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BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Jerry Sandusky and at least some of his victims plan to address the judge at his sentencing, a proceeding that may last less than two hours, lawyers said after a closed-door meeting to iron out logistics ahead of today's hearing.
Sandusky lawyer Joe Amendola said "it's as certain as certain can be" that the former Penn State assistant football coach will speak to Judge John Cleland and assert his innocence before he is sentenced on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.
"What I anticipate he'll say is he's innocent," Amendola said outside the courthouse Monday afternoon.
Amendola said he did not expect any others to speak on Sandusky's behalf, although friends and family members -- including his wife, Dottie -- have written letters of support. Dottie Sandusky plans to attend the hearing, he said.
Given the number of charges, the serious nature of his crimes and his age, the 68-year-old Sandusky faces the likelihood of a sentence that will send him to state prison for the rest of his life. Sandusky was convicted in June of abusing 10 boys over 15 years, including some attacks inside Penn State athletic facilities.
"The important thing for us is, it starts the appellate process," Amendola said.
One element of the appeal is expected to be a claim that the defence did not have time to adequately prepare for trial. Sandusky was charged in November, following a lengthy investigation.
Tom Kline, lawyer for a young man who said Sandusky groped him in a shower when he was 12 or 13, said his client plans to read a statement today.
"He's going to tell the judge how this has affected him, how it's been painful and difficult," Kline said.
Lead prosecutor Joe McGettigan said as many as a half-dozen victims are expected to be heard.
The eight victims who testified against Sandusky at trial described abuse that ranged from grooming and fondling to oral and anal sex. Sandusky did not take the stand but gave interviews shortly after his arrest in which he declared he was not guilty.
Karl Rominger, another Sandusky defence lawyer, said the sentencing and a related proceeding to determine if Sandusky qualifies as a sexually violent predator under Pennsylvania's version of Megan's Law should take less than two hours.
Rominger said a 30-year minimum sentence -- which would keep Sandusky behind bars at least until he's nearly 100 -- was probably the most the defence could hope for.
Rominger said on WHP radio that Sandusky knows the judge could impose a longer sentence if Sandusky insists he is innocent, but some offences carry mandatory minimums that are likely to translate into an effective life sentence.
"Why worry about the niceties of pleasing the court when it won't change your sentence?" Rominger said.
Along with Sandusky, prosecutors last year also arrested two Penn State administrators and charged them with lying to the grand jury that investigated Sandusky and failing to properly report suspected abuse. Tim Curley, the athletic director on leave, and Gary Schultz, a retired vice-president for business and finance, deny the charges and await trial.
The case led to the firing of longtime head football coach Joe Paterno, who died from lung cancer in January, and the ouster of university President Graham Spanier, who remains a faculty member. Eight legal teams that represent at least 20 victims or other potential civil claimants have surfaced, and Penn State has indicated its desire to settle claims out of court.
After today's sentencing hearing, Sandusky most likely would be sent to Camp Hill state prison. There, he would be tested and evaluated by Department of Corrections personnel, who will determine which institution he will be sent to.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 9, 2012 C8
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- www.lenta.ru on PACE resolution
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Secretary General of PACE W Schwimmer [snip]
has proposed to return the voting rights to Russian
in September [snip].
Schwimmer has positively evaluated actions of the
Russian leadership on improving human rights
the situation in Chechnya. He also noticed that
the large scale military actions are over in Chechnya.
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Microsoft reveals Windows 8 consumer preview and the Windows Store
By Emily Price
February 29, 2012
Microsoft has gotten official with its latest version of Windows, Windows 8. The next generation of the PC operating system is designed to blur the line between the OS on tablets and that on computers, sporting a design that looks reminiscent of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform.
Much like Windows Phone, Windows 8 has a tiled home screen which showcases apps. These can be selected and moved around just like they can on a mobile device and tapped to open. A finger swipe can move you between different pages of the home screen, and you can pinch to enlarge or shrink something on the page just like you might on your smartphone.
Following Apple's lead, Microsoft has its own Windows Store where customers can purchase applications to run on their computers, and those who have multiple Windows devices will be able to connect them together through the "cloud."
The OS also has a new feature called "Windows to Go," which allows you to carry around your own customized version of the OS on a USB thumb drive and access it on any PC. That, coupled with the ability to get the same Windows experience on a tablet, phone, or ultrabook make the Windows experience available almost anywhere you are.
