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If The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger woke up last night out of a dead sleep drenched in cold sweat, now we know why: Mel Gibson is about to be single and…well, he was always ready to mingle, wasn't he? According to TMZ, Mel Gibson's divorce from wife Robyn Gibson will allegedly be finalized today; Robyn filed for divorce in April 2009. That's right! In case you had forgotten that one pesky detail, Mel was in fact still married during every part of his public meltdown: the anti-Semitic rant, the relationship and child with mistress Oksana Grigorieva, and, perhaps worst of all, The Beaver.
Gibson's ongoing legal battle with Grigorieva aside, we're assuming his divorce took so long because the couple married in 1980 without a pre-nup; as such, the mother of seven of Mel's eight children stands to earn a sizable chunk of well-earned change. So…anyone willing to deal with Mel Gibson as your girlfriend's crazy-eyed ex? Gentlemen? Hmmm?
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Foods like kale, avocados, apples, almonds and quinoa are now being grouped into a category of foods called "superfoods." There is no true, legal definition of "superfood," but most natural health experts agree that superfoods are foods that are unprocessed, nutrient dense and packed full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes. They are eaten not only to satisfy hunger but to nourish and strengthen the body. The new superfood category is also popularizing lesser-known foods like spirulina, maca and chia.
Spirulina is a blue - green algae that grows in hot, sunny climates around the world. According to Kimberly Snyder, C.N, in The Beauty Detox Solution, Spirulina can be helpful in warding off energy slumps and, thanks to its high protein content, it is useful for active athletes. Also according to Snyder, Spirulina is packed with vitamins, minerals, gamma-linoleic acid (GLA), B vitamins, enzymes, and contains all essential amino acids. Spirulina is about 60 percent protein, rich in iron and rich in vitamin B12, making it an excellent addition to a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Maca is native to the Peruvian highlands and resembles a turnip or radish. The climate of the Peruvian highlands is exceptionally harsh and is considered some of the most inhospitable farmland in the world. Maca is able to thrive in these extreme conditions. In the United States, maca is sold in powdered or capsule form and is commonly marketed for libido & hormonal support and to endurance athletes. According to Carmen Mattes, MH in The Wonders of Maca, Maca has traditionally been used for increased endurance, fertility support, immune support, hormonal support and anti-stress support. According to Mattes, maca strengthens, nourishes and balances the endocrine system for both males and females. Brendan Brazier, a professional Ironman triathlete and author of The Thrive Diet, uses maca as an energy-booster and for post-workout recovery.
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Chia seeds are native to southern Mexico and were a main component in the Mayan and Aztec diets. According to Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D, chia seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, molybdenum, niacin, and zinc. Chia seeds can be stored for long periods of time without turning rancid due to their high antioxidant content. When added to water and allowed to sit for 15 minutes, the chia seeds and water form a gel. According to Dr. Weil, researchers suggest that this reaction also takes place in the stomach, slowing the process by which digestive enzymes break down carbohydrates and convert them into sugar. Chia seeds can be added to soft foods like oatmeal or yogurt, added to smoothies, added to baked goods or eaten as a gel.
Other foods in the "superfood" category include coconut oil, coconut water, raw cacao, hemp seeds, acai berries, goji berries, flax seeds, wheat grass, barley grass and all fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some animal-based products like wild salmon and free-range, organic eggs are also in this category. Since individual dietary needs vary, a "superfood" to one person may not be a "superfood" to another person. It is always best to consult with a doctor or nutritionist before adding new foods to the diet.
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EL RENO, Okla. – Canadian County Sheriff's Office is dealing with a disturbing case of animal abuse.
Tuesday deputies arrested Marla Satterfield for 33 counts of cruelty to animals after they said she ran a puppy mill from her home southeast of El Reno.
Pictures show the dogs' fur matted so thick, investigators said they believe they had not been groomed in years.
"These animals are victims; they can't speak for themselves," Dana Puckett said. "They have no choice but to sit there and slowly suffer and die."
Puckett works with Pet Angels Rescue; the organization that took in some of the dogs.
She said one poodle was found with a 2-week-old puppy matted to the poodle's fur; the dog had to drag the puppy everywhere it went.
"She had 33 animals that were alive but who knows how long they would be alive," Undersheriff Christ West said. "There was three that were dead and who knows what else had taken place."
News Channel 4 tried to ask Satterfield what was taking place but when she drove up to her home, she wouldn't stop.
"She just had them running in a group running wherever, breading with whatever," Puckett said.
Investigators said the property was littered with trash and water bowls were dirtied with debris.
Now, many of the dogs that survived are battling sickness.
"It's frustrating," Puckett said. "It comes down to if people see these things happening, they have to report it. Don't turn a blind eye."
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Malobi Sinha spent the early years of her childhood in the freedom and vastness of Kenya, in East Africa; then her family migrated to Australia when she was in High School. She is the best-selling author of Non-Fiction and Fiction works, as well as appraised collections of poetry, and has had literary work (articles and poetry) published in various magazines and e-zines in Australia, UK, the USA and Israel. Her latest book, The Castle and Other Stories, a collection of YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories, was published by Cresco Books in October 2014. Malobi also is Copy Editor for the e-Publisher Stasia Press, and is a Business Consultant. She completed a Bachelors of Engineering from Monash University and a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from Deakin University. Malobi is Lead Violinist of Taal, and also enjoys painting artwork. She lives in Victoria, Australia, with her husband. More information on Malobi can be found at her website at www.malobisinha.com.


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Bristol Rugby to add young hooker Max Crumpton to their ranks for next season
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BRISTOL Rugby have signed Harlequins' former Saracens hooker Max Crumpton on a two-year deal from next season.
The 20-year-old, who has represented England at under-16, under-18 and under-20 level, played in the IRB Junior World Championship two years ago.
Crumpton left Saracens for Harlequins earlier this season, having previously spent time on loan with GKIPA Championship side Plymouth Albion.
Bristol are announcing one signing for next season on the hour every hour from 9am to 3pm today – and the announcement of Crumpton's arrival follows that of Irish prop Jack O'Connell, who is joining the club this summer from Leinster.
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Bristol director of rugby Andy Robinson said: "Max is a young hooker with experience at Championship level and plenty of potential to develop his game.
