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No 'Life-Threatening' Injuries : People.com
| 1970-08-22T08:16:41.154609 |
09/30/2016 AT 02:30 PM EDT
None of the 108 people injured in Thursday's
, New Jersey, is currently considered to have life-threatening injuries, hospital officials tell PEOPLE.
Currently, 15 people are still hospitalized, spokespeople for Jersey City Medical Center and Hoboken University Medical Center tell PEOPLE.
At Jersey City Medical Center, 66 people were treated, 13 of whom remain hospitalized. Of those, 11 are in stable condition and are expected to be discharged later today and 2 are in the intensive care unit in "guarded condition," Mark Rabson of the Jersey City Medical Center tells PEOPLE. (Rabson defined guarded condition as "a step below stable and a step above critical.")
Hoboken University Medical Center admitted 24 people following the accident. All but two, who are in stable condition, have been discharged, spokesperson Jarrod Bernstein tells PEOPLE.
At about 8:45 a.m. Thursday, the rush hour commuter train "came at a high rate of speed into the station and crashed through all the barriers, bringing it right to the interior wall of the Hoboken Terminal," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said at a press conference.
Christie said there's "no indication that this is anything more than a tragic accident," though the cause of the crash is under investigation.
Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, 34, was standing on the platform at the time and was killed by debris, according to
She was a former employee in the legal department for software company SAP in Brazil, before she left earlier this year.
The victim was married and had one child. Her husband was out of town on business while their child was at daycare at the time of the crash.
Christie said Thursday that the train's engineer was cooperating with law enforcement.
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The Hoboken train crash killed one and injured 108 people
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SA, NSW in talks for interconnector
| 1970-08-22T08:16:48.150301 |
South Australia and NSW will start talking on interconnecting power between the two states.
SA energy minister Tom Koutsantonis told reporters after a COAG energy minister's meeting in Melbourne on Friday the two states would talk with their locally-based electricity suppliers on how interconnection might happen.
"That's a big step forward for South Australians, that's a big step forward for the nation because what has occurred over the last 10 years is the market has built renewable energy where the resources are and those resources are trapped in SA," he said.
"The entire country should benefit from SA's renewable resource and help decarbonise the grid."
SA is interconnected with Victoria but during last week's severe weather that caused a statewide blackout, the connection overloaded and shut down.
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Energy ministers from South Australia and New South Wales have agreed for the first time to talk about interconnecting power between the two states.
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'One-punch victims' are mounting in Qld
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Timothy Lang has tragically joined a growing list of six people to have lost their lives this year in alleged one-punch attacks in Queensland.
The 48-year-old Brisbane father's alleged attacker, Wayne Andrew Hearn, faced court on Wednesday, charged with one count of unlawful striking causing death.
The Newman government introduced the charge in 2014 following a spate of fatal one-punch attacks.
Those found guilty face maximum life jail terms and are required to serve 80 per cent of their prison sentence.
No one has yet to be sentenced on unlawful striking causing death, however Renata Armstrong, 22, has pleaded guilty to the new charge following the early morning death of teenager Cole Miller in Fortitude Valley in January.
Alleged one-punch deaths in Queensland this year
Jan 3: Cole Miller, 18, Fortitude Valley
Jan 24: Scott Williams, 33, Sunshine Coast
July 4: Mark English, 53, Brisbane CBD
July 16: Shannan Feldsman, 27, Cairns
Sept 18: Male (name unknown), 65, Gin Gin
Oct 8: Timothy Lang, 48, South Brisbane
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The 3 most expensive third-quarter home sales
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This $28 million mansion in Indian Creek, Florida, was one of the highest-priced real-estate sales last quarter.
By comparison, sales of all homes in the major markets tracked by Redfin declined by 1.2 percent.
"The luxury housing market was the first to recover after the crisis and has been growing strong ever since," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
Read More$195M mansion now the most expensive listing
Inventory at the high end remains tight in many parts of the country. The number of homes for sale in luxury ZIP codes for $1 million or more has dropped by 13 percent from last year. Inventory is down even more for more expensive homes: The number of $5 million-plus homes for sale in luxury ZIP codes is down 47 percent from last year.
Read MoreBecome a part of 'The Walking Dead' at this mansion
The three most expensive sales of the quarter were all above $25 million. A home in Malibu, California, was the top seller, at $33.5 million. The runner up was a home in Indian Creek, Florida, which sold for $28 million; a home in Armonk, New York, sold for $27.5 million, according to Redfin.
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Even as the broader real estate market softened, luxury home sales surged in the third quarter, according to Redfin.
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Live testing may have avoided NDIS issues
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The computer issues which plagued the rollout of the national disability insurance scheme could have been prevented if live testing was undertaken, a Senate committee has been told.
But the department in charge of the scheme's policy says the IT issues weren't a "massive system failure".
The federal government commissioned a review into the glitches affecting the MyPlace portal after problems with the uploading of provider data delayed payments to providers and participants.
The Department of Human Services admits that live testing of the system would have prevented the glitch.
"We obviously would have picked up on some of the issues earlier," official Gary Sterrenberg told the Senate estimates hearing in Canberra.
But Mr Sterrenberg said live testing would have made it difficult to control who would have access and it wasn't a departmental practice to use live participants.
"If we had asked a small group of users to log on that would have obviously highlighted the issues earlier," he said.
"Going forward... we'll seek to find ways to do that testing."
However, the Department of Social Services played down the glitch saying the system did not suffer outages nor was ever shut down.
Secretary Finn Pratt said the problems were not anticipated, but any big IT build would have a number of flaws.
"But essentially the IT did what it was meant to do," he said.
"There was no outage. This view that there was this massive system failure is not born out by the evidence."
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A Senate committee has been told that live testing of the NDIS IT portal could have prevented the computer issues affecting the rollout.
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Asbestos signs must be posted at pub site
| 1970-08-22T08:17:01.130837 |
Developers who illegally demolished a 19th-century Melbourne pub have until Friday to install signage around the site notifying the public about the presence of asbestos.
The Environment Protection Authority handed down the notice, also forcing them to properly cover the rubble at the former Corkman Irish Pub, known as the Carlton Inn by Monday.
The pub was demolished on the weekend despite a stop work notice, a heritage overlay, and a lack of demolition or planning permits.
Firefighters doused the site in water on Thursday as a precaution to stop asbestos being picked up by high winds.
Despite the EPA saying the threat to the community from the asbestos is "very low", Worksafe is monitoring the air at the site.
Lawyers for the developers were at the site on Thursday but declined to comment to the media.
Numerous authorities are investigating the unlawful demolition, including Worksafe, the Victorian Planning Authority and the Melbourne City Council.
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says the developers Stefce Kutlesovski and Raman Shaqiri could potentially face fines of more than $1 million.
The pub was a popular venue for Melbourne University students, who have begun an online petition to see it restored, which more than 15,000 people have signed.
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Romney Agrees to Head Voluntary Action Center
| 1970-08-22T08:17:02.053326 |
WASHINGTON, Jan, 15—George Romney, who is leaving President Nixon's Cabinet after four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has agreed to become the chairman and chief executive officer of the National Center for Voluntary Action.
His first task will be to spur a drive to raise $5‐million in contributions.
An announcement tonight by W. Clement Stone, treasurer and acting chairman, indicated that Mr. Romney would serve as chairmanelect for several weeks, or at least until he officially leaves the Government.
The center describes itself as “a private, nonprofit organization which seeks to encourage greater voluntary initiative by citizens and organizations, and to make voluntary action a more important national force,”
Mr. Romney helped to found the center three years ago. His wife, Lenore, is a director. His salary was not disclosed.
We are continually improving the quality of our text archives. Please send feedback, error reports, and suggestions to [email protected].
A version of this archives appears in print on January 16, 1973, on page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Romney Agrees to Head Voluntary Action Center. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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G Romney, who is leaving Pres Nixon's Cabinet after 4 yrs as HUD Sec, agrees to become chmn and chief exec officer of Natl Center for Voluntary Action; his 1st task will be to spur drive to raise $5-million in contributions; Romney helped to found center 3 yrs ago
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Vampire fans set to sink teeth into 'Twilight' auction
| 1970-08-22T08:17:07.125427 |
Hundreds of props from the Twilight saga up for grabs.
A special event for fans of the Twilight movie series has been announced and it is sure to take a bite out of your wallet.
"Twihards" will have the opportunity to purchase original props, costumes and decorations from the film saga at an auction in Hollywood on November 19.
If they're quick enough, and have deep enough pockets, fans of the vampire film franchise can swoop up a piece of Twilight history, with practically everything from the film set being sold.
Twilight fans will have the chance to own a piece of Hollywood history.
"This is the very first opportunity for Twihards to get their hands on this gear," Brandon Alinger from Prop Store LA told Sky News.
"As far as I'm aware no authentic Twilight material has ever been sold in the past.
"Really it's all been in storage since the studio stopped production when the last film came out about four years ago."
Jewellery worn by Kristen Stewart among the pieces up for auction.
The series grossed more than three billion dollars at the global box office.
The auction at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood begins on November 19.
Among the items up for grabs Bella's purse, jewellery and first-day-of-school uniform, and Edward Cullen's bloodstained wedding suit.
Predictably some super fans are jumping at the opportunity and are prepared to spend big money.
Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Stephenie Meyer and Robert Pattinson
The film, which was an instant global phenomenon after its 2008 release, starred Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, and was based on the novels by US author Stephenie Meyer.
In case you can't make the auction at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, you can bid online.
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Life in jail for French student's killer
| 1970-08-22T08:17:07.145736 |
Sophie Collombet's grieving family dismissed her killer's apology as he was led away to serve a life sentence for raping the French student and leaving her to die on a Brisbane park bench.
In a "cowardly and predatory" attack, the 21-year-old was jumped by the ice-addled Benjamin James Milward as she walked home along the Brisbane River on the night of March 27, 2014.
Milward can't remember what exactly happened but the Brisbane Supreme Court heard Ms Collombet was likely dragged across the ground and hit in the head multiple times.
He violently raped her and left her to die on a bench covered in nothing but a jacket and newspaper.
She remained alive for several hours as passers-by thought she was a sleeping homeless person.
It was a rough sleeper who eventually checked on her about 6am and called for help, but it was too late.
The court heard Milward told Ms Collombet he was going to get her help but instead threw her possessions in the river and fled the state.
Justice Ann Lyons condemned Milward's cowardly attack on the defenceless student in Kurilpa Point Park.
"Nothing can ever diminish the enormity of your appalling actions on that night," she said in sentencing the 28-year-old on Wednesday.
"She was a young woman far from home on an adventure in another country - you ended that.
"She died not far from this courtroom. I can see the spot from my room."
Ms Collombet had been studying for her masters in business at Griffith University for a year and was due to return to France soon after her coming exams.
She had moved to a sharehouse on Quay St in the city after her boyfriend Boris Forrest went back to France when his visa expired.
Mr Forrest and Ms Collombet's family travelled to Brisbane to watch Milward's sentencing.
Brothers Guillaume and Lionel read a collective victim impact statement in court describing their endless grief at the loss of their daughter, sister and girlfriend.
"There's not one life that has not been destroyed," Guillaume said through an interpreter.
Lionel waved his hand in dismissal when a remorseful Milward said "I'm sorry" as he was being led from the dock.
Outside court he told the media the family would not answer questions about his sister's killer.
"Despite all that has happened they want to soldier on and get on with life," the interpreter said.
"They're going to try really hard for Sophie because Sophie loved life."
Milward will be 46 by the time his 20-year non-parole period ends.
Defence lawyer Simon Lewis told the court his client was "deeply and truly sorry for what he has done".
Milward pleaded guilty earlier in the month and confessed to raping Ms Collombet when he was arrested by police in NSW's Coffs Harbour 10 days after the attack.
Justice Lyons told Milward to redeem his life by making it clear to anyone he meets the devastating effects drug and ice addiction can have.
"The results are always catastrophic; it's just a question of the magnitude of the catastrophe," she said.
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Robber caught on CCTV stealing snakes from Sydney pet store
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A robber has been captured on security vision stealing snakes from a pet store in Sydney’s west.
Police are investigating after eight snakes, including an albino Darwin carpet python, were stolen from a pet store on Steer Road, Gregory Hills.
Video shows the offender using what appears to be a hook to snatch the reptiles from their display cases.
An albino Darwin carpet python (similar to the one pictured) has been stolen from a Sydney pet store. (Getty)
Authorities believe the robber forced entry into the store between 6.30am and 6.45am yesterday morning.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Police are investigating after eight snakes were stolen from a pet store in Sydney’s west yesterday morning.
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Two men charged with foreign incursion offences as police conduct raids in Sydney
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Police have charged two men with foreign incursion offences following a counter-terrorism raid in Sydney's west today.
One of the men, 24-year-old Mehmet Biber, was arrested during a traffic stop in Birrong this morning and is an alleged ISIS fighter.
The Merrylands man reportedly travelled to Syria in July 2013 and was with a group known as Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of Al Qaeda.
Police say he had been a focus of the Joint Counter Terrorism Team since his return to Australia two years ago.
Mr Biber was allegedly convinced to join ISIS by convicted terrorism recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi, who is currently serving six years in jail for sending seven men to fight in Syria.
Officers swoop on the man at a traffic stop in Sydney's west. (Supplied)
“If we become aware of people who may have travelled to engage in hostile activities… we are determined to pursue the investigation and put the person before the court if that is the case,” Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn said.
“Community safety is our priority.”
Mr Biber has since been charged with one count of incursions into foreign states with the intention of engaging in hostile activities, which carries the maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment.
A second male, aged 17, has also been arrested after allegedly attempting to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS in January 2015.
He faces life imprisonment and was due to front Parramatta Children's Court today.
Minutes before the 24-year-old Merrylands man was arrested. (Supplied)
Police confirmed they had moved as quickly as possible on intel because of the “risk that these people pose” but had been slowed down by the difficulty of accessing evidence in Syria.
“Evidence collection from Syria is extremely difficult,” police said.
“Based on the fact that there’s no competent law enforcement officers working in the region.”
A large police operation followed the arrests, with authorities executing several search warrants at homes in Bass Hill, Merrylands, Hornsby Park and Miller.
The homes are suspected of being linked to terror activity.
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Police have told 9NEWS the man is allegedly an ISIS fighter who fought for the Free Syria army in 2013 and is trained in the use of IEDs.
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NT royal commission hearing dates delayed
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The next hearing dates for the Northern Territory's royal commission into juvenile justice and care have been delayed due to the "complexities" of dealing with at-risk children.
A statement released by the inquiry said the public hearings due to begin on November 14 have been pushed back to December 5.
"Due to the complexities and sensitive nature of dealing with vulnerable children, the commission will defer its November hearings," it said.
The December hearings will focus on the experience of children in the justice and protection systems.
Hearings in Alice Springs will also be rescheduled to early next year.
The probe was announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hours after footage of boys being tear gassed, shackled and spit hooded at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre was aired by the ABC's Four Corners program.
The commission is examining the years between August 2006 and August 2016 and a final report is due to be delivered by the end of March 2017.
There are fears that the time frame will balloon out and the deadline will have to be extended.
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NSW govt faces possible legal action
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The NSW government is facing possible legal action over allegedly giving the wrong information to people who bought homes in or near the path of a proposed motorway in Sydney's south.
Law firm Slater and Gordon claims the government wrongly gave information about the new path of the F6 motorway extension in Sydney's south and the Werrington Arterial project which could affect property values.
The firm says that at least 200 home owners who purchased homes between June 27 and October 24 in the area were possibly given incorrect information about where the motorway would cut through, and could be entitled to compensation.
"If residents had known they were purchasing in the path of a future motorway or other large infrastructure project, they may not have bought the property in the first place," Slater and Gordon senior associate Jonathan Wertheim said.
AAP has contacted the NSW government for comment.
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DFAT investigating reports an Australian woman has been kidnapped in Afghanistan
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is working to verify reports an Australian woman has been kidnapped in Afghanistan.
"The Australian embassy in Kabul is making urgent enquiries into reports an Australian has been kidnapped in Kabul," a DFAT spokeswoman said in a statement.
"Due to the nature of the incident we will not be commenting further."
Australian officials warned in September the "kidnapping of Westerners is a serious threat throughout Afghanistan".
"We continue to see reports terrorists are planning to kidnap Westerners, including in Kabul and surrounding districts. Aid workers, journalists, and employees of foreign companies could be kidnap targets," a DFAT advisory said.
General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the Kabul city police chief, said that a Pakistani-born Australian woman was abducted on Saturday night.
Rahimi added that she was with her driver while she was taken away by gunmen.
It is not clear what happened to her Afghan driver.
"We have had lots of developments in the abduction case ... but right now I can't share it with the media," said Mr Rahimi.
Another police official with the Kabul police chief's office, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said that she was more than 40 years old and worked for the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief or ACBAR.
Another Australian aid worker, Katherine Jane Wilson, was rescued by Afghan special forces in late August.
She had been abducted by unidentified masked gunmen from Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan in late April.
Afghanistan's capital Kabul is plagued by organised criminal gangs who stage kidnappings for ransom, often targeting foreigners and wealthy locals, and sometimes handing them over to insurgent groups.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is working to verify reports an Australian has been kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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Dean awarded $US3m in Rolling Stone case
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A federal US jury has awarded $US3 million ($3.9m) to a University of Virginia administrator who they concluded was defamed by a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about a gang rape at a fraternity house.
Nicole Eramo claimed the 2014 article A Rape on Campus portrayed her as a villain who sought only to protect the university. Eramo had sued for $US7.5 million.
The jury concluded on Friday that the magazine, its publisher and journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely were responsible for libel, with actual malice.
Eramo testified on Monday that she was distraught by the article in the days after its publication and "just wanted to disappear". Rolling Stone's lawyers sought to show jurors that her reputation was not badly damaged by the piece.
Eramo described having suicidal thoughts while curled up in a ball under her desk days after the story was published. She says she "didn't know how it was going to be OK."
Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467.
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A University of Virginia administrator has been awarded $US3m after being defamed by a Rolling Stone magazine article about a gang rape at a fraternity house.
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GLENDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 27: Quarterback Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers breaks a tackle by linebacker Alex Okafor #57 of the Arizona Cardinals in the third quarter of the NFL game at University of Phoenix Stadium on September 27, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images)
GLENDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 27: Quarterback Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers breaks a tackle by linebacker Alex Okafor #57 of the Arizona Cardinals in the third quarter of the NFL game at University
Colin Kaepernick walks off the field after a 47-7 loss to the Cardinals last year.
Colin Kaepernick walks off the field after a 47-7 loss to the Cardinals last year.
1. Another step for quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Last year, he was benched for not seeing the field and failing to stay in the pocket. This year, he's doing both, the question is, can his accuracy improve?
1. Another step for quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Last year, he was benched for not seeing the field and failing to stay in the pocket. This year, he's doing both, the question is, can his accuracy improve?
SANTA CLARA, CA - OCTOBER 23: Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers walks in to the stadium prior to their NFL game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Levi's Stadium on October 23, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
SANTA CLARA, CA - OCTOBER 23: Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers walks in to the stadium prior to their NFL game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Levi's Stadium on October 23, 2016 in Santa
49ers’ Kaepernick ready to return to scene of desert disaster
The good news for Colin Kaepernick: He’s got nowhere to go but up.
Fourteen months after tossing a career-high four interceptions in a 47-7 loss at Arizona, he’ll return to the scene of the desert disaster Sunday.
“It probably was the worst game of my career,” Kaepernick said.
The 49ers quarterback is accurate, which couldn’t be said of his performance in September 2015.
Kaepernick threw two pick-sixes in the first six minutes, had four fewer passing yards (67) than the Cardinals had interception-return yards and managed one more completion (five) than interception in the first 55 minutes.
The humiliation even extended to postgame. Safety Tyrann Mathieu said it wasn’t hard to humiliate Kaepernick.
“Their passing game has simplified so much,” he said, “it was easy for us to anticipate routes and get some good breaks on the ball today.”
It could be argued Kaepernick never recovered from the beatdown in which the 49ers had 13 straight runs after his second pick-six. His career reached its nadir when he was benched five starts later and the potential psychological hangover has been a topic this week.
“I think Colin is a strong young man,” offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins said. “And I don’t think he’s going to let anything that happened in the past shackle him for what he does in the future.”
Last year, Kaepernick admitted the loss in Arizona lingered. The next week, in a 17-3 loss to Green Bay, he adopted a cautious approach that resulted in four deep passes he flung out of bounds to avoid interceptions. He threw for 160 yards and had just two completions that gained more than 13 yards.
“I put our team in a bad situation in the Arizona game,” Kaepernick said after the loss to the Packers. “I wasn’t going to allow that to happen again. It cost us, but that’s something I’ll correct moving forward.”
Of course, that’s really yet to happen.
Since regaining his starting job in mid-October, Kaepernick has two desultory starts before he threw for 398 yards, the second-highest total of his 50-start career, and two touchdowns in last week’s 41-23 to the Saints.
The apparent improvement, however, came with an asterisk. New Orleans is a year removed from allowing the most passing touchdowns in NFL history and ranks last in the league in passing yards allowed (300.0) this season.
Is Kaepernick really progressing in his first season in Chip Kelly’s system? Arizona will offer a better gauge. The Cardinals have allowed the third-fewest passing yards in the NFL (194.9) and opposing quarterbacks have the second-lowest passer rating (69.1) against a defense that includes All-Pro cornerback Patrick Peterson.
In addition, they provided a blueprint for flummoxing him last year. Before the 47-7 win, safety Tony Jefferson said they wanted to make him throw “the ball outside the numbers, because we don't think that's his strength.” Kaepernick then threw interceptions on each of his three passes of 10-plus yards that were outside the numbers.
This week, Kaepernick was asked if Arizona had the book for beating him.
“Everybody’s going to have a game plan,” Kaepernick said. “That’s part of football. So that might have been a part of their game plan, whatever they were saying. It’s something that our game plan is going to be able to attack their defense in different ways.”
Before the 2015 season, Kaepernick spent part of his offseason in Phoenix, about 30 miles away from University of Phoenix Stadium, overhauling his mechanics. On Tuesday, he suggested his attempt to tinker with his throwing motion before his fifth NFL season made him too robotic in the pocket.
“At this point in my career, I just have to go out and play,” Kaepernick said. “And working on mechanics, those are things you can fine tune a little bit, but you don’t want to do too much of that where you’re not out there just playing naturally …
“It was just something that I was training one thing and my body naturally wanted to do another. So I had to find that middle ground.”
Kaepernick hopes to find it Sunday. It will be a chance to stop the 49ers’ seven-game losing streak while exorcising some demons.
Said Kaepernick: “It’s a good opportunity to go back, redeem myself and try to help get this team back on track.”
Eric Branch is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Eric_Branch
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Fourteen months after tossing a career-high four interceptions in a 47-7 loss at Arizona, he’ll return to the scene of the desert disaster Sunday. Kaepernick threw two pick-sixes in the first six minutes, had four fewer passing yards (67) than the Cardinals had interception-return yards and managed one more completion (five) than interception in the first 55 minutes. “I think Colin is a strong young man,” offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins said. The next week, in a 17-3 loss to Green Bay, he adopted a cautious approach that resulted in four deep passes he flung out of bounds to avoid interceptions. Since regaining his starting job in mid-October, Kaepernick has two desultory starts before he threw for 398 yards, the second-highest total of his 50-start career, and two touchdowns in last week’s 41-23 to the Saints. New Orleans is a year removed from allowing the most passing touchdowns in NFL history and ranks last in the league in passing yards allowed (300.0) this season. The Cardinals have allowed the third-fewest passing yards in the NFL (194.9) and opposing quarterbacks have the second-lowest passer rating (69.1) against a defense that includes All-Pro cornerback Patrick Peterson. Before the 47-7 win, safety Tony Jefferson said they wanted to make him throw “the ball outside the numbers, because we don't think that's his strength.” Before the 2015 season, Kaepernick spent part of his offseason in Phoenix, about 30 miles away from University of Phoenix Stadium, overhauling his mechanics. On Tuesday, he suggested his attempt to tinker with his throwing motion before his fifth NFL season made him too robotic in the pocket.
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A car has crashed into a house in regional Victoria, injuring the driver and a child who was in the vehicle.
Two people were inside the Warrnambool home when the car crossed a median strip and crashed into the property about 9.15pm on Friday, causing significant damage, police say.
The occupants weren't injured, but the car's driver, a man in his 40s, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injures, as was a child passenger who suffered minor injuries.
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A child has been injured when a car crashed into a Victorian home, causing significant damage.
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Woman glassed at Sydney train station
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A wild brawl between two women at a Sydney train station has left one with head injuries after she was struck with a glass bottle.
The women were fighting at Redfern train station just before 1am on Friday before police used pepper spray to break them up.
One of the women, aged 27, was taken to hospital after copping a bottle to her head.
The other woman, aged 20, was arrested, questioned and later released as investigations continue.
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A young woman has been arrested after allegedly glassing another woman during a wild brawl at a Sydney train station.
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Sydney taxi driver accused of sex assault
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A taxi driver has been charged with kidnapping a young woman in Sydney's east before indecently assaulting her.
The 21-year-old woman got into the taxi at Bondi Junction around 1am on September 23 and told the driver to take her to Woollahra.
The driver, 43, allegedly ignored this request and continued driving along Victoria Road in Bellevue Hill.
The passenger was allegedly indecently assaulted as she tried to exit the taxi, before she managed to escape. The driver fled the scene.
The Bankstown man was arrested on Saturday and charged with indecent assault and detaining a person for advantage.
He has been conditionally bailed to appeared at Waverley Local Court on December 20.
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A Sydney taxi driver will front court next month accused of kidnapping and indecently assaulting a young female passenger.
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Dump trade pact, Greens to ask MPs
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Federal parliament will be asked to dump a regional trade pact ahead of a likely US withdrawal under Donald Trump.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, yet to be confirmed by the US Congress, faces an uncertain fate after Mr Trump won last week's presidential election.
"Essentially it's a blueprint for a corporate takeover of government," Greens MP Adam Bandt told ABC radio on Wednesday.
"Now is the time to send a message that we aren't prepared to trade away our sovereignty."
Critics of the 12-nation pact say the TPP establishes stronger rules for child labour, wages, and protecting unions and the environment.
The US Congress has yet to ratify the deal and is unlikely to do so during the so-called lame-duck period between now and the inauguration of Mr Trump on January 20.
The Greens are concerned the new president won't honour his campaign promise to dump the TPP, preferring to re-negotiate a better deal for the US.
The agreement between the US, Australia and 10 other Pacific Rim nations covers about 40 per cent of the world's total trade, and proponents warn that a retreat by Washington will push the other participants closer to China.
Australia's chief negotiator Andrew Robb has argued the TPP would be transformational for the local economy.
His successor as trade minister Steve Ciobo has said it would not make sense to conclude the pact in its current form without the US.
It would change the metrics substantially, he said.
Opposition trade spokesman Jason Clare insists the TPP is dead following Mr Trump's election, with free trade in the US now about as "popular as a snake in a sleeping bag".
"Trade deals aren't the reason people are hurting, but they are a lightning rod for the anger and frustration people are feeling," he writes in the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday.
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The Greens will ask parliament to seek Australia's withdrawal from a regional trade pact likely to be dealt a death blow by Donald Trump.
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A Star of the Greenmarket
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If they gave an Academy Award for fruits and vegetables—perhaps in the shape of a gold-plated carrot or onion—and farmer Ken Migliorelli, who’s been selling at New York City greenmarkets since the early 1980s, took the stage to accept his Oscar (or Onion), here’s whom he might thank:
His immigrant grandfather, who started farming broccoli rabe in the Bronx in 1933; his children, who farm alongside him today; and Scenic Hudson, an environmental-protection organization that bought the development rights to his upstate property in 1998.
“Ken owns the land, but he’s sold to us the right to develop it,” or rather not, explained Ned Sullivan, Scenic Hudson’s president. “We’ve paid him roughly 50% of the market value of the land.”
Scenic Hudson has an ambitious plan to protect thousands of acres in the Hudson Valley, which has been described as New York City’s breadbasket. The infusion of capital allows farms like the Migliorellis to pay down debt and invest in their business.
Great for Mr. Migliorelli and his family, you might think, but what does that have to do with me?
The answer was on display at the Water Street Greenmarket in the Financial District on a recent morning. Of the 96 farm operations Scenic Hudson has conserved to date, 26 of them provide food directly to the city’s greenmarkets, restaurants and food pantries.
And there was a veritable cornucopia of produce from the Migliorelli farm located about a hundred miles north of the city. Watermelon, corn, French breakfast radish (not to be confused with radishes, though I couldn’t tell you the difference) cucumbers, beets, carrots, Japanese turnips, fruits, tomatoes, and, of course, broccoli rabe.
“There are more farms selling into the New York City area from the Hudson Valley than any other region,” explained Steve Rosenberg, Scenic Hudson’s executive director. “And there are 5,000 farms in the Hudson Valley.”
The problem is that 89% of those farms haven’t been conserved through the purchase of their development rights. At any moment, one of them could be bulldozed for a big-box store or some hedge-fund manager’s weekend castle (not that I have anything against hedge-fund managers; a number of them are bankrolling some of the more innovative agricultural ventures in the region.)
In any case, it’s a challenge to harp on the negative when you’re surrounded by so much fragrant fresh produce.
I preferred to talk to Mr. Migliorelli about his family and what it was like farming in the Bronx. Before the family moved upstate in the Sixties, “My dad had a dandelion field where [Interstate] 95 is,” the farms and fields in the area giving way to Co-op City, the farmer said.
For dandelion wine, I asked ignorantly? “We sell dandelion greens,” Mr. Migliorelli explained, and pointed in their direction at the Water Street market. He grows more than 130 types of fruits and vegetables.
It all started with beans when he was 10 years old. “I watched them grow and flower, and there were little beans, and we ate it that night and it was a little magical,” he remembered.
Mr. Migliorelli started selling at the Union Square farmers’ market in 1982. He painted a dark picture of the neighborhood pre-Union Square Café, pre- Barnes & Noble , even pre-kale.
“We didn’t grow kale,” he recalled. “But we grew a lot of Italian parsley. When we were growing arugula it was kind of chic.”
Nowadays, he added, “People are busy. They like pre-washed salad and so forth.”
Scenic Hudson’s strategy is to focus on particular upstate counties and specific towns in those counties, such as Red Hook, where Mr. Migliorelli’s farm is located. Thus far, more than 50% of the town’s active farmland has been conserved, creating a critical mass of protected farmland.
“Early on, the mind-set was you’re taking something away,” Mr. Rosenberg explained. “But you’re giving them the capital to unlock the potential of the farm.”
Scenic Hudson’s goal isn’t just to protect farmland but to raise awareness among New Yorkers about their backyard. A “Foodshed Conservation Plan” they’ve produced features a drawing that borrows heavily from Saul Steinberg ’s New Yorker magazine view of the world.
In this case, there’s Tenth Avenue in the foreground; the bounteous, color-filled Hudson Valley filled with cows, corn and wine; and then an arid plain representing the rest of America.
Mr. Sullivan reported that the plan has already received considerable support from, no surprise, celebrity chefs such as Dan Barber, Lidia Bastianich, and Mario Batali (and that’s just the B’s); from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, which has committed $20 million to protect Hudson Valley farmland, and more than a dozen members of the New York City Council.
Their sights are now set on the de Blasio administration. “We’d like to see New York City stepping up and matching that and making an annual commitment to protecting its foodshed,” Mr. Sullivan explained. “Just as it does its watershed.”
Mr. Rosenberg added, “It would be ground-breaking for New York City to do that.”
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ISIS increase use of suicide car bombs in bitter Mosul battle
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Battle hardened ISIS fighters are hanging tough inside the city of Mosul as they desperately cling on to their last remaining stronghold in Iraq.
Iraqi troops called on heavy coalition air strikes over the weekend to try and aid their push inside the strategic city that has been held by the extremists since 2014.
Militants are dug in among more than a million civilians as a defence tactic to hamper air strikes. They are moving around the city through tunnels, driving suicide car bombs into advancing troops and hitting them with sniper and mortar fire.
Footage purportedly taken west of Mosul shows Iraqi fighters trying to stop an advancing ISIS Humvee, laden with explosives.
Soldiers spray the death machine with automatic gunfire but are unable to stop it exploding in a giant fireball next to vehicles and homes.
A second video, also published by Syrian propaganda organisation Stahlgewitter Syrien, documents through a drone the surreal surrender of an alleged ISIS fighter.
The hovering drone captures the ISIS fighter stripping himself of clothes and weapons, before trudging across yellow sands to a waiting unit of Iraqi fighters.
A 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi forces, with air and ground support from a US-led coalition, have nearly surrounded Mosul but so far only breached the jihadists' defences from the eastern side, establishing a small foothold inside the city.
The Iraqi authorities do not release comprehensive casualty statistics, but the U.N. figures probably represent just a fraction of the total as they capture only the most severe cases that cannot be treated on site, and do not include fatalities.
"We are very worried that more and more civilians will be hurt and victimised as the campaign intensifies," said Grande. "Civilians are not being caught in cross-fire, they are being targeted."
The desperate plight of civilians is clear to see in video of food trucks arriving in parts of the city freed from ISIS.
Men, women and children swarmed trucks as boxes of aid were handed out.
People said they had suffered from lack of food and water while living under the control of Islamic State.
"We suffer from mortars and sniper fire. We also suffer from the absence of electricity. We cannot operate generators because we do not have gasoline," said Abu Ahmed, a resident of Zahraa neighbourhood.
"The delivery of water depends on the availability of electricity, therefore, when we do not have electricity, we will not have water. We have to take water
from wells. There is no fuel either."
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Battle hardened ISIS fighters are hanging tough inside the city of Mosul as they desperately cling on to their last remaining stronghold in Iraq.
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Calls to help homeless women for Christmas
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A local charity is trying to ensure homeless women in Brisbane have a roof over their heads this Christmas.
The Lady Musgrave Trust predicts more than 2000 women will be homeless in Brisbane every night over the Christmas period, and many will have children with them.
Trust chief executive Karen Lyon Reid said it had partnered with Micah Projects to set up the crowdfunded Shelter Her from Homelessness project.
"It's a whole new model that provides some quality accommodation with furniture and a kitchen and a washing machine, where they can actually regroup," Ms Reid told AAP.
She said the group had "wonderful stories" of women who had been able to positively restart their lives after being aided by the Trust's project.
"It just gives them that opportunity to really stabilise and look at themselves."
Ms Reid says a donation of $35 is enough to put a roof over a woman's head for a night.
Donations can be lodged at www.chuffed.org/project/shelter-her
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More than 2000 women are homeless in Brisbane every night, and a local charity is calling for help putting roofs over their heads for Christmas.
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Mulvihill loses appeal over Sydney murder
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Former rugby player Paul Mulvihill has lost an appeal against his conviction and 22-year jail sentence for the stabbing murder of his ex-lover at her Sydney flat.
Mulvihill was found to have hunted, beaten and then murdered 31-year-old Rachelle Yeo in July 2012 after she broke off their affair.
He has always maintained that he was trying to defend himself when he stabbed Ms Yeo, and earlier this year launched an appeal in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. The appeal was dismissed on Friday.
In setting a maximum term of 29 years jail in 2014, NSW Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Fullerton said Mulvihill had gone to Ms Yeo's apartment intending to "intimidate, menace and attack her in retaliation at nothing more than her wish to terminate the relationship".
Mulvihill's lawyer, Doug Marr, argued a number of appeal grounds including that the trial judge erred in her directions to the jury on self-defence.
At trial, Mulvihill testified that Ms Yeo had grabbed a kitchen knife when he called her "the most self-centred person I have ever met" and that he was forced to act in self-defence, and that he did not mean to fatally stab her.
Rachelle Yeo and Paul Mulvihill.
But on Friday, the state's highest criminal court ruled that the jury that heard his trial could not have concluded that Mulvihill plunging a knife through Ms Yeo's chest and neck was a reasonable response to the threat she posed to him.
"A conclusion that either stab wound might, as a possibility, have been a reasonable response to whatever attack (Mulvihill) perceived he was under would have been perverse," Friday's judgment said.
National domestic violence helpline: 1800 737 732 or 1800RESPECT. In an emergency call triple-zero.
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Paul Mulvihill, who was jailed for the murder of Rachelle Yeo, has lost his appeal against conviction and sentence.
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Search finds Tasmanian man in bush
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A Tasmanian man is being treated for exposure and superficial injuries suffered after he went missing from a nursing home and spent the night in bushland.
Police on Saturday launched a large-scale search for Geoffrey Cecil Best, 68, who hadn't been seen for more than 24 hours after going for his daily walk from Karingal Nursing Home.
The crew, including SES volunteers, found Mr Best in scrub behind Devonport Soccer Club.
"There are established tracks in the area however Mr Best was not located on one of these," Sergeant Luke Bishop said, confirming fears the missing man had become disoriented while walking.
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A man who went missing during his daily walk from a northern Tasmanian nursing home has sparked a search of nearby bushland.
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What it’s like returning to Cuba after Fidel Castro’s death
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One Castro has gone but the other Castro, President Raul Castro, the younger brother, continues to rule.
But all agree life has changed for the better for all in Cuba since the days when "Papa Fidel's" words were law.
Sure, when you ask for a Coke you still get a red can full of taste-alike Coke instead, and getting TV equipment through customs is a two hour process from one public servant to the next, all with rubber stamps at the ready.
A new era is dawning in Havana, Cuba. (9NEWS)
"Frozen in time" is how one British tourist described the sights of Havana. (9NEWS)
But in the capital Havana, the relaxation of laws that once-banned free enterprise businesses and restaurants has made a noticeable difference to the feel of the place and a you can detect a more positive attitude amongst the locals.
It's a real change for visiting journalists as well.
"It's a real change for visiting journalists as well." (9NEWS)
Now we are allowed to move freely around the country.
It’s very different to the days back in 1998 when Aussie marathoner Susie Maroney swam from Jamaica to Cuba and we were watched day and night by Cuban authorities.
This visit we dropped in on Jorge Tamayo.
Mr Tamayo, in his 50's, sits on a high stool at the front door to a small shop where inside he oversees an odd mix of businesses.
9NEWS cameraman Rich Moran on one of Havana's historic boulevards. (9NEWS)
A handyman fixing mobile phones, a barber and a jeweler. This is the new way in Cuba. Jorge is allowed by the government to rent them space and then works as their PR man on the street inviting in customers.
"This has really improved my family's lifestyle," Mr Tamayo said.
"But I still think Fidel was good for us and I hope his legacy will stand the test of time."
People are still very careful when asked their opinions about Castro for good reason.
Thousands of dissidents were jailed, some executed.
Facades of a by-gone era line Havana's city streets. (9NEWS)
Younger people hope his passing will signal a more open era.
