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Earlier this year, on three separate occasions, I spent a total of about fifteen hours with O. J. Simpson. I met him through his current attorney, Yale Galanter, who is representing him in an assault case that is scheduled to go to trial this fall, and who has become his "official spokesperson." Simpson now lives in Pinecrest, Florida, a bedroom community fifteen miles south of Miami, on the Atlantic Coast. He moved there in June, 2000, four and a half years after he was acquitted by a Los Angeles jury for the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was, of course, famous years before the trial, as a professional football player, as a corporate spokesman for the Hertz car-rental company, and as an actor in popular movies, most prominently "Naked Gun" and "Naked Gun 2 1/2." Since Simpson's acquittal in the murder case, his income as an actor and celebrity has greatly diminshed; he now lives on his N.F.L. pension and the returns from his investments. In February, 1997, he was found liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in a civil suit brought by the victims' families, who were awarded $33.5 million in damages. Three years later, probably as a means of sheltering his remaining assets from that judgment, he moved to Florida.
I first met Simpson on a sunny day in late winter. I spent most of the day as a passenger in his car, a black Lincoln Navigator S.U.V. He talked obsessively. As a running back, Simpson used to overcome tacklers with his merciless will. "I let them push me around for three quarters," he said. "They were exhausted by the fourth quarter. I wore them out." He came at me the way he used to come at tacklers, talking from the time we met for breakfast until late that afternoon.
Galanter had directed me not to ask Simpson about Nicole Brown's murder, but Simpson repeatedly brought up the topic. "The press created this guy who was hurting because his wife left him," he said, still spinning his story, seven years after the chase in the white Bronco. "That's bullshit! It was Nicole who wanted to come back to me after the divorce. She stalked me! Trust me. She'd send home cookies with the kids, and once she showed up at my house with a tape of our wedding and began to cry. 'Please, O.J.! I wanna come home!'"
We turned the corner and drove down a residential street. Housewives in spandex shorts were jogging on the sidewalk. Simpson glanced at them and said, "I loved the way Nicole looked. If I saw her on that sidewalk right now, I'd pull over and hit on her. If she had a different head."
Simpson is used to playing the character he created over the years—the genial O.J. we saw in the broadcasting booth, in TV commercials, and in films—and he seemed ill equipped to play a man tormented by tragedy. His features rearranged themselves constantly. His brow furrowed with worry; his eyebrows rose in disbelief; his eyelashes fluttered, suggesting humility; his eyes grew wide with sincerity. All of this was punctuated by an incongruous, almost girlish giggle.
It was Simpson's will, as much as his talent, that enabled him to become not only a great football player but also one of America's most beloved black athletes. ("When I was a kid growing up in San Francisco, Willie Mays was the single biggest influence on my life," Simpson told me. "I saw how he made white people happy. I wanted to be like Willie Mays.") Over the course of his life, Simpson had gotten virtually everything he has wanted—fame, wealth, adulation, Nicole Brown, and, eventually, acquittal. It was widely reported that Nicole told friends that if her husband ever killed her he'd probably "O.J. his way out of it." Today, at fifty-three, almost six years after his acquittal, Simpson seems to be free of doubt, shame, or guilt. He refers to the murders of his wife and Ron Goldman, and his subsequent trials for those murders, as "my ordeal." Now he wants vindication. Only that can erase the stigma that has transformed him from an American hero into a pariah, living out his days in a pathetic mimicry of his former life. And he appears to believe that he will get it, as he got everything—by sheer will—and with it a return to fame and wealth and adulation.
"O.J. Simpson is the most misunderstood person on the planet," Yale Galanter told me some months ago. To remedy this, Galanter said, he has a "grand plan."
"I want people to get to know the real O.J.," he said. "How giving he is. What a great family man, father, and neighbor he is. I envision a day when O.J. will again be a celebrity spokesman in the mainstream of commerce."
Galanter is a forty-four-year-old Miami-Fort Lauderdale criminal-defense attorney who prides himself on his ability "to take either side of a case." His clients include the former W.W.F. wrestler Terry Szopinski, who was arrested on a drug charge, and Scott Campbell, a motorist whose car allegedly pushed the car of an eighty-three-year-old woman named Tillie Tooter into an Alligator Alley canal.
"But there's celebrity, and then there's O.J.," Galanter said. "O.J. was an American hero. And in a blink of an eye all his champagne-and-caviar dreams were taken away from him. I would like to see him back on top. Americans are very forgiving. They forgave Marv Albert and Frank Gifford. Not that I think O.J. did anything that needs to be forgiven! Personally, I am humbled that O.J. put his trust in me. My parents are walking on cloud nine because O.J. picked me to be his spokesman."
Simpson's civil lawyers recommended that he hire Galanter last December, after he was involved in a "road rage" incident in Kendall, Florida, south of Miami. Simpson was accused of cutting off another driver, confronting him, and ripping off his sunglasses. The resulting felony and misdemeanor charges are scheduled to be heard in the First Circuit Court of Dade County.
Galanter asserts that Simpson is "a terrific father and family man" who drives his children—his daughter, Sydney, fifteen, and his son, Justin, twelve—to and from school each day, and who is in bed by eight o'clock. Be that as it may, Simpson has been constantly in trouble over the past year. In addition to the road-rage arrest, Simpson has been involved in three incidents that required the police's attention. All of them have been tied to Christie Prody, a female friend and companion of Simpson's. Prody, who is twenty-six, is a former "esthetician" (a giver of facials) who is now a waitress. In October, 1999, before Simpson moved from Los Angeles to Florida, he flew to Miami after a panicked long-distance call from Prody. He later called the police from Prody's home and reported that a friend was "loaded out of her mind" on drugs, and driving around. In September, 2000, Prody called the police to report that Simpson had let himself into her home. (Simpson claimed that he had entered Prody's home to do his laundry.) In another incident, the police were called to Miami's Wyndham Hotel to quell a disturbance. The management ended up asking Prody to leave the hotel, reportedly for physically assaulting "the victim," O. J. Simpson. The previous fall, Prody had sold a story to the National Enquirer for fifty thousand dollars, in which she divulged what she described as details of her five-year relationship with Simpson, including two abortions, Simpson's obsession with Nicole's murder, and numerous public brawls, which Prody told me had been fuelled by cocaine binges.
All this may explain why Galanter is desperate to control what the media writes about his client, who, he insists, is a victim of his own celebrity. "Everything that happens to O.J. is news, and everything the media writes is inaccurate," Galanter said. "You'll see. You'll love him."
At seven-thirty in the morning, Simpson hobbled into the Kendall branch of the Wild Oats Supermarket, an organic-health-food store and juice bar. He has bad knees, the result of arthritis and his years in the N.F.L. He wore a gray shirt and black slacks. He sat down, smiling, and ordered what he said was his morning drink, leafy green vegetables and garlic, which reminded him of the time he had to hug Leslie Uggams, who was taking garlic pills—"all that garlic on her breath," he said, grinning. "But it helps my arthritis, so I can play golf again. Although I didn't play much golf when I moved to South Florida, eight months ago, because I didn't want to leave the kids alone."
Yale Galanter arrived and sat down with us. He was dressed in a blue oxford shirt, gray slacks, and black loafers. He is a good-looking man, with short brown hair and a chiselled profile.
"I love L.A.," Simpson said. "L.A. is my home. It's still the best place to be—the weather, the golf, my friends. I had a nice life in L.A., even after my ordeal."
