile.lbs.ovi.com/maptiler/v2/maptile/newest/normal.day/13/4399/2685/256/png8?token=gBoUkAMoxoqIWfxWA5DuMQ&app_id=_peU-uCkp-j8ovkzFGNU
The Map Tiler Servers are:
The still use the old OVI MAPS API rebranded as Nokia Maps http://api.maps.nokia.com/en/index.html
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~ Awarded a Daily Deviation on December 20th, 2011 ~
Big time "thank you"s for Misha (aka OutsideFate) for the deviation suggestion! It was a very welcome surprise. Lots of hugs for you, man.
~ Awarded a Daily Deviation on December 20th, 2011 ~
Big time "thank you"s for Misha (aka OutsideFate) for the deviation suggestion! It was a very welcome surprise. Lots of hugs for you, man.
~ Awarded a Daily Deviation on November 24th, 2014 ~
My fifth DD! It's one of my favourite recent pieces, too, which made me absurdly happy seeing it featured. Thank you very much to ThoughtWeaver and C-91!
~ Awarded an IFDD's Daily Deviation on June 1st, 2010 in this journal and a Daily Deviation on November 14th, 2010 ~
A big thank you and many s to fanficbug for having suggested it!
|A short peek at the best of my gallery, which includes both prize-awarding deviations and popular deviations in general. Have fun, and be sure to look into my gallery for more!
I decided to dedicate a little room to the DDs I suggested so far, which were accepted. I hope you'll like the initiative and love these works as much as I do.
Accepted DD suggestions so far: 49
Latest accepted DD suggestion: April 19th, 2015
I keep suggesting regularly, so expect this number to grow soon.
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If you can't donate Points, I still appreciate llamas. I give them out to anyone who pays me a visit or adds my works to favourites. Thanks for your interest!
My name is Silver and I am an Italian fractal art amateur. I discovered the fractal world on December 31st, 2009, date of my first Apophysis creation, and then began working with Ultra Fractal on March 3rd, 2010. I have tried different fractal generators ever since, but my preference goes to the first two: to Apophysis for my affectionate remembrances of it, and to Ultra Fractal for its infinite artistic possibilities. I wish to get ever better in fractal art and widen my knowledge on that particular field.
I recently started commercializing my creations over the web. Besides the deviantART network, I also showcase my fractals and sell related products of many kinds on various sites. Here's the full list of web places I expose my creations at:
My Facebook page
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You also have the option to donate to my Patreon account.
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A G.I.'s WWII Memoir
Robert F. Gallagher served in the United States Army's 815th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Third Army) in the European Theater during WWII. He has posted his memoir online: "Scratch One Messerschmitt," told from numerous photos he took during the war and the detailed notes he made shortly afterwards. [more inside]
Field Force to Lhasa
Field Force to Lhasa 1903-04 Captain Cecil Mainprise accompanied General Sir Francis Younghusband's expedition to Tibet in 1903. He wrote 50 letters home which trace the expedition's progress into Tibet. Read this insider's account on the day they were written some 105 years later. Final post is 18 November 2009. [Via]
The Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Costume Illustration
The Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Costume Illustration has drawings of uniforms and regimental regalia from all over the world. Assembled by one of these great, eccentric collectors of the late 19th Century, Dr. H. J. Vinkhuijzen, a Dutch medical doctor who started out as an army physician and eventually rose to the position of official court physician to Prince Alexander of Netherlands. He pulled plates out of books, colored in black and white drawings and painted his own watercolor illustrations. His collection includes pictures of the soldiers of many different nations and eras, from military superpowers like the Roman Empire, France and Great Britain, to lesser known, but no less formidable forces, like Byzantium and Persia and even taking in such minnows as Luxembourg, Monaco and Montenegro. Due to Vinkhuijzen's unusual classification system it can be hard to find some of the more interesting images, such as pictures of Etruscan cavalry, Spanish military musicians and 1830's Belgian ambulance.
British find WMDs, evidence of gruesome experiments on human guinea pigs!
