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Nearly 16 months ago, in the early hours of a September morning, wrapped in a bed sheet with a gunshot wound to her head.
He claimed he awoke to gunshots and found his wife dead, with a pistol in her hand. Orland Park police charged him with first degree murder.
Assistant state's attorney Jennifer Gonzalez told the court Monday that she's waiting on a forensic opinion regarding blood splatter.
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Color Kinetics Incorporated announced the appointment of Ellen Bossert as vice president of marketing. As a member of Color Kinetics' executive team, Bossert will lead the company's worldwide marketing strategy and manage the evolution of its brand as an industry leader in intelligent solid-state lighting solutions.
"We're very pleased to welcome Ellen, who joins the company during an exciting time of growth and positioning for the future," says Bill Sims, president and CEO, Color Kinetics. "We have successfully transitioned from an emerging start-up organization to a growing public concern, and the opportunity to penetrate the larger, general lighting market presents a host of new research, marketing and communications requirements. As such, Ellen's considerable expertise will help us identify these new requirements and accordingly shape the new public face of Color Kinetics and its brand."
Bossert has a track record of creatively fostering new strategies for market branding that alter industry paradigms, which makes her an ideal choice for the innovation-focused company.
"Color Kinetics is widely recognized for its leadership in envisioning and delivering emergent technology, as well as supporting and cultivating awareness for the markets that now embrace intelligent solid-state lighting," says Bossert. "I truly believe Color Kinetics will transform the way our world imagines and applies light -- for business, entertainment, and residential use. With such tremendous opportunity ahead, I look forward to driving the global marketing initiatives that will help the company best realize our mission to enable 'light without limits™.'"
Bossert has 16 years of experience in the high-tech and consumer products industries. She most recently served as CEO of Zoesis Studios, a developer of unique artificial intelligence-based entertainment technology for commercial use. Her marketing experience includes leadership roles at well-established companies such as Hasbro and Converse, as well as high-tech start-ups Domania (an award-winning real estate software firm) and MIT Media Lab spin-off Presto Technologies (an early pioneer of RFID technology). Complementing Bossert's success in marketing is a strong background in management, including a vice president role at Chase Manhattan Bank, and executive consulting to small and medium-sized businesses. Bossert holds a BA from Columbia College and MBA from Harvard Business School.


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When the Monkees stepped onstage at Escondido's California Center for the Arts on Thursday night, the packed audience greeted them with an eruption of screams. For a band that once regularly got mobbed by packs of teenage girls, it must've felt like old times.
Performing together for the first time in 15 years, Monkees Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork played all the hits and plenty of b-sides in a crowd-pleasing, nearly two-hour set. They also paid tribute to beloved bandmate Davy Jones, who died of a heart attack in February at age 66.
In the most touching moment of the concert – which marked the first stop on a 12-date U.S. tour – the band led the room in a convivial rendition of "Daydream Believer," which was normally sung by the baby-faced Jones. As two women from the front row sang with Dolenz onstage, people rose from their seats and swayed side by side, waving their arms while belting out the words.
Joined onstage by a solid backing band, Dolenz, Tork and Nesmith didn't sound quite as sprightly as they did when they first achieved fame as stars of their mid-Sixties TV sitcom. Still, they were undoubtedly Monkees, hamming it up, exchanging silly banter and joking about Nesmith's recent return to the fold. (Though he joined the band for some U.K. dates in 1997, he hasn't played with them on any reunion tours since they broke up in 1971.)
At one point, the group did a little comic routine. Before playing the Nesmith-penned tune "Daily Nightly," Dolenz had something extra-special to tell the audience – Nesmith had procured a rare, vintage Moog synthesizer to perform the song. In exchange, Dolenz said, he had the lyrics to the song printed in 24-karat gold leaf.
There was just one problem: "I didn't get the Moog," Nesmith confessed. However, he did get a picture of a Moog, which popped up on a big video screen behind the band.
Throughout the show, the band honored Jones' memory with recordings and video. At one point the lights went down, the band went quiet and a recording of Jones singing "I Wanna Be Free" came over the sound system. Meanwhile, vintage footage played of him walking along the beach . . . in flattering red swim shorts, naturally.
Later, in a nod to Jones' enviable dancing skills, the backing band plugged along to the Harry Nilsson-penned tune "Daddy's Song." The screen showed a dashing Jones letting loose in clips from the Monkees' 1968 film, Head.
Looking on were little kids, middle-aged folks and plenty of gray-haired fans who'd been around to see the Monkees on TV. One woman came with a vintage Monkees postcard photo that she'd gotten when she wrote them a fan letter many years ago.
When it came time to play "Daydream Believer," the Monkees had their adoring audience in mind. Onstage, Dolenz explained that the band had discussed who should sing the song, only to conclude that it should be the fans.
"It doesn't belong to us anymore," he told the audience. "It belongs to you."
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I'm sorry but does it really matter? Working for the military in a LE capacity I can stated with a certainty that the law is not always followed to the letter in the military. Example a jr. enlisted man gets a DUI and is disciplined more harshly that a senior nco that received a DUI. This same senior nco sexually harassed a young female soldier I personally worked with. She filed a complaint against him but the only thing that happened was he was reassigned to another unit just a block away. This female was so intimidated by this guy she left the service. I my opinion
as long as their sexuality doesn't interfere with the job who gives a rat's ass. There was also a major that had 5 Congressional investigations ongoing at once against him from soldiers and civilians. The result he retired six months early with out even a letter of reprimand. I know for a fact that at least 3 or 4 of the complaints had merit. So you tell me where's the justice?


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been wanting to see this place for 8 years- the river trip was informative and the guide knew his stuff -wish I'd been there before all the crumbling but happy to have gotten there- is definite must see
We went on a Sunday afternoon, out of Beacon. It was very interesting and the gardens are lovely. We enjoyed the trip. A lot of walking (including up stairs) and it is NOT a place for young kids and strollers.