His life in Los Angeles was not without incident, however. "Once someone keyed my car," Simpson said. "But when I was incarcerated I read the Koran, which said everyone goes through some ordeal, everyone's persecuted and overcomes it. I still had friends who wanted me to play golf at the Riviera Country Club, but I didn't want to bring any controversy there. One time, on another course, a helicopter followed us on the fairway and I hid under a tree. And another time this big ol' guy calls out to me, 'You're a murderer!' I said, 'You've got a right to your opinion.' He said, 'You better watch out, there are snipers on this course.' I said, 'I hope they can't shoot straight.' Then he calls me an asshole, and I threw my clubs down and came up on him fast, looking for leverage so I can fuck him up a little bit, my face real close to his, spittin' in his face while I'm sayin' to him, 'You call me a fuckin' murderer, I got to live with that, but "asshole"—come on, let's get it on.' He backs down. And now I'm a hero to all the little old ladies on the course, who thought I handled it great."
After Simpson finished, we went to the checkout line and I paid for his drink.
"Thanks," he said, laughing. "I ain't got any money anymore."
We got in the Navigator and Simpson drove to Roasters N' Toasters, a deli in a strip mall just across the street. "I like to eat breakfast here, hanging out with judges and lawyers," he said.
The deli was crowded and noisy with people talking and the clatter of dishes. As we walked to our table, they looked up, went silent, then turned away. After we ordered, Simpson sat against the wall and looked around the crowded dining room. "I never sit with my back to the room," he said.
The waitress brought our food and we began eating. Simpson ate hunched over, his face low to the plate, looking up expectantly from time to time.
"I didn't picture my life like this," he told me. "I thought I'd retire at fifty with enough money, on my own terms. It's hard to retire this way. But I did it for my kids."
"O.J. is a devoted single parent," Galanter said.
"As a father, I was just a disciplinarian before, and now I'm everything to my kids. People ask me what's the hardest thing for me, and I tell them I was always a great dad but I'm a horrible mom. I don't cook. . . . A man's natural instinct is to solve problems. Like when Jason said Sydney did a lot of things and I never caught her. I said, 'That's one of the reasons why I love her. She's smart enough not to get caught.' She's her mom all over again, she's got those German genes—her grandmother, my wife, now my daughter. Those bitches'll wear you out."
Simpson said that he likes South Florida because "everyone's got a history here." He meant a history they were trying to escape: that people come to South Florida to create a new life. He added, laughing, "They got funny laws in this state." He was referring to two state laws, the bankruptcy and head-of-household laws. The former says that one's home can't be taken to pay off debts. The latter prevents creditors from garnisheeing the wages of any head of household; Simpson, as the father of two children, counts as a head of household. This is convenient for him, given the judgment levied against him in his civil trial.
"It's a bonus I didn't expect. I don't have to turn over anything to the Goldmans. They have to find out and get a court order for me to send them money. It's a cat-and-mouse game."
Pedro, the deli's cook, sat down with us. "I seen you come in, Juice," he said. He was a burly, unshaven man wearing a Yankees cap. "Me and Juice are good buddies," he said to me. "Juice had Christmas Eve dinner with my family."
Most of Simpson's friends here are what some celebrities might call "the little people." He plays golf on public courses. It doesn't seem to bother him that he has lost his celebrity friends, like Marcus Allen, as long as he has someone to listen to his monologues and jokes. The basic structure of his life—golf, restaurants, women—hasn't changed much.
A woman in her seventies stopped by our table. She had a bouffant of lacquered, pinkish-blond hair and wore heavy makeup and gaudy jewelry.
"I just wanted to say I wish everyone would leave you alone," the woman said in a faint, unplaceable European accent.
"Well, thank you," Simpson said, grinning. The woman held out her arms. Simpson stood up and hugged her over our table.
"Can I get your autograph?" she said.
"Certainly." The woman handed him her card. There was a photograph on it of a much younger woman with the name Rossette. Simpson signed her card and handed it back.
Simpson sat down and said, "I never got hugs before. Now the public shows me so much love. Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me. But if a girl wants to be with me I tell them they have to be No. 3, behind my kids."
"Being a father comes first with O.J.," Galanter said.
"I mean, I like gorgeous girls, but I can't walk around naked around my house or jump in the pool with a friend, because of my kids."
"When you say the name 'O.J.,' " Galanter said, "a lot of words come to mind, but not 'family man.' "
We drove south, toward Mount Sinai Medical Center, where Simpson was scheduled to visit some patients. According to Galanter, he does this in his spare time.
At Mount Sinai, we met with Pat Stauber, a registered nurse and a licensed clinical social worker. Pat is tall, slim, and attractive, with straight black hair and an earnest demeanor. She led us down the hall to a hospital room, and stopped at an open door.
"This is all I could arrange on such short notice," she said to Galanter. "I wanted O.J. to visit this man coming out of a coma, but I couldn't arrange it."
"When I played in Buffalo," Simpson said, "I used to visit these kids with inoperable cancer. The newspaper ran stories all the time about the kids I visited before they died. Then I had to visit another kid with cancer who was a huge O.J. fan. The minute I arrived, the kid flipped out. He said, 'If O.J.'s here, I must be dying.' That blew me outta the water."
Simpson went into the room and spoke to an old man in a wheelchair with a breathing tube in his mouth. He sat on the man's bed and talked softly to him while they watched a golf match on TV. Simpson pointed to the screen and tapped the man on the shoulder. The old man just nodded as Simpson talked.
When Simpson came out of the room, a half hour later, he said, "The guy was totally alert, he just couldn't talk, so I talked about sports."
Pat said, "Thanks," and gave Simpson a hug.
Simpson said, "Like I got anything else to do."
Simpson, Galanter, and I drove to the Calusa Country Club, a public course, in Kendall. "I told ya, now I get hugs," Simpson said. "At the Holyfield fight in Vegas I got all the play." He grinned. "The tabloids were saying I was the reigning King of Porn. That I had sex with two girls four times each in two and a half hours. If I could do that I'd be in a porn film! A guy fifty-three. But I ain't need no Viagra yet. Thank God it's still there." Then, flashing his O.J. grin, he repeated an old joke. "I met this girl once and she tells me she only dates guys with ten inches. I said, 'Baby, I ain't cuttin' off two inches for no one.' "
Simpson parked his Navigator in the nearly deserted parking lot of the golf course. Two men came out of the clubhouse and met us by the golf carts. Simpson introduced me to Stephen Lee, a music distributor from Jamaica, and Delvon Campbell, also from Jamaica, formerly a steward in a Miami airport lounge.
"Hi, mon, how ye be doin'?" Delvon said to Simpson.
Simpson laughed and shook his head. "I have no idea what Delvon is saying."
"O.J., he's been a friend a mine since I met him at a golf tournament in the Bahamas seven years ago," Delvon said. We were in a golf cart following Galanter and Simpson to the first tee. Simpson lined up his drive. He hunched over, biting his lower lip, and began his backswing. His knees buckled and he lunged at the ball with his driver. The ball bounced up the fairway about a hundred and fifty yards. Galanter and Lee teed off next. The rough along the fairway was barren of trees and exposed to the afternoon sun, and the fairway itself was full of dirt and clumps of dried grass.
The foursome played in silence. Although Simpson had told me that golf is his "passion," this particular round, at least, seemed joyless. At the sixth hole, Simpson's game began to improve, just as storm clouds moved in.
