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Volume 18, Number 1
January/February 2001
Today's hot practice niches in general practice take on hues much different from those of the decade or generation past. What's hot and what's not can change more quickly than hairstyles and auto bodies, and keeping in tune with hot niches means a lot more than being caught practicing law in white vinyl go-go boots to the tune of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The retro look just isn't a sure bet when it comes to building a client base and bringing in revenue.
GPSolo asked an ensemble of leading practitioners across the country for their take on hot practice areas in the year 2001, and they gave us some surprising answers. Old tried-and-true areas such as estate planning and business law remain hotter than ever, jump-started by technology and entrepreneurship. Social change has altered the complexion of family law to embrace reproductive technology and alternative lifestyles. Transnational migration, coupled with an ever-changing bureaucracy, has lifted immigration law from storefront practices to sophistication. And when it all goes bust, bankruptcy law is right there to give the unlucky a fresh start.
Edward DiDonato, Neil Dornbaum, David Leffler, Daniel Evans, and Sondra Harris share their insights on today's hot niches.
Bankruptcy-Edward J. DiDonato
Any bankruptcy practitioner, especially one in a solo or small firm practice setting, must be experienced in the general practice of law. Bankruptcy issues are sometimes limited to concepts such as cash collateral, preferences, cram-down and plan confirmation. But, more often than not, everyday problems such as leases, commercial litigation, and vendor disputes will be the hot topics of the small business Chapter 11 reorganization.
Hot button topics. In the case of an individual, the debtor is discharged of virtually all debts. The debtor will not be able to discharge claims relating to recent tax debt, fraud, embezzlement, alimony, support, willful and malicious injury, and student loans. To deny the discharge, a creditor must file a complaint and meet its burden of proof. Defense of this type of action can be fairly complex and costly. In a more problematic case, numerous complaints may be filed, forcing the debtor and counsel to defend, defend, and defend. Plan ahead and ask the appropriate questions prior to filing the petition.
Billing. Lawyers in a bankruptcy proceeding are generally paid only upon court order. This can be both time-consuming and challenging. A fee application or motion must be filed in Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 13 cases, and Chapter 11 reorganizations. The pleading must include a schedule of services rendered and the date and the time spent on each task. Creditors and parties in interest receive 20 days' notice and may object to the fee award. After a hearing, an order should be entered within 60 days from the filing of the fee application. Obviously, this time frame is shortened without objection or lengthened when hearings and testimony or a court opinion are required.
Simply having an order does not get you paid. As the holder of an administrative claim, you are junior to the secured creditor or lien holder in every case. If the lien holder objects to your fee's being paid, the court will likely agree. In some cases, the debtor will simply not have enough money to pay you. If the debtor is a small business, it has numerous ongoing expenses. A small business must continue to pay its utilities, taxes, wages, and post-petition suppliers, and the services rendered by the lawyer may have, in the opinion of the debtor, diminished in importance.
The secret is simple: request and receive a retainer fee prior to the filing of the petition. This applies even if the client is your dear cousin Billy, twice removed. Receipt of the retainer will, of course, protect you and allow you to remain interested. The receipt of the retainer and application of the retainer fee must also be approved by the court. If the retainer received is too low, you are at risk. If it exceeds the fee approved by the court, you will be required to return the unused portion.
Staffing. Most cases filed by a solo or small firm will require one or two lawyers and a paralegal. Major cases obviously will require more lawyers and possibly the retention of special counsel to meet the needs of the case. One may require tax or pension counsel, special litigation counsel, or labor counsel. The bankruptcy court must approve the retention of all professionals. Counsel must also determine if an accounting firm will be required. Never lose sight of the simple question-how will they all be paid?
Marketing. Although the market has cooled in the last few years, with fewer bankruptcies being filed, it is safe to say that bankruptcies will continue to be filed. The root causes of bankruptcy-illness, age, competition, greed, and poor judgment-will continue. These root causes are as old as society itself.
Edward J. DiDonato of DiDonato & Winterhalter, P.C., in Philadelphia, has been a bankruptcy practitioner for more than 20 years.
Immigration Law-Neil S. Dornbaum
Immigration laws are extremely complex and undergo changes on a daily basis. There is a continuous flow of federal court and administrative agency decisions that impact daily practice, including those issued by the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA), Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR).
In addition, regulations are promulgated daily, emanating from various governmental agencies, including the Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS), Department of State, Department of Labor, and Public Health Service. While immigration law is a federal practice, knowledge of the nuances of local practice-for example, differences in processing between one district office or Department of Labor certifying officer and another-must be considered in rendering proper advice to achieve an employer's immigration-related goals.
Hot button topics. The INS may approve in excess of 195,000 petitions each year submitted by U.S. employers on behalf of H-1B nonimmigrant workers alone. In addition, more than 20 different lettered categories allow individuals to enter the United States on a temporary basis, many of which allow for employment. These categories include H (professionals), L (intra-company transferees), E (treaty traders/investors), J (exchange visitors), O (persons of extraordinary ability), and TN entries (under the North American Free Trade Agreement).
Lawyers may work with businesses to assist in the securing of temporary and permanent work authorization for foreign workers, establish and maintain effective internal immigration law compliance systems (for I-9s), handle immigration-related discrimination issues, oversee labor condition application compliance, and respond to government enforcement actions under U.S. immigration laws. Billing. Most immigration practitioners working in employment-based immigration bill their clients on a flat-fee basis. This is because most employment-based immigration is event-driven and employers must establish their budget for immigration-related services. Billing is very competitive as many large corporations use more than one immigration counsel for their immigration needs. However, hourly fees may be more appropriate in responding to notice of deficiencies, notice of findings, or other inquiries issued by the Department of Labor, INS, or Department of State; or when filing multiple petitions under different employment-based categories. Hourly fees are the norm in the representation of individuals before the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, an Administrative Law Judge, or the Board of Immigration Appeals. Hourly fees are also customary for lawyers who establish and maintain effective internal immigration law compliance systems (for I-9s), handle immigration-related discrimination issues, and respond to government enforcement actions under U.S. immigration laws.
Staffing. A lawyer may use the assistance of paralegals. Employment-based immigration may require consultation with co-counsel in the areas of tax, employment law, and criminal law.
Marketing. The companies employing foreign workers include Motorola, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Lucent, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, Hewlett Packard, Ernst and Young, IBM, and AT&T, to name a few.
Immigration law offers the opportunity to work with pharmaceutical companies, high-tech firms, engineering concerns, and other businesses, including small business clients, who seek the services of professionals from foreign countries.
Neil S. Dornbaum is a partner in Rubin and Dornbaum in Newark, New Jersey. He has been a practitioner for more than 15 years. His practice is limited to immigration and nationality matters, with special emphasis on employment-based immigration.
