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Messrs. Saul S. Myers and Walter H. Pollak, both of New York City, for appellant.
Mr. Wm. J. Fallon, of White Plains, N. Y., for appellee. [262 U.S. 355, 356]
Mr. Justice SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and discharging the appellee from custody. It involves the same proceeding which was before this Court at an earlier stage in Arndstein v. McCarthy, 254 U.S. 71 , 41 Sup. Ct. 26 and Id. 254 U.S. 379 , 41 Sup. Ct. 136.
Arndstein, having been adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt and called before a Special Commissioner for examination as to his assets under Section 21a of the Bankruptcy Act (Comp. St. 9605), refused to answer 447 of the questions which were asked him, asserting his constitutional privilege upon the ground that to do so might tend to degrade and incriminate him. The district judge, having 'no doubt that the answers might furnish information which would render him liable to prosecutions in the federal courts for concealment of assets,' denied a motion to punish him for contempt. After his examination, however, Arndstein filed, without objection, sworn schedules of his assets and liabilities, showing on y one item of property, namely, a bank deposit of $18,000. Thereupon, the district judge, being of opinion that Arndstein thus asserted not only that he had this bank deposit but also that he had no other property and had thereby become subject to examination as to his property, ordered him to answer 426 of the former questions. Being recalled for further examination he again refused to answer them, upon the same ground as before. He was then adjudged to be guilty of contempt of court and committed to the custody of the Marshal for confinement in jail so long as he persisted in his refusal to answer.
He thereupon presented to the District Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was restrained of his liberty without due process and in violation [262 U.S. 355, 357] of the Federal Constitution. This petition was held to be insufficient, and the writ was refused. Upon an appeal by Arndstein this court held that as the schedules did not amount to an admission of guilt or furnish clear proof of crime, they did not constitute a waiver of his right to stop short whenever he could fairly claim that to answer might tend to incriminate him; and the order of the District Court was accordingly reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion. Arndstein v. McCarthy, supra, 254 U.S. 72, 73 , 41 S. Sup. Ct. 26. In a supplemental memorandum ( 254 U.S. 379 , 41 Sup. Ct. 136) it was added that this decision only required the District Court to issue the writ and proceed as usual, and that if proper reasons existed for holding Arndstein not shown by the petition they might be set up in the return for consideration.
Thereafter the District Court, in accordance with the mandate of this court, vacated its former order and issued the writ of habeas corpus; to which the Marshal made return, exhibiting a transcript of the entire proceedings before the Commissioner. Aside from general denials of the illegality of Arndstein's commitment the only ground set up in the return as a reason for holding him was that, after being notified by the Commissioner of his privilege, he had, before refusing to answer the questions in issue, testified of his own accord, without invoking any privilege, to the very matters with which these questions were concerned, thereby waiving his privilege upon further examination concerning them. Upon a hearing on the petition and return, the District Court was of opinion that, although in certain answers made without objection Arndstein had denied that he had any stocks or bonds in his possession or under his control at any time during the preceding year, the conclusion to be drawn from the decision of this court in reference to the schedules was that his denials or partial disclosures as a witness did not terminate his privilege so as to deprive him of the right to [262 U.S. 355, 358] refuse to testify further about his property, and that he was at liberty to cease disclosures, even though some had been made, whenever there was just ground to believe the answers might tend to incriminate him; and it accordingly sustained the writ and discharged him from custody. The Marshal, by reason of the constitutional question involved, has appealed directly to this Court. Jud. Code, 208 (Comp. St. 997); Boske v. Comingore, 177 U.S. 459, 465 , 20 S. Sup. Ct. 701; Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. 364, 365 , 371 S., 40 Sup. Ct. 347; Arndstein v. McCarthy, supra, 254 U.S. 72 , 41 Sup. Ct. 26.
We find no error in the order of the District Court:
1. The opinion of this court upon the former appeal was not based upon the ground, as the Marshal in effect contends, that schedules filed by a bankrupt are so essentially different from evidence given by him that, whatever their disclosures, they cannot constitute a waiver of his privilege against incrimination when he is called for compulsory examination under the Bankruptcy Act. On the contrary, the sworn schedules were, impliedly a least, assimilated to evidence given by the bankrupt as a witness, the ground upon which they were held not to have waived his privilege against subsequent incrimination being thus stated ( 254 U.S. 72 , 41 Sup. Ct. 26):
The four cases thus cited related to testimony given by witnesses and the limit upon their right to stop disclosures. In Brown v. Walker, 161 U.S. 591 , 16 Sup. Ct. 644, this court said that 'if the witness himself elects to waive his privilege ... and discloses his criminal connections, he is not permitted to [262 U.S. 355, 359] stop, but must go on and make a full disclosure'; in Foster v. People, make a full disclosure'; in Foster v. People, witness who has voluntarily admitted his guilt of a criminal offense is not protected from further disclosures on the same subject, said that if he has not actually admitted criminating facts, he 'may unquestionably stop short at any point, and determine that he will go no further in that direction'; in People v. Forbes, 143 N. Y. 219, 38 N. E. 303, it was held that a witness by answering questions exonerating himself in general terms from all connection with a criminal transaction, does not thereby waive his right to remain silent when it is thereafter sought to draw from him circumstances which might form another link in the chain of facts capable of being used to his peril; and in Regina v. Garbett, it was held that it makes no difference in the right of a witness to protection from incriminating himself that he has already answered in part, he 'being entitled to claim the privilege at any stage of the inquiry.'
In short, it is apparent not only from the language of the former opinion but from its citations that this court applied to the nonincriminating schedules the rule in the cases cited, namely, that where the previous disclosure by an ordinary witness is not an actual admission of guilt or incriminating facts, he is not deprived of the privilege of stopping short in his testimony whenever it may fairly tend to incriminate him. And although there is some conflict of authority as to the application of this rule, we see no reason for departing from its recognition in the former opinion, and think that it is the sound rule which should be applied to the involuntary examination of a bankrupt where he is practically in the position of a witness under cross-examination. And since we find that none of the answers which had been voluntarily given by Arndstein, either by way of denials or partial disclosures, amounted to an admission or showing of guilt, we are of [262 U.S. 355, 360] opinion that he was entitled to decline to answer further questions when so to do might tend to incriminate him.
2. The Marshal also contends that in many instances the questions which Arndstein refused to answer were plainly of such a character that the answers could not have incriminated him, and that his whole testimony shows that he was not making his claim of privilege in good faith, but largely in obedience to suggestions of his counsel, who in some instances claimed the privilege for him. It is, however, a sufficient answer to this contention that no such reasons for denying the writ were set up in the Marshal's return, or, so far as it appears, brought to the attention of the District Court or ruled upon by it. And in such case we are not called upon, on appeal, to examine, as with a microscope, the multitudinous questions in issue, involved in an unduly protracted examination, containing many vain and futile repetitions, much of which does not appear to have had any relation to discovery of assets of the bankrupt but was of such character as to suggest that the underlying purpose was the discovery of evidence to support the charge of grand larceny for which Arndstein had been indicted in the State court; or to determine as original questions in this court, matters not in issue under the pleadings in the District Court or determined by that court.
