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Bryant's night quickly became the talk of the league.
"I've never had a night like that," said Heat guard Dwyane Wade, who scored 32 in Miami's win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night. "You could tell, just watching the highlights, he had a pep in his step and he was on a mission. With Bynum out, he's going to have to do a little more, and I think he understands that. I mean, 61 points, that's Kobe -- that's all you can say."
Hearing Wade, Heat rookie Michael Beasley became wide-eyed.
"Kobe scored 61?" he asked. "You serious?"
Here is a smattering of comments from those involved:
Knicks Head Coach Mike D'Antoni: "He's pretty good. I thought in the first half, we contested a lot of shots. We put him on the line for twenty points. That's when you put up crazy numbers, which he had tonight. But you got to take your hat off to him; he made some unbelievable shots. We didn't really want to double him all the time becuase he will find other guys.
More from Coach D'Antoni: "He does it every night. He just happened to get a few more points tonight. This guy is really good. But having said that, we had opportunities to be right there with him.
Trevor Ariza: "He didn't have any smiles and he wasn't out there playing games. He was out there to kill it and he did that. I saw it before we even got to the arena, when we were on the bus. He didn't really say much, he was just focused and when someone is that hot, you give them the ball and get out of the way."
Ariza on taking in the show when Kobe gets it going like that: "You have to continue to play. It's a gift and a curse at the same time because you've got to remember you are playing. We want to win, so you just have to try and stay focused and watch, but contribute at the same time.
David Lee: "He played really well. He's one of the best players in the league; probably the best and he got on a roll tonight and he hit a bunch of shots and free throws. When a guy gets hot like that, with his talent, it's tough to stop."
More Lee, commenting on defensive schemes to try and stop Kobe: "There's not much you can do. Wilson [Chandler] played great defense for the majority of the game. It's tough when he's so good at drawing fouls and he is so good at hitting shots over the top. He wasn't just sitting there dunking and getting lay-ups. Its not like guys were playing soft. There are just very few guys that can do that and he did it tonight."
Chris Duhon: "We were caught up in what Kobe was doing. We did not stick to our game plan and it got us flustered… He had an amazing performance and I give him all the credit in the world. He hit 70-something percent for his 61 points. I don't care who you are – you are not going to win that."
Kobe was asked about his motivation, and whether he wanted to send a message after Bynum went down. Kobe stated that was part of the reason: "A combination of things; It's him going down, this kind of being a hump game for us on this road trip. I felt like I needed to focus even more, more so than usual, try to stay in that pocket." Bryant also admitted that he wanted to avoid trash-talk from Spike Lee, whom he planned on reviewing a documentary after the game. "I didn't feel like sitting next to him and hearing him talking trash about the Knicks. That was added incentive as well — seriously. He's going to get an earful tonight."
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Trevor Ariza: "He didn't have any smiles and he wasn't out there playing games.
That's funny, I stood up in front of the TV for the entire game around the time Kobe scored his 13th point because I knew he was gonna have an amazing night.Kobe Bryant 8 wrote:I yelled to my buddy downstairs when Kobe scored his fourth point that he should come upstairs and witness a performance. He had that look in his eye from the start... I know that look.
Bryant's 61 will grow in Garden's history
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Kobe Bryant climbs off the bus on 33rd Street in New York and into that old, creaky freight elevator that lifts the players to the floor level. This still gets to him. Just Monday night, he was thinking about the history, about Jerry West and Willis Reed, about the way that Madison Square Garden still stands for a forever time in the National Basketball Association.
"This is the last one left," Bryant said. "This is the last one that holds all the memories."
Yes, he thinks about those Lakers-Knicks NBA Finals, and he thinks about Michael Jordan's 55, and he thinks about leaving his legacy there. He wants to be remembered as the greatest player of his time – maybe ever – and understands that an important part of that always goes through New York.
So, Bryant donated 61 points to the shrine Monday night, embarrassing the New York Knicks with the greatest offensive performance the Garden had ever seen. Perhaps it was inevitable that he had to go for everything. Jordan scored 55 points there. LeBron James had 50. Bryant had a couple 40-point games but never chased the ghosts at the Garden. Here was a perfect storm for that to happen. Bryant's sense of nostalgia met a simmering rage over the loss of Lakers center Andrew Bynum.
Bryant had crashed into his teammate Saturday night, torn his MCL, and the diagnosis of a two- to three-month recovery ripped through the Lakers on Monday. Bryant's bid for a fourth NBA title had been delivered a difficult, if not devastating, blow. Bynum will likely be gone for the start of the playoffs, and upon his return, could struggle to regain his rapidly rising dominance.
All that turned Kobe's disposition dark and brooding. If the Lakers knew anything about Bryant, they knew there would be hell to pay for the Knicks. Across this brilliant night – long jumpers and twisting turnarounds and breathless drives – there was still such a somberness to him. Maybe it was a message to his teammates, to the rest of the league, that the Lakers were still chasing a championship. Maybe he just wanted to change the story line overnight from Bynum's knee to his own greatness.
Without Bynum, Bryant's burden grows immensely, and so, there was no joy in him. No frivolity, no jabbering with Spike Lee. There was no acknowledgement of the Knicks fans chanting "MVP … MVP" until he left the 126-117 victory with 2½ minutes left in the game.
"He wouldn't speak to anyone on the court tonight," the Knicks' David Lee said. "He was very quiet."
It was the greatest scoring night in Garden history. Jordan had 55 points in 1995, and Bernard King had 60 in 1984 and now Bryant passes everyone with 61. Now, LeBron comes to the Garden on Wednesday night with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he doesn't have the stomach for such single-minded shooting nights. James always wanted to be more Magic than Michael. Only Jordan did it three games into his comeback from a year and a half in minor league baseball, and Phil Jackson remembered, "He wasn't really totally himself as a player. We just stuck him in the post that night."
Bryant has become a better teammate, a better team player, but his core is unchanged: Ultimately, he goes it alone. As well as anyone since Jordan, he creates high drama and elevates himself to reach it. He started scoring fast and never stopped. The Knicks were props. They looked as liable to ask him for his autograph as they did try to defend him.
"He kind of had this dazed look on his face," Lamar Odom said. "Some call it the zone. He was just in another world. I don't think it probably mattered what shot he took or how he took it. It probably would've went in."