"It looks like rain, mon," Delvon called from our cart as Simpson prepared to tee off. "We best be gettin' back to the clubhouse."
"I'm weak, I'm crippled, and I'm old," Simpson said. "But I'm getting my game back now. I ain't going nowhere."
Delvon turned our cart around and we motored toward the clubhouse. I looked back over my shoulder and saw Simpson bent over in the rain, lining up his next shot.
A few minutes later, Simpson, Galanter, and Lee, all dripping wet, came into the clubhouse. "You should've stayed out there," Simpson said to me. "I had my best hole."
The bar and dining room of the Calusa Country Club were quiet, except for a table of older women having lunch by the window, a bartender polishing glasses, and the club pro drinking a Coke at the bar.
Galanter's cell phone rang and he answered it. A friend of his was in Los Angeles and needed to know about restaurants. "Here, let me put O.J. on," Galanter said.
Simpson took the phone and said, "You wanna go to the Ivy at the Shore, or maybe Chinois, or Schwarzenegger's place, Schatzi." He listened, then said, "It's like Laguna Beach. That's where my wife grew up. Nicole." He hung up.
"O.J., did you see Johnnie when he came to Florida the other day?" Galanter said.
"No," Simpson said.
Johnnie Cochran, Simpson's former lawyer, was now representing a fourteen-year-old black boy from South Florida, Lionel Tate, who is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of a six-year-old black girl.
"I wish Johnnie would just focus on the life sentence and not make it a racial thing," Simpson said.
A woman was reading the news on CNN on the overhead television when our food came. Simpson looked up at her and said, "Man, she got old quick. When you think the last time that woman got laid?" He shook his head. "Who knows? You never know in this world what rings your bell. Now, that Heather Graham girl is fine. And that Jennifer Love Hewitt—that girl got booty for days."
The CNN reporter was now reading a story about the breakup of Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. Simpson watched until the report was over. Then he said, "You think if Crowe and Quaid"—Dennis Quaid, Ryan's estranged husband—"ever met they'd fight?" He shook his head. "As a man, you gotta punch the guy that fucked your wife."
It was late afternoon, and Simpson was driving again.
"For the last few years, I wasn't really looking for work," he said. "I got an offer to be a TV spokesman in Europe, an 'Inside Edition'-type thing, but I'd have to be there eight days a month, and I can't leave my kids."
"O.J. is a wonderful father," Galanter said from the back seat.
"Now I'm gettin' active again. I got Galanter to help me.This is the first time I'm really ready to take advantage of offers. Yesterday, a guy wanted me to be the director of a youth program. A year ago, I'd have said, 'In the future.' But basically the future's here."
I asked him if he ever gets depressed. "I'm not prone to get depressed," he said, "but sometimes . . . the weight on me reaches a point and I just wanna go home and—" His cell phone rang. He answered it and listened for a moment. Then he said, "I ain't no advice for the lovelorn," and hung up. "Christie," he said.
"Your girlfriend?"
Simpson gave me a pained look. "Aw, man, she ain't my girlfriend. She's just, you know . . ." He made a thrusting motion with his hips. "Find me a girl owns a golf course and will pay all my bills and I'm pretty sure I'll marry her."
Later, I spoke to Cathy Bellmore, Christie Prody's mother, who told me, "O.J. wanted to get rid of her when she lived in L.A., so she went to Florida a year ago without him." Once she was gone, Simpson wanted her back. Apparently, Simpson was unable to give up even a girlfriend he was bored with, because he considered her his private property. A friend of Simpson's discounted any threat to Prody's life, saying, "O.J. was really in love with Nicole, but he doesn't care enough about Christie to kill her."
A few weeks after my first meeting with Simpson, my wife and I had dinner with him and Prody at the Palm, a steak house in North Miami Beach. Galanter and his wife, Elyse, arrived a few minutes after we did. While we waited for Simpson, Galanter leaned over and told me that Christie liked to stay out late. "Wait'll you see her," he said. "If you or I ever walked into a restaurant with her, our stock would go up."
Simpson and Christie arrived late. Christie is an attractive woman with the rounded features of a tomboy. She has lank, reddish hair that she once dyed blond because, as Simpson put it, "what woman doesn't want to be a blonde at one time?" Even as a blonde, however, Christie is not, as the tabloids would have it, a "Nicole look-alike."
Simpson apologized for being late. He looked at the three women, who were talking, to make sure they weren't watching him, then he grinned and made a thrusting gesture with his hips.
Christie said she and Simpson had met when she was nineteen, when she'd moved to Los Angeles after attending the University of Minnesota. This was shortly after Simpson's trial. One day, on a lark, she drove by Simpson's house, on Rockingham. "Like everybody else, I thought he did it," she said. She saw Simpson outside riding an electric bicycle and called to him, "Hi, O.J.!" He came over and they talked for hours. She gave him her telephone number, and the next day he called and invited her to the house. They have been together, on and off, ever since.
"He was charming and charismatic, and kind of intriguing," she said. "I always liked older guys. I got enough problems myself, so why hang out with young people? O.J. forgets I have a typical twenty-six-year-old's problems. I have my whole life ahead of me. But I live for today and don't worry so much about five years from now." She laughed. "I might not be here."
We were seated at a round table in the far corner of the dining room, barely noticed by the other diners. Simpson began to tell a story about when he was a teen-ager, and everyone fell silent.
"I smoked dope with this white chick I was trying to make it with, and then after we smoked I thought, I'll never become an athlete now, so I ran all the way home to get the pot out of my system." Then he began another story.
I asked Christie what attracted her to Simpson.
Christie glanced nervously at Simpson. Then she turned back to me and said, "I'm mature for my age, and he's an immature older guy who likes to play golf. That's a game for retired guys who want to escape reality." She looked at Simpson, who was talking. "O.J.'s into denial. He loved L.A. I hated L.A. It corrupts your soul. I loved growing up in Minnesota."
Simpson stopped talking and glared at her. "Yeah, that's why you couldn't wait to leave." He turned toward me, grinning lasciviously, and said, "You're into Christie, huh?" He raised his eyebrows. "Did you ever fool around on your wife? Everybody fools around and lies about it. Everyone lies. Look at Clinton. Deny, deny, deny."
Christie didn't speak again for the rest of the evening.
A few days later, on the telephone, Christie said, "I'm sorry. I was very uncomfortable. O.J. told me to watch what I say with a writer." She paused. "O.J. feels he has to construct these elaborate lies. He tells me he went to the doctor when he was really playing golf. Why bother? I don't care if he plays golf."
She told me that she no longer believed that Simpson murdered his wife, but she did stand by everything she had said about him in her National Enquirer exposé. "I was angry," she said. "I had given up my life for him and had nothing to show for it. He told me there was no room in his life for a wife, or more kids. I want kids. And then someone offered me fifty thousand dollars to tell the truth. So I did it. I don't deny my drug use, or anything I said in it."
On the first day I spent with Simpson, he drove me back to my car late in the afternoon. "The thing I'm most proud of," he said, "is that the girls I dated were offered two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by the tabloids and not one single one of them said anything bad about me. . . . I expected the cops to lie. They were told not to investigate the case because no one in L.A. wanted to hear it. . . . And the media. They let me down the most. They got lazy and relied on police tips instead of investigating. During my trial, the truth was known, but no one would write it. It's a much better story if I'm guilty. They didn't look at anybody but me. I was set up."