"He's a physical, powerful individual who bolsters our options in the hooker position. Nurturing young players continues to be a key focus for us going forward."
Crumpton made his full Saracens debut in 2012, coming off the bench in an LV=Cup pool match against Leicester. He is yet to make his Aviva Premiership bow but is considered an exciting prospect for the future.
Crumpton said: "I'm looking forward to the new challenge at Bristol and continuing my development in the West Country. There is plenty of quality in the squad, so I'm relishing the opportunity to compete for a first team place and help Bristol push forward."
Bristol are also expected to announce today that they have signed Leeds scrum-half Craig Hampson and Ospreys fly-half Matthew Morgan.


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(b. 1936). Also Hiroaki. B. Zushi City, Kanagawa Prefecture. 8th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1988. Graduate in Commerce of Waseda University in 1958 after which he entered C. Itoh Trading Company. Practiced judo and aikido in university days. Taught by Kenji TOMIKI. Lived abroad for a total of 13 years in England, the U. S. , and the Middle and Near East, where he taught aikido to various groups. Responsible for the organization of the BRITISH AIKIDO ASSOCIATION in 1966, and was among the first teachers of TOMIKI AIKIDO in the U. S. when he spent six years in Houston, Texas instructing at the Karl GEIS School of Judo during the early 1970s. Now head of research center planning department of C. Itoh Company. Member of Tokyo City Educational Commission and active in various other civic organizations. Presently Chief Executive Officer of the JAPAN AIKIDO ASSOCIATION, and Chairman of the WASEDA UNIVERSITY AIKIDO CLUB Alumnae. Author of book entitled Kuroobi Shosha Sekai o Iku.
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The bird is back! You probably thought A-Trak and Armand Van Helden's cut-n-paste masterpiece Quack couldn't get any weirder. You thought wrong, friendo. The proof is baked right into Scrambled Eggs, two perfectly inappropriate remixes of Quack tracks from some of the craziest Euros we know. Drunken Masters and Big Dope P chop up and [cont.]
Goldfish Heels put their spin on Daft Punk's "Give Life Back To Music" and Duck Sauce's "Everyone", meshing the two into one incredibly smooth, cohesive remix.
Directed by Dugan O'Neal, from the album Quack, available now.
There's a moment on the long-awaited debut album from Duck Sauce, Quack, in which a thick accented Italian DJ from New Jersey speaks on his set selection, suggesting: "I like the boom-a, the boom-a, the boom-a, the hard music, the hard beats. They don't make me dance." It's one of many humorous sketches that sews [cont.]
A-Trak & Armand Van Helden first splashed on the scene as Duck Sauce with the breakout hit "aNYway," a breath of fresh disco air in the distorted world of electronic music. Next up was "Barbra Streisand," a surprise global #1 smash and true pop culture milestone, complete with 70 million (and counting…) YouTube views, a [cont.]
We are just one week away from the long-awaited release of Duck Sauce's Quack LP, and today we get a look at the lead single, "NRG", and its subsequent remixes by Hudson Mohawke, and the previously released version by Skrillex, Kill The Noise and Milo & Otis.
Directed by Mister Whitmore. QUACK is in stores April 15th.
The new album from A-Trak and Armand Van Helden hits stores April 15th.
With Duck Sauce's Quack closing in on its April 15th street date, Skrillex remixes the lead single, "NRG", alongside Recess collaborators Kill The Noise and Milo & Otis.
The veteran New York DJ team of A-Trak & Armand Van Helden first splashed on the scene as Duck Sauce in 2009, releasing the breakout hit "aNYway", a refreshing return to disco-house at a time when electronic music was essentially a distortion contest. The following year came "Barbra Streisand", with a So-Me directed video that [cont.]
A-Trak and Armand Van Helden preview four new Duck Sauce tracks on their Duck Droppings EP, making way for their long-awaited debut LP, Quack. Free download for each track below.
A-Trak and Armand Van Helden prep for the release of QUACK with this new mix, for free download.
Duck Sauce, the crazy coupling of superstar DJs A-Trak and Armand Van Helden, are back with a new single "Radio Stereo". The track is a typically infectious Duck Sauce reworking of "Radio", a chart-topping track from 1982. An Australian hit for UK punk act The Members, "Radio" was produced by legendary late 70′s/early 80′s punk [cont.]
A-Trak serves up this extra remix to Duck Sauce's "It's You" for free download, taking the track into deeper house territory.
So, Duck Sauce took out an ad on Brooklyn's Craig's List about "Free Duck Sauce" samples, which in turn, takes you to a free download of the "?@#! Remix" of "It's You". Well played, boys.
From the forthcoming album, Quack.
Duck Sauce has been missing-in-action for a minute, but the group has just launched www.quackisback.com, teasing the release of the new single and the upcoming album. The site takes you to a loop of a new track, with the title "Its You", due June 25th, giving only a small taste of the sample used for [cont.]
HARD EVENTS—the world-renowned event and festival producer recognized for landmark festivals such as HARD Day of the Dead and the three-day electronic music cruise Holy Ship!!!—has today (April 23) announced the full line-up for the 2013 edition of HARD SUMMER, Los Angeles' biggest summertime music event. Returning this year for its sixth annual edition as [cont.]
Here are parts one and two of our exclusive interview with A-Trak. In part one, we speak on A's gig at 1-Oak Las Vegas, the new Fool's Gold rap compilation "Loosies", Danny Brown's upcoming album "Old", and more. In part two, A-Trak speaks on the EDM explosion, the emergence of Trap music, Serato vs. Traktor, [cont.]
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Jewcy blogger Abe Greenwald lets us know today just how far reporters from the New York Times to Time to the BBC are willing to go not to admit the obvious about the participants in the riots that began in France this past weekend.
For some reason, I can't imagine why, these news outlets avoid stating that the rioters are Muslim. In fact, consistently referring to the rioters as "youths," the news outlets make it sound as though, as Greenwald points out, what France and Nicolas Sarkozy are confronting is "teenage extremism" that "demands nothing less than a fully committed War on Puberty."


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Anna Margetts studied at the University of Cologne, the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University in Nijmegen. She received her PhD in linguistics from Radboud University, Nijmegen in 1999.