For the Lakers, these scoring binges aren't always the best in the long run. Pau Gasol had 31 points, yes, but there was a lot of standing around, a lot of watching Bryant. As much as ever, Bryant will need to honor the lessons learned a year ago on the way to the Finals. He needs his teammates and they need him. Jackson, an old Knick, was respectful of Bryant's bid for Garden history, but seemed wary of its lingering impact on a team that has to learn to play differently again.
Mere moments into the game, Jackson could see where Bryant wanted to go Monday night. At halftime, he had 34 points and Jackson wanted to see the ball move a little better, see Odom and Derek Fisher a bigger part of the picture. "I just told him to get everybody involved, which didn't happen," Jackson said.
After all these years of coaching Michael and Kobe on these trips to New York, Jackson knows that resistance is futile. Wisely, he let Kobe go. Jackson will worry about coaching the rest of the team tomorrow.
Nevertheless, history was calling Monday night. Kobe Bryant stepped out of that old freight elevator and could see the center-court tunnel down the hallway, see the lights of Madison Square Garden. He stepped out of that dark place and into the forever lights of the last pro basketball gym that holds all the history, all the memories. All that nostalgia, all that rage – resistance was futile. These were 61 points to stand the test of time.
What Motivated Kobe's 61? Here's Five Reasons
By Chris Sheridan
NEW YORK -- Bernard King will want to read on, because it was his 24-year-old scoring record at the new Madison Square Garden that fell Monday night at the hands of Kobe Bryant.
Michael Jordan will want to read this one all the way through, too, because it was his record -- the most points by a Knicks opponent -- that also fell on this night, a surreal evening when the Lakers recovered from a piece of devastating news by riding the back of one of the game's all-time great players, a living legend who put on an absolutely brilliant offensive performance.
The question they'll want answered: What got into Kobe?
What exactly motivated Bryant to score 61 points in the Lakers' 126-117 victory over the New York Knicks?
The answer, actually, is fivefold:
• The need to lift up his team following the news of Andrew Bynum's knee injury, which will sideline him 8 to 12 weeks, and the accompanying need to show the world that he can still carry the Lakers offensively like he could three or four years ago.
• His desire to not spend the rest of the night being berated by Spike Lee, since the two were scheduled to review Lee's latest documentary into the wee hours of the morning "and I didn't want to hear an earful from him, so that was added incentive. Seriously," Bryant said.
• Throughout the summer he spent with Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni on Team USA, it was a common occurrence for random players to predict they'd drop 50 on D'Antoni's team when they came to the Garden. Dwyane Wade was the only one to outright threaten to drop 50 on the Knicks (if D'Antoni did not give him enough playing time in Beijing), but several of the players chimed in with similar boasts. "Do not underestimate the trash talking that was going on between us this summer," Bryant said.
• The need to teach Knicks forward Wilson Chandler a lesson or two about what happens when an opponent makes Bryant look bad, as Chandler did on an isolation play to end the first quarter when he made a nifty block of Bryant's driving layup attempt. The next five or six times Bryant got the ball matched against Chandler, he buried every shot he took.
• His memory of an early-morning encounter with a Knicks fan in the weight room of the Four Seasons Hotel on Central Park South, where Bryant was working out Monday.
"There's a lot of electricity in this town now. I go to lift weights in the morning, and people aren't talking about how many points are you going to score tonight, they're talking about the Knicks getting a win. So D'Antoni has definitely come here and revitalized this city," Bryant said.
Actually, few if any single-night events over the past decade revitalized Madison Square Garden quite as much as this night did, though Knicks fans who were not in attendance will be sad/appalled/mortified to learn that at least half of the sellout crowd seemed to be favoring the Lakers, and the "M-V-P" chants echoing throughout the building occasionally bordered on the deafening.
Bryant claimed he had no idea the arena scoring record (set by King against New Jersey on Christmas Day in 1984) was within reach when he went to the line with 2:33 remaining and sank his final two free throws -- making his 20-for-20 from the line for the night, including 11-for-11 in the fourth quarter -- to reach 61 points, saying afterward that it was "a blessing" while joking that his career has progressed somewhat since he played his first game in the Garden as a rookie "nervous as heck and weighing about 80 pounds soaking wet."
I have a crystal clear memory of the then 18-year-old Bryant's very first night playing at MSG early in the 1996-97 season. I was sitting no more than 12 feet away from him, and I can clearly recollect him staring wide-eyed from the bench at his new teammate, Shaquille O'Neal, while wearing a dreamlike gaze on his face that seemed to be saying: "I can't believe I'm on the same team as Shaq."
Each of their careers have moved through their relative highs and lows in the ensuing years, and the Garden was a place where the Lakers could have started feeling badly about themselves, snakebitten even, following the news earlier in the day that Bynum's injury -- a torn medial collateral ligament -- will keep him sidelined at least until April.
Suddenly, what had been the Western Conference's only powerhouse team was looking like it would be a bit more mortal between now and June.
And just as suddenly, Bryant sent a message loud and clear to the rest of the Lakers that he, and they, were not going to let this ruin them.
"You know, you could see in the first five minutes it was going to be like that," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who wryly noted afterward that Bryant and Pau Gasol (31 points) ignored his halftime admonition to move the ball around a little more in the second half.
But with Bryant making his first two attempts from behind the 3-point arc and continually hitting from all angles, then repeatedly driving and drawing fouls in the fourth (when Gasol wasn't manhandling the Knicks' undersized front line), the night was his, the electricity in the building was palpable, and the standing ovation when he exited was of the likes not seen in this building since Patrick Ewing returned in a Seattle uniform back in the 2000-01 season.
"Nights that Kobe's on fire, he burns hot," Jackson said.
So while Bryant spent the rest of the evening reviewing Lee's latest documentary, and the rest of the Lakers enjoyed an extra night on the town before heading to Toronto for stop No. 4 on their current five-game trip, the Lakers still were due to awake Tuesday to the realization that as great as this one particular night was for one particular player, there's a long, tough road ahead as they move forward without their center, a center who hobbled through the Garden with a 6-plus-foot-tall black crutch propped under his shoulder to keep his weight off his injured knee.
And when we get to April and May, and maybe even June -- the condition of that 7-footer on crutches is going to matter a whole lot more to the Lakers than anything Bryant did back in early February on a strangely balmy day in New York City, a day that ended with Bryant heating up like no player had ever done before at the corner of 33rd and Eighth.
And to King, Jordan, Chandler, D'Antoni and that anonymous Knicks fan in the Four Seasons weight room, you now have an explanation as to what motivated Bryant to pull off the performance he did.
