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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.
Of all the "masked avengers" and "caped crusaders" in literature, The Count of Monte Cristo is at once the most daring and the most vulnerable. Alexandre Dumas (père), master storyteller, takes us on a journey of adventure, romance, intrigue, and ultimately, redemption.
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"This is the definitive reading!"
There are two fantastic Unabridged recordings of this book on Audible.
* This one by Naxos Audiobooks, released in 2011, narrated by Bill Homewood, and
* Blackstone Audio's version, released in 2008, narrated by John Lee.
Now, at first glance, the John Lee version seems more energetic and might seem superior, but that's absolutely wrong. Listen to the audio sample of that version, and you'll be treated to a monotone reading where -every- -single- -character- -sounds- -exactly- -the- -same-. Most of the time you can't even hear the difference between him narrating the story or speaking a character's lines. I assure you that nearly 50 hours of the same monotone voice, where every character blends together, is not the best way to experience the book.
Now listen to THIS recording instead, by Bill Homewood. Listen to the sample all the way until the end, and you'll hear that he expertly crafts a UNIQUE voice for EVERY character, and gives each character a vibrant portrayal. It's an absolute joy to listen to him narrate the work with such talent for voices and accents, and it's really easy to follow along with what's happening since the voices are so distinct.
The book itself? It's a classic for a reason. If you have a taste for epic revenge and adventure stories, then this is for you. I suggest you choose this reading of the book and sit back, relax and enjoy. You'll be in for the ride of a lifetime.
"This is the one to spend 50 hours listening to!"
There are plenty of other versions, but after listening to some samples I went with Bill Homewood. He's the man. A different voice/ characterization for each person in the story - different enough that sometimes I forgot their names but remembered them from earlier in the story by the voice!
It's a good story, and I'd tried to get through the book before but could never fight through Dumas' long winded prose. Mr Homewood battered it down for me in style and has a great dramatic style.
If you like the classics, you should give this a listen. If you're going to listen to The Count, you should listen to this one.
"Excellent classic that everyone should read."
An epic tale of revenge, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most fun books I have read in some time.
The narration was skillfully performed, and the narrators voice sold me on this version of the book. HOWEVER by the time I finished the book the sound of his mouth had me squirming. He kept making squishy mouth noises throughout the book, which was likely related in some way to the mic.
"Excellent story, be sure to get Homewood version"
Thrilling, massive, fantastic
You MUST get the Bill Homewood (reader) version of this novel. The characters come alive, and his intonation and in-depth understanding of the characters enrapture the listener. I started to listen to a different version of this book, but that performance was not good. I'm so glad I tried again with Bill Homewood.
A part-time buffoon and ersatz scholar specializing in BS, pedantry, schmaltz and cultural coprophagia.
"One of the most gripping/badly written novels ever"
One of those grand epics like Les Misérables and David Copperfield that does more than create a world the reader temporarily inhabits. This is a novel which creates a whole grand myth. I would second Umberto Eco's take that this is one of the "most gripping novels ever written, and on the other hand one of the met badly written novels of all time and all literatures."
This is a story of an Übermensch/Byronic hero and the grandfather of all revenge and psychological thriller novels. I remember the first time I read 'Les Miserables', I almost read straight through. Now, 25 years older, I don't have the same reading endurance, but the feeling of urgency and addiction was close. I read this in 3 days (while working full-time and giving token attention to family duties). 'The Count of Monte Cristo's' plot doesn't just push you forward, rather it tosses you down cliff after cliff.
I give it four stars for the obnoxious writing, repetition of bad adjectives, and unnecessary descriptions of unnecessary events in a book that is already 1200 pages. While I'm not a big believer in editing or abridging a writer's work, Dumas would have been a bit better served with a modern, aggressive editor. For that I leave off one star ... perhaps one day I'll add it. For now, I will just 'wait and hope.'
"Outstanding! A must read"
I have just finished reading (on Kindle)and listening to this story. I had seen the Jim Caviezel movie, which was good, but has changed much of the original story. The drama ,, humor and and fascinating commentary on human nature was extraordinary. This performance was more than a narrative. He changes voices for certain characters and the most dramatic scenes are transfixing. This is truly a timeless classic that is under-appreciated. I had actually read the first half of the book on my new Kindle Fire, but mostly listened to the rest while reading along at some juncture. Due to the length of this novel- over 100 chapters, it is better listened to vs reading it. While I read it, I started to get confused because of all the characters and I was unclear if I was fully understanding the plot because I had to stop and start so often while reading. But I could not stop listening to the audible performance, which held my attention.
The drama of the poisoner and the reading of the letter by Franz of his father's death were the most memorable. However, I did not listen to the beginning of the story, so I may actually go back and listen to the whole thing again. This is my new favorite.
The emotion and drama between characters was clearer in his performance. All the complicated interactions and intention so the characters came to life.
I was stunned, amazed, and laughed at and cry with the characters. The spiritual insights were powerful and worthy of reflection. This is more than a revenge story, that is a very superficial reading of this story, but the prevailing view. This view of human nature is very insightful. Recently, I was made aware of
Terrific insights into the human spirit.
The Count.
You can't even imagine the deepth of The Count.
"Maximum Recommendation!"
Well worth it!
The narrator for this book was amazing. He was able to give personalities to the dozens of characters in the book each with a unique European accent. Amazing!
Indiscriminate Reader
"Inexpressible! Ineffable! Indescribable!"
Mon dieu! This was 53 hours as an audiobook, guys! I listened to the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo in my car, and my commute isn't that long, so it took about two months.
Don't make fun of Dickens' wordiness until you've read Dumas. He is wordy as heck and makes up a hundred little side-stories and indulges the reader who wants to know the final fate of every single minor character. But if you want to dive into a big thick juicy scheming revenge novel with a moral at the end, The Count of Monte Cristo is full of more adventure and spectacle than Dickens would ever deign to write. (Though Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" did for greedy scurrilous English bankers and hoity-toits what Dumas does for the French.)
So, you probably know the bones of the story, because Edmund Dantes is the original Batman. No, his parents aren't murdered in front of his eyes, but two "friends" set him up as a traitor by sending an anonymous letter accusing him of being a Bonapartiste. (19th century French politics play a role here, as the first part of the novel is set during the period when Napoleon was confined to the isle of Elba, and then staged a dramatic return during which he briefly tried to regain the throne.) One of his friends wants his job, the other wants his girl, and Dante has the misfortune to go before a public prosecutor named Villefort, who initially wants to let Dantes go, realizing he's just a poor sap who was set up. However, when it turns out that Dantes unknowingly possesses evidence that Villefort's own father is a Bonapartiste, he instead consigns the hapless sailor to imprisonment in the Château d'If, an island prison off the coast of Marseilles. There, Dantes spends the next fourteen years, during which time he meets another prisoner, a "mad" priest who has been unsuccessfully trying to bribe his jailers to let him go with promises of a fantastic fortune he knows the location of.
