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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Detectives in Gainesville are searching for University of Florida freshman Christian Aguilar, a South Florida native, who has been missing for nearly three days.
Police on Sunday said they suspect foul play.
Aguilar's family left their home in Southwest Miami Dade Friday to join the search at the university along with police.
"I'm in agony right now," said Carlos Aguilar, the teen's father. "People think I'm crazy, but I'm going to do the unthinkable to recover my son."
Aguilar, a graduate of the Doral Academy, was involved in a dispute about a girlfriend with another young man who beat him up, according to his father. The young man, who Gainesville police identified as 18-year-old Pedro Bravo, allegedly dropped Aguilar off near a field on campus after beating him up.
Carlos Aguilar and his family have been searching through the wooded areas of Gainesville.
Police have not released any further information about the other young man. Aguilar's father said he was questioned by detectives but declined to comment further.
Aguilar, 18, has not had a history of running away, according to his family.
"I know the longer it takes for finding my son, the chances are less for my son to survive," his father said.
Bravo has not been charged with a crime, but has been held for psychological examination since Friday under Florida's Baker Act, after telling investigators he wanted to harm himself.
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A woman who planned to testify as a character witness for Jodi Arias in a bid to spare her life decided Monday that she couldn't go through with it, saying she had received death threats and was deeply conflicted about the case.
Lawyers for Arias, who was convicted earlier this month of the frenzied murder of an ex-lover, quickly asked for a mistrial in the sentencing phase on the grounds that a witness had been intimidated. The judge denied the request.
The potential witness, Patricia Womack, is a childhood friend of Arias who planned to testify about Arias' abusive childhood. Besides the threats, she said that her heart went out to the family of Travis Alexander, whom Arias was convicted of killing.
"I couldn't do it," she told NBC News in an email. "I feel there is so much good in Jodi to be saved but then also someone's dear life was taken."
Jury finds Jodi Arias guilty of murdering boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Convicted murderer faces possibility of death sentence. NBC News' Chris Clackum reports.
Court abruptly adjourned for the day after lawyers for Arias said they had no witnesses to call. It remained possible that jurors in the sentencing phase would hear from Arias herself, perhaps Tuesday.
Karen DeSoto, a defense lawyer and legal analyst for MSNBC, said there were ways of overcoming Womack's feelings of intimidation.
"If she really is scared, then turn the cameras off," she said. "There's a lot of ways to cure whether somebody can testify. Clear the courtroom."
After the judge, Sherry Stephens of Maricopa County Superior Court, denied the mistrial request, lawyers for Arias asked to be taken off the case. The judge denied that request as well.
Arias, 32, was found guilty May 8 of first-degree murder. She admitted to killing Alexander after a day of sex. She shot him in the face, stabbed him more than 20 times and slit his throat ear to ear. At trial, she claimed self-defense.
Jurors, after hearing tearful statements from Alexander's brother and sister, ruled that Arias had been "especially cruel," a finding that made her eligible for the death penalty under Arizona law. The same jury is considering whether to sentence her to death.
Arias was briefly put on suicide watch after the conviction. Hours after the verdict, she told an Arizona TV station that she would rather get death than life and that death was the "ultimate freedom."
Sheriff's officials said Monday that Arias had been returned to the regular population at the county women's jail after spending five days on suicide watch in a psychiatric ward, The Arizona Republic reported.
The Arias case, with its lurid details, has been widely followed. Arias dyed her hair, turned off her phone and drove 1,000 miles from California to Alexander's home in Arizona on June 4, 2008.
Arias and Alexander had broken up after an affair. Arias testified that she had acted out Alexander's every fantasy and even converted to his Mormon faith, but he nonetheless broke up with her and began dating — chastely, he told her — other women.
According to the testimony of some of Alexander's friends, Arias did not take the breakup well, and began stalking her former beau and slashed his tires. Her extreme jealousy culminated in Alexander's gruesome murder, the prosecutor argued.
Alastair Jamieson of NBC News contributed to this report.
Related: Jodi Arias should die, victim's brother and sister tell Phoenix jury
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Unlike his owner Clive Palmer, not a shy man, Jeff was eerily quiet over the first day of the Australian PGA Championship at Coolum.
He was following directions to a tee. There was no bellowing, no roaring, not even a golf clap from his tiny, useless arms. All he did was hypnotically wag his tail and wobble around in the strong winds buffeting the golf course at Palmer's new resort.
Still, Jeff was getting plenty of attention. Even with a gag order in place, it's difficult for an 8.5m Tyrannosaurus Rex to go incognito on a golf course hosting one of the biggest tournaments on the Australian calendar.
Australian PGA Championship fans did not seem to mind, and many posed for photographs with the apex predator, who busied himself during the upper cretaceous period devouring everything within bite. That was before being shipped to the Sunshine Coast via China by the mining magnate.
Jeff may not be alone for long. Palmer is intent on adding to his collection of enormous robotic dinosaurs and bringing them to the former Hyatt resort, which is now the Palmer Coolum Resort.
Instead of an elite golf destination, he hopes to turn it into a huge dinosaur park featuring 150 replicas. At least Palmer won't have to worry about locking horns with golf organisers any more, with the tournament now heading elsewhere following a breakdown in discussions.
Jeff is holding court this week between the ninth green and 10th tee. One local councillor has already likened it to a scene from Happy Gilmore, where golfers have to bounce the ball off one of his legs before getting it in the hole.
Golf veteran Stuart Appleby was among those confounded by Jeff. He has played worldwide but can categorically say he has never flopped one out of the sand with a hulking bipedal carnivore in the background.
"I had a chip out of the bunker yesterday with this thing in the background. I said to (caddy) Mike (Waite) 'I've never seen a dinosaur in the background of one shot I've hit in my life'," Appleby said.
"I'm watching it now. It wasn't moving yesterday. It is strange. It is hard to comprehend that stuff. We won't get around to religion and beliefs but it's pretty weird."
China's Zhang Xin-Jun, one of the early leaders, said he was dumbfounded to see towering over him the giant T-Rex, which is reputed to be named after Queensland deputy premier Jeff Seeney.
"Ha, ha … I'm astonished. I never thought will see dinosaur on a golf course, and during the practice round its eyes were moving and his tongue looked, well, almost real. It certainly makes the course look different," Zhang said.


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It's time we just come out and say it: whatever the Farrelly Brothers had, they've lost it. It's long gone. There is no denying their place in modern comic filmmaking; Kingpin is a deliriously gonzo, balls-to-the-wall masterpiece, and There's Something About Mary is, well, There's Something About Mary--a delightful mash-up of gross-out comedy and sunny romance that reconfigured the comedic cinema landscape. But since that critical and financial highpoint, each film has been successively worse than its predecessor: Me, Myself, & Irene, Osmosis Jones, Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, Fever Pitch, The Heartbreak Kid, and now, their first film in over three years, the misbegotten sex-in-marriage farce Hall Pass. They clearly did not spend the time off recharging their batteries. They're still trafficking in the same tired formulas and constructs; meanwhile, more gifted comic filmmakers (Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips, Greg Mattola, and others) have evolved the Farrellys '90s form into something fresher, smarter, bolder, and funnier. Hall Pass is like a late-'60s Bob Hope or Jerry Lewis movie, stubbornly grinding out what used to work, current styles be damned.
