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International Transport Fed backs calls for independent investigation into Arab bus driver's death
PA denies postponing statehood bid at Security Council
State charges Palestinian with stabbing of IDF soldier at Tel Aviv train station
IDF forces arrest 11 Palestinians overnight in West Bank
Barkat: My goal is to be able to respond within one minute to any security incident
Livnat blasts Likud for rightward shift
Ya'alon praises Chuck Hagel as 'true friend'
Shaked: Haredi enlistment to IDF for 2014/5 likely to be met
Rivlin takes on cause of rights of battered non-Jewish wives
Mild blows may cause major head injuries
Sharp rise in additional, private health insurance costs
Health Scan: BGU course makes med students more empathetic
The toilet taboo
Zion Tech: Israeli start up Dogiz helps dogs and owners socialize
Zion Tech: Our Israeli start-up of the week aims to make air pollution visible
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Wadi
'Leviathan gas reservoir to begin flowing by early 2018'
Two Israeli films make the Oscar short list
Funeral Monday for Israel Zamir, only son of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Festival review: Curtain Up 2014
JEST's grand finale
Jerusalem still perfect after tough battle in Rishon
Sakhnin edges Beitar in subdued showdown
Rishon's credentials to come under scrutiny vs J'lem
Vermut clinches dramatic win for Hapoel TA
US Jewish students' difficulties draw notice of Knesset panel
4-year-old Kippa-wearing boy, Israeli tourist attacked
Swiss Museum to accept Gurlitt collection
WATCH: Thousands of Chabad rabbis convene for annual gathering in New York
Turkish governor's wish to morph synagogue into museum raises ire
US, Israel praise extension as safe path forward in Iran nuclear talks
Voters may turn back the clock on 'Arab Spring'
Diplomacy more 'effective' than alternatives with Iran, Kerry says
Turkish president Erdogan: Women are not equal to men, should accept motherhood as societal role
Netanyahu: Lack of Iran deal gives chance to stiffen economic sanctions
The last of the anti-Semites
On my mind: Arab-Jewish tensions
The 'peace process' that kills
Letters: November 24, 2014
Fundamentally Freund: Who's afraid of a Jewish nation-state?
Wishful doing
Cinema of reconciliation
On the volcano's edge
Knowledge, power and abuse
Q&A with a Colombian lone soldier
European Press: Dividing line
Veterans: Keeping an ear out for change
Book Review: Written from his heart
This Week in Jerusalem
Who is your God?
Grapevine: Amazing place
A voice from India
Happily Eva After: When the going gets tough...
Grapevine: Reclaiming our heritage
Upscale dining in Neveh Tzedek
Obama: Helping terror go nuclear
On incitement, lots of talk but little action
To finally look behind the news
Recognizing Palestine – anomalies and ambiguities
A song for Cheshvan: 'The Eucalyptus Grove'
דְיוֹקְנְאוֹת תַרְבּוּת
מָה הַסִיפּוּר?
הָאַרְכִיוֹן שֶל רוֹמַן וִישְנִיָאק
Har Nof in flames
A First Look: Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman
Bennett announces Water City for Israeli technologies in Shougang, China
Sail Away with me
Q&A with a Guatemalan combat soldier
Meet the Ambassador: No longer a conference diplomat
Tempête au sein de la coalition
Crise de confiance
Qui prendra la relève de Mahmoud Abbas ?
Arafat, Abbas, même combat ?
Daniel Oren, maestro d'Israël, d'Italie et d'ailleurs !
Nos plus belles années ?
De Berlin à New York, 1920-1975
Le pogrome de Constantine
Le pot de chocolat liégeois par qui le scandale arrive
Le dernier kibboutz
La course aux étoiles
Les mordus du français
On n'invite pas un pyromane à éteindre un incendie
Tuer l'EI dans l'œuf
Le mont du Temple et la guerre sainte de l'islam
Les attentats du lundi 10 novembre vus par la presse française
L'Europe, nouvelle alliée d'Abbas ?
Ces enseignants-éclaireurs
Christian priest speaks out strongly in favor of Jewish state law
Hispanic Evangelicals among Israel's greatest supporters
Christians United for Israel Chairman John Hagee says Obama is anti-Semitic
Temple Mount: Common ground between Jews and Christians
Pope Francis condemns Palestinian violence
KKL Belgium Donates Portable Bomb Shelter to Kiryat Gat
KKL-JNF Awards 2014 Blumberg Prize
Exploring the Ilanot Botanical Garden and the Vickar Observation Point
Cornerstone Laid for Sports Rehab Park at Meir Hospital
Mexican Politician and Business Leader Miguel Aleman Velasco Visits KKL-JNF in Jerusalem
International Conference in Sde Boker: Combating Desertification Together
Rehabilitation of the Lower Jordan: Bringing the River Back to Life
Central America Celebrates Independence at the Rabin Center
In his Footsteps: Heritage Excursions in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin
Cleanup Day Activities in Central Israel
International Cleanup Day: Cleaning Together in Northern Israel
KKL-JNF's Eyes in the Forest - The Horshim Forest Green Patrol
Israel Today and Tomorrow: KKL France Mission Visits Israel
Start-up Israel: KKL Italy November Mission Learns about Israel's Past and Future
KKL-JNF and Desert Agriculture Latin American Diplomats visit the Negev
A Successful Annual Fundraising Event for KKL Milan
Living Green in Israel: the Contest and the Winners
Addressing Climate Change Conference
Nurturing the Foresters of the Future
Saving the Sabras
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Grapevine: September significance
Security and defense: The test of deterrence
Searching for the middle ground between war and peace
Politics: Has Hamas killed the Zionist Left?
