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From the July 31 edition of Fox Business' Varney & Company:
Fox News misleadingly attacked the federal food stamp program for being wasteful and unaccountable despite reports that the program achieved the lowest payment error rate in its history in the most recently available data.
Fox New complained about the findings of a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on quality control in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as food stamps. The USDA report clearly states that the 2012 fiscal year was "another year of excellent performance in payment accuracy" before noting that the most recent payment error rate of 3.42 percent was once again "the lowest National payment error rate in the history of SNAP."
On the July 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade cast the findings in a negative light, stressing that "the government is overpaying on food stamps by about $2 billion." Co-host Steve Doocy then questioned whether the Obama administration could "be trusted with more money," given the overpayments. Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney went on to chastise the Department of Agriculture for labeling the food-stamp payment error rate of 3.42 percent "excellent," wondering aloud "since when has that been good?"
Fox News' mischaracterization of the SNAP report continued throughout the day. On Happening Now, co-host Jenna Lee called the USDA report "startling" and said that "the administration is having a tough time managing its funds." On The Real Story, host Gretchen Carlson claimed that federal spending on nutrition assistance was "reaching a breaking point" before highlighting the growth of participation in the food stamp program since 2007.
Far from indicating a managerial flaw in the Obama administration, the 2012 payment error rate in SNAP is evidence of success in rooting out improper payments. According to the report being derided on Fox News, the national payment error rate in SNAP during President Obama's first year in office was 4.36 percent. That error rate then fell to 3.81, 3.80, and 3.42 percent in fiscal years 2010-2012, respectively.
Rep. Paul Ryan's poverty proposal, which would in part punish impoverished Americans for not getting themselves out of poverty on a specific timeline, is based on the conservative myth pushed by right-wing media that blames poverty on individuals' "spirit" and personal life choices. Experts say poverty is the result of systemic inequality and lack of opportunity.
Fox News hosts read directly from Walmart's official corporate script to defend the company against a critical New York Times op-ed that indicated the retailer's role in perpetuating the need for government assistance programs.
On June 19, The New York Times published an op-ed calling Walmart "a big part of the problem" of rising economic inequality in the United States. Citing data from multiple sources, opinion columnist Timothy Egan noted that the average "associate" at Walmart makes between $8.81 and $11 per hour, frequently relying on government anti-poverty relief to fill income gaps. Egan noted that Walmart claims its average employee makes "at least $12 per hour," but that "these numbers are skewed by higher pay for management." Egan cited a recent exposé by Fortune senior editor Stephen Gandel detailing how the company could easily give a 50 percent raise to more than one million employees without hurting its stock value or profitability:
No matter the exact figure, there's no dispute that Walmart's business model forces thousands of hard-working people to look for outside help just to get by.
And under that model, Walmart has made a fortune -- $17 billion in profits last year, executive compensation for one man at the top in excess of $20 million a year, and a windfall making the six heirs of the founding Walton family worth at least $150 billion.
Walmart could make life easier for its 1.4 million workers, without diminishing its stock value. Writing in Fortune.com, Stephen Gandel concluded that Walmart could give workers a 50 percent raise without hurting shareholder value.
On the June 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy and Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney dedicated a segment to supposedly fact-checking the Times, pulling pushback directly from Walmart's officially sanctioned corporate response.
Varney called the Times op-ed "utter nonsense," and an attempt to "demonize Walmart." Ignoring that Egan acknowledged the dispute over Walmart's average hourly wage in the op-ed, Varney stated that the author "got it wrong" as he recited Walmart's more palatable average wage claim. Doocy and Varney uncritically agreed that the data supplied by Walmart was "all true" before pivoting to place blame for economic inequality at the feet of the Obama administration:
Despite Fox's unabashed foray into corporate public relations, Timothy Egan's statement holds true: "No matter the exact figure, there's no dispute that Walmart's business model forces thousands of hard-working people to look for outside help just to get by."
Fox News is ignoring economists' warnings that record student debt is a drag on the economy and attacking President Obama's plan to provide an avenue for student debt relief as a "distraction" that Fox claims will leave taxpayers "footing the bill."
