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quote: So two years after everyone else has LTE standard and fully functioning, Apple finally joins the fray... ..and they can't even get THAT right.
quote: I point is that Apple manipulates these "sell outs" for pre-orders. How do I know this? Simple. They never release the amount of said pre-orders. This is just for more hype on a lame-duck product to convince the simple-minded masses to purchase one.
quote: We shall find out the truth once and for all. I mean we already know but just to be 1,000% sure.
quote: My response is that you are talking out of your ass.
quote: Get over it.
quote: I go along with Horace at Aysymco and think his projection of around 6 million iPhones sold for the launch weekend is sound.
quote: Funny how you 'magically' know the HIGHEST analyst projection for iPhone 5 sales. You must indeed work for Apple PR.
quote: Meanwhile in the real world AllThings D offers a first week sales estimate for the iPhone 5 of 10 million.
quote: HIGHEST analyst projection
quote: zero evidence that Apple artificially restrains supply in order to create 'sold out' hype
quote: When you are in a hole stop digging.
quote: I hope that doesn't crush your ego too much.


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Vladimir Pleshakov, a spectacular pianist who has performed in major concert venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, now calls Mount Pleasant home.
His equally-talented wife, Elena Winther, often found seated on stage with Pleshakov, has followed her husband here to support him in his pursuit of yet another dream.
Born in Shanghai, China, of Russian immigrant parents, Pleshakov has lived in Asia, Australia, Europe and the U.S. His piano playing reflects three centuries of uninterrupted tradition of Europe's Golden Age of Pianism.
The couple has moved to the area so that Pleshakov can serve as the choral director for Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in I'On.
"For us it is sort of a miracle," said Father John Parker. "The orthodox world is very small place in a certain sense."
He said he posted a job opening on a small website, orthodoxjobs.com, and Pleshakov saw it.
Parker received an email from Pleshakov and the conversation began.
"Who wouldn't want to have someone with the kind of talent that he has," Parker said.
"It is a complete honor that someone of his talent would contact us. On the other hand, we are a growing, small mission-church in South Carolina."
Parker explained that the church was not looking for a concert-oriented choir.
Parker's initial concern was that because of Pleshakov's caliber, his desire would be to make theirs a professional choir. Pleshakov's only desire, said Parker is to help make the best singers out of the ones they have and worship God. "That made it all the more a miracle in a certain sense," said Parker.
And while being a choir director is not his main expertise, Parker is honored to have such a man in his presence.
"I am neither a singer (although I do sing), nor a trained conductor," Pleshakov humbly said. "Rather, I am a musician who happens to compose for choir and therefore can conduct my own (and other composers') works because I understand the music from within."
Anyone familiar with his works (or Winther's for that matter) might call that the understatement of the year.
For example, his piano studies include teachers from the Alexander Siloti school. Siloti, a student of Liszt, and cousin of Rachmaninoff was the one-time teacher of the great master in pre-revolutionary Russia.
A graduate of the New South Wales State Conservatory of Music (Sydney), The University of California (Berkeley) and Stanford University, Vladimir holds degrees from all culminating in Doctor of Musical Arts from Stanford University.
A native of San Francisco Winther has lived in Europe and the U.S. Her playing reflects The Golden Age of Pianism through the influence of Josef Lhevinne a classmate of Rachmaninoff. She studied with teachers mostly from the Josef Lhevinne school. Masterclasses include work with Hess, Schnabel and others. Debuting at 18 with San Francisco Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Winther was invited to make multiple appearances with both groups. Playing as a soloist her main interest soon became chamber music. Now a master of the literature for violin-piano, flute-piano, and two pianos Elena has toured extensively in Europe.
Pleshakov's repertoire is wide-ranging, as is his sense of style. He is responsible for many world premiere recordings of unjustly neglected works from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. He is also an eloquent and highly communicative recitalist.
But his story goes much deeper. Pleshakov's composing started quite suddenly - about five years ago.
He had some serious illnesses that could have been fatal within a few months had they not been detected and treated radically. He is in complete remission and able to function and doctors have assured him he will die of something else, he said.
But when coming out of anesthesia after the second surgery (which took 10 hours and 10 days of recovery) his life changed forever.
He was bored in the hospital and the only patient at Christmas. He asked for a pen and paper and began writing music. It was complete music in and of itself, he explained.
"I don't know what generates it, but it is there. Edward Elgar said, 'all I have to do is listen and it is there.' That is me." Pleshakov explained that the end result of that music within his soul is a finished product as in "it is hard to change. It is impervious to change," he said.
"I can start in the middle and work backwards or forwards. It never goes away until it is fully written and then it fades from the memory."
He said his greatest fear is to wake up one day and it won't be there."So I have to use it."