To make a long story short, Dantes escapes, after having spent fourteen years learning all worldly knowledge from the Abbé Faria. He goes and finds the Abbé's fortune, an ancient Roman treasure, and soon reemerges in Europe as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. He's fantastically rich, an expert with all arms, poisons, and finance, he has Muslim servants and a beautiful Greek princess as his slave/ward, and he's buddies with Italian bandits and Mediterranean smugglers. He's a master of disguise and he has an indomitable will. This former sailor now moves as easily among French aristocracy as he does among Italian brigands. Everyone admires and fears him.
Seriously, guys, he's freakin' Batman.
He spends years acting as an angel of mercy and vengeance, rewarding the deserving, while planning his revenge against the three men who sent him to the Château d'If. The plot is intricate and there are dozens of characters, some of whom wind up interacting in fantastically coincidental ways. Since Dantes has returned from prison as the Batman, of course all his former enemies, who were once just poor scrubs themselves, are now fabulously wealthy and powerful as well, the better for Monte Cristo to bring them down.
It's an exceptional story, and a classic adventure. Kids should love it, if you can find a kid with the patience to read almost half a million words of flowery 19th century prose. Adults should also love it. But it's definitely over the top with all its coincidences and larger-than-life characters. Over the top, but a literary masterpiece. You get revenge and adventure and justice and a view of European high and low society in the post-Napoleon era. What elevates it above simple adventure and melodrama, besides the fine storytelling? It's not just Dantes getting even with those who did him wrong (which is how most of the movie versions portray it). In the end, his enemies undo themselves, and the Count of Monte Cristo finally faces the question of whether what he did was right and whether it was all worth it. Like Batman, he's never really going to find peace.
This book is totally worth reading -- and don't wimp out with an abridged version. Read the great big whomping unabridged doorstopper. That said, I have to give it only 4 stars, because while it's a classic that deserves its place, I wanted to start a drinking game for every time Dumas describes an "indescribable" expression or someone expresses an "inexpressible" emotion.
Okay, here's some word counts:
Inexpressible: 3
Ineffable: 5
Indescribable: 20
I don't know what French words they were translated from, but Dumas's writing does get quite purple by modern standards. Where Dickens crafted prosey, clever wordiness, Dumas is just wordy. And all those sordid coincidences! And entire chapters on the origins of various bandits and smugglers and where the asexual lesbian niece runs off to. And let's face it, an uneducated sailor spends fourteen years in prison and comes out as Batman? Come on now, guys. But it's still awesome.
"Second opinion"
The eventual redemption despite the relatively ambivalent and totally devastating sabotage to a mans life by those around him.
The prison scenes are the most memorable, thankfully none of the movie overdo is here.
The voice given to the emphatic blinking of a paralysed man is certainly something I could not have got from the written page.
I love long stories, this one is very good, but you would have to be very keen to do one 48 hr listen.
Very well drawn characters that are in no way black and white. Sad that so many of them have been lost from movie versions.
There is a comment that compares this rendition to that of Mr Lee, I would like to second that opinion. Even though I am very fond of that artists voice, this is a much more expressive rendition and I noticed some dumbing down of vocabulary in the segment of the other one, calling
"The Count of Monte CristoNarrated by Bill Homewood"
I'm revisiting in audio form some of the classics which I can only just remember from old TV films. This is truly a another masterpiece, the detail of human greed, aspirations and dejections is superb and very moving, never boring I have been hooked from start to finish of this 52 hour delight and as for the narrator-I can't believe it could be read any better, his warmth and the humanity in his performance along with his acting capabilities are first class and have done credit to a terrific story..
"Long but really exciting"
I read this book very sketchily when young. Hearing it re-read to me by Bill Hammond was sheer delight. His 'acting' with his voice so well paced, enabled the huge number of characters to be sorted in my mind and Dumas' intricate plot unfolded wonderfully. I was able to enjoy being 'in the know' while the people who ruined Edmond Dantes life and love were unaware of what was happening to their world and their ill-gotten gains as disaster after disaster fell upon them. I was really sorry to get to the end!
"Great Thriller"
I took the risk of listening to this story, as I have never read it, and loved it. This is firstly a great thriller and secondly a love story. How greed, honour, revenge, and love can drive you to your doom or destiny, how a man can walk to the edge of the abyss, and step back and walk away; and cheat death! This is a long book, and there are some low or dull moments, but overall a very satisfying story. Bill Homewood is excellent as the narrator. I certainly will listen to it again.
"Absolutely Fantastic"
This was my first book chosen from Audible and I couldn't have chosen better. Quite a long listen so it's not for you is you're short of time. The narrator is brilliant; there's a different voice for every character and is very easy on the ear. If you like intricate, well written, full bodied stories this is for you.
"My All-Time Favourite Novel..."
I initially read The Count of Monte Cristo in 2003, in print, and it immediately became my favourite novel.
This story will take you on a rollercoaster ride, you'll cry, laugh, yearn and be thrilled and excited throughout. More than that, it has a wealth to say about human nature, what it is to be wronged, what it is to be a good person or a bad person, and the impact that revenge has on all concerned with it.
But more than these thems, essentially it's a ripping good yarn. Over 50+ hours it will keep you gripped, weaving a pattern with its many fascinating characters, drawing them all towards their inevitable destiny.
If you choose to read only one more book in your life, make it this one, you'll love it and be a more rounded person for the experience,
"Gripping tale really well read!"
I have tried to read this book and gave up because of the small print and its length. However, I was gripped by the audio book. The films I have seen really do not do justice to this fantastic tale of betrayal and revenge. Thank goodness I had some long car journeys!
"best of a bad lot."
Great voice of Bill Homewood, despite Naxos doing their best to ruin things by not bothering to edit out the echo, or prevent it in the first place.
"Simply brilliant"
The story, the narration... This was my first ever audio book. I don't think I'd have enjoyed this book as much had I read it myself. The narration is superb. So is the writing. I'm dreading the day it's going to finish.
"Great book OK reading"
Great classic and generally good reading. However I found some mispronunciations of French and Italian recurrent names really annoying ( the word Peppino in particular, where the accent falls on the i and not the e). Why cannot reader do a bit of homework in that department?
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Search on for seven rowdy pirates, young lad
- Last Updated on 09:39 AM 01/15/13
- BY Special to the Gazette
The public can always count on Halifax County Little Theatre to bring great entertainment to the community, and it's evident that those productions are the result of the combined efforts and many hours of work from many people.
Halifax County Little Theatre board members and community volunteers are already busily planning and working on Little Theatre's February and April productions.
The cast is in rehearsal for February's comedy "Elvis Has Left The Building," directed by Becky Donner, and auditions are right around the corner for the April musical comedy "How I Became A Pirate."
The Elvis cast is a small bunch, with just 5 characters to bring this story to the stage, but the situations are downright hilarious as Elvis's manager resorts to desperate measures to produce The King when The King is nowhere to be found. Volunteers are busy creating all the elements that bring a production to life, and tickets are available at The Prizery by calling 572-8339 or at HCLT.org.
"Elvis" will be "in the Building" Feb. 15-23.
While Donner and her cast are perfecting February's production, Director Sandy Slayton and Musical Director Cari Mahan are looking for seven rowdy (adult) pirates and one adventurous young lad to form the cast of "How I Became A Pirate."
