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The Obama administration is working on more transfers out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in the wake of last week's release of five Taliban fighters but said Wednesday it doesn't have a time line for progress.
One national security official said Wednesday that the administration is making headway on some "promising opportunities" but that the process may take some time.
"While we continue to work toward closure, there are no imminent transfer announcements in the works," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
Last week's transfer of Guantanamo detainees in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has kicked up a storm on Capitol Hill among lawmakers who think they should have known more details in the run-up to the transfer.
Some are suspicious that the move signals an opening of the doors on the controversial prison, which holds 149 people, including the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
President Obama, who has sought unsuccessfully to shut the U.S. military prison in Cuba since he took office, hinted strongly last week that he still intends to move more detainees out as the Pentagon winds down its war in Afghanistan.
"By definition, if we in fact are ending a war, then there's going to be a process in which some of those individuals are going to be released," he said on NBC News.
After briefings with administration officials this week, some Republican lawmakers said they believe the White House intends to release more prisoners without seeking congressional consent, as they did to gain Bergdahl's release from the Taliban.
"There's some concern that this is a lead-up to letting them all go," said Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said she sharply disagrees with the administration's contention that ending the war in Afghanistan would necessitate transferring all remaining detainees.
"Even with the wind-down of the war in Afghanistan, unless the authorization for use of military force is rescinded, we still have authority under that to hold them under law of war detention if we believe they still present a danger," she said.
The release of the so-called Taliban 5 has given lawmakers most committed to keeping Guantanamo open, such as Ayotte, new ammunition in their fight.
A new defense authorization bill that passed the House last month maintains prohibitions on transferring most detainees from the detention facility. But the Senate Armed Services Committee has included a provision that would allow some to be transferred to U.S. soil for detention or trial, under strict circumstances.
Ayotte, a committee member who opposed that provision, said she had already intended to try and strip that language from the bill when the full Senate takes up the measure. But now she intends to go further. She hopes to restore an even higher standard for national security waivers the administration must provide before transferring high-risk detainees. Ayotte sponsored an amendment that was adopted in committee to suspend transfers to Yemen.
Hayden said the White House is "making progress on a number of additional promising opportunities" to transfer more detainees, and are reviewing Yemeni detainees "on a case-by-case basis."
"While we do not generally discuss transfers before they take place, we are fully committed to implementing the president's direction that we transfer detainees to the greatest extent possible, consistent with national security and our humane treatment policy, as we work toward closing the facility at Guantanamo Bay," she said.
Hayden said 17 inmates have been moved out of Cuba in the last 13 months, including the five former Taliban officials transferred to Qatar in the swap for Bergdahl, who had been held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years.
The future of America's most notorious prison camp and its 149 remaining inmates has been in doubt since the White House announced the exchange on May 31.

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The Paths of Sefarad
Interior of Santa María La Blanca Synagogue. Toledo
View of Ribadavia. Ourense
Jewish Quarter. Hervás, Cáceres
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Useful information Network of Jewish Quarters in Spain A journey in time through Jewish Spain. For many centuries, until 1492, the Iberian Peninsula was a mosaic, a melting pot of peoples, cultures and religions. The presence until this time of Jewish communities embellished the urban geography of Spain. These communities developed their own culture, practised their customs and their religion and went about their social life in close contact with both Christian and Arab communities. The wealth left by this reality is a common inheritance, a collective heritage of many of Spain´s peoples. The Routes of Sefarad are a suggested journey through the most notable Jewish quarters. The Network of Jewish quarters in Spain offers the traveller an abundance of information. We can highlight: Cáceres. In the oldest section of this proud monumental site, a World Heritage Site, the Old Jewish quarter stands out because of its curled, irregular layout which combines long steep streets with 220 small squares and recondite places. Córdoba. The group of beautiful streets which form the Jewish quarter envelop the traveller in their peculiar Andalusian charm. A visit to the small synagogue, the cool interior courtyards, the statue of Maimónides and the Calahorra Gate makes for an unforgettable experience. Girona. A mysterious enclave of great prestige, this beautifully preserved Jewish quarter reflects the essence of Jewish life. With the bustling Força street which forms its axis, and such emblematic narrow streets as Cúndaro and Sat Llorenç, which is home to the Centro Bonastruc ça Porta. Hervás (Cáceres). Rustic and extremely original, a jewel of both plain and more colourful architectural findings, which can be seen in the arrangement of some houses built with poor materials from the humble River Ambroz itself which almost laps at the rocky edges of this Jewish quarter of Extremedura. Oviedo. The capital of the Principality of Asturias was a significant Jewish enclave during the Middle Ages. It had a large synagogue which was located inside the beautiful historic quarter, within the city walls and around which the Jews moved freely. Ribadavia (Ourense). Set apart by its solid and well preserved limestone from the Galician region, the personal Jewish quarter takes on its best appearance during the celebration of the Festival of History, which is held in July and relates the life and experiences of Jewish converts. Segovia. This city of Castilla-Leon, a World Heritage Site, has a valuable restored Jewish quarter which begins with a visit to the former synagogue, today the church of Corpus Christi, and can be rounded off with a look at the remains of the Jewish cemetery. Toledo. The whole mazy urban network of the Jewish quarter of Toledo reflects the honour, with its two emblematic synagogues of El Tránsito and Saint Mary the White, of the prestige which converted Toledo into an essential centre of western Judaism. Tortosa (Tarragona). Prestigious bankers, traders and men of letters lived in the Catalan Jewish quarter, next to the mouth of the Ebro. It was then a site of great confluence which today still seduces the visitor with the colourful maritime feel of its streets, cross-streets and small squares. Tudela (Navarre). The cradle of the esteemed traveller Benjamín de Tudela, the Jewish quarter of Tudela was an outstanding centre in Medieval Navarre . It still retains its chaotic layout and the unquestionable Hebrew style of cramped streets, lamp posts and winding urban arrangement. This route has been designated a Major Cultural Route by the Council of Europe.
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Wabash College mourns the loss of one of its senior students, Eric Michael Schilling, who passed away July 23.
A celebration of Eric's life will take place Friday, July 27 at 2 p.m. at Daniel F. O'Riley Funeral Home in Indianapolis. Friends are invited to gather at the funeral home to greet family members on Friday prior to the service beginning at 12 p.m.
Eric was a 21-year-old Wabash senior who passed away July 23. An English and German double major, he was the son of David and Maureen Schilling.
The funeral home is located at 6107 South East Street (US Highway 31 South) in Indianapolis, IN 46227. In lieu of flower arrangements, the family asks that you consider a live plant.
"All at Wabash College are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Eric Schilling, and our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family," said Wabash President Patrick White.


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CINCINNATI (AP) Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth has been added to the Pro Bowl squad, replacing Denver's injured Ryan Clady.
Whitworth was a first alternate for the Jan. 27 game in Honolulu. It'll be Whitworth's first trip to the Pro Bowl.
The seventh-year lineman has started every game for the Bengals since 2009. His streak of 67 straight starts is the longest on the team.
The addition of Whitworth gives the Bengals four players on the AFC's roster. Defensive tackle Geno Atkins was voted a starter for the first time, while receiver A.J. Green made it for the second straight season. Tight end Jermaine Gresham was a first alternate and also made the roster because of injury.
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Chicago Illinois This public high school is organized into three thematic bars—body (athletics), mind (classrooms) and spirit (arts)—which slide against each other to create usable exterior spaces—entry courtyard, athletics fields, reading garden to make full use of its urban site. The design is compact and multi-functional: the library, pool and gymnasium to be entered separately to better serve its community when the school is out of session. Interior space planning stresses adaptability and flexibility, with multi-functioning spaces:the gymnasium converts to a 1200 seat auditorium, and multi-purpose spaces can be flexibly adapted to various needs (recitals, exhibitions, lectures, etc.).
