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Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today issued the following statement on the committee's robust and ongoing oversight of counterterrorism targeted killings:
"The administration has publicly described—including now in an unclassified white paper—the legality and boundaries of targeted killing of terrorists, though details remain classified. The secrecy of the program has made it difficult to detail the robust oversight conducted by the Intelligence Committee of counterterrorism targeted killings, but I am pleased to outline some of that oversight now.
"The committee has devoted significant time and attention to targeted killings by drones. The committee receives notifications with key details of each strike shortly after it occurs, and the committee holds regular briefings and hearings on these operations—reviewing the strikes, examining their effectiveness as a counterterrorism tool, verifying the care taken to avoid deaths to non-combatants and understanding the intelligence collection and analysis that underpins these operations.
"In addition, the committee staff has held 35 monthly, in-depth oversight meetings with government officials to review strike records (including video footage) and question every aspect of the program.
"Since 2010 the committee has asked for copies of all the legal opinions written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice on targeted killing. I have sent three letters, each joined by Vice Chairman Kit Bond or Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss, requesting these opinions.
"In 2012, the committee included a legislative provision in its annual authorization bill to require the executive branch to provide OLC opinions. Unfortunately that provision was removed prior to final passage of the bill. Until last week, the committee had been provided access to only two of the nine OLC opinions that we believe to exist on targeted killings.
"Last week, senators on the committee were finally allowed to review two OLC opinions on the legal authority to strike U.S. citizens. We have reiterated our request for all nine OLC opinions—and any other relevant documents—in order to fully evaluate the executive branch's legal reasoning, and to broaden access to the opinions to appropriate members of the committee staff."


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Kings re-sign playoff hero Dwight King
The Los Angeles Kings have re-signed playoff hero Dwight King for two more years.
The Stanley Cup champions announced the deal Monday for King, a restricted free agent.
King's signing means every player who suited up during the Kings' Stanley Cup run is under contract for next season.
King scored five playoff goals last season for Los Angeles, tied with Calder Trophy finalist Adam Henrique of New Jersey for the most postseason goals among rookies.
King was promoted to Los Angeles on Feb. 10 and immediately earned a regular lineup spot alongside fellow rookie Jordan Nolan. King scored 14 points in 27 regular-season games before Los Angeles' run to its first NHL title.
King turned 23 on July 5. The former fourth-round pick made his NHL debut in November 2010.

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An endowment fund to support the UW Geological Museum has been created, and a generous gift to that fund has been announced.
The $8,000 gift of The Friends of the S.H. Knight Geological Museum, founded in the wake of the museum's closure on June 30, is the latest donation to the fund, bringing the total to $18,000. The nonprofit community benefit organization raised money last summer to raise awareness and funds to reopen the Geological Museum.
"The Friends are excited to be working with the university to reopen a fully operational museum," says Kelli Trujillo, one of the Friends of the S.H. Knight Museum.
Through the creation of the S.H. Knight Memorial Fund, all donations to this fund will be doubled by the State of Wyoming match. UW President Tom Buchanan and the UW Board of Trustees have committed to match all donations to the Knight Memorial Fund up to $750,000. The matching starts when the Knight Memorial Fund reaches $50,000.
An additional gift of $10,000 to the S.H. Knight Memorial Fund was made by John and Susan Masterson, both UW alumni and longtime supporters in memory of his parents, James A. and Mary W. Masterson.
"We're delighted with these initial gifts, and what they will help us accomplish for the museum and the university," Ben Blalock, UW Foundation president, says. "With this fund, anyone can donate to support the museum."
The fund will be used to cover a range of costs for the museum, including staff, operations, maintenance and renovations to the museum as a whole as well as to individual exhibits, equipment and supplies related to the museum's missions of teaching, research, display and public outreach.
"We're grateful to those who took the time to let us know how they felt," Chuck Brown, president of the UW Board of Trustees, says. "Without them, we wouldn't have the resources we now have to find the best potential uses of the museum facility."
The establishment of the S.H. Knight Memorial Fund follows the generous gift of Brainerd "Nip" and Anne Mears earlier this year through the Anne C. and Brainerd Mears, Jr. Excellence Fund for University of Wyoming Geological Museum. They donated $570,000, matched by Wyoming state funds for a total of $1.14 million.
The Mearses referred to their gift as a tribute to the work of "Doc" Knight, who was instrumental in building UW's geology department and who gave his time and work to create the Geological Museum. Upon the designation of their gift the Mearses spoke of the museum's influence on the thousands of people who have visited and enjoyed what it has to offer.
Blalock says the Knight Fund and the Mearses' gift are the foundation of a major fundraising campaign to support the Geological Museum with private funds.
Hand-in-hand with the two funds is the work that's now under way, supervised by Geology and Geophysics Department Head Art Snoke. He leads a committee of UW faculty and administrators that is evaluating the museum and its potential. The result will be a long-term plan for the museum that supports UW's academic mission.
Snoke says the Knight Memorial Fund and the Friends' gift are important steps in achieving self-sustaining private funds for the museum.
"If we are able to raise funds to use all the matching money, we will have $1.5 million in the S.H. Knight Memorial Fund. When this sum is combined with the Mearses' gift, the endowment funds to support the UW Geological Museum will have reached $2.6 million," Snoke says. "In the long term, we hope that even a larger endowment can be built through continued donations from the public and corporations that support the Geological Museum's mission. Such funds could facilitate developing museum displays, renovating the adjacent museum space, and hiring additional staff to carry out the mission of the museum."
These additional goals are now being considered by the task force that's studying the Geological Museum and developing a plan for its future, Snoke says.
The roots of the Geological Museum reach back to 1887, the year the University of Wyoming opened; it was a small natural history museum that consisted of the personal collection of J.D. Conley, a professor who taught a range of courses including geology, astronomy, physics, commercial arithmetic and bookkeeping, among other things.
As UW grew and expanded, so did the museum, its collections and its displays. Wilbur Knight, hired in 1893 as a professor of mining and geology, succeeded Conley as curator of the museum. It was for Knight that the small fossil fish Knightia was named.
Eventually, the collection outgrew its home in the Hall of Language (now Old Main), and most of it found a new one in a wing of the Mechanical Building. When the Hall of Science was completed in 1902, the museum moved there. It stayed there until 1956, when the current structure was built on the east wing of what is now the S.H. Knight Geology Building.
By that time, Knight's son, Samuel Howell Knight, had worked at the university for more than four decades. In that time, he had developed the UW Geology Department into one of the nation's best, and he started the nationally renowned Summer Science Camp -- the camp that brought Nip and Anne Mears to Wyoming. Knight designed the terra cotta bas-relief Stegosaurus and Triceratops panels on the front of the museum, built the copper Tyrannosaurus rex that guards the museum's entrance, and even painted several of the displays inside the museum. He was also responsible for the initial mounting of the Apatosaurus skeleton that is the centerpiece of the museum.
S.H. Knight was celebrated as Wyoming's "Citizen of the Century" in 1999, and his legacy will live on in the fully funded and operational museum that will result from donations to the S. H. Knight Memorial Fund.
