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Saturday, January 8, 2005
AALS—Day 4
The annual program hits its high point this afternoon, with the Contracts Section program at 1:30 p.m. Chair Juliet Kostritsky leads a panel on "Incomplete Contracts: The Implications for Contract Law." Panelists are Richard Craswell (Stanford), Avery Katz (Columbia), and Bob Scott and George Triantis (Virginia). The business meeting follows.
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Today in history—January 8
1675: The first domestic American corporation is chartered, the New York Company for Settleing [sic] a Fishery in These Parts. It is one of only six corporations to be chartered in the country before independence.
1825: Inventor and manufacturer Eli Whitney dies. He was only 32 when, in 1797, he invented the process of manufacturing products from interchangeable parts. He breached his contract with the government to deliver 10,000 muskets by 1799—but the government fortunately forgave him and let him deliver six years late.
1838: The first telegraph message using dots and dashes is sent. It is "A patient waiter is no loser." The code system was developed by Alfred Vail of Morristown, New Jersey.
1889: Dr. Herman Hollerith gets a patent for the first punch-card calculating system. It is successfully used on the subsequent 1890 census.
1901: The American Bowling Congress holds its first sanctioned tournament in Chicago.
1905: The logical positivist philosopher Carl Gustav Hempel is born at Orianenburg, Germany.
1942: Physicist Stephen Hawking is born at Oxford, England. In 1989, a research project done for Time-Life Books will disclose that his A Brief History of Time is the book that subscribers to Reader's Digest Condensed Books most want to read. Only later is it discovered that the company that did the survey ranked the books exactly backwards.
1976: With Citizens Band radio at its zenith, C.W. McCall's Convoy hits the top of the pop charts. "Ah, breaker 1-9, this here's the Rubber Duck. You got a copy on me, Pigpen, c'mon?" "Yeah, 10-4, Pigpen, for sure. By golly, it's clean clear to Flagtown, c'mon."
1980: Physicist and engineer John W. Mauchly dies in Ambler, Pennsylvania. With John Eckert, he will develop in 1946 the first general-purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). .It consumes 100 kW of electric power and contains 18,000 electronic valves. They will also collaborate on the first commercial computer, UNIVAC, in 1951.
1987: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,000 for the first time.
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Farmers claim government breached water contract
The Supreme Court may be a whiz when it comes to criminal procedure or the Commerce Clause, but it doesn't really do contract law. So it will be interesting to see what strange gyrations the Nine Wise Old Guardians go through in resolving a major contract dispute involving water rights in the West.
The case involves farmers and ranchers whose existing water rights are being infringed by federal action to protect endangered species or protect other environmental interests. The federal actions have driven many family farmers to bankruptcy, and they are suing. Law.com quotes their lawyer, William A. Smiland of Los Angeles: "[T]he rules may have changed in the middle of the game. We are going to ask the Court to reaffirm they haven't changed. We have a rule of law here."
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Cases—Notice—Reasonable notice required for right of first refusal
When a right of first refusal on a piece of real estate does not specify the notice period required, the right extends for a "reasonable" period, according to the Minnesota Supreme Court in a case of first impression. Similarly, the person holding the right has a "reasonable" time to respond.
Plaintiff David Dyrdal leased 630 acres of Red River Valley land from Golden Nuggets, Inc. He had a right of first refusal to buy the property if GNI decided to sell. One day in 2001, GNI's farm manager orally notified Dyrdal that a contract for sale was pending, and gave him 48 hours to respond. Dyrdal did not respond within that time, claiming he had 45 days to respond. GNI went ahead and sold the property. Dyrdal did not attempt to exercise his right during the 45 days.
The 48 hour oral notice was unreasonable, said the court in an en banc opinion by Justice Russell Anderson:
We hold that when, as in this case, the lease provides the lessee with right of first refusal but is otherwise silent regarding the right, the lessor need only provide reasonable notice of the essential terms of an offer of sale to trigger the lessee's obligation to timely exercise his right of first refusal. We acknowledge that upon receiving notice of sale, the lessee may need to clarify or investigate uncertainties or ambiguities in essential sale terms before exercising the lessee's first refusal right, but we also hold that such inquiry, and lessor's response thereto, must be reasonable, timely and in good faith.
The plaintiff nevertheless lost, said the court, because he did not act even within the 45 days he claimed he had. Dyrdal v. Golden Nuggets, Inc., 2004 Minn. LEXIS 755 (Dec. 16, 2004).
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Friday, January 7, 2005
AALS--Day 3
The Mother Ship never stops innovating. Taking account of the problem of America's unhealthy diet, they've come up with a new approach to the beverage and snack stations between panels. Outside the meeting rooms they have large tables covered with piles of cups, but on which coffee and snack foods are never placed. There are tea bags, but no hot water. It's certainly good for us, but there were a lot of yawns at the mid-morning sessions. Yesterday was the day to skip out for a frolic, because traditional San Francisco drizzle is coming down today. Nothing can dampen the spirits of the crowds milling around the Hilton lobby, though. The ring of caffeine-free conversation of little knots of lively people echoes off the big inverted-wedding-cake chandeliers. The lobby is nice, but could use some remodeling. For example, the center is dominated by a large globe that is badly out of date, since it is labeled with places like "India orientalis," "Turcheftan," and the place that ought to be Siberia, although misshaped, is labeled "Carthaio." Australia, in particular, seems to be missing. Last night's Gala was a huge success, with hundreds of people standing packed together and looking for familiar faces. Most popular pickup line: "So, what's your research agenda?" More panels are on tap for this afternoon, and will certainly look interesting to those interested in those sorts of things. There are a good many social events tonight. SALT is having its Robert Cover Study Group. The topic will be, "The Attack of Civil Liberties." The brochure doesn't mention who or what they're attacking, but the best guess is the Bush Administration. It's at 7 p.m. Also at 7 p.m., the people who the real work in law schools, the Legal Writing folks, are having their Blackwell Award Reception and giving out their Golden Pen Award. The two items that look the best, though, are Vermont Law School's "Taste of Vermont" Reception from 7 to 9 p.m., and Samford/Cumberland's "12th Annual Dean's Dessert." See you there.
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Town faces sewage, lawyers
The sewage problem in Cortez, Colorado, is getting worse. Not only is the city's proposed new sewage treatment facility stalled in mid-construction, but now they're faced with lawyers, too.
The Cortez Sanitation District is embroiled in a contract dispute with a contractor that walked away from the project. The contractor, RMCI of New Mexico, claims that the district and its engineers misrepresented the site's soil conditions, provided misleading survey information and obstructed work through "overzealous work inspections." It is seeking $12 million in damages for breach of contract and negligence. The district, which terminated the contract on September 7, claims RMCI has failed to do the required work.
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Today in history—January 7
1782: The first commercial bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia.