We thoroughly enjoyed this trip from the moment we left the dock in Newburgh. All of the staff were friendly and very well informed about the history of this castle. I have lived in the Hudson Valley my entire life and never knew anything about it. If you want to visit you should go soon as it is unfortunately falling...
I have seen it from a boat in the river. I'd be curious to take the tour
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I was so surprised when my train rode past Bannerman Castle for the first time.. it was a freakin' castle after all. I was so intrigued and had to go.
My boyfriend purchased tickets in October online. We had tried to go before, but they had an issue with low tide and the boats getting stuck.
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and we would much rather explore on our own, but certainly worth the trip out. We were there in the heat of the summer and that was a bit frustrating combined with the quick day trip but it would be a lovely place to return to.
Pollepel Island, about four miles north of Cold Spring, holds the picturesque ruins of Bannerman's Castle. Bannerman was an arms dealer who bought up much of the Union's military supplies left after the Civil War and all the military surplus of the Spanish American War. He stored them in a warehouse in New York City and sold them out of...
There is more of a mystique here than substance. An old ruin trying to be saved. Eeeh...the view of the Hudson was worth the trip. The castle did little for me
Did maintenance on the grounds, pathetically as one of two members of the Cold Spring Kayak Club volunteer group, having to paddle several miles against the Hudson tides each way for the privilege. But the rare experience of visiting ruins, more typical of Europe than the US, was well worth all the effort. The eerie setting produced by the crumbling...
This tiny island in the Hudson River was bought by an eccentric collector and reseller of obsolete army/navy supplies. After he bought the island, he went a little crazy and decided to build a huge replica of a Scottish fort, and also a house for his family to live in. Unfortunately they weren't very well constructed, so have fallen into...
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Snapshot: Collingwood's pre-Christmas period is now well established, with the trip to high altitude training a permanent part of the fixture. This year the Magpies travelled to Park City, Utah, instead of Flagstaff, Arizona, for a camp that lasted for 16 days. The majority of senior players, new draftees and recruits were able to attend, with captain Nick Maxwell, Alan Toovey, Alan Didak, Dale Thomas and Tyson Goldsack the only regulars remaining in Melbourne. Collingwood walked up Jupiter Peak in freezing conditions and was able to complete football training as well as boxing, gym work and time with the US Ski and Snowboard Association Elite Training Centre. After shocking bad luck with injury last year the Magpies have three players returning in 2013 from knee reconstructions, while recruit Clinton Young has had a delayed start to pre-season due to a foot injury. They are all progressing well. The Magpies still consider themselves premiership contenders and have recruited well, introducing 12 new players via free agency, the NAB AFL Draft and the Rookie Draft as it regenerates the list.
Break: Players departed on December 21 and will return on January 8.
Draftee watch: This pre-season the Magpies had the chance to take its new draft picks on the high altitude camp, providing the players with a great opportunity to integrate into the group. Brodie Grundy was Collingwood's first selection and although it is likely the young ruckman will be given time to develop he has the talent to play senior football immediately. Jackson Ramsey has been rooming with fellow defender Nathan Brown as he settles in to Melbourne after moving from Perth, and learning about how Brown prepares to play. The Magpies never set limits on players, with seven players making their debut in 2012, so anything is possible from the new arrivals.
Burning: Collingwood did not want to individualise, but from teammates say Dane Swan has attacked this pre-season with even more vigour – if that is possible – than normal. Jarrod Witts is a youngster with a bright future who continues to develop physically, while Harry O'Brien is setting himself for a big season as he is now 26 and about to enter the peak of his career.
Medical room: Thomas and Goldsack had ankle operations in November and are expected to return to full training in January. Andrew Krakouer returned from a knee reconstruction late last season and has had a strong pre-season, and was able to join teammates in Utah. Luke Ball and Brent Macaffer are on track for round one after early season knee reconstructions while Lachlan Keeffe, who injured his knee in round nine in late May, will return just before mid-year. Marley Williams has recovered from his season-ending shoulder injury in round 15. Young, who arrived from Hawthorn via free agency, had surgery on his foot nine weeks ago. He has been running on Alter-G treadmill but went for his first run off the treadmill in Utah. The long kicking left-footer aims to be part of full training in early January.
What they say: "It's the first time we've been to Utah, so there is always a bit of the unknown in terms of whether the facility is similar to what they have been used to in Arizona but we could not have been happier with the facility and the surrounds. The boys typically attack this training phase really well and they have done the same again." – Geoff Walsh, director of football
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Tonawanda News — On Oct. 1 if you do not have health insurance you will be able to get affordable coverage under the new health care law. Young people who are no longer on their parents' insurance can also get health insurance. You never know when you will get seriously ill or have an accident. Now under Obamacare, you won't have to worry about losing everything if something does happen. I am lucky, I have health care. I was going into my last year at NCCC for nursing and was diagnosed with a malignant bone tumor. I had four major surgeries. If I didn't have insurance we would have lost everything. Sign up for health insurance, bad things do happen and you shouldn't lose everything you have worked for if it does.
Gas prices are falling. By the end of the fall we could see $3 a gallon. I blame Obama.
Yes, I agree with the caller that the police need to do something about these people with the scooters riding in the street. Why, just last month I witnessed a person driving his riding lawnmower in the street (Division Street) to go to the local convenience store.
I hope the City of Tonawanda keeps the end of Young Street closed. It is a confusing intersection to start with and eliminating one street will not hurt anything. Also, it gives pedestrians one less street to cross.
I am not very familiar with what Obamacare is all about but something has to be done. I know families who are paying $700 and $800 every month for health insurance. These are hard-working people who want to work and provide honest care for their families. They have to go on welfare to provide for their families.