And to LeBron James, you now should be fully aware what the arena scoring record is when you make your last MSG appearance of the regular season on Wednesday night. The magic number will be 62.
And to LeBron James, you now should be fully aware what the arena scoring record is when you make your last MSG appearance of the regular season on Wednesday night. The magic number will be 62.
Ramballa wrote:His memory of an early-morning encounter with a Knicks fan in the weight room of the Four Seasons Hotel on Central Park South, where Bryant was working out Monday."
What was this about im confused.. ?? can somebody clarify
Ramballa wrote:His memory of an early-morning encounter with a Knicks fan in the weight room of the Four Seasons Hotel on Central Park South, where Bryant was working out Monday."
What was this about im confused.. ?? can somebody clarify
d.James wrote:Who's worried about Andrew Bynum this morning? The cream always rises and Bryant will do everything in his power to give Los Angeles its 15th Lakers title.
Radner wrote:d.James wrote:Who's worried about Andrew Bynum this morning? The cream always rises and Bryant will do everything in his power to give Los Angeles its 15th Lakers title.
What exactly does that mean though?
Does he need score more in order to keep this team afloat? Because if that is what you're referring to, we could be in trouble. This was a good game to blow some steam off but lets not make this a trend of how many 50 point games he can get.
He's capable but that's not necessary for this team to win games or a title.
Glen Quagmire wrote:I was just listening to The Jim Rome radio show and Kobe haters are chiming in.
Anyway, Rome told a story about this past off season, he said he ran in to Kobe and his boys one night. Rome asked him to come over and have a beers and some steak and Kobe came back with "I can't". Rome says "what do you mean you cant? Its 9 o'clock on a Saturday night?" Kobe says "I can't, I gotta go work out..." Rome with a perplexed look on his face said a few minutes later Kobe was gone.
Glen Quagmire wrote:I was just listening to The Jim Rome radio show and Kobe haters are chiming in.
Anyway, Rome told a story about this past off season, he said he ran in to Kobe and his boys one night. Rome asked him to come over and have a beers and some steak and Kobe came back with "I can't". Rome says "what do you mean you cant? Its 9 o'clock on a Saturday night?" Kobe says "I can't, I gotta go work out..." Rome with a perplexed look on his face said a few minutes later Kobe was gone.
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James Haskell has been suspended for three weeks for punching during the Highlanders' match against the Cheetahs.
The loose forward was yellow carded for the offence during the game but a review of the incident saw him gain a steaper punishment from judicial officer Mike Heron. Haskell's suspension sees him miss all matches up until and including the weekend of 19 May.
Haskell's guilty plea, remorse shown and his impressive disciplinary record were factors in his sentence being reduced from five to three weeks, Heron said.


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David Gill, who runs the multi -award winning South Lakes Wild Animal Park, at Dalton-in-Furness, has accused Barrow Borough Council of 'stifling' entrepreneurial spirit in the Furness area.
He believes his project would – * create 45 new jobs * bring elephants and 'big cats' such as jaguars to the park for the first time * improve housing for existing animals * add a children's farm * revamp visitor facilities, including a large car park and a new steam train to take visitors around the park Mr Gill is frustrated that the council has not ruled on his planning application after a year – although it is minded to reject it.
Now he has asked the Government's planning inspectorate to intervene and make a decision.
The borough council's planning committee believes the project would be an over-development of a greenfield site and cause traffic problems for residents of Melton Terrace, off the A590, where the new entrance would be located.
And it says that part of the reason it has taken so long to resolve the matter is because some of the application details were not clear enough.
Mr Gill, 50, who set up the park 17 years ago, said: "I have lived here all my life and these councillors are the most backward-looking people you could come across.
"How a positive project, which would create jobs and bring more people to the area in such desperate economic times as these, could be refused beggars belief."
He added: "At the moment we have four different car parks and up to 4,000 people a day trying to cross a busy 60mph road to get to the park. With our new plans we could have them all on one piece of land."
And he warned that the zoo, which is one of Cumbria's top five visitor attractions, would stagnate if it did not grow.
"In this day and age, if you don't go forwards you are going backwards."
The zoo is already home to a variety of animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and lemurs and runs two animal conservation charities which aim to protect vulnerable species such as Sumatran tigers.
Mr Gill's plan has been backed by Cumbria Tourism managing director Ian Stephens, who said: ''The park provides one of many good reasons for visiting the Furness peninsula and has brought important benefits into the area in terms of employment, and tourist expenditure.
"The expansion plans are to be encouraged and have a close fit with the tourism strategy for Cumbria. We're sure that most people will be in favour of bringing increased employment and income to the area and as such we hope that the planning issues can be overcome".
John Millar, chairman of Dalton with Newton Parish Council, which opposed the plans, said councillors were not against expansion or creating jobs but were worried about access.
"We are concerned about traffic flow and the impact this could have on the surrounding rural area," he said Coun Ann Thomson, chairman of Barrow's planning committee told the Gazette: "We are not in the business of stifling entrepreneurialism – we wouldn't dream of doing that."
She said members had particular concerns that the car park would 'stand out like a sore thumb' on the hillside and it was still unclear how it would be masked by landscaping.
Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock said: "Safety should never be compromised, but I hope these concerns can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
"The wildlife park is one of this area's big-pull attractions with lots of potential to expand and create more jobs in the years ahead."
The final decision will be made by secretary of state for local government and communities Eric Pickles following advice from the planning inspectorate.
A ruling is likely to be made next spring.
MORE than 10,000 people flocked to Crooklands at the weekend to celebrate quality local produce.
Country Fest — organised by Westmorland Agricultural Society — showcased the finest food and drink the area has to offer.
Independent food and drink producers and suppliers, who give the region its culinary reputation, tempted the senses at the County Showfield and gave visitors an insight into where their food comes from.
The family event also included a pets' corner, 'meet the farmer', sheep shearing demonstrations, music and dance, a 'grow your own' area, crafts, beer festival, trade stands and dog shows.
Sheep dog trials were a new addition this year and The Westmorland Gazette hosted a wedding fair.
Richard and Barbara Mathews, from Kendal, were impressed with the range of items on sale and stocked up on locally-produced pies.
"We have such a wide variety of food here," said Mr Mathews.
"We have got a lot of farmers who are extending what they do into other products and we like to support them."
Tommy Brady, also from Lancaster, said: "The amount of food that is available is amazing. There are umpteen different types of sausage and pies — you want to buy it all."
