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It's hard to know whom to sympathize with in this fight.
On one side: the paparazzi who stalk celebrities in their moments of greatest vulnerability — at doctors' offices, with their newborns, when they are falling-down drunk.
On the other: a blogger who helps himself to those photos, scrawls puerile comments on them, and posts them on his immensely popular and profitable website.
The owners of one L.A. photo agency are so frustrated with what they consider to be blatant theft by self-styled "gossip gangsta" Perez Hilton that they've decided to make a federal case of it.
On Nov. 30, X17 Inc., known for the aggressive pursuit of celebrity prey, filed a $7.6-million federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Hilton, alleging that he has used 51 photos without permission, payment or credit.
The list of allegedly infringed photos is an almost poetic inventory of the state of pop culture and people's obsession with it: "Pregnant Katie Holmes," "Kevin Federline Pumping Gas," "The New Slim Britney Spears," "Britney Spears Exposes Her Derriere," "Britney Spears Exposes Herself (Again)."
Brandy Navarre, who co-owns X17 with her husband, Francois Navarre, said the agency is suing the owner of http://www.perezhilton.com not just because he doesn't pay or credit them, but also because they don't like his attitude.
While X17 has agreements with many gossip blogs — Pink IsTheNewBlog, PopSugar and SocialiteLife, among others — allowing them to post photos with proper credit and a link back to the X17 website (http://www.X17online.com), Navarre said she was tired of constantly reminding Hilton to credit X17 and had finally given up.
"We've had trouble with a lot of bloggers," she said. "But he's the biggest, and the most arrogant and pigheaded about it, frankly."
Reached by phone at his "office," a corner table in a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset Boulevard, Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sounded miffed. "She is suing me because I'm arrogant? That's not what her press release said. My position is that I don't think what I am doing is illegal, and I am going to vigorously defend myself. I am willing to step up to the plate and fight for my rights and fight for the rights of all bloggers."
While it's easy to be flippant about a battle between paparazzi and a sometimes juvenile blogger (who might draw cocaine or mucus trails from noses, mouth drool or other snarky/silly things on the photos he posts), there is a serious legal question at issue.
If it turns out that what he does is copyright infringement — rather than a fair use of newsworthy images, as Hilton's attorney claims — it would not only put a serious crimp in the photo-driven field of gossip blogs, but possibly create new case law.
"The effect would be to eliminate the ability to comment on and transform photographs under the fair-use exception to the Copyright Act," said Hilton's attorney, Bryan Freedman of Century City.
It's one thing to take somebody's copyrighted work and turn around and sell it, he added, but to alter the work to achieve a satiric or humorous end is entirely different and is allowed under the law.
'Basically free-riding' But X17's attorney, John Tehranian of Costa Mesa, doesn't see it as fair use at all. Hilton, he said, "is basically free-riding on the labor and efforts of X17 and its photographers who stay up all night and roam the city, and he simply right-clicks and posts their photos." (Actually, Navarre said, she has altered her site so that Hilton can no longer right-click to get photos, but he manages to get them anyway.)
This conflict is more than a juicy legal fight between two controversial enterprises. It's also the manifestation of a cultural shift in how those obsessed with pop culture get their fixes. These days, no one has to wait for People's weekly appearance on the newsstand or even "Access Hollywood's" nightly roundups to find out about Nicole Richie's latest arrest or shockingly low weight.
Hilton, who said he earned less than $50,000 last year and expected to make in the six figures this year, is known for the dizzying pace at which he updates his site, sometimes posting two dozen or more times a day.
"Perez is not being targeted because he's an affront to paparazzi everywhere," said technology expert Matt Lum, whose company, Hoodlum Productions, provides technology expertise to both Hilton and X17. "He is being targeted because the entire industry is undergoing a shift that was arguably brought on by blogs like perezhilton.com, which took stargazers from a weekly or nightly television fix to an hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, entertain-yourself-at-the-workplace enterprise.
"The way that Americans get their news and entertainment these days is a whole lot different from waiting for things to get printed, and that's what's at the crux of this whole ordeal," Lum added. "When he says he is fighting for all bloggers, he really is."
Getting personal There is, as well, a personal aspect to the suit. Hilton and X17 used to be allies, linking back and forth to each other's sites. When Hilton grew tired of being admonished by Navarre to credit X17, he said, he retaliated by removing the link to her site. Hilton said her lawsuit is a public relations ploy aimed at squelching his blog to improve the prospects of hers, X17online.com, which was started last June, and appears to be modeled in concept on what Hilton has done since he launched his current blog in early 2005.
Navarre scoffed at that. "We are suing him," she said, "because he is stealing our images and costing us money every day."
Take Monday, for example. X17 had landed what it considered a major scoop: photos of the newly separated Spears kissing an unidentified man.
In an attempt to prevent unauthorized downloading of her photos, Navarre spent hours personally attaching photos in e-mails that she sent to glossy weeklies and the big infotainment TV shows. She used e-mail instead of the much faster but more vulnerable technology called FTP (file transfer protocol), which transfers the images directly into clients' computers.
"People and Us Weekly are closing today," she said Monday, "and it would have been so much faster to FTP them, but I don't want Perez Hilton to have them on his website."
No such luck.
Hilton had somehow obtained and posted the photos before X17 even had a chance to put them on its own website. "He was the first one to get those photos," Navarre said. "I am so fuming."
She said X17 can make as much as tens of thousands of dollars from one magazine on an exclusive story. In the case of the Spears smooch shot, X17 sold a two-page spread to Us Weekly, but the magazine decided to shrink the photo play (which lowered the price by $10,000, to $15,000), Navarre said she was told, because the images had already been on Hilton's site and others.
One prominent copyright attorney said it was impossible to tell who would prevail.
"Clearly, photographs are copyrighted and afforded protection; on the other hand, wide berth is given to the press to report on newsworthy events," said Century City copyright attorney David Nimmer, author of "Nimmer on Copyright." In this context, a photograph could be considered a newsworthy event.
How bloggers get unauthorized photos in the first place is baffling to the agencies, Navarre said.
"Perez gets his photographs from any number of places," said technology expert Lum, who is not involved in the procurement of photos. "I am sure there are lots of links in so many chains that somewhere along the way, there has got to be a tug here and there, which results in a photograph veering from its intended pathway."
A joint letter As it turns out, X17 is not the only agency trying to stop its photos from veering from their intended pathways. Seven notoriously competitive paparazzo agencies have set aside their differences to send a joint cease-and-desist letter to Hilton, demanding that he stop using their photographs. They have not filed suit but are watching X17's case with interest.
"He's stealing. Simple as that," said Frank Griffin of Bauer-Griffin, which has joined forces with six other agencies. "Why doesn't Us or People just steal the photos and not pay for them? What's the difference?"
Hilton, for his part, is unrepentant.
"If the law says I am wrong, if a jury of my peers says they think my actions are wrong, then I will listen to them. But I don't think they will. Especially if they see that the person who is suing me admitted she is suing me because I am arrogant. A judge would dismiss that."
firstname.lastname@example.com Times staff writer Jessica Garrison contributed to this report.


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Latest Activity: May 10
PLEASE NOTE: To participate (to have your information shared) you must join the group.
The goal of this group is to help facilitate connections between members and share best practices and tips on how to use LinkedIn as a networking and recruiting tool.
As this group continues to grow we needed to create a system that would appeal to the "Open Networkers" and those who were seeking specific, meaningful connections.
"New Members"
2-3 group messages are sent during the week and they focus introducing new members. So the question is, do you want to be introduced? Here are your options:
"Old Timers"
Those of you who have been around for a while have a couple of options too.
To be included in the group messages please send your Name, LinkedIn URL, and email address you would like to receive invitations (if "A" or "D") to the "Admin" of this group:
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Chris916 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 260 Designs von 41 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Shepard Photography
We are a life-style wedding and commercial photographer in the Sacramento area.
We are young and hip, fun and exciting.
We're relatively young company, so are still developing our brand.
We need a new logo that can be a spring-board for our entire branding. You can see our current logo and colors by visiting our website here - http://www.shepard-photography.com. We also attached our current logo to this brief. Also attached are three photographs that we feel define our company.
