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Former child TV star Brian Bonsall was arrested in court Friday on accusations that he violated the conditions of his bond by testing positive for marijuana.
The 28-year-old former "Family Ties" cast member was free on bond after being arrested in December on suspicion of hitting his friend in the face with part of a broken stool.
He faces a felony second-degree assault charge in connection with the December incident and failure-to-appear charges in connection with a 2007 assault on his girlfriend. He pleaded not guilty to those allegations in court Friday.
A judge set Bonsall's case for trial June 14, then revoked his bond and reset it for $10,000 after Deputy District Attorney Amy Okubo said one of his urine samples tested positive for marijuana and several others were diluted.
Okubo told the judge that she believes Bonsall's urine tests were diluted as a result of drinking a lot of water "because he was trying to hide drug use." A positive test on Feb. 15 proved that to be true, she said.
Okubo said Bonsall has applied for a medical-marijuana license, but she hasn't seen any paperwork indicating that he's been approved. Regardless, she said, the conditions of his bond were "no drugs."
Bonsall's public defender, Yasmin Forouzandeh, said doctors have told her client that he's a candidate for a medical-marijuana license because of severe head injuries he's suffered. Forouzandeh said Bonsall has passed all of his alcohol breath tests and that's what should matter because his cases revolve around alcohol intoxication.
Forouzandeh said diluted urine tests don't automatically mean Bonsall is using drugs, and she asked that he be allowed to stay free on bond. Boulder County District Court Judge Maria Berkenkotter denied that request and said that despite his application, he doesn't have a medical-marijuana card yet.
Bonsall remained at the Boulder County Jail late Friday on a total $12,500 bond for the two cases.
A judge can decide to prohibit even a medical-marijuana cardholder from using the drug while on bond, said Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett.
"It's sorted out on a case-by-case basis," he said.
Bonsall, who most notably starred as Michael J. Fox's little brother, Andy Keaton, on the 1980s TV series "Family Ties," lived in Boulder for several years -- graduating from Boulder High in 2000 -- before leaving town and skipping a court hearing in 2008. Police caught up with Bonsall in December at his friend's Boulder home at 1121 11th St.
According to an arrest report, Bonsall hit his friend in the face with part of a broken stool. He told officers at the time that he and his friend both are "bipolar and like drugs," according to the report. Bonsall went on to say that he "takes a lot of drugs and sometimes those drugs make him forget things."
Bonsall has had numerous run-ins with Boulder authorities, including a 2004 arrest for drunken driving and the 2007 arrest for assaulting his girlfriend. In the 2007 case, police said he poured alcohol on his girlfriend's face as she slept and threw her into a bed when she tried to leave their apartment. He pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and was sentenced to two years of probation.
Authorities suspected he violated the conditions of his probation in 2008 by failing to pay for domestic-violence classes, missing daily breath tests and submitting a positive breath test. A probation officer was planning to recommend Bonsall be sentenced to 60 days of work release at a court hearing, but Bonsall never showed up for that hearing and was wanted by police for more than a year.


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Cool Music Video Of The Day – "Forward" By Messe Kopp [VIDEO]
A video artist in Israel filmed himself walking backwards through Jerusalem. He then reversed the video so it looks like he's walking forward, while everything around him is going in reverse. The fact that it's all done in one take makes it even cooler! You gotta check this out:

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bigstrads wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:bigstrads wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:JOEL wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:I could score 5 points in a quarter and I'm a 5'7 white girl....geez
i been looking for a 5 7 white warriors chic....ummm how are
your woman bumps
Ha ha ha go find my myspace in the offtopic section and you can decide for yourself.
Ahh JOEL............you tactless beast you................thats know way to speak to a lady!
Ohh and Captain_Jack.............I did actually think you were messing around............but that myspace page is............well yeah, a womans.
I like the quote you have on there next to your picture =
"whatever, patron whore"
Sounds interesting.
Also, how do you find all the testosterone that flies around this place?
Ha ha....yeah I'm a girl. The testosterone is cool, I'm used to it. I've spent a lot of time on a couple of 49ers boards, I don't even notice it anymore.
As for "Patron Whore". One of the guys from the 49ersinfo.com message board named me that because I love Patron (I even named my cat Patron Gold) and according to him I will do anything to get it. I don't know if that's true, but I could drink it every day.
Ahh, I see.............my being English lead me to not knowing what "patron" is in that sense.............I took it as "patron OF whores"............lol..........sorry.
I presume its a drink?
Yeah it's tequila, sorry I should have known that you wouldn't know what it was. I had a bunch of friends from Scotland come over to the U.S. last November for a 49er game and they had no clue what it was either. I introduced them to it...now they buy it all the time over there. I'm working on spreading it worldwide.


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Pokes Not Overlooking Texas State
The Wyoming Cowboys, coming off an impressive 56-23 road win at Air Force last week, will wrap up their 2013 non-conference schedule on Saturday when they travel to San Marcos, Texas, to face the Texas State Bobcats. Saturday's game is schedule to kick off at 5 p.m., Mountain Time (6 p.m., Central Time) from Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos.
Wyoming is 3-1 on the season, and is seeking its fourth-consecutive win. Texas State is 2-1 on the year. The Bobcats began the season with two wins over Southern Miss (22-15 on the road) and Prairie View A&M (28-3 at home) before losing (7-33) at No. 25 ranked Texas Tech last week.
Playing fast has been the focus of Wyoming head coach Dave Christensen since the beginning of 2013 spring football, and the fifth-year head coach now has his Cowboy Offense doing just that. Wyoming's up-tempo offense currently has it ranking among the nation's elite in several categories. UW ranks No. 2 in the nation in first downs, No. 8 in total offense, No. 13 in passing offense and No. 21 in scoring offense out of 123 Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
Wyoming has scored 30 or more points in each game this season. The Pokes scored 34 at Nebraska (in a 34-37 loss), 42 vs. Idaho (in a 42-10 win), 35 against Northern Colorado (in a 35-7 victory) and 56 (in a 56-23 road win) at Air Force. That marks the first time since the 1996 season that the Pokes have scored 30 or more points in four consecutive games. UW scored 30 or more points in five consecutive games during the 1996 season.
Last week's 56 points versus Air Force were the most points Wyoming had scored in a single game since Sept. 6, 1997, when UW defeated Iowa State 56-10 in Laramie. The 56 points against the Falcons was also the most points Wyoming had ever scored versus its Front Range rival.
The Wyoming Cowboys have played Texas State only one previous time in their football history, but they will be facing a familiar face when they take on the Bobcats on Saturday. Texas State is led by head coach Dennis Franchione, who coached against Wyoming at New Mexico, TCU and Texas A&M along with a 2011 meeting vs. the Cowboys in his first year back at Texas State. Wyoming holds a 4-2 advantage over Franchione-coached teams.
Texas State is a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Wyoming Cowboys have played three current members of the Sun Belt Conference. Those three are Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe and Texas State. UW holds a 6-0 record versus current members of the Sun Belt.