The British find WMDs, evidence of gruesome experiments on human guinea pigs. This, plus recent shipments of the chemical precursors needed to produce sarin and other chemical weapons to countries such as Libya, Iran, Syria, and Sudan should pretty much wrap things up, no?!
Britain's Small Wars
Britain's Small Wars since 1945. India, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Suez Canal Zone, Kenya, Cyprus, Suez 1956, Borneo, Vietnam, Aden, Radfan, Oman, Dhofar, etc. Iraq and East Timor not featured, as yet.
MOD Selects The Carlyle Group as Preferred Bidder for QinetiQ. In a move that seems to be going ahead with very little coverage, Britain's military research agency is being sold off to a foreign company. Given the important role Qinetiq plays in Britain's Defense, and the type of business The Carlyle Group is, this is perhaps surprising...
"Britain to install early warning bases in Oregon."
"Britain to install early warning bases in Oregon." These will be sited on US air bases in areas of protected wilderness, but will be leased out to the UK and solely answerable to HM Govt, with no state or Congressional accountability. If you protest outside, you'll be prosecuted on trumped-up charges. Oh, and they'll be tapping your phones and emails as well. (more inside...)
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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 541-563
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Dynamic Embodied Cognition
- Leon C. de BruinAffiliated withDepartment of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum Email author
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In this article, we investigate the merits of an enactive view of cognition for the contemporary debate about social cognition. If enactivism is to be a genuine alternative to classic cognitivism, it should be able to bridge the "cognitive gap", i.e. provide us with a convincing account of those higher forms of cognition that have traditionally been the focus of its cognitivist opponents. We show that, when it comes to social cognition, current articulations of enactivism are—despite their celebrated successes in explaining some cases of social interaction—not yet up to the task. This is because they (1) do not pay sufficient attention to the role of offline processing or "decoupling", and (2) obscure the cognitive gap by overemphasizing the role of phenomenology. We argue that the main challenge for the enactive view will be to acknowledge the importance of both coupled (online) and decoupled (offline) processes for basic and advanced forms of (social) cognition. To meet this challenge, we articulate a dynamic embodied view of cognition. We illustrate the fruitfulness of this approach by recourse to recent findings on false belief understanding.
KeywordsSocial cognition Enactivism Embodied cognition Cognitive gap False belief understanding
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- Dynamic Embodied Cognition
- Journal
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Volume 11, Issue 4 , pp 541-563
- Cover Date
- 2012-12
- 10.1007/s11097-011-9223-1
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- 1568-7759
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- 1572-8676
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Social cognition
- Enactivism
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- 1. Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany


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well time has come for me to move on and sort out what i want to with my life so this is a goodbye from me and thank you for letting me be part of this great community.
Thanks For A Great Year
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Posted 18 April 2004 - 07:21 PM
Posted 18 April 2004 - 10:35 PM
Bye,nice havin ya.(even though i dont really know know you) Do you have any intentions coming back?like when halo2 comes?
Posted 19 April 2004 - 12:28 AM
onlyme u inspired me to start on those ntsc hce codes templates have replaced us! im also glad (and yet at the same time, saddened) that u were one of the few to submit a hce skin to xboxskins. maybe u could head up to a little place in minnesota called edina where we can pimp some of these fine minnesota bitches together. jk of course, stop in once in a while and holla, have fun bud.
Posted 19 April 2004 - 12:39 AM
jus cool bredrin till next time
Posted 19 April 2004 - 10:31 AM
Sorry to hear this , I hope you have a great life. Whatever you decide to do I hope you can still find the time to game. Please stop in from time to time to keep up with what is going on and lend us your help when you can.
May you have everything you want & want everything you have
May you have everything you want & want everything you have
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Posted 19 April 2004 - 07:24 PM
Thanks for your contributions to the scene, and good luck in whatever you decide to do! Come back for Halo 2, and good luck. I'll drink to that!
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Things are looking up for newsroom Bills fans
Being a Buffalo Bills fan in our newsroom made me feel lonelier than the Maytag repairman.
I was by myself for several years, amid a sea of Steelers and Browns supporters.
It didn't help that the Bills have been putrid for many of the 13 years I have worked at the Erie Times-News. Their last playoff game was January 2000, which ended with the Tennessee Titans' infamous and illegal "Home Run Throwback" pass.
