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Hollywood being what it is, I found myself shortly before Christmas at the same party as Julie Newmar, the legendary actress who played Catwoman in the Adam West Batman TV series of the early 1960s. That's her above at the party. As I've discovered since, having mentioned it to various people, there are some who find this the most exciting thing they've ever heard, others who haven't a clue who the lady is: generation has something to do with it, but not everything.
Ms. Newmar and I exchanged a few pleasantries, and I did notice that she was a little unsteady on her feet, holding people's arm for support, and I did hear her tell somebody that she gave up high heels about five years ago. There's much debate online about just how old Julie Newmar is, but nobody seems to think she's less than 75, so to have been strutting in stilettos till the age of 70 doesn't strike me as the worst record. And whatever age she is, she's still looking pretty damn good on it.
In fact it's not easy to find a picture of Julie Newmar walking, whether as Catwoman or as herself: photographers seem to have preferred to see her lounging around. I don't really blame them. The day after the party I looked up her blog and found an entry from 2009 titled Up and At 'Em, in which she tells us that sadly "The crunch is, I barely can walk these days," but not to worry, she says, "I can fly … Flying is the key. As a concept, flying beats walking any day. In my case, it means walking intensely, as in an intensity of purpose."
She also compares herself with Franklin D. Roosevelt (not a comparison many of us would make, I think), "Like me, Franklin Delano Roosevelt couldn't walk, and he rose above it to run the United States of America for four terms as President. We never heard him complain." Indeed.
Now, it so happens that I live within walking distance of the location used as the outside of the Batcave in the 1960s TV series, it's in Bronson Canyon, which is itself part of Griffith Park. In fact, the Batcave isn't really a cave at all, it's a short tunnel, the remains of quarrying work that used to go on in the area. The interior, of course, was elsewhere, in fact on a sound stage at Desilu Studios in Culver City.
Nevertheless, in honor of Batman and Catwoman, and especially in honor of Julie Newmar, I decided to walk up there on Christmas Eve and found that a surprising number of people had had the same idea. Good for them. Good for all of us.
The walk started at the corner of Foothill Drive and Canyon Drive, another of those frustrating roads posted with the message "No Access to the Hollywood Sign," the truth being that no road actually gives access to the Hollywood sign, however we define "access."
Along Canyon, it being Xmas, a few people had decorated their gardens, including the one above, Christmas balls adorning a euphorbia and a century plant. Not far from here, not that long ago, one of the houses once had a full size cross outside, big enough for a real crucifixion, which I guess is another version of the Christmas story. Eventually the walk took me into the park with its various signs warning against fires and rattlesnakes, and this particularly fine sign forbidding alcohol.
Now admittedly that's a very shallow glass out of which to drink booze, but those bubbles sparkling both in and out of the glass strike me as a triumph of alcohol-related design, though frankly not one likely to deter the determined boozer/walker.
Access to the "Batcave" is on foot only and there's a locked barrier across the track leading up to it, to prevent vehicles entering, but once you get up to the cave there's evidence that bad boys have found a way to drive up there and do doughnuts in front of the cave entrance.
Of course there are no bats in the Batcave, let alone cats, and their attendant men and women, but once you emerge on the other side there are ravens on the hills and hawks circling, and if you turn to the left and look up you do actually see the Hollywood sign, rather distantly, which is arguably the best way to see it.


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President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged," as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next morning.
Booth was a well-regarded actor who was particularly loved in the South before the Civil War. During the war, he stayed in the North and became increasingly bitter when audiences weren't as enamored of him as they were in Dixie. Along with friends Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and John Surratt, Booth conspired to kidnap Lincoln and deliver him to the South.
On March 17, along with George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine, the group met in a Washington bar to plot the abduction of the president three days later. However, when the president changed his plans, the scheme was scuttled. Shortly afterward, the South surrendered to the Union and the conspirators altered their plan. They decided to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward on the same evening.
When April 14 came around, Atzerodt backed out of his part to kill Johnson. Upset, Booth went to drink at a saloon near Ford's Theatre. At about 10 p.m. he walked into the theater and up to the president's box. Lincoln's guard, John Parker, was not there because he had gotten bored with the play, Our American Cousin, and left his post to get a beer. Booth easily slipped in and shot the president in the back of the head. The president's friend, Major Rathbone, attempted to grab Booth but was slashed by Booth's knife. Booth injured his leg badly when he jumped to the stage to escape, but he managed to hobble outside to his horse.
Meanwhile, Lewis Paine forced his way into William Seward's house and stabbed the secretary of state several times before fleeing. Booth rode to Virginia with David Herold and stopped at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who placed splints on Booth's legs. They hid in a barn on Richard Garrett's farm as thousands of Union troops combed the area looking for them. The other conspirators were captured, except for John Surratt, who fled to Canada.
When the troops finally caught up with Booth and Herold on April 26, they gave them the option of surrendering before the barn was burned down. Herold decided to surrender, but Booth remained in the barn as it went up in flames. Booth was then shot and killed in the burning barn by Corporal Boston Corbett. On July 7, George Atzerodt, Lewis Paine, David Herold, and John Surratt's mother, Mary, were hanged in Washington. The execution of Mary Surratt is believed by some to have been a miscarriage of justice. Although there was proof of Surratt's involvement in the original abduction conspiracy,it is clear that her deeds were minor compared to those of the others who were executed.
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jTimeSched is a simple and lightweight time tracking tool. You can track elapsed time for tasks and projects and use the data for the recording of time worked.
One aim of jTimeSched is a lean but extremely intuitive GUI and providing only really necessary functionality.
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I wrote this tool because I needed something to track my task and project times for the recording of time worked.
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In case jTimeSched doesn't fit your needs, you may give Rachota timetracker or Task Coach a try.
Java (at least J2SE 6) is a requirement for running this application. You can download and install it from here.
Run this command from terminal:
java -jar jTimeSched.jar
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May need to set the executable bit on the JAR-file in order to run it from right-click context menu.
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See section Bugs for Linux related bugs.
To add a new project, just click on the button Add project or press the Insert key. A new project will be added to the table and the text-cursor is automatically set to the title-field. Enter the desired title and press Enter.
You can start and pause tracking time of a project by clicking the play/pause icon or by clicking with the middle mouse button anywhere in the row or by hitting Space. When started, the time for the selected project will be tracked until you pause it again or start tracking another project (which will automatically pause the previous).
The consumed time will be updated in the Time Today and Time Overall columns. The Time Today is the tracked time of the current calendar day and will be reset automatically when you start jTimeSched another day again. The Time Overall keeps the overall time spent on a project.
You can edit and correct any time by your specific needs. Just double-click into the cell and enter a new time (Note: This only works for paused projects).
An overview of all times in sum is displayed at the bottom.
Any data can be sorted by clicking on the respective table column. Click again to toggle sorting ascending or descending.
Each project can have its own category color for distinction purpose. Click into the color-cell (which is initially transparent) to open up a dialog with a set of color matching categories. You can compose your desired color by clicking on the heart-symbol. To clear a color (setting it to transparent again) click on the reset-symbol.
There is also an option for clearing all categories at once. Right-click into the category-column and select 'Clear all'.
There is a column with a general purpose check-box which can be used for your own purposes, e.g. mark a project's time as already recorded.
All check-boxes can be set and unset at once by using the context menu from the table header (right-click).
The check-boxes are now reset on day time reset.
You can highlight projects in the table by a search term. Just enter a term into the bottom-right text-box and all matching project titles will be highlighted immediately with a black border.
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Each project can have additional notes attached. Just right-click into the title-cell and enter the note to set. It's possible to use HTML within the note.
