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Customs Fast Track
|Customs Fast Track
Cesar Vialpando telling Carl Johnson about a Jester being shipped out that they can steal.
|GTA San Andreas
|Cesar Vialpando
|Steal a Jester and return it to the garage.
|Doherty, San Fierro, San Andreas
Death of Carl Johnson
Arrest of Carl Johnson
Death of Cesar Vialpando
Destruction of Cesar Vialpando's Savanna
Destruction of the Jester
Cesar flees the scene
Puncture Wounds
Exports and Imports
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Customs Fast Track is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Varrios Los Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando from the garage in the Doherty district of San Fierro, San Andreas.
Cesar is told that another car on their wish list, a Jester, is being loaded onto a container at a ship down at the docks at Easter Basin; his contact has marked the container. Both Carl and Cesar head for the docks to go see it.
Once there, however, Carl learns that there are three freight containers on the ship, and all of them are unmarked. Using the dock crane, Carl lifts the containers down to the dock while Cesar cracks open each of them until they find the desired car (the other two containers contain a Club and a Perennial).
Once the car has been found, security appears. Carl kills three waves of security, and takes Cesar and the car back to the garage.
(Carl, working on a hood of a car)
Carl Johnson: Yeah, I got it. It's in the manifold.
Cesar Vialpando: Shit, I just changed that seal! Must have got a crimp in it, damn!
Kendl Johnson: Hey, Ces, your boy is here.
Cesar Vialpando: He ain't my boy.
Kendl Johnson: Hey, we're almost living a normal life, huh. This is far from Grove Street, right?
Carl Johnson: Yeah, I know, but I just can't get it out of the back of my mind. Moms, Sweet, Smoke - I just can't let that go.
Kendl Johnson: I know. So what we going to do about Sweet?
Carl Johnson: It's a shitty situation but I've got to let it play out a little longer, OK?
Kendl: OK, but be careful. We ain't trying to lose you again.
Carl Johnson: That's right, sis - good looking out.
Cesar Vialpando: Hey. Carl, I gotta rap to you, holmes. I know a guy who knows a guy who handles fright containers down on the docks. He saw one of the containers was loading up cars and one was a match for a car on a customer's wish list. So, he marked the container with the spray can, but it might be too late, the ship's loading it and it moves out tomorrow.
Carl Johnson: Okay, let's go peep it out - see what we can see.
(While on Cesar's Savanna)
Cesar Vialpando: How we gonna steal a car off a container ship, holmes?
Carl Johnson: You know, the same way they got on - use a dockside crane!
Cesar Vialpando: Man, those things are real high up - I ain't too good with ladders and I'm afraid of heights!
Carl Johnson: OK, I'll use the crane, you better be ready to crack the container.
Cesar Vialpando That's the ship, CJ!
Carl Johnson: OK, I'll go sort out the crane. Gimme a second.
Cesar Vialpando: Be quick, I don't wanna be caught sleeping out here!
(Whilst Carl is on the crane)
Carl Johnson: Cesar! None of these is marked with spray paint!
Cesar Vialpando: We'll just have to try one at a time, eh!
(First container is docked off)
Cesar Vialpando: Not this one, CJ!
(Second container is docked off)
Cesar Vialpando: No luck, CJ, try another!
(Once correct car is unloaded)
Cesar Vialpando: OK, CJ, this is the one, good work, holmes!
Security: Hey! What the fuck do you think you're doing?
Cesar Vialpando: CJ, I could do with some help!
Security: Hey, hold it right there!
Cesar Vialpando: I could do with a little help, CJ!
Security: Stay right there, you thieving bastard!
(Once CJ kills the security)
Cesar Vialpando: Let's just the get the car and get out of here!
(In the car)
Carl Johnson: There gotta be an easier way of earning a living than this.
Cesar Vialpando: Sure, holmes, I guess, but what else are you qualified for?
Carl Johnson: Yeah, I feel you!
(If CJ damages the car)
Cesar Vialpando:Hey, CJ! We get paid on the condition of the car, holmes! Be more careful!
Carl Johnson: Who's driving, me or you?
(Arrives at the garage)
Cesar Vialpando: That was like a piece of tortilla!
The rewards for this mission are increased respect and cash. The cash reward will depend on the condition of the car, with the maximum reward amount being $10,000; it is thus recommended that players repair the car at a Pay 'n' Spray before delivering it to the Doherty garage in order to maximize their monetary reward.
The mission Puncture Wounds and the Exports and Imports side mission are also unlocked.
- Dropping any of the containers from great heights will result in the car inside the container exploding on impact with the ground, destroying the car and the container. Regardless of which container is dropped, the player automatically fails the mission, as Cesar flees the scene.
- After obtaining the car and confronting the arriving security guards, the player can make use of the crane to lift a car or container and drop it over the guards to kill them (even the magnet alone can be used); crushing the guards' cars using dropped containers may also lead to them to explode and damage those standing nearby. However, this method proves to be more tricky with the second and third wave, as Cesar will leave the protection of the stolen car to shoot the guards, exposing himself to gunfire and sustain injuries more rapidly.
- Unlike other stolen cars in the Wang Cars mission string, a Jester will not spawn in the Wang Cars showroom after this mission. Instead, a Savanna will appear.
- The Club, Perennial, and Jester, which were uncovered from the shipping containers during the mission, would later be available for purchase as basic importable vehicles on the import board.
Carl Johnson picking up a container off the ship and lowering it down to Cesar Vialpando.
Cesar driving the Jester out of its container.
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On Saturday, March 16, 2019, I will be participating in Pink Vail to support patients and survivors at our local cancer center and I need your support!
Pink Vail is the world's biggest ski day to conquer cancer. Proceeds benefit all patients at Shaw Cancer Center through enhancements to patient care and by funding the Spirit of Survival program. The Spirit of Survival program provides all patients the opportunity to receive free exercise training, nutrition coaching, emotional support, massages, acupuncture, outdoor adventures and much more. These unique services can dramatically impact a patient's quality of life, but are not typically covered by insurance.
It is rare for a rural, resort town to provide such comprehensive care, and, truly, Shaw exists because of generous donors, passionate volunteers and talented clinicians who are dedicated to restoring the health of their cancer patients.
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Watch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and arrange an oven rack in the middle of the oven. Get yourself a paper bag large enough to hold the asparagus comfortable. Throw the asparagus in there and drizzle the outside of the bag with olive oil to keep the bag from burning. Sprinkle the asparagus with the salt and cracked pepper and toss in the lemon slices and bay leaf. Close the bag, folding it over several times and creasing the folds well to hold the steam in. Put the pan on a baking sheet, drizzle it with more olive oil, stick it in the oven, and bake for 20 minutes.
Take the baking sheet out of the oven and set it on top of the stove. Set a serving plate next to the stove. Using a kitchen towel or a pair of kitchen tongs, raise the bag over the plate, open the bag, and slide the asparagus out onto the plate. Drizzle with a little more olive oil and serve hot.