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3. Hometown boy and owner of the Palm Pavilion Howard Hamilton, 79, died Feb. 24. If you want to show support, the family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Moss Feaster Funeral Home, Belcher Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of your choice.
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Redwood City-based startup Striiv has taken two well-known facts about Bay Area people and designed a new iPhone app in response that they hope will encourage them to be more active in their daily life.
The two facts? One - busy Silicon Valley workers are more likely to take time out of their day to exercise if the method of fitness is fun; and two - they never go anywhere without their trusty smartphones.
Striiv's new, free smartphone fitness app, released last Tuesday, Oct. 16, uses a phone's GPS feature to track how many steps one takes in a day, and then rewards the user for hitting certain goals by giving them bonus features and extra "lives" in an online fantasy role-playing game that comes with the app, called "MyLand."
The app also encourages users to be more social about their physical activity level, by allowing them to sync up with and interact with friends and other Striiv users, such as by posting their activity to Facebook and allowing them to compare their activity level with others'.
"If you have a friend, you'll be active much longer," Striiv CEO David Wang told VentureBeat recently.
All in all, Striiv hopes that by making fitness fun, it will encourage people to live healthier lives.
"It's not about losing weight," he told VentureBeat. "It's about weight awareness. If you know your weight, you'll make healthier choices during the day."
Last year, Striiv designed and released a $99 fitness measurement device that fits in your pocket and boasts more features, such as an altimeter that has the ability to count how many steps or stairs one takes in a day. The device is still for sale, but Wang said he thinks the company's new iPhone app will allow them to reach a broader audience.
According to VentureBeat, Striiv was founded in 2010, and since then, they have raised approximately $7.5 million in funding.
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MADISON, Wis. - Taylor Wurtz, a senior on the University of Wisconsin women's basketball team, was named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week after leading the Badgers over Illinois last Friday. The 6-0 guard earns her first player of the week honor after being named Big Ten Freshman of the Week twice in 2009-10. She is also UW's first Big Ten player of the week since Jacki Gulczynski was honored on Dec. 17, 2012.
Wurtz led the Badgers to a 76-64 overtime win over the Illini with a career-best 19 rebounds and tying her career high with 27 points. After only three points in the first half, Wurtz went on a scoring tear in the second half, putting up 14 points, including a 3-pointer with 1:29 left in regulation that tied the game at 58 and sent the game into overtime.
In overtime, the Brandon, Wis., native scored 10 points, including going 4-4 from the free throw line over the last 39 seconds to seal the win. Wurtz shot 60 percent (9-of-15) from the field, including 50 percent (4-of-8) from 3-point range.
Her rebounds tie her for fourth on the UW single-game record list and ties for first among Big Ten athletes this season. It was her third double-double of the season and 11th of her career.
The Badgers (8-5 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) wrap up their Big Ten-opening two game road trip with a game at Michigan (10-4, 1-0) on Thursday. Tip time is 6 p.m. CT from Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. UW opens the Big Ten home season on Sunday, hosting Iowa (12-4, 0-2) at 2 p.m. in the Kohl Center.


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The on Aug. 14 held a ribbon-cutting for , located at 1592 Mars Hill Road Suite B in Watkinsville, Ga.
Dr. Jeanette Osgoodby started the business as a part-time practice in 2002. It was housed at two other locations before moving into its current office about a year ago.
Two years ago, she married Dr. Glenn Osgoodby, who had practiced for 20 years in New Jersey and also worked in Cumming, Ga.
The couple now practice full time in Oconee County, offering "complete chiropractic care including treatment for back pain, neck pain, lower back pain, and headaches," according to the HealthSource of Oconee Facebook page.
Dr. Glenn Osgoodby said preparations are in the works for renovations to the back of the office in order to accommodate growth.
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Just like with the launch of the Xbox 360 back in November 2005, Microsoft has teamed up with Mountain Dew for a massive contest to give away thousands of Xbox One consoles this Fall. Find out all of the details on how you can enter here.
See the Every 2 Minutes website here.
The Xbox 360 promotion gave away a system every 10 minutes (see details here). The Xbox One and Mountain Dew promotion will give away a new Xbox One (Xbox One FAQ) every 2 minutes. The contest is only open to U.S. residents.
How It Works
For the Xbox One Every 2 Minutes contest, you will need to collect codes found on specially marked Mountain Dew and Doritos products. You then enter those codes into your account on the Every2Minutes website. Each of the codes gives you one sweepstakes entry of your choice (to enter a random drawing for an Xbox One or other prizes) as well as a set number of points (the number of points each code is worth depends on the product you got it from). You then use the points to enter "auctions" for Xbox One consoles and other prizes, or you can use the points to buy other merchandise from the contest store. You are limited to a maximum of 1,000 codes, and 150,000 points. In an interesting twist, you can "gift" points to someone else, which will obviously help your odds of winning if you can pool points from multiple sources.
You can start collecting codes now, but you won't be able to add them to your account until September 30th.
Auctions will start taking place on November 5th, 2013 and will run for 5 hours every night - from 9:01PM EST until 2:01AM EST - until December 9th, 2013. There will be 150 auctions every night, but the contest will run all day on Black Friday, November 29th for a total of 720 auctions that day.
When the auctions start, you'll be able to bid your points to try to win each auction. You'll set your maximum bid for an auction, and your bid will automatically increase as needed to keep you as the highest bidder - until you reach that maximum point thresh hold (so it works like eBay, basically). All of the auctions will be for Xbox One consoles, but there will be lots of different ones with different free games (Xbox One Launch Games List), custom consoles, and more.
You can also use your points to buy merchandise from the contest store. We don't know what you'll be able to buy, but it will likely be t-shirts and other similarly cheap stuff. You'll be able to use your points all the way until January 17, 2014, so you'll be able to spend any points you have left over after the auctions end on December 9.