When Steelers fans whined about actually losing a Super Bowl for once (something Bills fans know a lot about), I imagined how exciting it would be just to make the playoffs.
But a strange thing has happened during the past year in our newsroom. It is quietly filling up with Bills fans.
Our education reporter, Sean McCracken, loves the Bills. So does Tina Marsh, a copy editor.
And Buffalo fan Steve Sucato, one of our paginators, recently had his desk moved into the newsroom.
Now there are four of us. When's the last time you saw four Buffalo Bills fans in Erie, other than at the Colony Pub & Grille, where the Erie-area Bills Backers Club meets?
This comes as the Bills start to wake from their long slumber as AFC East doormats.
Buffalo won its first four games last season, and rallied twice from 18-point deficits to win on consecutive weeks.
It wasn't to last, though, as the Bills struggled in the second half of the season and lost eight of their last nine games.
As other teams lined up to woo future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning this offseason, word spread early last week that superstar defensive end Mario Williams, a free agent like Manning, was traveling to Buffalo to meet with the Bills' front office.
Then we heard Mario was going to stay in Buffalo a second day, and later a third. Finally, news broke that Williams signed a six-year, $100 million contract to play for the Bills.
It was the biggest free-agent signing in team history and a shock to many NFL experts, who had predicted Williams would never go to "The Siberia of the NFL."
E-mails flew fast and furious that day among us Bills fans. When Williams officially signed that afternoon, you couldn't wipe the grins off our faces with a Terrible Towel.
I don't expect Erie to turn into a mini-Buffalo. There are far too many fans of the Black and Gold to ever let that happen.
But our numbers are growing, both inside our newsroom and out.
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Marci tries out her costume -- Juno!
In a display of holiday spirit (and not pregnancy cravings), Marci puts icing on our big tray of Halloween cookies. Yes, we ate them all ourselves.
Steve sews patches onto his new Ghostbuster costume. Are you sure this guy is cut out to be a dad?
Sean & Kelly's house at dusk.
Marci serves food at Sean's party.
Steve standing where he always does -- by the food.
Steve standing in front of the Ecto.
Yep, Steve loves that car.
Marci hands out candy to all the trick-or-treaters. There were well over 200 of them!
Everybody mingles in the back yard.
Sean saying hello to the newest Ghostbuster recruit.
Steve, Marci and baby. The happy Halloween family!


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Each year, awards presented on behalf of the Alumni Association are given to outstanding alumni and a faculty or staff member of The College of St. Scholastica. These awards are particularly prestigious because alumni embody the enduring values of The College of St. Scholastica and impart them to our world through their personal and professional activities and relationships. Recognition by alumni is the highest award the College can give.
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The Sister Ann Edward Scanlon Award is given to an alumna/alumnus who like its namesake:
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Sister Mary Rochefort '70 serves as vice president of mission integration at the College. She helps instill the Benedictine Values in students, faculty and staff through leading activities and prayer as well as her writings. She devotes a great amount of time to community service, giving retreats and days of reflection for women; helping local second-graders prepare for their First Communion; and serving on the Essentia Health St. Mary's Medical Center Board in Duluth. Her nominator writes: "Above all, Sister Mary is a trustworthy person of integrity who is a woman of prayer. Her deep faith and reliance on prayer aids her in all her endeavors."
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The Sister Alice Lamb Award is a career achievement award given to an alumna/alumnus who:
About Sister Alice Lamb: Sister Alice Lamb was associated with the College for 52 years before her death in 1983. She was a professor and head of the Biology Department and later academic dean of the College. This award in her name recognizes her lifelong commitment to her profession and the College.
Susan Dekich '78 is the longest-serving teacher in her school district, and is one of the first to arrive and the last to leave each day. She teaches children with special needs and learning disabilities, and also volunteers her time by running school dances and the school store. Her nominator writes: "Her job can be very difficult, but she embraces each day with a positive attitude that radiates to her students." Susan volunteers through several organizations in Grand Rapids, including the local homeless shelter and her church. An avid supporter of St. Scholastica, she donates to the College and participates in homecoming reunion activities.