This production will take the stage in mid-April, and rehearsals will begin in February. Rehearsals will generally be Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, with other rehearsals at the director's discretion as needed.
Cast and crew must be available for technical rehearsal the weekend of April 12-14, daytime performances on April 18 and 23 as well as evening performances on April 19, 20 and 26, a 3 p.m. performance on April 21, and a morning performance on Saturday, April 27.
The story, based on the popular children's book by Melinda Long, tells the tale of young Jeremy Jacob, who meets a whole crew of pirates one day while he's playing on the beach. The pirates are looking for a digger to help them bury their treasure, and of course, Jeremy Jacob proves to be just the boy for the job.
He joins the pirates for a short voyage (he has to be home in time for soccer practice, ya' know) and Captain Braid Beard, Salty Dog, Swill and Shark Tooth (the most feared pirate to sail the seven seas) teach him all about the life of a pirate.
Other swashbuckling mateys who join in the fun include Pierre, the ship's cook, First Mate Seymour Braunschwagger and Max, who is a bit befuddled, one might say. The story is interspersed with rousing pirate songs, high adventure, a bit of audience participation and lots of just plain fun.
Auditions will be held on Jan. 21 and 22 at 7 p.m., at The Prizery in South Boston. Come prepared to let that inner child (or inner pirate, perhaps), as the actors play with some dialogue and practice some pirate shenanigans.
There really are no small parts for this cast; everyone needs to be ready to sing and ready to have a good time. No need to prepare anything special to sing. Yo Ho! It'll be a grand adventure, so come on, ye buccaneers.


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August 1, 2014
The Veterans Memorial Parkway has been under construction for the last three years. Monday morning the city of Marshfield and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation dedicated the parkway.
The goal is to improve traffic flow into and through Marshfield. The parkway aligns Wisconsin highway 13 with two-lane rural and four-lane urban sections. It also includes two new railroad bridges.
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The Green Earth Health Food Market and the Benson Real Estate Agency will be honored Thursday during the Otsego County Chamber's 13th annual Small Business Banquet at the Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown.
Green Earth of Oneonta will receive the seventh annual Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Breakthrough Award as a person or business that has shown a willingness to innovate, is creative and entrepreneurial, and has growth potential.
Dean and Emily Roberts bought the store nearly five years ago, at a time when the previous owner was considering closing the health-food store.*
"We shopped at Green Earth for years," Dave Roberts said, adding that he and his wife didn't like the idea the store would close.
Since then, the couple has "increased sales substantially," Dave Roberts said.
Green Earth has added numerous lines of products, opened a café that serves prepared foods and recently obtained a beer license, he said.
"Our focus is on organic and local produce," he said.
The store also has set up a community room, where tai chi and yoga classes are held and presentations, such as beekeeping, are given.
And the Roberts' have kept the environment in mind, installing a solar power plant on the roof, among other initiatives.
The Benson Agency of Oneonta will receive the 13th annual Key Bank Award as a business that has had a significant effect on the quality of life in the community.
Barbara Ann Heegan, executive director of the Otsego County Chamber, lauded Benson for its participation as a business, but also among its individual employees, in community events and sponsorships.
"They are role models," Heegan said. "They have the community in their hearts."
The awards banquet will start at 5:45 p.m. Thursday at the Otesaga Resort Hotel, with dinner at 7 p.m. Reservations are required. For more information, contact the Otsego County Chamber at 432-4500 or via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Richard E. Levy
Richard Levy joined the KU Law faculty in 1985, having received his law degree with honors from the University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the faculty, he served as a clerk for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In teaching and research, he has focused on constitutional law, administrative law and government institutions. Levy is a prolific scholar who was named a Postlethwaite Research Fellow, 1996-1999, and was named the inaugural J.B. Smith Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law in 2007. Levy has also given extensive service to the state, including work on comprehensive reform of the state's administrative procedure and child in need of care codes, as well as offering expert testimony for various legislative committees. In recognition of this service, he received the Steeples Award for Service to Kansas in 2010. Levy is fluent in German and has studied in Germany and served as exchange professor at the University of Vienna.
- Administrative Law
- Constitutional Law
- Legislation
Representative Publications
"Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context" (with Robert L. Glicksman) (2010, Foundation Press); "The Power to Legislate: A Reference Guide to the U.S. Constitution" (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2006); "Agency-Specific Precedents, 89 Texas Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2010) (with Robert L. Glicksman); "A Collective Action Perspective on Ceiling Preemption by Federal Environmental Regulation: The Case of Global Climate Change," 102 Northwestern Law Review 579 (2008) (with Robert L. Glicksman); "Government Benefits and the Rule of Law: Toward a Standards-Based Theory of Judicial Review," 58 Administrative Law Review 499 (2006) (with Sidney A. Shapiro); "Government Benefits and the Rule of Law: Toward a Standards-Based Theory of Due Process," 57 Administrative Law Review 107 (2005) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
Research Interests
Governmental institutions, federalism, legislation, the legislative process, judicial review of administrative agencies, comparative constitutional law and legal systems.
J.D., University of Chicago, 1984, University of Chicago Law Review; M.A., B.A., Kansas, 1980, 1978.
Kansas 1988.
Career History
Clerk, Judge Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1984-85; Associate Professor, Kansas 1985-90; Professor, 1990-present; J.B. Smith Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, 2007-present.
Order of the Coif; Consultant, Federal Courts Study Commission, 1989; Juvenile Justice Reform Advisory Committee, Kansas Judicial Council; Administrative Procedure Advisory Committee, Kansas Judicial Council; European Studies Advisory Committee.


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Michael Heitz
Illinois Boasts 52 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees
Big Ten-Best 10 Volleyball Players Highlight Honorees
Illinois Boasts 52 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees
Big Ten-Best 10 Volleyball Players Highlight Honorees
Illinois Boasts 52 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees
Big Ten-Best 10 Volleyball Players Highlight Honorees
Game 1 Notes: Western Michigan at Illinois
Illini will open 123rd football season on Saturday at 11 am CT
Illini Place 44 Student-Athletes on Fall Academic All-Big Ten List
Orange & Blue Spring Game 2013
Photos from the Orange and Blue Spring Game at Memorial Stadium - April 12, 2013
Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech
Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech 9/22/2012 @ Memorial Stadium
Illinois vs. Charleston Southern
9/15/2012 Illinois vs. Charleston Southern @ Memorial Stadium
Illinois at No. 21 Penn State Photos - 10/29/11
Illinois at No. 21 Penn State Photos - 10/29/11. Photos from AP and Mark Jones
2012: Started all 12 games on the offensive line ... Started at left guard for the final 11 games of the season ... Started at right tackle and played every snap in the season opener against Western Michigan ... Recorded a tackle, the first of his career, following an Illini interception at Northwestern ... Helped the Illini to 479 total yards and 365 passing yards in the 44-0 win over CSU ... Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
2011: Made nine starts on the season, starting at strong-side tackle in the first eight games and against UCLA in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl ... Paved the way for 518 total yards, including 308 rushing yards, in win over Indiana ... Helped Illinois to 473 total yards against Northwestern ... Aided Illinois in 296 rushing yards and 463 total yards against Western Michigan ... Helped Illinois to 364 rushing yards and 519 total yards in win against South Dakota State ... Recorded first career start in helping the Illini to 202 rushing yards and 473 total yards during the season-opener against Arkansas State ... Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
2010: Redshirted the 2010 season.
