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Opinion filing details Judge Cote's rationale for denying stay of Apple monitor
January 17, 2014 | 1:31 pm
By Chris Meadows
Ever try to give a cat a bath? That's the experience Judge Cote seems to be having trying to get Apple to play nice with its court-appointed antitrust monitor. She finally filed her opinion (PDF) on the decision she issued concerning Apple's move for a stay and removal of Michael Bromwich yesterday. Computer problems at her court had prevented it from being filed earlier (PDF).
The decision weighs in at a whopping 64 pages. As with her original decision in the matter, Judge Cote clearly didn't want to leave anything to chance in the appeal. Over the course of the opinion, she chronicles Apple's history with a monitor, and with Bromwich in particular, explaining her rationale in imposing one in the first place, then recapitulating Bromwich's declaration of his stormy history with the company so far. She concludes by demolishing Apple's arguments in favor of a stay, and giving Apple until noon Saturday to file its appeal. (Apple has already filed a Notice of Appeal (PDF), in fact.)
Cote begins by explaining that she originally had not wanted to impose a monitor. She had given Apple at least a couple of chances to demonstrate that it understood how it had run afoul of antitrust laws and demonstrated a commitment to changing its culture to avoid future violations. However, Cote writes:
Disappointingly, Apple made little showing at or before the August 9 conference that it had taken to heart the seriousness of the price fixing conspiracy it orchestrated. Nor did Apple provide the Court with any evidence that it was seriously reforming its internal antitrust compliance policies to prevent a repeat of its violation. Apple's submissions failed to demonstrate that it took seriously the burden that its participation in the price fixing conspiracy imposed on consumers and on the resources of the federal and state governments that were compelled to bring Apple and the publishers into federal court to put an end to that harm.
So she imposed one. Mindful of striking a balance between letting Apple off too lightly or imposing the kind of longer-term burden the Department of Justice wanted, she decided on a two year monitorship, renewable with one-year extensions as necessary. She describes crafting it with a narrow focus whereupon Bromwich was supposed to report on Apple's moves toward greater antitrust compliance, and specifically not to seek out further wrongdoing.
In fact, Section VI.F expressly prohibits prosecutorial investigative activity. Section VI provides that, if in the normal course of his duties, the Monitor "discovers or receives evidence that suggests . . . that Apple is violating or has violated this Final Judgment or the antitrust laws," the Monitor shall report that information to DOJ and "take no further action including seeking information from Apple . . . to investigate any such potential violation of the Final Judgment or the antitrust laws."
Within that focus, he was to have the power to speak to any "any Apple personnel" without interference from Apple. He was to issue a report on Apple's compliance program as of 90 days after beginning his monitorship, then report on its status at six-month intervals.
During the process of selecting and briefing the monitor, Cote notes, Apple didn't make any objections that the court had no constitutional grounds for imposing one, though they had several chances to do so. They helped craft the final injunction order that gave him his powers, and didn't make any objections at that time. However, once the monitorship began, Apple's relations with Bromwich soon turned rocky.
The upshot is, over the 90 days, Bromwich was only able to conduct 13 hours of interviews with eleven people, seven of whom were lawyers, including only one board member and one senior executive. He only received 303 pages of documentation in response to his requests for documents related to Apple's antitrust compliance program. And, of course, Apple complained publicly in its original request for a stay about his salary and that his wanting to talk to all these people would represent an undue distraction and harm its business. When Bromwich filed a declaration in response to these public complaints, Apple claimed that his defending himself against their allegations meant he was "biased" and should be removed.
In evaluating Apple's request for a stay, Cote had a bit of work cut out for her, because it seems that over the course of filing several such requests, Apple kept shifting its arguments. First it claimed the court was impermissibly broadening the monitor's brief through proposals it had suggested for discussion but never actually entered in an early meeting, that the injunction was unconstitutional as originally created (note that it didn't raise this objection while they were creating it!) and that the monitor's conduct has effectively broadened the scope as well rendering it unconstitutional as applied. But now it seems to be basing its request on Bromwich's declaration in response to its original request.
Though Apple has dropped the argument, Cote nonetheless addresses the constitutional issue first, noting a number of precedents clearly establishing the court's right to appoint such a monitor. And, of course, Apple never objected while they were taking part in writing it.
Another objection was Apple's overly literal reading of the 90 day report as meaning the monitor shouldn't actually start doing anything until that date. Cote notes that this was not meant to be the case, as the monitor was supposed to be using that time to learn all he could about Apple's existing culture so he would be in a position to determine whether the program would be effective for that culture, (Apple's stonewalling over this puts me in mind of a grade school student who, upon learning he has two weeks to write a report, doesn't think he needs to get started until the 14th day.)
Cote also addresses Apple's complaint that Bromwich's salary is excessive and gives him incentive to stretch out his monitorship so as to pad his bill, that he has been acting more like an investigator than a monitor, and that his defensive declaration proves he is "biased." Cote points out that his conduct so far has been in keeping with his brief to monitor, not investigate, and that Apple has not supported its complaints about Bromwich's hourly wage with any authoritative sources suggesting he shouldn't be. She also notes that the final order specifically includes a section meant to protect Apple from fee-increasing incentives, requiring the monitor "to act diligently [and] in a cost-effective manner," and that if anyone has been stretching things out, it's Apple.
Since the monitor and DoJ have both expressed a willingness to discuss their salary, Cote remands that discussion to a Magistrate Judge, though notes Apple should be prepared to provide that judge with benchmarks to judge the applicability of whatever salary they think is appropriate.
Such benchmarks should include the customary hourly rates for the Simpson Thacher attorneys whom Apple has hired to assist Apple in revising the compliance program that the Monitor will be reviewing, and any other benchmarks that Apple may wish to offer. […] So long as Apple participates in a good faith effort to resolve this dispute in a
conference before the Magistrate Judge, it may offer any benchmark it wishes.
She also puts to bed Apple's claim that Bromwich's declaration should disqualify him on grounds of bias. (Emphasis mine.)
The Monitor's submission of a declaration was proper and necessary. When Apple filed the instant stay motion, it predicated its argument on several, serious attacks bearing on the conduct and the character of the Monitor in connection with his conduct of the monitorship. These allegations were grounded in factual statements. To evaluate the truth and understand the context of the assertions, it was essential to hear from the Monitor. In many instances, the Monitor was the only person who could confirm or deny the accuracy of Apple's assertions. As this Court's agent, it was the Monitor's duty to provide the Court with his understanding of the full factual story so that the Court could render an informed judgment, address this motion, and oversee the monitorship. It would be surprising if a party subject to a monitor could escape the monitorship by launching a cascade of attacks on the monitor and then disqualify the monitor for responding.
Next, Bromwich looks at Apple's claim that the monitor's fees and conduct represent "irreparable harm" to the company. As for the fees, Apple and the DoJ are already going to be discussing remedying that, and further, if Apple wanted to minimize the fees, all they would have to do is stop trying to get in his way as he does his duties. As for the interview requests, if thirteen hours of interviews and 303 pages of documents "constitutes 'irreparable harm' to Apple, then the standard for irreparable harm is low indeed."
