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Today in Bad News from the Amazon
While Brazil has announced deforestation in the Amazon has slowed down in recent years. Yet that may not be enough to slow down the destruction of the world's largest rainforest (and largest consumer of carbon dioxide that people produce); the worst drought in a century, spurred by climate change and now in its eighth year, has led to a die-off in the forest in an area twice the size of California. So even while Brazil makes what appear to be real improvements in reducing the deforestation of the Amazon, it may not matter, as global climate-change takes its toll on the forest, its ecosystems, and its global impact.
Today's Reminders of Environmental Devastation
In depressing environmental news, over 700 dead penguins have been washing up on the beaches of southern Brazil across the last month.
Meanwhile, in still more reminders of the very real and devastating impact human actions are having on the environment, the effects of long-term deforestation will continue to be felt, with a new study suggesting that, even if deforestation were halted today, at least 38 species of mammals, birds, and amphibianswill go extinct in the area in the years and decades to come.
And it's not like these processes won't impact humans. Among other things, deforestation in the Amazon has led to a 50% increase in malaria among people "because mosquitoes, which transmit the disease, thrive in the right mix of sunlight and water in recently deforested areas."
Around Latin America
-Brazilian military police forcefully removed around 300 families from a camping site in Minas Gerais this weekend (photos available here). Members of the Movimento da Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas ("Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods, Boroughs and Favelas"; MLB) had created the "Ocupação Eliana Silva" site in state capital Belo Horizonte to protest the lack of housing and poor conditions that exist in many urban developments.
-In one of the more extreme acts of violence that has captured headlines the world over, 49 headless bodies were dumped along the side of the road in Monterrey, Mexico. Authorities were quick to blame warfare between drug cartels for the act.
-In more puzzling environmental news from South America's Pacific coast, over 2,000 dead birds have washed up on Chilean beaches recently (in addition to the dead birds and dolphins appearing on Peruvian beaches). Between the deaths and the massive plastic garbage "reefs" in the Pacific (one of which is twice the size of Texas), it's very clear that the oceans are already suffering massive and disastrous ecological destruction at the hands of human production.
-A US citizen who has been imprisoned in Bolivia for eleven months without being charged with anything has launched a hunger strike in an effort to bring attention to his case, a strike that has garnered international coverage in the past few days.
-Salvatore Mancuso, a former high-ranking leader in the right-wing paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia; AUC), has claimed that the paramilitary group helped finance the 2006 re-election of ex-president Álvaro Uribe, claims that Uribe was quick to deny.
-Meanwhile, the FARC is set to release a French journalist it took hostage a little over a week ago.
-Adrian Vazquez, a Panamanian man who survived being stranded at sea for 28 days in a small fishing boat, is preparing to sue the cruise line that passed near him but failed to help him 16 days into his ordaeal.
-To recover from a forest fire that ravaged the Torres del Paine National Park late last year (and only added to embattled President Sebastián Piñera's woes), Chile has announced it will plant 200,000 trees a year for the next five years. The move will try to speed up a recovery that environmentalists estimated could take eighty years.
Around Latin America
-Brazilian truck drivers have gone on strike over restrictions on which roads they can use when, and South America's largest city is feeling the pinch, as São Paulo has begun to run low on fuel.
-In yet even more incredibly discouraging and depressing environmental news from the region, scientific studies reveal that climate change is drastically damaging the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef system, the world's second largest barrier reef system. Rising temperatures are rapidly "bleaching" the reef, leading to its death and pointing to the reef's future as a marine dessert. As if this wasn't already depressing enough, Mesoamerican countries like Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala are failing to address the issue adequately, meaning the reef stands a very real chance that it will simply die out, destroying an important marine ecosystem.
-Chilean leaders have spoken out against homophobic violence after the recent beating that has left a 24-year-old gay man in an induced coma.
-Juan Pablo Schiavi, Argentina's Transportation Secretary, has stepped down from his post in the wake of the horrific train crash in Buenos Aires that killed more than 50 people and injured more than 700 and led to widespread finger-pointing between government officials, rail-safety experts, and the train company responsible for the line.
-Four miners are dead and five are missing after an accident in a Colombian coal mine.
-Brazilian beachgoers have made news for their noble acts in aiding a pod of about 20 dolphins who had stranded themselves on a beach in southeastern Rio de Janeiro state.
-In great news for Bolivia's disabled community, their struggles for equal rights and treatment may be netting real results and improvements. In the wake of protesters journeying over 1000 miles to bring attention to the need for better treatment and equal rights for the disabled in Bolivia, Evo Morales has said he will support a bill that would provide equal rights for the disabled.
-Chilean airline company LAN became the first airline to conduct a commercial flight that was powered by biofuels (in this case, refined vegetable oil).
-Argentine veterans have spoken out in favor of identifying the remains of 123 casualties of the 1982 Malvinas/Falklands war whose identities remain unknown.
-The former head of Haiti's Central Bank during the 2001-2004 government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was murdered this week, shortly after his son cut a deal to speak with US Department of Justice officials in Miami regarding charges of bribery between Haitian officials and companies based in Miami.
-Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes went on television earlier this week and tried to explain away El Salvador's rising murder rate by saying that 90% of the murders were of criminals, and not innocent civilians. Suffice to say, such claims have raised pointed questions and criticisms of the president, and deservedly so.