Furthermore, the district judge, in ruling in the bankruptcy proceedings on the first motion to punish Arndstein for contempt, had, as shown, specifically stated that he had no doubt that answers to these questions might furnish incriminating information. There was clearly no abuse of discretion in this ruling which would justify us in reviewing it under the writ of habeas corpus. And it may be added, that on the first appeal this court also stated that it was 'impossible to say from mere consideration of the questions propounded, in the light of the circumstances disclosed, that they could have been answered [262 U.S. 355, 361] with entire impunity.' Arndstein v. McCarthy, supra, 254 U.S. 72 , 41 Sup. Ct. 26.
The order of the District Court sustaining the writ and discharging Arndstein from custody is accordingly
[ Footnote 1 ] Rehearing granted 263 U. S. --, 44 Sup. Ct. 33, 68 L. Ed. --.
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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEFORE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet's Biography
First Line: Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far
Last Line: While I count three, step you back as many paces!
Subject(s): Duels
LET them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far.
God must judge the couple: leave them as they are
-- Whichever one's the guiltless, to his glory,
And whichever one the guilt's with, to my story!
Why, you would not bid men, sunk in such a slough,
Strike no arm out further, stick and stink as now,
Leaving right and wrong to settle the embroilment,
Heaven with snaky hell, in torture and entoilment?
Who's the culprit of them? How must he conceive
God -- the queen he caps to, laughing in his sleeve,
"'T is but decent to profess one's self beneath her:
Still, one must not be too much in earnest, either!"
Better sin the whole sin, sure that God observes;
Then go live his life out! Life will try his nerves,
When the sky, which noticed all, makes no disclosure,
And the earth keeps up her terrible composure.
Let him pace at pleasure, past the walls of rose,
Pluck their fruits when grape-trees graze him as he goes!
For he 'gins to guess the purpose of the garden,
With the sly mute thing, beside there, for a warden.
What's the leopard-dog-thing, constant at his side,
A leer and lie in every eye of its obsequious hide?
When will come an end to all the mock obeisance,
And the price appear that pays for the misfeasance?
So much for the culprit. Who's the martyred man?
Let him bear one stroke more, for be sure he can!
He that strove thus evil's lump with good to leaven,
Let him give his blood at last and get his heaven!
All or nothing, stake it! Trusts he God or no?
Thus far and no farther? farther? be it so!
Now, enough of your chicane of prudent pauses,
Sage provisos, sub-intents and saving-clauses!
Ah, "forgive" you bid him? While God's champion lives,
Wrong shall be resisted: dead, why, he forgives.
But you must not end my friend ere you begin him;
Evil stands not crowned on earth, while breath is in him.
Once more -- Will the wronger, at this last of all,
Dare to say, "I did wrong," rising in his fall?
No? -- Let go, then! Both the fighters to their places!
While I count three, step you back as many paces!
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Steve Miller is an International Trade Specialist in the International Trade Administration's Office of Service Industries where he is responsible for knowledge economy issues including health services, research and development services, and university commercialization.
On November 14 the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Matthew Tueller, along with representatives from U.S. and Kuwaiti healthcare institutions participated in a Digital Video Conference (DVC), Diabetes 101: Understanding Diabetes Worldwide to provide education on this healthcare challenge and create linkages between clinicians in both countries. The event was hosted by Kuwait's previer diabetes research and treatment facility, Dasman Diabetes Institute, the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait and San Antonio's Methodist Healthcare Systems. Methodist is one of over 30 U.S. academic medical centers that comprise the United States Cooperative for International Patient Programs (USCIPP), a joint program between the University HealthSystem Consortium and the International Trade Administration, through its Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP).
Nearly 60 doctors, nurses, clinicians, diabetes educators and nutritionists from Dasman's multinational staff were in attendance in addition to several Kuwaiti health care professionals and a number of local journalists from print and television. Opening the event, Ambassador Tueller highlighted the important role that medicine has played in the U.S.-Kuwait relationship, beginning with the establishment of the first hospital in Kuwait, the Amrikani Hospital, by American missionaries in 1912. The Ambassador further noted that, just like in Kuwait, Type 2 diabetes is also a problem in the U.S. and that events such as this DVC illustrate how Americans and Kuwaitis can come together to address mutual concerns and share best practices and experiences to move toward a common goal.
Following the Ambassador's remarks, Ms. Sara Villegas, a veteran diabetes educator from Methodist Healthcare Systems, gave an overview of diabetes in the U.S., primarily focusing on Type 2 diabetes. Her presentation not only addressed the current situation in the U.S., but also highlighted prevention and disease management strategies. After a brief look at the global scope of the disease, she turned the stage over to Dasman Diabetes Institute Director Dr. Kazem Behbehani, who discussed the rampant increases in Type 2 diabetes in Kuwait over the last twenty years, and the challenges that the country will potentially face if the disease is not checked. In their presentations, both speakers stressed the importance of prevention and awareness activities in combating the disease.
The DVC received widespread and favorable media coverage, with stories appearing in many of Kuwait's daily Arabic and English newspapers, and reports carried on several local television stations.
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Back in June, we asked you to help NPR choose the 100 best science fiction and fantasy books of all time — and now the list of finalists is out!
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
It includes some pretty surprising choices, like The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper. And The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. Not to mention The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Edison, which I hadn't heard of.
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A storm is coming. On the road to At-Bashi.
Man, main street At-Bashi.
Tash-Rabat. A 15th century stone caravanserai.
Man at road side camp. Naryn.
Old man at sanatorium. Djeti-Oguz.
Young girl. Djeti-Oguz.
Young girl in window. Djeti-Oguz.
Family and horses. Djeti-Oguz.
Lady at horse farm. Kegeti.
Hunting with eagles. Djeti-Oguz.
Sanatorium. Djeti-Oguz.
Vacation resort. Lake Issyk-Kul.
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In light of the tragic killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin — and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it — one thing needs to be stated as clearly and as often as possible: The United States is the least racist and least xenophobic country in the world. Foreigners of every race, ethnicity, and religion know this. Most Americans suspect this. Most black Americans and the entire left deny this.
Black Africans know this. That is why so many seek to live in the United States. Decades ago, the number of black Africans who had immigrated to the United States had already surpassed the number of black Africans who were forcibly shipped to America as slaves.
And members of other races and nationalities know this. Even Muslim and Arab writers have noted that nowhere in the Arab or larger Muslim world does an Arab or any other Muslim have the individual rights, liberty, and dignity that a Muslim living in America has. As for Latinos and Asians, vast numbers of them from El Salvador to Korea regard America as the land of opportunity.
And when any of these people come here – from anywhere, speaking any language, looking like a member of any race — they are accepted as Americans the moment they identify as such. He or she will be regarded as fully American. This is not true elsewhere. A third-generation Turkish-German, whose German is indistinguishable from the German spoken by an indigenous German, will still be regarded by most Germans as a Turk. The same holds true elsewhere in Europe.
On the other hand, a first-generation Turkish American, who speaks English with a heavy Turkish accent, but who identifies as American, will be regarded every bit as American as anyone else.