Simpson stopped his Navigator at a red light across the street from the Wild Oats parking lot, where I'd left my car. He said, "I wonder if I've run into this person who killed Nicole. Have I talked to them? Do I see them every day?" ♦


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Remote Desktop Troubleshooting Tips
May 6, 2002 12:00 PM,
Christa Anderson
Windows XP Professional Edition's Remote Desktop feature is a cinch to set up and use. In case you run into trouble, keep the following hints close at hand.
Why can't I see my local drives (or hear sound, or see the remote session display at higher than 256 colors)?
Remote Desktop supports local drive mapping, sound in remote sessions, and high-quality color, but these settings are optional. If you want these capabilities but aren't getting them, open the Remote Desktop Connection client, click Options, and look at the settings on the Display and Local Resources tabs. You might not want to use these settings over slow links, though, because they increase the amount of data sent between the local and remote computers, thus increasing your bandwidth requirements.
Why do I need to log on twice?
Even when you've already logged on to the network or the workstation, you need to log on again to the Remote Desktop session so that XP can check your credentials and make sure you have permission to make the connection.
Why can't I find the Start button on the remote desktop?
Unless you run a remote session in full-screen mode, you might not be able to see the entire desktop and will need to scroll up and down to see the top and bottom of the desktop. If you can't find an icon, use the session window's scroll bars to pan the view.
Why is my session so slow?
If the remote session is too slow, try disabling some features that you don't need. You can reduce the color depth to 256 colors and disable such features as window animations or sound mapping to reduce the amount of information sent between the remote and local computers and increase performance. If you connect to a remote session over a slow link, I strongly recommend that you disable printer mapping and drive mapping, which require a lot of bandwidth.
How do I shut down a session?
To close a session and any applications you're running within that session, click Start in the remote session, then choose the Log off option from the session logoff screen. To close the session but retain the applications in memory on the remote computer, choose the Disconnect option from the logoff screen or close the session window. When you're running only one application in the remote session, simply close the application window.

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Associate Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix
Associate Justice, New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, November 2012
Administrative Judge for Civil Matters, Second Judicial District, New York State Supreme Court, May 2009 to November 2012
Justice of the New York State Supreme Court (elected November 2004)
Judge of the New York City Civil Court (2002 - 2004)
Judge of the New York City Criminal Court (2002 - 2003)
District Counsel 37, (1985 to 2001)
Chief Counsel, Immigration Program
Supervising Attorney, Landlord and Tenant Division
Senior Attorney, Consumer Litigation Unit and Bankruptcy
Pro Bono Attorney
New York State Bar, 1985
Federal Courts, Southern District, 1987
Federal Courts, Eastern District, 1987
Howard University, School of Law, Washington, D.C., Juris Doctorate (1984)
Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y., Master's Degree, Political Science (1978)
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Bachelors of Science in History, (1976)
In the Matter of the Application of STOP BHOD, an unincorporated association, by and in the name of its President, Frank Lepera, Verifying Petitioner and William C. Thompson Jr., in his official capacity as the New York City Comptroller, et al., Petitioners, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents 22 Misc. 3d 1136 (A); 881 N.Y.S. 2d 367 (2009)
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center v. 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East et al. 31 Misc. 3d 1233 (A); 930 N.Y.S. 2d 173 (2011).
East West Bank, successor in interest to United Commercial Bank, v. 32 Tower LLC, et.al. 33Misc.3d 1221(A), 939 N.Y.S.2d 740 (Table), 2011 WL 5515436 (NY Sup, 2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 52041 (U)
Quadasia Nelson an infant by her mother and natural Guardian, Crystal Nelson, and Crystal Nelson, Individually, v. Pamela S. Roth., Esq. 2009 NY Misc LEXIS 6762, affirmed 69 AD 3d 912
Mark Kleinman v. Blue Ridge Foods, LLC, Marvin Sussman and Blue Ridge Acquisitions, Inc., 32 Misc. 3d 1219 (A).
President of the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association Master of the American Inns of Court Second Vice President for The Judicial Friends
Recipient of The Gold Crown of Merit, which was conferred upon her by the Governor General of Barbados on that nation's celebration of its 39th anniversary of its independence, one of the nation's highest honors.
Member of the Board of Directors for: Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association Metropolitan Black Bar Association St. John's Bread and Life Agency St. Gabriel's Senior Center
Member of the following organizations:
New York State Bar Association
Brooklyn Bar Association
National Association of Women Judges
New York Criminal Bar Association
New York State Association of Supreme Court Justices
Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc.
New York County Lawyers Association
Catholic Lawyers Guild
The Women in Courts Committee.


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Seaborne measurements of near infrared water-leaving reflectance: The similarity spectrum for turbid waters. (American Society of Luminology and Oceanography, 2006)Theory and seaborne measurements are presented for the near infrared (NIR: 700–900 nm) water-leaving reflectance in turbid waters. According to theory, the shape of the NIR spectrum is determined largely by pure water ...


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In the US, over half of engineering doctorate degrees and about a third of science doctorates are awarded to foreign students, and it is becoming harder to get domestic students to undertake advanced science studies. Larry Bock, founder of dozens of tech and science companies, is concerned that, if the trend continues, we will be outsourcing innovation and destroying the competitive edge that the US has held for so long. In an ongoing effort to inspire more young people to take an interest in science, Bock, with the help of nine Nobel Prize winners and dozens of other leading scientists, organized a month-long celebration of science in San Diego. It came to a grand conclusion on Saturday at Balboa Park.
The organizers of Science Expo day at Balboa Park planned on a large scale, coordinating hundreds of hands-on activities, an army of volunteers, and performances from leading experts in major fields of science, all of it free for the public to enjoy. Local scientists, engineers, graduate and high school students, and other members of the community donated countless hours to the event, while dozens of foundations and companies offered financial support. Since this was the first time that something like this has been planned in the area, there was a moment of anxiety Saturday morning. Would the public take advantage of this opportunity?
They certainly did. Within the first hour, the park, which spreads over 12,000 acres, was crawling with people. Nearly every activity booth was surrounded by eager participants, and some had lines that looked more typical to amusement parks than science events. Children were definitely the main participants, but quite a few adults were there to enjoy the events, as well. They all had to face the challenge of choosing which booths to visit—there were too many to cover in one day.
While Expo Day was designed for the public, it was also an enjoyable day for most of the volunteers. For the scientists and graduate students, it was an excuse to get out of the laboratory and share their love of science with a new audience. Larry Wolski, a San Diego resident working in a science-focused industry, summed it up by saying, "it's fun to do this because we focus too much on our own world. This gives us an opportunity to get reenergized by going out and doing outreach." Seeing children's amazement at some of the activities brought back memories of a time when we were purely intrigued by the natural world, before the pressures for research results and funding made it difficult to focus solely on the scientific aspects of research.
For the high schools involved, the students and teachers had a chance to see the fruits of their labor directly rewarded by the enthusiastic reception of their booths. Ann Marie Wellhouse, who founded a charter high school in the area, was visibly proud to see her students show people models of the HIV-1 protease and expertly explain the functional aspects of the structure. Donna Ross, a teacher at another charter high school, and her group of students shared activities involving magnets, bottles of water, tin foil, and a variety of other common household items with a continuous stream of children. No matter how hectic things got, they maintained a high energy level and never failed to make their science look fun.
In all of the high school booths that I visited, the students were engaging the public with confidence and were able to accurately explain their experiments. If I closed my eyes and just listened to them speak, they easily could have been undergraduate researchers in a real lab.