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The Sister Timothy Kirby Benedictine Spirit Award recognizes a graduate of St. Scholastica who:
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David Sparby '76 recently retired as the regional CEO of Xcel Energy. His previous positions include VP and CFO of Xcel Energy and president and CEO of Northern States Power Company - Minnesota. Throughout his career, he was known as a leader who valued and respected his colleagues. He has been involved in charity work through Xcel and the United Way, and led green energy initiatives that have made Xcel a sustainable energy leader. He serves on the St. Scholastica Board of Trustees, and is proud of his family legacy at the College: his mother, wife and children are all Saints alums. He enjoys attending alumni events with his family.
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The Scholastica Inspiration Award, established in 1994, honors a faculty or staff person whose interest and care for students made a significant impact on their lives.
Heidi Johnson is the first year/information literacy librarian at St. Scholastica, and is known for her patience and ability to listen well, an emphasis in the Rule of St. Benedict. Her nominator writes: "Heidi embodies what it means to be a faculty member at a Benedictine institution." With a passion for historic preservation, she shows commitment in her volunteer role of College Archivist, Pro Tem. She has designed a records database, modified the classification system used to organize photos and documents, and digitized a tremendous amount of primary documents. Heidi is also very involved in a wide range of other volunteer activities.
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This award presented Homecoming Weekend, honors an alumnus or alumna who:
Rob Kehr graduated in 2003 with a B.A. majoring in Computer Information Systems. He interned at Securian Financial Group and after graduation began working for them full-time as an assistant production management analyst. In 2004, he became a supervisor in production management. In 2006, a promotion and additional responsibilities to support business continuity planning were added. Again he was promoted in 2010 to a senior manager position leading production management and two key service management practices within the organization.
At this time, Rob additionally became a member of the IT Vendor Management team negotiating technology contracts for Securian. When he was again promoted in 2012, this time specifically due to his leadership skills, he moved to the development support area which continues to be his current position as a Tech Manager responsible for Securian's application development platforms and database administration.
In spite of this demanding position, Rob has remained active at CSS. He serves on an IT board for St. Scholastica, connecting with CIS faculty on campus to ensure that curriculum and experiential learning opportunities parallel the necessary skills required for new graduates to enter IT positions at Securian. Rob has also been an instrumental part of Securian's on-campus recruiting efforts at the Duluth Main Campus. He has been part of the Securian team who leads information sessions for current CSS students-bridging his roles as an alumnus and a Securian employee-in addition to attending a variety of statewide job/internship fairs. He values the continued relationship he has with CSS faculty and staff.
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No Business for Old Men
The downside of longevity gets a workout at Penn State and Olympus.
One of the mysteries of human existence is the willingness of people to sacrifice themselves for institutions, often in ways that don't do the institutions any good.
Two leaders of Penn State's administration have been indicted for perjury and for failing to report child sex abuse, which they presumably did to protect the image of Penn State, even at considerable risk to themselves (as they perhaps belatedly realize). Uncharged so far is the assistant coach who nine years ago allegedly witnessed child rape by a fellow coach in the team's locker room and didn't intervene, didn't call the police. Instead he reported the incident to Joe Paterno. A fact lost in certain media accounts today is that a 28-year-old "graduate coach" is an adult.
Lachrymose former jocks on TV look upon all this and seem to believe that all were trying to protect a child molester. They weren't. They were trying to protect Penn State.
These events are hard to fathom, but understanding surely begins with the following facts: The two officials indicted had each been associated with the school in some fashion for 40 years. Mr. Paterno had been a Penn State coach for 61 years. Jerry Sandusky, the alleged criminal pedophile, had been involved with Penn State football for nearly 50 years, beginning as a student player.
The other freak show in the news, the Japanese company Olympus, has its own inexplicable elements. But consider that now-disgraced company Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa has been with the company 50 years. His two top aides, both implicated, have been around for 40 years. Even the British executive who pulled the string that unraveled their scheme, Michael Woodford, had worked for Olympus for 30 years.