On mouse move over the title cell a tooltip-message with the set note appears.
jTimeSched can be minimized to tray by closing the window. A double-click shows or hides the main window. A right-click onto the tray icon triggers a context menu where you can start/pause the current respectively the most recent project. The Exit menu item forces jTimeSched to shutdown.
New icon for inactive mode.
If you accidently removed a project, lost the tracked time of a project or any other inconvenience, you can fall back to the modification log. The log keeps track of all important changes made to the project properties, such as "last time before deletion".
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You can find the log file in the
conf directory.
release 0.1 - everything release 0.2 - option for resetting today-time on double-click release 0.3 - fixed bug when column sorting was active and project-list became empty - added history.ico (may be used for Windows shortcuts) - set frame minimum width - set fixed width for column overall and today - added bottom label for displaying summarized information - when adding a new project start editing the cell, scroll to it and select all text and finally set input focus - improved user message strings - implemented overall-time reset - remove project with double click and without confirm-dialog - update trayicon with status and set different icon if active - handle system-tray not supported case release 0.4 - allow sorting by status running/paused - save window settings: size, position, visibility and sort-column release 0.5 - implemented categories using colors - implemented manually editing time for overall/today - tray-icon: gray for inactive, green for active release 0.6 - fixed: adjust time-overall when manually setting time-today - category chooser: - changed available colors - added option for choosing custom color - fixed possible loss of data: installed shutdown-hook for saving projects release 0.7 - when a project is running, set different window icon as well - added icons for custom/reset-color buttons - added additional column with multi-purpose checkbox - implemented logging of project changes - save runtime-file in separate directory - save/load projects as XML instead of using java serialization - implemented highlighting of rows by keyword release 0.8 - fixed: save project data as UTF-8 no matter what encoding is set by system locale release 0.9 - start/pause current project via tray-menu - created Java application launcher (Windows & Unix) - added keyboard shortcuts for start/pause, new and delete project - on startup copy project file as backup - option for removing all general-purpose checkboxes at once - worked around bug where projects were not saved on a hard shutdown release 1.0 - fixed inserting a new project with shortcut key when no table row selected - date of creation can now be edited - option for removing and color-reset all entries - added quota option for time today and overall - additional notes for a project - added a log area, which visibility can be toggled release 1.1 - show time-quota on mouse-mouse over overall/today cell - indicate present quota by a little blue dot in cell - automatically un-check projects on today-time-reset - ampersand-character in project-title not shown in tray-tooltip (Windows) - new application icon (different sizes) and more distinguishable icon when inactive - moved resource files (graphics) into JAR - fixed jTimeSched.exe-launcher for 64-bit systems - better error messages when projects/settings fail to load
jTimeSched.exe doesn't work on Windows with 64-bit Java.
Please report bugs and feature requests to the project's issue tracker.
You may also send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
jTimeSched is hosted on GitHub. You can access the repository at datag/jtimesched.
$ git clone https://github.com/datag/jtimesched.git
See README.md for more information.
jTimeSched is licensed under the GPLv3 license.


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This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of Sept. 28. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked by the defense, prosecution, and judge before they are filed.
Christopher L. Turner, 913 N. Volutsia, Wichita; first appearance Sept. 24, ordered to surrender car title as surety, arraignment set for Nov. 14 on charge of theft.
Deven G. Clark, 107 W. Arms, Toronto; preliminary hearing continued from Aug. 22 to Sept. 5 on charges of criminal possession of a firearm, possession of methamphetamine, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, and transporting alcohol in an open container.
Douglas Bryant Eden, 116 W. 3rd St., Peabody; arraignment on motion to revoke probation continued from Sept. 24 to Oct. 9.
Adam E. Williams, 808 Morrow Court, Lawrence; pleaded not guilty Sept. 12 to furnishing alcohol to a minor; bench trial set for Oct. 22.
Daniel V. Catlin II, 210 W. 6th St., Florence; arraigned Sept. 12 on motion to revoke probation; denied allegations; status hearing set for Oct. 29. Pleaded not guilty Sept. 12 to contributing to a child's misconduct or deprivation; jury trial set for Oct. 29.
Trenton Gregory Reif, 1815 Tyler St., Great Bend; pleaded not guilty Sept. 12 to charges of criminal trespass, criminal damage to property, and battery; jury trial set for Oct. 29.
Justin R. Bowley, 718 S. Elm St., McPherson, arraignment continued from Sept. 12 to Oct. 9 on charges of two counts of battery, disorderly conduct, and criminal trespass.
Mark A. Turner, 307 N. 1st, Hamilton; pleaded guilty Sept. 12 to possession of an hallucinogenic drug (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia; charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, transporting alcohol in an open container, and purchase or consumption of alcohol by a minor dismissed; sentencing set for Nov. 14.
Johnnie Liles, Hillsboro; pleaded not guilty Sept. 12 to assault; jury trial set for Dec. 13.
Stephanie Eppley, 323 Big Springs Road, Monroe, Tenn.; bond appearance Sept. 12 on five counts of issuing a felony worthless check; preliminary hearing set for Oct. 13.
Douglas D. Tomlinson, 16512 W. 123rd St., Olathe; hearing Sept. 12 on charge of criminal trespass; arraignment set for Oct. 1.
Jason Anderson, 407 N. Vine, Peabody; sentenced Sept. 12 on possession of drug paraphernalia; sentenced to controlling jail term of 60 days, 12 months supervised probation, ordered to pay $365 and undergo drug and alcohol testing and drug and alcohol evaluation.
Ashley E. Johnson, 212 S. Date St., Hillsboro; bench trial continued from Sept. 12 to Oct. 9 on charge of domestic battery.
Rochelle D. Atwood, 307 Elm, Peabody; charges of battery and criminal trespass dismissed with prejudice Sept. 11; prosecution announces plans to refile charges.
Dawnyele N. Reynolds, 102 W. Santa Fe Apt. 3, Marion; motion to reconsider sentence Sept. 17; mandatory fine of $1,000 for unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverages; fine added to sentence.
Calvin Ray Maurer, 341 S. 4th St., Marion; pleaded guilty Sept. 17 to driving under the influence (second offense); sentencing set for Nov. 14; charges of driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked and criminal deprivation of property dismissed.
Douglas Edward Gable, 616 Topeka, Lincolnville; hearing Sept. 17; plea hearing/arraignment set Sept. 24.
Tyler J. Slater, 586 Needle Road, Peabody; pleaded no contest Sept. 17 to driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (second offense); sentencing set Nov. 14. Disorderly conduct, driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked, and driving in violation of ignition interlock device restriction on driver's license dismissed.
Marcos Erik Garcia, 4912 S. Tierra Ave., Wichita; Sept. 19 hearing continued to Oct. 17 on charges of speeding in excess (86 mph in 65 mph zone) and passenger brake light not working.
Nathan Jay McGee, 812 N. Olive, Peabody; motion to revoke probation continued from Sept. 19 to Oct. 17.
Laci J. Howe, 1810 Carolina Ave. 207, Junction City; Sept. 24 hearing; speeding (85 mph in 65 mph zone) fine and court costs paid; no driver's license dismissed.
Leroy Hudson Jr., 704 S.E. 34th St., Topeka; first appearance Sept. 19 on charges of driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked and driving in violation of ignition interlock device restriction on driver's license; arraignment set for Oct. 17.
Huynh Qhoc Lai, 735 S. Chateau Circle, Wichita; first appearance Sept. 19 on charges of speeding (96 mph in 65 mph zone) and littering; arraignment set Oct. 17.