Business Law-David J. Leffler
Recent developments, both technological and societal, are fundamentally changing many aspects of a business lawyer's practice. But where is the practice heading in the future? Like the swirls and eddies of a stream, the picture for business law practitioners will continue to change. You need to be aware of these constant shifts and respond accordingly to remain competitive in the unfolding business law landscape.
Hot button topics. A web presence and e-commerce are becoming more pervasive in business, and not just for large corporations. Small businesses are discovering the benefits of having a website in record numbers. As a result, expect intellectual property law to be a necessary expertise if you intend to practice business law in the future.
Any business client who intends to build a website will have to be counseled on the copyright and trademark issues that often arise. Has your client found the perfect photo for its website? Be sure to ask where the client got the photo. A client may see nothing wrong in saving a photo from another website and using it on its own website, completely unaware of the intellectual property rights governing the use of the photo.
Your client will most likely use a consultant to build the website. Be prepared to negotiate the difficult issues concerning whether your client or the consultant retains the ownership rights to the designs and other intellectual property created by the consultant.
Intellectual property issues also arise when your business client hires a consultant to design a software system to run its business, when hiring employees who might create intellectual property for your client, and from the proper use of off-the-shelf software so that the shrinkwrap license is not violated.
The world is becoming a smaller place, and the United States has become a major draw for foreign workers. Small businesses are finding immigration issues to be more common in this global marketplace. One option they are considering as a way to obtain qualified employees in these times of almost full employment is to sponsor an employee under the U.S. H-1B nonimmigrant visa program, which has recently been expanded. Because immigration law issues are not overly complex, it may be worth the solo lawyer's time to learn about this area of law, which is quickly gaining relevance to the small business owner.
Billing. More clients are expecting fixed fees, at least for assignments that are fairly defined in scope such as a contract with standard terms. The days when you could simply bill "for as long as it takes" are fading fast in an era where the Internet permits you to negotiate for everything from airline tickets to groceries, and send out shopping bots to get the lowest price on a wide variety of items. Furthermore, an increasing number of websites offer business owners advice on all aspects of their business, including do-it-yourself legal forms that make the whole legal process less abstract.
For many business owners, law has become close to a commodity, with a market price that can be negotiated. These perceptions can hamper your ability to bill your time at even the lower rates of a small law firm, making the building of a solid relationship with the client that communicates professionalism and trust more critical than ever.
Staffing. The key to effective staffing for the solo or small firm business lawyer of the future is hiring multitalented employees. A primary employee should be able to type; possess good language skills; display a pleasant telephone personality; be comfortable researching both factual and legal items on the Internet; and know how to use a variety of computer software programs. You'll know that you've really hit pay dirt when you find an employee who, in addition to all of these "basic" skills, knows how to handle computer problems and can set up a small local area network.
Marketing. Twenty years ago, marketing would not even be considered an appropriate topic for the practice of law. Today, there is a vast array of books, seminars, software programs, and consultants to assist lawyers in their marketing efforts. Check out marketing resources at http://marketing.lp.findlaw.com/.
Research the effectiveness of a product before spending the time and money to purchase and use it. An excellent place to inquire about a particular product and get lawyers' responses describing their real world experiences is Solosez, the ABA listserv for solo attorneys and small law firms that presently has about 700 subscribers. You can sign up for Solosez at www.abanet.org/solo/solosez.html.
David Leffler is a solo business law practitioner in New York City who represents a number of Internet and new media clients. His practice focuses on entrepreneurial and growing companies. He serves on the advisory boards of USLaw.com and the New York Infotech Forum, a breakfast meeting held monthly in New York City for information technology companies.
Estate Planning-Daniel B. Evans
Estate planning has become more of a hot practice than ever, thanks to the ongoing transfer of wealth from aging parents-who are searching for the best way to preserve and protect their wealth-to their Baby Boomer offspring. Also, clients are increasingly wealthy from recent successes in real estate ventures and the stock market. Meanwhile, lawyers are struggling with technological advances and increased client expectations as they deliver estate planning services.
Hot button topics. Some of the following estate planning techniques that have evolved and become more popular in the last few years include:
Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) allow a grantor to contribute property to a trust and retain an annuity of a fixed amount for the term of the trust. At the end of the term, the remainder passes to the beneficiaries without any additional tax. The gift tax values of the annuity and the remainder are based on certain assumptions about interest rates, and the hope is that the trust will earn more than is assumed, so that the remainder will be worth more than assumed for gift tax purposes. However, the rules regarding both the drafting and valuation of these trusts are complex, and the IRS has changed the rules several times in the last few years, making it difficult to stay current on what is or is not allowed.
Qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs) allow a grantor to transfer a personal residence to children or other beneficiaries, retain the right to live in the residence for a term of years, and pay gift tax only on the discounted present value of the future remainder. However, these trusts are afflicted with numerous qualification rules and some uncertainties in application.
Charitable remainder unitrusts are frequently used to defer taxes on capital gains. Appreciated stocks or properties are contributed and then sold, and the proceeds can be reinvested without any federal income tax until the income or gains are distributed back to the grantor (or other beneficiaries). Once again, new qualification rules (such as the required charitable remainder value of 10 percent and new definitions for "flip" unitrusts) have kept estate planners on their toes.
Family limited partnerships must be considered for many wealthy families because the IRS continues to lose court battles over their formation and valuation. A client who funds a limited partnership with marketable securities can frequently obtain substantial gift tax discounts for the partnership interests. This is because of the lack of marketability of the interests and the lack of control for minority or limited partners.
Changes in the federal estate tax unified credit (applicable exclusion amount) sent many estate planners scrambling to review estate plans. The prospect of estate tax repeal (recently vetoed by President Clinton but still an issue for the next Congress and the next president) has many clients looking to lawyers for guidance.
Technology. Estate planning software can include the latest changes to the unified credit or guidance for the valuation of GRATs or QPRTs, as well as provide charts or graphs that help explain the estate plan to the client and show the value of the lawyer's services. New drafting software can include the clauses required by the latest IRS regulations and allow the estate planner to produce documents faster. And the lawyer needs to draft faster, because more and more clients are expecting the kind of overnight service that they get from FedEx and the Internet.
Billing. The time is long gone when lawyers could charge $50 or $100 for a will and hope to earn a larger fee when the client died. And the time is also passing when a lawyer could tell the client that the fee will be "reasonable" and based on a "standard hourly rate." Clients aren't comfortable not knowing what the fees will be, and the use of computers for estate planning has made hourly billing less attractive for lawyers doing more work in less time. The combination of client expectations and technology has moved more and more estate planners toward fixed fee agreements and away from hourly billing.
Staffing. The increased use of computer technology has also changed the staffing needs of estate planners. The traditional secretary is less needed because computers make drafting documents and preparing client presentations easier. What is more often needed is a paralegal who understands the legal issues and can use the computer to prepare the tax projections and document drafts for the lawyer's review.