1827: Sir Sandford Fleming is born. While surveying the route of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway, he will come up with the idea of standard time zones as a way to simplify scheduling and control.
1871: Félix-Édouard-Justin-Émile Borel is born in St. Affrique, France. He is best known as the inventor of the "infinite monkey theorem," under which a monkey given an infinite amount of time will inevitably type out every manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Every year students attempt to prove this on their law school exams.
1922: Actor Vincent Gardenia, who plays Murray Melman on L.A. Law is born.
1927: Transatlantic telephone service is inaugurated between New York and London. Thirty-one calls are made the first day, at $75 for five minutes.
1943: Nikola Tesla dies. Tesla invented the basic technology for alternating current, and sold the patent rights to George Westinghouse.
1946: Rock publishing entrepreneur Jann Wenner in born in New York City. He'll go on to found Rolling Stone magazine in a San Francisco warehouse at age 21, using his wife's family money.
1954: DuMont Laboratories introduces the Duoscopic television receiver, allowing viewers to watch two programs simultaneously. The company is too far ahead of its time; the product flops.
1970: Max Yasgur's neighbors sue him for $40,000 for damage to their caused by the 450,000 people who descended on his farm for the Woodstock festival in August, 1969.
1998: Inventor Jerome L. Murray dies. In 1951, while watching passengers at Miami International Airport walking through the rain to get to their planes, he will invent the aircraft boarding ramp.
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Cases—Interpretation—Usage of trade
A manufacturer of glass beads used in reflective paint was entitled to judgment because its products performed in according with normal usage of trade, even though they failed the buyer's tests, according to the Indiana Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision.
The manufacturer, Todd Heller, Inc., sold the beads to the Indiana Department of Transportation. They were required to meet certain moisture standards. The tests performed by Heller showed that the beads passed, but those performed by INDOT showed that they failed. It turns out that while both were doing the same basic test, Heller tilted the container and poured water in slowly, while INDOT just dumped water in. INDOT finally terminated the agreement, and Heller sued. Heller offered testimony that its method was the industry standard for performing the test. The trial court rejected the testimony and held for INDOT.
This was error, wrote Judge Riley. Under the Illinois UCC, trade usage is read into every contract. Here, Heller's evidence that everyone in the trade poured water the same way it did was not rebutted, and was credible. Thus INDOT's failure to conduct the test in accord with trade usage was a breach of contract.
In dissent, Judge Vaidik argued that the trade usage evidence was overridden by a specific clause, which said that ""All bidders are required to be familiar with the methods of sampling, testing and reporting that are used by [INDOT]. This may be accomplished by contacting the Materials and Tests Division. Such procedures will be binding upon the successful bidder throughout the contract period." Since bidders were on notice that INDOT's method, not the industry's, would be used, she argued that the trial court's decision should have been upheld. Todd Heller, Inc. v. Indiana Dep't of Trans., 2004 Ind. App. LEXIS 2483 (4th Dist. Dec. 16, 2004).
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Thursday, January 6, 2005
AALS—Day 2
Just when you thought they couldn't do it, the AALS has managed to hold its Annual Conference at a hotel that is just as big a rabbit warren as the Godawful Marriot Wardman Park. Here at the San Francisco Hilton, conference registration is up six escalators and around the corner from the main lobby. The message center is down the hall, around the corner, up two different escalators, down a hallway, hang a left, go down a short flight of stairs, go left again . . . .
There's a ton of stuff going on today, but this is being typed in the lobby of the Hilton, whose wireless network costs $.25 a minute to use, and so you can go read it yourself at the AALS website.
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Widow sues for breach after husband's body moved from grave
A widow whose husband's body was moved from his grave without her knowledge is suing the town that operates the cemetery.
Carole Pomroy says she continued to visit the grave site and leave flowers for a "long time" after the town of Levant, Maine, had moved the body from the grave in Waugh Cemetery. She apparently did not notice that the ground had been disturbed because of snow cover. The town says that Mrs. Pomroy's husband was erroneously buried in a plot already owned by someone else. The town's attorney says that they tried to contact Mrs. Pomroy, but were unsuccessful.
She is seeking damages for breach of contract and emotional distress.
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Today in history—January 6
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli is born. He's best known as the guy who added the "integral" to "integral calculus." The great thing about law schools is that calculus isn't required.
1838: Partners Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate the telegraph for the first time in public at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey.
1842: Geologist Clarence King is born. At age 25, he will conduct the geologic survey along the route of the proposed Union Pacific Railroad. As part of his study, he'll find the first glaciers in the U.S.
1880: Cowboy/actor Thomas Hezekiah "Tom" Mix is born at Cameron County, Pennsylvania. He will become, as the "straight shooting, non-drinking, non-smoking, non-swearing champion of fair play," the most popular star of his day, earning $17,000 a week.
1912: New Mexico enters the Union as the 47th state.
1916: Eugene T. Maleska, the long-time editor of the New York Times crossword, is born. After his death in 1993, the puzzles are changed to make to make them easier and more attractive to hip young people. Sample clue now: "Fred Flintstone's best friend."
1929: Sheffield Farms of New York puts milk into waxed cardboard containers instead of glass bottles for the first time.
1942: Pan American Airways makes the first commercial round-the-world flight.
1950: Schlitz Beer and NBC introduce The Halls of Ivy. Ronald Colman plays a blue-blood Ivy League college president, and his wife Benita Hume plays his wife, a world-famous actress. The series revolves around the funny college antics at their home at 1 Faculty Row. Amazingly, the public isn't fascinated.
1952: The successful "Peanuts" licensing empire begins as Charles Schulz's first syndicated Sunday strip appears.
1984: Getty Oil announces a $9.9 billion bid to take over Texaco.
1987: The Ford Thunderbird becomes the first car to win Motor Trend's Car of the Year award twice. The first time was in 1958.
1997: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rewrites UCC § 2-207 with its opinion in Hill v. Gateway 2000.
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Cases—Filed rate doctrine—Customer can't bring contract claim over rate filed with FCC
Telephone customers who brought a breach of contract claim after AT&T slapped them with undisclosed charges on their bills were undone by the filed rate doctrine, according to the California Court of Appeals.
AT&T advertised rates to consumers that did not include something called a "Subscriber Line Charge," which it tacked onto bills when they went out. AT&T claimed that the amount was "imposed by" the Federal Communications Commission. It was not, in fact, required. It was, however, part of AT&T's voluntary tariff filing with the FCC.
That was enough to trigger the filed rate doctrine, wrote Justice Kathryn Doi Todd. When a carrier has filed a tariff, allowing a state contract claim against the carrier by some customers would result in them receiving a lower rate than that posted with the FCC, which would be improper. The contract claims were therefore dismissed. Gallivan v. AT&T Corp., 2004 Cal. App. LEXIS 2150 (2d Dist. Dec. 15, 2004).