Fox News brushed aside the value of Environmental Protection Agency research grants for clean cooking and heating technologies, saying that the dangerous indoor pollution from dirty stoves is only "a mere contribution" to 4.3 million deaths, and fearmongered that the EPA would soon come after American stoves. However, even Fox News' "favorite" environmental pundit has said that the fact that millions are dying from dirty cooking stoves -- more deaths than from AIDS and malaria combined -- is an "immediate problem."
Fox News' Stuart Varney dishonestly hyped new data on the number of Americans receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) to accuse beneficiaries of committing fraud to avoid finding a job. But experts agree that fraud in the SSDI program is low and there is no evidence Americans are faking their disabilities.
A May 21 Drudge Report headline proclaimed a "Record 10,999,447 On Disability and linked to a CNSnews.com article announcing that the total number of disability beneficiaries in the U.S rose in April "setting a new all-time record":
On Fox's America's Newsroom, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed the "explosion" in disability beneficiaries showed "America is becoming increasingly a welfare state. " Varney accused SSDI beneficiaries of committing fraud by taking the "disability option" supposedly where able-bodied individuals who can't find a job use SSDI "almost as an insurance policy against no income or no job":
VARNEY: During the Obama years we've gone from eight million people, just about eight million people claiming Social Security disability payments all the way up to nearly 11 million. That is a huge explosion in disability payments. Now a lot of people are taking what's called the disability option. They can't find a job. So they take -- they treat disability almost as an insurance policy against no income or no job. So you have got this explosion in disability payments. And Martha, we can't afford it.
Two points, number one, if we go on like this the Social Security disability trust fund, totally runs out of money by the end of 2016. That is not that far away. Number two, there's been an expansion in who qualifies for disability payments. Mental disorder is now acceptable. Mood disorder, or back pain. Now, that kind of opens the door to fraud because you can't really prove a lot of that. And plus, once you get disability, you're on it for a very long time because the virtually very little inspection process to figure out who is off the disability, who has recovered. So pretty much payment for life. We can't afford this
Fox & Friends misrepresented the findings of a new report on the increase in low-wage jobs during the economic recovery to attack President Obama, failing to mention that the report cites cuts to public sector employment -- not Obama's economic policies -- as a major culprit for the post-recession net job loss.
On the April 28 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox host Stuart Varney distorted the findings of a new National Employment Law Project (NELP) report as "the left pointing out the failures of President Obama's economic policies." Co-host Steve Doocy described the report as "an eye-opener" and falsely claimed that The New York Times, which reported on the NELP study, is "turning on the White House":
The newly released NELP study found that since the economic downturn, low-wage jobs have replaced higher-wage positions in the private sector. According to NELP, "lower-wage industries accounted for 22 percent of job losses during the recession, but 44 percent of employment growth over the past four years." The report explained the growth of low-wage jobs during this recovery:
One year into the recovery, we noted that slow growth in higher-wage industries was likely the result of specific drivers of the Great Recession, including the housing bubble collapse and financial crisis, as well as a continuation of the long-term decline in durable and nondurable manufacturing and telecommunications. Three years later, mid- and higher-wage industries are adding jobs; albeit, not at a fast-enough rate to fill employment deficits in many cases (see Tables 1 and 2 in the Appendix). Nevertheless, four years into the recovery, growth remains strongest in low-wage, service-providing industries (e.g., retail, restaurants, and temporary help) and industries less affected by recessions (e.g., health and education).
Contrary to Varney's claims that this report is a "critique from the Left," the NELP report does not address the president's economic policies in any way. The only mention of economic policy in the report addresses budget cuts, specifically at the local level, as a "driver of unbalanced growth":
Over the past four years, private sectors gains have been partially offset by public sector job losses resulting from budget cuts at the federal, state, and local levels. Net job losses totaled 627,000 across all levels of government during the recovery period. Employment declines were particularly severe at the local level, where education absorbed nearly three-quarters of the 378,000 net job losses over the past four years. (emphasis added)
Fox has previously championed budget cuts and falsely blamed the Obama administration with harming the economic recovery. Fox has also attacked the president's calls to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, a cause firmly supported by NELP and numerous other groups. Fox's apparent interest in NELP's work only emerges when it fits with the network's obstructionist anti-administration narrative.