The large turnout really drove home San Diego Science Festival's success this year, and nearly everyone I talked to hoped that this would become an annual event. Although the overall experience was positive, they can improve on a few things next year. Most of the presentations by visiting scientists were overcrowded, and many people had to be turned away at the door. Several people reported that after a whole day of trying to get into these talks, they were only able to get into the last one of the day, after families with younger children had already left. The organizers probably didn't dream that such a large number of people would be interested, but next time, they can setup in bigger venues.
Stay tuned for interviews with some of the people who presented at the Science Expo.


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Barclays online banking falls offline
Pale blue screen of inactivity
Barclays Bank online banking service has been mostly unavailable today due to 'technical issues'.
The Bank was unable to provide any further details as to what had caused the outage. Vulture Towers has received several emails today and earlier this week from unhappy customers.
A spokesman told the Reg: "There have been problems, but the situation has been improving through the day and it should actually be possible to get onto the service."
Sadly, when we checked the site immediately after speaking to Barclays, out first try pulled up the following:
Online Banking service update
Our Online Banking service is currently unavailable for technical reasons. We suggest you try logging in again later and apologise for any inconvenience caused. Message last updated on 1 October 2008.
We'll update this story if we get any more information.
The bank suffered serious problems at the end of last year with the roll-out of its chip-and-PIN readers for authenticating online banking. ®


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Halloween Night Cookie Puzzle
A Halloween sleepover can't be complete without this cookie puzzle. It is easy to make and decorate…and fast to eat! The kids will never stop talking about the puzzle they ate at your house!—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling
Makes1 cookie puzzle
- 1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated sugar cookie dough, softened
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Unblanched almonds
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/3 cup light corn syrup
- 2 to 4 tablespoons water
- Assorted food coloring, decorating gels, sprinkles and candies
- In a large bowl, combine cookie dough and flour. On a parchment paper-lined surface, roll dough into a 14x11-in. rectangle. With Halloween cookie cutters, cut out puzzle shapes but do not remove them. Slide a baking sheet under the parchment paper and dough. Chill for 5-10 minutes.
- Remove shapes; place on an ungreased baking sheet. For handles, press the side of an almond into the center of each puzzle shape. Bake shapes at 350° for 7-9 minutes or until edges are golden brown. While still warm, recut shapes with the same cookie cutters to form neat edges. (If cookies cool too quickly, return to oven until softened.) Remove to wire racks; cool.
- Bake large rectangular puzzle on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet for 12-13 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Immediately recut the shapes inside the puzzle to form neat edges. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, corn syrup and water until smooth. Tint frosting with food coloring as desired. Frost puzzle and shapes; decorate with decorating gel, sprinkles and candies as desired. Place puzzle shapes inside puzzle.
Originally published as Back-To-School Cookie Puzzle in Halloween Party Favorites 2008
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My Review
Sep 12, 2013
This was interesting, not too difficult. We didn't frost everything separately, just did white and black.
Oct 30, 2011
This is a Halloween tradition. We design it differently each year (3rd year).
Oct 14, 2010
This is a great idea. I made it with my preschool-aged grandchildren. We plan on adpting one for Christmas and Easter.


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Five Things You Need to Know About Janet Yellen
1. She has pushed the Fed to use aggressive new policies to boost the economy. Ms. Yellen, who focused much of her academic research on the costs and causes of unemployment, has consistently called for the Fed to respond forcefully to high joblessness. She argues that inflation isn't likely to emerge with the economy in such a debilitated state – a point on which so far she has been right. "These are not just statistics to me. We know that long-term unemployment is devastating to workers and their families," she said in a speech to the AFL-CIO labor union in February.
2. She has a record of being concerned about excessive inflation. Her public statements and past actions show she is committed to maintaining low inflation. The Fed "is determined to ensure that we never again repeat the experience of the late 1960s and 1970s, when the Federal Reserve didn't respond forcefully enough to rising inflation," she said in a 2011 speech.
She was a longstanding proponent of the Fed adopting a 2% inflation target, and was closely involved in the decision to do so in 2012. In 1996, while a Fed governor, Ms. Yellen debated then-Chairman Alan Greenspan over the right level of inflation, contending that too-low inflation could harm the economy just as too-high inflation could -- a view that is now widely accepted at the Fed, but wasn't then. Later that year, she urged Mr. Greenspan to raise short-term interest rates, fearing the booming economy threatened to unleash excessive inflation -- advice he declined, according to former Fed governor Laurence Meyer.
3. She is a good forecaster. The Fed must forecast growth, inflation and unemployment to make policy decisions. Ms. Yellen has produced the most accurate forecasts of all the current Fed officials from 2009 through 2013, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
4. The financial crisis made her a believer in tougher financial regulations: Ms. Yellen has said that the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred when she was president of the San Francisco Fed, transformed her from a somewhat "docile" regional bank regulator to a believer that firm rules are more effective than leaving it up to regulators to react when trouble appears on the horizon.
"This experience has strongly inclined me toward tougher standards and built-in rules that will kick into effect automatically when things like this happen that make tightening up a less discretionary matter," she told the congressionally-created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in a 2010 interview in which she expressed frustration at how long it took the Fed and other regulators to negotiate and issue new rules.
In a June speech, she said the Fed might need to require the nation's largest, most complex banks to carry even fatter capital cushions against losses than required by new rules set out by international regulators, a prospect hotly contested by big U.S. banks.
5. She believes in transparency, and the markets thinks she's a good communicator. In 2010, Mr. Bernanke asked Ms. Yellen to lead an internal communications committee that has produced several innovations in the way the central bank articulates its goals and policy plans to the public. These include so-called forward-guidance in which the Fed makes statements about the likely future course of policy, which has evolved to employ specific unemployment and inflation thresholds; the regular press conferences Mr. Bernanke holds; and a longer-run goals and strategy document released in January 2012 that laid out, for the first time, the rates of inflation and joblessness the Fed finds to be consistent with its mandate from Congress.
"The effects of monetary policy depend critically on the public getting the message about what policy will do months or years in the future," she said in a speech to a gathering of reporters and editors in April. "I hope and trust that the days of 'never explain, never excuse' are gone for good," she said.
Market participants think she does a good job of explaining the central bank's thinking. In two separate surveys last year, officials at primary dealers -- banks that do business directly with the Fed -- responded to general questions about the Fed's communications by saying Ms. Yellen's speeches were particularly helpful.
More on Yellen
- A Top Contender at the Fed Faces Test Over Easy Money (5/13/2013)
- Fed 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating (7/29/2013)
- Yellen Would Bring Tougher Tone to Fed (9/23/2013)
- Fed's Yellen Said Stance on Banks Hardened (8/13/2013)
- For a Yellen Fed, Smooth Transition Will be a Tall Order (9/25/2013)
- Meyer: Yellen Likely to Continue Aggressive Monetary Policy (9/19/2013)
- Video: A Life in Economics: Why Janet Yellen Could Lead Fed


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(a brief) History of the Project
Count Me In Too was a unique research projec that ran from 2007 - 2010. The project lead was Dr Kath Browne of the University of Brighton. The research team consisted of academic researchers and community activists. However, the project was made possible thanks to the hard work, energy and time of many many people. Count Me In Too is a product of their efforts and, as such, should never be considered as being 'owned' by any one person, institution or community. To try and capture the history of this award-winning project in detail would be impossible. What follows is a thumbnail sketch of the project's history. We hope you find it informative. If you would like to comment on your own input into the project please do leave us feedback. The project ended in December 2010, but the research team are always eager to hear of how people engaged with the research, be it filling in a questionnaire, attending a focus group or using the published data.