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005
AALS—Day 1
The Mother Ship's annual conclave starts today in San Francisco, with the first events at around 2:00 this afternoon, Pacific time. It's cloudy but a bearable 50 degrees. Rain is, of course, expected throughout the weekend, but daytime temperatures should stay in the mid-fifties.
Today is somewhat slim pickings for commercial types, but you might be interested in the following, all of which start at 2 p.m.:
The Immigration and the Labor & Employment Sections are running a panel on Guestworker Programs: Proposals and Perspectives.
The Law & Economics Section is doing a panel on Experimental Methods. Details aren't available in the program.
The Sections on North American Cooperation, International Law, and International Legal Exchange are putting on Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA and the WTO.
Tonight, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., the Section on Socio-Economics is hosting a reception. Historically, you've been able to have a pretty good dinner off the hors d'oeuvres at their get-togethers. There's a slew of member school events, but the best-looking is the Wine Reception hosted by Whittier Law School, from 6:00 to 7:30.
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Southern Cal joins elite group
The University of Southern California, which last night crushed Oklahoma 55-19 in the Fed Ex Bowl, will now likely become only the third university with a law school to win two undisputed football national championships since 1899. The Sooners were also bidding for that distinction, having also won an undisputed championship in 2000.
The other two—yesterday's Trivia Question was wrong and the author has been summarily dismissed—are the University of Nebraska, which won titles in 1995 and 1971, and Yale, which performed the same feat in 1900 and 1909. Interestingly, no school without a law school has ever won two such championships.
"Undisputed" championships are those in which all the ratings services monitored by the NCAA name the same champion. Other schools that have won an undisputed championship: Miami (2001), Florida State (1999), Texas (1963), Michigan (1948), and Georgia Tech (1917).
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Today in history—January 5
1794: Edmund Ruffin is born is born in Prince George County, Virginia. He will do much to introduce crop rotation and fertilization into the American south, will found the successful Farmer's Register, and will be given the honor of firing the first shot at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
1815: Delegates from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire, following as series of secret meetings at Hartford, issue a manifesto attacking the Madison administration and calling for seven new constitutional amendments, including two-thirds votes for declaring war or admitting a state, limiting a president to one term, prohibiting any state from providing two successive presidents, and apportioning taxes and representatives according to population.
1855: King Camp Gillette, the inventor of the safety razor with the disposable blade, is born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He will found the Gillette Safety Razor Co. in Boston in 1901.
1885: The Long Island Railroad becomes the first to provide piggyback service. Potato farmers can bring their wagons onto rail cars and have the wagons delivered to the city, without unloading.
1889: The word "hamburger" (for a ground beef patty) first appears in print, in a newspaper in Walla Walla, Washington.
1914: Ford Motor Co. announces that its new work day will be 8 hours and its daily wage will be $5—an unheard-of sum for factory labor.
1914: Aaron "Bunny" Lapin is born in St. Louis. After deciding that Washington University law school isn't for him, he will go on to invent of aerosol whipped cream, introducing his "Reddi-Wip," to customers through local milkmen in 1948. It is now part of ConAgra Foods. Half of all aerosol whipped cream still comes in his red, white, and blue can.
1923: Sun Records founder Sam Phillips is born in Florence, Alabama. He will be 27 when he opens the Sun Studio. Among his stars: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins.
1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (left) becomes the first female governor of an American state. She takes office just sixteen days before Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson of Texas.
1965: The rare pop song to raise an issue regarding the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, the Searchers' Love Potion No. 9, tops the charts.
1970: The soap opera All My Children premieres. It is originally set in fictitious Pine Valley, New York, but the locale is later changed to Pine Valley, Pennsylvania—perhaps to avoid New York's fearsome Workers' Comp rates.
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Illinois gets new farmers' contract laws
The law has always had a special fondness for farmers menaced by big city hustlers, and as of January 1, Illinois has added a new layer of protection, with the enactment of 100 new laws to protect the tillers of the soil (left) from exploitation by those who buy their products.
Among other things, the new provisions specify type size, organization, and language of contracts; prohibit unilateral termination by buyers; permit termination only for causes specified in the contract; and require such things as disease protocols for animals and seed segregation to be spelled out in the contract.
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Cases—Interpetation—Junk fax to corporation isn't "invasion of privacy" for insurance coverage
A mailer of junk advertising faxes can't get its insurer to cover its statutory liability to angry recipients, according to a new opinion by Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Capital Associates sent an unsolicited faxed advertisement to a hauling firm, allegedly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The hauler, not pleased, brought a class action on behalf of all of those who got the junk faxes. Capital claimed coverage from its insurer, American States Insurance on the ground that this was an "advertising loss" covered by its policy. American agreed to defend the suit, but reserved its rights, and then brought an action for declaratory judgment. The district court held for Capital.
The Seventh Circuit reversed. "Advertising loss" was defined under the policy as "oral or written publication of material that violates a person's right of privacy." Another provision excluded injury that was "expected or intended from the standpoint of the insured." In a case of first impression at the appellate level, the court, applying Illinois law, held that an unsolicited fax is not an invasion of a business's privacy, and the annoyance and waste of fax paper was fully intended by the insured. The mailer would therefore have to pay its own damages. American States Ins. Co. v. Capital Assoc. of Jackson County Inc., 7th Cir., No. 04-1659 (Dec. 23. 2004).
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Football, panels make for exciting week
The very air is tingling with anticipation, as the nation kicks off one of the year's biggest weeks. It starts tonight with the College Football National Championship game between the Southern Cal Trojans and the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fed Ex® Bowl at Miami's Pro Player® Stadium, and then continues with the AALS Annual Meeting, which thunders into San Francisco tomorrow.
The matchup between the Trojans and the Sooners promises some big-time thrills, but the teams will have their work cut out for them to match the sheer excitement of the four days of nonstop action that is the AALS, as law professors on expense account—many of them veterans of the Sixties who will have flowers in what remains of their hair—descend on the City by the Bay. All the details are in the massive 180-page program which is available online.
The Contract Section program is Saturday at 1:15, and features Juliet Kostritsky, Richard Craswell, Avery Katz, Bob Scott, and George Triantis, on "Incomplete Contracts: The Implications for Contract Law."
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Trivia question
One of the two teams in tonight's Fed Ex Bowl will likely become only the second university with a law school to win two undisputed national football championships since 1899, according to the NCAA. What is the other?
Answer tomorrow.
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Today in history—January 4
1813: Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the shorthand note-taking service that made court-reporting and dictation possible, is born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
1896: Utah enters the Union as the 45th state. Entry had been held up for a considerable period by resistance to the Mormon practice of polygamy. The constitution of the new state provides:
No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
1928: The Dodge Victory Hour premieres on the NBC radio network. The show features Will Rogers, Al Jolson, and Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra.