-On the heels of the FARC promising to end kidnappings last week, another rebel group tied to the FARC, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) has said it would be willing to end attacks against the oil industry if the government reduces the areas where oil exploration can take place and issues a "social tax" on oil production.
-Finally, for those of you who felt there was not enough thrash metal from Brazilian women (or for those of you who felt there were not enough Brazilian women in thrash metal), your prayers have been answered, as Nervosa ("Nervous"), Brazil's first all-woman thrash metal trio, has hit the scene.
Around Latin America
-Haitians left disabled after the January 2010 earthquake found some degree of relief in a model community for people left homeless and injured from the quake. Unfortunately, the government is set to reclaim the land, forcing the disabled to fend for themselves and adding to the political and social obstacles and stigmas the physically disadvantaged already face in the country.
-In more depressing environmental news, researchers have issued a new report that suggests that upwards of 900 tropical bird species will be extinct by 2100 due to environmental transformations resulting from climate change.
-Just a few weeks after capturing Shining Path leader Comrade Artemio, Peruvian police have captured another major leader of the movement, arresting Walter Diaz Vega, who was trying to reorganize the guerrilla movement in the wake of Artemio's arrest.
-Rights activists have long feared that the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay would lead to trials that heavily favored the prosecution and led to unjust sentencing procedures. Yet a recent series of trials on the US military base in Cuba has surprised many, as several people convicted received sentences lighter than those in civilian courts (although the issue of indefinite detention pre-trial is one that continues to plague Guantanamo Bay more than ten years after it "opened").
-A new report says that 49 human rights activists were killed in Colombia last year, reminding us yet again of the degree to which people defending human rights in the Andean country face threats on a daily basis.
-Prince Harry will be visiting Brazil this weekend, and some Argentines are planning on greeting him with protests over Argentina's and England's ongoing verbal and diplomatic struggle over the Malvinas/Falklands islands issue.
-Also in Rio, police arrested a major drug leader, Everton Mesquita, in a favela in the northern part of the city this weekend.
-Lillie points us to this article (in Spanish) and has some brief-but-valuable comments (in English) on the risk of elderly human rights violators trying to "game the system" and use their age to avoid punishment.
Around Latin America
-While the United States tries to address its deficit by cutting military spending, a new study suggests that defense spending in Latin American countries is on the rise, with the main expenses being arms sales from China. Meanwhile, Adam Isacson points us to this useful map that shows bases in Latin America that received U.S. aid in 2010 (though Isacson makes clear that "aid" does not actually determine whether or not U.S. forces and officials were actually on the ground at any of these sites).
-Boz has the summary of Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night regarding Latin America, with the president mentioning the region in terms of trade, immigration, and foreign policy. Overall, Obama mentioned the region five times, the most it's been mentioned since Bush's 2008 address (6 times) and the second-most times since 2004.
-A Guatemalan court ruled yesterday that ex-general Efraín Ríos Montt will face trial for genocide for his role in the human rights violations and murders of thousands of Guatemalans during the Guatemalan civil war, which lasted more than 30 years. In court, Ríos Montt, who has opted for what some consider a high-risk defense strategy, remained silent in the face of testimonies and questions, telling the judge he "prefer[red] to remain silent" when asked if he had a response to the charges. Ríos Montt was president from 1982-1983, during which some of the worst human rights abuses of the war occurred. Ríos Montt famously had the support of Ronald Reagan, who declared that Ríos Montt was "totally dedicated to democracy" and that he got "a bum rap" even while armed forces were razing indigenous villages and murdering Guatemalan civilians.
-In a move for basic human rights, Ecuador's government has vowed to crack down on clinics that try to "cure" gays and lesbians.
-An ex-U.S. diplomat testified that American officials were aware that the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-1983 kidnapped babies from dead or imprisoned "subversives". Elliott Abrams testified in the trial of ex-dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone that the U.S. was aware that the practice of taking children from "subversives" and giving them to other families was "systematic" in a practice that is still having very real repercussions on the lives of individuals and Argentine society more generally even today. Bignone and Videla have already been convicted of other human rights violations for their role in leading the military dictatorship, during which the military regime murdered upwards of 30,000 civilians. (h/t Lillie Langtry).
-Environmentalists estimate that it could take eighty years for the Torres del Paine national park to recover from a wildfire that broke out in December 2011 and that continues to rage through parts of the forest.
-Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been granted a tourist visa to travel to Brazil to view the premier of a documentary on the crackdown on freedom of expression in the Honduras coup of 2009 that overthrew democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya.
-Over at Tim's El Salvador Blog, there is a guest post that reveals the very real threats environmentalists in El Salvador continue to face on a daily basis as they work for environmental improvements and conservation.
-A debate has emerged in El Salvador over just how responsible for the country's high murder rate gangs actually are. While many blame gangs for the murder rate of 70/100,000 people (4,374 in absolute numbers in 2011), others point to the role of drug traffickers, death squads, state security agents, and common criminals.
-In Rio de Janeiro, rescuers are searching the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in the downtown area on Wedesday night, renewing calls to reform Rio's antiquated building codes. Early reports blame unapproved construction for the collapse, which was captured on CCTV and which has already killed six people, with another sixteen still missing.
-In a move that shouldn't surprise anybody, Chevron has appealed Ecuador's $18 billion judgement against the oil company for its role in dumping pollutants into the environment, including into water supplies that humans used, between 1964 and 1990. Meanwhile, Brazil is planning to find criminal charges against Chevron and its local managers for an oil spill off the coast of Brazil in November 2011.
