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Janet Yellen will make history as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, becoming its chairwoman at a key moment for the central bank as it attempts to unwind its unprecedented efforts to boost the economy in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
The Senate voted 56-26 on Monday to confirm Yellen to replace Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose term expires Jan. 31. Yellen, who has been vice chairwoman of the Fed since October 2010, is expected to begin her new post Feb. 1.
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While Bernanke navigated the Fed through the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession during his eight year tenure, it will be Yellen's job to manage the retreat from these policies as the economy gains strength and is better able to stand on its own.
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The Fed has spent recent years buying massive piles of Treasury and mortgage bonds through so-called quantitative easing — its balance sheet is now more than $4 trillion — in an effort to keep long-term interest rates low and spur on the economy. How to exit this program and then shrink the balance sheet without rattling financial markets and hurting the economy will be job number one for Yellen.
"Her biggest potential challenge is not the end of quantitative easing, but rather, the eventual unwinding of the massive Fed asset positions and rolling back of the Mount Everest of reserves the Fed has created," said Kevin Hassett, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and a former economist at the Federal Reserve. "If the economy picks up a bit from here, that challenge will be a difficult one, as inflationary pressures will begin to ramp up."
The Fed has already begun slowing its asset purchases citing the improving economy — this month it reduced its monthly bond buys by $10 billion to $75 billion — easing the transition somewhat for a Yellen-led Fed.
Yellen, 67, is also poised to take over the central bank at a time when it faces greater congressional scrutiny from conservatives and liberals alike, both for its massive efforts to jump start the economy and because of the increased responsibility the Fed has assumed for regulating Wall Street under the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.
Republicans have used Yellen's nomination to bash the Fed's easy-money policies warning they are fueling stock market "sugar highs" and possible asset bubbles while serving as a prelude to an inflation spike. The evidence, so far, does not support worries over inflation, deflation has been more of a concern, but Republicans have kept sounding the alarm.
"While the stock market has become addicted to easy money, the benefit to Main Street has been questionable at best," Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said on the floor Monday. "Unemployment remains high. Bank lending remains tight. And savers are discouraged."
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Democrats praised Yellen as being the right person to lead the Fed at this moment.
"The American people will have a fierce champion who understands that the ultimate goal of economic and financial policymaking is to improve the lives, jobs and standard of living of American workers and their families," President Barack Obama said of Yellen in a statement following the vote.
In a sign of the increasing partisanship over the central bank, Yellen received the fewest votes of any Fed chair. Bernanke held the previous low when he was confirmed to a second four-year term in 2010 on a 70 to 30 vote. Not all senators voted on Monday, however, in part due to bad weather in sections of the country.


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For many Americans struggling with managing their debt, the simple act of picking up the phone can be terrifying. Why? Debt collectors.
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the debt collection industry has seen a boom. And as more and more collection agencies have been entering the market, complaints about collectors' abusive practices reached all-time highs. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Trade Commission saw a record-high number of consumer complaints about debt collectors in 2011: 164,361.
That rise in complaints doesn't mean collectors are getting meaner or breaking more laws necessarily. And, according to the four debt collectors we spoke to for this article, the collection businesses they worked for followed the standards and laws set out in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the legislation that tells collectors when and how they can contact you.
(If you feel like you've been harassed by a debt collector, read about what to do when debt collectors break the rules.)
But that hasn't stopped many people from hating debt collectors. So, we spoke with four people about their experiences as debt collectors and what consumers should know when they get on the phone with them.
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Death Threats Are Part of the Job
If there was one universal among all four debt collectors we spoke with, it was that death threats happen.
"One time someone mailed us human excrement in a box," said Kerri Fivecoat, a freelance journalist who worked in the debt collection industry for more than a decade. "It happened at the internal third-party agency I worked at. We always had lots of bomb scares."
Being a debt collector can be a scary experience, says Ben Nettleton, who used to work in a third-party collection agency in the Houston area. While his stint as a debt collector lasted only 89 days, he was left a very threatening voicemail one night by a man who called himself a "straight shooter."
"I got this and I'm not someone who's offended easily, but it did make me think," Nettleton said. "Does it throw you and kind of shake you? Yeah. I didn't call him back."
The death threats combined with the emotional stories from the people they call makes debt collection a tough career path. Bryan Franzoi, who is currently working as operations manager at Cumulus Fundingand has spent more than 15 years in debt collections, said the housing crash of 2008 and 2009 was especially tough.
"You're a human being, you're going to be affected by it. There have been times where it has been very upsetting to me," he said. When Franzoi was working as a manager of debt collectors, he even had an employee break down on the floor and start crying.
Michelle Dunn, a debt collector and author of "Dealing With Aggressive Debt Collectors: What to Do and How to Do It by an Industry Insider," says it's hard not to take consumers' threats personally, but the key is trying to understand the position the debtors are in.
"When somebody's in debt and they have bill collectors calling them, that's not their only problem. They normally have something else going on," Dunn says. "The last thing you need is a bill collector calling you. They may lash out on you. I've had people tell me they were going to find where my children went to school."
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Not All of Us Are Mean
Imagine going to a party and telling someone that you're a debt collector. It's not exactly the most popular career path.
"People cringe when you tell them what you do," Dunn says. "A lot of times you don't want to tell them what you do. They're only dealing with debt collectors when they're in a bad situation."
While most of the debt collectors that Fivecoat worked with would try to take a more calm and compassionate approach with debtors, there were a few bad eggs.
"There are people [who enjoy debt collection]," she says. "They would really get into what they were doing and they didn't have the personality to start out with people being nice. Sometimes it was effective when they were being more forceful or more assertive."
Even though he has worked with some bad collectors, Franzoi said the stigma about debt collectors is just incorrect.
"90-nine times out of 100 that's a totally wrong misconception and they're really trying to put them in a better financial situation," he said.
Fivecoat says she was normally a top performer at her company just by listening to the people on the phone and trying to come up with solutions. Dunn echoed the same sentiment.
"Most people who are bill collectors, they don't take happiness in yelling at people," Dunn says. "They don't get into this business because they have to be mean to people."
If you're faced with a debt collector who is aggressive, Fivecoat says the best path to take is to ask to speak with someone else. She employed this strategy herself when she and her husband were in a tight financial spot and were receiving collection calls of their own.
"As collectors, we would trade off people if someone might not be able to make headway with them," she says. "There's always someone they can transfer you to."
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There Is a Right Way to Act When We Call
Every debt collector we spoke with had some advice for consumers. The one echoed most often was to stay in touch.
"The worst thing they can do is ignore the calls," Dunn says. "Send a letter, at least respond in some way. Wait until they close and call, if they want to avoid the conflict. By ignoring it, the account gets escalated to legal quicker and they'll get calls more often and even letters."
Franzoi says honesty is also a key component of communicating with debt collectors.
"A lot of consumers will run and hide and not answer the phone and then we have to go about hunting them down," he says. "If someone answers the phone and is honest with us, we can normally find a solution."
Each of the collectors said they've heard some great excuses.
"You can usually tell if someone is really full of it or if it was an excuse," Nettleton said.
Some of the best whoppers? Dunn once dealt with a woman who claimed that she wrote out all the checks to pay her bills and then was robbed in the parking lot of the post office. She also had a woman claim she couldn't send the money because she had just had a baby that month. The only problem was that the same woman had claimed she had given birth the month before.