The sweepstakes part of the contest will allow you to apply any number of codes you want to a sweepstakes of your choice - codes and points are separate, remember - and you can enter as many points into as many sweepstakes as you want (so you could apply one code to every drawing, or a thousand to one drawing, or anywhere in between). These are random drawings.
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KNIGHTDALE — Presented with a shopping list of amenities for phase two of Knightdale Station, Town Council recently voted to spend the $3 million approved by Knightdale taxpayers in a bond referendum last fall.
The referendum, supported by 78 percent of Knightdale voters, allowed Knightdale to raise property taxes 2 cents per $100 of assessed value to pay for and accelerate the construction of the second phase of Knightdale Station, a 70-acre park on First Avenue.
Phase one – which includes a playground, walking trails, a dog park, and athletic fields, along with the park infrastructure – is paid for and is expected to open later this summer. Phase two will include the foundation of an amphitheater, a multi-use plaza, and an aesthetic water tank. Those features, along with design fees, underground utility installation, and the acquisition of land for tennis courts, cost $2.5 million.
Monteith Construction, the company which won the bid for the phase two project, on June 19 presented Town Council with five additional items Knightdale could buy with its $3.5 million budget. (Knightdale allotted $500,000 to the project from its capital reserve fund.) Town Council chose to build a stone facade around it's main shelter, plant sod and install irrigation on the amphitheater lawn. Altogether, those mini-projects cost $145,000, bringing the entire phase two receipt to about $3.36 million.
Following a recommendation by Town Manager Seth Lawless, Town Council punted on spending $295,000 for a third shelter along First Avenue and $71,000 to add a steel trellis to each shelter. Buying those features would bring the phase two project total to $3.72 million – about $220,000 over budget.
"Doing this gives us a little wiggle room ... (because) we still have some unknown costs in this project," Lawless said.
For instance, installing underground utilities may cost more than expected, he said. Knightdale has yet to receive bids for the utilities and the water tank.
"As much as (the third shelter) would frame First Avenue … I think we'll have room for plenty of vendors without it," Lawless assured Town Council on its decision.
Knightdale Mayor Russell Killen noted the town can add the third shelter in a later year, when the town has more capital funds available.
As for skipping over the steel trellis in favor of a cheaper wood trellis, Killen said: "I think the buildings will look great without it."
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Courtney Reinisch, DrNP student was one of five winners of a $25,000 scholarship given by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Monster Healthcare. These awards are part of a new program created to address the growing shortage of doctorally-prepared nurse faculty. A bilingual family practice trained APN since 1999, Courtney has been working in the Robert Wood Johnson Center at Hamilton Emergency Department since 2001. She received her BA in Biology and Psychology from Immaculata College and previously managed an outpatient family practice at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, NJ which served primarily underinsured patients. During her graduate education at the University of Delaware, and upon completion of her degree, she established a school-based family health center, The LEAP Academy, a Rutgers University charter school located in Camden, NJ.
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Kid Cudi "Day 'N' Nite" Remix f. Pitbull
Posted on Jun 17th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
This has been floating around for a hot second, and while we were waiting to get a better quality mp3 of this to share with y'all, we can wait no longer. The story is that Mr 305 heard "Day 'N' Nite," got super into it ("I love this record, dog…") and decided to throw a freestyle of his own at the beginning. Toma! Download it here (right-click and save-as).
Also: congrats to Ursula Mann and Ashley Jordan, who won tickets to tonight's Kid Cudi show @ Knitting Factory in NYC. Even if you didn't snag the freebies, come through anyway, it's gonna be a fun one. (Now with open bar 9-10, says the Knit!)
Kid Cudi vs Semtex
Posted on Jun 16th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
Listen to Mr Cudder Dudder stealing a Cassie beat for "London Girls" (coming soon on DJ Semtex's new mixtape) over at the Semtex Blog. Also don't forget we're still giving away tix to Cudi's show this Tuesday night (6.17) at the Knitting Factory!
Win Kid Cudi NYC Tickets!
Posted on Jun 13th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
Kid Cudi is gonna be rocking at the Knitting Factory in NYC next Tuesday (6/17), and we have a pair of guest list slots to give away to you fine folks. Email firstname.lastname@example.com with your name and a winner will be selected Monday night. Even if you don't get the freebies, come through to the Knitting Factory anyway (advance tickets here), you don't want to miss this one.
What else is goin on with the Kid? He'll be rocking in Boston tonight (6/13) at Chau Chow City, and in Toronto on Saturday (6/14) at the Drake Underground. You can also hear him on 88 Keys' new mixtape Adam's Case Files, downloadable here.
A-Trak Runs Nike
Posted on Jun 10th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
We alluded to it back in March, now Pitchfork is officially spilling the beans about Running Man, A-Trak's take on Nike+'s successful series of original workout jamz from the likes of LCD Soundsystem and other upstanding citizens. Running Man features 45 minutes of original music (and serves as A-Trak's full-length production debut), Kid Cudi pops up for a guest spot, Dust provides exclusive digital booklet illustrations, and you can cop the whole thing on iTunes on June 24th.
Kid Cudi @ Cinespace Tonight!
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
More Kid Cudi Mixtape Teasers
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
Following up on the trailer, check out these two nuggets from the forthcoming A Kid Named Cudi that found their way to OnSmash earlier today: "Cudi Spazzin" (over NERD's "Spazz") and "The Biggest Grinder" (over Ricky Rawwws and Tallahassee Pain's "Boss").
Kid Cudi in The FADER and Mass Appeal
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
"A Kid Named Cudi" Mixtape Trailer
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
Kid Cudi vs T-Mobile
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
Anyone who's ever messaged back and forth with our dude Kid Cudi knows that his tmail game is MAJOR, texting like a Prince song title come 2 life. So it's fitting that Cudi will be performing at a private launch event for T-Mobile next Tuesday (5/20) alongside Kid Capri and new Star Trak artists Chester French (who do not have kid in their name). You can enter to win VIP passes to the party – along with a new phone! – over at RCRD LBL.