The musician
Russian immigrants were deficient in funds, Pleshakov explained, "but I was blessed with their inheritance of culture brought with them and it was the only worldly good they possessed. They treasured it and favored a strong education for children," he explained. "I was a beneficiary of this and went to French schools because I was born in French sector of Shanghai, China."
He was a poly-linguist of French, English and Russian simultaneously, dabbling in Latin because he went to Catholic school and also learned a few words of greek.
At age 4, Pleshakov was able to pick out, on a toy piano, radio commercials, bar room songs of Russian and American origin and basically knew more about the world from short wave radio than he said he knows now.
"As far as music is concerned, I was fortunate in having three teachers in succession - two in China and one in Australia - who came from the same background (Russian school prior to the revolution).
I got that inheritance in the philosophy, aesthetics, technique and eventually the composition from the uninterrupted flow of the 19th century," he explained.
The music
"Music transcends the piano. The piano is the art of it. The general philosophy and aesthetics of music is all one parcel for me," said Pleshakov.
"People tell me I am quite an expert in finding things in Beethoven and others that have not been emphasized yet. But that comes naturally through this particular training I have received."
Pleshakov said in his playing he preserves the tradition without making a fetish out of it. "My playing is modern but rooted in things which give my approach to music a multifaceted one," he said.
It's called relevance, he said. And he owes it all to his parents who knew the importance of it.
"Any artist of any kind does something he or she can understand. In art, one has to find not something new necessarily in the material or you run the danger of irrelevance. You have to find a new vantage point to look at what already exists."
Pleshakov said that this is what makes art of interest and perpetually self refreshing and perpetually relevant. "People are always interested in a different point of view with a familiar undercurrent. They suddenly see things differently but understand."
The catalysts
William Carragan, musicologist and harpsichordist, is known for his research in both baroque chamber music and nineteenth-century symphonic literature.
He studied piano with his mother Martha Beck and with Stanley Hummel, harpsichord with Louis Bagger, and composition with the Russian-music expert Alfred Swan.
He is also a close personal friend of Pleshakov's, having worked closely with him on his compositions.
He is a contributing editor of the Anton Bruckner Collected Edition in Vienna, for which he prepared a new edition of the Bruckner Second Symphony, in two versions, over the period of 1986-2005. He has also reconstructed the earliest version of the Bruckner First Symphony, which was recorded on Naxos in 1996, and a previously unheard version of the Third, which was premiered in Japan in 2007. From 1979 to 1983 he devoted himself to a completion of the Bruckner Ninth; so far it has been performed in six countries.
He was professor of physics at Hudson Valley Community College from 1965 to 2001, and is the author of a comprehensive four-volume textbook of introductory university physics.
"That explains why I need William Carragan's perspective on my music," said Pleshakov.
Carragan became acquainted with Pleshakov's recordings because he found them to be useful in teaching college music history. Many years later he found Pleshakov had moved to Hudson, New York.
Carragan attended his concerts, struck up a friendship and the two became collaborators on Pleshakov's composing and getting the music ready for publication and singing by choirs.
"He is a force of nature that way," said Carragan.
"The music comes out easy to understand and he takes great pains with that."
Carragan explained that what was produced and published was music that more and more choirs wanted to sing it and that doesn't happen very often.
"Often a lot is written and most doesn't get heard. His success was a surprise to Pleshakov as much as it was to anyone else."
And now Pleshakov considers the church choir and Father Parker the same kind of catalysts as Carragan. They affect all of my music making and everything I do, I think I understand things I never could before or never was interested in before," he said.
Winther said Pleshakov would be in the basement half the night or he is always scrawling on bank statements or scraps from the waste baskets.
"He has to do it. I know that Vladimir always felt something inside yet it never came out. Perhaps there was a blockage or he just never had the time or privacy."
The teacher
Pleshakov believes that in all body movements we make as humans there is a lot of unnecessary use of muscle groups.
That holds true in the physical aspect of playing.
And it is not all about just movement. It is also about management of sound when you play a chord.
For example, Winther said that "when I work on something new I have to prepare for as long it takes to feel absolutely free in my movements and free when I play; so I do not think about what I am doing," she said. "One should be at ease and relaxed not tied up in knots when they play."
Call it autopilot. The player should become a listener along with their audience.
"The audience wants results and that is the sound, not the outward performance of the pianist or the composer," Pleshakov said.
"We must always be consumers of music because the music is always for someone else."
"Our emotions get in the way if we feel the music before we play each note because it is already done. There is nothing left to do if you respond instantly and a micro-second later the sound becomes another entity."
Pleshakov and his wife both teach master classes that apply to people of almost any level.