The shame of the project is that the Farrellys have dragged down a cast of talented people: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Merchant, J.B. Smoove. These are gifted performers who have done memorable work before, and certainly will again, though none of them are terribly funny here. (Okay, Smoove and Merchant are.) The premise is simple but promising: Rick (Wilson) and Fred (Sudeikis) have been married for years to Maggie (Fischer) and Grace (Applegate), but their mates, fed up with their constant horniness and wandering eyes, take the advice of a wise friend (Joy Behar) and offer their men a "hall pass"--a week free of the burdens of marital monogamy. The theory, which the Behar character offers up from the moment she suggests the idea, is that they will quickly sober up to the realities of single life and realize what they've got. That is, come to find out, exactly what happens. Way to throw us the curveball there, Farrellys.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the Hall Pass screenplay (aside from how painfully unfunny it is) is how little is made of the central premise; it's frankly kind of surprising how few actual comic sequences are spun out of the guys trying to get laid. The Farrelly brothers and co-screenwriters Pete Jones and Kevin Barnett inexplicably think it's funnier (or easier) to have them eat too much or spend a day hung over or get high while they're playing golf; those scenes don't play as anything other than lazy writers killing pages and saving all the zaaaaaany hijinks for the end. The third act, by the way, includes an unexpected car accident, a shoot-out, and a police chase, prompting us to wonder if there was a clearance sale at the climax factory.
Meanwhile, two separate scenes within the first twenty minutes are predicated on embarrassing conversations overheard because of surveillance devices. A drunken Sudeikis hits on a girl, and when her boyfriend stands up, ho ho, he's gigantic. Richard Jenkins gets a one-joke character to play, and if that weren't bad enough, the one joke isn't even timed for a laugh (his actual entrance is left for the deleted scenes). For that matter, the timing is off all the way through the movie; the dialogue is strained and the obligatory gross-out scenes don't unfold with any kind of comic rhythm or ingenuity. They just happen, and then they're (thankfully) over. The movie is kind of the same way.
Hall Pass's "Enlarged Edition" comes in Warner Brothers' standard two-disc set: one 50GB Blu-ray disc for the feature and extras, a standard-def disc with the feature and a digital copy.
The Farellys aren't exactly known for their visual style, and more than one reviewer noted, during the film's original release, that it had a flat, overlit look reminiscent of a second-tier television show. So if the MPEG-4 AVC transfer is less than dazzling, we can probably blame the source material . That said, saturation is decent, details are crisp, and black levels are strong, though skin tones vary from waxy to leathery.
The 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix is mostly concentrated in the front and center channels, as expected for a track that's mostly about dialogue (and, um, sound effects), which is reproduced with cleanness and clarity. Rear channels (and LFE) are mostly saved for the occasional nightclub and house party scene, as well as a couple of action beats.
French, Spanish and Portuguese 5.1 tracks are available for the theatrical version (the "extended cut" is English only); English SDH, French, Spanish, and Portuguese subtitles are offered as well (for both versions).
I can't help but wonder if Warners is suffering from layoffs or something, since Hall Pass and Unknown, relatively high-profile titles, are both hitting Blu-ray this month in almost bare-bones editions. This "enlarged" edition is anything but--aside from the addition of a branched extended cut (adding seven minutes), we get a single (and mildly funny) Deleted Scene (4:27) with Richard Jenkins and a Gag Reel (1:59) which in Fischer is seen, not entirely inaccurately, predicting "the most boring blooper reel ever." And that is it--though that does mean we don't have to sit through another of the Farrelly Brothers' insufferable "hey let's point out all of the extras who are our friends" commentary tracks.
The disc is also BD-Live enabled, though it was not yet functioning at the time of this review.
The two female leads of Hall Pass probably come out looking best--surprising, since the dialogue they're given is so terrible (seldom have female conversations sounded more like they were written by four men). Ever-reliable Applegate is probably the best thing in the picture--her final scene with the baseball player is kind of priceless. Fischer is lovely and charming; it's a shame she doesn't get anything funny to do. But she does get what may be the film's best scene, throwaway though it may be: a vivid presentation of that terrible moment when a husband realizes, after hours of sexual run-up, that his exhausted wife has fallen asleep. They play that moment genuinely, and then it goes on one beat longer, into some really interesting territory. More moments like that would have certainly made for a more honest movie; it might not have generated a lot of laughs, but hey, neither did what they came up with.


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Magic Mike is making his way to Sin City.
In his first Facebook Live video, Channing Tatum revealed that his big screen stripper franchise "Magic Mike" is going to give fans the experience live and in 3-D.
Tatum announced that the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will become the permanent home of handyman-turned-stripper Mike Lane with "Magic Mike Live," a re-imagination of the male strip show based on "Magic Mike" and the sequel, "Magic Mike XXL."
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"Magic Mike has been a special and very personal project for me, and this show is a natural extension of that," the star said. "So while I won't be on stage as Mike, `Magic Mike Live Las Vegas' is my vision and I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time in Las Vegas creating something that will give women what they really want."
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A walk through Union Depot's history
Union Depot's $243 million renovation is finally done and on Saturday officials in downtown St. Paul will reopen it to the public.
There hasn't been train service to Union Depot in 41 years and they won't start running again until at least next year. But the station has been remade into more than just a railroad hub. Metro buses will start picking up and dropping off passengers there tomorrow, there's a place for bicycle commuters and the new Central Corridor light rail line will end there when it opens in 2014.
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Copper Beech Farm – most expensive family home ever – sells for $120 million
When Greenwich, Connecticut's Copper Beech Farm hit the market last spring, asking $190 million, people across the nation noted that while the home earned the distinction as the most expensive single-family home ever to hit the American market, it wouldn't necessarily close at a nine-figure sum. But it did.
Earlier this week, the mansion that was once home to the Lauder Greenway family closed with a final price of $120 million, according to the Greenwich Town Clerk's office. The paperwork was filed early Friday morning.
You can check out the full listing here, and read more about the property in some of our previous stories, like this piece written when it originally went on the market, and this post when the price was first chopped.
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First, the buyer is listed as The Conservation Institute, LLC., a Connecticut limited liability company with an address listed in Stamford. No surprises here that the property was bought by an LLC. That's a standard move for a trophy piece.
Second, while we can't learn much about the buyer because of that LLC privacy shield, listing agent David Ogilvy told me earlier this afternoon that the buyer was not local. That shoots down some of the rumors we've been hearing that the buyer could be none other than Bridgewater Associate's Ray Dalio, since he's a Greenwich guy. It does not negate rumors that it might be a wealthy Russian, but we're not in the business of speculation.
Third, this is the single most expensive residential sale Greenwich has ever seen. In fact, it's the most expensive single-family residential property sold in the United States, according to Ogilvy and the real estate website Curbed. Here's what they had to say:
Though it sold for just 61 percent of its initial ask, the property still managed to edge out a win over the reigning champ of single-family residential sales in the United States, a nine-acre Silicon Valley spread that sold for $117.5M in January 2013. (It did not, in fact, beat Montana's Broken O Ranch, which sold in 2012 for $132.5M—though most would consider that a working farm and not a single-family home of the Copper Beech breed.)


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My Man Steve Issacs from LA's Sweetride just got a 8 page spread in the latest Bicycling Magazine.
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Oh Bob Lutz, our man crush on you borders on the weird and this isn't going to help. We get a little tired of having to call out the media for their ridiculous articles about Tesla, so we're glad you could carry the load for a bit in calling out this nonsense with a simple response like this.
To sum up, some guy tries to claim Detroit is losing to Tesla because they're selling a small amount of expensive luxury cars to a small market and GM is discounting the Volt.
It's a nonsense claim (trust us, we know nonsense claims) and Lutz flips it over on him as if it were an Opel.
This is a little bit like saying that a new, exclusive, high-end restaurant in New York, with a three week reservation list, is "doing a better job" in the food business than McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Pizza Hut combined, since the latter are all offering "deals".