"I guess she forgot she told me that because she had a baby this month, too," Dunn said with a laugh.
Several of the debt collectors agreed that consumers often think they have to pay the full bill or nothing at all, and that can be a costly mistake. Payment plans are a tool that collectors like to use to get consumers to start paying the debt, even if it's only a small bit at a time. Dunn says she's set up payment plans for some people that were for $5 or $25 a month because, in the end, she was able to get them to commit to paying something and keep communication lines open.
"If [the debtors] are receptive to it, I can take them through their monthly bills and try to get them in better financial shape," Franzoi says. "The last thing your bank wants to do is charge off your account or foreclose on your house."
It's not just overspending or lavish lifestyles that lead the debt collectors to your home. The debt collectors we spoke with all acknowledged that circumstances like an illness or unemployment would often lead people into debt, not necessarily overspending or a lavish lifestyle.
"We get a lot of financially illiterate people who don't know how to set a budget" Franzoi says. "Their credit cards are their savings account and one small shakeup in their life can spiral them out of control. For the most part, it's hard to pinpoint just one specific type of debtor."
Even though she's received death threats in her career as a debt collector, Dunn says she has also received thanks.
"I've gotten thank you cards from debtors," she says. "If they owe you money, most of the time they owe other people money, too. I just treated them differently."
This article originally appeared on Credit.com. Kali Geldis is Deputy Managing Editor of Credit.com.
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from the urls-we-dig-up deptSome people freely admit that they have trouble boiling water when it comes to cooking techniques. But some seemingly simple tasks aren't so easy to do if your standards are set high enough. The proliferation of cooking shows doesn't quite help because every TV chef has his/her own way of creating the same dish -- so there's no consistent method. Here are just a few examples of some "easy dishes" to prepare.
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Officer shoots suspect in San Diego movie theater
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SAN DIEGO Police shot and critically wounded a man suspected of chasing his girlfriend with a handgun after they found him hiding inside a movie theater.
Officers went to an outdoor shopping center in northern San Diego on Saturday afternoon in response to a domestic violence call, Officer David Stafford said. He said the shooting occurred inside the Reading Cinemas theater about 3:50 p.m.
No other details were immediately released.
A San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said the suspect was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The owner of a business next to the theater said officers told him the armed man chased his girlfriend across a parking lot. Steve Krongard, the owner of the Nickel City arcade, said police shut down the lot, checked every car leaving the mall and went from businesses to business to look for the suspect until they found him in the theater.
"There were 20 police cars blocking the entrance, then the fire truck and the ambulance rushed in," Krongard said. "Then we saw seven cops with what looked like rifles, then paramedics went into the theater."
U-T San Diego reports the shooting occurred during a screening of "Les Miserables." Witnesses were evacuated from the theater.
Adrian Amante, the owner of the Home Trends store, told the newspaper people started running out of the theater and hiding behind cars.
It was the second shooting at a San Diego County movie theater in as many days.
A concession worker suffered an arm injury when a shot fired outside a San Marcos movie theater went through the lobby window and struck her, sheriff's officials said.
The shooting occurred during a fight in the parking lot at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18 and triggered a large police response because authorities were initially not sure whether there was a shooter inside the Cineplex.
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It used to be so much simpler to worship sports heroes. We weren�t aware that Mickey Mantle had a drinking problem. Or that Bill Russell had a love/hate relationship with the city of Boston.
It used to be so much simpler to worship sports heroes.
We weren�t aware that Mickey Mantle had a drinking problem. Or that Bill Russell had a love/hate relationship with the city of Boston. Or that Whitey Ford used a ring to cut a baseball and make it dip unnaturally, Paul Hornung and Alex Karras broke steadfast NFL rules by placing wagers on their teams, Gordy Howe got away with murder on the ice every night and the heavyweight boxing champion just might be a thug.
We just didn�t know. It wasn�t a kiss-and-tell world when some of us, who now are on the back nine of life, were coming up wide-eyed and, well, na�ve.
What must it be like for kids who crave wearing the jersey of the current icon who is about to be outed as a hater of cats and been caught by the newest technological candid camera trying to head butt his neighbor�s grandmother.
Being kids, they probably move on more quickly than some of us who still haven�t shaken off all the pixie dust of the 1950s and early 1960s. Because wait around long enough, and we discover that some of our prized athletes not only are all too human, but more often than we want to admit have flipped off sports most sacred codes.
At the top of the list these days is better performance through chemistry. Lance Armstrong is the latest public enemy to the collective trust.
This much about Armstrong: his athletic achievements not only are worthy of Mount Olympus, his accomplishments outside the realm of sport clearly are transcendent. It could be argued with some clarity that no one on this planet has done more to raise money for cancer research, bring public awareness to that endeavor or provide slivers of hope where before there was nothing but impending doom.
And now he is being treated by many in the cycling community, as well as various doping agencies which seems a paradoxical union of words, as himself a cancer.
That�s not coming full circle, it�s being lost in the roundabout.
While believing that much of the evidence and testimony that has been unearthed to discredit Armstrong�s exploits are as tainted as his name now appears in the record book, there is one simple reality hard to shake. Simply, how he could win seven consecutive Tour de France titles against competitors in a sport, that if it could somehow take on a human form, would be banned for life for its insult to the cup.
It�s not fair in a sense to paint Armstrong in that way. Yet it�s as real as wondering aloud how Usain Bolt and his country men and country women from a small island nation suddenly can make the rest of the world appear to be running in mud.
Or watching as the list of professional athletes continuing to test positive for performance enhancing drugs expands even as laboratories pump out newer formulas to take their place or better masking agents to make testing futile.
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I feel like librarians everywhere are probably cringing as I tell everyone to buy books simply to rip out the pages.
I really do love books and feel bad about harming them. So another suggestion could be to purchase the books and then have copies made of what you want to use as artwork at your local copy store.
Here are a couple more suggestions for chic & some what cheap artwork:
Botanicals Butterflies & Insects: $34
Art Forms from the Ocean: $ 16.50
The Parrots: $67.49 (This book is on the higher end, but I flipped through it and it's pretty amazing!)
The Roses: Used copies for 7.99
Besler's Book of Flowers and Plants: $9
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The following deletion policies can be enabled:
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By default, log file deletion is based on free disk space, with a default value of 1 Megabyte. When all three deletion policies are activated simultaneously, they are processed in order of time, size, and free disk space. For information about how to configure log file deletion, see Deleting Directory Proxy Server Logs in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.


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I'm having a problem to connect my Macbook Air to my NAS. The NAS has Debian installed and can be reached by any other computer in the network.
I can find the NAS on Finder. The NAS is listed in the sidebar as shared. But when I try to connect to see the shared files it takes ages to connect and most of the times it times out.
The same happens when I try to access some services that are running in the NAS like its admin platform or when I try to connect via SSH.
I've configured a dyndns pointing to the NAS and when I try to access the NAS using the dyndns-IP instead of the local network IP it works fine and much faster.
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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
Mary Cathryn Ricker's Multigenre Unit
The capstone writing assignment for Mary Cathryn Ricker's seventh-grade class is an autobiographical booklet that includes at least 15 different genres—from poems, memoirs, letters, and personal narratives to more unusual modes of expression like maps, photographs, and drawings.