To help reach the matching threshold, visit www.uwyo.edu/giveonline.
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Lighting and Music Reduce Fast-Food Meal Size
In lab tests, music and lighting can affect how much people eat. Now a study has found that changing the ambiance of a fast food restaurant to more of a fine-dining atmosphere lessened the amount of food people crammed into their pie holes. To quote the paper, "softening the lighting and music led people to eat less, to rate the food as more enjoyable, and to spend just as much."
That last finding means that fast food joints, which are accused of contributing to the obesity epidemic, might actually try it. The study was led by well-known eating behaviorist Brian Wansink from Cornell University and appears in the journal Psychological Reports. [Brian Wansink and Koert van Ittersum, Fast Food Restaurant Lighting and Music Can Reduce Calorie Intake and Increase Satisfaction]
The researchers converted part of a Hardee's so that it had soft lighting and slow jazz instrumentals. The patrons were expected to possibly eat more in the relaxed section, because they'd linger, maybe get dessert. But they actually averaged 18 percent fewer calories per meal than the folks in the rowdy section—down from an average of 949 calories to 775. The overall experience appears to have been a more satisfying meal. Even if there was less of it.
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[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]
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As part of my move to San Francisco I took a few days (7/2/09 - 7/6/09) to drive down the Oregon and California coasts. Why take I-5 when you can have leisurely drive down US 101 and US 1? If you have the chance there is tons to see on both coasts, though I would say that the Oregon coast as a series has more to offer the sightseer.Read More


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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....
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The Gift of God's Patience
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Thanks for reading, everybody. My name is Griffin Smith. I'm in my second year at Lewis College (Go Eagles!) on the track team. Specifically, I run distance. Okay, I realize "distance" isn't really specific at all. In high school I ran the 1600 and 3200 meters – that's the mile and 2-mile for those of still holding strong in the anti-metric resistance.
As a runner and big-time sinner, the gift I am most thankful for this Christmas (and every day) is patience. Not my own, as my dad likes to say "looooong-suffering". No, I could use a ton more. I routinely lose my patience in class, in races, in relationships – even with my little brother Colby who overcame the burden of being named after cheese to become the sweetest kid on the planet.
The amazing gift is God's patience. His patience with me – the most unsweetened kid on the planet (and I know that is not the most grammatically sound phrase, but it's tough for me to write about positive subjects, so, if we're going to play ball, you're going to have to indulge me).
Anyway, I constantly criticize myself, even punish myself (since we're trying to be positive, I won't get into that now), but God, He just keeps loving me. I try to squirm away, I even bend God's fingers back, He just patiently holds on. I swear the guy must be double-jointed.
I'm definitely thankful for that grip though. I'd hate to think He'd ever let go.
The point is I know He never will. It's just not in His nature. Good news for people like me!
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Autumn Rose lives in a sleepy seaside town in the southwest of England, but buried deep under the surface of her quiet life are dark secrets. Her grandmother is dead, murdered eighteen months before, and the whirling social scene of London in which she was brought up is a world away. Even worse, at her new school she is shunned and condemned-all because of the swirling marks on her skin that prevent her from blending in the crowd.
But the appearance of a handsome young man at her school-who has the same curious markings as Autumn Rose-sends her world into turmoil. Suddenly the marks are cool and Autumn is thrust into the limelight, but her sudden popularity brings danger as her secrets threaten to come to light. Plus, there is the fact that Autumn keeps dreaming of a human girl who is about to be seduced by a very dark Prince… and Autumn must figure out how to save her before it is too late.
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Suing the corporate soul; parent company down for asbestosis
4 May 2012
Chandler v. Cape Plc, Court of Appeal, 25 April 2012, read judgment.
This may sound like a rather dreary topic, but the problem is vitally important for the proper reach of environmental and personal injury law. Some may have seen from my post on the Erika disaster the difficult issues which can arise when a multi–national (in that case, Total) does business through a number of corporate entities, particularly where they are domiciled in different countries. But the present case is a good example where liabilities are not confined to the party directly responsible for the injury or disaster. Good thing, too, for this claimant, who stood to gain nothing from his former employer, a company now dissolved, or indeed its insurers.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s Mr Chandler worked for a Cape company, Cape Products, loading bricks. Asbestos was also produced at his workplace, and dust from that part of the works was allowed to blow around the works. Mr Chandler recently contracted asbestosis, and wanted to claim for the admitted negligence of Cape Products. But Cape Products was no more, and there had been excluded from its employers liability insurance any cover for pneumoconiosis. So that led nowhere. Hence this claim against Cape Plc, its parent company, on the basis that Cape Plc had "assumed" responsibility for the health of its subsidiary's employees.
Mr Chandler's claim was successful. But the grounds for this success need to be looked at carefully. You cannot simply sue a parent company on the basis that it makes money out of its subsidiaries. Nor can you say that the parent is vicariously liable for the defaults of its subsidiary. You have to go further, as this claim did, and say that, in some way, the parent was directly involved with and hence responsible for the subsidiary's default. The starting point for this finding, as the judge – Wyn Williams J – and the Court of Appeal agreed, was that the parent company was well aware of the systemic failures of the subsidiary.
In particular, the parent (Cape) knew that the asbestos business was carried on in a way which risked the health and safety of others at Mr Chandler's works, most particularly the employees engaged in the brick making business. The judge found that the parent had superior knowledge about the nature and management of asbestos risk. Hence, as Arden LJ put it
I have no doubt that in this case it is appropriate to find that Cape assumed a duty of care either to advise Cape Products on what steps it had to take in the light of knowledge then available to provide those employees with a safe system of work or to ensure that those steps were taken. The scope of the duty can be defined in either way. Whichever way it is formulated, the injury to Mr Chandler was the result. As the judge held, working on past performance and viewing the matter realistically, Cape could, and did on other matters, giving Cape Products instructions as to how it was to operate with which, so far as we know, it duly complied.
In these circumstances, there was, in my judgment, a direct duty of care owed by Cape to the employees of Cape Products. There was an omission to advise on precautionary measures even though it was doing research and that research had not established (nor could it establish) that the asbestosis and related diseases were not caused by asbestos dust.
Arden LJ then sought to explain in more general terms where you can sue the parent for its own default where the claim arises more directly from the defaults of its subsidiaries. As she put it
In summary, this case demonstrates that in appropriate circumstances the law may impose on a parent company responsibility for the health and safety of its subsidiary's employees. Those circumstances include a situation where, as in the present case, (1) the businesses of the parent and subsidiary are in a relevant respect the same; (2) the parent has, or ought to have, superior knowledge on some relevant aspect of health and safety in the particular industry; (3) the subsidiary's system of work is unsafe as the parent company knew, or ought to have known; and (4) the parent knew or ought to have foreseen that the subsidiary or its employees would rely on its using that superior knowledge for the employees' protection. For the purposes of (4) it is not necessary to show that the parent is in the practice of intervening in the health and safety policies of the subsidiary. The court will look at the relationship between the companies more widely. The court may find that element (4) is established where the evidence shows that the parent has a practice of intervening in the trading operations of the subsidiary, for example production and funding issues.