Christine Knipe, chief executive of Westmorland Agricultural Society, said: "The sunshine did bring people out on the Sunday and it was very busy.
"The feedback was positive."
ZANY Steven Hall is urging people to vote for him after he performs in front of millions of TV viewers on Britain's Got Talent tonight.
The 53-year-old telecommunications engineer will represent Cumbria when he takes to the stage for the live semi-final with a new dance routine.
Having taken the nation by storm with his eclectic two-minute act, which saw him perform a dance to The Birdy Song, The Macarena and The Twist, he has become an overnight success.
He has gained more than 1.5 million views on YouTube and more than a thousand fans on his official Facebook site.
So, what has he got lined up for the biggest performances of his life tonight?
"It was said: 'How am I going to follow that?' Because the element of surprise has gone," he said.
"So I have taken what everybody said they would expect me to do next and not done it."
Life has changed for the Burneside Amateur Theatrical Society member since he gained three 'yes' votes from Amanda Holden, Michael McIntyre and David Hasselhoff, and a standing ovation from the Liverpool crowd.
"It was the second best experience of my life, but I can't tell you the first one," he jokes.
"Since then, it has been so busy I haven't had time to think about it.
"I have been to London several times for interviews and rehearsals."
Having performed in theatres across the Lake District, Steven set up Comedy Showtime two years ago, a five-person act that puts on performances across the region.
From this, a 10-minute dance evolved which came to form the basis of his BGT audition.
If Steven is successful tonight, he will make it through to Saturday's live final.
If victorious in the final, he will perform in front of The Queen at The Royal Variety Performance and win £100,000.
"I am nervous and confident about tonight," he said.
"Nervous because Simon Cowell is back on the show and he is held in such anticipation about what he has thought of the acts that have gone through while he's been away.
"But I am confident of my routine. I'm looking forward to it."
A SNOW leopard which featured in a movie starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman is the latest addition to a South Lakeland zoo.
Young male Pavan, one of two leopards who played the part of Stelamaria in The Golden Compass, will be housed in a walk-through enclosure at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis at Hale, near Milnthorpe.
Staff have created a homely feel for their new feline friend with the enclosure designed to look like a Himalayan village with plenty of rocks for him to climb and snooze on.
An acrylic tunnel running through the enclosure will allow visitors to see Pavan in his own habitat in what is thought to be the UK's first walk-through big cat exhibit.
Assistant manager of Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, Caroline Howard, said: "We're really excited about Pavan's arrival - he's a real celebrity cat! His new home is amazing. You can walk right through his territory while he ranges around you - even above your head!"
Pavan has arrived from UK charity the Cat Survival Trust which helps conserve endangered cats.
Once he has settled in his new environment, zoo staff hope to form a breeding pair by adding a female snow leopard to Pavan's enclosure.It is not known how many snow leopards are left in the wild but they are now classed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Lakeland Wildlife Oasis is joining the captive breeding programme which is run by the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
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A POPULAR visitor attraction in Bowness is in the running for a prestigious award for excellence.
Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House project by Lakeland Arts Trust – one of Britain's finest surviving arts and crafts house by M.H.Baillie Scott - has been shortlisted from hundreds of entries for an award at the national Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence.
Comedienne and broadcaster Sue Perkins will announce the 11 lucky winners at a ceremony at Westminister on May 11.
The Awards applaud projects ranging from groundbreaking achievements of national institutions to those crafted with limited resources and budget and winners will be selected by a panel of judges including Diane Lees, Director General, Imperial War Museums and Sam Mullins, Director, London Transport Museum and other leading sector professionals.


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This looks a little bit like a straw man to me. Determinism is not identical to fatalism. Under determinism, choices and decisions do affect the future, being included in the causal chain themselves. Yes, it's true that "whatever is going to happen is going to happen," but that's a pretty useless tautology. That which is "going to happen" is the result of prior causes, including human actions and decisions.
[quote author="Guest"]For example, if you deny free will, it does not make sense to make ethical judgments on people's actions; that is, you can only be held responsible for what you did or did not do if you had a choice to act otherwise.
I don't really see why that is. Under a deterministic naturalism, desires, happiness, suffering and all the other underpinnings of morality are still present, and we can still evaluate things that cause happiness or suffering as "good" or "bad." We just need to be a bit more thoughtful about what we're really saying. Without free will, it doesn't make sense to say that a person's magical self or "soul" make an immoral, freely willed decision, and just stop there; but we can say that the person made an immoral decision provided we keep in mind that the causes of that decision lay outside him.
If a tree fell on a child and killed her, we wouldn't say "Oh well, we can't call this 'bad,' since the tree didn't freely choose to fall on her," so we obviously don't think that good and bad depend on free agency. "Moral" and "immoral" are just the words for good and bad that we use when there is an agency behind a given good or bad event. And agency doesn't disappear under determinism, it just needs some reinterpreting.


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Michael Mayer's production of Verdi's masterpiece opened in January 2013, with Diana Damrau, Piotr Beczala, and Željko Lučić in the leading roles. It returns to the stage in November with an all-new cast. Here are some images from the premiere run.
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Mayer's staging, featuring set and lighting design by Christine Jones and Kevin Adams, moves the action from 16th-century Mantua to neon-lit Las Vegas in 1960.
In his casino, the Duke (Piotr Beczala) delivers his first aria as a show number…
…then flirts with the Countess Ceprano (Emalie Savoy).
Rigoletto (Željko Lučić) is the Duke's sidekick and comedian.
In disguise as a poor student, the womanizing Duke (Piotr Beczala) declares his love for Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda (Diana Damrau).
The hitman Sparafucile (Štefan Kocán) offers his services to Rigoletto.
Rigoletto (Željko Lučić) reflects on the similarities between the killer's methods and his own doings as a comedian.
A scene from Act II, set in the Duke's penthouse apartment
Željko Lučić as Rigoletto and Diana Damrau as Gilda
Act III is set in a seedy club on the outskirts of Las Vegas, where the Duke (Piotr Beczala) meets Maddalena (Oksana Volkova), as Rigoletto and Gilda observe them from outside.
Rigoletto discovers his dying daughter in the trunk of a car.
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They took different philosophies in leading their teams to the NCHSAA finals, but soccer coaches Dave Miller of Jacksonville and Southwest's John Sweeney shared the same result of winning a state title Saturday.
Now the two coaches have joined a select list of area coaches in an impressive category.