Fox News often promotes myths about student loan debt in the United States, misinforming about everything from the lack of protections borrowers receive, to the unsubtantiated claim that student loans drive up college costs, to the myth that struggling borrowers are taking a government handout. As the two-year anniversary of student debt surpassing $1 trillion takes place this week, here is a sample of the network's past student loan misinformation.
From the April 23 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
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Right wing media hid the reasons for the Obama administration's decision to delay consideration of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline while pending lawsuits and investigations progress, denouncing the move as purely "political."
From the April 18 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
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Right-wing media outlets are trying to gin up outrage over a change in how the U.S. Census Bureau reports insurance status, claiming the agency is making an adjustment to deliberately hide the effects of the Affordable Care Act. But the change will still measure the impact of the ACA's first year, and the new system will provide better tools for tracking insurance status.
On the last day to file federal taxes, Fox host Stuart Varney complained that the wealthiest Americans "already pay for almost everything," ignoring the fact that tax rates for the richest Americans have steadily declined in recent decades mirroring rates paid by most Americans.
On the April 15 edition of America's Newsroom, host Bill Hemmer highlighted a Congressional Budget Office report finding that the top 20 percent of income earners in the U.S. pay over 90 percent of federal income tax money. His guest, Fox Business host Stuart Varney, wondered whether it was fair:
VARNEY: You hear it all the time, don't you? Tax the rich some more because they can afford it. Well you may be surprised to hear that wealthier people already pay for almost everything. Let me repeat the number you just gave. 20 percent - the top 20 percent of income earners pays over 90 percent of all the federal income tax money.
Do you think that's fair, Bill? If I may ask you a question. Do you think it's fair that that minority pays for everything for the vast majority?
Right-wing media hyped a misleading apples-to-oranges comparison to claim that the U.S. is at a "tipping point" in the "relationship between welfare and work."
On April 15, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed new statistics showed that "the number of people living on the government dole outnumbered full-time working women." Fox Business host Stuart Varney then claimed "welfare is replacing work" because in 2012, 46 million people collected Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (SNAP, commonly known as food stamps) and 44 million women worked full time. Varney cited SNAP benefits as "the classic example" of an "explosion in welfare payments outgoing from the government to individuals and a decline in work," which he attributed to the Obama administration "buying votes." Meanwhile, Fox displayed this graphic:
Other right-wing media sources highlighted the same supposedly "telling" numbers. CNS News posted a graphic comparing the number of women working full time to total SNAP beneficiaries and the Drudge Report also hyped the connection:
But these numbers can't be compared, as many working women fall into both categories.
In fact, because the majority of recipients are working-class Americans with jobs, senior citizens, or children, an increase in SNAP beneficiaries is an extremely unreliable predictor of the number of full-time workers, let alone evidence of a tipping point before a decline in overall employment. A 2013 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that the "overwhelming majority of SNAP recipients who can work do so" (emphasis original):
The overwhelming majority of SNAP recipients who can work do so. Among SNAP households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult, more than half work while receiving SNAP -- and more than 80 percent work in the year prior to or the year after receiving SNAP. The rates are even higher for families with children -- more than 60 percent work while receiving SNAP, and almost 90 percent work in the prior or subsequent year.
The number of SNAP households that have earnings while participating in SNAP has been rising for more than a decade, and has more than tripled -- from about 2 million in 2000 to about 6.4 million in 2011. The increase was especially pronounced during the recent deep recession, suggesting that many people have turned to SNAP because of under-employment -- for example, when one wage-earner in a two-parent family lost a job, when a worker's hours were cut, or when a worker turned to a lower-paying job after being laid off.
A separate report from the USDA pointed out that in 2012, "75 percent of all SNAP households, containing 87 percent of all participants, included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled nonelderly person. These households received 82 percent of all SNAP benefits."
This latest attempt to cast the SNAP program as spurring unemployment ignores current economic reality. SNAP enrollment has risen as a result of the economic downturn. The Economic Policy Institute noted that "SNAP swelled because the economy entered the worst recession since the Great Depression and remains severely depressed even 18 months after the official recovery began." According to a 2012 report from the Congressional Budget Office, SNAP enrollment is projected to decline as the economy recovers:
The number of people receiving SNAP benefits will begin to slowly decline at the end of fiscal year 2014, CBO expects, reflecting an improved economic situation and a declining unemployment rate. Nevertheless, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits will remain high by historical standards, CBO estimates. That is partly because of a growing U.S. population and thus a greater number of potential SNAP participants.