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February Group Exhibition at Gallery 1261
February 15, 2015
Exhibition announcement:
Group exhibition at Gallery 1261 opening Feb 20th
I will be showing two new paintings at the upcoming group exhibition at Gallery 1261 opening February 20th. Both paintings are 16 x 20 inch floral still lives that were finished in December of 2014. Squash is among one of my latest alla prima paintings that features some of my most skillful and yet simplest brushwork to date. Dominicana features a painted trompe l'oeil exotic wood background of Palisander behind a Dominican wood carved vase of impasto white roses. You can check them out at the gallery's show preview online.
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My current painting process
January 21, 2015
These days I'm limiting the time I take to make a painting to about 4 days. Before I'd take months to finish a painting and at some point it stopped becoming enjoyable or even beneficial. With shorter length paintings, the painting process gets pared down to the essentials and the spontaneous part of painting is celebrated.
Essentially, I casually pick a subject, spend about an hour composing it and then start painting. A lot of improvisation happens along the way. The composition will gain its strength and balance during the sketching process as I begin to more fully understand the project. Ideas solidify, small impulses merge together, colors harmonize and contrasts come forward. A painting acquires an identity when a character emerges. It's very fulfilling when that happens and also enigmatic. Despite my best efforts to the contrary, a painting's character seems to have its own free will and comes or goes as it pleases.
Most of the time painting is an enjoyable process, one in which I'm not fully aware of taking a creative role. It's quite freeing to feel that I'm just along for the ride. When I get too dictatorial, the work suffers a bit from ideas getting stale, feeling stiff and weighed down with obligation. A painting continues for as long as I can still recognize and grasp for interesting and beautiful things that are within reach.
Oh and of course, being a realist painter, I still want the subject to look like itself, or rather not strip away its essential visual identity and its unique character. So you may wonder where I draw the line between realism and creativity? In my next post, I'll address that question, talk about realism in painting and being a realist painter. Thanks for reading and please feel free to leave a comment below. See you next time!
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Art and beauty, a philosophy
Expressing beauty through art
When I paint, I look for beautiful passages that offer me excitement and ways to further explore the initial interest that I felt for something. It's like following a multitude of paths and seeing which ones connect together to form a bigger design. There are many different aspects to see and paint but ultimately I choose one that leads in a promising direction. Sometimes it feels like weaving a pattern on the fly looking for rhythms, color harmonies and shapes, using the visual information from the subjects I paint.
For me, the beauty of a painting is often found during the painting process itself since it requires a certain kind of looking and patience to see it. In other words, the time and sustained effort it takes to make a painting often runs far longer than what my first superficial impressions can provide. During the painting process my impressions change and gradually come together to a form a more balanced, structured and often more abstract perception.
I suppose I've chosen beauty as a main theme of artistic expression because I recognize it as a philosophical way of viewing life. Beauty is a harmonious outcome to previously disordered elements; it's a meaningful way of understanding oneself and others in relation to civilization or to a wild chaotic natural world. It's an optimistic approach, certainly, one that hopes that people will find better purpose in the moments that are peaceful and harmonious. Not that any painting is going to change the world but I've always been happy with making small but positive contributions on a manageable scale.
Beauty is harmony when experienced by our senses and intellect. We've learned to recognize it and to create it by naming its individual components and learning their organization. In music we hear it in combinations of harmonies, rhythms, tempos.
It is similar in painting where patterns, colors and compositions delight the eye. Beauty enters our senses, is comprehended by the mind and opens a door to the heart. When it enters, it leaves a lasting impression on a person. In apprehending it, one often gets the sense of a grander organization that has the power to weave meaning into previously unimportant ideas or things. To express myself in painting is to try and record this beautiful experience, this grander organization and in doing so make the world a more meaningful place.
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On Art and Inspiration
On art and inspiration
Often people will ask me who my favorite artist is, the one who inspires me the most in my career. Actually, I have two favorite artists.
Don Music
Salieri in Amadeus.
To me, creativity and self expression flow when we can find an honest place in ourselves despite all the other roles we have to play. But that impulse must be continuously rediscovered as we learn, change, profoundly experience the ups and downs in life. Perhaps that's the most significant aspect of art for me- the pulse it has on the human spirit.
On an every day level there is also an aspect of painting for me which is fun and continues to be exciting throughout each year. I enjoy the freshness of paint, a crisp feeling of color and an exciting design. Painting offers a chance to improvise with a style or mood using a familiar subject matter- in the same way musicians might play with a popular tune. For instance this still life of Apples plays off of a zigzag composition very much like Cezanne's. However my style wanted to go with a different color harmony and a greater feeling of form and light.
Without food for the brain and excitement for the eye, the act of painting can be indescribably tedious. A painting is a physical recording of an artist's emotional, brain, eye and hand activity, therefore the best paintings are those where the artist is completely involved and not going through the motions. Like a music performances, the best recordings are moments in history and when it's over there's no fun in doing it again.
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On Being an Artist
On being an artist
I have always enjoyed creating things with my hands. When I was young, arts and crafts was my favorite pastime, along with reading. I felt a great satisfaction in making something original and well crafted. Being creative was thrilling and offered a way to turn ordinary things into something unusual, a bit magical. My artistic beginnings sprung from imaginative fancies- daydreaming, tales of fantasy, adventure and discovery.
One of my favorite childhood books: A Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
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About me
December 05, 2014
Who am I?
Hi, I'm Kate. This is my blog, an area that I've created to share some personal details, updates on my work in progress and conversations on topics that are close to the work that I do. Thank you for taking the time to check it out! You are welcome to leave comments or questions in this area as it's a place to meet and exchange ideas and opinions.
But first please allow me to share a few personal details about my life.
My hometown:
I grew up in Urbana, Illinois, a small, charming city of cobblestones, supercomputers and cornfields, where 9 nobel prize winners since 1956 were born or lived.
I'd like to share with you a few of my nostalgic places there; places that are objectively great, stand out in my memory or have loads of character.