To understand the history of the award-winning Count Me In Too project, it is important to recognise the project's origins, which lie in the award-winning Count Me In project of 2000. This research was designed entirely by community members and was funded by the East Sussex Health Authority and Brighton & Hove Regeneration Partnership programme. Drawing on the findings of this research, a LGBT community strategy was created with key demands for improving the lives of LGBT people in Brighton & Hove. Many (but by no means all) action points were directed at the creation and provision of services. From Count Me In Spectrum was formed, in part to hold mainstream services accountable to LGBT communities.
By 2005 the LGBT community strategy was nearing its end and there was a demand for further up to date evidence, with which to inform future work. During a CUPP-matching event at the University of Brighton Kath Browne was introduced to a Spectrum trustee, and this meeting led to a funding bid being submitted to CUPP. This bid kick-started Count Me In Too.
A series of open consultations were instigated and a steering group formed, which guided the design of the research. Click here for more information about our history of engagement. During early 2006 a call was put out for stakeholders to submit questions for the questionnaire. Data collection in the form of focus groups and a questionnaire was undertaken in 2006. For further information on how Count Me In Too involved the LGBT community see our Process page.
From Autumn 2006-Spring 2007 initial analysis of the data was undertaken by the LGBT analysis group. The first reports on the findings of Count Me In Too were released in June 2007. From this point until July 2009 a series of in-depth finding analyses were undertaken with reports released covering a wide range of topics. These included:
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These reports were guided by analyses groups consisting of key stakeholders relating to the relevant issues and funded by appropriate services/commissioners.
In the midst of these finding reports, the project began a new phase, using a substantial grant from the South East Costal Communities (SECC) Fund. This phase saw Count Me In Too undertake more consultation with LGBT individuals, communities and organisations, to assess how the findings of the research should be further disseminated. The With Us, By Us, For Us community consultation event took place in April 2009 and this report provides more details of the day itself, visitor numbers and the feedback generated from the event.
Through such consultation the project identified a number of ways in which this and other LGBT research in the city could be disseminated. These included a series of exhibitions, both within Brighton & Hove and further afield, that provided easy access to key findings and further information on the project. Learn more about these exhibitions in our project library.
In the Autumn of 2009 the LGBT Research Information Desk came into being, providing individuals, communities and organisations in Brighton & Hove with an opportunity to access and use LGBT-related research. The desk ran a 'get your data' day, providing a means of accessing the Count Me In Too data and produced three further themed reports at the request of community groups and activists. See the project library for this collated research.
The following year (2010) saw Count Me In Too co-host (with the Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network) a national conference at Jurys Inn hotel, Brighton. The Transforming LGBT Lives conference was attended by over 100 academics, researchers, activists, service providers and interested individauls. Full information on the conference can be found on our dedicated pages. The event included a diverse range of voices from the academic, community and statutory sectors and was an energetic and dynamic day of knowledge exchange and learning.
As the project drew to a close in 2010, stakeholders in the research were invited to feedback to the project through an evaluation focus group. Details of this focus group can be found in the evaluation report, shortly to be available on the library pages.
Additional core funding for Count Me In Too was provided by Brighton & Hove City Teaching Primary Care Trust and Brighton & Hove City Council. Additional themed analyses were funded by Partnership Community Safety Team, Sussex Police, BHCC Social Care & Housing, Sussex Partnership Trust, and BHCTPCT.


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Fat Positive Clothes Swap. Also in the haul: a skirt, a top, a couple of pairs of shoes and, er, a leather corset! If I'd hung around for a little longer I probably would have come home with more. Aside from the donation I gave towards the room hire, none of this cost me a bean.
There have been a few fat clothes swap type events in the UK over the past couple of years, and I hope that they continue and proliferate. The Big Bum Jumble, a fundraiser for the Fattylympics, is probably the most ambitious to date, with a fashion show and DJs, but there have been smaller gatherings too. That these events can take place is a testament to the thriving plus size blogger scene, there are a lot of fat women out there looking for stuff to wear. Plus size gatherings typically involve representatives from plus size clothing brands, niche marketing is the name of the game. But a fat clothing swap is a little different. No one is buying or selling, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, and no one's increasing their debt over anything here.
A fat clothes swap is a breath of fresh reality built on re-using, recycling and redistributing things that didn't work out for you. One of the things I enjoy most about a clothes swap, which was really present yesterday, is that getting things for yourself is a big part of the pleasure, but it's also really wonderful to see your own stuff transformed on other people. A fat clothes swap is an act of giving that gives back. Because of this ethos, there's a fantastic playful atmosphere of conviviality and sharing at a fat clothes swap. "Try this on," "That looks great!" "I saw something over there that would look good on you," and so on.
Yesterday's swap was held at The Common House, a community space in Bethnal Green. There are remnants of other groups that use the space on the walls and in the fabric of the building. I really like how this helps build coalitions between groups. It means, for example, that the sex worker rights groups that use the space also get to know about fat activism, and that the fat people at the clothes swap get to know a little more about sex worker activism (not that these groups are necessarily mutually exclusive). I think this a good mix, we need each other.
Anyway, I just wanted to offer a few words about why fat clothes swaps are so valuable. Many thanks to Kirsty Fife for organising yesterday's swap. She made it look effortless, even though putting on any event is hard work. Will there be more? That's up to you.


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The Brooklyn – Manhattanesque, but Unique
Looking at the recipe for the Brooklyn the first thing you're going to notice is that it's like a Manhattan, but…different. Once you go the next step and mix one up you're going to find that that logic holds quite true. This drink really is like a Manhattan, yet different in really subtle, good ways. The flavor profile is extremely pleasant and really very unique. The amer and maraschino fill the spot where the bitters reside in a Manhattan. They add bitterness and a complexity of flavor which is essential. Though, if you've ever had a Manhattan with too much bitters, you definitely know they can be overpowering. In the case of the Brooklyn the bitters are replaced with other flavorful, if a bit less strong, ingredients. This allows you to better taste the other ingredients.
I started my week mixing with a high rye bourbon, namely Bulleit and though I tried other spirits I found myself coming back to this choice as my favorite. With a straight rye (Michter's in my case) the drink is much spicier as you would expect. Though, while this is a good recipe I found myself preferring the Bulleit. Straight rye made this drink a little too sharp for my liking. I think that's mostly because this recipe doesn't have as much sweetness as my Manhattan recipe and, as such, doesn't stand up to the rye's boldness as well.
Mixing up the Brooklyn with a wheated bourbon (Eagle Rare in my case) results in a drink that is tremendously smooth and hugely pleasant. Though as I found with the straight rye, this was not my favorite of the options. Specifically, I really missed the light spiciness of the Bulleit. It's all about the balance and for me that was found in the form of high rye bourbon.
So, now that we've discussed the base spirit let's take a quick look at one of the other ingredients that really caught my eye. As I said in the intro this week I've had a bottle of Torani Amer in my collection since Tales of the Cocktail last year. I had no experience with amers of any kind, so I had no idea what to do with this ingredient. So, as a result of my ignorance, it languished unopened until this week. Having tasted it and used it in a recipe I feel can shed a bit of light on it now. Torani Amer falls in to the category of bitter herbal liqueur or, were it Italian, an Amaro. Others in this category that you might be more familiar with are Fernet Branca and Campari. However, I offer those only as notables of the category; Torani Amer tastes nothing like either.