We want a logo that has a new and fresh feel yet is timeless. The logo must contain our full name- Shepard Photography, have a color version, black and/or white version and a smaller "watermark" version (could possibly be just a recognizable graphic that is part of the whole logo for the watermark). Remember these logos will be placed over photographs with sometimes busy backgrounds.
Adding a jpeg file of a "S" from my signature that I thought might be useful. This is just an idea, I DON'T want every design submitted to use it.
Our target audience is mainly newly engaged brides and grooms, ages 24-34. Our clients are typically very well connected with facebook, twitter and the internet. They are fun, hip and current with fashion and current trends.
We also target various other groups of people for portraiture and commercial photography so while the design must mainly appeal to brides and grooms it must be able to be used for other photography types as well.
A few words that would describe what we are looking for are, we feel these are very important to our brand -
Colors -
We are in no way attached to our colors and would like something new but have a hard time nailing down what colors we want to go with. Just start designing and we'll post comments on the colors we do and don't like.
Fonts -
Font should be clean and fresh. No bubbly, swirly or over the top fonts.
Graphic -
We're open to ideas. Maybe play with the S in Shepard but abstract designs are probably better, but again, open to all ideas.
What we don't want -
- No overly wedding logos, no cakes, no rings etc.
- No literal photography logos (like the one we have now we're not happy with the circular aperture graphic part), no cameras, no film strips
- No bubbly/swirly fonts
Finished requirements -
We would like to have the graphics in illustrator vector based files. So we may tweak them as needed or pull parts out of the design to use on other marketing materials. Also we would like to have a list of Fonts used.
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Use Exim with a remote smtp server
This document describes how to set up Exim (a mail transfer agent) to use a remote smtp server, for example your ISP's smtp server.
Install Packages
# pacman -S exim
Edit configuration
/etc/mail/exim.conf and add or change the following
In Main Configuration Settings uncomment
primary_hostname and add the hostname of your box (see the
/etc/hostname file)
primary_hostname = myhostname # change to your hostname
At the end of the Routers Configuration section add
passonto_isp: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * smtp.myisp.com # change to the desired smtp server
Make sure that in Transports Configuration it says (uncommented)
remote_smtp: driver = smtp
If you have a laptop, or a machine in a smarthost configuration, where you do not want the name of the machine to appear in the outgoing email then you must enable exim's rewriting facilities.
In the Rewriting section you should have something like:
*@machine.mydomain $1@mydomain
where machine is the hostname of your laptop or PC and mydomain is the domain name of the machine and the outgoing mail.
Update: 11-Feb-05:
FYI - I just got done wrestling with Exim (4.44) to get it up and running in this configuration on my machine, and I had to do a number of things quite differently than the other person. Thought I'd capture them here for posterity, since I had to go through a pretty painful process that cost me a lot of time and aggravation before I hit upon the right config. Hopefully this'll save others from a similar fate.
By the way, I should note: my Exim server does not receive any emails directly from the Net. I'm using fetchmail to grab the mail's from an external POP mail drop and dump them into my Exim server. So perhaps this is different than the other person's configuration.
Anyway, here's what worked for me.
I did not need to update
primary_hostname. If you leave it commented out, like this:
# primary_hostname =
then exim will just automatically use whatever your system's
hostname command outputs. (i.e., the
HOSTNAME that you have set in rc.conf.)
I very much DID need to update this line:
domainlist local_domains = @
and it caused me much grief until I got it right! In my case, it needed to look like this:
domainlist local_domains = @:localhost:mydnamicdnshostname.homeip.net
I think the dynamic dns entry might be optional (since I never really deliver any mail to an address at that FQDN), but the
@ and the
localhost are both critical.
@basically means again to use whatever your system's
hostnamecommand outputs. That's needed because some daemons that run on your box may try to send emails to the root user at the host, and they will get rejected if you do not have the
localhostwas necessary in order to allow fetchmail to deliver all the messages that it fetched. Without that entry there, Exim would fail to deliver them, and then generate a bounce message in response. Even worse, most of my fetched messages were spam, and so it would try to send the bounce back to the return address on the spam which 1) often was forged, and thus a bad thing to do, and 2) often would get rejected either due to an invalid email address or because I was trying to initiate email from a residential dynamic IP address and thus was also a bad thing to do. In the latter case, those messages wound up frozen on the queue, and I had to spend some time manually purging them from the queue. Just a bad situation all around until I got this piece right.
- I also wanted to allow other boxes on my LAN to relay messages through this exim server. By default, though, that's blocked. You can enable it by changing this:
hostlist relayfromhosts = 127.0.0.1
to this:
hostlist relayfromhosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0.0/24
While, you are at it, it actually couldn't hurt to make it this:
hostlist relayfromhosts = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1 : 192.168.0.0/24
::::1 is just the ipv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1)
Despite what was written by the other person, I found that that the
passonto_isp router should NOT go at the end of the Routers Configuration section. Since it's at the end, it won't get executed if some other router gets executed first, and that's exactly what was happening to me. This router, which appears before it was getting executed instead:
dnslookup: driver = dnslookup domains = ! +local_domains transport = remote_smtp ignoretargethosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 no_more
That router might be desired in some configurations, but not this one. That will cause exim to try to deliver the message itself, rather than passing it on to your ISP's MTA. (And as I indicated above, that will often fail if you are on a residential dynamic IP adddress.) To set this up properly, do it like this:
#dnslookup: # driver = dnslookup # domains = ! +local_domains # transport = remote_smtp # ignoretargethosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 # no_more passonto_isp: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * smtp.myisp.com # change to the desired smtp server
One last thing: make sure to also update the
/etc/mail/aliases file, if you have got any daemons running on your box that need to send email to the root user. You'll probably want those emails to get delivered to your non-root user account instead, and this is how you set that behavior. Look for these lines:
# Person who should get root's mail #root:
And uncomment and add your local user account to the
root: line:
# Person who should get root's mail root: johndoe
Hope this all spares someone some hair-pulling and lost sleep down the road. I wish I had read an entry like this before I started - I wouldn't be so tired right now!
Update: 10-Feb-08:
passonto_isp: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * smtp.myisp.com # change to the desired smtp server
should be changed to
send_to_gateway: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * smtp.myisp.com # change to the desired smtp server
Using GMail as smarthost:
Add a router before or instead of the dnslookup router:
gmail_route: driver = manualroute transport = gmail_relay route_list = * smtp.gmail.com
Add a transport:
gmail_relay: driver = smtp port = 587 hosts_require_auth = $host_address hosts_require_tls = $host_address
Add an authenticator (replacing email@example.com and mypassword with your own account details):
gmail_login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN hide client_send = : email@example.com : mypassword
$host_address is used for
hosts_require_auth and
hosts_require_tls instead of smtp.gmail.com to avoid occasional 530 5.5.1 Authentication Required errors. These are caused by the changing IP addresses in DNS queries for smtp.gmail.com.
$host_address will expand to the particular IP address that was resolved by the
gmail_route router.
For added security, use a per-application password. This works with Google Apps accounts as well.
451 Temporary local problem
If you are getting a "451 Temporary Local Problem" when testing SMTP, you are probably sending as root. By default Exim will not allow you to send as root.


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April's PlayStation Plus Games Revealed
If you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you'll be glad to know which games are coming your way in the month of April.
The video above was posted to the PlayStation Blog by Kristine Steimer, Senior Community Specialist at PlayStation.
PlayStation Plus members with PlayStation 4 consoles will be able to download Mercenary Kings for free. This 2D shooter features retro-styled graphics and gameplay that takes from yesteryear and combines it with some of the wackiness of today's games. Grab some friends and take on the evil forces of CLAW.
PlayStation 3 owners will get Batman: Arkham City, Stealth Inc. A Clone in the Dark and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. As you can see, there's a wide range of genres here, offering you a third-person action game, a puzzler and a classic platformer that's been given a new coat of paint.