High School: A three-star recruit by Rivals.com ... PrepStar All-Midwest Region ... Named All-Area by the Peoria Journal Star ... All-State offensive lineman ... Two-time All-Conference selection on both offense and defense as a junior and senior ... Started 41 straight games ... Helped lead team to the state quarterfinals in 2009 ... High school coach was Dave Wilson.
Personal: Last name pronounced like heights ... Son of Kelly and Chris Heitz ... Born on Sept. 30, 1991 ... Was the salutatorian of his senior class ... Majoring in farm management ... Earned Academic All-State honors ... Chose Illinois over Wisconsin.
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Gloucester Daily Times
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The top boys soccer team in the Cape Ann League Large will face off with the top team in the Cape Ann League Small this afternoon when Rockport travels to Masconomet (3:15 p.m.).
The Vikings sport a record of 8-1-1 and are unbeaten in their last eight games, good for first place in the CAL Small. The Chieftains will enter the game with an unblemished 9-0-2 record.
Rockport needs a point to qualify for the state tournament and is fresh off a 2-2 tie with Pentucket on Tuesday. This is a brutal week for the Vikings playing against the best the CAL Large has to offer and head coach Dave Curley says his team will be better after this week because the competition is so tough.
The Chieftains are looking to make it two wins over Cape Ann teams in three days as they beat Manchester Essex 5-0 on Tuesday.
Machado vs. his idol
Baltimore Orioles 20-year-old phenom third baseman Manny Machado's favorite player growing up was Alex Rodriguez.
He has enjoyed watching A-Rod since the Yankees third baseman played for the Seattle Mariners.
Some people around baseball have compared Machado's skills to Rodriguez's.
"I don't compare myself to anyone but my favorite player was A-Rod," Machado told The Eagle-Tribune.
When Rodriguez made his major league debut July 8, 1994 at age 18, Machado was just 2 years and 2 days old.
Rodriguez and Machado are going head to head in the American League Division Series.
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@text1:A lot of talk has been about how Patriots running back Stevan Ridley has had a little trouble holding onto the football after he fumbled again late in Sunday's game.
Former Patriots back Kevin Faulk, who officially retired Tuesday, actually had some trouble holding on to the football early in his career with seven fumbles in his first two seasons (27 games).
However, Faulk fumbled just four times from 2001-11.
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Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State have a shot to make it to the NCAA tournament together for the second time in two years.
A number of other teams in the state might join them.
The most teams the state of North Carolina has had in the NCAA tournament in a single year was six, in 2002, when Charlotte, Duke, Davidson, N.C. State, UNC Wilmington and Wake Forest were chosen. That number could be matched or exceeded this season.
Several teams in the state have at least a chance to be chosen this season:
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The Eagles (19-8, 12-1), in just their second year in the MEAC, has a shot at winning a conference title for the first time since 1950.
Behind juniors Jeremy Ingram and Emanuel Chapman, who lead the Eagles with 16.5 points and 6.1 assists per game, respectively, LeVelle Moton's squad has a realistic shot of taking down one of last year's Cinderella stories in Norfolk State – which beat No. 2 Missouri last year as a 15 seed.
The Eagles will have to beat Savannah State on Saturday in Durham and hope for Norfolk State to lose a game in order to take the regular-season crown. They will need to win the MEAC tournament in order to make it to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
The 49ers (18-8, 6-6) are familiar to the NCAA tournament, with 11 trips – four since 2000.
After 10 appearances in 17 years from 1988 to 2005, the 49ers haven't earned a bid in the past seven seasons. In a tough Atlantic-10 Conference that includes Butler, Virginia Commonwealth and a hot Saint Louis team, Charlotte sits at No. 8 in the league.
With wins against No. 11 Butler and Davidson, the 49ers are No. 54 in the RPI rankings and have an outside shot at an at-large bid, but will likely need a strong performance down the stretch and a run in the A-10 tournament to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament.
Davidson and Elon
Two teams fighting for conference supremacy in the Southern Conference are Davidson and Elon. Davidson leads the South side of the conference and the Phoenix control the North side.
With wins against Vanderbilt and West Virginia paired with a tough nonconference schedule that included Gonzaga and Duke, Davidson (21-7, 15-1) appears on track for another trip to the NCAA tournament, but might need to take the conference tournament to ensure the spot.
The Wildcats have never earned an at-large bid to the tournament in their 11 trips.
Elon (19-9, 12-4), is No. 131 in RPI rankings because of losses at Appalachian State and Wofford, so the Phoenix need to take the conference tournament to make it to the NCAA tournament for the first time. The two will square off Wednesday night for bragging rights heading into the conference tournament.
Outside shots
Another team that has played well and has a chance to make the tournament if it wins the Big South tournament is High Point. The Panthers have played their way to the top of the conference at 16-11, 11-3.
They have seven straight wins since dropping their last game against UNC Asheville, which sits at No. 4 in the conference. High Point and UNC Asheville, along with Gardner-Webb, will need to take the Big South tournament if they want a bid, but all three have the chance to finish in the top four of the conference.
Also in the "outside chance" category, East Carolina (16-10, 7-6) will need a lot of things to go right down the stretch to earn a bid to the tournament.
With an offense that ranks 18th in the nation with 76.9 points per game and fifth in assists with 17.2 per game, ECU, which plays in Conference USA, could be a surprise team in March.
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Can you connect the two? Would love to hear if you like or dislike... Would appreciate any "tweak" opinions.
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AndreeDesign152 weeks agoI used to love Adventure on Atari. Very cool design that I'd buy -- maybe a dark blue shirt, or gray? "Fire and Blood" is from game of thrones, but Maybe "Fire and Blood and Adventure". anyway, cool design. Hope it gets picked up.
shadowkeeper152 weeks agoThanks! I was kinda going for that whole Daenerys Targaryen 3 dragon thing, with Ataris Adventure having 3 main dragons as foes.... And well "Targaryen" and "Atargaryen" sounds so alike... i thought it was so funny...
wait... maybe my wifes right.. i am the only one who finds me funny ! lol
Anyway thanks for the positive response!
Vinashko152 weeks agoI like it, but I don't know if you need the "Fire and Blood". Also, the pixel dragons seem out of place...any way to make them look more like the rest of the art, still keeping them Atari-ish?
shadowkeeper152 weeks agoThanks for the advice so far....Added some drop shadow and stroke effects to blend in the dragons and logo a little better. Removed "Fire and Blood" not sure if it needs a caption. Was thinking "Fire Button and Blood" lol
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By philcriv at 2011-08-20
AndreeDesign152 weeks agofunny: "fire button and blood" -- great play on the original while referencing the one button fun of atari
Vinashko152 weeks agoI like this version much better, the outline and shadow on the pixel dragons works nicely.