The best deep dish pizza of all time: Papa Del's Pizza
Where you can view a Rembrandt alone in a peaceful, intimate space : The Krannert Art Museum
A hopelessly out of fashion and splendid Bavarian-style hotel where I've eaten posh lunches and sang karaoke: The Jumer Castle Lodge.(Now the Urbana Landmark Hotel) Note: In a curious twist of fate, the old hotel was saved when a new Chinese buyer from California bought the failing landmark in 2010 with plans to remodel and reopen. Due to various circumstances, the initial investment money did not prove sufficient for the planned renovation and the hotel is currently in an odd state of limbo.
Where I got my early start at figure drawing and oil painting: The University of Illinois sponsored Saturday Drawing classes for the community- established in 1964 and still going.
My Educational Background:
After graduating with a BFA at the University of Illinois, I received most of my instruction in drawing and painting from Anthony Waichulis, Studio Incamminati and the Angel Academy of Art . The method of this kind of training is modeled after the traditional atelier. In the modern day "atelier" style school a complete progressive curriculum in drawing and painting is developed by one main instructor and transferred by demonstration and work from instructor to the student. It is similar in this regard to an actual atelier, where the apprentice would receive the highly individualized techniques, recipes and aesthetic perspectives of one master of the atelier or workshop where they were employed. In the instance of a true apprenticeship contract, there is usually a commitment through the complete duration of the training and for a significant amount of time afterward. The specificity of this style of training often has a notable influence on the artistic perspective of the student, thus the emphasis given to the "lineage" of the artist. This is very different from the buffet style selection of short term classes from different teachers that many art schools offer today.
If you are interested in reading more about this, please leave a comment below as there is a lot of information out there that I would be glad to link to. At any rate, I'm very grateful for the quality of instruction that I received and the commitment that my teachers made to keeping this method of instruction alive.
See below for the direct "lineage" of each of my instructors/schools to better understand how my art was influenced and from which style of painting my methods originated.
Anthony Waichulis/ Trompe L'oeil———–>Anne Schuler————-> Jacques Maroger/
Studio Incamminati———–>Nelson Shanks———–>Henry Hensche/ Impressionism————>Charles Hawhthorne/
Angel Academy of Art/ Classical Realism———–>John Michael Angel———–> Pietro Annigoni/
If you want to see a cool chart that traces the connection of students and teachers of painting from 1935 all the way back to the 1435, see Timothy Stotz's Flowering Staircase.
Present Day
Currently I live in Los Angeles with my talented husband Adrian (a fellow oil painter and portrait/figurative artist) and our amazing flame point Siamese cat Amir who plays fetch.
We live in an area of LA called Elysian Valley (affectionately nicknamed Frogtown by the locals).
It's a community of artists and families who enjoy the central location (just north of downtown), the uncrowded neighborhood and the large warehouses next to the LA river that are being rehabbed into some great spaces. Our studios are located in one of those buildings where we enjoy high northlight windows and are able to paint during the day with ideal indoor natural light. By the way, our neighborhood hosts the annual Frogtown Art Walk that is always a fun event where you can get to know the artists in the neighborhood.
Here is a picture of part of my studio: (very messy right now, I did not tidy up before the photo).
My outdoor potted garden including plants I adopted after painting them.
Lately I'm buying the cut flowers from Trader Joes which are incredibly long lasting if you use plant food, trim the stems, place them in a clear vase and keep them in sunlight. My last roses lasted for 3 weeks (no kidding!) and they even started growing additional shoots. I was able to get two paintings from them:
I will probably paint them again in death because there is something very graceful and dignified about them in their current state. Besides, I still feel very attached to them now. Thanks for reading. In my next post, I will write about why I'm an artist. Please feel welcome to comment or check back!
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ALBANY, N.Y. – New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D –Manhattan) introduced a bill Monday that could raise New York State's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 per hour. Silver promised to address the issue before Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address in early January.
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The first quarter started slowly as Ashton gradually applied pressure to the Chester defence. Ashton's first goal, scored by Ian Pattinson, set the tone; left open on the crease Ian was left with no other option but to score!
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Yearly Archive for 2006
Verizon has a free gift for you- today only
I know it's late notice but I've been swamped with the holidays and getting ready to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the end of the week. Verizon is offering their customers a free gift today, December 31st only. Send a text message "tone" to 2007 and you'll soon get a message […] [Read More]
12 Rules of Cell Phone Etiquette
How many times have you witnessed someone with a cell phone who disrupts whatever is going on around them by doing rude things. Maybe it's a ring tone that's inappropriate for the setting or just someone shouting into their phone in a crowded room. Why do people talk so much louder when they get on […] [Read More]
Verizon Wireless' HopeLine- donate that old phone
If you were lucky enough to get a new phone for Christmas think twice before you pitch that old phone in the trash. Why don't you take it to a Verizon Wireless store and donate it to their HopeLine program? The HopeLine program takes old mobile phones and equipment from any carrier and refurbishes them […] [Read More]
Cingular raises text messaging rates- tells customers to lump it
Cingular recently raised the rates they charge customers for text messages from $0.10 to $0.15, a pretty substantial increase to be sure. They are certainly not the first carrier to raise the rates for texting but while the other carriers have allowed customers to cancel their service due to a substantial change in the contract […] [Read More]
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IRONTON -- An Ironton area woman faces a life sentence in prison if convicted on charges of complicity to the rape of a two-year-old girl and to pandering obscenity involving a minor, according to the office of Lawrence County Prosecutor J.B. Collier Jr.
Alice Reffitt, 20, of the 1400 block of S. 1st Street, Ironton, was indicted Tuesday on a charge she assisted Jeremy S. Curry, 21, of the 1300 block of S. 1st Street, Ironton, in the rape of the two-year-old earlier this year. Curry was indicted on the rape charge earlier this year and has entered a plea of innocent in the case.
Reffitt was one of nine people indicted Tuesday by a Lawrence County grand jury.
In an unrelated case, Aaron J. Pack, 24, of Mead McNeer Road, Wheelersburg, was indicted on charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping and tampering with evidence. He is charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping and tampering with evidence. He was charged with accosting an employee at Hopper's carryout in Hanging Rock on Sept. 21, according to Brigham Anderson, an assistant county prosecutor.
Pack also was charged earlier this month in Scioto County on a charge he robbed a BP station in Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Pack reportedly admitted to robbing the BP stations in both Franklin Furnace and Lloyd, Ky., earlier this year along with Hopper's, according to a news release from the office of Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini.