Apple's current complaints seem to be predicated on the idea that the monitor's interviews will be time-consuming and interfere with normal business operations. Cote points out that there is a dispute mechanism in place for if Apple thinks Bromwich is overstepping his authority, Apple's complaints seem to be based on speculation given that it's been unable to show any such harm so far, and that she has thus far been sensitive toward the need to avoid interfering with Apple unduly, only imposing the monitor after Apple was not able to show it was unnecessary.
Cote writes that the limited term and narrow definition of the monitor's authority is meant to give Apple "breathing room" to revise and improve its compliance programs on its own.
That said, the Monitor has important work to do, and where that work properly includes interviews of Board members or executives, then the Monitor must be permitted to conduct those interviews. After all, the Injunction permits the Monitor to interview "any Apple personnel" when he is doing so in the exercise of his responsibilities and on reasonable notice to Apple. Section VI.G. Again, Apple did not object to this clause or any other particular clause in Section VI.
She also addresses the matter of the public interest. This monitorship didn't just come out of the blue; it's in response to a price-fixing scheme fomented by Apple's lawyers and highest executives, that did hundreds of millions of dollars in harm to consumers of e-books and cost the government's taxpayer dollars to address. Since Apple has not shown an ability or willingness to put its house in order by itself, it is in the public interest for a monitor to be involved so the court can keep track of what Apple's doing to fix things. "If anything, Apple's reaction to the existence of a monitorship underscores the wisdom of its imposition," Cote wrote.
I'm no lawyer, so I don't know how well this will do on appeal. It looks pretty conclusive to me, but I'm not the one who will be deciding these things.
When you get right down to it, it seems like the problem stems from Apple's belief that it shouldn't have to have a monitor at all, because it doesn't feel like it did anything wrong. The weird thing is how badly Apple has managed the whole thing. You would think their lawyers should have been able to dissemble or play along—after all, that's what lawyers are for. If they'd just presented more of a contrite face to the court and said they knew what they did wrong and were working on fixing it, even if they kept their fingers crossed behind their backs, they might have gotten by without a monitor at all.
And even not having been able to manage that, they had every opportunity to object to the things they didn't like while they were in the process of defining the monitor's duties and salary. Did they really look at those clauses saying he could talk to "any Apple personnel" and think they weren't going to be used?
It's pretty clear the reason Apple doesn't want to cooperate with the monitor is that it doesn't want to have to change anything. With the monitor there and doing his job, they're going to have to show they're making a real effort, just like a grade-schooler has to do his homework if his Mom is there looking over his shoulder. Which is the whole point of the monitorship, after all.
Anyway, this obviously isn't going to change anything anybody already feels about the case. Look for the appeals court to decide whether or not Apple gets an emergency stay in a week or two.
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"She (Judge Cote) had given Apple at least a couple of chances to demonstrate that it understood how it had run afoul of antitrust laws and demonstrated a commitment to changing its culture to avoid future violations."
The fact that Apple does not accept this verdict and is appealing should help us understand why this company seeks to avoid any suggestion that it does accept the verdict. Apple hopes to demonstrate that they are victims of judicial bias. These forays are attempts to put that picture in ever sharper relief.
Meanwhile, Solon's Kathleen Sharp argues that this is "Amazon's bogus anti-Apple crusade."
Frank, I wouldn't pay any attention to Salon.com> That site is rabidly anti-Amazon. They slant the story so much that they basically make stuff up. I deconstructed Sharp's post when it came out:
@Nate, yes, it did require a tin foil fedora to read the Solon piece but my point in citing it was to illustrate out how divergent opinion on this topic can get. It's beginning to sound more like the debates one hears in a sports bar rather than a reasoned discussion amongst well read persons.
@Chris, determining the validity of claims that one has been unjustly convicted is exactly the purpose of the appellate process and we won't know how the courts evaluate Apple's as yet unstated claims until the appeals process is exhausted. Even then, we know that some are wrongly convicted as the Innocence Project has taught us.
Normally the execution of a sentence is stayed on appeal. Judge Cote denied that request. This is critical in capital cases (e.g. murder). In the Apple case, the imposition of a compliance monitor might jeopardize the appeal by funneling information gleaned under the guise of compliance monitoring. It certainly metes out a punishment that cannot be recovered if the appeal is successful. The money is the least of it. What punishes Apple more than anything else is being able to interrogate employees and board members. One can imagine this rare opportunity eventuating in a best selling book, "What I Learned From Parting the Apple Kimono."
The Judge had to wo'man-up' because she is feeling the heat.
"Apple is betting the farm on their appeal." You mean the kitchen help's herb garden!
I bet Apple invested little in trying to convince an obviously partisan judge who declared Apple guilty before the proceedings even started, but like Bill Parcells preparing for an NFL playoff name, I bet Apple is preparing a number of surprises for the appeal process that will leave you folks saturating your kleenexes!
Philip Elmer-DeWitt lays out his argument for Judge Cote's bias by citing her complaint that the publishers were "unrepentant" despite her knowing full well that their settlements with the DoJ didn't require that. If that was her expectation for Apple, she must have been disappointed that they pleaded and continue to plead innocence.
Then, he cites lawyers who anonymously rate the judge as tending toward prejudgement and favoritism toward government entities.
Even if all these allegations against this judge are unfounded, we can't say that they come only from Apple and/or the involved publishers. Woe be unto those who do not REPENT!
Here's a very good, objective précis of the issues done by Roger Parloff of CNNMoney as he saw them in June of 2013. He took the interesting view of how all this would play out when and if it reached the SCOTUS. See: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us-v-apple-could-go-to-the-supreme-court/
Frank Lowney: If the Apple monitor was fundamentally affecting Apple's day-to-day activities, I'm sure she would have approved the stay. Not all remedies ordered by a court are stayed until all appeals are completed (i.e., people convicted of murder still go to jail, although a death sentence doesn't get carried out until the appeal process is finished) As it was, the monitor has had 13 hours of interviews with 11 people, and received 300 pages of documentation in 90 days, hardly changing the way Apple operates. Also, Philip Elmer-DeWitt's piece is an ad-hominem attack on Judge Cote. Even if she had started writing her decision before the actual trial, it was after reading all of the pre-trial evidence and hearings, and as several legal scholars note in http://allthingsd.com/20130710/apples-chances-on-an-e-book-ruling-appeal-are-lousy-say-legal-scholars/ her ruling was based on findings of fact, not interpretations of the law, and therefore will be less likely to be overturned. I'm also not convinced your CNNMoney article is as objective as you say it is, and I'm curious as to what Parloff wrote after the verdict.
I personally don't get why people get so worked up over this. The Amazon walled garden doesn't go away, the publishers actions ensured that Amazon will keep their natural monopoly, Apple got their own walled garden set up and a large enough market share with the profit margin they wanted that it's not going away either. The big losers here are the ebook buyers and the books & mortar booksellers and other ebook retailers. I'll never buy an Apple product anyway, but we'll see what happens to book prices after the publishers' consent decrees elapse. If they go back to agency pricing, keep DRM, and don't require that any ebook purhased can be read on all ebook readers, I guarantee that Amazon will maintain it's natural monopoly.