Hiratha152 weeks agoMake sure that where you have shading its using halftoning - otherwise teefury can't print it. :o
shadowkeeper150 weeks agoOk lost the drop shadow and added the chalice to the sheild to spruce it up a bit. Think I am happy with the end result.
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FAIRVIEW PARK — Joyce Ann Rickard, age 81, a resident of Fairview Park, Ohio, was born Sept. 26, 1931, and passed away June 26, 2013.
Daughter of Walter and Kathryn (King) Calkins; wife of 62 years to Ernest C. Rickard; mother of Ronald, Timothy (Pam) and Susan (Gary) Calhoun; and grandmother of five and great-grandmother of three. In addition to Ernie, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Joyce is survived by her sister, Kay Babich of Fairport Harbor. Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews, and sister-in-law, Louise Rickard of Conneaut, Ohio.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Eileen Wreith of Rockford, Ill.
A Memorial Service will be held 11 a.m., Saturday, July 20th, at the Dover Congregational United Church of Christ, 2239 Dover Center Road, Westlake, Ohio 44145.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association (for research), P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090-6011; donations may also be made on-line at www.alz.org / or by phone (800) 272-3900.
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At first glance, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson looks like your average everyday kid. But take a closer look and its plain to see he�s the world�s youngest superhero stopping evildoers from earth and space! With the help of the Omnitrix, Ben can transform into heroic alien forms with extraordinary superpowers. The evil Vilgax, with the help of Kevin 11 and the Forever Knights has, set in motion a plan to capture the creator of the Omnitrix and the world is in danger! Ben 10 the game is an exciting story full of familiar characters on a quest to stop Vilgax and save the day!
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By Richard Gaines
Staff Writer
Twenty-one congressmen, including John Tierney, whose district includes Gloucester and all of Cape Ann, have asked the House Natural Resources Committee to send to the full House federal fisheries regulatory reform legislation that was the subject of a bicoastal rally of commercial and recreational fishing interests on the Capitol grounds last month.
Most of those who wrote to Chairman Doc Hastings spoke at the March 21 "Keep Fishermen Fishing" rally. It drew about 1,500 fishermen and allies, reprising many fishermen's call to write explicit flexibility into the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the ire directed at NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco at an even larger rally at the same location in the winter of 2010.
"Fishermen in this country are hurting badly due in large part to flaws in federal fisheries law and the implementation of that law," said the April 3 letter by House members of a bipartisan coastal caucus spanning districts from New Hampshire to Florida. "The tragedy is that much of the economic plight of these fishermen is totally unnecessary for adequate protection of fish stocks.
"Congress can and must do a better job of providing a statutory framework that will yield both healthy fish stocks and healthy fishing communities," the writers noted.
Efforts to obtain Hastings' response to the letter were unsuccessful Monday. But last Dec. 1, when the committee held a three-hour hearing on a package of fisheries management and regulatory reform ideas — some as simple as mandating broadcasts of regulatory hearings, others giving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration latitude to extend rebuilding deadlines for overfished stocks — the Washington State Republican said, "My intentions are to deal with these bills."
The House with its Republican majority is considered more willing than the Democrat-controlled Senate to write flexibility into Magnuson over objections from major nonprofit groups and administration resistance before Congress recesses for the summer and the homestretch to the November presidential and congressional elections.
Tierney and retiring Congressman Barney Frank, whose district includes the fishing port New Bedford, have been ardent participants in the campaign against NOAA regulatory policies and its budgeting priorities, which lead with commodification of fisheries at the expense of cooperative research and science.
At the Dec. 1 hearing, another Massachusetts congressman, Ed Markey, D-Malden, and the Conservation Law Foundation doubted the need for changing Magnuson before the next reauthorization — which according to tradition, occurs once a decade and would take place in 2016.
Markey, the ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee, issued a cryptic statement to the Times on Monday. He avoided commenting directly on the linchpin bill filed by Congressman Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, while endorsing the need for more money for stock assessments.
The Recreational Fishing Alliance, which organized the rallies last month and in 2010, is registered in support of Pallone's Magnuson flexibility bill, while the Ocean Conservancy has registered to lobby against not only Pallone's draft, but bills by Republican Congressman Jon Runyan of New Jersey to terminate catch share programs that consolidate the number of fishermen by 15 percent or more and impose peer review for the independent catch ceiling recommendations of regional fishery council science and statistical committees. That measure parallels a Senate bill filed last year by U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass.
According to the research website Fishtruth.net, the Ocean Conservancy has received more than $8 million in grants from industrial foundations, including Wal-Mart, since 2006.
Fishtruth.net has reported that, overall, foundations — including those endowed by the founders of Intel and Hewlett-Packard from the computing sector — have distributed more than $500 million to influence ocean and fisheries policies, and are closely aligned with Lubchenco, who was plucked out of academia and the Environmental Defense Fund board to head NOAA at the start of the Obama administration.
Congressman William Keating, a Quincy Democrat who represents the South Shore and Cape Cod, also signed the letter to Hastings and Markey. The other New Englander among the signers was Congressman Frank Guinta, a New Hampshire Republican,
Among the 21 signers were two New Yorkers, four representatives from New Jersey, two from North Carolina and nine from Florida.
At the committee hearing last fall, Rick Marks, a fishery scientist, industry lobbyist and former member of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, described the shared concern of flexibility advocates — that the 2006 reauthorization brought the nation "the Alaska model," where the scale of the industry produces enough revenue to support stock surveys, acute technological monitoring, and scientifically-based findings allowing confident calibrations of conservation and fishery yields.
The approach is "a good idea," Marks testified, "provided the scientific capabilities of the Alaska region also applied.
"We all know they don't," he said. "Instead, we ended up with a rigid implementation model resulting in precautionary buffers and lower yields at the expense of our industry and our nation."
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Leicester boasts a diverse range of entertainment. From live music and performances at De Montfort Hall to city festivals with the Castle Park Heritage and Arts Festival, Caribbean Carnival and Diwali. If you need some laughter in your life then visit the Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival or Highlight Leicester. But it's not all about big festivals and performing arts productions, visit The Musician for intimate performances from live bands or, as you are walking around the city centre, look out for street performances. If you're a film buff, watch in style at Leicester's Cinema de Lux or Phoenix.
Out in the county you can experience quirky and traditional rural festivals and live music performances. Enjoy food festivals - such as the Melton Mowbray Food Festival, outdoor amphitheatres, concerts in castles to the bizarre Hallaton Bottle Kicking Contest and our very own GlastonBudget – ideal if you missed those essential tickets to Glastonbury! Loughborough Town Hall is the place to be if you enjoy live performances and panto's or visit Conkers or Calke Abbey for live musical performances in magnificent surroundings (and take along a picnic full of tasty Leicestershire goodies).
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---- — What would Newburyport be like today if it were not for George Lawler?
We can count him among those who stood at a crossroad in the city's history and chose the right path, not necessarily the easy path.
Lawler died yesterday, at age 85. He served as mayor from 1964 to 1968, pivotal years in Newburyport's recent history. He is credited with making the decision that went against the grain of what was the trend of the time — he chose to emphasize restoration of the city's historic downtown, at a time when nearly every city was tearing down the old and replacing it with the garish new.