The current 2013 Wyoming Cowboy football team is putting up similar numbers to the high-powered Wyoming offenses under Paul Roach and Joe Tiller from the late-1980s through the mid-1990s. The 1988 squad, with Roach as head coach, holds the Wyoming school record for scoring. That team averaged 39.3 points per game. The 2013 Cowboys are averaging 41.8 points per game through four games. Tiller's 1996 team set the school record for total offense, averaging 498.9 yards per game. This year's Cowboy team is averaging 556.2 yards per game.
Cowboy junior quarterback Brett Smith has been a big part of that offensive explosion by the Cowboys this season. Smith set a Wyoming single-game total offense record last week at Air Force, amassing 511 yards of total offense. He broke the previous record of 482 yards set by former Cowboy quarterback Josh Wallwork back in 1996 against Idaho.
The Mountain West Conference named Smith its Offensive Player of the Week for his performance.
Smith has already set a number of Wyoming school records, and is on the verge of several others. Here is a summary of Smith's record-setting performances.
No. 1 Career Touchdown Passes - 60
No. 1 Career TDs Responsible For - 78
No. 1 Pass Attempts Without Interception - 183
No. 1 Single-Game Total Offense - 511
No. 2 Career Total Offense - 8,031
No. 2 Season TD Passes - 27 (2012)
No. 3 Season Total Offense - 3,332 (2011)
No. 4 Career Passing Yards - 6,774
Saturday's game will be broadcast live on radio over the 25 affiliate stations of the Cowboy Sports Network, beginning with the pregame show at 4 p.m., Mountain Time (5 p.m., Central). The game will also be televised on the Longhorn Network. Check your local cable or satellite provider for coverage in your area.


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Governments want to control access to the Internet in order to remain in power. Corporations want to control access to the Internet in order to make lots of money. Both of them can maintain such control only as long as citizens/consumers are forced to access the Internet through a relatively few bottlenecks. Those are the points where government can choke off access; those are the gateways for the use of which corporations can charge exorbitant fees.
Political activists in countries with repressive governments have devised ways — e.g., dialup access to proxy servers — to bypass government barriers to Internet access. Direct communication with satellites is another possibility; this is already popular in some countries as a way to watch television programs the government disapproves of. However, for the foreseeable future, communications satellites will be under the control of governments and giant corporations, so they aren't a reliable and untrammeled avenue to the Internet. Proxy servers depend on the existing Internet backbone, which merely moves the possibility of government/corporate control one step further away from the person trying to get online.
Technological evolution will continue to provide new ways to evade this control, and governments and corporations will continue to evolve ways to block each new avenue of evasion. But two particular evolutionary trends are coming that will change this warfare between offense and defense in a fundamental way. They will change society, too, in profound and disturbing ways.
The first evolutionary trend is the increasing miniaturization and power of Internet–connected video and sound recording devices. They'll soon be undetectable. Police won't be able to arrest people for recording them in the act of, say, abusing peaceful protestors because the police won't know which bystander is recording them and instantaneously uploading the video to YouTube. The increasing availability of WiFi hotspots and Internet access via the cell phone network also means that there are ever fewer physical locations where such abuse can take place without recordings being made and uploaded.
Except, of course, inside police stations or secret CIA torture camps. But hold that thought.
The second evolutionary trend is the shrinking of computers.
Some day, nanocomputers will be part of the nanotechnology tidal wave that will overwhelm us with technology indistinguishable from magic. The world will change. Human beings will change. But we don't have to look that far ahead to glimpse the sea change I'm talking about.
Perhaps the efforts to create quantum computers will succeed, bringing us immensely powerful computers smaller than a human cell. But even if that technology never does come to fruition, powerful small computers are inevitable. Maybe they won't be smaller than a human cell. Maybe they'll be as big as a human cell, or as big as a speck of dust. That's small enough to do the job I have in mind.
Major steps have already been made in that direction. The US military, as well as a consortium of universities, has been working for at least ten years to develop smart dust — clouds of microscopic machines, wirelessly connected to each other, able to perform military tasks, espionage, exploration, and rescue. The last two sound wonderful, but no doubt far more money and brainpower are being poured into the first two.
In any case, microscopic networked intelligent machines will soon exist. Then, smart dust will quickly evolve from networked microscopic sensors with some computing power into powerful, microscopic networked computers.
Within a few years — ten at the most, but probably no more than five — invisible clouds of such computers will be drifting in the winds and floating on the seas. They will be present almost everywhere in the world. They might be powered by sunlight, or the energy of wind or waves, or changes in barometric pressure, or they might draw all the power they need from the manmade microwave energy bathing all of us all the time. Many of them will be military devices, gathering intelligence, keeping watch on other countries and on citizens. Many will be corporate machines, gathering information designed to make very wealthy people even wealthier. These machines won't need the Internet. They will form their own networks. Since I've described two categories of machines, let's call their two networks Gov Net and Plutocrat Net.
Increasingly, mixed among these clouds of drifting, floating dust–speck computers will be others produced by small groups of individuals with no connection to government or to the corporatocracy. Technology, especially electronic technology, behaves that way. Neither the government nor big corporations can keep control of it for long.
This third class of dust–speck computers will constitute a third world–wide network far greater than today's Internet. Let's call it Dust Net. Its purpose won't be repression or profit but access to data, opinion, and like–minded human beings.
At this point — let's say five to ten years from now — all those who have smart phones or other WiFi–equipped devices, almost anywhere in the world, will have complete access to Dust Net. Their governments won't be able to block them, and corporations won't be able to charge them. Dust Net will be an immensely powerful force for freedom.
But something else will be happening at the same time.
Let's return to the evolution of tiny recording devices. I believe that that technology will be integrated into the microscopic servers making up Dust Net and its government and corporate equivalents. Smart dust was intended for data collection from the start, so copious data storage capacity is inherent in the design of the machines. Dust Net will become an infinitely distributed, infinitely replicated, infinitely accessible database containing full sound and video recording of everything that happens everywhere on Earth.
Of course, the same will apply to Gov Net and Plutocrat Net. They'll be watching, recording, and storing everything, too.
No place in normal life is truly dust free. It's frightening to think that every moment of your life will be recorded, stored away, and accessible to anyone who cares to view the recording. We'll be living in a global village where not only do none of the windows have blinds but all the walls are made of glass.
Fortunately, we'll have Dust Net. While governments and corporations watch us, we'll be watching them. There won't be any more secret meetings in Washington, DC or anywhere else. Like it or not — and they won't — plans by governments and corporations to control us and limit our freedoms will be out in the open and known to all of us ahead of time. All governments and all boardrooms will be truly and completely transparent.
They'll try to fight Dust Net with dust–free rooms. But even if they go into those rooms naked, they'll bring the motes of Dust Net in with them — inside their ears, their noses, their lungs. They'll try to destroy Dust Net by hardware or software methods. The immense redundancy and constant checking and comparing of data between dust motes should defeat both approaches.*
Premeditated crimes will largely disappear. Spur–of–the–moment crime will be virtually certain to be punished. Graft, corruption, and collusion will largely disappear. So will the very concept of privacy. And all this is coming whether we like it or not.