@Frank Lowney
The problem with Parloff's article is that it is total nonsense. First, he tries to make an argument that Apple's involvement makes this about vertical price-fixing. That is a complete red herring. Apple facilitated a horizontal price-fixing conspiracy. The kind that is a "per se" violation. Contrary to his implication, there is no legal requirement that Apple be a "behemoth" in ebooks for them to be guilty. So you can ignore everything he says about Apple's legitimate business interests.
Parloff does a good job of regurgitating Apple's opening argument. Unfortunately, the key factual claims that they made in that opening statement turned out to be lies. Yes, lies. When the time came for the Apple and the publishing company execs to back up those claims in court, the DoJ had documents proving that those claims were false. All that fol de rol about the publishers opposing the MFN? Total bullshit. You can go read the documents themselves, if you don't believe me.
Apple execs and a couple of publishing execs testified that the publishers opposed the MFN and when the DoJ showed them emails they had sent that proved that was false, they had to backtrack to avoid being guilty of perjury. The part that is really mystifying to me is that the Apple lawyers knew that the DoJ had those emails.
As for the Elmer-Dewitt article, well, it is based on anonymous internet comments. It is a smear job, plain and simple. There are no facts in it at all.
I have a suggesion for folks who think that Apple has more than a snowball's chance in Hell (and I don't mean Hell, MI) on this appeal. You need to study up on what makes for reversible error in a case like this. Spoiler Alert! Absolutely nothing that Apple and its allies in the press have whined about make for reversible error.
@ Bruce, here is a December 2, 2013 piece by Roger Parloff on this subject entitled, "Behind Apple's mutiny against its court-ordered e-books monitor." Note that Mr. Parloff has legal training which yields a special clarity to his journalism IMHO.
I think that this is a fascinating case because it reveals the tension in American enterprise between what is fair play and what is not. Note that this has more to do with the spirit of the law than the letter of the law. The facts of the case, as always, are as inscrutable as ever.
I'm glad you shared that link, Frank. It told me that Perloff wasn't someone I needed to read.
"The more eye-catching of Apple's claims were its accusations that Bromwich was already insisting on meeting every member of Apple's executive team and board"
As Chris pointed out in the post, those interviews were one of the items included in the final judgement. If Apple had an issue with them then they should have fought harder before agreeing to the judgement.
In reading some of Roger Parloff and others articles, it seems that the real rationale for Apple's appeals over the monitor is to keep Bromwich from talking to anyone except Apple's lawyers, and too attempt to get Cote to recuse herself from the other ongoing Apple anti-trust and class action lawsuits. The latter is probably the more important goal, since, as we keep hearing from the Apple apologists, Cote is extremely biased against Apple.
If Apple sees Cotes's decisions as unwarranted and/or unconstitutional … and it might well … then what it's up to is legit … and hardly the acting out of a ten year old. This writing has more the feeling of impetuous, goofy youth … as does a lot of tech writing these days.

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Weather impacts plantingHard wheat traded with strong gains last week, while Chicago struggled. Wheat continues to see support from drought concerns and delayed planting progress. For the week ending May 1, July Minneapolis gained 11.75 cents, September Minneapolis gained 16.25 cents, July Chicago dropped 1 cent and July Kansas City picked up 24.5 cents. For the month of April, September Minneapolis closed 30.75 higher, July Chicago gained 20 cents and July Kansas City gained 47.25 cents.
By: Ray Grabanski, Agweek
Hard wheat traded with strong gains last week, while Chicago struggled. Wheat continues to see support from drought concerns and delayed planting progress. For the week ending May 1, July Minneapolis gained 11.75 cents, September Minneapolis gained 16.25 cents, July Chicago dropped 1 cent and July Kansas City picked up 24.5 cents. For the month of April, September Minneapolis closed 30.75 higher, July Chicago gained 20 cents and July Kansas City gained 47.25 cents.
The first three sessions of the week brought aggressive buying and good gains to the wheat exchanges. Early support was from reports of disappointing rainfall for much of the western region of the Southern Plains. Light support was also from rain in the Northern Plains, which will result in delayed planting progress. Additional support came from the Wheat Quality Tour, which confirmed poor yield potential for the winter wheat crop. The eastern leg of the tour was close to 34 bushels per acre, compared with last year's average of 44 bushels. The second leg of the tour, which covered the western regions of Kansas, forecasted the potential yield at 27 bushels compared with last year's 37 bushels. Additional support came from concerns of planting delays as the Northern Plains continues to deal with cold wet conditions.
The May 1 session had wheat struggling. Wheat trimmed its losses as a result of reports from the third day of the Wheat Quality Tour, which found a little better yield potential for wheat in southeast Kansas. Oklahoma's wheat commission estimated its state's wheat potential at 66.5 million bushels, compared with 105.4 million last year. So far, wheat's production issue is a U.S. problem, not a world problem, and that will limit the potential of wheat. In the end, spillover selling from a sharply lower U.S. soybean complex proved to be too much for wheat to overcome. Technical selling to correct an overbought market condition was also evident.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated wheat export shipments pace for the week ending April 25 at 23.2 million bushels. Wheat export sales pace for the week ending April 25 was estimated at 16 million bushels with 7.9 million being old crop and 8.1 million being new crop. With five week's left in wheat's export marketing year, shipments will need to average 26.2 million bushels and sales will need to average 5 million bushels to make USDA's expectations of 1.175 billion bushels.
As of April 27, 18 percent of the nation's spring wheat crop had been planted, compared with 10 percent the previous week and 30 percent for the five-year average. Spring wheat emergence was estimated at 5 percent, compared with zero the previous week and 9 percent for the five-year average. Eighteen percent of the nation's winter wheat crop was headed, compared with 9 percent the previous week and 26 percent for the five-year average. Winter wheat crop conditions declined 1 percent to 33 percent good to excellent, 33 percent fair and 34 percent poor to very poor.
The corn market firmed up early last week with wet and cool weather that kept the tractors out of the fields, but selling entered the trade by May 1. The planting progress report on April 28 showed progress was made the previous week, but came in at the low end of estimates and offered support. And while the weather forecast supported the market early in the week, it changed and created profit-taking to end the week. Weather is driving the market. As of midmorning on May 2, the July contract was down 12.5 cents for the week, while the December contract lost 11.5 cents.
The corn futures traded with decent gains to start the week. Support came from widespread rain over the weekend that slowed planting progress. The export inspections were also friendly and above USDA's estimate on April 28. Buying interest continued on April 29 with the planting progress report that showed 19 percent of the corn in the ground and at the low end of estimates and below the five-year average of 28 percent.
On May 1, the corn futures came under selling pressure and remained that way into May 2. The forecast changed and showed increasing temperatures and drier weather for the next week. Prices that were the highest in eight months led to some additional commercial selling, while outside markets pressured, as well. The ethanol report was also disappointing and showed corn usage down last week and stocks grew to levels last seen one year ago. Export sales have been good, but shipments continue to lag, as sales stand at 43.1 million metric tons, with 16.5 million metric tons left to be shipped. Larger production estimates also continue to surface out of South America.
Ethanol production for the week ending April 25 averaged 898,000 barrels per day, down 1.32 percent from the previous week. Total ethanol production for the week was 6.286 million barrels. Corn used in production the week ending April 25 is estimated at 94.29 million bushels and needs to average 98.864 million bushels per week to meet this crop year's USDA estimate of 5 billion bushels. Stocks were 17.212 million barrels, up 4.2 percent from the previous week.