As is often the case, a foreigner pointed this out most clearly. On a visit to America in February, The president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, said:
"The other day, I was in a small company — and there were Asians, Koreans, Middle Easterners, some other people. And they had been in America for, like, two, three, four years. And they talk American. They look American. Body language is American. I'm sure they already think American. Go to Korea and become Korean in one or two years' time. Good luck with that. That's what's so special about this country."
Xenophobic? It is probably fair to say that most Americans are xenophiles. Last week, in Tampa, I met a 40 year-old man who works at a cigar lounge and bar. I commented on all the good-looking women who entered his establishment, and he told me that despite his low salary, that is precisely the reason he works there. They flock to him, he said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because of my accent." He was from Russia.
The left-wing drumbeat about America as racist is a combination of politics and black memory.
The political aspect is this: The Democrats and the left recognize that if blacks cease viewing themselves as victims of racism, the Democratic Party can no longer offer itself as black America's savior. And if only one out of three black Americans ceases to regard to himself as a victim of racism, and votes accordingly, it will be very difficult for Democrats to win any national election.
The other issue is black memory. Apparently, most blacks either cannot or refuse to believe that the vast majority of whites are no longer racist. Most Americans were hopeful that the election of a black president — thereby making America the first white society in history to choose a black leader — would finally put to rest the myth of a racist America. More than three years later it seems not to have accomplished a thing. I now suspect that if the president, the vice-president, the entire cabinet, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all nine justices on the Supreme Court were black, it would have no impact on blacks who believe America is a racist society — or on the left-wing depiction of America as racist.
One can only conclude that the smearing of America's good name is one of the things at which the left has been most proficient.
Dennis Prager new book, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph, will be published April 24 by HarperCollins. He is a nationally syndicated radio show host and creator of PragerUniversity.Com.


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By: Steve Heisler
Reasons I Say BRING ON THE SEQUESTER
If Congress doesn't reach a deal by this Friday, a "sequester" will take effect 'cutting $85 billion from the federal budget instantaneously, with a total of $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. "Scare-quester," you say? Nay! I say, "Sequ-excellent!" Bring on the sequester in all its fiscally irresponsible glory! Here's what I'm most excited about:
1. Cuts in FDA mean less food safety.
My appendix has been suckling off the welfare teat of "every other one of my organs" for far too long. Get to work, appendix! These terrifying and archaic poisons aren't going to whisk THEMSELVES out of my soon-to-be-healthcare-less body!
2. Cuts in TSA mean less agents at airports.
I bought this really expensive penile rockstar-fuck cream on the Internet 'I'm talking GALLONS. Longer lines through airport security will result in me holding my 3 oz. bottles out for more hot babes to check out, and they will know that I'm DTF right there in the X-ray machine. My belt's already off, anyways.
3. Cuts in military and intelligence spending across the board.
I've seen three episodes of Homeland. I think I'll be JUST FINE, thankyouverymuch.
4. Cuts to the SEC mean less regulation on stock trading.
I still own LOTS of stock in Prodigy.net, so I look forward to a time when I can set the price at whatever I want. $7 a share? THAT'S 1,000 TIMES WHAT THEY'RE WORTH NOW! I'll be rich! Unless smarter people scam the country out of billions, like they did a few years ago. History never repeats, right?
5. Cuts in education, specifically the Head Start program.
Oh. Um 'home-schooling's still a thing! Yeah! Those kids turn out fine. A home-schooled kid auditioned for my college improv group, and he spent the entire time running into walls. He didn't make it into the group, but I'd like to think he beat that wall.
6. Cuts to the National Institute Of Health
Good! What have they done for me lately? [Googles NIH] Everything from trying to cure cancer and AIDS to knocking out even the common cold? Well 'good still! I want ALL the diseases, so that I can become immune and can become the next pope. That's how they choose the pope, right? I want to be the pope. God only gives me as much as I can handle (every disease).
7. Cuts to unemployment benefits.
Okay, now that's just mean. Yes, like my aforementioned appendix, I don't "have a job", nor do I "plan" to get one in the "near future," so unemployment is my safety net! That and my parents' lucrative yacht-rental business! And what about those whose parents do not own a lucrative yacht-rental business? I can't think of anyone I know, as I hang out exclusively on yachts and in yacht-rental offices (when I'm not in an airport line boning thanks to my special oils and creams), but I saw someone at the farmer's market once who could only afford day-old kale. He claims not to have had a job since "the weekend started" and won't be returning to work until "Monday." I fear for that man.
8. Cuts in spending to care for the mentally ill.
Geez, really? That is disturbing, to say the least. I doubt they've seen Homeland.
9. Cuts to be determined later.
Look, I'm gonna come clean: If they cut funding to my fave dick-ointment company Flacid Floppers, I'm setting sail for Canada.
10. Cuts to Canada.
11. Cuts. It. Out.
How rude.


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1992 was a simpler time. Bill Clinton was elected, The Bodyguard came out, Windows 3.1 was released. It was also a time when puppetry and animatronics still had a place in fantasy films.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
Specifically, in 1992 special effects wizards were hard at work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, the worst in a succession of three live-action TMNT flicks. The above video shows a glimpse of the animatronics used by the All Effects Company to create Donatello. The results were impressive for the time. But when will they show the brave puppeteers who controlled Vanilla Ice in TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze. [YouTube via Reddit]


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Top Items:
The Official Google Blog:
Two new improvements to Google results pages — Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
Discussion: paidContent.org, Technologizer, PC World, Download Squad, eWeek, Search Engine Watch, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, TECH.BLORGE.com, tinyComb, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, The Noisy Channel, InformationWeek, AppScout, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Lifehacker and techblog.dallasnews.com, Thanks:atul
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org: Why Google Is Tweaking The Look Of Its Search Results
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Google Gets a Little More Refined
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: Google Refining Search Features As Yahoo Improves SearchMonkey
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: Google Launches Two Updates to Results Pages
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Google adds new depth to complicated searches
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider: Google Tweaks Search, Keeps Getting Better
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Google Goes (Slightly) Semantic with Tweaks to Search Results
Daniel Tunkelang / The Noisy Channel: Google Offers "More And Better Search Refinements"
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek: Google Improves Search Results
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Google Rolls Out Contextual, Longer Search Results
Peter Young / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Google Rolls Out Longer Snippets and New Search Refinements
Andrew Smith / techblog.dallasnews.com: Google improves search engine
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Implements 'Orion' Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets — Google is announcing two changes to search results this morning. The first involves the use of longer "snippets" (text extracts containing the keywords) when users input queries of three words or more.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits: Google Tries to Get Smarter, More Useful
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Changes Could Decrease Downstream Traffic — Google says it gets smarter every day, but today the company made a big enough leap in what it shows to users that an announcement was in order. The company blog post says that today's improvements are intended to "get you to the web page you want as quickly as possible."
Discussion: Between the Lines and Ars Technica
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent — The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: AdMob's iPhone Ad Business Exploding
Jennifer Bergen / The Toybox: iPhone dominates in mobile Web traffic, Android already on its way up
Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones: Internet traffic data shows the iPhone was top dog in February
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: AdMob: Android Smartphone Jumps to 5% OS Share in U.S.