The offending blogger obviously does not understand scale. Here's a nugget to help: The total of all Tesla cars ever produced since 2006, from the initial announcement of the electric roadster to the current Model S sedan, amounts to a couple of hours of GM's global production. The company's earnings from that effort likely amount to a similarly minute fraction of GM's business.
When it's a battle between a guy who was a jet attack aviator and some guy with a Harvard MBA who is apparently from Chicago but curiously sports a mustache that makes him look like the haughty villain in a fish-out-of-water movie where a guy from the other side of the tracks lands in English high society, always bet on the jet attack aviator.
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5 comments:
- Laura said...
interesting place.
I just wont go near that coke sign. EVER!
- August 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- YaYa said...
I want to take that silver leopard home! $18 seems a bit pricey for the 3 wedges of cheese but the antipasto plate looks good value. More than 5 bucks per prawn and I'd expect them to be deveined if not massaged and pampered to perfection!
- August 14, 2010 at 10:54 PM
- thang @ noodlies said...
not sure about the burlesque, but the food looked alright.. good location too
- August 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM
re plastic glass and bottle needing to be kept at the bar; what would you expect from a John Ibrahim & Kyle Sandilands venue? Its reputation (or is that stink?) far precedes itself. Ghastly and vulgar, that's my humble (hah!) opinion. Gobsmack'd
- August 17, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- Simon Leong said...
hi laura, that coke icon is such a sydney icon i think it'll be there for ever. pity it represents something not that healthy.
hi yaya, hehe me too although i don't think it'll fit through my door. i find it's pretty hard to get a plate of 3 cheeses for under $20 these days but if you know a good place please let me know. for $5 a prawn i would expect deveined as well :-( although an extra one would have been nice too with some tartare sauce
hi thang, you gotta give burlesque a go. it's pretty harmless and can be quite entertaining.
hi gobsmack'd, haven't heard from you for ages :-) i knew about mr ibrahim but thanks for letting me know about kyle — very interesting indeed. that would indeed explain possibly the plastic glassware. the patrons seems pretty relaxed so perhaps it's on crazy busy nights that things might get a bit out of control?
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
NYPD slaps $270 ticket on East Village cyclist for running red light
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while i am tired of the bikers that think the road belongs to them.
those that think they don't have to obey traffic rules and regulations - not even to the extent of riding in their own lane -
i do think that $270 for a red light infraction is rather draconian.
perhaps it is time to license bikes, make them obey the traffic rules, give them warnings, and then ticket them - on a more "reasonable" scale
- April 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM
That sucks, it kinda defeats the purpose of riding a bike if you have to stop at every light. We were always taught to treat it as a yellow as a kid :-(
- April 20, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Awesome. One less biker to have to watch out for when crossing legally at a crosswalk.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- Richard Colligan said...
Now we know the real reason for the bike lanes.
A revenue raising method.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Unknown said...
I agree with Jeremey. This may be a little steep, but i feel like you are much more likely to be hit by a cylclist than a car, particularly when you are crossing the street legally. The city is a crowded place, this is why we have traffic lights.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Marty Wombacher said...
How much is a ticket if you run a red light in a car?
- April 20, 2011 at 12:27 PM
i have already been hit by a bike,
it is no picnic and my knee will never be the same.
if "it kinda defeats the purpose of riding a bike if you have to stop at every light" then stop riding a bike. don't take the fun out of walking for us all.
and why do you believe everything you were told as a kid?
grow up.
you are the kind of biker that deserves a ticket of $270! or perhaps somebody should take away your biking privileges.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Sorry, after all the back and forth in this blog alone about how bike riders are required to follow the same traffic rules and regulations that drivers are, what part of the extended discussions did SAMO not get? I agree $270 is a bit steep, but if that's what it takes to make him stop at red lights, well...an expensive lesson.
@Anonymous 12:04 - who, exactly, taught you that a red light was to be "treated like a yellow"? Your parents? That would be child abuse. Your Driver's Ed teacher? That would be illegal. And if a red light is only a yellow in your book, then what color, exactly, WOULD make you stop? There aren't many more up there.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- Brian said...
Blasting through red lights is bad practice for cyclists, likewise riding the wrong way in bike lanes.
The city made an investment in cycling by putting in the lanes. Cyclists should reciprocate ... which should include slowing down for red lights. "Stop, drop (the feet), and roll."
Absent cyclists bombing the red lights, there would be less aggro response by general public and police.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM
this is the best news i've heard in awhile... I think cyclists should be fined the same amount for running a red light.
by now, cyclists have replaced taxicabs as the top threat to people in crosswalks.
- April 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Was looking up how much a red light fine would be for a car and found this interesting FAQ: http://bikingrules.org/letter/325
- April 20, 2011 at 1:03 PM
As an avid cyclist AND a car owner, here's my take. Around the fall of 2010, when riding, I began to stop at every red light even if they were no cars coming in any direction. I have also extended this practice to Central Park and the West Side park bike lane. I basically obey all traffic regs as if I was driving a car.The stress that has been relieved plus the feeling of being a good citizen and not a selfness prick is well worth the extra minutes lost by stopping. Also the First Ave and Second Ave bikes lanes are horror shows; I hate riding on them due to the clueless pedestrians, riders going the wrong way, etc. The City should have done a compromise and created the type of lanes that are on Ave C and Ave A. Re the 8th Ave lane, I haven't used that one enough to make a judgment.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:08 PM
This is good news. I am glad to hear the cops are ticketing cyclists. For our safety and his own, SAMO needs to follow the rules of the road. He is lucky he didn't hit a pedestrian or get hit by a car himself when he blasted through that light.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM
I agree with this fine. It often seems cyclists think that traffic lights don't apply to them, since the bike lanes have been created in the East Village there have been a number of times I've been crossing and almost been hit by a cyclist ignoring the red light.
If you are travelling along the road, whether by bike, car, scooter, whatever, the rules of the road apply, and stopping at traffic lights is one of them.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Marty Wombacher said...
@Jeremy: Thanks for that link, it answered the question and more.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Crazy Eddie, you seriously stop at every red light? That would drive me nuts. In Central Park I think that would even be more dangerous than running the red lights, as you're more likely to confuse and catch the cyclists behind you off guard.
I'm a responsible red light runner, and approach it the same way I walk red lights as a pedestrian or jaywalk. I slow down, look both ways, and if nothing's coming, I'll cross.
I can't stand it when I see cyclists speed through a red light or find a split-second hole in space and time between approaching cars and pedestrians to slide through. It's cyclists like these who aggrevate drivers and pedestrians, and that's probably why there's a ticketing blitz.
I wish the police would discern between the two. And issue more tickets to riders going the wrong way or on the sidewalk.
To all the commenters who are happy to see SAMO get a ticket: Do you stop at every light as a pedestrian, even when there isn't a car in sight?? For all you know, SAMO was carefully crossing without any car near, causing no harm or distress whatsoever to a single soul.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:43 PM
@Anonymous 1.43.
In Central Park, it's no big deal to stop at reds since while doing a full loop, there's probably 2 reds that catch you at the most. Also, they are writing tickets in Central Park as well. If I want to really rip it up, I go on 9W or River Road. As far as a bike rider being "confused' if I stop at a red, while driving my car crosstown, you would not believe all the cabs and other a-holes who are "confused " that I stop at a red and who then have to stomp on their brakes. Enforcing half a law while driving a car or riding bike, makes no sense at all. Pedestrians and runners don't maim or kill other pedestrians or runners, bikes and cars can and do so.
- April 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Spike said...
