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Lawyers for Mukesh Singh (26), Vinay Sharma (20), Pawan Gupta (19) and Akshay Thakur (28) said they were young, did not have previous criminal records and should be given a chance to reform. Harish V Nair reports. See full coverage | How a gang rape caused turmoil in Indiadelhi Updated: Sep 13, 2013 11:49 IST
A special court here deferred till Friday the sentencing of four men convicted of the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus as the prosecution demanded they be hanged and the defence quoted the teachings of Gandhi in a last desperate bid to save them.
Lawyers for Mukesh Singh (26), Vinay Sharma (20), Pawan Gupta (19) and Akshay Thakur (28) said they were young, didn't have previous criminal records and should be given a chance to reform.
Quoting the Mahatma, AP Singh, counsel for Vinay and Akshay, said, "God has given life and he alone can take life, not man-made courts."
Arguing that "execution kills only the criminal and not the crime, and the death sentence can't be a deterrent", he said "Beant Singh, who assassinated Indira Gandhi, was hanged but her son, Rajiv Gandhi, was killed in a similar fashion".
But special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan said the "grotesque and diabolic" crime demanded the noose. "There is no chance such criminals can be reformed. If death is not given to such criminals, the common man will lose faith in the courts. Society feels no woman is safe. It is for the courts to change that perception by handing down harsh punishment."
As arguments played out for four hours in the packed courtroom, the woman's parents sat in rapt attention while the four convicts stood emotionless.
Earlier, on the drive from Tihar to court, the men had been "totally relaxed" and even sung Bollywood songs, the police said. "Mukesh sat in front, the rest behind and they were humming songs," an official told the Guardian.
As their bus passed the gates of the Saket district court, one of the four shouted, "I am innocent! I am innocent." Outside, hordes of protesters stood with placards reading "Hang the rapists".
On Tuesday, the seven-month trial came to an end with the court finding the four men guilty on 12 counts, including gang rape, murder and unnatural offences. On August 31, their minor accomplice was convicted and sentenced to three years in a correctional facility. The sixth accused, Ram Singh, was found dead in his jail cell in March.
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Many kids in the state of Texas grow up dreaming of playing competitive sports. Few go on to be high school stars and make a name for themselves at a top program at the high school level, and even fewer get the chance to play the sport they love in the collegiate ranks.
When Hayden Ross graduated from Austin Westlake High School, he thought that was the end of his sports career. He took a short break from baseball in the summer before his freshman year at Baylor, but soon couldn't resist the urge to get back to the sport that he loved.
"I graduated high school in 2012 and didn't really have any offers from schools," said Ross. "I knew I was coming to Baylor and I didn't play much baseball that summer. I really missed the sport. I missed playing games and so I decided in my freshman year that I was going to try out for the club team and try to get myself back in shape."
What started as an outlet for Ross to revisit the sport he loved soon reignited his passion for the game. In his only year with the Baylor club baseball team, Ross posted staggering numbers. He led the team with a .535 batting average while recording a team high 17 runs in 23 hits that culminated in being named a Gulf Coast Conference All-Region first team member, while also being named a club baseball third-team All-American.
Following the end of the club season, Ross knew he wanted to pursue an opportunity to play for the Baylor varsity team. He knew he would have to improve his game if he wanted to earn his spot on the team, so he devoted the following summer to doing just that.
"That summer before my sophomore year I devoted all of my time to working out and doing nothing but baseball stuff," Ross said. "I worked with Will Crouch, who was a UT grad, who really helped me to build confidence and fine tune some skills."
During that summer, Ross reached out to the Baylor coaching staff to arrange a meeting about the possibility of becoming a walk-on for the 2014 season.
"I felt really good about my chances of making the team," Ross said. "I emailed Coach Steve Smith and told him I would love to drive up and speak with him about my intentions. A few days later I drove up and met with the coaching staff where they told me they already had a full roster for the upcoming year. I left that meeting a little dissatisfied because there was no definitive answer."
A few weeks before the start of the 2013-14 academic year, Ross got the answer he had been waiting for. He received word that he had earned the ability to compete for a spot on the 35-man roster during fall scrimmages.
"A sponsor for the club team had contacted Coach Smith and told him there was a guy who had impressed him a little bit and was interested in coming over and checking things out," said Assistant Coach Trevor Mote. "His coaches had a lot of good things to say about him. He was a successful player in high school who had just got here. Seeing that he came from a really good program in Austin and his progression here with the club team we just said, 'Hey, let's give him a shot in the fall and see where it goes from there.'"
From there it was all up to Ross to earn his spot on the spring roster.
"I was really pumped up and ready to go," Ross said. "I went through the fall competing for a spot on the 35-man roster and after the first couple of scrimmages I felt like it was going pretty well."
Things were going much better for Ross than just pretty well. The coaches and fellow players had noticed his work ethic and competitiveness and the decision was made that he had earned his spot.
"We all met Hayden at the first team meeting," said teammate and starting second baseman Lawton Langford. "He just worked really hard and showed that he is a competitor every time he steps on the field. I think that is one of the things that our coaches really liked about him. He is a hard worker and a guy who will go out and play hard every day."