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Clackmannan Things to Do
Alloa Tower is the largest surviving keep in Scotland. it was home to generations of the Earls of Mar, who played host to many of Scotland's monacrhs..
The tower has seen many alterations over the years, but still retains many of its medieval features such as the dungeon.
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Clackmannan Tower stands at the top of King's Sea Hill. It dates from the 14th Century, although it has ben altered through the ages, it was once owned by Robert the Bruce.
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The Parish Church was built in 1815, although St Serf may have founded a church on this site in the 6th C.
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Dollar Glen lies just to the north of the small town of Dollar. Dominated by castle Campbell at the head of the Glen, there are fine walks down to the town from the castle. the route is deeply wooded.
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Made this recipe along with one other on this site tonight. Absolutely wonderful and TO A COOK FROM CANADA - - - Is there a wrong onion? I too made mine with red onion this time - will try shallots next time I go to store.
Very good dip. To answer the cook from Canada, I think red onions would work very well, as would a sweet onion, such as vidalia, or spanish onion.
In my neck of the woods, shallots are very expensive. I wonder if one could use another type of onion. Red onions don't sound as though they would look very nice with this but who knows!
This recipie is fabulous!! I added 2 cloves of chopped garlic to the dip before refridgerating. The flavor is a colorful melodious delight!! You can also leave out the blue cheese and add fresh chopped herbs (rosemary, thyme, lavender) Overall, a GREAT dip.
This a simple and very delicious dip
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Saritha Nair, accused in the solar panel cheating scam, filed a bail petition before the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court here on Wednesday. She had been arrested on charge of cheating Sajjad, a resident of Perumbavoor, after allegedly promising to give him franchisee rights to solar heaters and to set up a wind farm in Tamil Nadu.
Saritha's petition said she had no part in the alleged fraud. She had only acted under the orders of Team Solar director and her partner Biju Radhakrishnan. Radhakrishnan, first accused in the case, allegedly approached Sajjad with the scheme and took around Rs.35 lakh from him towards setting up the franchise.
The Perumbavoor police said Saritha had received a cheque for Rs.6 lakh from Sajjad. The bail petition said Sajjad had given her the cheque after a phone call from Radhakrishnan and that she had played no part in the fraud. She had acted only as an employee of Team Solar, said counsel for Saritha, Shibu Varghese.
Saritha had earlier filed a bail plea before the Perumbavoor Magistrate Court, which rejected the petition. Along with the case for fraud registered at Perumbavoor, Saritha and Radhakrishnan have been accused of cheating several others all over the State. Radhakrishnan is also accused of murdering his first wife Reshmi.
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Meanwhile, Kerala High Court Judge Justice B. Kemal Pasha on Wednesday said that contrary to a report in a TV channel, he had never given any letter to any body or "Team Solar" for promoting its products. A TV channel news report on Wednesday alleged that Saritha and Radhakrishnan had used a letter from the judge for promoting their business.
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Employees of The Walt Disney Co. are worried about something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: that pink slips will arrive around Dec. 31 at the home of the Happiest Place on Earth.
The fear stems from the fact that despite a widespread cost-cutting program at the Burbank-based entertainment giant, Wall Street investors remain unimpressed and Disney management continues to look for more ways to reduce costs.
Even though the worldwide work force has remained steady at about 120,000 employees through this year, there are pervasive jitters that further cost cutting will trigger widespread layoffs or the elimination of entire divisions, employees said this week.
``Nearly every single division has been hit, and everyone has been told to cut their budget by 10 (percent) to 20 percent,'' said one knowledgeable insider who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``Things are tight everywhere in the company.''
It's a rough time at Disney, which has a highly demanding, stressful corporate culture even during the best of times. The corporation's unique ability to deliver family entertainment has inspired strong loyalties, but the ongoing drumbeat of negative developments has darkened the outlook of employees who count Snow White and Mickey Mouse among their co-workers.
A Disney representative had no comment on questions about future layoffs or employee morale but noted, ``No major changes have taken place in terms of employee numbers.''
Nevertheless, it is startling that employees at Disney - one of America's best-known and most-admired corporations - are even wondering about layoffs during the holiday season. Before the cost-cutting started, Disney already carried a reputation for being less likely than several of its rival entertainment conglomerates to spend lavishly on perks and parties.