Marketing. New technologies, new legal issues, and increased client awareness are all creating additional marketing opportunities. Internet websites can attract new clients. Changes in the law also provide opportunities to send out client newsletters. And media coverage of estate tax issues have raised concerns among many people about estate planning issues.
Daniel B. Evans is a solo practitioner and estate planner in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, and the author of two ABA books, Wills, Trusts, and Technology: An Estate Lawyer's Guide to Automation and How to Build and Manage an Estates Practice.
Family Law-Sondra I. Harris
When you think about family law, the usual topics that spring to mind are divorce, custody, support, equitable distribution, and perhaps adoption. However, family law today includes far more than these classic topics.
Hot button topics. One example of societal change reflected in the law is that most lawyers have never drafted a cohabitation agreement, yet it is more than likely that within the next several years at least one couple will walk in and request one. The couple could be heterosexual or homosexual. They may be adopting children or going through assisted reproductive technology. They may already have substantial assets. They may already own real property as joint tenants or tenants in common.
Remember, you can only represent one party in such cases. While it is tempting to represent both, especially if the parties apparently are in agreement, to do so would be perilously close to a violation of the canon of ethics and is clearly a conflict. It is impossible to properly represent two people when they have an adversarial relationship. No matter how convinced they are when they are in your office that they want exactly the same thing, when the relationship breaks up a year and a half later, the first person they will blame is the lawyer who represented them both.
Family law is on the leading edge at both the beginning and the end of life. Problems that were never dreamed of in law school are becoming commonplace. Family lawyers need to be well versed on the topic of artificial reproductive technologies (ART). Numerous legal problems arise out of ART: Who are the parents? Who owns the frozen embryos if there is a divorce? Does a parent have a duty to support a child born years after a divorce? Can a husband's new wife carry a frozen fetus created with the first wife's egg? Can a widow be fertilized with her deceased husband's frozen sperm? If she does, is that child eligible to inherit property or collect Social Security? Can frozen embryo be adopted by third parties? All of these are new and novel issues, most of which have not been litigated in any state. Often, when they are litigated, they are idiosyncratic to the facts presented and therefore don't set any precedents.
At the other end of life, family lawyers deal with the issue of who has the right to make life and death determinations. Often, wills are drawn up as part of divorces. As part of the new estate plan, new health care proxies and powers of attorney should be executed. Clients should be made aware of the problems of not having a health care proxy or a living will. Every state has legislation now that provides for such documents. Without such a document, chaos may erupt when the family is least capable of dealing with it. It is a family lawyer's obligation to try and prevent a family from being torn apart at a time of crisis and to help a client make sure that his wishes are followed. Most of your time will be spent helping the client confront his own mortality and deal with these issues in the present, rather than putting them off.
Billing. Almost all traditional matrimonial law is done on an hourly billing schedule. However, a flat fee may be more appropriate for some of the cutting-edge issues in family law, such as litigation involving reproductive technologies. Family lawyers may also wish to charge a flat fee when they find themselves drafting cohabitation or ART agreements rather than litigating cases. Remember, you may have to start from scratch, rather than relying on your trusty forms library, for cases involving new and novel issues.
Cohabitation agreements, ART agreements, and even living wills are not necessarily one-time encounters between lawyers and clients. People need new wills, cohabiting couples may purchase property, and new parents will want to work out estate plans.
Staffing. Whatever brings your clients into your office, it is extraordinarily important that both you and your staff treat them with the appropriate interpersonal skills. Family law is unlike any other kind of law because it deals not only with legal issues but also with emotions. Many of these clients need a lot of handholding. For that reason, you need at least one staff person who has excellent interpersonal skills and is able to listen and understand that while she cannot give advice, she can allow clients to vent. This saves the client money, saves you time, and creates a bond with the client that makes the practice of law certainly more fun.
Marketing. You need to let the public know what legal problems can be handled through your office. Certainly, client newsletters are a helpful tool. Writing articles for local newspapers allows the general public to hear about new ideas and gets your name out. Often, civic groups such as public libraries or schools run adult education programs, which can be a forum for lawyers to discuss current topics in family law.
Sondra I. Harris is the senior member of Sondra I. Harris & Associates, P.C., in Woodmere, New York. Besides practicing family law, she is a frequent speaker and writer on issues involving alternative families.


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Vietnamese Fried Bean Curd Soup (Hu Tieu Chay)
Lulu calls hủ tiếu chay (fried bean curd soup in Vietnamese) the ultimate Asian comfort food. The hearty broth is flavored with bold Asian ingredients, such as ginger, garlic and mushroom seasoning salt. There are a couple of uncommon elements; I used Fuji apples and rock sugar to add a touch of sweetness to the broth, and a Vietnamese variety of cured daikon radish (củ cải khô) that provides the signature flavor of hủ tiếu broth.
The real treat though, is the addition of fried tofu skin. It's used throughout vegetarian Vietnamese cuisine as a substitute for fried pork or chicken skin in mock meat dishes. The texture is crispy, yet chewy, and really shows off the versatility of tofu.
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Korean Tofu Soup with Rice Cakes
Rice cakes are made from glutinous rice flour. We buy them at the Korean market. They're a great alternative to bánh phở or ordinary noodles. What I love most about this product is that they're made with no additives or preservatives. They're a favorite at our house. The texture is very nice, and works well in a simple, clear vegetable broth. If you're looking for a healthy meal, this is not your average diet cabbage soup.
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Saffron Pumpkin Soup Served in Mini Pumpkin Bowls
I remember having a delicious velouté de potiron au safran in a French restaurant back when I was still living in Paris. I remembered it had a very nice earthy flavor of pumpkin, chanterelles, walnuts and saffron. The flavors are perfect for Thanksgiving, and given the season, I thought I'd try to recreate it.
I roasted the pumpkin to enhance and accentuate the sweetness without overpowering the soup. Instead of using potatoes as a thickening agent as I normally do, I decided to add pan-fried plantains to complement the sweetness of the pumpkin.
To match the elegant flavors of the soup, I created bowls out of mini-pumpkins for serving. The final result was as visually appealing as it was delicious, and met with a round of "oohs" and "ahs" when I brought it to the dinner table. It's a great first course, and best of all, there aren't any plates to wash when everyone's done!
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Sunny had an orthodontist appointment today and she got tighter elastic bands on her braces. The poor thing couldn't chew solid foods. I had to make her something that wouldn't cause any pain, and after looking through the pantry I decided to make her a bowl of hot lentil soup. She loves hot and spicy foods, so I added some leftover harissa "ice cubes" (see tips) from the freezer to the soup to give it a kick and to complement the earthy flavors of the lentils.
You'll enjoy this soup even if you haven't had recent dental work done. It's a great cure for the cool weather we've been having as well.
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Vegetarian Tortilla Soup Recipe
I had 5 tortillas left-over from the burritos we made over the weekend that were going stale, so I decided to make a large pot of tortilla soup. I use the tortillas as a thickening agent in the soup, and also as a garnish on top of the dish. To the tortillas I added tomatoes and tomato paste for a little tartness, jalapeños for a little heat, and some kidney beans and soy chorizo for protein.