After learning he had made the 35-man roster, Ross would not have to wait long to get his chance in a game. In Baylor's first game of the 2014 season, Ross was called in as a pinch runner, and was named the starting second baseman in the team's second game of the season.
"That weekend was awesome," Ross recalled. "It was a great experience. I honestly never thought I would see the field this year. That was a dream I have always had and something I will never forget."
Ross has made an impact on the team playing in 22 of the team's games this season, including 13 as a starter."It is a big advantage for us to find a guy who is already enrolled in school and can come in and can be a contributing member of the program," Mote said. "Hayden has definitely been that. He has been a hard worker and a guy who comes out here every day and gives it his all. He is incredibly coachable and just wants to get better. On top of all of that, he is a great teammate. He has been a great addition to our program and we really think his future is bright."


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Heavenly Cakes (Website HERE) came bursting on to the ChocolateMission scene last month with a number of their products breaking the elusive 9.0 out of 10 barrier on the scoring chart. With offerings such as their Billionaires Brownies and Millionaires Shortbread proving to be some of the best cakes I have ever tasted, I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to try a few more cakes from their wide selection. In the spotlight today we have the Heavenly Cakes Toffee Crisp, which is described on the website as 'a grown-up version of a kid's rice crispie cake'. If the prospect of this cake has you licking your lips with anticipation as it did me, then you might want to check out the site this weekend when I launch a Heavenly Cakes competition!!!!
If you remember back to my first few Heavenly Cakes reviews you may recall that I received all of their products in giftpack form, which included six giant sized servings. In order to get to gauge as to how their cakes would fare in their single portion packs I requested the guys send my latest sampling batch in this form - hence the packaging you see above. As stand alone portions the cakes still looked equally as tempting, and the clear plastic packs did a fine job of keeping the contents fresh whilst also totally visible. Given how terrifically Heavenly Cakes present their products, it was a wise choice picking a packaging material that allowed the cakes to be on full show. Once again with these Toffee Crisp, I couldn't help but find myself marvelling at yet another beautifully crafted cake.
When the time finally came to ripping open the plastic packet I was met by a pleasant burst of sweet smelling chocolate cereal scents. As I have mentioned before, Heavenly Cakes are ridiculously generous when it comes to their serving sizes, so I called in some assistance to help me consume massive cake slice. Keeping with true British tradition, me a fellow colleague consumed with this with a spot of tea :) - and what a delightful tea and cake break it was. Before we sat down for this break I had the genius idea of sticking the cake in the fridge an hour or so before which I think made it all that much better. Despite being chilled, both the upper layer of Belgian chocolate and caramel still yielded with a delicate softness and melted at supreme rate delivering all of their delicious flavours. The milk chocolate topping was wonderfully creamy, yet maintained a firm underlying cocoa delivery that grew in stature with the increased chocolateyness of the crispy cereal base. The caramel sat below it was as sinfully rich and sweet tasting as ever, and brought lashings of butter, toffee and salt to the fore. Compared to the two layers that sat on top, the chocolate rice cereal base contributed the least to the taste, but as mentioned it did reaffirm the chocolate flavour of the aforementioned topping. The crunchiness of the rice cereal was also a very welcome contrastive texture against the softer chocolate and caramel.
Overall this wasn't my favourite Heavenly Cakes product I have ever reviewed, but it was still one of the best rice crispie cakes I have ever had. Heavenly Cakes have hit upon a pretty successful formula with their Belgian milk chocolate and caramel toppings, it seems to be that anything they coat this stuff in is going to go down well whatever the quality of what it sits on top on. I hate using this word because it implies that something about these cakes were average (believe me they weren't!), but there was something about the rice cereal base that was a little generic. Don't get me wrong it was still very tasty, but if it hadn't been for the caramel and milk chocolate layer sat on top, I doubt I would be raving about these Toffee Crisp cakes as much as I did above - lets be frank there is only so much you can make of a rice cereal base after all! I personally think there are a few better things on offer in the Heavenly Cakes range, but if rice crispie cakes are your thing then I pretty certain you won't find better than these. Hands up whose entering the competition this Saturday :D
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It is not a coincidence that an Elsevier-backed PAC has funded Rep. Maloney's election campaigns and, to a lesser extent, those of Rep. Issa. Maloney has been their top recipient of campaign contributions since 2008. Source: hhttp://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2012&strID=C00345793
As a librarian I know that access to information is crucial to future developments in research and progress in all areas. As a tax payer, it disgusts me that my tax money would be used to fund research that would not be available without charge. Please stop giving into publisher lobbyists, drug companies, etc. Think of the good of humanity.
Research funded by federal tax dollars provided by American tax payers should be publicly accessible to all through deposit in a variety of digital repositories. Universities, organizations, and federal agencies can and do offer these services to enable researchers to share their scholarship easily.
Passage of H.R. 3699 will inhibit economic growth, medical advancements, education, and entrepreneurship in our nation. At a time when many European countries far outstrip the U.S. in terms of online access to research, this bill would not only stymie America's contributions to this worldwide effort but also set us back 20 years. Can we afford this?
Shocking! The public is entitle to access research it has supported. It should not be privatized and then sold back to the public!