Fortunes falling
The fact that Disney employees are worried about losing their jobs in December reflects not only how far the company's fortunes have fallen but also how enamored Wall Street has become of layoffs as the best remedy for ailing corporations.
``It used to be that companies would not announce layoffs around the holidays, but that taboo has disappeared,'' said John Challenger, chief executive officer of the Challenger Gray Christmas outplacement firm. ``Now the bottom line comes first.''
And Disney's bottom line hasn't been pretty. Wall Street has mostly shrugged in response to Disney's cost-cutting efforts this year with many brokers lowering their enthusiasm for the company's shares and numerous institutional managers selling at least a portion of their large stakes.
Challenger, for one, noted that companies with depressed stock prices often are forced to cut jobs just to appease investors. That's a key reason why total layoffs this year are up 11 percent over the 1998 level despite a booming economy.
``Stock price is the driving force of layoffs,'' he said. ``People have little choice when shareholder pressure begins to mount. If you can't meet expectations, you have to take action to get costs in line - and people are your No. 1 cost - because the drumbeat to cut costs is often deafening.''
Still, most experts doubt that Chairman Michael Eisner will implement any kind of major layoffs. Eisner and his top executives presented a wide variety of cost-cutting strategies last month to Wall Street analysts without specifying significant job cuts.
``They basically said the goal was to save $500 million annually, but I would hate to speculate on where they might cut jobs,'' said Linda Bannister, an Edward Jones & Co. analyst who attended the meeting. ``They are planning to do a lot of things that are going to contribute to that savings.''
Another longtime Disney watcher said the corporation is unlikely to slash its work force.
``I would say that across-the-board cutting would be the last resort,'' said Steve Cesinger, managing director of Greif & Co. ``I don't believe that Eisner would want to be in the press heading up a major downsizing. Disney is more apt not to replace people that leave.''
Short of targets
Cesinger said that does not mean there will be absolutely no job cuts but that they are likely to be targeted at poorly performing areas of the corporation.
``It depends on what area of the company you're in,'' he said. ``Any company that's short of its financial targets is going to be looking at cuts, so you have to figure out if you're in a key area.''
In late April, Eisner announced that Disney would undergo a corporatewide review of costs to shore up its finances. At that point, shares had fallen 23 percent in less than a year. But Wall Street has remained unimpressed; since then, they are down another 12 percent.
It's not as if Eisner has not been trying to cut costs at the company he has headed since 1984. Steps taken this year, some not officially confirmed, include:
Ending the practice of granting long-term employment contracts to many executives.
Imposition of a hiring freeze for all positions except critical slots.
Ban on payment for overtime work.
No use of consultants and temporary workers.
Cutting annual spending on motion pictures by $500 million and letting dozens of development deals lapse.
Cutting jobs in the home video department and reorganizing the TV department.
Shuttering the five Club Disney indoor play-parks and the three ESPN retail stores.
Putting the California Angels up for sale and pledging to not pursue high-price free agents.
Reducing head count by several hundred in cartoon animation, although those numbers fluctuate along with production cycles.
``There has been sort of a rolling layoff in animation since June, and they're trying to get crews to be staffed with fewer people,'' said Steve Hulett, business agent with Local 839 of the Motion Picture Cartoonists Union.
Profits down 30 percent
Disney reported in early November that its profits for its fiscal year ended Sept. 30 fell 30 percent to $1.3 billion, or 62 cents a share. Eisner said at that point he was ``disappointed'' by the results and warned investors not to expect growth for fiscal 2000.
At the Nov. 10 analysts' meeting, Eisner promised to reduce annual costs by more than $500 million, partly through ``strategic sourcing'' to cut purchasing expenses.
A month later, the stock remains stuck at about $28 even with several triumphs - blockbuster box office performance by ``Toy Story 2,'' a favorable agreement for a Hong Kong theme park and surprisingly strong ratings for its ABC television unit, thanks to ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''
It's no wonder employees are worried even with economic times as good as they've been in a generation.
``If there ever was a good time to be out looking for a job, this is it,'' Challenger said. ``If someone loses a job at Disney, they're likely to have a valuable pedigree. Those people are going to find good new jobs.''