A 22-year-old man told me Castro had "good intentions although it's clear now a lot of it didn't work out."
What has worked out is the fact that with so little capital available for repairs to the country's infrastructure Havana is now an early 20th century time warp.
A near unbelievable tourist experience full of boulevards of magnificent buildings, many of them now crumbling away, but a reminder that this was once a spectacularly rich city.
"Frozen in time" is how British tourist Linda Catchpole explained it.
"When I opened my cabin curtains I thought I'm in the 1950's here," Ms Catchpole said, describing scenes from her cruise ship.
Tourists met by Cuba's iconic vintage cars at the Port of Havana. (9NEWS)
And while most of those buildings will one day be restored, hopefully forever more Havana's famous classic 1950's cars, which fill the streets, will stay just as they are.
Grand chariots of a past era and a takeaway memory in every tourist's mobile phone.
President Raul Castro's rewriting of some of the rules are already responsible for allowing Mr Tamayo and his little shop of workers to have a better quality of life.
Perhaps now without big brother around, little brother Raul may just feel he also has his own "freedom" to act as he sees fit.
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9NEWS' US correspondent Robert Penfold reveals a post-Castro future of freedom and positivity in Havana, Cuba.
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'Treason' arrests before Jakarta rally
| 1970-08-22T08:20:03.153847 |
In the hours before tens of thousands of Indonesians converged in Jakarta to once again call for the jailing of the capital's Christian governor, eight people were arrested on suspicion of treason.
President Joko Widodo has blamed "political actors" for exploiting the popular fury over Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama to destabilise his government, and underlining those concerns, 10 people in total were arrested - eight for alleged treason and two for allegedly breaching information technology laws.
The sister of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and musician Ahmad Dhani are believed to be among those detained.
"(There has been) observation, monitoring, investigation by the (investigating) team for around the past three to four weeks," national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said on Friday.
He said they would be held until Saturday morning, when police would determine whether they would continue to be detained.
It comes after police initially tried to ban Friday's rally over fears it would be a repeat of November's large-scale demonstration against Mr Purnama, who is commonly referred to as Ahok.
The November demonstration descended into violence, with hundreds injured, one dead and police vehicles burnt.
However, after the hardline Muslim group the Islamic Defenders Front agreed to several restrictions, police and the military worked together to maintain what they described as a "peaceful congregation", urging unity and quiet prayer on Friday.
Holding signs saying "Jakarta governor destroys religious harmony" and "Jail Ahok", streets around the National Monument in the capital's centre ground to a halt on Friday morning as people streamed towards the structure from all sides of the city.
About 200,000 demonstrators were estimated to have attended.
Most were seated quietly around the monument grounds throughout the morning, with no reported clashes between demonstrators and police.
About noon, as rain began to fall, Mr Widodo arrived at the monument, along with Vice-President Jusuf Kalla and Security Minister Wiranto, to join in prayer.
Mr Widodo later addressed the crowd, thanking them for keeping the peace and urging them to go home safely.
The crowd immediately responded with a chant, demanding Ahok's arrest.
The tensions around Ahok, who is set to face court for alleged blasphemy over comments he made referring to the Koran in September, has placed enormous pressure on the popular President who has been viewed as a supporter of the governor.
Mr Widodo has previously criticised "political actors" for taking advantage of the last rally.
Ahok is locked in a three-way race for the capital's top post with former education minister Anies Baswedan and Agus Yudhoyono, the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The election will be held in February.
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Thousands have converged in Jakarta for a further protest against the capital's governor, calling him to be jailed for blasphemy.
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Inside Mariah's Comeback ... and Closet
| 1970-08-22T08:20:03.200530 |
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Comeback girl Mariah Carey shows off her lavish Manhattan apartment.
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Bowen does not rule out dumping ABCC
| 1970-08-22T08:20:04.122732 |
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has not ruled out a future Labor government reversing the re-instatement of the building watchdog.
The Turnbull government managed to secure support in the Senate to pass its amended Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation last week, resolving the issue that triggered this year's double dissolution election.
"We are not impressed with the case for the ABCC, that hasn't changed ... In terms of what we take to the next election it is an opportunity for the shadow cabinet to deliberate on the policy position," Mr Bowen told Sky News on Sunday.
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Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has not ruled out ditching the newly restored Australian Building and Construction Commission in a future Labor government.
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Fatigue | Category | Fox News
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The age-old advice to "never go to bed angry" is getting some support from new research.
At 10 PM you were tired, ready for bed, and dozed off just fine.
For most of us, skimping on sleep means feeling cranky and foggyheaded the next day, but we all have that one friend who claims she can survive—even thrive!—on just a few hours a n...
It seems that we're a nation of pill-poppers: Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug, and more than 50 percent take two, according to a 2013 report from...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating but still mysterious ailment often marked by long-term fatigue, pain, and memory loss.
People who pass many waking hours exposed to bright light may not experience sleep problems even when they read on a tablet every night before bed, a small experiment suggests.
If you've ever found that recovery from jet lag took even longer than you expected it to, physicists have answers: A new mathematical model helps explain why flying east is tougher...
A healthy diet, exercise and getting enough sleep are sure-fire ways to give you more energy, but if you’re still exhausted 24/7 there could be other reasons why you’re not feeling...
It seems like everyone's talking about adrenal fatigue, and it's pretty easy to see why.
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Stormy politics hits economic growth
| 1970-08-22T08:20:06.145403 |
Economists fear the Australian economy went backwards during the September quarter, which if correct will be a jolt for Malcolm Turnbull's government after going to this year's polls on a mantra of "jobs and growth".
It would explain the subdued employment growth in recent months.
Analysts downgraded their already sombre economic growth forecasts for Wednesday's national accounts after weak exports and government finance figures on Tuesday, with some predicting a negative quarterly result, which would be the first since March 2011.
Back then the contraction was the result of adverse weather events domestically and earthquakes in neighbouring New Zealand and Japan, Australia's second-largest trading partner.
This time around it looks like being the impact of stormy political events - Brexit, the uncertainty over the US election and Australia's own eight-week election campaign, the longest in living memory.
However, it has been 25 years since there has been two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, which constitutes a recession.
Even a flat quarterly economic growth outcome, as some predict, would send the annual rate reeling to 2.3 per cent after striking a perky 3.3 per cent rate as of June.
If the economy did go backwards, Commonwealth Securities chief economist Craig James said it will serve as a wake-up call for Australia's politicians.
"The message from consumers and businesses is that the major parties need to flesh out reforms, especially on taxation, that will give Australians confidence to spend, invest and employ," he said.
However, such concerns weren't enough to stir the Reserve Bank into action at its final board meeting of the year, leaving the official cash rate at a record-low 1.5 per cent.
Central bank governor Philip Lowe said the economy is continuing its transition following the mining investment boom.
"Some slowing in the year-ended growth rate is likely, before it picks up again," Dr Lowe said in a statement, pointing to a future pick-up in exports as completed resource projects come on line.
The RBA's next meeting is in February.
A new poll found the economy is front and centre of people's minds heading into 2017, whether it be jobs, growth or the budget deficit.
The latest Newspoll found more than one in three respondents nominate jobs and growth as their key concern as 2016 draws to a close.
Fretting over the budget deficit is next best, cited by 16 per cent.
With underemployment at a record high and 700,000 people unemployed it was little wonder people are crying out for a jobs plan, opposition employment spokesman Brendan O'Connor said.
"The jobs and growth slogan of the prime minister didn't do well in the election campaign and I don't think people see anything underneath it," Mr O'Connor told Sky News on Tuesday.
But Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insists his government has been able to get one element of its economic plan after another through the parliament.
"I'm committed to delivering strong economic growth and great jobs, more jobs and better jobs for all Australians," he told reporters in Sydney.
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The Reserve Bank is widely expected to leave the cash rate unchanged at a record low 1.5 per cent at its final board meeting of the year.
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Food Shopping | Category | Fox News
| 1970-08-22T08:20:07.124454 |
The sight is so surprising that Americans are sharing photos of it, along with all those cute Halloween costumes, sweeping vistas and special meals: The gas station sign, with a pr...
Sure, there are pumpkin spice air fresheners for your home and car, but where’s the toothpaste?
This popular South Florida airport yields many an affordable airfare, meaning that plenty of travelers heading anywhere from Palm Beach to The Keys.
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British MPs back PM May's Brexit timetable
| 1970-08-22T08:20:08.112217 |
British MPs have backed Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit timetable after she headed off a rebellion in her Conservative Party over a lack of insight into the government's strategy to leave the European Union.
May has come under pressure from politicans, businesses and investors to set out at least a broad picture of how she sees Britain's future relationship with the EU.
She says giving too much away could weaken Britain's hand in the country's most important negotiations since World War Two.
After a sometimes rowdy session in parliament, MPs voted by 448 to 75 to support a motion calling on the government to offer up its Brexit plan, but also backed the government's timetable to trigger the divorce procedure by the end of March.
During the six-hour debate, the opposition Labour Party pressed its motion for a plan setting out the government's negotiating stance in its talks with the bloc, before Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty is invoked to start the exit process.
But by agreeing to the government's demand for parliament to endorse May's timetable for Article 50, Labour politicians were accused of falling into a trap -- allowing ministers to begin the divorce without consultation.
Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer denied the vote was on Article 50.
It was a vote, he said, to force the government to offer a plan with "enough detail and clarity to end the circus of uncertainty" over Britain's future ties to the EU's single market of 500 million consumers.
He said that if the government failed to provide a sufficiently detailed plan, Labour would challenge it again, he said, adding that the party aimed to head off a "hard Brexit".
The answer from government was clear -- it was offering information when it could and it would produce a plan. What was not clear was what would be included in that plan.
"I will make as much information as possible available without prejudicing our negotiating position," said David Davis, May's Brexit minister.
May hopes to stick to her timetable but faces obstacles after a court ruled that the government needs parliament's assent to invoke Article 50. The government is challenging that ruling in the Supreme Court.
A lawyer at the court said that even if parliament did vote in favour of the March deadline, that would make no difference to his case that parliament, not ministers, had the power to authorise triggering Brexit talks.
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Brexit debates continue to dominate UK parliament, with the minister responsible for the EU divorce saying MPs will vote on the final deal.
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Mexico’s missing students
| 1970-08-22T08:20:09.035935 |
THE 43 Mexican student teachers missing since September 26th appear to have been murdered. Their bodies were then incinerated in a remote rubbish tip beyond the south-western town of Iguala, where they went missing, and their remains were tossed in a river, Mexico’s attorney-general, Jesús Murillo Karam, said on November 7th. The macabre revelation may be the most decisive development in a case that has traumatised the country and battered the credibility of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
However, it was based on the testimony of three detainees, who allegedly said they had taken part in the disposal of the bodies. Mr Murillo Karam said there was still no DNA evidence proving the charred remains belonged to them.
Anguished parents of the victims refused to accept the results because of the lack of proof, which may make it harder for the government to put its worst crisis behind it. There were also questions about how long the authorities had known of the fate of the students, and whether the news was deliberately released shortly before Mr Peña’s planned state visit to China.
Mr Murillo Karam delivered the long-awaited account in a sombre tone, and the details were chilling. The students—assuming that is who they were—arrived at the rubbish dump in a canyon miles away from human settlement in the back of two trucks, having been handed over by municipal police to a gang of drug traffickers. About 15 were already dead. Those still alive were given brief interrogations, then tied up and shot.
In a reconstruction at the scene of the crime, atop a remote canyon in the hilly state of Guerrero, one of the detainees showed in a chillingly relaxed manner how he picked up the bodies and threw them onto the tip. They were covered with tyres, wood and liquid fuel so that a fire that burned for at least 14 hours would remove all trace of them. When it had died down, the remaining uncharred bones were put in rubbish bags and tipped into a nearby river. Some bags have been found, and Mr Murillo Karam said one contained human remains. But otherwise, all that is left are ashes, some scattered teeth, and evidence so badly charred that he said it would take a long time to identify, even though they would be sent to a world-class forensic lab in Innsbruck, Austria.
The crime has horrified Mexicans like no other in recent memory. Though the country has been plagued by mass slayings since drug violence surged in the mid-2000s, the fact that the victims were young, with no link—as Mr Murillo Karam pointed out—to criminal gangs, and yet were seized by municipal police and savagely handed over to their executioners, has left many people disgusted at the level of lawlessness.
It has been made worse for Mr Peña because his government had sought to play down Mexico's violence and play up its economic potential—a strategy that has tragically backfired. Mr Peña has sought to regain control of the situation. His government hopes the events of this week will start to bring closure, as they included not only the discovery of the students' remains, but also the arrest of the mayor of Iguala and his wife, who allegedly ordered the police operation against the students. Top ministers have committed to prioritising law and order.
In that regard it was a good sign on November 6th when, in an unprecedented move, Mr Peña ordered the overturning of a controversial award of a $3.75 billion railway tender because it lacked transparency; some of the companies involved were suspiciously close to his party. Unfortunately for him, the head of the consortium was a Chinese company. Mr Peña now heads to Beijing braced for a lukewarm reception, and leaves behind a country struggling to understand how he could travel at such a delicate time.
(Photo credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
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More grim details emerge, but resolution remains out of reach
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Tom Herman Shares New And Old Texas Business Cards
| 1970-08-22T08:20:09.142703 |
Tom Herman defies football coaching stereotypes. Rather than discipline his players on game day, he kisses them all before the team steps on the field. It's not normal, but it works. Herman went 22-4 at Houston, a program that won just 21 games in the three seasons before his arrival.
Last week, Herman was hired by Texas to bring his emotion to Austin. And Herman started his Longhorns career with a mushy Twitter post.
To all the GAs out there grinding away, keep working hard. Dreams can come true. #GreatToBeHome #HookEm pic.twitter.com/7CQynzpU11
— Coach Tom Herman (@CoachTomHerman) December 7, 2016
Herman played at Division III Cal Lutheran before taking his first coaching job as the wide receivers coach at Texas Lutheran. His second job was at Texas, where he spent two seasons (1999-2000) as a graduate assistant. Herman held assistant coaching jobs at Sam Houston State, Texas State, Rice, Iowa State and Ohio State before landing his first head coaching job at Houston.
And now he has made it back to one of the poster programs of college football: Texas.
As Herman shows, coaching, like almost any job, requires hard work and commitment to get to the top. In his case, he got a taste of the Longhorns in his 20s and made it back in his 40s.
-- Follow Jeff Eisenband on Twitter @JeffEisenband. Like Jeff Eisenband on Facebook.
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Tom Herman puts his Texas graduate assistant and head coach business cards side-by-side.
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Activists arrested at site of Perth's Roe 8 road project
| 1970-08-22T08:20:13.111034 |
Police have arrested at least four people during rowdy protests at the site of a controversial Perth road project, including a man who chained himself to machinery.
Protesters and police clashed at the site of the Roe 8 highway extension, part of the WA Liberal-National government's $1.9 billion Perth Freight Link, amid anger machinery was arriving and work was starting at the site despite a pending High Court challenge.
Police also handed move-on notices to 19 people.
Five people were arrested for obstructing machinery last Wednesday and released with cautions as protests have continued for a week.
State Labor MP Simon McGurk and Greens MP Lynn MacLaren attended the protests.
Opponents say the highway will impact the environmentally-sensitive Beeliar Wetlands and will also have expected adverse impacts on communities along its route.
Conservation Council of WA executive director Piers Verstegen accused contractors of already breaching environmental and animal welfare regulations on the site by moving machinery into areas where fauna was nesting without government environmental officers present.
The area is a habitat for the rainbow bee eater bird and southern brown bandicoot.
"This is indicative of a project where the state government is rushing ahead of the High Court decision and an election to try to get work happening on site," Mr Verstegen told AAP.
"What we're seeing now is a massive outpouring of community opposition."
Both Ms MacLaren and the local council, the City of Cockburn, criticised the state government and called on it to stop preliminary works until the High Court challenge that resumes on Friday is resolved.
Mayor Logan Howlett said forcing the highway through just four months ahead of a state election was disrespectful to the legal process and to voters.
A man who was protesting collapsed in the crowd and was taken away in an ambulance after suffering a possible heart attack.
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At least four people were arrested and more were handed move-on notices during rowdy protests at the site of Perth's controversial Roe 8 highway.
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First Aleppo evacuees reach rebel territory, doctors report
| 1970-08-22T08:20:15.180844 |
A convoy carrying the first evacuees from rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo arrived in opposition territory west of the city on Thursday, a doctor there and a monitor said.
"Red Crescent vehicles carrying the wounded have arrived, and the wounded will be transferred to... nearby hospitals for treatment," said Ahmad al-Dbis, who heads the unit of doctors and other volunteers coordinating the evacuation of wounded people.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor confirmed the first batch of evacuees had arrived.
It comes after at least 17 buses and 10 ambulances left the city, carrying people being evacuated as part of a ceasefire deal.
On Thursday Syrian state TV showed the convoy of ambulances followed by a long line of green buses driving from the Ramousah district next to the rebel-held area of Aleppo, which has been besieged for months by Syrian government forces and their allies.
The spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Ingy Sedky said their staff has arrived with Syrian Arab Red Crescent ambulances and workers to evacuate the wounded.
The ICRC says it's preparing to evacuate 200 wounded people, some in critical condition.
A Russian general, meanwhile, said Russia has begun evacuating about 5,000 militants and their families from Aleppo under an order from President Vladimir Putin.
A humanitarian corridor stretching more than 20 kilometres has been established for the evacuation, including "15 kilometres through territories controlled by illegally armed groups," General Valery Gerasimov said in comments carried by state news agency TASS.
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A ceasefire deal for Aleppo is back on track and evacuations from the last rebel-held areas of the city will begin "within hours", rebel officials say.
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Peter Jacob swastikas: New Jersey congressional candidate reports swastikas at home
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Oct 11, 2016 8:03 PM EDT Crimesider
UNION, N.J. Authorities are investigating two reports of spray-painted swastikas being found at the New Jersey home of a congressional candidate.
Indian-American Democrat Peter Jacob says the swastikas were found outside his family’s Union home on Friday and Monday. Jacob is seeking the 7th District House seat held by Republican Leonard Lance. The Lance campaign has condemned the incidents and said the display of symbols like the swastika is “abhorrent.” Jacob says his family has lived at the home for six years without incident. He blames the vandalism on the “ever increasing atmosphere of accepted racism” in the country.
Authorities say they plan to increase police patrols in the area.
The Republican opponent said he condemns the vandalism and supports an investigation.
Jacob said it has happened twice – swastikas scrawled in orange, first on the sidewalk and then at his home in Union.
“It’s very upsetting,” Jacob said. “It’s very saddening for us to see this.”
Jacob is Indian-American, running against U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, a Trump supporter. Jacob said he has no doubt that Lance’s support of Trump was to blame for the incidents.
“When your national message is to teach America to hate again, you know it’s definitely going to inspire those and trickle down nationally,” Jacob said.
Jacob said Lance’s Facebook page recently shared a blog post featuring his image alongside Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen. It has apparently been deleted since, Silverman reported.
The Lance campaign released a statement in response to the claims.
“The display of anti-Semitic hate symbols like the swastika is abhorrent,” the statement said. “Leonard Lance stands with Peter Jacob in condemning these offensive acts of vandalism and supports a full police investigation into these crimes.”
The statement further said Lance has requested to attend a news conference at Jacob’s home on Tuesday and has asked to speak to Jacob personally about the incidents “in an effort to show bipartisan unity against racism.”
The Lance campaign also said Jacob supporters have launched personal attacks on Lance’s social media platforms.
Jacob said he will have to think over the offer from Lance to attend the news conference.
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Indian-American Democrat Peter Jacob says the vandalism is a result of "ever-increasing atmosphere of accepted racism" in the country
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AMC Poised to Become World’s Largest Movie Chain
| 1970-08-22T08:20:22.093144 |
The sleepy movie-theater industry rarely is a player in big-ticket deals. But after working for months to get skeptical investors on board, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. appears poised to win shareholder approval for an acquisition that would make it the largest exhibitor in the world.
AMC, which currently is the second-biggest theater chain in the U.S., plans to pay $1.2 billion to acquire Carmike Cinemas Inc., a tie-up that Carmike shareholders are expected to vote on Tuesday. The initial deal, announced in March, was met with investor backlash and forced a delay of the vote.
Meanwhile, AMC Chief Executive Adam Aron is pursuing a second acquisition that would expand the company to Europe. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
“Two acquisitions at the same time,” said Mr. Aron in a recent interview shortly after completing a roadshow to raise a debt offering to help fund the deals. “We have a capital expenditure for each, so we need to make sure we raise the funds.”
AMC’s deals—the $650 million purchase of Europe’s Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group, in addition to the Carmike acquisition—are expected to take AMC’s theatrical footprint to about 900 locations, from about 388. Its stateside merger with Carmike, currently the nation’s No. 4 exhibitor with 273 theaters, is considered the largest possible tie-up in exhibition that would pass Justice Department scrutiny.
The deal combines AMC, an urban-centric chain that has drawn attention for its recent state-of the-art auditorium renovations, with Carmike, which largely has operated lower-cost multiplexes in rural parts of the country.
It has been a long eight months for AMC, majority-owned by Beijing-based Dalian Wanda Group Co., since the Carmike deal was announced. Shareholder blowback to the initial offer—$30 a share in a $1.1 billion deal—forced the company to delay votes on the acquisition, and political opposition began mounting because of AMC’s Chinese ownership.
But now that AMC has come back with an offer of $33.06 a share and some AMC stock, enough support is expected to win shareholder approval, according to people familiar with the matter. The improved terms helped convince some major investors and proxy advisory firms to reverse course and endorse the deal.
New shareholders who have come on board since the initial offer also are helping to muster enough votes to complete the deal, say people familiar with the matter.
Several investment firms specializing in arbitrage bets have bought into Carmike since March and now appear likely to see short-term gains because of the sweetened terms. They include Magnetar Financial LLC and Driehaus Capital Management LLC, which didn’t have Carmike stock a month before the acquisition’s announcement but is now the company’s largest shareholder, with a stake of just under 10%.
Those late-arriving shareholders have annoyed investors such as Chris Mittleman, whose Mittleman Brothers LLC is Carmike’s second-largest shareholder with a 9.5% stake. He said his firm would vote against the deal.
“Most of the major shareholders now are newcomers who came in when it was announced at $30. Making 10% in a very short period of time? They’re probably dancing about it,” Mr. Mittleman said.
Among his grievances: Carmike didn’t shop itself around to other companies that could have run up the bid, and a premium should be offered because Carmike represents the biggest possible company that AMC likely could acquire under antitrust rules. Irate about AMC’s valuation of Carmike, Mr. Mittleman argued that $40 a share was a minimum fair value.
Resistance to the deal also has come from Washington, D.C., operative Richard Berman, a prominent lobbyist who has waged a campaign against AMC’s controlling stakeholder, Wanda, which includes opinion articles, lobbying Congress, and paying for billboards that refer to AMC as “China’s Red Puppet.” He also has organized demonstrations outside some Carmike theaters.
Even if the deal goes through, Mr. Berman said he would be fighting a long-term battle against Chinese intrusion into U.S. media holdings. “It’s building up steam to affect future deals in Hollywood and the media space,” he said.
Mr. Aron rejected the claim that Wanda controlled the operations of his company. AMC is an “American company led by American management from Leawood, Kan., which is about as American as you can get,” Mr. Aron said.
If the Carmike deal goes through, AMC plans to invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in upgrading Carmike theaters and bringing the chain into its growing loyalty program, Mr. Aron said.
Odeon patrons in Europe also will soon see theater upgrades that include the installation of AMC’s signature reclining seats and expanded food-and-drink options.
Carmike renovations will run from extensive—wholesale changes that take up to three years—to smaller improvements, such as the installation of Coca-Cola “Freestyle” machines that dispense 100 different flavors of soda. The soft-drink machines represent a $25 million investment and could start appearing in lobbies by mid-2017, Mr. Aron said.
AMC will operate Carmike under a “two-brand strategy” that will label some theaters as AMC and others as something different, Mr. Aron noted. Sticking with the Carmike name remains an option for those locations, he added.
Write to Erich Schwartzel at [email protected]
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Shareholders are set to vote Tuesday on a $1.2 billion deal for AMC to acquire Carmike Cinemas. If that is cleared, and combined with AMC’s $650 million purchase of Europe’s Odeon & UCI Cinemas, AMC’s theatrical footprint would expand to about 900 locations, from about 388.
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Storms swell reservoirs but provide mixed blessing in ski country
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A skier takes a jump at Boreal Mountain Resort shortly after it opened for the season on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, in Norden, Calif.
A skier takes a jump at Boreal Mountain Resort shortly after it...
The rains that soaked Northern California this week continued a wet early season and gave a much-needed boost to reservoir levels, but they were a wet blanket for some ski resorts around Lake Tahoe, thanks to relatively warm weather at lower elevations.
“Wet runs are going to give you the classic Sierra cement,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services. “These are not the kind of storms that are going to give you a lot of very good powder.”
It wasn’t all bad. Though the rain melted some snow, many of the runs above 7,000 feet were graced with powder. Mount Rose, the resort south of Reno, enjoyed 21 inches of new snow, according to the National Weather Service.
In the central Sierra, the Mammoth Mountain resort received a load of snow, adding 56 inches in the latest big storm, said Tony Fuentes, a weather service meteorologist.
At Boreal Mountain Resort west of Truckee, spokesman Tucker Norred said the overall outlook was good.
“We did catch a bit of snow at the tail end of that storm — a sprinkling of snow to put a nice white layer on top of everything,” he said. “And we have awesome snow-making temperatures this coming week.”
Overnight lows were expected to dip into the single digits in Truckee on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. While little snow is expected, Null said the season has been strong so far, with precipitation rising to 139 percent of average in the central Sierra and 176 percent of average in the northern Sierra.
Reservoir levels reaped the benefits, as did the waterfalls in Yosemite, where flooding also triggered road closures.
Four reservoirs had levels above the historic average Thursday: Folsom, Don Pedro, Millerton and the state’s largest, Shasta, according to the Department of Water Resources. At Folsom, levels rose enough that water had to be released from the dam.
When the volume of water exceeds 575 acre-feet — about 187 hundred million gallons — the dam releases water so Sacramento and other downstream communities are at a lower risk of flooding.
Louis Moore, a spokesman for the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, said water releases are standard at this time of year, but that over the past few years drought made them rarer.
“The previous time we’ve done a big one was in March,” he said, “and then I believe before that was all the way back in 2011.”
As of this week, 12.2 percent of California was considered drought-free, the biggest area since March 2013, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The Sierra snowpack is a critical piece of the drought picture because it stores water until the dry spring and summer months, when it melts and provides a reserve for Californians.
Filipa A. Ioannou is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @obioannoukenobi
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The rains that soaked Northern California this week continued a wet early season and gave a much-needed boost to reservoir levels, but they were a wet blanket for some ski resorts around Lake Tahoe, thanks to relatively warm weather at lower elevations. “Wet runs are going to give you the classic Sierra cement,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services. In the central Sierra, the Mammoth Mountain resort received a load of snow, adding 56 inches in the latest big storm, said Tony Fuentes, a weather service meteorologist. Reservoir levels reaped the benefits, as did the waterfalls in Yosemite, where flooding also triggered road closures. When the volume of water exceeds 575 acre-feet — about 187 hundred million gallons — the dam releases water so Sacramento and other downstream communities are at a lower risk of flooding. Louis Moore, a spokesman for the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, said water releases are standard at this time of year, but that over the past few years drought made them rarer. The Sierra snowpack is a critical piece of the drought picture because it stores water until the dry spring and summer months, when it melts and provides a reserve for Californians.
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The Agony of GoPro and Fitbit
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Looking at the carnage in the stock prices of Fitbit and GoPro, which both gave disappointing guidance to investors this week, Fortune’s Aaron Pressman makes an important observation: Making hardware is hard.
He’s right. Fitbit (fit) and GoPro (gpro) aim to position themselves as “ecosystem” plays, like Apple, Pressman notes. Here are a couple of problems with that. First, there’s Apple (aapl), which made the Flip, a fine digital video recorder, obsolete by incorporating videos into the iPhone. Apple might similarly vacuum up the market for wearable cameras and fitness trackers too. The other problem is capital. If you’re trying to sell at retail, including to Amazon (which appears to have menaced GoPro), it helps to have a strong balance sheet.
The irony is that Fitbit and GoPro are among the best. Each has profitably captured the imagination of consumers. Yet each is a small fry compared to the giants of consumer electronics.
On a related note, it’s worth looking a little more at what happens when tech giants buy tech minnows. Earlier this week I made the case for worthwhile tech acquisitions, despite the conventional wisdom that they don’t work. Some smart readers offered examples to buttress my argument.
Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter, where this essay originated.
Fortune startup watcher Kia Kokalitcheva, for example, sent me four smart buys privately held Snap has made: Scan, which became Snapchat’s “Snapcodes”; Looksery, the backbone of the “lenses” feature that Facebook has since copied; Vergence Labs, the foundation of Snapchat’s anticipated connected eyeware; and Bitstrips, maker of Bitmoji. “I’m totally addicted to sending ‘friendmoji’ to my roommates via the app,” Kokalitcheva tells me. I have no idea what she’s talking about, but I am persuaded by her argument.
Former Microsoft (msft) bigwig Steven Sinofsky reacted to my having knocked Microsoft’s acquisitions history by pointing me to some good deals. These include Forethought, which became PowerPoint, and Vermeer Technologies, which led to SharePoint.
Can GoPro's drone excite investors?
Finally, venture capitalist Dana Settle of Greycroft praised Google for buying YouTube, especially in contrast to News Corp.’s acquisition of MySpace. “One invested heavily in” the company it bought, and the “other starved it,” she wrote. You can easily guess which was which.
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Twitter For Sale: The Turnaround That Wasn't
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This was supposed to be the year Twitter (twtr) got its act together. Instead, it’s looking like the year Twitter throws in the towel.
The social media company entered 2016 in crisis mode. It was struggled to attract new users, its strategy was muddled, it had lost the faith of investors. The list of departing executives was especially grim: Fourteen top executives had left since CEO Dick Costolo resigned in mid-2015.
This February, when I tried to get a sense of what was going on for a longer Fortune story tied to the company’s 10-year birthday, the official line from Twitter and anyone supporting Twitter was “this is the turning point.” Prominent investor Chris Sacca insisted that the company’s worst days were behind it. Suntrust analyst Bob Peck said things could only go up from here.
Jessica Verrilli, the head of corporate development, told me she believed the company's executive exodus was over:
People are here because they want to be here. And they want to be here to continue to drive the success of this company. There’s no reason to come here and just, like, sit around and collect your [restricted stock units]. There’s a million places to work. If you are here, you’re here because you believe in this place and you’re trying to create something great.
Over the summer, at least seven more executives left. (See the graphic below.) Meanwhile the company’s struggles with abuse and bullying on its platform have intensified.
Last week there was a tiny glimmer of hope. It started to feel like the company’s troubled turnaround was finally, maybe, (just maybe!) starting to build a little traction. Twitter seemed to be executing on CEO Jack Dorsey’s bold mission statement that Twitter is “live.” The company’s livestreamed NFL game won it positive reviews and a decent-sized audience. Then it announced a deal with Bloomberg to livestream all three presidential debates. It felt like progress after three years of executive turnover, internal dysfunction, and existential angst.
But once again, the hope has been quickly dashed. Friday CNBC (and several other outlets) reported that Twitter is moving closer to a sale. Google parent Alphabet and Salesforce have been named as reported suitors. Google has struggled to gain a foothold in social media; Salesforce's interest can be explained in a Tweet by the company's Chief Digital Evangelist:
The news, and thus, the end of Twitter's turnaround, reminds me of the one thing I heard from everyone I spoke with in February: “If anyone can do it, it’s Jack.” The question was whether anyone could actually do it.
Twitter is an incredible, singular media asset, but it has been mismanaged from the start, which hurt its chances of ever becoming a dominant force in a winner-take-all market. The company's successes often happened in spite of its management, not because of it. Meanwhile competitors like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram have won increasing amounts of users' time and attention—attention that should have been Twitter's.
If Twitter sells, that will become the new official line: If Jack couldn't do it, no one could have. Turns out Twitter was un-fixable. It’s a convenient way to shift the blame from any one person. Twitter, once an underdog that hit some growing pains, will be remembered as a cautionary tale of squandered potential.
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Amazon’s New Travel Service Enters Lucrative Online Travel Market
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Amazon.com Inc. launched a new hotel-booking service for three major metro areas on Monday, trying to entice shoppers who might be browsing for books or music to reserve a hotel stay.
The new platform, called Amazon Destinations, lists hotels, inns and bed-and-breakfast spots in the Northeast, southern California and the Pacific Northwest.
About 150 properties are posting rooms on the Amazon site, according to a person...
Amazon.com Inc. launched a new hotel-booking service for three major metro areas on Monday, trying to entice shoppers who might be browsing for books or music to reserve a hotel stay.
The new platform, called Amazon Destinations, lists hotels, inns and bed-and-breakfast spots in the Northeast, southern California and the Pacific Northwest.
About 150 properties are posting rooms on the Amazon site, according to a person familiar with the matter. The listings mainly consist of smaller, independent properties and hotel operators, although there are a few branded hotels, such as the Best Western Plus Royal Oak Hotel in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Amazon has been experimenting with hotel bookings since 2012, when it began posting up to 100 deeply discounted hotel deals around the U.S. at any given time. The listings were mostly from hoteliers looking to fill excess inventory.
The new service allows hotel owners more flexibility in terms of price, including listing rooms at regular rates, not just package deals or other deep discounts. The hotels also are featured more prominently on their own Amazon page, rather than being mixed in with the site’s various other travel deals.
Amazon has been low-key about the launch. The site went live shortly before midnight Seattle time on Monday, and Amazon didn’t prepare a formal news release.
Analysts say the move reflects Amazon’s growing interest in the lucrative travel market.
In 2014, travel and tourism spending totaled $458 billion in the U.S. alone, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
The two biggest online travel agents, Expedia Inc. and Booking.com, a unit of Priceline Group Inc., have become global players. Booking.com says it lists about 590,000 hotels and other accommodations, while Expedia says it has 435,000 properties in its site.
The online travel industry has been consolidating to these two major players. Expedia in February announced it was acquiring Orbitz Worldwide Inc. for about $1.3 billion.
Amazon, by contrast, is a bit player in the hotel-reservation market. But some hotel owners suggested that with its heavy user traffic, the online retail giant would have certain advantages if it chose to scale up quickly.
“Amazon changes the game a lot,” said Bashar Wali, president of boutique hotel operator Provenance Hotels, which is listing rooms on Amazon for seven of its properties. “It has an intimate knowledge of its customer’s spending habits and preferences. That could allow us to collaborate with them on special offers that could be well-targeted.”
Amazon spokesman Tom Cook declined to say what Amazon was charging the hotel owners for rooms booked through its service, but he said it would be competitive with the major online travel agents. Those services typically charge commissions between 10% and 25%.
Mr. Cook said the site’s main appeal would be to locals from these areas who were looking for short getaways, an area Amazon believes has been underserved by other hotel sites.
“These are all handpicked properties that have been visited by someone at Amazon to make sure they meet our quality,” he said.
Write to Craig Karmin at [email protected]
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Amazon Inc. on Monday launched a new travel and hotel service that offers lodging choices in the Northeast, southern California and the Pacific Northwest, expanding efforts to tap the lucrative travel market.
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ANZ shuts down bank account used to support Australians charged with terrorism offences
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A bank account used to raise money to support Australians charged with terrorism offences has been shut down by the ANZ.
The Brothers Behind Bars Facebook group claims their business account, which was only opened a couple of weeks ago, was used to collect “charity funds”.
The page, which is run by hardline preachers Junaid Thorne and Wissam Haddad, posted a statement saying they had been given no opportunity for an appeal.
“No specific reason was provided for the closure but I’m sure many of you can read between the lines,” the post said. “Meanwhile far-right groups are free to conduct business as usual.”
The group claims the account only ever received less than $1000 in the short time is was open and despite the “setback” they would move forward to continue the “good fight”.
In the ANZ bank notice posted on the Facebook page, the bank said it had exercised its discretion to close the accounts and would forward a bank cheque for the net balance of the account.
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AMA says attempts to help asylum seekers on Nauru frustrated by immigration department
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Attempts by Australia’s peak medical association to assist sick asylum seekers detained on Nauru continue to be stymied by complicated immigration processes that “lack transparency”, a Senate inquiry has been told.
In September the Senate committee on legal and constitutional affairs launched an inquiry into allegations of abuse, self-harm and neglect of asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore processing centres after the Guardian’s publication of the Nauru files.
In its submission to the inquiry, published on Friday, the Australian Medical Association said it was routinely contacted by asylum seekers with concerns about their healthcare but the process required by the department for them to assist was “complicated and lacks transparency”.
In several cases the AMA claimed the department provided advice on a person’s condition that contradicted their own information.
The AMA was also concerned there was “insufficient follow-up and reporting” from the department after it raised a number of concerning individual cases directly with it and the chief medical officer of Australian Border Force, Dr John Brayley.
“While the department does provide brief responses on some asylum seekers, the AMA is not always able to ascertain whether quality and appropriate health services, management and treatment is being provided as there is no independent, transparent body of clinical experts that can verify or report on this,” the submission said.
Among the cases cited, the AMA said it had contacted the department several times with concerns about the physical and mental health of one woman who had been in detention for more than three years and was possibly at risk of suicide.
According to the AMA the department’s response to its concerns included a finding that: “Whilst [redacted] did state that she continues to hear voices, these are much less than previously and the voices did not contain any derogatory or command hallucinations.”
The department increased the woman’s anti-psychotic medication and recommended another review in a month’s time, according to the response.
“At the time of writing this submission, the AMA has no further information about this asylum seeker, whether she continues to self-harm or if her hallucinations and ‘voices’ indicates more severe mental illness requiring specialist psychiatric care.”
In another case, first revealed at a conference in February by the then AMA president, Prof Brian Owler, a 70-year-old Rohingya man was brought to the organisation’s attention after he suffered extremely ill health on Manus Island. Owler recommended to Brayley that the man needed immediate healthcare or he was “likely to die”.
After being told that a transfer request “should have been put in train” the previous week, the AMA received no further information.
Another asylum seeker held on Manus Island spoke with an endocrinologist via teleconference in January. According to an account given to the AMA, the specialist hadn’t seen the man’s records and forgot to ask him about his symptoms until the man mentioned it.
When the AMA subsequently received the man’s records, they were on a password protected disc with no password supplied.
The AMA said the cases listed were “some, but by no means all” of the asylum seekers who asked for its help and it acknowledge not all information could be independently verified.
However, it said: “The AMA does not believe those detained on Manus and Nauru, either within detention facilities or within the community, are able to access a healthcare service of the same standard that a person in the Australian mainland would receive.”