There's menaces in cars, bikes and sneakers out there. I'd prefer if the police go after them ala @Anonymous 1:43's comments. I've had more close calls as a biker from jaywalkers then from cars. And yes, I'll run a red if the coast is clear, same as I would on foot.
- April 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Crazy Eddie, I'm afraid for the safety of pedestrians as well as your safety when you say you're a "responsible red light runner." Please re-think your stance. I know a lot of guys think they are superhuman but you are just like the rest of us and you could really get hurt or hurt someone else when you run red lights. Reminds me of my friend who always said he was a "responsible drinker." Didn't end so well for him or the other people in the car.
- April 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM
I'd like to make the point that when a licensed driver is ticketed for a moving violation, they incur points on their license. Get enough points, and you pay (significantly) increased insurance rates.
- April 20, 2011 at 2:33 PM
@Anonymous 2.23
"Crazy Eddie, I'm afraid for the safety of pedestrians as well as your safety when you say you're a "responsible red light runner." Please re-think your stance"
You are confusing me with @Anonymous 1.43.
- April 20, 2011 at 2:55 PM
Execute jay walkers on site!
- April 20, 2011 at 3:22 PM
Bikers need to stop comparing themselves to peds if they don't want to be compared to cars. You've got wheels. You can move faster than I can walk. You lose momentum at lights, I lose gas. I accept that, why can't some of you.
- April 20, 2011 at 4:21 PM
Ironically, I was just crossing the crosswalk from the east side of 11th and Broadway to the west, and I almost got hit by a biker. She said "oh, sorry" though, so it's ok I guess...
anon 3:22 - everyone who has been living in NYC for more than a day has jaywalked before.
- April 20, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Sorry about that Crazy Eddie! Thanks for the correction.
- April 20, 2011 at 4:43 PM
It's fantastic how the dialogue is completely co-opted as pedestrians versus bikes versus cars as the price of oil continues to climb. The MTA raises prices and cuts service and the price of food is going through the roof.
Yah, bikes are the problem!
- April 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- April 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Yeah!!! About fucken time. Now here's a suggestion, License the fuckers. Make them wear plates on the back of their bikes, front-of-their bikes or on their fucken shirts for all I care. Even better, force, the restaurants to pay for individual licenses for their delivery people and you will see this mayhem decrease significantly. (Motorized bicycles on the sidewalk..Who would believe that a civiled town would allow that?)
Once these fuckers are identifiable/identified that dirty word (hear it, Ant?) RESPONSIBILITY will come into the equation.
No Restauranteur wants to be associated with reckless bicyclists. The licenses will force the association.
- April 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Good. I hope they keep ticketing. I can't count the times I've almost gotten hit by bikers "cautiously" running the red. (Bikes can't see around a lot of cars and trucks, so since they can't see anyone they think there must not be anyone there). I've also had two friends put in the hospital by bikers running reds.
- April 20, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Let us know what you REALLY think OWR.
- April 20, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Uncle Waltie said...
I hate cold Chinese food.
- April 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- chris flash said...
This is just what I warned of when we were all discussing the absurdly-placed bike lanes along First and Second Avenues. First they tell you they're doing so for your good; then they tell you that you MUST use them; then they ticket you for not using them. It's obviously more about money ("revenue enhancement") than it is about our "safety."
- April 20, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- chris flash said...
One more thing: I'm a responsible biker and I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to be corralled by the new bike lanes (the previous versions that keep bikers in the street are safer) in which pedestrians walk, delivery trucks unload and cars block when turning at corners.
If there is no one crossing or cars in intersections, it makes NO fucking sense to stop at every red light either. I've had countless collisions and near-misses with clueless pedestrians who jaywalk, who cross the streets with eyes closed (it's TRUE!!), who are tuned out with ear plugs on and who are too busy texting while walking to watch where the fuck they are going!!
The bottom line is that everyone should look out for others, whether they're walking, biking or driving. A ticket blitz to raise revenue is NOT going to force a change in anyone's behavior!!
- April 20, 2011 at 7:46 PM
@Chris Flash.
You are correct. Many pedestrians are clueless. I was riding in the First Ave lane recently and just after Beth Israel, a middle age woman was in the lane, going the wrong way of course, pushing an elderly woman in a wheel chair, I shit you not. If you ever ride in Central Park, the Rube herd congestion as you approach Strawberry Fields is mind boggling. They will always be dumb, we are not Amsterdam nor will we ever be that type of city. Also, we can just get over the narcissism here on this tread; I will do whatever I want etc., etc.
- April 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Hey19..I'm a free man in a free country. I say what I feel. Too bad if it burns your ears (eyes?)
- April 20, 2011 at 9:28 PM
Another cyclist checking in. I dont mind the tickets. When walking, cyclists (especially the delivery guys) are consistently going the wrong way, running lights, or riding on sidewalks.
I follow what alot of cities already have as laws. On a bike, you are a car. Follow the same rules. Except, stop signs or red lights. I do the stop, then roll through: Stop. If nothing is coming/in the way, go on.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:00 PM
You can "feel" anything you want, but you are completely devoid of reality.
Enjoy being cluless in your little lala land.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:53 PM
My guess is that since bikes run red lights in front of cops all day, this one probably did so almost causing an accident, pissing off the officer forcing him to take action.
- April 20, 2011 at 11:19 PM
A couple of things here. First, a friend of mine said the last time he ran a red light in his CAR, he got a ticket for $90. So, $270 for a bike seems a little excessive.
Second, as a biker, I once ended up getting hit by a car and having a dislocated shoulder because a pedestrian crossing against the light stopped dead in his tracks in the middle of the street right in front of me to answer his cell phone. So get off your pedestrian high horses, folks (to mix a metaphor). We all "cheat" on the red lights, and the person who said we just all have to be more aware and watch where we're going had it right.
I can't tell you how many times I've been endangered by pedestrians strolling across the street against the light, with headphones on or texting, never even looking up when I ring my bell, so I have no clue if they are aware I'm there or not. Or the ones who stroll along in the bike lanes like they were put there for pedestrians. Or the people who get out of cabs without looking, opening their doors into the bike lane (I have a permanent dent in one leg from a car door being opened out into traffic when I was riding by).
Of course, blowing through a red light at full speed is idiotic, dangerous, and rude, and the bikers who do it give us all a bad name, but I don't know why everyone is assuming that's what Sami did.
If we all just used a little consideration and weren't oblivious to what is around us when using shared street space, it would make things a lot safer than issuing $270 tickets.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:24 AM
New anonymous here:
I don't have a problem with people jay-biking (going once all cars have gone by or all pedestrians are out of the way).
I like the concept of the 1st and 2nd Ave bike lanes. It's annoying when dumb pedestrians use it as a sidewalk or asshole bikers/delivery guys ride the wrong way instead of moving one more block over.
Hell, the other weekend, I almost ran right into 2 pedestrians when I had the green, because they decided to just stroll into the street without looking.
But some of you scream for licensing? What for? The police already have the power to ticket bikers.
The real issue is that EVERYONE (bikers, pedestrians, drivers, etc) needs to wake up and pay attention. Pedestrians should watch with extreme care if they want to jaywalk - not just blindly meander into the street. Bikers need to treat stop lights at the minimum as a yield sign, but really more of a stop sign. And drivers just need to look into their mirrors to make sure the bike lane is clear before they go turning across it.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:40 AM
- tabledesk said...
I received this same ticket a month ago in the west village. ended up paying $190
- April 21, 2011 at 1:03 AM
I am curious as to how the cop who gave SAMO the ticket stopped him. I would think a cyclist could easily evade the cops. Care to share the story, SAMO?