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He was the ultimate showman. The creator of the biggest-selling album of all time, who crashed through racial barriers on the music charts, ushered in the music-video age and remade the pop music landscape. A song-and-dance man who blended soul, funk, R&B, rock and disco into a sound distinctively his own and drew upon the work of James Brown, Jackie Wilson and Fred Astaire to create dance moves never before seen on this planet. An entertainer who imprinted the imaginations of several generations of fans and helped shape the work of performers from Justin Timberlake to Beyoncé to Usher.
In those days, before the ridiculously accelerated spin cycle of fame, he was the avatar of the celebrity age, a self-conscious and self-destructive seeker of publicity. In later years, his private life — with accusations of child molesting and a swirl of lawsuits, financial woes, drug addiction and erratic behavior — increasingly came to overshadow his music. His drug-induced death in 2009 at age 50 became a worldwide spectacle of grief, speculation and unseemly jockeying for money and position among family members and lawyers.
Michael Jackson — aka "the King of Pop" — has been the subject of endless articles, documentaries, Internet discussions and television reportage. According to Randall Sullivan's dreary new Jackson book, "Untouchable," the evening news on ABC, CBS and NBC "devoted more than a third of their broadcast coverage for an entire week to Michael Jackson" after his death.
Sullivan, who was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for more than 20 years, does an adequate job of chronicling Jackson's over-the-top fame, capturing the tabloid madness that orbited around Jackson and the grandiosity of his later self-presentations. (An estimated $30 million was spent on the publicity campaign for his album "HIStory," which included nine 30-odd-foot-high statues.) Such accounts, however, will be familiar even to casual followers of Jackson news, and too often this volume seems to be built out of recycled materials.
Much has been written about Jackson's fiscal woes and the maneuvering of family members and business associates over his estate. Still, Sullivan devotes a huge and depressing amount of his haphazard, unconvincing book to these subjects — in large part, it seems, because two anonymous sources had a lot to say about them.
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Reports have been circulating that Google is going to open retail store locations, similar to Apple Stores, across the nation.
And actually, it could be a pretty great idea.
For starters, 90% of purchases are still made in physical retail locations. Retail stores have worked well for Apple; Tim Cook says, on average, each generates more than $50 million in annual revenue.
Apple Stores only cost one-fifth of that to set up, and Google will likely spend even less to get its locations up and running. Of course, labor costs are the real expense, and historically Google has preferred automation to human labor, so they'd have to get over that cultural impulse. But Apple has shown that building out stores is a pretty good use of the cash pile it keeps accumulating.
In addition to the revenue opportunity, analysts think Google stores could lift the brand's public perception. The company has very little interaction with the public; it's only physically existed in pop-up stores or stores within stores. Google never even ran a commercial until 2009.
Now that it's making hardware like Android devices, Google Glass, and self-driving cars, it's smart to create a place where customers can interact with the latest innovations hands-on.
If Google can increase consumer trust, it could have a positive effect on all Google products, including Google+, Google Wallet and more.
That said, Microsoft has tried building out retail stores and it hasn't improved its market-share situation. But Android is already popular with consumers and Google is a globally familiar brand.
What Google has been missing is the opportunity for consumers to touch and feel gadgets before they buy them. That seems even more the case with tablets, an area where Google really needs to play catch-up with Apple.
Retail stores could give Google the image boost it needs to really compete with Apple.
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Lexham Bible Guide: Luke
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Lexham Press 2012
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- Title: Lexham Bible Guide: Luke
- Author: Derek R. Brown, Miles Custis, Douglas Mangum, and Wendy Widder
- Editor: Douglas Mangum
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- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2012
About the Authors
Derek R. Brown is a contributing editor at Logos Bible Software. He holds a PhD in New Testament Studies and Christian Origins from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters of Christians Studies in New Testament Studies from Regent College.
Miles Custis is the author of The End of the Matter: Understanding the Epilogue of Ecclesiastes, a Faithlife Study Bible contributing editor, and a regular Bible Study Magazine and Lexham Bible Dictionary contributor. He holds a Master of Arts in biblical studies from Trinity Western University.
Wendy Widder holds a PhD in Near Eastern studies from the University of the Free State, an MA in Hebrew and Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an MDiv from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. She is the author of Living Whole Without a Better Half, A Match Made in Heaven: How Singles and the Church Can Live Happily After, and the coauthor of The Forest and the Trees: Helping Teachers Integrate a Biblical Worldview Across the Curriculum.
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Douglas Mangum is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern studies at the University of Free State; he holds an MA in Hebrew and Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Lexham English Bible editor, a Faithlife Study Bible contributing editor, a regular Bible Study Magazine contributor, and a frequently consulted specialist for the Lexham Bible Dictionary.


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Born in 1959, Dove's early musical experience came from playing the piano, organ and viola. Later he studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge and, after graduation, worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, animateur and arranger. His early professional experience gave him a deep understanding of singers and the complex mechanics of the opera house. Opera and the voice have been the central priorities in Dove's output throughout his subsequent career. Starting with his breakthrough opera Flight, commissioned by Glyndebourne in 1998, Dove has gone on to write over twenty operatic works. In 2010 A Song of Joys for chorus and orchestra opened the festivities at the Last Night of the Proms. Throughout his career Dove has made a serious commitment to community development through innovative musical projects. His 2012 opera Life is a Dream, was performed by professionals and community choruses in a disused Birmingham warehouse, and a church opera involving community singers The Walk from the Garden was premiered at Salisbury Cathedral. 2015 brought the World Premieres of The Day After, commissioned and produced by Holland Opera with a libretto by April de Angelis, a post-Apocalyptic setting of the myth of Phaeton written specifically to be performed outside; and The Monster in the Maze, a new opera for children, young people and adults, with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, and Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, and led by Sir Simon Rattle and Simon Halsey. www.jonathandove.com
Song Credits
Music by Jonathan Dove
Lyrics by Alasdair Middleton
Published by Peters Edition Limited, London
Performance Credits
Singers: National Youth Choir of Great Britan Boys' Youth Choir
Conductor: Greg Hallam
Accompanist: Ruairi Edwards
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SimCity is coming back, and very soon. Early next year, in February in fact. The GlassBox Engine-powered game isn't looking to re-invent the virtual city-building wheel, but after finally getting to see the game in action last week at an EA Games preview event in New York City, I can tell you that it's making said wheel a much prettier and easier to understand thing. You've probably heard about the curvy roads and maybe seen some of those GlassBox dev diaries. After getting a look at how it all comes together, I can say with confidence that Maxis seems to have nailed down a formula for a city-sim that will please everyone, from longtime fans to newcomers who have always been scared away by the complexity of it all.
Common sense thinking is the key here. In 2013's SimCity, everything you see in your virtual metropolis has a function and all of those functions can be monitored simply by looking at what's happening on the ground. If you look at a collection of residential zones that you planned out and notice lots of empty lots and graffiti, then you know that you're looking at a high-crime area that's going to need some kind of expanded police presence before it's going to be embraced as livable.
Leave things alone for too long and more serious crimes will occur. At one point, a suspicious-looking van with flame decals running across it parks out in front of a tenement building. A shady character goes inside for a few moments then drives off as smoke starts to pour out of the building. It was an arsonist! Normally, a fire would be attended to immediately by the local fire department. That hadn't been built yet in this particular demo city, so the demo's driver dropped one down a few blocks away. Moments later, multiple fire engines came screaming out of the firehouse to take care of the fire.