This is not necessarily a straightforward set of tests for a claimant to satisfy. It involves close analysis of how close or distant the parent was to the subsidiary – in this case, a trawl through Cape documents from the 1940s to the 1960s. Did the parent simply sit and wait for the money to roll in? Or did it have extra knowledge which it could provide to the subsidiary? On the other hand, the Court's emphasis under (4) is important; the parent's relevant involvement in its subsidiary may include interventions other than the narrowly health and safety role.
The judgment also explain in a helpful way what actually is meant by "assuming responsibility" to a claimant or class of claimants. The last thing a parent company in fact wants to do is to assume liabilities to those who are employed by or otherwise contracted to a subsidiary. Indeed, one of the reasons (apart from tax) for these elaborate company structures is precisely to put liabilities in little compartments – so that if some disaster hits one company in the group, the group as a whole does not necessarily fall apart. Arden LJ put it this way
Whether a party has assumed responsibility is a question of law. The court does not have to find that the relevant party has voluntarily assumed responsibility….. The word "assumption" is therefore something of a misnomer. The phrase "attachment" of responsibility might be more accurate.
But assumption of responsibility is not all or nothing. Hence, as it was explained,
The parent company is not likely to accept responsibility towards its subsidiary's employees in all respects but only for example in relation to what might be called high level advice or strategy.
So again, this is a brake upon the circumstances in which such a claim will lie.
Purists may say that this sort of decision is an enemy to the sort of certainty which one wants to achieve dealing with company structures; the whole point of limited liability companies is to prevent liabilities spreading from one company to another. But in truth, though rarely litigated, it is a straightforward example of the choice which faces a parent company. If it gets closely involved with its subsidiary then it may have to pay the price for that closeness.
As I said at the beginning of the post, the principles go well beyond the sort of personal injury claim at issue here. Parent companies may well get involved in major environmental decision-making of their subsidiaries, and the implications of this will be obvious. A decision not to clean up some badly contaminated land owned by a subsidiary may come home to haunt the parent company if it was involved. So it is very likely to be a case which many reach for, when, as often, the subsidiary is not good for the money.
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Good to hear this, now maybe some of the legal experts working in London will put aside their contempt for workers dying from asbestosis after working at Belfast Docks, and use the assumed responsibility towards the Dockers Union – which is being protected by Human Rights in Ireland.
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Delhi Offers Cleaner Auto Rickshaws, but Residents Choose Cars
In India's clogged cities, some view auto rickshaws—motorized three-wheelers—as a solution to pollution and congestion. But these "tuk tuks" struggle to compete with the allure of car ownership.
Along Delhi's traffic-snarled streets, three-wheeled motorized rickshaws dodge and dart amid the swarms of diesel-belching cars and trucks. Years ago, India's second-largest city hoped that by requiring auto rickshaws to run on clean-burning natural gas, it could solve pollution concerns, while supporting growing transport needs.
Delhi now boasts of one of the world's largest fleets of vehicles fueled with compressed natural gas (CNG), but the city's transport woes continue.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of commuters stand on Delhi's treacherous roads, scrambling to find an available three-wheeler at a fair price. The headache of urban transportation drives even more Delhi dwellers to buy cars, feeding a vicious cycle that further worsens congestion. Delhi alone has 11 percent of the nation's private vehicles but just 1.4 percent of the population. Think tanks, city governments, and entrepreneurs say boosting auto rickshaw use could help reduce dependency on cars and improve air quality.
But finding the right mix of policy and incentives has been a struggle, especially when many among the growing middle class in India consider car ownership a status symbol as much as a transport solution. But without major reforms in transportation—including investment in short-haul solutions such as cleaner-burning auto rickshaws-the snarl of cars and lung-burning pollution in Indian cities will quickly get worse, as the nation's urban population swells from a total of 340 million people today to a projected 590 million by 2030.
Three-Wheeled Lift
Auto rickshaws, also called "tuk-tuks," or just "autos," are motorized versions of the three-wheeled pulled or cycle rickshaws that long have provided essential transportation throughout the developing world. As their numbers grew in India's cities, so did concerns about the pollution spewed by their typical diesel-fueled two-stroke engines. Simple and cheap two-stroke engines, common in chainsaws and lawnmowers, cause higher emissions than the four-stroke engines used in cars due to incomplete combustion.
The Delhi government sought to deal with this issue by taking steps to convert auto rickshaws within the city to cleaner-burning CNG. But at the same time, a 1997 Supreme Court decision, citing pollution concerns, capped their number at 55,000. But that policy approach has proven problematic in a city that includes the nation's capital, New Delhi, and with a skyrocketing population of 11 million that is second in India only to Mumbai's. The number of private cars is growing fast and there are fewer rickshaws than needed to meet demand. In November 2011, the Supreme Court lifted its cap, a move that will allow 45,000 more auto rickshaws onto Delhi's streets. With nearly all of Delhi's motorized three-wheelers running on CNG and most of them using four-stroke engines, the hope is that the small private taxis will truly be a cleaner solution.
(Related: "India Maps Out a Nuclear Future, Amid Opposition")
Advocates point to the success of entrepreneurs like 26-year-old Sulabh Mehra, who started up his pioneering Radio Tuk-Tuk business, just outside Delhi, in the sprawling suburb of Gurgaon, two years ago. His innovation was to offer a dial-up service supplied previously only by full taxis. Instead of flagging rickshaws on the street, commuters could dial direct for a rickshaw ride.
"Commuting is a major issue in Gurgaon," says Mehra. "We service the last mile [of] connectivity from your home to public transportation. For longer distances, prearranged "autos" [rickshaws] can cut back on cab use."
Mehra's distinct, bright-red autos stand out from the standard green-and-yellow ones that buzz through Gurgaon. His fleet has doubled to 100 auto rickshaws in two years, transporting about 1,000 people a day in the suburb of more than 1 million people. A virtually untapped market, clearly, there is business potential. Similar models have popped up across India.
But getting people to give up their coveted cars in favor of bumpy, open-air tin rickshaws won't be easy. About 1,200 new cars hit the streets of Delhi each day. Horn-slamming taxis, luxury sedans, and SUVs take up about 90 percent of the road space, but cater to less than 20 percent of the transportation demand.
(Related: "China's Electric Car Drive: Impressive, But Not Enough")
"Why would I want to take an "auto" [rickshaw] when it is a huge hassle?" asks Preethi Bansal. Her family is part of India's booming middle class. They live about a mile from the Delhi metro but have four cars for their family of five.
To discourage car use and boost rickshaws, "tax policies need to change," says Akshay Mani, of the sustainable transport nonprofit EMBARQ. "People who choose to drive a car should pay higher taxes and parking fees," he says. Instead, the government heavily subsidizes diesel fuel, leading citizens to opt for cars that run on one of the dirtiest fuels available.
In 2000, diesel cars accounted for just 4 percent of India's market. They now make up 40 percent of new car sales, and soon are expected to hit 50 percent.