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Craig A. Adkins Sr., 47, of Township Road 1161, Proctorville, Ohio, was indicted on a charge of burglary.
Brandi N. Traylor, 30, of the 3700 block of S. 3rd Street, Ironton, was indicted on a charge of theft of drugs.
George M. Layne, 31, of the 2500 block of S. 7th Street, Ironton, was indicted on charges of domestic violence and theft.
Michelle K. Curry, 31, of the 2100 block of S. 6th Street, Ironton, was indicted on three counts of theft.
Carl V. Carpenter, 38, of County Road 31, Chesapeake, was indicted on a charge of breaking and entering.
Stanley Sharp, 45, of County Road 15, South Point, was indicted on a charge of notice of residence address change.
Brandon James McCorcle, 20, of the 2300 block of S .7th Street, Ironton, was indicted on a charge of failure to register after being convicted of a sexually oriented offense.
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Is there a so-called 'ghost ship' in Portsmouth? The builder of a museum-quality replica of the Titanic says yes.
We brought you his story last month on NewsChannel 3, and it was one of the `most clicked` stories on wtkr.com. A local group of ghost hunters saw the story and took action.
Something that defies logic and explanation appeared in photographs of a model replica of the ill-fated Titanic.
Portsmouth man says 'Titanic' replica could be haunted
Chuck Moore built the museum-quality model years ago, but the images appeared in photographs he took of the boat this year—the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Chuck says he's got ghostly company.
Chuck believes passengers who went down with the ship have found a new home on the model vessel where he painstakingly duplicated the most minute details.
Shortly after the story aired, we heard from Ray Savino and his group of paranormal investigators.
They use elaborate monitoring tools and listening devices to pick up energy, sounds and images.
Linzie Mechling's tool is her sensitivity, and when she walked into the room housing the ship, she says she picked up on someone or something.
"It's definitely a woman, an older woman," says Linzie.
Ray Savino and his team have conducted more than 100 investigations of paranormal activity since 2009.
The non-profit team volunteered to see if they could identify what was happening in Chuck's Portsmouth home.
Is the replica haunted by Titanic ghosts or other spirits?
"Certain metals, certain stones are capable of absorbing energy and of course, like I said earlier, ghosts absorb that energy so in order for them to do that, there would have to be actual pieces from the ship itself," says Ray Savino.
There are no original pieces of the Titanic in or on the replica, but Chuck believes the lost souls have found their way on the replica. He points to the mysterious images that appear on photographs of the port holes.
"It looks like a bald-headed man with a handle bar mustache looking out," says Chuck.
Ray and his team appear to be picking up on something else. Chuck's mother Elizabeth recently passed away in the home.
Without that knowledge, we sent Linzie into the room, preventing her and Chuck from sharing information.
We asked Chuck to describe his mom and asked Linzie to describe what she sensed in the room.
"She was standing on my right side, so she liked to stand over on this side," says Linzie.
"Her hands, they just shake, like mine will shake sometimes," says Chuck.
"I get the shaky hands feeling," says Linzie.
The RTL team later sent the results from their monitoring equipment saying they picked up on some faint female voices.
Chuck says since his mother enjoyed watching him build the replica, the theory that she might be there in spirit gives him comfort.
"She was just as sweet as she could be," says Chuck. "It is who I think it is and that's my mother, which I believe honestly and that she is feeling fine."
Which theory is more convincing— a ghost ship of lost souls or the spirit of a proud mom admiring her son's work?
"She came in then she left, and I don't feel her anymore, but she likes to come and look at the model," says Linzie.
The RTL group, which stands for "reliving their lives," offered a preliminary finding for NewsChannel 3.
They believe there is 'someone' in spirit form in the house, not the boat.
Linzie and the monitoring equipment seem to indicate it is Chuck's mother. And she enjoys looking at the ship and watching her son build things.
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Governor Deval Patrick will direct state colleges and universities Monday to allow young illegal immigrants to pay the lower resident rate for tuition and fees as soon as they obtain work permits through a new federal program, a senior administration official said Sunday.
Patrick's declaration ends five months of anxiety for immigrants who cheered President Obama's decision in June to temporarily halt the deportations of immigrants age 30 and under, only to plunge them into limbo in Massachusetts as officials said they were reviewing whether the immigrants were eligible for the lower rates. But the governor's announcement also raised criticism that he is neglecting American citizens struggling to afford college.
The Patrick administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the governor is sending a letter to the Board of Higher Education Monday, said the change takes effect immediately. State officials said students paying nonresident tuition now at one of the 29 state colleges or universities may apply for a refund for this semester, but not for prior semesters.
"That's amazing," said an elated Cairo Mendes of Marlborough, a 19-year-old native of Brazil here since he was 9 who could afford only two classes at Massachusetts Bay Community College this semester because the cost is double the resident rate. "My life is about to get a lot better, just the fact that I can go to college in peace."


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A disturbance occurred between neighbors one evening, and police were called to the scene.
It turns out that a man had willingly given his wallet to his neighbor with the understanding that she would put it in a locked box and return it to him in the morning.
However, the man changed his mind and wanted his wallet back, but the friend refused to return it until morning.
When he called police and explained this, the officer who arrived on scene said he would not compel the friend to return the wallet since they had already made an agreement.
He did however go speak to the friend. She said the man was an alcoholic and she has been trying to help him. Part of that help is to hold on to his wallet each night so he doesn't go out and buy alcohol.
She told the officer she would return the wallet the next day like always. After talking some more, she agreed to remove he credit cards and money out of the wallet and return the wallet with his license in it only. The man put it in his pocket and was satisfied. He then left on foot to hang with friends in a neighboring apartment.
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In a recent segment from Current TV's show "Viewpoint," host Eliot Spitzer interviewed three National Security Agency whistleblowers: William Binney, a former technical director; Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and Thomas Drake, a former senior official. Each man talked about what he saw the NSA do when they were employees. Each of these whistleblowers directly explained the threats to civil liberties posed by the lawlessness of the NSA in the past decade.
Much of what is shared in the segment was already shown, but since what the NSA did constitutes illegality and corruption that have gone unpunished, it is worth highlighting key points.