PlayStation Vita fanatics can play Velocity Ultra and Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD. One is an anime-inspired shooter that lets you zip around the screen and the other is a tower defense game with a lot of cuteness and a lot of heart.
Well, there you are, PlayStation Plus members. What do you think of this month's haul? Watch the video above and await your free goodies when April gets underway.


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HOUSTON - Ryan Kilgore taught elementary school for five years before having children of her own and making the decision to stay home. But she isn't only a stay-at-home mom.
She's also her kid's teacher.
"Since I was a public school teacher I saw what was going on behind the scenes," Kilgore said. "I knew I didn't want my children in public school."
Kilgore and her husband, who is also an educator and teaches math at the college level, decided to homeschool. She teaches 5-year-old Carli and 3-year-old Quinn for about four hours a day. They do it mainly for religious reasons but said there are other benefits.
"They don't have to deal with peer pressure," Kilgore said. "They don't have to deal with violence."
After Friday's deadly school shooting in Connecticut, Kilgore said she has seen an increase in parents who are interested in learning more about homeschooling.
"Yesterday I got about five emails from people, three of them I didn't even know," she said. "They said they would like more info on this because they're too scared to send their kids back to school."
Research done earlier this year shows that since 1999 homeschooling has grown 75%.
Kilgore said she wouldn't be surprised if more parents start considering it after the wave of violence, not only nationally but locally, too.
On Wednesday, police arrested a 14-year-old student for bringing a loaded gun to Sterling High School on Martindale Road in Houston. Investigators said he told them he was carrying the weapon to protect himself from gang members.
MORE: HISD: Student arrested after bringing gun to school
That same day administrators at La Porte High School sent a letter home to parents after a threat was made that someone was going to, "shoot up the school."
"I do see, definitely, an increase in interest for homeschooling," said Kilgore. "Maybe those families who were on the edge, this may be the final push for them."
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Alternative Fuels for Welding with a Gas Regulator
If you're looking for more information on alternative fuels, then read the article, Alternative Fuels, published in Welding & Gases Today. The article was written by John Henderson a senior product manager at Victor Technologies who's an alternative fuel expert.
The article discusses the misconceptions that surround the use of alternative fuels, such as propylene, propane and natural gas. These gases behave differently than acetylene, which is why operators need to learn the different techniques for lighting a torch as well as choosing the correct gas regulator and tip.
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The Lifeboat
Author: Charlotte Rogan
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Run Time: 7hrs and 47 minutes
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Book Description:
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.
In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.
As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?
So I have to say upfront, that I originally started reading this book in print and kept getting distracted. I know that it wasn't a very long book, but for some reason at that time, it just wasn't clicking. But after seeing the good review that my friend Naomi gave it, I decided to give it another try and put my name on the reservation list for the audiobook (and FWIW, having to wait for it to come in when you are 45th on the list sucks! I think it took about 4 months for it to come in…).
Being a psychologist in training (if I ever finish this damn PhD), I loved the way that the author managed to intersperse different ideas into the novel. Yes, it was a story of survival – but there were so many other elements – the idea of hope and giving up – can you survive when you think there is nothing more out there? How various people emerge different roles in situations of high stress. The notion of group think in a scenario like this? Stockholm syndrome and how it can affect people's behavior, both during and after events. And so many more – but don't worry, I won't be too much of a dork – but it did hit my enjoyment button in all the right places. I enjoyed how she used flashbacks to tell most of the story – it is often a hard writing style to pull off, but it was well-done. My only gripe I had was the ending was fairly obvious – I was able to figure out what was going to happen about half-way through – but that didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book.
Rebecca Gibel is a brand-new audiobook narrator to me, and I can tell you for sure that it won't be the last time I listen to something done by her. There was something melodic about her voice, that I was just sucked in. It was a relatively short audiobook and because I enjoyed the narration so much – I sat in my car at work one morning and listened to like another 15 minutes of the book (much to my co-workers disgust because she was waiting for me to get coffee – don't worry, she gave up and went by herself 😉 ) I did like how she was able to draw on a variety of accents that encompassed the different countries of origin of the passengers. As the majority of the book was told from Grace's perspective, I wasn't really able to tell how well she did male voices, so that is going to be something that I am looking out for in the future listens. But overall, totally worth it. I would give both the narration and the book itself 3.5 stars, but rounding up to 4.


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Like 95 percent of the football-loving world, you probably watched the Patriots' 29-26 overtime victory against the Jets.
You did so because there was practically no other choice, for reasons we will get into later. The only other late-afternoon game on the schedule was Jaguars at Raiders. That game was watched by a smattering of Raiders and Jaguars fans and people who had Maurice Jones-Drew in their fantasy lineups until about three minutes into the game, when MJD got carted off. Then that game was watched by a smattering of Raiders and Jaguars fans. And Jaguars fans only come in smatterings.
The Jets-Patriots game was a gem, of course, the kind of game that leaves us with questions to ponder for an entire week:
• How much fun was it to watch a signature Tom Brady performance in the final minute and in overtime, and why don't we see that very much in the first three quarters anymore?
• How much better can Mark Sanchez play, now that he is not required to throw to Santonio Holmes but has an alternative other than Chaz Schilens?
• When did the Brandon Lloyd of 2010-11 disappear and the Brandon Lloyd of 2003-09 return?
• How badly did the Redskins misuse LaRon Landry, who now plays like he has a rocket pack?
• If the Jets' special teams are this good, shouldn't Mike Westhoff just take over as head coach?
• The Patriots' defense is a steaming heap of boiled ugly: Bill Belichick sees this, doesn't he?
There is a lot to talk about after Jets-Patriots, but you watched the game, so you do not need me to tell you what happened. You probably did not see Jaguars-Raiders, but I watched both games simultaneously throughout the first halves in an effort to give you the comprehensive coverage you demand.
The Raiders' 26-23 victory over the Jaguars was like a funhouse-mirror version of the Jets-Patriots game. The Jaguars, like the Patriots, took a convincing-but-not-commanding lead at halftime (the Jaguars led 17-6, the Patriots 16-10). The Raiders, like the Jets, came back on the strength of a much-maligned passing game and an opponent with a strange urge to throw incomplete passes while leading in the fourth quarter. The Jets took advantage of a fumbled kickoff return to take a late lead against the Patriots, but then Tom Brady happened. The Raiders took advantage of an overtime fumble to kick a game-winning field goal, because Chad Henne never happens.
So the two games had a lot in common, and yet they were as different as Brady and Henne when you took a closer look. Here is a simultaneous breakdown of what was happening in the first half of Jaguars-Raiders at the exact moments when critical events in Jets-Patriots took place. Two games can be very alike, yet very different:
Foxboro: The Jets mount an impressive drive on their first possession, catching the Patriots off guard with a wide-open, empty-backfield approach on a few plays.
Oakland: Carson Palmer executes a zone-read option, handing off to Darren McFadden and dashing away as if he had the ball and planned to use his blazing speed to sprint up the sideline. Not a single Jaguars defender bites on this brilliantly conceived fake, perhaps because they know Palmer couldn't outrun them in a '68 Chevelle.
Foxboro: Shonn Greene scores a touchdown.
Oakland: A giant breast cancer awareness ribbon is unfurled during a break in the action. Either that, or the game is temporarily delayed for a Christo installation.
Foxboro: Devin McCourty returns a kickoff for a Patriots touchdown to tie the game 7-7.
Oakland: Darrius Heyward-Bey is tackled well short of a touchdown on third-and-goal by Paul Posluszny. A safety named Chris Prosinski also sees a lot of playing time for the Jaguars, who should consider fielding an entire defense of Eastern European names beginning with "p:" Posnanski, Prozacski, Prosaicski, Impotentski.
Foxboro: During a break in the action, there's a television ad for the "Assassin's Creed" video game. Doesn't that game look awesome? You play as some parkour Robin Hood working for George Washington during the American Revolution. If only that really happened in history. Can you imagine the letters that would have survived?
"My dear General Howe, my efforts to thwart the uprising in the southern regions were again temporarily thwarted by the jackanape in a hooded tunic who doth riddle my regulars with arrows. Please advise."