Lucy Hornby / Reuters:
"Unafraid" of Internet, China appears to block YouTube — BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not afraid of the Internet, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, even as access to the popular video sharing site YouTube appeared to be blocked. — YouTube has unavailable for users in China …
Discussion: Digital Daily, paidContent.org, BBC, The Register and Wall Street Journal
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: China to YouTube: YouBlocked
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org: China Blocks YouTube (Again)
Quentin Sommerville / BBC: China 'blocks YouTube video site'
John Oates / The Register: China bans YouTube again
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: YouTube Says China Blocks Site
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
YouTube Being Blocked in China, Google Says
YouTube Being Blocked in China, Google Says
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider: China Bans YouTube, Again
Richard Jones / Last.fm:
Last.fm Radio Announcement — Today we're announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. — In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month.
Discussion: Epicenter, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and Lucas Gonze's blog
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter: Last.fm Radio to Require Paid Subscription in Hundreds of Countries
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Last.fm to Charge Subscription Fee for Many International Listeners
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Last.fm to Start Charging International Users
Lucas Gonze / Lucas Gonze's blog: Last.fm+CBS getting the books balanced
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Looks Beyond Cellphones — As Core Business Slumps, Wireless Carrier Aims to Use Its Network for Dashboard Computers, GPS Devices — Unable to sign up enough new cellphone subscribers, Sprint Nextel Corp. is increasingly trying to use the excess capacity on its wireless network to power other consumer gadgets.
Discussion: CNET News, Gadget Lab, Phone Arena, InformationWeek, Unwired View, Electronista, FierceWireless, SlashGear and CrunchGear
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News: Sprint to help connect gadgets to the Net
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab: Sprint Looks to Lease Network to Gadget Makers
Marin Perez / InformationWeek: Sprint May Rent Excess Network Capacity
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: Sprint looking for embedded wireless partnerships
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Sprint 3G talks with Garmin, Kodak & SanDisk?
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear: Sprint may be the network of choice for non-phone devices
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Michael Dell hints at smartphones, mobile Internet devices — CEO says it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a smartphone or similar device from the company — IDG News Service) Michael Dell gave the strongest hint to-date that his company is developing a mobile Internet device or smartphone at a speech in Tokyo today.
Discussion: Between the Lines, ChannelWeb, Tech Trader Daily, Crave, Electronista, mocoNews, SlashGear, Gearlog, Engadget and Digital Daily
Andrew R Hickey / ChannelWeb: Is A Dell Smartphone Imminent? For Real This Time?
Chris Davies / SlashGear: "Smaller screen" 3G devices in works says Michael Dell
Brian Heater / Gearlog: Michael Dell: We're Working on a Mobile Internet Device
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Michael Dell does/doesn't confirm Dell smartphones
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: QOTD — It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices. ...
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Dell says smartphone to be released on schedule
Dell says smartphone to be released on schedule
Discussion: IntoMobile, Unwired View, WMExperts and WMPoweruser.com
Will Park / IntoMobile: Dell confirms smartphones on schedule!
Phil Nickinson / WMExperts: Dell rumor du jour: Smartphone back on
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down — Few startups have a chance to revolutionize an industry. But if entrepreneur Steve Perlman's OnLive lives up to its goals, the company will disrupt the entire video game industry — to the delight of both game publishers and gamers.
Chris Nuttall / Financial Times: OnLive move poses threat to consoles
Austin Modine / The Register: Mr. WebTV gives games thin-client treatment
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News: OnLive could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal: On-Demand Videogames Planned
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: WebGameTV — The days of the traditional gaming console …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog: GDC: OnLive promises near instant online access to high-end console and PC games
Matthew Wurtzel / Dealscape: WebTV founder tackles games
Michael McWhertor / Kotaku: OnLive Makes PC Upgrades Extinct, Lets You Play Crysis On Your TV
Mike Snider / USA Today: OnLive promises video games without the hardware
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: OnLive killed the game console star?
Jim Rossignol / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: OnLive: The End Of Games Platforms?
Blue / Blue's News: OnLive Changing the Game?
Brad Stone / Bits:
A Video Game Start-Up Banks on the Cloud
A Video Game Start-Up Banks on the Cloud
Discussion: Tech Central, ExtremeTech, tinyComb, TheAppleBlog and DSLreports
Mike Harvey / Tech Central: Will Onlive live up to the hype?
Loyd Case / ExtremeTech: OnLive Aims to Replace Game Consoles
Jason Wilk / tinyComb: OnLive To Kill Off The Gaming Console...
Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog: OnLive Will Make a Hardcore Gaming Machine Out of Your MacBook
Karl Bode / DSLreports: Broadband May Kill The Game Console Wars …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Tweaks Its Title Tags For Better Google Juice — Notice that title tag for my Twitter profile page? — It reads "Robin Wauters (robinwauters) on Twitter" where it used to say "Twitter / robinwauters". For the TechCrunch Twitter account, it used to read "Twitter / TechCrunch" …
Discussion: CNET News, Between the Lines and bub.blicio.us, Thanks:atul
Don Reisinger / CNET News: Twitter tweaks page titles, breaks out on Google
Michelle Lentz / bub.blicio.us: Twitter Gives You Google Juice
Call to 'shut down' Street View — Images of 25 cities are viewable via Google Street View — A formal complaint about Google's Street View has been sent to the Information Commissioner (ICO). — Drawn up by privacy campaigners, it cites more than 200 reports from members of the public identifiable via the service.
Discussion: Privacy International, CNET News, TechCrunch Europe, PC World, Softpedia News and Electricpig.co.uk
Mr Richard Thomas / Privacy International: PI files complaint about Google Street View
Jonathan Skillings / CNET News: Privacy group targets Google Street View U.K.
Daniel Ionescu / PC World: Brits Want Google Street View Shut Down
John D. Sutter / CNN:
No joke in April Fool's Day computer worm — (CNN) — A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day. — The anti-worm researchers …
Ploth / perceptdev.com:
iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK — A number of industrious individuals have achieved what to some is the holy grail of iPhone accessories: an iPhone keyboard. But most have done it in a very hard-to-repeat manner, and few have shared the methods they used.
Discussion: Ars Technica, TUAW, Apple Gazette, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Gadget Lab, The Apple Core, Obsessable, Hack a Day and VOIP IP Telephony
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: Engineers show off "no jailbreak" iPhone keyboard hack
Dave Caolo / TUAW: iPhone external keyboard without jailbreaking
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: iPhone Tweaked (Not Hacked) to Work With External Keyboard
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak
C.K. Sample III / Obsessable: Use an external keyboard with an iPhone sans jailbreak
Caleb Kraft / Hack a Day: external keyboard with an iphone
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: Hulu Adds New Exec Larcher For International Push — Hulu has further signaled its overseas ambitions by hiring a dedicated international SVP to acquire TV rights. Johannes Larcher had previously been search firm Overture's international GM, international VP for Friendster …
Discussion: Download Squad, Contentinople, Jobwire and Silicon Alley Insider
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Hulu plans to go international
Jeff Baumgartner / Contentinople: News Bits: Hulu Goes International
Doug Coleman / Jobwire: Hulu Hires International Senior VP
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: Hulu Hiring To Take Its Evil Plot International
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Woops! China Unicom post iPhone Page - Guess who is bringing the iPhone to China? — They don't get any better than this! It looks like the biggest mobile market in the world will be served the iPhone by China Unicom - unless there is something very shady going on.