1932: The Carnation Contented Hour, a musical showcase, debuts on NBC Red. It will run for 19 years. Carnation evaporated milk comes from "contented cows"—Holsteins, to be exact.
1936: Billboard magazine runs the first pop chart based on actual sales figures. Debuting at number one? Joe Venuti's Stop! Look! Listen!
1954: Young Elvis Presley pays $4 to the Memphis Recording Service to record two songs, Casual Love and I'll Never Stand in Your Way. They will later be heard by Sam Phillips who signed Presley to Sun Records.
1961: Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger dies in Vienna. His cat has been featured in more than thirty law review articles.
1965: CBS buys the Fender Guitar Company for $13 million after founder Leo Fender becomes too ill to run the business. Employees and investors will buy it back from CBS sixteen years later. The Fender Precision bass (introduced 1951) and Stratocaster guitar (1954) are the most popular and enduring instruments of their type ever made. (Left, Motown legend James Jamerson with his 1962 Fender P-bass "The Funk Machine.")
1995: Dr. Newton Leroy Gingrich is formally elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. One of very few college professors ever to hold that post, he is best known for his "Contract With America."
2000: The first sign of trouble for the Tech Bubble—the NASDAQ index falls 229 points, or 5.6 percent. Widows and orphans pile their money into Red Hat on this "buying opportunity."
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Syrian opposition, Russia discuss reinforcing ceasefire
GENEVA The Syrian opposition and a senior Russian diplomat agreed on Wednesday that Syria's fragile ceasefire needed to be shored up amid growing violations in the multi-sided civil war.
BEIJING Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has urged Communist Party chief and president-in-waiting Xi Jinping to follow Myanmar's model of reform or risk a violent political transition.
Chen also accused the government of breaking a promise to investigate what he says is the persecution of his family, according to a recorded message posted on YouTube by Texas-based Christian advocacy group ChinaAid, which backs him.
The self-taught legal advocate's escape from house arrest in April and subsequent refuge in the U.S. Embassy was deeply embarrassing for China, and led to a diplomatic tussle between the two countries.
Chen was allowed to leave China and is studying in New York.
Chen said in the message released over the weekend that if Myanmar's President Thein Sein was able to release people like Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, then Xi should be able to release Chinese prisoners of conscience.
"Then Sein's open mind won him support from Myanmar's people and recognition from the world. Even Thein Sein can do it, yet Xi Jinping doesn't. Obviously it's not that Xi couldn't do it, but simply that he won't," Chen said.
Chen's nephew, Chen Kegui was given a three year three month jail term last week after being charged with using knives to fend off officials who burst into his home on April 27, the day after they discovered his uncle had escaped from 19 months of house arrest in eastern Shandong province and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
"Because I fled the country, government officials have enacted revenge on my nephew Chen Kegui and others. Chen Kegui tried to defend our family, but he was arrested and is still in jail today," Chen Guangcheng said.
"There is no word that Communist Party rulers are willing to change and do the right thing," Chen added.
Addressing Xi, he said: "Whether you will follow the call of heaven and the people to carry out reform, or kidnap the government and maintain the power of the Communist Party is a matter of whether China will have the transition in a peaceful way or a violent way".
The U.S. State Department said it was deeply disturbed by Chen Kegui's sentence.
But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the United States had no business interfering in the issue.
"The Chen Kegui case is solely a Chinese domestic matter. China is country with rule of law ... The legal rights of this person and his family members have been effectively guaranteed," Hong told a daily news briefing.
"We are extremely dissatisfied that the relevant country rudely interfered in China's internal affairs. We most certainly do not accept it."
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
National Survey of Lawyers' Career Satisfaction, Wave I, 1984, and Wave II, 1990 (ICPSR 8975)
Principal Investigator(s): Hirsch, Ronald L.
The purpose of this data collection was to assess career satisfaction among young lawyers throughout the United States. The questionnaire was designed to include as many factors as possible that might reasonably affect job satisfaction. The 1984 survey solicited information on lawyers' job descriptions, educational background, psychological characteristics, and basic demographics. Other questions pertained to job setting, substantive law areas of the respondent, geographical area in which the law firm was located, time spent each day on certain projects, and job stress. The 1990 survey posed questions identical to those in the 1984 survey, and added items covering part-time work, referral plans, sexual harassment in the workplace, gender and racial biases, reasons for changing jobs, drug use, disabilities, law school activities, and weighted job satisfaction scales.
Access Notes
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
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Study Description
Hirsch, Ronald L. National Survey of Lawyers' Career Satisfaction, Wave I, 1984, and Wave II, 1990. ICPSR08975-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08975.v3
Persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08975.v3
Export Citation:
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This study was funded by:
- American Bar Association. Young Lawyers Division
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: attorneys, demographic characteristics, educational background, job satisfaction, job stress, psychological wellbeing
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1984 (Wave I)
- 1990 (Wave II)
- 1984-02--1984-04
- 1990-03--1990-05
Universe: For 1984 data: all lawyers admitted to the ABA in the United States prior to 1983. For 1990 data: all lawyers admitted to the ABA in the United States after 1983.
In Part 1, 1984 Survey Data, the variable MATCHID can be used to match subjects in the 1984 data file with those in the 1990 data file (both files are already sorted by MATCHID). The variable RESPOND can be used to select those 1984 subjects present in the 1990 file. Missing data was not standardized in Part 2, 1990 Survey Data.
Sample: In 1984, three target groups were identified: lawyers 36 years of age and over who belonged to the American Bar Association (ABA), members of the ABA under 36 years old, excluding law students, and all lawyers in the nonmember files kept by the ABA. A systematic random probability sample was drawn to represent each of the three groups of lawyers involved in the survey. The group of lawyers under 36 years of age was oversampled. In the 1990 survey, the 1984 respondents were reinterviewed. Also, a systematic random sample was drawn of all lawyers admitted to the Bar after 1983.
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I love them. they seem so down to earth. their dad sang at our church a few years back. I feel for kevin though because nick gets all the attention. i know its not nick fault but still kevin seems awsome and joe is hilarious. Nick is the cutest though. I love the jonas brothers! your music rocks!!!!!!!!1
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the jonas brothers seem very grounded and they realize that the ride dowm is a lot faster than the climb up...that's one of the qualities i like about them. i also (of course) like their music. i am goth, but whenever my friend and i hear one of their songs on the t.v. or the radio, we sing and dance!we also loved camp rock. Kevin was my favorite in the movie and in the band. of course, the jonas brothers wouldn't be the jonas brothers without all of them in the group. anyway, i really like them and they all dress so nicely all the time.