If you want to give Windows 8 a test drive, Microsoft has made a preview of the operating system available as a free download.
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"...sporting a design that looks reminiscent of Microsoft's Windows 1.0 DOS Shell"
Fixed that for you.Gregg Eshelman
1st March, 2012 @ 02:10 pm PST
"... where customers can purchase applications..." too bad if your business model doesn't work like that - like "in app purchasing" for example... no such thing. Oops.
Still, it wouldnt be Microsoft if it just worked though, would it?christopher
1st March, 2012 @ 06:19 pm PST
It looks like Ubuntu with a Windows 8 theme.Evan Dubois
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Bon Iver will release an iTunes session on June 19, as Consequence of Sound points out. Its seven songs are made up of material from the band's self-titled 2011 record and a cover of Björk's "Who Is It".
Coachella Weekend Two Saturday Photos: Radiohead, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, the Shins, More
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The second weekend of Coachella continued yesterday with Radiohead, St. Vincent, Bon Iver, the Shins, Flying Lotus, Andrew Bird, SBTRKT, Laura Marling, and many more. Our photographers Natalie Kardos and Lindsey Best were there.
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Bon Iver performed at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last night, and played a cover of the Band's Northern Lights -- Southern Cross song "Ophelia". The cover paid tribute to the Band's drummer and vocalist Levon Helm, who passed away yesterday.
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Justin Vernon and S. Carey of Bon Iver, Ryan Olson, founder of Vernon's other band Gayngs, and the Minneapolis rapper Astronautalis, have made an album together, On the Tune points out. According to an interview with Astro in City Pages, the group is "hell-bent on getting [the album] out really quickly" and playing shows.
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By Carrie Battan on April 3, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. EDT
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Bon Iver has announced a new leg of this year's massive tour, including a string of U.S. dates in June that will find Justin Vernon on stage at some big time amphitheaters. He'll also appear on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" April 19 and will tape an episode of "Austin City Limits" this month, scheduled to air later this year.
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Lyn Freestone Olsen, 72, of Palm Desert, died suddenly on November 11, 2011. Lyn, son of the late Leland M. and Beulah Olsen, was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah.
He moved to San Francisco in 1961, and later San Jose, where he was employed with American Savings & Loan. He continued at American for many years as Senior Vice President of the Loan Department for Northern California after obtaining his law degree. His professional career in the mortgage business continued when he became a Vice President for World Savings in Northern California. Lyn was a long-time resident of San Jose, Los Gatos and Danville. He moved to Palm Desert following his retirement in 2005.
Lyn was a second generation Eagle Scout. In the early 1950s he lived in Burma with his family for two years where his father worked as an engineer. It was there that he learned the game of tennis. Upon returning to Utah, he continued playing tennis, becoming a Nationally ranked Junior player. His love for the sport continued throughout his life. He was also an avid cyclist, golfer, skier and fisherman. He enjoyed traveling and visited many countries, playing tennis in most of them.
Lyn is survived by his children: Melissa (Alan) Cavallo of Danville, CA; Kristen (Ky) Grant of Campbell, CA; and Erik Olsen of Los Gatos, CA, and his grandchildren Alexa and Megan Cavallo, Jake and McKenzie Grant and Sofia Olsen. He is also survived by brothers Jan and Dennis, and his beloved dog Buddy.
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, December 3rd at Oak Hill Park Community Center, 3005 Stone Valley Road, Danville, at 3:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to the National Tennis Foundation (www.
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Intermarriage Questions Go Beyond "How Will They Raise the Kids?"
A couple of years ago I received a call from a long-time congregant, Steve (I've changed his name and other identifying details). He's very nice, not very involved in synagogue life at this point, though he might have been when his kids were in religious school, before I was the rabbi here. The particular role he takes on, year after year, is setting up for the break-the-fast after Yom Kippur. He enjoys it, and it's important to him. A few years ago his wife died, too young. I did her funeral.
His call was to tell me that he was getting married again, to a Jewish woman—would I perform the wedding? Yes, I said, because under many circumstances, I do perform interfaith weddings. You see, my congregant was the one who wasn't Jewish.
Steve's first marriage had been an interfaith marriage too—she was Jewish, he wasn't. He and his wife raised their kids Jewish, and he did not convert. When she died, he continued as a synagogue member. Naturally, when he was remarrying, he called his clergy-member: me, his rabbi. I think he probably would have called me about doing the wedding even if he had fallen in love with someone who wasn't Jewish.