For those who find football more interesting than a Japanese company best known for gastric endoscopes, here's the CliffsNotes version:
The scandal appears to have its roots in the late '80s, when a previous management tried to boost revenues and profits with speculative securities purchases during Japan's famous and lamented bubble years. Mr. Woodford, as a senior executive, apparently knew nothing of these investments when he began asking questions about strange fees and odd acquisitions recorded in the company's books in succeeding years. His questions were inconvenient. He was kicked upstairs, then fired, at which point—unlike anyone at Penn State—he went public with his concerns. An investigation became inevitable and last week the company's leadership finally admitted the inflated acquisitions were actually accounting gimmicks designed to allow Olympus to bring back on its balance sheet the losses management had spent two decades hiding.
We live in two worlds when it comes to authority: A primitive one, in which daddy figures like Mr. Paterno and Mr. Kikukawa are morally hectored not only to be exemplars in performance of their own duties, but also to make up for the failures of everyone around them.
We also, in our more adult moments, want to rely on impersonal mechanisms of accountability that reinforce the desired behavior, rather than simply demanding it from a pulpit.
In this latter quest, U.S. business has been leading, with such reviled practices as golden parachutes, commonly denounced as a "reward" for failure. But rewards are after-the-fact, and why pay anybody for performance that's already in the bag? Such big-buck carrots are all about shaping behavior before the fact, not after. That's the cold logic of business incentives.
No, the system isn't perfect and doesn't always deliver the results we'd like. Nor is it obvious how it might be extended to other institutions in society, which lack a constituency (shareholders) whose interests can be reduced to a single metric (share price).
But notice something else: Despite public and press hostility, such incentives have become virtually mandatory in the ecosystem of relentless natural selection that U.S. companies inhabit.
Notice, too, that such incentives tend to demote the self-protective and tribal loyalties and other interpersonal values so evident in the Penn State and Olympus cases—and that putting such human values in the shade is a feature, not a bug.
Notice, finally, that when the loop of accountability is closed in such fashion, one apparent result is conspicuously shorter CEO tenure. The average CEO nowadays sees the door after six years, down from nine years in the late 1990s. In publicly traded U.S. companies, you won't often find a Joe Pa or Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, somebody whose personal influence (even innocently) can cause internal culture to drift dangerously out of touch with societal expectations.


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I recently have created a list in my head of places I want to travel to and I thought since I haven't posted a journal in forever that I would put that list down here. And this list is in no particular order.
1. Japan
2. New York
3. Taiwan
4.New Orleans (I've already been there 4 times but i still love it)
4. Italy
5. Dublin, Ireland
6. London, England
7. Edinburgh, Scotland
8. Paris,France
9. Germany
10. India
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I have been building a store using eShop for over a week now. Using test mode going through all the checkout screens and using Paypal Sandbox just fine. No problems.
But i updated today to Version 6.2.9, and now when i press the "Proceed to Confirmation" in either test mode or live mode i just get a blank page with no system output under the page title.
All settings are correct, it should be working, but it is not.


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Tomas Challenger
Tomas Challenger is a leading figure of the young progressive jazz/improvisation scene in Britain. He is both a saxophonist and composer, and leads many of his own projects. He is also an active sideman and educator, and works in a variety of contexts.
He has worked with, amongst others: John Taylor, Mike Garrick, Don Rendell, Julian Joseph, Clark Tracy, Chris Bowden, Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward (This Heat), John Edwards, The London Jazz Orchestra, Stan Sulzmann, Gwilym Simcock, Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland), The Herbaliser, Chris Bowden, Tim Holmes (Death in Vegas), Elan Mehler, Jose James and Jeremy Warmsley. As a member of the Heritage Orchestra he has collaborated and recorded with Airto Moreira, Brian Eno, Gilles Peterson, Deodato, The Bays, Plaid and Amon Tobin.Read more
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After being active for around 18 months, the band successfully released their debut album, 'JYKETIE'
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Glad I upgraded to bellicon!
By Anne, December 29, 2013
I just received the bellicon yesterday and although I have not had time to do a full workout on it, I did get on for a few bounces. I was so impressed with the quality, the packaging, ease of putting the legs on (even the threading on the legs is top notch machined) I had a cheaper rebounder and still do but so glad I upgraded to your very superior one.