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omg i luv jb. they r very talented and seem 2 b really great guys, but idk wats wrong with some people bcuz dont u understand that they hav feelings & its lyk SOO rude just 2 say stuff lyk "i so wanna hav sex with them" i mean they're just normal ppl, who r very blessed & lucky & obviously hav God very close 2 them & u shud respect that. I think they r very inspirational & we shud look at them as people we want 2 bcum! luv ya
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omg, i luv jb. they r very talentd & seem 2 b really great guys, but idk wats wrong wit sum of u ppl bc dont u understand that they hav feelings & its lyk SOOO rude just 2 say stuff lyk "i so wanna hav sex with them" i mean theyre just normal ppl, who r very blessed & lucky & obviously hav God very close 2 them & u shud respect that. I think they r very inspirational & we shud look at them as ppl we want 2 bcum! luv ya
the Jonas Brothers are really awsome besides there good looks and smoki'n bodies they are very very tallented. All of them can play the guitar and most of them can sing!!!! if the jonas brothers are reading this just know u are truely amazing and im sure u'll succeed in anything u set your mind to !
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Regulation: never just black and white
By Stephen D. Forman (LTCA)
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Surely not all regulation is good, but lawlessness is undoubtedly worse.
Despite the desire of some to rid ourselves of government interference to achieve a vision of unfettered markets, individual liberty, and unsupervised commerce, I'd like to propose that a world without regulation ironically creates the conditions of its own perpetual chaos and destitution. Surely not all regulation is good, but lawlessness is undoubtedly worse.
As Charles Wheelan in his brilliant book, "Naked Economics," writes, "Regulation can disrupt the movement of capital and labor, raise the cost of goods and services, inhibit innovation, and otherwise shackle the economy ... And that is just the regulation inspired by good intentions. At worst, regulation can become a powerful tool for self-interest as firms work the political system to their own benefit. After all, if you can't beat your competitors, then why not have the government hobble them for you?"
He was speaking of the Nobel prize-winning work of economist George Stigler, who observed how professional associations often sought government regulation as a way of advancing their own self-interest. Sound familiar?
Be it attorneys, manicurists or insurance producers, we make a habit of enacting rules which raise a barrier to entry for newcomers to our field, while grandfathering existing service providers (typically through licensing requirements).
In the years leading up to World War II, when large numbers of immigrants fled Europe for the United States, we saw a rise in "good citizenship" requirements and English language requirements which had little to do with the quality of medicine or physics practiced by the applicants. When effective regulation and oversight work at their best, who wouldn't agree that one of their greatest achievements is the creation of a free market with infrastructure, crediblity and stability?
We take it for granted that we can undertake transactions of incredible complexity with total strangers, something which would be next to impossible without the rule of law. In many countries around the world, nepotism and clans are common, and binding deals can be made only by the guarantee of a personal relationship. Imagine how stunted our economic growth would be if we were still held to that standard.
Instead, "We trust that the infrastructure is set in place that allows us not to worry that the person at the bank who takes our money doesn't just pocket it. Or that when we use credit cards to buy a new CD or tennis racquet over the Internet from a business that is located in some other state or country, we are confident we will get our merchandise, and they are confident they will get paid." (Jerry Jordan, former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) Still, no one would argue that benign regulations always work as intended.
Consider the case of DDT (also taken from the book). On the one hand, it's a vicious "persistent organic pollutant" whose cancer-causing effects we continue to discover. On the other, it's also by far the most cost-effective way of suppressing the mosquitoes who cause 300 million cases of malaria each year, killing more than one million people. (The next best treatment is not only less effective, but four times as costly.) Eradicated in North America 50 years ago, malaria continued its scourge of sub-Saharan Africa, which would be one-third richer today if the same strides had been made, according to Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs.
There's no doubt DDT is an environmental hazard, but when balancing any regulation, Wheelan asks us to consider the entire trade-off.
Let us stay on the world stage a moment longer. By global standards, the U.S. is considered to have a "lightly-regulated" economy. The purpose of proper government regulation should include defining property rights and enforcing the law: these actions enable businesses to thrive, protect consumers from fraud, improve public health and safeguard the environment.
In much of the developing world, instead of a so-called helping hand, government fails to provide such a basic framework for conducting business and instead layers on bureaucracy, permits and licenses: at each step corrupt officials extort bribes. This is called the "grabbing hand."
By examining the procedures, costs and expected delays associated with starting-up a new business in 75 different countries, a group of economists found an extraordinary range. Registering and licensing a business varied from two steps (Canada) to 20 (Bolivia). The time required ranged from two days (Canada) to six months (Mozambique).
Meanwhile, the costs associated with opening the new business ranged from 0.4 percent of per capita GDP (New Zealand) to 260 percent of per capita GDP (Bolivia).
Since that might be difficult to translate into real terms for those of us who are not professional economists, Wheelan breaks it down for us. In poor countries like Vietnam, Egypt, Mozambique and Bolivia "an entrepreneur has to give up an amount equal to 1 to 2 times his annual salary (not counting bribes and the opportunity cost of his time) just to get a new business licensed."
Are they getting their money's worth? Are consumers safer and healthier in Mozambique than Canada and New Zealand? What do you think?
In these poorer countries, compliance with international quality standards is lower, and pollution is higher. All that government red tape pushes entrepreneurs into an underground economy where no regulation exists at all. Excessive regulation (not what we have here in the U.S.) becomes a potential source of income for the bureaucrats who enforce it; tends to go hand-in-hand with a tribal, warlord, or mafioso-type underground; and corruption ends up stagnating entire countries (even very "rich" ones sitting atop piles of natural resources).
The middle-ground is best, and that may be why it's evolved and endured here in the United States. For all of our complaining, we should be careful what we wish for: there's a hundred or more third world countries which serve as living examples of what a lack of regulation looks like. Those economies face a perpetual battle making the leap out of the ditch.


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Well, it's a brand new year and I thought I'd do something new. Start a reading challenge of my very own. And I don't think there is a more perfect series that I can pick than author Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series.
Why? Do I really need to ask that? This series is AMAZING.
If you need another reason, well… the timing couldn't be more perfect. With five full-length books in print in the U.S. and If I Die coming out shortly in the U.K., it works out so that if one book is read each month, the series can be completely read (or re-read) just before the U.S. release date of Before I Wake, book six in the series.
The Challenge
To READ (or re-read) and REVIEW (or post about) all five full-length books in the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent between January 15 and June 14, 2012.
My Soul to Take
January 15-February 14, 2012
My Soul to Save
February 15-March 14, 2012
My Soul to Keep
March 15-April 14-2012
My Soul to Steal
April 15-May14, 2012
If I Die
May 15-June 14, 2012
The Deets
The Soul Screamers Challenge will begin on January 15, 2012 and end on June 14, 2012.
You can join the challenge at any time during the above dates by signing up in THIS POST.
You do not have to be a book blogger to join. You just need somewhere to post your review and/or talk about the books you've read (i.e., Facebook, Goodreads, personal blog). If you do not have any of those outlets, and your review is positive, I will be happy to post your review as a guest post on my blog Soul Screamers Reading Challenge.