Built to last 100 years, the design conveys dignity and solidity. A continuous masonry ribbon snakes through the site to create the three zones. Dark on one side, light on the other, this thick masonry wall serves to differentiate the building massing based on the viewer's perspective, and serves as a thermal mass to offset the building's heating and cooling requirements.


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SIIDA – A Window into Sámi Culture and Arctic Nature
Siida is a central meeting place in Inari, the heart of the Sámi Area in Finland. It is a window on Sámi culture and the diverse nature of Northern Lapland. At Siida, you can acquaint yourself with changing exhibitions on culture, art and nature throughout the year.
Siida offers the visitor both exciting experiences that appeal to many senses and expert knowledge. In the summer season, the indoor exhibitions of Siida are complemented by the cozy open-air museum. In addition to exhibitions, events that focus on culture and nature, as well as seminars, are arranged at Siida.
At Siida, the National Museum of the Finnish Sámi and the Nature Centre of Metsähallitus work together. The pleasant restaurant Sarrit serves customers on the second floor of Siida.
Bures boahtin Siidii! – Welcome to Siida!
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The world is filled with
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Áillohaš, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001)
The word "siida" is North Sámi, and it means a Lapp village or a reindeer village and the neighborhood in it.


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Student Success Initiatives
Student Success Initiatives offer programs and services designed to support students with the goal of increasing rates of academic success at the College. Services include oversight of the Academic Early Alert system and Colonial Colleagues, a peer support program.
Academic Early Alert
The purpose is to positively affect students' academic paths early by communicating current classroom performance, providing information beneficial to academic success and referring students to appropriate College services for addressing obstacles. Faculty members may complete Early Alert reports twice each semester (at the 20 percent and mid-term points) to alert students whose academic performance is possibly jeopardizing their success and progress at the College. The office of Student Success Initiatives offers outreach and support to students receiving these alerts to increase their likelihood of academic success.
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Colonial Colleagues is a peer support program which encourages students to proactively commit to completing a degree or credential and/or successfully transferring from the College. It provides a structure that connects students as colleagues in peer-to-peer relationships enabling them to both give and receive help—from the first semester in higher education through to achievement of a certificate or a degree. Colonial Colleagues are invited to attend several Colonial Connection events for sharing experiences, skill development, problem-solving and celebrating academic success.
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SAN JOSE — Joe Nijmeh stood outside his front door and glanced uneasily at Payne Avenue. It's still difficult for him to look at where the SUV had been parked that day with a 9-month-old child forgotten inside.
"It's been tragic for the whole neighborhood," he said. "Now, we all check on cars. Even if I'm in a parking lot and I see kids in a car, I get concerned. This was terrible, but maybe one good thing is it lets people know to be aware."
Giovanni Alonzo Hernandez died on April 16 after being left all day in the hot vehicle on Payne by his father, who went to work after forgetting to drop him off with a baby sitter.
Heartbreaking stories like this are all too common. So far this year, 18 unattended children have died in vehicles nationally, with 13 of them confirmed as heatstroke victims, according to data compiled by Jan Null, a Bay Area meteorologist and expert on the issue.
July and August — the heart of the summer — are when tragedies like this are most likely to happen. And it's why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is sponsoring National Heatstroke Prevention Day on Thursday to raise awareness about the hazards of leaving unattended children in enclosed vehicles. Child safety advocates say it can happen to even the most responsible of parents.
"The public perception is that children are intentionally left in cars," said Kristie Reeves-Cavaliero, an Austin, Texas, a mother who lost a daughter to heatstroke when she was left in a vehicle. "But the reality is much more terrifying. In the majority of these cases, children are simply forgotten in cars by loving parents."
The consequences can be fatal, even on mild days, because people don't realize how quickly vehicles can become dangerously hot or know that a child's system overheats up to five times faster than an adult's body.
Terrible discovery
Giovanni's parents, who live in Los Gatos, have not spoken publicly. That morning, police said, his father drove to the West San Jose residence, where he picks up a truck a couple times a week to make deliveries as part of his job. The father accidentally left Giovanni in his car seat and didn't discover him until he returned at about 7:15 p.m.
The cause of death was ruled as hyperthermia, or an elevated body temperature. A representative for the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said the investigation into that case should be completed soon.
One-year-old Sophia Rayne "Ray Ray" Cavaliero died much the same way in 2011. Brett Cavaliero took a wrong turn on the way to day care and went directly to work, forgetting that his sleeping daughter was in the vehicle. In the wake of the tragedy, the parents reached out to Null to learn more and then created Ray Ray's Pledge to publicize how often this happens.
"We went through Jan's research, and time and time again these cases involved parents forgetting to drop the child off at day care," Reeves-Cavaliero said. "They were so similar to our story that it was scary. As much as we would like to turn back the hands of time to that day, we can't. We can't undo what's done. But we can help wake up other parents to the problem."
Null, who also is a San Francisco State lecturer, has found that 624 children left in vehicles have died of heatstroke since 1998 — an average of 38 a year. Last year there were 44 such tragedies. In California, 41 kids have died in that 16-year period.
In 51 percent of these cases, children simply were forgotten. Kids died after playing in unattended vehicles 29 percent of the time. In 18 percent, children were intentionally left in a vehicle — while the adult ran errands, or visited a bar, and so on.
Last Monday, Livermore police responded to a call that two children, ages 2 and 3, were left unattended in a hot car around 6 p.m. The mother, who was gambling at a nearby casino, was arrested on two misdemeanor child endangerment charges, and the kids were placed into protective custody.
The day Giovanni died, it was not scorching hot — just 79 degrees. But pleasant weather can be deceiving.
Null conducted a study that found the temperature inside a vehicle will rise 19 degrees in the first 10 minutes. After an hour that day, it would have been 125 degrees.
"We all kind of know, intuitively, that enclosed vehicles get hot," Null said. "But when people actually see the numbers, it's really eye-opening."
Raising awareness
Safety advocates filed a petition with the White House this month that called for the Department of Transportation to do more, including requiring "installation of technology in all vehicles and/or child safety seats to prevent children from being left alone in vehicles."
The number of children deaths is down this year compared to 2013, and Null said that might be in part because of increased media attention.
There has been intense coverage of an Atlanta father who has been charged with murder and child cruelty in a June case for allegedly leaving his 22-month-old son in a sweltering vehicle on purpose. Null said this is the first time he has ever heard of someone being accused of deliberately leaving a child in a vehicle to do them harm.
Back on Payne Avenue, Nijmeh said Giovanni's family, which includes an older brother and sister, is devastated.
"I talk to him about twice a week, and he's still in shock," said Nijmeh, 63. "The brother and sister are having a hard time. And the mother and father, they can't believe this happened. It's so sad."
National Heatstroke Prevention Day on Thursday will feature a "social media conversation." The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and child safety partners will be posting messages on Facebook as well as Twitter, using hashtags #checkforbaby and #heatstrokekills.
Never leave a child alone in a car, even for a minute.
Place something you'll need, like a cellphone or handbag, in the back seat as reminder that the child is there.
Get in the habit of opening the back door just to make sure a child hasn't been left behind.
Keep a stuffed animal in child's car seat when unoccupied. Then place the toy in front passenger seat when child is in safety seat as a visual reminder that a youngster is in the car.
Make arrangements with day care center or baby sitter to always call if the child has not arrived on a scheduled day.
If you see a child alone in a vehicle, get involved. If the child seems hot or sick, get him or her out or call 911.