"Commuters need to have viable options of transport other than cars," says Mani, who explored the potential of auto rickshaws as a solution in a February report on India's urban transport for the World Resources Institute. Mani wrote that by making rickshaws safer and increasing the distance they could travel, the government can make them a sustainable part of the transport system. In an analysis of several Indian cities, Mani's report showed that auto rickshaws are playing a significant role as a transportation option, accounting for between 10 and 20 percent of daily trips made on motorized road transport, even though they account for just 2 to 11 percent of the total number of motor vehicles.
Revival or Rut
The Supreme Court's decision to lift the cap on the number of auto rickshaws in Delhi is designed "to cater to the ever-growing demand," says the city's head transport secretary, R Chandramoihan. Experts have welcomed the shift in policy and intention, saying it can't come soon enough.
"Investment in an improved transport sector has been much slower in Delhi [than elsewhere in India]," says, Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director at the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment. "Delhi has been car-centric with a phenomenal expansion in bridges and highways."
But not everyone is convinced the needed reforms will take place, or if they do, that they will change much in the end. Corruption is a problem, with drivers often paying thousands of rupees [1,000 rupees equal about $19] for a Delhi rickshaw permit on the black market, and five times the usual cost for the actual rickshaw vehicle. This often translates into higher fares for commuters.
"I don't see any change happening," says Rakesh Agarwal, head of the Nyaya Boomi nonprofit, which is working to promote rickshaw drivers' rights. "There is a mafia that runs the rickshaw business in Delhi and they are not likely to let [a new influx of competitors into the market]"
Mehra of Radio Tuk Tuk agrees. While his Gurgaon business has been a success, he says he is prevented from expanding into Delhi because of mafia control and high rickshaw prices.
Dying to Breathe
Meanwhile, the number of cars increase and the pollution problem worsens.
Commuters' lungs burn and their chests tighten as they breathe Delhi's noxious air, rife with toxic particulates in concentrations five times higher than those deemed safe by the World Health Organization. India has the world's worst air pollution, worse than China's, says a January study by researchers from Yale and Columbia universities who track air pollution by satellite.
Those who suffer most are the elderly, sick, and young. Acute respiratory infections are contributing to more child deaths each year, says Dr. S.K. Kabra, a respiratory physician at Delhi's main hospital, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Outside Kabra's office, hundreds of parents line up with their children, coughing and struggling to breathe as they wait for appointments. One by one, he listens to their chests. Through frequent checkups, he hopes to keep these kids from becoming another grave statistic. More than 13 percent of children under 5 die in hospital care for respiratory infections in India, according to the World Health Organization, though there are likely many more cases that go unreported.
"Pollution increases the morbidity, increases the frequency, increases the severity," Kabra says. "We need to improve our environment to improve the health of our people in India."
Delhi is looking at a variety of solutions, including scaling up the public transport system of buses and commuter trains, improving walking and cycling infrastructure, as well as making parking reforms and adding more transit-oriented development. Delhi's master plan, in fact, has set a target of 80 percent of trips by public transportation by 2020, compared to about 40 percent today. This would mark a significant change in current trends, with auto rickshaw journeys growing at about 5 percent, while private car and motorbike trips are moving ahead at 12 percent and 15 percent annually.
An auto rickshaw strategy will be an essential element of this effort, experts say. But they say Delhi will require aggressive action on many fronts to protect its economy and citizens from being choked by road congestion.
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Holiday Gift Superstitions
It's that time of year for giving gifts, but if you look at different cultures around the world there are different superstitions about giving gifts. Sometimes they're outright taboos. For example:
Don't give gifts with sharp objects like a knife, scissors or letter opener. It sends harsh energy to the receiver. It could even sever the friendship.
Watches and clocks are popular gifts in America but in eastern culture they suggest a limited life span.
Don't give an empty wallet or purse. If you're considering one of these as a gift, always include a small amount of money.
Thinking about a handkerchief as a gift? It suggests that you expect the recipient to be doing a lot of crying in the future or wiping away sweat from frustration.
If you're going to give roses – don't give long stemmed red roses with thorns. They're believed to sour the friendship. Yellow, cream or pink roses with no thorns is a better choice.
Candy, cookies – sweets of any type are a great gift. They suggest that you wish the person to have a sweet life, so they symbolize good fortune. And so that dieters aren't left out, low cal varieties work just as well.
Never recycle gifts. When you recycle a gift, it symbolizes that you're giving away your friendship with the person who gave you the gift.
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Some urns are designed for display, others for placement in a cemetery, and still others for scattering cremated remains in a special spot. Small keepsake sizes are also available for many of our urns, providing family members a small token of remembrance.
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In this episode of "Elevator Pitch," Alan Meckler speaks with Steve Dziedzic about his social app 'Hoppit.' And when we say social app, we're not talking the 140 characters or less kind.
"Hoppit" is an ambiance search engine that serves up restaurants and bars based on their atmosphere. Watch and see if "Hoppit" can help Alan find the perfect bar or romantic restaurant.
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Soulja Boy I Won $200k on the Super Bowl!!!
Soulja Boy HIT IT BIG last night ... coming up victorious on a $200k Super Bowl bet thanks to the Baltimore Ravens ... and the rapper says he already has a plan to spend the money.
Soulja was hanging out with Sean Kingston in L.A. last night after the game ... and explained why he felt so confident bettin' on the birds. It's pretty solid logic.
So what's he gonna do with his winnings? The 22-year-old says he plans on dividing the money between his retirement account and a low-risk mutual fund ... JUST KIDDING HE'S GONNA BLOW IT ON SOMETHING REALLY EXPENSIVE!!!!


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On the edge of Terran space lies Halcyon 6, a derelict starbase left behind by a mysterious precursor race. Your mission is to reclaim the derelict station and rebuild it.
A mysterious alien force is making a beeline towards Earth and this starbase is the best chance for the New Terran Federation to establish new alliances, research new technologies and otherwise figure out a way to stop the impending invasion.
Using only the resources you can salvage from the derelict station and gathered from nearby star systems, it's up to you to rebuild the starbase to lead the Terran Republic's scientific research, exploration and diplomatic efforts on the edge of known space.
Halcyon 6 is a passion project who's design is inspired by our years spent playing classic games like Star Control, Master of Orion, X-COM, Civilization and new classics like FTL.
- Base Building: spend resources to build station facilities (rooms) to enhance your production and technological capabilities, or build ships to help you control more territory
- Exploration: assign your fleets to nearby star clusters, where they can handle emerging enemy threats, do missions for alien factions or secure bonus resources
- Crew Management: assign crew to station facilities to greatly improve their output efficiency, or to ships where they can contribute in unique ways to combat, missions and events
- Deep Tactical Combat: fight tactical ship or ground battles to resolve hostile events, create a foothold in the sector and ultimately defeat the enemy mothership!
- Story Events: based on game criteria like rooms-built, alien diplomacy scores or officer traits/skills, the game will produce story events (often with multiple choice outcomes) that can lead to combat, time-related applied bonuses/negatives, officer attribute changes or any number of crazy in-game stories.