"I have developed the skill of explaining this very thing to people and show them how to get rid themselves of the residual garbage they may not even be aware of," he said. "And the playing becomes more musical because there is less chaos and less things left to chance. At that point the essence of the music can take over."
"When I work with people I can see ways of helping them without changing their style, approach or technique. I can see the little statistical irregularities, which when ironed out, make music sound many times better."
The couple is both interested (and able) to work with beginning piano students. "Children are a wonderful source of solace and inspiration to us," Pleshakov said.
"Our approach often results in a rate of progress which is much faster, but does not 'cut corners.' We eliminate obstacles.
"Time is saved. Results - and they happen more often than not - are obvious to all."
"I think it has really been quite a revelation. One has to be humble and assume you yourself are nothing and things are a gift.
"And you are the carrier of a gift. If you are not using it you are damned and someone else will get the gift by transfer," Pleshakov said.
"Someone has to carry the gift. The gift doesn't make you better person. You are not special. We're all just carriers."
Taking the keys
Pleshakov takes the reins full time this week.
In addition to conducting services and rehearsals Pleshakov hopes to recruit new singers and create a boys choir.
"For a young church in Mount Pleasant, to have PLeshakov as its choir director - a world class musician - is a great gift not only to parish but to community wide as well," Parker said.
"Our hope is that for the parish we might be able to share the talents of Pleshakov with the community through concerts at Holy Ascension and we hope he and his wife find venues in Charleston to play their incredible piano music for the Charleston community."
For more information about private master classes or children's piano classes email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 843-388-4480. For more information about Holy Ascension Orthodox Church visit 265 North Shelmore Blvd. or contact the rector, Fr. John Parker at 843.881.5010.
"Vladimir Pleshakov and Elena Winther are one of the best piano duos to be heard anywhere in the world today" Le Meridional (France)
"Miraculous sobriety from the pianists Pleshakov" Le Provencal (France)
"Pianists Pleshakov and Winther are European heirs to the great tradition of legendary Russian playing" Smena (St.Petersburg, Russia).
Flute-Piano. Two-piano music with Vladimir Pleshakov: world-premieres of Balakirev, Rachmaninoff, Milhaud.
Television documentaries of her playing include Russian Federal TV and KTVU San Francisco.
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Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett is focused on teaching EJ Manuel proper footwork as a big first step in getting the team's prized rookie quarterback ready for the NFL.
Manuel needs to match his steps in the pocket to the pass routes the receivers are running as he learns the Bills' new offense.
"Footwork is tied into everything," Hackett said after the Bills' spring practice Tuesday. "Everything is within your footwork. It's a very big learning process. For us, we use our footwork, we use our progression, and we move up in the pocket."
The Bills' offense, like many in the NFL, is rooted in West Coast offense principles. That means there are a lot of three- and five-step drop backs by the quarterback, who needs to get the ball out of his hands quickly and on rhythm to give the receiver a chance to run after the catch. The pass routes stretch the field horizontally as well as vertically. The quarterback goes through a progression across the field in identifying where to throw the ball, and his feet are moving in the pocket as he scans the field for an open man.
"It's all predicated on the pass concept, just pairing the footwork with the passing play," Manuel said.
At Florida State, Manuel had a lot of plays in which he had to read only half the field as he stood in the pocket or rolled out in the direction the play was going. It's not that Manuel wasn't taught fundamentals. He worked from under center a lot at Florida State and employed pro-style drop backs. Some college quarterbacks in spread offenses use mostly rocker-steps, not real drop backs, after they get a shotgun snap. The Bills don't have to teach Manuel from scratch. But Manuel now has to adopt the rhythm and footwork Hackett wants as he scans the full field for receivers.
"It's been fun to watch him come along, especially when he was first here, he was kind of a drop back and stand there," Hackett said. "Now there's a little more rhythm to it. You see him stepping up, working up and making plays. Those are things he's got to get used to, things we ask him to do here."
Hackett also has changed the way Manuel moves the ball as he's dropping back. Manuel is putting his hands on the ball the same way he always has done, but Hackett wants his quarterback to be more comfortable. Instead of consciously holding the ball toward the left side of his chest as he's dropping back, he's now allowing the ball to rock back and forth a bit.
"It's not my hand placement, it's moreso where I place the ball in my drop," Manuel said. "So now I'm going breast to breast, instead of in college I was holding it in one spot when I was dropping. So now it's a little more fluid in my drop."
It's something Hackett saw watching film. "It was a big question I had," Hackett said.
The emphasis is on Manuel feeling instinctive, not trying to teach him some new, unnatural way to carry the ball.
"I think for a quarterback, they have to be comfortable back there to be able to step up into the pocket," Hackett said. "They have to be able to move. If you force anything on them, you can't do that because now they're thinking about holding the ball instead of everything else. Just go back there and be calm, cool, collected and go to work."