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Saturday: HeCathlon 2
In Brit band Pulp's song "I'm a Man," the estimable Jarvis Cocker pondered "what it takes to be a man."
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Well," Cocker sang, "I learned to drink/ And I learned to smoke/ And I learned to tell a dirty joke," concluding that, "If that's all there is/ Then there's no point for me."
If they'd had the HeCathlon back in 1998 when
he wrote that song, Cocker might've found his purpose more easily.
The lighthearted but fiercely competitive contest will be held for the second year in a row on April 6 at locations scattered about downtown Wilmington. Sponsored by Southeastern N.C. men's magazine Men, Ink., the 10 events in last year's HeCathlon included sinking an eight ball, downing a pint, doing push-ups on top of a blow-up doll, reading poetry and hoofing it to Sixth Street (from Front) to shoot a free throw.
Just to keep you on your toes, all or none of these may be involved in HeCathlon 2. Organizers promise "a few surprises."
How it works is, contestants race to finish the 10 events, with the first to finish taking home $100. I'm told that last year's winner – the StarNews' own Jason Gonzales (pictured at right) – is intent on keeping his crown, so man up.
Or, woman up. The HeCathlon is open to anyone 21 and older. Registration fee is $25, and the event runs 3-5 p.m. Headquarters are at Orton's, 133 N. Front St., where the race will start and end, to be followed by an after-party.
Get details at www.MenInk.com.
Friday: Ivey Hayes retrospective
Ivey Hayes, the iconic Southeastern North Carolina painter who died last year, was a gentle soul and an amazing artist. His images, which often depicted field workers or musicians, feature bright colors and distorted perspectives, with mysteriously blacked-out faces that make them even more striking. Hayes' brother and manager, Phillip, has put together a retrospective of his work, and it goes on display with a public reception 6:30-9:30 p.m. April 5 at the Bellamy Mansion in downtown Wilmington. The exhibition will remain on display through mid-May.
For details, call 251-3700 or go to www.BellamyMansion.org.
Saturday: Kids Day in the Park
If you've got kids, you could a lot worse by them than taking them to Kids Day in the Park on April 6 in downtown Southport.
Held in Franklin Square Park at the corner of Howe and West streets, the free family fun day includes activities for kids from kindergarten through third grade such as face-painting and jewelry making. The Trolley Stop hot dog shop will have refreshments for sale.
Kids Day in the Park is sponsored by the Associated Artists of Southport and it runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For details, call 457-5450 or go to www.FranklinSquareGallery.com
Saturday: Riverfront Farmers' Market
I went to the Riverfront Farmers' Market in downtown Wilmington last weekend – its first day back after a winter hiatus – with my 1-year-old son, not expecting to see too much, it being so early in the spring.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of stuff, not to mention the healthy crowd. The turnips looked good, as did some of the heartier winter greens, and there were way more local craft and plant vendors than I had anticipated. Dare I say, it appeared to be in full swing right from the get-go.
Check it out for yourself this weekend. The market runs 8 a.m.-1 p.m. www.WilmingtonDowntown.com/farmers-market
Saturday & Sunday: Henrietta III tours, cruises
Twenty-five years ago, downtown Wilmington got a lasting addition to its riverfront when the Henrietta II riverboat docked at the foot of Market Street for the first time.
To celebrate a quarter-century in downtown Wilmington, Cape Fear Riverboats will offer free public tours of the Henrietta III (docked at the foot of Dock Street, it's the boat that replaced the II) on April 6. Then, on April 7, Cape Fear Riverboats will offer three tours of the Cape Fear River at the throwback 1988 prices of $5.50 for adults and $3.00 for children.
For details, or to make reservations, call 343-1611 or go to www.CFRboats.com.


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A couple of weeks ago, millions of people talked about (if they didn't always watch) a made-for-cable movie about Los Angeles enduring a flying-shark attack. Thirty-eight years ago it was Steven Spielberg's "Jaws"; this summer it was Ian Ziering's "Sharknado."
It would be a stretch to say that the same spirit is motivating all of our multiplex choices this summer. But you could be forgiven for drawing some comparisons. The niche, the obscure and even the silly (rather than the somber, the big-budget and the effects-laden) have dominated our moviegoing habits. We loved lower-priority studio pictures such as "The Heat," "Grown-Ups 2" and "The Purge" -- and largely turned our backs on "After Earth," White House Down" and "Pacific Rim." Sure "Iron Man 3" and "World War Z" proved to be effects-driven, big-budget hits. But week in and week out, it has been the small comedy or horror movie that's snagged our attention a lot more than a massive Guillermo del Toro or Will Smith action-adventure.
That was pointedly on display this weekend when "The Conjuring" -- a $20 million movie about a paranormal investigator played by Vera Farmiga -- thoroughly walloped the far more expensive, celebrity-laden "R.I.P.D.," outdrawing it by a ratio of more than three to one.
For years Universal puzzled over how to make "R.I.P.D.," eventually casting Jeff Bridges, hot off his "True Grit" Oscar win, and Ryan Reynolds, at the time minted as a superhero and romantic lead. The project seemed like a no-brainer: "R.I.P.D" was a popular Dark Horse comic, and it lent itself to effects set-pieces and shiny actor names. It was a perfect summer movie as conceived in 2010. Unfortunately, that's not what's proving to work in 2013.
It's hard to say what's changed exactly in what's turning out to be the summer of the B-movie — certainly the volume and sameness of these big-budget films don't help. Nor does the growth of social media, which makes it harder than ever to keep bad buzz quiet even through an opening weekend.
Whatever it is, it's a real and potentially significant trend, as my colleague Amy Kaufman and I explored in a story in The Times this weekend. If you give us something that feels a little smaller and made for us —whoever that might be — we'll get excited about it. If you give us something big and broad that feels as if it was made for everyone and thus no one at all, we'll turn a cold shoulder.
So will the studios want to shift gears to concentrate more on these kinds of movies in summer? Could they even if they wanted to?
On the one hand, those who run Hollywood's biggest movie machines are adaptive creatures, and will always go where the audiences are. And these smaller movies are cheaper, which is always appealing in any season.
On the other hand, a wholesale summer shift is a lot harder than it looks. Mid-budget comedies and low-budget horror are not what studios are designed for, not in summer anyway -- they're not what they pay their biggest executives to think about, they're not why those executives negotiated $20-million deals with stars, they're not why studios buy a gazillion ads during prime time (nor does one need to do that).
The four-quadrant business, much as it seems like a skill-lite, hammer-into-submission realm, requires not just money but savvy. It's a difficult task and one that the studios have been good at, particularly over the past two decades, when the summer blockbuster reached new heights of both budget and box office. To hear from audiences that maybe they didn't want big production values and big money after all is a lesson that's not easy to assimilate, let alone react to. It would be like asking Karl Rove to run a student election. (It's also worth noting that numbers from these smaller movies are not what Wall Street is inclined to like; though from a fiscal standpoint these films are actually more responsible, concentrating on them means lower revenues and fewer analyst-friendly home runs.)