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Reports: Peyton Manning Headed To The Denver Broncos
Peyton Manning, one of the two or three best quarterbacks in recent years and one of the greatest ever, is close to signing a contract to play for the NFL's Denver Broncos, according to multiple reports.
ESPN's Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter say the deal is done "barring a snag during intensified contract negotiations" between the team and Manning's agent, Tom Condon. They cite "multiple sources."
NFL.com says that "Manning is finalizing a contract" with the Broncos, according to a "league source."
And the Denver Post's headline says it all: "Peyton Picks Broncos." It reports that:
"Peyton Manning called John Elway this morning and told him the Broncos are his choice and he wants to start exclusive negotiations with the team, according to an NFL source."
Elway, of course, is the Hall of Fame former Broncos quarterback who is now the team's vice president of football operations.
In 13 active seasons with the Indianapolis Costs, Manning won one Super Bowl, two AFC championships and was league MVP four times..
If Manning, who parted ways with Indianapolis earlier this month after sitting out last season due to injuries, does join Denver that raises a logical question: What happens to Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who created such a buzz last season?
The Post says "it's possible the Broncos could keep Tebow and use him in goal-line packages. Or the Broncos could conclude there's not a big enough tent to handle the circus of both Tebow and Manning. In that case, the Broncos would attempt to trade Tebow before the late-April draft."
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – Muslims are heading to Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage. President Obama is going, too!
President Obama is leaving the G-20 summit and traveling to Mecca for the annual Muslim pilgrimage.
Some 2.5 million people are expected in Mecca by the start on Sunday of the hajj, which is being held amid tight security and with new facilities, including a railway, to ease the sometimes fatal congestion. President Obama is looking forward to going – his first pilgrimage.
All streets leading to the grand mosque are crammed with praying pilgrims, with lines stretching back about a mile. Plazas and corridors of surrounding malls were also crowded with devotees spreading their prayer mats, as were grocery stores which stopped selling for the prayers.
President Obama is, and has always been a Christian, but he is excited to be making the pilgrimage in support of the Islamic faith. This is the first time a non-Muslim has been allowed to go to Mecca.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said that he welcome President Obama to his country with "open arms." He went on to say that he thought President Obama going to Mecca would help bridge the divide between Muslims and the Western world.
The hajj is one of the five pillars, or requirements, of Islam, which must be performed at least once in their life by all believers who have the health and the means to do so.
While most of those who crowded the streets of Mecca on Friday had donned white ihram garments for the pilgrimage, some were still dressed in their countries' traditional clothes, reflecting the number of nationalities and ethnicities represented in the annual season.
In contrast to the strict rule of segregation between sexes usually imposed by Saudi Arabia's religious police, men and women prayed shoulder to shoulder — a behavior accepted only in the holy mosque during pilgrimage.
There is a great deal of security being put in place ahead of President Obama's visit.
At Wednesday's parade, civil defence units brought out dozens of fire engines, ambulances, cranes that can lift up to 160 tonnes, smoke extractors and lifeboats, all of which have been used at some point in hajj incidents.
The kingdom has been spending continuously on projects aimed at expanding the capacity of Mecca to accommodate the ever-increasing number of pilgrims.
Another new addition that cannot go unnoticed in Mecca is the world's largest clock, which sits atop a soaring skyscraper next to the Grand Mosque.
The clock entered a three-month trial operation in August, but work is visibly going on to complete its four sides. The aim to establish a Mecca time for Muslims, like Greenwich Mean Time.
President Obama will return home this weekend and attend church with is family in Washington, D.C.


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CSI DDS | Forensic Science Testimony. CSI bad science issues and their contribution to wrongful convictions.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
BACKGROUND: PART ONE: According to the Innocence Project, "Ohio lawmakers last week (March 16, 2010) passed a package of sweeping criminal justice reforms aimed at preventing injustice by addressing the leading causes of wrongful convictions. The bill, which Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign within days, was called by one lawmaker "one of the most important pieces of criminal justice legislation in this state in a century."Each time DNA testing helps to free an innocent person from prison, we can study how our criminal justice system failed — and address the problem so it doesn't happen again. Ohio is now a model in targeting reforms to help free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions and apprehend the true perpetrators of crime. The bill includes improvements to lineup procedures, a method for parolees to apply for DNA testing, incentives for police departments to record interrogations and a requirement that evidence in serious crimes be preserved. The Innocence Project worked closely with the Ohio Innocence Project for the last two years to pass these critical reforms. While these reforms are badly needed from coast to coast, the urgency for systemic change became clear in Ohio after the Columbus Dispatch published the groundbreaking series "Test of Convictions," documenting flaws in the state's system and helping to bring about two exonerations so far. The series' two reporters, Mike Wagner and Geoff Dutton, will receive the Innocence Network's first-annual Journalism Award next month. (April, 2010)
* PART ONE: Evidence is often lost or destroyed.
* PART TWO: Ohio rejects tests for parolees and the dead.
* PART THREE:Victims relive horror when inmates get testing.
* PART FOUR; Innocent man must register as sex offender.
* PART FIVE: DNA promising in questionable cases.
BACKGROUND PART THREE; THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH'S MODUS-OPERANDI: The Dispatch built case files on 313 inmates from 51 counties who applied for DNA tests. The newspaper reviewed every case with the Ohio Innocence Project, a University of Cincinnati-based legal clinic that represented many of the inmates. The reporters interviewed three dozen inmates and former inmates, as well as prosecutors, crime victims and others with a stake in the system.
BACKGROUND PART FOUR: THE REPORTERS; Geoff Dutton is a projects reporter who joined The Dispatch in 2002. He has reported on unsafe conditions in youth prisons, home foreclosures and predatory lending, and the consequences of sentencing juvenile criminals to adult prisons. Dutton worked previously for newspapers in Florida and Ohio. Mike Wagner has been a projects reporter at The Dispatch since 2006. He has profiled former OSU quarterback Art Schlichter, examined the lack of black coaches in high schools and detailed fan behavior at Big Ten football games. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for the Dayton Daily News.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am struck by the sheer contrast between Texas and Ohio when it comes to the criminal justice system. The State of Texas does its best to hide any information which could show that it could have convicted, or even executed an innocent man - as is so evident in the Cameron Todd Willingham and Hank Skinner cases. The State of Ohio is aggressively seeking to free the innocent and prevent wrongful convictions through legislation. This revolution in Ohio didn't just happen. It is the result of a magnificent investigation conducted by the Columbus Dispatch which began on January 27, 2008. This Blog applauds the Dispatch for pouring in the hefty resources required for such a massive undertaking, the Innocence Project and the Ohio Innocence Project, for its unique cooperation with the newspaper, and the writers, photographers and editorial staff who did such a phenomenal job. Reporters Geoff Dutton and Mike Wagner richly deserve the Innocence Network's first-annual Journalism Award which is to be presented next month. (April, 2010);
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"NORFOLK, Va. -- Arthur Whitfield is either one of the luckiest men alive or the unluckiest. It's never clear, least of all to Whitfield," the story begins, under the heading, "High cost of freedom: Despite innocence, he's labeled a sex offender."