I am not alarmed by intermarriage (and it wouldn't do any good if I were). I believe in raising our children to be joyfully Jewish, with Judaism ingrained in their lives so that they will want the families they form to be Jewish too, no matter who they marry. I am encouraged by the rising levels of children of interfaith marriage who identify as Jewish, and by all the interfaith families in my congregation who are raising Jewish kids. I'm also deeply grateful to the non-Jewish parents who have agreed to walk with their spouses and kids on a Jewish journey. They are wonderful.
When we talk about intermarriage, though, the conversation seems always to be about the beginning of it. Who will officiate at the wedding? How will the children be raised? We need to be aware that there are interfaith questions at the other end too. If our policies don't allow a non-Jew to be a member unless married to a Jew, that can become a problem. We've welcomed the non-Jewish spouse as part of the community. If the Jewish spouse dies, we're not going to tell the surviving spouse that they can't be a member of the synagogue anymore, that they can't have that support, are we? That would be heartless and wrong. And yes, if I am that person's rabbi, I'm willing to do their wedding if they remarry, if they want a Jewish wedding.
We have arrived at a time when rabbis like me must be able to serve our Jewish and non-Jewish congregants alike, throughout their lives. This does not mean we have to compromise ourselves by performing liturgy that isn't Jewish or invoking forms of the Divine that are not ours—I would never pray in the name of Jesus, for example. (I did once encourage a non-Jewish congregant to start going to church again, because it was clear to me that that was what her soul was hungering for.)
In the congregation I serve, though, everyone does Jewish, whether they are Jewish or not. I am proud to teach Torah to everyone in my Jewish community, whether they are Jewish or not, and to embrace them when the interfaith questions arise—at the beginning of a marriage and at its end.
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Hopefulness at the General Assembly
As a rabbi of an innovative global organization, it is important for me not just to be in my office but to also be on the road learning from others. That means I try to attend a handful of conferences each year—and today I'm a first-time attendee at the Jewish Federation of North America's General Assembly, known in shorthand as "the GA." It's a conference for volunteer and professional leaders of Jewish Federations and those with an interest in Jewish philanthropy.
At events like this, my hopes are that I will make connections to new friends and colleagues, that I will learn some new tools, that I will leave with just as many questions as answers, and that I will have a sense of optimism about what is possible in the Jewish community.
When I was flipping through the list of sessions, I realized there are two ways to view them, one more positive than the other.
There's a long-standing tradition that Jewish telegrams were easy to recognize because they would say simply, "letter to follow. Begin worrying." And, it is easy to read through a list of session topics at a conference like this, and to begin panicking: How will we fundraise? What will Israel's future look like? How will we engage teens/young adults/aging adults/interfaith families/fill-in-the-blank? What will we do about rising anti-Semitism in Europe? How do we balance collectivism and individualism? Is Jewish education working or not?
Some people answer those questions with doom-and-gloom answers. But I don't think that's what this conference is about (otherwise I wouldn't be here!). Conferences like this work when those in the room confront the realities of Jewish life and then figure out how to embrace opportunities for what could be rather than bemoan what is.
While there is some truth that worrying is part of the Jewish historical experience, it is also the case that celebration has long been an affirmation of a positive Jewish identity. We are a people of happiness and joy, laughter and humor. We are a people of hope.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, a speaker at this conference, once said that "Judaism is humanity's faith in the future tense; the Jewish voice is the voice of inextinguishable hope."
Being at a conference with thousands of people who care about Jewish life and want to celebrate it – this gives me much hope. My telegram (now a tweet) from my time at the GA will say: email to follow, no need to worry—we are a people of hope.
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Who Will Live and Who Will Die?
We live with a practical tradition. We begin the New Year with ten days devoted to introspection. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are asked to review our past; failures and victories, to evaluate our relationships and how we can make things better for ourselves and those we care for. We take stock of our lives and try to put ourselves back on the right path. "Chet" is the Hebrew word commonly translated as "sin." It is derived from the term which means "to miss the target." The assumption is that sin is a mistake; an action we would correct if possible. It is human to make mistakes—it is brave to try to correct them. This makes "Teshuvah" translated as "to return" an attainable task. We are not expected to be perfect but we are expected to clean up the messes we have made.
Our tradition identifies two categories of relationships; those we have with each other and those relationship we have with God. The mistakes we make fall into these categories as well: The ways in which we hurt others and the ways in which we hurt God.