Hackett doesn't have to worry about the throwing motion of the 6-foot-5 Manuel. The 23-year-old has hands that are 10≤ inches from thumb to pinky finger. (The hand sizes of last year's top NFL rookies: Andrew Luck 10 inches, Robert Griffin III 9½ inches and Russell Wilson 10œ inches.) The ball spins out of Manuel's grip nicely, and his release is quick.
"His arm strength, it's effortless to throw the ball," Hackett said. "So it's exciting to see him and try to develop him into an even better quarterback."
Manuel has shown some touch to go along with a big arm. On Tuesday, he hit rookie receiver Da'Rick Rogers on a pretty touch pass, dropping the ball over Rogers' shoulder 35 yards downfield. Rogers had burned the coverage and made the catch in perfect stride.
"I taught him that," Hackett said, tongue firmly planted in cheek. "That was all me."
Bills receiver Stevie Johnson participated in individual drills for the first time in voluntary offseason workouts. He has been sitting out because of a lower back injury.
"It definitely feels good to just be out there on the field, even through the little pains I have," Johnson said. "It's getting better every week. They gave me a six- to eight-week thing to even get on the field, and it's only been about three, so I feel good."
Besides safety Jairus Byrd, who is unsigned, two other veterans have not yet appeared at the voluntary organized team activity workouts. They are defensive tackle Alan Branch and linebacker Manny Lawson, both unrestricted free-agent acquisitions.
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The U.S. Navy honored two unknown sailors, found inside the sunken USS Monitor during an expedition to recover artifacts in 2002, with an interment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, March 8.
Special guests at the ceremony included Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Acting Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Kathryn Sullivan and James McPherson, American History professor, Emeritus, Princeton University.
Mabus spoke on the sacrifice the sailors made during the Civil War and the importance of honoring the crew who paved the way for the modern Navy.
"This ceremony also honors every individual who ever put to sea in defense of our country," said Mabus. "From the Marblehead men who rowed Washington across the Delaware, to these brave souls, to those who serve today in nuclear-powered carriers and submarines, sailors have always been the same; they are at heart risk-takers, willing — even eager — to brave the unknown to peer past distant horizons."
The date for the ceremony was chosen to recognize a historic day in naval history: the day the Monitor arrived in Hampton Roads before its famous battle with the Confederate iron clad CSS Virginia. The battle took place 151 years ago March 9, 1962. Known as the Battle of Hampton Roads, it was the first fight between two iron-armored ships. Although the battle ended in a draw, the Monitor fulfilled her orders to protect the Union ship Minnesota.
"This was one of the most important naval battles in history, one of those rare occasions when technology raced ahead of our understanding of how to fully employ it," said Capt. Henry Hendrix, Naval History and Heritage Command director. "The battle between USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia will always serve as an anchor point for U.S. naval history."
The Monitor would only serve until Dec. 31, 1862, when she sank near Cape Hatteras, off the coast of North Carolina. She remained sunken for 112 years until the wreckage was discovered in 1974, and was designated the nation's first national marine sanctuary.
In 2002, during an expedition to recover the ship's gun turret, the remains of two sailors were discovered and transported to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).
During Sullivan's remarks to the more than 200 who attended the chapel service, she read a letter written by Dr. Grenville Weeks, the surgeon aboard the Monitor, which expressed his feelings on losing the sunken ship and his devotion to ensure she is remembered by future generations.
"Just as the crew of the Monitor fought tirelessly to keep their 'old-time knight in armor' afloat that day, so have many worked tirelessly since her loss to fulfill Dr. Weeks' commitment to the ship, and her crew and to the 16 souls who were lost that night," said Sullivan. "Today we take another somber step, laying two of her sailors to rest in the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery. As we do so, let us all reaffirm our own commitment, to forever remember the work of the Monitor and to ensure her story is told to our children's children."
With the help of facial reconstruction created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Louisiana State University's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Laboratory, JPAC continues to search for the identity of the two sailors.
In keeping with the Navy's tradition to honor a service member's final resting place, possible descendants of 30 family members from 10 different families, confirmed through a biological profile created by JPAC, were invited to take part in the ceremony.
"It's amazing — what they went through and what we have today, and it's a blessing to be here to pay final tribute to the [service members] who have given their lives to help us have a better life," said Jamie Nicklis, descendant of Jacob Nicklis, one of the 16 sailors honored during the ceremony. "It was a beautiful service that they provided for us, and we are very thankful for the government and our country and for all the families here today."
The unknown sailors and 14 other crew members who died as the Monitor sank will be memorialized on a group marker in section 46 of the cemetery.
For more information on the USS Monitor, visit the Naval History and Heritage Command website at www.history.navy.mil.