* Here's an interesting sidelight. The hardware fight against Dust Net will probably include hunter-killer machines of the same size as the Dust Net, Gov Net, and Plutocrat Net severs — i.e., the size of dust specks. Moreover, other governments will also be releasing their own Gov Nets. It will be hard to tell where the civilian use of these networks ends and military use begins. They'll all have their own hunter-killer dust specks, and their primary targets will be the computers of other countries' Gov Nets; Dust Net will be secondary. A silent war of immense consequence will be raging far beneath the horizon of our senses. Perhaps it already is. Perhaps control of the world is being determined right now in a terrible battle in the corner of your living room.


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It is the return (as if they went anywhere) of the hair bang. Many celebrities are adding a full hair bang to their hairstyle for an updated look. Wispy and side swept bangs are also popular. See Liz Hurley, photo left.
This siren of the screen carries off this classy look to perfection. Liz's hair has been layered to create a soft and full style which boasts body and bounce. The soft bangs have been parted on the side to create a softer look for the face, and is a flattering option for longer face shapes and high foreheads.


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Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise is a live album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded at Small's Paradise in New York City in 1957 and originally released in two volumes on the Blue Note label.[1] The album was rereleased as a double CD with four bonus tracks recorded at the same performance.
The organ heard on this album is distinctive from most Jimmy Smith recordings in that the percussion on-off switch was either broken or Smith deliberately set the switch to a position halfway between on and off. This prevented the single-triggered percussion tone from decaying, Since the percussion tone is also not routed through the vibrato circuit, the effect is quite unusual.


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The Saffron Swami
On July 29, 1983, a series of bombs ripped through the second and third floors of the Rajneesh Hotel in downtown Portland. No one was injured, apart from the bomber himself, a 34-year-old drifter named Stephen Paster. But with a bang, Portlanders became aware that something had gone seriously awry with the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's experiment in communal living.
Without the bombs, the salmonella and the semiautomatics, the story of the Indian guru and his saffron-robed disciples who settled in rural Oregon could have been the plot for a campy Disney film about seekers of peace, love and multicultural understanding: Guru Goes West. Instead, the Rajneeshees "committed the most significant crimes of their kind in the history of the United States," according to former Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer. "The largest single incident of fraudulent marriages, the most massive scheme of wiretapping and bugging, and the largest domestic mass poisoning."
In 1981, the 50-year-old Bhagwan and a handful of his sannyasins, "seekers of the truth," bought a 64,000-acre, severely overgrazed Big Muddy ranch near Antelope with the intent of creating a self-sufficient utopia of organic farming and dynamic meditation. Two years and $30 million later, more than 600 sannyasins had built a small city, complete with a post office, a school, a shopping mall and housing for 1,000 people.
A former philosophy professor, the Bhagwan wasn't big on self-denial. He had ever-increasing collections of custom-painted Rolls Royces (up to 99 at the end) and gaudy jewelry (valued at $1 million in 1985) and, by some accounts, claimed to have had more sex partners than anyone in history. The Bhagwan's mishmash of Eastern mysticism and Western pop psychology promised his adherents self-actualization through detachment. "When you become a sannyasin," he told his followers, "I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else. I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else."
His feel-good philosophy attracted sannyasins who were overwhelmingly well-educated, affluent urbanites with every intention of remaining in the world-on their own terms. To head off boredom on the ranch, the group bought up a Portland hotel and started the Zorba the Buddha disco at Southwest 10th Avenue and Pine Street, which featured a hot scene and lousy service, since it was staffed by sannyasins who'd never waited tables in their lives.
Initially, the sect met with begrudging tolerance from Oregonians. But that changed in 1982 when they took over the nearby town of Antelope (population 47) and renamed it Rajneeshpuram. Although the move was legal, it was a shock to local residents, many of whom were retired ranchers. Suddenly Rajneeshees wearing shades of red from head to toe and large pictures of the Bhagwan around their necks held most seats on the city council and school board. The local diner became a vegan cafe. Main Street was renamed Mavlana Bhagwan Street. "All of a sudden," former mayor Alice Hensley recalls, "it seemed like our identity was gone."
After the Bhagwan took a vow of silence in 1983, his personal secretary, 33-year-old Ma Anand Sheela, became the public face and voice of the Rajneeshees. Petite, voluble and armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, Sheela was singularly provocative. She called locals rednecks, racists and bigots. On Nightline she gave Ted Koppel the finger for cutting off her mike after she repeatedly shouted "Bullshit!" and "You are full of shit!" whenever her opponent, 70-year-old Antelope resident Don Smith, spoke.
More disturbing were Sheela's hints of potential violence. "We are here in Oregon to stay, at whatever the cost," she wrote in The Rajneesh Times. "If that means that some of our blood is spilledÉthen this is the price we are prepared to pay." The Rajneeshees had enough firepower to back up these threats. By the fall of 1984, they had amassed an arsenal that included at least 28 semiautomatic rifles and handguns and $250,000 in ammunition. In Antelope, the heavily armed Rajneesh "peace force" tailed visitors and patrolled non-Rajneeshees' homes at night with bright lights.
Words turned to actions in the fall of 1984. In an effort to overwhelm the polls at the Wasco County election, the Rajneeshees bused in 4,300 homeless people from across the country, a strategy foiled by then-Secretary of State Norma Paulus, who set up a committee of 50 lawyers to review all new voter registrations. The Rajneeshees subsequently kicked out most of the homeless, many of whom claimed they were doped with the tranquilizer Haldol during their stay on the ranch.
To keep anti-Rajneesh voters from reaching the polls, sannyasins sprayed salmonella on the salad bars at several popular restaurants in The Dalles, sending 750 people to the hospital with severe food poisoning. It was "the only case of germ warfare against a whole American city," recalls Frohnmayer. There was also a plot, which was never executed, to kill the sect's enemies, including local U.S. Attorney Charles Turner.
Meanwhile, paranoia mounted on the ranch as Sheela and a coterie of elite sannyasins ran the commune in an increasingly authoritarian manner. Jokes were mandated at the beginning of every meeting, and "Rajneeshism"-a religion that was supposed to be ethereal as the clouds and devoid of dogma-was codified in a booklet of rules and rituals. Sheela bugged rooms and telephones, arranged for an ally to stab the Bhagwan's personal physician with a poison syringe (he survived) and had another enemy quarantined with a false-positive AIDS test. The Bhagwan, who had resumed his daily talks, charged that Sheela had tried to poison him with chemicals manufactured in a secret tunnel behind his house.
By fall 1985, state and federal police, the National Guard, the governor's office, the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshal's Office and Frohnmayer were in conference every morning and evening. A showdown loomed. When Sheela and her gang abruptly left the ranch in September, the Bhagwan declared himself back in charge and tried to make her the scapegoat for the sect's bizarre activities. Rajneeshees took off their red robes (saying they were Sheela's idea) and changed Rajneeshpuram back to Antelope.