The graffiti, the arsonist and his fire, the fire trucks… all of this points to the most dramatic change of all in this new SimCity: everything in your world matters. Every pedestrian, every motor vehicle, every crate on every factory's conveyor belt, all of it has a specific place. Residents have jobs and daily schedules. Those factory conveyor belts, each of the boxes that scroll by as you zoom in represent real-world resources. If an entire section of town is suddenly left without power, you know it's time to build an additional power plant. What was once relayed via advisors in charts, bar graphs, pie charts, and the like is now playing out in virtual real life before your very eyes.
The power outage example comes directly from my demo. The city's hippie dippy mayor went at first for a wind-powered source for the city's energy, but expanding borders quickly overwhelmed the "green" power solution. For enhanced power output, the demo's driver chose to go with a coal plant, a facility which carries an added cost in the pollution it causes. Unlike previous SimCity game, you don't just choose a location and drop your stock power plant there, however. Now players will be able to customize the look of different buildings, and by adding an assortment of modules — such as additional smokestacks — receive various benefits and drawbacks for building things in a certain way.
The plant itself also offers a visual indication of its power output in the form of its coal supply; if the big tank visible at a glance ever empties out, you've got too much demand for what you're supplying and will need to expand your facilities. In the case of the demo city, wind power simply wasn't enough. Even after the coal plant was built, however, it was just too far off from the powered down areas to do any good. In this case, a couple of high tension power lines did the trick, funneling the juice from the new facility over to the darkened, graffiti-covered streets of the city's high-crime area.
In addition to the more common sense-oriented approach to imparting information, SimCity also offers a great deal more flexibility on the creation side. Yes, there's the building customization, but that's much more of a later-game concern. Even just the basic act of planning out your city has been completely rethought. In the original game and several of its sequels, players dropped same-sized "blocks" of residential, commercial, and industrial space into the world. This later evolved into a mechanic in which players used the cursor to carve out square- and rectangle-shaped "zones" in those three categories. The result in both of these cases was relatively unrealistic cities from a visual perspective; they worked admirably as a function of the gameplay, but they did not offer an organic sense of a growing urban center.
The next SimCity carries over the same basic idea of zoning — hell, that's how real-world cities function as well — but it takes a much more workable approach to offering a more organic sense of growth. Players essentially get to "paint" the land however they' like to zone it. It works the same with the game's new curvy roads. You literally just use your mouse cursor to draw out what you want, whether it's a twisty rural street or a sprawling residential zone that lines said street. It's a subtle change, and such a marvelously simple conceit that you have to wonder how it took this long for this approach to zoning to be adopted.
By all appearances, Maxis looks to be nailing it. SimCity was very much in need of some fresh ideas. The last crack at the series was 2007's SimCity Societies, which put the franchise into a different developer's hands and went in a decidedly different direction. Maxis is back on the case now, and it shows. It was apparent even in the hands-off demo that the core values that have always powered SimCity are still there; they've simply been re-assessed and re-tooled, to offer a better reflection of modern-day urban living while also offering a less frightening entry point for total newcomers.


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Bring on the feather fascinators, the fur collars and the sparkly shoes. The holidays are the stuff of fashion fantasy, the one time of year when, no matter your age, you can get away with dressing like a disco ball. Whether you take your cues from Hollywood or the pages of fashion magazines, almost everyone wants to add a little tinsel to their everyday lives.
This season, designers have all the trimmings: smoldering ruby-red sequins from Marc Jacobs; tulle tiers from Christian Dior; bijoux printed silks from Oscar de la Renta, and exploding ruffles from Lanvin. Just try to take your eyes off of Jason Wu's jeweled satin box clutch or Miu Miu's pink suede platform pumps with glitter on the soles.
Beyond clothes, there are seasonal decorations and home accessories to inspire, such as Rodarte's cosmic Christmas ball ornaments for the Target + Neiman Marcus Holiday Collection, Kelly Wearstler's bejeweled brass bottle openers and the extraordinary vintage jewelry tabletop Christmas trees by Margaret Larkin that I spotted at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City but am determined to try to re-create at home.
We've dedicated this issue to holiday dressing and gift giving. Whether you are looking to buy for a traditionalist, a modernist, a romantic or a locavore, we've got ideas.
One such bestowal could be the new book "Hollywood Unseen: Photographs From the John Kobal Foundation," a tribute to the stars who embodied the fantasy of Hollywood during its golden age. Nearly all of the photos were staged by studio publicity departments. Some are hilariously strange (Laurel and Hardy posing with a kitten on a movie camera), while others are captivatingly glamorous (Gary Cooper in a perfect houndstooth three-piece suit, boarding a train at Waterloo Station).
But the image that really charms is the 1940 photo of Betty Grable climbing out of a convertible with holiday presents spilling about. Taken by Frank Powolny, the picture is perfectly art directed. That legendary leg, the strappy red suede shoe, downy fur coat and bordeaux lip — it's no wonder Grable would go on to become the girl World War II GIs wanted to come home to, immortalized in an iconic 1943 bathing suit shot, also taken by Powolny.
Never mind that the holiday photo was probably taken on a studio lot during one of L.A.'s balmy 75 degree days. It's all about getting into the spirit, right? Studio portraits like this one kept the Hollywood factory humming and the world dreaming, even in tough times. In the book's foreword, Joan Collins, who was under contract with various studios for two decades, writes that the images brought back memories of endless hours spent posing "in a variety of 'turn 'em on' outfits!"
"Turn 'em on outfits." You have to love that description. It's what dressing up is all about. Whether it's for a holiday dinner with family, a charity ball or a New Year's Eve bash, it's time to turn 'em on!


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We're heading down home… to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural — whatever you're growing and doing, we want to see it.
Welcome to the Down Home Farm Tours series. To see all the farms and homesteads featured in this series, click here. If you'd like to be featured, please read here for guidelines.
Welcome, Wild Oaks Poultry Farm!
Today, you get to meet Wild Oaks Poultry Farm in Central Minnesota. The family behind this farm gardens and raises poultry. Look at that cutie-pie chick! You can visit their blog here: Crunchy Thrifty Healthy Cool.
What is the name of your farm/homestead?
Wild Oaks Poultry Farm
How long have you been farming/homesteading?
That's a complicated question… I grew up on a farm, and was pretty involved in as much as my age allowed. But by the time I graduated I swore I would NEVER live that life. Funny how things change! I've been working on our property for two years.
Share a brief description of your farm/homestead.
We live in a rural area, but it's still pretty populated. We have close neighbors on three sides and a busy highway on the forth. Our plot is just under three acres, with LOTS of trees- oaks, walnuts, and spruce mostly.
What are you raising, growing, and doing?
I raise chickens both for meat and eggs. We also have fruit trees and shrubs (apple, cherry, blackberry) and a large garden where I grow pretty much everything that's able to be grown in my zone.
How did you get into farming/homesteading?
It's a round about story, really. As I said, I was totally anti farming/rural living when I graduated high school. I loved college and living in cities and being busy. Then I had kids, and things started to change very slowly. When I had my second both kids were diagnosed with food allergies — nothing life threatening, but they had ear infections for 9 months before — after much prodding on my part — we figured out why.
I started researching food allergies. And I came upon Nourishing Traditions, which introduced me to the wonders of raw milk, pastured meat, eggs, and butter, and the REAL difference between organic and conventional food. But sourcing these foods was hard, and when I could find them they were prohibitively expensive.
In the meantime we took a trip to visit our parents; we were raised in the midwest, Nebraska and Kansas. I realized I actually missed home, and didn't want to leave. I re-read My Antonia by Willa Cather, a book written about my home town and the surrounding area. The book made me totally homesick. So when my husband's job transferred him to Minnesota we took the opportunity to find a place with enough property to raise a lot of our own food. We've been working on it ever since!