Kid Cudi Live @ Lotus Tonight!
Posted on Apr 29th, 2008 by Mr Goldbar
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Joining the ranks of some of her fellow stars from the Teen Mom universe, Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans has been arrested yet again following a domestic dispute with fiancé Gary Head. The event took place between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Evans herself made the 911 call at this time.
"She was arrested early Sunday morning," Evans' lawyer, Dustin Sullivan, tells Hollywood.com exclusively. "She spent the night in jail Sunday night. She went in front of a judge Monday to get bond set. It was set at $500. Gary's bond was set at $1,500. Jenelle was charged with simple assault, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of Klonopin. Gary was charged with all that, except it was assault on a female."
This marks Evan's fifth arrest; previous incidents have involved drug possession, assault, breaking and entering, and violation of probation, among other charges. Evan's most recent arrest took place on March 5; however, Evans is not presently on probation, so this new arrest does not present a violation of probation.
Sullivan also tells Hollywood.com, "She called 911, police came. They made an arrest against Gary and arrested Jenelle as well. No drugs were found on Jenelle. She told 911 they were fighting," adding, "A victim who called 911 was charged. I'm curious to know why."
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This year's first of three a cappella jamborees features, not only Lexington High School's 7 student-led groups, but also the MIT Logarhythms. Come see and hear Euphoria, Guacamole, Mixed Nuts, Onomatopoeia, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Pitch Pipes, and Rock Paper Scissors at this rollicking concert.
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Twenty-one features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 85th Academy Awards. This means that there will likely be five nominations announced on January 10, although several films listed below have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying runs, the Academy points out. Presumably they will fulfill all the requirements. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, but I doubt that any of these will chase that down. I bold the five front-runners for Oscar noms.
The 21 submitted features, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
"Adventures in Zambezia"
"Delhi Safari"
"Dr. Seuss' The Lorax"
"From Up on Poppy Hill"
"Hey Krishna"
"Hotel Transylvania"
"Ice Age Continental Drift"
"A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman"
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted"
"The Mystical Laws"
"The Painting"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"The Rabbi's Cat"
"Rise of the Guardians"
"Secret of the Wings"
"Walter & Tandoori's Christmas"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
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Frankenweenie will most likely be the favorite due to the reviews and its technical artistry. Brave should also be nominated.
However, I cannot see Wreck-It Ralph (too fanboyish for the Academy), Madagascar 3 (too mainstream) or Rise of the Guardians (poor-quality animation) getting nominated. I see From Up on Poppy Hill, A Liar's Autobiography (assuming the airing on Epix doesn't make it ineligible) and The Pirates!: Band of Misfits taking the other spots.


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A woman accused of shooting and killing her newlywed husband of six days outside the Varsity restaurant almost three years ago was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday according to the office of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
Jurors returned guilty verdicts against 45-year-old Arelisha Bridges on charges of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses in connection with the shooting death of 26-year-old Anthony Rankins, Jr.
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According to eyewitnesses, Bridges parked her car in the restaurant lot around 10:45 p.m. and then proceeded to follow Rankins as he walked down the street. The couple, who reportedly lived in the area, argued before Bridges opened fire, continuously shooting her husband even after he fell to the ground.
Rankin was struck a total of five times and suffered fatal gunshot wounds to his head and chest. Bridges, who was wearing a nightgown and a shower cap, was arrested on the scene by a MARTA police officer.
According to prosecutors, Bridges apparently was upset because her husband had taken her house keys.


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Labour needs to remember what it is for
This piece originally appeared on LabourList
As we approach Labour's 106th annual conference, it's worth remembering what Thomas R. Steels envisaged the party was for. Steels was a railway signalman from Doncaster and, in 1899, drafted a motion for his local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants calling for the TUC's Parliamentary Committee to assemble a congress with the support "of all the cooperative, socialistic, trade union and other working class organisations" to look how it could secure "a better representation of the interests of labour in the House of Commons."
At the 20th century approached, there were two major political parties in Britain: the Liberals and the Tories. They both represented particular wings of the ruling class. Working-class people, on the other hand, lacked a meaningful political voice. But Steels' motion was deeply divisive: there were those trade unionists who felt the best way of serving workers' interests was by supporting the supposedly progressive members of the Liberal Party. Steels' proposal was passed at TUC Congress, but by a relatively narrow margin – 546,000 votes against 434,000 against. The Labour Representation Committee was formed with the specific brief of, well, giving labour representation; and, in 1905, the Labour Party was born.
With Britain in the midst of the greatest crisis of capitalism since the 1930s, many would today struggle to define exactly what the Labour Party is for. Thirteen years of New Labour muddied the water: although there were reforms that – however limited – certainly benefited working-class people (like the minimum wage and increased public spending), Blairism accepted the key tenets of Thatcherism. Low taxation on the wealthy and big business; the rule of the free market; weak, shackled trade unions; many communities still bereft of secure, respectably paid work; historic levels of inequality – all of these remained in place.
During the leadership election, Ed Miliband certainly alluded to the original purpose of the Party in a way that very few senior Labour politicians had during the New Labour period. He spoke of a "crisis of working-class political representation" – a phrase that had, until then, bounced off the walls of thinly attended left-wing meetings for years, and I should know, because I attended many of them. We haven't, however, heard much of this since he was elected leader (I'd say "safely ensconced" but, with the ever-powerful Blairites continually biting at his heels, that's not true).
But, if this Conference is to demonstrate that the Labour Party is relevant, we need to reaffirm its original purpose: to give working-class people a voice, and to fight for their interests. What's more, it needs to do this with the same grit, determination and cleverness the Tories are capable of when fighting for their lot – the people at the top.