The crop progress report showed 19 percent of the corn is planted versus 5 percent one year ago and a five-year average of 28 percent. Emergence is at 3 percent versus 2 percent one year ago and a five-year average of 6 percent.
USDA's export inspections report was bullish for corn at 45.5 million bushels, versus the 36.6 million needed to keep pace with USDA projections of 1.75 billion. Corn export sales were estimated at 36.9 million bushels, which was above the 2.8 million needed to stay on pace with USDA's estimate of 1.75 billion. The shipments came in at 47.9 million, above the 37.1 million needed to keep pace with USDA projections.
As of the May 1 close, July soybeans were 33.25 cents lower for the week, while the November contract lost 14.25 cents. In early May 2 trade, soybeans were down 3 to up 2 cents.
Soybeans traded mostly higher on April 28 and 29 with strong commercial demand for soybean meal and bull spreading action providing support. Tight old-crop stocks continued to provide support, leading to a new high close for the July contract on April 29. Wet weather has slowed planting thus far, with USDA reporting its first round of planting progress April 28 at 3 percent planted. Wet weather has been supportive to grains in general, though an argument could be made that it should be negative to new-crop contracts, as slow corn planting could increase the likelihood of acres switching to soybeans. April 28 export inspections were better than expected, coming in well above the amount needed to keep pace with USDA's projection.
Soybeans traded lower April 30 as bull spreaders took profits. Planting progress has been limited with conditions cool and wet, but there is still plenty of time for soybeans to be planted. The export market has slowed substantially for soybeans as China's demand has waned, but export sales are still above USDA's projected total. Strong crush demand and tight old-crop stocks continue to provide underlying support.
Soybeans traded sharply lower May 1 after USDA reported a net cancellation of 600,000 bushels of soybeans in the export sales report. This triggered commercial selling, with additional pressure coming from rumors of ships unloading Brazilian soybeans in the U.S. Soybean prices are high at the moment with the July contract being around 50 percent above USDA's cost of production.
USDA reported soybean export inspections pace for the week ending April 25 at 9.3 million bushels. This brings the year-to-date export shipments pace for soybeans to 1.519 billion, compared with 1.246 billion for last year at this time. Soybean export sales pace for the week ending April 25 was estimated at 2.3 million bushels. This included cancellations of 600,000 bushels for the 2013 to 2014 marketing year. Soybean export sales remain above USDA's demand projection of 1.58 billion bushels. Shipments were reported at 10 million bushels.
Planting progress as of April 27 had 3 percent of the U.S. soybean crop planted, compared with the five-year average of 4 percent.
As of April 27, 33 percent of the nation's barley had been planted, compared with 25 percent the previous week and 33 percent for the five-year average. Barley emergence was estimated at 11 percent, compared with zero the previous week and 8 percent for the five-year average. USDA reported barley export shipments pace for the week ending April 25 at 17,086 bushels. No barley export sales were reported. May 1 cash feed barley bids in Minneapolis were at $4 per bushel while malting barley bids were at $6.25.
USDA reported no durum export shipments for the week ending April 25. No durum export sales were reported. May 1 cash bids for milling quality durum were at $7 per bushel in Berthold, N.D., while the Dickinson, N.D., bid was at $7.
Canola futures on the Winnipeg, Manitoba, exchange closed the week ending May 1 with $5.50 (Canadian) losses. Canola started the week with gains with support by demand concerns as old crop vegetable oil demand remains strong. The middle sessions had canola virtually trading steady. But selling stepped in to close out the week. Pressure came from spillover selling from a sharply lower session in the U.S. soybean complex. Light selling was also tied to an increase in farmer selling. May 1 cash canola bids in Velva, N.D., were at $20.19 per hundredweight.
USDA estimated soybean oil export pace for the week ending April 25 at 0.5 thousand metric tons. This brings soybean oil export sales pace to 583.9 thousand metric tons, compared with 831.8 thousand metric tons for last year. May 1 cash sunflower bids in Fargo, N.D., were at $21.40 per hundredweight.
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The Estates of the realm were the broad divisions of society, usually distinguishing nobility, clergy, and commoners recognized in the Middle Ages and later in some parts of Europe. While various realms inverted the order of the first two, commoners were universally tertiary, and often further divided into burghers (also known as bourgeoisie) and peasants, and in some regions, there also was a population outside the estates. An estate was usually inherited and based on occupation, similar to a caste.
Legislative bodies or advisory bodies to a monarch were traditionally grouped along lines of these estates, with the monarch above all three estates. Meetings of the estates of the realm became early legislative and judicial parliaments (see The States). Two medieval parliaments derived their name from the estates of the realm: the primarily tricameral Estates-General (États-Généraux) of the Kingdom of France (the analogue to the bicameral Parliament of England but with no constitutional tradition of vested powers: the French monarchy remaining absolute); and the unicameral Estates of Parliament, also known as the Three Estates the parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland (which had more power over the monarch than the French assembly, but less than the English one), and its sister institution the Convention of Estates of Scotland.
The First Estate comprised the entire clergy, traditionally divided into "higher" and "lower" clergy. Although there was no formal demarcation between the two categories, the upper clergy were, effectively, clerical nobility, from the families of the Second Estate. In the time of Louis XVI, every bishop in France was a nobleman, a situation that had not existed before the 18th century. At the other extreme, the "lower clergy" (about equally divided between parish priests and monks and nuns) constituted about 90 percent of the First Estate, which in 1789 numbered somewhat over 100,000.
The French inheritance system of primogeniture meant that nearly all French fortunes would pass largely in a single line, through the eldest son. Hence, it became very common for second sons to join the clergy. Although some dedicated churchmen came out of this system, much of the higher clergy continued to live the lives of aristocrats, enjoying the wealth derived from church lands and tithes and, in some cases, paying little or no attention to their churchly duties. The ostentatious wealth of the higher clergy was, no doubt, partly responsible for the widespread anticlericalism in France, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, and was certainly responsible for the element of class resentment within the anticlericalism of many peasants and wage-earners. The first estates had to pay taxes to the second and third estates.
Similar class resentments existed within the First Estate.
During the latter years of the Ancien Régime, the Catholic Church in France (the Gallican Church) was a separate entity within the realm of Papal control, both a State within a State and Church within a Church. The King had the right to make appointments to the bishoprics, abbeys, and priories and the right to regulate the clergy.
The Second Estate is traditionally divided into "noblesse de robe" ("nobility of the robe"), the magisterial class that administered royal justice and civil government, and "noblesse d'épée" ("nobility of the sword").
The Second Estate constituted approximately 0.5% of France's population. Under the ancien régime, the Second Estate were exempt from the corvée royale (forced labor on the roads) and from most other forms of taxation such as the gabelle (salt tax) and most important, the taille (the oldest form of direct taxation).
The French nobility was not a closed class, and many means were available to rich land owners or state office holders for gaining nobility for themselves or their descendants.
Noblemen shared honorary privileges such as the right to display their unique coat of arms and the prestige right to wear a sword. This helped to reinforce the idea of their natural superiority. They could also collect taxes from the third estate called feudal dues, this was to be for the third estate's protection.