Still, studios will inevitably begin to make at least some changes. In the coming years we're likely to see just a few less star-driven effects movies that cost an obscene amount of money, and more of the targeted movies that have done so well this year. Summer, in other words, will look a little more like the rest of the year.
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The Père Marquette Discovery Award is Marquette University's highest honor. In the spirit of the discoveries of Père Jacques Marquette, the award honors those who achieve an extraordinary breakthrough that adds to human knowledge or the advancement of humanity.
Past recipients of the Père Marquette Discovery Award include:
Saying they represented "integration, inclusion, and access to education in the face of terrible odds and deeply held prejudice," Marquette President Robert A. Wild, S.J., conferred the award for the fifth time in university history on the Little Rock Nine. Minnijean Brown Trickey, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Melba Patillo Beals, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Terrence Roberts and Jefferson Thomas dared to challenge segregation in public schools by enrolling at all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.
Winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Rev. Desmond Mpilo Tutu visited campus as part of Mission Week 2003. In awarding the Peace Prize, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said: "Desmond Tutu has shown that to campaign for peace is not a question of silent acceptance, but rather of arousing consciences and a sense of indignation, strengthening the will, and inspiring the human spirit so that it recognizes both its own value and its power of victory."
"Mother Teresa has discovered God in the poorest of the poor," said Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J., then president of Marquette. "Through her life and example, people of every country in the world have discovered the light of God shines again in our time. Like Père Marquette, Mother Teresa does indeed map the unknown regions of man's need to give and receive Christ's charity." In response, Mother Teresa said, "I am most unworthy to receive this honor — this award. But I receive it for the glory of God and in the name of our poor people — the unwanted, unloved, uncared for."
"It is eminently fitting," said President John P. Raynor, S.J., "that the Père Marquette Discovery medal be presented to one whose achievements, like those of Father Marquette, bear the mark of explorer and discoverer-explorer of the uncharted regions of man's need for commitment to and communication with his God if his life is to have meaning and purpose, discoverer of new dimensions of the marvelous phenomenon which is man. Father Rahner has, indeed, pushed back the horizons of his understanding of the mysterious relationship between Creator and created, between Him who is our final destiny and him who struggles toward it."
Presented to Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins. "In perpetuating the memory of Father Marquette as one of history's greatest explorers and discoverers," President John P. Raynor, S.J., said, "it is most fitting that the first Père Marquette Discovery Medals be presented to the heroic crew of Apollo 11. Like Father Marquette, the Apollo 11 astronauts share in full measure the qualities which distinguish all great explorers — a questing spirit, uniqueness in deed and a consuming dedication to the betterment of civilization."


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I had been wanting to try this out ever since I read about dry ribs on iheartbacon.com, a wonderful food blog by Megwoo that immediately endeared itself to my bacon-loving heart. The description made my mouth water and the method sounded pretty simple so I was raring to go. I tried it twice, first with beef short ribs and then with pork baby back ribs (pork ribs pictured here, like Megwoo I only have a picture of the "part 2" because the first try got eaten up before the camera could get to it!).
Both were excellent! The flavor was great and the meat so tender with crispy outer edges. The beef ribs reminded me of Crispy Tadyang, a local dish here of deep fried beef spareribs.
Megwoo rubbed her ribs with salt and pepper before sticking it in the oven but I used some St. Louis Rib Rub I had lying around instead. Here's what she did: Basically you just rub your seasoning on the ribs and stick them in the oven at 350 F. You flip them after 45 minutes and cook for another 45 minutes. Then turn off the heat and leave them in the oven for another 30 minutes. This is what I did for the pork ribs, but I had to cook the beef ribs longer in order for them to get tender.
Nice surprise: I didn't put enough rub on the beef ribs (it was my first try) so I just sprinkled the ribs with rock salt while they were still hot. Oh boy. That sure provided the needed magic! It was so tasty!
I served the ribs with Rosemary Garlic Potatoes:
– 4 potatoes, cubed
– 1 1/2 teaspoon rosemary (I used dried, no fresh, sigh…)
– 4 cloves garlic, chopped
– Extra Virgin Olive oil
– Salt and pepper
– Parsley
Place cubed potatoes in a baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle rosemary, garlic, salt, and pepper. Toss around until everything is coated. Bake until potatoes are tender. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.
Look at that meat! There is just something so primal about sticking a big hunka-hunka meat in your oven and coming out with this big roasted slab. I swear, I just grabbed at it and tore some ribs off and ate with my hands. I just had to. It made me do it!


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Yesterday I mentioned in this space how I had stumbled across Ann Patchett's wonderful Atlantic piece about indie bookselling after a wi-fi outage forced me to do what I never do: pick up the print magazine, to which I subscribe, and read it, instead of reading the Atlantic through its website, which I visit several times daily.
It happened again last night, during the wi-fi outage, with Jeffrey Goldberg's excellent and provocative Atlantic essay on gun control — more on which in a moment; save your commentary on it on for the subsequent thread. Again, it somehow feels important to say that I probably wouldn't have read it if I had not seen it in the traditional magazine. For one thing, I don't really care about the gun control issue, so I probably would not have clicked on the Atlantic's web headline. For another, the fact that there's always something narrowly tailored to one's own interests available on the web makes it even more likely that I would have skipped Goldberg's essay in favor of something more in tune with my preferences. Encountering it in the print format made me read it … and I'm so glad that I did.
Incidentally, I'm also a subscriber to The New Yorker, which I typically read on my iPad, downloaded on Mondays (the print version arrives later in the week, by which time I've already gone through that issue). You have to read the NYer on your iPad as if it were a magazine. I mean, you can jump around by following links in the table of contents, but the way it's formatted encourages you to read it in the traditional linear way. This is great, because it makes me consider and read pieces that I probably wouldn't have clicked on if presented only as a hyperlink.
Funny, but when I subscribed to the print edition of The New York Times, instead of to the web-only edition, I was better informed — and for the same reason. I'm almost never going to read a Times sports story online, unless it's highly promoted, because I don't really care about sports. I read sports stories fairly often in the print edition, because I would at least look at the cover of the sports section. Same with fashion stories in the Times. I practically never read them in the online version, but I always at least looked at the section in the print product.
There's a lesson here for a certain kind of reader, which is to say, for readers like me. Over to you, Alan Jacobs; I need you to lay it out for me, in that way that you do.


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Honoring Seba Sheavly
Project AWARE Foundation staff are deeply saddened about the passing of a long-time colleague, mentor and friend Seba Sheavly. A leader in the marine debris field for two decades, Seba was a keystone figure in the conservation community and a tireless advocate for the ocean.