-In a turn for the worse, the international agency Reporters Without Borders issued its 2011 report, which found (among other things) that most countries in Latin America dropped in the "press freedom index," with Chile alone dropping an astonishing 47 spots due primarily to crackdowns in the wake of the student movement's protests and demands for reform that brought the country to a halt last year.
-For the first time ever, Brazilian national oil company Petrobras has appointed a woman to head the state-owned corporation. Maria das Graças Foster, 58, will take over the company in February.
Around Latin America
While at the AHA, a decent number of stories came out of Latin America late last week.
-Ecuadoran courts upheld an $18 billion judgement against Chevron for the deaths and damages (human and environmental) caused when the company dumped millions of gallons of waste water into streams and creeks in the country between 1960 and 1992.
-In another case of corporate crime, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline Argentina was fined US$90,000 for testing vaccines on babies only from poor families.
-Last week, the rightist government of Sebastián Piñera announced plans to change references to the right-wing Pinochet regime in textbook, replacing the term "dictatorship" in books with the term "military regime." However, the decision immediately led to controversy and outrage, and in the face of widespread opposition to the change both in Chile and among international human rights groups, the government has backtracked on its decision. For those who might think this is just semantics, Greg has an excellent and concise write-up on why word choices matter on these issues.
-Brazilian indigenous peoples have created a tent city outside of Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro to protest of the treatment of Brazil's native peoples and the ongoing seizure of their land. The stadium will be the site of the final game of the 2014 World Cup.
-Venezuelan opposition forces and the United States have spoken out against Hugo Chávez's recent shuffling of his inner circle of advisers and new appointments in his government. The U.S. has alleged that Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, Chávez's new defense minister, is linked to drug traffickers.
-Authorities have labeled as suspicious a fire that destroyed the home of a Mapuche activist's family. The Mapuches, Chile's largest indigenous peoples, have been fighting for years for equal rights and treatment, and protection of their land and resources, and violence towards Mapuches is traceable back to the colonial era.
-While Guatemala inaugurates right-wing candidate (and ex-general during the Guatemalan Civil War) Otto Perez Molina next week, it is also inaugurating its first woman vice-president in Roxana Baldetti, and some Guatemalan women are hoping Baldetti's inauguration marks a new era of openings for women in politics.
-Will Jamaica's new prime minister usher in a new, better era for LGBT rights in the Caribbean country where gays and lesbians continue to face some of the most severe and widespread repression, violence, and threats in the western hemisphere?
-A dam burst in Brazil forced several thousand people from their homes in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This does not
-Fernando Llort addressed the removal of his mural from the Metropolitan Cathedral in El Salvador last week. The church had commissioned the mural in the 1990s to mark the 1992 signing of peace accords that brought an end to a brutal civil war in the Central American country.
Around Latin America
-Chile finally closed the file on Salvador Allende's death this week after a ruling in July of this year found that Allende had committed suicide (rather than dying at the hands of soldiers who overthrew him on September 11, 1973).
-A Brazilian magazine has published the names of 223 men who tortured Brazilian civilians during the military regime of 1964-1985. The Brazilian National Library's Journal of History released the names, based on a document from secret police files. The list had originally been published in a limited run in 1978 by the magazine Em Tempo, which faced two reprisals from anonymous sources after its publication. (I'll have more on the legacies of torture and Brazil's recent establishment of a Truth Commission tomorrow.)
-If Colombia had its lowest murder rates in 26 years this year, Venezuela had a record high of 19,336 murders this year, making it the highest murder total in South America. In Central America, El Salvador also saw its highest total number of violent deaths since 1992, when the country signed peace accords that ended a twelve-year civil war.
-A second Chilean Minister of Education has resigned in the face of ongoing student protests and mobilizations against the educational policies of the Piñera administration. Felipe Bulnes stepped down just six months after taking over for Joaquín Lavín, who also left as student protests increased earlier this year.
-Jamaica's opposition party, led by Portia Simpson Miller, won the country's election, an election that gay rights activists said had been marred by homophobic rhetoric.
-A forest fire in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park has forced tourists out and president Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency, as 5700 hectares have already burned.
-Mexican officials have annulled the outcome of the mayoral election in the state of Morelia after it became clear that Juan Manuel Marquez, who fought Manny Pacquiao in November, wore the colors of the Institutional Revolutionary Party on his shorts, in violation of electoral laws in Mexico. Marquez lost the controversial fight by decision.
Around Latin America
-While much of the focus on environmental degradation in Brazil falls (rightfully) on the Amazon, it is not the only part of the country facing real environmental threats. The Brazilian cerrado is the world's largest savannah and is home to 5% of the world's biodiversity, yet it too is being destroyed for monocrop agriculture.
-Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has publicly supported Bolivia's claims to a port city on the Pacific coast. The issue has been a point of contention between Bolivia and Chile for nearly 130 years, ever since the latter country took coastal territory from Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, leaving Bolivia as one of South America's only landlocked countries (Paraguay being the other).
-A declassified U.S. State Department memo from 1982 has become the focal point in the ongoing trial of two Argentine dictators in the case of kidnapped children during the "Dirty War" of 1976-1983. The memo, just declassified this week, not only points towards the systematic kidnapping of children of so-called "subversives," but also to the United States' willingness to look the other way on human rights abuses among South American allies during the Cold War.