Books must be read and reviewed between January 15th and June 14th. You can read and review them at any time during the challenge, but each book you read and review during the scheduled month will give you an extra entry into the Before I Wake giveaway at the end of the challenge.
You can read the books in any format or edition you'd like – eBook, audiobook or even in print!
Each month, on the 15th, there will be a post in which you can link up your reviews or posts for THAT MONTH ONLY. You can leave more than one link if you've read and reviewed more than one of the books that month.
If you choose to do a participation post, you can leave your participation post link on my SSRC page. At the end of the challenge, those who have added their links will automatically be entered into a giveaway for either a $50 Amazon or Barnes & Noble giftcard or $50 in books of their choice from Amazon or The Book Depository.
If you've already read and reviewed all the books in this series, do not fear. Re-reads count as long as you are re-reading them during this challenge! You don't have to do a new review unless you want to. Just create a post talking about the re-read experience – Was it better the second time around? Did you discover something new that you missed the first time? Did you love Tod just a bit more? There's plenty to talk about!
The Incentives
Before I Wake pre-order giveaway. For every ten people that actively participate in this challenge, I will be giving away one pre-order of Before I Wake. So, that's a one in ten chance. (To be counted as an active participant you must sign up through the linky in this post and you will need to have read and reviewed at least one of the full-length books during one of the five months of this challenge.) The winners will be chosen at the end of the challenge.
At the end of each month, to those who have left their links on that month's post, I will be giving away one of Rachel Vincent's books to two winners.
Reading each book during the corresponding month will get you an additional entry into the Before I Wake giveaway.
Reading and reviewing (or posting about) one of the Extra Credit Reads (listed below) will give you an additional entry into the Before I Wake giveaway.
New incentives may be added as the challenge progresses. Stay tuned….
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UPDATE: As of 1/6/12 at various stages of the challenge there will be giveaways for SIGNED copies of My Soul to Keep, My Soul to Steal and If I Die, as well as T-Shirts and something really special that will be revealed later in the event.
Thanks to the amazing author for donating quite a few of these awesome prizes and for signing all of the rest!
Extra Credit Reads
In addition to the five books for the challenge, there will be extra entries for each of the three Soul Screamers novellas you read. Links to reviews or posts for the extra entry reads should be left on the challenge post during the month you've read and posted about it.
So, as always I tend to be long winded. I hope it all makes sense. But I'll sum it up below. If you have any questions, just leave them in the comments. And don't forget to sign up with the linky.
In short…
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To READ (or RE-READ) and REVIEW (or POST ABOUT) all five Soul Screamers novels by Rachel Vincent from January 15-June 14, 2012.
1. Sign Up with the linky below.
2. Create a participation post (optional) and leave your link on the SSRC page on this blog.
3. Stop back each month and leave your links to any reads/reviews in the monthly Soul Screamers Challenge post for that month only.
4. Grab a challenge button from the sidebar! (Not required).
Good luck everyone! I hope this is less a challenge and just a great opportunity to discover some amazing new books or to re-read some of your favorites!
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I'm seriously considering joining this challenge. I just finished IF I Die yesterday and I already feel like a re-read of the series is in order.
This is awesome! I am sooo gonna reread all of the Soul Screamers books- I was planning on, anyway! 🙂 The perfect motivation!
Love the button, totally gonna put it on the blog! 😀
Thanks for thinking of such an awesome and fun event!
This is perfect! The first book of this series has been sitting on my shelf for sooo long now and I haven't started it yet, even though it seems to be amazing.
Thanks for hosting such a great challenge! Definitely participating. 🙂
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I'm so excited! I've listened to the first two audiobooks, but I'd really love to actually read them. This is the perfect excuse!
Yay! My post saying that I'm participating is already up :]
Thanks for this AMAZING challenge, I can't wait to start reading this weekend.
Oh I'm totally doing this! I own 4 of the books and haven't read a single one. People are always gushing over this series so this is an excellent opportunity to read the series! yay! 😀
can't wait!! and yeap I was starting to worry about the ones who have already reviewed the books…but mine really, cannot be called reviews I made them like more than a year ago, when I didn't know anything about blogs yet.
But now doing a post about my reread doesn't sound bad at all.
Sooo excited! Tod, Nash, Kaylee here I come…BEWARE!
Great series to pick Rachel 🙂
What an awesome challenge to start the year! Not sure if I'll officially participate but I will totally PIMP it 🙂
Cannot wait for BEFORE I WAKE!! IF I DIE almost killed me, lol.
I am so there, Rachel! I've been wanting to re-read the SS books, but I usually don't get around to actually do it. So this is awesome, thanks! This could not be a better series. 🙂
Excellent! I loved My Soul to Take and really need to read the rest of them, so this is perfect!
I'm going to do my very best to do this. I just finished this series, but want to re-read w/the advantage of perspective. I'll probably just do posts of my thoughts. Looking forward to it!
Can't wait to re-read this series! Thanks Rachel for such a fantastic contest!
I'm in! I was talking to Jennifer L. Armentrout and John at Dreaming Reviews and they told me I HAVE to read this books…this is the perfect opportunity for me! Thanks for hosting!
I am a new follower, and I am absolutely in love with this Challenge!! Thanks so much for hosting it and creating it 😀 – It now gives me a reason to really dive into the series more 🙂
I am loving your blog by the way! It is spectacularly organized and creative and so easy to manoeuvre! Just a fabulous blog! 🙂 Im going to grab your button because you my dear are going onto my "Blogs I Love Roll" lol.
Great Reading Challenge! I have only read the first three, but I just got book 4 and 5 in the mail today!! I also do not own the first three so it gives me a valid excuse to buy them right? I really want to read the novellas too! Thanks for putting this all together, you rock Rachel!!
Awesome idea especially since I was already planning on re-reading all of them! I never reviewed them the first time around so I wanted to re-read and review them before the next book came out.
Oh my gosh, I've NEVER signed up for anything, but how could I possibly say no to THIS??? 😀
You've actually given me another challenge with this. I'm not a blogger at all, but I'm going to try to at least get a few blog posts each month done. I'm not sure what they'll be about yet, but hey, I've finally got a New Year's resolution. LOL
Thank you so much for hosting this awesome challenge!!! 🙂
Hi! I'm not a blogger but I'd love to participate. I will post my reviews on Goodreads (I'll be re-reading the books) and then link them!
Thank so much, I'm looking forward to do this!
What a great challenge! Can't wait to re-read all of these books in this amazing series! I will be posting my reviews on Goodreads seeing as I don't have a blog. Thanks so much for host this!