It said refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru were still not receiving adequate medical care and it reiterated calls for a national statutory oversight body.
In another submission to the inquiry, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians said it wasn’t consulted before the government’s recent change to the Border Force Act.
The change, made on the eve of a high court challenge, removed health practitioners from laws that made it a jailable offence to disclose information about conditions on Nauru, outside of internal channels.
The college said it received no formal communication about the change either before or after, and there remained “ambiguity” about what protections actually existed for health and medical professionals.
“The amendment to the determination was not subject to parliamentary process and does not represent a substantive legislative amendment,” it said.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists also called for the disclosure provisions to be repealed and recommended independent oversight, improved policies around reporting, investigating and transparency, and for allegations of abuse to be reviewed by the current royal commission into child abuse.
The inquiry is due to report in March and is taking submissions until Monday.
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London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower
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On the eve of the most bitterly fought US presidential election in decades, the British Museum has unveiled a print created by Andy Warhol in 1972, a demonic Richard Nixon urging the viewer to vote for George McGovern – a spectacular and spectacularly unsuccessful campaign image that preceded a landslide victory for Nixon.
Warhol used a bland official photograph of Nixon and his wife Pat, taken from the cover of Newsweek, and doctored it to give him glaring yellow eyes, lipstick, and a eerie face the colour of his wife’s top. It will be be a star exhibit in the museum’s major spring exhibition of prints made in the US since the 1960s, including some gigantic recent acquisitions that have never been displayed because they are too big for any of the prints and drawings galleries.
Warhol believed the image, created to be sold as a fundraiser for the Democratic party, made him a marked man politically, with the tax authorities poring over every cent of his income tax returns for the rest of his life.
Stephen Coppel, joint curator of the exhibition, said Warhol’s subsequent lifelong battle with the revenue service was the true reason for the much-mocked revelation that he kept scrupulous daily notes in his diaries of every taxi fare and other expenses – “he knew his accounts would be crawled all over”.
Coppel’s department has for years been planning and acquiring works specially for an exhibition, The American Dream, which will open in March, knowing it would come close to a US presidential election – but with no idea how bitterly fought that contest would be.
Although many of the recent acquisitions and loans from major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York touch on campaign issues including racism, feminism and immigration, Coppel said they would not be making any changes to reflect the outcome. “I think we will let the viewers draw their own conclusions,” he said.
After Vikings, Celts, and Egyptian underwater archaeology, the exhibition will be the first contemporary art show in the museum’s new Sainsbury exhibition gallery, and will include more than 200 works by 70 artists including some of the biggest names in American art, such as Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Edward Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg and and Robert Rauschenberg. Almost half the works have been acquired by the museum in the last eight years, which the director Hartwig Fischer described as “a fantastic achievement” given the stature of the artists and the soaring art market prices.
Although some of the earliest pieces include Warhol’s images of Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband, and the artist’s electric chair series, generally the works from the 60s have a more optimistic air. One of the largest will be Rauschenberg’s towering Sky Garden, more than 2 metres tall, an explosion of joyful colour from his Stoned Moon series when he was invited by Nasa to go to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of the Apollo 11 mission. It includes an image of the footprint Buzz Aldrin later left on the surface of the moon.
Another, coming on loan from MoMA, is a 1966 vision of an immaculate filling station by Ruscha, the petrol pumps gleaming under a blue sky, the open road waiting.
The mood has darkened dramatically in many later pieces, including Willie Cole’s huge woodcut Stowage. Cole, who comes from an African-American family, was inspired by a famous 18th-century image he saw as a child in a schoolbook, of the human beings packed like barrels into the hold of a Liverpool slave ship, which was widely used by campaigners for the abolition of slavery.
Cole reinvented it to reflect the grinding drudgery of domestic service of his mother and grandmother, embedding a real ironing board into his printing blocks to represent the ship, surrounded by the soleplates of steam irons evoking African tribal masks.
Only 16 copies were printed, almost all now in museum collections in the US. Coppel recently managed to buy the 16th copy in New York for the collection, and it will go on display for the first time in the exhibition. “It was in astonishing mint condition,” he said fondly; “when we unrolled it, it still smelt of printing ink.”
The American Dream: Pop to the Present will be shown at the British Museum in London from 9 March to 18 June 2017
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Tesco reveals there is momentum behind its turnaround
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Before one-off costs operating profit increased an impressive-sounding 38.4pc to £515m. At the statutory level, to which we at The Daily Telegraph retain an affection seen as quaint by some in the City, the reason Lewis isn’t yet keen to talk about restoring the dividend is clear. Pre-tax profit was down 28.3pc to just £71m.
Making the supermarket more profitable will also come at the expense of higher capital spending, now due to rise to £1.4bn annually compared with £1.25bn currently.
And as stable as Tesco may now be, its balance sheet is not the world’s most attractive structure. Rather like one of its out of town superstores, despite Lewis’s efforts to date, it is still ugly from every angle.
Net debt came in at £4.35bn and total indebtedness, including leases, has risen by £2.5bn to almost £18bn, more than seven times projected operating profit for the year.
If Lewis hadn’t given that forecast on margin expansion, investors might have had more to say about Tesco’s debts. As it was, after a long information famine, the relative feast of some medium-term guidance more than enough to satisfy the City.
But to say Tesco’s performance is fantastic is absurd.
Too many analysts were keen to overlook the increase in Tesco’s pension deficit, which was bigger than most expected. The scheme is now short of £5.9bn, compared with consensus estimates of between £4bn and £5bn.
The supermarket is by no means alone in having a pension problem, of course. Low interest rates and low bond yields are combining with the retirement of the post-war generation to form a potentially toxic mix for big corporates and their pensioners across every sector.
For now bosses and investors seem to be satisfied that interest rate rises will bail them out sooner or later, but then again many had also bet that it would have happened by now. In fairness there is no immediate impact for Lewis and Tesco.
He will not have to pay more top up the supermarket’s retirement fund just yet, thanks to a long-term funding agreement with the trustees. The triennial review is next year.
But as pension deficits and corporate citizenship climb the political agenda, helped in no small part by the BHS debacle, it remains to be seen how long companies will be able kick the can down the road.
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The two-headed hard rock of Dance Gavin Dance
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Dance Gavin Dance, the Sacramento act who headline a sold-out Middle East show on Friday, put what for some is a dealbreaker right up front: The quintet includes a pair of lead singers, the sweet-voiced Tilian Pearson, who provides the “clean” vocals, and the bilious Jon Mess, whose throat-scraping yelps are the “dirty” vocals. It’s a studies-in-contrast pairing that’s been used by a lot of bands that spotlight the concerns of jittery, gimlet-eyed young men — post-hardcore acts, emo outfits, synth-heavy bands. Though their roots are in various genres, all derive their idea of musical beauty from raw power.
For some listeners, that kind of setup is a giant blinking stop sign. But “Mothership,” the seventh album from Dance Gavin Dance, resists pigeonholing, and the chaos lurking behind its double frontmen invites closer listening. While there are echoes of expansive recent rock acts like the Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria, both of which combine prog’s opened-mind scope with heavier sounds borrowed from hardcore punk and metal, on songs like the pummeling “Deception” and the woozily defiant “Here Comes the Winner,” “Mothership” offers surprising twists. “Inspire the Liars” splits from an arpeggio-led crunch into a dancefloor-ready breakdown that sounds ready to be remixed into a 12-minute sweaty freakout; “Flossie Dickey Bounce” veers from a thrashy broadside into something that recalls the wounded sensitivity of Death Cab for Cutie. “Exposed” is probably as close as the band gets to a straight-up ballad, its sparkling-icicle synths playing off Pearson’s reach-for-the-stars vocal. Throughout, the guitar work of founding member Will Swan is startling, with frenetic solos that dart around the dueling frontmen, ramping up the intensity until it’s dizzying.
At times “Mothership” can get a little wearying. Part of that comes from the grab-you-by-the-shoulders urgency of the paired vocalists, who can be a bit much even once you’ve bought into their good-guy bad-guy conceit. There’s also the prog-rock-derived tendency to throw as much material as possible — instruments, movements, whatever — into the shortest tracks. But giving it a spin or two shines a light on a swath of heavy, ambitious, and sometimes witty rock that seizes on the past few decades of edge-dwelling music, places it all in a blender, and puts the speed on high.
Dance Gavin Dance play the Middle East Downtairs on Oct. 7.
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’06 COULD BE YEAR OF MOUNTAINEERS
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NEWPORT, R.I. – While Charlie Weis was deservedly getting credit for converting Notre Dame’s offense from a predictable West Coast bore into a balanced, pro-style attack, coaches around the country weren’t flocking to South Bend after the season.
They were headed to Morgantown, W.Va., where Rich Rodriguez has developed a juggernaut.
Rodriguez and the Mountaineers didn’t get nearly the publicity that Weis and the Fighting Irish did until after the bowl games, when West Virginia hung 38 points on SEC champ Georgia. The 38-35 Sugar Bowl win had three ramifications:
It gave the Big East some much-needed credibility. It established West Virginia as a national championship contender in 2006. And it highlighted Rodriguez’ growing stature as an offensive genius.
“Genius?” Rodriguez said yesterday at Big East football media day here.
“I don’t know about the genius part. We have a system we believe in. Just because more people might be paying attention doesn’t change who we are or how we do things.”
What the Mountaineers, who went 11-1 by averaging 32 points and should be named today as the preseason favorite to win the Big East, do is revolutionary.
Rodriguez’ spread option is predicated on his tackles reading blocks.
No wonder coaches from Ohio State, Memphis and Southern Miss, among others, visited West Virginia this offseason to pick the brain of the Mountaineers’ coaching staff. That spread offense Northwestern runs? The Wildcats got it all, even the terminology, from Rodriguez when he was an assistant at Tulane.
“Selfishly, it helps us to have coaches come in,” said Rodriguez. “It’s cheaper than us having to fly around the country. And we learn from them. Defenses are always making adjustments, and we want to know about it.”
Rodriguez developed his version of the spread after watching tapes of Mouse Davis’ run and shoot. Rodriguez wondered about running out of many of those formations, but he almost didn’t a get chance to see if it could work.
After one season as Salem College’s head coach and two weeks before his 1988 wedding, the Salem AD walked into the 24-year-old Rodriguez’ office and informed him the school was dropping football. So much for the honeymoon.
“Some genius, huh?” deadpanned Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, who had played at West Virginia for Don Nehlen, took an assistant’s job at his alma mater until the head job at Glenville State, an NAIA school that had scored 20 points in 1989, opened in 1990. That’s when Rodriguez let the genie out of the bottle.
By 1993 Glenville lost in the NAIA championship game and one of college football’s first families took notice. Tommy Bowden hired Rodriguez to be his offensive coordinator at Tulane and then Clemson. When Nehlen retired after the 2000 season, the Mountaineers turned to Rodriguez, a native son from Grant Town, W.Va.
He’s gone 39-22 and just signed a three-year contract extension through 2012. Most college football fans know where Notre Dame is located. And most college coaches know their way to Morgantown.
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Three Years of Dateline Missing in America: 62 Still Missing
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Dateline NBC's social and digital series 'Missing in America' began on December 5, 2013, following a question the night before to our Facebook community, "Do you know anyone who has simply vanished?" The response was overwhelming. Since that first post, every Monday, we have featured the story of a different missing person brought to our attention from a member of our online communities.
On this third anniversary of the series, more than a third of those we have featured are still missing. Several have had someone charged in connection with their cases. In others, a person has been convicted of their murder. But they still have not been brought home.
Please take a moment to read, and share, their stories. Someone, somewhere, saw something that may help authorities. Could it be you or one of your friends?
Jessica Heeringa was working alone at a gas station in Norton Shores, Michigan on April 26, 2013, when she disappeared. A witness told police he saw the 25-year-old mother being forced into a silver Chrysler minivan. Investigators found Jessica's cell phone, keys and purse inside the store. In September of this year, officials charged Jeffrey Willis, 46, with open murder and kidnapping in relation to Jessica's case. Her body has not been found. Willis also faces charges in connection with the 2014 killing of another woman, Rebekah Bletsch, and the April abduction of a teenager who ended up escaping. Willis is set to face trial for the charges relating to Jessica in early 2017. If you have any information regarding Jessica's case, please call the Norton Shores Police Department at (231) 733-2691 or the Silent Observer at (231) 722-7463.
Despite active pursuits on social media for many years now, the families of five young men who went missing in the San Francisco, California area over the past several years still have few answers. Jackson Miller, missing May 15, 2010, Cameron Remmer, missing October 6, 2011, Shawn Dickerson, missing December 2, 2011, Crishtian Hughes, missing February 7, 2013, and Sean Sidi, missing May 21, 2013, all vanished from various areas of San Francisco without a trace. Leads and searches have unearthed virtually no clues in any of their cases, but members of every family have banded together to help in the search efforts and cope with their shared emotional pain. If you have any information regarding any of these five cases, please contact the San Francisco Police Department at (415) 558-5508.
Heather Elvis was last seen on December 18, 2013, near her Myrtle Beach, South Carolina apartment after a date. The 20-year-old was reported missing the following day. Heather's car was found at Peachtree boat landing on the outskirts of town several days later. In February 2014, more than a year after Heather's case captivated the nation, Sidney and Tammy Moorer were charged with murder and kidnapping in the case. Murder charges against the pair were later dropped. Sidney was tried for kidnapping Heather in June of this year, but the jury could not reach a decision and a mistrial was declared. Officials say they will retry Sidney on the kidnapping charge, but a new trial date has not yet been set. A trial date for Tammy has also not been set. Heather's body has not been found. If you have any information regarding Heather's case, please call the Horry County Police Department at (843) 915-8477.
It's been more than three years since Brookelyn Farthing disappeared. The teen reportedly disappeared in the early hours of June 22, 2013, from a friend's home outside Berea, Kentucky. Brookelyn, 18 at the time, had spent the night with her younger sister, cousin, and some friends at a party. When the group decided to head home for the night, Brookelyn decided to stay. The details after the preceding hours are hazy, but it was around 4:00 a.m. the next morning, when several of her friends said they received text messages from Brookelyn. One of the messages said she need a ride home, 'because I'm scared.' Several hours later, the friend, whose rural home Brookelyn was at, told police he left to let some horses out. He told police he returned home to find burn damage from a small fire and no sign of Brookelyn. A massive search was launched, but turned up little evidence. To date, police have not named any persons of interest or suspects in the case. Brookelyn's family has a website, findbrookefarthing.com, and has offered a $14,000 reward "for information leading to the return of Brookelyn Farthing or capture and conviction of those responsible for her disappearance." If you have any information regarding Brookelyn's case, you're urged to call the Kentucky State Police at (859) 623-2404.
College junior Phoenix Coldon was last seen on December 18, 2011, pulling out of the driveway of her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri. About three hours later, the 23-year-old's car was found abandoned in East St. Louis, about a 25-minute drive from her home. The vehicle was running with the keys in the ignition and the driver's door open, according to police. Phoenix's mother, Goldia Coldon, continues to do everything she can to search for her daughter, including posting to social media and rallying for coverage of Phoenix's case. The family continues to run the Facebook page 'Missing Phoenix Coldon'. If you have any information regarding Phoenix's case, please contact the St. Louis Police Department at (314) 615-5400.
Kelsie Schelling went missing from Pueblo, Colorado on the night of February 4, 2013, after driving there from her home in Denver to meet her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas. Kelsie, then 22, was two months pregnant with the couple's child, a reported stress point in the relationship. Video released by the Pueblo Police Department Schelling's black 2011 Chevrolet Cruze parked in front of a Walmart store around noon the following day. The vehicle was left there overnight. The next morning at 7:20 a.m., an unidentified man can be seen getting into Schelling's car and driving away. The car was found a week later abandoned at Saint Mary Corwin Medical Center. Lucas Donthe has been questioned multiple times by police and, according to authorities, is the only person of interest in the case. If you have any information about Kelsie's disappearance, please contact the Pueblo Crime Stoppers at (719) 542-7867.
Reny Jose was a 22-year-old engineering student at Rice University, with a 4.0 GPA, when he was reported missing on March 13, 2014 while on spring break in Panama City, Florida. Several days after Jose was reported missing, police located his clothes and cell phone in a trash can behind the house where he'd been staying with friends. Authorities confirm the case is still considered open and ongoing. Anyone with information about Reny's case is encouraged to call the Bay County Sheriff's Office at (850) 747-4700.
Kara Nichols, an aspiring model, was reported missing on October 9, 2012. At the time of her disappearance, the then 19-year-old was en route from her home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she lived with two roommates, to Denver for a modeling shoot. After four years of searching and countless interviews, a Facebook page dedicated to finding Kara indicated in October of 2016, that there may have been a credible lead phoned in around the time of her birthday. The El Paso Sheriff's office has not confirmed any leads, but they are encouraging anyone with information to reach out. They note the case is still considered open and active, but have not said if they believe foul play is involved. Anyone with information about Kara's case should call the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at (719) 390-5555
DONALD CAVANAUGH AND DAVID NEILY
Donald Cavanaugh and David Neily both had done work for the same small horse ranch in California outside Westport, a town with only 60 residents. Both men have also been missing for more than a decade and are feared dead. Donald Cavanaugh, then 63, was reported missing in May 2005, in Ukiah, California after a dispute with his nephew, James DeNoyer, who was the ranch owner. David Neily, then 69, was reported missing in Westport, California just one year later, also reportedly after a confrontation with DeNoyer. Both men's vehicles were found on James DeNoyer's ranch property. DeNoyer denies having any information or involvement in either man's disappearance and has not been named a suspect, but is considered by police to be a person of interest in both cases. According to the Mendocino County Sheriff's office, the investigations are considered open and ongoing. If you have information about either of these cases, you are encouraged to call the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office at (707) 234-2100.
Robert Mayer disappeared on June 14, 2013, from Dix Hills, New York. Mayer, then 46, left for his job as a local electrician in the early morning hours and has not been seen since. Mayer's wife recalled her last conversation with Mayer was on the phone around 9 a.m. that day, when they discussed Father's Day plans. His car, a 2004 red Pontiac GTO, was discovered the following night at a nearby train station. Authorities call the search for Robert Mayer an open and active investigation, but few clues have been found in the case. If you have any information regarding Robert's case, please call the Suffolk County Police at (631) 854-8252.
Stephanie Anne Warner was last seen on July 4, 2013, leaving a convenience store with her boyfriend, Lennie Ames in Ashland, Oregon. The two had been seen earlier that day walking alongside a parade float Stephanie had helped create for the 4th of July holiday event. In July of 2015, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office officially named Ames, now 63 and living in Georgia, the prime suspect in Stephanie's disappearance. Their statement also indicated they believe Stephanie is deceased, however her body has not been found. If you have any information about Stephanie, please contact the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at (541) 774-6800.
Chase Massner, an Army veteran and father of two, who had recently returned home from a tour of duty in Iraq, was last seen leaving a friend's home on March 27, 2014, in Kennesaw, Georgia. According to Chase's wife, Amanda, he had been struggling to adjust to civilian life. Chase had reportedly been recently diagnosed as bipolar and was suffering with PTSD. The veteran has several identifying tattoos including "MASSNER" on his forearm and an angel on his back. There is currently a $5,000 reward for information leading to his return. If you have any information that can help, please contact theCobb County Police Department at (770) 499-3931.
Nefertiri Trader was last seen on June 30, 2014, by a neighbor who told police she was forced from her home and abducted in her own silver Acura RL around 4:00 a.m. in New Castle, Delaware. Police have indicated foul play is assumed, but no person of interest or suspect has been named. The county and the FBI have both offered rewards totaling $30,000 for information leading to Nefertiri's whereabouts. The car, which authorities have also not located, has the Delaware license plate 404893. If you have information reagarding Nefertiri's case, please contact the Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333.
Claudine Jaquier Gifford, 43, was last seen late on the night of July 6, 2014, at Pelican's at the Point, a beachfront tiki bar in White Stone, Virginia. According to the bar manager, she consumed a "couple of drinks," and watched a band play. She was last seen by a witness, who said she was being helped out of the bar by her male acquaintance, James Todd Kessler. Kessler was the last person to see Claudine before she disappeared. After police investigated Kessler's home, traces of Claudine's blood were found, and he was charged in connection with her death. In August of 2015, a jury found Kessler guilty of second-degree murder and concealment of a body. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison for Claudine's murder. However, Claudine's body has still not been found. While the police consider the case closed, they are willing to assist in the search for Claudine's body if further leads become available. If you have any information regarding Claudine's case, please call Crime Solvers at (804) 462-7463.
The mysterious case of Megan Nichols started the night of July 3, 2014, at the home in Fairfield, Illinois, where she lived with her mother and stepfather. Megan's mother, Kathy Jo Hutchcraft, discovered her daughter missing from her room around 11:00 p.m., and reported her missing soon after. Kathy later found a note Megan reportedly left behind, telling her that she loved her, but she would never be happy at home. According to authorities, Megan, who was 15 at the time, withdrew money from a local bank while on her bicycle, prior to her disappearance. She also left her cell phone behind. It had been wiped clean. Family and friends continue to search for her and post in the Facebook group 'Prayer Circle for Megan Nichols'. Authorities consider Megan a runaway, but her family believes she did not leave alone and have strong suspicions regarding one individual in Megan's life. If you have any information regarding Megan's case, please contact the Fairfield Police Department at (618) 842-2151.
Moreira "Mo" Monsalve, 46, was last seen on January 12, 2014, at the house of her ex-boyfriend, Bernard Brown. Mo's daughter, Alexis, reported her mother missing two days later. Several days later, Mo's belongings were found just a few miles from her Maui, Hawaii home in a dumpster behind the Wailuku Community Center. Police have indicated they suspect foul play and consider Brown a person of interest in the case. However, Brown has since left the state and Police say there has never been enough evidence to lead to naming Brown a suspect. Monsalve's family and friends continue to post on a 'Mo-watch' page dedicated to finding their lost loved one and to helping other families of missing persons in Hawaii spread awareness. If you have any information on Mo's case, please contact Detective Oran Satterfield of the Maui Police Department at (808) 244-6431.
Christina Morris was last seen on August 30, 2014, after spending a night out with friends at a Plano, Texas shopping and dining development. The 23-year-old was seen on security video walking into a parking garage at about 4:00 a.m. that Saturday with acquaintance Enrique Arochi. Arochi was later arrested on a charge of aggravated kidnapping in connection with Morris's disappearance. In September, a jury found Arochi guilty in connection with the case. He was sentenced to life in prison. Christina is presumed dead by authorities, but her body has not been found. If you have any information regarding Christina's case, please call the Plano Police Department at (972) 424-5678.
Dail Dinwiddie, was just 23 years old when she went missing on September 24, 1992. She would now be 47. She had just completed an art history degree at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, VA (now Randolph College), and returned to her native Columbia, SC to enroll at the University of South Carolina for graduate school. The night she went missing, she had attended a U2 concert with some friends at Williams-Brice stadium. After the concert, the friends went to a local bar called Jungle Jim's, now renamed The Horseshoe. Dail somehow got separated from the group and was never seen again, despite many extensive searches. Her case is the oldest on the Columbia Police Department's books. If you have any information about what may have happened to Dail, please contact the Columbia Police Department at (803) 233-8474.
Former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris was in the middle of a big life move from California to Oregon, and was traveling to visit his girlfriend in Seattle when, on October 10, 2014, he mysteriously disappeared. Rico, then 37, was last seen leaving his home in Alhamba, California that he shared with his mother. Three days later, his vehicle was found in the Yolo County Regional Park region near Rumsey, CA, about 450 miles north of Alhambra. His wallet, cell phone and backpack were all located nearby. Police receive about one lead per month related to the case, but none so far has led to a break in the case. Anyone with information about Harris should contact the Yolo County Sheriff's Department at (530) 668-6612.
UPDATE: A body pulled from San Diego Bay in October was officially identified as Elizabeth on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.
Elizabeth Sullivan was last seen on October 13, 2014 near her home outside San Diego, California. She is a Navy wife to her husband, Matthew, and a mother of two girls. Several days after she was reported missing, Sullivan was allegedly spotted, wearing baggy clothes, near a local soccer field, but the sighting was never confirmed. Her husband and father both continue to lead the search for answers. Matthew told police that he and his wife had been experiencing marital problems prior to Elizabeth's disappearance. Police do not consider Matthew a suspect in the case at this time. There have been no other leads in the case. Anyone with information about Elizabeth's whereabouts is asked to contact the San Diego Police Department's Missing Persons Section at (619) 531-2277.
Rhonda Daugherty vanished on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, from her home in LaFollette, Tennessee. Her husband, Charles Daugherty, told police that he arrived home that evening to find the back door wide open. All of Rhonda's belongings, including her cell phone, purse, keys and vehicle, were located at the home. The 49-year-old, however, was nowhere to be found. In January of this year, a Campbell County grand jury indicted former Campbell County teacher Lonnie Vann, who reportedly knew the family, with first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in connection with Rhonda's disappearance. Vann plead guilty and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Rhonda's body has not been found. If you have any information that could help in the case, please call the Campbell County Sheriff's Office at (423) 562-7446.
Jayme Bowen was last seen the night of April 10, 2014, leaving her sister's home in Columbus, Ohio. The 23-year-old was headed to her parents' house a few blocks away. She never made it. Family members believe she met with foul play, and think her disappearance may be linked to human trafficking. Jayme is described as a devoted mother to her two young boys. In July of 2015, a caller submitted a tip, saying they had possibly spotted Jayme in Flint, Michigan, but police have not confirmed the sighting. If you have any information about Jayme's case, please contact the Columbus Police Department at (614) 645-4545.
Nicole Waller vanished on Valentine's Day 2013, while she was allegedly en route to her home in Kalispell, Montana, after having visited her boyfriend, Cody Wayne Johnston, in Fairview. Nicole's vehicle was later found abandoned on Highway 2 outside Poplar. The 32-year-old's belongings and her three children's pet guinea pigs were inside. Cody Johnston was arrested in August 2015, on charges of deliberate homicide and tampering with physical evidence in connection with Nicole's disappearance. A jury found him guilty on all charges in October. Nicole's body has not been found. If you have any information regarding Nicole's case, please contact the Montana Criminal Investigation Division at (406) 444-7068.
Sheila Franks vanished on February 2, 2014, from Fortuna, California. Sheila's mother reported her missing after family members had not heard from her in nearly a month, according to police. The 38-year-old left behind a young son. Officials believe her disappearance may be connected to the case of Danielle Bertolini who vanished shortly after. Danielle's remains were found in March 2015, in California's Eel River. She had been murdered. Both women were reportedly last seen with the same man, and police have said that person is considered a person of interest in both cases. However, no charges have been filed. If you have any information regarding Sheila's case, please call the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department at (707) 445-7251.
On the afternoon of February 20, 2015, Nautica Kelly did not return to her father and stepmother's home in Lamoni, Iowa after school. The Lamoni Police Department has classified Nautica as a runaway, but her family feels the 15-year-old may have been in trouble. They indicated that Nautica had recently expressed interest in finding her biological mother. The high school freshman reportedly had a rough upbringing, but was excelling in school and was planning on attending culinary school in the future, her family said. Family members believe she may have been traveling towards the Des Moines area. If you have any information regarding Nautica's case, please call the Lamoni Police at (641) 784-3700.
Rudy Farias vanished the afternoon of March 6, 2015, after leaving his home in Houston, Texas to take his two dogs for a walk. Both dogs later returned without their leashes -- and without Rudy. According to family members, the 18-year-old had been dealing with depression at the time of his disappearance. He had watched his older brother, who was his best friend, die at the scene of a motorcycle accident several years earlier and he was still trying to cope with the loss. Police do not suspect foul play in the case. If you have any information regarding Rudy's case, please contact the Houston Police Department at (713) 731-5776 or Private Investigator Brenda Paradise at (281) 642-7299.
It was shortly after Elizabeth Salgado moved to Provo, Utah to learn English, after serving a mission in Mexico for the Mormon Church that she vanished. The 26-year-old was last seen on April 16, 2015, leaving class at the Nomen Global Language Center. Salgado's family lives in Mexico, but her uncles have made public pleas in the United States for her return. Elizabeth Smart, a former abductee, and now missing person's activist, has also advocated publicly on behalf of the family. There remains a $50,000 reward compiled from various donations offered for Elizabeth's safe return. If you have any information that can help bring Elizabeth home, please contact the Provo Police Department at (801) 852-6210.
Megan Lancaster's car was found abandoned on April 3, 2013, in the parking lot of a Portsmouth, Ohio fast food restaurant. Megan, who was 25 at the time, had disappeared. Family members said the young mother of one son had fallen into a life of drugs and addiction before she vanished. Many have said Lancaster's case is eerily similar to the cases of several other missing women in surrounding counties over the past several years. If you have any information about Megan's disappearance, please contact the Portsmouth Police Department at (740) 353-4101.
It was New Year's Eve, 2014, when Marina Boelter was seen leaving work at the IGA grocery store in Bloomfield, Indiana around 6:00 p.m. D.J. Lockhart, Marina's former boyfriend, and father of her young son, was reportedly in the parking lot of the store at the time. He told police he saw the 18-year-old being driven away from the store by an older man. Just six weeks after Marina disappeared, Lockhart was found stabbed to death. Indiana Police say, however, they have no evidence to suggest the two incidents are connected in any way. Marina's family continues to search for her and posts updates on the Facebook page 'Find Marina Boelter.' If you have any information that can help bring Marina home, please contact the Indiana State Police at (812) 332-4411.
Janet Castrejon disappeared the afternoon of June 19, 2015, from a camping area in the Chiricahua Mountains in southern Arizona, where she was spending the weekend with her family. Janet and her mother had gone to mail a letter at the pay station not far from where they parked their camper, and stopped to use the restroom, family members said. Janet was going to wait outside, but when her mother came out of the bathroom, Janet was gone. Janet had suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident in 1988 and, as a result, family members said, she has a hard time remembering simple things and has poor vision. Her family has spent the past year and a half desperately searching for her. If you have any information regarding Janet's case, please contact the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at (520) 432-9500.
Crystal Rogers, a mother of five, was last seen on July 3, 2015, at the home the 35-year-old shared with her boyfriend Brooks Houck and the couple's young son. Two days later, her unlocked Chevy Impala was found along Kentucky's Bluegrass Parkway with a flat tire, her belongings still inside. The Nelson County Sheriff officially named Crystal's boyfriend Houck a suspect in her disappearance in October of 2015. Houck's brother, who worked as a Bardstown police officer, was terminated from the department after officials say he interfered with the investigation into Crystal's disappearance. No official charges have been filed in connection with the case, but officials have said they believe Crystal is dead. If you have any information regarding Crystal's case, please contact the Nelson County Sheriff's Office at (502) 348-3211.
Seattle software engineer Jeremiah Foco was last seen on July 22, 2015, leaving his apartment in Seattle, Washington. Security footage shows the 34-year-old pulling into the garage of the complex in Seattle's International District at 12:07 a.m., but there is no confirmed video of him leaving the complex. Seattle police do not suspect foul play, but family and friends insist Jeremiah would not just simply disappear. There have been few clues as to what may have happened to Jeremiah, and police say the case remains open and active. If you have any information that may help bring Foco home, please contact the Seattle Police Department at (206) 625-5011.
DIAMOND BYNUM AND KING WALKER
On July 25, 2015, Diamond Bynum, 21, and her nephew, King Walker, 2, went missing from the house where Diamond lived with her stepmother and father, Eugene, in Gary, Indiana. The two reportedly had been taking a nap that afternoon, as had Diamond's stepmother. When her stepmother woke up, the two were gone. The family had recently moved to Gary with Diamond, who is described as mentally challenged. At their old home, Diamond was able to go on walks around their neighborhood because she knew the area. The family fears Diamond may have taken King on a walk and gotten lost. Family members have spent the past year and a half pleading with the public for any information they may have, but few clues have been uncovered. The Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force is now investigating their disappearance. If you have any information regarding Diamond and King's cases, please contact the Gary Police Department at (219) 881-1260.
Caleb Diehl was last seen running errands for his employer on March 30, 2015, in and around Nocona, Texas. Caleb, 18 at the time, had borrowed a pickup truck from the employer, Ricky Dale Howard, who is also a family friend. The truck mysteriously reappeared just days later, its keys found on their proper hook at the business. Foul play has not been ruled out in the case, and Caleb's cell phone and social media accounts have not been used since he disappeared. Caleb's employer, Howard, was arrested in May of 2015 on an unrelated weapons charge. Officials had found several firearms when he gave them permission to search his properties after Caleb vanished. Then, in December 2015, Howard was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. In January of this year, two more counts were filed after authorities in Montague County say a second victim came forward. A trial date has not yet been set. Officials have said Howard has not been cleared in connection with Caleb's disappearance, but he is just one of several people they have questioned in relation to the case. If you have any information regarding Caleb's case, please contact the Nocona Police Department at (940) 825-3281.
Travis Murrow was last seen on August 24, 2014, in Enid, Oklahoma. According to authorities, the father of four had texted several people that day saying he was in the Enid and Canton areas. Several days after family and friends stopped hearing from the 40-year-old, Murrow's truck was found abandoned near Canton Lake. The Alva Police Department requested assistance from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), which has since taken over the investigation. Few clues have been discovered in the case. Investigators have not ruled out foul play. A $5,000 reward offered by the Murrow family remains for information that brings Travis home. If you have any information regarding Travis's case, please call the OSBI hotline at (800) 522-8017.
Utah teen Macin Smith was last seen on September 1, 2015, leaving his St. George, Utah home for what his parents believed was another day of high school. The 17-year-old never showed up to Desert High School. All of his personal belongings, including his cell phone and wallet, were found at home. In the year since, family members have desperately searched for the teen, who police have classified as a juvenile runaway. Hundreds continue to post almost daily on the 'Help Find Macin Smith' Facebook page. There have been multiple reports of possible sightings of Macin, but none has proved credible. If you have any information regarding Macin's case, please contact the St. George Police Department at (435) 627-4300.
The last time anyone saw Rebecca Henderson Paulk was the afternoon of Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at a local business in Meridian, Mississippi. She had spent Labor Day weekend at her parents' Alabama home. Several days after the 26-year-old was last seen, her vehicle was found abandoned in a rural area not far from her last known whereabouts. Inside were a number of her valuable personal items, including her laptop. There appeared to be a break in the case when police questioned John Bentley Poisso Jr., 57, after he was arrested on unrelated misdemeanor charges. He is now being considered a person of interest, as he was the last person known to have seen Rebecca before she vanished. He has not, however, been charged in the case. Rebecca's family continues to offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to Rebecca. If you have any information regarding Rebecca's case, please contact the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department at (601) 482-9806.
High school teacher Christina Bastian was last seen in the early morning hours of November 1, 2015, at a friend's home near Apple Valley, California. Her belongings were later found strewn along Highway 247 near Lucerne Valley. Her truck was located, abandoned, on a dirt road. The next day, her maltipoo dog 'Coco' was found by a stranger nearly 70 miles from where the truck was located, but the connection between the two was not made until weeks later. In the year since Christina vanished, there have been few clues discovered in the case. Her mother, Cheryl Denny, continues to post in the Facebook page 'Help Find Christina Bastian' and tirelessly searches for her daughter. If you have any information regarding Christina's case, please call the Apple Valley Police Department at (760) 240-7400.
It was on November 15, 2015, when nurse and mother Peggy McGuire, 29, dropped her son off at school near Eufaula, Oklahoma. She then headed back to the home she shared with the boy and his father, with whom she reportedly no longer had a romantic relationship. A grainy security video, captured the next morning around 5:00, shows Peggy's Toyota truck being parked at T&J's Ice House, a rural bar along Highway 9. A dark, unidentified figure can be seen walking away from the vehicle through an early morning storm. In the year since, there have been few clues uncovered in the case. Thousands continue to follow the Facebook page 'Bring Peggy Home!!!!" and post encouraging messages and memories of Peggy. If you have any information regarding Peggy's case, please call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation at (405) 848-6724.
It was in the early morning hours of August 29, 2014, that Jake Latiolais told friends he was headed towards West Baton Rouge outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That was the last time anyone heard from the 22-year-old. Shortly after, police received an anonymous call about a person going over the railing of the Mississippi Ridge Bridge. Responding officers found Jake's truck running on the shoulder of the bridge and his cell phone on the pavement next to it. A dive team was called in, but nothing of significance was found. Officials have not ruled out foul play. Family members insist Jake would not simply disappear on his own or take his own life. If you have any information regarding Jake's case, please call the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office at (225) 389-8617.
Deanne Hastings left her fiancé a note the night of November 3, 2015, saying she was headed to the store. That was the last time anyone heard from her. She had just finished her last day of cosmetology school that afternoon. The following morning, her credit card was used at a store not too far from her home outside Spokane, Washington. Security video shows Deanne leaving the store around noon. Her car was later discovered parked in downtown Spokane. It appeared to have been left there the night she vanished. Inside were her purse, cell phone and wallet. Earlier this year, a man was arrested and charged with using Deanne's credit cards. He spent several months in jail and was released in September. Neither he, nor anyone else, has been charged in connection to Deanne's disappearance. If you have any information regarding Deanne's case, please call the Spokane Police Department at (509) 456-2233.
Nancy Bromet left her father's home in Sunrise, Florida on November 12, 2015, to head to Bakersfield, California with her boyfriend, a long-haul truck driver. Several days later, the 37-year-old called her sister Laura saying she was in distress and wanted to come home. Nancy was reported missing by her boyfriend, who reportedly told police he dropped her off at a shopping mall outside El Centro, California, while he was finishing deliveries. Nancy was not there when he returned, according to police. Few clues have been discovered in the case, and the investigation is still "open and active," authorities said. If you have any information regarding Nancy's case, please call the El Centro Police Department at (760) 337-4861.
Tyarra Williams was last seen the afternoon of January 7, 2016, walking in the parking lot of the apartment complex in Greensboro, North Carolina where she lived with her family. She left on foot to go see a friend, but never returned home. Officials have said the then 19-year-old disappeared under suspicious circumstances, but little information has been released in the case. Family members insist Tyarra would never have run away, and was planning to start classes soon on early childhood development at the Guilford Technical Community College nearby. If you have any information regarding Tyarra's case, please call the Greensboro Police Department at (336) 373-2287.
Donna Chatterton's home went up in flames on February 4, 2015. There were no remains found in the charred remnants of the home, but no one knew where Donna was. Authorities have said they believe the fire was accidental, most likely started by a space heater that was left on. However, officials believe Donna met with some type of foul play. Family members said authorities came close to charging someone in connection with Donna's disappearance, but there was not enough evidence to move forward. If you have any information regarding Donna's case, please call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at (239) 477-1810.