It was too late. On Oct. 23, 1985, a federal grand jury issued a 35-count indictment charging the Bhagwan with lying on his visa application and, along with Sheela and six other disciples, arranging sham marriages so foreign sannyasins could remain in the United States. The Bhagwan was arrested in Charlotte, N.C., en route to the Bahamas (for a much-needed vacation, according to his followers) in a chartered Learjet equipped with a handgun, $58,522 in cash and a box containing 38 jewel-encrusted watches and bracelets. He eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of immigration fraud, was fined $400,000 and was deported to India. He died in 1990 after changing his name to Osho. All in all, 42 sannyasins were charged and two dozen convicted of various state and federal crimes.
The Bhagwan appealed to affluent baby boomers because he offered a simple plan for spiritual enlightenment without forsaking the pleasures of home. His followers, most of them high achievers, believed they weren't dropping out like hippies of the '70s. Instead, they were "dropping up"-creating a new man and a new society.
His followers believed the Bhagwan merely held up a mirror through which they could see their "true" selves. In the end, however, the mirror warped and Rancho Rajneesh resembled nothing so much as a twisted Zen koan. The more sannyasins clung to their mantra of spontaneity, authenticity and freedom, the less able they were to question their leaders-or to see where the path they had chosen was taking them.
* Legendary former governor Tom McCall dies of cancer at 69.
* Topped with red berets instead of standard-issue halos, 64 Guardian Angels graduate at the Benson Hotel under the watch of archangel Curtis Sliwa, who created the group in the New York City subways. Sliwa insists his streetwise saviors are not vigilantes: "It's the good Samaritan ethic being reborn," he says. "A message that crime time is no time to punks and yahoos who rob and rape and savage."
* Bookworms writhe for nine days in April when the Central Library closes its doors while employees take an unpaid leave to avert layoffs. The closure is the first in 119 years. As one employee notes, the downtown branch remained open "even during the Depression."
* Six hundred Portlanders gather in Terry Schrunk Plaza on May 5 for Mayor Frank Ivancie's City Day of Prayer. "Prayer is nothing more than a petition to God," says the mayor. "We should be able in a free society to petition our God for help and assistance. Heaven knows, we need it." Boy, you ain't kidding, Frank.
* State authorities shut down Columbia Pacific Bank & Trust, making it the largest bank failure in Oregon since the Great Depression.
* Health officials report that Oregon has five cases of AIDS. All are Portland-area men; one is already dead.
* Responding to a domestic dispute, Portland police shoot and kill Myrna Carlson, a 41-year-old stepmother of four, just inside her front door. Despite inconsistencies in testimony, a grand jury clears officer Michael Archambault of any wrongdoing.
* The largest independent music chain in Oregon, Everybody's Records, goes out of business.
* Eat your heart out, Fred Meyer. The new Multnomah County Justice Center becomes a "one-stop cop shop." Besides serving as HQ for the Police Bureau, the 16-story, $53.5 million complex will allow inmates to be booked, held, arraigned, tried and jailed under one roof.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau announced Friday a new rule that would require lenders to provide applicants with free copies of all appraisals and home value estimates on the property prior to closing. The rule prohibits creditors from charging applicants for the copy of the appraisal although lenders can continue to charge reasonable fees for the cost of appraisals. The rule applies to first-lien mortgages and will take effect in January 2014. ""This rule will guarantee consumers can receive important information on how a lender determines the value of the home," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. "Having this information available promptly makes it easier for loan applicants to make informed decisions." The CFPB along with five other regulatory agencies including the Federal Reserve also issued a final rule that establishes new appraisal requirements for "higher-priced mortgage loans"- loans where interest rate is above the average rates in the market. Lenders would have to use a licensed or certified appraiser who will submit a written appraisal of a report based on physical inspection of a home. Lenders will have to disclose the purpose of the appraisal to customers and provide them with a free copy of the report. The rule is designed to protect borrowers from unfair appraisals, ensuring that they do not pay more for a home than what it is worth and that lenders use an accurate value for the property when setting lending terms. The rule also includes special protection for borrowers in instances where the seller is a "flipper." A flipper is defined as a seller who sells his home for a profit of 10% to 20% in less than 6 months. Banks in such cases are required to pay for a second appraisal of the home that also includes physical inspection inside the home. Moreover the lender can't charge borrowers for the appraisal. Some higher-priced mortgages including qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages and loans for construction of a new home are exempted. The CFPB earlier this week introduced new servicing rules that would require banks such as Bank of America ( BAC - Get Report), JPMorgan ( JPM - Get Report) and Wells Fargo ( WFC - Get Report) to inform borrowers of all alternatives to foreclosures. It also recently finalized the qualified mortgage rules that would protect borrowers from abusive lending practices and provide more clarity to the mortgage market. --Written by Shanthi Bharatwaj in New York
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I've had amazing experiences since I started writing semi-professionally. I've seen my byline in The New York Times. I've filled out my IRS tax forms with my profession listed as "writer," and seen that yes, indeed, 95% of what I'd earned had come from my craft. I've landed–and lost!–not one but TWO big-shot NYC literary agents. I've been on national television. I've gone into Safeway and walked up to a rack and opened up a mass-market magazine to show my children an article I wrote. I've seen my son walk solemnly, proudly around kindergarten Open House with a copy of Yes! Magazine open to my editorial layout. But this season has been filled with professional (and, yes, personal) disappointments, heartaches, and losses. I just got dealt few more of them today. So instead of crying about the money situation and feeling sorry for myself, I did something fun and creative. Because the only thing that's saved me . . . really . . . through an incredibly rough year is the circle of support I've got around me, not just in my real life, but the one that's grown around my virtual, writing life. Through this website and through my social media connections.
A woman I've never met but with whom I share many mutual friends admired my fat green Buddha statue in a video of my daughter playing piano. She also happens to have been one of my most stalwart supporters, always there to elevate my work, message me when she spots a low in my tone, or crow over my children. I hope she's not embarrassed or offended by my gentle shout out: this is for you–and all who are like you, Lisa Choate McGovern. You live on Love Street.
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The Friday night jazz series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art draws a large and varied crowd. Some are there to hear the music and some — as Duke Ellington observed about the clientele of Harlem's legendary Cotton Club — to fulfill their social aspirations. Pianist Frank Strazzeri led a band there last summer and a curious thing happened. Sound problems, a restless audience, and tentative musicians plagued the opening set. Strazzeri's piano was under-miked, but by the second set, his piano — at once swinging and full of harmonic beauty — quietly brought the crowd to order and coalesced the rough spots on the bandstand. It was a subtle display of mastery by one of the great jazz masters in our midst.
The 81-year-old Strazzeri has been known as one of the great band pianists and singer's accompanists in Los Angeles since his arrival in 1960. A Rochester native, he was trained at the Eastman School of Music. His tenure as leader of the house band at a local nightclub saw him accompanying visiting headliners like singer Billie Holiday and trumpeter Roy Eldridge. Strazzeri was 18 when he took the job.