Sources: www.kidsandcars.org
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Coast Guard says it works hard to end abuse - victims contend complaints not taken seriously
A U.S. Coast Guardswoman looked down while using a restroom stall on the military service's Alameda base to see a man peering up.
"Are you sick?" she asked.
It was November 2011. The woman said later that she wanted to believe the man was ill. But this was the women's restroom. She reported him the next morning.
Still, Petty Officer First Class Christopher Molloy went unpunished. He continued providing medical care at the Coast Guard sick bay on Yerba Buena Island, and the woman continued to see him at the Alameda base.
At a court-martial hearing last month, the cost of inaction was clear. Molloy, 31, admitted he went on to watch or film a dozen others, including eight more guardswomen, in states of undress. He admitted as well to fondling women after setting up unneeded tests.
The hearing, which saw emotional testimony from most of the victims, highlighted the devastation of sexual assault in the armed forces, a crime military leaders have called a cancer in the ranks.
It also raised questions about how the case was investigated and prosecuted by the Coast Guard, which like the other branches is under immense pressure to get a handle on sexual abuse.
Comprised of more than 42,000 active-duty personnel, the service had 200 reports of sexual assaults in the 2013 fiscal year - up from 78 reports in fiscal 2009. Officials said the rise was due in part to an improved climate and an increase in resources for victims, who now are more likely to come forward.
Systemic problems blamed
The officials said the service diligently investigated Molloy and is dedicated to fighting sexual assault. But to some of the women and victim advocates, the abuse was enabled - and the harm magnified - by systemic problems.
"I spoke to multiple people to make sure this wouldn't happen to anyone else," Molloy's first victim testified. "And so many people who wore the same uniform as us looked the other way."
The anger stirred by the case peaked with the result of the court-martial. After Molloy pleaded guilty to 30 charges that carried a maximum term of 155 years in prison, his case went to a shortened hearing, where a military jury sentenced him 15 years. But Molloy will serve just five years - the agreed-upon cap in a pretrial deal.
As in other military proceedings, the agreement was sealed from the judge and jury. A defendant can try to "beat the deal," but can't get more time than the negotiated cap.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman said she could not comment on the reason for the agreement, but said authorities generally consider how a long, contested trial would affect victims.
The father of one of the victims said the deal was inappropriate in what seemed to be an airtight case. He noted that 11 of the 13 women still testified.
"They were dragged through the mud anyway," said the retired Army officer, who asked that his name be withheld to protect his daughter's identity.
He said his daughter had met with an admiral and had told him she opposed the agreement.
"I feel like my daughter was a victim more than once," he said.
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Lt. Anna Dixon, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, said the service had been working hard to eliminate sexual assault, developing a four-year strategic plan that includes mandatory training to create "a culture intolerant of sexual assault" and provides victim advocates.
The service's "policies and procedures are made very clear to all members of the Coast Guard," Dixon said. "Any violations of them will not be tolerated."
Advocates for victims, though, said the Coast Guard remains behind the other branches in some ways.
Some reforms by the Defense Department were undertaken later in the Coast Guard because of its classification under Homeland Security. The other branches established a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office in 2005, for instance, three years before the Coast Guard.
A provision of this year's National Defense Authorization Act would guarantee that all reforms in addressing sexual assault would apply to the Coast Guard.
That includes guaranteeing victims the right to legal assistance and to request an expedited transfer away from an attacker - protections signed into law for the other branches by President Obama in 2011.
"The Coast Guard in particular has flown under the radar," said Greg Jacob, a former Marine and policy manager at the Service Women's Action Network.
Coast Guard officials disagreed, saying the service had begun its own initiatives to combat sexual assault.
"We've always taken sexual assault seriously," said Capt. Tony Hahn, a Coast Guard spokesman in Washington, D.C.
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A chief problem military-wide, Jacob said, is that sex crimes are still viewed as a form of "professional misconduct" by commanders who have authority over cases. As a result, he contended, some abusers see lighter consequences than they would in civilian courts.
Last year, a Coast Guardsman working at a Petaluma training center was accused of rape by a guardswoman. A military jury acquitted Fireman Elmer Molina of rape, but found him guilty of five charges including sexual assault in off-base attacks on two other guardswomen.
He was given two months of base restriction, three months of hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge and had to register as a sex offender, but got no jail time.
Panayiota Bertzikis, who started the Military Rape Crisis Center after she was raped by a fellow Coast Guardsman in 2006, said she had worked with many victims who said attacks weren't fully investigated until more victims came forward.
"Especially with the Coast Guard, it's common that the first victim or the second victim aren't taken seriously," she said.
According to Coast Guard officials, just 27 sexual assault cases have gone to court-martial since October 2012. Fourteen people were ultimately convicted of charges relating to sexual assault.
Molloy's hearing, though shortened, was emotional. The judge, Capt. Christine Cutter, had to speak to a court reporter who cried during the victims' testimony, and the defense had to call for a recess when Molloy's surreptitious videos played.
Though the footage was shown out of the view of the gallery, the mother of one of the victims sobbed and shook, while her ex-husband, the retired Army officer, clasped his hands over his ears and squeezed his eyes shut.
Spurring much of the emotion was the testimony of Molloy's first victim, the woman from the restroom stall. Some of the victims had not, until she took the stand, known that the man who violated them could have been stopped.
'Good soldier' defense
One of the woman's mentors, Cmdr. Bernard Sandy, testified that she had become more and more defeated as she realized nothing was going to be done about the restroom encounter.
"She trusted her senior leadership to do the right thing," Sandy said.
Dixon, the Coast Guard spokeswoman, said Molloy had explained that he was in the women's restroom to vomit, and investigators felt that "there was insufficient evidence to conclude Molloy was peeping."
She said, "The Coast Guard takes reports like this incredibly seriously."
Advocates for sexual assault victims said the military's "good soldier" defense could have played into a case like Molloy's, with commanders considering a service member's aptitude and value to his unit. Coast Guard officials, though, said the defense did not play a role in the 2011 investigation.
The feature of military justice would be eliminated in a bill now pending in Congress.
A year after the restroom peeping, Molloy's ex-girlfriend discovered a cache of videos in his e-mail account on a computer in their Oakland home, videos she brought to the Coast Guard in April 2013.
Among those he had filmed while undressing were the woman's best friend, her stepsister and her brother's girlfriend, all civilians. One woman depicted in the footage has never been identified.
Learned from investigators
The rest of the victims were guardswomen, and they testified that did not know they had been wrongly touched or recorded until investigators contacted them.
The daughter of the ex-Army officer had been trying to complete her overseas screening in 2012 - "I wanted to deploy like my dad deployed," she testified - and saw Molloy twice at the Yerba Buena Island sick bay.
Each time, he told her he had to perform an electrocardiogram test, even though he was not certified to perform such tests and it was against policy to do so without a female chaperone. He later admitted his purpose was to fondle her and film her naked with a hidden iPhone.
Molloy cited the same motives in his attempt to give the woman a shot in one of her hips, without gloves.
"I always feel uncomfortable in a medical office now," the woman testified.
She and the other victims painted a bleak picture of the trauma of sexual assault. Some said they felt betrayed, and saw their military careers dashed by anger, depression and listlessness.
"I didn't think it would impact me as much as it had," one woman said. "It's made me see people in a negative way, and I've never been that type of person."
'You deserved better'
Molloy sat in his dress blues with his head low for much for the trial. At the end, he tearfully read an apology letter, saying a tough childhood - which included being molested by his grandfather and losing his alcoholic mother to cancer - had created demons.
He said he had been going to church and counseling. His new girlfriend and her family testified that they would stick by him and support him when he is released, despite his sex offender registration.
To the first victim, Molloy said, "You came forward alone, and you were right. ... I apologize. I should have alerted my command. ... You deserved better."