I'm sooo in!! Now I just need the books LOL! ooopppsie I made a typo in my website name for the linky.. oh wells lol
This is an awesome contest! I know what I'll do if I win any physical copies of Rachel's wonderful novels… Gifties!!! In which to entice yet more people to read this series! Plus this is a great exucse to read the series for… well I'm not sure how many times this will make it, especially if you count how many times I have listened to the audio books at night… especially If I Die (most especially the second half)
How fun! I already have Soul Screamers on my bookshelf collecting dust, this will give myself an excuse to no longer put them off!
Ok, I just signed up! Perfect opportunity for finally reading these books, so thanks a lot for hosting!!!
This is my first challenge . . of the new year and just in general! I'm so stoked for it! I just started reading My Soul to Take at the beginning of the year, so it flows right in time with this Challenge!:D
Thank you for hosting it(:
Hi Rachel! Awesome, these books were on my agenda to complete before 6 came out. I have heard so many wonderful things about this series. Thanks for the extra incentive. Got the badge on my site and linked up to you!
Oh my, this idea is totally AWESOME! I've been thinking about reading this serie so many times and always kind of started with something else. So this is really great! 🙂
I signed up. I had planned to read and review them.It will be fun.
What a great excuse(as if I really need one), to read the series I WON on Rachel's amazing blog! Thank you for hosting such a cool challenge, Rachel! AND, thank you, again for my books!!! This will also be a challenge to get my own blog finally up and running. ;o
What a great challenge ..I have had the 1st book sitting in my TBR pile for sometime now and haven't picked it up. This was just what I needed!
Hi rachel !
I read already the five books in french two or three times, but I'm going to re-read it in english. So this challenge is a good thing.
However I don't know if I undertsand all the challenge.
We have to read one book in a month, and post our comment. I have no blog, so if I understand well, I can post my comment on facebook, and after give my post's links on this site (fiktshun)?
Please to answer me because I'm french but I will be happy to do this challenge.
Hey, I love this challenge idea. I've just finished the first 2 books so I won't be joining in (not really ready to reread them in two weeks) but I'll mention your challenge in my next review. Hopefully it'll inspire more people to try them out!
HELP if you can. I feel like an idiot, I tried to sigh upon the linky link and entered fikshun instead of my blog(i am just not good at this) and when I went to correct it, it said that i couldn't sign in again, Thanks if you can help.
I'm in!!! This will hold me accountable to read them! I've been trying to read them since the Crush Tourney, but books for review keeping taking precedence! Be sure to ask me on twitter if I'm reading them! Also, this will let me done by the time the Crush Tourment part 2 is here! So excited! What a great idea Rachel!
I read the Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series a while back. I enjoyed them very much. I am looking forward to reading them again. Some book series are worth reading them twice!
Hi. Help! I really want to sign up to this, but I'm not sure how! I don't have anywhere to leave my review, so I was gonna post it on your Soul Sceamers Reading Challenge Blog but I don't know how to go about it. I'm new to this, and so far not very good at it! Thanks! Gina.
Ps Thank you for running this fantastic challenge! Can't wait to get reading!
Is this only open to people in the US? Or can UK posters join the challenge too?
I definitely want to participate. This sounds like so much fun. I've read all the books, but I'm a huge rereader, and I loved If I Die so much that I'm excited to go back and read the series again.
I'll post my reviews on Goodreads. I rated the books when I first read them, but I think the only ones that I did written reviews for were If I Die and some of the novellas. This will give me a chance to write real reviews. thanks for sponsoring such a fun reading challenge!
Oh, crap! I really want to enter this challenge but I read the first book – My Soul to Take – around January 10th and posted the review in my blog in January 14th. Do I really need to read again for only one day apart? Or can it, please, count?
i have a problem signing up .is it enough that i have taken part in goodreads challenge i will post my comments there.


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Yesterday I gave you my list of the Ten Best Horror Films to Watch on Halloween. But some folks are looking for something different, something off the beaten path of traditional 'horror' moviemaking.
Okay, for those people, I offer you this list of Five Alternative Horror Films That Weren't Really Horror Films.
They might really be dramas, they might be superhero films, they might be more sci-fi, or maybe they are just surrealist fiction -- but whatever the case, these films definitely make for a great alternative scary movie film festival for the Halloween weekend...
Bug --From William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, this is probably one of the best films you've never heard of. Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd give tour de force performances in a descent into paranoia and delusion. The climax is stunning, brilliant, and horrifying.
The Tenant --Roman Polanski's film is bizarre, full of twists, and like an endless nightmare. It's like Hitchcock gone totally mad, and will leave you unnerved and worried about your own sanity.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? --A masterpiece of suspense, Robert Aldrich's eerie portrait of two sisters grappling with their mutual hatred and deteriorating minds, try watching this one with a relative with whom you have strained relations! Bette Davis and Joan Crawford deliver powerful (and powerfully creepy) performances.
Eraserhead --Nobody can directly adapt the experience of dreams, nightmares, and insanity to the screen like director David Lynch. This is one of the most unnerving and creepy films you'll ever see, and if you want the full effect, try watching it right before bed.


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lovely to have your name pop up on the screen when I am at work! Glad you are both well and having a rest! look forward to reading about your next adventures! I have just returned from 10 day break, not been any where just done a lot of eating and drinking to celebrate my birthday, Matthews 21st and Luke getting into Uni!!!!
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The moment we pulled off the ferry in Helsinki we burst out laughing because the dozens of times we have been in Helsinki we could never imagine driving here from the UK. Although it was Sunday when we arrived, Helsinki was the quietest capital city we have driven through. No traffic jams, diversions, road rage or dangerous driving from the locals, just a steady Sunday drive to Merjas.
While in Helsinki we enjoyed a real bed and vegged out watching TV. The only TV I have watched in the last four and a half months is about twelve football matches from the euro finals, which in my opion was now where near enough.
The drive north took us to Porvoo for the old town and chocolate factory then onto Lappeenranta where we enjoyed a boat trip that took us on the huge lake Saimaa then through a canal that is connected to Russia. The canal locks must have been fifty metres long and about twenty metres deep, massive compared to the locks in England. The journey into Russia will have to wait for another time as we didn't have a visa on this trip. The road here took us past hundreds of Russia car transporters parked on the hard shoulder full of SUVs and other 4 x 4s. The line of trucks must have been 20 kms long waiting to cross the border into Russia. It's amazing to think that this many new cars cross into Russia day in day out and apparently the line of trucks we seen is small compared to other southern border crossings.
After visiting Tiina in Nurmes (kiitos again for everything) we started the long 450km drive to Marjas parents. Just as the drive was getting a little boring we came across a tourist attraction titled " The Silent People". Very surreal, about a 1000 scarecrows all lined up in one field wearing brigthly coloured clothing, right next to the road. It was a quick coffee and a pin stuck in the Birmingham on the map in the coffee shack before hitting the road again. It wasn't long before the cars got less on the roads and the reindeer became more frequent, a sure sign we were in Lapland. We were then laughing hysterically as were approaching Marjas parents home. After catching up with her parents it was bedtime 12.15am and the sun was still shining through the woods.