- April 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Anon @ 12:24 has said it best.
OWR likes to scream his "Get off my lawn you damn kids!" because he likes to hear himself talk. Ignore the menace because nothing he says is constructive unless you're a Stalinist dictator.
Delivery guys and others riding the wrong way - bad. Full speed running lights on a bike - bad. Inconsiderate anyone - bad (especially if the actions of the inconsiderate endanger someone). Outright hate of anything to do with a bike - bad. OWR - needs mental help.
I've not, in the past 3 months nearly run into a pedestrian. This is not due to pedestrians not standing in the bike lane or crossing without looking green light or not. It's because I'm paying attention because I'd rather not interrupt where I'm going with a trip to the hospital. Look out for yourselves. Be an adult. Protesting bike lanes and bikes in general is silly. The hate is telling of something else.
- April 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM
I'm an EV resident and a cyclist and I run red lights. Not bomb them, but cross them in the same way that pedestrians do a billion times a day in the city. At least I use common sense and courtesy and don't do it while wearing headphones or talking on the phone or texting.
I'm not looking to terrorize anyone, I'm just looking to get to and from work and the grocery store without giving up more of my hard-earned money to the unreliable MTA. If you want to indiscriminately rail against me and anyone who wants to safely ride their bike--well fuck you! I will always yield to fucking pedestrians because its the right thing to do. Unlike some of you lot, I have a sense of common courtesy.
- April 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Spike said...
'Bikes vs Peds vs Cars' comment threads are as awesome as 'Tipping' threads in the Tripadvisor forums!
- April 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM
I did an experiment the other day -- I biked from the LES to Grand Central using the First Avenue bike lane for most of it. I stopped at every red light.
I'm a huge fan of the bike lane concept here, but the pedestrians are god-awful on First Avenue. I just took to yelling at everyone "GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE" -- I was crazy lady on bicycle with the right of way.
I am quite certain that if I had hit someone (and there were a few close calls), the story would have been about how the terrible bicyclists are mowing down helpless pedestrians.
I'll consider the fines for bicycles just as soon as fines for *entitled* pedestrians kick in. They not only endangered themselves, they endangered me and others biking around me.
- April 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM
New York is and has always been a pedestrian culture. You can't assume that just because DOT puts in a bike lane pedestrians will completely change the way they've been conditioned to be able to move for decades overnight.
- April 21, 2011 at 11:56 AM
I completely support the expansion of bicycle lanes and increasing ridership as a form of transit, as well as any initiative which promotes walking, cycling, and public transit over private automobiles.
Nevertheless, all vehicles must follow the traffic laws. Any cyclist who runs a red light deserves a ticket.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Thank you for the kind words, Ant(4Brains). And a happy Holiday to you. If you dont like my rantys and comments anymore than anyone else posting here, too fucken bad. As long as you watch your p's and q's when bicycling and (heaven-forbid) dont run int me, we're caool. Cause if you ever do, Your name will be very appropriate to your size when all is said and done. Cpiche, Dick?
- April 21, 2011 at 5:44 PM
I got a $270 ticket for running a red at 9th & 2nd at 10am on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago. I stopped, waited for a guy at the corner to make up his mind, looked east on 9th saw no traffic, and went through. There was no one around... I too hate the wrong way idiots (I've been hit by a delivery guy going the wrong way). I now prefer staying out of some bike lanes, esp. 1st & 2nd Aves. where yahoos RULE. I'm a crabby middle aged broad, lived in the EV for 30 years. I'm not a speedster. The object of the game is to stay alive. PERIOD. Pedestrians need to be more mindful around bike lanes. People who are partial to salmoning NEED TO STOP, including delivery people. I want to see them ticketed... Anyway, going to Traffic Court to fight it, cause the cops told me to!
- April 21, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- chris flash said...
I just LOVE how cops issuing tickets for "quality of life" offenses invariably tell those being ticketed to fight it and "you'll beat it." Obviously, they're giving tickets to fill quotas and to demonstrate that they're doing something out there beyond taking pictures of license plates of passing cars....
It's all bullshit. They know it and WE know it!!
- April 21, 2011 at 9:30 PM
I wonder how many of the problems between "bombing cyclists" and "clueless pedestrians" could be ameliorated with bike bells.
When your introduction to someone is yelling "GET OUT OF THE WAY" or "WATCH IT ASSHOLE," the dialogue is likely only to deteriorate from there. A bell could resolve the situation without the need to speak at all. I've noticed, especially lately, that the bells are inexplicably rare.
- April 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM
At anonymous 10:08AM:
I have a bell on my bike and use it constantly as I approach intersections with pedestrians blindly crossing. A handful of times, they're just oblivious for whatever reason (headphones, telephone, staring into space) - either standing in the lane as if its the curb or blindly crossing.
- April 22, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- liquidastronaut said...
i can't wait to runover some peds on my way home, maybe even kick over a baby carriage or two.
why do people hate cyclists so much, i mean besides our smug 'saving the world' attitude?
seriously though? you give a free pass to noisy, polluting cars that drive too fast and endanger everyone while slowly filling our bodies with poison, but you get mad at cyclists? outlaw cars. then the bikers will stop at lights. we'll have no reason to skip the lights to get out of riding next to cars.
- April 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM
Crabby middle-aged broad here. RING MY BELL? ARE YOU KIDDING? I ring like mad! Do you really think people are paying ANY attention? They are waaaay too busy talking on the phone, or listening to their iPods. The WORST is CYCLISTS with HEADPHONES on, who can't hear a THING, let alone a bell. SO, YEAH, I'M GONNA YELL AT YOU. Because you're plugged in, standing in the bike lane when I have the light, AND I DON'T WANT TO HIT YOU. You get a "heads up" or a "wake up" or maybe a really loud HEY. Forget about midtown. That's a nightmare.
And maybe I am a rube for going to Traffic Court cause the cops told me to, but my sister told me to as well, she's been there lots of times and beaten lots of tickets. At a minimum, I hope to have it knocked down from $270.
- April 24, 2011 at 4:11 AM
And what about the idiot jaywalkers who dart out in the bike lane, and or the clueless peds with their earbuds in , wandering aimlessly through don't walk signs, when is the
NYPD going to extent the same ticketing courtesy to all instead of picking on the cyclists.I dont see the boys from the 9th precinct handing out tickets for the idiot who jumped into traffic on the middle of 7th st, whereby I almost ran him and his dog over...
- April 24, 2011 at 11:09 AM
I really hope samo and the others will add their stories to this WNYC project to map the recent spike in bicycling tickets.
- May 10, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- jw said...
I read an article once that said they passed a law in San Fransisco that cyclists had to stop at red lights (as if it were a stop sign) but that they could proceed if the way was clear. That sounded so civil to me. The problem is people who do not stop at all for red lights, they are dangerous!
As for the bike lanes in midtown, forget it. FULL of pedestrians and tourists who pay attention to nothing even with a bell.
I bike and drive and walk like a lot of people who have commented. There needs to be some way to educate bikers, right now everyone is pretty much functioning on "what can I get away with" principles (this totally goes for pedestrians too BTW). Put some signs up, have a website, some workshops offered....they could teach it in schools (like drivers ed). Everyone is so angry about everything but there is no education going on. While its great to put in the bike lanes, its not like everyone will instantly know the rules surrounding them, especially since its been such a grey area for, well, forever.
- June 8, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Ok, now where are the tickets for pedestrians who blithely jaywalk right in front of bikes (in some cases while looking right at the biker) nearly causing accidents?
As both a biker AND pedestrian I can tell you that happens a whole lot more often.