She stared back, arms crossed. She had obtained a restraining order against him after the videos came to light, saying he made obscene phone calls to her as apparent retribution. Molloy was accused of harassment, but the charge was later dropped. The Coast Guard would not comment on why.
Because most of Molloy's victims did not initially know they were being abused, defense counsel argued to the jury that his actions didn't merit a heavy sentence.
'Respect the uniform'
But some of the women had a different view. One woman whose father was a Navy corpsman cried as she described feeling guilty for not speaking up after suspicious visits with Molloy.
"I let go of what I thought was right because he was in that position," she said. "I was raised to respect the uniform, to respect the rank. That makes it worse."
Two victims testified that they did not blame the Coast Guard for Molloy's actions.
"I think once they found out about it, they were quick to act on it," one woman said. "I don't think it's their fault that someone can hide behind their success like that, and abuse their power."
Others said they were waiting out their enlistments, preparing to leave the institution they once longed to spend their lives serving.
"This whole week, I've been only putting on my uniform to come to this," the first victim testified, trying to smile through tears. "The only way I can describe it now is that it's so heavy."
Vivian Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @VivianHo


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EA Settles Price Fixing Lawsuit For $27 Million; NFL Monopoly Left Intact
from the there's-no-'innovate'-in-'exclusive-contract' deptEA Games has agreed to a $27 million settlement for charges of price-fixing related to its NFL, NCAA and (lawl) Arena Football League games. While this may come as somewhat a relief to purchasers of EA games, it's highly unlikely that this will result in EA changing its core strategy. It certainly doesn't seem to have had any affect on EA's exclusive license with the NFL (which continues through 2013), a deal that was the impetus for this lawsuit.
First off, the settlement sounds super-big, but in reality, it breaks down to couch change for those people who were "fortunate" enough to make a "recent" purchase of one of the named EA Sports titles.
Those who bought games for a PlayStation 2, original Xbox or Nintendo GameCube could receive up to $6.79 per title. Games purchased for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii will garner a $1.95 refund, reports USA Today.The named platforms call to question the term "recent," which is used in the original USA Today article on the subject.
In a statement, law firm Hagens Berman says EA will create a $27 million fund for players who purchased a recent copy of any Madden NFL, NCAA Football or Arena Football title.The larger payout for older platforms is likely due to the event that led to EA locking down an exclusive deal to publish Madden Roster Update as the sole representative of the National Football League.
Way back in 2004, 2K Sports released ESPN NFL 2K5 at the extremely friendly price point of $19.99, or under half the price of EA's game, which debuted at the normal $50. Not only did it beat Madden in the price war (and force EA to drop Madden's price to $29.99), but in many critics' estimation, it was a superior game, especially in terms of presentation.
EA felt threatened by this move and responded the way any corporation that would go on to hold the title of "Worst Company in America" would: by throwing its considerable weight around and locking down an exclusive deal with the NFL. No doubt the NFL was also worried, having momentarily been associated with a budget-priced game. Hence, nothing but Madden until 2013 and this lawsuit, which was filed in 2010.
The NFL's vice president of consumer products, Gene Goldberg, said at the time that he wasn't concerned that EA's monopoly would result in stagnation, stating that there is "a lot of self-imposed pressure to make [Madden] stand out in a robust and diverse marketplace." Maybe so, but I would imagine that EA's flagship football game would have improved much more dramatically with a high-quality competitor constantly breathing down its (overpriced) neck. 2K Sports' product was so far ahead of Madden at the time that gamers still find it to be a better experience than Madden 11.
This isn't EA's only NFL-related lawsuit, either. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg just gave the go-ahead for former NFL players to seek class-action status in their lawsuit against EA for using their likenesses in Madden NFL games. EA had hoped to avoid this sort of situation by stripping names and shuffling jersey numbers, but the retired players pointed out that their digital alter egos were accurate in terms of skills and physical appearance.
EA played the "stats are facts" card, quoting an earlier decision that saw Major League Baseball being told that player names and statistics are facts, and therefore cannot be copyrighted. Seeborg's ruling dismissed this claim, stating that current publicity rights laws and pointing out that Madden games show the retired players "in their conventional role as football players" and is the "digital equivalent" of "using the players' pictures to sell T-shirts."
Speaking of "couch change," the proposed settlement pales in comparison to the damages originally sought in the price-fixing lawsuit, which alleged that without the exclusive NFL deal, Madden would have been forced to price its games at a more reasonable $29.99, rather than the $50-60 we're all kind of tired of paying. This difference resulted in gamers paying an extra $701-926 million for EA sports games between 2005 and 2010.
But $27 million it is. Gamers shouldn't start counting that incoming couch change just yet though. This settlement still needs to be approved by the court, a move which could take months. While this might be of some consolation to the gamers who filed the suit, it feels more like a gesture of hands-folded-politely compliance, as if to show that EA is a "Good Corporate Citizen" and, as such, is worthy of its continued NFL-granted monopoly. And despite its exclusive client currently "entertaining" two lawsuits, the NFL doesn't seem to be interested in shopping around for new suitors, leading one to believe that it really doesn't care much for non-exclusive deals... or for its former players.
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Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Buy Drew's new book, The Postmortal, through here. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed.
The funniest thing I heard this season was right after Ndamukong Suh went all stompy stompy on Evan Dietrich-Smith, when Troy Aikman said, "There's no place for that in football." I know! I can't believe someone would act VIOLENTLY during a game of football! "You can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
Football is an inherently filthy sport, which is why we like watching it. Former DT Kris Jenkins admitted to The New York Times last week that, like Suh, he was no stranger to dirty tactics:
I've had my ankles twisted. I've been bit. I've done stuff. I've tried to break guys' elbows, pinching people, twisting ankles, trying to bend up their arms, pop an elbow out. Why? I had to fight back.
Of course, all that naughty stuff is usually hidden under the pile, away from your innocent eyes. If Jenkins had been caught on camera trying to break someone's elbow, I'm sure the Mike Lupicas of the world would have been ready with stern words and several hours of detention. Suh's little tantrum is a convenient way for fans and the media alike to differentiate between what they deem to be acceptable football violence and what they deem to be unethical football violence. But the truth is that football is a game of a thousand small assaults. Suh's just happened to be the most pure assault of the bunch, an act of sheer anger. We like that kind of anger when put in the context of an active play (how many times have you heard an o-lineman lauded for having a mean streak?). But the second it happens after the whistle blows, everyone acts like Suh just set fire to a retirement center.
I'm not excusing Suh here, by the way. He got the gate, and he got a two-game suspension, and that's all well-earned. I don't give a shit. I just think it's EASY to be outraged over his tactics while pretending the rest of the game is as genteel as the fucking Henley Regatta.
I played football for a while and I can tell you firsthand that the reason lots of guys "play dirty" is because it works. When a guy smashes your head into the ground and tries to stomp your ball-and-socket joint out of place, it really gives you something to think about the next time you square off. And it gives other players out there something to think about as well. You think the next guy to play against Suh isn't thinking about that attack? He knows damn well that Suh is a crazy motherfucker prone to going off at any moment. I'd be scared shitless, mostly because I'm a huge pussy.
Players who aren't dirty face a distinct disadvantage against scofflaws because dirty players violate your false sense of decorum surrounding the game. One time a dude hit me late on the field and didn't get flag and I was so OFFENDED by the idea of him doing that, that I could barely concentrate on anything else. "Did they not SEE what this ruffian tried to do to me? THAT IS NOT GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP!" Like a good trash talker, a good dirty player causes opponents to lose focus, to get distracted by their own sense of outrage and injustice. It's like going from the standard rules of engagement to guerilla warfare. SUH IS THE VIET CONG OF DEFENSIVE TACKLES.