-The Peace Corps has begun pulling volunteers out of Honduras and not allowing new volunteers to go to Guatemala and El Salvador after several volunteers were caught up in (probably random) acts of violence.
-Former Guatemalan general and leader Efraín Ríos Montt, who in the 1980s oversaw some of the worst human rights violations of the Guatemalan Civil War, may actually finally face charges and trial for genocide, as he loses his congressional seat (and congressional immunity) next month.
-The Mexican city of Veracruz-Boca del Rio was forced to fire its entire police force due to the Zetas cartel's extensive infiltration into the force.
-More mass graves have been uncovered in Peru, containing upwards of 100 bodies of victims of the civil strife of the 1980s.
-The Caribbean continues to be one of the worst places for LGBT rights in the world, but there are changes in the visibility and activism of the LGBT community in the region, something Colin Robinson discusses here.
-The LGBT community is not the only group deprived of basic rights and opportunities in the Caribbean. Disabled youth also continue to face real challenges and discrimination as well.
-While the rest of the world continues to suffer from economic instability, Brazil continues to buck the trend, as unemployment recently reached a record low of 5.2%, even as migrants from Portugal are increasingly moving to Brazil to find work. Perhaps even more encouraging, university-trained Brazilians who had left the country are now returning, providing a "brain gain" that could have many positive benefits for Brazilian society, development, and education.


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Woodward, Okla. — Etha L. Harding, 77 year old Woodward resident, died Saturday, June 9, 2012 in the Woodward Regional Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 14, 2012 in the Highland Cemetery in Winfield, Kansas. Burial will follow with the Billings Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Etha LaVonne (Griffith) Harding was born on August 6, 1934 in Winfield, Kansas to Ralph Israel and Laura Irena (Evans) Griffith. Etha was reared in Winfield, Kansas and graduated from Winfield High School in 1952. She worked for Winfield Farmers Union Cooperative Association for five years. Etha was united in marriage to Joseph Christopher Harding on September 21, 1957 in Winfield, Kansas. They made their home in Lubbock, Texas and they were blessed with two children, Melissa JoAnn and Bradley Joseph. While in Lubbock, Etha worked for Bell Telephone and Lubbock City County. They moved to Snyder, Texas in 1966 and to Woodward in 1976. The family moved to Wetumka in 1983 and then to Wagner in 1986. She was preceded in death by her husband on December 21, 1986. Etha moved back to Woodward in 1987 and she has lived here since that time.
She is survived by one daughter Melissa Poole and husband Keith of Woodward; one son, Bradley Harding of Wagner; one brother Donald Griffith and wife Rosemary of Tulsa; one sister Dorothy Cleverdon of Wichita, Kansas; sister-in-law, Sylvia Griffith of Winfield, Kansas; two grandchildren, Cassandra Poole of Woodward, Jacee Harding of Wagner; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one brother Elmer Griffith and two nephews, Doug Griffith and Brian Griffith.
Remembrances may be shared online at www.billingsfuneralhomewoodward.com

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If Secret Email Surfaces, ABA Opinion Says Opponent Alert Isn't a Must—But Local Rules May Differ
Posted Sep 7, 2011 5:20 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
If you represent an employer who turns out to have copies of an employee's email to counsel on a workplace computer or smartphone, the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct probably don't require disclosure to the opposing side in litigation.
However, rules of civil procedure or case law in that jurisdiction may impose such a requirement—which, if violated, then also violates the ABA attorney ethics rules, too, explained the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility in an ethics opinion (PDF) announced in a press release today.
The Model Rules are used by many states as a basis for their own attorney ethics rules.
For more details about what is required, read the full opinion, which is known as Formal Opinion 11-460 (PDF).
Related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: "Is a Client Sending You Email on a Work Computer? Duty to Warn Could Apply, ABA Opinion Says"
ABAJournal.com: "New ABA Ethics Opinion Gives Guidance on Changing Legal Fee Arrangements During Representation"
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Muffins are always good but with fall in the air it was time for a new variation. What can be simpler and more fall-like than apples and cinnamon? Throw in some walnuts, add a streusel topping and they're even better.
- All Purpose Flour, 2 1/4 cups, divided
- Sugar, 2/3 cup
- Baking Powder, 2 teaspoons
- Salt, 1 teaspoon
- Eggs, 2
- Milk, 3/4 cup
- Butter, 1/2 cup, divided
- Brown Sugar, 1/3 cup
- Apples, 2
- Walnuts, 3/4 cup
- Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon plus more for sprinkling
Preheat the oven to 400. Grease a muffin pan. I just sprayed it very generously with Pam.
Peel and core the apples.
Dice them into small chunks until you've got about 1 to 1 1/2 cups.
In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine 2 cups of flour, white sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon with a whisk.
In a small bowl, combine the remaining 1/4 cup flour, the brown sugar and 1/4 cup butter. Use a fork or pastry blender to mix it until it's crumbly. Set it aside.
Whisk together the milk and eggs until well-blended. Melt the remaining 1/4 cup of butter and add it to the mixture.
Very gently stir the liquid into the bowl of dry ingredients. It'll still be lumpy and that's okay.
Gently fold in the apples and walnuts.
Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan and top each one with a spoonful of the streusel mixture.
Sprinkle on a little more cinnamon.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Let them sit for a few minutes before removing them from the pan.