It's been nearly two years since grandmother Noemi Gonzalez disappeared from her North Miami, Florida home. Noemi, who is described as a pillar of her community, was last seen in the early morning hours of February 12, 2014. Her adult son, Pedrito, was staying with her at the time and awoke to find her missing. Her bed was unmade, the front door was unlocked, and her purse and cellphone were left inside. Few clues have ever been found in connection with the case. If you have any information regarding Noemi's case, please call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS. You can also visit crimestoppersmiami.com and select "Give a Tip."
Michael Vanzandt was last seen the evening of March 5, 2016, while out with friends in downtown Hermosa Beach, California. The Air Force veteran, and father of three, was going through a divorce, but family members said there were absolutely no red flags in his personal life that would have led to his disappearance. Because he is an avid swimmer, they fear he possibly headed towards the water for a late night dip. None of Michael's belongings were found on the beach, or anywhere for that matter. Authorities say the case is still active and ongoing. If you have any information regarding Michael's case, please call the Hermosa Beach Police Department at (310) 318-0360.
Morgan Bauer mysteriously vanished after she moved across the country from Aberdeen, South Dakota to Atlanta, Georgia. According to Sherri Sichmeller, Morgan's mother, the 19-year-old had arranged to stay with a man she met on Craigslist, offering to clean and do other chores until she settled into a job. But for an unknown reason, Morgan was reportedly kicked out of that temporary home and was living at a local motel. She stopped posting on social media, and last spoke with family members and friends, on February 29, 2016. Authorities continue to investigate Morgan's disappearance, but say they do not suspect foul play in the case. Morgan's mother Sherri vows to continue to search for Morgan until she hears from her daughter that she is somewhere safe. If you have any information regarding Morgan's case, please call the Atlanta Police Missing Person Unit at (404) 546-4235.
KRISLYN GIBSON AND SIDNEY TAYLOR
Texas friends Krislyn Gibson and Sidney Taylor, both 35 at the time, disappeared on April 2, 2016, while on a trip to Austin, Texas. The friends, who both live in Houston, were in town to attend the Urban Music Festival. They were staying with one of Sidney's cousins for the weekend. They headed to a club late that Friday night with a friend, but never returned. That friend was later arrested on unrelated firearms charge. The day after Krislyn and Sidney disappeared, Sidney's 2010 Dodge Charger was found abandoned in a parking lot in the Midtown district back in Houston. Krislyn is a single mother to a young son, and Sidney is a married father of four. Family and friends insist they wouldn't disappear on their own. If you have any information regarding Krislyn and Sidney's case, please call the Houston Police Department at (713) 308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.
College student Martin Roberts was last seen on April 21, 2016, near the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. In the six or so months since he vanished, there have been very few clues as to what may have happened to the 19-year-old. Martin vanished without his cell phone and did not have access to a vehicle, which makes his disappearance all the more troubling to his family. Thousands continue to follow the Facebook group 'Help Find Martin Roberts', where Martin's family posts updates, and others share words of encouragement. If you have any information regarding Martin's case, please call the Boone Police Department at (828) 268-6900.
It was Mother's Day this year when Kianna Galvin's mother Fiona had to report her 17-year-old daughter missing. Kianna was last seen around 12:30 p.m. on May 6, 2016, leaving her family's South Elgin, Illinois home. She told her younger sister she was headed to a nearby park to meet a friend and would return home in several hours. She never returned home, and her phone either was turned off or died later that afternoon. Authorities said the search continues to be active and ongoing, but few details are available to be released. A search warrant was executed in connection with the case several weeks after Kianna's disappearance on a property not far from the apartment complex where Kianna's family lives. Investigators were not able to release specifics on that development. Kianna's family continues to post on social media pleading for anyone with information to call police. If you have any information regarding Kianna's case, please call the South Elgin Police Department at (847) 741-2151.
It's been more than six months since mother-of-three Bianca Carrasco disappeared from her San Antonio, Texas home. The details of what happened the night of May 1, 2016, are sketchy, but when Bianca didn't show up for her job as an oncology nurse the next day, it was clear to family and friends something was wrong. According to Bianca's sister, Jovanna Burney, and close friend, Monica Nevarez, Bianca had recently told her husband she wanted a divorce and had met someone else. Foul play has not been ruled out in the case, but few clues have been uncovered. Family and friends continue to post almost daily on the Facebook page 'Help Find Bianca Carrasco.' If you have any information regarding Bianca's case, please call the San Antonio Police Department at (210) 207-7660.
Monique Figueroa told her family on May 19, 2015, that she was heading from her father's home in Littlerock, California to visit friends in Los Angeles. Police recovered her 2004 Mercedes abandoned in a rural area outside the city several days later. Forensic tests were conducted, but no clues to Monique's disappearance were uncovered. After an anonymous tip was phoned in, a search was conducted near Palmdale, California in June of this year, but nothing of significance was found. It was only one of several searches conducted over the past year in relation to the case. Foul play has not been ruled out. If you have any information regarding Monique's case, please call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at (323) 890-5500.
On May 20, 2016, Logan Schiendelman's black, 1996 Chrysler Sebring convertible was found abandoned on Interstate 5 between Tumwater and Maytown, Washington. Several drivers called 911 to report the vehicle on the shoulder and seeing a man described as white with light brown or red hair jumping out and running into the woods. The case continues to boggle the community and those who know Logan. More than 6,500 people are part of the Facebook group 'Logan Schiendelman Missing' and family members continue to post periodic updates on the case. Foul play has not been ruled in or out in the case, but Logan's loved ones said they cannot imagine that he would run away. If you have any information regarding Logan's case, please call the Thurston County Sheriff's Office at (360) 704-2740.
Charlene Voight, 36, had just moved to Littleton, Colorado from her family's home in Southern California when she disappeared. The move, in part, was so she could finally be with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Jeff Beir. The "always happy" blonde had just graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in Landscape Architecture, and she was excited to start a new career. After not hearing from their daughter for several days, which was extremely unusual, Charlene's parents reported her missing on July 8, 2016. A few weeks after Charlene vanished, her boyfriend Beir was arrested on unrelated charges of sexual assault involving another woman. Several weeks ago, authorities began conducting a search of a landfill north of Denver in connection with the case. It's unclear what evidence, if any, was recovered. If you have any information regarding Charlene's case, please call the Littleton Police Department at (303) 794-1551.
A desperate search has continued since July for missing disabled teen Aleah Beckerle. The 19-year-old had suffered a stroke as an infant that left her almost completely immobile and in need of constant care. She was last seen on the night of July 17, 2016, at her family's Evansville, Indiana home. Aleah's mother told police when she awoke the next morning, Aleah was gone. Her wheelchair and daily medication were left behind. Authorities continue to actively investigate, and have questioned dozens of people in connection with the case. If you have any information regarding Aleah's whereabouts, please contact the Evansville Police Department at (812) 436-7979.
Shannah Boiteau was last seen on June 22, 2016, jumping, barefoot, out of a vehicle along Highway 94 outside St. Cloud, Minnesota. She then ran into the woods. The 23-year-old had been driving with her boyfriend at the time, who called Shannah's father Cleatus "Bud" Boiteau telling him the couple had an argument and Shannah had taken off into the woods. The police were called and officers searched the brush near where Shannah was seen by witnesses, but nothing was found. Shannah had recently broken the terms of her probation, and had left a note at her apartment, that reportedly said she was afraid she'd be sent back to jail and there were things she needed to take care of first. Very few clues have been discovered in the case. If you have any information regarding Shannah's case, please call the Chippewa Falls Police Department at (715) 723-4424 or the St. Cloud Police Department at (320) 251-1200.
The last time anyone saw paramedic Eric Pracht was just before midnight on July 22, 2016, outside his Lakewood, Colorado condominium. He and his fiancée had a group of friends over, and the talk turned to the recent police shootings from that month. Eric became upset, and he told his fiancée he needed to take a short walk and get some air. He never returned. Several searches have been conducted around the area he was last seen, but few clues have been uncovered. If you have any information regarding Eric's case, please call the Lakewood Police Department at (303) 987-7111.
It was around 1:30 a.m. on July 17, 2016, when surveillance cameras caught Nahomi Rodriguez outside the Harlingen, Texas McDonalds where she worked. The 19-year-old is then seen walking towards a grey or light colored SUV that had pulled into the parking lot. It's unclear what happened after that, but Nahomi was not seen again. Nahomi usually gets a ride home from work from her mother, but the teen told her mother she had found a different ride. Around the same time, she messaged her boyfriend saying she was already home. Rumors have run rampant in the community, but few clues have been uncovered. Authorities continue to actively investigate Nahomi's disappearance. If you have any information regarding Nahomi's case, please call the Harlingen Police Department at (956) 425-8477.
Mother-of-two Keila Freeman was last seen the morning of September 6, 2016, at her home in the Hickory Hill neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. The 29-year-old's husband, Randall Freeman, told investigators he last saw his wife around 3:30 a.m. that morning when she returned home. He said she pulled her car into the garage, but she not come inside. He called Keila's mother around 6:00 a.m. saying he could not find her. Keila's car keys were still in the ignition of her car and her purse was inside the house on the coffee table. In a twist police say is unrelated, Keila's husband Freeman was arrested on charges of arson for throwing a flaming object into the home of a family of five several days after his wife vanished. The relationship between Randall and that family is not clear. Authorities have called Keila's disappearance suspicious and have not ruled out foul play. If you have any information regarding Keila's case, please call the Memphis Police Department at (901) 636-3300.
The last time anyone heard from Shadow McClaine, also known as Branice Willis, was through a text message to her mother the evening of September 2, 2016. The Fort Campbell solider had told her mom that she was supposed to house sit for a friend. The following day, Shadow didn't pick up her phone and there were no texts or phone calls to any family or friends that weekend. Authorities located her 2013 silver Hyundai Elentra the following week in a parking lot in downtown Nashville. In late October, authorities announced that two Fort Campbell soldiers were being held as persons of interest in Shadow's disappearance. It was also uncovered that Shadow's ex-husband, Jamal McCray Williams, was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on an out-of-state warrant. It's unclear if he is one of the persons of interest in connection with the case. If you have any information regarding Shadow's case, please call the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command at (270) 798-9406.
It was in the small town of Alpine, Texas the night of October 11, 2016, when Zuzu Verk reportedly went on a date to the movies with on-again, off-again boyfriend, Robert Fabian. The details of that night are hazy at best, but Zuzu stopped responding to texts the following day. When someone checked the 22-year-old's apartment, she wasn't there. Massive searches have been conducted since Zuzu's disappearance, and the reward for her safe return has been increased to $200,000. Fabian has been named a suspect in Zuzu's disappearance, and some of his family members and friends are being called persons of interest as well, according to authorities. A grand jury was convened early in November in connection with the case, but no charges have been filed. If you have any information regarding Zuzu's case, please call the Alpine Police Department at (432) 837-3486.
The last images of Cecilia Cabrera were captured on surveillance footage from the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, California. It was just before 1:00 a.m. on June 9, 2016, when the 31-year-old was seen leaving the casino in her dark grey Chevrolet Malibu. Several hours later, a call came in to the California State Highway Patrol that a burning vehicle had been discovered in an orchard near Goshen, about 30 miles away from the casino. Cecilia was last seen with her husband, Francisco Valdivia. Valdivia was later arrested on unrelated drug charges. Authorities have not cleared him in connection with Cecilia's disappearance. If you have any information regarding Cecilia's case, please call the Tulare County Sheriff's Department at (559) 735-1880.
Brandon Herring was last heard from on November 22, 2016. His mother, Rhonda Herring, spoke with him around 1:00 p.m. that day to check in, and he told her he was out and loved her. Nothing seemed amiss about the conversation. When she called back 15 minutes later to ask him another question, his phone was off. After no one else was able to get ahold of him, and he didn't return to the family home in Raytown, Missouri, family members reported him missing. Several days later, a woman called saying she saw Brandon sitting on the steps of the Park Meadows Apartment complex in Kansas City. Family members went to the complex, where they say they found several shell casings and a shot in window. It's unclear if the scene there is connected in any way to Brandon's disappearance. If you have any information regarding Brandon's case, please call the Kansas City, Missouri Tips line at (816) 474-8477.
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At 49, a Punk Avatar Finds New Visibility
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IMPISH, CAMPY AND GLEEFULLY degenerate, Iggy Pop has long been both mascot and avatar to the punk rock scene. He could well have become one of its martyrs too, having by his own admission injected, inhaled or ingested 14 different illegal drugs. All of which had kept him safely outside mainstream popular culture. That is, until now.
This summer, Iggy Pop, 49, stars in the movie ''The Crow II,'' in a role he describes as a gang enforcer ''addicted to motorcycles, drugs and killing insects.'' One of his songs, ''Search and Destroy,'' was used in a recent Nike commercial.
But perhaps the most notable indication of his new-found visibility is that another of his songs, ''Lust for Life,'' appears in two new films that deal with heroin addiction, ''Trainspotting'' and ''Basquiat.''
A rediscovered garage-rock fossil with a tribal beat, ''Lust for Life,'' like much of Iggy Pop's work, is about the pleasure of being an outsider. It was produced by David Bowie for a 1977 album of the same name and became the soundtrack of choice for real-life heroin addicts in Britain.
''Of course, I've had it in the ear before,'' the singer confesses in what is perhaps a reference to an addict's search for a new place to insert a needle. With its sneering, rebellious and slightly unhinged attitude, the song encapsulates the self-destructive behavior of the main characters in both films. (Iggy Pop has said that he long ago swore off drugs.)
Another song from ''Lust for Life,'', ''Nightclubbing,'' an ominous anthem to the demimonde of late 70's Berlin, was included on the ''Trainspotting'' soundtrack.
Art Collins, who has managed Iggy Pop for a decade, says he has had more than 20 requests to use Iggy Pop music in movie soundtracks this year.
''I think it's because people who were his fans, and were once sort of ashamed to admit it, have grown up,'' he says. ''And now they run ad agencies and movie studios.''
Jim Jarmusch, who directed Iggy Pop as a cross-dressing cowboy in last year's ''Dead Man,'' believes the recent interest in the singer ''has to do with how fashion gets recycled so fast.''
''Maybe he was just ahead of his time.'' DIMITRI EHRLICH
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New York Auto Show: Toyota to unwrap two new Scions
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Toyota’s youth-oriented Scion brand will double down on luring in new customers with the introduction of two new models.
The flagging brand announced Wednesday that it planned to debut the iM hatchback and the iA sedan ahead of the New York Auto Show on March 31.
“We’ve been eagerly waiting for this moment and are excited to introduce our new Scions in New York,” said Scion Vice President Doug Murtha. “These cars represent the evolution of Scion and are kicking off a new wave of momentum for the brand.”
The iM will be a small hatchback/station wagon mashup based on the existing Toyota Auris that’s already sold abroad. Powertrain details will be announced during its debut, but the iM is expected to have a naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine and front-wheel-drive. Scion debuted a concept of the iM at the L.A. Auto Show in November.
The brand will also debut the iA, a subcompact sedan. The iA will be the first sedan from Scion, and it’s largely based on the next-generation Mazda2 hatchback, due in 2016. This means it should come with Mazda’s SkyActiv 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine, an automatic transmission and front-wheel-drive.
In keeping with the value-oriented ethos of Scion, the brand is keen to keep both new models affordable.
“Both the iM and the iA are tremendous additions to our lineup and will appeal to young people with different perspectives and needs,” Murtha said.
Scion could use the help. Sales in 2014 were down more than 15%, after falling 7% in 2013 -- despite impressive sales gains by Toyota as a whole.
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Gap's Logo Redesign Snafu Snowballs With Social-Media Blunder
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Tinkering with a beloved logo can be dangerous, a lesson Gap (
) learned this week when it introduced a new look that's garnering nearly universal criticism. But the clothing retailer's response -- a social-media experiment to draw better ideas from the public and designers -- is only adding to the backlash against the company.
earlier this week, replacing the old logo, a familiar dark-blue square with "Gap" spelled out in white letters that the company had used for more than 20 years. The new logo incorporates black letters with on a white background, with a small blue square jutting out from the "p" in Gap. Designed by Trey Laird of Laird and Partners, the new icon is meant to be "a more contemporary, modern expression," Gap spokesman
The response to the new logo has been remarkably disdainful, with a
for the new design. (Bio: "I have feelings, too. Jerks.") Consumers and designers posted criticisms of the new logo on
, calling it a "catastrophe" and looking "like a child made it." The backlash recalls some other infamous logo redesign blunders, such as Tropicana's 2009 redo of its orange juice cartons. The new look so turned off consumers that sales of its Pure Premium line
, prompting the company to scrap the packaging.
Gap's new logo "looks like somebody took Microsoft's PowerPoint and kind of did it in five minutes flat," says David Wolf, the owner of
, a Corona, Calif.-based company that designs Web sites and logos. He says when he first read about the new design, he thought it was a joke. "If I saw a first-year design student do this, I would send them back to the drawing board," he notes.
That's bad enough, but Gap's response to the criticism has only compounded the marketing faux pas. According to
, president of Gap North America, Gap is asking "people to share their designs with us as well. We welcome the participation we've seen so far." The problem? It's unclear whether Gap is going to pay for the design work it's asking designers or consumers to send in. "We'll explain specifics on how everyone can share designs in a few days," Hansen wrote. Gap didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Crowd-sourcing, or asking the public to work at a task for no guarantee of compensation, is a trend that's gaining traction among companies, but it has been criticized for exploiting workers and lessening the value of certain occupations. The technique has been used by Australian
), which offered $1 million for ideas for
While the people behind the winning ideas often receive compensation of some sort, the other participants in a crowd-sourcing effort usually get nothing.
Thus, the backlash to the Gap's backlash response. "Coming from a company like the Gap, which is a creative company, to think they should have free designs from which they can pick and choose is slightly laughable," says Wolf. He points out that many top design professionals scorn crowd-sourcing, and suggests that Gap may be sacrificing quality in favor of getting the work done for free. "It makes sense from Gap's perspective -- maybe -- but it doesn't make sense from a professional point of view," he notes.
Actually, it may not make much sense for Gap, either. After all, it was ranked among Interbrand's top 100 global brands for 2010, with the report pegging the value of Gap's image at nearly $4 billion. It's unclear why Gap would place its brand at risk by using social-media technique that's already controversial. But with the holiday shopping season approaching and
, the retailer may want to get its image in order sooner rather than later.
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The presidential election has been stuffed even more than usual with party infighting, half-truths, and more outright lies than any right-minded person can count. But as you may have seen, Wednesday brought about perhaps the most inexcusable conduct yet. Ohio governor and GOP candidate John Kasich was in Howard Beach eating at Gino's Pizzeria when he made the same mistake that too many other politicians have made before: He reached for a fork and used it to eat his slice.
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U.S. Republican presidential John Kasich candidate sits with Eric Ulrich (L), New York City Council member for the 32nd District of Queens, and former Congressman Bob Turner at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant in the Queens borough of New York March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich eats a piece of pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich (right) poses with two children at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich serves pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich serves pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich (left) eats a piece of pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich (left) and former US Representative Bob Turner (right) eat at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens neighborhood of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich eats a piece of pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MARCH 30: GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich eats a piece of pizza at Gino's Pizzeria and Restaurant on March 30, 2016 in the Queens borough of New York City. Kasich is one of three remaining GOP Presidential Candidates fighting for New York's 95 Republican delegates in the upcoming primary on April 19, 2016. (Photo by Bryan Thomas/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich uses a napkin while having lunch in Gino's Pizzeria, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in the Queens borough of New York. The three Republican presidential candidates now say they aren't committing to supporting whomever the party chooses as its nominee for the November election, which could lead to a messy and fractured nominating convention in July. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Members of the media, and indeed the voting public at large, have been understandably horrified by this.
So today he was of course in full-on damage-control mode. He hit Good Morning America to explain his frightful behavior, describing it thusly:
So, not only did Kasich use a fork to eat pizza, but the last part of his explanation would indicate that he hasn't had a natural inclination toward using forks before this. If he's made it this far in life as a Utensil-Averse Adult (UAA), why on earth would he start using one now?
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MT. PLEASANT, SC - FEBRUARY 10: Republican presidential candidate John Kasich talks to an overflow crowd outside of Finn's Brick Oven Pizza February 10, 2016 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The South Carolina Republican primary will be held Saturday, February 20. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
11/3/95 - Rep. John R. Kasich (R-OH), seated 2nd from left, and Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) in the dark suit standing, go over their response to President Clinton's radio address just prior to recording the radio broadcast in the Senate studio. Kasich was casually dressed as the House was out of session for the weekend. (Photo by Robert A. Reeder/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, holds the Republican budget plan during a debate with Budget Director Alice Rivlin, Thursday Oct. 19, 1995 at the National Press Club in Washington. Kasich said that the Republicans have a deal to balance the budget in seven years and will not wait to balance any longer. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, points to his head during a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday Nov. 16, 1995 to discuss the federal budget impasse. Earlier, President Clinton pledged to veto the latest Republican attempt to end the three-day-old partial federal shutdown, dismissing the GOP measure as "an exercise of political power." (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
U.S. Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, flashes the victory sign as he walks with his new bride, Karen Waldbillig, down the steps of St. John's Episcopal Church in Worthington, Ohio, after the couple exchanged wedding vows Saturday, March 22, 1997. Kasich and Waldbillig, who had been dating for eight years, plan to build a home in Delaware County. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Ellis)
D:\BOB\budget3.tif - slug: NA/BUDGET date: May 2, 1997 photog: Robert A. Reeder TWP The Rotunda of the Capitol description: GOP happy with their signed budget John R. Kasich (R-OH) is having a particularly good time during the GOP announcement of a new budget in the Rotunda of the Capitol. In front of him is Speaker Newt Gingrich. (Photo by Robert A. Reeder/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, left, shakes hands with Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., during the announcement of the budget Friday, May 2, 1997, at the Capitol. Trading combat for compromise, President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders announced agreement Friday on a plan to balance the budget while bestowing tax breaks on families, investors and students. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)
As his wife Karen, left, watches, U.S. Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, stops in for a haircut by Joe Swiezynski in Milford, N.H. Monday Feb. 15, 1999. Kashich is on a two-day campaign swing through New Hampshire seeking support for his presidential bid in the nation's earliest presidential priamry scheduled for about a year from now. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kasich, R-Ohio, center, rides a dog sled Sunday, March 14, 1999, on Lake Winnepesaukee in Laconia, N.H. Kasich participated in the World Championship Sled Dog Derby award ceremony and is in the state looking for support for his run for president in 2000. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
John Kasich, Republican Congressman from Ohio and presidential hopeful, makes a point during an interview on a stop on a campaign swing through Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 30, 1999. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, warms up before a celebrity softball game Saturday, July 3, 1999, in Dyersville, Iowa. Kasich and fellow presidential hopeful Bill Bradley were part of a unique mix of baseball and politics, as presidential candidates and Hall of Fame legends took up the cause of a disgraced player who died nearly 50 years ago. Nostalgia and baseballs filled the air in a city put on the map by the movie ``Field of Dreams,'' which was about a fantasy baseball game involving Shoeless Joe Jackson. (AP Photo/Rodney White)
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Republican presidential hopeful, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, left, and Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, sport Bush baseball caps during a news conference in Washington Wednesday July 14, 1999 where Kasich announced he would end his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and endorse Bush. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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Former Ohio congressman John Kasich attends the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, Wednesday, September 3, 2008. (Photo by Harry E. Walker/MCT/MCT via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC- Dec. 01: Governor-elect John Kasich, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, during a news conference after their meeting with other Republican members and governors-elect. Boehner is the presumed House Speaker for the 112th Congress. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)
John Kasich, governor of Ohio, speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. The Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center will include a 100,000 square foot medical mart and an adjoining convention center with 230,000 square feet of exhibit hall space. The facility is expected to open in September 2013. Photographer: David Maxwell/Bloomberg via Getty Images
COLUMBUS, OH - MARCH 30: Ohio Governor John Kasich works long hours with staff on his new budget proposal at his office, in the Ohio State House office, Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Newly elected republican Ohio Governor John Kasich is working toward to balancing an Ohio budget in deficit through a budget proposal with extensive budget cuts, spending reform, and changes in labor laws, including restrictions on collective bargaining. (Photo by Melina Mara/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)
US Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (2nd L) waves alongside Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman (L) and Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) during a campaign stop at Tom's Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville, Ohio, on August 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages)
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CONCORD, NH - FEBRUARY 09: Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich waves to the crowd after speaking at a campaign gathering with supporters upon placing second place in the New Hampshire republican primary on February 9, 2016 in Concord, New Hampshire. Kasich lost the Republican primary to Donald Trump, though he upset fellow Republican governors Chris Christie and former Governor Jeb Bush. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Oh, right, because the pizza was hot. Pizza is supposed to be hot. A slice of New York pizza should land in front of you radiating heat to an almost terrifying degree, blasted in an oven that burns with the fury of a thousand hellfires. You are supposed to know that if you eat it too quickly you will incinerate the roof of your mouth so thoroughly that it will tingle and feel kinda weird and numb for the rest of the afternoon.
But you don't reach for a fork. You wait. Or you kinda blow on it a little to help cool it off. Or, if you're a real pro, you eat it and do that thing where you sort of suck in the air to cool it off retroactively. Or act like a true leader and just toughen up and brace yourself for the worst, bravely advancing your cause even though you know the outcome won't be as ideal as you may have hoped.
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Mortgage Applications Dive on Higher Rates, Low Inventory
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NEW YORK -- Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell last week to their lowest level since December 2000 as both refinancing and purchase applications declined, an industry group said Wednesday.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, fell 5.9 percent to 333.2 in the week ended April 25. That was the lowest level since December 2000, the group said.
%VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%"Purchase application volume remains weak despite other data which indicated the overall pace of economic growth is picking up. The combination of higher rates, new regulation and tight inventory are all leading to a weaker spring market than we have seen in years," said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist.
The MBA's seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications declined 6.9 percent, while the gauge of loan requests for home purchases, a leading indicator of home sales, fell 4.4 percent.
Fixed 30-year mortgage rates averaged 4.49 percent in the week, unchanged from the week before.
The survey covers more than 75 percent of U.S. retail residential mortgage applications, according to MBA.
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There is a reason this proverb has been around for decades. If you cut your crown molding, tile or paneling too short, you can't go back and make it longer.
Most people can change the insides of a toilet, but problems can still arise, as Prescott discovered. If you have just one bathroom, be prepared to stay overnight elsewhere if something goes wrong. Make sure you turn off the water before you start any plumbing project.
If you know what you're doing, you can change a light fixture. But replacing a light fixture with a ceiling fan involves more than just changing the fixture. Other electrical projects are even more complicated. If you do give it a shot, turn off the breaker before you touch anything.
You can find a YouTube video or detailed instructions for any project. But if that's all the information you have on a project that you've never done before, beware. A video on building a deck from someone in Florida may not tell you what you need to get the deck to withstand 80 inches of snow, and a video from Minnesota on building a deck may not have the instructions you need to ensure your deck can survive a hurricane.
Nearly every week, Home Depot (
) stores nationwide offer free classes on everything from replacing a faucet to tiling a room. Be mindful that you need to register ahead of time to participate in these workshops.
Most hardware stores, and even some big-box stores, have experts on staff who can answer questions about home projects. If you're replacing specific parts, bring along the parts if you can rather than trying to remember what they look like.
You can rent or borrow some tools if you don't own them yourself. Hint: If you're going to assemble a lot of Ikea furniture, invest $20 in an electric screwdriver.
Some cities are stricter than others about permits, and only licensed contractors can obtain permits for some work. Doing major renovations without a permit could cause problems when you sell your home. Some cities require presale inspections, which can result in fines and the need for retroactive permits. That can mean redoing the job to city specifications.
"If you have to go to YouTube to learn something, you probably don't know what you're doing," Pekel says. Homeowners often "don't know what they don't know." If you mess up a painting project, you can always redo it. But if you take down a load-bearing wall and bring the second floor down with it, you've created a very expensive problem. With DIY projects, being cautious is typically the way to go.
If you earn $100 an hour and replacing a faucet takes you three hours, you would probably save money by hiring a plumber.
That includes both the quality of work and the time your house will be in disarray. Can you install crown molding well enough to be happy with the results? Or will it forever bug you that it's not exactly straight? That goes for more complex projects, too. If you gut the kitchen and end up taking six months to redo it, can you live without a kitchen that long?
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Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell to their lowest level since December 2000 as both refinancing and purchase applications declined, an survey shows.
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Danny Lyon on why he's naming and shaming 'climate criminals'
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Some may know the US photographer Danny Lyon for late-1960s shots of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Others may be familiar with his photograph of Bernie Sanders as a young protester at a 1962 Chicago University sit-in, which surfaced during this presidential campaign, or Lyon’s record of the marches staged by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which remain some of the most valuable visual representations of the civil rights movement.
This one-time Magnum Photos member has photographed John Lennon, Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan, and documented the industrialization of peasant life in China and the lives of homeless children in Bogotá. A travelling retrospective of his work, Message to the Future, just opened at San Francisco’s de Young museum after a successful run at the Whitney earlier this year.
Other, less confrontational septuagenarians might settle for promoting a few classic images in their later years. Not only does Lyon reject this (“There is a show now of my work in a London gallery,” he says. “I have nothing to do with it and no interest in publicizing it”), but he’s applying his type of 60s-style protest tactics to what he regards as today’s most pressing issue: climate change.
Lyon’s new photobook, Burn Zone (available on his site as a free PDF and as a $25 printed book) is, in part, a record of the ecological collapse he has witnessed as an on/off resident within the New Mexico stretch of the Rio Grande valley. Lyon, a New Yorker, arrived in the region back in 1970, “with some marijuana in my pocket and $5,000 from a Guggenheim Fellowship, enough to purchase two and a half acres of irrigated valley land”, as he puts it in Burn Zone.
Living off the grid, the photographer built his own house and grew his own food, until his marriage collapsed in the late 1970s. Heading back east for the next three decades, the photographer has returned to New Mexico in recent years, to find river levels have dropped, the temperature has risen and droughts and wildfires afflict his smallholding.
“The largest fire in the history of New Mexico could be seen from my house,” he explains. “I was able to take my truck and my dog and drive right into the burn zone. It’s stunning, as if the battle of Verdun had taken place over a 40-mile stretch of national forest.”
The pictures Lyon shot of this and other aspects of local climate change are moving, yet his new book isn’t a simple ecological lament. Working with the 33-year-old climate activist Josephine Ferorelli, Lyon has also included a list of 50 “Climate Criminals” in Burn Zone, detailing not only their names and alleged actions, but also telephone numbers, postal and email addresses, and social media handles. Vice-President-elect Mike Pence and the Koch brothers make the list, as well as many lesser-known fossil fuel executives and statesmen.
“I wanted to make it clear that the forces actively trying to destroy life on Earth as we know it, and who are doing it for the basest of motives – greed – are real live humans like ourselves, with homes, addresses, phone numbers, emails and that they should be shunned,” explains Lyon. “To do this they have to be identified.”
Lyon, who was once jailed a few cells along from Martin Luther King Jr, knows he is using an old playbook to fight for his new cause. “I am a 60s person and think in terms of the civil rights movement,” he admits.
However, he also recognizes that this new threat is both graver and more diffuse. “The climate movement is global and vast,” he says. “It is so vast, it involves so many actions and people and is so diverse as to be, in a way, invisible.”
The photographer feels climate change threatens both his land and his bloodline. Lyon met co-author Ferorelli via his youngest daughter, Rebecca, after she showed interest in Ferorelli’s organisation Conceivable Future. The group supports reproductive justice amid the dangers of climate change, Ferorelli says.
“As a selfish parent, hoping to spend his dotage playing with grandchildren,” says Lyon, “I was alarmed when via Facebook I learned of Conceivable Future and of my daughter Rebecca’s keen interest.”
It’s unclear whether Danny’s involvement has encouraged his daughter to rethink motherhood, yet this new cause has certainly invigorated the photographer. “I think it is extremely important for everyone to have a bit of courage,” he says, “to step up to the plate, so to speak, whatever the consequences.” And perhaps it is a tiny bit easier for Lyon to find the courage because he has stepped up before.
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The veteran photographer tackles the effects of climate change in his new book and shares phone numbers of deniers, such as Vice President-elect Mike Pence
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Labor defence minister lobbied to keep ban on gay defence personnel
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In 1992 Australia’s defence minister Robert Ray argued that a ban on gay defence force members should remain because homosexual behaviour destroyed the intimate group bonding of heterosexuals and violated their privacy.
In cabinet documents released by the National Archives, Ray emerges as a staunch defender of the ban on homosexuals in the military against the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Attorney General’s Department.
So fierce was the split in cabinet, Ray wrote his own submission to dissent from other departments on the issue. “Bonding and teamwork are the key to survival and success in combat,” he wrote, arguing to defer any policy change until a survey of the Australian defence force was completed.
“Homosexual behaviour or tendencies destroy the intimate bonding of the group because of the fear that the physical and psychological elements of military cohesion may be misrepresented and mistrusted as sexual in nature and therefore intrusive and threatening.”
Ray said shared accommodation for defence personnel meant normal levels of privacy were not available.
“It must therefore be assumed that where communal living, toilet and bathing facilities are provided, that no one using those facilities is homosexual,” he wrote. “Admission of known homosexuals into an all-male or female group would violate the right of heterosexuals of both genders to a minimum level of privacy.”
Ray rejected the argument by those wanting to end the ban that Australian and international law ruled out discrimination. He said the law allowed for discrimination on the “inherent requirements of the job”.
He warned that, as the enlistment age was 15, the ADF was responsible for the moral welfare of younger members and therefore was responsible for “protection from homosexual abuse”.
Other operating defence partners, such as Singapore, viewed “homosexuality as a serious military and civil offence”, which meant ADF members could not be posted for exchange or training.
While the archive release details only the submissions and not the conversations in cabinet, the 1992 debates came as the US engaged in its own fiery debate over its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. That policy stated that gay defence force members could serve only if they hid their sexuality.
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet argued strongly against a survey of ADF members and rejected most of Ray’s main arguments, including the supposed threat to heterosexual members and under-18 ADF members. “A survey such as the one proposed would only hold government hostage to the outcome,” it said.
The department said Ray’s submission failed to demonstrate the adverse effects that homosexual behaviour would have on operations. Ray had failed to show how the 1986 ban was effective in dealing with the acknowledged presence of homosexuals already in the forces, it said.
The Attorney General’s Department also rejected the survey of ADF members because it “suggests that policy on this matter depends on the opinions of ADF members, even if misinformed or prejudiced”.
“Government policy on sexual preference discrimination is clear and its application should not depend on the opinions and attitudes of particular community sectors,” the department wrote.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade argued the ban was contrary to the government’s own domestic human rights policy.
Ray ultimately lost the argument and the ban was lifted in 1992.
• Cabinet records for 1992 and 1993 held by the National Archives of Australia reach the open access period on 1 January 2017. Information about the cabinet records and copies of key cabinet documents, including selected submissions and decisions, are available on the archives’ website
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Robert Ray’s defence of ban on homosexuals in military at odds with PM’s department, cabinet papers reveal
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Britain Takes Lead of NATO Force in Afghanistan
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KABUL, Afghanistan, May 4 Britain took command of the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan today in preparation for the force's expansion into the turbulent south and southeast of Afghanistan over the coming months.
Gen. Gerhard W. Back, left, handing the mission's flag to the new commander, Lt. Gen. David Richards, during a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Lt. Gen. David Richards assumed command from the departing Italian commander in a short ceremony. In a warning to insurgents, he promised to build a strong and unified security assistance force, bringing NATO and American coalition forces together under one command.
General Richards takes command immediately of 9,000 troops of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which is stationed in Kabul and the north and west of the country and primarily performs reconstruction activities.
By the end of July, he will also assume command of NATO and other forces in southern Afghanistan, adding combat operations against insurgents to NATO's mission of stabilization and security.
The arrival of 6,000 NATO troops in the south will allow the United States to reduce its force of 19,000 by 2,000 to 3,000 in August. American forces will remain in the border provinces of eastern Afghanistan and are expected to come under the NATO flag by November, giving General Richards command of the entire international military force across the whole country.
"It will be NATO's most challenging ground operation ever, conducted in parallel with overall change in NATO," Hikmet Cetin, NATO's civilian representative in Afghanistan, said at a news briefing after the ceremony. "NATO cannot afford to fail in Afghanistan, for the whole world and the whole region," he said.
"As we know, security in the south and southeast is still borderline. NATO will be challenged, but as NATO is ready for this challenge, it will not be discouraged. We will do what is needed for success."
Afghanistan is NATO's top priority mission and it is sending its elite force, the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, to take on the task, he said.
The departure of American troops from southern Afghanistan has already raised concerns among Afghans there as they face an increasingly violent insurgency, and General Richards, who has served as commander of British peacekeeping forces in East Timor and twice in Sierra Leone, was quick to dispel concerns.
"I am more than confident the skeptics will be proved wrong," he said.
The number of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan will double with NATO coming in, they will have more Apache helicopters than before, and American aircraft will remain in support of NATO troops.
"The U.S. will remain the major shareholder in the operation with all the benefits that brings," he said.
He promised to be an "implacable opponent" and make robust use of military force against those who continued to oppose the Afghan government by violent means. NATO forces will not be directly involved in poppy eradication but will help provide a secure environment for Afghans security forces to conduct eradication, he said. He also said he would work for close collaboration with Pakistan to deny the insurgents safe sanctuary across the border.
Mr. Cetin said he planned a visit to Pakistan to build on a flurry of visits there by ministers of NATO countries and the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan.
"Without the cooperation of the whole region, we will not have stability," Mr. Cetin warned.
NATO does plan to do some things differently, General Richards said. At a news briefing after the ceremony, he said NATO would not hold detainees, nor would it hand them over to American detention facilities, but would pass them to the Afghan law enforcement agencies under a carefully monitored system.
He also promised that his troops would respect Islam and the cultural traditions of Afghanistan. Asked if his troops would continue to raid houses, which has upset many communities, he said the issue was at the top of his "list," and that while he would not entirely constrain his troops from searching a house, he was advising them not to conduct such searches when there is any doubt about the necessity.
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Britain will manage the force's expansion into the turbulent south of Afghanistan over the coming months.
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Bigger Houses, Longer Commutes
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ON weekdays, Julie Kroloff sets the coffee maker for 5:45 a.m., then speeds through her kitchen in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and grabs a cup to fortify herself for the long drive ahead. If Ms. Kroloff, a self-employed consultant, is on time, she backs out of the garage just before 6 and makes the trip from Dutchess County to her office in Midtown Manhattan in just under two hours. If traffic is heavy, Ms. Kroloff's 54-mile commute can take two and a half hours or more.
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Atul Ramayani heads for the 7:10 express train from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Grand Central. Door-to-door, the commute takes him two hours.