Today, we can be eternally thankful for this humble and dedicated public servant's wisdom.
He was a Newburyport native and grew up in the city as it struggled through hard times. At age 37, he found himself in the mayor's office, at a time when the dilapidated state of the city's downtown had citizens and politicians pushing hard for change. Lawler listened to one of the key voices in that debate — the city's historical society and preservationists — and took the steps that turned the tide in their favor.
First, he refused to sign a federal document that would have put in motion plans to tear down about two blocks of historic Federalist-era buildings on State Street, as well as all of Market Square and Inn Street. The "urban renewal" plan was to replace them with a one-story strip mall and a big parking lot.
"It was on my desk," Lawler told The Daily News in 2007. "All I had to do was sign it and it was done."
Instead, he sent a letter to the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority, asking it to emphasize restoration in its plans for redeveloping the downtown.
Next, he made sure that outspoken preservationist Dr. Robert Wilkins got on the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority board. The manner in which this happened says something about George Lawler.
Lawler drove to Dr. Wilkins' High Street home and sat in the driveway, waiting for him to return from work. At first, Wilkins refused Lawler's offer to join the NRA board. But Lawler persisted, promising him that he would not be a token preservationist voice on the NRA. Finally, Dr. Wilkins relented and joined the board.
It proved to be a pivotal appointment. Wilkins' persuasive advocacy of restoration changed the NRA's direction, little by little.
Lawler lost his mayoral seat in the 1967 election, but that hardly kept him from public service. He would go on to work for the NRA for a few years, then took over as city clerk. He was later elected to the City Council, and up until his passing, served on the Newburyport Water Commission.
In a 2007 interview with The Daily News, Dr. Wilkins' daughter put George Lawler's contributions in perspective.
"I've always thought that George Lawler is the unsung hero of Newburyport's urban renewal story," said Mary Wilkins Haslinger. "If George hadn't written that resolution that asked the NRA to consider preserving the old buildings instead of tearing them all down, everything could be gone now."
Other mayors who followed Lawler would see the restoration concept through to its fruition. Most of those mayors are duly recognized and feted in the downtown with memorials and plaques, but not George Lawler. None of the bricks or concrete was laid during his time in office, but the foundation he laid underlies everything. We should remember that in an appropriate way.
He was a quiet and humble giant in the history of Newburyport, a man who made the right decisions at a crucial time.


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[JURIST] US District Judge Leonie Brinkema [official profile] late Friday refused a media motion for immediate access to admitted documentary evidence and bench transcripts in the sentencing trial of accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, ruling that the court did not have the resources to provide such access and that it would undermine the integrity of the proceeding by increasing the chances of jury taint. The Associated Press, USA Today, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Hearst Corporation, NBC, CNN and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press had disputed [memorandum in support, PDF] February court orders by Brinkema where she indicated that documentary evidence [order, PDF] and transcripts of bench conferences between herself and the lawyers in the trial would only be made available at the end of the trial.In any event, Brinkema noted that the trial was already
one of the most visible federal criminal cases in history. It was one of the first, if not the first, federal criminal case to provide electronic access to the pleadings. As such, details about this case have been in the public forum to an unprecedented extent. Moreover, the trial is available to more potential viewers in multiple locations [by closed circuit TV hookup] than any other federal criminal trial has ever been.... The Court recognizes that there is great public interest in this case, however, the media and the public must respect the unique challenges such a case places on the personnel who have to manage and conduct the trial.
[JURIST] An appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website] ruled Friday that former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can return to politics in Kosovo during his provisional release pending trial for war crimes scheduled to begin in 2007 [JURIST report], but only on condition that any requests by him to appear in public and engage in public political activities be cleared by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) [official website] with the advice of the prosecution, and that UNMIK must justify to the court and to the prosecution any permission granted. Haradinaj returned to Kosovo last June when the Trial Chamber of the court first granted him provisional release [JURIST report]. After ICTY prosecutors who had objected to his resumption of political activity in the country appealed, the Trial Chamber ruled in October than his political activity was subject to UNMIK approval [JURIST report]. The Appeals Chamber subsequently stayed this ruling [JURIST report] in December pending its own decision. Friday's ruling added five conditions to the Trial Chamber's October 2005 terms, requiring UNMIK to pay greater heed to prosecution input on requests and imposing stricter reporting requirements on UNMIK in granting permission. Read the ICTY press release, and the full text of the decision [PDF] by the Appeals Chamber.
[JURIST] An appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website] ruled Friday that former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can return to politics in Kosovo during his provisional release pending trial for war crimes scheduled to begin in 2007 [JURIST report], but only on condition that any requests by him to appear in public and engage in public political activities be cleared by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) [official website] with the advice of the prosecution, and that UNMIK must justify to the court and to the prosecution any permission granted. Haradinaj returned to Kosovo last June after the Trial Chamber of the court first granted him provisional release [JURIST report]. After ICTY prosecutors who had objected to his resumption of political activity in the country appealed, the Trial Chamber ruled in October than his political activity was subject to UNMIK approval [JURIST report]. The Appeals Chamber subsequently stayed this ruling [JURIST report] in December pending its own decision. Friday's ruling added five conditions to the Trial Chamber's October 2005 ruling. Read the ICTY press release, and the full text of the decision [PDF] by the Appeals Chamber.
[JURIST] US Interior Secretary Gale Norton [official profile] resigned from the Bush cabinet Friday after a five-year run, and will officially leave office at the end of March. In her resignation letter [DOI press release], the former Colorado Attorney General told the President that her decision was motivated by a desire to return home to Denver. While notorious in some quarters for leading the push [JURIST report] to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [official website] to oil drillers, Norton was also involved in an ongoing lawsuit brought by American Indian plaintiffs [Indian Trust website] alleging that the Interior Department grossly mismanaged trust funds earmarked for compensating American Indians for land use. In an incendiary opinion [text] last year, the presiding judge in that case required the Norton-led Interior Department to apologize to the plaintiffs [JURIST report], and to admit that information being provided to them regarding outstanding lost royalties on earnings from Indian land may be unreliable. Norton's name also surfaced during recent investigations into indicted former lobbyist Jack Abramoff [JURIST website], who has been accused of stealing millions from American Indian tribes who hired him to push the Interior Department [official website] for favorable decisions on casinos. MSNBC has more.
[JURIST] A federal jury has found private military contractor Custer Battles [corporate website] guilty of 37 fraudulent acts against the US Coalition Provisional Authority [official website] in the first application of the federal False Claims Act [text] against an Iraq war contractor. The jury found the company guilty of establishing shell companies, forging invoices, inflating charges, and stealing equipment in an attempt to loot millions of dollars and awarded more than $10 million in damages to be divided between the US government and two former employees, Robert Isakson and William Baldwin, who acted as whistleblowers and filed the suit [JURIST report]. The Civil War-era False Claims Act allows private citizens to sue on behalf of the government and to receive a portion of any money recovered. The US Justice Department allowed the suit to go ahead but declined to join it directly.Lawyers for Custer Battles say their appeal will focus on whether the provisional authority in Iraq was a US agency subject to US law. During the trial, key Custer Battles employees blamed the discrepancies on subordinates, and contended that the company lost money on the $21.4 million contract to help distribute the new Iraqi currency. The Los Angeles Times has more.