Discussion: Macworld UK, Apple 2.0, AppleInsider, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Trader Daily
Owen Fletcher / Macworld UK: China Unicom Web site posts iPhone 3G and G1 specs
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: China Unicom posts ad for iPhone
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: iPhone Set To Launch In China?
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Palm's Secret Weapon for the Pre — Against the odds, Palm courted a formidable community of developers whose apps may prove vital to the fortunes of the make-or-break Pre smartphone — As recently as late 2008, Pandora Networks' Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad still had big doubts about the prospects for smartphone maker Palm.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader — A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago. — In a 7-page complaint filed with a Virginia district court Monday …
Discussion: Crave and IntoMobile
Will Park / IntoMobile: Apple sued for pushing iPhone as eBook reader
Elaine Chow / Gizmodo:
Rumored Lenovo oPhone OS Looks Too Apple-like — Chinese bloggers have posted photos that are rumored to depict what the Lenovo oPhone's operating system looks like. Apparently, much like their moniker, the oPhone OS also has that slight Apple-y touch. — Rounded square icons against a black background?
Discussion: IntoMobile and Electricpig.co.uk
James Falconer / IntoMobile: Lenovo OPhone OS Rips Off iPhone Look, Feel and Function?
Toby Knight / Electricpig.co.uk: Lenovo OPhone rips off the iPhone like no other
Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More — Google is running an experiment in their search results, apparently shown to a portion of their users. What happens is that on the search results, say for the query comic books, a link in the top blue bar will read "Show options...".
Roi Carthy / TechCrunch:
Face.com Brings Facial Recognition To Facebook Photos (We Have Invites) — If there is one feature on Facebook which delivers "social utility" magic even to the most average of users, it's Photos. In fact the feature is so popular that by Facebook's own account 1 billion photos are uploaded every month …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Socialmedia.biz, TheNextWeb.com and Underexposed
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb: Facial Recognition Comes to Facebook
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat: Find untagged photos of your Facebook friends with Face.com's Photo Finder
Ayeletnoff / Socialmedia.biz: Photo Finder will find you wherever you are
Ayelet Noff / TheNextWeb.com: Photo-Finder Will Find You Wherever You Are
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed: Face.com finds friends' mugs on Facebook (alpha invites!)
Hicham Alaoui / Google News Blog:
New Insights for your Search — Some of you may already be familiar with Google Insights for Search, which launched last August. — Much like Google Trends, you can use Insights for Search to analyze search volume patterns over time, as well as related queries and rising searches.
Discussion: Inside AdWords, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, AppScout, Google Operating System and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:atul
Amanda Kelly / Inside AdWords: New Insights for Search features
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: Google Updates Insights for Search Keyword Metric Tool
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Google Adds News, Image, Product Search to Insights
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: More Google Search Insights
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype, Now the Largest Long-distance Phone Company — TeleGeography says that cross-border telephone traffic grew 14 percent in 2007 and is estimated to have grown 12 percent in 2008, to 384 billion minutes. Falling prices and rising popularity have flattened the revenues (see graph below the fold).
Discussion: Epicenter, TeleGeography Research, Internet Evolution and The SiliconANGLE
Ryan Singel / Epicenter: Skype Tops All in International Calls
Stephan Beckert / TeleGeography Research: Skype's share of the international long-distance pie on the increase
Todd Watson / Internet Evolution: Too Much of a Good Thing
Sue McAllister / Mercury News:
More office space, lower leases in Silicon Valley — An ugly economy has affected more than Silicon Valley's residential real estate market; it's pummeling the commercial real estate market as well. — About 8.7 million square feet of Silicon Valley office space was vacant in the fourth quarter of 2008 …
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Skimmer brings your social streams to the desktop — Skimmer is a new social aggregator powered by Adobe AIR. It supports Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Blogger, and lets you stay abreast of the latest content from each of those services. Everything gets sucked up into a single stream …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Lifestream Blog and Mashable!
Phil Glockner / ReadWriteWeb: Skimmer Brings a Sleek New Look to Social Browsing
John Biggs / TechCrunch: Skimmer: A Better Stuff Reader
Mark Krynsky / Lifestream Blog: Multifeatured Lifestream App Skimmer Launches
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Music Announces Executive Team (Internal Memo) — MySpace Music, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels to provide free streaming music to users, is announcing its executive team this afternoon. The president of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced late last year.
Doug Coleman / Jobwire: MySpace Music Executive Team Announced
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9630 Review: Part 1 — We've been playing with it non-stop all weekend. We've tastelessly shown it off with a dash of hood on video. But the review is now finally ready. We decided to split this into two parts, one now and one right before launch.
Discussion: IntoMobile, I4U News and Engadget
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: BlackBerry 9630 Niagara Reviewed, Gushed Over
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: BlackBerry 9630 aka Niagara gets reviewed early
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: BlackBerry Niagara 9630 reviewed in all its prerelease glory


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Nummer: 261
Land: USA, 107 minuter
Språk: Engelska
Genre(s): Komedi, Romantik
Regissör: Roger Michell
Becky (Rachel McAdams) is a hard-working morning TV show producer, or at least she was until she got fired. Desperate to get a job, she finally gets an interview with Jerry (Jeff Goldblum) - who is desperate to hire a producer for the struggling show "Daybreak". Becky accepts the job and it proves to be more difficult than even she might be able to handle. She has to fire the sexist co-host, then try to convince egotistical news reporter, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), to take the job, and then try and get him to actually do the job, properly. And she has to do this while falling for handsome Adam (Patrick Wilson), and trying to save the show from plummeting ratings. Will Becky be able to hold on to her dream job and her sanity?
Medium: BluRay disc,
Plats: 1 1B
Utlånad: Nej
Format: 2.35:1


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Ninety percent of you will have already seen it at the boss's site or LGF, but here it is for the rest. I like his ten-point plan for defeating Islamism (especially points 1 and 4), but I think he's kidding himself when he imagines different ethnic strains of European Muslims emerging as checks on each other. "Look at the Middle East," he'd reply — Sunnis versus Shiites, Arab nationalists versus religious fundamentalists, Saudis versus Iranians, Lebanese of every stripe against Lebanese of every other stripe. To which I reply, look at how those groups have found common cause in scapegoating Israel. Why should we believe that any Islamic community, given a choice between uniting with the French government, say, against their fellow Muslims or with their fellow Muslims against the French government would opt for the former — particularly when the demographic numbers favor the latter? Better to pull together like the Kurds and Shiites have done in Iraq to depose the common enemy and then resort to sectarian divvying up of the pie, no?
Read this for gloss. Not perfectly analogous to Europe's predicament but not inapposite either.
Update: Ace favors point 8 of the Hitchens plan.
Update: Read this, too. It's right on point.