And the thing is that most dirty players get away with it. Suh got suspended, but that kind of punishment is rare. There's a whole lot more shit out there that goes uncalled. You're not gonna see the finger-biter at the bottom of the pile get suspended any time soon. And so the average player is probably left to decide that, if the other guy is gonna do it, I may as well too.
So the next time Suh pulls this kind of shit, people in the media shouldn't be so surprised. They make it sound like trying to contain rage and violence into a tight little window is an easy thing to do. And they act scandalized when that rage finally seeps out onto the edges of competition. They shouldn't. It's a dirtyass game, and it always will be. Suh is just showing you how nasty it can get.
The Games
All games in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms.
Five Throwgasms
Lions at Saints: The Saints tried a fake
punt field goal on Monday Night, and they executed it perfectly. They caught the Giants off guard AND Chase Daniel completed the pass to Jimmy Graham. The only problem is that it was FOURTH AND ELEVEN, so Graham got dragged down before the first down. We talked here earlier about the idea that fake field goals may never be worth doing, and I had no clear answer because I don't like doing research. But I DO know that it's fucking stupid to design a fake field goal play featuring a pass that doesn't even reach the first-down marker. The element of surprise was USELESS on that play because the Saints had so far to go. The play has better odds of working at a shorter distance, but that also means that the defense is probably more attuned to the idea of a fake headed their way. I'm telling you: Fake field goals and punts will always ruin your shit.
Bengals at Steelers: When I take a shower, sometimes I like to get right up into next to the showerhead, open my mouth, and let the shower bukkake all over my face. I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes. I feel like I have issues.
Four Throwgasms
Packers at Giants: Dude, if it takes me longer than one full second to ascertain whether or not you're rocking a mustache, that's a SHITTY mustache. Eli Manning and Joe Flacco both now look like they spend their off hours trolling the bowling alley for 15-year-olds to eat out.
Falcons at Texans: I have one kid in elementary school, and when your kid is enrolled at school, the school gives you OCEANS of shit to read as a parent. They have school newsletters. They have PTA newsletters. They have government booklets outlining the curriculum. They have entire handbooks just for parents to read. I'm talking forty solid pages of reading here. This is bullshit. I'M not the one in school. I finished school ages ago and I sure as shit ain't going back. It's my kid's turn to suffer through all that horrible bullshit. My wife presented me with a mountain of forms and parenting exercises issued by the school and I had the same anxiety I had back when I had to memorize dates for a history test back in 8th grade. It's awful. Never send your kids to school.
Three Throwgasms
Titans at Bills: They showed Chan Gailey at the press conference after the Jets game, and people were asking him about Stevie Johnson pulling a troll move on Plaxico Burress in the end zone. And Gailey started off by saying, "I don't think Stevie is a bad person." Then Eisen made the same clarification before talking the incident over with Deion and Mooch the Shithead. Do we really need that qualifier here? Are there people out there stupid enough to think that Johnson's move makes him a bad human being? Give me a fucking break. It was AWESOME. If you think a goddamn end zone celebration is enough to judge someone like that, you're an idiot. (See below: Easterbrook, Greggggggg)
Two Throwgasms
Broncos at Vikings: Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts were the announcers for the Broncos game last week, and the little CBS graphic for them gave them the collective nickname, "The Bird and The Beard." I want to open a pub in Ireland with that EXACT same name. It'll be filled with drunken poets and heroin addicts in no time flat.
Eagles at Seahawks: Once in a while, my wife will test our kids' knowledge by asking them a question. The only problem is that, when she does this, I'm not aware that the questions are intended for just the children, and so I ruin it by blurting out the answer.
WIFE: And what's the name of the state we live in?
ME: MARYLAND! I totally know that! That's easy as shit.
WIFE: (face of death)
Jets at Redskins: I've noted this before, but if you have a chance, you should always take time to listen to Sam Huff do Redskins radio broadcasts. It's a delightful thing to hear, like someone slipped Andy Rooney LSD and made him watch a football game. I tuned into the pregame last week and Sam was bitching about the fireworks they shot off before the game in Seattle. He was REALLY pissed. Even after his boothmates told him they did the same thing at FedEx Field, he was still inconsolable. The man is a treasure.
Raiders at Dolphins: One of the best books I've read recently was Hellhound on His Trail, which is an account of Martin Luther King's assassination and the ensuing manhunt for James Earl Ray, who made it all the way to fucking EUROPE before he was apprehended. I did not know that. I also didn't know that the FBI once wiretapped MLK while he was banging a chick:
(J. Edgar) Hoover was shocked to learn King used raunchy language when he talked about sex... The FBI had taped a garbled recording of King in a hotel in Washington supposedly having intercourse and using rather profane language during the act."
Just try reading that passage without immediately picturing one of the greatest men in world history plowing a girl and letting loose a majestic stream of profane oratory. HEAVENS HAVE MERCY THIS IS ONE SWEET PIECE OF PUSSYPIE. I'd pay top dollar for that sex tape. Great book.
Ravens at Browns
Panthers at Bucs
One Throwgasm
Jaguars at Chargers: In light of Blaine Gabbert getting benched last week, I'd like to do a study on the historic success of long-haired guys at QB. Gabbert's been lousy. Tyler Palko and his permullet have eaten ass. Curtis Painter is shit. These long-haired quarterbacks are USELESS. Even Tom Brady wasn't as successful when he let his hair go long. And Namath never let it get past his shoulders. From Gabbert to Mike Buck, you cannot be a winning QB if you look like Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mudd. IT'S TMQ'S IMMUTABLE LAW OF GLOREE BOY HAIR.
Colts at Patriots: You will never see an announcer more upset than when Wes Welker drops a pass. It's like they're watching their own child drop a pass. Welker dropped an easy pass against the Eagles and Dierdorf acted like he just saw a fucking eclipse. "Well now, you don't see THAT very often from Wes Welker!"
Chiefs at Bears
Rams at 49ers
Cowboys at Cardinals
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
Reader Mike submits "The Drift" by Big Business. I like the video because a deer explodes in it.
Embarrassing Song I Own That Will Not Fire You Up
"Fake Plastic Trees," by Radiohead. I suffer from a kind Reverse Guilty Pleasure syndrome, in which I feel great shame listening to acclaimed bands like Radiohead and Wilco. I don't want people to think I'm listening to Radiohead as a way of letting people to know I have good taste in music. It also pains me to know there's a chick wearing fingerless gloves in Brooklyn who finds this song just as touching as I do.
At my first advertising job, they ran a loop of the ads we did on a monitor in a hallway. One of them was the manipulative Brazilian ad you see above, in which "Fake Plastic Trees" is used. The makers of the ad want you to think the kid with Down's syndrome is the one who doesn't go to school and shit, but at the end there's a TWIST and it turns out the normal kid is the one who is disadvantaged. They purposely used Radiohead to make you feel like a dick. I don't approve.
Gregg Easterbrook Is A Haughty Dipshit
Did you think Stevie Johnson's GLOREE BOY end zone celebration would go unnoticed by one of the foremost minds at THE ATLANTIC? Think again!
Buffalo's Stevie Johnson caught a touchdown pass to put the Bills ahead 14-7 at Jersey/B. Johnson proceeded to make himself look like an idiot by mimicking the Jets' Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg, then was flagged when he dropped to the ground to suggest a jet crashing.
Johnson says he should be considered an elite receiver, and his agent has been asking for elite-receiver money.
How dare he ask for money! So crass. SO BOORISH. So typical of his privileged status as a seventh-round draft choice.
Yet Johnson hurt his team with his everyone-look-at-me nonsense ...