The spices give the soup an earthy flavor and the Cotija cheese and sour cream that I top each serving with are very soothing for the taste-buds.
Tortilla soup is a really hearty dish that's the perfect cure for the dreary weather we've been having here as of late.
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Hull-House in Chicago, left a "rich heritage to modern America, and its involvement with movements and activities were central to understanding the history of modern America."
This bold statement is found in a volume copyrighted in 1969 by Allen F. Davis and Mary Lynn McCree. "Eighty Years at Hull-House" is a masterful close-up view of the person Jane Addams was, possessing the special ability to draw out ideas from others from all walks of life and then sift and incorporate the ideas into her objectives.
For any Jane Addams scholar, the book is a must-read. It was submitted by Paul Fry of Cedarville, who is himself an avid scholar of Addams, the social reformer, and the unique but instinctive mediator of peace in situations where others would have stirred up wrath.
Paul Fry especially values this book because it does point out some of the attributes of Jane Addams' personality that are not generally known. He notes that many of the residents of Hull-House were highly educated people, but were from different nationalities, and had conflicting viewpoints and values. But, Fry believes, one of the remarkable skills Jane Addams had was to steer what could have been heated conversations into friendly exchanges, making all the people feel comfortable sharing ideas and talking peacefully together. "All became Americans," Fry said.
Fry believes this talent served Jane Addams well in her dealings with such diverse classes of people, both at Hull-House and in her other avenues of service throughout her life. He said Jane Addams would go out among the slums and could talk with them as well as the more educated residents of Hull-House. "This demonstrated the democratic spirit of this country," Fry said.
More about Hull-House
"Hull-House, founded in 1889, was the product of the experience and educational backgrounds of Jane Addams and Ellen Starr," this book states." The women borrowed knowledge from Toynbee Hall in London, yet Hull-House actually became part of an American movement that would establish more than 400 social settlements in American cities by 1911. However, even though Hull-House was not the first social settlement in America, "It soon became the most famous."
There was a lot of public confusion regarding Hull-House at first. Some of that confusion lasted forever. Some people thought of it as housing for the poor, or a charity for distributing food and clothing, or even a mission house. But it was none of these things. Hull-House was not a mission or charity or lodging house. The founders' ultimate purpose was to improve the quality of life for the poor in the city of Chicago.
Though there was a strong element of doubt and suspicion among the people, there were those concerned with the overcrowded tenements, poverty, disease and death in the city, and believed Hull-House offered them a way to get in the action, "a way to serve without touching the filth." People, out of curiosity, came to see what Hull-House was all about and many began to serve there.
After Jane and Ellen settled in and had the place cleaned and furnished, they began what they knew best. They began teaching and lecturing on the arts and culture. From the beginning, Hull-House attracted many energetic residents who came to help with their projects. The talented and diverse group who came as resident staff, made the settlement an "exciting and intellectually stimulating place." Ellen Starr was the artistic one who taught the people of the neighborhood about art and music. She knew some influential citizens of Chicago, which proved to be advantageous for Hull-House.
Interest grows
Many women who had been highly educated came to join Addams and Starr in the projects being initiated at Hull-House. Named are Julia Lathrop of Rockford, a Vassar graduate; Florence Kelley from a wealthy Philadelphia family; Alzina Stevens and Mary Kenny, both active in labor unions. Many more were named who came to lend their skills.
Men also began to arrive. Edward Burchard was the first man to arrive. A long list of names is given. Soon, a great many people, most of whom lived in Chicago, began contributing time, money or expert advice to the settlement. "Without them," we're told, "Hull-House would have floundered." Countless names of benefactors are listed, among them were rich industrialists, businessmen and numerous lawyers and bankers.
The Hull-House facility changed and developed during its first decade. Gradually, improvements were made to the original structure and one by one new buildings and programs were added including an art gallery, a building with a gymnasium, and a coffee house.
Energy was then turned to the welfare of children in the neighborhood. "The depression of 1893 and the suffering it created shocked the residents to action." This precipitated involvement of Hull-House in the problems of the neighborhood and the city. Thus began a long battle for better child labor laws and for the abolition of some of the tactics of the system. The settlement group began a long battle for better child labor laws.
Hull-House people also opened the first public playground in Chicago in 1893.
Politics beckon
"Many of the Hull-House resident workers became expert social investigators learning how to document statistics regarding their concerns, thus becoming pioneers in the development of urban sociology. They conducted studies of child labor, tenement conditions, ethnic groups and wage rates in their neighborhoods. All of this activity led them into politics and in 1896 and 1898, they tried unsuccessfully to defeat the political boss in their ward.
By the turn of the century, according to the text, Hull-House had grown and developed until it was well-known nationally. The fight led the group to city hall, the state capital, and even to Washington. Consideration was then being given to moving Hull-House to a more populated area and making it a community center.
Jane Addams, however, had other ideas. She said she didn't believe in"'geographical salvation" and Hull-House "became a neighborhood center whose constituency was the nation."
We'll resume next week with more about Jane Addams. Stay with us.
Harriett Gustason is a writer for The Journal-Standard. She can be reached at 815-235-3855 or email@example.com.


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The St. Bonaventure and surrounding communities ares invited to attend the annual Arbor Day tree planting ceremony to be held at 12:30 p.m on Friday, April 25.
University students involved in campus sustainability initiatives, facilities personnel and Land Use subcommittee members will be planting two sugar maple trees north of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The Arbor Day Foundation has designated SBU as a Tree Campus USA for four consecutive years. In order to be considered, Bona's has planted trees annually across campus in celebration of Arbor Day. In previous years, three pine trees were planted outside the Warming Hut on campus. A sugar pine was planted on the Friedsam Memorial Library lawn, and the yard neighboring Shay-Loughlen Hall is now decorated with new trees to support the Sustainability Initiative.
Associate Director of Facilities for Maintenance Rob Hurlburt is involved in the care of campus trees and the planting of trees on campus year round. He finds it especially gratifying to formally celebrate Arbor Day at St. Bonaventure by planting trees.
"Celebrating Arbor Day is an example of the collaborative efforts of students, facilities, academics, administration and local professionals that serve on our tree advisory committee that I am very proud to be a part of," Hurlburt said.
This year the Land Use subcommittee has undertaken a new tree identification program, which will be rolled out during the Arbor Day celebration. Tree identification signs are being produced for select species of trees along the university section of the Allegany River Valley Trail and will be in place before the end of the semester. This will allow trail users to tune into podcasts that will provide information about each tree species.
Br. Kevin Kriso, O.F.M., explains that this program is for educational, recreational and spiritual purposes. He shares that the Bonaventure grounds should be used as an extension of the classroom, and the community should get outside more to enjoy its beauty and benefits.