Serve warm and enjoy!


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The Eagles, Jets and Chargers might have reached the point of no return; examining the Cowboys' losing culture; and more from Week Eight.
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Do you want to see a movie about a bike messenger?
That was the question I asked myself. Could a movie about a glorified paperboy hold my interest for two hours? Being a dedicated movie reviewer, and a consumate professional, I said to myself, "I MUST review this film for the people. For MY people." So I hopped on my "Huffy Thunder 4" bicycle, WITH the banana seat, and I pedalled my scrawny, little, boyish legs to the cineplex and purchased a ticket for the movie "Premium Rush."
I've been moaning and groaning lately about Hollywood not coming up with original ideas. Well, I haven't seen any movies about bike delivery boys... until now.
And it wasn't terrible. But it wasn't "Breaking Away" either. Remember that 1979 bike movie starring a young Dennis Quaid and an even younger Jackie Earle Haley? What a fantastic film! There I go again, 'breaking away' from the movie I'm supposed to be reviewing, "Premium Rush." I seem to do that a lot.
"Premium Rush" tells the story of Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a Manhattan bike courier who lives on the edge. Wilee (just like the coyote) is a smart college graduate who isn't ready to don a suit and work in an office yet, so he does what he loves, riding like a maniac through the busy New York City streets on his custom made, two-wheeled unicycle. Wilee has a bicycle that has no brakes and the pedals never stop revolving. Yup, Wilee is one crazy bikeboy.
One day Wilee gets a delivery from his girlfriend's roommate. Her name is Nima. The package Nima gives to Wilee is a movie ticket with a smiley face drawn on it. This ticket is as good as gold. It's worth $50,000 I think. Maybe more, I'm not sure, but it's a lot. Nima gave Wilee the ticket to deliver for two reasons. First, the ticket must be delivered to a lady at precisely seven o'clock. And second, Nima is being followed by someone who wants that ticket. And he who possesses the ticket, reaps its rewards.
Enter crooked NYC police detective Bobby Monday. (Creepily and fantastically portrayed by Michael Shannon.) Bobby Monday has some serious issues. He is a bigtime gambling addict. He totally reminded me of myself. This guy would bet on anything! And anything he put money on turned to rubbish. He bet on pai-gow poker, dominoes, sporting games, and if I'm not mistaken, he may have even bet on that 'shell game' you see on the street corner!
Monday gets IN DEEP with the bookies. (I've been there!) He needs to find a way to save his hide, so to speak. He gets wind of this bikeboy named Wilee carrying the ticket and he goes on an NYC rampage through the streets to obtain said ticket. Now remember, he who gives ticket to lady at seven o'clock, gets riches.
Oh, I forgot to tell you why Nima needed the ticket. She is trying to smuggle her son from the old country, (somewhere in Asia, I'm not sure where) and this ticket will pay his way across the ocean in a beautiful six foot by eight foot storage trailer. Ahh, the luxuries of travelling 'economy class.'
Anyways, the chase is on through the city streets and then, (like most endings to films) reaches climax... come on now, you know I don't like to give away the endings to you! (Unless of course it's the ending to "John Carter," then I'll gladly give you that ending: It sucks.)
What I did like about this film was its all-star cast. It starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon and... well... um, that's pretty much it. I didn't really know anyone else. But those two were great.
I also liked how the director, David Koepp used some different approaches to show how the bike messengers finagled their ways through the busy traffic. He would draw arrows showing how certain routes would show you the safest path, and how other routes would pedal you to your demise (and there were some horrific crashes; great camera work).
There were a couple things I didn't like. These bike delivery boys AND girls would constantly be on their bluetooths. They'd be buzzing through the city traffic at 30 miles an hour, horns beeping, noise everywhere, people screaming at them, yet they'd have no problems yapping away. I want their cell service because I could be sitting in a cemetery, at midnight, on the quietest night of the year, and I still would have to say "Can you hear me now?"
Another lame thing was, at the end of the film Detective Monday is ready to kill Wilee. A couple of his bike messenger buddies roll on in, and Monday says, "Is that all you got?" And then out of the blue EVERY single bike messenger in New York City barrells in on their bikes, circles Monday and kills him (alright, sorry, I told you the ending after all). Seriously, what the hell is going on in the underground bike messenger mafia in New York City? Now there's a gang I don't want to mess with! Personally, I thought that scene was completely goofy and lame... and that's coming from someone who IS COMPLETELY GOOFY AND LAME!
All in all though, this was a pretty entertaining film... I liked it. I'm not going to pump its tires too much, but I'm not going to deflate them either.
Matty W. Kelley, Norwood Patch, reporting.
Fun Fact: Joseph Gordon-Levitt needed 31 stitches in his right arm after slamming into the back of a cab and putting it through the rear windshield. (They actually show the accident in the credits... It's pretty cool.)
Fun Matty Fact: I used to be a killer biker when I was young. I could pop wheelies, do endos, and bunny-hops. But I decided to give it up when I tried to jump the picnic table in my back yard. I landed somewhat awkwardly and received the worst raunching of my life.
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A bid to hang Coretta Scott King's portrait in the state Capitol died in a legislative committee Wednesday, with the chief supporter comparing the failure to Don Imus' slur against the Rutgers University women's basketball team.The resolution would have urged the Capitol Standards Arts Commission to hang the portrait next to a picture of her late husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but the three-member House Special Rules Committee declined to move the proposal forward Wednesday."It's just like calling Mrs. King a nappy-headed (N-word)," state Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam, told reporters after the hearing."It's another example of blatant disrespect for black women in 2007," said Abdul-Salaam, a Democrat. "It's worse than what Don Imus did."