Isn't it incredible that we can hurt God? Some may disagree and ask, "How can a perfect God be concerned with our sins?" In my opinion it is a measure of God's love for us that God created a relationship in which God is affected by our actions. And, while some may say this is only a metaphor —I am not so sure. If one truly believes in the concept of "Tikun Olam," and recognizes our responsibility to fix the world, how can God not be disappointed and hurt when we fail?
This interplay between "Teshuvah" and "Chet," our relationship to others creates a very involved dynamic and ideally forces us to face our frailties and responsibilities. We have made mistakes—how can we atone for them? We are always in need of repentance and atonement.
We learn from the Midrash (Mishle 6:6):
The students of Rabbi Akiva asked him, "Which is greater, Teshuvah or Tzedakah?
He answered them, "Teshuvah, because sometimes one gives Tzedakah to one who does not need it. However, Teshuvah comes from within (it is always needed)." They (the students) said to him, "Rabbi, have we not already found that Tzedakah is greater than Teshuvah?"
How does one explore Judaism and derive deep meaning from it? What if you want to strengthen your Jewish identity? One way is to become introspective and find yourself in intense moments we create through silent ritual and prayer. This is the essence of "Teshuvah," the "return to one's tradition. This is one way, and it is a good way. But it is not the only way.
Another way to achieve this goal is to immerse oneself in Tzedakah. To experience the intensity of giving a bag of school supplies to a child who has never had them before, delivering 20,000 pounds of food to a shelter in Mississippi or building a house in Appalachia—is a way becoming close to God.
I can tell you this; when I am alone and feel in the dark, scared and aware of my mortality, when I am in pain, it is the Tzedakah experiences I dust-off and recall. They bring me back. Ritual and prayer are vital expressions of my identity and form the basis of my observance, but my humanity comes from Tzedakah.
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Patrilineal Descent: Why This Rabbi Feels No Angst
This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities of individuals who have a Jewish father and not a Jewish mother, and who have been recognized as fully Jewish by the Reform movement in the USA. Rabbi Alana Suskin focuses on her personal challenges in working compassionately and appropriately with congregants while respecting the strictures of halachah as it has evolved on conversion and questions of who is a Jew. Rabbi Ben Greenberg takes a step back from the pastoral questions and considers the complications caused in a larger network of Jewish interactions across multiple institutional and movement-based systems that do not all work with a shared understanding of who is considered a Jew. I'd like to bring another framework to the discussion.
We rabbis are very good at explaining "the rules" of Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism was a law-based system, created to provide governance to communities that were locally based, once we no longer had a monarchy-based nation and a sacrificial system in Jerusalem. But while we rabbis may be well versed in the rules, we live in a time where, across all faiths, large swaths of the population are not interested in the "rules" of faith. They are interested in the meaning of faith.
Reform Judaism has made a conscious decision not to be a halakhic movement, in the traditional sense of the word. However, there are still principles that govern how we interact with Rabbinic tradition that help us navigate the path between tradition and change. These principles include equality, human dignity, a re-examination of ethical foundations, and more. Sometimes, it is true, there is also a degree of pragmatism – the religious leadership of the movement may not have been looking to make a change based on principles, but the recognition that change has happened in our society requires of us a decision as to whether we will make certain changes so as to continue to travel with our people in their life journeys. My sense of freedom to change in these ways comes from my understanding that Torah and Rabbinic Judaism are human constructions that are responses to God's Revelation, but not the specific content of the Revelation itself.
Now, let me be clear. Does this mean that anything goes? No, absolutely not. Having specific ways to observe a ritual, celebrate a holiday, eat food, pray as a community, to respond after a death, etc. provides structure to the cultural signs and expressions of our faith. There is no question that such structure is necessary and also evokes a connection to a sense of shared heritage. For some people, the lack of simple clarity of what the 'rules' are, and the ever-shifting ground that is a result of re-conceptualizing Revelation as something that is continuous, is destabilizing and discomforting. But for others, it is incredibly freeing. I see that in the audible sigh of relief that comes from someone who has struggled with believing the literal surface of Torah but has new vistas opened when they are shown how to read it as sacred myth that provides gateways into the inner spiritual life of the individual and the community. And I see it when someone who has lived a Jewish life and claims that identity as meaningful to how they navigate life, where they feel they belong, and the community of which they choose to be a part, has that identity affirmed by their rabbi.