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SALISBURY, England Thousands of New Agers and neo-pagans danced and whooped in delight Monday as a bright early morning sun rose above the ancient stone circle Stonehenge, marking the summer solstice.
About 20,000 people crowded the prehistoric site on Salisbury Plain, southern England, to see the sunrise at 4:52 A.M. (1152EST), following an annual all-night party.
The event typically draws thousands of alternative-minded revelers to the monument, as they wait for dawn at the Heel Stone, a pockmarked pillar just outside the circle proper, which aligns with the rising sun.
Unlike previous recent years, when the sunrise has been obscured by cloud - the bright sun bathed the monument in orange and gold on Monday.
"One time in maybe 10 we get a decent sunrise, and that was a good one," said Simon Banton, a 45-year-old education volunteer for English Heritage, the body that manages the site.
As the sun rose, a woman climbed a rock in the circle center and blew a horn, welcoming in the longest day of the year north of the equator. Drums, tambourines, and cheers reverberated in the background.
"It means a lot to us ... being British and following our pagan roots," said Victoria Campbell, who watched on, wearing a pair of white angel's wings and had a mass of multicolored flowers in her hair. The 29-year-old Londoner, who works in the finance industry, also said that "getting away from the city" was a major draw.
"It is stunning," said Stewart Dyer, a 43-year-old National Health Service worker and dancer on his first trip to the solstice celebration. "To actually be able to dance amongst the stones, to be able to touch the stones, to be that close to such an ancient monument is unbelievable."
The annual celebrations at Stonehenge, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of the capital, are a modern twist on solstice celebrations which were once a highlight of the pre-Christian calendar. They survive today largely in the form of bonfires, maypole dances and courtship rituals.
Andy Barrett, a 62-year-old restaurant owner from Kent, said he has been coming to solstice celebrations at Stonehenge for decades.
"It's amazing. The wonderful thing is all these people experiencing it and wondering what this was all for trying to work out in their own minds - what was it all?" he said.
Stonehenge's origins remain a mystery, but theories suggest the grounds were part of a huge astronomical calendar. Others say an ancient sun worshipping culture aligned the structure with the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. The site was used as a cremation cemetery since its inception, archaeologists say, but it is unclear if that was its main function.
"The truthful answer is we don't know exactly what it was for," said Amanda Chadburn, an archaeologist with English Heritage, which manages the site.
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CARLSBAD - A fatal shooting by a Carlsbad police officer has resulted in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, the police department and Sgt. Mickey Williams, who fired the shots.
Dedria Cox of Menifee, the mother of Trevell Dashan Williams, 23, of Temecula, is asking for an unspecified amount of money in damages in the lawsuit, filed Jan. 4 in the Superior Court in Vista.
Trevell Williams was shot twice in the abdomen about 1:40 p.m. Dec. 27, 2005, on the shoulder of Interstate 5, south of Carlsbad Village Drive. He died later at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.
Police said Sgt. Mickey Williams - the department's Officer of the Year in 2001 - shot Trevell Williams after he continued moving toward the sergeant with a screwdriver in his hand.
Reached by telephone Monday, Cox declined to comment on the lawsuit until she has spoken to an attorney. The lawsuit indicates that Cox filed the case without a lawyer.
A Carlsbad police spokeswoman referred questions to the city attorney's office. City Attorney Ronald Ball said he had not seen the lawsuit yet and could not comment on it.
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, whose office reviews all officer-involved shootings in the county, concluded that the police sergeant was justified in his use of deadly force against Williams and would not face criminal charges. The district attorney's review, which was released by Dumanis last summer, does not address whether the sergeant or the city face liability in connection with a civil lawsuit.
The lawsuit contains no detailed allegations about what occurred, but alleges wrongful death and excessive use of force.
"Trevell Williams is my oldest (first born) child," Cox wrote in the lawsuit. "He wanted a career in culinary arts, music and fine arts. He was an asset to his family and community."
An obituary for Williams published Jan. 8, 2006, said he attended Vista High School and played on varsity football teams that won CIF titles in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
The letter Dumanis wrote July 19, 2006, to Carlsbad police Chief Thomas Zoll to inform him of her decision in the case presented a different picture of Trevell Williams based on court documents, Riverside County sheriff's records and the investigation of the shooting.