"The majority of our campus is not buildings," Kriso said, "so why not incorporate what we have into our learning."
David Paradowski, Region 9 forester for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will present St. Bonaventure with Tree Campus USA recognition for 2013 during the celebration, and Br. F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M., vice president for Franciscan Mission at SBU, will bless the trees.
"Often we apologize for our campus being in the middle of nowhere, but why?" Kriso said. "This celebration allows us to celebrate our riches and realize that we can learn a lot from walking around and taking in our natural surroundings."
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Synopsis: The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls's adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin's incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect.
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-Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
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-Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
-Archival interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin on Ophuls's adaptation of her story
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Synopsis: Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds. This paranoiac symphony of canted camera angles (courtesy of famed cinematographer James Wong Howe), fragmented editing, and layered sound design is a remarkably risk-taking Hollywood film that ranks high on the list of its legendary director's major achievements.
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The Big City
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Synopsis: The Big City (Mahanagar), set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.
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-The Coward (1965), a feature film directed by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
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-A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray from the 1980s by his biographer Andrew Robinson
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Synopsis: This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by Satyajit Ray is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
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-New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali literature historian Supriya Chaudhuri
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-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
To Be or Not to Be
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Synopsis: As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
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-New audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat
- Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on director Ernst Lubitsch's career
-Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman
-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder
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Synopsis: From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich. Collected here are five of those fascinating and confrontational works; whether a self-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-wall look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling glimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who would become one of cinema's most madly prolific artists.
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What are cervical polyps?
Cervical polypsare smooth, red, finger-shaped growths in the cervix, the passage between the uterus and the vagina.
What causes cervical polyps?
The cause of cervical polyps is not entirely understood. They may result from infection. They can also result from long-term (chronic) inflammation, an abnormal response to an increase in estrogenlevels, or congestion of blood vessels in the cervical canal.
What are the symptoms?
The most common symptom a woman will notice is abnormal vaginal bleeding that occurs:
- Between menstrual periods.
- After menopause.
- After sexual intercourse.
- After douching.
Cervical polyps may be inflamed and rarely can become infected, causing vaginal discharge of yellow or white mucus. Polyps often occur without symptoms.
How are they treated?
The most common treatment is removal of the polyp during a pelvic exam. This can be done simply by gently twisting the polyp, tying it tightly at the base, or removing it with special forceps. A solution is applied to the base of the polyp to stop any bleeding.
Polyps do not need to be removed unless they bleed, are very large, or have an unusual appearance.
Should cervical polyps be tested?
Almost all cervical polyps are noncancerous (benign). Your doctor may decide to send the polyp to the lab to have it tested, but testing is not always needed.
Who is affected by cervical polyps?
Cervical polyps most often occur in women older than 20 who have had several pregnancies. Most cervical polyps are first discovered during a pelvic exam. Usually only a single polyp develops, though sometimes two or three are found during an exam.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Monday awarded casino mogul Steve Wynn $20 million in his slander case against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis, who claimed the creator of some of Las Vegas' most upscale resorts threatened to kill him over a gambling debt.
Witnesses disputed Francis' claims during a four-day trial, including Grammy winning record producer Quincy Jones, who Francis said told him about Wynn's threats and showed him a stack of emails that contained them.
Wynn vehemently denied that.
In siding with Wynn, the jury determined that there was clear and convincing evidence that Francis slandered the casino mogul and knew his allegations were false when he made them. Francis had claimed Wynn threatened to hit him over the head with a shovel and have him buried in the desert.
Neither Wynn nor Francis was present in court Monday morning when the verdict was read.
Wynn's attorney on Friday had asked the panel to award the billionaire $12 million plus punitive damages to send a message that false statements that travel far in the Internet age will not be tolerated. A second phase of the trial to decide punitive damages will begin on Tuesday.
Wynn's attorney, Barry Langberg, said after the verdict was read that the jury clearly saw the harm in Francis' remarks.
"The evidence was clear that there was falsity and there was damage," Langberg said.
Francis said he expects the verdict to be overturned on appeal due to judicial error.
"I'm startled by the jury's verdict because it's totally unfounded and the evidence does not support it," Francis said in a phone interview.
He said the judge erred by allowing Wynn's attorneys to allow jurors to consider a new claim of slander based on an interview Francis did with "Good Morning America" after the trial started. The panel awarded Wynn $11 million in damages on that claim alone.
"California law is very clear. You can't add a cause of action at the end of trial about something that had nothing to do with the trial," Francis said. "Therefore we are 100 percent confident this jury verdict will be reversed on appeal."
The CEO of Wynn resorts and designer of signature Las Vegas casinos such as The Mirage, Bellagio, Wynn and Encore attended the trial. Wynn said after arguments concluded on Friday that he would donate any winnings, minus his attorney's fees, to charities.
Francis, who testified, has built a business empire based on videos of young women flashing their breasts for video cameras. His attorney argued that both men may be telling the truth and that Francis may have been misled by Jones. Francis claims he heard about the threats from the Grammy-winner, who is his neighbor, but Jones denies hearing Wynn utter any threats.
Langberg accused Francis of lying about the threats, pointing out that there was no evidence of any email Wynn had sent and multiple witnesses corroborating the casino mogul's story. He argued that Francis was malicious because he repeated the threats in the "Good Morning America" interview.
Francis had previously said at a court hearing that Wynn threatened him over a $2 million gambling debt Francis incurred at Wynn's hotel. Celebrity news website TMZ reported on the hearing and Francis confirmed his allegations to a reporter from the site afterward.
"He committed character assassination," Langberg said. "He did it for a simple reason — he didn't want to pay his debt."
"I made a statement in a courtroom seeking a restraining order against Steve Wynn, which is 100 percent privileged," Francis said. "I was afraid for my life and I only made that statement when I was ordered by a judge to do so."
Superior Court Judge Joanne O'Donnell ruled that Francis' attorney could not argue that the statement was protected because it was made in a courtroom, since it was made during a proceeding over the debt and there were no indications Francis sought a restraining order.
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Twins honored at celebration in Wellsville
Celebrating a 100th birthday is a big deal, but it's even bigger when you get to do it with your twin.
Identical twins Vivian Updyke and Violet Lehman celebrated their 100th birthday on Dec. 15, 2012, with an open house at the Wellsville United Methodist-Presbyterian Church. As children, the duo was known as the Strank twins. On Dec. 5, they earned a new title (per a website listing of oldest living identical twins) as the 10th oldest living set in the United States and the 22nd oldest in the world. Per statisticians, the odds of identical twins living to be 100 is one in 700 million.
"It was fantastic," Violet said as she spoke about the gathering.
"Simply beautiful," Vivian chimed in.
Family and friends hosted the birthday reception held Saturday. The twins received proclamations and special recognitions from the mayors of Wellsville and Atchinson, Kan., from state and national legislators and President Barack Obama. A blanket was even made in the lady's honor with a photograph of their homestead that still stands in all its glory on the outskirts of Wellsville. Photos of the girls as babies and young adults were also displayed.