The open access to research findings that have any component (even 1% or less)of public funding must remain accessible to all. Intellectual freedom and the freedom to read must not be infringed. HR 3699 is bad business and bad for America.
This proposed legislation is sheer dishonesty. The comments from The Association of American Publishers are disingenuous in the extreme. The overwhelming proportion of academic scientific research is supported by the Federal Government and the publishing industry in fact does everything possible to restrict public access by extraordinarily high prices for academic journals - way outside what any public library can afford- and by charging large amounts for actually buying a single copy. I have been publishing in scientific journals for over 50 years and have some experience here. I note also with some cynical interest that according to "Open Secrets" Rep. Carolyn Maloney cites significant campaign "contributions" from a a major publisher, Reed-Elsevier. I wonder why Congress is even less well trusted, according to Gallup, than used car salesmen.
See: Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The Public Research Dog, Yet Again
The US Research Works Act (H.R.3699): "No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."
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"If public tax money is used to fund research, that research becomes "private research" once a publisher "adds value" to it by managing the peer review."
[Comment: Researchers do the peer review for the publisher for free, just as researchers give their papers to the publisher for free, together with the exclusive right to sell subscriptions to it, on-paper and online, seeking and receiving no fee or royalty in return].
"Since that public research has thereby been transformed into "private research," and the publisher's property, the government that funded it with public tax money should not be allowed to require the funded author to make it accessible for free online for those users who cannot afford subscription access."
[Comment: The author's sole purpose in doing and publishing the research, without seeking any fee or royalties, is so that all potential users can access, use and build upon it, in further research and applications, to the benefit of the public that funded it; this is also the sole purpose for which public tax money is used to fund research.]"
H.R. 3699 misunderstands the secondary, service role that peer-reviewed research journal publishing plays in US research and development and its (public) funding.
As a previous public educator and current information professional in the educational sector, i believe fervently in open access of information and research, especially that which has been funded by taxpayers. As taxpaying citizens we are lead to believe that what we give our money to is worthwhile. Publishing results of publicly funded research should only increase shareholder interest and support. Similar to the local government monies given to public education that is public record, research and the results of that research funded with tax monies needs to be publicly published with open access to all!
Thank you for considering this matter of utmost importance,
the public pays for research ... therefore the public should have access to the published findings that they pay for
As a medical librarian in a major urban medical center, I am writing to strongly oppose H.R. 3699, the "Research Works Act," introduced on December 16, and referred to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. This bill would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grant funding to require that all members of the public be guaranteed online access to the products of the research that their tax dollars fund. This will significantly inhibit our ability to advance scientific discovery and stimulate innovation in all scientific disciplines.
Most critically, H.R. 3699 would reverse the highly successful National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, prohibit American taxpayers from accessing the results of the crucial biomedical research funded by their taxpayer dollars, and stifle critical advancements in life-saving research and scientific discovery.
Because of the NIH Public Access Policy, millions of Americans now have access to vital health care information from the NIH's PubMed Central database. Under the current policy, more than 90,000 new biomedical manuscripts are deposited for public accessibility each year. H.R. 3699 would prohibit the deposit of these manuscripts, seriously impeding the ability of researchers, physicians, healthcare professionals, and families to access and use this critical health-related information in a timely manner.
H.R. 3699 affects not only the results of biomedical research produced by the NIH, but also scientific research coming from all other federal agencies. Access to critical information on energy, the environment, climate change, and hundreds of other areas that directly impact the lives and well being of the public would be unfairly limited by this proposed legislation.
Sincerely, Daria Drobny, MSLS, AHIP
I am deeply troubled that 3669 cedes to private parties that which derived from public tax funded research. This should be available to all. Stop trying to privatize everything-
Subject: I oppose H.R. 3699
Dear Representative;
On behalf of [your organization], I am writing to strongly oppose H.R. 3699, the "Research Works Act," introduced on December 16, and referred to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. This bill would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grant funding to require that all members of the public be guaranteed online access to the products of the research that their tax dollars fund. This will significantly inhibit our ability to advance scientific discovery and stimulate innovation in all scientific disciplines.
Most critically, H.R. 3699 would reverse the highly successful National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy, prohibit American taxpayers from accessing the results of the crucial biomedical research funded by their taxpayer dollars, and stifle critical advancements in life-saving research and scientific discovery.
Because of the NIH Public Access Policy, millions of Americans now have access to vital health care information from the NIH's PubMed Central database. Under the current policy, more than 90,000 new biomedical manuscripts are deposited for public accessibility each year. H.R. 3699 would prohibit the deposit of these manuscripts, seriously impeding the ability of researchers, physicians, healthcare professionals, and families to access and use this critical health-related information in a timely manner.
H.R. 3699 affects not only the results of biomedical research produced by the NIH, but also scientific research coming from all other federal agencies. Access to critical information on energy, the environment, climate change, and hundreds of other areas that directly impact the lives and well being of the public would be unfairly limited by this proposed legislation.
[Why you support taxpayer access and the NIH policy].
The NIH and other agencies must be allowed to ensure timely, public access to the results of research funded with taxpayer dollars. Please oppose H.R. 3699.