"Seba was one of Project AWARE's first friends at the Center for Marine Conservation in the early days of international cleanup so many years ago," said Chairman of the Project AWARE Foundation Board and PADI President and Chief Operating Officer, Drew Richardson. "I will always remember her boundless energy, passion and enthusiasm for her work. She was a world renowned expert in her field. As such, she had a great impact on helping understand marine debris problems and engaging divers who have been working on the issue for decades."
As the former director of the International Coastal Cleanup program for the Center for Marine Conservation, it was here that Project AWARE Foundation found a tremendous ally and Seba had great influence in shaping Project AWARE's debris initiatives over the years.
Based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, she founded Sheavly Consultants, an environmental consulting firm working on ocean conservation issues, in 2007. As principal of Sheavly Consultants, Seba provided advisory services to multiple institutions including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ocean Conservancy and Project AWARE Foundation.
Although not a diver herself, Seba was passionate about the contributions divers around the world have and could make toward solving the marine debris problem. In 2011, she helped craft Project AWARE's Dive Against Debris – a global, year-round, underwater survey of marine debris recovered and reported by divers.
In 2011 strategy meetings Seba inspired our teams once more, "Dive Against Debris is putting more form and fashion to the power of work divers have been doing for decades. It's placing renewed attention on what is found underwater. Project AWARE divers are the eyes and voice underwater and this information is invaluable. You've got to get the information, to take people there and give them the underwater view of how debris is affecting the ocean."
"It's a challenge!" said Seba. "If it weren't, it wouldn't be worth doing."
Thank you Seba for all you've done. Your dedication, enthusiasm and inspiration will be deeply missed.


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Three Grizzly Football Players Honored for Academic Excellence
Three seniors from the University of Montana football team were honored late last week for their academic achievement.
The National Football Foundation's New Hampshire Society announced that Peter Nguyen, Josh Harris and Sam Gratton were recognized, along with over 700 other seniors from across all levels of college football for finishing their collegiate careers with a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or better.
According to a news release from Grizzly Sports Information:
A wide receiver from Billings, Gratton started all 11 games this past season and had a team-high (tie) 29 receptions and led the Griz with four touchdown grabs. He was an honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference pick. Gratton maintains a 3.48 in business management.
Harris, a defensive end from Kalispell, started in 10 of 11 games last year, and was UM's ninth leading tackler with 39 stops. He was third on the team with 7.5 tackles for loss, and led UM with six quarterback hurries. Following his senior season he received UM's Pat Norwood Award (most inspirational player).Harris carries a 3.67 in Sociology.
A running back and punt returner from Seattle, Wash., Nguyen played in all 11 games a year ago and led the Griz with 926 yards rushing, which ranked him sixth in the Big Sky. This past season he was chosen UM's Steve Carlson Award (MVP) winner, and was a second team all-league pick. He was ranked 18th in the FCS in punt returns (9.88 average).
Nguyen finished his career at Montana ranked sixth in school history with 1,985 career rushing yards, and all purpose yards with 4,323. He has a 3.27 GPA in business management.


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Pope celebrates Mass for Mexicans looking for hope
Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to wield their faith against poverty and drug violence, telling hundreds of thousands of worshippers in an open-air Mass on Sunday that they would find hope if they purify their hearts.
(AP) Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to wield their faith against poverty and drug violence, telling hundreds of thousands of worshippers in an open-air Mass on Sunday that they would find hope if they purify their hearts.
Benedict delivered his message in the shadow of the Christ the King monument, one of the most important symbols of Mexican Christianity, which recalls the 1920s Roman Catholic uprising against the anti-clerical laws that forbade public worship services such as the one Benedict celebrated.
Pope greeted by 350,000-strong crowed
The pope flew over the monument in a Mexican military Superpuma helicopter en route to the Mass at Bicentennial Park, where he rode in the popemobile through an enthusiastic crowd estimated at 350,000.
Often seen as austere and reserved, Benedict charmed a country that adored his charismatic predecessor, John Paul II, by donning a broad-brimmed Mexican sombrero as he was driven to the altar at the sun-drenched park.
"Some young people rejected the pope, saying he has an angry face. But now they see him like a beloved grandfather," said Cristian Roberto Cerda Reynoso, 17, a seminarian from Leon.
Before the ceremony, the vast field was filled with noise, as people took pictures with their cell phones and passed around food.
As the Mass started, all fell silent, some dropping to their knees in the dirt and gazing at the altar or giant video screens.
Purify your hearts
In his homily, Benedict encouraged Mexicans to purify their hearts to confront the sufferings, difficulties and evils of daily life. It has been a common theme in his first visit to Mexico as pope: On Saturday he urged the young to be messengers of peace in a country that has witnessed the deaths of more than 47,000 people in a drug war that has escalated during a government offensive against cartels.
"At this time when so many families are separated or forced to emigrate, when so many are suffering due to poverty, corruption, domestic violence, drug trafficking, the crisis of values and increased crime, we come to Mary in search of consolation, strength and hope," Benedict said in a prayer at the end of Mass.
"She is the mother of the true God, who invites us to stay with faith and charity beneath her mantle, so as to overcome in this way all evil and to establish a more just and fraternal society."
The reference to Mary is particularly important for Mexicans, who revere the Virgin of Guadalupe as their patron saint. His reference to immigration resonated in Guanajuato, which is among the Mexican states sending the most migrant workers north.
Pope brings hope to Mexicans
Many said the pope showed a deep understanding of the challenges Mexico faces. While they said things may not change as a result, at least the pontiff gave them hope.
"It was really gratifying," industrial engineer Juan Jose Ruiz Moreno, 39, said after the Mass. "In his words there was a great understanding of us, the Mexican people."
Some in the crowd wore white tunics with images of Benedict, the monument and Mexico's beloved Virgin of Guadalupe, and reading: "The entire church asks for peace in Mexico."
"People leave for the good of their families," said Jose Porfirio Garcia Martinez, 56, an indigenous farmworker who came to the mass with 35 others from Puebla. "For us it's difficult, not seeing them for 10 years, communicating by phone and by Internet."
Fulfilling a dream
The Vatican said Benedict wanted to come to Guanajuato to see and bless the Christ the King statue, something that John Paul II had wanted, but was never able to do.
With its outstretched arms, the 72-foot (22-meter) bronze monument of Christ "expresses an identity of the Mexican people that contains a whole history in relation to the testimony of faith and those who fought for religious freedom at the time," said Monsignor Victor Rene Rodriguez, secretary general of the Mexican bishops conference.
Before the Mass, the pope presented Mexico with a gift of a mosaic of Jesus Christ that will be placed at the monument.
After nightfall Sunday, the pope will remotely inaugurate its new lighting system.
Guanajuato state was the site of some of the key battles of the Cristero War, so-called because its protagonists said they were fighting for Christ the King. Historians say about 90,000 people died before peace was restored. The region remains Mexico's most conservatively Catholic.