Dumanis wrote that just five days before the shooting, Trevell Williams' mother reported to Riverside County sheriff's officials that her son had hit her with his fists, "resulting in scratches to her arm and a broken nose."
Six months before the shooting, Trevell Williams' mother sought a restraining order against him, writing that "her son was out of control" and citing "violent incidents during June and July," Dumanis wrote.
Dumanis also wrote that toxicology tests done with Trevell Williams' autopsy showed he had a blood alcohol level of .11 percent. The legal driving limit is .08 percent.
On the day of the shooting, the sergeant heard reports over his radio about police looking for Williams in connection with an incident that occurred about 12:40 p.m. in which a rock was thrown at a postal vehicle on Adams Avenue in Carlsbad, shattering the right front window, Dumanis wrote.


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When you take loads of photos at disney or anywhere else really, how do you store them on your hard disk. Do you just label folders or do you have some program or way of doing it?
Im just looking through our last year of folders and its a bit of a mess


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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities have a video from a police interrogation room that shows a murder suspect shooting a detective to death before killing himself with the officer's gun, a person with knowledge of the investigation said Saturday.
The suspect, Jeremy Powell, was not handcuffed during questioning at the Jackson Police Department on Thursday, the person said on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation.
Powell overpowered Det. Eric Smith and took his gun, shooting the veteran detective four times before shooting himself in the head inside a third-floor room of the department's headquarters, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. Other officers heard the shots ring out and rushed to the interview room, but both men were dead.
The AP has asked for the video to be released under open records laws, but authorities have not responded to the request.
Powell, 23, was being questioned about the stabbing death of a man whose body was found Monday near a Jackson street.
Ken Winter, executive director of the Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police, said it's not unusual for a suspect to be unrestrained during questioning.
"It depends on the demeanor of the individual at the time. I would assume that the detective had no reason to believe this guy was aggressive or he wouldn't have been interviewing him in the first place," said Winter, who spent 36 years in law enforcement as a police chief, a detective and as director of the state crime lab.
Winter also said it's not uncommon for an officer to be armed during an interrogation.
"I don't think this detective was doing anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes you can do everything right and it still turn out bad," Winter said.
Smith, 40, is survived by his wife, Eneke, a sergeant with the Jackson Police Department, and two sons.
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"DIME CON QUIÉN ANDAS, Y te diré quién eres" is commonly translated simply as, "You are who you friends are." But in describing a Democratic primary in which two Mexican American candidates are running for governor, the literal translation of this expression is the better choice:
"Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are."
Certainly it was a better choice to parse the political behavior at San Antonio's Martin Luther King Day parade on January 21. On that day a group of the city's most powerful and influential Democratic politicians linked arms and marched down Martin Luther King Avenue. At one end of the line was former San Antonio mayor and Clinton Cabinet member Henry Cisneros. Flanking him were congressmen Charlie Gonzalez and Ciro Rodriguez; state senator Leticia Van de Putte; state representatives Art Reyna, Trey Martinez Fischer, and Ruth Jones McClendon; county judge Nelson Wolff; and various candidates for the city council and the local bench.
On the south side of the avenue, a bit removed from Cisneros and his rainbow coalition—and far less conspicuous—walked another of San Antonio's native sons. Wearing Western boots, a pinstripe suit, a bright white shirt, and a striped tie, former Texas attorney general Dan Morales waved, smiled, and shook hands. "Hey! Dan Morales. I'm running for governor," he repeated, as he worked the line in front of the modest houses that lined the street. "Hey! Good to see ya!" Morales had come home to San Antonio, but this time, he was on his own. There was no exchange of pleasantries with his former mentor Cisneros. Not one of the two dozen politicians leading the parade was supporting Morales in his race for governor. All but Nelson Wolff, who can't endorse candidates because he is a judge, were backing the other Democrat in the race, Tony Sanchez.