I can't stand this kind of criticism. The man scored a touchdown and did a kickass troll move. By all means, LOOK AT HIM. A football player draws attention to himself, and Gregg treats it like it's the ultimate sin. Give me a break. God forbid we celebrate the individual in football for a fucking split second.
... plus ignored the mature player's dictum: When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.
NO! Don't act like you've been there before! How many times will you get to score a touchdown in front of a million people in your life? TAKE YOUR DICK OUT AND SATISFY YOURSELF. You may never get another shot at it.
Just to prove it was no fluke, Buffalo now trailing 28-24 with 35 seconds remaining, Johnson dropped a perfectly thrown pass that likely would have been the winning touchdown. [...] Johnson's failed end zone play at Jersey/B would not have been an easy catch, but elite receivers make difficult catches.
Listen, I know Stevie Johnson is a shit for botching that catch, but that last sentence is just DRIPPING with paternal condescension. I suppose if you hadn't been so UPPITY, the Football Gods might have allowed you to make such catches!
I declared the 49ers set free from the Crabtree Curse because Mike Singletary, who drafted Crabtree, has departed: It was he, not the team, who was cursed.
Again, this is retarded.
Defending champion Green Bay has won 17 in a row and is playing nearly flawless football. What's the secret? Maybe other NFL teams need more tight ends and undrafted rookies.
Maybe other NFL teams need AARON RODGERS, WHO IS CURRENTLY THE BEST QUARTERBACK ALIVE AND THE REASON THE PACKERS ARE REALLY FUCKING GOOD.
The Packers' roster has five tight ends, most in the league, and three undrafted rookie free agents.
OMG! So many scrappers and gritters! How can you lose when your team has a whopping THREE rookie free agents on it? This is like giving Abe Vigoda 100 percent of the credit for the success of The Godfather.
Horrible as the Hiroshima bomb was, many citizens of Hiroshima survived.
It's estimated that 340,000-350,000 people lived in Hiroshima at the time, and that 90,000-166,000 died in the blast. Nearly half the entire city's population. Look for that stat and more in Gregggggg's next book: Hiroshima: NOT THAT BAD!
Atlanta leading 24-14 with six minutes remaining, Percy Harvin of the Vikes legged a kickoff 104 yards — but did not score. Chris Owens of the Falcons caught Harvin — a high No. 1 draft pick as a speed merchant—
A filthy speed merchant. A SHYLOCK OF QUICKNESS, IF YOU WILL. Oh, woe to the team that stocks its roster with talented first-rounders who run like a freight train, and eschew the undrafted rookie free agents so crucial to a team's success.
—from behind at the Atlanta 3. Harvin turned to look behind him as he approached the goal line, perhaps hoping for the glorious view of all defenders having quit.
Reader Kevin: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought players are taught to check behind them when running in open space so that no one knocks the ball out their hands. Every RB/WR/kick returner who has the ball in open space does this for that reason."
Yes, but Percy is a black first-rounder, so I assume he was doing it just to SAY WASSUP TO HIS HOMEBOYS.
Suicide Picks Of The Week
Last week's picks of Pittsburgh, Cincy, and Atlanta went 3-0 (29-7 on the year). Time to pick three potential teams for your suicide pool and something that makes you WANT to commit suicide. This week's picks? New England, Carolina, San Francisco, and Belichick turning Julian Edelman into a defensive back. I mean, honestly. Were the people of Boston not already ejaculating to their own unselfish grittiness enough? PUKE.
Postmortal Book Tour
Last stop tonight. Come by and we'll all get shitty afterwards.
Today (7 p.m.): Chicago (Book Cellar)
Nazi Shark's Vegas Lock Of The Week
Lots of sports sites, to demonstrate the arbitrary nature of gambling, like to have animals like monkeys pick games to see if they can outwit their human counterparts. There's no reason we at Deadspin can't also get in on the fun. So we've asked National Socialist German Workers' Party member Rolf, who also happens to be a shark, to pick one game a week. Take it away, Nazi shark.
"This week, I like the Seahawks getting 3.5 points at home against the Eagles. An editor in New York recently said that Jews could learn a lot from Mormons, and I agree. I think Jews, like Mormons, should also sequester themselves inside a state that no one likes."
2011 Nazi Shark Record: 7-5.
Great Moments In Poop History
Reader Matt sends in this poop story I call WKRPOOP IN CINCINNATI:
It was my freshman year of high school, and I had just missed the final cut for the frosh baseball team. I was devastated, but decided to move on and join the track team a month late into their season. My first day of practice I decided to workout with the distance runners.
Being a timid and gutless 15 year old, I failed to inform the distance coach that it was my first day of practice. I also must have been so nondescript that he failed to notice me as a newcomer, and thus he sent me on a road course with the experienced distance runners.
Trying to prove my worthiness, I busted my ass to stay with the head of the pack. What I didn't realize was that this was an 8-mile run. I did not have the conditioning for such a run and had expended way too much energy early on.
By about mile 5, I was already out of gas and had been passed by the rest of the group. To make matters worse, I had been feeling a searing pain in my gut for the past half hour. There was no way I was going to make it back to the school in time at the pace I was running.
For some background, I was in a very affluent suburb near my school called Indian Hill. People such as Neil Armstrong, Carl Lindner, and Peter Frampton call it their home. I knew I was about to desecrate a very wealthy person's lawn.
I ran off to the side of the road next to a driveway of a huge estate. I tried to take cover behind some trees, but probably was visible to any car that may have driven by. I barely pulled my pants down in time to an explosion of wet, smelly shit. My ass and the back of my legs were covered in poo. Being late February, there wasn't any foliage for me to use to wipe myself off with or use to cover up my mess. I felt bad for emptying my bowels on such a nice property.
Trying to run/walk those last couple miles with shit splattered on my legs felt like an eternity and was an absolute miserable experience. I returned to school pooped, literally and figuratively. I tried my best to clean myself up in the bathroom. I joined the rest of the team in the weight room, an hour late, and hoped no one would notice that I obviously reeked of shit.
A few months later, we were riding the bus to a track meet and passed by my scene of the crime. I pointed this out to a teammate, and he informed me, "Dude, that's Marge Schott's property!" Apparently, I had defiled the lawn of the chain-smoking, delusional, and racist owner of the Cincinnati Reds. I no longer felt guilty about the experience. If I had known at the time that this was her estate, I would've pooped right in middle of her driveway.
Why does Peter Frampton live in Ohio?
Fire This Asshole!
Is there anything more exciting than a coach losing his job? All year long, we'll keep track of which coaches will almost certainly get fired at year's end or sooner. And now, your potential 2011 chopping block:
• Jack Del Rio - FIRED!
• Norv Turner*
• Jim Caldwell*
• Tony Sparano
• Ken Whisenhunt
• Mike Shanahan
• Andy Reid
• Steve Spagnuolo
• Leslie Frazier
• Raheem Morris
• Tom Coughlin
• Todd Haley
(* - Could happen any moment!)
How the fuck does Norv still have a job? How was he not fired before he had a chance to call that insane Mike Tolbert sweep in overtime last week? THE WHOLE CITY OF SAN DIEGO SHOULD BE FIRED FOR NOT GOING TO THE POLICE AND PREVENTING THIS. He's undoubtedly the worst coach of the past two decades. He stands alone now. He's worse than Childress. He's worse than Fontes. He's worse than Kotite. He's worse than Andy Reid. He's the fucking SHITTIEST OF THE SHIT. His continued presence on an NFL sideline offends me as a human being.