After a stint with the Woody Herman Orchestra and an unsatisfying residence in Las Vegas, Strazzeri came west. He succeeded Vince Guaraldi in the Lighthouse All Stars and became a favorite pianist for singer Ruth Price. "He's one of my very favorite accompanists," she declares. "One of the things I love about Frank is that he never played for me as he would a singer: leading me with chords. He played for me as he would an instrumentalist; I always appreciated that he trusted me that way."
Among musicians, Strazzeri's original pieces hold a special place. Trombonist Steve Johnson's Jazz Legacy band convenes at JAX on Brand Avenue in Glendale one night a month, and they only play Strazzeri's material. It's the most consistent and extended showcase of the Strazzeri book anywhere. His songs have an innate swing, yet they're imbued with harmonic intrigue and lyrical beauty.
As a student at the Dick Grove Workshop, a great jazz academy in Hollywood in the 1970s, Johnson encountered Strazzeri's published musical manual, "Strazzophonic."
"I was really inspired by it," Johnson discloses. "It was more modern harmony than the bebop that Strazz came out of. I bought that book and it broadened my harmonic palette. It was clear and helpful to me in the way that it was structured. Even though Strazz had played with all of these more traditional giants, he could learn new things and adapt; not all mature musicians can do that."
Gaea Schell, Jazz Legacy's new pianist, had encountered a few Strazzeri numbers on different bandstands. "I've played 'Relaxin'' quite a bit on my own gigs," she says. "That one stood out; it just makes so much sense to me. It's fun to play on the form and it's a little bit unpredictable. His tunes always show an understanding of form and they always have interesting chord changes."
From his home in Sun Valley, Strazzeri is modest about his abilities. "Writing comes extremely easy to me. I've got two books of my tunes out; all of he songs I've written: 'The Music of Frank Strazzeri Volume I' and 'II,' on the Strazzeri Publishing Company. I've got 45 tunes in one book and 30 in the other."
What course does Strazzeri follow when he sits down to write? "I like melody," he states. "Everything I write goes into all kinds of styles. I'm inspired by anyone who writes a good song and I want to be part of that scene."
Jazz Legacy performs at JAX on Friday, December 9. As always, they'll be mining that lode of hard swing and harmonic richness.
KIRK SILSBEE is veteran writer and critic on jazz and culture and is a frequent contributor to Marquee.
What: The Jazz Legacy, "A Jam At JAX," with members of the Glendale Pops Orchestra.
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For more than 20 years, Unix played the role of the 800 pound gorilla in the server space, especially in enterprise, scientific, government and academic environments. But traditional Unix vendors have faced increasing competition on two fronts. Microsoft Windows Server products have made significant inroads, particularly in the business back-end. To a lesser extent, but cutting closer to the bone, is competition from Linux.
While Microsoft servers represent a wholesale platform shift from Unix options, luring customers to Linux is less of a sea of change. Since it first began as a hobby project in 1991, Linux was inspired as a free alternative to proprietary Unix implementations. Although Linux is closely modeled after popular Unix systems in both form and function, its code is freely available and open source, without derivation from protected Unix code.
There is no single platform or product that singularly represents Linux. Because it is essentially an open source kernel surrounded by a set of open source tools, Linux has been packaged, customized and distributed by enthusiasts in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some distributions are optimized for end-user desktop use, some for lightweight servers, some for embedded applications, some for general purpose use, and so on.
While the motivation behind the original Linux development was driven without interest in the marketplace, its free nature has left open the possibility for vendors to build and sell their own Linux-based platforms. However, any doubts as to the credibility and viability of Linux, developed as it has been by volunteers during the past 15 years, vanished as blue-chip companies like IBM and Sun embraced Linux alongside their proprietary Unix platforms. Increasingly, both established and start-up companies are investing in Linux development. IBM alone is investing $1 billion of its $5 billion R&D budget in Linux.
Although revenue for Linux servers weighs in at less than one-third that of Unix servers--$5.3 billion vs. $17.5 billion--the two markets are trending in opposite directions. The Unix market has seen relatively steady year-to-year declines since its peak during the late '90s, while the Linux market is ascending. Research firm IDC projects that Linux-based servers will reach $11 billion by 2008, nearly halving the gap against Unix.
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Kids, in the spring of 2014, "How I Met Your Mother" aired its final episode, and part of its legacy may be its knack for long-running gags.
See, the genius behind the CBS comedy wasn't just the nonlinear storytelling, but the writers' way of weaving inside jokes and recurring story lines to sometimes deliver a humorous slap to the face stronger than Marshall's storied slap of a thousand suns.
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My husband and I have a vegetable garden at the Frisco Community Garden. One of the pleasures of being in-town farmers is meeting travelers drawn to HC3's picturesque cabin on Main Street, Frisco. As the season winds down and the leaves drop from the trees, there are fewer tourists in town and our raised beds are looking bedraggled and bare. On Monday afternoon, I met a 70-plus single visitor who'd dropped by the garden while I was taking care of a few chores. I'm sharing his story with you because I'd appreciate hearing your advice about options available in Summit County to single seniors visiting our towns and resorts for just a week or two.
So, here is what happened at the garden on Monday.
This fellow stepped out the back door of the HC3 cabin and lingered in the gated area. He wore a floppy green hat, a windbreaker and track pants. He inspected the compost bin and gazed off at Foote's Rest while I wound up the garden hose. Part of the hose slipped off the big metal cuff and I had to coil it all over again.
When married couples tour the garden, the husbands worry they're trespassing on private property, but the vivacious wives ask what it's like to grow plants at this altitude. And then we compare notes. If the visitor is really cruel, they'll pull out their smartphones and show me photos of their own gardens in the Midwest or the South. Infant-sized eggplants! Tetrahedral stacks of heirloom tomatoes!
(Have you successfully grown tomatoes outdoors in Summit County? If so, please email me. I've been told that any plant in the nightshade family is impossible to grow here, but a girl can dream.)
I digress. The visitor in the green hat lives in Waterloo, Iowa, and has been coming to Summit County to ski with friends every year since 1971. He assures me that he still skis every year but it is a lonely experience. His skiing buddies say they're too old and they gave it up. Back in the day, when we sat two to a chair on the lifts, he tells me, we had time to talk to people. You might even ski with a new acquaintance, he says. Now, the chairs zip up so fast that people don't talk to each other.
The visitor helped me to cover my raised garden bed with plastic sheeting (to protect it from the frost) and we put a few stones down around the perimeter.
He is divorced. Although he is retired, he owned two small businesses which he sold to his son. He tells me he hates retirement. He prefers being useful to people and doing something meaningful each day.
After the divorce, he purchased an abandoned stone quarry in the Waterloo area and began working to reclaim the land. He built a house there, trucked in soil to cover the scars in the earth, and planted buffalo grass and flowers. He tells me he is amazed by nature's power to heal damaged places.