Rep. Al Williams, who heads the House's black caucus, said he thinks the commission's decision and Imus' slur "are completely different.""I don't see the committee's action as racist. I see it as inaction and shortsighted," he said. "I use the word racist like I do love — I'm sure when I use it."
A proposal to hang a portrait of Coretta Scott King in the state Capitol suffered another setback Friday when its sponsor failed to show up on time for a committee meeting on the resolution.
Abdul-Salaam failed to show up at another Special Rules Committee hearing on her resolution on March 19, citing an illness.
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Bobby Cirigliano died in 2004, trapped between the mattress and the side railing of his Delta crib after the railing popped off its track.
"We felt like Delta spun it so that they were acting like heroes, like they had saved babies," said Susan Cirigliano, whose family is suing Delta for wrongful death.
In announcing the recall without mentioning Bobby, though, Delta and federal regulators gave an incomplete picture of the cribs' dangerous record.
Quickly determining why any consumer product fails is often difficult. But a Tribune investigation found that Bobby's death was a tragic marker on a long trail of warning signs that began at least a decade before this fall's recall.
For years, parents told Delta and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that the side rails on certain Delta cribs were breaking in ways that could trap and kill babies, according to government documents. The CPSC finally discovered the pattern last summer with the help of a newly created database designed to better spot crib hazards.
Delta and the agency both say the recent recall included only the two deaths they could directly connect to the mechanism that allows the sides of the cribs to be raised or lowered.
Agency officials say they did not include Bobby's death in the recall alert because his baby bed didn't fit the recall's pattern. His crib railing separated at the bottom while the others came loose at the top, they say.
But the CPSC's own records and a video of Bobby's crib show that his failed in the same way as a crib that trapped an Oregon baby in 2002. Both had the same problem that sparked the recall: A tiny plastic peg, designed to pop in and out as the railing lowers, got stuck in the withdrawn position.
A year after Bobby died, a 5-month-old Georgia boy asphyxiated when the drop-side rail of his Delta crib detached because a slightly different type of plastic safety peg was missing.
In May 2007, an 8-month-old Texas girl suffocated in a reassembled crib with a missing safety peg, and earlier this year, an 8-month-old Florida boy died when a retractable peg jammed. Both those deaths were mentioned as part of the recall.
"If Delta would have acted in 2004 when they found out about my child's death," Robert Cirigliano said, "these other kids would be alive today."
Lost opportunity
Even before Bobby Cirigliano's death, the CPSC and Delta might have solved the mystery of why some Delta drop sides were popping off their tracks if they had more thoroughly examined another crib's failure.
In January 2002, a woman in Newburg, Ore., found her 9-month-old son with his head pinned between the mattress and drop side of his Delta crib. After she frantically freed him, Jenifer Patzkowski noticed that the tiny retractable plastic piece that prevented the drop-side railing from coming off its track appeared to be broken, according to CPSC records.
When she called Delta, "she said that the representative was defensive and denied that there could be a problem with the crib," a CPSC investigator wrote. Patzkowski returned her crib to the store where she bought it and filed a complaint with the agency.
Asked about Patzkowski's experience, Delta spokesman Jack Gutt declined to comment.
In general, he said in a statement, the company "has long led the industry in design improvements," and its products undergo rigorous tests at independent labs. "When properly assembled, our cribs are perfectly safe," he said.


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'Law Abiding Citizen' disappoints
There's a lot I wanted to like in Law Abiding Citizen, a
well-made film with several excellent scenes, but the film's just too flip-floppy. It's a film with
two personalities - one is a daring tale of blurred morality, the other a dead-fish action film full
of cliches and by-the-books "suspense."
If director F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job) and writer Kurt Wimmer (Street Kings) could have simply figured out which film they wanted to make, it would have helped a lot. Instead, they raise a lot of interesting questions and moral dilemmas before ignoring those questions for the predictable final 20 minutes.
Most of the film takes place 10 years after the murder of Clyde Shelton's wife and child, after which one of the murderers walks away with a mere three-year prison sentence. Assistant District Attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx, Ray), who allowed the murderer to walk with such a short sentence, has almost completely forgotten about the case - but Shelton (Gerard Butler, 300) hasn't, and he hasn't forgotten how nonchalant Rice was about the case, either. So he begins to make Rice's life a nightmare.
About 45 minutes in, Law Abiding Citizen had great potential - it had the "bad guy" in Shelton that you sympathized with - maybe even liked a little - and a "good guy" who was so self-absorbed and prideful that you didn't like him. Now, Shelton has truly become something of a monster - and all he wants is to prove this point to Rice.
The last 45 minutes of Citizen, on the other hand, are so bad it's almost a joke. Shelton becomes less human, and angrier, as the film moves along, thus becoming harder to understand or sympathize with. Rice never becomes likable, but I think Gray and Wimmer expect the viewer to root for him since he has the "good guy" role. Every scene towards the end seems recycled, with ends getting tied up in a fairly clean manner, but it's empty for the viewer because there is no good guy.
That concept is what made it interesting to begin with - both of these men are bad. Shelton started good, then went bad, while Rice is bad who becomes a little worse (on a personal level) through his trials and tribulations.