[JURIST] Both the UN and Cambodia have submitted "short lists" of possible judges for the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal [task force website, in Cambodian; Yale CGP materials] that will be probing crimes against humanity by the Cambodian communist regime that allegedly killed millions in the 1970s and 80s. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday sent Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen [official profile] a list of 12 candidates [UN press release] for positions including two international judgeships in the trial chamber, three international judgeships in the appeals chamber, and two more in the pre-trial chamber. Meanwhile, a Cambodian spokesperson has said that the body's Cambodian prosecutors and ten judges will be finalized by the country's Supreme Council of Magistracy in a month or two. While a start date for the tribunal has not been set, officials hope to begin proceedings by 2007 [JURIST report].In 2001, Cambodia passed a statute [text] authorizing the creation of a war crimes court. Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot passed away in 1998, but other key leaders are still living as free men, including second-in-command Nuon Chea, ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, and former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary [Wikipedia profile]. Two other top officials currently jailed and charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity are Ta Mok [Trial Watch profile], the 78-year-old military chief known as "the Butcher" for his alleged role in mass killings, and Duch [Trial Watch profile], age 59, who ran an interrogation and torture center. Last month, a UN administrator urged a quick start to the trial [JURIST report], citing concerns that the health of several key defendants is deteriorating. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website] at The Hague Friday convicted two Croatians - a journalist and a former security official [ICTY case summary] - for contempt [ICTY indictment, PDF] in disclosing the name of a protected witnesses in the 1997 war crimes trial of Croatian Army general Tihomir Blaskic [ICTY case summary]. The identity and testimony of Johannes van Kuijk, a Dutch army officer, was first leaked by Ivica Marijacic, editor of a Zagreb weekly, to Markica Rebic, the former head of Croatia's security service, and was then republished in a 2004 article by Marijacic. The ICTY Trial Chamber found that the disclosure of van Kuijk's name had actually done him no harm, but nonetheless fined the two Croatians 15,000 Euros each (roughly $10,000), saying that the "public confidence in the effectiveness of the Tribunals protective measures is vital to the success of its work." The charge could have brought up to seven years imprisonment. Read the ICTY press release and the full text of the ruling [ICTY summary also available]. The court has not yet ruled on the cases of four other Croatian journalists [JURIST report] accused of leaking the name of another protected witness in the Blaskic trial. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Zimbabwean police have arrested 15 members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party website] after reportedly uncovering a collection of stockpiled weapons connected to the clandestine Zimbabwe Freedom Movement (ZFM) [manifesto], a group established in 2003 for the sole purpose of overthrowing the regime of President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile]. The 15 suspects are being charged with "possession of weapons of banditry in a plot to overthrow the government by illegal means." While governmental officials say the MDC has strong ties to the ZFM, the link has been denied by MDC representatives, who called the arrests "a state plot to destabilise us ahead of our congress next week." Zimbabwean police have arrested MDC MP and former Zimbabwean National Army officer Giles Mutsekwa and MDC regional treasurer Brian James, and have called former MP Roy Bennett [Wikipedia profile] in for questioning regarding the alleged coup attempt. The Telegraph has more. SW Radio Africa has local coverage.
[JURIST] China has established a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to handle piracy and intellectual property cases nationwide, according to a court spokesman speaking Friday at a Beijing news conference held during the annual meeting of the parliamentary National People's Congress. Read a press release on the court [in Chinese].The announcement comes amidst continuing complaints from other nations [US DOJ report] that the Chinese government has not done enough to prevent the illegal copying of DVD's, CD's, and other media produced by foreign companies, and on the heels of an announcement Thursday by China's Ministry of Commerce [official website, English version] of a series of new copyright laws [press release]. Sun Huapu added that China [JURIST news archive] has also created a website to bring unwanted publicity to defendants in high-profile piracy cases. According to Chinese governmental statistics, 741 people were convicted in 505 criminal piracy cases last year, along with 16,453 civil intellectual property rights cases, which was a 20 percent caseload increase from 2004. Also at the news conference Friday, Jiang Zhipei [IHT report; personal website, in English], currently the Chief Justice of the Intellectual Property Rights Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court [official website in Chinese], dismissed the complaints of foreigners critical of China's intellectual property safeguards, noting that it was their responsibility to bring cases to court, yet only 5 percent of all Chinese IP cases last year were brought by foreign companies. AP has more.
[JURIST] New legislation aimed at improving security at American ports remained very much on the policy agenda of Republican and Democratic lawmakers Friday even in the wake of an announcement [JURIST report] from United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World [corporate website], read out by Sen. John Warner on the Senate floor Thursday, that it would transfer its newly-acquired operating rights over six US ports to a US firm, effectively avoiding further political controversy [JURIST new archive] and a legislative confrontation [JURIST report] between the Congress and President Bush. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters that "The problem of the political moment has passed, but the problem of adequate port security still looms large," while Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) noted in a press statement that "There are gaping holes in cargo and port security that need to be plugged." AP has more.Meanwhile TIME magazine has reported that another Dubai-owned firm - Inchcape Shipping Services [corporate website] - provides piloting, tug and stevedoring services in 12 US ports as well as security services to the US Navy.
[JURIST] Prosecutors in Milan announced Friday that after an investigation [JURIST report] they have formally asked a judge to issue an indictment against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile; BBC profile] and his former lawyer, British barrister David Mills, for corruption in connection with false testimony that Mills allegedly gave at two trials in 1997 and 1998 involving Berlusconi broadcasting company Mediaset [corporate website]. Italian media claim that in return for the testimony, Berlusconi funneled some $600,000 to Mills. Under Italian law the prosecutor's request now goes to a judge who has 20 days to consider it, during which time defense lawyers can file objections. Berlusconi has already dismissed the case against him [JURIST report] as "baseless", but its timing is problematic because Berlusconi is deep into a re-election campaign with a national vote scheduled for April 9. BBC News has more. This would not be the first indictment against Berlusconi; in September 2005 he was cleared of false accounting charges [JURIST report] and in June 2005 he was acquitted on bribery charges [JURIST report].The case has also drawn wide attention in the United Kingdom [Telegraph report], in large part because David Mills is the husband of British Culture Minister Tessa Jowell [official profile]. A UK government inquiry has already cleared Jowell of any wrongdoing in the corruption scandal [Telegraph report; Blair statement], but she and her husband have since separated. Mills has denied the allegations against him [Mills statement].