We talked about gardening and skiing while I harvested the last of the kale and stuffed it into bags. Then he said goodbye and walked off down Main Street, past the Baptist church.
What advice do you have for single, over-50 visitors who are briefly touring the county and who'd like to meet other people with similar interests while they're here? Would you recommend the Over the Hill Gang at Copper? Online meetups? Is the Loosey Goosey group still active? Please email your ideas and suggestions to me – and don't forget to add a line about those tomatoes.
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Nathan Fox was born in Washington D.C. in 1975. Raised from the age of five on the suburban outskirts of Houston, Fox left Texas for Missouri where he attended the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduating in 1997, he worked as an editorial illustrator and offset pressman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a while. He moved to New York City in 2000, where he attended The School of Visual Arts Illustration As Visual Essay Graduate Program.
As a comic book artist, he has worked on titles for DC Comics ('Harley Quinn'), Vertigo ('DMZ', 'Hidden War'), Dark Horse ('Pigeons from Hell') and Marvel ('Dark Reign: Zodiac'). His comic 'Fluorescent Black', written by M.F. Wilson, was serialized in Heavy Metal magazine. He has done illustration work for The New York Times Newspaper and Magazine, Interview, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN Magazine, Print, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Spin, Mad Magazine, MTV Store Windows and Tshirts, Burton US Open 2009, Instant Winner and REAL Skateboards.
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The Return of the Shadow
|The Return of the Shadow
|J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
|Unwin Hyman (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
|25 August 1988
5 January 1989
The Return of the Shadow is the first volume of of the The History of The Lord of the Rings and the sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien's great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbo's 'magic' ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode into the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed, though his true identity seems to be an insoluble problem. Frodo's companions undergo many changes of name and personality; and other major figures appear in unfamiliar guises: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, and a ferocious, malevolent Farmer Maggot. This book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earlier manuscripts.
- Foreword
- The First Phase
- I A Long-expected Party
- II From Hobbiton to the Woody End
- III Of Gollum and the Ring
- IV To Maggot's Farm and Buckland
- V The Old Forest and the Withywindle
- VI Tom Bombadil
- VII The Barrow-wight
- VII Arrival at Bree
- IX Trotter and the Journey to Weathertop
- X The Attack on Weathertop
- XI From Weathertop to the Ford
- XII At Rivendell
- XIII 'Queries and Alterations'
- The Second Phase
- XIV Return to Hobbiton
- XV Ancient History
- XVI Delays Are Dangerous
- XVII A Short Cut to Mushrooms
- XVIII Again from Buckland to the Withywindle
- The Third Phase
- XIX The Third Phase (1): The Journey to Bree
- XX The Third Phase (2): At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
- XXI The Third Phase (3): To Weathertop and Rivendell
- XXII New Uncertainties and New Projections
- The Story Continued
- XXIII In the House of Elrond
- XXIV The Ring Goes South
- XXV The Mines of Moria


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- 2005-10-04
DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius - Grandmasters
Though it's been nearly a decade since The Soul Assasins dropped as a testament to coastal Hip-Hop unity, the bonds forged still remain. Like Alchemist's learned role in Mobb Deep, DJ Muggs maintained strengthened associations with acts in the East. Ever in search of challenges, GZA decided to do his next album entirely with Cypress Hill's renowned producer. In the tradition of Buckshot & 9th Wonder, or Edo G & Pete Rock, GZA & Muggs unify their veteran crafts for our benefit on Grandmasters (Angeles).
As its title hints to, this album is themed towards educating young people on the origins of Hip-Hop. "General Principles" and "Unstoppable Threats" find the Genius reporting the traditions of the culture amidst telling his own coming-to, similar to Wu-brother, Masta Killa's "School Days." GZA is as sharp as ever on Grandmasters, which also brings him back to cursing on record, which was omitted on Legend of the Liquid Sword. "Illusory Protection" is one of the album's best lyrical moments, where Muggs matches GZA's anger, with pounding drums and a hint of Cypress Hill horn stabs. It is here that GZA exposes MCs with short careers and short lyrics. Though the chorus tires easily, the varied rhyme-patterns impress any Wu purist. As an added treat, RZA keeps his brother company for a bulk of the album, similar to the early days of Rae and Ghost. This sense of family hasn't been this strong on a GZA album since Liquid Swords his groundbreaking sophomore release.
Muggs certainly provides a new sound for GZA. Clearly, with drum-pattern allusions back to Wu classics, ["All In Together"] he was aware of GZA's heritage and musical likeness. "Advance Pawns" also touches upon the mood of "Tearz," quite closely. Still, the loud, distorted clamor found on "Smothered Mate" brings new texture to the GZA sound. Similar to the guitar and percussion play on "Thief's Theme," this attitude provides swagger to GZA's flow. Other efforts feel far too simple, such as the shorter loops on "Queen's Gambit" and "Exploitation of Mistakes" are lucky to have GZA, but still don't attract much attention. Muggs is no better than Mathematics, let alone the RZA in his musical craftsmanship. However, he succeeds in recognizing the great elements of Wu production, and adding his own methodology and darkness in between the kicks and snares.
Grandmasters stays almost entirely within the subject-matter of Hip-Hop and its progression. Unlike similar efforts by KRS-One or K-Os, this album's music and lyrics dare to be dark, and almost painful in the pursuit. An MC known for playing games with his words, and a producer revered for his eccentric instrumentation, Grandmasters grows predictably from its Soul Assassins roots. The album gives new context to two progressive artists with fifteen-plus year careers, still fit for challenging themselves.
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Fuentes, a freelance
reporter originally based in the city of
In July, the Catholic Church brokered an agreement with Cuban authorities to release 52 political prisoners who were arrested seven years ago, during a massive government crackdown on political dissent and independent journalism. Spanish government officials also participated in the talks.
All 17 of the reporters
released so far have been immediately flown to
Three journalists arrested
in the 2003 crackdown remain in jail, along with another journalist imprisoned
at a later time, CPJ research shows. The first three--including CPJ awardee Héctor Maseda--have already
expressed their desire to stay in
A story published in
September by the Madrid-based daily El
País quoted Spanish officials as saying that imprisoned reporters who
want to stay in
Below is a capsule report on Fuentes' case from CPJ's annual census of jailed journalists, conducted in December 2009.
Alfredo Felipe Fuentes,
Imprisoned: March 19, 2003
Fuentes, an economist by
training, began working for the Cuban independent press in 1991. On March 19,
2003, he was arrested after a raid on his home in the city of
The 60-year-old journalist was being held at the maximum-security Guanajay Prison, his wife, Loyda Valdés González, told CPJ. Valdés González, who is allowed to visit her husband only once every 45 days, said conditions at Guanajay were better than those at other prisons where he had been held. Due to his severe back problems, the reporter did not share a cell with other prisoners. Valdés González said her husband suffered from chronic gastritis that caused him to lose significant amounts of weight.