In the early part of this seven-week unit, Mary Cathryn's teaching follows a predictable routine. Using models to illustrate what she's teaching, she gives her students a mini-lesson on a specific genre or revision strategy. Then she gives the class time to apply the lesson. As the students write, Mary Cathryn moves around the room offering individual encouragement and help. After the writing session, she usually breaks the class into pairs or small groups so the students can share their pieces and get feedback from their peers.
"Teaching Multigenre Writing" documents two days in Mary Cathryn's class. During this time, she introduces her students to a new genre—a list of things they wish they could do. The students also mine for topics in their writer's notebooks, review and practice the memoir, and begin poems based on a bilingual model.
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Many businesses put together gift ideas for the holidays. So, I thought, why shouldn't Warners' Stellian?
Who doesn't want a fridge or an electric range under the tree? Yet, believe it or not,we don't make it onto many wish lists.
Not one to be left out, I shifted gears to our lower-ticket items — "gifty things" as a co-worker called them — and began brainstorming the holiday promotion to end all promotions:
Buy Warners' Stellian's employee cookbook, "Cooking Traditions" (of New York Times Bestseller List fame…), get a free out-of-box trim kit!
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Moms dream of radiator brush attachments for their vacuums. Isn't this the year to finally make her dream a reality?
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At least by now I have you dreaming of grill accessories. Here's part of the plan where I close the deal: You can get them for free!
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For every $100 of gift certificates you buy, we give you $10 back to use for yourself (so you can get that Dishwasher Magic that's been on your list).
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BenQ backs Android
Google-based smartphone and netbook en route
BenQ has become the latest tech firm to join Android's ever-expanding band of supporters by announcing plans to develop both a smartphone and a netbook based on the Google OS.
A company representative confirmed that it's aiming to bring an Android-based handset to market in 2010, IDG reports. But a launch date for its Android netbook hasn't yet been announced.
BenQ already has experience of both the PC and handset markets. For example, it's already launched several Windows Mobile-based smartphones, such as the E72 – reviewed here — and recently unveiled its AMD-based nScreen i91 all-in-one nettop. ®


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- Reusable silicone-coated sheet developed for French patisseries.
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The Norwell native averaged 9.5 saves per game as the Beacons defeated both Nichols College and Salem State University. In Saturday's conference win over the Vikings he managed 19 stops on 30 shots to finish a 63.3 save percentage in the 11-8 win. Saturday's win also marked the first time that the Beacons opened conference play with a victory since the 2007 season.
Against the Bison, he made just four stops in the one-sided win. He currently stands at 6-5 on the year and sits fourth in the conference in goals against average with 8.75. He is also sixth in save percentage (54.1) and five in saves per game (8.60).


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Network-Wide Meeting: Keynotes
November 18, 2010
Just a few weeks ago, the NISE Net hosted its Network-Wide Meeting in San Francisco (October 26 - 28, 2010). There were three keynote talks during the first morning of the meeting, and all three presenters have graciously agreed to share their presentations with the Network here.
The presentations are:
- "Smoke, mirrors and some really cool science: Current trends and issues in nanotechnology" by Andrew Maynard, Professor, Risk Science Center, University of Michigan School of Public Health
- "Engaging the public on nanotechnologies - so how are we doing?" by Kathy Sykes, Professor of Sciences and Society, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
- "NISE Network in years 6-10" by Larry Bell, Senior Vice President - Strategic Initiatives, Museum of Science and PI of the NISE Network.
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- 47 middle school students and three others were transported to hospitals after a crash
- About half suffered injuries and the rest were sent as a precaution
Dozens of schoolchildren in Louisville, Kentucky, were taken to hospitals after the bus they were riding in collided with a car and rolled on its side, officials said.
Fifty people were taken to four hospitals after Friday morning's collision between a school bus and a Ford Mustang, said Jody Duncan, spokeswoman for the local emergency management agency.
Of the 47 middle school students taken to the hospital, about half received injuries that were not life-threatening, and the rest were taken as a precaution, Duncan said. All three people in the Mustang were also taken to the hospital.
Individuals were taken to Kosair Children's, Southwest Hospital, Jewish Hospital Medical Center East, and Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Duncan said.
The Jefferson County Public Schools bus had been picking up students who attend Frost Middle School.
Rain was falling when the Mustang, occupied by three high school students, and the bus collided at an intersection, Duncan said.


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Circle of Solitude: South Guard and Sphinx Pass
Our offtrail travel began on days 5 and 6 of our Circle of Solitude Variation. From Lake Reflection we headed up and over Longley Pass to camp at upper Cunningham Creek. We couldn't resist climbing South Guard along the way. The next morning we worked our way around South Guard Lake and over to Cinder Col. The fun slabby descent to Brewer Meadows was followed by an equally fun slabby climb to Sphinx Pass. Unfortunately the fun ended there - it's a tedious boulder hop from the pass down to the upper Sphinx Lakes where we stayed.Read More


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Nasa Assassin are firmly established at the forefront of the Northern Irish alternative rock scene thanks to their reputation for incendiary live performances offering one part performance art to two parts sonic super–collider.
Their brand of manic omni–dimensional space rock fuses a hybrid of influences leaving the audience enthralled and the critics grabbing for the superlatives.
With the highly anticipated follow up to their acclaimed debut album Area 69 due for release in early 2019, Nasa Assassin are inviting you to unexpect the expected and join them on a journey through time and space. Tin foil hats optional.


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20 Answers & 1 Question With DAN DIDIO
It's time for another round of 20 Answers and 1 Question with DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio, and wow, did the readers have a lot to ask about this time around.
We had 36 pages of questions to peruse for this week's round, and a lot of them were really good questions. It was almost heartbreaking to be limited to 20. But while there's no way we could ask them all, we're hoping the 20 that made it through this week will answer more than one poster's question. And there's always next time, which should be two weeks from now, for you to come back and try again.
And this time, in an effort to make sure we answer questions that came straight from Newsarama readers, we started pulling your specific wording, reading what you had to say to Dan and letting him react accordingly.
As always, thanks for your participation, and with this week's question in particular, we hope you'll post an answer to Dan's inquiry at the end of this article.
Now, on to the Q & A -
1. Sorano asked:
Have plans been made on how the current back-up features in monthly issues will be collected in trade or hardcover format? I'm a big fan of the Legion, the Question and Blue Beetle and I'm wondering when I'll be able to get a hand on these wonderful new stories.
Dan DiDio: We get a lot of questions about collected edition, and that's OK. But that's a separate department, because we're doing the original material in periodical form.
But that being said, we have been very intimately involved in a number of discussions revolving around Wednesday Comics and the second features.
We will be collecting the second features separately, in most places. I think there will probably be, in regards to Green Arrow and Black Canary, they'll be collected together because of how closely they tie together. But with some of the other books, like Blue Beetle and Manhunter and such, they'll be collected independently. And then, on the rare occasion where the second feature might crossover with the lead feature, then that story will probably fall within both collections. At least that's the discussion we're having right now.
2. Sorano also asked:
Will Wednesday Comics also be collected in trade/hardcover format at the end of the 12 weeks?
Dan DiDio: We're much closer to the actual plan for Wednesday Comics. That will be announced separately. I had my favorite choice, which was the old first edition size, the tabloid size. But I think we've got something that I hope will please as many people as possible.
3. MadameRogue asked:
When do we find out more information about Grant Morrison's Multiversity?