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Joan A. Pagones, the supervisor of the Town of Fishkill tours the 32 acres Toll Brothers gave to the Wappingers Central School District in exchange for being allowed to build in the town.
About the same time, in Burlington, N.J., south of Trenton, Ronny Byrd, a vault custodian for the Bank of New York, boards a bus bound for Wall Street. If the New Jersey Turnpike and the Holland Tunnel are not backed up, Mr. Byrd will reach his destination in two hours.
In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Atul Ramayani, a computer analyst, boards Metro-North's increasingly crowded 7:10 express bound for Grand Central Terminal. In all, Mr. Ramayani's commute takes close to two hours, including the 20-minute drive to the station and a 10-minute walk from Grand Central before he clocks in for the day.
Priced out of an increasingly expensive real estate market in close-in areas like Westchester, Bergen and Nassau Counties, some workers are pushing their commutes up to the two-hour mark, and even beyond.
It is the price they are willing to pay to own the home of their dreams, said Alan E. Pisarski, the author of a series of books titled "Commuting in America" (the third is being published by the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board).
"In essence, what this group of commuters is doing," Mr. Pisarski explained, "is contributing to their house payment with travel time."
Or as Mr. Byrd, who used to live in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn with his wife, Valerie, and their four children, said, "We never could have afforded a home big enough for all of us that was closer to New York." In September, the couple bought a six-bedroom house in Burlington, 75 miles south of Midtown, for $250,000.
With the cost of residential real estate rising sharply in recent years, the geographical boundaries of the New York metropolitan area are being redrawn. Bulldozers are clearing farmland once considered too far away for a commute to Manhattan, real estate agencies are opening offices in outlying areas, and elected officials in once-rural communities are being pressured to contain the encroaching sprawl.
Meanwhile, public transportation providers like Metro-North are adding service earlier in the morning and in the evening to accommodate their riders' changing needs. And many of those riders are changing their routines, optimizing the increased travel time to and from work by opening their laptops and BlackBerries en route.
"They're charging their batteries from the outlets that were meant for vacuum cleaners and our polishing equipment," said Dan Brucker, a Metro-North spokesman.
Other commuters like Ms. Kroloff who rely on their cars for the long haul to work say that the drive gives them a chance to be alone and to gather their thoughts. "I can be in my own world without anyone bothering me," she said. "Sometimes when I'm driving, I just let my mind wander. Sometimes, I listen to music. I can create my own space in the car, and that helps me prepare for the day ahead."
She and her daughter, Rita, 8, and her son, Steven, 7, moved into a new five-bedroom, five-bath house last fall. It cost around $750,000.
According to the latest statistics from the Census Bureau, the migration outward and the trend toward longer commutes to New York City intensified during the 1990's. In Dutchess County, for example, the number of people who commuted to the city rose 46 percent in that decade, to 5,798 from 3,975.
In New Jersey, the number of people commuting from Warren County, due west of Manhattan at the Pennsylvania border, was up 39 percent, rising from 539 in 1990 to 748 in 2000.
In New Haven County in Connecticut, the increase was 25 percent, from 1,797 to 2,243.
But in Suffolk County, the eastern part of Long Island, the numbers increased by only 2 percent, rising to 80,003 from 78,291 in 1990.
Nassau County to the west and Westchester County to the north are still home to the largest numbers of New York City commuters 197,864 in Nassau and 117,839 in Westchester although their numbers dropped, by less than 2 percent, in the decade.
The Census Bureau has not updated its 2000 figures. But real estate offices and rail and bus lines report that the residential real estate market has been in high gear north and west of Westchester, in southern New Jersey and near Philadelphia.
It is a trend that Mark S. Jaffe, the president of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce, calls worrisome. "If people have to travel so far, how can they still be alert and productive on the job?" he said. "Very few people want to commute long distances, but the lack of affordable housing closer in forces them to do that."
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Frustration Over Iraq Vote Unlikely to Trouble Clinton
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for the war in Iraq has outraged many liberal activists in the Democratic Party, who are warning of retribution, including a primary challenge to her re-election campaign next year.
Some liberal activists are angry over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's stand on the Iraq war, and are supporting a 2006 primary challenger.
But the activists are in the same sort of political bind that liberals found themselves in a decade ago when Bill Clinton defied liberal orthodoxies: struggling to bring meaningful pressure to bear on a politician who is cherished by many traditional Democrats.
The frustration on the left toward Mrs. Clinton, the junior senator from New York, has been building for months, particularly as opinion has turned against the war and some Democrats in Congress have begun to pressure President Bush to begin a withdrawal of American troops.
Recently, the anger erupted into public view, with antiwar activists publicly protesting against the senator and, perhaps more significantly, an antiwar candidate emerging to challenge her in the Democratic primary next year.
That challenger, Jonathan Tasini, a longtime labor advocate, has the support of Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar protester who lost her son in the war and who camped for weeks outside Mr. Bush's Texas ranch, demanding to meet with him. Mrs. Sheehan has been critical of Mrs. Clinton.
The senator has defended her vote to authorize military action but has harshly criticized President Bush's handling of the war and has called for a plan to begin withdrawing troops next year if the Iraqi elections earlier this month yield positive results.
The sentiment against Mrs. Clinton recalls the tensions that existed in the 1990's between traditional Democrats and President Clinton, a "New Democrat" who veered right with pragmatic goals in mind.
His championing of free-trade policies outraged many leaders of organized labor. His support of the death penalty was abhorred among civil rights leaders. And his decision to overhaul the nation's welfare system - with strict time limits and other policies meant to nudge people off the rolls and into jobs - stirred protests on the left.
Through it all, however, Mr. Clinton remained popular with core liberal Democrats: voters who are friends of organized labor, heirs of the New Deal, Great Society, civil rights and women's movements, people who feel that government can and must be a force for good.
Now, liberal critics of Mrs. Clinton appear to be running headlong into the same political reality: the immense support she has with the party faithful, despite having taken positions that infuriated the left. That loyalty among the rank and file may help explain why the senator's advisers do not appear to be very troubled by the protests erupting on the left, loud and persistent though they may be.
Polls tell much of the story. A recent poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that 88 percent of Democrats who were interviewed said they approved of Mrs. Clinton's job performance. That number would be remarkable under any circumstance. (By contrast, 71 percent of Democrats approved of the job that Charles E. Schumer, New York's senior senator, is doing.) But Mrs. Clinton's approval rating comes at the same time that 83 percent of Democrats in the sample told Quinnipiac pollsters that they regarded the war in Iraq as a mistake.
Political analysts say Mrs. Clinton's standing within the party gives her greater room to maneuver politically.
"She has the left in her back pocket," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac institute. "She doesn't have to worry about catering to them. She has to worry about attracting centrist Democrats, the mainstream of the party."
Mrs. Clinton's stature in the party stems from several factors, political analysts said. Part of it is her long record of support for traditional Democratic principles on issues like education, health care, civil rights and reproductive rights. In part, the relentless attacks that conservatives have leveled at her have threatened to make her something of a political martyr among Democrats.
Perhaps most important, Mrs. Clinton, like her husband, is immensely popular with black and Hispanic voters, who are an essential and large constituency in the Democratic Party's base of support, analysts said.
In the recent Quinnipiac poll, for example, Mrs. Clinton's approval rating was 87 percent among black voters interviewed and 75 percent among Hispanics in the statewide sample of all voters. By contrast, 58 percent of white voters in the poll said they approved of the job she was doing.
Even Mrs. Clinton's critics on the left agreed that it was very difficult to chip away at her immense popularity within traditional Democratic circles, despite her war position.
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New Trick for Old Phones: Making Free Calls Online
| 1970-08-21T04:23:40.022204 |
Internet calling services like Vonage bridge the analog-to-digital divide by letting you use old-fashioned telephone handsets to make online calls, cutting long-distance fees. But even Vonage and its ilk look expensive next to Skype (www.skype.com), which offers free calling from one computer to another, anywhere in the world.
The Skype U.S.B. Phone Adapter from D-Link, available for about $70 from many online and offline retailers, connects a conventional phone to the U.S.B. data port of a Windows PC (it does not work with Macs). You can then make Skype calls without using an awkward computer headset. To reach other people who have Skype, you can use the service's instant-messaging-style software to initiate a call or you can assign speed dial codes to your Skype contacts and dial them directly from the handset.
The adapter, model DPH-50U, includes a jack and cable for plugging into a standard telephone wall socket, so you can use one handset for both free Internet calls and standard calls. If you want to cut the landline completely, Skype sells credits that let you make calls to traditional phones, and can set you up with a standard number for incoming calls. SEÁN CAPTAIN
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Singapore and Katrina
| 1970-08-21T04:26:53.143719 |
There is something troublingly self-indulgent and slothful about America today - something that Katrina highlighted and that people who live in countries where the laws of gravity still apply really noticed. It has rattled them - like watching a parent melt down.
That is certainly the sense I got after observing the Katrina debacle from half a world away here in Singapore - a city-state that, if it believes in anything, believes in good governance. It may roll up the sidewalks pretty early here, and it may even fine you if you spit out your gum, but if you had to choose anywhere in Asia you would want to be caught in a typhoon, it would be Singapore. Trust me, the head of Civil Defense here is not simply someone's college roommate.
Indeed, Singapore believes so strongly that you have to get the best-qualified and least-corruptible people you can into senior positions in the government, judiciary and civil service that its pays its prime minister a salary of $1.1 million a year. It pays its cabinet ministers and Supreme Court justices just under $1 million a year, and pays judges and senior civil servants handsomely down the line.
From Singapore's early years, good governance mattered because the ruling party was in a struggle for the people's hearts and minds with the Communists, who were perceived to be both noncorrupt and caring - so the state had to be the same and more.
Even after the Communists faded, Singapore maintained a tradition of good governance because as a country of only four million people with no natural resources, it had to live by its wits. It needed to run its economy and schools in a way that would extract the maximum from each citizen, which is how four million people built reserves of $100 billion.
"In the areas that are critical to our survival, like Defense, Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs, we look for the best talent," said Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy. "You lose New Orleans, and you have 100 other cities just like it. But we're a city-state. We lose Singapore and there is nothing else. ... [So] the standards of discipline are very high. There is a very high degree of accountability in Singapore."
When a subway tunnel under construction collapsed here in April 2004 and four workers were killed, a government inquiry concluded that top executives of the contracting company should be either fined or jailed.
The discipline that the cold war imposed on America, by contrast, seems to have faded. Last year, we cut the National Science Foundation budget, while indulging absurd creationist theories in our schools and passing pork-laden energy and transportation bills in the middle of an energy crisis.
We let the families of the victims of 9/11 redesign our intelligence organizations, and our president and Congress held a midnight session about the health care of one woman, Terri Schiavo, while ignoring the health crisis of 40 million uninsured. Our economy seems to be fueled lately by either suing each other or selling each other houses. Our government launched a war in Iraq without any real plan for the morning after, and it cut taxes in the middle of that war, ensuring that future generations would get the bill.
Speaking of Katrina, Sumiko Tan, a columnist for the Sunday edition of The Straits Times in Singapore, wrote: "We were shocked at what we saw. Death and destruction from natural disaster is par for the course. But the pictures of dead people left uncollected on the streets, armed looters ransacking shops, survivors desperate to be rescued, racial divisions - these were truly out of sync with what we'd imagined the land of the free to be, even if we had encountered homelessness and violence on visits there. ... If America becomes so unglued when bad things happen in its own backyard, how can it fulfill its role as leader of the world?"
Janadas Devan, a Straits Times columnist, tried to explain to his Asian readers how the U.S. is changing. "Today's conservatives," he wrote, "differ in one crucial aspect from yesterday's conservatives: the latter believed in small government, but believed, too, that a country ought to pay for all the government that it needed.
"The former believe in no government, and therefore conclude that there is no need for a country to pay for even the government that it does have. ... [But] it is not only government that doesn't show up when government is starved of resources and leached of all its meaning. Community doesn't show up either, sacrifice doesn't show up, pulling together doesn't show up, 'we're all in this together' doesn't show up."
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Transit Strike Reflects Nationwide Pension Woes
| 1970-08-21T04:28:32.232216 |
Fast-rising pension costs for government employees - the issue that helped set off this week's transit strike in New York City - are a problem confronting cities, counties and states nationwide, causing many budgetary experts to predict a wave of painful fights over efforts to scale back government retirement programs.
Many officials and fiscal experts assert that across the nation government pension plans face a shortfall of hundreds of billions of dollars. From New Jersey to California, government officials say that attempts - either through contract fights, legislation or public referendums - to limit the amount of money that states and cities contribute to pensions are inevitable and overdue. Labor unions, for their part, say that the worries are overblown.
"Every level of government in New York City, New York State and in states across the country face large and growing pension obligations," said E. J. McMahon, a budget expert at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative research group. "If nothing is done to bring pensions under control, all the other headaches that state governments will be facing in the next 20 years on needs like education and health will be enormously worse."
The contract battle for New York's transit workers, which has yet to be fully resolved, underscores the anger and risks that await governments as they seek to win concessions to cut their pension costs.
The strike, which lasted 60 hours and shut down the country's largest mass transit system, began when the union representing 33,700 bus and subway workers rejected efforts by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, to increase either the retirement age for future employees or the amount they contribute to finance their pensions.
But it is now possible - even after the strike ended - that the transit union may succeed in getting the authority to take all or some of its pension demands off the table as the two sides seek to put the final touches on an overall settlement.
With New Jersey facing a $25 billion shortfall in its pension obligations, a state advisory commission recently urged that the retirement age for government employees, other than police, firefighters and judges, be raised to 60 from 55.
And in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faced a storm of criticism after he proposed replacing the traditional pension plan for government employees with a far less generous plan resembling 401(k)s. He ultimately backed down even as budget watchdogs complained that many police officers retired with pensions equaling 90 percent of their annual earnings.
Many government employees and their unions assert that the campaign to trim pensions threatens America's social contract for the middle class: a respectable pension.
Saying that in recent contracts they had sacrificed wage increases or better health benefits for solid pensions, many public employees and their unions assert that governments are betraying their commitments by seeking to now cut pensions. Further, they argue that much of the shortfall in pension financing could be erased by a strong stock market in the next several years.
"A lot of people are exaggerating the size of the problem," said Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents 1.4 million government workers. "Right-wing think tanks and conservative Republicans want to do away with traditional pension plans and replace them with much-cheaper 401(k)'s at the same time they want to give all these tax cuts to the rich."
The fight over public-sector pensions follows a movement to cut private sector pensions. In recent years, corporation after corporation has complained about what they assert are the onerous costs of pensions.
Bethlehem Steel, United Airlines and other companies, saying they could no longer afford it, have stopped paying into their pension plans, forcing the government to step in and absorb billions of dollars in costs. And now Delphi, the giant auto parts company that filed for bankruptcy in October, is threatening to do the same thing.
Meanwhile, some companies, Hewlett Packard among them, have replaced their traditional pension plans with 401(k) plans.
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Google Buys YouTube
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Can’t wait t read this one. This is big news.
Wow this came from nowhere
Interesting, a stock-for-stock deal is all YouTube got.
[…] UPDATE: Both TechCrunch and Mashable have confirmed the story at this time. UPDATE 2: Google has issued a press release. digital media strategy entertainment google internet television video youtubeShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
Certainly interesting - eventually the lawyers will crack down on YouTube (and the others) - If you try to sell Lost on iTunes for $1.99, why would the ABC lawyers let it run free on YT? http://www.centernetworks.com/google-buys-youtube
[…] Mashable says: All in all, it’s mainly corporate speak, but the promise to continue running the two services separately should reassure some users. […]
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>I’m not as convinced of Facebook’s future success as I am of YouTube’s
[…] The Internet is obviously undergoing major reorganization. Google’s purchase of YouTube today punctuates that. Nothing will change much at either company of course. It’s a bet, like playing MegaMillions. […]
This deal is more than a “tuck in” acquisition or removing a player from the social networking space. It’s transformative for Google and their Second Act. It allows them to be a category-killer in a space outside of but adjacent to search. Congrats to them and I write more about the deal here: http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-youtube-shona-brown-and-galaxy.html
1. Yes, I think it’s over priced. Having the industry titans fight over you helps though.
2. Very good for the Start up scene. This type of exit is more effective then any presentation.
3. It’s not the last or highest.
4. Google is probably the only player that doesn’t have to show ROI, Share price will go up no matter what.
5. It’s a defining moment for the industry. Seriously. I’m glad Google bought YouTube, it’s a good fit. Let’s see what kind of advertising model they will spin out of it. The better and more profitable it is - the better off we all are.
[…] Amid the YouTube-Google hubbub yesterday, another sale was making headlines yet again: Brad Greenspan, founder of MySpace’s parent company Intermix Media, had his suit dismissed by a Los Angeles judge. Superior court judge Carolyn B. Kuhl rejected the case on Friday, as well as challenges from other shareholders, finding that the MySpace acquisition was lawful. Greenspan’s complaint was that Intermix’s directors, including CEO Richard Rosenblatt, sought personal gains and ignored the shareholder’s best interests. In short, he thinks the MySpace deal was rushed, and that the shareholders weren’t fully clued in on the true value of the site. […]
[…] For the record, Google’s already existing video service, Google Video, won’t be going away ever according to Pete Cashmore. Let’s here it for needless spending on redundancy! Spread the Propoganda:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
[…] Here’s one player that’s already reacting to the Google-YouTube deal: MySpace. According to the WSJ, News Corp executives “expressed their displeasure” with Google, and threatened to ban YouTube videos from MySpace (they already did this before with YouTube, plus Revver and now Stickam). Now Eric Schmidt and VP of Advertising Sales Tim Armstrong are set to meet the big guns at News Corp this week - Rupert Murdoch, President Peter Chernin and Ross Levinsohn - to discuss the issue. Chernin recently said that MySpace would “crush YouTube” and other businesses that are plugging into MySpace - that was before YouTube and Google hooked up to become a massive player in the social media space. […]
[…] It’s pretty clear that Facebook is getting acquired - possibly by Yahoo, but certainly very soon (see Facebook-Yahoo). After the YouTube-Google deal, it’s inevitable. What’s surprising is how few competitors Facebook has been up against: despite attempts from USpot, CampusBug, CommonRoom and regional versions like Univillage, nobody has targeted the US college market with any real success. Had there been a number two player in this space when the Facebook news feed launched, followed by the site’s decision to open up, they might have been able to capitalize on the disenchantment of users - there are plenty of Facebookers who are nostalgic for the “old Facebook”, for instance. Phatcouch, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is a project by developer Norberth Danson that turns the clock back a few months. […]
[…] The Yahoo-Facebook discussions are still in progress, but it doesn’t look like they’ll be closing the deal as fast as Google and YouTube. According to the WSJ, an acquisition isn’t imminent unless Yahoo increases its $1 billion offer or a changing business environment makes Facebook keen to sell - once again, Yahoo ends up looking indecisive compared to the lightning quick Google-YouTube agreement. In fact, Yahoo has been talking to Facebook for most of the year, and a deal was almost reached back in July. Yahoo also showed interest in YouTube but missed out, while delays in upgrading its ad systems and slow growth in ad sales have hit the company’s stock price. But Facebook isn’t considering any other offers at the moment, says the WSJ, so rumors of a Google-Facebook deal might be baseless. […]
[…] Dick Parsons, Tim Warner’s chairman and CEO, says he plans to pursue copyright complaints against YouTube. Time Warner owns AOL, Warner Brothers, Time Inc, HBO, Time Warner Cable, Home Box Office, New Line Cinema and Turner Broadcasting System, but is no longer associated with Warner Music, which has already struck a deal to supply music videos to YouTube users. Parsons says the decision has nothing to do with the $1.6 billion Google-YouTube deal on Monday, but it’s worth noting that Time Warner had a vague interest in buying YouTube, and thought the price was too high. […]
[…] Since the Google-YouTube acquisition on Monday, the site has been down almost permanently, says owner Ralph Girkins. He also says the $1 million offer came from an intermediary claiming to represent YouTube. He hasn’t spoken to Google or YouTube directly, but he has received around 20 phone calls from people who want to sell the domain for him. […]
[…] I’d like to think I had a role in this, but frankly I’m just glad they’ve seen sense: SingShot, the so-called YouTube for karaoke, is now completely free with full access to all the features. Previously, SingShot offered a two-week free trial, followed by a charge of $59.40 for an annual subscription, $23.85 for a quarterly subscription or a monthly fee of $9.95. This is pretty much a guaranteed way to lose all your visitors after two weeks, or prevent them joining in the first place - would we have seen Monday’s Google-YouTube deal if YouTube had been a paid service? Of course we wouldn’t, because the new model is to offer everything for free and figure out how to make money once you’re big - it worked for MySpace, and now it looks hopeful for YouTube, too. […]
[…] I write this during a week in which Google has purchased video website YouTube. A major acquisition on Google’s part that somehow feels circa 1999. If it weren’t Google, I’d describe my feeling of it as big-lumbering-corporation tries-to-bet-correctly. Maybe the sour taste of the dot-com years still lingers too much. Either way, I’m missing my point and a quick exit: what can historical comparisons reveal about video (and audio) on the Internet? If you post thoughts, comparisons and observations, I’d love to read them; send them to me and I’ll link or just trackback this post! […]
[…] The biggest changes will be copyright and commercialization. YouTube spent a long time under the radar of the content companies, but the Google-YouTube deal blows away the last of their obscurity. On the copyright issue, YouTube will do the best it can, highlighting unlicensed content and giving content creators the option to replace it with an authorized copy or take it down, says the AP. In a previous story, it was suggested that if copyright holders left the clips up, even those that weren’t authorized, they’d be able to share a cut of the ad revenue. If that’s the case, it gives content creators a strong incentive not to be heavy handed, but it remains to be seen how they’ll use the tools YouTube provides them. […]
[…] The timing of this move, a week after the YouTube-Google deal, might be entirely coincidental, but MySpace Video appear to have made changes over the weekend that will dramatically increase the number of videos viewed on the site and discourage users from embedding external videos like those from YouTube and Metacafe. Perhaps this is an early attempt to crush YouTube? […]
[…] There’s private sharing, too: type in the email address of a friend, and they’ll receive a link to the video hosted on Grouper’s servers. You can also create and share greeting cards. The only downside: despite the recent Google-YouTube deal, the software won’t be compatible with the most popular video site. That’s because the agreement with Pure Video was made long before YouTube rose to dominance, and before the Sony-Grouper deal that saw Grouper acquired for $65 million. The new version of the camcorder should be available in the US at the start of November. […]
[…] Here we go again. MySpace’s parent company News Corp has teamed up with media heavyweights including General Electric’s NBC Universal and Viacom as part of a speedy reaction to the Google-YouTube deal. The aim? To explore YouTube’s legal position when it comes to the use of copyrighted content. Lawyers for the groups say YouTube could be responsible for $150,000 per unauthorized video. […]
[…] Pageflakes is one of a few sites that put RSS feeds, YouTube videos, web search, a to-do list and other modules in one place. The top three in this space are generally considered to be Netvibes, Pageflakes and Protopage, which is scheduled to launch its V3 release soon. All three are European, as is the new entrant WebWag. Netvibes is sometimes said to be the leader, but frankly measuring these things is impossible - not only do they automatically create a page for every visitor (which would inflate the number of “users”), but they also use so much ajax that it would be pointless to count the pageviews. As a result, Pageflakes have decided not to play the stats game for now, and we can’t really compare the services. What does seem likely is that all the top players will see some success - you can criticize them for lacking a business model, but any site that commands this much attention from the user is extremely valuable (as the Google-YouTube deal proves). Even if they wanted to shun ads, Pageflakes and Netvibes could still charge companies who want modules built for their services. […]
[…] Lots of readers emailed me yesterday to say that GreedTube, the YouTube clone that pays users a cut of the ad revenue, is no more. Instead, the site redirects to YouTube.com, suggesting that they were approached by YouTube’s lawyers. Surprisingly, the site was up for more than a week - perhaps the Google-YouTube acquisition was keeping the YT lawyers away from their beloved cease and desist letters. […]
[…] On the morning of the YouTube-Google acquisition, a collection of deals with record labels were announced - as it turns out, the events weren’t totally separate. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony BMG each received a small stake in YouTube, and collectively stand to make up to $50 million from the sudden jump in the company’s value. That’s a nice payoff that could explain why YouTube wasn’t sued this week, while rival companies were. […]
[…] YouTube announced yesterday that their CBS channel has gone live on the site, with the first of the content appearing last night. The CBS-YouTube hookup was announced on the day of the Google-YouTube acquisition, but at the time CBS’s profile was just a holding page. […]
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Iraqi Rebels Refine Bomb Skills, Pushing Toll of G.I.'s Higher
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WASHINGTON, June 21 - American casualties from bomb attacks in Iraq have reached new heights in the last two months as insurgents have begun to deploy devices that leave armored vehicles increasingly vulnerable, according to military records.
Alan Chin for The New York Times
An attack on an American military convoy on June 14 destroyed a tractor-trailer. Insurgents are using more sophisticated bombs for such attacks.
Last month there were about 700 attacks against American forces using so-called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.'s, the highest number since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the American military command in Iraq and a senior Pentagon military official. Attacks on Iraqis also reached unprecedented levels, Lt. Gen. John Vines, a senior American ground commander in Iraq, told reporters on Tuesday.
The surge in attacks, the officials say, has coincided with the appearance of significant advancements in bomb design, including the use of "shaped" charges that concentrate the blast and give it a better chance of penetrating armored vehicles, causing higher casualties.
Another change, a senior military officer said, has been the detonation of explosives by infrared lasers, an innovation aimed at bypassing electronic jammers used to block radio-wave detonators.
I.E.D.'s of all types caused 33 American deaths in May, and there have been at least 35 fatalities so far in June, the highest toll over a two-month period, according to statistics assembled by Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, a Web site that tracks official figures.
In a sign of heightened American concern, the Army convened a conference last week at Fort Irwin, in the California desert, where engineers, contractors and senior officers grappled with the problems posed by the new bombs. One attendee, Col. Bob Davis, an Army explosives expert, called the new elements in some bombs "pretty disturbing." In a brief interview, he declined to discuss the changes, but said the "sophistication is increasing and it will increase further."
Although the number of bombs using the refinements remains low, their appearance underscores the insurgents' adaptability and the difficulty the Pentagon faces, despite a strong effort, in containing the threat. Improvised explosives now account for about 70 percent of American casualties in Iraq.
At a briefing on Tuesday for reporters at the Pentagon, General Vines, who spoke by telephone from Iraq, said that the insurgents' tactics "have become more sophisticated in some cases," and that they were probably drawing on bomb-making experts from outside Iraq and from the old Iraqi Army. He added that the insurgency was "quite small" and "relatively static," a view not shared by all his colleagues.
Car bomb attacks against American forces - both suicide attacks and attacks with remotely detonated devices - reached a monthly high of 70 in April and fell slightly in May, according to figures provided by the United States military in Iraq.
"For a period of time we felt we were pushing them away from us, and now it looks like they are back to targeting coalition forces," said a Pentagon official involved in the anti-I.E.D. effort. "And they've learned that in order to attack us, they need to get more sophisticated."
The next highest two-month period was in January and February, around the time of the Iraqi elections, when 54 Americans were killed by bombs, according to the official statistics assembled by the casualty-count Web site. Iraqis suffer the most casualties by far, though reliable figures are not available.
The insurgents "certainly appear to be surging right now," Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Votel, who leads the anti-I.E.D. task force, said in an interview at Fort Irwin. "Time will tell about their ability to sustain this."
American officials also worry that the increase in attacks threatens to disrupt Iraq's fledgling government further and could threaten the Bush administration's strategy for maintaining public support for the American presence in Iraq by holding down American casualties.
"We're in a very, very dangerous period," said a senior military official at the Pentagon. "To be a successful insurgent you need to be able to create spectacular attacks, and they've certainly done that in the past several weeks."
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting for this article.
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
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OUR former nanny, a 26-year-old former teacher with excellent references, liked to touch her breasts while reading The New Yorker and often woke her lovers in the night by biting them. She took sleeping pills, joked about offbeat erotic fantasies involving Tucker Carlson and determined she'd had more female sexual partners than her boyfriend.
How do I know these things? I read her blog.
She hadn't been with us long when we found out about her online diary. All she'd revealed previously about her private life were the bare-bones details of the occasional date or argument with her landlord and her hopes of attending graduate school in the fall.
Yet within two months of my starting to read her entries our entire relationship unraveled. Not only were there things I didn't want to know about the person who was watching my children, it turned out her online revelations brought feelings of mine to the surface I'd just as soon not have to face as well.
I hadn't exactly been a stranger to the sexual shenanigans of our previous baby sitters. One got pregnant accidentally by her longtime boyfriend and asked me for advice. Another was involved in a mostly off-again relationship with a fidelity-challenged college football player. Yet those were problems I could feel superior to and that made me grateful for the steady routine of marriage and children.
This was something else entirely.
It all began one day late last fall when we were tending to my toddler and she murmured to me: "I've started a blog. I'll give you the link."
I wrote the address in my appointment book but didn't rush off to my computer to look up her site. It wasn't until a month later, after she told me she'd post the Sharon Olds poem "Life With Sick Kids" on a day when both of the boys were ill, that I decided to be polite and take a look.
I read the poem, then I scrolled down to the next entry. And the next. Amid the musings on poetry and fanatical analysis of the "Gilmore Girls" was a sweet scene of sex with a new boyfriend, accounts of semi-promiscuous couplings and tales of too much drinking for my comfort.
My husband thought her writing precociously talented but wanted to fire her nonetheless. "This is inappropriate," he said. "We don't need to know that Jennifer Ehle makes her hot."
I defended her - at first. Didn't she have a right to free expression? It wasn't as though she was quaffing Scotch or bedding guys, or the occasional girl, while on the job. Besides, weren't all recent college graduates keeping Web logs?
But there was more to my advocacy. Suddenly, with her in my employ, I felt I was young and hip by proxy. I might be a boring mother of two, but my nanny, why, she dined in the hippest Williamsburg restaurants and rated the sexual energy of men and women she met. I was amused - and more than a bit envious.
I was about to turn 40. I'd been married almost 15 years. My ability to attend literary readings and art gallery openings was hampered by two children, and my party life was relegated to the toddler birthday circuit. I imagined the snoozefest that would ensue if I were to post:
Spent the morning at the Garfield Temple playroom. Tried to read Paul Krugman while other parents gave me dirty looks as my younger son attempted to filch their kids' dump trucks.
I told my friends about the blog, and even my childless acquaintances were riveted. They called, begging for more details. "Did she wear the rose negligee, the pink see-through slip or the purple Empire-waisted gown?" demanded one after perusing a post on the proper outfit for first-time sex. "She didn't say."
But I was not as comfortable with the situation as I pretended. The blog had brought odd similarities to the fore. I don't want to overstate the case: I was not bisexual, and I did not come from a strictly religious background, as my nanny did.
Yet we had enough in common - if I took her statements at face value - to make me uneasy. In my 20's I, too, felt passionately about 19th-century English literature but had long since let it go, barely able to concentrate on The New York Times, let alone Henry James. I, too, had an abortion back then. And trouble with depression? Check. Self-righteousness and inflated self-regard? Affirmative.
Helaine Olen is a journalist living in Brooklyn.
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Faith: Hands Off My Man's Balls!
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Posted Jul 31st 2007 3:29PM by TMZ Staff
Faith Hill would prefer it if you left her husband's nether regions alone! At her Soul2Soul tour stop in Lafayette, LA on Saturday night, one fan got a little grabby with Faith's better half, Tim McGraw -- and Faith ain't havin' none o' that!"Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend," Faith scolded the fan. "You don't go grabbin' somebody else's -- somebody's husband's balls, you understand me? That's very disrespectful."Stand by your man's ... balls.
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AL QAEDA PRISONERS KILL 6 GUARDS, FLEE
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By RICHARD SISK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, December 20th 2001, 2:24AM
WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda prisoners staged a bloody uprising in Pakistan yesterday, killing six guards as dozens escaped in a commandeered bus.
More than 150 prisoners, mostly Yemeni Arabs who fled U.S. bombing of the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan, were aboard three buses near the border town of Parachinar when the uprising occurred, Pakistani officials said.
Shouting "God is great," the prisoners overpowered the guards on one of the buses, the officials said.
A firefight ensued, during which six guards and eight prisoners were killed. Some of the prisoners fled in one of the buses, pursued by Pakistani troops and a helicopter. Twenty-one were recaptured, the officials said.
Pakistani forces and anti-Taliban Afghan fighters were hunting for 20 other escapees in the mountainous area, the officials said.
At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the escape showed the terrorist network is still dangerous.
"It would be a mistake to say Al Qaeda is finished in Afghanistan at this stage," he said. "They're running, and they're hiding, and they're having difficulty communicating with each other, but a large number of them seem to behave in a fanatical way, and I suspect that we'll hear more of them."
Rumsfeld also said the U.S. wanted to interrogate the Al Qaeda fighters captured by the Pakistanis.
"You can be darned certain we're going to try to get our hands on them," he said.
Terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden was "either dead in some tunnel or he's alive, and it does not matter," Rumsfeld said. "We'll find him one day, and we'll know what's happened."
Gul Afta, a commander of Afghan fighters in Tora Bora, said most of his forces had been withdrawn from the White Mountains.
Some Al Qaeda captives taken by his forces "are telling us stories about Osama giving a speech 14 days ago and then leaving, but these men are not very credible," Afta said.
The hunt for Bin Laden also intensified on the high seas, where U.S. Navy sailors in the north Arabian Sea forcibly boarded a Saudi-owned oil tanker registered in the Central American nation of Belize, Pentagon officials said.
The officials did not give the name of the tanker but said a member of its crew was slightly injured when the U.S. sailors set a small explosive charge to blow open a locked door aboard the vessel.
The sailors did not find fugitives or contraband during a 10-hour search, and the ship was allowed to proceed, the officials said. Although the ship was Saudi-owned, Iran protested the incident.
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THE BEEP GENERATION PAGERS KEEP KIDS CONNECTED TO PEERS AND PARENTS
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By SHEILA ANNE FEENEY Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, February 16th 1997, 2:01AM
The ultimate indignity of adolescence is to be a "Maytag" as in the Maytag TV repairman a lone soul for whom no bell tolls. That's why beepers and, to a lesser extent, cell phones have been passionately embraced by teens.
While electronic leashes are the bane of workers, who see them as a source of endless interruptions, teenagers adore the little gizmos they denote indispensability. In teen-think, owning a pager means you are so important you cannot be disconnected from the collective pulse of your peer group even for a moment. You Are Connected.
"If your boyfriend says, `I couldn't contact you,' you say, `Yo! I have a beeper,"' exults Christina Rosado, 16, with almost imperial pleasure.
That same tiny box also acts as a doorman, screening potential suitors who have not earned the privilege of a home phone number. However, it doesn't provide the escape from candor that meeker wearers might be looking for. "When you're carrying a beeper, and a guy sees it, you can't say, `I don't have a phone number,"' explains Rosado, a sophomore at Park West High School in Manhattan.
When Romeo and Juliet want to risk a relationship that would incur parental disapproval, beepers are the new go-betweens. Has Dad laid down the law that you are not to talk to a ne'er-do-well pal? No problem. Roger the Rogue can beep you and you then inveigle a way to call him. Ditto for outwitting phone restrictions.
"Parents don't let us have boyfriends," explains one girl, who praises the pager for preserving adolescent privacy. When a kid is paged, a parent can't tell who it is, much less pick up the extension and listen in.
To beep or not to beep
Each generation embraces some technology that baffles the one that came before.
While previous generations swooned over the radio, or stayed glued to the TV, this one is in love with computers and communication devices. The double-duty devices serve not only as badges of identity in the culture of connection: By lending themselves to codes and secret languages, they solidify a sense of belonging to an exclusive group.
When kids page each other, says Daniel Gensler, director of child, adolescent and family services at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in Manhattan, they also "thumb their nose at authority by using the latest technology. We used to pass notes, and there were rules against whispering."
An estimated 20% of the 40 million beepers carried in the United States belong to teenagers, according to Motorola, one of the largest beeper companies. The market segment is so significant that a code of pager etiquette for teens has even been included in their promotional materials. ("Don't pull your pager out and check it in class, during religious services or other inappropriate times.")
The person most likely to finance a beeper is Mom or Dad usually so they can use the homing device to locate their elusive adolescents. The role of the pager in remote-control oversight (or "teleparenting") is now a familiar phenomenon.
But it is in the realm of dating and relationships that beepers which now come in an infinite array of colors and designs to appeal to young people have most changed teen life. No longer do teenage girls sit home, willing the phone to ring by Silva mind control.
Still, for some girls the beeper is more a tool of female oppression than a badge of liberation, notes Laly Leyton, 18, a Park West junior. If you're going out with someone, they think they have you in lockdown, because they can contact you at any time," she explains.
They can also be electronic irritants and worse. Girls say they sometimes use beepers to harass rivals for a guy's affections, and guys digitally vex their exes by incessantly transmitting profane codes on the screen. Rosado sagely explains: "If you have an ex, and he keeps on beeping and beeping you, you gotta change the number."
The little mass of circuitry can also act as an electronic conscience. "My girlfriend beeps me every once in a while just to see where I'm at," grins Marlon Garca, 16, a Beacon High School junior. "It's harder to go out with other women because your girlfriend can find where you are at all times," adds Daniel Markovic, also a 16-year-old junior at Beacon.
According to a 1988 Chancellor's circular from the Board of Education, all personal communication devices are banned in all schools. Any that are found are to be confiscated.
Teens, however, scoff that the metal detectors don't pick up beepers (they say they do intercept cell phones) and that the policy is unevenly enforced. According to the Board of Education, 3,103 beepers were confiscated in New York City Schools between July 1 and Dec. 1 of last year. More than 500 have not been reclaimed: The owners just cut service and get another.
Of course, those pagers may never have been turned on. A fair number of the gadgets conspicuously displayed on swaggering hips are not even functional. The reason? Insufficient funds. Kids may stop paying their monthly service charges, but they don't stop wearing their badge of honor.
One reason for paging's popularity is economic the simple digital models are much cheaper than phones.
Costs vary tremendously, with the purchase price often in inverse ratio to a monthly service charge. While a pager can be purchased for a mere $50 often with three free months of service fees can be as little as $2 a month for local ac-cess only. Voice mail and text options, as well as nationwide access, can send costs to satellite heights.
"A lot of these kids don't have [home] phones," observes Nick Wolf, a Park West global studies teacher, who has himself considered trading his home number for a cheaper beeper.
Which leads to the question: If someone has a beeper but the beepee is not by the phone, how do two people hook up? The answer is, they may bypass the phone altogether, transmitting mutually understood glyphs. And they do have their own private language. (See sidebar.)