Of course Labour's working-class base is very different to what it was in Steels' time. Rather than working in docks, factories and down mines, people are more likely to work in shops, call centres and offices. Retail is now the second biggest employer; there are around a million call centre workers – as many as there were working in pits at the peak of mining. The working-class has changed in shape, but it remains Labour's actual and potential base.
While the average Britain is experiencing the biggest squeeze on living standards since the 1920s, it remains boomtime for the people at the top. Last year, the income of FTSE 100 chief executives went up by 55%. "There's class warfare, all right," as billionaire American Warren Buffett put it, "but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." It's not about Labour waging the class war – it's about accepting that it's happening and working out which side it's on.
For years, the New Labour mantra was that, unless the Party kept onside 'Middle Britain' (i.e. affluent voters, not the real Middle Britain who are the median income of £21,000 a year) it would never win an election. After all, working-class voters had nowhere to go, or so New Labour advisers thought. But this strategy died its final death in 2010. Five million Labour voters disappeared between 1997 and 2010, but the Tories only won a million.
The 'ABC1DE' model of social classifications used by pollsters has all sorts of flaws, but it certainly gives us some understanding of who abandoned Labour. While Labour support among the middle-class professional ABs went down by just 5 points over thirteen years of government, among skilled and semi-skilled workers (the C2s), it collapsed by 21 points; among DEs at the bottom, Labour lost 19 points. Much of this is to do with the fact that working-class voters are increasingly sitting on their hands rather than vote: the class gap in turnout grows with every election. Universal suffrage is unwinding by stealth.
As Ed Miliband himself pointed out during the leadership election (but not, again, since), if Labour had just kept hold of its DEs, it would have emerged as the biggest single party at the last election.
So how does Labour win those voters back? It's far from straightforward, however easy some of those on the left like myself might sometimes claim. The left barely exists as a political force in this country; three decades of Thatcherism has, undoubtedly, had a profound impact on social attitudes; and we remain dominated by a right-wing media that regarded the 50p tax (one of the most popular policies of the last government) as new wave Bolshevism.
But it means addressing the lack of work; job insecurity and the lack of rights in the workplace; the fact that wages were stagnating or declining even before the crash; and a housing crisis that has left 5 million people languishing on social housing waiting lists. All of this means defying the free market system that New Labour was virtually married to.
And at a time of economic crisis, it means developing a coherent alternative to the Tories' attempt to use the crash to re-order society and – in the process – send Britain off the same cliff Ireland jumped off. We face a generation of austerity that will leave a generation of working-class young people without a secure future and, therefore, hope; and millions facing the threat of unemployment, declining living standards and ever-deteriorating living standards.
That's the debate Labour needs to be having next week. Because of all the assaults on Labour Party internal democracy over the last generation and how stage-managed its Conference now is, I doubt it will happen. But the truth is, unless Labour remembers what it is for and makes that purpose relevant in these crisis-ridden times, it will never win an election again. This is no longer about principle; it's about survival.
Independent: Bring politics back to the real world
I've written a piece on BritainThinks' report on attitudes to class in modern Britain; there's others point I want to make, so I'll cobble something more detailed together this week
"It's not the existence of classes that threatens the unity of the nation, but the existence of class feeling." Those words appeared in the Conservative Party's statement of aims in 1976, just three years before Margaret Thatcher began to transform British society. The document's authors would undoubtedly find much satisfaction in the complex and disturbing portrait of attitudes to class uncovered by the research firm BritainThinks in modern Britain.
The most striking finding is that fewer than a quarter of those surveyed define themselves as "working class". The findings depend heavily on question wording. Ipsos MORI found that two-thirds described themselves as "working class and proud of it" in 2002; and the 2007 British Social Attitudes survey found that 57 per cent called themselves "working class" or "upper working class".
It's time for a debate on the C word
Below is an article I've written for the Independent
Margaret Thatcher was nothing if not ambitious. As part and parcel of one of the most audacious attempts at social engineering in British history, her government set about stripping class – 'a Communist concept' – from the nation's vocabulary. Even as wealth and power became increasingly concentrated at the top, the conspiracy to deny class has faced few challenges. Both New Labour and the Tories alike preached the myth that – as Tony Blair put it – 'we're all middle class now'". Narrow definitions of 'aspiration' and 'social mobility' have encouraged the idea that being working class is something to escape from.
Things have begun to change: there's nothing quite like an economic crisis to highlight profound injustices in the distribution of wealth and power. When the paypackets of FTSE 100 directors go up by a third, while the average working Briton suffers the biggest squeeze in living standards since the 1920s, denying the existence of class becomes a form of Flat Earth-ism.
That's not to say class has been entirely squeezed out of the nation's conversations, but it often emerges in a deeply pernicious form. A few years ago I sat at a dinner table surrounded by middle-class professionals when one quipped: "It's a shame that Woolworth's is closing. Where will the chavs buy their Christmas presents?" It's a scenario that many will recognise. Chav-bashing by those from pampered backgrounds is a continuing national scandal and must be opposed. But – whether people use the word "chav" or not – there's a deeply distorted, but entirely mainstream, view of class that must also be challenged. It was most eloquently summed up by The Daily Telegraph's Simon Heffer: "Something called the respectable working class has almost died out. What sociologists used to call the working class does not now usually work at all, but is sustained by the welfare state."
For the right, those outside the new supposed middle-class majority were the "underclass", whose numbers were expanding because of supposed behavioural defects and the collapse of marriage. But New Labour's spin on it – "social exclusion" – has had an equally damaging effect on the popular view of class. With class no longer an accepted way of describing divisions in society, those at the bottom of the pile were held partly responsible for their lot in life.