DiDio: With Multiversity, I'm trying not to get too far ahead of that story. Talking about it keeps the chatter going, but sometimes people seem to get tired of it before it gets here.
Multiversity is something that we've discussed. It's somewhere between a seven- to eight-part series. Each one of the parts will be featuring different earths from the multiverse. Past that, I'd rather wait until closer to the date, when it's about to be solicited.
Nrama: Do you have an idea yet when it will be solicited?
DiDio: Not at this particular time. Grant has a number of projects on his plate right now. This is one of the things that he's holding near and dear to his heart. Once he's ready to roll, we'll be ready to announce.
4. durkadurka asked:
I think the JLA has had a very inconsistent roster for a while now, but that pales in comparison to the Teen Titans. Now with yet another death and the return of Superboy and Kid Flash, at what point can we see some consistency with the roster for more than a couple issues?
DiDio: In both those cases, both teams are in transition right now, and you'll probably see more consistency in terms of who the teams are by the beginning of the year. There are some changes that will be taking place.
Right now with Titans, we're showcasing a number of the individual characters because we wanted to spotlight them in ways that really brought them to a level of prominence, and more importantly, because we have future stories that we're preparing to tell with them. I think Tempest in Titans and then leading into Blackest Night #2 was a good one-two.
We also have plans in Teen Titans. We're probably coming closer to a set team. We'll be seeing the start of that with Issue #75 and #76. But then with Issues #77 and #78, I think we have Blackest Night, so that mixes the pot up a little bit. And then when we come back, we'll see a little bit firmer make-up of the team.
But one of the things I don't want to do is have a whole bunch of people leave and then a whole bunch of people join with no real story explanation or real cohesiveness on why this is taking place. So what might be deemed a change in roster is actually a more slow and gradual evolving of the cast, as you see people come and go. But I think there's a lot of story potential in reasons why people join the team and reasons why people leave the team. But I hate to see it happen all in one issue and lose what might be deemed potential stories.
Nrama: With the JLA, there's some belief that Batman and Superman will be returning at some point, so won't that shake up the JLA?
DiDio: There should be a Batman joining with the JLA at some point, possibly. There should be a Superman joining the team at some point, possibly. But quite honestly, I'll turn that back and ask, would a Batman joining shake up a team or bring stability to a team? It depends on who they are.
5. kryptofan1 asked:
Do you have plans for the Milestone characters (other than Static in the Teen Titans) after the Brave and Bold stories?
DiDio: At this particular time, we have Static in the Teen Titans, and we're looking at a storyline that might be built around Static later in the run. But right now, no other plans.
6. Anoymous8 asked:
Any plans for a definitive retelling of Wonder Woman's origin like Johns and Frank are doing with Superman?
DiDio: None at this time. One of the things we're concentrating on with Wonder Woman is helping Gail establish a lot of the characters and sensibilities on Paradise Island, and also really position Wonder Woman's place within the DCU.
At some point, we'll probably revisit that, but right now, the main thing is to just tell the best stories possible with Wonder Woman.
Nrama: Are there long-term plans for Wonder Woman's storyline though? Can you tell us anything about what's might be coming up for the character?
DiDio: I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves with this, but Gail is building a major storyline that will get us to what would be deemed a landmark position for the character.
7. Yardley81 asked:
Recently I upgraded to an iPhone and found that IDW and Archie are both selling comic books through the app store. Does DC have any plans for something similar in the future, and not Zuda, but actual DC Universe content, either original or reprint?
DiDio: Just like with collected editions, the digital delivery of DC Comics is not something that falls under my purview. But my answer to that is, it would be foolish to think that DC and Warner Bros. are not looking at ways to take advantage of digital distribution. But at this particular point, I'm not part of those discussions.
11. darknight11 asked:
you said Terry McGinnis will back in the DCU; will he have his own mini series?
DiDio: There will be a Terry McGinnis mini-series early next year. We've heard the fans, we've heard everyone's interest. And right now we're planning to put out a Batman Beyond mini-series in 2010.
12. 4thHorseman asked:
What is one thing that DC does extremely well that you are proud of, and what is one thing that you think it could improve on?
DiDio: That's a great question, but it requires thought. You know what? That's such a tough question, because I'm proud of so much of what we do. I can't talk highly enough about the editorial staff that works for me here at DC. These guys are here anywhere from eight to 10 to 12 hours a day working very hard to put out the best product possible. They work very closely with our talent. And they're trying to make sure everybody is handled in the proper manner, a respectful manner, and they turn out the best books they can do.
When I look at my staff and how hard they work, I find that it shows in the work, and in all the positive feedback we're receiving, everything from Blackest Night to Wednesday Comics to Superman and other series. That just doesn't happen overnight. We knew we went through a rough spot over a year ago. And we all made a major commitment to improve the way we work and improve the quality of what we do. And when you see from where we were and to where we are now and to where we're going to be, that's probably where I get the most excited. I know that the effort we're putting into it is showing up, and more importantly, that people are reacting to it positively.
When you have people working as hard as they do, and sometimes we get very buried in the day-to-day here and we get lost in the minutia of putting a book out, we forget when the actual product comes out, how much it affects people and how much people really want to see good material. And when you provide that to them, it's just a good feeling overall.
Nrama: And the one thing you can improve upon?
DiDio: I came from TV, and what's wonderful about the nature of television, which is the same as producing comics, is that we're in a periodical business, or an episodic business. And because of that, we're on deadlines. And we always want to make sure our books hit the deadlines. And you know what? I've gone through an enormous length to tell people, although one or two of books have recently missed a week or two of shipping, we went for three and a half months without missing a single delivery, which I think is incredibly important to do because it was a reaction to the fans, and saying, you know what? We put a book out, it should be there. We have adjusted, and we've made it happen.
But we're always trying to improve. In a periodical business, you always want that next thing to be even better than the last one. If something did not work, you remember it, you store it, and you try to fix it the next time. You constantly try to build, not just on successes, but also on where you missed so you can try to fix that as well. And that's one of the things I feel very strongly about is we can always be better, we can always be stronger, and we can always be quicker. We have to be on time, and we have to put the best product forward because we should never take anything for granted, in particular the fans. The perception out there is that fans will buy anything just because they're in the habit of buying things. And we know that not to be true. So we can't take anything for granted, so we always should be striving to be better.
13. grantg asked:
Can you pull the curtain back a little and tell us what's going on with Hawkman?
DiDio: One of the things we're probably most tight-lipped about is anything that follows Blackest Night.
Nrama: There's a lot of concern about the Hawks in particular.
DiDio: A lot of concern? What's everybody concerned about? It's summertime! People should be enjoying themselves. Go to the beach! You shouldn't be concerning yourself with this!
Without being able to say anything more, as of right now, the Hawks are Black Lanterns, and that's their role in the DC Universe for the time being.
14. PhilipAMoore asked:
Will Jim Starlin be doing any thing for dc in the near future maybe a third (non R.E.B.E.L.S.) sci-fi team up?
DiDio: Right now, Jim's wrapping up Strange Adventures with Issue #8, and I think that's the last work we have on schedule with him at this time.
Nrama: As a follow-up to that, there were a lot of people asking about what will happen with the space characters.
DiDio: We have a lot going on with the space characters. The R.E.B.E.L.S. series will be picking up on some of the threads from Strange Adventures, building on some of the storylines they're setting up with Starro the Conqueror, and then also meeting some of the other, more colorful characters in the DC Universe.