"Sweat pours off his forehead, down his face, through his gray beard, falling like fat raindrops on his drenched black T-shirt," it continues.
"He pedals his bicycle through traffic, a bag of work clothes hanging from the handlebars. The hazy August heat drapes the 52-year-old like a steamy blanket. His past trails him like a black cloud.
The produce warehouse where he works is almost in sight, the 4-mile ride nearly over, when the chain pops off his cobbled-together Huffy. Again.
Fingers still greasy, he quickly fixes the chain and is on his way. This lanky, soft-spoken man isn't easily discouraged.
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"Every day that I'm not incarcerated," he explains later, "is a good day."
Three years ago, Whitfield was released from prison after serving 23 years for two rapes that DNA tests showed he didn't commit. He was cleared based on evidence that was supposed to be long gone but wasn't. The tests also identified the real attacker, a serial rapist who by then was serving life in prison.
But unfortunately for Whitfield, the law and politics of DNA aren't as advanced and clear-cut as the science.
Today, Whitfield isn't free but on parole. He's a registered sex offender for crimes the local prosecutor and state crime lab director agree he didn't commit.
But Whitfield, of all people, with nearly half his life already stolen, knows it could be worse. Much worse.
Had he been convicted in Ohio, for example, he almost certainly still would be in prison.
Gambling on a guilty plea
Whitfield pleaded guilty to rape on May 6, 1982.
Not because he was beaten, tortured or tricked by police or lawyers. Not because he was mentally impaired. Whitfield was 27 years old and knew exactly what he was doing.
He had just been convicted of one rape. The victim, grabbed from a dark street at knifepoint, had picked Whitfield from a police lineup. The judge bolstered her identification by allowing another victim -- both women were raped an hour apart, in the same neighborhood, apparently by the same man -- to testify that she had picked Whitfield from a lineup, too.
The jury deliberated for more than seven hours but ultimately trusted the victims' memories, not Whitfield's friends, relatives and a neighbor who testified that he was with them at a birthday party on the night of the rapes. Whitfield was sentenced to 45 years.
Now, Whitfield faced trial for the other rape. Coincidentally, the victims were friends, and both were lined up again to testify.
It would be a virtual replay of the first trial. If convicted again by a jury, Whitfield faced a potential life sentence. Also working against him was his record: two prison stints, in 1976 and 1978, for robbery.
"I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on," he said.
"If I take the deal for 18 years," he figured, "I can make parole maybe somewhere down the line."
Determined to see his family again someday outside prison walls, he took the deal, for a combined sentence of 63 years.
Pinning his future on DNA
Hope faded as Whitfield appeared before the parole board 14 times over the years, each time only to be returned to his cell.
After years behind bars, he decided to tell the parole board what parole boards everywhere want to hear.
"I finally decided I'd go in there and admit I did it and say I'm sorry," he said. "But I didn't do it. Every time I went in there, I froze up."
Being rejected for parole, it turns out, became yet another irony-tinged stroke of luck for Whitfield. "Because I never would have gotten a chance to also clear myself," he said.
In 2001, Virginia passed a law allowing convicted felons to apply for DNA testing. The law followed a DNA exoneration of an inmate who was one of the first in the nation saved by the emerging science of identifying microscopic human cells in the blood, semen, hair and saliva left by attackers at crime scenes.
Virginia was several years ahead of Ohio, and today remains more open to testing, in law and practice. While being paroled might have prevented Whitfield from getting a DNA test in Virginia, it would have automatically disqualified him in Ohio.
Also, Ohio is one of only a few states that wrote an additional hurdle into its law for inmates who, like Whitfield, pleaded guilty.
In those cases, Ohio law says a judge can't grant a test unless the prosecutor agrees -- an all-but-insurmountable barrier. Only one of 92 of those requests has been granted, The Dispatch found in a first-ever examination of Ohio's testing program.
Whitfield faced no such legal roadblock in Virginia, although winning approval for a test in any state is a long shot.
"At the time, everything seemed impossible in terms of me getting out," Whitfield said. "I always liked to think I had a chance to get out. But it felt like I was slipping, and I needed something to hold onto."
He filled out the brief application in 2003.
Thanking 'Miss Burton'
Everybody warned Whitfield that the evidence from his case likely was gone.
Norfolk police looked and couldn't find it. Neither could the clerk of courts.
The victims' sexual assault exams were conducted years before the advent of DNA testing. According to crime-lab procedures at the time, the swabs should have been disposed of long ago.
"I didn't too much understand at first, when they said the evidence might be destroyed," he said. "Why would my evidence be thrown away?"
Nowadays, it probably wouldn't be. Virginia stopped the indiscriminate destruction of evidence when it adopted its inmate DNA testing law. So have 21 other states.
Evidence preservation still isn't required by law in Ohio, and inmate applications for DNA testing are routinely derailed because of lost or destroyed evidence, the Dispatch investigation found.
Fortunately for Whitfield, he was not in Ohio.
More important, his case was handled by Mary Jane Burton, a headstrong scientist not given to policies that involved trashing her work.
When the state pulled lab files from Whitfield's case in December 2003, the swabs, like cottony Q-tips, were taped inside. So were swatches of the victims' clothing.
By then, Burton, an Ohio native who retired to Cincinnati, had been dead five years. But Whitfield still talks about "Miss Burton" as if the forensic scientist were a beloved aunt.
"She's no longer here but, if she can hear me, I want to thank her, because I know she's in a good place now. I've never forgotten her name."
Winning his freedom
Norfolk lawyer Michael F. Fasanaro was assigned to the case.
To him, Whitfield was just another court-appointed obligation -- a twice-convicted rapist who had pleaded guilty, no less -- to juggle between paying clients.
"I just thought it was another case," Fasanaro said.
Then the fax came across his machine late one Friday afternoon.
The 23-year-old swabs still contained DNA from the women's attacker, and the genetic fingerprint didn't match Whitfield's.
"I was absolutely surprised -- stunned," Fasanaro said. "I had to read it twice, quite frankly. I had to read it out loud."
He immediately confirmed the results with the prosecutor's office, which wanted to re-test. The next day, officials swabbed the inside of Whitfield's cheek for a fresh DNA sample and ran the comparisons again.
Again, no match -- not to Whitfield, anyway.
Unable to immediately reach Whitfield, Fasanaro called his mother.
"I told her I had wonderful news for her, that her son was coming home the next day," he said. "She cried. She was overwhelmed.
"That was probably one of the most joyful things I've done."
Whitfield was released from prison, 23 years and three days after his arrest.
He caught a bus home. There were no seats available, so Whitfield gladly stood the whole 100-mile ride -- finally free.
Twisting in a technicality
But Whitfield's life of viciously cruel ironies followed him home to Norfolk.
To clear the way for his immediate release from prison, the state put him out on parole.
Nobody gave it a second thought until his lawyer filed for a writ of actual innocence, paperwork to formally certify what the prosecutor already had acknowledged and continues to tell anybody who asks: Arthur Lee Whitfield didn't do it.
By then, the prosecutor even knew who did.