I was absolutely dismayed to see the recently proposed Research Works Act (H.R. 3699). I strongly oppose this legislation, and hope that House of Representatives considers the rights of taxpayers to the research that they fund and to the worldwide public to research that could benefit all, rather than the academic publishers who have already made such high profits from the work that the scholarly community freely provides.
Maura Smale, Ph.D., MLIS New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York
As a taxpayer, this publicly funded research is something I helped pay for.
Whose bad idea was this anyway.
Simply, rofiteering.
There is a petition on this site:
The public funded the Human Genome Project, but now we are told that outcomes of that research are a private, rather than public, good. The privatization of public research is just more of the same.
The probably goal here is to further the anti-science aims of the right wing and their supporters. Don't worry so much about federally sponsored research as it will be eliminated entirely as we work through a solution to our artificial need for austerity. In a two-tiered society, nobody cares about the bottom, so even the top can't get what it wants. Justice.
Subject: I oppose HR 3699
I am a veterinary librarian. Veterinary medicine is a very small community of practice with a broad impact. Veterinarians treat all species but one. They need access to evidence in order to make the best clinical decisions. Veterinarians work in private practice, in state and national governments, in the military, and in industry. They are actively engaged in protecting animal and public health. Few of them have convenient free access to the veterinary journal literature, which is controlled largely by the toll-access publishers Elsevier and Wiley.
Recently, Dr. Davis at Cornell published the study cited below. It provides high quality evidence that HR 3699 is absolutely the wrong direction for our country's scholarly output.
From PubMed: FASEB J. 2011 Jul;25(7):2129-34. Epub 2011 Mar 30. Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing. Davis PM. Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Abstract "Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of scientific knowledge? Using a randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, we report on the effects of free access on article downloads and citations. Articles placed in the open access condition (n=712) received significantly more downloads and reached a broader audience within the first year, yet were cited no more frequently, nor earlier, than subscription-access control articles (n=2533) within 3 yr. These results may be explained by social stratification, a process that concentrates scientific authors at a small number of elite research universities with excellent access to the scientific literature. The real beneficiaries of open access publishing may not be the research community but communities of practice that consume, but rarely contribute to, the corpus of literature.
The "communities of practice" identified by Dr. Davis will not be the only ones to be denied access to research vital to human and veterinary medical practice if for-profit publishers continue to charge libraries 10-20% per year inflation for journals. The toll-access publishers are making huge profits off journal publishing while simultaneously engaging in differential pricing and access policies to veterinary medical e-books.
Libraries have born the cost of unsustainable price increases for the past 20 years. Library budgets are flat or decreasing. Toll access publishers have seen profits increase dramatically while their actions have negatively impacted the access libraries can provide to scholars, and the that trend will only continue should the toll-access publishers be allowed to prevail with legislation like HR3699. (N.B.: An editor speaking at my university last year mentioned that Elsevier has two corporate jets.)
We need congress to help to change the scholarly publishing paradigm from 'the right to exclude to the right to distribute' (thanks to David Lewis at IUPUI).
Please oppose HR3699 unconditionally.
Sincerely ann viera Pendergrass AG-VET MED Library
This is more of the privatization and corporatization of higher education.
What are you thinking Representative Maloney? I expect this from Republicans, but you?
Shame on you!
If my tax dollars pay for the research, then the results belong to me as well as every other tax paying citizen. Ergo, this bill stinks to high heaven, as it were.
This should be a no-brainer - DO NOT pass this really bad bill! Thank you.
I cannot believe there is even the slightest possibility of this passing. As a recent undergrad graduate, and a student pursuing a Master's degree, I cannot tell you how critical the open access to these journals' articles are to furthering the knowledge gained by our, and future, generations. The fact that these representatives are lobbying for this because they received campaign funds from Elsevier is disgusting and nothing short of that. Why is it that money is more important than making educational resources free for anyone to use? When did personal gain outweigh the benefits of readily accessible information? I am ashamed that GREED is what our government responds to and not the overall benefits of the people it is supposed to govern.
Representatives, get away from the selective society (of money) you choose to surround yourselves with and reacquaint yourselves with the needs of the people before this country goes the way of Rome...which our future children will probably never know about since they won't be able to access actual historical articles on the matter and instead will rely on the overly dramatic - and, oftentimes, wildly inaccurate - reproductions of the "History" channel.
Hey - braineacts! Is this about protecting others from not having access to potentially very lucrative research, or is it about making more federal money?
Please do not pass this bill (H.R. 3699). I consider the whole thing interference, and very bad policy. Results of taxpayer research belong to the public within a reasonable time!
What happened to freedom of speach, freedom of the press? Did we turn into a comunist country and I slept through it?
I hope. Our gov does not take away. This. This is a good thing. It helps alot of people. Around the world good information.
I use the internet daily for access to a variety of information, from health issues to entertainment and news. Please do not pass this bill. Remember, you are representing the majority of the people in the USA, not the 1 %. Please listen to us.
I question the morality of Darrell Issa and Carolyn Maloney. To use our tax dollars for research and then make people PAY to get the information, or block access completely, is WRONG. Plain and simple. If you're only going to give in to lobbyists, then you have NO business whatsoever being in public office. You work for AMERICAN CITIZENS, NOT special interests groups. DO NOT PASS THIS BILL!!!