It's a theory that's trickled into popular culture. Take TV comedy: it either showcases nice middle-class people, like My Family; or, on the other hand, grotesque or one-sided caricatures of working-class people, like Little Britain's feckless Vicky Pollard or The Only Way is Essex, which caricatures the supposedly "tacky aspirational" working class who can't spend money with the taste and discretion of the middle class.
But the real working class – the 16 million manual workers, clerks and sales assistants who make up half the workforce – has been all but airbrushed from existence. Part of the confusion is down to the fact that the working class looks a lot different than it did thirty years ago. Before the Thatcherite assault on industry, more than 7 million worked in manufacturing; today, it's little over 2.5 million. Instead of working in factories, mines and docks, most working-class people now earn their keep in call centres, supermarkets and offices. There are a million call centre workers: that's as many as worked in pits at the peak of mining. A woman who works part-time in a supermarket is as good a symbol for working-class Britain as any: but she is all but invisible as far as our politicians, journalists and TV programme-makers are concerned.
Denying class has proved all-too-convenient in ignoring the concerns of working-class people. We don't talk about the fact that people from unskilled backgrounds are ten times more likely to be unemployed than professional people or that five million working-class people are languishing on social housing waiting lists. Nothing makes sense without class. If we don't talk about it, millions will remain disenfranchised, marginalised and ignored. Thatcherism closed the national debate on class: now is the time to re-open it.
LabourList: Labour's working class problem
There are a whole range of reasons for the British left to be disappointed with Barack Obama's Presidency, and the US political situation is radically different from our own. Right, I got the caveats out of the way. But is there anything that Labour can learn from his historic election victory in 2008? Predictably, for a leading question, the answer is 'yes'.
Obama was the first Democratic Presidential candidate to win a majority of the vote since Jimmy Carter narrowly won the 1976 election in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Sure, Obama rode a wave of disillusion with the utterly discredited Presidency of George Bush. But his victory owed much to a strategy of 'expanding the electorate': focusing on registering and getting out the votes of those traditionally less likely to vote – like African-Americans and younger voters.
If Labour is going to win the next election – which, let's face it, is hardly in the bag – it must adopt an 'expand the electorate' strategy. Here's why. According to pollsters Ipsos MORI, Labour's support among the top social categories (the ABs) declined by just five percentage points between 1997 and 2010. But among the bottom two social categories (the C2s and DEs), a fifth went AWOL. While just half a million AB voters abandoned Labour, 1.6 million voters in each of the C2 and DE groups evaporated.
The working-class and the left
It's easy to write a post like this and invite a barrage of accusations of hypocrisy. I've always been open about my background. I'm middle-class, full-stop; when I was growing up, my mother lectured at Salford University, and my father worked in economic regeneration at Sheffield Council.
My family did go through "financial hardship" (for want of a better phrase) for a number of years when we were based in Sheffield; but I was too young to remember this, unlike my brothers who spent years having clothes bought from jumble sales. In any case, it was for very different reasons than the thousands of workers in that city thrown on the scrapheap by Thatcherism's vandalism of British industry: my dad spent years as a full-time official of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency, and fomenting revolution doesn't pay the bills.
Like most middle-class people, I can only remember financial security, even when my dad lost his job with eight hundred others at the fag-end of Tory rule. Long before I was self-consciously political, I was aware of the contrast in my circumstances to those of most of the people I grew up with.
So let me phrase my argument like this. There are too many people like me on the left. Socialists, like myself, often talk about a crisis of working-class representation; but that's a phrase, I would argue, that could equally be applied to the left.
Aaron Porter and the sorry state of British democracy
UPDATE: Aaron Porter has announced he is not standing after all. However, his statement on Twitter is somewhat liberal with the truth. He spent Saturday ringing round local Party members and members of Labour's NEC for support. Close colleagues were informed of his decision. Following a backlash, he decided against. As Matt Chorley (the journalist who revealed the story) put it when Labour Political Advisor Phil Taylor put it to him that he was not known for getting stories wrong: "ha! Well sometimes, but not when I speak to the individuals involved who later ahem… have a rethink"
A hundred and twelve years ago, the Doncaster branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants passed a motion drafted by a railway signalman named Thomas R. Steels. It called on the TUC's Parliamentary Committee to assemble a congress with the support "of all the cooperative, socialistic, trade union and other working class organisations" to look how it could secure "a better representation of the interests of labour in the House of Commons."
There was a growing feeling across the labour movement that, while the bosses were represented by both the Liberal and Conservative Parties, working-class people lacked a political voice. Steels' motion was, however, divisive. Some trade unionists felt that workers' interests were best served by supporting supposedly progressive members of the Liberal Party. They were the Lib-Labbers – a tradition that continues today in the shape of Compass. Despite opposition, the proposal was carried at TUC Congress with 546,000 votes in favour and 434,000 against.
It's easy to get dewy-eyed about the Labour Party. Its leading lights have ranged from toffs like Clement Attlee and Tony Benn, to working-class heroes such as Ernie Bevin (on the right) and Nye Bevan (on the left). As well as its working-class base, Labour has always won the support of progressive middle-class people. And, of course, today's working-class looks a lot different than it did a century ago.
But I have to admit I'm depressed at news coming out of the race to succeed Peter Soulsby as Leicester South's Labour MP. It's being touted as a straight fight between Ed Miliband's spin-doctor Jonathan Ashworth and the disgraced President of the NUS, Aaron Porter. I can't help but think: was this really what Thomas R. Steels had in mind back in 1899?
The case against Labour sticking a red rosette on Aaron Porter is straightforward. He has been forced out of his NUS office because of his inept dealings with the movement against the trebling of top-up fees. He is one of the few political figures in Britain to be followed by angry protesters wherever he goes – and he's only 26, and yet to enter the House of Commons.