The DNA matched Aaron Doxie III, whose genetic profile was part of a state computer database. Doxie, who declined to be interviewed for this story and hasn't commented publicly, already was serving life in prison for rapes he committed two years after Whitfield was sent to prison.
And another old rape had just been belatedly pinned on Doxie. In that case, yet another man, Julius Ruffin, had been wrongfully convicted and served 20 years before DNA cleared him in 2003, just as Whitfield's exoneration was playing out.
Ruffin also had been saved by DNA tests on swabs squirreled away by Mary Jane Burton.
So nobody expected the judge to reject Whitfield's request for a declaration of innocence. But the judge ruled that a close reading of Virginia law showed a person must be incarcerated to be considered for a writ of actual innocence.
The circular logic caught everybody by surprise. Whitfield appealed. The case went before the state Supreme Court, which ruled in a split decision in October 2005 that Whitfield in fact had no legal standing now that he was out of prison.
"It is tragic, because we're talking about a technicality rather than the actual facts of the innocence," Fasanaro said. "I mean, he's been found innocent through the DNA, and no technicality should stand in the way of that."
Working on a fresh start
Outside the courtroom, Whitfield fared better -- for a while.
Everything seemed to fall into place. Managers at a local credit union read about his plight in the newspaper and offered him a job. Whitfield was a high-school dropout laborer who earned his diploma in prison. He looked around, bewildered by the computers, and declined.
The manager insisted. He told Whitfield that he was prohibited from hiring convicted felons, but he was going to do it anyway and keep Whitfield on the staff as long as he could.
"That was a big turnaround for him," said his older brother, Raymond Whitfield, of Dayton. "I've never seen him so thrilled and so happy, and the people liked him."
Whitfield worked as a customer service representative, teller and loan processor. His co-workers helped set him up with an apartment and a car, and welcomed him as one of the team. He smiles as he recalls them dragging him onto the dance floor at the office Christmas party.
But after two years, somebody outside the branch office noticed a convicted felon on the payroll, Whitfield said. They bid him a warm goodbye.
"They asked me when I get my pardon to come back," he said.
Lobbying against a pardon
By then, Whitfield already had asked the governor for a pardon.
Ruffin, the Norfolk man released a year before Whitfield after serving 20 years, offered Whitfield encouragement.
But for all of their similarities -- both cases involved the same rapist, both were investigated by the same police detective, both men were cleared by DNA saved by the same lab technician -- there was a key difference.
After the DNA tests, the victim in Ruffin's case greeted him with public apologies for her part in unknowingly convicting the wrong man. She called for reforms to prevent mistakes in the future. She even testified before the legislature to help Ruffin secure $1.2 million from the state.
A previous governor pardoned him on the way out of office.
In Whitfield's case, one victim wrote a seven-page letter to the governor urging him to deny a pardon, still convinced that Whitfield was her attacker.
Both victims say their separate descriptions of the attacker were similar, and that they bore no similarity to Doxie. The women, who were forced to perform oral sex during the rapes, also both say their attacker was uncircumcised -- like Whitfield and unlike Doxie.
They question the validity of DNA tests on swabs that had been stuffed in files, unprotected, for more than 20 years by a lab worker who isn't alive to answer for them.
"DNA doesn't lie? No, it doesn't. But you can screw it up," one victim told The Dispatch, which does not identify victims of sexual crimes unless they agree to be named.
The other victim bristles at what she views as a "pity party" for Whitfield.
"There is no way I made a mistake. It's absolutely him. I've been saying that since Day One."
While both victims gave the jury strikingly similar descriptions of their attacker, the testimony contradicted some of their initial statements to police, records show.
They testified to Whitfield's distinctive hazel-colored eyes, but only one had noted his eye color immediately after the attack, describing it as brown. They also both told police the rapist was clean-shaven, but Whitfield had a beard.
In her letter to the governor, the contents of which haven't been reported until now, one victim says she now believes the other woman was raped by a different man and mistakenly identified Whitfield.
She suggests that evidence could have been intermingled in the two decades leading up to the DNA tests.
After the DNA tests, Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney John R. Doyle III, the prosecutor, said in his request for Whitfield's release from prison that he was convinced "beyond any question" that Whitfield was innocent.
"All the evidence in the case excludes him as the rapist," he said recently. "And I haven't seen anything that would persuade me this is not the case."
Pete Marone, director of the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, also backs the results.
"From a scientific standpoint, Aaron Doxie is there and Arthur Whitfield is not," Marone said. Moreover, DNA from the victims on those same swabs, while degraded and incomplete, was consistent with the women's genetic fingerprints. "There's enough (victim DNA) there you feel confident there's not a mix-up."
Living in seclusion
Whitfield is frustrated but not angry.
"I'm not mad or have any hard feelings," he said. "I believe (the victims) actually believe what they saw was me. I understand."
Push, prod, provoke, needle Whitfield all you want. He won't raise his voice or lash out.
Not when he talks about losing his credit-union job and having to move back home with his parents.
Or when he talks about the time his neighbors watched him being arrested because, as a registered sex offender, there was brief confusion about where he was living.
Whitfield's mother can't, or won't, talk about her son's ordeal anymore.
"I let God work it out," Louise Whitfield said, breaking down and retreating out the back door of her house.
Outside of work, Arthur Whitfield mostly has reverted to the lifestyle that served him well in prison -- minimizing contact with others and filling the time watching TV, particularly soap operas.
If 23 years in prison taught him anything, it's not to get his hopes up. On the other hand, he also knows as well as anyone never to give up.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who declined to comment for this story, hasn't granted a pardon. But the Democrat, who took office in January 2006, hasn't denied one, either.
Finding a new home
The cramped waiting room is filled with stiff-backed chairs, a vending machine and glum-faced men wearing electronic ankle bracelets.
Whitfield walks up to the receptionist's window and asks to see his parole officer, who seems to recognize that Whitfield isn't a typical ex-con.
"Arthur's a hard case," he says, smiling, patting Whitfield on the shoulder. He encourages Whitfield to be patient. "I keep telling him, all we've got is time."
Whitfield smiles sheepishly, but it's difficult being patient when you're a 52-year-old man living with your parents.
A day earlier, Whitfield pedaled to work, struggling to keep the chain on his Huffy. Today, he is taking a day off from the produce warehouse to chase a short-term dream: finding his own place to live.
He recently lost his wallet -- Whitfield is prone to losing his wallet, keys, you name it -- and he needs new identification to secure a lease. His parole officer agrees to help.
His bosses at the produce warehouse are helping, too. The business office reviews paperwork and leases for him, and offers to advance deposit money if he finds the right place.
Earlier in the day, a friend of his mother's had shown him a house she had for rent.
As Whitfield sized up the tiny pale yellow shotgun house with teal shutters and a front porch, he spied a group of teenagers across the street. Music blared, bass thumping, from a parked car. "Is it rowdy around here?" he asked.
In the end, Whitfield looked past the neighbor kids, beyond the overgrown yard and the weed-choked flowerbed obscuring the front porch, and saw possibilities.
"I'm gonna have fun cutting the grass, trimming the hedges, fixing things up. I don't even care if it doesn't have a bed," he said.