Add Sweeney's name to the list of local coaches who have won state soccer titles in both boys' and girls' soccer. He joins White Oak's Buddy Carroll and Dixon's Kevin Hicks as those who have accomplished that feat.
Under Sweeney's leadership, Southwest won its first state title in boys' soccer with 2-0 victory over Lake Norman Charter in the 1-A final. He also has two championship rings with the SWO girls' program, which won state crowns in 2010 and earlier this year while also guiding the Stallions to a final appearance in 2011.
Miller, meanwhile, joined the list of soccer coaches with multiple state titles with the same program following the Cardinals' 2-1 overtime win over Hickory in a title match that saw Jacksonville rally from a goal down late and play down a man.
He also directed Jacksonville to the 2005 state title.
Miller became the second boys' soccer coach to win multiple titles with the same school, joining former Swansboro coach Bob Vroom, who led the Pirates to seven boys' championships, and former White Oak coach Jerry Riggs, who won two boys' titles with the Vikings.
If you expand the list to girls' and boys' soccer, Miller is just one of five coaches to win more than one title with one program as Carroll as six titles with the White Oak girls, P.J. McManus has two with the Richlands' girls and, as previously mentioned, Sweeney has two with the Southwest girls.
Nonetheless, the accomplishments of Sweeney and Miller are special and are an indication these coaches not only have talented players but know how to mesh different personalities and skill levels together to form championship-level squads.
Both coaches took it in stride when I mentioned to them of their accomplishments.
For Sweeney, he has preferred to talk about his players rather that making himself the focus every time I've mentioned his impressive feat since the Stallions won Saturday at Dail Soccer Stadium at N.C. State University.
That's the sort of thing I expect from Sweeney, who takes more pride seeing his players happy rather than taking about personal pride. He is also more of a hands-on coach, often kicking the ball around himself during practice.
"I know that the success we've have had has been a group effort and that luck has played a significant role," he said. "I am fortunate to coach these kids that I do and have the support from the community, the parents and the administration. I really don't feel like the championship says a whole lot about me. It's just an indication of how blessed I have been here to work with these kids and others I work with.
"It really set in this morning (Monday) when the boys all walked into school wearing their state championship T-shirts. Seeing the smiles on their faces and seeing the pride they felt in that achievement was the real reward."
Miller, who serves as a manager of sorts to his talented players rather than just a coach, was his usual laid-back self when I mentioned him joining Vroom and Riggs as the only coaches to lead the same boys' program to multiple crowns, responding with a simple, "Thank you."
Still, others have recognized Miller's hard work for Jacksonville, which is regarded as a state power.
"I was getting texts and emails all weekend from people," he said of people's reaction to the Cardinals' title. "Kids I don't even teach came up to me to say congrats."
But it wasn't just winning a state title that meant a lot to Miller. It was also the fashion in which the Cardinals did it that meant so much for him.
Things looked dire for Jacksonville down 1-0 late against Hickory, which was the best team the Cardinals faced all year. That was until Cormick Breenan's goal with 2:41 left tied the match, setting up Chris Tziatzos' game-winning goal with 3:18 left in the second 10-minute overtime.
"I guess I'm still kind of shocked with the result," Miller said. "For the boys to battle back and get a win being down a man, I'm still in awe."
Actually we all should take a step back and be amazed what these coaches provide area soccer.
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It is important to understand that, in the spread of any cult, it is not the message that hooks people, it is the method of delivery. The message, dogma, or memeset of a particular cult is only instilled through indoctrination after the initial hook has been implanted and the veracity, provability, or complete stupidity and the goodness or evilness of the message has no bearing on how easily people are recruited.
What is this hook? It is what one book (appropriately titled "Snapping") calls the "snapping" experience. It has been found that we do not have the kind of free will we would all like to believe we have. People are suggestible, even those with the strongest wills, and suggestibility increases under certain circumstances, which seem to involve either a significant excess or deficit of sensory input and/or emotional intensity.
In Sargant's book "Battle For The Mind" he describes how the guy who started the methodist church converted thousands of people simply by preaching fire and brimstone. The intense fear/anger made his audience suggestible.
Many of these are "mind-stilling" techniques, that suspend your normal thought process to create an experience. People are sucked into hare krishna cults by the "snapping" experience brought on by chanting. People (including highly educated rational-thinking intellectuals who participate to prove it's BS) are "possessed" by voodoo spirits in vood drum/dancing rituals. People "become one with the universe" through meditation. People "feel the power of jeeezus" by submitting their will to him. The techniques of scientology have similar roots and effects. Another area was "self-improvement" groups especially prevalent in the 70's and 80's which used many of these techniques. Sargant, who studied WW II soldiers, also found that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has its roots in the same place.
These things and other recruiting methods all utilize natural features of the human mind that all healthy human beings possess. That is to say, unless you are mentally ill, you too are susceptible to these mind-control techniques. The effect is the same, the heightened suggestibility, which then allows any kind of dogma to be implanted.
Why don't people just avoid cults like the plague? People go to and find these cults because they are trying to find a "spiritual experience" and others who have had such an experience will swear by it, how deep and meaningful it is and how it has done wonderful things for their lives. Nobody suspects or understands that they have been manipulated, nor do I think those inside the group are even aware that anyone is being manipulated, these are reproducing mind-virii that have been evolving in a competitive environment and so any variations which allow higher recruiting/retention of members get selected for in future generations of the meme.
Anyway, given the recruiting techniques, people will not be innoculated from cults by simple skepticism and rationalism. Instead, I think the answer is to offer a "spiritual experience" that is completely detached from all the subsequent indoctrination, brainwashing, mind-control, and telling people how to live their lives and to believe in ridiculous fairy tale stories. I think something like this can be done. It would need someone with capital or the ability to raise capital, and someone who already has the ears of many people, such as Dawkins or Harris.
An organization that is something like "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" or some other similar concept would offer a "spiritual experience" in the form of a service in which the congregation participates. The "services" (a different one offered each week, perhaps) could be any number of these "snapping" techniques, such as chanting or meditating or dancing/drumming, whatever else that people can do to bring on the "snapping" event and which is enjoyable and easy to participate in. Instead of following up with dogma, it's followed up with something to allow people to come back to reality, (refreshed as many are by their sunday church experience, so I'm told) and mention that whichever imaginary object or magical creature was the focus of today's service, is truly imaginary and does not really exist.
IMO something like this offers that which people seem to feel a lack of in their lives, and without filling it in with a bunch of superstitious nonsense that destroys lives and societies. With that type of thing available, there may be less need or no need to turn to the dangerous cults, and their influence and virus-like spread could be halted or reversed.