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Bangkok Opera Foundation
Bangkok Opera Foundation (Opera Siam) leads a dynamic educational programme each year, including a number of orchestral, opera and choral music camps, numerous performances, and regular international tours. Founded in 2010 by Somtow Sucharitkul, the Siam Sinfonietta was designed to create world-class classical musicians from the most talented young Thai performers. It has gone on to win many top prizes, and performed at three in festivals in Carnegie Hall. Graduates of the program are acknowledged as some of the finest young musicians in the region. The acceptance of students into the program is on a 100% scholarship basis. They do not charge anything to the students or their parents in order to ensure that all are eligible regardless of financial status. ABRSM has supported this programme since 2018.


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Graffiti Removal
The City of Stockton needs your help in the fight against graffiti. Please report graffiti and vandals. Do not assume that someone else has already reported the graffiti. Call the Graffiti Hotline to report graffiti. A clean-up crew will be sent to the location at no cost.
Graffiti Hotline (209) 937-8040
If you see a tagger in the act, call 9-1-1 to report a crime. If your tip leads to the arrest of a vandal, you may receive as much as $1,000 in reward money from Crime Stoppers if the vandal is charged with a felony.
Reporting and Removing Graffiti on Private Property Graffiti Crime
In January 2007, the City of Stockton adopted a more stringent graffiti ordinance in an effort to reduce graffiti throughout the city. The ordinance includes additional penalties and requires property owners to assist with removing and preventing graffiti on private property. Start by calling the Graffiti Hotline to report the graffiti location. Print the Graffiti Abatement Identification and Permission Form and mail it to the Anti-Graffiti Program address listed on the form. This will give the Neighborhood Services Graffiti Abatement Team permission to clean the graffiti from your property. You can also report graffiti online by filing a request through Ask Stockton. Last year, the City cleaned up over 3.5 million square feet of graffiti at a cost of more than $900,000. During that time, 261 arrests were made. The City is dedicated to expediting graffiti clean-up by working with other local agencies, including San Joaquin County and CalTrans.
City Ordinance Community Benefits
Graffiti Offenders
Penalties include fines, payment for damages, imprisonment, community service, delay of driving privileges, and seizure of vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and other personal property used in the commission of the crime.
Parents of Graffiti Offenders
May be required to make payment for clean-up and other penalties.
Spray Paint Retailers
Increased inspection to ensure graffiti-causing products are locked up.
Property Owners
Encouraged to prevent graffiti by making architectural changes to a property, such as the installation of cameras, lights, and plantings that discourage graffiti.
Graffiti Removal Tips
Always have additional matching paint for the surface you want to keep free from graffiti.
If possible, remove graffiti daily. Immediate removal of graffiti discourages vandals.
Report graffiti as soon as you see it. Don't wait for someone else to report it.
What NOT to do
Do not spot paint. Paint with even strokes covering large square areas.
Do not use interior paint. Only use exterior paint on outside walls and surfaces.
Do not paint property you do not have authorization to re-paint, such as mailboxes, street signs, overpasses, or signal boxes. Contact the City of Stockton instead.
How do I know if graffiti is gang-related?
Much of the graffiti located within the city of Stockton is not gang-related but linked to groups referred to as "Taggers." Normally, taggers are teenagers who consider themselves street artists and take pride in putting their moniker or nickname on walls, signs, sidewalks, or other areas. Gang-related graffiti is normally easier to read, whereas tagger graffiti uses symbols and letters that are difficult to read.
Gang-related graffiti can be distinguished as follows:
Normally written in block-style letters.
May be done in gang color (typically blue or red).
Might contain moniker list (nicknames of members of a gang).
May be crossed out by a rival gang.
Usually done in areas where gang activity is prevalent.
If you suspect gang graffiti in your neighborhood or have any questions about graffiti, call the Stockton Police Gang Unit. Home or business owners often ask if it is safe to remove graffiti from the walls of their homes or businesses. It is okay to remove graffiti, as long as it is not done selectively. In other words, remove all the graffiti so the gang member does not feel their particular gang is being "picked on." If you want to report graffiti at a specific location or have questions about graffiti removal, please call the Graffiti Hotline at (209) 937-8040.


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Loyola University > School of Law > Faculty > Faculty and Administration Profiles
Faculty and Administration Profiles
Kathleen R. Hirsman
Title/s: Distinguished Lecturer in Residence
Office #: Room 1128
Phone: 312.915.7378
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Kathleen Hirsman is a Senior Lecturer in Residence. She received her JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Prior to law school, she taught English-as-a-second-language in public schools and at the university level. Ms. Hirsman has 25 years' experience in school law practice, representing and counseling school districts in board governance issues, student issues, special education, labor and personnel matters, collective bargaining, general litigation, and in general corporate advisory capacity. Ms. Hirsman teaches courses in school law practice. She also teaches Education Law and Policy in the Civitas ChildLaw Master of Jurisprudence program.
Adjunct Faculty, Benedictine University
Adjunct Faculty, Concordia University
BA, Kalamazoo College
MA, in Linguistics, University of Illinois-Chicago
JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Program Areas
The Fundamentals of School Law
Special Education Advocacy
Labor and Employment Issues in the Education Workplace
Legal Issues in Student Discipline
MJ Education Law and Policy


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As Heather tells it;
Minister: They have a lot of gang women coming to them….. - but there's a lot of women who are going to say that they don't want to go to 'that sort of place', and they need to have options. That's why there's lots of options out there.
Fact: The Collective is structured to provide maximum choice. There are 42 local Women's Refuges around New Zealand gathered under one umbrella organisation.
Fourteen of these local refuges are for Māori wahine and tamariki and families, one is for Pasifika women and their children and families, and there is one associate refuge – Shakti – that's a community organisation for migrant, refugee and ethnic families.
The refuges have a robust risk management policy. Single women who are intolerant of children, are kept separate from women with children; Mongrel Mob women are kept separate from Black Power women, and considerable care is taken to avoid accommodation arrangements which increase tension. There is no evidence that we are aware of, to support the notion that women entering refuge should feel unsafe because some of the clients belong to gangs. As Heather Henare assures us; ""If we have women that are in our refuge where we believe they may not be able to work with other women we will always look to find other refuges - that's why we have a collective.""
The prevailing view is that it's payback for public comment or critical analysis that
doesn't accord with government's position. Recently, Kiri Hannifin of the Refuge was sceptical about the accuracy of domestic violence statistics.
"If there is one message I want to get across this morning, is that we must actively resist this idea that you are either for offenders, or for victims. We must reject any proposition that potentially divides us. Some of us deal with offenders, some with victims, and many work with both. To rate one activity above the other is unhelpful and counter productive.
For those of us working with victims, it is a small step from taking an anti-offender stance, to conveying those feelings to victims. The first calls for justice from victims may in fact be calls for vengeance or punishment. Such feelings are legitimate, but giving them immediate satisfaction may not further the healing process."