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Feds back ACLU in arguing that taping is necessary to prevent police brutality; some cops disagree
Depending on their perspective, U.S. citizens may feel as if they have wandered into one of the "police states" that litter cautionary literary tales like
. Today in the U.S. police officers can
arrest you for dancing
or break down your door and
arrest you and your family at gunpoint
for whatever malicious wrongs your neighborhood cybersquatter has committed. And then there's the growing levels of domestic surveillance --
warrantless wiretaps
, cell
phone data grabbing
GPS tracking
"national security letters"
, and more. Audits have revealed that these Orwellian privileges can be and often
The Obama administration has drawn some flak for supporting some of these intrusions --
such as warrantless wiretaps
warrantless GPS tracking
-- in the name of "fighting terrorism (the Obama administration was admonished by the Supreme Court on the latter issue). Still, for supporting such zealous federal surveillance provisions, the Obama administration did take a rather progressive stand on Monday, looking to stomp out local and state officials efforts to ban civilians from taping on duty law enforcement officers.
I. Department of Justice -- Citizens Have a Right, Responsibility to Tape Cops
The issue of citizens taping the police is a thorny one -- particularly if you're a cop. While some police officers support the practice, others claim it prevents their law enforcement abilities. Whether or not the latter claim is true, it's clear that video tapes of U.S. cops brutalizing civilians [
] -- at times beating them to death [
] -- have placed some cops in a load of trouble when the videos found their way to YouTube or other popular sites.
Many police fraternities and police departments have
fought to ban the "right to tape"
. They argue that they don't need citizens to fight police brutality -- that they'll manage their own affairs internally. Some departments have gone as far as to
invading the homes of citizens who taped them
operating on the street or
imprisoning citizens who record them
Some police argue that citizens taping them prevents them from doing their job.
[Image Source: Occupy News Network]
Baltimore Police Department
(BPD) was one of the departments that fought to silence members of the public, seizing their cameras and trying to prosecute them. But a lawsuit from the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) forced the department to rethink its procedures -- and pay a steep settlement to a citizen whose camera was seized.
While the BPD sent a letter to its officers "clarifying" that civilians had the right to tape, the Obama administration felt that effort was insufficient. On Monday,
U.S. Department of Justice
Special Litigation Section chief Jonathan Smith
wrote an
admonishing letter
[PDF] to the department.
In it he recalls how citizen taping helped bring justice in one famous incident of police brutality. He comments, "A private individual awakened by sirens recorded police officers assaulting King from the balcony of his apartment. This videotape provided key evidence of officer misconduct and led to widespread reform."
He adds "given the numerous publicized reports over the past several years alleging that BPD officers violated individuals' First Amendment rights."
Bans on taping also violating the Fourth and Fourteenth amendment, according to Mr. Smith.
He concludes that the department needs to clarify the importance and right to civilian taping, which he argues is necessary to "engender public confidence in our police departments, promote public access to information necessary to hold our governmental officers accountable, and ensure public and officer safety.
II. Letter to Attorney General May Have Spurred Response
The letter comes in the wake of a letter from several journalistic and civil rights organizations to
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
, pressing him to crack down on local efforts to ban taping.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was encouraged to defend the right to tape in a recent letter.
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The groups
The First Amendment has come under assault on the streets of America. Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, police have arrested dozens of journalists and activists simply for attempting to document political protests in public spaces. While individual cases may not fall under the Justice Department's jurisdiction, the undersigned groups see this suppression of speech as a national problem that deserves your full attention.
The alarming number of arrests is an unfortunate and unwarranted byproduct of otherwise positive changes. A new type of activism is taking hold around the world and here in the U.S.: People with smartphones, cameras and Internet connections have been empowered with the means to report on public events. These developments have also created an urgent need for organizations such as ours to defend this new breed of activists and journalists and protect their right to record.
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement has been fought by numerous state and local governments and become
a crucial censorship and civil liberties battlefield
in the tech industry.
III. Court of Appeals Forbid Chicago From Suing ACLU or Banning Taping
More pressure also came earlier this month when the
U.S. 7th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals
in Chicago
banned the city
from suing the American Civil Liberties Union from audio taping officers on the job. No, you didn't read that wrong -- in an ironic twist Chicago tried the bold move of turning the tables and suing the ACLU over taping.
In its ruling, the court wrote, "The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests."
The victory came by a narrow 2-to-1 margin.
U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner
-- the lone appellate justice who voted to dismiss the ACLU's countersuit -- acknowledged that taping was "more accurate" than relying on recalled conversations, which are often ruled unreliable evidence in court. But he argued allowing civilians to maintain accountability via taping violates officers' rights to privacy and could hurt officers' ability to "perform their duties". He writes, "These are significant social costs for weighting them less heavily than the social value of recorded eavesdropping."