Not like lambs to the slaughter
Arab World: Failing to see the broader picture
Email as it was in ancient times
Grapevine: Rivlin introduces 'Savta Nechama'
Gaza's morning after
Politics: Déjà vu all over again
Behind the Lines: Islamic State's explosive advance
The religious cleansing of Iraq's Christians
In Thespotlight
02/15/2013 01:48
Dov Lipman gets flowers from female MKs 370.
(photo credit:Lahav Harkov)
While a handshake may be an everyday gesture or a simple courtesy to some, it's
a whole other ball game for religious politicians, as the first days of the 19th
Knesset showed.On Wednesday, MK Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid), the first
American-born member of Knesset in almost 30 years, gave his inaugural speech in
the plenum. Lipman referred to his upbringing in an ultra- Orthodox community in
the US in an impassioned plea for haredi parties to support employment, IDF
service and general education for their constituents.As Lipman described
his religious background and quoted Moses and medieval philosopher Moses
Maimonides to strengthen his point, MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid) weaved her way
through the rows of lawmakers' seats, handing out roses to all of her party's
female members.No, it wasn't an early Valentine's Day gift.Most
of Yesh Atid's MKs make a point of staying in the plenum the entire time it is
active, especially when their fellow party members speak.Invariably, the
speeches are followed by party leader Yair Lapid and the rest of the faction
rushing to the foot of the stage to give handshakes and hugs – Lapid's bear hugs
are already legendary – to the new lawmaker that spoke.Since Lipman is
what is known in Jewishly observant circles as "shomer negia," meaning he does
not touch non-family members of the opposite sex. Calderon, Yael German, Adi Kol
and other female Yesh Atid MKs could not congratulate him according to party
custom.Instead, they found a creative alternative, presenting him, one
by one, with flowers, until he held a full bouquet.While the women of
Yesh Atid were sensitive to Lipman's lifestyle, if a female does put out her
hand to Lipman to shake it, he would oblige rather than embarrass her, but he
does not initiate handshakes.Likud Beytenu MK Moshe Feiglin took a
different tack, publicizing the fact that he shook the hands of female lawmakers
who approached him after he made his plenum debut.On Thursday, Feiglin
posted on Facebook his response to a letter from a concerned supporter who asked
him why he would be willing to shake women's hands."In the past, I did
not shake hands, until I learned that it is not forbidden. [A handshake] is
touching out of politeness and not out of affection," Feiglin wrote.The
Likud Beytenu MK added that "the walls built between different parts of the
nation, the inability to listen and connect based on the things that unite us
threaten us more than the danger in giving up on a religious
stringency."Feiglin also wrote that he sought his rabbi's advice, and
behaves according to what he was told.The issue of handshakes has come
up in the past, with MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud Beytenu) taking a path in between
Lipman and Feiglin in the last Knesset, her first term as a lawmaker.If
a man puts out his hand for her to shake it, Hotovely usually won't reject him
in order to avoid making him uncomfortable – since, according to the Talmud,
embarrassing someone is akin to murder – but she also makes sure to let him know
that, in the future, she would prefer not to touch him.Still, in 2010,
when Petah Tikva Hesder Yeshiva Rabbi Yuval Cherlow released a halachic ruling
that shaking hands with the opposite sex is permissible, Hotovely said, "It's
important to respect human sensitivities, but at the same time, it's important
to respect those who are strict and do not shake hands."
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Former Duke forward Lance Thomas being sued for overdue jewelry bill
Sep 7, 2012, 6:29 PM EST
According to the Associated Press, former Duke forward Lance Thomas is being sued for not paying an outstanding balance on nearly $100,000 worth of custom jewelry he purchased back in 2009 from a New York-based jeweler.
Where does college basketball come into play for the current New Orleans Hornet? The date of purchase (December 21, 2009; Duke beat Gonzaga 76-41 at Madison Square Garden on the 19th of that month), which lands square in the middle of his senior season at Duke.
The Blue Devils went on to win the national title that season, beating Butler 61-59 in the championship game.
According to the report Thomas dropped a $30,000 down payment for five pieces of diamond jewelry that cost a total of $97,800, and the suit was filed back in January in Austin, Texas.
At the time the suit was filed Thomas was a member of the Austin Toros of the NBA D-League.
The firm, Rafaello & Co., caters to celebrities and professional athletes and approved Thomas for a $67,800 line of credit that remains unpaid.