Drake recounts that shortly after 9/11 he discovered that "a legal regime—the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act"—was now being "absolutely violated by NSA in league with the White House." FISA created a special court to provide warrants for wiretapping, but NSA was increasingly abusing its authority and was secretly and unconstitutionally eavesdropping on Americans. Drake knew if he remained silent he would be "complicit."
"The vast capability of the NSA was increasingly being turned inside the US," Drake says. "To surveil networks, emails, phone calls, etc." Hundreds of millions of calls from individuals in the United States were surveilled as part of "Stellar Wind."
"The United States of America was turned into the equivalent of a foreign nation for the purposes of dragnet electronic surveillance," Drake adds.
When Drake pushed back, he was told that the US was living in "exigent circumstances." But isn't that what the FISA court was for? It allowed for authorities to engage in "hot pursuit" and then get a warrant 72 hours later. The answer to Drake was that if they went to Congress it would say "no." Plus, the White House had approved the program. Therefore, an official asserted it was "all legal."
Drake was eventually told, after approaching several individuals with concerns, to stop asking questions and that he was turned into an "enemy of the state"
Now, the NSA is casting a wide net and capturing gargantuan and obscene amounts of data. It is building centers for databases (e.g. Bluffdale, Utah). It is swimming in data in such a way that only complicates efforts to fight the so-called war against terrorism.
Binney details one of the real problems, which is that the FBI can make "random queries" into the NSA. FBI director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary committee that in order to prevent another Fort Hood incident, the FBI puts together a database with the Defense Department so it can get all emails and future emails. In essence, the FBI and NSA have been merging.
The segment closes with this exchange:
SPITZER: You see what's going on with the Justice Department these days. We're prosecuting Roger Clemens for steroid use. You guys are made into enemies of the state. Nobody on Wall Street has been held accountable. Do you begin to think something is amiss somewhere?
BINNEY: Absolutely. Absolutely, yes. But the real problem I see is that the DoJ is covering up for all the crimes that this administration and the previous administration has been committing against every one of the public…
…WIEBE: We have a Congress that isn't ensuring protections under the Fourth Amendment as well. We have a real problem on multiple fronts in government. [emphasis added]
Not only is the Justice Department engaged in the act of shielding officials and corporate executives from prosecution for crimes, but Congress is not fulfilling its role as the Legislative Branch that is supposed to check the power of the Executive Branch by engaging in oversight. It is complicit and impotent. And as these whistleblowers have been targeted, Congress has not raised much of an objection at all to this conduct by the Obama Justice Department.
The FBI raided the homes of Binney and Wiebe. The Justice Department under Obama decided not to go after Binney and Wiebe and went after Drake only. The Justice Department eventually pushed Drake to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge after the case against him collapsed. Meanwhile, the press has been largely silent as these sources, even though they provided scoops and great insight into the inner workings of lawlessness in government, are targeted for prosecution.
The annual report on 2011 from the Justice Department shows secret surveillance under FISA went up. The FISA court did not deny a request to eavesdrop or spy, according to the privacy group known as EPIC:
# of DOJ requests to the FISA court to eavesdrop on and/or physically search Americans/legal residents: 1,745
# of FISA court denials: 0
While national security letters (NSLs)—a secret subpoena that the government can use to force the disclosure of records, banking or credit information of citizens—decreased, Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) points to a larger issue:
Perhaps most notably, the government's use of Section 215 – the so-called "business records" provision of FISA – more than doubled in 2011. The DOJ filed 205 applications in 2011, up from 96 applications made in 2010. This is the same provision that Senators Wyden and Udall have warned us about: the Senators have said that when the American public finds out how the government has interpreted and is using the provision, the public will be "stunned" and "angry." Given this, it is particularly concerning the government is relying on the provision much more frequently.
Yes, right now, the Executive Branch has secret interpretations of laws that are not being shared with members of Congress. Members of Congress could be more vocal about this issue, but, to protect their careers or status in government, they are silent, and if they challenge this conduct at all, they do it privately.
Finally, the secret surveillance — the ever-expanding surveillance state — is defended by the Obama administration in court. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is challenging the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act but the government has tried to block any judicial review of the surveillance law. They have opposed the ACLU as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) moves through Congress, granting NSA even more power to collect information on US citizens. And, they have opposed the ACLU as they push Congress to reauthorize the probably illegal FISA law of which Congress refuses to conduct proper oversight.
This is because, as Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes, there is "a growing attitude among law enforcement that there ought to be a presumption that citizens' communications be susceptible to eavesdropping." President Obama has helped this attitude become further entrenched in the daily operations of law enforcement.
The reauthorization of the FISA law will mean the continued expansion of lawlessness between the NSA and other institutions or agencies of government. Employees will witness this and conscientiously object, but they can expect President Barack Obama to have Attorney General Eric Holder and the wider Justice Department come after them, as it has been clearly established—
We don't prosecute people for war crimes.
We don't prosecute people for authorizing or legalizing torture.
We don't prosecute people who engage in lawless covert operations.
We don't prosecute people for warrantless wiretapping.
We don't prosecute people for engaging in corporate crimes, even ones that collapse the US economy.
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The East Tennessee State men's and women's basketball teams both look a lot different today than they did when last season ended.
For the Bucs, there are four newcomers on board and three players coming off redshirt seasons. No Mike Smith, Micah Williams or Justin Tubbs.
For the Lady Bucs, Tara Davis and Latisha Belcher have graduated after being key parts of championship teams. The roster now features five true freshmen.
The fans get their first look at how the new pieces are coming together tonight at the annual Bluenanza tipoff event in the Dome. The basketball begins at 7 o'clock, after a complimentary buffet dinner for students and BASA members who are season-ticket holders at 6.
The night includes scrimmages by each team, a dunk and 3-point shooting contest and prize giveaways. Admission is free.
"It's a good opportunity for the fans to get a first look," said men's coach Murry Bartow, "and we can have some fun with it, with the dunk competition and all that. The event is well-run and will be a little more streamlined so it moves along. It's just a good night for the fans."
n Isiah Brown has gotten used to battling under the boards at perhaps 210 pounds. Complementary muscle has rarely come along for a guy better suited to power forward than center.