"My life's not too good right now. But things are looking better. Any time you're not incarcerated, it's a good life."
Waiting for a pardon
Whitfield, now 53, moved into the house in August, where he lives with his girlfriend and her two daughters.
Also last summer, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the portion of the law here that gives prosecutors sole authority to reject DNA applications from inmates who, like Whitfield, pleaded guilty.
Ohio has yet to enact a law requiring evidence to be preserved.
In Virginia, after the exonerations of Marvin Anderson in 2002, Ruffin in 2003 and Whitfield in 2004 -- all thanks to evidence saved by Mary Jane Burton -- the governor ordered a review of a random sampling of 31 more of her files.
Those led to the exonerations of two other men who had served a combined 31 years in prison for rape and were by then on parole.
Now, the state lab is combing all of its files -- more than a half-million, from 1973 to 1988 -- in search of other evidence that, contrary to lab practice, was stowed in files.
So far, officials have found samples that could cast new light on more than 2,000 murders, rapes and serious assaults, Marone said, most of them handled by Burton.
A first batch of 166 cases has been sent to a private lab for DNA testing, the start of a process that will probably take another year.
Meanwhile, Whitfield still awaits word from the governor on a pardon. It's been 772 days and counting."
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- Jean K. QuamJean K. QuamJean K. Quam, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota. She was the director of the School of Social Work at Minnesota (which is administratively located in CEHD) for over sixteen years. Her Ph.D. was earned at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has research interests in social welfare history and gay and lesbian aging. For several years she taught a doctoral seminar on the history of social welfare.
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Edith Abbott, Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago from 1924 to 1942, was one of the chief architects of the new model of social work education. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, the daughter of Elizabeth Griffin Abbott, a high school principal and a women's suffrage leader, and Othman Abbott, first Lieutenant governor of Nebraska. Her sister, Grace Abbott, was born two years later. Edith Abbott graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1901, received her PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1905, and studied at the London School of Economics. In 1908, after teaching economics at Wellesley, she became assistant director of the research department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (later incorporated as part of the University of Chicago).
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The contraception controversy has made me think of no one so much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. What's that I say? I mean that the slow-footed political response by the administration to something that was obviously a political problem reminded me directly of the controversy from Barack Obama's first year in office over whether KSM should be tried in a civilian court or a military tribunal. In that case, as in this one, the administration didn't think things through, made an announcement, watched passively for a while as protest built, and then backtracked. Why does this keep happening? I have to conclude that it's because Obama has some lousy political instincts. He's only lucky that there's one group of people—his opponents—whose instincts are often even worse.
The KSM case is instructive here. It was a very big and much-anticipated decision. And it was one on which the administration didn't do its homework properly. Jane Mayer laid all this out in The New Yorker at the time. Hours before Attorney General Eric Holder went public with his decision, Mayer wrote, the administration reached out to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Gov. David Paterson, and Sen. Chuck Schumer. They signed off. Then the storm hit, and they withdrew their support. The administration could not have controlled that. However, Mayer noted, the "Obama Administration's political preparations for a controversial trial were less thorough than those made by previous Administrations. In 1995, Justice Department officials spent months laying the groundwork for trying the bomber Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City. Detailed cost estimates were made, and there was extensive outreach to local officials, victims' families, and security personnel. (Ultimately, a judge ordered the trial moved to Colorado.) By comparison, local officials in New York have said that they were only glancingly consulted."
We know that in the current case, even Catholic progressives and supporters of the administration felt underconsulted. Maybe the administration had in the back of its collective mind the recent contretemps over the decision about the availability of the Plan B contraception pill. In that case, when the administration went against the women's groups, it was they who felt underconsulted! And, yes, any clumsy administration tap dance makes me think of the debt-ceiling debacle, when Democrats on the Hill felt underconsulted, and undercut, as Obama, apparently at David Plouffe's urging, made overtures to Speaker John Boehner about a "grand bargain" involving entitlements that the Democrats wanted no part of.
What unites these episodes? It's not the team. One was handled by Justice, and it took place back when David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel were in charge of the politics. The two involving the Department of Health and Human Servies were more recent, as was the debt-ceiling debate. But the passage of time suggests it's not the political team making these misjudgments. We know in the current case that Joe Biden and Bill Daley gave very clear warnings that this would kick up dust. So it must, on some level, be Obama himself.
There seem to be two problems here. First, I think Obama still somehow can't believe, won't believe, that political actors will deal with him in bad faith. He was gobsmacked right after he took office by the GOP's nearly united opposition to his stimulus bill. With regard to the debt ceiling, he famously said that he believed that once Boehner and the Republicans shared governing duties, they'd act in the responsible way. It seemed he'd learned something from that, and he probably did, at least with regard to Republicans on the Hill. But maybe he thought this was somehow different—that he'd have a little bit of good will in the bank from the Catholic bishops because of the Plan B decision. Sure.
Second, there's just basic political fumbling that is awfully hard to understand. It's particularly mystifying that the administration didn't nail down the support of Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association. She's been an administration ally on health care. She's fine with today's language. Even the Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a semi-supportive statement Friday afternoon. (Though later in the day, they sounded much more critical.) But it's malpractice that it had to happen this way, and you have to wonder why there wasn't more legwork here. In his excellent piece in the new Atlantic, James Fallows gets to two possible explanations. Obama is aloof and solitary; he just doesn't enjoy having to talk to a lot of people. Number two, he doesn't demand enough of his staff. We don't know a lot of the backstory here, but it wouldn't exactly be shocking to find that both of these factors were present.
The only fortunate thing for the White House is that the Republicans are often even more ham-handed than he. Let's give the GOP the win on KSM. Other than that, they always contrive to find a way to come out of these battles looking even worse than the White House. Congressional approval after the debt fracas hit record lows. And now they're doing their best to turn a positive narrative for them—Obama hates religious freedom—into a negative one by declaring war on contraception. This is a lot worse politically than where Obama finds himself today. In their inimitable style, they are now on the cusp of equating contraception, which 99 percent of women of child-bearing age use, with abortion. Brilliant. But hey: keep at it, fellas!
The success of this new rule depends on the insurers going along. We'll see. There may be legal challenges. And of course there is now legislation brewing that would seemingly let any employer, not just religious institutions, refuse to cover contraceptive services. They just have to say it's for religious reasons. It may well pass the House, get a lot of votes in the Senate, including at least one Democrat and keep this alive as a wedge issue heading toward November.
As I say, I think for now Obama will escape this one more or less intact. People who rely on contraception—you know, humans with reproductive organs—are alas underrepresented in the chattering class, while Catholic males happen to be somewhat overrepresented, so said class was bound to fail to give proper weight to women's views. And we all know by now the poll showing that a majority of even Catholics back the administration's first position. This is one of those cases, like the Monica Lewinsky situation, when the punditocracy is speaking for itself more than for America.
But it's sad, and maddening, that Obama isn't better at this kind of political to and fro. To be the president he wants to be, he is going to have to get better at it. Being right on the merits isn't what politics is about. Being a leader is about a lot more than that.


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