DeSean Jackson Memorial Fantasy Player That Deserves To Die A Slow, Painful Death
Reader FDR hates Beanie Wells:
Beanie Fucking Wells. This piece of shit asshole, who has rushed for 100+ yards just twice in his miserable career, decided to go crazy for 228 yards and a TD the week I am playing him. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I lost my game by 18 points, and if he would have had his typical, terrible game, I would have won easily. FUCK BEANIE WELLS, WHAT KIND OF NAME IS BEANIE ANYWAYS, DICK? That is all.
Gametime Snack Of The Week
A hot dog from Portillo's in Chicago. I'm going here today. Look at all the crazy shit they put on that hot dog. I'm gonna take this hot dog out for a nice dinner and maybe some light dancing, then I'm gonna take it home and DO DISGUSTING THINGS TO IT.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
SAKARA GOLD! Reader Ark sends in this Egyptian piss:
I was in Egypt in Luxor doing the typical tourist stuff and this was the local brew. Given that 95% of the population in Egypt is Muslim and does not drink you would expect that they would fail at making decent beer. You would be right. This one is so crappy they don't even sell it in Cairo (at least that I could see). Luckily it was dirt cheap and did not cause a horrific hangover. The 500 ml can is the Safari size. Excellent.
Sakara Safari would make a great porn star name. I MUST HAVE HER. Surely, this beer has fueled more than its fair share of freedom riots.
Robert Evans' MVP Watch!
Time to start thinking about who the leaders are for the NFL's MVP award. So every week, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans will join us to give us his assessment. Take it away, Mr. Evans.
"Baby, my favorite for the NFL's MVP this year is still Aaron Rodgers of the Packers! I still don't get people doing this whole flirting over Facebook thing. Whatever happened to finding sexual partners the old fashioned way: through a good casting session! My God, some of tail I used to pull from those sessions. Sometimes, Nicholson and I would hold casting sessions for movies that didn't even exist! Creepy? YOU BET! Effective? LIKE NO OTHER.
"I remember one time, Nicholson wound up with the fabulous MEG TILLY on his casting couch. It was our usual hustle. We told the gals auditioning that we were making a sequel to Chinatown. So they come in and we get them to take their tops off and it's EVANS TIME as always. Well, Tilly comes in and Nicholson is smitten. Just absolutely enthralled by her. He has to have her, and so he goes into this whole spiel about what the movie's gonna be like, and he's saying Harvey Keitel is gonna be in it, and he's pulling scenes out of his ass right on the spot, JUST TO GET AT HER. Three days later, Nicholson bursts into my office and screams, 'Evans, we gotta make the picture!' And I have no clue what he's talking about. 'Chinatown 2: Never Forget It!,' he says. And he goes into this long spiel about how Tilly did things to his penis that NO other woman has ever done, and how he has to keep the lie going if he wants to keep dipping it in the well. 'You don't understand,' he tells me. 'She beats the SHIT OUT OF ME. She gives me the stern asswhipping I deserve. I've never met anyone like her.'
"And that, friends, is the story of how The Two Jakes ended up getting produced. Nicholson and Tilly broke up three days into shooting. No wonder it sucked."
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Colts Fans
Midnight in Paris, which I fucking hated. The main character in this movie is a fantastically successful screenwriter who has a crippling bout of self-loathing BECAUSE he's a fantastically successful screenwriter. Well, I think we can all relate to that sort of thing, no? WHOA HEY, STOP GIVING ME LOTS OF MONEY TO WRITE POPULAR FILMS! Movie critics love Woody Allen because movie critics are the only people with lives as charmed as Woody Allen's. And every goddamn Woody Allen movie ever has to have a Cunt Girlfriend in it. I don't think he names the characters at this point. I think the script just says, "And then CUNT GIRLFRIEND bitches out SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITER for liking Paris too much. And then CUNT GIRLFRIEND'S CUNT MOTHER demands SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITER buy a $19,000 chair." Can't the girlfriend in the Woody Allen movie NOT be a cunt for a change?
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
"Well, boy, you won. So I'm going to live up to my side of the agreement: Here's your turtle, alive and well."
Enjoy the games, everyone.


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I admit, that at first, i just brushed all this under the carpet (although my thoughts on what they are, has not changed), and did not really take much notice of it all. Now with the recent La times article, of 2 detectives searching for answers, i thought i would attempt to look at it myself, in more detail.
I would like to thank these forums for interesting information, and thoughts on the matter…. these are: abovetopsecret.com, unexplained-mysteries.com, unifiction.com, open minds forum… For websites: i have consulted many for more information,ect (i will try and add all of them at the end of this post).
The first reports of the drone, was in may 2007; it appeared first, On the coast to coast website, the report appeared here—–> http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2022.html?theme=light . Also witness account there too.
Submitted May 1oth, 2007
Location, central valley of California. Later found to be Bakersfield? california.
Report date: (from camera) May 6th
But Chad reported it as being seen as early as April 2007 (on numerous occassions). See below for the photos:
I will just comment here, my first reaction to these photos…..
we get a full array of profiles…close, distant (at slightely different angles)
All very sharp, almost too good
What are those black marks around (and close to) the drone, you can see in most of them? to me it looks suspiscious?
At this point, i will add the link from MUFON, as it argues this is a fake http://www.hyper.net/ufo/vs/m05-001.html with an interesting argument; also analyists check the photos supplied.
These photos were scans of the original…..
Also, there has been a comparison made, with the Chad photos, to an incident in Devon (england) in 1967 (26th october, in South Devon)….did 'Chad' get some of his ideas from this?….. see below for video.
For a report on the incident see http://www.ufologie.net/htm/dorset67.htm and http://www.project1947.com/shg/hennessey/ufoinv4-4.htm (with diagrams)…thanks to http://www.hyper.net/ufo.html for making this information aware to me, on the website.
Second sighting:
Location: Lake Tahoe, nevada
Posted by MUFON 7013
Date of event: 5th may, 2007
Images taken on cell phone
2 photos were placed on MUFON, on 12nd May,2008 and then slightly later at UFO casebook.com at http://www.ufocasebook.com/strangecraftlaketahoe.html (see link for details).
The first time Rajinder Satyanarayana (Rajman 1977) is mentioned is on craigslist, on the 20th may, 2007. He writes "Bizarre thing in the sky in capitola, CA ….WTF is this (capitola)". He gives us 6 photos to look at; his name is quickly removed from craigslist, so he adds his name as Rajman1977, on a flickr account, with the photos from before….. account soon hacked though.
He alleged the event took place on the 16th may, 2007
Camera used: Konica Minolta DiMAGE X
The one we are most interested with here, is the one below (again we have near and very close shots as well).
One of the photos (seen above), is the one that the two detectives are now (in 2008) trying to trace, ie the telegraph poles location….. what i do not understand is why only the one photo…. if these draw a blank, should they not look for other clues, in the other photos, from 'chad' and others?
(the photo illustration above, is one of several noted in the ufocasebook forum; it brings up some interesting problems with the photo). This, and many more problems/discussions will be written about much more fully in (part 2).
Next we have the big basin sighting, (california)
Submitted on the 6th june 2007 ….. by Jenna L (a freelance photographer) on behalf of Stephen… although again much later, there is a debate to suggest this is not the true location at all.
Report date: 5th june 2007
Camera: Cannon Rebel XT
There were 3 photographs….. see http://ufocasebook.com/bigbasin.html for more details
Slightly later reported, but with the same reported sighting date: Big basin, california
Submitted on 16th june 2007 by someone called TY
Reported date: june 5th, 2007 (same as one above)
Sent to earthfiles.com ……. unfortunately as this is subscription based (for the archive), and i am not a member, i cannot access it.
I know there are 12 photographs, and i do have a link/photos to this but have misplaced it…. will add when found.