This season Brown, a fifth-year senior, says he's better prepared than ever for the rigors of playing in the paint. He spent a fair amount of time in the offseason getting in shape through mixed martial arts.
"Me and Lukas (Poderis) and Sheldon (Cooley) have been doing some MMA and occasionally some jujitsu," said Brown. "It has made me really flexible, and I get up the court quicker with a different stride. The jujitsu has made me more physical.
"It's been a lot of fun, and I think it will pay off when times get tense on the basketball court."
Assistant coach Scott Wagers, who engineers the team's defense, has gotten to be an MMA buff, working out several nights a week during the offseason. He hasn't been sparring with his players, however.
"They wouldn't let us fight coach Wagers," said Brown.
n The Bucs have three true freshmen, and they're all having their moments early in camp, according to Bartow. One, in particular, has caught the coach's eye.
"If I had to go play a game tonight, Rashawn Rembert would be in our top seven," he said. "Of the three freshmen, he's maybe made quicker progress. I think all three have tremendous upsides."
Rembert is a 6-3, 185-pound shooting guard from Tampa. The two other freshmen are 6-4, 205-pound swingman Lester Wilson of Knoxville and 6-7, 200-pound forward John Walton of Memphis.
Brown, who set a school record for blocked shots last season and should become the team's career leader, has certainly noticed the youngsters.
"John is real long and really active," said Brown. "When I first saw what he can do, I said, 'Dang, I'm not going to have that record for long.' And Lester is really strong and can do a lot of things to help us.
"This team looks so different. There are so many new faces, and everybody seems to bring something to the game."
n Women's head coach Karen Kemp was high on guard Brianna Bogard early in camp, and now another true freshman is growing on her.
"Amy Duke is extremely talented," said Kemp. "We knew she had a great set of skills at the high school level but didn't know how quick she could make the transition to college basketball. What we're seeing is that she really knows how to use her body, and she's maybe a better passer than our guards."
Duke, a 6-foot forward from Hendersonville, should get more minutes with the season-ending knee injury to sophomore Ashley Miles.
n ETSU sat at the top of the women's soccer standings in Atlantic Sun Conference for over three weeks. That ended last Sunday in Ft. Myers, Fla.
The Lady Bucs were beaten decisively by Florida Gulf Coast, 3-0. It was their first conference loss and dropped them into second place at 6-1-0 (11-4-0 overall), while the Lady Eagles improved to 6-0-1 (11-3-2) with just two regular-season matches to play.
Jacksonville is also in the mix, at 6-1-1.
ETSU hosts Kennesaw State at 7 o'clock Friday night and Mercer at 1 o'clock Sunday.
n After a puzzling stretch in league play, the men's soccer team appeared to get back on track with its 2-1 victory over Florida Gulf Coast at home last Sunday.
The loss was the first in conference for the Eagles since the last game of the 2009 season -- a 12-game span -- dropping them to 3-0-1 and behind unbeaten Jacksonville in the standings.
The Bucs, meanwhile, improved to 2-3-1 (8-4-2 overall). The defending champs had been ranked in the top 25 nationally before losing three of their first four conference matches.
The Bucs trailed 1-0 at the half against Gulf Coast, but came out quickly in the second half. Nick Dykes tied it with a goal at 52:09, and David Geno knocked home the game winner less than five minutes later.
The team plays again Saturday night at Mercer.
n ETSU is a middle-of-the-road volleyball team right now. Their 3-4 conference record leaves the Lady Bucs fifth in the standings.
They'll try to put a humbling non-conference loss Tuesday night at Presbyterian behind them as they prepare for a pair of home matches this weekend. Mercer visits Brooks Gym on Friday night, followed by Kennesaw State on Saturday.
Kennesaw is fourth in the A-Sun standings, at 4-2.
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Popular radio DJ and VH1 star Wendy Williams is suddenly swirling in controversy after her talent booker recently came forward and filed a complaint against her husband, Kevin Hunter, accusing him of sexual harassment. Nicole Spence is alleging that Hunter propositioned her for sex on numerous occasions and also "created a hostile work environment by repeatedly beating up Williams." Wendy is defending her man – who is ten years her junior and serves as her manager – and when interviewed by the NY Post snapped, "Her allegations are totally false. This b*tch is out of her mind."
Surely this will all play out in court, but Spence's attorney is already talking big. She tells SOHH that, "We have clear evidence and other witnesses at the company who will back it up, that Mr. Hunter engaged in blatant and open sexual harassment. He did this in the office, in front of other people. The company was aware of this, the head of Human Resources was aware [and] all of this supports her claims strongly."


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The latter gets short shrift in the attention stakes, surprisingly, whereas it plays a vital role in both safety and satisfaction.
When you're travelling fast, with a big outboard or sterndrive revving its rings out, you need to be able to maintain precise control. Similarly, try manoeuvring around a crowded mooring area with unresponsive steering and havoc may prevail.
Beyond that, there's the indescribable pleasure of steering a boat with the kind of lightness that a well-sorted hydraulic steering system can deliver.
When the helm imparts 'feel' through your fingertips without being overloaded, you know you're driving a great boat. A great boat, however, can be let down by heavy and clunky steering.
For hydraulic steering manufacturer HyDrive, its bread-and-butter market comes from boat owners fed up with their old-fashioned cable systems or forced to replace their worn-out hydraulic units.
There is, as far as we can tell, no better designed or built steering system in the world for boats ranging from 5 metres to over 100 metres.
The company is based in South Australia, a state that seldom resonates on the export stage aside from some crisp Barossa whites. Some 70% of HyDrive's production is shipped to 75 countries across the globe – not bad at a time when the Aussie dollar is doing no one any favours.
The company has an office in New York and master distributors on every continent. Quality, it seems, is universal.
According to long-standing general manager Graham Anderson, everything is manufactured in-house – the pumps, cylinders, valve units etc – using precise machining and superior materials. The brass that HyDrive uses comes from Germany, and the 316 and 304 stainless steel is also imported from Europe. Bronze is also used.
'We build purely for strength,' Anderson said. 'We believe that we're the strongest and most powerful hydraulic steering system on the market.'
That claim is tested daily in the harshest waters on the planet. In Iceland the steering gear gets caked with ice in sub-zero temperatures, and the same equipment has to endure the warm, salt-rich waters found on the equator.