Valdés González told CPJ
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It's surprising how simple the design of a solar bottle light is – take an empty plastic bottle, fill it with mineral water and a few drops of bleach, and cement it halfway through a small metal roof sheet (the kind used as roofs in Manila's slum areas). Then cut out a small piece of the actual roof, place the sheet with the bottle on top of the hole, cement any cracks, and voilà! Let there be light.
This initiative, a project designed and developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and implemented by MyShelter Foundation, is already transforming lives of low-income people in the Philippines.
Aside from giving light, it reduces the risk of fire-related incidents involving faulty electrical connections, which are rampant in informal settlements like slum areas. MyShelter Foundation's vision through "Isang Litrong Liwanag" (A Liter of Light) project is to brighten one million homes in the Philippines by 2012 with the help of various partners and volunteers.
Here at the Development Marketplace, we love innovative technologies like this: transformative, affordable, eco-friendly, and scalable. Check out their video below:
Alfredo Moser is the inventor of the solar bottle bulb, a Brazilian engineer who improvised the device to light his workshop in 2002 when his neighborhood in Sao Paolo, Brazil was suffering through a long cut in electric power. Soon, his neighbors followed suit. (source: http://www.philstar.com/business-usual/2013/06/10/952069/liter-light)
What an Idea!
@ Jonathan Davidar and Solar
Thanks. I asked only because
@ T.V. Somanathan
Thanks for the update
thanks for sharing
Its wonderful
Why do we have to use mineral
@Lila239 - I believe bleach
i think Clarity of water is
i think Clarity of water is of great value during the refraction of light.
i believe this system works
@Mubbashir - yes, this system
Solar bottle lights
your comment was really a
your comment was really a great idea, but have you try it your self? does it works,I am really interested because i know a lot of people from oriental mindoro philippines that up to present thier places does not have electricity yet they are just using the gass or oil lamp
Is the Chlorine different
its brilliant..
its brilliant..
plz say which type of liquid bleach are used?
bleach will prevent the alage
bleach will prevent the alage inside the bottle
bottle lamps
solar bottle light
Bottled Sunshine
Hello everyone, it's my first
Hello everyone, it's my first go to see at this website, and piece of writing is genuinely fruitful in favor of
me, keep up posting these types of articles.
Appreciate small things
Credit please to the inventor
Credit please to the inventor of this "light bulb", Alfredo Moser - an engineer from Brazil.
Thank you for your comment
Whoever might be the
Whoever might be the originator of the solar bottle light bulb, Filipino or Brazilian, what matters is that it has come to be. Such alternative solar lighting contraption is sure to provide cheap and reliable illumination to homes, particularly those that belong to underprivileged countries of the world.
hi sir can i use bleaching
hi sir can i use bleaching powder.....and what about contity ... also is it work at night.... plz help... bcoz i dont get bleaching liquid anywhere....
Sir, I would like to know
Sir, I would like to know that how we can modify the bottle to produce light after daylight. I found some information that we need to fix a solar panel at the top of the bottle. but I dont know how we can do this. If you can help me to do this, then We will be at the top of this project.
Indeed, solar bottle lights
Indeed, solar bottle lights are bound to be of great help to many underprivileged communities in Asia and the rest of the world. Governments should really exert much effort to propagate the immense benefits of these simple yet reliable solar lighting fixtures.
Hi...I just to know how long
Hi...I just to know how long the light last?
Its very nice. I'm nekhil ray
Its very nice. I'm nekhil ray from bangladesh. I'm working in the nongovernment organization. I talk to ed in this solar bottle light so we are working this project in our countries poor homes in bangladesh. Please help me what we doing now.


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Luca.2009 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
AromaTick is a start-up company retailing coffee and tea pods to the home market by providing the brewing equipment on a free-loan basis eliminating the upfront investment barrier to installing an espresso machine in the home.
Traditional young families and home-based small businesses who want to enjoy café-quality coffee and herbal teas in the comfort of their home without the hassles associated with buying/maintaining a traditional espresso machine.
The predominant buyer of the household is usually the woman, so the brand needs to target a mostly female based market in an approachable and friendly way.
Age: 20 - 40
The logo should be elegant, simple and concise so that it can be applied to the website as well as business cards, packaging, stationary, etc…
Our idea for the logo was to facilitate the understanding of the brand name – maybe by placing a "tick" symbol somewhere but please do not feel constrained to do so if you have a better idea.
Please feel free to experiment with colours, fonts and upper/lower case (e.g. AromaTick, Aroma Tick, Aromatick) but keep in mind the target market.
If you have any positive/negative comment on the actual brand name (e.g. the name does not fit the product/service/market or it is somehow misleading), please let us know. We would appreciate your feedback/suggestions.
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Glenn Frey Rules Out Eagles' 40th Anniversary Tour
On May 8, Glenn Frey of the Eagles will release his first solo album since 1992. To promote 'After Hours,' Frey spoke with Rolling Stone, who are always willing to give some high-profile press one of their legacy artists. After a few cursory questions about the new album, which is a collection of standards from the 'Great American Songbook,' reporter Andy Greene asked him how, or if, the Eagles are planning to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
In addition to hinting at projects he can't discuss, Frey said that they are working on a two-DVD history of the Eagles. The documentary will be directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney ('Taxi to the Dark Side,' 'The Smartest Guys in the Room').
As for touring, he said that the band will play a few select dates, including the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on May 5, but a full-scale tour in 2012 will not happen. "This is more of a planning year for us,' Frey told Greene. "We went through a four-year touring cycle with 'Long Road Out of Eden,' and this year we're playing some places where we've never played before."
However, anything can happen in 2013. "Maybe when September comes around we can sort of look and say, 'OK. Let's go out next year and let's do,'" he continued. "That's my idea, but whether it happens or not we gotta just wait and see. We just do one year at a time with the band. It seems to be the best way to take everybody's temperature and see what we're up for doing each year."


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Publicist: 'Moon River' singer Andy Williams dies
BRANSON, MO (AP) – Emmy-winning TV host and "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams has died at age 84.
Williams' publicist, Paul Shefrin, said Wednesday that the silky-voiced singer died Tuesday night at his home in Branson, Mo., following a year-long battle with bladder cancer.
Williams said in November 2011 that he was diagnosed with bladder cancer but planned to continue performing at the namesake theater he built in Branson in 1992.
The clean-cut Iowa native began singing with his brothers as a child, and his easy style and mellow voice led President Ronald Reagan to call Williams "a national treasure." Though his version of "Moon River" made him world famous, it was among his many hits, including "Butterfly" and "Can't Get Used to Losing You."
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The "Mommy Wars" and related skirmishes have been waged for decades, with no distinct winners.
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What is clear is that there are several important laws and financial rules for stay-at-home spouses. Enmeshed in complicated government regulations, many homemakers are not aware of how their no-paycheck status impacts what's in their wallet today and their future financial security.
"They just don't know their rights," says Amy Matsui, senior counsel with the National Women's Law Center.
Here are some of the financial rules for stay-at-home spouses, defined as someone working on the home front but not drawing a paycheck.