"Cornwallis, just win a battle for once, you bloody wanker!"
Oakland: Cecil Shorts scores a touchdown for the Jaguars. This is the only play of the first half that is more exciting than the "Assassin's Creed" commercial.
Foxboro: Rob Gronkowski makes a great TD catch to give the Patriots a 14-7 lead.
Oakland: The Jaguars line up in a full-house backfield. Blaine Gabbert fumbles the snap. But the Raiders jump offsides, so it's a Jaguars first down. Can we watch that giant pink ribbon some more?
Foxboro: The Patriots call a screen pass on third-and-20, then punt.
Oakland: Rashad Jennings bursts through the middle for a touchdown that gives the Jaguars a 14-3 lead. For a few minutes, the games got all "Freaky Friday."
Foxboro: Sanchez kicks the ball through the back of the end zone for a safety, a heads-up play that could otherwise have resulted in a Patriots touchdown.
Oakland: Palmer fakes a hand-off to Marcel Reece and executes the longest, slowest rollout play in history, ending with a three-yard pass to Brandon Myers. It's a not-at-all-heads-up play, which sadly constitutes a vast percentage of the Raiders' playbook.
Foxboro: Mark Sanchez throws an ill-advised interception that kills a Jets drive.
Oakland: Henne mysteriously materializes in the Jaguars' huddle like the impish sprite in a Shakespearean farce about the career of Tony Sparano. Replacing the injured Gabbert, he throws a 150-mph incompletion to Shorts, who is about seven yards away.
Foxboro: A commercial for "Two and a Half Men." So, we can now show a guy tied up and ball gagged in his boxer shorts on a bed with a dominatrix standing over him at about 5:15 p.m. during a football telecast? Why not just show blatant parental neglect and call it an "entertaining" reality show? Oh, wait, we do that too.
Oakland: Henne rolls out on fourth-and-one and throws the ball away in a display of incompetence so staggering that Mike Mularkey considers untying and deploying Ashton Kutcher.
Foxboro: The Jets drive to keep it close late in the first half, but an iffy spot requires a long measurement. The telecast shows a rare glimpse inside the replay booth, where you can clearly see the still frame of Greene getting tackled just before the 47-yard line. And you thought officials snuck in there to play "Assassin's Creed."
Oakland: Palmer gets pulverized by Jeremy Mincey. The ball pops loose and is recovered by C.J. Mosley. Palmer's arm is clearly going forward, and like clockwork, the telecast spools up footage of the old Tom Brady Tuck Rule play. Is that play permanently cued up during every NFL broadcast? Is there a Replay button, a Cheerleader button, a Big Pink Ribbon button and a Tuck Rule button on the console? For a few moments, Jaguars-Raiders viewers got to see Brady lead a halting, mistake-prone offense to a win, which is exactly what everyone else was watching.
CBS then tried to chase viewers away from the Jaguars-Raiders game with the most ridiculous statistical graphic in the history of NFL telecasts. Did you know that Palmer has now thrown for 200 or more yards in his 11th consecutive game, tying a Raiders team record held by Rich Gannon? Can you think of a less impressive accomplishment than throwing for more than 200 yards (which ceased being a benchmark of passing excellence late in the Great Depression) in consecutive games? Do you have any faith whatsoever in a Raiders' passing record that Palmer can set in a little more than one season, one which does not involve Ken Stabler or Jim Plunkett in any way? (Daryle Lamonica ranked third.) The producers might as well have run a graphic reading: "Look, get a satellite dish, or go to your local tavern, but for heaven's sake stop watching this."
And yet, the Raiders staged a comeback, and the "bad" game maintained its fearful symmetry with the good one. Both games drew to a tie at about the same time. Both reached overtime at about the same time. Had Jets-Patriots not been such a gem, Jaguars-Raiders would have served as a messy, somewhat silly, but ultimately satisfying alternative.
Luckily, though, the Patriots and Jets delivered the goods.
Around the League
Here are some talking points from the early games.
The Unsuspended: Jonathan Vilma played for the Saints in their 35-28 win over the Buccaneers, proving that absolute power just ain't what it used to be at NFL headquarters. Vilma, who had his suspension temporarily lifted in the umpteenth plot twist in the Bountygate Saga (written by the creative team that brought you "Lost"), had no tackles but put a big hit on Josh Freeman (evidence!) and batted a pass in the air that was nearly picked off.
Vilma's signature moment came during a pregame fighter jet flyover. Drew Brees squinted into the sky with his hand still over his breast from the National Anthem, and other players looked up in curiosity. But Vilma reacted with "they're coming to get me" suspicion, his eyes darting around the sideline for a foxhole he could hide in when the paratrooper lawyers landed and pummeled him with injunctions.
Vilma's presence may have had an inspirational affect on cornerback Malcolm Jenkins. Late in the third quarter, Vincent Jackson caught a deep pass along the left sideline and began racing for an apparent touchdown. But something slowed Jackson down. Perhaps, wearing the orange "Bruce the Pirate" throwback jersey, he could only run as fast as Jimmy Giles (Giles today, at age 57, not Giles circa 1981). Or maybe it was some leftover Norv Turner counter-motivation from his days in San Diego. But Jackson slowed, and Jenkins caught him at the three-yard line for a 95-yard NON-touchdown. Two plays later, LeGarrette Blount tried to punch in a touchdown, but Jenkins tripped him up, and the Buccaneers ultimately came away scoreless.
Late in the game, Jenkins made yet another important tackle on Jackson after a long gain. (Note: Jenkins was not covering Jackson on either long pass, so he cannot be blamed for giving up the receptions in the first place.) If Vilma goes back into the doghouse, the Saints at least have one defender they can count on to hold opponents under 96 yards per pass play.
Dawn of the Dead (Chris Johnson Remix): It lives! Johnson rushed 18 times for 195 yards, including 83-, 27- and 25-yard runs, in a 35-34 Titans win, which at times looked like a 100-meter sprint competition up the sideline.
Here is how to interpret Johnson's huge game. First, no one has ever questioned his ability to break the sound barrier once he gets past the line of scrimmage. It's getting past the line of scrimmage that has been the problem, and will remain the problem. Second, the Bills' defense would get laughed out of Conference-USA, so lots of players not named Kevin Kolb are going to have career games against them this year. Johnson is going to ride this game, the Texans' loss (lots of garbage-time yardage) and another big game or two (the Colts are coming) to about 1,200 yards this season, mixing in a few more of his signature 15-for-24 performances. Next year, we will again be asking "what's wrong with Johnson" when he does the same thing, assuming the Titans don't draft Le'Veon Bell or someone.
Oh, and backup Jamie Harper leeched two short touchdowns from Johnson, because the Titans trust him to score from 83 yards away but not from one yard away, which makes more sense than you would think.
Going For the One: The Browns had a second-and-one opportunity on the Colts' 41-yard line, trailing 17-13 with 6:51 to play. A short Brandon Weeden pass fell incomplete. Weeden uncorked a bomb to Josh Gordon, who proved his mettle as a Browns receiver by dropping the ball. Pat Shurmur took a timeout to think things over, then … punted.
Up in the owner's box, the television cameras caught Jimmy Haslam making road rage gestures. The Browns lost, Shurmur's job has gone well past the jeopardy stage and Haslam's office probably looks like the hotel room from "Apocalypse Now" this morning.
Tim Tebow trademarked his sideline "Tebowing" genuflection last week, which caused quite a stir in church on Sunday morning. My 9-year old is still smarting from the horse-collar tackle he received from two XV Enterprises lawyers when he reached for the holy water font.
No, no, Tebow is not trying to copyright, or turn a profit from, the simple act of praying. His distant cousin L. Ron Tebow tried that in the 1950s with "Wildcatinetics," and failed. Tebow's marketing people just noticed that millions have been made from "Tebowing" T-shirts and the like, none of which is going to Tebow, Tebow's preferred charities, or (most importantly) the marketing people who get a percentage from such things. If anything, the gang at XV Enterprises is a little behind the curve, as Tebowing is so last December. Come back in 2017, when they trademark "Call Me Maybe" bus trip videos.