Yes, we all know that the NUS Presidency is a launchpad for political hacks who invariably end up as identikit New Labour Cabinet Ministers. But for a sitting NUS President to attempt to launch his political career while still in the job – after being forced out – is frankly breathtaking. Even fellow NUS hacks privately bemoan Porter's synthesis of crude, naked ambition with a lack of any obvious heart-felt political principles. Perhaps this is why his predecessor as NUS President, Wes Streeting, tweeted that it was: "Surely a joke rather than a serious proposition?"
I strongly doubt that Aaron Porter will end up representing the good people of Leicester South. Local party members would be bonkers to select an intensely divisive character who will inevitably attract mobs of angry students wherever he goes, particularly during a crucial byelection.
But I think this contest says a lot about what has happened to the Labour Party, and to British democracy as a whole. Parliament has become an increasingly professionalised, middle-class closed shop. Fewer than one in twenty MPs started out as manual workers: a number that has more than halved in twenty years. A startling two-thirds of MPs had a professional job before they entered the Chamber.
With every new election, it gets worse. One in ten members of the 2010 intake have a background in financial services, or twice as many as the 1997 landslide that swept Labour to power. One in five already worked in politics before they took the Parliamentary oath.
When you look back at the 1945 Labour Cabinet that constructed the welfare state after the ravages of World War II, the contrast is almost obscene. The giants of Clement Attlee's government were Ernest Bevin, Britain's representative on the global stage; Nye Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service; and Herbert Morrison, Attlee's number two. All were from working-class backgrounds, starting life as a farm boy, miner, and grocer's assistant, respectively. It was the trade unions and local government that had provided them with the ladders to climb, enabling them to end up as towering political figures and respected statesmen.
Because the powers of trade unions and local government have been so systematically trashed, the two key routes for working-class people to become Members of Parliament have become increasingly sealed off. The democratic revolution that the founding of Labour represented is being reversed. That's why we're seeing contests between disgraced NUS Presidents and senior spin-doctors to become prospective Labour candidates.
I hope that a good local candidate emerges in Leicester South to take on both Aaron Porter and Jonathan Ashworth. The people of Leicester, the Labour Party and British democracy deserve so much better. I'm sure Thomas R. Steels would agree.


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While the summer may be over for students and teachers, and Labor Day has passed, weekends are still a precious thing. It's important to know whether you've got clouds or blue skies ahead!
So we want you to keep up with what's going on for the weekend ahead, with a little help from the National Weather Service.
Use this story as your guide and plan away!
Friday: It will be hot during the day, approaching 90 degrees and a good amount of humidity, especially after the possible thunderstorms of the morning. Things will cool down a bit during a cloudy night.
Saturday: It will be a little cooler but we're also likely to see some rain in the area during the day and into the evening. Somewhat breezy, as well.
Sunday: Rain possible once again, with cooler temperatures than the earlier parts of the weekend. It could rain overnight and into Monday.


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HARRINGTON, Del. (WBOC) - The town of Harrington was honored this week for its TNR program. That stands for trap-neuter-release. The town is using the method to deal with its feral cat population.
Danny Tartt says the TNR program started in 2012.
"The city did receive complaints on a regular basis about stray and feral cats," he said. "Just driving through the city, especially at night or late evening, you could see stray and feral cats around everywhere."
Tartt went to the city and suggested TNR.
"Cats are humanely trapped," explained Hetti Brown, Delaware State Director for the Humane Society of the United States. "They are spay or neutered and vaccinated under anesthesia by a licensed veterinarian. And they're returned back to the community." "The more information I got on the TNR program," said Terry Tieman, Harrington town manager. "The more it made sense to me to do things that way. What we were doing before, trapping cats and delivering them to the SPCA was not working."
Tieman says Harrington changed its ordinances to allow the program and got traps for it. About a dozen volunteers formed The City Cat Crew. Brown says it's Delaware's most concentrated and comprehensive TNR program.
Estimates are there are 600 feral cats in Harrington.The City Cat Crew has TNR'd almost 400 in five separate trapping sessions.
Tartt says people have already noticed positive results like fewer kittens around. Tieman points to other improvements.
"We were getting complaints about feral cats, one or two a month," she said. "We've had one or two this year."
Brown says if TNR is done correctly it requires less and less work each year as an area's feral cat population drops. That's exactly what Tartt is hoping to see long-term.
"I envision the stray and feral cat population in Harrington being around the 200 mark."
Groups like PETA oppose TNR as a way to deal with feral cat populations. They say feral cats often suffer out in the world. Supporters say TNR is far more humane than trapping and euthanizing.
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Celebrities of Hollywood are not just the victim of leaked cell phone photos and it has now become evident when photos of 24 year old, Argentinean Noelia Marzol were leaked out all over the internet right out of her bath tub this morning.
Noelia Marzol is a popular television personality in Argentina as she is the host of one of the most popular Argentinean game shows "3, 2, 1 A ganar!. The photos which are leaked from her stolen cell phone are taken by herself while she was in her bath-tub.
Noelia Marzol has also appeared in many adult photo-shoot's for various Argentinean and international magazines with little or no clothing but there is always something about these leaked photos which doesn't stop the people from stealing celebrities cellphones and hacking into their computers to leak their private photos.
Earlier, this month Scarlett Johansson [Unlink]'s private photos were also leaked which resulted in Johansson taking a legal action against the unknown person who leaked her photos online. The FBI is still investigating on the case and her lawyers are trying to get the images removed from the Internet. Although the damage has been done.
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This lovely photo brought to you buy the noonday sun smack dab in the middle of my driveway. Once again, my neighbors think I am a lunatic.
This bowl is a gorgeous amalgam of whatever-I-could-finds, including: yellow pepper, red pepper, broccoli, tempeh, red quinoa and millet.
I don't believe you are what you eat (or where you work, or what you drive, or who you call friends), but if I'm wrong and this is, in fact true, I think eating beautiful food is a pretty safe bet.