One question from a compliance standpoint isn't the fact that Thomas made the purchase but rather where that $30,000 came from.
[Rafaello & Co. attorney Mike] Bowers said he's seen no evidence that anyone other than Thomas was involved in the transaction and he doesn't know why the Duke player was extended credit for most of the purchase.
"It was a clean, clear-cut transaction between Mr. Thomas and my client, and I don't see anything that warrants me asking anything beyond that," Bowers said. "Speaking hypothetically, if he came in on a bicycle with tattered jeans, I doubt seriously he would have been sold jewelry, but I'm not drawing conclusions. The terms here are clear."
If Thomas received the money from a relative or a person the NCAA terms as an "established family friend" then there's no issue with the $30,000.
Rule 126.96.36.199 reads as follows:
A student-athlete may receive a loan from an established family friend without such arrangement constituting an extra benefit, provided: [R] (Adopted: 1/11/94)
- (a) The loan is not offered to the student-athlete based in any degree on his or her athletics ability or reputation;
- (b) The individual providing the loan is not considered a representative of the institution's athletics interests; and
- (c) The relationship between the individual providing the loan and the student-athlete existed prior to the initiation of the student-athlete's recruitment by the member institution.
As for the remaining $67,800 the question there is whether or not the loan was provided with Thomas' future earnings as a professional being considered, which is against NCAA rules.
...it would be if he received $67,800 credit based on expected future basketball earnings. NCAA prohibits that. Going to be interesting—
Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) September 07, 2012
Duke associate athletic director for media relations Jon Jackson informed the AP that the school was aware of the lawsuit and was looking into the matter.
Raphielle is also the assistant editor at CollegeHoops.net and can be followed on Twitter at @raphiellej.
POSTERIZED: Wyoming's Larry Nance Jr. throws down an alley-oop in traffic
Nov 23, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
Looks like Larry Nance Jr. is fully recovered from last season's ACL injury.
Division III school makes buzzer-beating three-pointer against same opponent in back-to-back years (VIDEOS)
Nov 23, 2014, 10:00 AM EST
This is one of the wildest buzzer-beaters I've ever seen and the back story makes it that much more incredible.
Pregame Shootaround: Tip-Off Tournaments and some ranked teams headline Sunday
Nov 23, 2014, 9:10 AM EST
Tournament action resumes on a busy Sunday of college hoops.
Quinn Cook is thriving as an off-guard, and No. 4 Duke will reap the benefits
Nov 23, 2014, 3:56 AM EST
Concerns about Cook moving off the ball seem foolish through five games.
Late Night Snacks: Rhode Island, Wyoming picks up big home wins
Nov 23, 2014, 2:00 AM EST
No. 21 Nebraska was the lone ranked team to fall on Saturday, but give them credit for being willing to go on the road to play a dangerous opponent.
Indiana's Devin Davis in attendance for team's win over Lamar (VIDEO)
Nov 23, 2014, 12:05 AM EST
Devin Davis has been rehabbing from injuries suffered on November 1 in his hometown of Indianapolis.
Duke's Justise Winslow jumps over Stanford's Chasson Randle (VIDEO)
Nov 22, 2014, 11:33 PM EST
Most people already knew that Winslow's a high-level athlete. Here's some evidence for those who somehow didn't.
Rhode Island pays tribute to Nebraska assistant coach's son (PHOTOS)
Nov 22, 2014, 11:22 PM EST
Before their game against No. 21 Nebraska, Rhode Island took the floor in shirts honoring Avery Harriman.
Two key Florida players declared questionable for Battle 4 Atlantis
Nov 22, 2014, 9:44 PM EST
Florida faces Georgetown in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis Wednesday.
Rhode Island upsets No. 21 Nebraska, 66-62, in overtime
Nov 22, 2014, 9:37 PM EST
The score was tied 41-41 with six minutes to go. Rams and Cornhuskers traded the lead five times after that.
Second-half efficiency the difference as Wyoming steamrolls Colorado
Nov 22, 2014, 8:06 PM EST
Wyoming may have scored just 56 points, but all 22 of their made field goals were assisted and they shot nearly 53 percent from the field.
P.J. Boutte's buzzer-beating floater pushes IUPUI past Ball State (VIDEO)
Nov 22, 2014, 6:17 PM EST
Boutte's shot came seconds after he corralled a wayward pass from teammate Marcellus Barksdale.
Colorado State's Larry Eustachy receives contract extension through 2019
Nov 22, 2014, 5:43 PM EST
Eustachy led the Rams to a school-record 26 wins in 2012-13.
No. 6 North Carolina wins as Kennedy Meeks posts another double-double
Nov 22, 2014, 4:58 PM EST
Meeks accounted for two double-doubles all season in 2013-14. He's now matched that total through three games.
Providence cruises past struggling Florida State as Kris Dunn looks like a major factor
Nov 22, 2014, 4:46 PM EST
Providence jumped out to a quick 9-0 lead and cruised to an easy win over Florida State.