15. kungfufighting asked:
Any plans for Plastic Man?
DiDio: Right now he's appearing in Justice League of America, but at this time there's no plan for a series or mini-series.
16. ryanscottottney asked:
Mr. DiDio ... You've said before that this is the year of Batman, and 2010 is the year of Superman. Can you give some teases or hints about what readers can expect from the Man of Steel in 2010 - to get us through this long, cold (shoulder) winter we're in now?
DiDio: Right now, what I'm going to do is point toward the Codename: Patriot storyline that is unfolding right now in the Superman books. There are so many clues and so much that is being hinted about for where the Superman books are going in 2010. And that is probably a key turning point in the ongoing story of New Krypton.
I think if you're following Superman, and hopefully enjoying Superman, Codename: Patriot is the key story beat to see where the arrow's pointing for Superman in the future. We have a lot of things taking place in 2010, and Superman is one of the lead characters in the events of the year. And more importantly, James and Greg and Sterling are working so intensely closely on the Superman material that it's one of the reasons we felt comfortable putting the numbers shields on the books. These guys are working together and creating what we call mega-fiction involving all the Superman characters.
Nrama: There have been some questions about whether Geoff Johns will be part of those future plans with Superman, since we've heard about him being involved in those meetings.
DiDio: There are some ties to Adventure Comics, but it's more of a dotted line. Geoff's also involved in those meetings because many of the story beats are building off concepts and ideas that he established during his run on Action, and which are also being established in his Secret Origins series. It's always great to have Geoff in the room whenever we're discussing story.
17. Crimsonrainfall asked:
Will we ever get to see the Kurt Busiek Krypto story that DC kept scheduling over and over for like 7 months before the story just vanished?
DiDio: Probably.
Nrama: We actually had two people ask about that Krypto story.
DiDio: That's two more than asked in the building, so this is a step in the right direction. To be honest with you, we haven't given it much thought, but it's something worth revisiting at another point.
announced right here, DC will have a major Booth and panel presence at C2E2 in April 2010.
19. T Boogie! wrote:
What's the biggest thing you can tease about upcoming storylines that fans aren't yet aware of? And on a similar note, in your opinion, who's the character to watch in the DCU and why?
DiDio: What's really important to us right now is what's going on around Blackest Night. So much of what we've been building toward for the last few years has been leading us to this moments. So for us, we have so much story that has been layered in over the last year or so that we're going to take advantage of and build on throughout our line of books. And I think that, to get ahead of that story, would lessen the excitement of what we're doing in Blackest Night.
Realistically, because of the way it's scheduled, Blackest Night will be playing into next year. I think we should be enjoying this story as it's unfolding right now.
And for the characters to watch, I said it and the story slipped a little late so it's 2010 now. But there are two characters: We're watching Superman and we're watching Green Arrow.
20. Nrama: We're going to take this last one. You mentioned that Blackest Night is going to build throughout your line of books, and several people were wondering about the decision to have tie-ins in the regular titles. Is that something that's going to continue? Are the regular comics going to become more and more entwined with Blackest Night?
DiDio: What we tried to do is bring in crossovers where they made the most sense and where we had the most stories. So you'll see crossovers taking place in November and December in a number of our key titles where we feel Blackest Night makes the most sense. You'll also see some fun events taking place in the beginning of the year involving Blackest Night. And then, as we get closer to the conclusion, they'll be less tied into it as we focus on the Blackest Night title solely.
Nrama: Could we expect that there would be some new titles spinning out of it once it's over?
DiDio: If the demand is there, sure.
And that leads us Dan's question back to the fans, that he'd like you to answer below:
DiDio: Let's have some fun. Since I won't give anything away, what are the fans expecting to see post Blackest Night in the DC Universe?


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Assistant Professor IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2012-2014
Program Coordinator, Digital Futures Lab
C.B.L.R. Staff Fellow 2013-2014
Project: Strategic Organizing for Community Relationships and Participatory Action in Lake City/Northeast Seattle
Our proposed collaborative project is a preliminary step towards the establishment of a broader long-term relationship between the University of Washington Bothell and communities in Lake City/Northeast Seattle. We will use the fellowship and the workshops as a springboard to evaluate possibilities for and begin the development of a suite of community based activities that will eventually include:
Lecturer, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project: Community-Based Research on Health and Aging in Prison
Johanna's ICBLR project is part of a groundswell of interest in and work related to incarceration on the UW-Bothell campus. Johanna aims to develop a Community-Based ethnographic research project that examines practices and experiences of prison medicine at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA. Some of the questions she hopes to explore through her project are... what does it mean to seek (and deliver) care in a context of punishment? How are aging and illness managed in a correctional context? What are the concerns and priorities of prisoners, families, and medical professionals regarding health and aging in prison? The project aims to both improve incarcerated individuals' access to and experiences with medical care, and contribute to broader efforts to end mass incarceration.
Director, Interactive Media Design
C.B.L.R. Staff Fellow 2013-2014
Assistant Professor, Buisiness
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project:The Tribal Education Network (T-E-N)
As fellows of the Community-Based Learning and Research, we aim to advance our goals of research and education as we develop and implement the Tribal Education Network (T-E-N) project. T-E-N is a developing partnership between the University of Washington Bothell and Indian peoples within the Northwest to provide culturally-relevant, innovative curricula for tribal members preparing for, and beginning, their college-level studies. The T-E-N project will 1) enhance the research of the fellows who will explore pedagogical and educational best practices; 2) benefit tribes through tribal youth development; and 3) contribute to UW student learning through meaningful projects involving case designs, technology/media development, and opportunities to work with tribal mentors and educators.
Lecturer, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2012-2014
Project: Nikkei Newspaper Digital Archive Project (NNDAP)
The NNDAP aligns with Kristin's interests in Asian American media, the Pacific Northwest, journalism history, and social change. Kristin's ICBLR Fellowship aims to assist the shared efforts of the Hokubei Hochi Foundation and the University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiatives Program through the recruitment of more UWB students so that NNDAP can successfully create a digital archive and related metadata and continue efforts to showcase this pilot effort to secure future funding. In addition, she hopes to use this work to enliven the senior spring 2014 seminar she is developing on "Asian American Media in the Pacific Northwest" to enhanced CBLR opportunities such as enabling students to engage with the North American Post in deeper context and with greater understanding of the broader efforts toward community preservation.
Assistant Professor, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project: Ecological Reconnaissance in the Classroom
Ecological reconnaissance (e.g., Kelly, 1988) is a process of mapping the social, organizational, and political landscape of a community in relation to a particular social issue. The act of ecological reconnaissance grounds individuals in the community context and encourages meaningful reflection on how the social ecology informs the creation, maintenance, and response to a social issue, including the role of power, voice, and the flow of resources. One primary goal of the Ecological Reconnaissance in the Classroom project is to develop a set of assignments that will integrate students into this process. The assignments will be developed in a way that can be readily adapted to multiple classroom contexts and facilitate building a multifaceted local understanding of a social issue. All resources developed from this project will be made available to students, faculty, and community members to facilitate opportunities for learning and engagement more broadly.