Back on topic … the concept of trademarking or patenting a signature football move is not new. In fact, it is part of the idiom: "John Elway's patented last-minute comeback," "Vince Lombardi's patented Packer Sweep," "Norv Turner's patented third quarter nap." None of these plays or activities was ever really patented, but if Tebow is truly a trendsetter, we may soon have to pay royalties if we ever want to pull off some of these maneuvers:
What it sounds like: The kind of activity that sends a school district into Platinum Bullying Alert when it happens to a middle school kid.
What it is: Imitating Cecil Shorts of the Jaguars by averaging 23.7 yards per catch. Shorts had a 42-yard touchdown on Sunday to go with 80-, 39- and 34-yard catches earlier this year. Shorts learned his deep-receiving skills as a preteen at Camp Anawanna. Shorts fumbled in overtime to help the Raiders win, making him the embodiment of the post-Jimmy Smith Jaguars receiver.
Joe Morgan-ing
What it sounds like: Complaining about anything new, statistically verified or innovative that has happened in your sport since the day you retired in 1984.
What it is: Catching a deep pass from Drew Brees, tumbling over defender Eric Wright, and hitting the ground running for a 48-yard touchdown, prompting everyone watching the game to say, in unison, "Was that Colston? Moore? Henderson? Toon? Who? Joe Morgan? Does Brees throw to guys who are on no one's fantasy roster on purpose to make us crazy?"
What is sounds like: A twee British pop singer from the 1980s who set the cause of vegetarianism back 50 years with his wan little condemnations, bless his heart.
What it is: Imitating Alfred Morris by getting totally overshadowed by fellow rookie Robert Griffin III, rushing for 120 yards, but fumbling at a critical point in the third quarter of a close game. Griffin also played a solid game but fumbled in the crunch of the 27-23 loss to the Giants. That will happen when you count on rookies for 59 of your offensive touches. The Redskins may want to wean themselves from some of their gadget formations: A few more downs in the Pistol, and the whole offense earns an honorary degree from University of Nevada.
What it sounds like: Pronounce it "Raven-Sing," and it is a little pottery boutique in the trendy part of town, where your sister-in-law goes to hear poetry readings and get henna tattoos. More or less the exact diametric opposite of a sports bar.
What it is: Going on the road and playing like the world's most dedicated troop of 1976 Buccaneers re-enactors.
What is sounds like: Working with clay, like they do over some herbal tea in Raven Sing, while listening to Morris-ing.
What it is: Imitating Clay Matthews by squirting water into your flowing hair during breaks on the field, creating a creepy male "Flashdance" effect. Matthews had a sack in the Packers' 30-20 win over the Rams, and he also chased Sam Bradford down in a Hungry Cheetah versus Not Very Fast Quarterback footrace, forcing an incomplete pass in the red zone. All the while, his hair stayed perfectly moisturized.
What is sounds like: A recurring problem for many of the antagonists in cable drama series.
What it is: Donald Jones, after scoring one of the 300 touchdowns in the Bills-Titans game, doing the Sugar Hill Gang Apache dance in the end zone. No dance step is too out of date for an end zone celebration, especially in Buffalo, where you half expect to see The Lindy Hop.
At least Jones-ing is better than Tolbert-ing. Mike Tolbert went "Gangnam Style" after a touchdown in the Panthers' loss to the Cowboys, and you could feel the trend shriveling and dying as he did it.
Freedom of Choice
It's a good thing the Patriots-Jets game was a classic, because we were forced to watch it. The NFL didn't quite strap us to a chair and brace our eyes open, "A Clockwork Orange"-style, but it did schedule Jaguars-Raiders as the only alternative, which was nearly as tortuous.
Yes, that game turned out to be close and exciting as well, as described in detail earlier. But two options are at least two fewer than what we have come to expect from our late-game lineup. Variety is what makes NFL Sundays great. It's the reason satellite packages are sold.
Baseball was the cause of the short-sheeted late-game schedule. Now, baseball is a hell of a sport, and I will assert that as long as Major League Baseball continues to underwrite this website. (National Pastime! Fabric of American Life! Green Cathedrals! A pitch every 75 seconds or your money back!) But there was no baseball game at 4 p.m. ET, just the threat of one. The Giants and Cardinals were originally set to play at 4:30 p.m. ET, but the game was pushed back due to rain/the opportunity to play in prime time. Had the Yankees played to win instead of using their at bats as a kind of rainforest songbird courting ritual, they would have played on Sunday evening, and the Giants and Cardinals would have taken their chances in the afternoon. The shadow of a Yankees playoff game can still block out the NFL's sun for a few hours.
I have no idea what Fox showed in place of the NLCS. It probably strapped Seth MacFarlane to a chair and forced him to draw pictures of talking dogs and make pop-culture references on the fly. Come to think of it, I would watch that.
NBC, I am told, showed figure skating. Poor NBC. It would love to slap pads and helmets on those figure skaters, give them sticks and create a Sequins Hockey League to fill some airtime until the NHL returns in 2014.
With no Yankees game to promote, Fox ran soccer scores along the crawl during NFL games. One score involved a team called QPR. Yes, Fox loves its soccer, but QPR is not a sports acronym that can go unexplained, like NYY or USC. Quarterly Personnel Report? Quilting for Profit and Relaxation? Quest for Perfect Ribs? Why, it's the Queens Park Rangers, silly, who battled to a 1-1 draw against Everton. Everton leveled the game when QPR scored an own goal, which is something like Devin McCourty fumbling a kickoff return, though I am not sure, as I understand nothing from the last two sentences.
The best hope for those who worried that the Patriots-Jets game would be a bore was for the Saints to play both an early and a late game. Saints games are usually the longest games of the week, and they did their best to draw things out this week, taking a 35-21 lead, allowing the Bucs to close to 35-28, then extending a late-game sequence in which the Bucs kept scoring apparent game-tying touchdowns that were nullified for various (legitimate) reasons. The game ran much longer than the shootout between the Bills and Titans, if only because each Bills-Titans touchdown was like street luge plummeting down an icy mountain road, with no defenders or hay bales standing in his way.
But alas, one game ran longer than the Saints-Buccaneers thriller: the interminable slow-motion humiliation of the Ravens at the hands of the Texans. The worst thing about that game is that both teams are known for their tight, run-oriented wins. The only game like that on this week's schedule was Thursday's Niners-Seahawks game, where there was 6:43 left to play in the fourth quarter just eight seconds after the opening kickoff. If Texans-Ravens were any longer, more tedious and more devoid of drama, it would have been reclassified as a
baseball game figure skating tournament. (Thinking man's game! The hardest act in sports! Kevin Costner's career!)
The Sunday afternoon brownout continues next week, though we are at least guaranteed a World Series game as an excuse for the reduced NFL slate. The only late games are Cowboys-Giants and Raiders-Chiefs. That's right: The Raiders are on the undercard for the second week in a row, once again facing one of the few NFL teams unbearable enough to make football fans consider soccer or figure skating. Of course, if this week is any indication, the Raiders will play a close-but-sloppy game filled with surprises and comebacks, the kind that reminds you why you like football so much that you usually don't care who is playing.
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Asthma is the most common chronic disorder in childhood, and is the leading cause of absenteeism from school among all chronic diseases.
Why Asthma Matters?
An asthma episode is a series of events that results in narrowed airways. These include: swelling of the lining, tightening of the muscle, and increased secretion of mucus in the airway. The narrowed airway is responsible for the difficulty in breathing with the familiar "wheeze".
Asthma is characterized by excessive sensitivity of the lungs to various stimuli. Triggers range from viral infections to allergies, to irritating gases and particles in the air.
In Oklahoma, about one in every six children younger than 18 years of age have ever been told by a health professional that he/she had asthma (lifetime asthma).
Asthma in Oklahoma Children
There are about 100,000 of children younger than 18 years of age currently having asthma (current asthma).
In Oklahoma, Non-Hispanic African American and multiracial children had significantly higher prevalence of lifetime and current asthma than Non-Hispanic
White children.
Boys reported higher prevalence of asthma and than girls, especially in the younger age groups.