After slow start, Notre Dame uses nice guard balance, defense to run past UMass
Nov 22, 2014, 2:30 PM EST
Notre Dame guards Demetrius Jackson and Jerian Grant played well to help lead the Irish to victory.
Report: 2015 CBE Classic field announced
Nov 22, 2014, 1:40 PM EST
The 2015 CBE Classic will have a local flavor.
Ball State suspends reigning MAC Freshman of the Year indefinitely
Nov 22, 2014, 12:30 PM EST
Ball State will be without a key piece for the immediate future.
Florida guard will miss at least a few games with foot injury as team hopes for positive news
Nov 22, 2014, 11:30 AM EST
Florida will be without a key guard for at least a few games.
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Penguins of Madagascar
The pacing is so zany, the jokes are so rapid-fire and the sight gags are so inspired that it's impossible not to get caught up…
The pacing is so zany, the jokes are so rapid-fire and the sight gags are so inspired that it's impossible not to get caught up…
The law of diminishing returns, which has afflicted so many comedy sequels over the years, strikes again in "Horrible Bosses 2," further proving that just…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A radio review of "Life Itself" from Mark Kermode of The Guardian.
A photo essay following Londoners through Roger Ebert's Perfect London Walk.
An interview with Jürgen Fauth, longtime film critic for About.com, and author of the anthology "Raves."
A report on films that screened at the 2014 San Diego Asian Film Festival.
A report on films that screened at the 2014 San Diego Asian Film Festival.
A report on "Song of the Sea" and "Over Your Dead Body" at the 2014 AFI Fest.
A tribute to Jessica Lange on her acceptance of the Kirk Douglas Award.
A review of the new Criterion release of Monte Hellman's "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind."
On some dumb fundamental level, "Airport" kept me interested for a couple of hours. I can't quite remember why. The plot has few surprises (you know and I know that no airplane piloted by Dean Martin ever crashed). The gags are painfully simpleminded (a priest, pretending to cross himself, whacks a wise guy across the face). And the characters talk in regulation B-movie clichés like no B-movie you've seen in ten years. Example: A bomb blows a hole in the airplane and weakens the tail structure. Martin's co-pilot says: "Listen, Vern, I want you to know that if there's anything I can do..." What's he talking about? Martin's girl.
The movie has a lot of expensive stars, but only two (Helen Hayes and Van Heflin) have wit enough to abandon all pretense of seriousness. Even Martin, who can be charming in a movie when he relaxes, plays a straight hero-type this time. Burt Lancaster is even straighter and more heroic, as needs be, since he has to run the airport, supervise George Kennedy in pulling out a stuck Boeing 707, and decide to divorce his wife, all at the same time.
But Miss Hayes and Heflin apparently realized early on that "Airport" was going to be a deadly dull affair, and they went about salvaging their own roles, at least. Miss Hayes milks her role of a little-old-lady stowaway for all it's conceivably worth, and I have a suspicion she wrote some of her own dialogue. It's warmer and more humorous than the stiff lines everyone else has to recite, and she won an Oscar for the role.
Heflin, as the guy with the bomb in his briefcase, is perhaps the only person in the cast to realize how metaphysically absurd "Airport" basically is. The airplane already has a priest, two nuns, three doctors, a stowaway, a customs officer's niece, a pregnant stewardess, two black GIs, a loudmouthed kid, a henpecked husband, and Dean Martin aboard, right? So obviously the bomber has to be typecast, too.
Heflin sweats, shakes, peers around nervously, clutches his briefcase to his chest, refuses to talk to anybody, and swallows a lot. The customs officer sees him going on the plane and notices "something in his eyes." Also in his ears, nose, and throat. What Heflin does is undermine the structure of the whole movie with a sort of subversive overacting. Once the bomber becomes ridiculous, the movie does, too. That's good, because it never had a chance at being anything else.
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A report on Japanese animation at the 27th Tokyo Film Festival.
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The Babadook
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The finest and most genuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century
It's a fascinating look into a creative process that has been essential to the history of animation, but it could have been tighter as a…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A radio review of "Life Itself" from Mark Kermode of The Guardian.
A photo essay following Londoners through Roger Ebert's Perfect London Walk.
An interview with Jürgen Fauth, longtime film critic for About.com, and author of the anthology "Raves."
A report on films that screened at the 2014 San Diego Asian Film Festival.
A report on films that screened at the 2014 San Diego Asian Film Festival.
A report on "Song of the Sea" and "Over Your Dead Body" at the 2014 AFI Fest.
A tribute to Jessica Lange on her acceptance of the Kirk Douglas Award.
A review of the new Criterion release of Monte Hellman's "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind."
In the computer business, they call it vaporware: software that is announced, advertised and even sold, but that never quite exists. Maybe in the movie business we could coin the term vaporfilm, for movies that zip right through our brains without hitting any memory molecules.
"Summer School" is a movie like that, a comedy so listless, leisurely and unspirited that it was an act of the will for me to care about it, even while I was watching it. This movie has no particular reason for being, other than to supply employment for people whose job possibilities will not be enhanced by it.