With roads closed, pilgrims walked for miles to the Mass with plastic lawn chairs, water and backpacks. Old women walked with canes. Some Mass-goers wrapped themselves in blankets or beach towel-sized Vatican flags, trekking past vendors selling sun hats, flags, potato chips and bottles of juice.
Hundreds of young priests in white and black cassocks, waiting to pass through the metal detectors, shouted "Christ Lives!" and "Long Live Christ the King!" — the battle cry of the Cristeros.
The 84-year-old pope will be going to Cuba on Monday.
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"It's an incredible story," said Tom Powers, a Toronto International Film Festival programmer a few minutes before No Place On Earth was screened last week.
He was not engaging in hyperbole.
Janet Tobias' 84-minute documentary film documents an amazing and unique tale of stamina, courage, grit and survival during the Holocaust.
For 511 days, from 1942 onward, 38 Jews from five extended families saved themselves from certain death at the hands of the Nazis by retreating into two gypsum caves in western Ukraine.
"Our situation was desperate," wrote one of the survivors, Esther Stermer in her memoirs, We Fight to Survive, published in 1960. "Where can we survive? Clearly, there was no place on earth for us."
Stermer, the resourceful matriarch of the family, devised the idea of hiding in a cave, knowing that it was their only hope of getting through the Nazi occupation unscathed.
Stermer and her family lived in the village of Korolowka. They planned to immigrate to Canada on Sept. 8, 1939, but with the outbreak of war, they were unable to leave.
When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union their lives were imperiled. Stermer, a strong and resolute woman, convinced her sister, Leiche Wexler, and her two sons to seek safety in a cave known as Verteba. There they were joined by other Jews from the region.
Although they had candles and kerosene lanterns, they lived mostly in the dark, subsisting on dripping water from rocks and food bought or stolen from peasants.
In the spring of 1943, they were discovered by a German patrol, but most of them managed to escape through a secret exit.
Miraculously, the Stermers found another cave, the priest's grotto cave, in which to hide. Along with a group of other Jews, they remained in that cavernous cave until the Red Army liberated the area in April 1944.
"We beat the odds," says one of the survivors who lives in Montreal today.
By living underground for so long, they broke a world record for uninterrupted underground survival, a record that still stands.
Tobias, an American television journalist and producer who launched her career on CBS' 60 Minutes, got wind of the story a few years ago when a friend brought it to her attention.
Initially, she was reluctant to pursue the tip, she admitted. "There are so many great Holocaust dramas and documentaries that have been done."
She changed her mind after reading a National Geographic article by Chris Nicola, an avid American caver of Ukrainian ancestry who had explored the priest's grotto cave and had found objects there such as buttons and ladies' shoes. These artifacts belonged to the Jewish families who had found a haven there.
Nicola's account so aroused Tobias' interest that she met with him and the Stermers. "I just thought, 'This is really a special story about family and friendship and a belief in the faith to do the impossible.'"
Once Tobias, a history buff, was convinced the Stermers were good storytellers, she went ahead with the project, recruiting producer Rafael Marmor to coordinate it.
No Place On Earth unfolds through on-camera interviews, wartime footage and reenactments.
Tobias wanted to shoot the dramatic recreations in Ukraine, but could not due to practical issues. She and her colleagues looked for substitutes and settled on Hungary.
"We needed, from a cinematic standpoint, a location with caves which were visually appropriate, and one with nearby historical villages which would fit our story," she explained.
The caves had to be big enough so that the Hungarian actors could easily fit inside.
One of the most poignant moments in the film occurs when some of the survivors and their children and grandchildren return to the Verteba cave in a sentimental journey.
"The idea of bringing them back to this place would certainly stir up some strong emotions," she said.
Dark places usually repel people, but the Jews who found refuge in these caves considered them nothing less than heavenly havens.
"They were free people inside the caves," said Tobias. "This is a story about how heaven and hell trade places. They found safety in the caves. The monsters were outside. The world was turned upside down."
Tobias and her associates have received offers for theatrical distribution in the United States, but have yet to decide which one to accept.
She said that No Place on Earth will be broadcast on the History Channel after its theatrical debut.


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PER vol.12 no.2 Potchefstroom Jan. 2009
The judiciary as a bastion of the legal order in challenging times
Fw de Klerk Lecture: 13 October 2008
D van Zyl
Judge Deon van Zyl LLB (1966), MA in Latin (1968) University of Pretoria, Dr Jur (1970) Leyden University, PhD (1983) and LLD (1988) Univeristy of Cape Town, D Litt in Latin (1989) Orange Free State.
[1] In recent times the judiciary has been under almost constant fire as a result of certain controversial events involving the courts and individual judges. This has given rise to uncalled for, and frequently unwarranted, publicity of an extremely adverse and negative nature. Despite the fact that only a relatively small number of judges has been involved, the bench as a whole has been affected and even severely tainted by this activity. Public confidence in the courts has been eroded and the independence of the judiciary has come under serious threat.
[2] However tempted I may be to deal with specific cases and much publicised judgments, I shall refrain from doing so inasmuch as the matters to which they relate remain pending and may indeed not be finalised for some time. Furthermore they have played a pivotal role in the political uncertainty which has been taxing the country in recent times. I speak, of course, of the criminal proceedings between the National Director of Public Prosecutions and the President of the African National Congress, Mr JG Zuma, and the various proceedings between Judge President JM Hlophe and the Constitutional Court. Both cases are a cause of grave concern to lawyers and ordinary peace-loving South Africans who would dearly like to see an end to the bitter accusations and recriminations which have been an ongoing feature of such cases.
[3] Like many of my colleagues in this country and elsewhere, I am deeply concerned that the bench, more particularly the Constitutional Court, has been subjected to virulent, if not positively defamatory attacks by politicians and other persons who should know better. It is quite abhorrent to describe a judge as "counter-revolutionary" if he holds against you and as "progressive" when he finds in your favour. This kind of vilification and vituperative conduct pollutes the bench as a whole, including all its constituent judicial officers.
[4] As might be expected, this unbridled criticism has elicited a strong reaction from a number of high-profile members of the legal profession, such as Chief Justice Pius Langa, former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Adv George Bizos SC, Dr Barney Pityana, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa, the General Council of the Bar, the Law Society of South Africa, the South African Law Deans Association and, most recently, the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Mr Enver Surty, who has warned against eroding the integrity of the judiciary. In an article on "The Dispensable Judiciary" Brian Spilg SC1 observes that there has not been such a sustained attack on the highest court since the "High Court of Parliament" case in the 1950s: it has the potential to destroy the integrity of the Constitutional Court and to undermine public confidence in the judiciary as an institution capable of dispensing justice impartially to all. He concludes:
The Judiciary is not some type of disposable nappy that can be regularly trashed and replaced. Our Judiciary stands for independence which is irreplaceable and any attack on the institution that succeeds or alters its makeup, undermines it for all time.2
[5] The purpose of my address to you this evening is to give you and other interested parties the assurance that, despite these unfortunate events involving important role players, the judiciary should continue to be a bastion or stronghold of the legal order, however challenging the times may be. I am strengthened in this view by the democratic principles and values enshrined in our Constitution3 which provides, in section 165(1), that the judicial authority resides in the courts. These courts, we are told in section 165(2), are "independent and subject only to the Constitution and the law, which they must apply impartially and without fear, favour or prejudice".