The then CEO of Victim Support, Tony Paine, made the same point earlier that year, but in a more eloquent way; (1)
"It is very easy to talk about victims and offenders as if they were two quite separate groups (both demographically and morally). Of course the world is not that black and white. The NZ Crime and Safety Survey (2) tells us that 50% of all victimizations are experienced by only 6% of New Zealanders and that the social and demographic indicators that identify those who are most likely to be victimized are identical to the markers for those likely to be offenders. The life stories and cultural contexts that weave victims and offenders together (often within the same person) make any artificial separation between offenders and victims just that: an artifice that oversimplifies our complex world."
1. In order to uphold victim's rights, we must 'redress the balance' and reduce offenders rights;
2. Those people and organisations who choose to work toward the rehabilitation of offenders have a 'strange morality'. If in doing so , they speak out in the defence of the rights of people with whom they work, they are anti-victim;
3. We know what all victims want; the Sensible Sentencing Trust has told us;
But what was more worrying was the way in which a whole lot of other groups, with similar objectives and views, had been tarred with the same brush.
Three days later, I addressed the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL New Zealand) and The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry) Conference "The Rising Punitiveness", 17 – 19 November 2011 Wellington , New Zealand. My presentation was entitled "The Rush to Punish". In it, I referred to the Minister's comments, calling for political leadership in the justice sector.
1) evil people cannot be rehabilitated, and
2) the eradication of evil requires the eradication of all evil people.Following this logic, researchers have recently tested the hypothesis that there would be a relationship between BPE and the desire to aggress towards and punish wrong-doers.
Ms Collin's stance of not speaking with prisoners and offenders, became a talking point both in New Zealand and overseas. In 2010 I visited Port Philip Prison, Melbourne, a multi purpose prison managed by G4S. Ms Collins had visited the prison earlier that year, and spent time talking to management and staff. According to the staff, one of the first people
chosen to share his insights with her, was a prisoner. The Minister looked steadily out the window during the conversation and avoided eye contact. One of the Minister's support staff subsequently made it known to the prison management that the Minister did not speak to prisoners. The itinerary went ahead as planned including the final session, at which a 'staff member' discussed with the Minister his role in mentoring and supporting prisoners on their entry into prison. Well, the prison staff conceded, he wasn't 'exactly' a member of the prison staff. What was initially a talking point, become a laughing point.
This position may help to explain why the Minister's view of people who are 'born evil', and are gang members, should be treated differently from others, even when they are victims who seek the support of Women's Refuge. It is the same position that the Sensible Sentencing Trust takes in refusing support to victims who come from 'crime families'.
The Treasury Minister, the Hon Bill English, in a speech to the Institute of Public Administration, recently stressed the importance of public servants, consulting not only with the public, but with justice consumers. [7] He urged public servants to focus more strongly on clients and customers.
But here's a thought. Ms Collins was a superb Minister of Veteran's Affairs. My old army mates tell me that she was warm, engaging, compassionate and took the time to listen to their issues, visit the RSA Clubs, and walk the walk. These are skills and gifts which are rare and in high demand. The Minister needs a portfolio in which she can exercise her talents fully, without being hindered by personal, psychological and emotional barriers. Perhaps a role in Foreign Affairs, Taxation, or Minister in Charge of the America's Cup.
Justice as a Public Good
"If a society cannot guarantee 'the equal worth of all its citizens', mutual and self-respect and the meeting of basic needs, it cannot expect that all citizens will feel they have an equal stake in abiding by the law, and it cannot dispense justice fairly and enhance confidence in the law."(9)
1) Paine, Tony, "Victim Support, Victims Rights: an agenda for prevention" - an address delivered at Addressing the underlying causes of offending; What is the evidence? - Thursday 26 and Friday 27 February, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University;
2) Mayhew P., and Reilly J. (2007) The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006. Ministry of Justice, Wellington, New Zealand.p.46
3) Bartlett, Tess, The Power of Penal Populism: Public Influences on Penal and Sentencing Policy from 1999 to 2008 pp 49-50. A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Criminology (2009)
4) Michael Laws, "Child abuse symptom of human race evolving into them and us", Sunday Star Times, 4 Jan 2009
5) Fighting the Good Fight: The Relationship Between Belief in Evil and Support for Violent Policies Pers Soc Psychol Bull January 2014 40: 16-33, first published on September 3, 2013
6) Webster, RJ and Saucier 'Angels and Devils are Amongst Us: Assessing Individual Differences in Belief in Pure Evil and Pure Good' Per Soc Psychol Bulletin 2013 Mov; 39 (11) 1455-70
7) Hon Bill English, Speech to the Institute of Public Administration, 20 Feb 20148)
8) Ronald W.Nikkel, Conversatio Morum, "Justice Between Us" 7 November 2011(9)
9) Cook, D. (2006) Criminal Justice and Social Justice, London: Sage p.21


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Dow Campaign Creates New Chemical Element
While watching this :90 spot, part of a new brand campaign from Dow Chemical created by FCB Chicago, we are reminded of the unfortunate mindset that invades large companies which do so many things it becomes impossible even to remotely explain what the company actually does do. We saw this to a certain degree in the latest GE campaign and now we are witnessing it in this latest campaign from Dow Chemical. For an agonizing 89 seconds, we are subjected to meaningless fluffery and puffery, written as if the copywriter was in the midst of an epiphany with God, which somehow ties Dow to a missing chemical element, the Human Element. Then again, what else can you say about a company that does everything?
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text: Google has taken a step to stop legitimate e-mail messages sent by its Apps customers from getting caught in spam filters.Administrators for Google Apps can now enable digital signing of those messages, which helps recipients verify that the messages came from a known, vetted sender, wrote Adam Dawes, a Google Enterprise product manager on a company blog.The system uses DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, which verifies the domain name through which a message was sent by analyzing the message's cryptographic signature. If the message comes from a domain that is considered reputable, it won't be filtered out.Some users of Google Apps have complained their e-mail from their custom domain has been blocked even if they have set up a proper Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record. The SPF record allows a domain owner to specify which hosts are allowed to send mail for their domain. A SPF record makes it more difficult for spammers to simply forge the "from" address in an e-mail message since the recipient will check the SPF record and filter inconsistent ones out.Google has used DKIM and DomainKeys, another e-mail authentication method, for its Gmail customers for outbound e-mail since 2004.In 2008, Google worked with eBay and PayPal to ensure messages from those organizations were always properly signed, due to the high prevalence of phishing e-mails. All unsigned messages purporting to be from those organizations are blocked.DKIM is free for Google Apps users. Administrators can turn it on by going to the control panel and then to the "advanced tools" tab, Dawes wrote.


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Smooth, round pebbles found by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity provide more evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet, according to a new study.
The Curiosity rover snapped pictures of several areas with densely packed pebbles, and by closely analyzing the rock images, researchers discovered that the shapes and sizes of the individual pebbles indicate that they traveled long distances in water, likely as part of an ancient riverbed.
The rocks were found near Curiosity's landing site, between the north rim of Gale Crater and the base of Mount Sharp, a peak that rises 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
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Scientists divided a photo mosaic of an area called Hottah into smaller frames to study the small rocks, which were cemented together and ranged in size from 0.08 inches (2 millimeters) to 1.6 inches (41 mm) across. In total, the researchers examined 515 stones and noticed that their surfaces were round and smooth.