Chicago Judge Richard Posner argues that taping cops brutalizing citizens prevents the officers from "doing their job" and invades their privacy.
[Image Sources: Unknown (left); Shepard Fairey (right)]
In response to Judge Posner's minority criticism, the ACLU argues that the only "duties" taping prevents would be orders to brutalize citizens. The Illinois branch's legal director, Harvey Grossman comments on the victory, "In order to make the rights of free expression and petition effective, individuals and organizations must be able to freely gather and record information about the conduct of government and their agents -- especially the police."
Much like the controversy over corporate intrusions of individual home networks and data mining, the debate over bans and prosecution for civilians who tape cops is unlikely to go away. It is an issue that divides cities, courts, local officials, and even the police officers themselves. But much like the issue
of corporate surveillance
, the Obama administration appears to be increasingly throwing its weight behind a pro-civil liberty stance on this issue, even as it pushes what some would call an anti-civil liberty stance on federal surveillance.
Other appeals courts have
issued similar rulings
defending the "right to tape".
IV. Both Baltimore and Chicago Have a History of Police Brutality
To put this debate in context, it is important to note that both the Chicago Police Department and the Baltimore Police Department have a reputation for police brutality.
The BPD is
under scrutiny
for spending $10.4M USD in the past three years ($3.5M USD annually) to defend its officers against allegations of brutality and wrongdoing. This week the latest in a string of internal affairs investigations of the department led to
the suspension and criminal arrest
of a BPD officer.
Chicago also has spent millions to defend allegedly crooked cops,
keeping them on its payroll
. Citizens of Chicago were
protesting in the streets
this week in the streets over alleged police brutality. While not all locals are fans of the protests, some argue it is necessary. An anonymous resident told
Fox News Chicago
, "I'm glad they got a march because the police are crazy out here. They come out here roughing us up ... sending innocent people to jail."
Chicago has nearly 700 active cops with 10 or more reports of brutality or misconduct filed against them. [Image Source: NBC]
The Chicago PD has faced
441 citizen lawsuits
and paid out $45M USD in damages over the past three years. The city has successfully fought to prevent the release of the names of 662 cops who each had 10 or more complaints of misconduct or brutality filed against them. Most of these cops remain active and prowling the streets.
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RE: Injustice Department
In the justice system, people who cover for others who have committed things like murder, kidnapping, and robbery are called accessories, and are frequently punished with the same level of jail time as those who committed the offenses. By their very logic, all police officers who cover for corrupt cops are themselves as corrupt. They are accessories.
What I don't understand is that these corrupt cops have already betrayed every other cop with their corruption, eroding their credibility, destroying all their progress. So why do these cops consider it a betrayal to fail to cover for corrupt cops?
It only makes sense that they cover for each other so intensely because they are all that corrupt. As I said, any cop standing up for what is right and working to rid the departments of those corrupt cops are pushed out. The police departments of today have no room for good cops. All that is left are corrupt cops.
RE: Injustice Department
Corruption thrives in systems not individuals. The difference between a police officer and everybody else is police officers swear an oath to uphold the law. As such they must be held to the highest standard of the society. If a police officer looks the other way when another police officer commits a crime, any crime, they are failing in their duty. That makes them corrupt by omission. Police do not patrol alone. Therefore every incident of wrongdoing should be noted and acted upon. But as we all know this does not happen often enough. Those brave individuals who do act are bullied out of the police force.
Police officers are given powers that no ordinary citizen possesses. That is a sacred trust which must be upheld at all costs for the police forces of this world to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the societies they serve. All power corrupts. Police officers are human. They are susceptible to the same temptations as the rest of us. If they become corrupted by the system they are not individually to blame. The system has failed them as much as it has failed us.
Police officers are first and foremost citizens of the society they serve. They must be subject to the same laws as the rest of society. If they are not then the society will never trust them. And that is the exact situation we have now. Internal review, closed door investigations and a lack of transparency all contribute to the mistrust of police forces everywhere.
Individual police officer's acts of corruption are not the problem. They are the symptoms of a system that is fundamentally flawed and broken. A system that fails to serve the very people it was created to protect. Until we as a society, a polity and a community are prepared to change that system sniping at cases of individual police misconduct and tarring the whole police force with the same brush serve no purpose beyond eroding public confidence in police officers.
Surely, we all want a police force that acts in the best interests of the society they are sworn to serve and protect. Police officers who maintain the highest standards of conduct and behavior. Perform their jobs with unimpeachable professionalism. If you want to change the system get involved. Decisions are made by those who show up. Put up or shut up!