Getting a Credit Card
If you want to keep your personal spending separate, you can't do it with your own credit card. One of the consequences of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, or CARD Act, of 2009, which aimed to bar issuers from supplying college students with credit by requiring that cards be issued only to those with income to pay the bills, was to also restrict homemakers who don't earn income on their own from getting their own card.
One CARD Act provision that went into effect Oct. 1, 2011, made it impossible for nonworking spouses without their own source of income to get a new credit card. It meant that a homemaker could only get a card through his or her spouse as an authorized user on a joint card.
These financial rules for stay-at-home spouses sparked the ire of many like Holly McCall, who partnered with the nonprofit group MomsRising to petition for signatures on its website and on Change.org to ask the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to amend the law for nonearning homemakers.
In October 2012, the CFPB proposed changes to the new regulations to make it easier for spouses or partners who do not work outside of the home to qualify for credit cards. The bureau's proposed revision would allow credit card applicants who are age 21 or older to rely on third-party income to which they have a reasonable expectation of access.
Protecting 401(k) Funds
You rely on these retirement funds coming from your working spouse, but you could get a nasty surprise. A 401(k) account is often the biggest asset that couples have. To protect that important source of retirement savings, federal law requires a worker to get his or her spouse's signature if he or she wants to name someone else as the beneficiary of the account.
But if someone with a 401(k) changes jobs, that person can cash out the 401(k) without getting a spouse's permission. The person also can roll the funds into an individual retirement account and name someone else as the beneficiary, Matsui says.
"IRAs are a huge problem," she says. When someone sets up an IRA, there is no requirement that the spouse of the account holder be named as beneficiary or even that the spouse consents to the designation of other beneficiaries.
"In some cases, after a spouse has died, the surviving partner has tried to challenge the other named beneficiary receiving the IRA, Matsui says. But spouses have no rights to the IRA except in a handful of states with community property laws when others, such as children from a prior marriage, have been designated as the IRA beneficiaries, she says.
Putting Money away for Retirement
You may not earn a paycheck, but you can put money away for retirement in your own name.
"It drives me nuts that so many women don't know that they could set up an IRA in their own name," says Cindy Hounsell, president of the nonprofit Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement in Washington, D.C.
IRAs became available decades ago to help workers build tax-advantaged retirement savings, and so-called spousal IRAs are intended to provide homemakers who may not earn any outside income to be able to create their own personal IRAs, just like paycheck-earning workers.
As with other IRAs, in 2013 homemakers can contribute up to $5,500 annually -- $6,500 if the homemaker is over age 50 -- and the contributions can be deducted from the couple's adjusted gross income, with some restrictions.
It's critically important for nonworking spouses to have funds in their own names, Hounsell says. "No one thinks they are going to get divorced." But when it happens, many former spouses discover they have no access to retirement funds or that they have inadequate retirement funds.
Maximizing Social Security
Homemakers who don't earn an income for a prolonged period and then divorce will probably suffer in retirement because their own Social Security payout would be based on their interrupted and presumably low earnings history.
If you divorce after you reach your 10th anniversary, you'll have a richer retirement. Social Security rules dictate that if a prior marriage lasted at least 10 years, the divorced spouse is entitled to a benefit of 50% of the ex's benefits.
For instance, if a man files for Social Security at age 66 and receives a $2,000 benefit, his former wife could get $1,000 as long as the couple saw a 10th wedding anniversary. Divorced widows also are eligible to collect the spousal benefit if they were married 10 years, says Jim Blair, a former Social Security administrator who co-runs Premier Social Security Consulting.
"If you are married nine years and 11 months, you would get nothing," Blair says.
Filing Tax Returns
If your spouse cheats on income taxes, you may not be liable if you prove your innocence. A homemaker who earns no income does not have to file his or her own separate income tax return but usually elects to file a joint return with the paycheck-earning spouse, says Paul Kohlhoff, law professor and supervising faculty attorney of the tax clinic at Valparaiso University Law School in Indiana.
The fact that a nonearning spouse jointly files will probably enhance the chances of getting "innocent spouse" relief in cases where the Internal Revenue Service is collecting on a fraudulent return, so long as the nonearning spouse was not aware of the fraud, Kohlhoff says.
The IRS originally came up with an "innocent spouse" rule to provide relief to a spouse who files jointly but was compelled by duress or lack of knowledge to sign off on a return that understated income or underpaid the amount owed, Kohlhoff says.
It's easier for nonworking spouses to be granted this relief since the IRS could argue "there was tacit consent," if a working partner signed a joint return when she or he could file separately, Kohlhoff says.
Usually, a spouse is divorced or separated when he or she asks for relief from having to pay the amount owed. The IRS recently liberalized the rules, eliminating a two-year deadline from the time of the first collection for petitioning for relief. Still, nonworking spouses must prove that they were under physical or emotional duress or ignorant of the tax cheating to be granted this relief, Kohlhoff says.
Copyright 2013, Bankrate Inc.


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Inauguration of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Conference Centre at ECHAActivity by Virginia Mercouri | added on Oct 09, 2011 | Finland
Sponsor(s): Inauguration of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Conference Centre at the European Chemicals Agency
Under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the European Union and UNESCO, keynote speech by the President of IUPAC Prof. Nicole Moreau
To celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011 and the birth date of the most famous female-scientist, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will inaugurate officially on 7 November its conference centre after the name of Marie Skłodowska Curie.
The ceremony includes:
Keynote speech by Prof. Nicole Moreau, President of IUPAC
Address by Prof. Hélène Langevin-Joliot, granddaughter of Marie Skłodowska Curie
Opening of an exhibition about the life of the Nobel Prize Winner with contributions from France and Poland
The event will start at 2:30 pm and gather an audience of around 400, including ambassadors of EU Member States to Finland, heads of EU insitutions in Helsinki, high-level representatives of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Science, representatives of the science and business community and of ECHA accredited stakeholders, the Chair of ECHA's Management Board and scientists working at ECHA.
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Royals Birthdays – November 30
Long break for Thanksgiving…Thanks for returning to see what's new at Royals Then, Now & Forever. We'll start with a few birthday greetings and look for some more facts, tidbits and stories in the days ahead.
1962 – Bo Jackson (Outfielder – 1986-90)
1958 – Steve Shields (Pitcher – 1986)
1954 – Juan Berenguer (Pitcher – 1981, 1992)
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Did You Know: Although Bo Jackson is remembered as one of the greatest two-sport profesional athletes in history, he was not the first Heisman Trophy winner to play Major League Baseball. Who was the first?
Vic Janowicz won the Heisman at Ohio State (1950) the year before Woody Hayes began his legendary career as the Buckeyes Head Coach. Janowicz played briefly for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1953 and 1954.
Strange Bowl Season Side Note: In 1950 Woody Hayes lead his Miami (OH) Redskins, now known as the RedHawks, to his first bowl game as a college football head coach. Believe it or not the game was the Salad Bowl in Phoenix where they defeated Arizona State 34-21 on January 1, 1951. It's true…the Salad Bowl.