Like ham-radio operators, kids assign themselves "handles" usually one-to three-digit code numbers to identify themselves. Both Radhames Santos, 16, a Park West junior, and Garca, use the devilishly popular "666." Why does Santos need a beeper if he has a cell phone as well?
"You don't want to give [anyone] your cell phone number 'cuz it costs you for incoming calls," he explains. Still, you need a phone in case "you don't have a quarter to call when you get beeped." Despite all the communication devices concealed in his baggy pants a veritable electronic support system Santos is curiously difficult to reach: It is his policy never to give strangers his home or cell phone number. His beeper number proved to be disconnected when a reporter tried to reach him later.
Beepers became popular after first becoming a status symbol for physicians. Then they came to be widely associated with drug dealers. This stereotype continues to haunt young men who carry them, concedes Tony Vazquez, 17, a thoughtful Park West 12th-grader who is aware that "everyone with a negative mind thinks: `He has a beeper: He must deal drugs.'
A pair of police officers once stopped Aaron Trigg, 16, a Beacon sophomore, for wearing a beeper, then demanded to know "why I was out so late by myself." The experience, Trigg says, "didn't bother me. I know I have nothing to worry about. My dad bought mine."
In today's clicker culture, contact is as instantaneous as gratification. Why wait until someone gets home if you want to talk now?
Such youthful urgency is not only reflected in, but abetted by, nifty electronic gadgets and high-speed computers. Youth, thy name is instant access, stacked tasks and virtual company. Teenagers today, Trigg explains, realize "there just isn't that much time to do what you want to do."
Pagers serve multiple purposes for teens who have turned the communication devices into entertaining toys. For many teens, a beeper also is a means of transmitting messages via code or passing on slang. The number "222," for example, might stand for "meet me at school" an homage to the old television show "Room 222." A rendezvous may be arranged by sending the glyph "23 7 630" (We'll meet at 23d and Seventh Ave. at 6:30 p.m.). Many kids use a one to three-digit code so they can transmit a 10-character message with their signature.
31707-07734: HELLO LOLIE (below). When the numbers are turned upside down on a digital display, the "7s" look like "Ls", the "3s" like "Es", etc.
1134 2 09: GO TO HELL. Same upside-down trick.
1 4 3: Shorthand for "I LOVE YOU." ("1" stands for one letter, "4" stands for the four letters in "love," and "3" stands for the three letters in "you.")
911: "EMERGENCY!!!! CALL ME NOWWWWW!!!!" An emergency is defined as anything that disrupts the unendurable torpor of teenhood, like getting a phone call from a mutual friend.
86: "You're dead" or "I'm finished." (From the old code used by restaurant employes.)
747: "Let's fly" (think Boeing products) or "I'm outta here."
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EXTRA! EXTRA! How TV newswomen get the scoop on outfits stylish enough for a closeup
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Thursday, May 26th 2005, 1:11AM
Oh, sure, we've heard all about a certain morning anchorwoman whose sky-high stilettos and body-hugging clothes have made bigger news than any celeb-du-jour she has interviewed. It's the cardinal sin of Broadcast 101. But striking the right chord takes hard work. How hard? We asked three New York newswomen - an anchor, a correspondent and a meteorologist - to talk about dressing for on-air success.
JANICE HUFF, "News Channel 4" meteorologist
When it comes to dressing for work, Janice Huff doesn't worry about the weather. She worries about the weather map.
"Being a meteorologist, you're allowed a little more expression," says Huff, the weekday meteorologist for WNBC's "News Channel 4." "The rules aren't as strict as they are for an anchor. You can't wear stripes or plaids or polka dots in front of the weather maps, but there's a little more leeway with color."
Not that it's a challenge for the Manhattan-born, South Carolina-reared Huff. Known for her massive shoe collection as much as her raucous sense of humor, Huff admits
she loves to shop, so in her decade in New York, she has built a substantial on-air wardrobe of jackets and suits.
More, she has no use for label snobbery. "People can't tell if it's Armani or Old Navy on TV. So I don't think it's necessary to spend a lot."
Instead, she shops anywhere and everywhere, from Saks Fifth Avenue to the Woodbury Common Outlet center to sample sales and H&M. (The network gives her no clothing stipend.)
"I got my sense of style from my mother," says Huff, whose mother lived in Harlem for 25 years. "She had not a lot of clothes, not a lot of shoes, but she was always classic."
To this day, Huff still wears an old coat of her mother's (and keeps her 1988 Lincoln Town Car, too) and has no qualms about sporting a 10-year-old jacket.
"We get so many calls, 'You were wearing nice earrings last night. My wife liked them, and I'd love to get them for our anniversary. Where did you get them?' I have to tell them, 'I don't know. I got them three or four years ago.'"
But truth be known, Huff's true passion is for shoes, the one thing viewers rarely see. Recently, she showed up on "Live at Five" in a red jacket and red Chuck Taylor high-top Converse sneakers. "Sue Simmons thought they were a riot and insisted that I show them," Huff said.
Her philosophy: Less is more. She is, she says, the queen of flip-flops. "I have them in every type, color and price.
Because I grew up in a warm climate, most of the time I don't wear shoes in the house. Even in winter. The truth is, I don't like anything on my feet."
MARTHA MacCALLUM, "Fox News Live" anchor
It's 3 p.m. on a Friday, and "Fox News Live" anchor Martha MacCallum is racing out of the ground-floor broadcast studio and up to a third-floor conference room. She has one hour, two dozen racks of clothes, an undisclosed budget and the right to "buy" pieces for her on-air fall wardrobe - all at Fox News Channel's expense.
Even for a woman whose job it is to be totally unflustered by drama, it's a kid-in-the-candy- store experience. MacCallum, who joined Fox in January 2004, is both tickled by the indulgence of the "trunk show" and workmanlike about what she wants from it: a look that is polished, professional and won't distract from the important stuff.
"A lot depends on the time of day you're on the air," says the thirtysomething MacCallum, who anchors the 2-3 p.m. newscast. "You can have a more-or-less casual look on the morning shows - a sweater on your shoulder, say - and as you go through the day, the style gets more sophisticated."
The trunk show is Fox's semi-annual rite of style in which anchors and correspondents -
115 in all - get to shop, one at a time, till they drop. Or until their hour's up. The event is organized by in-house stylist Gwen Marder and her staff, who scour between 90 and 100 Seventh Avenue showrooms for anchorwear.
Marder sticks to suit makers such as Kasper and Zelda and separates from funkier labels,
including Tocca, Lafayette 148, Pink Tartan and Magaschoni. The average staffer winds up with 20 pieces.
Marder calls MacCallum, the mother of two boys and a girl, all under 10, one of her savviest customers.
"I like clean lines - no buttons and bows," says MacCallum, who says her role model is Jane Pauley.
At the end of the hour, MacCallum's tally includes a turquoise cashmere sweater and turquoise tweed skirt, a trim gray wool skirt with ruffled hem and cashmere cable cardigan, a sleek navy suit and a navy Prada-esque skirt.
"I think I did great," she says. "It reminds me of when we used to go school shopping and
would come home and my mom would say, 'We did great!' and you knew she was spinning it for my father."
When the first blizzard of the season roared across New York last January, pounding the city with 50-mile-per-hour winds and 18 inches of snow, TV reporters throughout the area donned their fattest parkas, galoshes and hoods.
Not Alina Cho. For her standup in Central Park, the petite CNN correspondent was the embodiment of chic: black Searle jacket, silver faux-fur hat and eye-popping Pucci snowboots. Neither snow nor ice was going to rob this 34-year-old reporter of style.
"There's a lot of pressure to look good," says Cho, who landed at CNN 15 months ago. "You want to look professional, but you're a woman, so you want to look chic, too."
Cho has no trouble telling the difference. An admitted clothes horse, she pops into Bergdorf Goodman at least once a week in search of a suit, skirt or jacket that can rotate into her wardrobe, which already fills her bedroom closet and spills into a spare room. Her "gold standard": CNN colleague Paula Zahn, whose look is at once stylish and effortless.
"Paula is one of the best interviewers in the business," says Cho, who pays for her own clothes. "And she looks fabulous every night. She complimented me the other day on my suit, and I was so excited."
It's a far cry from her early days in TV in Chicago, when her mother took her to Ann Taylor and bought her four basic suits and urged her to mix and match. These days, Cho says, she knows which designers work best for her - Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Tuleh, Zac Posen - and sticks with them.
Still, designer dressing is not always practical. Before she headed to Smoketown, Pa. (pop. 119), a few weeks ago to cover the pilot who nearly crashed into the White House, Cho raced home to throw on jeans. Twelve hours after she got back, she was off to Groton, Conn., to cover the planned closing of a submarine base.
It's at those moments that Cho also swaps her 4-inch heels for a pair of sneakers. "I had live shots from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and a story in between, and I was on my feet for a long time. At that point, comfort is the most important thing in life."
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EXTRA! EXTRA! How TV newswomen get the scoop on outfits stylish enough for a closeup BY MICHELE INGRASSIA Oh, sure, we've heard all about a certain morning anchorwoman whose sky-high stilettos and body-hugging clothes have made bigger news than any celeb-du-jour she has interviewed. It's the cardinal sin of Broadcast 101. But striking the right chord takes hard work. How hard? We asked three New York newswomen - an anchor, a correspondent and a meteorologist - to
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'Doctors Without Borders' Documentary Premieres
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By ELIZABETH VARGASDec. 14, 2009
"Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders" is a new documentary that takes a raw and unflinching look at the work of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Dr. Christopher Brasher with a film crew in Liberia shooting "Living in Emergency: Stories of...
Dr. Christopher Brasher with a film crew in Liberia shooting "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders." The practiced anesthesiologist from Australia said, "Every person who joins MSF [Medecins Sans Frontieres] as a volunteer has different motivations. I think some people do it just to run away from where they're from -- that's certainly my reason."
(Michael Coles, Red Floor Pictures)
For the first time in their 38-year history, the humanitarian organization gave filmmakers access to their doctors working in two of the most dangerous conflict zones in the world -- war-torn Congo and post-war Liberia. Many of the patients had never even seen a doctor before making their way to the MSF-sponsored hospitals.
Cameras are there as volunteers, often armed with only the local primitive medical tools at their disposal, and are forced to make split-second, life or death decisions for their patients. These doctors do it all even as their own lives are threatened by the chaos surrounding them.
Two of the doctors profiled in the film are new recruits to MSF. Each must find a way to survive the seemingly overwhelming difficulties neither could not have even imagined when signing up.
We also meet two veterans of the organization -- both exhausted and a bit disillusioned after several field assignments. By the end of the film, all four doctors will be pushed to the breaking point as they balance the limitations of what they can accomplish in the face of massive medical needs with the limits of their own idealism.
MSF is a humanitarian organization committed to providing emergency medical relief to countries that have been destabilized by violence. The men and women of MSF are often some of the first to arrive on the scene of an emergency. They operate in 70 countries, with 2,000 international staff members and 24,000 locally hired personnel.
In order to protect their independence and flexibility, MSF gets almost all of its funding from private organizations and the general public. Thousands of medical professionals volunteer each year. Unfortunately, the often overwhelming levels of emotional and physiological stress makes it necessary for MSF to accept only a select few.
For more information on "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders" or MSF, click here.
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IT'S PARY TIME ON WALL ST. Food & fun are set to flow, but firms to control costs
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BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER
Monday, December 6th 2004, 1:62AM
CARVING STATIONS, BANDS AND CAR SERVICES are in, but sushi's out again at this year's holiday circuit on Wall Street. In a year when party budgets have increased at least 10%, Wall Street has kicked into a higher gear to celebrate the holidays - loosening purse strings after Sept. 11 and bear markets.
More than 3,500 UBS employees will descend on Tavern on the Green on Dec. 14 to dine on rack of lamb, salmon and filet of prime rib - surrounded by decorations of famous florist Robert Isabell, a favorite of such celebrities as Madonna and Caroline Kennedy.
Two days later, Citigroup takes over the entire Crow Bar for a 1,600-person party featuring different food and music in each room, from a Brazilian jazz trio to deejays spinning a potpourri of music.
On that same night, Bear Stearns is bringing a crowd of 1,000 from its bond group to the China Club, where they can feast on herb-grilled tuna and marinated chicken breast while listening to flamenco, jazz, funk and karaoke music.
These touches are a far cry from the heyday of holiday parties in 1999 and 2000, when dot-com mania gripped the investing world. Investment banks raffled off TVs, had sushi bars, caviar, expensive wine, and towering ice sculptures on jumbo shrimp tables - all before securities firms cut more than 42,000 jobs from their ranks in the city.
Goldman Sachs hosted partners' parties that included such name-brand entertainment as members of the Cirque de Soleil, at cost of more than $1,000 per person.
Wall Street parties are now averaging closer to $125 per person, with the lower end of the range around $50 a person and the higher end around $500.
"Gone are the days when [bankers] said, 'I want this place, I don't care what it costs,' " said Jennifer Gilbert, the founder of Save the Date.
"It's really about appreciation in a modified way," said Cheryl Kahn-Brocco, the catering manager at Bridgewaters.
With the profit picture at Wall Street firms during the past two years the best it's been since 1999 and 2000, these firms are once again celebrating the holidays by throwing big annual parties - albeit with an eye on the budget.
Big buffets, and their huge lines, are out, in favor of more individual stations, which include international food - a Japanese station with Udon noodles and different toppings and sauces packaged in white take-out containers that can be carried around a room, Gilbert said.
Even though bands cost more than deejays, live music is making a comeback.
"It looks like a good season," said Hank Lane, founder of Hank Lane Productions, which is not only providing live contemporary and dixieland bands for several Wall Street parties but is also playing a holiday party at the White House. "Every day, we're still getting bookings."
At Bridgewaters, which several bankers said is hosting parties for Merrill Lynch and TD Waterhouse, holiday revelers may cap off a night of corporate partying with hot cocoa and warm chocolate chip cookies.
For some, the holiday experience doesn't end once Wall Street execs leave, as limos await on the street.
Todd Stephens, a regional manager at Boston Coach said his business has increased 20% this year, with much of that coming from Wall Street firms.
Still, the big banks are keeping a close eye on costs, he said.
"While firms are spending more, they're still cost-conscious," said Stephens. "If there are two or three people going to Brooklyn Heights who are leaving at the same time, we'll put them in the same vehicle." [email protected]
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TRIAL BLAZERS Cancer-study participants forge the way for the treatments of the future
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BY AMANDA GARDNER Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, May 22th 2000, 2:12AM
'If I were a rat, I'd be in good shape," says Mark Pomerantz, 46, of the Bronx. "This vaccine works wonders in rats." Pomerantz isn't a rat, but he is a guinea pig of sorts: He's one of only four people enrolled in a clinical trial for an experimental vaccine that has made melanoma-related tumors disappear in mice. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine now want to see if the vaccine will have the same effect in humans.
That's where Pomerantz comes in: The melanoma he found on his scalp five years ago has spread to his neck and spleen.
All new medical treatments must go through a rigorous series of clinical trials before they're approved for use in the general population. Trials cover everything from hair loss to heart disease, but cancer trials are probably the largest area, simply because there are more patients who have the disease.
"All the advances in cancer treatment which have developed over the last 25 to 30 years have been established in clinical trials first before they became generally available," says Dr. Robert L. Comis, chairman of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), which treats 6,000 to 7,000 adult cancer patients in clinical trials every year.
"It really is the drumbeat for the standard of care in the country," said Comis. All told, about 50,000 adult cancer patients are in thousands of clinical trials around the country right now.
Vaccines are one of the most promising areas in cancer research. Though there have been no approvals so far, several dozen are being studied in trials. Dr. Howard Kaufman, director of the tumor vaccine program and assistant professor of surgery, microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is in charge of eight of these trials, including Pomerantz' melanoma trial.
The idea behind the vaccines is to get the body's own immune system (involving the T cells) to attack the tumor. "Viruses are nature's normal way of getting a T-cell response," says Kaufman. "They respond when a virus is present."
The idea is not new - a century ago, scientists made ineffective vaccines by removing cancer tumors from patients, grinding them up and then injecting them back into the body.
Today's vaccines are quite a bit more sophisticated and involve taking a gene involved in a particular type of cancer, splicing it into a virus and then injecting the virus into the patient.
"We thought adding tumor genes into the virus would automatically generate a T-cell response for the tumor as well," says Kaufman. And in some cases, it has.
In early trials for a lymphoma vaccine, 18 out of 20 patients remained in complete remission four years after vaccine therapy began. Thanks to this success, earlier this year the National Cancer Institute started the first large-scale Phase III trials for cancer vaccines: one for the lymphoma vaccine, the other for a melanoma vaccine.
The lymphoma vaccine is an example of a "customized" vaccine - one made from the patient's own tumor cells. Synthetic vaccines use genes common to many cancers and can be given to anyone who expresses that gene.
"The dream," says Dr. Larry Kwak, senior investigator in the division of clinical sciences of the National Cancer Institute, "would be that there would be one cancer vaccine for lots of patients," For now, though, all different kinds of vaccines are being studied. Kaufman alone is performing trials with prostate, colon and renal cancer vaccines, in addition to the melanoma vaccine.
So far, Kaufman's trials involve about 50 people, or no more than 10% of the total number who apply, mainly because of strict eligibility requirements. (Nationwide, only 2% to 4% of all cancer patients are enrolled in clinical trials, partly due to eligibility requirements and partly due to lack of awareness.)
Mark Pomerantz had been trying to get into a clinical trial for three years before he was accepted at Albert Einstein. One study turned him away because his tumor was too small, another because he had had three chemical treatments and the researchers wanted to study only people who had had two.
Even Kaufman rejected Pomerantz once because, Pomerantz says, his tumor wasn't the right size or in the right location. Now, Pomerantz' neck tumor has become so large that he qualifies (Kaufman's study requires that tumors be on or near the skin so they can be injected directly).
Once a month for the next three months, Pomerantz will get an injection of the vaccine. Kaufman then will evaluate his response to see if any of the T cells that result end up attacking tumors in other parts of the body (in Pomerantz' case, the spleen).
The question may not be what to do if the trial fails, but what to do if the trial succeeds. Kaufman was involved in one clinical trial - an experimental vaccine for colon cancer - that produced a total remission in three patients with advanced colon cancer. The problem was, no one had anticipated success and there wasn't enough vaccine to last beyond the trial. More couldn't be made in time, and the three patients eventually died.
Kaufman says there is no definite cutoff for any of his current trials, though most of them call for an initial course of only three or four injections. And for Pomerantz, who has been through surgery, chemo and biological treatments, anything is good. "I'm a little bit apprehensive, but I'm very hopeful. I'm praying that this time maybe we hit upon the thing that will work for me," he says.
Sidebar: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
For the patient, clinical trials are "an opportunity to participate and get new treatments earlier than the general public," says ECOG chairman Dr. Robert Comis. For the medical community, trials are the only way to prove that a treatment works.
Many people believe that clinical trials (especially for cancer) are a last resort for people who have tried everything else. But, according to Comis, this is not the case. "The vast majority of studies in cancer are trying to establish the best initial treatment," he says. "They aren't the last resort. They could be the best opportunity as an initial resort."
Different cancer trials call for people in different stages of a disease. Phase I trials, which are concerned with finding the right medication dosage, typically involve advanced patients, says Andrea Denicoff, a clinical trials nurse specialist at the National Cancer Institute.
"We don't know what the exact best dose is, and we don't know if there will be definitely a response, so you wouldn't want to try it in a new patient unless there were no other options," says Denicoff.
Patients with poor-prognosis cancer also tend to seek out Phase II trials, which continue to test the safety of the drug and also begin to evaluate how well the drug works. Unlike Phase I trials, Phase II trials are focused on a particular type of cancer. Patients in Phase III trials often have a better prognosis. In this phase, researchers start to compare the new drug with other treatments. Patients must agree to be randomly selected for either the best current treatment or something that is potentially more effective.
Whatever the stage of their illness, people interested in joining a clinical trial should talk with their doctor about whether it makes sense to participate. Eventually, they will also want to talk to the doctor who is leading the trial to make sure that he or she is experienced and is responsive to patients' concerns. Before signing up with a trial, keep these points in mind:
nMake sure the trial has gone through a review by the IRB (Institutional Review Board) review. IRBs are overseen by the federal government and are the main way of ensuring the studies are legitimate.
nInvestigators are required to give patients a consent form that provides detailed information on the treatment, including dosing and side effects. Make sure you read the form before signing. If you don't understand something, ask questions. "People really have to understand what they're getting into. It's a serious business, getting involved in clinical research," says Dr. John I. Gallin, director of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. "Trials are designed to be minimal risk, but there's still risk, and they demand a certain amount of commitment on the part of the patient."
nPatients can leave a clinical trial at any point without being penalized.
nMany clinical trials are "double blind," which means that neither patient nor doctor knows which of two or more treatments the patient is receiving. If the trial is "placebo controlled" then some of the subjects will be getting a placebo and not a new treatment. Contrary to popular belief, the so-called placebo is always the best currently available treatment. No one is ever given nothing unless there is no existing treatment, which is rare.
Several Internet sites provide information on current clinical trials:
nwww.clinicaltrials.gov, a joint venture between the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, has information on 4,400 clinical studies. The goal is to eventually have a database of all private and public studies in the U.S. on serious or life-threatening conditions.
gov has information on about 1,000 studies currently being conducted by the NIH at its Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.
nwww.centerwatch.com, a commercial site; protocols must pay to be listed
nhttp://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/trialsrch.shtml: information on about 1,800 active cancer trials around the world.
nhttp://ecog.dfci.harvard.edu is one of the largest clinical cancer research organizations in the U.S.
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"Sis Boom Bah"(St. Martin's, $6.99) - Author Jane Heller is in breezy, beach-book form: Deborah and Sharon are two forever bickering sisters who agree to make peace, but only after mom suffers a heart attack. Her cardiologist puts the moves on both sisters, then he is murdered and the sibs are the suspects.
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IT'LL BE A BUSY BLACK HISTORY MONTH N.Y. OFFERS A CROWDED CALENDAR OF ART, DRAMA, MUSIC AND MOVIES
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Wednesday, February 1th 1995, 3:80AM
TODAY KICKS OFF A month-long celebration of the contributions African-Americans have made to society. It began as the idea of Carter G. Woodsen, a black historian, who picked a week in February that held the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass (Feb. 12 and 14).
In 1976, as part of the bicentennial celebration, President Gerald Ford declared February Black History Month. Today, across the country, churches, corporations, community centers and museums are paying homage to those African-Americans whose contributions made history from Harriet Tubman, Langston Hughes and Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and Maya Angelou.
Following is a list of events that will take place throughout the city:
"The African Art Tradition & Transformation." Sculptures from Zimbabwe and traditional African art. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. Through March. Free.
"Beauty's Daughter," a play by Dael Orlandersmith directed by Peter Askin about an urban poet. The American Place Theatre, 111 W. 46th St., first floor. Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 3 p.m. $20.
Black Beauty exhibit, includes works from Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Ed Clark and photographer Hugh Bell, among others. Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 112th St. & Amsterdam Ave. Free.
"Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds," the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition, featuring Madame C.J. Walker, Harriet Tubman and anthropologist Katherine Dunham. Seton Hall Univerity's Walsh Library Gallery, South Orange, N.J. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. For information: (201) 761-9476.
"Endangered Species," a timely drama about the devastation and violence that is wiping out young black men in our communities. National Black Theatre, 2033 Fifth Ave. at 125th St. Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m. $18. Discounts available. (212) 722-3800.
Harlem African-American Wax Museum, featuring Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, David Dinkins, others. 316 W. 115th St. Tues.-Sun., 1-6 p.m. $10 adults, $5 children.
"I Tell My Art," an exhibition of the art of Horace Pippen. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Ave. at 82d St. Feb. 1-April 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. (212) 570-3930.
"Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine," based on a book by Norma Jean and Carole Darden, directed by Josh Broder, about three generations of an extraordinary family, beginning with the emancipation of the first generation from slavery. The American Place Theatre, 111 W. 46th St. Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 3 p.m. $25.
"An Evening Birthday and Book Celebration" for Langston Hughes. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 7 p.m. Free.
"Malcolm X: Make It Plain," a film portrait narrated by Alfre Woodard. PBS (Ch. 13). Airs during Feb. Check local listings for times/dates.
Lewis Latimer Exhibit: The life and times of the famed inventor. Queens Borough Public Library (Central Gallery), 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. 6-8 p.m. Free.
Black History Month opening ceremonies, featuring live music. African-American Institute: 833 United Nations Plaza. 1 p.m. Free.
A celebration of Langston Hughes' birthday, featuring poetry readings by Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, the Rev. Pedro Pietri and others. 20 E. 127th St. 3 p.m. $5
Reading from "Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World," by Marita Gold. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 7 p.m. Free.
A open forum with WBAI radio's Utrice Leid. The African-American Institute. 12:30-2 p.m. Free.
A screening of "Sankofa," a film about the African holocaust. The Thalia Theatre, 250 W. 95th St. 7 p.m. $6.50
"Glory," a film about African-Americans in the Civil War, with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Ave. at 82d St. 4 and 6:30 p.m. Free. (212) 570-3930.
"Taliaferro," a musical and dramatic performance by members of the National Black Theatre about the contributions of African-Americans to New York City. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103d St. 2 p.m. Free.
Larry Ridley & the Jazz Legacy, an ensemble of the music of Art Blakey. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 3 p.m. Free.
Les Ballet Bougarabou du Senegal, a Senegalese ballet. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave at 103d St. 2 p.m. Free.
Discussion, "Bridging the Gaps Dispelling Myths Between Africans and African-Americans." 345 E. 46th St. 6 p.m. Free.
African Bazaar, featuring arts, crafts, etc. African-American Institute lobby, 833 United Nations Plaza. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.
Reading from works of Frederick Douglass. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 7 p.m. Free.
African Bazaar. (See Feb. 15.)
Black History music and poetry reading, featuring Amiri Baraka and Lou Ark. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 7:30 p.m. Free.
African Bazaar. (See Feb. 15.)
Black History music and poetry reading, featuring Baraka and Ark. (See Feb. 16.)
Reclaiming Our African-American Past: Weeksville, a 19th-century African-American community in Brooklyn that still stands today. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103d St. 2 p.m. Free.
Black History music and poetry reading, featuring Baraka and Ark. (See Feb. 16.)
"African-American Stories That Sing, Dance and Shout," a song and dance ensemble. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Ave. at 82d St. 3 p.m. Free.
Black History music and poetry reading, featuring Baraka and Ark. (See Feb. 16.)
"The Origin of Gospel Music," by L.D. Frazier. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave at 103d St. 2 p.m. Free.
"Josephine: The Hungry Heart," readings from a book about Josephine Baker, by Jean Claude Baker and Chris Chase. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox Ave. 7 p.m. Free.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, internationally renowned music ensemble. 123 W. 43d St., 8 p.m. (212) 666-4307.
Symposium on the African Burial Ground. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103d St., 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Advance registration. (212) 534-1672.
"On the Bandstand: Harlem to Broadway," a musical rendition by Neal Tate, renowned Broadway accompanist. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103d St. 2 p.m. Free.
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Zumba your troubles away
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Swing it: Kate Weinberg, top left, and her sister Joanna, top right, are taught by instructor Yulia Pylybnko at LA Fitness in Bayswater, London Photo: JEFF GILBERT
The music is thumping an infectious Latin American beat. The sweat is pouring as the crowd, moving as one, shimmies and shakes, weaves and waves. It could be Havana but in fact it’s the Isle of Wight. This is Zumba, the fitness dance craze that has taken the United States by storm and is now poised to break over Britain in an unstoppable riptide of wild, abandoned enthusiasm.
It started simply enough in Colombia in the mid-Nineties when aerobics teacher Beto Perez forgot his usual music and had to improvise a routine around the music he had in his car, traditional Latin salsa and merengue. The class was a huge success and Perez realised he was on to something, merging aerobics with dance to a lilting Latin beat. He moved to the US and the Zumba bid for world domination began. Now there are more than 20,000 instructors teaching Zumba in 75 countries. Four hundred of them are in Britain and that number will surely rise.
The principle behind Zumba is incredibly simple: get fit, have fun. That’s it. There are no complicated moves to learn and you don’t need the co-ordination of a standard aerobics class – or the partner you’d require for a traditional salsa class. Best of all, the music is so infectious that you barely even notice that you are exercising.
“It’s like being at a party,” says instructor Naomi Di Fabio. “It’s easy to follow so people don’t have to think too much about what they’re doing and can just get into it. Then, of course, the music is great and just makes you want to dance.”
A standard one-hour class uses four basic rhythms based on simplified versions of salsa, merengue, cumbia and reggaeton (mixed with a bit of mambo, flamenco, rumba and calypso).
“It’s a cardio-based workout that also helps to tone and sculpt the body,” explains Yorkshire-based instructor Nicola Swindle. “It’s a great way to lose weight, increase strength and co-ordination, and foster self-esteem and pure happiness. That is why so many people love it and get addicted to it.”
People certainly do become incredibly enthusiastic, nigh-on evangelical, about Zumba.
“Imagine a Mexican wave at a football match. That’s nothing in comparison with the atmosphere at our hall each week,” says 47-year-old Diane West, who goes to classes in West Yorkshire. “I see a group of tired, ordinary women come to life. Whether it’s the music or the moves, the change is undeniable. There’s a J-Lo or Beyoncé inside all these women – it’s total, powerful, mind-blowing energy.”
Swindle agrees that the workout exercises your endorphins as well as your muscles.
“I focused on the health and fitness benefits of the class to begin with, explaining how it’s exercise in disguise,” she says. “But now I’m beginning to think it’s Prozac in disguise as well.”
There’s a Zumba for nearly everyone, whether you’re 17 (clad in clingy dance gear) or 70 (firmly in baggy T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms). Zumba Gold classes are aimed specifically at older people (you can even do Zumba sitting in a chair) while a new Zumba Kids programme is being rolled out later in the year.
However much you might baulk at the idea of shaking your booty to a swinging Latin beat, it seems that, in the coming months, few in
Britain will be immune from Zumba. In fact, don’t even try to resist: give in, get up and join the party.
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NIFTY 50 BLUE-RIBBON PANEL PICKS NFL'S BEST OF THE CENTURY
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Sunday, September 12th 1999, 2:11AM
The Daily News commissioned a blue-ribbon panel of football experts to come up with a list of the top 50 players of the 20th century. And former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown was voted the best of the best.
"I just think he was the greatest," Giants GM Ernie Accorsi said. "I don't know how to even explain it."
The panel was comprised of 13 voters who have spent much of their lives in pro football, plus four Daily News football writers. Each voter was asked to present their list of the top 30 players, regardless of position, regardless of era. The 17 ballots resulted in 100 different names, spanning every era of pro football. From there, we came up with the top 50 vote-getters.
Thirty points were awarded for a first-place vote, 29 for a second, etc., down to one point for a 30th place vote.
Brown was the clear-cut winner. He was the No. 1 player on nine of the 17 ballots and accumulated 477 points. The next four players were bunched together and finished in this order: Joe Montana, the 49ers and Chiefs quarterback, with 406 points, although he did not pick up one first-place vote; Jerry Rice, the 49ers receiver on the other end of so many of Montana's touchdown tosses, with 396 points; Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas with 390; and Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, the first defensive player on the list and, in effect, the selection for greatest defensive player in NFL history. He had 383 points.
Rounding out the top 10 were Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh, Packers wide receiver Don Hutson, followed by a pair of Bears running backs, Walter Payton and Gale Sayers.
Brown was named the top player of the century by Giants GM Ernie Accorsi, Bucs coach Tony Dungy, Jets personnel director Dick Haley, former AFL, NFL and USFL executive Don Klosterman, Ravens personnel director Ozzie Newsome and Daily News football writers Gary Myers, Rich Cimini, John Harper and Hank Gola.
Here's how the other first-place votes went:
Unitas by Steelers president Dan Rooney and 49ers GM Bill Walsh.
Baugh by Packers GM Ron Wolf and former Cowboys president Tex Schramm.
Taylor by former Cowboys vice president Gil Brandt. "I think you could put a number of players first," he said. "I think (Taylor) could win more games for you than a running back."
Hutson by Joe Horrigan of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "I always looked at him as a guy who absolutely dominated his position," Horrigan said, recalling Hutson's 1935-45 glory days.
Dolphins QB Dan Marino by his former coach, Don Shula. "The reason is the records," he said. "He's got them all."
Rice by Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt. "I just think what he has accomplished, in longevity and productivity - he just stands out," Hunt said.
"It was very difficult, particularly with the first five," said Wolf, who followed Baugh with Hutson, Unitas, Brown and Eric Dickerson. "Each one of those were dominating people in their era."
Dungy said Brown looked "larger than life" when he watched him play as a kid and "dominated his era as no one has dominated his era before or since. All those rushing titles, league championships - he was just the best player in his era by far."
Five active players made it into the top 50: Rice (No. 3), Marino (22), Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders (24), Bills defensive end Bruce Smith (37), 49ers quarterback Steve Young (44) and Packers quarterback Brett Favre (48).
Ten running backs were in the top 50, led by Brown, Payton and Sayers. There were 10 quarterbacks, led by Montana, Unitas and Baugh. Interestingly, former Broncos signal caller John Elway was named on 13 of the 17 ballots and finished 11th with 230 points, while Marino made it onto just six and had 108 points. Elway finished his career with back-to-back Super Bowls. And even though Marino owns all the important passing records, he goes into his 17th season still looking for his first ring.
Walsh went for Unitas as his greatest player and listed his own quarterback, Montana, as the third best player overall, with Brown sandwiched between the two. He had Payton fourth, followed by Rice, another player he drafted for the 49ers.
Shula, the winningest coach in NFL history, went for Elway right after Marino, followed by another quarterback, Otto Graham, then Brown and Butkus. Brandt went for Rice in the No. 2 spot, behind LT. "I don't know how anybody could ever break the records he has established," Brandt said of Rice. "He is just so dominant."
Accorsi's top six were Brown, LT, Unitas, Rice, Butkus and Montana. At No. 7, he had Colts guard-tackle Jim Parker. "He blocked out the sun," he said. He had Sayers at No. 8. "He was the greatest halfback I've ever seen in my life," Accorsi said.
After putting Brown first, Haley listed Taylor, Montana, former Packers defensive end Reggie White and Rice in his top five. Rooney had a one through five of Unitas, Brown, Baugh, Hutson and Chicago Bears running back Red Grange. Schramm had Baugh first, then went for Brown, Hutson, Elway and his former quarterback Roger Staubach, who led the Cowboys to two Super Bowl championships.
Joe Namath was the only Jet to receive any votes. He finished with 24 points, tied for 57th place with Chargers tight end Kellen Winslow.
A 17-member panel voted for the top 30 pro football players in history. The Daily News assigned a point value - 30 points for a first place vote, 29 for a second, etc., down to one point for a 30th place vote - to come up with the 50 greatest.
1. Jim Brown, RB 477
2. Joe Montana, QB 406
3. Jerry Rice, WR 396
4. Johnny Unitas, QB 390
5. Lawrence Taylor, LB 383
6. Dick Butkus, LB 340
7. Sammy Baugh, QB-P 291
8. Don Hutson, WR 285
9. Walter Payton, RB 276
10. Gale Sayers, RB 249
11. John Elway, QB 230
12. Otto Graham, QB 225
13. Joe Greene, DT 204
14. Reggie White, DE 198
15. O.J. Simpson, RB 161
16. Barry Sanders, RB 159
17. Gino Marchetti, DE 157
18. Deacon Jones, DE 156
19. Bob Lilly, DT 148
20. Jim Parker, OT-OG 145
21. Terry Bradshaw, QB 110
22. Dan Marino, QB 108
23. Bronko Nagurski, FB-LB 101
24. Deion Sanders, CB 98
25. Dick (Night Train) Lane, CB 95
26. Anthony Munoz, OT 91
27. Earl Campbell, RB 89
(tie) Marion Motley, RB-LB 89
29. Eric Dickerson, RB 83
30. Roger Staubach, QB 81
31. Forrest Gregg, OT 76
32. Mel Hein, C-LB 66
33. Lance Alworth, WR 64
34. Ronnie Lott, S-CB 60
(tie) John Hannah, OG 60
36. Raymond Berry, WR 59
37. Bruce Smith, DE 58
38. Mike Ditka, TE 56
39. Jack Ham, LB 53
40. Ray Nitschke, LB 51
41. Red Grange, RB 40
(tie) Mel Blount, CB 40
43. Steve Young, QB 39
(tie) Alan Page, DT 39
45. Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, C-LB 34
(tie) Jack Lambert, LB 34
48. Ted Hendricks, LB 31
(tie) Bobby Bell, LB-DE 31
51. Paul Warfield, WR 30
52. Merlin Olsen, DT 29
53. John Mackey, TE 26
(tie) Art Shell, OT 26
56. Mike Singletary, LB 25
57. Joe Namath, QB 24
(tie) Kellen Winslow, TE 24
59. Len Ford, DE 23
61. Hugh McElhenny, RB 22
(tie) Bill Willis, MG-OG 22
63. Ollie Matson, RB-DB 21
64. Willie Brown, CB 18
(tie) Mike Haynes, CB 18
66. Roosevelt Brown, OT 17
(tie) Elroy Hirsch, RB-DB 17
68. Marcus Allen, RB 16
69. (tie) Willie Lanier, LB 15
71. (tie) Terrell Davis, RB 14
74. Gene (Big Daddy) Lipscomb, DT 13
75. Bob St. Clair, OT 12
76. Paul Hornung, RB 11
(tie) Larry Little, OG 11
78. Larry Csonka, RB 10
(tie) Ernie Nevers, FB 10
81. Bob Hayes, WR 8
82. Herb Adderley, CB 7
(tie) Dan Fouts, QB 7
86. Jim Otto, C 6
(tie) Rod Woodson, CB 6
88. Bobby Layne, QB 5
89. Cal Hubbard, OT-DE 4
(tie) Lenny Moore, RB 4
Steve Van Buren, RB 4
Lee Roy Selmon, DE 4
93. Emlen Tunnell, S 3
94. Lem Barney, CB 2
(tie) Mel Renfro, CB 2
97. Doug Atkins, DE 1
(tie) Chuck Bednarik, C-LB 1
The Daily News commissioned a blue-ribbon panel to name the Top 50 All-Time Greatest Pro Football Players. Each of the 17 panel members compiled a top 30, which resulted in 100 names. The Daily News assigned a point value - 30 for a first place vote, 29 for a second, etc., down to one point for a 30th-place vote - to come up with the 50 greatest.
Took over as general manager of
the Giants from George Young after the 1997 season. Was previously the general manager of the Baltimore Colts and vice president of the Cleveland Browns. The Browns made it to three AFC Championship Games during Accorsi's tenure.
Vice president of the Dallas
Cowboys from 1960-89. Helped construct the teams that went to five Super Bowls, winning two. Now acts as a consultant to the NFL.