- July 1, 2011 at 11:12 AM
The problem with New York City is that it's filled with New Yorkers. New Yorkers are generally bad drivers, bad cyclists, and bad pedestrians.
We ALL need enforcement!
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- Education Outreach Showcase Join with national science centers, universities, and science research centers for an evening of fun with science and engineering! Participate in hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Education Outreach Showcase and learn how to create effective and exciting outreach educational materials about materials science and engineering, including nanotechnology. The evening's events will include a special tribute to Marni Goldman. Tuesday, December 1st 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Hall D (Hynes Convention Center) (during poster session)
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- Nano Activities Center Monday-Thursday, November 30-December 3 8:00 am-4:00 pm Hynes Convention Center, Level 2, Lobby Join us throughout the week as national science centers in partnership with the NISE Network present educational, outreach and professional development activities and programs. The Museum of Science, Boston, will be showcasing a variety of approaches to nano education, outreach, education, and professional development, including The Nanomedicine Explorer, Talking Nano, The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show, Sci-Tech Today cable news segments, and science communication training for graduate and undergraduate students. These have been produced in partnership with the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and the Harvard-MIT-UCSB-MOS Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and in connection with the NISE Network. The Sciencenter from Ithaca, New York, will display a portion of their NanoLab exhibit with educational nano videos and film footage of nanofabrication research being conducted at Cornell. The Lawrence Hall of Science, UC-Berkeley challenges you to Enter the Drawing for the IPod Nano Give Away by answering a Power of Small provocative video clip question about nanotechnology and its possible impact on society.
- Into the Prudential Mall! – Public Hands-on Demonstrations MRS Fall Meeting attendees representing universities and science centers will provide interactive, hands-on demonstrations about materials science and engineering and nanotechnology in the Prudential Mall. The goal is to provide fun demonstrations that help to inform the general public about materials science and engineering and nanotechnology. Monday – Thursday, November 30th – December 3rd 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Thursday, March 27th 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Hynes Court, Prudential Mall (just outside mall entrance to Hynes Convention Center).
Got time on the afternoon of Sunday, November 29 to come on over to the Museum of Science to see a live performance of The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show? More than 22,000 people have seen this raucous, 40-minute "edutainment" spectacular featuring virtuosos jugglers and comic performers Dan Foley and Joel Harris, who juggle everything from houseplants to tennis rackets atop seven-foot unicyles, back-to-back and in-the-dark, while covering the basics of atoms, molecules and nanoscale forces (also featured on Dragonfly TV-Nano). Fun for the whole family. Performances at 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm on Sunday, November 29. Free with exhibit hall admission ticket. Free with exhibit hall admission ticket. Please arrive early to get a seat; these performances always fill up. Hope to see you there!
NISE Net's collaboration with the Materials Research Society
The Materials Research Society (MRS) is a professional organization that includes many scientists working on nanotechnology research. A natural partner for the NISE Net, MRS helps to link scientists and researchers interested in public outreach with informal science education projects and institutions. Some MRS scientists are speakers for NanoDays, others advise on the content of projects, and still others provide meeting venues for NISE Net activities. In addition, MRS maintains a database of scientists who have volunteered their interest in participating in the NISE Network. The database, as well as MRS representatives, can help connect museum professionals with the scientific expertise they need.


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Here's Julianne Moore at the premiere of Game Change last night. I don't love how the black top is cutting her off.
Game Change airs on Saturday on HBO and HBO Canada. I screened it last week. You need to watch it. Not because it's the best movie. But because it's riveting. Jacek and I were transfixed. In the way that you get so into a movie you have to keep pausing it to yell at each other about it.
How does Game Change stand up as a film? It's choppy. Certainly not the most evenly written piece of material. At one point you're compelled to actually feel for Sarah Palin, by the next scene she's a raging bitch. There are times when the script is way too abrupt, and that may be for lack of time, since the source material is so dense, but it doesn't take away from Julianne Moore's performance. And what a difficult task that must have been - to have to become someone so freshly embedded in public memory, who has already been parodied so brilliantly by Tina Fey, and to have to consciously, while figuring out the real guts of the person, try to avoid comparison to the imitation that ended up being so pop cultured. Superficially I can tell you that she was helped by some really great wigs.
But it's in the silent moments where Moore really, really takes hold of this role. When Palin withdraws and turns into herself as she becomes overwhelmed, when she clings to the comfortable as a form of retreat - these are honest and understandable reactions that make the difference between a caricature and a character study.
To say nothing of Woody Harrelson. He's amazing. And the two of them sparring is thrilling to watch.
Oh and the actress playing Bristol Palin looks more like Bristol Palin than Bristol Palin.
Anyway, there's no way Julianne Moore isn't getting Emmy and Golden Globe nominated for this one. She'll go head to head against Nicole Kidman as Gellhorn, unless I've missed a cut off date technicality.
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Here's Julianne Moore at the premiere of Game Change last night. I don't love how the black top is cutting her off.


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Many dividend investors focus exclusively on finding the best dividend stocks. They spend countless hours analyzing companies, studying balance sheets and perfecting their entry criteria. Yet, when the companies that have taken so painstakingly to identify and research appreciate in price, investors decide to cash in and move onto the next idea. Unfortunately in most situations, investors end up worse off in the new idea, in comparison to just sitting tight and doing nothing.
I am always fascinated that investors who are quick to pull the trigger on gains they generate, freeze to death when the stocks cut or eliminate distributions. They become hopeful, when they should be fearful of losing their nest eggs. These investors end up hoping and praying that one day their dividend income will breakeven, meaning that they will generate as much income as when they originally made the investment.
These examples appear to be black and white, and too rigid. If investing has taught me anything, it is that things always change and that one has to remain flexible in their approach. Yet, one recurring pattern in my investment portfolio that I have noticed is that winners tend to keep winning, yet losers tend to keep on losing. In the world of dividend investing I have found that companies like the constituents of the dividend achievers list have a very high probability of continuing their streak of consistent dividend increases. I have also found that companies which cut or eliminate distributions are seldom good investments for the long term investor, even if they eventually decide to regain their dividend growth stock status.
What I am attempting to describe here is the fact that dividend investing is very difficult. It is not difficult because analyzing balance sheets, moats and business models is that hard. It is difficult, because a large component of the investment equation deals with investor psychology. Even if investors are shrewd enough to have selected the best dividend stocks in the world at the right price, they could still end up not making any money, or even worse – losing money.
Investors who purchased at the right price can do no wrong by simply holding onto the rising income stream, as long as the distribution is not cut or eliminated. The dividend trend should be their friend. Unfortunately, psychologically speaking, it is very difficult to hold onto a winning position. A position that goes up 50%, 100%, 200% and even more over a period ranging from a few months to a few years or even decades would make most investors want to ring the cash register. This would be the case even if the underlying fundamentals are still intact, and bullish trend in earnings and dividend payments is expected to continue onto the future.
Another psychological problem that dividend investing poses is that it is a slow process of building wealth and passive income. For many, it would take anywhere from one decade to several decades. Few investors have the tenacity to forgo current consumption and stick to a single investment strategy for years. People tend to give up easily when confronted with certain tasks where the payout is a long time away. It is very difficult to compare your long-term approach to dividend investing to the get rich quick mentality of most other investors, who might have made quick gains in volatile technology stocks over the past year. Investors who decide to take shortcuts to achieve their target dividend income, might end up being disappointed in the process. Some shortcuts include taking excessive leverage that could lead to huge investment losses even during a small market correction, or using options and futures without understanding them completely. Another shortcut could include loading up on high-yielding companies such as mortgage REITs like American Capital Agency (AGNC) or Annaly Capital (NLY). If short term interest rates start increasing faster than longer term interest rates, the distributions that these mortgage REITs pay would be in big jeopardy.