Isaac + the CARET documents (posted on the internet in june 2007)
CARET = Commercial Applications Research for Extraterrastrial Report pacl-q486-report-cover-fullsize.jpg
The CARET laboratory is in Palo Alto, CA (Isaac there from 1984-1987)
He was recruited for the CARET program.
Both an engineer + computer scientist
the drone
uses invisibility
Interference (not from humans) caused invisibilty to become inoperative
Technology= antigravity
symbols = software programs that self executed as a functional blueprint
Before Isaac resigned and became a 'whistleblower' – he managed to take out documents; these were
photo scans
He was concerned about safety if who he was, was known
He made it common knowledge that main source of information was to be spread through coast to coast website
This is just a rough outline of CARET and 'Isaac'. His website can still be seen at http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com
So a quick recap to the 5 main sightings:
chad – may 10th 2007 Bakersfield, california
MUFON submitter 7013 wife – may 12th 2007 Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Rajinder Satyanarayana (Flickr acccount name Rajman 1977) – may 20th 2007 Capitola, california
Jenna L on behalf of Stephen – june 6th Big Basin, california
Ty – june 16th big basin, california
Actual sightings occurred on
may 6th 2007
may 5th 2007
may 16th 2007
june 5th 2007
june 5th 2007
There are also allegedly other sightings going as far back as 1995? but i have not referred to them for this analysis… this can be seen at earthfiles.com
This covers part 0ne……. and is really a quick outline about the drone sightings, without going into too much detail. In part 2, i will be covering the problems/analysis/discussing the drones sightings/photos/CARET documents in more detail….
Websites invaluable for sources of information are:


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The custom JumpStart process can be described by using an example scenario. In this example scenario, the systems need to be set up with the following parameters:
Install Solaris on 100 new systems.
Seventy of the systems are SPARC based systems that are owned by the engineering group and need to be installed as standalone systems with the Solaris OS software group for developers.
The remaining 30 systems are x86 based, owned by the marketing group and need to be installed as standalone systems with the Solaris OS software group for end users.
First, the system administrator must create a rules file and a profile for each group of systems. The rules file is a text file that contains a rule for each group of systems or single systems on which you want to install the Solaris software. Each rule distinguishes a group of systems that are based on one or more system attributes. Each rule also links each group to a profile.
A profile is a text file that defines how the Solaris software is to be installed on each system in the group. Both the rules file and profile must be located in a JumpStart directory.
For the example scenario, the system administrator creates a rules file that contains two different rules, one for the engineering group and another for the marketing group. For each rule, the system's network number is used to distinguish the engineering group from the marketing group.
Each rule also contains a link to an appropriate profile. For example, in the rule for the engineering group, a link is added to the profile, eng_profile, which was created for the engineering group. In the rule for the marketing group, a link is added to the profile, market_profile, which was created for the marketing group.
You can save the rules file and the profiles on a diskette or on a server.
A profile diskette is required when you want to perform custom JumpStart installations on nonnetworked, standalone systems.
A profile server is used when you want to perform custom JumpStart installations on networked systems that have access to a server.
After creating the rules file and profiles, validate the files with the check script. If the check script runs successfully, the rules.ok file is created. The rules.ok is a generated version of the rules file that the JumpStart program uses to install the Solaris software.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Women Were Sexually Harassed and Retaliated Against for Complaining, Agency Charged
LAS VEGAS – Bill Heard Chevrolet Corp. of Las Vegas will pay $110,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC had charged in its suit (EEOC v. Bill Heard Chevrolet Corp.-Las Vegas, et al, Case No. CV-07-01195-RLH-PAL) that management and coworkers at the car dealership openly grabbed at a woman employee's breasts, made crude remarks about women's bodies, persistently solicited them for dates and/or sexual favors and sexually assaulted at least one female employee. The EEOC further charged that some women were repeatedly told that women should not be in the car business. When the women tried to complain about the daily verbal harassment, the agency asserted, they suffered retaliation in the form of discipline, demotions and/or terminations.
Sexual harassment, sex discrimination and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
Pursuant to the settlement, $110,000 was provided for nine claimants. Further, the company agreed to refrain from any further discriminatory practices, including retaliation against any employee for complaining about them.
"The women in this case sought to earn a living selling cars and rightfully expected to do so while being treated with dignity and respect," said Anna Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which covers Southern Nevada. "They should not have had to endure being sexually objectified by their co-workers and management. The EEOC will take all steps necessary to ensure that employees are respected and free from sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation."
Before it began bankruptcy proceedings in September 2008, Bill Heard Chevrolet Corp. had a facility on Decatur Boulevard in Las Vegas and more than 3,500 employees nationwide.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing the nation's laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Camera app from Google Play GS4, HTC One can easily be loaded onto other phones
Yesterday we covered the new camera application in the "Google Play edition" Galaxy S4 and HTC One — a slightly redesigned stock camera app that's a little easier to get around. In the past day we've been digging around in the devices' system partitions and we've discovered that the app, as it exists on the Google Play edition devices, can be installed directly onto other devices running Android 4.0 or higher.
Unlike earlier methods for getting Photosphere — Google's 360-degree panorama tool — on non-Nexus handsets, you don't need to root your phone, or manually push it to the /system/app directory. To install it, it's just a case of downloading it directly via the web, or putting it on your device's internal storage and selecting it from a file manager. Of course, bear in mind that you're using the app on a phone it wasn't designed for, so proceed at your own risk.
Once it's installed, you'll see the stock Gallery and Camera apps available in your app drawer, as the two apps are part of the same package. Photosphere images can be shot just like on the Nexus 4, and viewed in the stock Gallery app. So far we've tested it on the non-Google Play Galaxy S4 and HTC One, the Sony Xperia SP and Tablet Z, and the LG Optimus Vu, and it's worked on all of these devices. (On the Nexus 4, it installs over the top of the existing Camera/Gallery apps, but can be removed using the "Uninstall updates" button in the app manager.)
A few caveats — we're seeing some discrepancy in image quality compared to the built-in camera apps on some of these phones, and for the best-looking photos you're probably going to be better off using the app that was designed for your device. But if nothing else, it's an easy way to get one of the coolest Nexus features on just about any current Android device.
You'll find the APK linked for download over on the AC forums. Let us know how you get on!


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Monday, May 2, 2011
The Immigrant's Speech
The following post was sent to us by a local volunteer teacher. I'm sure all of us who are ELT professionals have at one time or another done one-on-one tutoring. I'm sure any feedback or suggestions we can give volunteer teachers on our site will be much appreciated. -Betty Azar
The Immigrant's Speech
By Skip Demuth
Volunteer English Tutor
Whidbey Island, Washington
About three months ago a man I know in the neighborhood named Joe called me because he'd heard I was an English tutor, or ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher. Not true, but some truth attaches to that rumor.
In 2004, on a whim, my partner and I enrolled in a one-month ESL training class in Ban Phe, Thailand, a couple hours southeast of Bangkok. Based on the British Oxford system of "teaching English as a foreign language," or TEFL, this course put us through a rigorous set of lessons and drills, practice teaching in the Thai public schools, watching video of our performances, completing reams of paper work, and sitting for lectures. An intensive overview.
At the end of the course, we returned to Whidbey Island with Thai government certificates and resumed our lives. I tried some classes in a church annex for Mexican immigrants I'd met, but they didn't last. I volunteered at the middle school, working with two students, a Columbian and a Thai who basically needed fine-tuning in pronunciation and, I guess, you would call it "cadence," or accent. I liked working with these fellows, and they responded. We mostly studied the Gettysburg Address, the brief but elegant eulogy for dead soldiers, tied-in to their history class.
Joe called me because his wife Kefen needed some English tutoring.
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