"Summer School" stars Mark Harmon, an actor with some respectable credentials, as a high school teacher who gets stuck with summer school. The misfits in his class all have been sentenced to a summer of remedial English, and his job is to teach them, whether he likes them or not. They're lazy, rebellious, cretinous louts, so Harmon does what any teacher would do: He lowers himself to their level and shamelessly offers them bribes for attending class.
It's obligatory in these movies that you have representatives of the basic types of movie teenagers. We need the creep, the nerd, the jock, the pregnant girl, the sexpot, the shy one, the sleepy one and so on. One of each is represented in "Summer School," all of them equally forgettable.
Some so-called love interest is provided by Kirstie Alley as the sexy teacher down the hallway. She and Harmon perform the basic romantic three-step from Screenwriting 101: (1) She can't stand him; (2) she learns to accept him, and (3) they fall in love. It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.
The movie contains: practical jokes, field trips, rebellion, acceptance, evil principals, absent girlfriends, a birth, a scene involving lots of special-effects makeup, a display of total teaching ineptitude, and some very mild sex. It doesn't even have the nerve to be vulgar, to be the kind of mass trash that the ads promise. It's a vaporfilm. You see it, you leave the theater, and then it evaporates, leaving just a slight residue, something like a vaguely unpleasant taste in the memory.
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A report from the macing incident at yesterday's AFI screening.
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You have to give Marco Wiles credit. He may not be reinventing the wheel, but he certainly has a knack for introducing Italian traditions to Houston mainstream diners. He perfected crispy Neopolitan-style pizza at his nearby restaurant Dolce Vita. His latest concept, Poscol, focuses on Italian small plates, from pastas to salads. Like Spain with its tapas, Italy boasts a similar tradition with a wide array of dried sausages and cheeses. The mix-and-match possibilities are appealing, although there are so many combinations, that we gave up and asked the manager for suggestions. (He was moonlighting from nearly Da Marco, another fabulous Wiles' restaurant.) At Poscol, the fun is in trying and coming across something you really love, like the house-made salumi. Want to be adventurous? The veal tongue and headcheese, sliced paper-thin for maximum flavor and texture, are certainly worth a try. Cured meats are interesting. Cut them too thick and they become clumsy. Slice them sheet-thin, as they do her, and they seem magical, melting on your palate with an elegant earthiness that brings to mind Tuscany's beautiful rolling hills.
Try Poscol's selection of Italian wines, some at bargain rates of $6 a glass. And don't pass up dessert, particularly the Italian fried doughnut hole and the dried figs soaked in wine.
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|27th Annual Wortham Theater Center Tree Lighting Ceremony
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HMC CEO describes hospital's financial state
The financial problems of Hillsboro Community Hospital operator HMC/CAH Consolidated are moving toward a positive resolution as soon as this summer, but those attending the community forum Tuesday at Hillsboro Community Hospital were cautioned one hurdle remains. HMC CEO Larry Arthur described for the approximately 60 attendees the complicated financial developments since November 2010 that led to the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in October. The final blow came when a $6 million line of credit HMC used to facilitate daily financial operations was restructured in a way that allowed the creditor to collect HMC's deposits, apply them toward outstanding debt, and then loan cash back to HMC.
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Police arrested a man in the shooting death of another man in Edgard on Friday, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office.
Casimere August, Jr., 50, was found shot to death on Katrina Lane just before 7 p.m. Friday.
Investigators said they identified a suspect in the case, Darrell Williams, 20, and arrested him at his home in the 100 block of Tigerville Loop.
Williams was charged with second-degree murder.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office at 985-359-TIPS or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.
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U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials preview
Dec 26, 2013, 1:04 PM EST
Up to 20 more athletes will qualify for Sochi at the U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials in Salt Lake City over the next week.
The U.S. has won more medals in speed skating than any other Winter Olympic sport, and it is projected to add to that total of 67 in Sochi.
Shani Davis is a four-time Olympic medalist and entered in both of his Olympic medal events this week — the 1000m (Sunday) and 1500m (Tuesday) — and the 500m (Saturday).
Davis, 31. is not entered in the 5000m, an event he competed in at the 2010 Olympics. This is not surprising as Davis has pared his schedule in recent seasons as he's fought injury.
World sprint champion Heather Richardson and world record holder Brittany Bowe are expected to be the top U.S. women in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m. They are Sochi Olympic medal threats along with Davis.
Here's the Olympic Trials schedule (all times Eastern):
Friday — Men's 5000m/Women's 3000m, 5:30 p.m. (NBCSN, 8 p.m.)
Saturday — Men's/Women's 500m, 11:30 a.m. (NBC, 3 p.m.)
Sunday — Men's/Women's 1000m, 1:30 p.m. (NBC, 3 p.m.)
Tuesday — Men's/Women's 1500m, 5 p.m. (NBCSN, 6 p.m.)
Wednesday — Men's 10,000m/Women's 5000m, 3:30 p.m. (NBCSN, 5 p.m.)