Rocks worn by wind are typically rough and angular, whereas stones in water tend to become smooth over time, as the rocks get churned around with coarse grains of sand.
"We could see that almost all of the 515 pebbles we analyzed were worn flat, smooth and round," study co-author Asmus Koefoed, a research assistant at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, said in a statement.
The cemented sections of rock were likely formed by a combination of fine sand, mud, gravel and pebbles, the researchers said. This mixture clumped together and hardened, creating the solid formations seen by the Curiosity rover. Over time, as sand particles were blown across the surface of Mars, the tops of these cemented rocks became worn and flat, the researchers added.
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"The main reason we chose Gale Crater as a landing site was to look at the layered rocks at the base of Mount Sharp, about five miles away," study co-author Dawn Sumner, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, said in a statement. "We knew there was an alluvial fan in the landing area, a cone-shaped deposit of sediment that requires flowing water to form. These sorts of pebbles are likely because of that environment. So while we didn't choose Gale Crater for this purpose, we were hoping to find something like this."
The Martian pebbles offer tantalizing clues about Mars' aqueous past, said Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars research group at the Niels Bohr Institute.
"In order to have moved and formed these rounded pebbles, there must have been flowing water with a depth of between 10 centimeters (4 inches) and 1 meter (3.3 feet) and a flow rate of about 1 meter per second — or 3.6 km/h (2.2 mph) — slightly faster than a typical natural Danish stream," Madsen said in a statement.
Scientists have long been interested in the search for water on Mars in order to determine if conditions on the planet were ever hospitable for microbial life.
Although modern-day Mars is an arid place, there is substantial evidence that water likely flowed on the planet's surface several billion years ago. NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which both touched down on Mars in 2004, found signs of the planet's watery past.
In 2008, the agency's Phoenix Mars Lander confirmed the existence of current water-ice on Mars, after it scraped away clumps of dirt on the surface of the Red Planet.
The results of the new study show that Curiosity, which was launched in August 2012, has already achieved one of its main objectives: to investigate whether areas of Mars could have been habitable for ancient microbial life. The answer, apparently, is yes.
The results of the new study will be published in the May 31 issue of the journal Science.
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SAN ANTONIO — After nearly falling on their face in the opening round of the playoffs, the San Antonio Spurs found their footing Tuesday night and ran the Portland Trail Blazers off the court.
Tony Parker had 33 points and nine assists and San Antonio never trailed in a resounding 116-92 victory over Portland, bullying the younger Trail Blazers in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.
"He's been doing that for a lot of years," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "It's nothing different. He's the guy that's our attack guy. (He) creates for everybody and starts the offense. He's also played very good defense this year and most people don't really see that."
Parker, who had 32 points in Game 7 against Dallas, scored 13 points in the first quarter on a series of drives and capped it with a corner 3 as San Antonio built a 10-point lead 8 minutes into the game.
The Spurs never led by less than 20 in the second half.
"They did what championship teams do," Portland forward LaMarcus Aldridge said. "They came out and set the tone early. Most of the guys on (Portland's) team haven't even been in the second round and they've won championships. They've been here. I think they definitely came out and they let us know how it's going to be."
Kawhi Leonard had 16 points and Tim Duncan added 12 points and 11 rebounds for San Antonio.
More importantly for the Spurs, their bench contributed mightily after being virtually nonexistent in the series against Dallas.
Marco Belinelli had 19 points and the Australian connection of Aron Baynes and Patty Mills had 10 points apiece.
"We came out swinging, caught them with a few early punches and they were on their back heel at that point," Baynes said. "It was good for us that we came out like that but now we have to maintain it."
The Spurs had their most complete game of the postseason, playing with the flair and fluidity that resulted in the league's best regular-season record.
"I think Game 7 (against Dallas) gave us a lot of confidence for our team," Parker said. "I think team wise we played our best game in Game 7. I think tonight was a little bit of the same thing. Defensively, it was one of our best games because Portland has a lot of shooters, a lot of scorers."
Portland, meanwhile, didn't come close to resembling the confident and sharp-shooting group that upset Houston in the opening round.
Aldridge had 32 points and 14 rebounds and Damian Lillard had 17 points for Portland, but the All-Star duo combined for just 17 points in the first half as San Antonio built a 26-point lead.
"They knew where we were going to do (plays)," Aldridge said. "They tried to deny guys on certain sets. They tried to force guys to their weak hand. They did what good teams do. I think guys are going to learn from it."
Lillard was pushed out of the paint by 6-foot-7 Leonard early in the game and was nearly knocked off his feet defensively by a series of blistering picks.
It wasn't any easier physically for Aldridge, who opened the game shooting 1 for 5 against Tiago Splitter and Baynes.
"The first half was not what we were looking for," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "San Antonio really came out with a lot of energy and aggressiveness. They were the more aggressive team at both ends of the floor for the whole half."
Splitter had an early steal on a pass to Aldridge and nearly had a second when he poked a dribble away as the 6-11 forward attempted to push his way into the block. Splitter hit the court in a failed attempt to keep the ball from going out of bounds, but it mattered little as the tone had been set for a long night for Aldridge and the Trail Blazers.
Duncan left the game with 4 minutes remaining in the first quarter after picking up two quick fouls, but the Spurs increased their lead in his absence thanks to big contributions from reserves.
Baynes had an immediate impact after playing only the final 6 minutes of San Antonio's Game 7 victory over Dallas. He scored four points quickly and continued the physical defense against Aldridge that Splitter established.
"He was awesome," Duncan said. "He gave us some great minutes. He came in there with his big body, made some plays for us, made some shots, cleaned up the glass. He did everything he was asked to do. It was great."
Belinelli finished 3 for 5 from 3-point range, leading the Spurs' bench to leap to their feet in loud celebration after the Italian guard's struggles in the opening series. After going just 4 for 7 on 3-pointers against Dallas, Belinelli opened the game by hitting his first three attempts from long range.
"Ball movement was good," Parker said. "Dallas made a conscious effort to stay on our shooters. Tonight was different. I made a conscious effort to find Marco. I talked to Pop. We wanted Marco to be back in the series, be back in the playoffs. I was trying to call his number and look for him a lot. Tonight I think half my assists were to Marco."
The Spurs scored the opening eight points from close range as Portland missed its first six attempts from a variety of spots on the court.
NOTES: San Antonio and Portland had not met in the playoffs since the Western Conference finals in 1999, when Sean Elliott made a dramatic 3-pointer with 9 seconds remaining to win Game 2 and spark a series victory. Dubbed the "Memorial Day Miracle," Elliott made the game-winning shot after catching a pass, turning with his heels hovering above the out-of-bounds line and firing a high-arcing shot over a hard-charging Rasheed Wallace. The Spurs would go on to win their first NBA title that season. … Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen was in attendance as was NBA super fan Jimmy Goldstein, who was dressed in his trademark leather outfit and hat. … Ginobili was issued a technical foul by Tony Brothers after slamming the ball to the court following a traveling violation with 1:23 remaining in the first quarter. … Entering the series opener, Duncan had played as many postseason games (218) as the entire Portland roster.
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