Science needs to be open and free for it to work, otherwise it is just marketing. Stop the corporate take-over of our democracy and our science. Vote no.
Any member of Congress voting for H.R. 3699, SOPA or PIPA must ask themselves three questions: Why am I opposed to freedom? Why am I opposed to liberty? Why am I opposed to the very concepts upon which the United States of America was formed? If, after answering these simple questions, they still vote for any or all of these measures, then it would be fair to call them un-American!
No es casualidad que se quiera autorizar una ley que prohiba la libertad de circulacion del conocimento, toods sabemos que el conovimiento es poder: poder de decidir hacia donde queremos ir, a quien queremos conocer y que queremos pensar...y eso no le convienen ni a los gobiernos ni a los empresarios y explotadores del mundo entero, si por ellos fuera, el mundo seguiría sumido en as tinieblas de la edad media. Es necesario que defiendamos nuestra libertad por todos los rincones del planeta, pues lo ue afecta aun país se va a regar a todo el mundo. No es un asunto de fronteras o ideologias es un asunto de LIBERTAD Y CONIOCIMIENTOS PARA TODOS
HR3699 sadly is just another way for politicians to get themselves into our personal lives. Oppose this bill any way you can.
There is now a white house petition opposing the bill: Oppose HR3699
Public Access to tax-payer-sponsored scientific literature must always be free. It is our tax-payer dollars. Let's show them!


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Pontiac won the Class 2A Plano Sectional boys' track meet by 60 points. If not for an injury to senior Matt Tribley, the margin could have been wider. The Indians won five events en route to posting 127 points Friday night.
"The team title is great because we've been so balanced all season (even though) it hasn't gone smoothly," PTHS head coach Dave Young said. "We've had guys step up in different situations."
Friday was no different as a sophomore and a freshman had to replace the senior Tribley in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. Tribley sustained an injury while long jumping and was not able to compete the rest of the meet.
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Milhauser was a winner when he claimed the 3,200 run in 9:36.12. Worby had the other PTHS victory by taking the long jump with a mark of 22 feet, 1 inch.
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Austin Walsh was second in the 300 intermediate hurdles at 49.19 seconds and Lane Hoffman bettered the qualifying mark in the 3,200 with a fifth-place time of 10:00.98.
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Sterling had asked the court for an immediate stay on the sale brokered by his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, to former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer until Sterling's appeal could be heard by the court.
Shelly Sterling, 79, was given the go-ahead by a Los Angeles probate judge last month to complete the NBA-record sale as the court said she had the power and fiduciary duty to finalize the deal with Ballmer.
Ballmer, 58, became the team's owner when the sale closed on Tuesday.
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Jay-Z wants his eight-night residency at the Barclays Center, which kicks off Friday at the venue's grand opening, to be a "celebration." "I pretty much have sing-alongs at the concert and I want to encourage that even more," he told Billboard at a launch event at his Manhattan venue the 40/40 Club for NBA 2k13, a new video game whose soundtrack he executive produced. "It's like a gift to Brooklyn to have this, to all us Brooklynites, to have this arena and this team. We just want to celebrate this team since it's the first since the Dodgers."
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Though Jay-Z is also a minority investor in the venue, he will ultimately have little control over future bookings. "I have enough jobs," he said with a laugh. "But they'll still ask my opinion on most things. I don't want that job, though."
Rihanna, for example, just announced an upcoming gig on her Diamonds Tour, as have EDM trio Swedish House Mafia, clients of Roc Nation management partners Three Six Zero. "There's a little nepotism," Jay-Z allowed. "Rihanna's on Roc Nation, so of course she's playing the Barclays."
The rap mogul is also hopeful for future installments of Made In America, the first-year Philly festival he curated and headlined this past Labor Day. "Oh yeah, we'll do it again," he said, before countering, "Well, we want to do it again. I don't know if it'll actually happen, but probably."
As for how executive producing a video game differs from an album, Jay had a cakewalk with NBA 2K13. "It was more like making a playlist than executive producing. But don't tell 'em that," he said with a laugh. "Executive producing an album, there was like 48 iterations of G.O.O.D., Kanye's album, before we got to the ones that wound up on the actual album."


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A Food Blog that shares tried & true recipes, and my passion for cooking and baking with a garnish of beginning gardening and some travel.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Mushroom Soup Gone Thai - inspired by The Pioneer Woman
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- Debinhawaii said...
Looks delicious--Thai flavors are some of my favorites! I went back and added you in for this week's round-up which is now posted (& hey it's you guys that change the time not us--Hawaii stays the same lol!). ;-)
Thanks for sending your soup into Souper Sundays!
- February 14, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Love the rich, "curry" color of that soup! And, thanks to you, I too am making my own chicken stock in the electric pressure cooker - what a breeze!
- February 14, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Kim said...
Sounds like a great way to jazz up soup, especially when you're not feeling so great. I am a big wimp when it comes to colds. I feel like I would rather have any other illness than a cold. Glad you are feeling better.
- February 14, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Marguerite said...
Wow, this looks fabulous! And your photos are superb! I will have to try this soon.
- February 14, 2010 at 7:20 PM
- Velva said...
Awesome soup! Love the color adn the texture. Delicious.