The time here has been relaxing, not having to worry about safety, security, Banksy, carring valubles or making any of the same decisions you have to make while being on the road everyday. Our guard has dropped for a while and its a strange sense of relief. As well as seeing family and friends I have done a few days work on the farm and working on Marjas brothers house.......................sad thing is its made me miss my tools and doing regular physical work.
Banksy has been washed, waxed, serviced and is ready to hit the road again, which should be in about ten days after we have done a trip up north with Marjas brother.
I've also had time to reflect and digest the things that we have done on this amazing trip and doing so have come up with some interesting\boring stats...........
Countries visited = 15
Fave so far = Croatia, Slovenia and BiH
Different currencies = 9
Fave cities = Barcelona, Sarajevo
Distance so far = 14500 kms
Cheapest diesel = €1.14 (Spain).....March
Expensive diesel = € 1.54 (Hungrey)..........July
Different beers sampled = Last count was 18
Best beer = Karlavachko, Croatia
Cheapest beer = €0.50 for half litre. Slovakia............cheaper than bottled water
High lights = Barcelona, Sarajevo, walking to the top of Bobov tuk mountain (highest in Montenegro), Croatia including the coastal road, Plitvicka lakes, Triglav nat-park Slovenia, Picos de Europa nat-park Spain, seeing friends and family, The spa resorts of Slovenia, Durmitor nat-park Montenegro, Pecs Hungrey, meeting all the wonderful people that passed our way.
Low lights = Banksy being broken into in Spain, trying to sleep when its peeing down (rain on a metal roof is a nice sound for the first 10 mins), tremendous heat and humidity in Croatia and Montenegro.
Best book while on the road = The Magic Bus by Rory Mclean.............Marja also read a half dozen chick lits.
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That was awesome. There are only a few men who make smoking look sexy.
Am I the only person who doesn't like this song??
Naynay: I didn't like it when it first came out, but after a few listens I am hooked.
I have seen all of his tour performances and he is soooo amazing live. I am really excited about seeing him perform the new album, however I really hope that he isn't touring with Jay-Z like the rumors are saying. Those tickets will probably be super expensive and I'm not a Jay-Z fan…at all.
I love that he wears his wedding ring no matter what. A lot of celebrities take it off when they are working.
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Thanks for letting me. I guess I'll listen to it a few more times before I make my decision.
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Zynga's (ZNGA) hookup with Facebook (FB) seemed like such a great match four years ago, bringing together an up-and-coming gaming company with the hottest gathering place of people in need of entertainment. In retrospect, Zynga might have been better off with fewer likes and more experience in its corner. Just ask shareholders at competitor Electronic Arts (EA), who are so much happier now than Zynga investors, as seen in a stock chart.
About half of that 72% rise in Electronic Arts' one-year share price followed a deal it struck with Walt Disney (DIS), the great, great granddaddy of the entertainment world. EA won the exclusive rights to develop console, computer and mobile-based games based on Disney's blockbuster "Star Wars" movies. EA investors also like its licensing agreements with other relatively old school entertainers, like NCAA Football and FIFA (think soccer in countries that care about it).
Zynga shares, on the other hand, have lost about 70% of their value since its IPO in December 2011. On Monday, it announced plans to cut 18% of its workforce, shut studios and reduce its game portfolio. It's not the first time it's downsized.
Zynga's mistake was tying itself so tightly and for so long to Facebook, which takes about a third of every dollar it collects there. Zynga launched its popular FarmVille game on Facebook in 2009, and the vast majority of Zynga gamers have gone there to play ever since. This made sense in the early days, when Facebook was about the only platform around good for casual online gaming. Now there are a gazillion smartphone apps for that, and few of them pay Facebook anything.
The good news for Zynga is that this sort of major platform adaption has been done successfully by gaming companies before; by EA, to be exact. Several years ago, free online games like Farmville had EA scrambling to keep customers, which largely played its games on consoles. EA turned things around by developing every game on multiple platforms simultaneously. After losing a whole lot of money for several years, EA is now profitable and its shares are popular, trading once more at a growth company PE ratio.
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Elite police commandos patrolled a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday after hundreds of rampaging Buddhist hardliners torched a Muslim-owned business in the latest in a series of mob attacks.
At least three people were wounded when mobs from the ethnic Sinhalese majority stoned and later set fire to a clothing store in Pepiliyana on Thursday night, police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said.
"We have deployed extra units of STF (Special Task Force commandos) and police to guard the area," Siriwardena told reporters. "The situation was brought under control within a few hours."
No arrests had been made, Siriwardena said.
The authorities have not declared a motive for the attack, but official sources said it appeared to be part of the ongoing targeting of minority Muslim businesses by a group of Sinhala-Buddhist hardliners.
The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, an umbrella organisation of Muslim groups, said tensions had been heightened by Thursday's attack.
"It has created a fear psychosis among the Muslims," council president NM Ameen told reporters. "We know a majority of the (Buddhist) people do not support this type of activity."
Hundreds of men smashed parked vehicles, stormed the Fashion Bug store and set fire to merchandise before escaping, witnesses said.
Army units were called in to disperse the mob as tension gripped the area.
The attack came a day after Sri Lankan police set up a hotline to tackle complaints about anyone suspected of "inciting religious or racial hatred".
Mobs hurled stones at another Muslim-owned clothing chain near Colombo in January while Muslim businessmen have also complained of random stone-throwing, intimidation and calls for the boycott of their shops.
Buddhist hardliners last month forced Islamic clerics to withdraw "halal" certification from food sold in the local market, saying it was offensive to the majority non-Muslim population.
President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is a Buddhist, urged monks earlier this year not to incite religious hatred and violence.
The United Nations estimates that Sri Lanka's ethnic civil war claimed at least 100,000 lives between 1972 and 2009, when Tamil rebels were crushed in a major military offensive.
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Local singer-songwriter Matt Morris had captured Denver's attention—as well as Justin Timberlake's—before this weekend, but his new look and transformed sounds have made him nearly unrecognizable, even to longtime Westword music critic Dave Herrera. Morris has spent some time in Los Angeles lately, but he returned to give the audience at Friday's Bluebird Theater performance a glimpse into his divergent direction: "There will be enough new songs to give people an idea of where my head's at, even if the sound itself is still evolving" (Denver Post).
We can't yet predict whether Morris has awards in his future, but a choir at Rocky Mountain High School has had a certain golden statue on the brain after the Grammy Foundation lauded its impressive music program (Coloradoan). And speaking of singing accolades, five-time Grammy winner Lionel Richie stopped in to visit Denver Health's pediatric patients and their families Saturday before performing at the NightShine Gala, a benefit for the Denver Health Foundation (Post).