Ever since he won election to the Texas House of Representatives in 1985 without the blessing or the backing of any local political machine, Morales has made a career out of going his own way. He's always had his reasons, even if they were sometimes hard for fellow Democrats to understand. If he was the loneliest member of the House Mexican American Legislative Caucus when he carried a criminal justice reform package his colleagues opposed, he did it because he was a former prosecutor and a law-and-order conservative. If he made national headlines as the maverick Hispanic attorney general who opposed race-based admission at the University of Texas, he did it because he believed affirmative action harmed minority students. Morales angered many in his party, but he was undefeated against Republican opponents, turned out Hispanic voters in record numbers, and because he was only 34 when he was elected attorney general in 1990, had a longer shelf life than most of the party's aging stars. If they weren't completely sold on a conservative, Harvard-educated Presbyterian with a limited command of Spanish, Texas Democrats were not going to walk away from Dan Morales either.
That was then. Everything changed after Morales brought his now famous lawsuit against the tobacco industry. On its face, the suit was a grand success. Morales hired a team of five private attorneys—known collectively as the Big Five—and forced the nation's tobacco companies to pay the state $17.3 billion in damages. Few had believed he could win the suit, let alone a settlement worth billions of dollars. But along the way Morales did something that no one yet has quite been able to explain: He signed a contract that resulted in $506 million being awarded to his friend Marc Murr, a Houston lawyer who was never seen in the Beaux Arts federal courthouse in Texarkana, where the tobacco trial was held. At least, Murr wasn't seen until shortly before the case was settled—about the time attorneys' fees were being negotiated. The Big Five together made $3.2 billion—the biggest legal killing in history. But they had been out front, highly visible, had risked some $30 million of their own money, and would have gotten nothing if the state had lost. When Murr showed up to collect his paycheck, he based his claim on a contract with Morales that the principal lawyers in the case say had been executed in secret and later, by Morales' own admission, backdated.
A questionable $506 million deal for a friend who had not worked with the trial team was too much to swallow—even for a public that had lost its gag reflex when it came to politics and corruption. But that wasn't Morales' only problem. First, Houston lawyer Joe Jamail—probably the most successful trial lawyer in America in the past thirty years—had accused Morales of soliciting a kickback when he tried to recruit Jamail to sue the tobacco companies. Second, Morales became a punching bag in the 1998 election for attorney general, even though he decided not to seek reelection: Republican nominee John Cornyn made the tobacco fees the centerpiece of his campaign. Third, the U.S. Attorney's office launched an investigation into Morales' handling of those fees. That investigation has now dragged on for more than two years but has yet to produce an indictment.
Indeed, Morales appears to be running two campaigns, one for governor and another against a federal grand jury that meets every Tuesday in the basement of the federal building in Austin. He has raised no money since the end of 1997, when he announced he would not seek reelection. But since July 1999, he has spent $516,627 of the funds left in his officeholder's account; $458,429 was paid to lawyers.
Exactly why Dan Morales would risk destroying a promising political career to arrange a $506 million fee for an old friend is one of the deepest mysteries of Texas politics. The controversy he created might have faded away gradually, along with his name and reputation. But now that he is running for governor, it seems like a good time to ask the question again: Why did he do it?
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Was Michael Jordan a mere mortal without his Nike kicks? Would he have been a last-minute scratch in the pivotal fifth game of the 1997 NBA Finals had he not his Gatorade nectar to help him battle the flu?
The answers are probably both no, but where would our understanding of Michael Jordan's greatness be without Air Jordans and green Gatorade cups? In truth, the most honest hawking Jordan ever did is the work he does now for Hanes, a company that produces boxer briefs that boast no irritating paper tag to impede a fella's hands in their southerly migration.
Fittingly enough, Tamir Goodman, once heralded as the Jewish Jordan and now off coaching kids in Cleveland (check out this fantastic piece for more on that), has got his own MJ-esque undergarment racket that aims to provide comfort for the Jewish everyman. They're the Under Armour/Spanx of tzitzit and they're called "Sports Strings." Goodman's latest goal is to send them to the Israel Defense Forces.
Last year, Goodman created "Sports Strings," a compression fit, moisture wicking and UV protective tzitzit garment. He recently launched the fundraiser "Tzitzit for Our Soldiers," with a donation goal of 1,000 Sports Strings.
"This whole operation 'Pillar of Defense,' what was going on in Israel a few weeks ago, I just remembered myself as a soldier," said Goodman, who served in the IDF. "I had a terrible rash on my back because you're in the sun all day long, then at night it's freezing because you're in the desert."
If you've got the itch, it's $32 to send a pair to the Holy Land. If that's too rich, you can always just send a pizza.
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