Lecturer, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project: The Culture, Movement, and Social Transformations
The Culture, Movement, and Social Transformations Project is intended to build and deepen connections between UWB students and faculty and local arts and performance communities. Advancing a critical interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the creation, circulation, reception, and politics of different forms of cultural production, including performance, dance, music, and visual art, the project and course will engage members of the UWB community in the role of cultural work in imagining and enacting social transformations. Based on connections developed as part of Jed's BIS 216: Introduction to Cultural Studies course and his years of labor with the Race/Knowledge Project collective at UW Seattle, Culture, Movement and Social Transformations invites students to write and create for multiple publics and in a variety of modes, from blog entries and YouTube reviews to community radio pieces and creative visual and sonic texts in dialogue with local art and performance. The project is centered around three local community-partnership sites (the non-profit, artist-run gallery SOIL, the local hip-hop scene, and Velocity Dance Center) and, among other things, it encourages students to produce work for potential placement with local periodicals, online journals, and the new UWB radio station. Turning to different community sites as domains of knowledge production, students' engagement with the problems and politics of culture and possibilities for social transformation will be enriched by enabling them to think with and alongside differently located cultural workers and their practices. While the project draws from Jed's collaborations with artists and his research and writing on visual, literary, and popular cultures and the politics of race and gender in the contemporary US, the aim is to develop and model sustainable relationships and practices that other UWB students and faculty can utilize and further in coming years.
Lecturer, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project: Campus Community Garden
One of my goals in working on a community garden on campus is to connect and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with a variety of local organizations. These organizations (such as City Fruit, the Beacon Hill Food Forest, among others) may offer a community garden support through mentoring of students and faculty about the process and horticultural practices. We may assist their organizations through increased CBLR opportunities for students. After a community garden is developed it represents an opportunity for faculty to easily accommodate CBLR opportunities for their students.
Both the development and management of a community garden on campus would offer students, including my own, CBLR opportunities to work in and around the garden. Students would be able to apply course concepts to the community garden work, build community on campus, and serve as a way to broaden student and faculty engagement at the university.
Assistant Professor, IAS
C.B.L.R. Faculty Fellow 2013-2014
Project: Developing & Evaluating a Pilot K-12 Program for Global Citizenship and Leadership Skills
As a community psychologist, my overarching research examines how social institutions can empower and engage young people to be positive agents of change in their communities; in turn, developing skills for the future. In collaboration with Dr. Paul Markham and founder of Power to Define Luis Ortega, we are developing a pilot program for the Secondary Academy of Success (SAS) in the Northshore School District. Entitled the "21st Century Global Citizenship & Leadership Lab," this pilot program focuses on positive youth development to facilitate students' skill development. UWB undergraduates will take on the role of "coaches" in the school as they work with students from across the K-12 classrooms. The overall objectives of the program are to foster positive identity, social competencies, a commitment to learning, and positive values.


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Well, at least Ann Coulter will be happy.
Second Third look at Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney has said time and time again that he has no interest in running for president a third time.
But, on Sunday morning, CBS' Bob Schieffer said not to write off the idea of a 2016 campaign by Romney so quickly.
"I have a source that told me that if Jeb Bush decides not to run, that Mitt Romney may actually try it again," Schieffer said…
Several major Romney donors told The Washington Post earlier this year that Bush would be their preferred Republican candidate in 2016.
Serious (well, not too serious) question: Where's Romney right now on the 2016 RINO depth chart? Jeb is the first-stringer but there's a legit chance that he doesn't run, whether because he doesn't want the aggravation of climbing a mountain with the Bush ball-and-chain around his ankle or because his wife simply refuses to allow it. Christie's the second-stringer but a Bridgegate smoking gun could emerge to finish him off. And even if it doesn't, he might blow up on the launch pad. Between his ideological heresies and the possibility that his persona simply doesn't wear well outside New Jersey, he might now win a single primary even with establishment money behind him. Could be that some significant number of Republican donors will conclude that he's a lost cause and pass on him.
That leaves us at third-string. I think that's Rubio, but there's a chance that he won't run either. If he looks at 2016 and concludes that he has no chance of winning the general election, whether because Hillary's too formidable or because he hasn't rehabbed sufficiently on immigration yet, he might decide to pass. Remember, if he runs for president, he can't run for Senate again in Florida. He'd be gambling his political future if he took the plunge. If he's also out, then who's the fourth-stringer? I'd say Scott Walker (or maybe Walker's third-string and Rubio's fourth-string), but of course he's facing reelection in Wisconsin this year. If something happens to trip him up, whether scandal-related or otherwise, and he loses the race for governor, then he's done too.
Which leaves us at the establishment fifth-string. Who's that? Jindal? I think the donor class would be nervous about riding into battle with him against tea-party heroes as formidable as Paul or Cruz. They want a known quantity whom they can trust to consolidate "somewhat conservative" voters behind him and raise the boatloads of cash needed to squash the tea-party champion in key states. At some point, out of sheer desperation, they would approach Romney and beg him to save them from the CruzPaulpocalypse, whatever it might mean for the general election. What I'm asking is, how far down the chain do you need to go to get to the guy who lost, fairly badly, two years ago? Is he above or below Mitch Daniels? John Thune? Others?


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Radical Religion, an American Tradition
In ordinary times the life of a radical can feel extraordinarily lonely. Even more so if one is not only radical but also religious. After all, with a few exceptions, the voice of the religious far left has been largely absent from political discourse in recent decades.
Dan McKanan's new book, Prophetic Encounters, shows us that we are not alone. He reflects on the history of nearly two centuries of religion and radicalism in America and, in doing so, reminds us that we are part of a long and rich tradition that is more than simply a series of isolated movements for social change.
McKanan traces American radicalism from the era of the "Working Men" of the 1820s, when artisans gathered in local churches to organize and, using largely theological rhetoric, to challenge the economic injustices of their time. He argues that American radicalism has always been intertwined with religion, drawing from it both inspiration and support. In fact, McKanan suggests, radicalism in this country has been itself almost a form of religion, with its transcendent visions of a new and just society, its ritual singing, and the ways in which it offers participants a sense of powerful new identity.
Central to McKanan's work is the notion of encounter between people. He describes three types. The first is an encounter of identity through which people who have experienced oppression or been marginalized come together, hear one another's stories, recognize themselves in the other, and develop a shared sense of belonging.
The second kind of encounter happens when individuals of relative privilege encounter marginalized communities, sense the power that comes from their having come together, and begin to identify with a particular individual who represents that community. That is how, for instance, many members of the white middle class had their lives transformed by encounter with the writings and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And the third kind of encounter, collective encounter, happens when individuals choose to immerse themselves in marginalized or struggling communities, as when Dorothy Day, longing for meaningful encounter with poor immigrants, founded the Catholic Worker movement.
All of these kinds of cross-boundary encounters can be akin to conversion experiences, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. McKanan writes of the power that comes from such encounters, saying that when people "encounter one another deeply, in the midst of their struggles for freedom and equality and community, prophetic power is released." It is this power that can transform both individuals who experience it and also the world in which they live. In various times and cultures, he writes, this power has been known as "spirit, mana, god."
"Radicalism thrives in times of crisis," writes McKanan, and indeed, today we are living in a time of multiple and interconnected crises—economic, political, and environmental. However, he argues, in recent decades we have spent more time resisting the Right than encountering one another, and there is a different kind of energy that comes from that kind of engagement, which generally is so concerned with the present that it fails to generate a positive vision for the future.