The two books I recently read which I would recommend to anyone wanting to understand the whole "technology of experience" and the physiology behind them are:
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Antifibrinolytic agents can be taken in pill or liquid form, or they can be given as an injection into the vein (intravenously).
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Von Willebrand's disease is a bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly. Antifibrinolytic agents help prevent blood clots from breaking down in certain areas of the body. These medicines specifically target the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, stomach, intestines, and urinary tract.
Why It Is Used
Doctors usually use antifibrinolytic agents to treat nosebleeds and to prevent bleeding in the mouth during dental surgery. They may also use these medicines in combination with desmopressin and plasma replacement therapies during minor and major surgery.
How Well It Works
Antifibrinolytic agents can help prevent or control mild bleeding in the mouth or nose. 1
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All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
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Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
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Call your doctor right away if you suddenly have symptoms of a blood clot, such as:
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Side effects of this medicine are not common but may include:
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See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
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Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed .
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Egyptian door to the afterlife
Posted 30 March 2010 - 06:53 AM
I just saw the article below on yahoo about Egyptian doors to the afterlife. I never heard of them below. Does anyone know more about them?
Door to afterlife from ancient Egyptian tomb found
AP - Mon Mar 29, 9:24 am ET
CAIRO Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday.
These recessed niches found in nearly all ancient Egyptian tombs were meant to take the spirits of the dead to and from the afterworld. The nearly six-foot- tall (1.75 meters) slab of pink granite was covered with religious texts.
The door came from the tomb of User, the chief minister of Queen Hatshepsut, a powerful, long ruling 15th century B.C. queen from the New Kingdom with a famous mortuary temple near Luxor in southern Egypt.
User held the position of vizier for 20 years, also acquiring the titles of prince and mayor of the city, according to the inscriptions. He may have inherited his position from his father.
Viziers in ancient Egypt were powerful officials tasked with the day-to-day running of the kingdom's complex bureaucracy.
As a testament to his importance, User had his own tomb on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, where royal kings and queens were also buried. A chapel dedicated to him has also been discovered further south in the hills near Aswan.
The stone itself was long way from its tomb and had apparently been removed from the grave and then incorporated into the wall of a Roman-era building, more than a thousand years later.
False doors were placed in the west walls of tombs and faced offering tables where food and drink were left for the spirit of the deceased.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 03:02 AM
Looks more like a Phone Box......
An Egyptian phone box? How would one have dialed a number?
Posted 17 April 2010 - 07:50 PM
Looks more like a Phone Box......
An Egyptian phone box? How would one have dialed a number?
I guess if one were too small to reach the dial they could ask their Mummy to do it for them.....
Seriously....it looks like the "Time Lords" have struck again....
Posted 20 April 2010 - 12:47 AM
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 11:01 PM
There are always some mystical explanations involved when dealing with ancient ways, which unfortunately we overlook.
I often wonder if the Egyptians didn't have the right idea about ghosts all along. Their theories effectively cover the full spectrum from haunted houses, cemetaries, and visitations. They thought that upon death the spirit would split into three entities, one to wander the earth, one to accept offerings at the tomb, and one that lived on in the underworld. If I remember correctly anyway, I was really into the Egyptians in sixth grade.
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In his latest missive Sam takes aim at the use of the questions often used by Christians as teaching aides, such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "what is our purpose on earth?". Sam says they are badly posed. I would like to know how he would pose a better question. i think they do address topics that people have been asking themselves for a long time. It would be helpful to see a better question and perhaps a worthy answer as well.
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What problems does Annogen solve?
Annogen is a tool which helps you work with JSR175 annotations, a new feature in JDK 1.5. JSR175 is a much-needed improvement to java. However, a few challenges may lie in store for developers of frameworks which need to process JSR175 annotations (hereafter, simply called frameworks). Annogen aims to provide an elegant solution for the following problems:
Annotation Overriding
Because JSR175 annotations are 'baked-in' to .class files by javac, frameworks have no elegant way to manipulate the annotation values that were declared by the class author.
Migration to JSR175 from Older JDKs
Many existing projects may want to start using JSR175 annotations, but will still need to support older JDKs for some time. This migration presents a dilemma because JSR175 annotation types cannot even be classloaded without JDK 1.5.
Bridging Disparate Access Models
Sun has provided new java.lang APIs for strongly-typed access to JSR175 annotation values. However, this can only be used to access annotations which have a 'runtime retention policy;' annotations without this must be accessed via javadoc, which provides a completely different, untyped API for viewing annotations. Mediating between these two access models could be a problem for frameworks, particularly those which must access source artifacts not available via reflection, such as javadoc comments.
What does Annogen do?
Annogen uses your JSR175 annotation types to code-generate special java beans called AnnoBeans. AnnoBeans look exactly like your JSR175 annotations; in fact, they can actually directly implement your JSR175 annotation interfaces. AnnoBeans carry exactly the same data that appears on your JSR175 annotations. You write your framework code to use AnnoBeans when it needs to understand what annotations are on a java class.
Why is that useful?
One big advantage to this approach stems from the fact that AnnoBeans can be modified. AnnoBeans start out reflecting the values on the actual annotations they represent. You are then given the option to add, modify, or remove annotation values before they are consumed by your framework.
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Another advantage is that you can run Annogen under JDK 1.4 and still load AnnoBeans. In this case, you can retrieve metadata from other source (such as XML or javadoc tags) and expose it to your code though the same API as your JSR175 annotations.
Unified, strongly-typed access
A third advantage is that AnnoBeans can be used in conjunction with a variety of Java introspection APIs, including reflection, javadoc, Mirror, QDox, and JAM. (Support for other similar APIs can easily be added in the future). This means that whether your framework is driven off of class files (via reflection) or java sources (via javadoc), you have a single, consistent, strongly-typed API for viewing your annotations.
What do I have to do to use Annogen?
Use of Annogen is divided into three distinct phases: Generate, Override, and View. Each phase has a corresponding sub-package in the Annogen class hierarchy.
In the generate phase, Annogen code-generates AnnoBeans from your JSR175 annotation classes. This should be done as part of the build of your framework, before your javac your framework sources. Annogen includes an ant task to make this easier. You will also need to make sure that each of your annotation classes are themselves annotated with a simple annotation, AnnogenInfo, which tells Annogen the name of the AnnoBean to be generated.