Prevalence of Lifetime and Current Asthma by Gender in Oklahoma Children9.56.812.821.81622.913.518.104.22.1686.99.80510152025NH-WhiteNH-AfricanAmericanNH-AmericanIndiansNH-MultiracialNH-OtherHispanicPercentLifetime asthmaCurrent asthma
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Asthma in Oklahoma's Children
Prevalence of Lifetime and Current Asthma by Gender in Oklahoma Children12.416.4126.96.36.1990.605101520TotalMalesFemalesPercentLifetime asthmaCurrent asthmaThe Oklahoma Asthma Initiative (OAI) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to improve the
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Asthma is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under the age of 15. In the year 2008, there were 1,348 hospital admissions with asthma as the primary diagnosis among Oklahoma children under 15 years old.
Asthma Health Care Utilizations in Children
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o 71.9% experienced an episode of asthma or an asthma attack during the past 12 months.
o For children having an asthma episode or attack, 6.4% had to stay overnight in a hospital.
Asthma medications help reduce underlying inflammation in the airways and relieve or prevent airway narrowing. For the children with current asthma, 40.5% took their asthma medication within 24 hours. Another 50.3% of them took asthma medication in the last 1-7 days.
Secondhand smoke can cause serious harm to children. In Oklahoma, about 31.3% of children with current asthma live in the households where someone uses cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco.
Tobacco Use and Children with Asthma
Prescription drugs represented the largest single direct cost of asthma. More than 35% of the families that have children with current asthma reported that asthma caused moderate to severe difficulty.
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Lawyers for Ariel Castro say he'll plead not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping three women while holding them captive for a decade in his west Cleveland home.
"The initial portrayal by the media has been one of a 'monster' and that's not the impression that I got when I talked to him for three hours," Craig Weintraub, one of Castro's lawyers, told Cleveland's WKYC-TV late Tuesday.
The 52-year-old is being held on an $8 million bond in Cuyahoga County Jail and is under a suicide watch.
"He doesn't have a television, doesn't have radio, doesn't have magazines, no access to newspapers," Jaye Schlachet, another Castro lawyer, said. "He's completely isolated from society."
[Related: Castro brothers break silence on Cleveland case]
Castro is suspected of kidnapping Michelle Knight in 2002, Amanda Berry in 2003 and Gina DeJesus in 2004, and then holding them captive in his west Cleveland home. DNA tests confirm he fathered a daughter with Berry in 2006.
"I can tell you that Mr. Castro is extremely committed to the well-being and positive future for his daughter, who he loves dearly," Schlachet said. "And if people find that to be a disconnect from what he's alleged to have done, then the people will just have to deal with it. We just know how he feels about his little girl."
Castro's attorneys say that how he came into contact with the women will be revealed "as the case progresses." And they say they may seek a change of venue to get a fair trial.
"I know the media wants to jump to conclusions, and all the people in the community want to say terrible things about the person who's accused," Schlachet added. "We are not even at the beginning of the process. If this was a marathon race, we're not even at the starting line yet."


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On TV and in movies, there is a shady mystique to the job of a private investigator. The reality is one of hard work, perseverance - and sometimes operating on the knife-edge of the law.
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
John Murphy looks to see if anyone is sitting in a car outside his house before he leaves. He searches his car and office for recording and tracking devices.
These are not paranoid delusions, he says. Murphy has experience of being watched 24-7 by private investigators. He says two investigators followed and secretly recorded him: one hired by a disgruntled customer who was taking him to the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal.
Murphy has difficulty proving he was followed: the Herald on Sunday has spoken to both PIs, who deny spying on him, though one confirms he was twice hired to serve papers on Murphy.
"You'd never know," Murphy insists. "That's the way it works. I had one private investigator come in and serve papers and intimidate me. I found bugs in my house. You wouldn't mind if it was the police who were gathering information about you."
Murphy is an Auckland car dealer who has been the subject of a TVNZ Fair Go story on complaints by people who had bought cars from Murphy's Paris Motors in Greenlane. The programme alleged he bullied and threatened violence to customers and had 15 complaints brought against him to the tribunal. The tribunal found against him in four of nine cases publicly available.
So, aren't the private investigators serving the public interest in exposing someone like him?
Murphy says no. He says there is a broader principle at stake: every New Zealander's right to privacy, to not be spied upon by a de facto police force that is not subject to the same standards as real police.
Former Associate Justice Minister Clayton Cosgrove sponsored a bill to extend private investigators' powers to allow them to covertly record people without consent two years ago, which simply gave them the same rights as the general public.
The New Zealand Institute of Professional Investigators says its members comply with their licensing regime and abide by a code of conduct. An independent government body investigates any complaints. However, critics such as the Green Party believe the system is open to abuse because the bar is so low for entry.
Some of the techniques private investigators use include putting tracking devices on cars, following people and secretly recording them. Twelve private investigators have NZ Transport Agency authorisation to check motor-licence details, enabling them to find out who owns a car and where they live. The Privacy Commission is concerned about their use of high-tech radio-frequency identification (RFID) skimming and computer spyware.
"It is stalking," says Murphy. "The New Zealand private investigators are mostly ex-police who forget that they are no longer sworn. New Zealand has its own private police force. They look like policemen, they talk like policemen, but they're not policemen."
From Sherlock Holmes to Remington Steele to, er, Roger Rabbit, Hollywood has made private eyes look glamorous, or at least intriguing. They never show the private eye peeing in a bottle in the back of a surveillance van on a 10-hour stakeout.
Private investigator Andrew McQuilter says the reality can be far from the glamour to which wannabe private investigators aspire. Indeed, National College of Security manager Evaine McKendrick says she was bombarded with negative feedback from graduates of her private investigation course when they sought jobs.
Most private investigators are ex-police, as it's nearly impossible to get experience unless you have been in the force, but anyone without a conviction can be licensed and set up in business.
Despite having a certificate in investigation skills, her students couldn't get jobs with private investigation firms.
"It just wasn't working," she says. "Companies wanted people with five years' or sometimes seven years' experience. We didn't feel like we were offering a useful course so we decided to close the doors."
McQuilter says, "You need a lot of patience to do surveillance. But I'm one of these people who can sit and stare for 10 hours and not get bored. Then, once the person comes out, it's all on and what you've been thinking about for the past 10 hours is all gone.
"It can get really hot. If you are stuck in the van during the summer it can get so hot I end up sitting there in my shorts and singlet. I have to take all my food with me and a bottle to go to the toilet."
He uses the van to monitor people who are actively evading companies they owe money to, people who are dealing in stolen property or other illegal activity.
The van has three cameras linked to a hard drive and a screen. It can be left at the side of the road empty with cameras rolling, or a private investigator can sit in the van during a stake-out.
"It looks like any work van. Just this week I had to serve papers on someone who owed $76,000. He knew people were after him so we couldn't use a car; it would have been too obvious. I parked the van outside his house with the orange light on the roof and wore a hard hat and a high-vis. He walked right up to me and asked me what I was doing and I handed the papers to him."
The van has been useful uncovering illegal dumping. It was a company that had been paid to safely dispose of hazardous waste by a bigger company.
"The bigger company had heard they were just taking the money and dumping the waste to landfill. So I got the van and drove straight into the dump behind them. I was able to film them and it was the evidence the company needed," he says.
Andrew, 24, was accepted into police college when he finished school in 2005. However, he decided to work for his father's investigation company to gain experience. Four years later, he still hasn't got around to joining the force. "I'm having fun," he says.
Andrew's father, Ron McQuilter, became a private investigator in his native Scotland after becoming frustrated with the path his police career was taking.
"I always wanted to be a detective but they had me lined up to be a traffic cop. I didn't want to be a traffic cop so, when a friend of mine suggested I join him as a private detective, I said, 'Yeah, why not'."
He is now director of New Zealand's largest private investigation firm, Paragon Investigations, which earns about 60 per cent of its revenue from investigating corporate theft and fraud. The company also works for SOEs and insurance companies.
Ron McQuilter is chairman of the NZ Institute of Professional Investigators, which has 74 members who must be approved by their peers before they can join.