[6] In this regard I respectfully associate myself with the following observation of Chief Justice Langa in his opening address at the recent conference of the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association:
There are serious challenges still facing the country; they are being tackled. The great majority of our people have faith in the Constitution and its structures and institutions. The legislature still goes about its business, consulting its constituencies and making laws. The executive likewise carries on, making policy and running the governance of the country. The courts are still the interpreters of the Constitution and the law Storms come and storms pass. We can still claim that the constitutional guarantee of an independent judiciary is alive and well in South Africa The judiciary's place is firmly entrenched in the Constitution and any attempt to denigrate the judiciary excites great public alarm and attracts great adverse publicity for the person or institution who is so ill-advised as to do it.
The truth of course is that the victories we have achieved should never be taken for granted. Eternal vigilance is required because the principles that underlie our new democratic order are so precious, so valuable, that they should never be put at risk. Only those who have lived through, or observed the pain of the divisions, inequalities and conflicts inherent in a society based on injustice can imagine the importance of maintaining and strengthening the new democratic structures and institutions that we have gained through the adoption of our new Constitution. One such is an independent judiciary in a democratic state.
[7] This approach accords with the so-called Latimer House Principles endorsed by the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting held in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2003. In terms thereof "[a]n independent, impartial, honest and competent judiciary is integral to upholding the rule of law, engendering public confidence and dispensing justice". To achieve this ideal judicial appointments should be made on merit and judges should have security of tenure. This will engender public confidence and support without which, as Langa CJ puts it, the judiciary cannot function at all.
[8] Appointment as a judge, of course, brings with it certain duties and responsibilities. Inasmuch as the curial and private activities of judges are generally open to public scrutiny, they cannot complain if their conduct on and off the Bench elicits criticism or even censure. Their integrity, honesty, impartiality and independence from external influences, be they corruptive or intimidating, should be above question. Their private lives should be exemplary. The community at large accepts that they are only human and may hence be victims of the errors of human nature, but the stature they enjoy in the community requires them to be extra vigilant in ensuring that they themselves comply with the demands of the law and with the ethical and moral rules of conduct adhering to their elevated office.
[9] The American Bar Association deals with judicial ethics in a Model Code of Judicial Conduct issued in February 2007. In the preamble thereto the following appears:
[1] An independent, fair and impartial judiciary is indispensable to our system of justice. The United States legal system is based upon the principle that an independent, impartial, and competent judiciary, composed of men and women of integrity, will interpret and apply the law that governs our society. Thus the judiciary plays a central role in preserving the principles of justice and the rule of law. Inherent in all the Rules contained in this Code are the precepts that judges, individually and collectively, must respect and honor the judicial office as a public trust and strive to maintain and enhance confidence in the legal system.
[2] Judges should maintain the dignity of judicial office at all times, and avoid both impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in their professional and personal lives. They should aspire at all times to conduct that ensures the greatest possible public confidence in their independence, impartiality, integrity, and competence.
These principles are restated in Canon 1 and amplified in Canons 2, 3 and 4:
Canon 1: A judge shall uphold and promote the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary
Canon 2: A judge shall perform the duties of judicial office impartially, competently, and diligently.
Canon 3: A judge shall conduct the judge's personal and extrajudicial activities to minimize the risk of conflict with the obligations of judicial office.
Canon 4: A judge or candidate for judicial office shall not engage in political, or campaign activity that is inconsistent with the independence, integrity, or impartiality of the judiciary.
[10] A Code of Ethics for South African judges has been in circulation for some time, thanks to the endeavours of Judge LTC Harms of the Supreme Court of Appeal. To the best of my knowledge the judiciary as a whole has accepted it in its entirety, but there is still a question whether it will fit in with the series of draft judiciary bills which have been consistently rejected by the judiciary as attempts to control and inhibit the judiciary while impinging upon or even undermining judicial independence. This raises once again the question why the judiciary should not, as an independent third arm of government in terms of the Constitution and the age-old doctrine of separation of powers, be arranging its own affairs. Concurrent herewith is the question whether judges should not form their own association with a view to managing their own affairs. Up to now the members of the various divisions have been reliant on the good offices of their respective heads of court who meet a few times a year to consider and discuss judicial matters on behalf of their respective members. Some doubts have been raised, however, as to whether this procedure properly serves the best interests of the judges.
[11] In S v Mamabolo4Kriegler J adopted an innovative approach in considering the relatively weak position in which the judiciary finds itself as the third arm of government:
In our constitutional order the judiciary is an independent pillar of state, constitutionally mandated to exercise the judicial authority of the state fearlessly and impartially. Under the doctrine of separation of powers it stands on an equal footing with the executive and the legislative pillars of state; but in terms of political, financial or military power it cannot hope to compete. It is in these terms by far the weakest of the three pillars; yet its manifest independence and authority are essential. Having no constituency, no purse and no sword, the judiciary must rely on moral authority. Without such authority it cannot perform its vital function as the interpreter of the Constitution, the arbiter in disputes between organs of state and, ultimately, as the watchdog over the Constitution and its Bill of Rights even against the state.
[12] By virtue of this moral authority it is incumbent upon the courts and their judicial officers to resist any form of pressure to make a decision or grant an order one way or another. This was unequivocally stated in President of the Republic of South Africa v South African Rugby Football Union,5 (the so-called SARFU recusal case) in the following terms:
The nature of the judicial function involves the performance of difficult and at times unpleasant tasks. Judicial officers are nonetheless required to 'administer justice to all persons alike without fear, favour or prejudice, in accordance with the Constitution and the law. To this end they must resist all manner of pressure, regardless of where it comes from. This is the constitutional duty common to all judicial officers. If they deviate, the independence of the judiciary would be undermined, and in turn, the Constitution itself.
[13] By the same token a judicial officer is required to adjudicate a case in accordance with the facts and the law and not according to his or her personal views or opinions. In this regard a pragmatic approach appears from the SARFU case:6
That a judge may have engaged in political activity prior to appointment to the bench is not uncommon in most if not all democracies, including our own. Nor should it surprise anyone in this country. Upon appointment, judges are frequently obliged to adjudicate disputes which have political consequences. It has never been seriously suggested that judges do not have political preferences or views on law and society. Indeed, a judge who is remote from the world that she or he has no views would hardly be qualified to sit as a judge. What I require of judges is that they should decide cases that come before them without fear or favour according to the facts and the law, and not according to their subjective personal views. This is what the Constitution requires.