Patrilineal descent was affirmed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis because it was the right thing to do. It conforms with our principles of egalitarianism, and it is an expression of our understanding of kiruv – embracing and encouraging the living of Jewish lives in the context of Jewish community. Furthermore, as Rabbi Phillip Hiat and Rabbi Bernard Zlotowitz demonstrated in their 1983 paper, "Biblical and Rabbinical Sources on Patrilineal Descent", a close examination of the evolution of halakhah on the issue of who is a Jew reveals changing tides over time and very little meaningful basis for continuing to only recognize the matrilineal line other than 'that's what we've been doing for a long time.'
But what of Rabbi Greenberg's concern that, by acting alone, new complications have arisen for klal yisrael with regard to whether someone's Jewish status is accepted or not? I believe that this is a red herring. The truth is that such questioning exists along a continuum that exists even within movements. Within the Orthodox branches of Judaism, only certain rabbis are recognized by the Orthodox rabbinate in Israel as performing accepted conversions. So yes, I agree with my colleagues that we have a responsibility to make our converts and our patrilineal Jews aware of the larger context, although I admit to doing so apologetically because I don't find these explanations to make Judaism very appealing.
I wish to end by returning to the individuals whose lives and identities we are talking about. Here's the bottom line. The reality is that if someone is observing Jewish practice, celebrating in Jewish time, identifying with the Jewish people, or perhaps doing none of these things but, when asked, makes a claim to be Jewish or "part Jewish" because of their ancestry, it is largely irrelevant to them whether you or I agree or approve. When it does become relevant is when they seek access to our institutions, and especially our synagogues. At that point, we rabbis become the gatekeepers. And we are entitled to abide by whatever formulation of what makes a Jew that we, or our larger denominations, decide. We all have our requirements. And we all have good reasons for those requirements that we can articulate to those seeking entry. But let us recognize that what we are doing is gate-keeping, and let us be mindful of how and when we act as gatekeepers and what our purpose in those moments is. And let us celebrate and be proud of sustaining and sharing a religious heritage that others wish to claim as their own and live by.
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Fighting for Us
I have always loved telling the Chanukah story because it is so much about the strength of the Jewish people. My own Jewish identity is nourished by powerful pride in our improbable survival for all these many centuries of challenges. Chanukah is an opportunity to celebrate the courage, smarts and drive of the Jewish people. Not only did our ancestors find a way to prevail during the Syrian Green conflict of the second century BCE, but we have also been inspired by their story at many subsequent crucially challenging moments.
How does that story relate to us today? In our increasingly individualized society, how many of us have the kind of commitment to any cause that we would risk our lives for it? How much are we willing to fight for what we value? Do we value our people enough to be courageous and selfless for the preservation of Jewish civilization? What would that courage and devotion look like?
Last week was a significant anniversary on the Jewish calendar. December 6 was the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the huge march on Washington to Free Soviet Jewry. 250,000 participants came from all over the country, even from other countries. Their presence, coinciding with the White House meeting of President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev caught the attention of the American president. He told his guest that he could not ignore these constituents. American aid to the Soviet Union would depend on freeing Soviet Jews. Slowly but surely the doors opened and our brothers and sisters were permitted to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain. We did it – courage, drive, devotion, sacrifice and intelligence won again.
It can be easier to find the resolve to respond in a crisis. But what about the in-between times? In many ways our people has thrived and contributed to the world out of day-to-day devotion to our shared destiny. We are in it for the long haul. Our covenant with God has inspired us, our belonging to the Jewish people has grounded us; we have lived for the "us."
American culture presents a renewed challenge to Jewish peoplehood. This calls for transformed commitment to the "us," to the ideals of the Jewish people. It's worth fighting for our people – it is really not so selfless – after all, we are the beneficiaries of this great Jewish civilization.
Chanukah celebrates the victory for religious freedom that the Maccabees won for us. In every age we have new opportunities to renew that victory, as the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the National Council on Soviet Jewry did in 1987. Every year Chanukah gives us an opportunity to celebrate pride in being Jews. We are the newest Maccabees, fighting for "us."
Victory will be seen by the gifting of our talents, time and resources to make our Jewish organizations as engaging and soulful as the next generation needs them to be. Chanukah means "dedication." Renewed dedication to the Jewish people's well-being would be a triumph worthy of the celebration of light that we enjoy.
Best wishes for a joyous Chanukah, filled with light, inspired by courage and devotion.
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