Since, as he argues, encounter has historically been the real source of power for social transformation, -McKanan ends his book wondering about the future of the radical tradition in America. In looking at contemporary struggles such as those involving immigration, same-sex marriage, and environmentalism, McKanan raises questions about the ultimate place of these movements within the context of that tradition.
MLK's Lessons For Occupy
At the time of his death, Martin Luther King Jr. was planning a campaign around economic injustice—including a mass encampment of poor people in Washington, D.C.
Prophetic Encounters was published before the Occupy Movement brought a new generation of American radicals out into the public square, and one might well imagine that the events of the last year have restored McKanan's hope. The tent cities and creative demonstrations of solidarity and collective resistance that have defined the Occupy Movement to date have provided copious opportunities for encounter—between student activists and the homeless, for instance, and among those who are unemployed or who have been victims of home foreclosures.
"Everyone needs a history," writes McKanan, "especially those who seek to change the future." Prophetic Encounters provides that history as well as a framework for understanding the transformative and generative experience of those who occupy.
For decades, School of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois has argued that embracing militarism will never bring us the security we seek. But he thinks he knows what will.
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The Occupy movement is bringing deep moral questions that many religions confront to the forefront of national conversation. How faith groups are joining in.


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24 Kan. App. 2d 495
No. 76,274
STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JERRY L. LOFFER, Appellant.
1. Both K.S.A. 21-4603 and K.S.A. 21-4610 vest considerable discretion in the trial court to order restitution as it deems appropriate.
2. In a case where the defendant is convicted of criminal nonsupport, K.S.A. 21-4603 and K.S.A. 21-4610(d) do not prohibit a sentencing court from requiring, as a condition of probation, that the defendant pay child support which became due outside the time period alleged in the complaint.
3. Except for the conversion features of K.S.A. 21-4724, the provisions of the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act have no application to crimes committed prior to July 1, 1993. A crime is committed prior to July 1, 1993, if any of the essential elements of the crime as then defined occurred before July 1, 1993.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; REBECCA L. PILSHAW, judge. Opinion filed November 7, 1997. Affirmed.
Julie A. Gorenc, special appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for appellant.
Charles R. Reimer, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before KNUDSON, P.J., ROYSE, J., and J. STEPHEN NYSWONGER, District Judge, assigned.
ROYSE, J.: Jerry L. Loffer pled guilty to one count of nonsupport of a child. The district court sentenced Loffer to an indeterminate term of 1 to 2 years in prison, but granted Loffer's motion for probation. The district court ordered as a condition of probation that Loffer pay restitution in the amount of $11,652. Loffer appeals.
Loffer's first argument on appeal is that the district court abused its discretion in determining the amount of restitution, because the district court included in the restitution figure child support that became due during time periods not covered by the complaint. The complaint alleged that Loffer failed to provide support for his two children between July 15, 1992, and February 28, 1994. Loffer does not dispute that he owed a total of $11,652 in unpaid child support, but he claims restitution should be limited to $2,238, the amount of unpaid child support which accrued during that specified period. The district court rejected Loffer's argument and included in the restitution figure unpaid child support which became due prior to July 15, 1992, and after February 28, 1994.
Resolution of this issue requires the court to interpret and apply the statutory provisions regarding restitution. Interpretation of a statute is a question of law, subject to unlimited review on appeal. State v. Turner, 22 Kan. App. 2d 564, 566, 919 P.2d 370 (1996).
K.S.A. 21-4603(b)(3) authorizes the sentencing court to release a convicted defendant on probation "subject to such conditions as the court may deem appropriate, including orders requiring full or partial restitution." K.S.A. 21-4610(d) provides in part:
"In addition to other conditions of probation, . . . the court shall order the defendant to . . .
(1) Make reparation or restitution to the aggrieved party for the damage or loss caused by the defendant's crime, in an amount and manner determined by the court and to the person specified by the court, unless the court finds compelling circumstances which would render a plan of restitution unworkable."
These statutory provisions for restitution were examined by the Supreme Court in State v. Ball, 255 Kan. 694, 877 P.2d 955 (1994). In Ball, the defendant had been charged with three counts of burglary and three counts of felony theft. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the defendant pled guilty to two counts of burglary and the State dismissed the other charges. The plea agreement further provided that there would be full restitution on all counts included in the original complaint. In accord with the plea agreement, the district court ordered restitution in the amount of $18,490.40.
Ball argued on appeal that the restitution order was contrary to the statutes. Based on its examination of the statutory language, the Supreme Court disagreed. The court contrasted the restitution statutes with K.S.A. 1992 Supp. 21-4603(2)(b), which provided that a court may impose a fine "applicable to the offense." The court observed that the legislature has not included such a limiting phrase in the restitution statutes: "Neither 21-4610 nor 21-4603 . . . limits a court's authority to ordering restitution only for the offense of conviction. Both sections vest considerable discretion in the trial court to order restitution as it deems appropriate, except that it must, pursuant to 21-4610(4), order restitution for the offense of conviction." Ball, 255 Kan. at 701.
Loffer argues that Ball applies only where the defendant has agreed to pay restitution for the dismissed charges. This argument was rejected in Turner. In that case, the defendant was initially charged with four counts of forgery. He pled guilty to two counts of forgery in exchange for the State's dismissal of the remaining two counts. The district court entered a restitution order based on all four counts of forgery, and Turner appealed. This court affirmed the district court decision, concluding that K.S.A. 21-4610(d)(1) does not preclude the sentencing court from ordering restitution on crimes to which a defendant did not plead. Turner, 22 Kan. App. 2d at 567.
Loffer argues that the district court's order in this case improperly required him to pay restitution in connection with crimes for which he was never charged. He contends that he was charged with the crime of nonsupport between July 15, 1992, and February 28, 1994, but was not ever charged with criminal nonsupport for other periods of time. This argument is not persuasive.
While Ball left open the question whether a court's restitution order can include restitution for crimes never charged, there appears to be no reason for the limitation urged by Loffer. As the Supreme Court noted in Ball, both 21-4603 and 21-4610 vest considerable discretion in the trial court to order restitution as it deems appropriate. Ball, 255 Kan. at 701. Practically speaking, as far as restitution is concerned there is little difference between crimes charged and later dismissed, and crimes which are never charged at all. In neither case has the State met its burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
In addition, the restitution order entered in this case is consistent with K.S.A. 21-4610(c)(8) and K.S.A. 21-4611. K.S.A. 21-4610(c)(8) authorizes a sentencing court to order, as a condition of probation, that a defendant support his dependents. It is noteworthy that 21-4610(c)(8) applies in any criminal case, whether or not the defendant was charged with nonsupport. K.S.A. 21-4611 authorizes a sentencing court to require that a defendant convicted of nonsupport of a child remain on probation for as long as the responsibility for support continues. Thus, the sentencing court may require the payment of child support which becomes due long after the dates contained in the complaint. These statutes cannot be squared with Loffer's contention that a sentencing court may order restitution only for child support that accrued during the period alleged in the complaint.
For all these reasons, we conclude that the district court did not err in ordering restitution of $11,652. In a case where the defendant is convicted of criminal nonsupport, 21-4603 and 21-4610(d) do not prohibit a sentencing court from requiring, as a condition of probation, that the defendant pay child support which became due outside the time period alleged in the complaint.