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Anticipation is once again building for the 2013 Taste of Home Cooking School & Showcase Expo presented by First Citizens and your community newspapers. Culinary Specialist, Michelle Roberts will return to the stage to demonstrate delicious recipes from the national magazine at Charleston Southern University's Lightsey Chapel on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
Roberts will demonstrate ten recipes from national magazine, Taste of Home, in addition to useful tips and tricks that makes the cooking experience more affordable, sensible and delicious.
"I've attended the Taste of Home Cooking School for the past several years. I've enjoyed the lively and entertaining cooking demonstrations by Chef Michelle Roberts," says Ferol Lovelady of Summerville. "I've always learned new techniques and cooking short-cuts each time I've attended."
Returning also for the second year is emcee Terry Haas of HGTV's "Design to Sell." Haas who began her real estate career in Atlanta, now lives in Charleston where she has her own real estate and home-staging consulting business.
"We are thrilled and honored Terry is returning to the stage this year as our emcee. She is so entertaining and brings even more fun energy to the show," says Chris Zoeller, Summerville Communications Regional Advertising/Marketing Director and Taste of Home event coordinator.
Haas loves cooking at home for her husband and two children and is also looking forward to bringing home some great tips from the show.
"Last year it was mainly about being a busy mom, chasing kids, working crazy hours and needing help in the kitchen to put great meals on the table. Since being a part of the show last year for the first time, I have used the ideas and recipes a lot. I love my Taste of Home cookbook!"" says Haas.
In addition to the entertaining and educational live demonstration, attendees have the opportunity to walk through a showcase expo featuring local vendors offering samples, door prizes, and more! This combination of great food, valuable goodies and never-ending fun has created a cult-like following among Taste of Home fans.
Haas says, "I had so much fun last year, meeting everyone, getting to work with the Summerville Communications crew and Chef Michelle. This is why I had to come back."
Tickets are now on sale with General Seating only $11 in advance. Limited Preferred seating is $17 in advance and usually sells out first, so make sure you secure your up-close seat today! VIP Packages are also available which includes a Taste of Home Cookbook and Preferred Seating starting at $35. For the first time this year, attendees can purchase a Dinner Buffet including dinner, a drink and dessert. Dinner buffets can be purchased in advance for $7.
Tickets are available at The Summerville Journal Scene office at 104 East Doty Ave. in Summerville, or purchase conveniently online at www.JournalScene.com/TasteofHome. Tickets will sell out quickly, so be sure to purchase yours soon!
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LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man admitted in Niagara County Court Thursday that he dealt crack cocaine in North Tonawanda last summer.
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Sanaria and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland College Park won a $3 million, three-year phase 2 SBIR grant from NIAID to fund development of genetically engineered mosquitoes that produce parasites for Sanaria's malaria vaccine manufacturing process. The new funds will enable continuation of the phase 1 SBIR grant-supported partnership between the organizations, which is leveraging the expertise of IBBR's Insect Transformation Facility.
"The SBIR grants are critical to the success of our malaria vaccine development efforts, which are aimed at producing a vaccine that can be used to eliminate malaria from defined geographical areas," comments Sanaria CEO Stephen L. Hoffman,M.D. "This ongoing collaboration with IBBR provides an excellent opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art mosquito transformation methodologies to further our goal of generating extraordinarily high numbers of malaria parasites in mosquitoes to facilitate lower cost vaccine production.
Sanaria is dedicated to the development of nonreplicating sporozoite-based malaria vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. viva. The firm claims it has solved the technical and practical issues associated with generating a cost-effective sporozoite-based vaccine. It now intends to demonstrate that a vaccine meeting regulatory requirements can be produced economically and reproducibly at a commercial scale and protects against 90% of immunized adults and infants against challenge with P. falciparum sporozoites.
In January Sanaria announced the start of a Phase I trial at NIH to evaluate its attenuated sporozoite P. falciparum vaccine candidiate PfSPZ in 51 healthy volunteers. Sponsored by NIAID in collaboration with Sanaria and the U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, the dose-ranging trial, designated VRC 312, will evaluate the efficacy of a course of intravenously administered vaccine against subsequent challenge with a drug-sensitive P. falciparum strain.
Sanaria's vaccine program has led to the development of expertise in the manufacture and assay of malaria parasites and mosquitoes in a cGMP compliant, industrial setting. The firm is making its parasites, mosquitoes, and assay services available to the research community through a suite of products and services.
The IBBR was established by the Unvierstiy of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Insect Transformation Facility is dedicated to advancing insect molecular science and its clinical application. It acts as a resource for generating modified insects for academic and industrial clients and developing new transgenic insect technologies.
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Mayor Aaron Montz brought some good news to city council Monday night.
One of the three AFSCME workers laid off last month due to cuts in city funds will return to work because another AFSCME employee plans to retire, Montz said.