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The application deadline for the 2016-2017 school year was February 1, 2016. Click here to check the status of your application.
If you would like to see Blessed Trinity in action, tours are offered on most Thursday mornings beginning on November 5, 2015. Reservations are required... please call the school at 678-277-9083 to make a reservation.
Shadowing is available for current eighth grade students who are interested in seeing what it is like to be a Blessed Trinity student. Shadowing will take place on Wednesdays beginning on November 11, 2015. You must register your child online to shadow after you have completed the online application. This process will begin after our annual Open House on October 25, 2015. The dates and times will be listed.
Blessed Trinity is unable to admit students that are in the United States on an I-20 or other visa. Students must be United States citizens or permanent residents to apply to Blessed Trinity.
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NAIROBI – At least 10 people were confirmed dead on Monday in a slum in Embu, a town located some 120kms northeast of the capital Nairobi, after consuming illegal brew.
"We can confirm that ten died after taking the drink. One has been blinded," Dr. Mark Nderitu of the Embu Provincial Hospital told Anadolu Agency by phone.
He said more than 20 others have been hospitalized, including three in critical conditions.
Nderitu said the victims had been drinking at a popular illegal brew bar in Embu.
"We are yet to ascertain what chemical was in the brew but we suspect methanol," he added.
Although Kenya has outlawed local brews unscrupulous brewers continue to sell cheap illicit brew, especially in poverty-stricken parts of the East African country.
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Buy 1 Get 2 Free! All Crayola Products at Toys R Us
All Crayola Products Buy 1 Get 2 Free from today @ 3pm EST till Midnight and Tomorrow 6am to 1pm.
Most Products are available for Free In Store Pick Up But some of the items can only be shipped which you will need to pay for so be sure and look for that.
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Not all are priced that way. And much of what is on website is not available for shipping. Good price if you can get to stores.
Not all crayola products available, it's mostly the art supplies, especially those in small quantities.
There's another set of crayola products that is buy 1 get the other 50% off, most of their larger items.
There are definitely some good deals here if you can get to a store or are buying enough for free shipping (although many items are already sold out). $6.99 for 3 96-packs of crayons is a good deal.
Shipping on 3 items was $7.99, but they offer free in-store pickup. However, the 7 stores in a 50 mile radius from me claim that they don't carry the items in-store. Scam artists.
Looks like a good opportunity to try out my brand new shiny free shoprunner account. :)
WOW. It took the cheapest item as the "1" and the two most expensive as the "2 free"! What a deal! $3.42!
@pyrcedgrrl: Isn't it possible that the items are simply sold out or unavailable for pickup in stores near you? I just tested an item and it was in stock at every store near my zip code. Some didn't allow for store pickup and one (a temporary store set up for the holidays) didn't allow me to check inventory. It doesn't seem like a scam.
Looks like non of these are "eligible" for shoprunner shipping. Dejection sets in.
Hell yeah! I'm comin' up on some crayons son!
Hey, I'm happy. Spent $5.24 for $20+ worth of items and I'll go pick them up tomorrow. Thanks!
What a great deal! I just ordered $107.00 worth of crayons for $16.96. EVerybody's getting Crayon's for Christmas. :)
Wow! This is awesome! I ordered 3 packs of 64 ct crayons for $5 - will be picking them up tomorrow from my local TRU!
Does anybody know if this is the "biggest sale of the season(!!!)"? If I had any nails left, I would chew them...oh what to do......
@shoprgyrl: The only other time I saw them have this sale was on Black Friday. Normally they do BOGO 50% off as the most I've seen sale wise other then this. So i would shop this sale like it's the last one for the year since I haven't seen this offer at all this year other than Black Friday. :)
I just received cancellations of the crayon orders I placed earlier. They didn't even include the courtesy of an explanation. I find that very rude of ToysRUs! I have sent them a couple of complaints along with my order numbers.
Great deal, except they are sold out of most of the ones I wanted.