Head coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs now in his fourth season. Previously was an NFL assistant coach for 15 years and played in the NFL as a defensive back for three years.
Bill Parcells' right-hand man as the Jets' director of player personnel. Has spent 34 years in the NFL and played a key role in acquiring the personnel for the Steelers' four Super Bowl championship teams in the 1970s.
The vice president of communications-exhibits for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He has been with the Hall of Fame for 23 years.
Owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. Organized the AFL in 1960 and later led merger negotiations with NFL in 1966. Was the original owner of the Dallas Texans, who later became the Kansas City Chiefs.
A pro football executive in three different leagues from 1960-1985. Started off with the Los Angeles Chargers of the AFL, then went to the Dallas Texans, moved with them when they became the Kansas City Chiefs, then went to the Houston Oilers, the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and the USFL Los Angeles Express.
Made his first mark as an executive with the Rams from 1947-56 and later helped turn the Cowboys into America's Team. He was president from the Cowboys' inception in 1960 until 1989. He later ran the World League of American Football for the NFL.
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame following a 13-year career as a tight end for the Cleveland Browns. He is now the vice president of personnel for the Baltimore Ravens.
The executive vice president and general manager of the Green Bay Packers. Put together the 1996 Super Bowl champs. Has been a pro football executive since 1963, including stops with the Raiders, Bucs, Jets and Packers.
All-time winningest coach in NFL history with 347 victories. Coached the Baltimore Colts from 1963-69 and the Miami Dolphins from 1970-95.
The president of the Pittsburgh Steelers and son of the late legendary owner of the Steelers, Art Rooney.
One of the most respected executives in the NFL.
Coached the San Francisco 49ers from 1979-88, winning three Super Bowls. Now the vice president and general manager of the team.
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Brokeback Marriage: Wife Starts Over -- as a Lesbian, With a Woman
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By all accounts, Shira Neuberger seemed to be living a happy life. She had a handsome husband, two beautiful daughters and a pretty suburban home outside Philadelphia.
Shira Neuberger poses for picture with Kelly Harold, the woman who moved into her home after her husband moved out.
But last year, she stunned neighbors in her small town by splitting with her husband of seven-and-a-half years and inviting a new partner into her home.
Even more shocking to those around her, her new love was not another man -- but a woman.
Shira said that if someone had told her in July 2001, when she married her husband, John, that she would ultimately end up in a relationship with another woman, she would have been stunned. She said she entered her marriage blissfully happy, believing it would last forever.
Just a year later, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Karis. A second daughter, Sosie, followed in 2004.
Watch the full story Friday on "20/20" at 10 p.m. ET.
As the years passed, though, doubts began creeping in about her marriage.
"We don't want to have those doubts of, 'Is this not going to work?'" Shira said. "I mean, that's a very frightening feeling. But the nature of our relationship was really changing."
As her marriage to John became increasingly unhappy, Shira found their sex life fading as well. Soon, depression had taken over, even getting so bad at one point that she resorted to electroconvulsive brain therapy -- once known as electro-shock treatment -- looking for relief. By 2006, Shira said, she was sure her marriage would not last.
"When I look where I am now, and I look where I was, it's a dramatic shift. And all the changes were very difficult. There's loss involved -- there's a lot of loss," Shira said.
A struggling Shira began to lean more on her female friends for emotional support. One of those friends was Kelly Durand, whom Shira had met at her children's gymnastics classes a few years earlier.
At first, the relationship was platonic, because although Kelly was a lesbian, she knew Shira as a married mother of two.
"I think there's something about it being off-limits that confines you to behave in a certain way," Kelly said. "I think it probably always was there, but like, you sort of keep your distance."
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MARC'S MARRIAGE 'MENDED,' PALS SAY
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BY GEORGE RUSH AND JOANNA MOLLOY With Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe
Monday, October 21th 2002, 8:08AM
Three months after announcing they'd separated, salsa star Marc Anthony and his wife, Dayanara, are back together and determined to stay that way.
Recently, Anthony summoned his band members, friends and family to a private dining room of Barca, the restaurant his
brother, Bigram, just opened on Thompson St.
Having promised "a big announcement," he and Dayanara revealed that they will renew their vows in a grand wedding.
Anthony's camp will confirm nothing, but we hear the couple has booked a cathedral in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the the first week in December.
Back in 2000, they had a civil ceremony at Las Vegas' Desert Inn - without Dayanara's mother or Marc's parents.
"They've always wanted a formal, fairy-tale wedding," says a source. "Marc is planning every detail."
Dayanara, a 26-year-old former Miss Universe, is said to be the inspiration for many love songs on Anthony's CD "Mended." But last summer, when she moved out - taking their 16-month-old son, Cristian - friends said she felt her husband's first love was his career.
Now that his tour is over, a friend says, "They never leave each other. If he has to promote something, he brings Dayanara and Cristian with."
The 32-year-old showman wants to prevent the marriage from coming apart again.
One more testament to his devotion: Anthony had been in talks to play salsa legend Hector Lavoe in a movie co-starring his former flame Jennifer Lopez. Now, we hear, Lopez may need to look for another leading man.
Lisa Kudrow can finally talk about it.
Back when she was 16, the "Friends" star had a nose job.
"I had a hook nose, and now it's certainly smaller," she says. "But I'm not even sure I love how that turned out.
"I think plastic surgery looks weird - like plastic surgery," she confesses in the November issue of Allure.
The 38-year-old mother of 4-year-old Julian Murray Stern also admits she felt "hideous" while pregnant.
"I didn't think my belly was beautiful or goddess-like in the least. It wasn't a turn-on to my husband [former ad exec Michel Stern]. The two of us were like, 'Well, it'll be over soon.' "
Say what you will, Lisa, you're our kind of hideous.
Ruff day at the office.
Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra has been hearing growls from her City Hall colleagues since she's been bringing a dog to work.
Dykstra's pooch has the run of the office, says a source, who reports that the furry yapper has nipped at an ankle or two.
"The commissioner adopted a puppy three weeks ago," says her spokeswoman Dina Improta. "She brought it in a few times while she was working out her dog-walking schedule."
Eccentric former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern never went anywhere without his golden retriever, Boomer, and ran a campaign to make him the most-petted pooch in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Improta insists the current critter's presence in the corridors of Bloomberg is "a temporary thing," and refused to even divulge the name of Dykstra's canine companion.
"I don't want to get into details," Improta said, turning Watergate-serious.
But our source claims he knows the breed: "It's a little rat dog."
Tenants at Trump Parc Avenue couldn't believe the contents of a letter from Con Edison last month.
"We regret to notify you that because Trump Parc Ave. LLC has not paid a $19,390 security deposit, we will have to turn off service unless we receive payment by Oct. 2," the notices said. "We suggest you contact your landlord to arrange for payment."
The lobby lights have stayed on. A Con Ed rep says the bill has been paid. Billionaire Donald Trump, who is converting the former Delmonico Apartments into condos, blames the warning on an accounting error at the utility company.
Meanwhile, we regret to inform Mr. Trump that the Learning Annex attendance record he set in 2001, when he spoke to 2,850 people about "Thinking Big" has been broken. Almost 4,000 people have signed up to hear "Rich Dad/Poor Dad" author Robert Kiyosaki speak tomorrow at Madison Square Garden on the plummeting stock market.
New venture on her plate.
Somehow we can't see the wife of media titan Rupert Murdoch spending a lot of time in the kitchen. Nevertheless, sources say Wendi Deng, mother of 11-month-old Grace Murdoch, is planning to open a chic Chinese restaurant on Lafayette St., not far from the Murdochs' SoHo loft. The new New York outpost of London hot-spot Hakkasan will be operated in partnership with owner Alan Yau.
Meanwhile, restaurateur Nello Balan assures us that his Madison Ave. celebreteria has not been affected by the trials of former Tyco honcho Dennis Kozlowski. According to The New York Times, Kozlowski, now out on $5 million bail, was "a backer" of Nello's.
But Nello argues: "He never invested. He used to come here. He was not really a friend. I have nothing to do with him."
JEFF GOLDBLUM didn't get the star treatment at St. Vincent's Hospital the other night, we hear. A source says the actor, in town to star in "The Exonerated" at the 45 Bleecker Theater, arrived at the emergency room with a splinter in his foot, and had to wait three hours for a doctor to remove it
CAN'T GET a ticket to "Hairspray"? The High School of Art and Design - which counts the Broadway hit's star Harvey Fierstein as an illustrious graduate - happens to have 44 tickets to the sold-out Oct. 31 performance. To raise money for the school, the alumni association is taking bids over $100 for each ducat. The highest bidder will receive a surprise gift from Fierstein. (A really nice hairnet?) E-mail your bid with your name, address and phone number to [email protected] by Friday.
JACKIE ROBINSON's widow, Rachel, and her son, David, had coffee at Union Square Cafe - made from arabica beans grown on the Tanzanian plantation David runs. Restaurateur Danny Meyer is serving Robinson's brew for the next three months
LL COOL J devoured a fish dish at Da Tommaso Restaurant, and his fans didn't interrupt his meal by asking for autographs.
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TODAY IN NEW YORK
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A century ago today they broke ground on the city's first subway. Celebrate at the Transit Museum or take the No. 7 to see Carrie Smith sing the blues in Flushing, the 2,4,5 to the Grand Concourse for a play about love or the L to Bedford Ave. to try a new ale, and to First Ave. to hear a young songwriter in the East Village. The 1,9,A,B,C & D deliver you to a Celtic fest. Or, ride a subway, ferry and bus for a Staten Island talk on Newton's Laws of Motion.
 Test your throwing accuracy and hockey prowess, join tennis clinics, try the wrestling Big Apple grapple, bat against stick-ball pitchers, ask Daily News cartoonist Bill Gallo to sign his new book, and try even more at Modell's Sports Experience festival. 3-9 p.m., $10-$17. Javits Center, 655 W. 34th St., via A,C,E to 34th St.; 1-800-841-6302.
 Why do objects stay at rest or in motion? Kids study Newton's Laws in a "Sci-Fri" physics of energy program at the Staten Island Children's Museum. 1 p.m., free with $4 admission. 1000 Richmond Terrace, via S40 to Snug Harbor; (718) 273-2060.
 The physical and social environment of gyms and working out, and related forms of self-modification, are the artists' subjects in "Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000," opening at Thread Waxing Space. 6 p.m., free. 476 Broadway, via 6 to Spring St.; (212) 274-0792.
 About a Latina who aspires to be as perfect as her Barbie doll, "Que Felices son Las Barbies! (How Happy Barbies Are!)," debuts. 8 p.m., $12-$15. La Tea Theater, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk St., via F to Delancey St. or J,M,Z to Essex St.; (212) 242-4460.
 Pal Shazar sings of love, lust and self-analytic introversion in an appearance at Brownie's. 8:30 p.m., $10. 169 Avenue A, via L to First Ave.; (212) 420-8392.
 As an excuse to spend time with other men's wives, Mr. Horner claims he has been castrated in the Restoration comedy "The Country Wife," set in N.Y. in the 1970s. 8 p.m., $18. Pulse Ensemble Theatre, 432 W. 42nd St., via A,C,E to 42nd St.; (212) 279-4200.
 The first glass of Blanche de Brooklyn 2000, a white, Belgian-style summer ale, is drawn in the setting of picnic tables and concrete walls at Williamsburg's Brooklyn Brewery. 6 p.m., no cover, $3. 118 N. 11th St., via L to Bedford Ave.; (718) 486-7422.
 Join the singles at the 92nd Street Y's Friday night Shabbat dinner for blessings over the candles, wine and challah, a traditional "hamish" meal, plus spirited discussion. 7:30 p.m., $30 registration required. 1395 Lexington Ave., via 6 to 96th St.; (212) 996-1100.
 Poet/instrument maker Badavi performs on the short-necked oud lute, joining Bedouin musicians in nostalgic and joyful music of "Yemen: Sounds of the Desert." 8 p.m., $18. Washington Square Church, 135 W. Fourth St., via A,B,D,C,D,E,F,Q to W. Fourth St.; (212) 545-7536.
 A veteran of the Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong bands, Carrie Smith promises Ellington tunes and lots of "low-down dirty blues." 8 p.m., $20-$24. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., via 7 to Main St.; (718) 463-7700.
 Singles 35 and older are invited to mingle and enjoy music, snacks and door prizes at the Grand Cafe overlooking Great Kills Harbor. 9 p.m., $15. 141 Mansion Ave., S78 to Hillside Terrace; (718) 605-9200.
 Brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt host an evening of comedy, theater, music and dance in the 25th-anniversary fund-raiser for the grass-roots Irish Arts Center, which promotes and celebrates Celtic culture. 6:30 p.m., $50-$250. John Jay College, 10th Ave. at 58th St., via 1,9,A,B,C,D to 59th St./Columbus Circle; (212) 581-4125.
 The mature love story "A Pornographic Affair" and "Adrenaline Drive," a parody of popular Japanese teenage girls' romances, open the New Directors/New Films festival. 6 and 9 p.m., $10. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., via E,F to Fifth Ave.; (212) 708-9500.
 A two-day festival of panels and performances on the multi-layered ethnic, religious and cultural history of the island nation opens with "Body and Power: The Politics of Culture in 19th-Century Philippines."
6:30 p.m., $20-$25. Einstein Auditorium, NYU, 34 Stuyvesant St., via 6 to Astor Place; (212) 517-2742.
 It's time for the Samana Vocal Ensemble's 37th annual concert of pop, choral and Broadway tunes. 8 p.m., $16 Richard Perry Theater, Poly Prep School, 92nd St. and Seventh Ave., via R to Bay Ridge/95th St.; (718) 833-1448.
 Actors, musicians and set designers of the Gifted and Talented Academy for the Arts and Sciences (grades 7-8) stage a production of "West Side Story." 6:30 reception, 8 p.m. show. $10 donation. 132-55 Ridgedale Ave., via E,F,J to Jamaica Center; (718) 348-3544.
 Society's potential new leaders perform in drag as the rascally lads of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club bring this year's show "The Jewel of Denial" to town. 8 p.m., $27. Haft Auditorium, Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Ave. at 27th St., via 1,9 to 28th St.; (212) 840-6600, ext. 448 or 449
 New Orleans' African-American Junebug Productions, the Puerto Rican Teatro Pregones of the South Bronx and the Appalachian Roadside Theater group from Kentucky collaborate on "Promise of a Love Song," a play with music. 7:30 p.m., $15. Hostos Center for Arts & Culture, 450 Grand Concourse at l49th St., via 2,4,5 to 149th St./Grand
 Go the extra mile for Roger Bannister (71), Lara Flynn Boyle (30), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (81), Byron Janis (72), Bob Mackie (60) and Anabella Sciorra (36).
The N.Y. Transit Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of groundbreaking for the city's first subway line with a reenactment of Mayor Van Wyck scooping dirt into his silk top hat and other activities. 11 a.m., fre
Should warrior Kamui take on the Dragons of Earth or Heaven? It's his choice: Save humanity or destroy people to purify the world in "X," Japan's latest anime release. 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8, 10:10 p.m., $5.50-$8.50. Cinema Village, 22 E. 12th St.; via 4,5,6,L,N,R to 14th St.; (212) 924-3363.
 Kids decorate kites with crayons, markers and ribbons, then vie to see whose will fly the longest in Kite Day, sponsored by the Parks Department.11 a.m.-2 p.m., free. St. Mary's Ballfield, St. Mary's St. and Jackson Ave.,via 6 to Brooke Ave., the Bronx; (718) 430-1858.\
 The African Burial Ground invites the public to learn more about the
city's early African presence, at a youth symposium with African drumming, a luncheon, poetry reading, announcement of writing-contest winners and site tours. Noon- 5 p.m., free. Federal Building, 290 Broadway 39th floor,via N,R to City Hall;(212) 432-5707.
 St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center holds a conference on women's health with panels on breast cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, stress management and other concerns - and, on the less serious side, a numerology workshop and hair consultations. Complimentary breakfast and lunch. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., free. 113th St. between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Drive,Muhlenberg Conference Center, 4th floor, via 1,9 to 110th St; (212) 523-4001.
 Scholars and activists get together for a day-long exploration of women's issues, focusing on "Next Wave Feminism: Feminist Intersections and International Alliances." 10 a.m.-4 p m., $10-$40, pre-registration required. Barnard Hall Lobby, 3009 Broadway, via 1,9 to 116th St.; (212) 854-2067.
 Participants watch a screening of "My Life," about a successful but
narcissistic young executive dying of cancer, then discuss the issues the film raises, in a coping program sponsored by Cabrini Medical Center. 10 a.m., free. School of Visual Arts, Amphitheater, Room 311, 209 E. 23rd St. via 6 to 23rd St.; (212) 995-7017.
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Lohan's New Lawyer: 'We're Gonna Go After Them'
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7/10/2010 3:12 PM PDT by TMZ Staff
Lindsay Lohan has a new lawyer on her side and from the sound of things ... he plans on kicking butt and taking names.We caught up with Stuart V. Goldberg in Los Angeles this afternoon where he told us he's "here to help" Lindsay. As for strategy, he told us, "Instead of making her reactive, like a pin cushion, [we're going] to be proactive. We're gonna go after them."Goldberg also made it clear he doesn't like the idea of jail time for Lindsay. It's so on.
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Lindsay Lohan: I'm NOT Going to Jail!
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7/8/2010 11:00 AM PDT by TMZ Staff
Sources tell TMZ ... Lindsay Lohan vows to appeal Judge Marsha Revel's 90-day jail sentence.One source who was with Lindsay last night says LiLo proclaimed, "I'm not going to jail!" Lindsay was talking with people in her apartment about appealing the case.As for how Lindsay could appeal ... the only real basis is arguing that Judge Revel abused her discretion in nailing LiLo with a 90-day sentence. The chances of winning such an appeal are extremely remote under the best of circumstances, and given Lindsay's performance on probation ... snowballs and hell come to mind.Lindsay's vow to appeal could explain why Shawn Chapman Holley just threw in the towel and resigned.We're told Lohan's new attorney, Tiffany Feder-Cohen, has already been in touch with the Sheriff's Department.
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How To Hurdle The Velvet Rope
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Thomas Onorato traffics in dreams. As doorman to some of New York City's most scintillating nightclubs and celebrity-studded galas, the thickly built 29-year-old gets paid to decide who's in and who's out.
Club hoppers are desperate to be on the good side of that equation, if a new book is any indication. Written by journalist Glenn Belvario, Confessions From A Velvet Rope: The Glamorous, Grueling Life Of Thomas Onorato, New York's Top Club Doorman reads, unintentionally perhaps, like a dark comedy: The author details, through Onorato's eyes, the almost disturbing lengths to which the rubbernecking masses will go to get a taste of the scene. (You can't help but wonder why you'd want to socialize with such scheming, obnoxious people in the first place.) The book also offer tips on how to squeak past guys like Onorato.
Forbes.com recently spoke with Onorato about the ups and downs of being a New York City Door God.
Forbes.com: For those who don't go clubbing, what is the role of a doorman?
Onorato: The door person is the first face people see when they come to the club. He sets the tone. He also makes sure the right people are getting in--and the wrong people are not. It's one of the integral keys to making a really good party.
Does all that power tend to go to your head?
Who doesn't like to be in control a little bit? I would be lying if I said it didn't. But I'm just a guy doing a job. I mean, I'm not changing the course of someone's life here. It's not like I'm a teacher or a drug counselor or something really important like that.
In most cases, I'm doing what the party promoter wants, not necessarily what I want. For instance, I do the door every Saturday at a club called Misshapes. Unless you're friends of the promoters, or friends of friends, you most likely won't get in. I'm not trying to ruin someone's night--it's just the reality.
Is there a sense of guilt that comes with doing the job?
Sure there is--except when it comes to people who are rude. You're always going to have people who are going to take it personally and get offended that they didn't get in.
What sort of person would want to endure packs of drunk, scheming, desperate and potentially bitter people every night?
I love to be involved with parties, so I'm passionate about it. And hey, it's great money.
I can't really talk about that.
So they pay you for your judgment. How important is the makeup of the crowd to a club's success?
Very. Having a crowd that's very mixed--gay, straight, men, women--makes the energy in the room go straight up. Diversity is the formula that works.
We have to ask: What sorts of lines do people throw out to convince you to let them in?
We get "I'm friends with Paris Hilton" the most.
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WITNESS HAS N.Y., SHOW BIZ TIES
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By MICHELLE CARUSO and CORKY SIEMASZKO
Friday, January 17th 1997, 2:01AM
The last known person to see Ennis Cosby alive is a screenwriter whose father helped create the TV show "The Honeymooners" and whose mother is a former Miss Brooklyn.
Ennis Cosby met the woman, Stephanie Crane, at a party in Los Angeles on Saturday, sources told the Daily News.
Crane, 47, told police that Cosby, 27, was on his way to see her but telephoned to say he would be delayed by a flat tire.
The woman dressed in a miniskirt, fur coat and stiletto heels drove 10 minutes to where Cosby's car was disabled, spoke briefly to him, and then sat in her car to keep warm, according to police sources.
Crane told investigators that she drove away when she saw a suspicious man approaching the car and when she returned, she found Cosby shot dead next to his car.
Crane identified herself to police as a screenwriter and a member of the Writers Guild of America, but she does not have any credits to her name.
She is, however, a member of an established show business family.
Her dad, Harry, helped create the classic situation comedy starring Jackie Gleason and Art Carney and in recent years wrote "The New Honeymooners" and the Gleason tribute at the Emmy Awards in 1987. Her mom, Julia, is a former beauty queen.
Crane's sister, Barbara, is the mother of actors Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert, both of whom got their television starts on "The Little House on the Prairie," and of Sara Gilbert, who played Darlene on the hit sitcom "Roseanne."
Crane, who drives a Jaguar, lives alone in a sprawling one-story home nestled among million-dollar houses in the San Fernando Valley.
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Parents Embrace Sign Language as a Way for Toddlers to Express Themselves before They Can Talk
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Videos from Celebrities, Ordinary People Give Message of Hope to Ostracized Teens after Spate of Suicides Linked to Bullying
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Erica Hill reports on a man who failed his driver's test after crashing into the front of a Pennsylvania DMV.
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Witness reported that the fight began when a man threw his baby at a bus driver on a bus at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Erica Hill Reports.
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A rental Corvette was ditched in three feet of tide at a San Diego beach after its drivers took it for a joyride; several people who were in the car are being questioned.
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Harry Smith talks to the hosts of "The Talk," Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, about the new show.
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Government Says No Cost of Living Adjustment for 2011; Pelosi Seeks $250 Payments to Social Security Recipients
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Sen. Harry Reid sparred with his Tea Party opponent, Sharron Angle, in the Nevada senate candidate's only debate. Ben Tracy reports.
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N.J. Dealer Promised the Car If He Didn't Go Forward with Hateful Act; Pastor Terry Jones Says He'll Give It to Charity
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Bracelet Sold to Raise Money for Breast Cancer Research and Education Offend Some; ACLU Defends Wearers
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Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, hosts of "The View," walked off the set when guest Bill O'Reilly blamed Muslims for the 9/11 attacks.
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POL: ENRON GUNS WANTED TO FIRE WHISTLEBLOWER
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By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Monday, February 18th 2002, 2:25AM
WASHINGTON - Enron's in-house lawyers asked for outside legal advice to spell out the trouble they faced if they fired whistleblower Sherron Watkins, a House investigator said yesterday.
"It tells me, you know, that there may be more people involved in covering up what was going on," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.).
The outside law firm, Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, suggested in a memo that Watkins - the executive who warned Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay last year of the company's questionable accounting practices - should be transferred rather than fired.
The memo "goes on to explain the problems, the lawsuits, the investigations that might follow," Tauzin said.
"The mere fact that they're asking the lawyers . . . 'What happens if we fire her?' That means somebody's thinking of it," Tauzin told "Fox News Sunday." Watkins wanted to be reassigned away from Enron's Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow for fear of retaliation.
"Fastow did try to get Sherron Watkins fired. We know that. He had a hard drive seized, and he did everything he could to get rid of her," Tauzin said.
The Vinson & Elkins memo advised documenting "that the transfer is being effected per her request" for reassignment.
Vinson & Elkins did not return phone calls yesterday from the Daily News.
Tauzin said so far there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Enron's pals in the White House.
But The Washington Post reported yesterday that former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed offered to help Enron advance its goal of deregulating electricity markets in the weeks before the 2000 election. Reed, a Bush campaign adviser, wanted a $380,000 lobbying fee.
"We are a loyal member of your team and are prepared to do whatever fits your strategic plan," Reed wrote in an Oct. 23, 2000, memo, The Post reported.
"In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard - and by whom," added Reed, now head of the Georgia GOP. He was recommended to Enron by Karl Rove, Bush's senior adviser.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, has suggested Rove recommended Reed to avoid paying him from Bush's campaign funds.
Reed could not be reached for comment.
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GRAVANO MAY TAKE A WHACK AT WRITING
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BY GEORGE RUSH AND JOANNA MOLLOY With Baird Jones
Monday, July 29th 1996, 2:00AM
Up till now, Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano's most eloquent form of communication has been firing a bullet through someone's frontal lobe. But that doesn't seem to be hampering the hit man's future as an author.
Like a lot of people, Gravano feels he has a book in him. According to publishing insiders, editors at HarperCollins want to help him excrete it.
The man whose big mouth put John Gotti behind bars is now hidden in a witness-protection program. So it's not surprising that everyone connected with the project is said to have vowed omert. HarperCollins spokespeople said they didn't know of a Gravano book; high-level editors, who would know, didn't return calls.
Just possibly, the house is having some trouble finding the right collaborator. Knowing Gravano's whereabouts could mean that the collaborator will need his own protection program. And heaven forbid the subject, who's admitted to 19 murders, doesn't like the first draft.
Then, too, the publisher could be weighing whether to brave the outcry that will erupt if Gravano is seen to profit from his crimes.
Brooklyn federal prosecutor Laura Ward, who made Gravano a star witness, declined to comment on the potential book deal. But Gotti lawyer Albert Kreiger raged that he was "horrified" and "revolted" by the possibility.
"It's bad enough that the federal government has glorified this serial killer," said Kreiger. "For a private company to turn him into a folk hero is sickening." Kreiger doubted Gravano can get close to articulating a book: "He's been thoroughly sandpapered by the FBI, but he's still a thug. His memory may also be clouded by all his steroid use."
Linda Milito hopes Gravano's book does come out. Gravano pled guilty to having her husband, Louis, killed. Linda promises: "I will definitely sue Sammy's publisher under the Son of Sam law."
Linda, who now lives outside of New York because "Sammy told me point-blank to leave town," cautions his future editors: "Sammy is a liar and a damn good manipulator. He claimed someone in prison killed my husband. I know he did it. One bullet under the neck. One in the head. That's his signature."
Think we'll pass on Sammy's book-signing party.
Betsey Johnson was minutes away from getting a face-lift when she decided, well, she couldn't face it.
"I was entering the operating room and I just panicked," the 54-year-old designer said Thursday. "I couldn't deal with someone cutting up my face. So I impulsively switched to getting a boob job."
Johnson got breast implants then and there: "Now, I'm a 34C. Before, I had nothing. Zip!" This was two years ago. Since then, Johnson has gone back and gotten her chin trimmed.
Michael Nouri, Paul Sorvino and some friends were boating recently when Nouri decided to take off his shoes to show one and all a tatoo on his foot.
Soon after, Nouri was walking around barefoot, holding one shoe and asking his boat-mates: "Have you seen my other shoe?"
The "Victor/Victoria" actor finally gave up, convinced it'd fallen overboard somehow.
About four days later, Nouri got a package, says a source. In it, wrapped up with a long-dead fish, was Nouri's missing footwear. He's still no doubt plotting his revenge against the practical joker Sorvino.
Watch out, Carey Lowell. Richard Gere and model Veronica Webb were dining thisclose at Indochine last week ...
Model Frederique, rocking out to The Who concert with Ranger Mark Messier ...
Strange airfellows: Calvin Klein, Montel Williams and Gene Pressman of Barneys, on the Concorde ...
Lara Flynn Boyle and socialite Sugar Rautbord, doing recon at the new Chicago branch of Le Colonial, the Vietnamese restaurant about to be invaded by Democr ats. ...
Martha Stewart, Nicole Miller, Roshumba and Absolut marketing genius-turned-Stolichnaya importer Michel Roux at Bambou on E. 14 St. at a party hosted by R.O.M.E. editor George Wayne ...
Samuel L. Jackson doesn't mind that Matthew McConaughey is glomming the publicity for "A Time to Kill." "I understand how the system works," Jackson told the Associated Press. "The studios have to find a way to get the 14 to 25-year-old white female dollar, and they can't get it from me or (fellow co-stars) Kevin Spacey or Donald Sutherland or even Sandra Bullock." ...
"I Shot Andy Warhol" director Mary Harron has signed on to direct Bret Easton Ellis' slasher novel "American Psycho." Ellis thinks a female director "will defuse some of the feminist criticism about violence against women in the book." Ellis' protaganist, you'll recall, was in the habit of skinning his victims. ...
Tommy Hilfiger is installing kitchens in his L.A. stores to turn them into theme restaurants and is eying Manhattan for his next khaki-with-fries franchise ...
One person who will be missed at Atlanta's Olympic games: Mickey Mantle. The late baseball great bought $7,000 worth of tickets for friends and family. ...
Speaking of tickets, New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso has some left for the U.S. Olympic Committee fund-raiser at Madison Square Garden on Sept 9. Three days later, the Garden will see Marv Albert roasted at a March of Dimes benefit. Bob Costas, Tom Brokaw, Richard Lewis and Mike Fratello will be among those making sure the "Marvelous" one is well done.
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Doing business in Mexico
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Nov 8th 2010, 21:39 by T.W. | MEXICO CITY
EVERYONE knows that Brazil is the beating business heart of Latin America, right? Maybe not, according to the World Bank. A report published this week found that Mexico was the easiest place in Latin America in which to run a company, closely followed by Peru and Colombia. Worldwide, Mexico came 35th, beating the likes of Spain and Italy. Brazil came 127th.
The Bank’s report, which we explore in detail in this week’s print edition, looks at how easy and pricey it is to complete the various bureaucratic procedures involved in setting up, running and shutting down a firm. The full methodology is on its website; in short, it looks at nine main areas, from registering a business to paying taxes and trading with foreign countries.
It pays no attention to the state of a country’s economy, a field in which Mexico (whose GDP fell by 6.6% last year and is predicted to grow by 5% this year) lags far behind other countries. (Brazil’s economy, for instance, shrunk just 0.2% last year and will grow by 7.5% in 2010.) The report is not meant to be a list of the quickest places to get rich. But it offers some eye-opening details: registering a new business, for instance, takes six procedures and nine days in Mexico, versus 14 procedures and 26 days in Argentina. Mexican firms spend 404 hours a year paying taxes, whereas Brazilian firms must use up 2,600 hours doing the same thing.
That’s not to say there isn’t still plenty of bureaucracy. Foreigners’ residency permits require information about the shape of one’s nose and the style of one’s mustache. But Mexico has been cutting down. In 2008, Felipe Calderón, the president, held a competition to identify and abolish the country’s most pointless bit of bureaucracy. The winner was Cecilia Deyanira Velázquez, a mother who complained about the mad system that saw her frequently wait up to 15 days to receive medicine for her six-year-old, who needed his doses twice a month.
Technology is helping. “Instead of having to stand in line, entrepreneurs can go online,” says Dahlia Khalifa, co-author of the World Bank report. Mexican firms can now file their taxes on the web, unlike their counterparts elsewhere in Latin America. Six annual payments are required, one of the lowest totals in the world (Ukrainians, the most beleaguered entrepreneurs, must make 135). In all, Mexican firms spend 148 fewer hours per year paying taxes than they did in 2004.
The picture painted by the report’s figures may be too flattering. “There are two realities in Mexico,” says Marco Escotto of the IPADE business school in Mexico City. “Some cities are first-world, but some are still backward.” His surveys of business leaders around the country found that obtaining planning permission, for instance, took between 10 days and 68 (though a recent law, establishing statutory time-limits for planning officials, ought to speed things up). Municipal governments in the north of the country tended to be on better terms with business than those in the south. But it is getting better, he thinks: “There is greater sensitivity [among local politicians] that if they don’t make it easier, the municipality will be less competitive.”
Corruption, a persistent problem in Mexico, was not taken into account by the World Bank study, but Ms Khalifa argues that taking more procedures online makes it harder for people to extort bribes under the table. Not all Mexicans are convinced. Eric Fogo, who runs a stationary shop festooned with flags celebrating the recent Day of the Dead festival, has yet to embrace the digital revolution. “It’s true, we are a country of much bureaucracy,” he says. In 49 years running his papelería, he has seen plenty of it. “But with the government here, you might pay on the internet and then they might say you hadn’t. Better to pay in cash, in person, and get the paper to prove it.”
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Monday, April 24th 1995, 2:34AM
A Staten Island father-to-be was gunned down outside a Brooklyn church early yesterday morning the victim of mistaken identity, police said.
Elsego Sosa died only hours before his wife, Yolanda, gave birth to their son, said police spokesman Doram Tamari.
"She hasn't been told yet that her husband is dead," said a nursing supervisor at St. Vincent's Hospital in Staten Island.
Yolanda Sosa, who delivered around noon, was in stable condition last night.
"This is a really tragic story," said Tamari. "The suspect apparently thought Mr. Sosa was in a Mexican gang called the Santas.
"He was not in a gang. He was a family man from Staten Island."
Another man, Noe Navarro, 21, of Brooklyn, was also wounded in the 1 a.m. shooting outside the Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church Community Center in Bushwick. He was in critical but stable condition last night at Woodhull Hospital.
Police arrested Noel Hernandez, 20, of Brooklyn and charged him with second-degree murder and attempted murder.
Sosa, 28, and his 24-year-old wife had been married for eight years. Sosa was attending a christening party when he got into a dispute with Hernandez, said Tamari.
"About 300 people were there celebrating," said Tamari. "At this point I don't know how it wound up outside. Initial witness reports were of a dispute inside and a fight outside."
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Thursday, March 16th 1995, 3:55AM
An ex-Marine did an about face yesterday, saying a memory lapse caused him to forget that he spoke with defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and that Detective Mark Fuhrman had made racist remarks.
Former Marine Sgt. Maximo Cordoba said a January "dream" sparked his memory of Fuhrman twice calling him "a nigger" in the mid-1980s at a California Marine office.
Cordoba had said Fuhrman was "a pretty easygoing type person" in several interviews last year. In October, he told the tabloid TV show "A Current Affair:" "I didn't at any time get the impression that he [Fuhrman] was a biased-type person or either racist or anything."
But yesterday, Cordoba blasted the detective as a racist.
"I started to get, you know, like flashbacks of what transpired," Cordoba told "Dateline NBC" yesterday about his recollections of Fuhrman's alleged racist remarks. "This is no dream. I don't think it's a dream."
On Tuesday, Cordoba told "Dateline" that he had never discussed the case with Bailey, as the lawyer said.
"For some dumb reason, when ['Dateline' reporter] Stone [Phillips] asked me that question, it just blanked that I didn't talk with him, but I did speak with him," he said yesterday.
In the "Dateline" interview broadcast last night, Cordoba also said Fuhrman had flashed his gun after making the derogatory remarks.
In court yesterday, Bailey demanded an apology from NBC for airing the apparent contradiction aboutwhether he spoke to Cordoba "Marine to Marine."
"I'm not going to apologize for reporting what was news," said Neal Shapiro, producer of "Dateline."
Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial are likely to portray Cordoba as a would-be actor hoping to cash in on the sensational case.
The ex-Marine is the latest in a string of defense witnesses whose credibility has been challenged by prosecutors.
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THE RED AND THE BLACK Benjamin Davis, July 1949 Chapter 220
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Wednesday, October 18th 2000, 2:14AM
THE COMMUNIST malodor continued to issue across the land through 1949. In Washington, Judith Coplon of Brooklyn, protesting that her federal espionage trial had been "filthy" and "horrible," was convicted of passing U.S. documents to Soviet Russia. In New York, Commie chief Gerhart Eisler had greatly humiliated government agents by stowing away on a Polish ship and slipping out of the country.
Also in New York, the Alger Hiss perjury trial ended in a hung jury as prosecutors vowed to refile charges against the one-time State Department careerist and Franklin Roosevelt aide accused of having been a key member of the Red spy apparatus in America.
And also in New York, the trial of the nation's alleged top Red bosses lurched on and on and on. These six months later, the defense was just now mounting its formal arguments. Called now was defendant Benjamin Davis Jr., the longtime hard-line Communist who in 1943 had succeeded Adam Clayton Powell Jr. as the only black member of the New York City Council and who was now one of the three black men in the larger group charged with conspiring to overthrow the United States government in violation of the Smith Act.
The trial already had become openly racial. A black ex-Communist prosecution witness named William O'Dell Nowell had testified at length that Communist bosses regarded as essential to the proletarian upheaval "the establishment of a Negro nation" from Virginia to the Mississippi Delta, "as a means of mobilizing Negroes and using them as part of and preparatory to a revolution."
He had been taught at the Lenin Institute in Moscow in the early 1930s, Nowell testified, that "the revolution in the South would aid the Northern industrial workers." He had objected to this program, he said, "because it would isolate the Negro and use him as a tool," and in 1939 he had accordingly been drummed out of the party for his "petty bourgeois nationalism" and "errors."
On Thursday the 7th of July, Benjamin Davis, in 1949 the sole remaining acknowledged Communist in U.S. electoral politics, took the stand to defend himself and his positions.
GEORGIA-BORN Davis, 46 years old, had come up better than most Southern blacks and indeed better than many Southern whites; son of a Republican national committeeman and newspaper editor, he was the product of private academies, Amherst College and Harvard Law School. He'd been in New York since 1935; he was president of the Daily Worker's parent company; he had run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1946. He had been radicalized in Atlanta in 1932, he said, when, working as a labor lawyer, he had defended a black Communist activist named Angelo Herndon, on trial for agitating the unemployed.
"That case was the turning point in my life," Davis told the court. "My client and I were made victims. ... The judge referred to me as a nigger and a darkie all through the trial and to my client the same way. ... I realized that the fact that I'd been luckier than the average Negro, or the average white boy, in my educational advantages, was not effective in shielding me from the treatment accorded my people in the South.
"I felt that if there was anything I could do to help my race and strike a blow against the lynch system, that was what I wanted to do. My own father had a cross burned on the lawn when he became a committeeman in Georgia.
"And then when I do something," he said softly, "you all seem so utterly surprised."
'HE MADE what we think was a dignified and persuasive presentation," editorially noted the Daily News. But: "Davis was taken in by the Reds' promises of a square deal for American Negroes. ... As a matter of fact, Mr. Davis was played for a sucker, as is anybody who joins up with the Communists for such reasons. ... They play on minority resentments. ... They exaggerate discriminations. ... In Russia itself, Stalin's government is anti-Semitic. ...