[14] The discussion of the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary inevitably brings one to the question of judicial involvement in politics. Under the old dispensation much was written on the topic of executive-minded judges, some of whom had been so-called "political" appointees and were notorious for their regular findings in favour of the executive. One need only think of the well-researched works of Corder and Forsyth and any number of articles written by lawyers opposed to the old regime.
[15] An extremely useful study on "Judges, Politics and the Separation of Powers" has recently appeared from the pen of Professor Francois Venter.7 Significantly the learned author referred to an unreported judgment of Nicholson J in Treatment Action Campaign v Government of the Republic of South Africa8 where the learned judge said the following regarding a government instruction not to comply with a particular order of court:
If the Government of the Republic of South Africa has given such an instruction then we face a grave constitutional crisis involving a serious threat to the doctrine of the separation of powers. Should that continue the members of the judiciary will have to consider whether their oath of office requires them to continue on the bench.
This passage prompted Prof Venter to inquire whether Nicholson J had in fact traversed "the boundary between politics and adjudication". On the other hand the concern of the learned judge was probably justified in view of the clear meaning of section 165(5) of the Constitution, which provides that organs of state are also bound by orders and decisions of the courts.
[16] It is, of course, nothing new that judges do, on occasion, direct vociferous comment and criticism at an act or inaction of a government organ. If this is deemed to be a judicial transgression I must confess that I too have been guilty thereof, particularly in regard to sloppy police investigations and magistrates who postpone matters all too easily without enquiring whether the further incarceration of an awaiting-trial accused is in the least justified. Judicial emotion, and even anger, may be comprehensible under such circumstances, but politically loaded comments and opinions not required for purposes of making a finding or coming to a conclusion, should be avoided at all costs. There is frequently a fine line that distinguishes unnecessary political comment from observations setting forth the reasoning of the court in coming to a particular conclusion. Criticism of minimum sentence legislation, which has the effect of removing a court's discretion to impose an appropriate sentence, is a far cry from suggesting that the death penalty should be revived as a deterrent to serious crime.
[17] When considering judges and politics it is difficult to escape a reference to the appointment of judges. In the SARFU case9 it is made clear that involvement in struggle or activist politics prior to 1994 would not disqualify a candidate for appointment to the bench. On the contrary it appears to have been elevated to a qualification, if not a prerequisite, for appointment. Because of this approach the judiciary has probably lost eminently qualified candidates for appointment to the various courts in South Africa. When their nominations for appointment to the Constitutional Court were unsuccessful, brilliant academics like Prof John Dugard and Prof Johan van der Vyver were lost not only to the judiciary, but to the country. Prof Dugard accepted a prestigious appointment as professor of international law at the University of Leyden and Prof van der Vyver was appointed to an equally prestigious chair of human rights law at the University of Emory in Atlanta, Georgia.
[18] It must not, of course, be lost from sight that South Africa is in a transformational phase of its development as a young democracy. A candidate for appointment to the bench must hence not only be "a fit and proper person" to be so appointed as a judge, but his or her appointment must also be consonant with the need for the judiciary "to reflect broadly the racial and gender composition of South Africa".10 In this regard Chief Justice Langa points out, in his aforementioned address,11 that there has been significant improvement since 1994, when there was only one black judge on the Bench, namely Judge (later Chief Justice) Ismail Mohamed. As matters now stand 106 of the 204 permanently appointed judges are black and 40 are women.
[19] It bears mentioning that a number of the initial judicial appointments reflecting the needs of a representative judiciary were not always successful, mainly because of a lack of experience and, in some cases, an emphasis on political considerations rather than ability. This situation may, at least partly, be attributable to the fact that, in terms of section 178 of the Constitution, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is "politically loaded" in the sense that, of its twenty-three members, only three are judges (the Chief Justice, the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal and one Judge President), four are practising lawyers (two advocates and two attorneys) and one is a legal academic. The remaining fifteen are so-called "political appointees", with the Minister of Justice in the forefront. Now that we are almost fifteen years into the new democratic dispensation, the time may be ripe to consider amending the Constitution to provide for a JSC consisting substantially, if not exclusively of judges, practising advocates and attorneys, and legal academics. They would, in my respectful view, be best qualified to carry out this extremely important function.
[20] Just as the judiciary should be accorded full recognition and respect as an independent third arm of government, so also is it incumbent on judges to recognise and accord the necessary respect to the other arms of government, namely the executive and legislature. As Justice Kate O'Regan points out in her 2005 FW de Klerk Lecture12 "Checks and Balances: Reflections on the Development of the Doctrine of Separation of Powers under the South African Constitution", however, this does not render the executive and legislature immune from constitutional challenges based on fundamental constitutional rights. The principle of non-intrusion in the affairs of another branch of government must give way to judicial intervention when it is required to protect individual rights. Although non-intrusion is thus an important principle in the doctrine of separation of powers, it is not absolute. The Constitutional Court in fact has exclusive jurisdiction in certain matters affecting other branches of government (section 167(4)).
[21] In his aforesaid article Prof Venter13 discusses these aspects of separation of powers under the heading "The Determination of the Boundaries between the Trias Politica"14 and comes to the following conclusion15 which I wholeheartedly endorse:
The courts of the fresh South African democracy, torn between the drive to reform the system on the one hand, and frustration on the other by the lack of political will and capacity to improve and maintain the functions and procedures characteristic of a modern constitutional state, are increasingly hard put to find the balance between political engagement and judicial detachment.
To find such balance, it is necessary, ironically, that it should be acknowledged by all judicial officers that they cannot escape politics. Such recognition is a precondition for a judge to engage with political material while keeping an open mind. A judge suppressing or ostensibly disowning his or her political inclinations in the belief, or on the pretext that, adjudication is merely an abstract, neutral activity, is prone to produce findings consciously or subconsciously tainted by those same inclinations. The detached and well-considered style of judicial language traditionally associated with the bench is, however, a precious aid to finding the right balance, because without it, either political frustration pours forth in inappropriate language, or real political prejudice is concealed behind verbosity
[22] It is expected of all judicial officers, regardless of the court in which they serve, to accord courtesy and respect not only towards the other branches of government, but also to one another. My own experience has been that High Court judges have little or no difficulty in treating their peers or colleagues serving on a higher Bench, such as the Constitutional Court or the Supreme Court of Appeal, with courtesy and respect. In the case of lower courts, such as the Regional or District Magistrates' courts, however, such treatment is frequently singularly lacking. I have found this somewhat disturbing since it is my view that all judicial officers are in service of the community and their relationship with one another should not be influenced by seniority or lack thereof.
[23] The essence of courtesy or respect, when disagreeing with or criticising the judgments or orders of any court or judicial officer, is to exercise restraint and to remain objective and detached at all times. It goes without saying that sarcastic comments or snide personal remarks should be avoided at all costs. Judges should refrain from abusing their position by indulging in inappropriate posturing or ego-driven "grandstanding". The individual judge is not important the judicial office and function are. The greatest judges have frequently also been the greatest gentlemen who will be remembered for their sense of justice and fairness rather than their conduct.