Having tasted it and tried to nail down it's flavor, I find it much easier to compare it to other products than to explain it on its own right. Torani Amer is very lightly sweet, nothing like you'd find in other liqueurs like creme de cassis, triple sec, or even it's partner in crime in this drink maraschino. The aroma is complex and very hard for me to pin down. Though you do get strong herbal notes coming through. In the flavor I find it equally hard to discern specific flavors that really outshine the others. Rather, like other great herbal liqueurs, noteably Benedictine and Chartreuse, the flavor is harmonious. There is certainly a bitter note present as you'd expect but it's not nearly as strong as you'd find in Campari. So, having danced around the actual flavor of this product I can say one thing with certainty. Torani Amer is quite tasty and really adds some wonderful complexity to the Brooklyn that would be sorely lacking without it.
As a final note on Torani Amer and more specifically why Dr. Cocktail suggests it over the classic Amer Picon, I'll let his words from the notes on Picon Punch in Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails do the talking.
"The House of Picon has had its problems, at least with distribution in the States, but extending back further in France to when, inexplicably, they changed the proof (and thereby the flavor) of Amer Picon from about 35 percent to about 12 percent alcohol. Fortunately, while I feel so wrong saying so, there is a better, though more obscure product on the market. Its matches the Amer Picon proof from days of yore, and its flavor is more in keeping with the traditional Picon Punch. This product, Torani Amer, is made in the United States … Still, I hope Picon straightens out its formula and distribution. It might otherwise foretell the sad end to a historic product."
Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh
There you have it. In summary, if you can find a bottle of Torani Amer, it's definitely the choice for this cocktail and the Picon Punch which I'll be featuring at a later date. It's made in California so I'm sure you can easily source it on the west coast. If you can't find it locally a quick Google search will point you to a few online sources.
As for the Brooklyn, mix it up some night when you're wanting a Manhattan. I think you'll really enjoy this variant. It's quirky, but delightful in its own ways. Enjoy.


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January 2011 Update
January 2011 Update
A Happy New Year to everyone out there from the entire SONOR team! Here's the latest talks from our artists all around the globe… enjoy, and if you like, come back frequently…
Ed Udhus (zebrahead) and Nathan Walker (Lit, Kerli) are both SONOR drum and hardware artists, but when they're not touring, recording or playing shows they run and operate the successful Orange County California case company, Get Off My Case. G.O.M.C has been going strong for over 8 years now and the company has grown far beyond designing and building just drum cases which happens to be their specialty. They have expanded their cliental to medical, stage and lighting, sports teams and of course just about any touring band you can think of. For more info and a list of clients check out www.gomc.tv. email email@example.com for quotes and questions. Make sure to include in your email that you saw this on www.sonor.com for discounts on our standard two drum case configuration.
Tommy Clufetos is still out there touring with Mr. Ozzy Osbourne – North and South America tourdates are under: www.ozzy.com/us/tour!
Here's some news from Rich Redmond: Multi-platinum country rocker Jason Aldean was named the Number One Male Country Artist and the Top Independent Artist of the Year by Billboard. His current album MY KINDA PARTY was released Nov. 2 and moved an impressive 193,000 units its first week, earning the biggest first week debut by a male country vocalist in over three years. It has continued to move an average of 61,000 units per week, following the debut. Up next for Rich and Aldean is his 2011 MY KINDA PARTY TOUR, which kicks off on Jan. 21 in Little Rock, AR. With thousands of club, festival and arena stages under his boots since playing his first gig at 14 years old, Aldean will hit 30 cities through May with special guests Eric Church and the JaneDear girls.


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About RickMan
In the end all movies go to the small screen.
I hope Techdirt has larger readership than the Intercept!
The question that this study should ask is; Are officers held accountable for actions recorded on BWCs? Has the footage been used to identify and punish bad acts or exonerate officers doing their duty to the public?
Comcast sells high speed internet for $70/month, but sells you the basic triple play for as low as 79.99. So for $10, Comcast can claim higher cable subscription numbers.
The device circumvention prohibition only stops the law abiding people, and does not stop the criminals from hacking the car software.
So your choice, customers and researchers where your the first to know, or we all get surprised by the bad guys.
This sounds great, but since it searches books and articles for prior art, I see Rights Corp sue patent holders for copyright infringement. A whole new area of Trolls trolling trolls.
So if this is truly what the policy is, then it should be the same for all government communications with Foreigners, Foreign Governments, etc. They have no idea what will be done with those communications so by default they are public information. Since they are public information how can they be classified.
So by the DOJs own logic they prosecuted Ms. Manning under false pretenses and have no reason to deny any FOIA requests for document concerning communications with foreign entities.
Offer to share the DNA data with the NSA/FBI and FDA approval is assured.
This "drill" is not a waste of time but a promotion advertising that new show Starring Dermot Mulroney.
What's the difference between punitive and exemplary damages, since the definition of punitive and exemplary damages contains punitive or punishment to discourage a repeat or others from doing the same thing.
The jist of this argument is not that they are not getting the negotiated fee for the show, which is a percentage of what the product is sold for in the secondary market. The Hollywood Reporter (THR) explains this: Warner Brothers (WB) is under valueing the Smallville for foriegn markets by packaging it with several other less desirable products. Because WB owns the arm that creates and sells the package to others, then sets the value of each property in the package, the value of Smallville was valued at less then the fair Market value and the other properties were valued at a value higher than Market Value. This lowers the amount due Smallville's producers, and increases the value of the other shows, that are owned by WB. So WB makes more money at Smallville's Expense.
Smallville's Producers feel that WB is taking advantage of their distribution power to unfairly keep revenue through an accounting trick, that artificially lowers the agreed moneys WB would pay to Smallville's Producers.
Also it is time to End Smallville and the no tights no flight and start Metropolis in Flying in tights & a Cape.
I must say after ready his article he truly is clueless. Even his last statement about the World Cup, 'Starting the New Decade in Africa'. Except that a decade is 10 years. this is the last year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Most people unfortunately don't seem to understand that this is the 21st century because the last year of the 21st century is 2100, which is not a leap year. Most people also believe that year 1 marked the end of the first year but was actually the beginning of the new calendar, there was no year 0.
So not to harp just on the decade issue, I want to point out that like many of the other comments he makes in his top 10 list (polution, physics, isps, etc.) he is just pushing up the common line from people who a.)invented strawman arguements to push their version of the truth or b.) push a popular but incorrect belief without presenting proof. The other point is that mistakes or proven misconceptions put forth as fact, can destroy or minimize the credability of your whole arguement or all 10 points you try to make, especially if the mistakes are well known and due to the fact that you are too lazy to verify said facts and be able to support them with proof.


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I pretty much agree that they should have left the last few minutes with Gil and Saber and Kiritsugu out for next episode and that might've alleviated some of the problems that we had here...
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You know, retail version will be always more important and there is a tv timeslot they have to obey. The same happened with episode 11, and they fixed it later (even re-broadcasting it full edition in a season 1 marathon some weeks after).
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But yeah, my realizing (and desperately hoping) that the retail version will fix the problems with this episode is the reason why I've also opted out of rating it like Reckoner.