The U.S. cannot send more than 10 men and 10 women to the Sochi Olympics, even though it qualified more than 10 quota spots across all distances via World Cup results.
Therefore, it will help if Davis, Richardson, Bowe and others qualify for the team in multiple events.
The U.S. could have up to four Olympic entries each in the men's and women's 500m and 1000m and the men's 1500m. It could have up to three in the women's 1500m and men's 5000m. It could have up to two in the women's 3000m and one in the women's 5000m and men's 10,000m.
Here's an event-by-event preview of the U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials:
Men's 500m
Maximum Olympic entries: Four
Contenders: Tucker Fredricks, Mitchell Whitmore, Joey Mantia, Jonathan Garcia, Shani Davis
Fredricks, 29, is a two-time Olympian, but his best results have not come at the Games (25th and 12th). At his best, he has threatened the best in the world.
In a surprise, Fredricks began the World Cup season as the fastest man in Calgary, Alberta, in early November. He hasn't made the podium since but appears to still be the top American.
Whitmore, 24 and the American record holder, has finished no lower than 15th over eight World Cup races this season. He is a solid No. 2 behind Fredricks and should make his second Olympic team after finishing 37th in Vancouver.
Mantia and Garcia were third and fourth to Fredricks and Whitmore at time trials at the Salt Lake City oval last week.
Women's 500m
Maximum Olympic entries: Four
Contenders: Heather Richardson, Brittany Bowe, Elli Ochowicz, Sugar Todd, Lauren Cholewinski
Richardson, the former inline skater from High Point, N.C., has been the fastest American woman each of the last five seasons. She was sixth at the 2010 Olympics, won the World Sprint Championship in January and made the podium in three of eight World Cup races this season.
Bowe, the former college basketball player, has gained on Richardson since taking up speed skating after watching Richardson on TV at the 2010 Olympics. She has yet to make a World Cup 500m podium but hasn't finished lower than 11th in eight races this season.
Ochowicz, 30, is the daughter of three-time 1976 Olympic speed skating medalist Sheila Young and Jim Ochowicz, who manages the BMC Pro Cycling Racing Team. She is trying to make her fourth Olympic team. Her best Olympic finish is 17th.
Todd and Cholewinski were fourth and fifth behind Richardson, Bowe and Ochowicz at time trials in Salt Lake City last week.
Men's 1000m
Maximum Olympic entries: Four
Contenders: Shani Davis, Brian Hansen, Joey Mantia, Trevor Marsicano, Jonathan Garcia, Mitchell Whitmore
Davis, 31, is the two-time reigning Olympic 1000m champion and the favorite to win Sunday.
Hansen, 23, is also a Sochi medal threat after winning bronze at the first two World Cups of the season. He skipped the last two World Cups overseas to focus on training in Wisconsin.
Mantia, 27, won a bevy of world inline titles in 2009 and 2010 and has been on a stellar rise since switching to ice, especially this season. In his first four World Cup 1000m races, he finished 11th, 11th and second in three B division races for lower-ranked skaters. He moved up to the A division for the last World Cup in Berlin and took sixth, the top American behind Davis.
Marsicano, 24, held the 1000m world record for about 20 minutes in March 2009 before Davis retook it at the same competition. He's struggled with injuries since winning four medals at the 2009 World Championships and is in a fight to make his second Olympic team.
Garcia and Whitmore were the fastest men at time trials in Salt Lake City last week, but that event didn't include Davis, Hansen or Marsicano and Mantia did not finish.
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Women's 1000m
Maximum Olympic entries: Four
Contenders: Heather Richardson, Brittany Bowe, Sugar Todd, Elli Ochowicz, Lauren Cholewinski, Rebekah Bradford
Richardson and Bowe should go one-two in this event, in either order, after taking gold and silver together at three of four World Cups. Richardson won three of those races and took second in the other with the second fastest time ever.
Bowe broke Olympic champion Christine Nesbitt's world record in Salt Lake City on Nov. 17 to relegate Richardson to silver. She's been second to Richardson in the 1000m World Cup standings each of the last two seasons.
The fight for third and fourth is among 500m hopefuls Todd, Ochowicz and Cholewinski as well as 2010 Olympian Bradford.
Men's 1500m
Maximum Olympic entries: Four
Contenders: Shani Davis, Joey Mantia, Brian Hansen, Trevor Marsicano, Jonathan Kuck
Davis is the two-time reigning Olympic 1500m silver medalist. He could get competition from Mantia, who won the last World Cup event in the second A division start of his career on Dec. 6 (Davis was eighth).
Hansen has won World Cup 1500m medals each of the last two seasons. Marsicano and Kuck appear to be fighting for fourth, though Kuck is better in longer distances.
Women's 1500m
Maximum Olympic entries: Three
Contenders: Brittany Bowe, Heather Richardson, Jilleanne Rookard
Bowe, faster than Richardson here, made two of four World Cup podiums this season. Richardson made her first career World Cup 1500m podium in Salt Lake City on Nov. 16, putting her in the Sochi medal mix.