He is well-known for his work on TV3's Missing Pieces programme. "I am good at finding people who don't want to be found," he says.
He also helped solve the mystery disappearance of Kiwi Lee Sheppard in London. A production company offered McQuilter Snr $10,000 to work on the case. McQuilter refused and offered his services to Sheppard's family free and advised them against signing an exclusive deal with the documentary maker. He says he spent $300,000 of his own money on the case.
"I reviewed the file and conducted interviews and then it just came to me," he says. "It was all there but three different detectives who had reviewed the file had missed it. It was suddenly so obvious to me and the coroner agreed with everything I said."
A London coroner's court found Lee Sheppard, 26, died of asphyxiation at the recycling plant where he worked - and Sheppard's family finally had the answers they were looking for.
Daniel Thompson-Toresen started work as a private investigator with his father, Daniel Thompson, who was formerly a South Auckland police detective but has worked in the private sector for about 35 years.
At their central Auckland office they have three permanent staff and about seven full-time contractors including a team of top-secret surveillance experts. All are ex-police, except him.
"You pretty much need to be an ex-cop to get a job. You pick up the skills you need in the police force. Others who might have those skills are lawyers or forensic accountants. As for me, I have been working with my father on surveillance jobs since I was 15," Thompson-Toresen says.
His own son, Jacob, who is 15, is interested in joining the family business, but also has an interest in joining the police.
Thompson-Toresen says people hire private detectives for reasons including protection against stalkers, or to gather evidence against former partners in child custody battles.
"Before the law change we had less rights than the average citizen.
"We couldn't photograph anyone without their permission. That clause in the old law had stemmed from divorce cases in the 70s when we had 'at fault' divorce. You had private investigators bursting into hotel rooms taking photographs of people having sex. So when they outlawed that, I'd say the number of private investigators dropped by 90 per cent."
Corporate fraud detection is the big earner for most investigators.
The Privacy Commissioner has said the strongest case for allowing private investigators to carry out covert photography or tape recording is where a retailer may know that small amounts of money or product are going missing, and the only way to effectively investigate will involve weeks of surveillance that police are not prepared to do.
Thompson-Toresen's clients include Restaurant Brands, which owns Pizza Hut and KFC. His work with Coca-Cola uncovered eight people who had stolen $1.8 million of product from the drink giant. It involved eight months' covert surveillance of the factory followed by interviews with staff.
They also do surveillance for people who suspect their partner is cheating.
"People hire us to get the proof they need to confront their partner. It's never nice," he says. "People ask us to break the law all the time and shows like CSI give people false expectations. They give us grainy video footage and expect us to clean it up at the press of a button and tell them who the person is, but we can't do that."
So yes, New Zealand private investigators are more active (though perhaps not more visible) than pretty much any time since the divorce law changes. And in 2014, the World Association of Detectives will recognise that by holdings its annual conference in Auckland. Thompson-Toresen presented the winning bid to host the international conference, which will be attended by about 200 private investigators from 80 countries.
Victims and families of victims are increasingly turning to private investigators to help the police prosecution or following a failed prosecution.
Kylee Guy, the widow of murdered Feilding farmer Scott Guy, has enlisted former police detective inspector Mike Crawford to help give her some answers, after her brother-in-law Ewen Macdonald was acquitted of Scott's murder.
Crawford has worked privately for 15 years, after a 30-year career with Auckland police. As a detective inspector he was in charge of many murder cases; as a private detective he has worked on behalf of defence counsel.
He worked for Peter Williams QC on high-profile cases, including that of accused murderer Zion King, who was acquitted of the charge two years ago.
"When you get the right result it's rewarding but it is always hard work," he says.
On the flip side, Crawford has worked for families of victims when police prosecutions have failed, to look at files and try to find new evidence.
Crawford is working with Kylee Guy on a voluntary basis, after being approached by the Sensible Sentencing Trust. He declines to comment on how his investigation is progressing, but Trust spokesman Garth McVicar says the use of private investigators is a growing trend among victims.
"I think it comes from a frustration with the system and also a desperation for answers," he says.
"People need to feel like they are doing something and turning to a private investigator fulfils that need. Since the law changed a person can be recharged if new evidence comes to light."
Government agencies, too, employ private investigators. Accident Compensation Corporation hires them to spy on claimants. Several private investigators spoken to for this article say they have Government contracts.
The use of private investigators by media organisations is internationally contentious, after the UK tabloid The News of the World hired a private eye to hack into the voicemails of celebrities and crime victims.
TV3 says it uses private investigators, "but very, very occasionally". State broadcaster TVNZ says it hires private investigators to help producers of its news and current affairs programmes. "We do occasionally use private investigators, mostly to locate people who may not want to be found," says TVNZ spokeswoman Megan Richards. "But our use of these guys is judicious and very infrequent. There's no separate budget for them so I couldn't give you a figure. Payment would just come out of the normal budget for a given programme."
The private Security Personnel Licensing Authority has received 55 complaints relating to breaches of the Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act, 15 of which were against private investigators. Of the 55 complaints, 19 were upheld and an individual's certificate of approval was either suspended or cancelled. The authority does not make details of its decisions publicly available.
The Department of Internal Affairs' Complaints, Investigation and Prosecution Unit has received 57 complaints since it was set up in 2010, 30 involving unlicensed operators.
The department recently conducted its first prosecution under the new Act. Andrew Campbell and Anthony Tuhoro were convicted and fined $12,500 and $7500 respectively in Hamilton District Court last month, after selling and installing thousands of dollars of security without being licensed. They were accused of targeting elderly clients.
Internal Affairs' regulatory services' general manager, Maarten Quivooy, says the unit has also issued seven warnings and a further 10 complaints are still being investigated.
"We use a wide range of regulatory tools to promote and secure compliance," he explains. "A number of individuals were ostensibly unlicensed but we found they had either applied for the wrong Certificate of Approval or licence or were confused about what they were required to do. We worked through the requirements with them and they successfully processed the correct application."
The Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff, says she is concerned about intrusive investigative behaviour by investigators and supports the need for better regulation of surveillance by state and private investigators. She says the law has not gone far enough and gaps still exist in the use of spyware and RFID skimming. She called for an offence being created to cover the covert use of tracking devices.
"Technology innovations are developing quickly in the area of video surveillance and tracking and could present future challenges to personal privacy," she says.
Green Party Justice spokesman Dave Clendon believes the new Act was needed to introduce boundaries and controls to an industry which is "wide open to abuse given the relatively low bar for entry".
"You just have to demonstrate you have no convictions or have no mental impairment. There is a perception PIs have more powers than anyone else but they do not - they have no authority to enter private homes or business premises," he says. "But they get away with things people wouldn't like, secretly recording people and taking photographs. People's privacy is not protected in public places."
He criticises the use of private investigators by state-owned power company Solid Energy, which employed Thompson & Clark Investigations Ltd to spy on environmentalists protesting against its coalmining operations on the West Coast.
"It was an appalling practice," says Clendon. "Privacy is an absolute right and should be defended by the state."
In the case of car dealer John Murphy, the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal proved it was able to decide on the merits of complaints without unhappy customers going to the lengths of hiring private eyes. They probably didn't need private investigators to satisfy their concerns, but then, the job of a private detective is not to keep people happy. Whether defrauded employers or cuckolded spouses, the people who hire private eyes are, almost by definition, suspicious and worried - and looking for confirmation of their worst fears.
As Thompson-Toresen says: "It's never nice."


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May 22, 2011
Annie's Threadsaver
14 comments:
- Christine M said...
Thanks for sharing your story Val. They are lovely photos. Very special! Hugs, Christine
- May 22, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- sunny said...
Thanks for sharing your story, and your cute little thread-saver quilt. I hate wasting the last little bit of thread on bobbins, so I bring them up to my comfy chair, and use the thread for my hexies. makes me feel so much better!
- May 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Jeanette said...
Hi Val i love your idea for not wasting thread. I to hate the thread waste. Love your gorgeous quilt. Happy Stitching,
- May 22, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Allie said...