Any future plans?
I want to continue to slowly expand my flock of chickens (last year I had 22, right now I have 70) and sell eggs to neighbors. I would like to expand my garden enough to have a stand at the local farmer's market. I've also gone back and forth on adding a dairy animal or two, but I'm not convinced yet, and our township limits animal units based on property size…
Is there anything else you would like to share?
If you want to farm or homestead, be really particular about the land you choose. Then don't fight it, work with it. If you have a problem with no obvious or seemingly doable solution, unless someone/thing's life is dependent on it, wait. Work smarter, not harder! I know that's all kind of vague, but it's what I have learned in the past two years. 🙂
Let's Tour Wild Oaks Poultry Farm!
(Wardee: In the captions below, you're hearing from Wild Oaks Poultry Farm as they tell you what is in each picture.)
One of my Buckeye chicks.
And a few more Buckeyes.
Our crabapple tree in bloom, buzzing with pollinators.
My garden, taken in May. The fence is new this past spring (to keep free ranging chickens out). It looks pretty sparse, but there's a lot more growing than in most other gardens around here –I have onions, spinach, kale, broccoli, turnips, garlic, strawberries, cover crops, and just beyond the fence are my potatoes in a hugelkultur bed. [Wardee: Oh, we are dying to try hugelkultur!]
This is my garden in full swing summer of 2011: I know it's far off so you can't make anything out, but I LOVE this picture. [Wardee: Yes, it is a gorgeous setting!]
My herb spiral, right next to to the front porch — see my bucket fountain in the background? I'm pretty proud of it!
One of my big helpers. She's more cute than helpful. 🙂
My new garden coop. It's meant for summer use only, so it's a simple A-frame covered with a canvas tarp. I have a much sturdier coop near the house that's more suitable to the winters here.
And my other helper!
Our shed/barn/second garage… it is what we want it to be. On one side we store the mower and sweeper, firewood, and other stuff. The other side is where I store my feed and brood my chicks. The loft holds mostly junk right now, but I plan to clean it up soon as possible coop space. Currently, my chickens are confined almost exclusively to their coop when there is snow on the ground, and every inch of coop space is precious.
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Being on the journey is the only qualification. We want to see what you're doing, no matter how big or small.
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If you're selected, we will share your farm/homestead pictures and stories in a dedicated blog post, plus you can add the featured graphic to your blog or website. And, we'll give you a free thank you video of your choice!
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Nestled in the rolling hills of the East Bay and part of the integrated communities known locally as LaMorinda (Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda), the quiet community of Orinda is the perfect alternative to the nearby bustling cities of Oakland and San Francisco. While the city is located near these urban areas, it has maintained a very intimate, small-town charm and boasts low crime rates and an ideal climate. The relaxed atmosphere provided by the rural landscapes, as well as the cultural benefits offered by the town's proximity to these cities, makes the area a haven for affluent professionals. Dotted with multi-million dollar custom homes throughout its picturesque hills, the city is regarded as one of the most desirable addresses in the East Bay. At the heart of town is Theatre Square, home to numerous shops and restaurants, as well as the historic Orinda Theatre which hosts the annual Orinda Film Festival. Between its natural beauty, outstanding location and magnificent residences, Orinda is quite a city.
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Quiltmaker Block Party in Williamsburg, VA
Here is my guest post from Quiltmaker's blog:
We just got back from a fun-filled retreat in Williamsburg, VA. This was the first Block Party Quiltmaker organized and they did an outstanding job! All the wonderful details that they put into the retreat were enjoyed by everyone. There were giveaways, interesting speakers, a wide variety of classes and an excellent hotel.
I was blown away with the number of goodies that each participant received, including the teachers! We got a welcome pack that included patterns, batting, books, retreat information, thread and other goodies.
Each evening, there were more gifts and giveaways and everyone went away with a special package that included fabric, books and much more!
One of my favorite parts of the retreat was meeting all the retreat goers. I enjoyed getting to know not only the students in my classes but also my table mates at dinner. Each teacher sat at a different table each night. It was a great opportunity to talk to lots of different people.
One of my favorite things to know about people is where they are from. We had many different areas of the country represented as well as a lady who lives in France and several Canadians. So much fun! It's fascinating to me how quilting brings us all together with such a common love.
Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 1.
The class was called Red Rover – Playing with Design.
I heard a few grumbles about the pre-sewing but everyone was thrilled when they got to actually see the results of their labors during class.
They finished blocks in the morning and in the afternoon we played!
This block creates interesting secondary designs,
By changing the fabrics, colors and level of scrappiness, they had amazing results!


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joda wrote:…almost all people on this planet find exactly that things are empty rather displeasing and do a great deal of work to forget about it.
If you only ever think about learning to swim when you fall in the deep end and the rest of the time you avoid the water, then you get a certain result.joda wrote:…a) why the realisation of emptiness should lead to the cessation fo dukkha and b) how exactly it would do so.
The same goes with our relationship to loss. It seems fairly certain on a physical level that the people and things that you love will come to an end at some point, so you can choose whether to make efforts to try to come to terms with that or not. Why fear the inevitable? Does it mean you enjoy something any less if you keep in mind the fact that it is finite?


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Voters In Revere Say Okay To Casino
Voters in Revere have approved Mohegan Sun's plan to build a resort casino on land owned by Suffolk Downs.
Tuesday's vote was the second casino vote in the city in just over three months. Revere voters in November approved a proposal at Suffolk Downs, on the East Boston line, but East Boston rejected it. Mohegan Sun came back with a proposed $1.3 billion facility that would be built entirely in Revere.
Mohegan Sun will now be competing with Wynn Resorts for the sole eastern Massachusetts resort casino.
The state's 2011 expanded gambling law allows for three regional resort casinos in Massachusetts. Wynn Resorts has proposed a $1.6 billion casino along the Mystic River in Everett, only a few miles from the Revere site. The state's gambling commission has said it expects to award the license by June 30. (Associated Press)


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|Link #21
Munior Jember
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 常陸大宮市,日本.
I'm loving Aria. Picked up some eps one day when I was on a random browse looking for something new to watch. It's nice to be able to watch something so peaceful, that doesn't have drama and cliffhangers and stress the crap out of me. You can just sit, watch an episode, and then not have to worry about what's going to happen next. I'd love to see more stuff like this.
On a side note, I was considering buying the Manga, but ADV have stalled the Manga after 3 volumes, and after e-mailing them it really doesn't look like they'll be picking it up again any time soon. Shame really, since now that they've licensed it no scanlators can pick it up. Guess it's time for me to expand on those "Level 1 Japanese" classes I did.
|2005-12-28, 09:42
|Link #22
Join Date: Dec 2005
as much as i love aria being animated. quite a few of the eps lacked the 'relaxed' feel and neglected the background stories of the place itself compared with the manga. i'm a huge fan of the manga myself and i have aqua 1 + 2 and aria 1-7. it really is a rare genre but it truly shines in the recent fanservice driven anime / manga world. personally, i enjoy the 'original' episodes in the anime as well as the episodes that only feature 1 chapter of the manga (for example ep 11 which was absolutely great). i hope the 2nd season focus more on neo-venezia as well as featuring more of the 'fantasy' chapters (eg. cat kingdom, abandoned bus, midnight train, ghost of undine, etc)
|2005-12-29, 08:52
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
I recently began on this, and am currently on episode three. I've seen two posts alluding to this, but what's with all of the A-names? Akari, Akira, Ai, Alicia, Aika, Alice, even Akatsuki... I didn't realize it until I found myself trying to remember a name, and the difficulty generated by almost all of the names coming to mind.