Hope you are feeling better.
- February 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM
- À LA GRAHAM said...
LOVE everything in it...can't wait to make it!
- February 14, 2010 at 7:53 PM
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That looks perfect recipe! Good as a treat. Thanks for sharing. I would like to make it very soon.
- February 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- cookeaze said...
I adore the mushroom soup! Yours look absolutely fantastic.simple but yet a delicious, tempting and colourful soup,thanks for sharing..
- February 15, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- TKW said...
Yummy soup! I love everything Thai and spicy! There's nothing better for the sniffles than a nice pot of soup!
- February 15, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Karen said...
Great flavors in this soup. I love to make soups, too and after you get used to homemaade soup, that canned stuff just doesn't cut it!
- February 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- bella said...
I think I've told you many times that I love Thai . . . and thank you for posting several recipes! I wish I could slurp this down right now, cuz its still so cold here and this has got to be delicious! Bye for now, Roz
- February 16, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Ingrid said...
The kids love mushrooms and they love soup. Soooo I think it safe to say they'd like....mushroom soup. I'm going to check out your other mushroom soup recipe as well.
- February 16, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Jenny said...
Great idea for a cold, warming you up from the inside!
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The Taiwan-based company had only a small presence in the smartphone market during 2011. Since then, the spread of Android apps and Android phones, China Mobile's growing TD-SCDMA footprint and the insatiable appetite for smartphones among consumers have contributed to a global smartphone surge.
The phenomenal success of Samsung's Galaxy S3 and Apple's iPhones have also inspired feature phone developers in China to move upstream and migrate into the entry-level smartphone market.
MediaTek's "turnkey" solution, that is touted as ensuring both hardware and software work smoothly, has cleared the way for Chinese handset makers with virtually no smartphone experience to develop Android products.
It's important to note that in early 2011, MediaTek trailed rivals like China's Spreadtrum and Taiwan's Mstar. Both companies were undercutting MediaTek on pricing of chips that go inside China's low-end mobile phones. This year, MediaTek has turned the tables by seizing the smartphone opportunity more aggressively than its rivals. In parallel, MediaTek also pursued a merger agreement with MStar over the summer.
In 2011, MediaTek sold 550 million feature phone chips, but shipped only 400 million units this year. It has increased smartphone chip shipments from 10 million units in 2011 to 110 million units this year.
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Just as much as the smartphone trend in 2012 defined MediaTek, Moynihan likes to say, "We are defining it."
Sure, MediaTek may have defined the entry-level smartphone market in 2012. But when Spreadtrum and others start catching up in 2013, just how long MediaTek can stay in the driver's seat remains unclear.
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McCarthy joined Life Fitness in 1991 as a military sales representative and brings many years of sales experience in the fitness industry to the position. Since joining the company, McCarthy has held sales and management positions in the athletic, consumer, education, government, hospitality and commercial dealer segments of the business.
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Zinda most recently served as the vice president of sales for national accounts. He brings 23 years of sales experience within the fitness industry to his new role. Zinda joined Life Fitness as a national sales representative immediately after his graduation from the University of Minnesota in 1985. Since then, he has held sales and management positions within the company.
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Christine I. "Dena" Dahms, 92, of 266 Grove Ave., Ridgway, died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, at her residence. She was born Dec. 17, 1919, in Ridgway, the daughter of the late Andrew J. and Margaret Forester Steger. She married John A. "Jack" Dahms on Feb. 14, 1943; he predeceased her on Aug. 19, 2005. Mrs. Dahms was a lifelong Ridgway resident. She was a member of St. Leo's Catholic Church. She enjoyed gardening, reading, and staying abreast of current events and changes in the nursing profession. She was a Registered Nurse at Elk County General Hospital and Ridgway Community Nurses.She is survived by three daughters, Christine M. Sanbeg (George) of South Plainfield, N.J.; Jacqueline L. Simons (Bruce) of Ridgway, and Nancy A. Osgood (Jay) of Ridgway; six grandchildren, Steven Sanbeg, Michael Sanbeg, Stephanie Grooms (Michael), Dena Sheehy (Noel), Michael Longhi (Amber), and Renee Thomas (John); five great-grandchildren, Justin Grooms, Amanda Grooms, Ethan Sanbeg, Erin Sheehy, and Lila Sheehy; a sister, Marcella Wonderly of Ridgway; a brother, Charles Steger of Ridgway; and by many nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by two sisters, Anna Green and Loretta Gier; and two brothers, Henry Stager and Edward Steger.A Memorial Mass for Christine I. "Dena" Dahms will be celebrated at St. Leo's Catholic Church on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 at 11 a.m. Officiating will be Fr. Brian Vossler, pastor. Interment will be in St. Leo's Cemetery. There will be no visitation.Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Meehan-Shilk Funeral Home.Memorial donations may be made to the Elk County Humane Society, 1029 East Eschbach Rd., St. Marys, PA 15857.


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The Florida Supreme Court ruled last week that the state's legislative leaders must turn over their redistricting documents in the simmering legal feud, but legislators say that before the ruling they turned over thousands of records they considered appropriate and destroyed everything else.
It was all a part of the routine document destruction process allowed by law, lawyers for the Republican-controlled House and Senate said in court documents filed on Wednesday.