The Third Estate (Fr. tiers état) was the generality of people which were not part of the other estates.
The Third Estate comprised all those who were not members of the aristocracy or the clergy, including peasants, working people and the bourgeoisie. In 1789, the Third Estate made up 97% of the population in France. Due in part to a limited franchise, the representatives of the Third Estate actually came from the wealthy upper bourgeoisie; sometimes the term's meaning has been restricted to the middle class, as opposed to the working class.
They had to pay taxes to the First Estate.
The first Estates-General was called by Philip IV in 1302, in order to obtain national approval for his National Assembly June 17, 1789) and then as the National Constituent Assembly (July 9, 1789), a unitary body composed of the former representatives of the three estates.
Notions of equality and fraternity would soon triumph over official recognition of a noble class. Some nobles such as the Marquis de Lafayette supported the abolition of legal recognition of nobility, but even some other liberal nobles who had happily sacrificed their fiscal privileges saw this as an attack on the culture of honor. Nonetheless, the French Nobility was disbanded outright by the National Constituent Assembly on June 19, 1790, during the same period in which they were debating the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
From the 16th century, the second estate was reorganised by the selection of shire Commissioners: this has been argued to have created a fourth estate. During the 17th century, after the Union of the Crowns, a fifth estate of royal office holders (see Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland) has been identified as well. These latter identifications remain highly controversial among parliamentary historians. Regardless, the term used for the assembled members continued to be 'the Three Estates'.
A Shire Commissioner was the closest equivalent of the English office of Member of Parliament, namely a commoner or member of the lower nobility. Because the parliament of Scotland was unicameral, all members sat in the same chamber, as opposed to the separate English House of Lords and House of Commons.
The Parliament also had University constituencies (see Ancient universities of Scotland). The system was also adopted by the Parliament of England when James VI ascended to the English throne. It was believed that the universities were affected by the decisions of Parliament and ought therefore to have representation in it. This continued in the Parliament of Great Britain after 1707 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1950.
One contrast between the French and British systems: the lower clergy in France were part of the First Estate, but in Britain they were commoners. Similarly, in Britain only titled peers are Lords Temporal. Other members of aristocratic families are also considered commoners.
This legal division existed until the modern age in Finland. However, at the start of the 20th century, most of the population did not belong to any Estate and had no political representation. A particularly large class were the rent farmers, who did not own the land they cultivated, but had to work in the land-owner's farm to pay their rent. (Unlike Russia, there were no slaves or serfs.) Furthermore, the industrial workers living in the city were not represented by the four-estate system. The political system was reformed, and the last Diet was dissolved in 1905, to create the modern parliamentary system, ending the political privileges of the estates. The constitution of 1919 forbade giving new noble ranks, and all tax privileges were abolished in 1920. The privileges of the estates were officially and finally abolished in 1995, although in legal practice, the privileges had long been unenforceable. However, the nobility has never been officially abolished and records of nobility are still voluntarily maintained by the Finnish House of Nobility.
Nevertheless, the old traditions and in particular ownership of property changed slowly, and the rent-farmer problem became so severe that it was a major cause to the Finnish Civil War. Although the division became irrelevant following the establishment of a parliamentary democracy and political parties, industrialization and urbanization, their traditions live on in the political parties of Sweden and Finland.
In Finland, it is still illegal and punishable by jail time (up to one yarr) to defraud into marriage by declaring a false name or estate (Rikoslaki 18 luku § 1).
Large realms of the nobility or clergy had estates of their own that could wield great power in local affairs. Power struggles between ruler and estates were comparable to similar events in the history of the British and French parliaments.


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Make crust:
Combine first 3 ingredients in processor and chop finely, using on/off turns. Transfer to bowl. Mix in butter. Press firmly into bottom and up sides (but not rim) of 10-inch glass pie plate. Freeze 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake crust until center is golden, covering edges with foil if browning too quickly, about 19 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. If edges have slipped, gently press into place. Cool almond crust completely.
Make filling:
Soften ice cream in refrigerator until spreadable but not melted. Spread in crust. Smooth surface. Freeze until firm, at least 2 hours. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Cover tightly.)
Whip cream, sugar and cardamom until stiff peaks form. Spread over pie. Top with berries and serve.


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Tops announced it will assume operation of Budwey's on N. Main Street in Newfane. There are approximately 74 total employees at the Newfane location and each of whom has the option of applying for continued employment with Tops Markets.
"Budwey's has been an important part of the Newfane community for many years and we plan to continue the tradition of providing shoppers with an outstanding shopping experience," said Frank Curci, Tops Markets president and CEO. "Customers will see the same familiar faces, providing the exceptional service that they have come to expect."
The sale of the Newfane store is expected to close on August 4. After that time, Tops will make minor changes to the 22,000 square-foot store including new interior and exterior signage and décor and the integration of Tops brand products onto store shelves. The store will physically close by July 27th and reopen as Tops Markets on August 9th."Tops proposed the idea of purchasing this store, and it was an offer I couldn't refuse," said Frank Budwey, owner of Budwey's Markets. "The sale of this location allows key management to focus efforts on strengthening our business at the North Tonawanda location. It's been great having a business in the Newfane community, we loved our little store in the country and my sister Jennifer Schumacher and I will miss everyone. We discovered all of the great amenities that this area of Niagara County has to offer, and we will continue to support it."


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So, the BIG QUESTION…Where where you and What were you doing when the earthquake hit?
Yes, I know those Californians are laughing at us for making a big deal out of a 5.9 earthquake, but that's the largest one we've had in history! in this area I think it's pretty amazing what the earth can do and how it reminds us of it's awesome power once in a while. Kinda puts us in our place.
So, where was I? I was at my desk at work, and I noticed the glass starting to shake (which never happens), but I figured it was a large gust of wind. But it didn't stop. And then the entire building start to shake and the roof sounded like it was going to come off. We've been having many problems with the HVAC unit on my side of the office, and we seriously thought the HVAC unit was doing something crazy and causing the roofing to shake very badly. An earthquake didn't enter my mind. My boss hit the off button on the thermostat and as soon as he did that, the shaking stopped. Go figure. So we seriously thought it was the HVAC unit. My boss, who has spent a good deal of money on repairs for this particular HVAC unit was a bit angry, grabbed the keys to get onto the roof and headed out the door. Well, that's when we noticed that the building across from us had evacuated. Hmmm…. Perhaps…it…was…an…earthquake?!?
And then we started getting calls and texts from family members and friends, which confirmed our suspicion.
Here's what I believe. Yesterday was my dad's 67th birthday. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!) The earth did a little tremble with just the thought of the wrath of Sonny here for another year. So, the earth moved because it was my daddy's birthday. I'm sticking with that, none of that geological nonsense.
And by the way, we are not complete morons. Apparently, where my husband works, they also thought the shaking was coming from the rood and had something to do with the air handlers. And I saw on Facebook from a couple friends that thought it had something to do with their HVAC and/or HVAC people on the roof.
Now for the important stuff…Do you know what to do in the case of an earthquake? How about a tornado? Flood? Landslide? The American Public Health Association has published fact sheets on many emergencies such as these, and many more. Access them here.
Let me know by leaving a comment what you were doing and what you thought was going on when the earthquake hit!