As the film got worse and the scenes more predictable, I kept thinking about Roger Michell's Changing Lanes, a great film with no good guys. In it, two men - both with serious issues - begin to create havoc for each other after a brief traffic collision that ruins their respective days. Lanes did everything that Citizen sets out to do, but it never succumbs to formula - it stays daring to the end, and the payoff is marvelous.
Citizen's so by-the-book down the stretch that it's almost an insult to how interesting it was earlier on. Rarely have I been left as generally disappointed as I was when the credits began to roll, knowing that a lot of hard work and talent just got washed down the drain.
So, to Gray and Wimmer, I must ask: Why do you build me up, buttercup baby, just to let me down?
Law Abiding Citizen, rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language, is playing at Regal Cinema 7 in Boone.


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Trailing Forney 17-0 right before the half, to say the Tiger faithful were in a semi-state of panic would be spot on. I am not sure if you could get anyone to admit it, but if your stomach wasn't churning a bit at Citi-Bank Field in Forney you have a tremendous amount of Tiger resolve.
And that resolve you have would rank right up there with Steve Hoffman's Tigers. The score that wasn't could turn out to be the season that was. Trailing in the second quarter, Tiger signal caller Devontay Bell raced around the right end and went 88 yards for a score or so he thought. The run was called back by a holding penalty. It happens every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the football fall.
What doesn't happen all the time in those three days that America looks forward to is some intangible force that brings a group tangibly together in harmonious unison for a specified cause. In other words, that penalty really fired up the CHS sidelines and that play was an "a ha" moment for the Tiger offense.
"That was an eye opener," said Bell, following his 15th win as the Tiger starting signal caller. "I wasn't disappointed (in the 88 yard run being called back) as much as I was excited knowing that we discovered something."
Indeed they did discover something, 36 unanswered points and a near record-setting performance by a running back. Sophomore Tray Owens walked into the halftime locker room with a very modest 22 rushing yards. Twenty-four football minutes later, he listened to the Tiger Cheerleaders perform "Victory" with 356 rushing yards on the night. The single-game record belongs to Ketric Sanford, who torched Whitehouse for 376 yards and six touchdowns on 30 carries in 2005. Owens is second on that list now.
"It is amazing," said a jubilant Owens in a very happy visiting Tiger locker room. "I can't take all or even most of the credit. The O-Line and D-Bell deserve that. "
Give the Tiger offensive line credit for paving the way for a whopping 485 total rushing yards. I write it every year because a heck of a man once told me "so go the hogs, so go the Tigers." He told me that a long time ago, but year after year it rings true.
In 2011 when Cameron Washington set the single-season rushing record, the offensive line was dominant. In 2013, when Owens went for 356 rushing yards, the same is true. One constant on both of those lines is then-sophomore and now senior offensive lineman (center/guard) Chris Jones.
"It feels good to be a part of both accomplishments," Jones said. "I feel that I'm not the best offensive lineman but I try to have a work ethic like the best, like a champion"
With 0-2 on the season and down 17-0 in Game 3, the essence of work ethic and championship mentality were put to a severe test. With the Tigers leaving Forney 1-2 with a 36-17 victory, grade the test with an A+.
One year ago, the Tigers ended the Forney game and by the next day learned that Bell was out for 2012. This year he is looking forward to playing a Thursday night televised game against rival Waxahachie.
Perhaps his stomach wasn't churning at all trailing, 17-0. Perhaps No. 8 that used to wear No. 9 is learning some valuable perspective.
When asked if he was having more fun after notching a victory, Bell just smiled and said, "No sir. It's always fun when you are playing as hard as you can play and just trying to get better."
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John finds that little spark of happiness in his life.
You step off the train onto the busy platform.
You can barely see a thing
There are people everywhere
Barely any space to breathe
You sigh, picking up that annoyingly heavy suitcase with one hand and pulling it down the platform towards a bench.
You sit down, because you can't be bothered to walk any further.
You can't do this anymore
All the chaos, the travelling, the early starts, the late nights, the nightclubs, airplanes, performances, fans, music, interviews, you just can't take it anymore.
You've paid the price of fame
But you don't want it anymore
You just want to go home
You bury your face in your hands, rubbing the sleep out of your already drooping eyes.
Sometimes you hate the Beatles
Sometimes you wish they never existed
You wander why you keep going
You watch through the gap in your fingers, at everyone passing you, hoping they wont see who you are.
There's someone running towards you
You look closer and see it's a small boy
Probably a young fan wanting an autograph
You envy the man who is lucky enough to be the father of that little angel
But then you see the lad's face...
And you realise...
You get up from the bench, as the small boy leaps forward into your arms. And you lift him up, high above your head, and begin turning in circles while he laughs. You laugh with him.
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This morning, my radio co-host and longtime Memphis reporter, George Lapides, used our show "Sportstime" on Sports56 WHBQ to drop serious knowledge on the makeup of the Grizzlies' new ownership group led by Robert Pera.
Since Lapides doesn't tweet check this Twitter feed to see the names and percentages: @thefishnation.
There are more than 50 people financially involved in the group although it is clear that Pera and CEO Jason Levien will have total control. So how will all of this work?
Well, here's a historical reference on this type of deal...