I placed two orders. I hope they don't get canceled
Is this deal still available? I added 3 crayola products to my cart and had to pay for all 3 at checkout. If this deal isn't available anymore can you take Expire it please?
Or is there some code you need to input?
@chuckyj1: The deal hasn't expired yet but they are offering far fewer products than they did yesterday. http://www.toysrus.com/searchHandler/index.jsp?promoId=12464723&type=trigger
I couldn't get it to make 2 products free-even though they were all qualifying crayon products. Maybe they suspended the deal for online shoppers.
They've changed it now. Yesterday, you could select one of the cheapest items, and two of any other items, and get those free. Today however, they only give you the second and third items free if you buy three of the same kind. But even then, they sent me cancellations of the two orders I placed. They are advertising this buy 1 get 2 free deal all over, but then cancel your orders. It makes no sense. I've tried 5 times, orders went through, paid via Paypal, then received cancellation notice.


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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Kevin Shattenkirk and Alexander Steen scored shootout goals to lift the St. Louis Blues to 4-3 win over the New York Islanders after a puzzling goal-reversal call in overtime.
Thomas Vanek appeared to score the winner for the Islanders on the power play with 1 minute, 15 seconds left in overtime, but the play was overturned on review. The puck dribbled past Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak and went to Toronto for review. The puck appeared to hit Vanek's skate but the distinct kicking motion that usually negates goals wasn't apparent.
"I thought it was a terrible call," Vanek said. "I think we all know what a kicking motion is. My skate never elevated, it was on the ice the whole time. I don't know if it's because who we are. I think if that's Pittsburgh or some of those top teams, it's maybe a goal."
Matt Martin had put the Islanders ahead 3-2 midway through the second period. T.J. Oshie tied the game at 19:33 with his 12th goal.
Vanek and Kyle Okposo scored in the first period for the Islanders. Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice for the Blues.
- Bruins 6, Flyers 1: At Philadelphia, Jarome Iginla and Zdeno Chara each had two goals, Tuukka Rask made 25 saves and Boston beat the Flyers.
Reilly Smith and Patrice Bergeron also had goals for the Bruins. The defending Eastern Conference champions are 3-0-1 since losing five of eight, and trail only Pittsburgh in the conference.
Claude Giroux scored a power-play goal for the slumping Flyers, who've lost four in a row. They're 2-5-2 in their past nine games, tumbling from second place in the division to eighth in the East.
- Hurricanes 6, Senators 3: At Raleigh, N.C., Manny Malhotra had two goals and an assist to lead Carolina.
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Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama has died of natural causes in Berkeley, Calif., at age 93. The lifelong champion of civil rights causes in the black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities died peacefully in her sleep Sunday morning, according to her family.
Born in 1921 as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, Kochiyama spent the early years of her life in San Pedro, Calif., a small town south of Los Angeles. Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she and her family were forced to relocate to internment camps along with tens of thousands of other Japanese-Americans. She met her late husband, Bill Kochiyama, who served with other Japanese-American soldiers in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, where she spent two years.
The couple married after World War II and moved to start their family in New York City. Living in housing projects among black and Puerto Rican neighbors inspired her interest in the civil rights movement. Kochiyama held weekly open houses for activists in the family's apartment, where she taped newspaper clippings to the walls and kept piles of leaflets on the kitchen table. "Our house felt like it was the movement 24/7," said her eldest daughter, Audee Kochiyama-Holman.
Her brief but formative friendship with Malcolm X, whom she first met in 1963, helped radicalize her activism. Kochiyama began focusing her work on black nationalism and was with Malcolm X during his final moments. Minutes after gunmen fired at Malcolm X in 1965 during his last speech in New York City, she rushed toward him and cradled his head on her lap. A black-and-white photo in Life magazine shows Kochiyama peering worriedly through horn-rimmed glasses at Malcolm X's bullet-riddled body.
In the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988. Her continued dedication to social causes inspired younger generations of activists, especially within the Asian-American community.
"She was not your typical Japanese-American person, especially a nisei," or a second-generation Japanese-American, said Tim Toyama, Kochiyama's second cousin, who wrote a one-act play about her relationship with Malcolm X.
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