I never understood leaders and enders - but I think now I do. My machine cuts the threads pretty close to where I tie off, so I don't have that waste. That's an excellent way to get through the repetitive sewing part, my least favorite part as well!
I love your childhood photos, Val, what a beautiful family. My mum grew up during the Depression, and it affected her differently - she keeps everything, but she also spends and spends. Now I'm the thrifty one in the family, lol, and I grew up during abundance!
Enjoy your vacation!
- May 22, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Janelle said...
Hi Mum
I love your breakfast cloth! So you've explained why you hate waste, but that doesn't explain why I hate it too!
- May 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- simplestitches said...
what a great idea...I too didn't quite get the leaders and enders, but you have fixed that! Great little quilt without the repetitive sewing to get it done...I'm going to try this one.
I too hate waste...I think too because my parents went thru the same thing as yours... it makes you thing more before throwing something out...can it be recycled, upcycled or useful in some way...
gorgeous pics of your family!
- May 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Hi Val
I found your blog through Julz (simple stitches)I love everything about quilting I just don't get the time to do any :o(
Lovely photos, My father served in New Guinea in the same war, I wonder if they knew each other, wouldn't that be wonderful if they had met during the war, Dad has passed over now God love him.
Beautiful Blog Val.
- May 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM
- Marsha said...
Your leader and ender project is so pretty! I will have to give that a try, it sounds like a wonderful way to work on a second project. I love your pictures and family story. Thank you for sharing with us.
- May 23, 2011 at 12:21 AM
- BJ said...
Love the family pictures and hearing your story. You are a great example of 'money does not buy happiness'. You were so rich in the love your family had for each other.
- May 23, 2011 at 1:32 AM
Hi Val
Thanks for sharing those wonderful photos. They are very special indeed. Your lovely breakfast quilt is just so gorgeous.
Special hugs, Sue from Cyprus x x x
- May 23, 2011 at 4:10 AM
- Jessica said...
I really should try leaders and enders!
It was nice hearing some of your history. It is understandable that you don't like waste.
- May 23, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- KaHolly said...
Beautiful breakfast cloth! I'm all about using my leftover and scrap pieces!! Lovely, nostalgic photos. I enjoyed them very much. ~karen
- May 24, 2011 at 5:29 AM
- Melody said...
Love your photos and what a clever quilting idea. I always use leaders and enders but have just been using scraps then throwing them away. I'm going to use your clever idea and hopefully I'll have a lovely table topper like yours too.
- May 27, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- StitchinByTheLake said...
The breakfast cloth is beautiful - I'm working on some thread savers too. :) Your story of your parents reminds me of my own. I wrote a short story once about my mother and her "use it up" attitude. She saved virtually everything just in case she might need it later. That came from doing without during the war and after. blessings, marlene
- June 5, 2011 at 11:08 PM


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It's Monday Lovies, and if you're like me you've been awake since some time before 3am when a little one was ushered back to his bed after being comforted during a thunderstorm and hubalicious left disgustingly early for work. After trying to no avail to fall back asleep, I finally decided to brew some coffee, switch some laundry over and get a head start on Mama Monday!
Something that's on my heart to share today has to do with my own fears as a mother and how I hope they've guided me to make some good choices for my kids. It all has to do with that spark, that little glimmer of life, hope and adventure we see in children before they are damaged and disillusioned by the disappointments of our world. It's the shimmer in their eyes when they see a magnificent display of Christmas lights and the excitement in their voice when they sprint to the door after discovering a toad in the backyard. Do you ever notice that in your little ones?
I'm more than a little embarrassed to admit I'm a bossy mom. It's nothing new. I was the kid who created neighborhood clubs so I could be president and may or may not have coerced my pals into letting me order them around with a whistle (don't ask me WHY they complied)! Yes, that really happened. And I may have gotten in trouble at Sunday School once for slapping another kid because he didn't clean up when the teacher told us to. It's the truth; ask my mom!
While I agree it's important as a mom to be firm, set boundaries and be consistent with discipline, I often worry about being too hard on my kids. I don't necessarily worry about my kids not liking me or not being my "friends" but I do worry about being so regimented with them about rules and routines that I extinguish that spark of life inside of them and squelch their little spirits. I don't want to be so bossy that I inhibit my little ones from being themselves, and thriving in their individual personalities.
Now, I am not a parenting expert, and I'll admit that I haven't read a single book or article on this particular topic. So, I have no scientific evidence to share with you or professional wisdom, only my own experience, observation and hopes.
In my attempt to combat my own bossiness and shortcomings in discipline I try to do a couple of things. First I simply try my best to be consistent on rules and routines that are most important, that have to do with the health, morality and safety of my kids. Things like keeping veggies and fruits on our dinner plates, and reiterating how important it is that we bathe and brush our teeth regularly! And I try to remember that teaching my kids the difference between right and wrong is far superior to how organized their toy bins are or how well they make their beds! I try to loosen up on things that, while they may irritate me, don't matter all that much in the long run.
Secondly, I keep my eyes open for that spark, and try to remain ready and willing to do what it takes to fan the flame when I see it. I don't know how to better explain it other than to just give you examples of when I feel I was successful at doing this.
Corrinne, my stepdaughter, loves animals. Particularly, gross ones (in my opinion). She's constantly looking for toads and frogs to befriend, and catching worms and crickets to feed her gecko. I don't exactly identify with this. When I was a little girl, I was decorating and redecorating my Barbies' living rooms and organizing their wardrobes. One day this past spring, Corrinne rushed in from playing in the backyard, covered in mud, gets a huge Tupperware container from the cabinet and trekked to the kitchen sink to fill it with water. After my initial freak-out and interrogation, I discovered that she and her friends were "building a habitat" for a family of toads they had "rescued". I could have panicked about the mud in my kitchen which is easily cleaned, or the hole they were digging in our yard (which really isn't a big deal because it's in the part of the overgrown section we lovingly refer to as the "weed bed"), but instead I let them explore and asked what they needed to complete the task. They were thrilled!
Then there was a time when Aidan discovered an invitation to an art opening at Dwelling Spaces in Downtown Tulsa. I could have scolded him for rifling through my purse and told him the event wasn't for children and would be too late in the evening for us to attend, but instead I encouraged him to learn more about the artist and his work which led to a grand Donuts and Robots adventure! You can read about it on my old blog here, here, and here. He got to meet a real artist and have him sign his personal copy of the artist's book!
Without turning this post into a novella, I'll share briefly about the time Carter suggested we "write encyclopedias" and I chose not to be stressed out about us being late to wherever we were headed so I could buy him (and all the other kids too) a composition book so he could see his vision realized. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I could tell he was really excited about it. He ended up pouring over that book for days as he worked on an encyclopedia of comic book and video game characters, complete with illustrations and elaborate descriptions. He is such a creative and gifted young man!
We can't forget about little Alec. When he's not perfecting his "real cowboy outfit," he's incessantly begging to watch Sid the Science Kid (which drives me crazy but is a wonderfully educational show). And while he watches he learns all kinds of interesting information, and it encourages him to explore the world around him.
Motherhood, like cooking, is an art in estimation sometimes isn't it? It doesn't come with an instruction manual and we're left with our own experience and devices to figure it out. Do you sometimes have to combat your own shortcomings in order to help your children bloom, like I do? I hope that as I learn and grow (and sometimes make the rules up as I go), I don't miss all the steps in the journeys of four beautiful children growing into hopeful, intelligent, adventurous and confident individuals.
Love and Honey,
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Spark
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Encouraging Bible Verses
In difficult times, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. The Bible offers comforting words that have sustained believers through centuries. In these verses you'll find words of hope and encouragement about God and his promises. Click through this gallery of Bible verses to help you keep going.
(All verses from the New International Version.)


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put a price on (someone's) head(redirected from puts a price on our heads)
put a price on (someone's) head
To offer an amount of money as a reward for someone's capture. I'm sorry, but we can't travel with your brother any longer. The sheriff put a price on his head, and it's too dangerous for the rest of us! Once they put a price on my head, I knew I'd never be able to live in this town peacefully.