Loffer's second argument on appeal is that the district court erred by failing to sentence him under the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act. Loffer did not raise this argument in the district court. Nevertheless, Loffer's argument amounts to a claim that his sentence was illegal, and an illegal sentence may be corrected at any time. K.S.A. 22-3504(1). Whether the sentencing guidelines apply to a particular offense raises a question of law over which this court has unlimited review. See State v. Roderick, 259 Kan. 107, 110, 911 P.2d 159 (1996).
Loffer argues that the KSGA should apply to his case because his alleged criminal conduct continued after July 1, 1993. This argument is without merit. K.S.A. 21-4723 provides:
|"Except as provided in K.S.A. 21-4724, the provisions of this act creating a presumptive sentencing guidelines system have no application to crimes committed prior to July 1, 1993. A crime is committed prior to July 1, 1993, if any of the essential elements of the crime as then defined occurred before July 1, 1993. Except as provided in K.S.A. 21-4724, prosecutions for prior crimes shall be governed, prosecuted and punished under the laws existing at the time such crimes were committed."
Loffer acknowledges that some elements of his crime occurred prior to July 1, 1993. Thus, in accord with 21-4723, the district court did not err in imposing a pre-guidelines, indeterminate sentence.


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The release of the G80 based nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX in November 2006 was, in hindsight, a paradigm shift in the computer graphics world. Not only was it the first DirectX 10 graphics card but it also completely blew away the competition in DirectX 9 games before the arrival of Windows Vista and held this lead for an unprecedented amount of time even when Vista and DirectX 10 did finally arrive. Indeed, not until February of this year, when AMD released the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, which used two RV670 cores on one card, did the G80 in its various guises have any real competition.
Not that this competition lasted long. Within a few weeks nVidia released the dual G92 based 9800 GX2, which used a similar two-chips-on-one-card method to the HD 3870 X2, and comfortably regained the top performance crown – at least in the games it worked with. nVidia then followed this up with the 9800 GTX, which used a single G92 based chip to marginally extend nVidia's performance lead within the single-chip graphics card market. Of course, ATI still had many good cards and it competed very fiercely in the mainstream sub-£150 market but it just couldn't claim the top spot.
Still, while nVidia held onto its lead with the 9800 series cards, it didn't really push forward any frontiers. Performance was good but not overwhelming and, while new features like HybridPower are useful, the whole range felt a little disappointing.
Just a few months later, though, nVidia has just launched a brand new graphics processor called GT200 that, at least on paper, looks like it should have all the performance necessary to be a true successor to G80. Made up of 1.4 Billion (yes, that is billion with a 'B') transistors, packing in 240 stream processors, 32 ROPs, a 512-bit memory interface, and a whole host of other under-the-bonnet improvements, it is an absolute monster. In fact, with it still being made using the same 65nm process used on G92, it is not just a monster internally, but also externally – at 24 x 24mm this is the biggest single die TSMC has ever commercially produced.
Indeed, if you look at a typical production silicon wafer, which is 300mm in diameter, at most there is only room to produce 94 GT200 chips on each one. Compare this to something like Intel's Conroe CPUs, which are built on the same size manufacturing process but are only 143mm^2 in size, so 426 dies can be produced per wafer, and you get some idea for just how large and expensive GT200 is.
Two variants on the GT200 will be available at launch, and these will be the first parts to take on nVidia's revised branding. All the rebranding boils down to is the switching around of letters and numbers so the new cards are called GTX 280 and GTX 260 rather than the x000 GT/GTX/GTS sort of arrangement we're used to.
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Boy Scouts of America Adventure Base 100 to Visit New Orleans
Take a break from the Mardi Gras festivities and come celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Created specifically for the 100th Anniversary, Adventure Base 100, a unique, interactive 10,000-square-foot campus, will be in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 13 and Sunday, Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the front entrance of the Audubon Zoo. The event is free and open to the public. At Adventure Base 100, families will have the opportunity to try their skill at a ropes course, experience the IMAX-like video in the "Go Scouting! Dome," and tour the traveling museum, among many other activities.
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New Orleans, (Feb. 2, 2010) — Ropes Course. GoScouting! Dome. Traveling Museum. In celebration of the organization's 100th anniversary, the Boy Scouts of America is bringing a truly unique and interactive experience to New Orleans: Adventure Base 100.
Created specifically for the Boy Scouts of America's 100th Anniversary Celebration, Adventure Base 100 is traveling the country to rally people of all ages to take part in "Celebrating the Adventure, Continuing the Journey."
Adventure Base 100 is a unique, interactive 10,000-square-foot campus featuring immersive and exciting Scout-related experiences to provide a hands-on view of the Boy Scouts of America's 100 year history and the difference Scouting has made in the lives of millions of youth.
Starting in January at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., and ending in November in New York City, Adventure Base 100 will be rolling into more than 40 markets across the country. It will be in New Orleans Feb. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"Our goal is to engage those interested in the Boy Scouts of America in a new and exciting way," said Kenneth Pickering, 100th Anniversary of Scouting Chairman for the Southeast Louisiana Council. "We are thrilled to bring this experience to New Orleans to celebrate our rich 100 year heritage, spark fond memories in former Scouts and alumni, and intrigue those who may be interested in learning more about our organization."
While in New Orleans, Adventure Base 100 will be located at the front entrance of the Audubon Zoo and will include:
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• A chance to win prizes just by spinning the wheel.
• An overview about what it takes to become an Eagle Scout, the highest level of Scouting.
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During their extraordinary 25th Anniversary celebration, Covenant House California (CHC) is set to honor renowned award-winning musician, composer, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock, along with retiring CHC Executive Director George R. Lozano, at their annual Gala and Awards Dinner taking place May 2 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The night's festivities will also include a silent and live auction, actress Vinessa Shaw as emcee and A-list entertainment by the greatest living jazz saxophonist and composer, Wayne Shorter.
During this landmark year, the evening event will celebrate CHC's tireless quest to seek out homeless and at-risk youth living on the streets and offer them hope and the tools they need to turn their lives around. A large number have been thrown out of their homes or run away from severe abuse, while others have aged out of the foster care system with no family, no support and no one to turn to for help.
"During my 22 years with Covenant House California, I've been honored to make a difference by offering care and support to so many homeless and at-risk youth," said CHC Executive Director George R. Lozano. "This gala celebrates a remarkable milestone for Covenant House California, and will remind all of us what an important part we play in the future of these youth."
This year's honoree, Herbie Hancock, is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. With an illustrious career spanning five decades and over 40 notable music awards that include 14 Grammy® Awards, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe. There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock.
Hancock was recently named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue and has joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department.
George R. Lozano, Executive Director of Covenant House California, will be retiring after 22 years of service to CHC and will be honored at the Awards Gala for his lifetime achievement. His leadership has advanced the Covenant House California to now serve thousands of homeless, at-risk and trafficked youth annually in Los Angeles and Oakland.
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation is the Champion Sponsor of the event. Past CHC honorees include James Cameron and his wife Suzy Amis Cameron, Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Keyshawn Johnson, Sharon Osbourne, William Shatner and Charlize Theron.


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Ringan Ledwidge is set to direct the micro-budget sci-fi thriller "Glimmer" at DreamWorks.
Carter Blanchard penned the script about a group of teenagers who discover a portal to the past. When one of them changes history, the effects start to snowball with tragic consequences.
Mark Sourian and Adam Kolbrenner are producing. Shooting kicks off early next year.
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