If people like this series, I'd also highly recommend Mushishi. It lacks the "fanservice" of Aria (I love Aria's character and clothing designs) but the environments and music are beautifully done, and each episode is unconnected to the last. Both Aria and Mushishi are two of the few series that I've come across where I can watch an episode again and enjoy it just as much as I did the first time I saw it.
Unrelated to the anime, but does anyone here have experience with the Japanese version of the manga? In an effort to improve my vocabulary and slightly improve my kanji knowledge (though you can only really learn those by writing them a million times, in my experience) I'm looking for a series to translate - not for a scanslation group, but just for myself and on my own time. I know Aria has furigana, but how complex is it? I was originally going to translate DeathNote, but one of my friends mentioned that it becomes very complex midway into the series. People here have a favorable view of the manga so I'm not worried about the quality of it, but just the difficulty.
|2005-12-29, 10:05
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Join Date: Jun 2004
I put it up before but the wipe seems to have killed the listing T_T So here it is again with the cats and guys thrown in
Akari is red/pink
Aika is blue
Alice is green
Alicia is gold
Akira is brown
Athena is violet/light purple
Aria is the 4 eyed kitty
Hime is black
Maa-kun is the tortie.
Ai and Al are chibi
Akatsuki has a perpetual frown
Woody is never without the goggles.
|2005-12-29, 13:47
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Join Date: Dec 2005
|2005-12-29, 14:25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 30
I enjoy watching Aria. I can't be arsed to recite too much on the reasons why I like it, but in short:
Relaxing, nice animation, loving the lack of a storyline (Slice of life ftw), music is a plus.
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|2006-01-07, 07:28
|Link #30
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kino's luggage
Does anyone happen to have the lyrics to...
It is the song sung by Atena in EP6 (Kawai Eri, eventhough she wasn't Athena seiyuu^^o) I believe it is in Italian and from my search there are many songs under this same title. The one used in ARIA is definitely not Charlotte Church's (which is in English) or the famous Andrea Bocelli's one. There's a japanese webpage which says that this is actually a Chopin's "Barcarolle, op.60" by Helen Grauid...err something =w=ili but after listening, they didn't match. I wonder if the production just happen to compose a new song since there isn't any credit given in OST booklet.
Anyway, if anyone happen to have the lyrics, please post it for me >w<
|2006-01-07, 14:00
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Disciple of the Flames
Join Date: Sep 2004
I picked this series up today after i found it lying on a mates ftp, only watched the first episode so far, but one word comes to mind for it: Cute.
It has this whole cute, soft and laid back feel to it. Hope the rest of the series lives upto the promise of the first
|2006-01-07, 14:10
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Inactive Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 35
I just recently started this one too. The one thing that attracted my eye for Aria were its promotional posters. I'm a salty guy, and as soon as I saw the blueness of its environment, I went bonkers. And then you add the mundane, slice of life feeling, and yup, that got me hooked.
"Undine" by Yui Makino is such a soft, mellow melody. I love it.
Anyone know of any other "slice of life" animes besides this Aria and Piano?
|2006-01-07, 14:51
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Weapon of Mass Discussion
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, USA
Windy Tales - This is still being subbed, but please be patient since the translator is in medical school.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (1998) and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (2002) - Short, but oh so sweet.
Someday's Dreamers - Licensed and quite nice.
|2006-01-08, 22:46
|Link #36
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 滋賀
|2006-01-08, 22:53
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Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Three episodes and I was totally hooked. After watching up to 11, it's definitely been cemented into my top 3 anime of 2005. Probably #2 overall Shame it's only 13 episodes, I could happily watch their antics for another 13 after that too Eagerly awaiting episode 13 (even though it'll be the last one) because I'm 99% sure Ai will be coming to visit for the last ep.
This series gets the thumbs and feet up of approval in every way.
|2006-01-09, 00:18
|Link #38
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
Episode 11 was quite humorous. The only thing that got to me was that Aika's hair looked black to me for most of it. Then again, I started watching Aria over winter break on my CRT monitor, and now I returned to my regular LCD (which doesn't display color quite as fully), so maybe nothing was really changed at all.
I've picked up the AQUA manga, and will be translating it for fun when I have the time. Skimming through it, it looks to include things from before Aika and Akari became Singles. Unfortunately AQUA has not been licensed in America, but the Aria manga is available from Tokyopop, I believe. I'm still going to go for translating that too, once I finish with AQUA.
|2006-01-09, 00:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 30
|2006-01-09, 00:27
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
Sorry, that's misinformation on my part. A friend mentioned it to me, and I didn't check up on it. Apparently, ADV Manga released the first three volumes, but stopped after that. Based on their website and a bit more, Tokyopop doesn't seem to be doing it. Apologies if I excited anyone.
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Nevada Supreme Court: October 2010 Archives
State of Nevada v. Lucero (Arthur),
Docket No. 54375
Carson City - 9:30 a.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas, and PickeringThis is an appeal from a district court order denying the State's motion to correct what it argues is an illegal sentence that reduced a drug trafficker's prison term from 10 years to life, to 2 to 15 years. Arthur Lucero pleaded guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance and was sentenced to a term of 120 months to life in prison, pursuant to NRS 453.3385(3). The district court subsequently suspended Lucero's sentence and placed him on probation pursuant to NRS 453.3405, which allows a district court to reduce or suspend the sentence of a person found guilty of trafficking if it finds that the person has provided substantial assistant in the investigation or prosecution of any offense. Subsequently, the district court revoked Lucero's probation and modified his sentence to a term of 24 to 180 months in prison. The State filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, arguing that the modification resulted in a sentence that was less than the range provided by NRS 453.3385(3). The district court denied the motion and the State has appealed that decision. ISSUE: Did the district court err by denying the State's motion to correct an illegal sentence?
State v. Huebler (Charles),
Docket No. 50953
Reno High School - 9:30 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Saitta disqualified)
This is an appeal from a Washoe County district court order granting
Charles Huebler's post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Huebler was convicted in the district court, pursuant to a guilty plea,
of one count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14. He was
sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 10 years.
While Huebler did not file a direct appeal of his conviction, he did
file a post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his
petition, Huebler argued that his right to due process was violated
because the State failed to disclose evidence favorable to his defense,
which the prosecution has a duty to do under the United States Supreme
Court case Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The district court granted Huebler's petition, and the State is now appealing that decision. ISSUES: Did the district court err in determining that Huebler had established a claim pursuant to Brady v. Maryland?
LeMans Corp. v. Provenza (Joseph),
Docket No. 51026
Reno High School - 10:30 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Saitta disqualified)This appeal and cross-appeal in a products liability case arose from a motocross motorcycle accident that caused severe burns to over 90 percent of Joseph Provenza's body. The appeals are from a multimillion dollar judgment and a post-judgment order denying a new trial. LeMans Corporation manufactured the clothing Joseph was wearing at the time of the crash. Joseph and his parents, Michael and Kim Provenza, sued several related Yamaha companies, which manufactured and distributed the motocross motorcycle Joseph was riding. The Provenzas also sued LeMans because, the Provenzas contended, the LeMans clothing exacerbated Joseph's injuries. In the early months of litigation, Michael Provenza and agents of the Provenzas' trial counsel deliberately altered and destroyed portions of the motocross motorcycle. When Yamaha's experts attempted to inspect the motorcycle, they discovered the alterations. As a sanction, the district court dismissed claims against Yamaha. However, the district court denied a similar motion to dismiss filed by LeMans, and the case proceeded to trial. A jury returned a verdict against LeMans for approximately $41 million in damages, plus approximately $10 million in prejudgment interest. The district court modified the judgment to exclude prejudgment interest for the reasonable value of medical services that the Provenzas had obtained for free from Shriners Hospital. LeMans now appeals the judgment against it, and the Provenzas have filed a cross-appeal challenging the modification of the judgment. ISSUES: Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the action against LeMans? Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying a new trial? Did the district court err in amending the judgment to delete prejudgment interest on one element of the Provenzas' damages?