One of the last stories I worked on as the Seattle SuperSonics beat writer in 2001 was the transfer of team ownership to Starbucks king Howard Schultz. The transaction happened in the spring and I moved to Memphis to start my tenure as the Griz guy during the fall of that year.
You'll find that you could simply substitute Sonics with Grizzlies and Schultz/Wally Walker with Pera/Levien, etc.
The NBA's approval of the new Sonic ownership group, led by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, was a formality yesterday in New York.
But there is little conventional about The Basketball Club of Seattle (TBCS), which agreed to purchase the Sonics and the WNBA's Storm from the Ackerley Group for $200 million.
Instead of Barry Ackerley as a stand-alone owner, the Sonics have 13 major investors - several set up as separate business entities - leading to about 50 owners.
The ties that bind the group are that almost all are Seattle-area business leaders and Sonic season-ticket holders as well as business associates and friends.
"Everyone who's invested in the team is a passionate fan and cares deeply about the community. We think it's going to be a significant advantage," Schultz said.
The Sonics actually had 58 owners. The Griz are expected to have 54.
Despite the myriad investors, TBCS is set up so Schultz and club President Wally Walker maintain power to make major decisions. Schultz owns the largest chunk of the team at 42 percent and is chairman of the board for TBCS, which has six directors. Walker - who owns about 10 percent - is its CEO, with increased business duties encompassing revenues and expenses.
Though there is a board process for consensus, Schultz has an overwhelming number of votes. "This is not going to be a cumbersome structure whatsoever," Schultz said.
The Grizzlies are said to have an executive board that has at least five members.
The board's main role will be in administrative areas, such as approving a budget and making management policies and strategies. Walker is empowered to make basketball decisions, such as signing a free agent and making a trade and selecting a draft pick without consulting the board.
"A general manager has to make a decision in five minutes sometimes," Walker said. "The board is not there to micromanage decisions at all."
The structure of TBCS isn't unique to the NBA. The Chicago Bulls have 29 investors, led by Jerry Reinsdorf, who owns 17 percent of the team, much less than Schultz. But Chicago's ownership is set up so that Reinsdorf is the managing partner, which gives him almost complete say in major decisions.
The Phoenix Suns have 20 investors, with Jerry Colangelo owning about 20 percent. The organization is considered one of the best-run in the NBA under Colangelo, who makes virtually all major decisions.
Keep in mind that this was written in 2001. But the challenges remain the same. Walker, who had a role that Levien now assumes for the Griz, laid down ground rules from the beginning. Investors had to buy tickets, couldn't roam around the arena as they pleased and didn't have decision-makers on speed dial for inside information.
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UPDATE (4:25 p.m., June 6, 2011): Isaac Weix from Elmwood, a former Republican Wisconsin State Assembly candidate now living in Menomonie, is collecting signatures to run against Democrat Shelly Moore in the primary of this summer's Wisconsin State Senate recall election.
Hudson Patch has obtained . In the petition statement Weix transparently states that his campaign is a protest campaign.
UPDATE (3:45 p.m., June 6, 2011): Friends of Sheila Harsdorf campaign spokesperson Nathan Duerkop sent the following statement to Hudson Patch:
"Ever since the recall campaign was organized and funded by out-of-district special interests, Sheila Harsdorf has continued doing the work the voters sent her to do - balance the budget and serve taxpayers. Last month, our campaign called attention to the fact that many recall petitioners from out-of-district were circulating the petitions, some from as far away as New York and Michigan. Now, we learn that given the nature of this unprecedented recall campaign, the other side is playing games. Quite frankly, we would have hoped Shelly Moore would have been as vocal about out-of-district influences as she is today about the state party's apparent involvement. We know that Sheila does not support either of these tactics, but it's a symptom of a recall process managed and run by big spending special interests that are prepared to spend millions to get Moore elected."
The Shelly Moore campaign sent the following statement to Hudson Patch:
"It appears as though the GOP Senators will stop at nothing to avoid being held accountable," said Shelly Moore. "Now they are resorting to dirty tricks in order to delay elections, create confusion and chaos, and avoid being judged by voters in recall elections. Senator Harsdorf must pledge to oppose any similar tactics, and the Republican Party must immediately shut down this partisan, coordinated attack on democracy that wastes taxpayer dollars. These elections must get underway so the State can heal. These underhanded tactics serve no purpose but to divide us further."
Stephan Thompson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, released the following statement on Monday:
"The upcoming recall elections are unprecedented not only in Wisconsin, but in our nation's history. Unlike the Democratic Senators who deserted their constituents for a trip to Illinois, six Republican state Senators face recall not for misconduct, but for doing the job they were elected to do: taking a stance on a tough issue that came before the legislature."
"Now, these Republican senators are again busy doing their jobs crafting a fiscally responsible state budget that promotes economic growth, which puts them at a distinct disadvantage with many of their challengers who have had sufficient time to campaign. Because of this disadvantage, and the outrageous nature of elected officials facing recall for standing up for a balanced budget, the Republican Party of Wisconsin has advocated that protest candidates run in Democratic primaries to ensure that Republican legislators have ample time to communicate with voters throughout their districts after the state budget is approved."
"The public deserves time to learn about the differences between the candidates and about the Republican plan to control government spending and boost economic growth vs. the Democrat alternative of job-killing tax hikes."
Hudson Patch has left messages with both the Sheila Harsdorf campaign and the Shelly Moore campaign. We will update this post with any comments we receive from them.


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