[JURIST] An Iraqi Justice Ministry official responding to a US military statement that the US will eventually close its operation [JURIST report] at Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] in Baghdad and hand the facility back to Iraqi authorities said Friday that the Ministry would use the buildings as a storage location but not as a place to house detainees. Abd al-Hussein Shandel said Abu Ghraib was too difficult to secure [Star and Stripes report], and that the Justice Ministry had already transferred some 2400 criminals it had held there to other locations. Abu Ghraib was a notorious torture center under the Saddam Hussein regime and returned to notoriety [New Yorker report] during the American occupation after public disclosure of photographs showed detainees being abused by US personnel. Reuters has more.Meanwhile a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross [advocacy website] in Geneva said Friday that when the US moves its detainees out of Abu Ghraib they should be relocated where the Red Cross has access [ICRC backgrounder] to them. The Red Cross has not had access to Abu Ghraib since January 2005 because the area where the prison is located is deemed too dangerous. Dorothea Krimitsas emphasized, however, that it was the treatment of the detainees rather than their location that was most important. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Preparations for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those accused of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] and others in a Beirut bombing in February 2005 are almost complete, according to a Lebanese minister meeting UN officials in New York Thursday. Lebanese Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh [profile] said, however, that funding details for the court still needed to be ironed out, and that "a significant Lebanese presence" on the panel had to be ensured since it had been agreed that it would not be headed by a Lebanese judge. To preserve its impartiality and security it will also sit outside of Lebanon, just as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sits in Arusha, in neighboring Tanzania. The exact location of the Hariri court has not yet been announced. Hamadeh, himself a survivor of an assassination attempt in October 2004, also reiterated that approval for the tribunal would need to be provided by a resolution from the UN Security Council. Hamadeh's visit follows a January meeting of UN officials with Lebanese leaders in Lebanon, and visits of two Lebanese judges to New York for consultations with UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel [official profile]. The new head of the UN probe into Hariri's assassination [UN backgrounder], former Belgian and International Criminal Court prosecutor Serge Brammertz, is scheduled to submit an updated a report to the Security Council on March 15. Top Syrian security officials are suspected of having been involved in the murders. The UN has been authorized to help Lebanon establish a tribunal under UN Security Council Resolution 1644 [official PDF text]. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Presiding US District Judge Leonie Brinkema [official profile] Thursday warned prosecutors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive] against making any indication to jury members that Moussaoui was obligated to tell FBI agents about his terrorist connections after his arrest in August 2001 for violating immigration laws, less than a month before the September 11 attacks. Brinkema labeled such action as "shaky legal territory" and questioned the validity of implying that "failure to act is sufficient for the death penalty as a matter of law." Her warnings came as she ruled against a defense motion for a mistrial. Prosecutors have been trying to argue that at least one death on September 11 could have been prevented if Moussaoui had not lied to federal authorities. Moussaoui's court-appointed defense attorneys have countered that requiring Moussaoui to have actually confessed his links to al-Qaida and his alleged plans to fly a plane into the White House [JURIST report] would infringe on his Fifth Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination. The FBI maintains [AP report] that Moussaoui's misdirections resulted in "wild goose chases" that delayed the apprehension of other al-Qaida agents. Moussaoui aroused suspicion after a Minneapolis flight school informed the FBI of an inexperienced foreign student training to fly a Boeing 747-400. He was arrested on August 16, 2001. He is the first and only prisoner to be charged in the US with involvement in the al-Qaida attacks on the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center. AP has more.
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The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Student Senate will ask the college president to consider dismissing Chick-fil-A from its campus.
The 27-member Senate voted 14-10, with two abstensions to send a letter of resolution to Stockton College President Herman J. Saatkamp asking Chick-fil-A to leave the campus in Atlantic County's Galloway Township. The Senate needed 14 votes for approval. Senate President AJ Vervoort abstains unless his vote is needed to break a tie.
According to Vervoort, the letter of resolution will be sent to Saatkamp on Monday morning, Nov. 26. It will then be up to Saatkamp if he wants to look into breaking the 10-year contract with the chicken franchise that has weathered a storm of controversy since comments made by its president over the summer.
The Stockton Affiliated Services contract is with Chartwell's, which then has contracts with the restaurants in the Campus Center. However, money from the college students' meal plans go to Chick-fil-A automatically.
"We look forward to seeing the resolution, and the president will take it under advisement," Special Assistant to President Saatkamp Sharon Schulman said. "We will weigh the pros and cons and take the proposal under serious advisement."
Over the summer, it was reported that Chick-fil-A's charitable organization the WinShape Foundation donates to the Family Research Council, which reportedly lobbied against a resolution that would denounce Uganda's so-called "Kill the Gays" bill. The bill calls for the death penalty for anyone who commits an act of homosexuality, which has been deemed a crime in Uganda.
The Family Research Council denied it was opposing the resolution, stating its goal was to clarify inaccuracies about homosexuality being a fundamental human right across the globe.
A recent survey of Stockton students found support for keeping the restaurant on campus. Of the roughly 1,600 students who participated in the survey, 66 percent voted to keep Chick-fil-A on campus. According to Student Senator Ben Peoples, about 300 people surveyed opted not to answer the question.
"Chick-fil-A was causing problems to arise on campus, and we could see the division," Vervoort said. "We want all students to feel welcomed and supported."
According to Student Senate Vice President David Lamando, members of the Stockton Pride Alliance, which represents the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at the college, have attended the Senate's last two meetings to express concerns about being discriminated against. According to Lamando, they feel the discrimination is being encouraged by Chick-fil-A's presence at Stockton.
The vote was close, and not everyone spoke out in support of the resolution. Senators and students alike felt the issue was a matter of free speech.
"No one can tell you that what you feel is wrong," Student Senator Matthew Monte said. "We were elected to serve the students, and 66 percent want to keep Chick-fil-A. I'm going to side with my people."
Senators are elected by the student body. The top 27 vote-getters are elected to the Senate, which then chooses the president among themselves. Senators don't take an oath of office, and don't swear to uphold the Constitution.
"Our concern is with Stockton policies," Vervoort said. "We follow those values and the school's mission statement."
"Chick-fil-A does not violate our mission statement," Student Senator William Inacio said. "Why should we remove them because they have opinions that we don't support personally?"
"Just by them being here, we support them whether I buy anything from them or not," Student Senator Kaitlin Cibenko said. "I'm not comfortable with that."
"Stockton is a public institution, so if you pay taxes in New Jersey, you're supporting Chick-fil-A," Student Senator Jessica Carey said.
Some senators felt it wasn't a matter of free speech, but more a matter of human rights. Student Senator Manar Hussein believes the Senate vote now opens the door for discussion of other issues involving human rights.
"Regardless of if I'm the only one who feels a certain way or if there are many, if even one person advocates for human rights in another country, I expect the same amount of research to be done," Hussein said. "With Chick-fil-A, it was such an uproar, I ask that you be fair to whatever demographic brings an issue, out of respect. I expect you to do the same research for everyone."
"All issues will be addressed in a serious matter," Vervoort said following the meeting. "We will deal with the issues that have the highest impact among Stockton students."
Student reaction was mixed.
"I think you launched a missile to kill a mouse," Stockton Senior Josh Kropkof said during the public comment portion of the meeting. "I'm very concerned with what the Senate will look at in the future. If a group on campus is saying something controversial, will the Senate bring that group forward for explusion? If a professor is saying things that are pretty offensive, will the Senate ask him to be dismissed? While you congratulate yourselves, remember you imposed your will the student body. You're supposed to represent the students instead of pushing your own agendas."
"Anytime you vote on the side of human rights, it's the right thing to do," Stockton Senior Don Scheer said. "This is the first step toward supporting human rights."