The psychological dilemma of successful dividend investing is evident for situations where investors have purchased companies that have raised dividends for a certain number of years, and when they keep raising them in the future. Many investors have been taught at school or at their jobs that inactivity does not result in payoff. As a result, many end up selling winners, paying capital gains taxes on the proceeds and limiting their upside this way. Unfortunately, successful dividend investing is sometimes counterintuitive to this way of thinking, since it is all about being right and maximizing this to the fullest extent possible, even if it takes several decades of positive reinforcement.
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Legislative ExternshipSLN #: 12729
Course Prefix: LAW-785
Course Section: 003
Credit Hours: 6
Instructor(s): Bender
Course Description:
Legislative internship students are selected in a competitive process administered by the Career Services office at the College of Law. Students should contact Career Services for admission forms and information. Legislative externs apply and are selected in the fall semester. There are 6 intern positions at the Arizona Legislature for spring 2011: House Rules (2), Senate Rules (2), House Democrat Staff (1), and Legislative Council (1. Students from all the three Arizona law schools apply for the positions. The only partisan position is the House Democrat. Students are placed in the positions and cannot choose where they want to be placed.
All Legal Legislative Interns earn 6 pass/fail credit hours. To receive these credits, a student must work 60 hours for each credit earned resulting in a total of 360 hours of work. Students, who begin the internship on or about January 14, will work for 15 weeks including Spring Break, and complete the internship around April 21. Students who start and finish on dates other than those described will adjust their schedules so that they complete the required 360 hours of work for the 6 credits earned.
When contemplating applying for a Legislative Internship, be sure to note that the College of Law will recognize no more that 12 credits of externship credit, including the 6 Legal Legislative Internship credits. If you do not have the appropriate number of credits (6) available to you, you will not be allowed to participate with the legal Legislative Internship program.
Among other opportunities, legislative interns work closely with legislative counsel to analyze proposed state legislation for constitutionality. It is strongly recommended that legislative intern students take Arizona Constitutional Law as either a pre-requisite or a co- requisite. In addition to the on-site work experience provided at the Arizona legislature, an academic component of the internship is provided by Professor Paul Bender at the College of Law. Professor Bender meets with legislative internship students periodically throughout the semester to review their work and discuss their experiences. Professor Bender will contact the spring intern students by e-mail to set up the first meeting of the academic component.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 6
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Experiential Learning: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
* The law school has a policy that Is used To calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.


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BWC Board of Directors - Bios, duties and terms of service
Biographies | Duties | Terms of service | Annual report | Investment policy statement
Chan Cochran
Chair of the Board, Member of the Audit and Governance committees
Represents the public
Term expires June 11, 2023
Chan Cochran, of New Albany, is founder and CEO of the Cochran Group Inc., a Capital City communications and government affairs consulting firm, managing communications in connection with legislative and ballot issues, as well as communications for corporate clients. He has been involved in workers' compensation ballot and reform issues since 1981. Cochran is a former member of the Franklin County Children Services, Experience Columbus and Veterans Memorial Boards of Trustees. He served as communications director for former Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes. A Navy veteran, he served two years in Vietnam and later as Navy media coordinator on the Apollo 11 and 13 recovery missions.
Mark J. Palmer
Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Investment Committee, Member of the Medical Services & Safety Committee
Investment and securities expert
Term expires June 11, 2022
Mark J. Palmer, of Bexley, is co-founder and chairman of The Joseph Group Capital Management, an investment advisory firm he founded with his brother in 1999. As of June 30, 2019, The Joseph Group directly managed or advised more than $510 million in investment assets. Advisor HQ recently listed The Joseph Group as one of 12 "Best Financial Advisors to Work with in Ohio," receiving the highest marks possible in all graded categories. From 2008 through 2012, The Joseph Group was included in Columbus Business First newspaper's "Fast 50" ranking of privately held companies based on revenue growth. And in 2011 and 2018, the company was named one of the "Best Places to Work" by Business First. Palmer is a registered investment advisor representative with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He serves as board chair of the Wesley Communities (Wesley Glen, Wesley Ridge and Wesley Woods) and is a 30-year board member of Ohio Northern University. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Ohio Northern University, a juris doctorate from Rutgers University, and he has completed graduate coursework in economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
Peggy Griffith
Vice Chair of Medical Services & Safety Committee, Vice Chair of Governance Committee, Member of Actuarial Committee
Represents injured workers
Term expires June 11, 2023
Peggy Griffith, of Deerfield, is a member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 4302. She is first vice-president of the Ohio AFL-CIO Hall of Fame Labor Council. She chaired the CWA's safety and health committee and the joint AT&T safety committee. She has more than 35 years of workers' compensation experience as a member and committee chair for CWA.
Kenneth Haffey
Chair of the Audit Committee, Member of the Investment Committee
Certified public accountant
Term expires June 12, 2021
Kenneth Haffey, of Chesterland, has been a licensed CPA in Ohio since 1986. He is currently a partner in CPA firm of Skoda, Minotti & Co. in Mayfield Village. Haffey served as a managing partner and vice president for Century Business Services, Inc., a Cleveland CPA firm. Haffey also worked as a vice president for banks in Cleveland and Chicago and has served as an adjunct accounting professor at Case Western Reserve University since 1990. Haffey received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1978 and an MBA from DePaul University in 1982.
Terry S. Jacobs
Chair of the Actuarial Committee, Member of the Audit Committee
Term expires June 12, 2022
Terry S. Jacobs, of Cincinnati, is CEO/Managing Partner of JFP Holdings, Ltd., an investment and real estate company. He founded and served as CEO of Regent Communications in 1993 and Jacor Communications in 1979 and took both companies public. He was senior vice president and board member of American Financial Group before he pursued his entrepreneurial ventures. He also worked in various senior actuarial and operations executive positions for 15 years with multiple insurance companies. He is a member of the board of directors of American Financial Group and the Voice of America Museum, and was inducted into the Georgia State University Risk Management and Insurance Hall of Fame in 2017. Jacobs served in the U.S. Marine Corps reserve service and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in actuarial science from Georgia State University.
David W. Johnson
Chairman of the Medical Services & Safety Committee, Vice Chair of the Audit Committee
Represents employers with more than 100 employees
Term expires June 11, 2023
David W. Johnson, of Salem, is the CEO of Summitville Tiles, Inc. and is president of the Spread Eagle Tavern & Inn in Hanoverton. He is a board member and past chair of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association. He also is a board member of Consumers National Bank, Minerva, Ohio; Vice Chairman, Radio America & American Studies Center, in Washington, D.C.
Suzanne R. Kiggin
Chair of the Governance Committee, Member of the Investment Committee
Represents self-insured employers
Term expires June 11, 2022
Suzanne R. Kiggin, of Powell, is vice president of operations and customer care for American Signature, Inc., where she oversees store operations, customer care and home delivery operations for 120 stores. She previously served in several vice president roles for Victoria's Secret and has more than 30 years of experience in retail leadership positions. As a Senn Delaney culture-shaping facilitator, she has lectured internationally to the next generation of leaders. She is a board member of Ruling Our eXperiences, a nonprofit organization focused on empowering girls.