The lawsuit was brought last year against the Florida Legislature by the League of Women Voters and 11 individuals. If the court agrees with the challengers, new maps may have to be drawn for the 2014 election cycle.
The challengers are asking House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz to provide them with a detailed description of when and what records the legislative leaders allowed to be purged.
Among the documents they are seeking are emails, text messages, voice messages, handwritten notes, social media messages, Dropbox files, "and any other electronically stored information" on "all computers, cellular phones, smart phones, blackberries, tablets or other devices" used by House and Senate members.
If the members are using their personal devices to discuss redistricting, they want all that data as well. The plaintiffs' lawyers fear some redistricting documents are among those destroyed, while lawyers for the lawmakers say none were destroyed.
It's the latest wrinkle in an already lengthy case that is using a 2010 amendment to the state Constitution to challenge the Legislature's intent when it conducted the once-a-decade reapportionment for legislative and congressional district boundaries.
The challengers filed the case in February 2012 alleging that lawmakers violated the amendments when they drew Congressional and state Senate maps that favored incumbents, Republican candidates, and intentionally diminished the ability of racial and language minorities to elect representatives of their choice.
The challengers attempted to question legislators, staff members and their political consultants and get access to their emails and text messages. But lawyers for the Republican leaders claimed that legislators should be exempt from that kind of scrutiny or it could have a "chilling effect" on the reapportionment process.
In a 5-2 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court last week rejected that argument and, for the first time, acknowledged that while legislative privilege does exist in Florida, it is not absolute.
"…this type of 'chilling effect' was the precise purpose of the constitutional amendment outlawing partisan political gerrymandering and improper discriminatory intent," wrote Justice Barbara Pariente in the majority opinion.
Said Weatherford: "Any accusation that the Florida House of Representative thwarted the law and destroyed documents is completely false."
Lawyers for the defendants have told the court that none of the documents sought by the plaintiffs have been "deleted, destroyed, lost, misappropriated, or otherwise became unavailable for production" and that they produced more than 20,000 documents in response to the request.
They acknowledge, however, that "during the legislative redistricting process, the Legislative Parties maintained and disposed of legislative records in accordance with record-retention policies embodied in the rules of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate."
That raises the question of whether there were documents lawyers were trying to shield through legislative privilege and, if so, do those documents still exist?
Kathy Mears, chief of staff to House Speaker Will Weatherford, said the House expected litigation and their lawyers told them "there will be lawsuits so please be aware there will be records that you have to turn over for the redistricting case."
Federal rules prohibit document destruction when a party has a reasonable sense that the records could become part of the case and Florida lawmakers have known that a lawsuit challenging their maps was highly likely.
Gaetz, for example, told the Fort Myers News Press in November 2010 that he opposed the constitutional amendments and said: "I predict there will be a deep rut beaten to the courthouse — that's what the supporters of Amendments 5 and 6 wanted."
Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, told Sunshine State News in December 2010 that "everything we say and do now in light of 5 and 6 and the intent language is subject to the review of some court."
Lawyers for the House and Senate say that they turned over more than 20,000 documents in 2012 and the challengers never complained. The House and Senate's lawyers argue that it was the job of the challengers to ask them to protect any communications from destruction and they failed to do it.
In a response filed with the court Wednesday, the Senate's lawyers wrote:
"...the Legislative Parties offered to 'ask legislators and legislative staff who participated in the redistricting process to search their personal and campaign email accounts as well as their personal mobile devices for information responsive to Plaintiffs' document requests,' and offered to arrange a mutually convenient time for the production of such documents. You never responded.
"Nonetheless, the Senate asked legislators and legislative staff who participated in the redistricting process to search their personal computers, handheld devices and email accounts for information concerning the redistricting process."
The next step, legal experts say, is to determine how permanent the Legislature's destruction of documents is and whether anything significant was destroyed. The challengers may have to hire a forensic computer expert to dig deep into the House and Senate computer servers to uncover evidence of legislative intent, said Gerry Hebert, a former Justice Department lawyer who is representing the League of Women Voters in the Florida case.
It took forensic computer analysts to discover pivotal documents in a Texas redistricting case last year, he said. A federal court determined that Republican lawmakers in Texas had discriminatory intent when it drew their congressional district and the court invalidated the map.
The key piece of evidence: an email from an attorney for a congressman to the staff member drawing the map for the Texas speaker of the House. He described how he must employ the "nudge factor" to make a congressional elect a Republican by swapping out high turnout Latino precincts with low turnout precincts but maintaining the ethnic composition.
Hebert has represented challengers and governments in dozens of redistricting cases over six decades and said he always advises his clients "do not destroy any communications or documents."


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Now that the Treasury Department has made it easier for retiring workers to access annuities, plan sponsors and advisers will have to deal with the hard part: Getting employees to understand them.
Yesterday, the Treasury announced a regulatory proposal that would make it easier for retirees to get some of their benefits through a lifetime stream of income.
There are two major focal points in the proposed rule. One allows participants in defined benefit plans to take their savings in the form of an annuity plus a lump sum, as opposed to having them choose between one or the other. The second makes it easier for workers to use some of their savings to buy longevity insurance — an annuity that doesn't begin paying out until the owner is at an advanced age — by adjusting the way tax laws governing required minimum distributions from 401(k)s and IRAs apply to these annuities.