Once you have your AnnoBeans, you can create an AnnoOverrider which adds, modifies, or remove AnnoBeans associated with a given java class. How and when this is done depends upon your needs. For example, say you had a 'cache size' deployment annotation which your users might occasionally want to override at deployment time. You could implement an AnnoOverrider which retrieves the user's override preferences (say, from an XML file) and then modifies the AnnoBeans accordingly.
In the final step, your framework code reads the AnnoBeans and uses them to do something interesting with them, such as deploy a user application. You retrieve instance of the AnnoBeans through the AnnoViewer interface. You simply ask the AnnoViewer to give you the AnnoBean for a given annotation type on a given class. The AnnoBean you get back may or may not have been modified by your AnnoOverrider; the nice thing is here that you don't have to care. Annogen allows you to maintain a clean separation between the code which gathers and manipulates annotation values and the code which acts on those values.
Can AnnoBeans implement my JSR175 AnnotationTypes?
In the Generate phase, you have an option called implementAnnotationTypes. If true, the generated AnnoBeans will directly implement your JSR175 types. The advantage to this approach is that your framework code in the View phase does not ever have to know about AnnoBeans - you just use JSR175 annotation types just as you would with regular reflection. They will be implemented by AnnoBeans, but your code doesn't have to know that. This approach is somewhat simpler, cleaner and may make it easier to integrate with other code which use the same JSR175 types.
The only disadvantage to it is that you sacrifice compatibility withh older JDKs, where your JSR175 annotation types won't even classload. But if JDK 1.4 support is not important to you, then you probably should set implementAnnotationTypes to true and write your View-phase code against your JSR175 types.
Note that in either case, your Override-phase code still must import AnnoBeans (because JSR175 types don't have setters) and your View-phase code needs to use an AnnoViewer (because the JDK doesn't know about your overrides).


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Q: What is Conciliation Court?
The law in MN Statutes § 491A provides for a Conciliation Court, also called "small claims" court, as a place where people could have their cases heard without lawyers, expensive costs or complicated legal procedures.
You can file a claim in Conciliation Court for an amount up to $15,000.00. (NOTE: $4,000 is the limit for consumer credit cases, and $15,000 for forfeitures.) These are limits set by law. You cannot file a claim in Conciliation Court that involves:
Court Administration will not accept a general claim over $15,000, and if you reduce your claim to the limit of Conciliation Court, you cannot claim more later through another claim if it involves the same event.
NOTE: Winning a judgment in Conciliation Court does not guarantee payment. If you win a judgment, you are responsible for collecting payment. As you try to collect the judgment, you may have out of pocket expenses for filing fees, transcription costs and other costs, which can be added to the amount you can collect.
Q: Has the Statute of Limitations expired in your case?
A Statute of Limitations is a law that puts a time limit on how long a person has to start a lawsuit based on a harm that happened to them. When the time is up, the person who was harmed loses the right to file a claim in court, unless there are specific legal exceptions that apply to the case. There are different statutes of limitation, and whichone applies depends on the type of claim and facts of the case. If you need to know if the statute of limitations has expired in your case, talk with a lawyer to get legal advice.
Q: Where do you file a Conciliation Court claim?
The question about where to file a case involves a legal concept called jurisdiction, or which court has the power under the law to make a decision about these parties and these facts. The law on jurisdiction in Minnesota Conciliation Court is at MN Statutes § 491A.01. Court staff cannot apply the law to your case, so if you are not sure where you should file your case, we encourage you to get advice from a lawyer.
The person who starts a case in Conciliation Court is called the "plaintiff." The person against whom the claim is made is called the "defendant." Generally, the plaintiff must file the claim in the county where the defendant lives or has a place of business, with two common exceptions: (see MN Statutes § 491A.01 for other exceptions)
Corporations can be sued in the county where the business office or branch office is located (contact the MN Secretary of State if you need more information on business locations.)
Q: Do you have to have a lawyer?
Individual people can represent themselves in Conciliation Court and District Court, however, a business or association may be represented by a non-lawyer such as an officer or manager only in Conciliation Court. See MN Statutes § 491A.02 subd.4. If a business wants to appeal a Conciliation Court judgment to the District Court, then the law requires that the business be represented by a lawyer. See the "Advisory Committee Comment" to Rule 521 of the Gen. R. Prac. for District Courts (Tit.VI).
NOTE: A corporation or LLC must be represented by an attorney in District Court, which includes having an attorney sign court papers on behalf of the client corporation or LLC. EXCEPT: For cases limited to the Hennepin County "Housing Court," MN Gen. Rule of Practice 603 may allow a principal (or agent) of the corporation or LLC to sign court papers or appear in court on behalf of the business entity. You should get legal advice if you have questions about this issue in your case.
Q: How do you file a claim in Conciliation Court?
You can download the Summons and Statement of Claim form or get one at your local courthouse. Upon request, court administration explain how to fill out the form, but court staff cannot tell you who to sue or how to write your claim in a way to make it more persuasive. Talk with a lawyer to get legal advice if you need help with your case.
To complete the forms, you must have the following information:
You must sign the claim before a notary public or court clerk and pay the filing fee, which will vary by county and will be added to your claim. If you are low income and cannot afford the filing fee, you may be able to ask the court to waive the fee, and to do that you must fill out an Affidavit of Inability to Pay Conciliation Court Filing Fee form and file it with the court.
After you have filed your claim, a copy of the Summons and Statement of Claim form must be "served" on the defendant(s). For cases under $2,500.00, the Court Administrator's office will serve the claim on the defendant by first class mail stating the date and time of the hearing. You will also receive a notice from the court as to the date and time of the hearing. For claims over $2,500.00 or if service cannot be made by first class mail, the Court Administrator's office will give you instructions on how you have to arrange for service. Many cases settle when the defendant receives notice of the hearing. It is your responsibility to tell the Court Administrator in writing if you and the defendant settle your case.
Q: What happens if the defendant files a counterclaim against you?
The defendant may file a "counterclaim" against you in connection with the same event for claim. The defendant must file the counterclaim at least 5 days before the date set for a hearing.
The defendant will pay a filing fee and the Court Administrator will notify you if a counterclaim is filed. The counterclaim will be heard at the same hearing as your claim.