Rookard, a 2010 Olympian, leads a group racing for third.
Women's 3000m
Maximum Olympic entries: Two
Contenders: Jilleanne Rookard, Maria Lamb, Petra Acker, Anna Ringsred
As the distances get longer, the U.S. Olympic medal prospects get dimmer. No U.S. woman has finished in the top 10 of a World Cup 3000m the last three seasons.
Rookard, 12th at the 2010 Olympics, was the last to make a World Cup 3000m podium, winning an event in November 2010.
The 2010 Olympian Lamb is stronger in the 5000m. Acker and Ringsred are trying to make their first Olympic teams.
Men's 5000m
Maximum Olympic entries: Three
Contenders: Jonathan Kuck, Brian Hansen, Emery Lehman, Patrick Meek
Kuck made the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team at 19 and went on to win silver one month later at the World Allround Championships, an event that measures skaters across all distances. Kuck is best at the 5000m and 10,000m and a clear favorite to win both events this week.
Hansen sparingly races the 5000m internationally. Lehman, 17, could become the youngest male member of the entire U.S. Olympic Team.
Women's 5000m
Maximum Olympic entries: One
Contenders: Maria Lamb, Jilleanne Rookard
The single spot is likely to come down to the two women who competed in the 2010 Olympic 5000m. Rookard was eighth at the Olympics, seven spots ahead of Lamb, but the younger Lamb was three seconds faster than Rookard at the only World Cup 5000m this season.
Men's 10,000m
Maximum Olympic entries: One
Contenders: Jonathan Kuck, Emery Lehman, Patrick Meek
No American has been within 10 seconds of Kuck in any of the last three seasons. The single spot should be his if he wants it.
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Billboard writes that Stevie Knicks is joining NBC's THE VOICE as an adviser for Adam Levine's team in the show's seventh season.
According to the report, Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) has been working with the 12 team members on assigning songs and rehearsing for battle rounds.
More advisers will be announced shortly.
Nicks kicks off a 33-city tour this September. She is well known for her work as part of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, with over 40 Top 50 hits and more than 140 million albums sold. Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and has received five GRAMMY nominations; Nicks has been nominated for eight GRAMMYs for her solo work. Nicks also recently appeared in AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN on FX.
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"The Voice" returns with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete in the blockbuster vocal competition show's sixth season. Celebrity musicians and coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton return, while Carson Daly continues to serve as host.
The show's innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts and finally, the live performance shows.
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Tesco blames horsemeat scandal and fall in big-ticket electrical sales after UK sales slump
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James Thompson is a business reporter at The Independent.
Wednesday 05 June 2013
Tesco says the horsemeat scandal and dire trading on big-ticket electricals is responsible for a decline in its UK sales.
The news is a blow for its £1 billion plan to revitalise its stuttering domestic operation.
The grocery giant also suffered falling sales in many of the 12 countries in which it operates overseas, although it said it was in "advanced discussions" to sell its failed US business, Fresh & Easy, to undisclosed third parties.
Tesco invested about £1 billion in its British business last year and appeared to have turned a corner after delivering underlying sales growth in its third and fourth quarters. But its UK like-for-like sales fell by 1 per cent in the 13 weeks to May 25, driven by tanking demand for consumer electronics, such as big TVs. This leaves it trailing Sainsbury's 3.6 per cent and Asda's 1.3 per cent growth but ahead of Morrisons' 1.8 per cent sales fall.
Tesco admitted it was hit by becoming embroiled in the horsemeat scandal, although it said that only four products out of 1,850 contained traces of equine DNA. Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke said the contamination had a "small but discernible impact" on its sales of frozen beef and chilled readymeals but said these categories had now almost recovered to previous levels.
Clarke, who took the helm in March 2011, said its core grocery business had remained in growth, adding it was already replacing much of the space previously allocated for consumer electronics in its 850 biggest stores with more food, stationery, homewares and clothing. The Tesco lifer said: "The general merchandise changes are a top-line drag, not a bottom-line drag. We are exiting categories that don't generate any substantial profit for us."
Tesco's like-for-like sales in Asia fell by 3.8 per cent, while they tumbled by 5.5 per cent in central Europe. Dan Coen, a director at advisory firm Zolfo Cooper, said: "Philip Clarke's turnaround plan is yet to look convincing, but it is still early days."
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Rule of the gun and soul of America
America's status as a big power has penetrated the consciousness of ordinary citizens
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The trait they all appear to have in common is not just that they are wrong in the head. They also share that malignant condition of being reclusive dropouts, loners estranged from family and society. And what is the point of searching for a motive in the sick mind of a mindless killer, all the while extrapolating from our perspective as rational individuals?
The massacre in Aurora, Colorado, last week left Americans stunned, shocked and bewildered. To ask why a 24-year-old nobody called James Holmes walked into a movie theatre, armed to the teeth, and opened fire, killing 12 and injuring close to 60 patrons, misses the point. Others before him, others like him, had gone on similar rampages in Columbine, Virginia Tech and Tucson — and at Fort Hood Army base in Texas; at the entrance to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, where the perpetrator improbably was an 88-year-old senior citizen.