Insurance industry participants cheered the Treasury's decision, but observers noted that there was a long way to go before employees and plan sponsors could make these features a regular part of their retirement plans. For instance, there's the question of who would be on the hook for helping employees understand the pros and cons of socking away part of their retirement savings into annuities, especially the newer and less familiar longevity insurance.
"The annuity is a really complex product: You're trying to provide an understandable education for unsophisticated investors and do it broadly, but who's going to be responsible [for doing this]?" asked Bing Waldert, director at Cerulli Associates Inc. "There are some record keepers who are doing a decent job on how to save, but flipping this over to the distribution phase is complicated."
Part of the issue lies in the fact that while there are regulatory guidelines for providing participants education when it comes to using accumulation products in a retirement plan, those guidelines — known as the Labor Department's Interpretive Bulletin 96-1 — have not been updated to address decumulation products. Essentially, the bulletin permits investment education for workers without having it be considered as investment advice. Plan sponsors and industry groups have also been anxiously awaiting a "safe harbor" provision from the DOL that would protect plan sponsors when they incorporate insurance products into their plans.
The American Council of Life Insurers has been among the groups in contact with the Labor Department seeking an expansion of Interpretive Bulletin 96-1 to include lifetime income products. "I think when employers are comfortable with what they can do, then you'll get more activity in this space," said Jim Szostek, vice president of taxes and retirement security at the ACLI.
Industry observers have a variety of opinions as to what exactly workers should know about annuities once these options are made available.
Mr. Szostek said that workers should be encouraged to think about what they have to pay for in retirement, what they have socked away in savings and how much they'll need to allocate toward the annuity to cover their costs.
Adviser Jeff Acheson of Schneider Downs Wealth Management Advisors LP, however, noted that understanding the financial strength of the carrier and the nuances of a product, including the cost and the portability of the annuity, ought to be top priority for workers and plan sponsors alike.
"I fear people will choose the annuity, pay the costs, and then find out they can't live on it in retirement," he said. "Are you locked into this annuity option that you can't walk away from?"
Naturally, since some workers are going to commit a portion of their plan assets to an annuity, that leaves less money for other investments and keeps some assets out of play in the highly-lucrative rollover space.
"The market would more likely be people who aren't going to be on advisers' radar screen: People with less than $100,000 or $200,000," Mr. Waldert said. "But you'd probably lose some rollovers."
Plan sponsors also need to be aware that when choosing insurers, they're expected to stick with the same due diligence process involved as when they select financial advisers, record keepers and other service providers. Similarly, they need to be aware that any one annuity option won't work for all plans. "You need to assess the needs of the plan's demographics," Mr. Acheson said.


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One of our more reliable tipsters tells us Michael Caine is in early talks for a role in director Louis Letterier's criminal-magicians movie "Now You See Me" .
With Morgan Freeman already onboard, the Summit production is shaping up to be a bit of a Nolanverse "Batman" reunion. Caine, of course, plays Alfred in the current crop of "Batman" movies, while Freeman plays Lucius Fox.
The movie, produced by the blockbuster dream team Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Bobby Cohen, tells of four of the globe's best magicians teaming up to pull off some seemingly impossible heists; the money they snag go to their audience members who, obviously, can't get enough. The authorities are hot on their tail, but the illusionists have enough tricks in their bag to remain one step ahead.
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Offer has gone out but "Now You See Me" isn't planned to shoot until January 16, 2012 – it goes to March 26, 2012 in New Orleans, with some shooting in New York also planned – so it won't be official for a bit.
This is going to be a great movie, guys. These guys literally get around robbing all the major cities – the one in the third act, in Los Angeles, will be major – without the feds ever being able to place them on the scene. The opening sequence will be great – 'The Four Horsemen', the world's best illusionists, are at one of their live shows. They bring an audience member up who recently lost some money from a Paris bank. Next thing you know, the audience member and the lead illusionist, Michael (Eisenberg), appear on a videoscreen behind them – IN the bank in Paris. They crack open the vaults. Next thing, cash is raining through the auditorium. The feds – led by agent Hobbes, played by Woody H – get wind of what happened at the magic show and confirm with the bank in Paris that they've been robbed. Of course, the authorites have no idea how the illusionists managed to rob a bank on the other side of the world while they were standing on a theater stage in the states. They ultimately enlist the help of a veteran illusionist who taught Michael everything he knows. You can guess the rest, but it's just such a good story.
No idea who Caine is playing, but it'd be fun to see him playing one of the illusionists – the ageing magic-man of the bunch, right? (He played the same sort of part in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige") or maybe the veteran who teams with the feds to catch the 'Horsemen'?
Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco star in the picture.
I have a feeling this is going to be one of 2013's highights – that cast, with Eisenberg, Ruffalo, Freeman, Harrelson and now Caine; Orci and Kurtzman producing (these guys make great films – "Star Trek", "Transformers" etc), and Louis Letterier, who did the "Incredible Hulk" movie from a few years back and proved with that that he knows how to make a fun, fast-paced blockbuster.