The AFSCME union also said it would allow the city to hire seasonal and temporary lifeguards for 2013.
In the past, under the union's contract, the city could not hire seasonal or temporary help if full-time employees were laid off, but the union said in a letter issued to the city that it is "committed to supporting the City of Tiffin and its community residents."
Montz said the city still cannot afford to open the pool because it has no funds, and the only way it would be opened would be if the community donated at least $35,000-$40,000.
American Fine Sinter is expanding and adding 35,000 square feet to its facility and are looking to add 35-45 new jobs, Montz said.
Also at the meeting, council heard the first of three readings of a resolution strongly opposing House Bill 601 by the Ohio General Assembly, which proposes uniformity for municipal income tax collection in the form of unfunded mandates and a substantial loss of revenue to municipalities, and declaring an emergency.
Council President Paul Elchert said the resolution was one of the best the city has ever sent to the state.
Montz said $270,000 is a "very conservative" estimate of what the bill would cost the city.
Councilman Jim Roberts said he spoke with State Rep. Terry Boose last week, and said it's going to be a "tough battle" fighting the bill because the state views it as business-friendly.
Montz said the point of the bill is to make Ohio more business friendly, but he said cutting city government funds could lead to higher crime, which could scare away businesses.
During the meeting, resident Jane Thompson voice concern about the traffic light being removed at Melmore and Glenn streets.
She said the lights getting removed, along with the city losing crossing guards, could pose a danger for children walking to and from school.
Thompson said traffic is so heavy before and after school that she is unable to get out of her driveway.
City Administrator Deb Reamer said it was recommended the city remove the traffic lights. Needed repairs are estimated at $5,000-$8,000.
Montz said unwarranted traffic lights can lead to more speeding in areas because drivers do not want to wait at lights.
Councilman Mark Hayes said he wants to keep the lights at least until the end of the school year because losing the lights in addition to crossing guards could be dangerous.
In other business, council unanimously passed an ordinance changing the name of the northern part of Hedges Street to Rebecca Street, which runs through Heidelberg University.
Council heard the first of three readings of an ordinance amending chapter 1195 titled sign restrictions and section 1143.01 (86), sign definition, of the Tiffin codified ordinances.
Council also heard its first reading of an ordinance amending part of Tiffin's codified ordinances to update requirements for firefighter promotions, and declaring an emergency.
By a vote of 5-2, council passed changes to the proposed legislation, which would allow administration to choose from three candidates for firefighting promotions.


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Should Salem fund a state performance audit even without the loan deal?
"You have made numerous references to the size of council without the benefit of knowledge."
Really, copy and paste them.
"If Salem had a charter government, then the size could be dictated by city charter."
Nah, REALLY? Say it's not so, I just thought it would be okay to get rid of all those nasty little people and let the Mayor have full rein and power over the people!
If you intend to insult me...don't you think you can do better than that?
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Exactly truthBtold that is why we will not get rid of the supersized government until we adopt a charter form of city government. Which is what a large percentage of communities in Ohio have already done. Charter government gives more power to the people as it can be written into the charter certain things which require a vote of the people in order for them to be enacted. A statutory form of city government is not the most efficient form of government for a city the size of Salem. It is time the city went to a charter form of government and streamlined the administration of it's government. A lot of the bloat in Salem government, can be found at city hall not in the number of workers that actually do the work that keep the city running. If Salem would do that and revamp the fire dept. (over time so no one loses their job) to have fewer full time and more part-time and volunteer firemen, then they would not need to pay for an audit. Actually that is probably what an audit would tell t
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WatchDog, Salem has a statutory form of government and the number of council members and elected official positions is dictated by state law. Review Ohio Revised Code section 731. You have made numerous references to the size of council without the benefit of knowledge. If Salem had a charter government, then the size could be dictated by city charter.
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Seriously, no fun poking, but seriously, do we need this big of city council and all the bells and whistles to go with it? Really? Is coming back down to earth that far out of reach?
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I guess the question should be presented. Mr. Mayor do you see problems in the performance of this city? Is this the "back bone" strength you need to make those cuts? We are all living in a "tough times calling for tough choices" era.
Sometimes the smallest reorganization can make the greatest savings!!
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This is a tough one. Because I am for it but against it! I am still confused to the "why" part of this. This all just boils down around, everybody wants gov running effectively and efficiently but who doesn't? But this question is being asked to those on the outside looking in.
The Mayor is for it. With the push the public needs to know their hard earned dollars are being spent wisely. That to me is always just the political escape response to bypass the actual answer to the questions every politician tries to avoid. The truth.
Spending this kind of money for the "atta boy", see, we told you in the public we were doing it right...seems irrational and irresponsible nonsense.
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