The ladies were born in Middletown, daughters of Ben and Lillie Strank, who moved to Wellsville when the girls were six years old. At first glance, the two well-dressed women with the striking white hair seem as indistinguishable as identical twins should be.
Both are spunky and have a zest for life. Violet, the oldest of the two, is very outspoken, loves laughter and sharing her million dollar smile. Vivian also has an exuberant personality, but she seems a little more shy and laid back than her sister. The two had a younger brother, Gale, who is deceased, but best remembered as an accomplished soloist and member of many quartets.
The twins enrolled in William Woods University during the 1930s when the school was known as a sort of finishing school for girls. Vivian completed the two-year course, and following her marriage to Allen Updyke she returned to Wellsville, where she continues to live. She has always loved music and for many years taught piano to area students, officially retiring in 2001. Vivian served as pianist/organist for the Wellsville United Methodist-Presbyterian Church for 78 years in addition to helping with piano accomplishments for high school choirs and groups. Until her recent move to a local nursing facility, she had lived in the family's East Hudson Street home.
Violet stayed at William Woods an additional year and went on to attend the University of Missouri, where she earned her degree in education. She taught in Centralia until she met her husband in 1938 and the two moved to Atchinson, Kan., where she continues to live an active life in her community.
Six years ago, during Alumni Weekend at William Woods, the alumni board dedicated a room in the Mildred Fox Fairchild Alumni House to the twins. In addition, Violet and Vivian announced that they had donated $10,000 to the university to endow a student scholarship.
Both ladies are world travelers. As young women, they traveled to New York. The two entered a "Make The Most Of Yourself" contest sponsored by Mademoiselle magazine and won a six-week complete make-over, which included spa treatments, new clothing, make-up advice and a feature in the magazine, called the "Twinderella Story."
That would be the beginning of many travels the two would make to all parts of the country. They've even been on an African safari and to every continent except Australia.
The secret to their longevity, both twins agree, is that they chose to "live life."
"I guess you could say we were born with good genes," Vivian said. As young children, the twins recall walking a great distance to get back and forth.
"We walked a mile each way, and did that three times a day," Violet said. "So, I guess that combined with good living, we've enjoyed whatever we've done in life. We love life, and we have been fortunate to afford world travel."
They also enjoy a good bridge game every now and then.
Vivian said "being 100 is phenomenal. We never thought we'd live to be here." Violet backed her up, saying "Our next challenge is to make it to Heaven."
The extended family remains close and seems to take pride in their lineage. Vivian has three children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and Violet has one daughter. From the youngest to the oldest, each knows the Strank legacy.


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By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. Democratic lawmaker on Thursday proposed a ban on assault weapons, like those used in a Connecticut school massacre last month, and called on the public to help overcome opposition by the powerful gun lobby.
"Getting this bill signed into law is an uphill battle, I recognize that, but it is a battle worth having," Senator Dianne Feinstein - flanked by fellow lawmakers, mayors and law enforcement officers - told a packed news conference.
Feinstein's bill would ban semi-automatic assault weapons as well as high-capacity ammunition clips like those used by a gunman in the December shooting spree at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six adults.
The massacre galvanized public support for tougher gun laws, but also rallied pro-gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association to oppose such action.
"If anyone asked today, 'Can you win this?' The answer is we don't know," said Feinstein, who asked Americans to pressure Congress.
"There is one great hope out there and that is you. Because you are stronger than the gun lobby. You are stronger than the gun manufacturers, but only if you stand up," said Feinstein, a senator from California.
Gun control advocates figure they need to move quickly before lawmakers become distracted with other matters. Feinstein's legislation mirrors some of the proposals that President Barack Obama offered last week as he vowed to make gun control a top priority in his second term.
Banning assault weapons is seen as the part of Obama's package least likely to win approval in Congress. A previous ban expired in 2004 after 10 years. Other portions include expanded background checks for gun purchasers and improvements in mental health treatment.
With 310 million guns in civilian hands and 11,000 homicides with firearms last year, the United States is one of the world's most heavily armed and violent countries.
Feinstein's bill would ban semi-automatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine clip. It would also prohibit clips with more than 10 rounds.
In an effort to ease opposition, the bill would exempt any weapon already legally owned as well as 2,258 specific models and makes of hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns.
"Senator Feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades. It's disappointing but not surprising that she is once again focused on curtailing the Constitution instead of prosecuting criminals or fixing our broken mental health system," the NRA said in a statement.
(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)


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Are you having difficulty wasting immense amounts of time when you should be working? Are you looking for a new, extremely well designed game on which to wile away your waking hours? Well, look no further than Superhot, a new FPS in which time moves only when you do, from a small team lead by Piotr Iwanecki at Blue Brick Software. Originally created for 7DFPS, a week-long competition in which programming teams were invited to create an FPS from scratch, Superhot is now up for voting on Steam Greenlight, Valve's built-in system which allows fans to vote on which indie games they'd like to see sold on Steam's digital store.
While games that play around with time mechanics aren't necessarily new, Superhot flips the script on bullet time. As I mentioned, time only moves when you do, so every step you take means that bullet whizzing towards your face gets a centimeter closer. Combine this with limited ammunition and an unforgiving one-hit kill policy and the game plays out more like a puzzle game than a straightforward shooter. The result is an easy-to-learn, but hard-to-master FPS that will test your tactical thinking, timing and spatial relations in unique and deadly ways.
Looks pretty rad and vaguely dystopian, huh? Try out a free demo version of the game for yourself on the official website. It runs remarkably well on the integrated Unity web player, so I'm eager to see how it would run when installed directly to the hard drive. Watch out for that hallway level though; it's a doozy.
What do you think of Superhot? Let us know in the comments below, hit me up on Twitter or let the community know by voting for it on Steam Greenlight.


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Thanks, man!!
1) Sure, here's tha link. Hope it's not too late I left early this morning and I just got home from work, so I just now got your message.
2) My job isn't so glorious, unfortunately (I work in a cafe at the moment, saving some money for college). But yeah, I do have kind of a side interest in stuff like that (psychology, social science, religion, etc.). I'm probably going to ultimately go for the med school route, though.
Congratulations! How long have you been living here now? Got a nice place to live?
Well, to be quite honest Groningen is the only big city in The Netherlands that I have never visited or even been close to. But friends of mine studied there and they all liked it, or at least didn't complain about it.
So what is it that you're going to study there?
But you should talk to Rutegard as she also has talked about studying there.
Thanks for these ... much appreciated
I'm not sure if you have the Appeal to Reason album, if not, here you go : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z70PN4SZ
You're welcome No, I haven't seen the Rock am Ring performance, it would be great if you could locate a link for me. I only discovered this band last year but the more I hear/see of them, the more I love them.