"It can't be denied that Negroes and various other minority groups have been discriminated against in assorted parts of this country for generations. ... As long as discriminations against minorities exist here, the Reds will have a talking point, and there will be suckers to fall for their lying promises. ... The faster we can wipe out the remaining injustices of this type, the better for all of us."
BEFORE THE HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, Lester Granger, director of the National Urban League in New York, warned that Communist race-baiters were methodically preying upon "unsavory racial conditions here." And Manning Johnson, the black New York ex-Communist who had blown the whistle on the Red scheme to take over New York's subway workers, now declared that singer Paul Robeson "wants to be the Black Stalin and the Communist Party is encouraging his desire. ...
"We were told under threat of expulsion never to reveal that Robeson was a member of the party," Johnson said, so that Robeson might "more effectively work among intellectual, artistic and professional classes which the Communists are seeking to penetrate. ... U.S. Communists and Paul Robeson have nothing but contempt for the present Negro leaders. ... Robeson wants to destroy them. ... He'd like to ride to power on the broken backs of Negro leaders who are good Americans."
Johnson reaffirmed William Nowell's story of a plan to create a separate Southern Negro nation, and he smiled at the HUAC chairman, Democratic Rep. John Wood of Georgia. "You'd be the first one they'd liquidate," he said.
BEFORE HUAC on July 18 now came second baseman Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He didn't think much of Robeson's recent assertion that 15 million American blacks would refuse to fight Russia in the forthcoming war. He defended Robeson's American right "to sound silly in public if he wants to," but he added that "no one can speak for 15 million Negroes. ... I and other Americans of many races and faiths have too much invested in our country's welfare for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song."
That said, Robinson informed the congressmen: "I don't pretend to be any expert on communism. But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored American. Every single Negro who is worth his salt is going to resent any kind of slurs and discrimination because of his race. This has got absolutely nothing to do with what Communists may or may not be trying to do.
"Negroes were stirred up long before there was a Communist Party," he said. "And they'll stay stirred up long after the party has disappeared - unless Jim Crow has disappeared by then as well."
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BREAKING THROUGH
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Style: Easy Southern hip hop
Real Name: Freddie Calhoun, also known as Cool Cutta
Affiliation: Produced by Organized Noize, the same team that brought the world the Atlanta-based groups Outkast, Goodie Mob, Kilo and Witchdoctor.
Album: "East Points Greatest Hits,"
which debuted this week on the Billboard Top 200 at No. 38.
Single: "Watch for the Hook," which swipes the chords and chorus hook of Neil Young's "Southern Man"
Sound: Hip hop, as influenced by
the root sounds of the South. Breeze's slow, cool cadences combine with elements of New Orleans jazz and rural Alabama blues.
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BY PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, June 16th 2002, 1:80AM
Attached to the padlocked red door of the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club yesterday was a yellow rose with a note that read, "J.G. A Man's Man, Rest in Peace," signed, "9-11 Rescue Worker."
As American flags fluttered up and down 101st Ave. in Ozone Park, an elderly man with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth offered a rose-colored, patriotic defense: "John Gotti never blew up the World Trade Center."
"Gotti? No, of course not," said a young guy waiting eagerly with a disposable camera for the funeral cortege to pass. "It was the diaper head who did that."
"Look at this place, it's gonna be Algiers in a year. It's gonna be the Third World," said the smoker, who wouldn't give his name. "Now that Gotti's gone."
When it was pointed out that Gotti - imprisoned after his 1992 conviction for murder and racketeering - hadn't been around for quite some time, the smoker replied, "Oh, he was still here."
He was - in spirit, in myth, in rumor.
Dozens of people started lining up outside Gotti's old hangout two hours before his funeral procession was to arrive. Middle-aged women, youths, couples with young children and all manner of New York characters who said they had known "John" stood with cupped hands around lighted candles.
Three-year-old Amanda was impassive as her mother, Paula Fried, held her in the damp chill. "I told her we're here because someone went to heaven," Fried said.
"I came to say a prayer . . . The church wouldn't give him one," said Katie McDonald, who has lived in the neighborhood 22 years.
"I'm disappointed that he wasn't granted a funeral Mass," said Stephen Tyminski, clad in denim and bearing a business card that said he is a monsignor and "apostolic vicar" in the American Traditional Catholic Church.
"I believe he is in heaven," Tyminski said. "He died in a state of grace."
"John did great things," said Cathy Ferrise, 45. Asked for an example, she said, "A lady, I don't know her name, her house was on fire, and John got her an apartment and furniture."
At 11:30 a.m., the buzz of a helicopter overhead signaled that the procession was coming, and people rushed off the sidewalk.
Nineteen flower-laden cars passed, and when the hearse stopped momentarily in front of the Bergin club, applause broke out. Jennifer Pinto, a Trinidadian-born Brooklynite, was among those who touched the vehicle and cheered.
Then 30 limousines and dozens of other vehicles followed. As all heads turned to watch the last car pass down the avenue and under a huge banner with Gotti's likeness, they seemed to be looking back to a simpler time, when hard-core villains didn't hijack commercial jets, only truckloads of cigarettes.
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'R' NOW MEANS RAUNCH; SERIOUS SEX JUST DOESN'T RATE THE MPAA ONCE RATED FILMS FOR SEXUAL CONTENT; ITS ODD BIASES NOW DETERMINE A FILM'S CONTENT
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By JACK MATHEWS DAILY NEWS MOVIE CRITIC
Tuesday, July 27th 1999, 2:10AM
Did Stanley Kubrick go too far with the simulated sex in "Eyes Wide Shut"? For a steamy love scene in Nicolas Roeg's 1973 "Don't Look Now," co-stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie were said to have actually done the deed.
Was it shocking to see 360 degrees of Kevin Bacon as he emerged from a shower in last year's "Wild Things"? In Ken Russell's 1969 "Women in Love," Alan Bates and Oliver Reed do the full Monty in a homoerotic wrestling scene that goes on for several falls.
Did the lost-and-found semen joke in "There's Something About Mary" cause the biggest simultaneous gasp-and-laugh ever heard in a theater? Hardly. That high note belongs to Hal Ashby's 1975 "Shampoo," in a scene where a tipsy Julie Christie announces at a black-tie dinner what she wants to do to Warren Beatty, then dives under the table to do it.
For all the raunch in "There's Something About Mary" and "American Pie" and the randy language in "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," R-rated entertainment in today's multiplex is far more chaste than it was just a few years ago.
Sex and eroticism have virtually vanished from today's movies, only to be replaced by rude, crude and genital references that serve as shock humor for young audiences. Legitimate expressions of love, lust and intimacy even between people who have been there and done that are back in the Puritan closet, even while body fluids are suddenly flowing across the screen like Vesuvian lava.
"The '70s films broke new ground in terms of sexual frankness and nudity but for a long time, there has been a big retreat from sex in movies," says Peter Biskind, who chronicled Hollywood's liberated '70s in the book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls." "There's no limit to how gross a film can be, but when it comes to mature sex, there's not much of it."
"I think we've regressed, absolutely, in terms of mainstream movies about mature sex," says The New York Observer's venerable Andrew Sarris. "There's that sense of liberation in films of the '70s that's gone today. It's all guilt and fear now."
Oddly, the culprit in the dumbing-down of adult movie sexuality is the hero of its liberation the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system. Begun in 1968 as a way of cutting off religious and local government censorship, the ratings opened American film to serious social, political and sexual issues, creating what film historians and critics regard as a golden age that lasted until the late '70s.
But Biskin says that era highlighted by such frank films as "Midnight Cowboy," "Last Tango in Paris" and "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" ended with George Lucas' "Star Wars."
The space adventure established the young teenage male audience as the demographic of choice in Hollywood, and ushered in the era of special-effectsladen action films that continues today.
Just as Hollywood has worked to accommodate the teen audience over the last two decades, so has the ratings board. What makes young people laugh are jokes about body parts and functions both sexual and gastrointestinal and that's where the "R" rating has been most flexible.
Meanwhile, the studios, convinced there is there is no money in adults-only movies, have compelled their film makers to conform to whatever the ratings board requires for them to get an R rating.
Paul Schrader, a former film scholar who wrote "Taxi Driver" and directed "Hardcore" some of the strongest films of the '70s, says there has been a steady retreat from sexual candor in films.
"There are things I did routinely in the past that I'd have trouble with today," Schrader says, who also wrote and directed "American Gigolo." "It's more permissive now in terms of verbal expression, but not in terms of sex or nudity. Actors are more reluctant, studios are more reluctant, the audience is more reluctant. All that openness retreated and is coming back in a very cynical, angry, ironic, life-negating form. The 'South Park' view of sex is debasing."
Most of the movies mentioned so far were released with R ratings, given to them by parents hired by the MPAA to guess how a majority of other parents around the country would want them rated. As MPAA boss Jack Valenti has repeatedly stated when defending the system against charges of censorship, the ratings are a "voluntary system" established to advise parents on the content of films their children may be exposed to, not a method for protecting the free-speech rights of film makers.
But as the ratings system moves into its fourth decade, many critics, film makers and historians are asking if it hasn't done more harm than good to American movies.
They point to the disparity in adult sexual content allowable in an R-rated movie 20 years ago and the more restrictive standards rather, notions applied today.
At issue right now is a 65-second scene in "Eyes Wide Shut" that was digitally altered in order to get the essential R rating. The adults-only NC-17 rating is anathema in the U.S., where it is treated the same as hard-core pornography; many theaters will not book nor will many newspapers and television stations advertise films not rated G, PG or R.
The offending material in the uncut version of "Eyes" includes nude, masked couples at a satanic orgy having vigorous, mechanical sex. The images are intentionally joyless, suggesting the danger of anonymous sex, but there was said to be "too much thrusting" for an R rating.
Instead, digital people are inserted strategically, like potted palms, to block the action. American viewers know what's going on, but they'll have to travel abroad to see it. The film is opening in most countries unexpurgated.
"America is the only country without an effective adult rating," says Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert. "The situation is ridiculous. It's saying that major studio movies that would be appropriate only for adults can't be made."
Worse, the changes made to "Eyes Wide Shut" make the movie even more accessible to kids, he argues.
The MPAA "is basically imposing a smutty, snickering, juvenile, adolescent mentality on the country," adds Ebert. "They cram more and more into an R rating, making it more difficult to deal with sex in a mature way."
Ebert argues that a second adults-only rating be established for movies that deal with strong adult sexuality without presenting actual sex, leaving the NC-17 for hard-core porn films only. Whether studios would ever embrace a rating that limits the potential number of ticket-buyers is questionable and it's moot, in any event: Valenti recently placed the odds on a revamped system at "zero."
Essentially, that means there is no one in a significant place of power with the will to fight the fight. Even Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax boss and once the rating system's most-vociferous opponent, is now hiding behind a spokesman who on his behalf says that with Miramax owned by charter MPAA member Disney, it's a "no-win" issue for the Tribeca tycoon.
So, while adults in other lands ponder sexual issues pertinent to them in children-free zones, we'll have to make do with the potted-palm versions, or join the crowd, and as Kubrick might have put it learn to stop worrying and love the raunch.
"Ecstasy" (1933) American censors got hot under the collar (and elsewhere) when they saw a young Hedy Lamarr, in a long shot, running through the woods naked, then skinny-dipping in a lake and later, in closeup, simulating an orgasm.
"The Birth of a Baby" (1939) The unflinching and clinical view of a woman giving birth in this well-intentioned film was seen as graphic sexuality only by the censors, who banned it on the grounds that it "would tend to corrupt morals."
"Mom and Dad" (1948) The "Reefer Madness" of cautionary sex movies, this intended fright fest included images of diseased sex organs, and taught a generation of high schoolers that the birds and the bees carry VD.
"And God Created Woman" (1958) Brigitte Bardot bared some, if not all, in then-husband Roger Vadim's French import, and a nation of repressed males cast their grateful eyes to her.
"I Am Curious Yellow" (1967) A Swedish import that styled itself as a serious political essay but scandalized American audiences with its images of thrusting, simulated sex.
"Last Tango in Paris" (1973) Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece had full-frontal female nudity, simulated sex and a recipe for butter that hasn't been tried, on screen at least, ever since.
"Henry & June" (1990) The first major studio movie since "Last Tango in Paris" to be released with an adults-only rating and the first to carry an NC-17. There's lots of nudity and simulated sex, but it's no "Tango."
THE CRASS IS GREENER: MILLSTONES
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask)" (1972) Woody Allen anticipated the onscreen semen fad by 27 years, portraying an army of sperm preparing themselves to go into action.
"Blazing Saddles" 1974 Mel Brooks' cowboys and beans serenade broke new ground not to mention wind in making body functions a part of the modern film maker's arsenal.
"National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) Besides John Belushi's inspired impression of a bursting zit, this seminal raunch film demonstrated how much fun could be had from just sitting back and watching a bunch of half-naked co-eds hit each other with pillows.
"Porky's" (1981) Bob Clark's aggressively voyeuristic tale of a bunch of slavering high school boys and the girls they spy on through shower-room peepholes became the role model for a decade of slob comedies.
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982) At least the vulgarity in Amy Heckerling's debut film allowed a female character to get the big raunchy laugh, in a now-famous scene where Phoebe Cates gives Jennifer Jason Leigh some tips on oral sex using common household vegetables.
"There's Something About Mary" (1998) Two firsts: A closeup of a (prosthetic, thankfully) penis intertwined with a zipper, and semen's screen debut in the role of a hair gel.
"American Pie" (1999) Movie magic: A teenage boy turns an apple pie into a tart.
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'NEW WESTIES' BUSTED 22 NABBED IN PROBE OF QUEENS DRUG RING
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Saturday, September 7th 1996, 2:01AM
The "New Westies" went the way of the old as police busted 22 people including a mother and three sons charged with running a $17 million drug ring out of Queens taverns.
The rogues, who called themselves the New Westies but had no connection with the murderous Hell's Kitchen gang, sold cocaine, marijuana and heroin in Bayside and Flushing with the consent of the Genovese and Gambino crime families, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Detectives made the arrests Thursday in a series of raids that netted 45 pounds of marijuana, 2 kilos of cocaine, 10 guns, five cars and $43,000 in cash, Brown said.
"The organization is dismantled," said police Narcotics Division Chief Patrick Harnett.
The suspects include the O'Boyle brothers Edward, 32, Daniel, 31, and Christopher, 22, of Bayside. The three directed the drug network along with John McDonnell, 42, of Little Neck, authorities said.
McDonnell and the two elder O'Boyles are charged with first-degree conspiracy and face life in prison if convicted. Christopher O'Boyle faces up to 25 years on lesser drug charges.
Maryanne O'Boyle, 57, the brothers' mother, while not an active gang member, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia because of items found in her Bayside home, authorities said.
Police charged Chris Drexler, owner of the Broadway Tavern, with being part of the conspiracy.
The owners of the other bars are not suspected of taking part in the scheme, authorities said.
Also arrested was Louis Brock, a finalist in this year's Golden Gloves tournament in the super-heavyweight novice division, authorities said.
Kevin Kiley, the O'Boyle brothers' lawyer, called the charges "allegations that remain to be proven."
The New Westies, dubbed the "O'Boyle Crew" by investigators, allegedly set up shop in neighborhood bars, selling the drugs during exchanges in the bathrooms, authorities said.
Brown said the gang operated out of the Broadway Tavern, the Primavera Restaurant and Bar, Paddy Quinn's Bar and Michael's Lounge, all in Bayside.
They also allegedly used an auto repair shop in Bayside, an illegal social club in Flushing and the parking lots of a Bayside fast food restaurant and a Flushing drug store.
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ALTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HUGH GRANT CONQUERS THE 'MOUNTAIN' WITH THE COMIC GRACE OF AN 'ENGLISHMAN'
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THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN. Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney. Directed by Christopher Monger. At area theaters. Running time: 99 mins. Rated PG. 3 1/2 STARS
AS ODD AND FANCIFUL AS ITS title, "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" is an infectious and surprisingly moving entertainment.
And if the subject of Welsh pride isn't enough to get you to a theater, there's always Hugh Grant.
Grant, anointed a romantic hero because of his turn in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," does his shy, shambling routine as polite English cartographer Reginald Anson. With his grumpy partner (Ian McNeice), Reginald has descended on the tiny village of Ffynnon Garw in order to measure its mountain.
The locals take quite an interest in the measurement, because if the rise should fall under 1,000 feet, it would thereafter be called a mere "hill" on future maps. What with World War I taking a toll on the country's collective self-worth, the Welsh need all the mountains they can claim. In fact, this is the tallest of them.
Even if the hill falls short of mountain status, these locals are not about to give up the good fight.
Tara Fitzgerald, looking like a young Audrey Hepburn and currently appearing on Broadway in "Hamlet" with Ralph Fiennes, provides the local scenery designed to keep Reginald hanging around as long as it takes to get his measurements changed.
Written and directed by Welsh-born Christopher Monger, based on stories he heard as a lad, "Englishman" starts off not on a hill but on a narrative precipice. Any movie that promises a good yarn in its opening scene is setting itself up for a fall.
Yet, the movie quickly wins you over unless, of course, you hate Hugh Grant, who blushingly goes through every scene like a man without the worldly experience of, say, Morgan the Goat (scene-stealer Colm Meaney).
Morgan is a lusty barkeep who has fathered many of the carrot-tops in the village, and who finds a kind of spiritual calling in the fight to have the hill be sanctified as a mountain.
Told with affection, whimsy and a wink at the audience, this delightful, inspirational tale is a reminder of the great tradition of folkloric storytelling, in which slightly tall tales are handed down through generations like linens in a hope chest.
You don't have to be Welsh to feel the pride of small people dreaming big dreams, and you don't have to be able to pronounce Welsh words certainly Hugh Grant can't to appreciate local squabbles, daft characters and the spirit of a people who fight for the principle of the thing, even if they wind up making a mountain out of a molehill.
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A PUB-LIC OFFERING WIN-A-BAR CONTEST IS GOOD FOR WHAT ALES YOU
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Sunday, March 10th 1996, 1:95AM
Dolores Maguire had trudged through snow to buy some brewskis when, idling at checkout, she eyed these words: "WIN A PUB IN IRELAND."
As luck would have it, her Irish fingers thawed enough to pen an entry ode to stout, "Guinness Is . . ."
"I've got 54 cousins there, 140 here, and we all say, 'Give us a beer,' " said Maguire, 33, a receptionist from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, whose grandparents came from County Mayo.
In 50 words or less, she and 42 other metro area dwellers to date are seeking flight to the banks of the River Shannon, where sits the Seanachaoi (storyteller) Pub of Killaloe, County Clare.
Ten finalists will fly there in May for finals in dart throwing, pint pouring and oral spielsmanship.
The pub, with upstairs two-bedroom pad (market value: $176,000), goes to the winner chosen by Guinness. The 237-year-old Dublin brewery purchased the pub for the contest.
While no New Yorkers would cough up their final masterpieces, here is a first-draft sampling: "It's temperamental, its mystique shows," opined Manhattan's Josh Smith, 21, a classical civilization student. "Drink all you can no matter what, which is what I've done today, Lord knows."
A week before St. Patrick's Day, as the final March 31 deadline crunch begins, there are a projected 37,000 U.S. competitors. Some of them aren't Irish.
"It's a big to-do, but why get verbose?" said Chris Vaccari, 36, a Manhattan real estate broker of Italian and Austrian descent. "Mine had three words, very to the point, very quick, very short."
More verbose was the blarney that poured from the heart of last year's king of odes (and darts), Bronx-bred Frank Gallagher.
"The rich, cool, dark, white-collared pint was presented," recited the 65-year-old Cardinal Hayes High School grad from his Kilgoban Pub in Bantry. "The first sip awakened my senses. . . ."
The contest began two years, ago when Boston's Jay Mulligan was awarded Connie Doolan's Pub in Cobh.
Homesick, he sold it to an Irish family and returned to Boston, where he's managing an Irish pub.
Then came Gallagher, a Bacardi executive, out of Fort Lauderdale retirement to Bantry, County Cork 5,000 regulars, 5,000 tourists in southwest Ireland.
The three-story building is worth about $250,000, said Gallagher, whose father came from the town Ardara in northwest Ireland.
He sells an English pint (20 ounces) of Guinness for 1.90 (about $3.20). Irish whisky is popular, too.
"We're the No. 2 pub in sales in town, behind the Anchor Inn," he said. "We have a good 100 core customers on any given night. We don't get calls for daiquiris."
If his fellow New Yorkers get to the finals, Gallagher offers these tips:
Don't tip a few during dart warmups.
Hone up on pint pouring (it's a trick, two-part pour).
"It would be bliss selling Guinness in my beautiful Kilgoban pub. I've been told I'm cut from the mold to pull pints and sell pub grub. I've pipe and fiddle; have sung a little from Bantry Bay to Malaga; before this verse gets any worse, give the pub to Gallagher."
"Ooh that just gave me goosebumps everywhere," said Maguire.
As luck would have it, she tore the cartilage in her knee in yet another snowfest and sits, housebound, practicing her pub prose.
"I got the warm face for promising a nice cold one, ya know? In the green, green grass," she said, "of home."
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SIX-PACK OF ALBUMS A MOTLEY BREW A RAFT OF NEW RELEASES INCLUDES SOFT CORN, HARD HOOKS & A BUFFALO CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
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Tuesday, February 3th 1998, 2:04AM
VICTORIA WILLIAMS "Musings of a Creek Dipper" Atlantic
She talks to cows and prays to trees in her songs, all in a voice that sounds like Olive Oyl.
Amazingly, some listeners find this not just precious but profound. They're encouraged to by a deep Hollywood tradition that considers childlike behavior in adults evidence of a purer spirit. (See: "Forrest Gump," "Fargo," "Gilbert Grape" et al.)
That's an idealization and a lie, of course, and it can make Williams' records hard going. Lines like "Mother Earth meets Father Time, takes his hand and all is good" may please small fry. But it cheapens the complexity of adult experience and places Williams' work in the infantilizingtradition of Paul McCartney's "Ram."
In her latest release, Williams gives her songs more aural space, stripping the arrangements to their core. The haunting result coupled with Williams' flair for long and winding melodies only makes her shortcomings that much more frustrating. Her tunes marry folk-rock to an older theatrical style, and the combination can prove captivating. But her cutesy singing, and insistence on sugarcoating every experience, makes her work as precious as a doily and as believable as a compliment from Kathie Lee.
"One Day It Will All Make Sense"
In an age of super-slick hip-hop samples, it's great to hear a rap record that's all about the word. The third album by New York rapper Common offers a sustained meditation on the value of family connections, discovered the hard way. Avoiding the throwaway tongue-twisters that pass for so much current rap, Common specializes in developed narratives, delivered with a meter so sure, his producer often works to make the music match him, rather than the other way around. To boot, you'll find the warmest jazz grooves of any rap record this side of the last LP from A Tribe Called Quest. It's all undulating bass, liquid keyboards and a beat that swings.
Talk about deja vu. Chris Stills, son of Stephen, inherited his dad's husky voice and cool falsetto. He also shows his father's bent for woodsy arrangements and dusty tunes. A case of cloning? Not quite. Chris can't hope to match Stephen's peak in Buffalo Springfield or on his 1971 solo debut. He comes closer to the elder's work with Manassas. Meaning, it's all passably good stuff but hardly matches the feat pulled off by a more original chip off the old block, Jakob Dylan. I have two words for Chris Stills: Julian Lennon.
Understatement serves Jeb Loy Nichols well. His debut album finds him singing in a laconic whisper over flinty acoustic guitars. His melodies trace a host of root sounds, from blues to country to Creole folk, without leaning heavily into any one. Nichols' songs recall the early-'70s work of J.J. Cale or the solo albums of Daniel Lanois. All of them interpret the sounds of Americana through the sensibility of a singer-songwriter. Nichols' lyrics prove equally nimble. He concentrates on mature characters, aware of the consequences of their actions, but unable to find a suitable substitute. The tale of a woman who wishes she more urgently missed a vanished lover whom she used for sex shows a wily understanding of character. For a subtle mood piece, "Love Knot" will snare you.
"In Loving Memory of . . . "
Since the Stone Temple Pilots barely exist and Collective Soul isn't selling like it used to, the label that signed them both (Atlantic) seems to have uncovered a band that combines the best of each. The Boston-based guitar group Big Wreck mixes the metal whomp of STP with the pop ingenuity of Collective Soul. When it works, it works big time as in the singles "The Oaf" and "That Song." Each boasts more hooks than the Fulton Fish Market. Even if the album speeds downhill, those first tracks should make Big Wreck the next big-pop-thing of the minute.
Forget the art-rock tag that long ago tarred King Crimson. During its peak ('73-74), the British group created pieces that anticipated the '80s avant-guitar experiments of Glenn Branca and The Swans, and combined it with the British jazz fusion of Soft Machine and the cataclysmic soundscapes of a Stravinsky work. The band just issued this previously lost recording of an Amsterdam concert from December '73 (circa the "Larks Tongues in Aspic" record). Between leader Robert Fripp's searing guitars, Bill Bruford's pummmeling drums and John Wetton's sinister bass, it represents a triumph of the musical macabre.
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BY GEORGE RUSH AND JOANNA MOLLOY With Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe
Wednesday, November 13th 2002, 8:10AM
Kevin Spacey believes that America's troops can oust Saddam Hussein in less than two weeks. But he thinks the country's military brilliance is being misused for political ends.
"We have a job in Afghanistan we haven't finished," the two-time Oscar winner told us Monday night during a party to launch Triggerstreet.com, a Web site that gives undiscovered screenwriters the chance to pitch him scripts.
"We have [fewer] troops in Afghanistan at this moment than we had in Kosovo. There's no clear victory in Afghanistan. There's a clear victory in Iraq in about 11 days. I think the [U.S. armed forces] can pull it off. And President Bush knows it."
Spacey blamed last week's Republican rout of the Democrats on "our having had Iraq 24 hours a day for five months. There's not a single domestic issue that anyone in this country was paying attention to."
Republicans "left the impression that if you questioned whether [an invasion] is a good idea or not, you're unpatriotic," said Spacey, who worked on Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and wrote
speeches for Illinois congressman John Anderson's 1980 presidential campaign.
With Saddam waiting to see if the U.S. will blink, said Spacey, "I hope that wisdom will prevail, that we'll find a a way to diplomatically solve what is no bigger a crisis than the missiles of October [i.e., the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis].
"If we did what [Bush] is talking about doing, we'd go down a road from which we would never recover and which would start a chain reaction around the world. I live in the hope that it won't happen."
Wishing him well at the Hudson Hotel on his Internet enterprise were Angie Harmon, Duncan Sheik, Caroline Rhea, Illeana Douglas, James
Gandolfini, Jewel, Macaulay Culkin, Liev Schreiber, John Turturro, Marisa Tomei, Mark Consuelos, Molly Shannon, Peter Riegert, Robin Williams, Sam Rockwell, Sophie Dahl, Wesley Snipes and Yoko Ono.
Halle Berry feels for convicted shoplifter Winona Ryder.
"She lives at the corner of my street," Berry said in an interview while promoting "Die Another Day," the 007 thriller opening Nov. 22. "So I left her a couple of notes along the way."
Berry, who went through her own public ordeal when she was prosecuted for leaving the scene of an accident, explained: "I just wanted to tell her, 'Hang in there. Hold your head up, and it's all going to be okay - no matter how it works out.' "
Meanwhile, Berry's Bond character, the beautiful-but-deadly Jinx Johnson, may get her own movie. An MGM spokeswoman confirms the studio is developing what would be the first 007 spinoff, but adds that talks are just starting.
Imprisoned actor Robert Blake is dodging legal action filed by the children of the wife he is accused of murdering. A wrongful-death suit has been filed on behalf of the late Bonny Lee Bakley's four children, including Blake's own 2-year-old daughter.
The "Baretta" star did not participate in a planned deposition hearing yesterday, which would have required him to testify under oath. The 69-year-old actor refused to be questioned, citing his right against self-incrimination.
"We were here today in good faith. We'll be back in good faith," the plaintiffs' lawyer, Eric Dubin, told reporters outside the California jail where Blake is being held.
But Dubin said he would seek a court order to force Blake to talk, adding that "he can run but he can't hide."
Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson foiled rumormongers by failing to get married last weekend in Vegas. We hear the nuptials will actually take place in May in the rocker's hometown of Detroit.
The return trip to Sin City, where Rock proposed to his "Baywatch" babe in April, wasn't entirely wasted. Aside from opening for Aerosmith, Kid Rock learned to play blackjack and even dealt a few hands to gamblers at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, where his image is now immortalized on red $5 chips.
Sean Combs hopes ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez's third try at marriage will be the charm. "I hope it works out," Combs said Tuesday when asked what he thought of her engagement to Ben Affleck.
Combs is in Barcelona getting ready to be the emcee of the MTV Europe Music Awards there. Both he and Lopez have been nominated for awards.
Meanwhile, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is still living down a slip of the lip he made last week when introducing a segment on people who don't think Lopez has done enough for her old neighborhood.
"Folks from that street in New York - the Bronx section - said they're more likely to give her a curb job than a [lewd act]."
(A "curb job," for those whose street-gang memberships have lapsed, involves smashing someone's face against a curb.)
Smith quickly corrected himself, sputtering, "Oh, um uh, uh, a block party."
"Sorry about that slip-up," he added, as crew members could be heard laughing. "I have no idea how that happened, but it won't happen again."
BRAD PITT, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell watched Ed Norton in his final performance of "Burn This" at the Union Square Theater on E. 17th St. Saturday night. Afterward, they joined the show's stars onstage for a Champagne toast. The celebrating continued at the nearby Shades of Green pub, where the play's future star, Elisabeth Shue, stopped by. Pitt was one of the last to leave at 1:30 a.m.
DIXIE CHICK Emily Robison has a little chick. The 30-year-old singer, who's married to musician Charlie Robison, gave birth yesterday to her first child. Charles Augustus weighed in at more than 8 pounds, and is now at home with his parents in San Antonio, Tex.
CHUCK KNOBLAUCH plays for the Kansas City Royals, but New York is where his heart is. The former Yankee wed Staten Island stunner Stacey Cesaro on Saturday at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan
SALLY JESSY Raphael has made good on her threat of legal retaliation against The National Enquirer. As we forecast yesterday, the former talkshow host filed a $100 million libel lawsuit against the tabloid and its parent, American Media, in Manhattan federal court. Raphael charges that The Enquirer falsely reported she had suffered a "mental breakdown" and sought "psychiatric treatment" after her show was canceled. The paper's editors are standing by their story
MEMO TO the widow of a New York moneyman: Your dearly departed's mistress wants to use his frozen sperm to have a child, which she hopes will entitle her to a share of his estate
CITY COUNCIL Speaker Gifford Miller is always talking about "putting children first." Last week, his rhetoric came back to haunt him when his 6-month-old son, Marshall, came down with a fever. With Marshall's nanny on jury duty and Miller's wife, corporate litigator Pamela Addison, tied up in court, the 32-year-old pol had no choice but to bring the infant to City Hall. "It was a little distracting when I was being interviewed by Gotham Magazine," says Mr. Mom, "but I don't let distractions get me off message - even adorable ones"
WRITERS KAREN Robinovitz and Melissa De La Cruz haven't finished their book "How to Become Famous in Two Weeks (Or Less)," but they're already milking their deal with Ballantine. The two have talked Lara Flynn Boyle into writing the foreword. They've also persuaded Marie Claire magazine to throw them a pre-book party on Nov. 25 at Lot 61, where the authors, dripping in Jacob and Co. jewels, will make their entrance with a fleet of 20 male Ford models on Vespas.
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THE TASTE OF PASTE A vital new magazine covering the entire pop scene favors quality sounds
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Sunday, January 9th 2005, 1:15AM
American music magazines like to carve up the genres they cover.
Spin focuses on alterna-rock. Revolver ruminates on heavy metal. Tracks tackles adult music. Vibe rules the R&B scene. The Source satisfies fans of rap.
The few periodicals that try to straddle all the genres - like Blender or Rolling Stone - often adopt a flip and breezy tone that's more appropriate to celebrity-driven entertainment publications than earnest music magazines.
However, a new arrival called Paste covers the full musical spectrum with equal energy and authority. The magazine has just one determining factor for coverage - quality.
In its well-appointed pages you can find a cover story about an esteemed but poor-selling alterna-country singer like Patty Griffin next to one about the respected hip-hop drummer Questlove (aka ?uestlove) Thompson, nudged up against an article that explains how pop fans can overcome their prejudice against jazz.
"Our culture has become so niche-focused," Paste editor Josh Jackson says. "But if you ask most people what music they listen to, they'll say, 'I have really eclectic taste.' We saw that other magazines didn't respect that."
"Paste makes you feel like you're in a club of people who know some secrets about music," says the legendary deejay Meg Griffin, who runs several shows on Sirius Satellite Radio. "It feels like a rebel in the field."
In its breadth of coverage and smart visual layout, Paste resembles the top British music magazines like Q, Uncut and Mojo, publications that leave most American counterparts looking tone deaf.
Surprisingly, the American answer to the Brit magazines isn't centered in New York or L.A., but in Decatur, Ga., a town Jackson describes as "Mayberry meets Berkeley."
Jackson, 33, grew up near the town, as did the magazine's publisher, Nick Purdy, also 33. The two have known each other since high school.
"We were always talking about how to get involved in music and how to help musicians, since it seems like such a hard thing to do for a living," Jackson says.
A journalism graduate from the University of Georgia, Jackson first got involved in the music business six years ago when he created a Web site that served as an online retailer for indie bands. He and Purdy called the site Pastemusic.com, inspired by their tag line: "Connecting music to the soul."
"We wanted a word that talked about connection," Jackson says. "And everybody has fond memories of paste from when they were kids."
The pair decided to start the magazine two and a half years ago. They put out feelers through their Web site, which had such credibility that 500 people bought a yearly subscription to the magazine before it existed - at $22.95 a pop. That money, plus more borrowed from credit cards, financed the first issue, which appeared in July 2002 with songwriter Victoria Williams and Jayhawks member Mark Olson (her husband) on the cover.
Paste quickly secured distribution. Jackson says when they pitched the idea to the Borders chain, the company signed on before the first issue was printed. With that backing, they got labels like Capitol and Blue Note to advertise in the inaugural issue.
Initially the mag was quarterly. In October 2003 it went bimonthly. By 2006, it will come out every month.
As Paste entered its second year, the publishers began including a CD with each copy, featuring artists like Wilco, David Wilcox and Sam Phillips. "We thought, if you're going to read about music," Jackson says, "you should be able to listen to what we're talking about."
Early cover subjects ranged from Aimee Mann and Solomon Burke to Ryan Adams. One uncompromising cover featured a mix of Kathleen Edwards, Josh Ritter, Sandre Lerche and Erin McKeown. That same issue featured a story on Dave Matthews inside.
Paste isn't above playing favorites. The founders are clearly in love with singer-songwriters, which is why the magazine features a lot of Americana music. "Great songs are a lot of what the craft of music is about," Jackson says.
Jackson admits that the magazine could write more about alterna-soul music. What they won't cover, he says, are "things that don't have quality, like Limp Bizkit. Or stuff that would degrade, like some of the hip hop or heavy metal out there. Also, a decent segment of our audience is women, so we're not going to put scantily clad teenage girls on our covers."
Accordingly, Paste can sometimes seem a bit chaste and serious. It has a whiff of National Public Radio about it. Yet it's not averse to celebrating a passing pop pleasure if its joys have some substance.
Paste's approach seems to be connecting. Circulation stands at 65,000, with distribution at all Borders, Barnes & Noble and Tower stores, as well as at major newsstands. The company has gone from a two-man operation to seven full-time staffers. For the January 2005 issue, the company introduced its first DVD, featuring movie trailers and 34 music videos from the likes of Elvis Costello, the Ramones and Mindy Smith.
Jackson and Purdy also have a regular slot every Tuesday morning on CNN Headline News, during which they plug notable new records. According to Dave Siff, who discovered the pair for CNN, "For anyone who's serious about music, Paste is invaluable. Among music magazines, it rivals anything I've seen."
In October, Paste started programming a series of listening stations at various music stores around the country. For the future, Jackson says he'd like Paste to become "a Spin-sized magazine that competes with Rolling Stone."
"We'd like to steal away some of their readers who want something a little more substantive," he says. "I still believe there are lots of people out there like that."
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MONICA'S GLAMOR PIX SHE'S VANITY FAIR GAME
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By THOMAS M. DeFRANK Daily News Washington Bureau Chief With William Goldschlag
Tuesday, June 9th 1998, 2:04AM
WASHINGTON Monica Lewinsky has yet to be heard, but she's being seen in a whole new way much to the horror of her new legal brain trust.
A glitzy photo spread of the former White House intern looking playful, whimsical, provocative and mysterious appears in the July issue of Vanity Fair magazine. And there's not one of her trademark berets in sight.
The shoot was set up by her recently sacked lawyer William Ginsburg and is now cited as one of many reasons the Lewinsky family showed him the door along with Ginsburg's comment that he encouraged her posing because independent counsel Kenneth Starr had suppressed her libido.
Lewinsky's new legal team of Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein, who unlike their predecessor have vowed never to appear on a TV talk show, privately have said the spread was a serious tactical blunder. "They're horrified," a family friend told the Daily News yesterday. "If Plato and Jake were onboard, this would never have happened."
While conceding the glamor shoot in Malibu last April lifted Lewinsky's spirits, "these are not the kind of pictures you want out there when you're trying to portray your client as a victim," the friend said. "It makes her look like she's enjoying the notoriety."
In fact, Lewinsky was a happy and willing model for celebrity photographer Herb Ritts, according to Vanity Fair West Coast editor Krista Smith, who attended the all-day session.
"She was a real natural. . . . She was easy to work with," Smith said.
She said Lewinsky "seemed very happy with the clothes, and we decided on the things that were most flattering and looked to create a certain mood." Ginsburg and Washington lawyer Nathaniel Speights who is still part of Lewinsky's legal team attended the shoot "and were perfectly happy with what was going on."
That's not surprising, according to Lewinsky's confidants.
"Ginsburg intimidated her," says one. "When your lawyer is the lifeline that's keeping you from going to jail, you tend to listen to him." But in the end, Monica's parents decided that Ginsburg didn't have her interests at heart, a family friend said.
The final straw was Ginsburg's recent open letter to Starr in a California law journal. Lewinsky's parents were not only offended by Ginsburg's tone among other epithets he called Starr "an anti-constitutional monster" they also were furious when Ginsburg claimed they had approved his attack on the independent counsel.
"The only good news," one exasperated Lewinsky source told The News yesterday, "is that this is the last Ginsburg mess we have to deal with."
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