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So that was the big disappointment of this episode
As for Saber, poor girl. Not to sound sadistic as Gilgamesh, but I found myself understanding what he said. In a way, Saber really is beautiful in despair. Or maybe it was just the amazing job her seiyu was doing with her screams and pleas to Kiritsugu to stop at the end. It's unfortunate, she has zero idea about any of his personality or motivations which we all now know thoroughly. I can't imagine how terrified she must have felt at those commands.
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Here's the biggest point you people are missing:
If the Loli Rin stuff was removed, then where does the 10 minutes that make up that episode come from? Do we just move everything ten minutes up? Take the first ten minutes of episode 11 and essentially cut that entire sequence in half, ruining the effect of the IH?
Think about what kind of change that will make. What would necessarily happen if everything was moved ten minutes forward? When I say that each episode is "standalone", I mean that all the events of the episode either flow into each other or have some kind of cohesive theme.
More importantly, do you really think that skipping ten minutes of an episode will have ANY kind of effect on a sequence FOURTEEN episodes later? Really? That's more than half of the series gone by, and any effect that changing the sequence of events would've been long gone by then anyway.
|2012-06-18, 00:03
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Figures that the part of the episode I was looking forward to seeing most in the Saber/Lancelot character clash would apparently be excised for Blu-Ray only release. I really didn't think I asked for that much from this show. I don't think I've really had any particular expectations as of yet since I'm really not that hardcore into Type/Moon like some anyway and I mostly just watch this entry for the complex morality conflict angles by Gen that I've come to enjoy puzzling over since Madoka Magica and of course the fancy action scenes. Apparently though I did ask for more than could be offered in the immediate present. Guess I might have to find a way to read the light novel chapter if I want to find out what happened with Saber this summer. Shame cause this feels like it could be the grand daddy of them all and maybe could have even brought me that much more into the Type/Moon universe....but it'll have to wait.
Desipte that pretty disappointing reality though there's still there's some other points of interest like Kiritsgu making the just choice in the end and putting the world ahead of his own desires, but is Saber actually going to be able to take out the grail or is Gilgamesh going to work some hax and stop her? I would have to imagine that Gilgamesh is finally going to be placed in some real peril and have little time to react, but I thought that last time and oh how wrong was I proven.
Not even going to jinx it by saying I'm looking forward to anything specific from next episode so cutting my commentary short right here.
|2012-06-18, 00:46
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And hey, if you'd like, I can come up with the exact same solution ufotable came up with for this episode, only for episode 10: Shorten episode 9's events a little and fit a very abridged version of "Rin's Adventure" into a few of its minutes. If it's okay for Arthur vs Lancelot to received that treatment, then why not loli Rin? And with that, there would be no padding and your precious Grail Dialogue could still take place in one episode.
Not that that's actually important either, since the notion that a story event is automatically ruined simply because it is not concluded in the same episode where it began is highly questionable. How about Saber vs Berserker then? That sequence was cut in half in the previous episode, but I'm pretty sure no one would have minded it being concluded in this episode if it had been done properly. There's dozens of other examples of stuff like that in every single series, not just Fate/Zero. Ever heard of cliffhangers? It's honestly baffling to me that I'm even discussing something like this. The start/end points of each episode should get priority over the wholeness of the work? C'mon now.
As for this "cohesive theme" each episode has to have, tell me then, what was the cohesive theme for, say, episode 9? The first half was basically entirely dedicated to a love triangle falling apart, whereas the second half had a complete mood whiplash into Waver and Rider's bromance and their rampaging through the wicked Caster's lair. Which is but one of many examples that there's nothing wrong with episodes having scenes that are different in tone, and that in the end what matters most is that all of the important material makes it in and the story truly feels like a whole. How that whole is divided into weekly bits of 22 minutes is a secondary priority.
...At least, that's how I feel. However, I can accept that you, in turn, feel the individual content and cutoff points of each episode are something of the utmost importance. Just… don't try and force that feeling onto those of us who would rather have the complete story (or something resembling it), even if it's not so neatly separated into these so-called standalone episodes of yours. And that's a big if, because the two are hardly mutually exclusive.
|2012-06-18, 01:47
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Just watched the episode tonight at a family house after dinner... very depressing episode. For me, especially when he chose to weed out 1 person out of 3. Seeing Maiya die was saddening.
What made my buddy more depress was watching "Kara no Kyoukai 5: Mujun Rasen" after this episode. He was cursing the director afterwards! lolz
|2012-06-18, 02:54
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I'd argue the Rin episode was actually one which fitted the TV format. It wasn't jumping between 5 parties ruining the pacing of every other scene, it had structure and presented a satisfying little story for the week.
Now the last few episodes of the show: constantly jumping between different expositions and fights. When Rider charges for Gil it cuts to Saber talking. When Berserker is charging for Saber it cuts to Gil talking while Rider is still running towards him. Same for the figths in 24. Extended episodes will not make it any better to me! Shonen fightan, etc.
Here's my simple suggestion: WHY NOT make the last 3 episodes happen at the same time? Have one episode for all the buildup and fighting of Rider and Gil, then all the buildup and fightan for Saber and Lancelot and all the buildup and fighting for Kirei and Kotomine. End them all at the same spot with the Grail - revealing only seconds more of the scene every week.
This is what the TV format is good for! It's easy to do and you only need to give the viewer a clue that it's happening at the same time as the last episode - you don't need to have a stupid rewind effect like in Shiki. It may be annoying for the "story" to be stuck at the same point in time for 3 weeks but it would not be Endless 8 and each week we would be presented with "complete" events rather than a Soap where after 10 episodes they are still pouring that same fucking tea (which is what ufotable is doing in my opinion).
I've been saying it for the last 16 or so episodes: the pacing sucks, ufotable failed at planning this show for the TV format. The show is just not good.
PS. Why am I still watching the show? Cause I'm a fool falling for the "it gets better in the last volume" hype and a Kajiura fan still hoping to be surprised. Bitchslapping myself on both accounts.
|2012-06-18, 03:15
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let's just put it simply, where would you cut off from ep11 to put in ep10? Where would you say to be a suitable stopping point? Remember that the Kariya scene has to be there.
Also Horse.
remember that it's only 2 episodes instead of 3, so your method won't work.
|2012-06-18, 04:04
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I'm really not trying to fix the show (I'm no writer or director) so I'm just pointing out what exactly I'm not enjoying (the pacing) and saying how they COULD have done things differently (without simply hating on the actual story). There's really no way of telling it would actually be better either. It was their job to make a good show and I simply do not think they did - they keep taking the most bland approach that exists.
Obviously my opinion means squat for the sales - the majority loves the show and I don't understand why.
|2012-06-18, 04:07
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Also, if the vast majority of anime were nearly as good as Fate/Zero, I'd probably watch far more anime on a regular basis. Fate/Zero avoids a lot of the pitfalls, cliches, and fetish pandering that has scared me away from the medium.
|2012-06-18, 04:21
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#2 I don't know what you're getting at. In my eyes those were very different cases. For example: the 3 fights in the last episodes are completely seperate while Lancer takes part in both Saber vs Caster and Kiritsugu vs Keyneth (sp?).
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And I guess we could leave it at that - just like Kiritsugu and Kirei can't come to an understanding in #24.
|2012-06-18, 05:34
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For me, there's also the fact that there's other scenes that while more important than loli-Rin, I think could have been cut out in favor of the Saber-Berserker battle. Kariya getting that worm shoved in him and Waver's scene with his grandpa are the first two I think of. They're good scenes, but I'd rather give that battle more time.
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