Marrs (Shirley) v. Schiff (Dr. Steven),
Docket No. 53601
Carson City - 10:00 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Hardesty disqualified)
This is an appeal from a Washoe County district court judgment in a
medical malpractice action, which alleged that doctors diagnosed and
treated a woman for metastatic bone cancer that she did not have. In
May 2000, Shirley Marrs was informed by respondents Steven Schiff, M.D.,
and John Shields, M.D., that she had terminal metastatic bone cancer.
Marrs received continuous treatment until January 2003, which she
alleges caused her significant emotional and physical distress. Marrs
resumed treatment with another medical provider who informed her in
September 2004 that she, in fact, did not have metastatic bone cancer.
In September 2005, Marrs filed a complaint against respondents alleging
that they misdiagnosed her and then followed up with unnecessary
treatment. Marrs further alleged that respondents concealed their
misdiagnosis during the course of treatment. At trial, the district
court granted respondents' motion for judgment as a matter of law on the
grounds that Marrs's complaint was filed too late under NRS 41A.097(1),
which provides that an action for injury against a health care provider
may not be commenced more than four years after the date of injury.
Subsequently, Marrs moved to have the district court judge who presided
over the trial disqualified for bias. Another district court judge
denied the motion to disqualify. ISSUES: Did the
district court err in concluding that Marrs's complaint was
time-barred? Should the time for filing a complaint have been extended
due to respondents' alleged concealment of their negligence? Did the
second judge err by failing to disqualify the trial judge?
Southern California Edison v. Dist. Ct. (Dept. of Taxation),
Docket No. 55228
Carson City - 11:30 a.m. - Full Court
In this original petition for a writ of mandamus, the Supreme Court
is being asked to determine the standard of review a district court
should apply in reviewing refund decisions of the Nevada Tax
Commission. Southern California Edison filed several claims with the
Nevada Department of Taxation for refunds of use taxes Edison paid
between 1998 and 2000. The Department denied Edison's claims and Edison
appealed to the Nevada Tax Commission. Ultimately, the Commission
denied Edison's claims. Edison then filed a complaint in district court
pursuant to NRS 372.680, which allows for an independent action to be
brought in district court against the Department after a final decision
is rendered by the Commission. Such an action would be reviewed by the
district court de novo, that is, without deference to the Commission's
decision. The Department filed a motion to dismiss Edison's complaint,
arguing that recent amendments to the pertinent statutes have altered
the refund procedure and that the proper vehicle for challenging the
Commission's decision is a petition for judicial review pursuant to NRS
233B.130. Such a petition would be reviewed by the district court under
a substantial evidence standard, which would require the district court
to give more deference to the Commission's decision. The district
court ordered that the matter should proceed as a petition for judicial
review. The district court proceeding has been postponed until the
Supreme Court decides the petition for writ of mandamus. ISSUE: Did legislation alter the practice for use tax refund claims to allow only petitions for judicial review?
Guy (Curtis) v. State of Nevada (Death Penalty),
Docket No. 50350
Carson City - 1:00 p.m. - Full Court (Justices Douglas and Cherry disqualified)This is Curtis Guy's appeal from a district court order denying his post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a death penalty case. Guy was convicted by a Clark County jury of first-degree murder in the death of Ceasor Evans stemming from a dispute over cocaine. Guy previously appealed his conviction and death sentence, which were affirmed by the Nevada Supreme Court. Guy then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court, arguing that his conviction was invalid for numerous reasons. The district court denied the habeas corpus petition and Guy has appealed that decision. ISSUES: Was Guy's trial counsel ineffective, warranting a new trial? Did the district court err in finding that the jury's consideration of two invalid aggravators was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt? Did the district court properly deny Guy's claim of cumulative error?
In a separate Order of Reversal and Remand, the Court grants a new trial to Simpson's co-defendant Clarence Stewart.The Court found that the district court abused its discretion in failing to sever Stewart's trial from Simpson's trial.
Both decisions were issued by Justices Cherry, Saitta and Gibbons.
Orion Portfolio Servs. 2 v. Clark County - In an en banc opinion, authored by Justice Douglas, the Court addresses the following: "The United States District Court for the District of Nevada has certified two questions to this court, pursuant to NRAP 5. Although we accept the federal court's certified questions, we reframe them to better reflect the factual circumstances of the federal case and, accordingly, answer the following questions. When a local government entity sells property using the competitive bidding process, does NRS 332.185 require the government to follow public bidding rules outlined in Chapter 332? And, under Nevada law, is a contract obtained through competitive bidding void when it materially differs from the contents of the invitation to bid?
We conclude that the answer to both questions is yes. If a public entity chooses to sell property by competitive bidding, it must follow the rules set forth in NRS Chapter 332. And a contract obtained through competitive bidding is void if it materially differs from the contents of the invitation to bid."
The Nevada Supreme Court will hear 5 oral arguments today:
Lord v. Chew,
Docket No. 49969
Las Vegas-10:00 a.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering
This is an appeal from a Clark County district court order in a tort action. Appellant Robert Lord was severely injured while participating in a high-tech scavenger hunt in Las Vegas. Lord was rendered a blind quadriplegic when he fell approximately 30 feet head-first down an abandoned mine shaft. Lord and his wife, appellant Jacqueline Deerr-Lord, filed suit against settling defendants Joe Belfiore, Kristina Belfiore, Kevin Shields, Walter Smith, Scott Schell, and Argentena Consolidating Mining Co., and proceeded to trial against the only non-settling defendant, respondent Chee Chew. The Lords appeal the jury's defense verdict in favor of Chew. ISSUES: (1) Whether the district court erred in refusing various jury instructions related to vicarious liability; (2) Whether the district court erred in failing to hold the pre-injury release of liability unenforceable as a matter of law; (3) Whether the district court erred in awarding Chew attorney fees and costs; and (4) Whether judicial misconduct requires reversal.
Bell v. American Family Mutual Ins.,
Docket Nos. 50162 and 54090
Las Vegas-10:30 a.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering
Fanders v. Riverside Resort and Casino,
Docket No. 51225
Las Vegas-11:30 a.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering
Appellant Juana Fanders was employed as a guest room attendant at the Riverside Resort & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada. On the day that she quit her job at Riverside, and before leaving the casino premises, Fanders was escorted to Riverside's security office where casino security guards allegedly assaulted and wrongfully imprisoned her. Fanders filed a civil action against the security guards and Riverside (collectively respondents) alleging assault and battery, wrongful imprisonment, and negligence. The Clark County district court granted summary judgment to respondents, ruling that Fanders' sole remedy was provided by the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act (NIIA). ISSUES: (1) Whether Fanders was an employee at the time she was injured, (2) Whether genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether Fanders' injuries arose out of and in the course of her employment, and (3) Whether workers' compensation is Fanders' only recourse on her intentional tort claims against her former co-employees or against her former employer?