Since you said that you like Rise Against, I thought that I would share these with you ... it is the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2009 ... Enjoy
Well a went to some cafe/pub in the center to watch the game. But a victory isn't enough for us spoiled supporters. The play was actually quite bad. But I had a great day, so I celebrated yeah!
Done again! (yesterday ;p)
thanks man
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I prefer Panda, I think it's a more thorough scan. And I could really careless about an online scan cleaning anything. I prefer manual removal. Thanks for the heads up on Trend's java scan. That's good to know.
Tell that to Microsoft...Any OS or browser not properly configured\setup\maintained is insecure


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Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Shock Rocker
By: Legacy Staff
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins was ahead of his time.
The singer, who was born 83 years ago today, was one of the earliest shock rockers, shouting and groaning his way through songs, and performing bizarre antics in live shows long before it was the hard-rock norm. When Hawkins was emerging from a coffin onstage, the metalheads who would one day bite off the heads of bats were still in short pants.
It all started with a song that was originally intended to be a tender ballad. But when, in 1956, Hawkins and his band recorded a drunken version of the song, something new – and lasting – was created. "I Put a Spell on You" was like nothing that came before it.
When the record became successful, DJ Alan Freed encouraged Hawkins to capitalize on its weirdness, and his stage persona was born. He wore outrageous costumes and carried a skull on a stick, goofing and mugging his way through his eerie songs. Hawkins later recalled, "Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death."
Though Hawkins' songs didn't top the charts, they've had an enormous influence on music. Every artist who has recorded creepy music in the past 50 years – or used wild and shocking props on stage – can thank Hawkins for doing it first. And his songs have made their way into the pop culture consciousness. "I Put a Spell on You" has been covered over and over; the song features prominently in the Jim Jarmusch film Stranger Than Paradise, and it's even in an episode of The Simpsons. Fans of a couple of spooky TV shows may recognize Hawkins' single "Frenzy" – it's been used on both True Blood and The X-Files. The truth is out there… and so was Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury on Tuesday awarded a Hong Kong businessman a $70 million judgment against Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino giant run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
Richard Suen claimed he was owed up to $328 million for helping the Las Vegas-based company secure a lucrative gambling license in Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal.
Las Vegas Sands attorneys argued Suen was owed nothing because he didn't make good on a promise to aid company executives. The case was a retrial; a jury's 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal.
The retrial jury deliberated for less than two days before reaching a unanimous consensus Tuesday, but the nine-year suit is likely to continue. Sands spokesman Ron Reese said the company will appeal.
"We believe there are compelling and sufficient grounds on which to appeal this verdict, and we will do so aggressively," he said.
Suen remained straight-faced after the verdict was read, as he had throughout the trial, while Sands attorneys pursed their lips and shook their heads. Sands attorney Stephen Peek immediately asked for a retrial, saying a juror had revealed to a man on the panel that she was prejudiced against Adelson.
However, the judge said he found the argument unconvincing and noted Sands could've made the objection earlier.
Adelson had attended court last week for closing arguments but was absent from Tuesday's proceedings.
Las Vegas Sands has opened four resorts in Macau's Cotai Strip area, and now makes about 60 percent of its profits in the former Portuguese colony, an hour from Hong Kong by ferry. Sands also operates the Venetian and the Palazzo casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.
Suen said he was hired by Las Vegas Sands to curry favor with the Chinese government in the early 2000s and was successful.
He first filed his lawsuit in 2004, saying he and his company were promised $5 million and 2 percent of net casino profits to help the company win a Macau gambling license.
Sands does not deny that it once offered Suen a "success fee," but the company's attorneys argued the businessman did not make good on his promise to deliver a license.
This was the second time the case played out in Clark County court, though the jury didn't know it.
Suen was awarded $58.6 million in 2008, but the Nevada Supreme Court overturned that verdict. Among other things, the court said the district judge shouldn't have allowed hearsay statements during the trial.
In the retrial, Suen asked for more than three times the amount of compensation he requested during in 2008 because of Sands' explosive success in Macau.
The second trial ended up costing Sands at least $11.2 million in the award alone. The company will owe interest on the $70 million award until it is paid.
Sands ultimately partnered with Hong Kong-based Galaxy Entertainment and was awarded one of three gambling licenses by the Macau government. The companies could not reach a contract agreement, however, and the partnership was dissolved.
Macau then awarded Las Vegas Sands a subconcession, a decision Suen's lawyers said was a result of their client's earlier lobbying.
Adelson, the 78-year-old chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands, offered business lessons and hammy jokes during his three days of testimony in April.
He said his own business sense helped him to see the opportunities waiting in Macau and convince local officials to license his company.
In closing statements, Suen trial lawyer John O'Malley drew an analogy to a person who hires a real estate agent to sell his home, saying even if the homeowner finds a buyer quickly and easily, the agent still is entitled to collect his commission, or at least a portion of it.
Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jul 2012 22:38 UTC
"Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.6 billion and net profit of $7.3 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 42.8 percent compared to 41.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter's revenue. The Company sold 26.0 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 28 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 17.0 million iPads during the quarter, an 84 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.0 million Macs during the quarter, a two percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 6.8 million iPods, a 10 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."


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"Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990" launches in spring 2013 as part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
It draws on vast Huntington archive of historic photos from Southern California Edison.
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will present an innovative, web-based digital exhibition this spring with more than a dozen authors, critics, and scholars curating photographs from the 70,000 strong Southern California Edison archive of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. "Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990" is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., an initiative of the Getty celebrating the city's modern architectural heritage through exhibitions and programs at arts institutions in and around Los Angeles starting in April 2013. "Form and Landscape" will launch in May and will be available through huntington.org.
The digital exhibition is organized by William Deverell, history professor at University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Greg Hise, history professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Among the curators are Deverell and Hise as well as artist Mark Klett; writer Ruben Martinez; author D. J. Waldie; and The Huntington's own curator of photographs, Jennifer A. Watts. Each has chosen 25 to 30 images relating to regional landscape and infrastructural change in Los Angeles according to themes such as "scale," "text," domesticity," "mobility," and "noir." Each curated set will include an accompanying essay. Three public forums, each at a different location in Los Angeles County and featuring rotating panelists drawn from the group of guest curators, will complement the digital exhibition.
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Where You Vote May Influence How You Vote
Article ID: 584693
Released: 17-Jan-2012 9:00 AM EST
Source Newsroom: Baylor University
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International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
Newswise — Passersby who stopped to answer surveys taken next to churches in the Netherlands and England reported themselves as more politically conservative and more negative toward non-Christians than did people questioned within sight of government buildings — a finding that may be significant when it comes to voting, according to a Baylor University study.
The study, published online in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, adds to a growing body of evidence that religious "priming" can influence both religious and nonreligious people, Baylor researchers said. Priming occurs when a stimulus such as a verbal or a visual cue — for example, the buildings that were in participants' line of vision during questioning — influences a response.