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Personnel: Roger Davidson (piano).
Liner Note Author: James Gavin.
Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (2009).
Photographer: Fran Kaufman.
In popular culture, Michel Legrand (who turned 79 on February 24, 2011) is best known for his accomplishments as a composer. But people who really know their jazz also respect the Paris native for his work as an acoustic pianist, and on Umbrellas & Sunshine: The Music of Michel Legrand, fellow acoustic pianist Roger Davidson pays tribute to both Legrand the composer and Legrand the pianist. Forming an intimate duo with upright bassist David Finck, Davidson salutes Legrand's pianistic style, but does so on his own terms. In other words, Davidson acknowledges elements of Legrand's playing, but isn't actually trying to emulate him; the lyrical Davidson still sounds like himself. And he tackles an intriguing variety of Legrand pieces on this 2009 recording. Many of the songs are well-known standards, including "You Must Believe in Spring," "Watch What Happens," "The Summer Knows," and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (which is part of a medley that also includes "The Easy Way"). But Davidson makes his share of less obvious choices as well. Among them: "His Eyes, Her Eyes" (from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair), "The First Time" (which was heard in Falling in Love Again, a romantic comedy from 1980), and the obscure "Look." Many people who are big admirers of Legrand are unfamiliar with "Look," and the very fact that Davidson included that rarity shows that he wasn't afraid to do his homework. So even though Umbrellas & Sunshine has its share of well-known standards, Davidson obviously didn't want this 52-minute CD to have an all-standards-all-the-time approach. Davidson is hardly the first jazz musician to pay homage to Legrand, and he certainly won't be the last. But his sense of adventure makes Umbrellas & Sunshine one of the more memorable Legrand tributes of the 2000s. ~ Alex Henderson
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A comforting fall or winter dish. Watch a demonstration of this recipe on Online TV.
2 small fennel bulbs
1 yellow onion
3 tbsp unsalted butter
Olive oil to cover pan
2 lb. baking potatoes
2 cups plus 2 tbsp heavy cream
2-1/2 cups grated Gruyere cheese
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Chopped fresh rosemary for garnish
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter the inside of a 10" x 15" x 2" baking dish.
Step 2: Remove the stalks from the fennel and cut the bulbs in half lengthwise. Remove the outer layer and core from each and thinly slice the bulbs crosswise, which will end up being about 4 cups of sliced fennel.
Step 3: Over medium low heat, sauté the fennel and onions in the butter and a bit of olive oil for about 15 minutes until tender.
Step 4: Peel the potatoes, then thinly slice them by hand or with a mandolin. Mix the sliced potatoes in a large bowl with 2 cups of cream, 2 cups of Gruyere, salt and pepper. Add the sautéed fennel and onion and mix well.
Step 5: Pour the potatoes into the baking dish. Press down to smooth the potatoes. Combine the remaining 2 tbsp of cream and 1/2 cup of Gruyere in a separate bowl and sprinkle on the top.
Step 6: Bake for 1-1/2 hours until the potatoes are very tender and the top is brown and bubbly. Let sit for 10 minutes at room temperature and serve. Consider serving with Fillet Steaks.
Watch chef Angie MacRae demonstrate this recipe on Online TV.
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American Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321T aircraft, the plane the carrier will soon schedule on the lucrative Los Angeles to New York route.
American's 321Ts — the T denotes 'Transcontinental' — will replace the double-aisle, gas-guzzling Boeing 767s on the route. The 321 is a narrow-body aircraft — it has only one aisle — but American is outfitting them in three classes, business, first and economy. The competition on the route only has business and economy. (United had also been selling three classes of service for years, but it retrofitting its planes to have only two.)
If you look carefully at the picture above, you'll see the airplane, which is built in Europe, is carrying a German tail number– D-AVZK. Eventually that will change to an U.S. style number, starting with N, rather than 'D.'
The A321Ts, which start flying for American in January, will also eventually fly between San Francisco and New York.


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While four-cylinder cars rarely blip the excitement meter for most automotive enthusiasts, one exception is the Mustang SVO. Built during the early '80s, these turbo-charged four-bangers were spicy little numbers that proved intelligent engineering could deliver high-performance from conservative cubic-inch displacement engines. The SVOs, with their race suspension, turbo-charged engine, electronic fuel injection, and unique scooped hood and dual rear wing, were welcome limited-production models at a time when American V-8 performance had hit the bottom of its malaise. Today they represent a special niche in Mustang history, but due to their limited numbers, they are a restorer's nightmare. Parts are scarce and often expensive, if they can be found at all.
Bud Morton of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, knows all too well these pitfalls of SVO ownership. He owns four of these scrappy Ponies in addition to the Dark Sage '85 model seen here. Given that this car required a complete restoration and massive parts replacement to be brought to show condition, it kind of makes you wonder why he bothered in the first place. Well, he bothered because the car was first acquired by Hertz.
Bud located the car in the auction section of a late-model Web site. And after reading the description and deciding it was worth a look, he headed to Atlanta to see the SVO firsthand.
"The car was all there," says Bud. "None of the SVO-specific parts were missing. It was a running, driving car. All the paint was cracked, and it was completely sun-fried. The seats were almost white from the bleaching effects of the sun. The gray trim all over the car was bleached out too. The interior was, for the lack of a better word, nasty. The leather was torn completely off the shifter knob and the top of the steering wheel. The interior panels were sunburnt."
For Bud, this was a project he simply couldn't resist.
"But with all these faults," says Bud, "I still drove the car home-225 miles one way. Two days later I pulled the car into my warehouse and gutted the entire interior."
It turned out that the SVO was indeed part of the Hertz fleet. Hertz had purchased the car new from Bankston Ford in Houston, Texas, and kept it in service from February 1985 to January 1987. Bud says Hertz had even etched the VIN number in all the glass and the wheels. The second owner was about to sell it to a dealership when the third owner bought it just to keep it in the enthusiast realm. It was this gentleman from whom Bud purchased the car in May 1997.
For the next five months Bud searched for someone who could expertly apply a new coat of Dark Sage to the SVO. Finally, Charles and Jason Calloway of Calloway's Paint and Body agreed to the job. In November Bud sent the car to Delk Performance in Murfreesboro to pull the drivetrain before shipping the shell off to Calloway's. In the interim Bud turned his attention to detailing the engine and acquiring the parts needed to put it all back together.


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If You Can't Beat Them.....Join Them!
Solving the Cell phone "Problem" at Greeneville High School
Dr. Linda B. Stroud, Principal
Do you know anyone who can look you in the eye and carry on a conversation while furiously and proficiently texting in their hoodie pocket without detection even under your most intense scrutiny? If you are a secondary teacher or administrator, you probably know hundreds of such people. They are called teenagers!
Misuse of cell phones by students is a rampant problem in most secondary schools across the U.S., and administrators are scrambling to find policies and solutions that effectively deal with this "problem." The same was true at Greeneville High School. In 2007-2008, cell phone policy violation was the number one student behavior issue and was seriously impeding the effectiveness of the school discipline plan. The policy of "no cell phones in sight and no cell phone usage during the school day" was simply not working. It had gotten so bad that our discipline committee was researching cell phone transmission blockers for our campus (that is illegal, by the way!).