[24] Let me conclude on a historical note. Justice and fairness and the values occurring in the Constitution are as old as the hills. The wisdom and insight of great Greek and Roman lawyers and philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Gaius and Ulpian, nurtured and developed these values over centuries and they remain guidelines for us in modern times. The cardinal virtues of wisdom and prudence, courage, moderation and justice still underlie law and legal practice. Such virtues, and their many concomitant values, still constitute the instruments with which judges make their manifold decisions, however complex the case with which they are dealing. It is these virtues and values which prompt them to dedicate their lives and careers to achieving justice, fairness and reasonableness in all they say and do. And it is what they say and do in good faith and with reference to the moral values of the community they serve, that stimulates public confidence in the judiciary as a bastion of the legal order, however challenging the times may be.
I thank you.
Spilg 2008 Advocate. Spilg B "The Dispensable Judiciary" 2008 Advocate August 41-43 [ Links ]
Venter 2007 Speculum Juris. Venter F "Judges, Politics and the Separation of Powers" 2007 (1) Speculum Juris 60-72 [ Links ]
Register of legislation
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996
Register of court cases
President of the Republic of South Africa v South African Rugby Football Union 1999 4 SA 147 (CC)
S v Mamabolo 2001 3 SA 409 (CC)
Treatment Action Campaign v Government of the Republic of South Africa Case No 4575/06 D&CLD 28 August 2006
Register of internet resources
O'Regan 2005 www.puk.ac.za/ [ Links ]
O'Regan K 2005 Checks and Balances: Reflections on the Development of the Doctrine of Separation of Powers under the South African Constitution www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/regte/per/issue05v1.html [Date of use 11 June 2009] [ Links ]
List of abbreviations
JSC Judicial Service Commission
s section(s)
SARFU South African Rugby Football Union
1 Spilg 2008 Advocate 41-43.
2 Ibid 43.
3 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996.
4 S v Mamabolo 2001 3 SA 409 (CC) par 16.
5 President of the Republic of South Africa v South African Rugby Football Union 1999 4 SA 147 (CC) par 104.
6 Ibid par 70.
7 Venter 2007 Speculum Juris 60-72.
8 Case No 4575/06 D&CLD 28 August 2006 par 33.
9 Supra n 5 par 72-76.
10 S 174(1) and (2) of the Constitution.
11 Par [6] supra.
12 O'Regan 2005 www.puk.ac.za/ 13-14.
13 Par [15] supra.
14 Venter 2007 Speculum Juris 69-74.
15 Ibid at 74.


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All references to Quicken for the Mac 2009 have disappeared from Intuit's website, leaving users wondering when—if ever—the software will launch. The software, meant to be a "complete rewrite" of Quicken for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, was showcased at the Macworld Expo 2008 and originally expected to ship that year. However, after at least one delay, the software now appears to be MIA more than a year and a half after it was introduced.
Intuit first showed off its plans for Quicken Financial Life for Mac (the then working title) in January of 2008, hailing it as a complete rewrite of Quicken 2007 for Mac with new and better features. Users could track their cash flow, download info from banks, track taxes, and even create budgets, and was expected to launch as a beta by the fall of 2008. In September, however, Intuit said that the software had "required significant engineering and quality testing" and the company needed "some extra time to get it right." The ship date was moved to the winter of 2008.
Well, unless you live in another hemisphere, winter has come and gone. We are now in the throes of Summer 2009, and it appears as if Intuit has decided to celebrate the arrival of warm weather by removing all references to Quicken for Mac 2009 (which were previously found all over the company's website). This seems like a curious move for a company that has spent "significant" resources on developing its software.
The popular view here at the Orbiting HQ was that Intuit has decided to scrap the desktop version of Quicken in favor of its web client. This theory is compounded by the fact that Microsoft discontinued its desktop money management software, Microsoft Money, mere days ago. Microsoft's excuse was that banks and other websites now provide "a range of options for managing personal finances" and that consumer demand for Money was no longer at the level it once was. Assuming this is true, then the same likely applies to Quicken.
Before ringing alarm bells, however, we attempted to get an answer from Intuit on the issue. Intuit spokesperson Chelsea Marti reassured us that Quicken for Mac was "still in progress," and that the company was painstakingly listening to feedback from its "passionate" beta testers.
"As a result, getting a finalized Quicken for Mac product on the shelves is taking a bit longer, but rest assured, we're hard at work applying that feedback and getting it ready for prime time," Marti told us. "Quicken's perspective is that taking a bit more time than anticipated is a worthy trade-off for a great product our customers told us they wanted to see a certain way."
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"We have wanted this home win for some time but for whatever reason it has escaped us," Villas-Boas said. "It's an important win for the team. We wanted to repay the fans for the trust they have put in us so that's why everyone felt emotional at the end."
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Updated from 9:29 A.M. to include analyst in the eighth paragraph..NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Yahoo! ( YHOO CEO Marissa Mayer is making an enormously bold bet, buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash. Tumblr has what Yahoo! needs to turn its core business around. But considering the company only did $13 million in revenue last year, it better pay off, or this could be Mayer's first major flub. When Yahoo! announced its Summly acquisition several weeks ago, Mayer's strategy for Yahoo! was really beginning to reveal itself. Mayer believes that content is king, and Tumblr is just that. There's also the mobile aspect of Tumblr, which Mayer has repeatedly said is something Yahoo! needs to focus on to compete in the future.
Buying Tumblr helps address the issue of personalized content to help drive display revenue growth, something Mayer has talked about before. "The combination of more personalized content and increased product innovation will be key in getting us back to a path for display revenue growth," Mayer said during Yahoo!'s fourth-quarter earnings. The CEO also added that Yahoo! would have "some content costs, which you'll see as we make some of these developments." According to comScore, Tumblr had 117 million visitors in April, with more than 100 million blogs, and over 50 billion posts. Tumblr CEO David Karp has built a blogging powerhouse, but has only just started to monetize his user base. The New York-based Tumblr told Forbes it posted $13 million in revenue in 2012, and there have been reports from AllThingsD, which first broke the acquisition news, that the company could do as much as $100 million in sales this year. If $100 million or a number close to that is achieved for 2013, that's roughly revenue growth of eight times what the company did in 2012. That's incredible, and would be enough to definitely consider spending $1.1 billion in cash. The problem is that $100 million is still small potatoes to Yahoo!, which did $1.14 billion in revenue last quarter. The issue for Yahoo! over the past few years has never been about its user base (some 700 million monthly users to various properties), it's been about making money off those users. Tumblr addresses expanding the user base, but given its core demographic, it's tough to say when Yahoo! will see a return on its $1.1 billion investment.


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Michael Vick's dogs got a lot of national media attention during his infamous court case. Most of them were fortunate to be placed in rescue, where they were rehabilitated and adopted out to loving families. But not all dogs from fighting cases get a second chance. Sadly, these canine victims are often euthanized.
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