The findings are significant in that churches and other buildings affiliated with a religious group are among the most common polling places, said psychologist Jordan LaBouff, Ph.D., lead author for the Baylor study.
"The important finding here is that people near a religious building reported slightly but significantly more conservative social and political attitudes than similar people near a government building," said co-author Wade Rowatt, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor. "In a close election, the place where people vote — a school, a church, a government building — could affect the outcome. For example, a higher percentage of people voting in a church instead of a school might vote for a conservative candidate or proposition."
He noted that a Stanford University study of an Arizona school funding referendum in 2000 showed that voters polled in schools were more likely to support a state tax increase than were those polled in churches or community centers. That study was published in 2008 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Baylor study "raises questions about how our spaces can influence our attitudes," said LaBouff, a psychology lecturer at the University of Maine who collaborated on the research while a doctoral candidate at Baylor. "We should look carefully at places where important decisions are made."
He noted that while those conducting the survey made certain that the church or government building was within sight of the participant, they did not question people who were entering or leaving the buildings.
"We didn't want people who were there for the express purpose of going into a church, because that might mean they were inherently more religious," LaBouff said.
Another finding was that regardless of the setting, negativity toward Christians was not statistically significant among the culturally diverse group of passersby.
"Interestingly, these more negative attitudes toward non-Christian groups were held by a very diverse — and largely non-Christian — sample," LaBouff said. "The only people who weren't viewed negatively were Christians. They were a non-factor."
Passersby were asked to rate "outgroups" — those who were different from themselves in terms of culture and/or religion. Groups listed included rich, poor, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, gay men, lesbian women, Africans, Asians, Europeans and Arabs. Participants were asked to rate their feelings of "coolness" or "warmness" toward certain groups on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the warmest.
Survey participants were diverse and multicultural — 99 individuals from more than 30 countries. They were questioned by Baylor students during a study-abroad tour, and Baylor psychologists in the College of Arts & Sciences analyzed the data collected by the students in an advanced research methods class.
In Maastricht in the Netherlands, passersby were surveyed outside the Basilica of Saint Servatius and Maastricht Town Hall; in London, they were surveyed outside Westminster Abbey and Parliament. All the structures are located along major pedestrian paths. Other study co-authors were Megan K. Johnson, a doctoral candidate at Baylor; and Callie Finkle, now a graduate student in global health at George Washington University.
ABOUT BAYLORBaylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, classified as such with "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions.


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Author Notes: I like the delicate crunch of breadcrumbs in the fudge and I also strongly recommend flavoring the crumbs with very finely grated citrus zest or a drip of balsamic vinegar. - h.c.r. —HCR
Food52 Review: Nothing says county fair like a sugary confection, and this is fudge like we've never seen it. Dry breadcrumbs add a satisfying, nubbly texture without raising the sweetness quotient to red-alert levels the way, say, coconut would. The tang of the buttermilk also keeps the fudge from being cloying, and a whisper of lemon zest lends a little perfume. Make sure to watch the mixture carefully as it approaches 235°F -- you'll want to test it a minute or so before it reaches temperature. - A&M —The Editors
Makes: 20 pieces
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cups breadcrumbs (use blender or food processor to grind preferably dry, dark bread)
teaspoon salt
lemon zest, balsamic vinegar
cups sugar
cup butter
cup buttermilk
teaspoon baking soda
tablespoons corn syrup
teaspoon vanilla extract
- Toast the breadcrumbs with added salt over a medium heat.
- Add the lemon zest or vinegar to taste, if using, and set aside.
- Combine all the ingredients except the vanilla extract in a large, deep saucepan.
- Set over medium heat and stir just until the sugar dissolves.
- Watch the mixture carefully as it boils, but do not stir. You will know that it can be removed from the heat when it is golden brown, 1/4 teaspoon of the syrup dropped into ice water forms a small ball or a candy thermometer measures 235°F.
- Let the mixture cool to the point where you can touch it, though it's still warm to hot.
- Add the vanilla extract and beat with an electric or hand-held whisk until it thickens and is no longer glossy. This might take quite a while.
- Stir in the breadcrumbs.
- Pour/scrape the fudge into a greased 8-inch square pan.
- Chill thoroughly, cut, chomp.
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In a new study of former athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), researchers have found the disease tends to show up in one of two ways: early, with depression and behavioral changes, or later, with memory loss.
Researchers talked to the relatives of 36 people who had the brain condition identified on an autopsy and found all but three had shown symptom patterns that followed one of those two trajectories.
Experts not involved in the study called it a "marginal step" or "first stab" at determining the course of the disease, but said what is now needed are studies that track and test living athletes after a head injury.
"The findings are certainly consistent with what other studies have been pointing to with this condition," Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, who studies traumatic brain injury at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Rockville, Maryland, said.
But, he added, "We need to be able to have a way, during life, that we can make a diagnosis of this condition."
CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has been found in deceased athletes who suffered repeat concussions and other blows to the head during their careers. The condition gained national attention following the recent suicides of several retired hockey and football players, including former San Diego Chargers star Junior Seau in 2012.
For the new study, researchers from Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy interviewed the family members of 36 former male athletes who had died with CTE, most of them football players. They also reviewed athletes' medical records, when available.
Three of the men had no symptoms of mood or memory disorders at the time of their deaths.
Of the remaining 33, two-thirds fit into what the researchers called the "behavior/mood group." Their first signs of CTE showed up when they were in their mid-30s, on average, as depression, hopelessness or violent and explosive behavior.
The 11 other former athletes, the "cognition group," showed no symptoms until their late-50s, when they developed impaired thinking and memory skills, Robert Stern and his colleagues reported Wednesday in Neurology.
"What it does is give us a picture of what CTE may look like during life," Stern said.
"Very early studies of boxers also indicated these two presentations," he said. "Why they occur, it's too early for us to really understand."
Diaz-Arrastia, who was not involved in the new research, said that pattern shows up with other forms of dementia as well, such as Alzheimer's disease.
"When the pathology is very severe and manifests at an earlier stage, the psychiatric symptoms seem to dominate the picture," he said.
Neuroscientist Dr. John Hart, Jr. from the University of Texas at Dallas said the new report is limited by the lack of objective neurological test results or depression measures from former athletes before they died.
He said the next step, a big one, will be to start with current athletes and determine how CTE progresses - from head injuries, to mood or memory symptoms, to brain changes visible on scans and autopsies.
Having a clearer picture of the course of the disease will help researchers know where to start looking for treatment and prevention ideas, he said.
"The whole field has to look at, how do we tie these things together?" Hart, who wasn't part of the study team, said.
"There's not just an easy, straightforward answer to what's happening with these folks."
Stern said he is currently working with researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital putting 100 former football players and 50 former non-contact athletes through a range of neurological and psychiatric tests as well as brain scans and blood tests.
The goal is to develop objective measures of CTE and ways to detect the disease during life.


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