If the counterclaim is for more than $15,000.00, your claim and the counterclaim must be heard in District Court, and the court will notify of this. The defendant must then serve the plaintiff with a District Court Summons and Counterclaim, and file them at the District Court. If the defendant fails to serve a Summons and Counterclaim on the plaintiff or fails to file the counterclaim in District Court after giving notice of intent to do that, the plaintiff may have his or her claim reinstated in Conciliation Court. You may do this anytime after thirty (30) days and before three (3) years expire by filing an "Affidavit" with Conciliation Court.
Q: How do you prepare for the hearing?
Conciliation Court hearings are informal, but you must be prepared to present your case. The judge decides if the attorney can speak on behalf of a party at Conciliation Court hearings. All parties and witnesses who appear will testify under oath. The witnesses should be present and ready to testify. If a witness does not want to appear, you can ask Court Administration for a subpoena to compel them to appear. There is a fee for each subpoena you request. Written statements and affidavits of people who do not appear in court have very little value, and the judge may not accept them as evidence.
You should also bring all other relevant evidence to court such as receipts, repair bills, estimates, and other items to help prove your claim. If the defendant or some other person has documents relating to your claim that they will not give to you, you can get a subpoena to require the person to give you the documents.
Before you go to court, prepare a list of facts you want to present. Organize your presentation as clearly and completely as possible so you will not forget important facts and details. See Tips for Representing Yourself in Court for more information.
Watch "How to Handle a Conciliation Court Hearing" (10 min.), and get tips to prepare for a Conciliation Court hearing.
Q: What happens if you do not appear for the hearing?
All parties must appear at the hearing. If you are the plaintiff and you do not appear at the hearing, the judge may dismiss your claim or award a "default" judgment against you on any counterclaims. If the defendant does not appear, the judge may award a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff.
Q: What happens after the hearing?
The court usually does not rule on a claim at the time of the hearing. The Court Administrator will mail notice of the court's decision to all parties. The judgment does not become effective until twenty (20) days after mailing the notice. This 20 day period allows a party to appeal or bring a "Motion to Vacate" a default judgment under MN Rule of Gen. Prac. 520. The court may vacate the judgment and order a new hearing if a party who did not appear had a good reason for not appearing. Before it grants a new hearing, the court may require the party who did not appear to pay costs to the other party.
Q: How do you appeal a judgment of the Conciliation Court?
If both parties were at the Conciliation Court hearing, and if either party disagrees with the judgment, the case may be appealed/removed to the District Court under MN Rule of Gen. Prac. 521. To do this, you must file a Demand for Removal, an Affidavit of Good Faith, and an Affidavit of Service with the Court Administrator within twenty (20) days of the date the judgment was mailed. The appealing party must pay an additional fee. See FORMS - Conciliation Court Appeals.
The District Court is more formal than Conciliation Court and it is governed by the MN Rules of Civil Procedure.
Because appeals are more complicated, you should get help from a lawyer. Court staff cannot give legal advice or help you prepare your appeal. See What Court Staff Can and Cannot Do for You.
Q: What happens on an appeal?
Filing an "appeal" (i.e., removal to District Court) involves a "do over" of the whole case, and there is a civil trial at the District Court. A party may ask for a jury to hear the case. An additional court fee is required for a jury trial. Both parties may be represented by attorneys.
You should prepare to present your case, have your witnesses ready to testify, and have all your other evidence available.
Read "Civil Trial: What to Expect as a Self-represented Plaintiff or Defendant" to prepare for your trial.
If you appeal and do not win, you will pay the other party $50 as "costs." See MN Rule of Gen. Prac. 524.
You will not have to pay the other party $50 if:
Q: How do you collect a Conciliation Court judgment?
Even if you win in Conciliation Court, it is not always easy to get paid. The parties can make an agreement about paying the judgment, including making payments or settling on a lower amount to satisfy the judgment. Once the judgment is paid in full or to the creditor's satisfaction, then the creditor completes a Satisfaction of Judgment form. One of the parties files that form with the court so the court records show the judgment was paid. If the creditor does not cooperate in signing a Satisfaction of Judgment form, the debtor can file a Motion to Satisfy Judgment form.
If the debtor does not pay the creditor and the 20 day time to appeal has expired, the creditor may take steps to "enforce" the judgment. Conciliation Court is not a collection agency and cannot help you locate assets of the other party. Garnishment of a debtor's wages or bank accounts may be an option to enforce a judgment, and another option might be to file a lien against real estate owned by the debtor. Talk to a Lawyer to get advice on options to collect on a judgment.
Enforcing a judgment may involve additional fees. These fees may be added to the original judgment amount. Steps to begin enforcing the judgment are listed below.
STEP 1: You must have your Conciliation Court judgment "transcribed" to the District Court and file an Affidavit of Identification. Your court administration can tell you how to complete this step.
STEP 2:After you transcribe the judgment to District Court, you can ask the court administrator to issue a "Writ of Execution" to garnish wages or bank accounts. The creditor must provide written notice to the debtor of their intent to garnish at least 10 days (or 13 days if notice is served by mail) BEFORE the writ can be served. See sample Notice to Garnish Earnings (MN Statutes § 571.925). See also MN Statutes Ch. 571, for more on garnishment laws.
You then take the "Writ of Execution" to the Sheriff's office with a list of property, bank accounts, and other funds which belong to the judgment debtor and/or the name of the debtor's employer.
If you don't have any information about the debtor's assets, you may file a Request for Order for Disclosure with Court Administration asking that a judge issue an "Order for Disclosure" that requires the debtor to respond to the creditor by completing a Financial Disclosure form listing all "non-exempt" property and financial information within ten (10) days. Some assets are "exempt" from collection, which means they cannot be taken by the sheriff to pay a judgment.
STEP 3:If the debtor fails to respond to the Order for Disclosure within the time allowed, the creditor may file an Affidavit in Support of Order to Show Cause. If the court determines that you meet all of the requirements, it can issue an "Order to Show Cause," which requires the debtor to go to a hearing and explain to the judge why he or she disobeyed the Order for Disclosure. If debtor fails to appear at the hearing, the judge may impose consequences and can issue a "bench warrant" for the debtor's arrest.
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A judgment can be enforced for ten (10) years from the date it was issued. It can also be "renewed" if not satisfied (paid) within the 10 years. To enforce a judgment that was not paid during the 10 year time frame, you have to start a new lawsuit before the end of the 10 year period, based on a claim for failure to pay a judgment . See MN Statutes § 541.04. A lawsuit is started by serving a Summons and Complaint on the judgment debtor. You should talk to a lawyer to get advice on how to prepare the papers and handle the case. Court staff cannot give legal advice.
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