Tracie J. Sanchez
Vice Chair of the Actuarial Committee, Member of the Medical Services & Safety Committee, Member of the Governance Committee
Represents employers with 100 or fewer employees
Term expires June 12, 2021
Tracie J. Sanchez, of Lima, is the corporate president of the Lima Pallet Company, Inc. In 37 years of service to Lima Pallet, she learned to do most of the tasks the company offers, from forklift operator to sales manager to becoming president of Lima Pallet in 2001. She has a strong knowledge of cost savings programs BWC offers to Ohio's employers. She also is involved in the community by serving on the National Federation of Independent Business' Ohio Leadership Council. Mrs. Sanchez is a native of Lima, where she lives with her husband, Jeffery, and their three children.
Dewey R. Stokes
Member of the Audit and Medical Services & Safety committees
Represents employee organizations
Term expires June 11, 2022
Dewey R. Stokes, of Columbus, has a long history of public service to the community, state and nation. He served more than 27 years as a Columbus police officer and was elected Franklin County Commissioner, a position he held for 12 years. He also has a wide range of experience in law enforcement and labor issues, including serving as president of the National Fraternal Order of Police, co-chairman of former Gov. George V. Voinovich's Labor Advisory Committee and member of the Columbus Area Labor Management Board.
Michael P. Taylor
Member of the Actuarial and Investment committees
Represents Executive Board of the Ohio AFL-CIO
Term expires June 11, 2021
Michael P. Taylor, of Steubenville, spent three decades in the fire service, retiring from the Steubenville Fire Department as assistant chief in April 2018. Over his career, he served on several executive committees and associations related to public safety. He is current president of the Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters, which represents the interests of 12,000 professional firefighters in Ohio and coordinates with more than 250 local affiliates. He also serves on the executive board of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations' Ohio branch, as well as Jefferson County's 911 executive committee. Taylor attended the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.
Frederick J. Treuhaft
Vice chair of the Investment Committee and Member of the Governance and Actuarial committees
Investment and securities expert
Term expires June 11, 2021
Frederick J. Treuhaft, of Toledo, is a profit-focused consultant who focuses on transforming complex challenges into business strategies. His background includes more than 38 years' experience in all phases of business, tax, estate, strategic and family wealth planning. Director Treuhaft also specializes in working with entrepreneurs, helping start-up businesses grow by teaching owners to understand the potential of their enterprises based on local markets and communities. In addition to consulting activities at his company, Treu Advisors, he is very involved in his community including the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation and several other organizations. He is a graduate of the University of Toledo with a BBA specializing in accounting.
The Board of Directors is an independent body of fiduciaries entrusted with setting overall administrative policy for BWC.
Summary of duties
- Advising BWC's administrator on all policy and operational matters
- Safeguarding the assets of Ohio's workers' compensation system, including maintaining the solvency of the State Insurance Fund
- Providing independent verification of BWC's financial and operational performance
Highlights of specific duties
Please see ORC 4121.12 for a comprehensive listing of all board duties.
- State Insurance Fund - The board has specific responsibility to safeguard and maintain the solvency of the State Insurance Fund and other funds.
- Investment duties
- Approve the investment policy developed by the investment committee ensuring that the policy satisfies the requirements in the law
- Review and publish the investment policy statement annually, and prohibit any investment contrary to the policy
- Vote to open each investment class and adopt rules establishing standards for investing in the class
- Submit an annual report to the governor and the leaders of the four legislative caucuses on the value and performance of each investment class.
- Vote to close any investment class
- Actuarial duties
- Prepare and submit (no later than 60-days following introduction) an actuarial analysis of any introduced legislation expected to have a measurable financial impact on BWC. This analysis must include the following:
- A summary of the statutory changes being evaluated;
- A description of or reference to the actuarial assumptions and actuarial cost method used in this report;
- A description of the participant groups used in the report;
- A statement of the financial impact of the legislation, including the resulting increase, if any, in employer premiums, in actuarial accrued liabilities and the relevant percent premium increase associated that would be required to amortize the increase in those liabilities as a level percent of employer premiums over a period not to exceed 30 years;
- A statement of whether the employer premiums paid to BWC after enactment of the proposed change should be sufficient to satisfy the funding objectives the board establishes.
- Prepare an annual actuarial report that consists of valuation of the assets, liabilities and funding requirements of all BWC funds, which will include the following:
- A summary of compensation and benefits provided;
- A summary of the census data and financial information used;
- A description of the actuarial assumptions, cost method, and asset valuation method used;
- A summary of findings that includes actuarial accrued compensation and benefit liabilities and unfunded actuarial accrued compensation and benefit liabilities;
- A schedule showing the effect of any changes in compensation and benefits, actuarial assumptions, or cost methods since the previous report;
- This report must be submitted to the legislative committees that hear BWC legislation no later than Sept. 1 of the year following the year studied.
- Conduct an investigation every five years to update BWC's actuarial assumptions. The investigation should analyze the experience of employers, the mortality, service and injury rates of employees, and the payment of temporary total disability, permanent partial disability, and permanent total disability. The board must submit this report to the standing legislative committees that hear BWC legislation by Nov. 1 following the fifth year studied and must include all of the following:
- A summary of relevant decrement and economic assumption experience;
- Recommended changes in actuarial assumptions to be used in actuarial variations;
- A measurement of the financial effect of the recommended changes.
- Prepare and submit (no later than 60-days following introduction) an actuarial analysis of any introduced legislation expected to have a measurable financial impact on BWC. This analysis must include the following:
- General administrative duties
- Review BWC's progress in meeting cost and quality objectives, and in complying with relevant statutes
- Submit an annual report to the Governor, Ohio Senate President and House Speaker, including the following specific criteria:
- An evaluation of the cost and quality objectives of the bureau;
- A statement of the net assets available for the provision of compensation and benefits, as of the last day of the fiscal year;
- A statement of any changes that occurred in the net assets available, including employer premiums and net investment income, for the provision of compensation and benefits and payment of administrative expenses, between the first and last day of the fiscal year;
- The following information for each of the six consecutive fiscal years occurring previous to the report:
- A schedule of the net assets available for compensation and benefits;
- The annual cost of the payment of compensation and benefits;
- Annual administrative expenses incurred;
- Annual employer premiums allocated for the provision of compensation and benefits.
- A description of any significant changes that occurred during the six years for the portion of the report described above that affect the ability of the board to compare that information from year to year.
- Review all independent financial audits
- Study issues as requested by the Governor or Administrator
- Contract with all of the following:
- Independent actuarial firm to assist administrator in setting premium rates;
- Independent investment counsel to assist the investment committee;
- Independent fiduciary counsel to assist the board in its duties.
- Advise and consent on all of the following:
- Administrative rules for the classification of occupations or industries, for premium rates and contributions, for the amount to be credited to the surplus fund, for rules and systems of rating, rate revisions, and merit rating;
- Administrator duties and authority;
- Rules adopted for HPP and QHP;
- Rules regarding the Public Employment Risk Reduction Program and the protection of public health-care workers from exposure incidents.
- Meet with the Governor to discuss administrator performance
- Develop and participate in a board education program which must consist of the following:
- An orientation for newly appointed members;
- A continuing education program;
- A curriculum that includes member duties, compensation and benefits, ethics, governance processes and procedures, actuarial soundness, investments.
- Appoint the members of the Audit, Investment and Actuarial committees
- Create any committee in addition to the Audit, Actuarial, and Investment committees the board deems necessary to perform its duties
Terms of service
- Initial board members will serve one-, two- or three-year terms.
Please see member biographies for individual terms.
- After the initial appointments, board members will serve three-year terms.
- The Governor appoints board members, with the advice and consent of the Ohio Senate.
- Members can be reappointed.
- $2,500 for attending one or more Committee meetings each month, and $2,500 for attending one or more board meetings each month
- Not to exceed $60,000 per year when combined with compensation for committee assignments
- Must attend at least one board meeting per month to receive compensation for that month
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