Alloy cylinders often fall victim to corrosion and electrolysis, whereas the Hydrive components are engineered to outlast the boat. Only the seals will need replacing from time to time, says Anderson.
He should know, since he started working for the company in 1971.
'It began as a one-man band in 1966. The original owner was named Harry Dutton, and his initials HD eventually formed the name HyDrive,' Anderson explained.
'In 1971 Harry sold out to a company that wanted the manufacturing plant for automotive parts. They saw HyDrive as a sideline.
'I said I'd like a chance to turn it into something more than a hobby. Within a year we'd gone from selling three a month to 30 a month, and the company became fully independent in 1979.'
There's around 600,000 HyDrive steering units in the field today, with 12,000 being built annually at the current time.
Such is the complexity that only one outboard, Mercury's Verado, comes with its own integrated power-steering system. All the others rely on systems such as HyDrive.
'It's a specialty item that has to be correctly installed and serviced. These days we have outboards developing 350 horsepower and multiple installations, right down to the smaller models,' Anderson said.
'We have manual hydraulic units for boats from five metres to 35 metres, and power assisted models for anything to 100 metres.'
Anderson laments the fact that some production boat builders are too dollar-driven to appreciate the advantages of HyDrive's equipment, preferring to use cheap equipment that will see out the warranty period but not much else.
Others, like Stebercraft and Sunseeker, have no such qualms.
In the outboard sector it offers three after-market systems, with variations thereof to suit different brands. Sidemounts are the cheapest and simplest systems as no bracket is required. The front-mount model is designed to mount to the casting of V6 engines, while the bullhorn design is the most versatile.
There's a wide range of models for sterndrive and shaft-drive applications as well.
The hydraulic components are relatively conventional and robust, but what's changed since the 1970s is the electronic control systems. HyDrive now has fly-by-wire helm systems that integrate with autopilots and GPS chartplotters.
On the horizon – with a release tipped for later this year – is a new package that will bring the same level of superyacht electronic steering down to a price point suitable for 30ft-plus production boats.
Graham Anderson, it seems, has HyDrive on the right course, with both hands firmly on the wheel.
Enquiries: HyDrive Engineering, (08) 8243 1633, www.hydrive.com.au.
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced an inquiry into the use of drones in Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and the Palestinian Territories, and whether drones violate international law. The inquiry comes at the request of Russia, China, and Pakistan, a triad of countries not known for their concern about human rights. That Syria is not also a co-sponsor is probably an oversight on the part of the UN.
Human rights lawyers are notoriously myopic, but this might take the prize. States have made drones a key tool in the fight against terror for one major reason: Drones can access areas inaccessible by ground troops and attack targets with precision. Absent the use of drones, the other option available to states challenged with terrorists operating from hostile or ungoverned territories is to mount an expedition. It is the difference between conducting surgery with a scalpel versus an axe.
Human rights activists increasingly obsess about proportionality. Somehow, they believe that if terrorists or rogue groups have limited weaponry–rockets, mortars, and plastic explosives, for example–it is wrong to attack them with drones, F-18s, or JDAMs. This is nonsense, for the underlying implication is either that those conducting counter-terror operations must use substandard weaponry or that terrorists like Hamas, the Haqqani Network, and Al Qaeda should have access to F-18s and JDAMs as well. In effect, what humanitarian activists want to do is outlaw at least one aspect of the Powell Doctrine: The idea that if the United States is challenged, it should use overwhelming force against its enemy.
I've never been opposed to targeted assassination. In 2006, I wrote a lengthy piece for National Review arguing for more targeted killings, especially when their use can save civilian lives. (It is ironic that criticism of the piece among the left stopped when President Obama came to office and made drones his signature counter-terror tool; it seems among many progressive websites, politics trumps principle.)
This does not mean to say that the tactic cannot be over-used: Over-reliance on drones along the Af/Pak border has pushed Al Qaeda elements not into caves, but into the Punjab's dense urban jungle, a phenomenon which promises to plague international security for decades. Still, the desire to slowly ban military tools in an undeclared war against war itself risks a blowback that few human rights activists fully understand. The best defense against civilian casualties is not for the United Nations to launch politicized crusades against those engaged in the defense of democracies against terrorists, but rather to take a no-nonsense approach to terrorists and their sponsors.


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We ask how prior information and predictions about events, such as a future reward or the appearance of an aversive visual stimulus, bias activity in the human motor system, which may help to transform decision into actions. We use model-based approaches that allow for specific predictions on how cognitive states can bias activity at the level of premotor and motor cortex. Our research addresses these issues using a multimodal neuroimaging approach that includes different techniques of complementary strengths such as neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) and electrophysiology (TMS, cortical excitability measures)
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1) The effect or action preparation on parieto-motor interactions during value-based decision making (dual-coil TMS)
2) The time-course of parieto-motor interactions during action-linked decision making
3) When do value-based decisions influence primary motor cortex (M1), and is M1 excitability modulated by expected value/motivation?
Bestmann S, Swayne O, Blankenburg F, Ruff CC, Teo J, Weiskopf N, Driver J, Rothwell JC, Ward NS. (in press)
The role of contralesional dorsal premotor cortex after stroke.
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Ruff CC, Driver J, Bestmann S (2009)
Combining TMS and fMRI: from "virtual lesions" to functional network accounts of cognition.
Cortex 45:1043-1049
Mars RB, Debener S, Gladwin TE, Harrison LM, Haggard P, Rothwell JC, Bestmann S. (2008)
Trial-by-trial fluctuations in the event-related encephalogram reflect dynamic changes in the degree of surprise.
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Bestmann S, Harrison L, Blankenburg F, Mars R, Haggard P, Friston K, Rothwell JC (2008)
Influences of contextual uncertainty and surprise on human corticospinal excitability during preparation for action.
Current Biology 18:775-780
Bestmann S, Swayne O, Blankenburg F, Ruff CC, Haggard P, Weiskopf N, Josephs O, Driver J, Rothwell JC, Ward NS (2008)
Dorsal premotor cortex exerts state-dependent causal influences on activity in contralateral motor and premotor cortex.
Cereb Cortex 18:1281-1291
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