In 2008-2009 we changed our entire cell phone policy. But more importantly, we changed our beliefs about student cell phone usage in our school. We finally came to understand that cell phones are neither toys nor a fad. They are not going away. They are, in fact, a powerful technology tool we should be utilizing for teaching and learning. Just think about all the things that one can do with most cell phones: make calls, text, take pictures and video, email, and connect to the internet. And the beauty of it is that they cost us nothing. Parents are paying for our students' cell phones!
Therefore, because of this revelation, this past year we began using cell phones as instructional tools at GHS. Teachers are encouraged to have students use their cell phones to blog to class web pages, do video and audio podcasts, find word translations, and calculate currency conversion rates. Students utilize their phones for research and as dictionaries by accessing Google (text 466453) or ChaCha (text 242242 or dial 1-800-2-chacha). Students even use their phones as individual "clickers" for summative assessments by accessing the free site polleverywhere.com. In fact, all 1000 students and staff members at GHS voted in our school-wide 2008 presidential election by using polleverywhere.com and we all watched our school election results come in live on graphs displayed on classroom televisions. Students are also encouraged to use the calendar and notepad functions on their phones to document homework assignments and set the alarm function as a reminder to study for tests and exams. This has eliminated the necessity of those expensive "school planners" that normally end up at the bottom of a locker. These are just a few examples of how cell phones can be used as learning tools.
We are often asked, "What about students who do not have cell phones?" Our finding is that the vast majority of our students do have a cell phone of some type. In fact, a GHS student survey revealed that 98% of our students have a cell phone at school, even though almost 45% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch. For differences in cell phone capabilities, and for students who do not have phones, we simply use cooperative learning and differentiate the assignments based on cell phone function, just as we differentiate instruction for student abilities and learning styles.
While the use of cell phones as instructional tools is highly motivating for both students and teachers in the classroom, we do not just turn our students loose all day to use their cell phones to text their friends! Students are not to have phones in sight without permission from the time they enter the school in the morning until the final dismissal bell rings in the afternoon. This includes any cell phone usage in the halls, cafeteria, on bus duty, etc. Students are now required to place cell phones on the desks at the beginning of each class in the "off" or "silent" mode, or in a central location such as a basket. This takes away students' ability to text undetected in hoodie pockets! If a student touches a phone or one rings or buzzes during class, students are effectively "busted" as there is no question as to whose phone was in use. Students may only use phones in class for instructional purposes with teacher permission and under the direction of the teacher.
We also changed the consequence portion of our cell phone policy. If a student breaks these simple rules, the cell phone is taken by the teacher and sent to the main office with a form documenting the student name, teacher name, and date the phone was confiscated. The phone is then kept in the main office for seven days. Seven days is a purposeful number because students and parents will not typically purchase another phone during a seven day period. However, in the past we found that due to the reduction in the cost of cell phones, if a phone was taken for a period of 30 days or the remainder of the school year the student would simply buy a new phone. Additionally, a seven-day period of time will include a weekend without a cell phone for students, which they want to avoid at all cost!
If a student simply cannot live without his or her phone for seven days, or if a parent objects to not being able to communicate with his child for a week, our new policy allows for a choice other than the seven day confiscation. Students may come to the office at the end of the school day, and for a $20 fine they may have the phone returned! They cannot pay the fine until the end of the day. We have found that our students will gladly pay the $20 in order to have the phone returned, but they do not want to pay $20 multiple times, which has resulted in compliance with the policy! Parents have also been very supportive of this novel approach and usually insist that the student pay the fine himself in order to have the phone returned. Additionally, we took the cell phone policy violation out of the GHS discipline policy, greatly reducing the number of lunch detentions for such violations. We have found the consequences of keeping the phone for seven days or the $20 fine to be more effective than a separate discipline infraction. We do, however, still consider it a major violation of our discipline policy if a student refuses to comply with a teacher for a phone confiscation or if a student misuses a cell phone at school for the purpose of inappropriate pictures, videos, texts, etc. Thankfully, those types of incidents were not issues during the 2008-2009 school year.
The results of our new policy are in. Simply put, it's working! If you consider that we have 900 students at GHS, multiplied by four classes per day, and then multiplied by 180 school days, those figures equal a total of 648,000 opportunities for student cell phone violations. At Greeneville High School during the 2008-2009 school year, we only had 137 cell phone violations. Of those 137, thirty-four students chose to leave his or her cell phone in the office for seven days. One hundred and three students chose to pay the $20 fine, resulting in a total of $2060 in cell phone fines. All of that money was spent on our students. The fine money was used to provide a reward day this spring for our senior class who won our GHS Spirit initiative, a year-long school spirit competition among our four grade levels. The seniors were treated to a day at a local retreat center and enjoyed a low ropes course, games, a cook-out lunch, and time to be together with their friends.
Cell phone technology has definitely changed the way we look at our policies at Greeneville High School. Cell phones are no longer a problem at GHS, but are now considered to be powerful technology tools to be used for teaching and learning. All it takes is a change in paradigm and policy!
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PERSON OF INTEREST IN A DEADLY STABBING. THIS IS 34-YEAR-OLD FABIAN PERALES. HE MAY BE DRIVING A GOLD, 1998 TOYOTA CAMRY WITH ARKANSAS PLATES. TONIGHT, NEIGHBORS SAY THEY ARE ON EDGE. 40/29'S PAIGE PREUSSE IS LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE. RIGHT NOW, POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS AS TO WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED INSIDE THIS HOME HERE ON SOUTH COLLEGE. THAT'S WHERE THEY FOUND AN ELDERLY WOMAN THEY SAY WAS STABBED. ONE NEIGHBOR TELLS ME SHE WITNESSED A STRANGE MAN LURKING OUTSIDE THE VICTIM'S RESIDENCE THE NIGHT BEFORE THE INCIDENT. "He walked outside that old lady's house and I went outside and watched him; I got this feeling that I couldn't bring myself to turn my back on. I don't get feelings like that." HALLE PAINTER LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE HOME WHERE THE WOMAN WAS FOUND DEAD. "He turned around and flicked me off and the look in his eyes gave me goosebumps." PAINTER TELLS POLICE THAT SHE AND THE NEIGHBORS NOTICED HIS BIZZARE BEHAVIOR AND CRAZY OUTBURSTS ON THEIR STREET LONG BEFORE THE INCIDENT. "When I met the different neighbors, they were all warning me to stay away from this guy and watch out. They told me there used to be girl who lived there who was moving out because he was stalking her and she was scared." POLICE SAY THEY ARE TAKEN PAINTER'S STORIES SERIOUSLY. "It just gives you an erie feeling you've never had before;everyone around her is so nice, it's just him." POLICE SAY THEY HAVE NOT YET POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM. HER BODY IS AT THE STATE CRIME LAB TONIGHT. REPORTING LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE, PAIGE PREUSSE, 40/29 NEWS. POLICE SAY THEY ALSO QUESTIONED A SECOND PERSON OF INTEREST WHO IS ALREADY IN JAIL ON UNRELATED CHARGES.
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Barbara A. Heavilin will deliver a lecture titled, "Guided and Guarded: The Unseen and Unacknowledged Presence in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Rowling's Harry Potter", based on her book From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism: The Search for Meaning and Presence of God in Modern Literature, which was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2014.