Stephans (Stuard) v. State of Nevada,
Docket No. 52254
Las Vegas-1:30 p.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering
Appellant Stuard Stephans and his codefendant were apprehended outside of a retail store after they were observed stealing three bottles of Ezra Fitch cologne each. Stephans now challenges a Clark County judgment of conviction, pursuant to a jury verdict, of one count each of burglary, grand larceny, and conspiracy to commit larceny. At trial the State attempted to prove the value of each cologne bottle through the testimony of the store security guard, who testified that he knew the price of the cologne based on the price tag on the bottle. ISSUES: (1) Whether sufficient evidence was adduced at trial to support Stephans' conviction for grand larceny, (2) Whether the store security guard's testimony regarding the price of the bottle of cologne was inadmissible hearsay, (3) Whether the district court erred by rejecting Stephans' proposed jury instruction, which advised the jury that "[t]he mere fact that two people are committing the same type of crime at the same location is insufficient in and of itself to prove a conspiracy." (4) Whether the district court erred by failing to dismiss a juror for cause, and (5) Whether the district court erred by limiting Stephans' counsel's questioning of potential jurors.
Sparks v. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity,
Docket No. 50668
Las Vegas-2:00 p.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering
This appeal arises from an altercation that occurred during a tailgate at a football game between the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Various persons from UNR and UNLV associated with Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity (ATO) attended a tailgate in an area reserved by the UNR Alumni Association and in which ATO served free alcohol. Several ATO members and non-ATO members, including Jeffrey Clack (non-ATO), left that area and wandered into another tailgate section where the car of appellants Roy and Andrea Sparks was located. The Sparks returned to their car to find Clack and a few other guys leaning on it. Andrea asked them to leave, and then Roy approached and also asked them to leave. Suddenly, an altercation broke out, during which Clack bit off the end of Roy's nose. The Sparks filed suit against Clack and various university, alumni, and ATO entities alleging negligence; assault and battery; intentional infliction of emotional distress; negligent infliction of emotional distress; negligent hiring, training, supervision, and retention; misrepresentation; and false imprisonment. The Sparks entered into a settlement agreement with the university defendants. The alumni defendants filed a motion to dismiss, which the district court granted. The ATO defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, which the district court also granted. Appellants appeal both orders of the district court. ISSUES: (1) Whether the district court erred in granting the Alumni respondents' motion to dismiss on the ground that appellants did not exercise reasonable diligence in determining the identity of the true defendants; (2) Whether the district court's failure to comply with NRCP 56(c) in granting the ATO respondents' motion for summary judgment warrants reversal; (3) Whether the ATO respondents' motion for summary judgment was procedurally deficient; (4) Whether there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the ATO respondents were negligent; (5) Whether there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the ATO respondents are liable for negligent infliction of emotional distress; and (6) Whether there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the ATO respondents are liable for the intentional torts committed by Jeffrey Clack against Sparks.
Gruber (Deborah) v. Shvachko (Natalia),
Docket No. 50758
Adelson Educational Campus (Las Vegas) -9:30 a.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and Gibbons
This is an appeal from a Clark County summary judgment in a declaratory relief action regarding the proceeds of a trust, and from post-judgment orders denying NRCP 60(b) relief and awarding attorney fees and costs. Respondent Natalia Shvachko married Charles (Chic) Kotick in Las Vegas, Nevada. During their marriage, Kotick executed a trust and designated Shvachko as its primary beneficiary. The trust also stated that the three children of appellant Deborah Gruber, who is Kotick's daughter from a former marriage, would become the primary beneficiaries if Shvachko was not married to and living with Kotick at the time of his death. Kotick died approximately five years after marrying Shvachko; Shvachko was married to and living with Kotick when he died. After Kotick died, Gruber filed a lawsuit requesting that the district court annul Shvachko's marriage to Kotick. Gruber argued that the marriage was void because Shvachko was already married to a man from Ukraine when she married Kotick, and that Shvachko induced Kotick into marrying her with fraud. Shvachko answered Gruber's lawsuit and moved for summary judgment. For the summary judgment motion, Shvachko produced a divorce certificate and an apostille from Ukraine. Gruber responded by arguing that the summary judgment motion was premature because she had not yet conducted discovery. Despite this argument, the district court granted summary judgment and sanctioned Gruber by awarding attorney fees and costs to Shvachko. Gruber then requested a stay pending the appeal of the summary judgment and order granting attorney fees and costs. Following a hearing, the district court denied Gruber's motion and ordered Gruber to pay Shvachko's attorney fees and costs. Gruber then filed a motion under NRCP 60(b) to set aside the summary judgment. After conducting another hearing, the district court denied this motion and ordered Gruber to pay Shvachko's attorney fees and costs. Gruber now appeals from the summary judgment and post-judgment orders denying NRCP 60(b) relief and awarding attorney fees and costs. ISSUES: (1) Did the district court err by granting Shvachko's motion for summary judgment? (2) Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying Gruber's request for a continuance to allow discovery? (3) Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying Gruber's motion under NRCP 60(b) to set aside the summary judgment? (4) Did the district court abuse its discretion on three occasions by awarding attorney fees and costs to Shvachko?
Jackson (Franklin) v. State of Nevada,
Docket No. 54735
Adelson Educational Campus (Las Vegas) - 11:00 a.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and GibbonsThis is an appeal from a Clark County judgment of conviction, pursuant to a jury verdict, of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Although he maintained that he fired his weapon in self-defense, a jury convicted appellant Franklin Jackson, along with his co-defendant Dresden Williams, for his involvement in an afterschool shooting at a bus stop in Las Vegas. Jackson now appeals. ISSUES: (1) Did the State commit a violation of Brady v. Maryland when it failed to disclose an anonymous informant's note concerning the shooting? (2) Was Jackson denied a fair trial because multiple State witnesses referred to gangs? (3) Should the district court have severed the trial of Jackson from that of his co-defendant Dresden Williams because the two had conflicting defense theories?
J.D. Construction v. IBEX Int'l Group - In a panel decision (Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering), the Court address the proper scope and nature of NRS 108.2275 proceedings where a property owner seeks to expunge a frivolous or excessive mechanic's lien. The Court finds that the trial court must determine the material facts in order to reach a conclusion as to whether a lien is frivolous or excessive, but the trial court is not required to hold a full evidentiary hearing.
San Juan v. PSC Industrial Outsourcing - In a panel decision (Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering), the Court holds as follows: " Our case law holds that a person who hires an independent contractor is not, without more, vicariously liable to the independent contractor's employees for their employer's torts, even though the job involves inherent danger or "peculiar risk." The issue presented by this appeal is whether this rule depends on the employer being solvent and competent. We hold that it does not. The Nevada workers' compensation system covers injured workers without regard to their employer's solvency. And competence, judged after the fact and without regard to the hirer's knowledge or fault, does not differ meaningfully from negligence. Holding a person who hires an independent contractor vicariously liable when the contractor turns out to be incompetent but not if he proves negligent draws a distinction the law does not support."
Cramer v. State, DMV - In a panel decision (Justices Hardesty, Douglas and Pickering), the Court holds as follows: " In 1995, the Legislature enacted NRS 50.320, which permits the use of an affidavit to prove a person's blood-alcohol content in certain proceedings, including driver's license revocation hearings, by a person who has been previously qualified to testify as an expert witness by a district court.
In Cramer v. State, Department of Motor Vehicles, Docket No. 53248, we conclude that NRS 50.320 limits the use of an expert witness affidavit to persons previously qualified by a district court to testify as an expert witness. Therefore, an administrative hearing officer lacks discretion to admit expert witness testimony by affidavit when the affiant has not been qualified by a district court or the affidavit fails to state the district court in which the affiant was permitted to testify.
In State, Department of Motor Vehicles v. Joseph, Docket No. 53380, we reject the suggestion that the district court qualification requirement in NRS 50.320 can be satisfied by way of a stipulation entered into by parties in a separate, unrelated district court case."
The Court has issued 38 opinions this year, four of which were in criminal cases.