All for no ostensible reason. And when, say, David Chapman, a 25-year-old nobody killed John Lennon in December 1980 — as the pop star was about to enter his building — and then sat down on the sidewalk reading J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye while waiting for the police, he too seemingly did it for no ostensible reason, though in Chapman's twisted mind he may have seen himself as an angry Holden Caulfield exacting vengeance on an authority figure revered by a hypocritical society.
To blame it all on lax gun control laws, or attribute it to the need of a nobody to suddenly become a somebody, a notion that much of the public debate appears to posit, falls short of the mark. The explanation is too facile, failing as it does to engage the wider issues which spring from the very ethos of American culture itself. For why is it that we do not see similarly senseless acts of violence, or see them rarely, in other countries around the world, including countries in the Middle East, where guns abound? Here's an example: In 1981, while on a writing assignment, I spent five weeks in several Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon where virtually everyone, including teenagers, carried all manners of handguns, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades, made readily available to people under assault and under stress. Yet, you never encountered a single lone assassin who went on the rampage, killing people in a movie theatre, on campus or outside a supermarket.
What can explain this crazy quilt? American society is obviously different, more privileged and more endowed than other countries around the world. But it is not necessarily better or more advanced, more competent, as it were, at apprehending nature, social relations and human conduct. The idea that Americans inhabit a reality imbued with "exceptionalism" may not be true, but it is culturally acquired as a norm, experienced as effortlessly as one experiences the wince of one's muscles. Under stress of hatred, of alienation, of boredom, of sudden fear, a great gap opens in society. And there will always be that individual — a representative of the mass malaise — who will discover, with sickening conviction, that he and the community shared no common language, that his previous understanding of it, his communion with it, had been based on trivial pidgin.
The symbolic and expressive constraints encoded in everyday life are then left by the wayside. And he will lash out, just as James Holmes lashed out last week. In no time, of course, Americans will discover everything there is to discover about the background of this young man, just as they had discovered everything there was to discover about the backgrounds of previous killers like him. But it will all be cold comfort as America grieves, as Americans mourn, as society ponders how to deal with the unspeakable.
Guns proliferate in the US (reportedly 45 per cent of Americans have a gun at home) and no doubt the debate over how to balance a citizen's right to "hold arms" and the state's right to prevent a tragedy like that at Aurora from recurring, will continue. But really, in the end, it's not about gun ownership or gun control, an interminable debate of desperate monotony. Rather it is about understanding the soul of America as a big power and how its projection of that power will, in mysterious, subliminal ways, insinuate itself into the inward preoccupations of alienated, ultimately disturbed individuals.
As the New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow reminded us in his piece earlier last week, quoting Howard Friedman, a statistician and economist for the United Nations: "America's homicide rates, incarceration rates and gun ownership rates are all much higher than other wealthy countries. While the data associated with crime is imperfect, these facts all point to the idea that America is more violent than many other wealthy countries".
And why is America more violent? Very simply this: Its status as a big power has penetrated the consciousness of ordinary citizens with a sense of the rule of the gun. Since roughly the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, and to a lesser degree long before, going back to its first war in our region against Libya in 1801, America's armies have marched from Normandy to Okinawa, from Vietnam to Lebanon, from Panama to Afghanistan, and from Grenada to Iraq, reshaping the world in their path. War, for several generations of Americans, was no longer a matter of archives, but had become woven into the fabric of their everyday lives. And from time to time, some of that terror spills over from the system to the subsystem.
How America may, one day, find a way to deal with these tragic outbursts by disturbed individuals will test its intellectual reach, its ability to ask the right questions, to break novel ground in finally getting it right.
Meanwhile, will someone, please, find Holmes, this young man with that dreadful, red-dyed hair, the right shrink and, after his case is adjudicated in court, the right psychiatric facility where he could spend the rest of his life?
Fawaz Turki is a journalist, lecturer and author based in Washington. He is the author of The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile.
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At the same time, it makes the point that change (the loss of our property, both material and metaphysical) is inevitable.
Chekhov insisted The Cherry Orchard was a comedy bordering on farce, while Stanislavski stressed its tragic qualities, and Stoppard's rendering conveys its mix of attributes — the light humour, nostalgia and moments of sombre realism — as well as introducing a few craftily Shakespearean touches.
Although Chekhov characteristically emphasises the ensemble, the key role is that of Lopakhin, and, as this frustrated and somewhat evasive former servant who's now a rich entrepreneur, Simon Russell Beale gives a sensitive performance.
The juxtaposition of the two plays allows us to see the actors' range, and Russell Beale, perhaps lacking a certain animal menace as Lopakhin, proves more completely suited to the Shakespeare. As Leontes, his intelligence illuminates every scene in which he is involved.
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Contrary to expectation, the mixture of British and American accents doesn't jar. But there is a sense of imperfect chemistry.
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