The chapters on Tolkien and Rowling are available in the English office, and there will be a time for discussion and queries following the lecture.
Currently serving as editor in chief of The Steinbeck Review, Heavilin has published numerous articles and books on John Steinbeck and has received the Pruis Award for outstanding contributions to Steinbeck studies. Along with Charles Heavilin, she was co-editor of The Quaker Presence in America and she has also published articles on Margaret Fell Fox, William Wordsworth, and James Thurber, among others. She currently teaches literature classes at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and holds the position of Professor Emeritus of Taylor University.
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A traditional dessert from chef Rocco DiSpirito.
1/4 cup heavy cream
1-3/4 tsp powdered unflavoured gelatin
1/4 cup skim milk
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
3 packets stevia, such as Stevia In The Raw
3 tbsp raw agave nectar
1-1/2 cups fat-free Greek yogurt
Olive oil cooking spray
4 tbsp sugar-free caramel syrup, such as Smucker's
Step 1: Place the cream in a small bowl and sprinkle the gelatin over the top.
Step 2: Pour the milk into a small saucepan.
Step 3: Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean with the tip of a small knife, landing them directly in the pan. Place over medium heat and bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat. Add the cream and gelatin mixture, the stevia, and the agave nectar and whisk until everything is dissolved. Whisk in the yogurt but do not aerate.
Step 4: Coat the inside of 4 six-ounce plastic molds (you can use cleaned-out individual yogurt containers) with one second of cooking spray each. Divide the cream and yogurt mixture among the molds and place them in the freezer for 5 minutes to start to set.
Step 5: Remove the molds from the freezer and transfer them to the refrigerator to finish setting, about 20 minutes.
Step 6: Invert each mold onto a small plate. Poke a tiny hole in the top of each mold and lift it off the panna cotta. Pour 1 tablespoon of caramel sauce on and around each panna cotta.
See more recipes from Rocco DiSpirito.
Reprinted with permission from Rocco DiSpirito's Now Eat This! Italian (2012 Grand Central Life & Style).
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Picking Sabathia over King Felix for the Cy Young Award is nuts
Sep 9, 2010, 9:31 AM EDT
We've mentioned it a few times already, and a great many people in the national media have already taken their swings at it, but let us reiterate one more time: supporting CC Sabathia over Felix Hernandez for the Cy Young Award is the sort of thing that should spark a hearing over whether or not you should be made a ward of the state due to extreme mental incompetence.
The statistical case is so simple that I'm surprised that there's any debate at all. Hernandez leads Sabathia in innings pitched, complete games, hits allowed, ERA (by a lot) and strikeouts. He's allowed fewer hits, home runs and has walked fewer batters. Hernandez's infield defense is worse. So is his bullpen.
While people say "hey, Hernandez pitches in the weak AL West," (a) the weakest part of the AL West is his own team which he cannot face; (b) the strongest part of the AL East is Sabathia's which he cannot face; and (c) Hernandez has actually started against more teams that are in contention than Sabathia has. Wanna give Sabathia points for playoff race pressure? Fine. Just make sure you even it out by giving Hernandez points for having to deal with the pressure of knowing that he must be absolutely perfect in order to win, because he's getting zero help from his atrocious teammates.
The only advantage Sabathia has over Hernandez is the one thing that is not in a pitcher's control: run support. That's it. And that's what leads to the wins that many Cy Young voters are citing as the reason for supporting Sabathia over Hernandez.
Which is strange, because last year the writers got it right and gave the Cy Young Awards in both leagues to guys who pitched the best despite having relatively lackluster win totals — Zack Greinke and Tim Lincecum. Why it appears that won't happen again this year is a mystery.
Maybe the writers feel like going against their base instincts to reward wins once is enough. Maybe it's just too early, the Sabathia supporters just happen to be the most vocal and once the voting occurs sanity will prevail.
All I know is that if their performances hold up for the last couple of weeks of the season and Hernandez doesn't win the Cy Young Award the BBWAA ought to be whacked upside the head.
- birdmancometh - Sep 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Right? I mean, I just cannot believe that people are still so hard-headed about this stuff. They really need to get Joe Morgan off the air. It has to be his fault. If we get him off now we can still save the younger generation before he's completely ruined them all.
- Spudchukar - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:02 PM
I was already to give you high fives for your support of Hernandez until the last year they got it right comment. They didn't get it right in the NL. Wainwright should have won over Lincecum. He didn't win because of the dufus ESPN analyst who unfortunately has a vote and cast it for Javier Vasquez over Wainwright. So I wrote him informing him that he had made the classic voters error of voting for the player he thought was the best pitcher vs. the pitcher who had performed the best. I am paraphrasing but here is the essence of his response. That we all have our own realities and that my "opinion" that the award should go to the player who performs the best in a particular season is biased and that he retains the right to define his vote any way he chooses. In other words, he is not compelled to vote for who has had the best season, but who has had the best career or potential or any other criteria. With this type of voter mentality do not expect King Felix to be hoisting any trophy.
- Ace2000 - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Sabathia's Yankees comfortably lead all of baseball with 751 runs scored. Seattle is all the way back at #30, with 452, off the pace by a staggering 300 runs. Sabathia's run support average is nearly twice that of Hernandez: 7.45 to 3.90. There's your difference in win totals right there, without even factoring in Seattle's defensive deficiencies. To say that Felix needs to somehow find a way to win is just absurd.
- BC - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:21 PM
How much run support could Carlton have gotten? He team won less than 60 games!
- APBA Guy - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Aardsma's not the worst closer.
- Kung - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Not to get off-topic, but Lincecum absolutely should have won last year over Wainwright. Lincecum had 8 fewer innings, yes, but he had 2 more strikeouts per nine innings than Wainwright, a ton more swinging strikes, .2 more walks per nine innings, and a lower ERA, FIP, and xFIP (and hence much higher WAR). There is simply no way Wainwright deserved the Cy over Lincecum.
- Bill@TDS - Sep 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM
He's one of the best writers in the business, and voted for Vazquez over Wainwright not for any of those reasons you just made up, but because under the statistical methods he values, Vazquez did in fact have the better season. I don't agree, but it was perfectly valid, and he's exactly the kind of writer you should want voting if you want things to happen like Felix winning over Sabathia.
- Joe - Sep 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM
He got 3.83 runs/game in a league that averaged 3.91 runs/game. For the year, the Phillies averaged 3.22 r/g.
- DiamondDuq - Sep 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM
You know what was well said? The most famous words to ever leave Herm Edwards' lips! Those were well said!
- scatterbrian - Sep 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Sabathia's win total and run support are the gaudy stats in this debate…
- scatterbrian - Sep 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Maybe if Felix resigned Branyan and kneecapped Griffey before the season….
- Lateral-Symmetry - Sep 9, 2010 at 5:48 PM
"When considering the original Cy Young won more games than any other pitcher, some thought has to be given to the actual wins."
If that's your brand of reasoning then you might want to keep in mind that "the original Cy Young" also LOST more games than any other pitcher.
- Josh in DC - Sep 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Felix Hernandez should have been smart enough to be drafted by the Yankees.
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