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If you share my love of straight-talking people then you'll enjoy the company of Allan Grant, CEO of Curebit, and maybe take a shine to his business. "We think that in the future, because of the new social layer, all the best companies will grow through referrals. Advertising will be left to those with losing products," says Grant. And he might be right.
It's not what David Ogilvy had in mind when he claimed that half of every ad budget is wasted – just knowing which half was the problem.
The new generation of entrepreneurs will answer back – pretty much all your ad budget is wasted if you ignore the social layer.
Grant's company, a Y-Combinator start-up, is a platform for referral programs. But it is a platform for referrals taken out of the old affiliate business and placed in the hands of the average consumer.You are the natural affiliate of any good product.
Curebit have built a post-purchase referral model which allows buyers of product to share a discount offer with their social circle. So, say I just bought widget x. A post-purchase screen tells me I can get a back-dated discount if I share an offer with my network and someone in that network buys. Anyone in my network will get a discount too, if they buy within, say, 3 days.
I can share the deal on Facebook, Twitter or eMail. It's very smart.
The Curebit service takes its inspiration from Dropbox. When Dropbox was in the first phase of growth it spent next to zero on marketing. What it did instead was use its storage capacity to create an innovative referral offer – refer a friend who signs up and both you and the friend get bonus storage space.
Grant and his colleagues at Curebit set out to commercialise precisely that double incentive referral model, taking it from the purely virtual world of Dropbox to the world of e-commerce (and soon to physical world commerce). Two rewards. One reward for referring, one reward for responding.
In the process of building out Curebit – founded in 2010 – Grant and his colleagues have found out a few precious things about referrals.
When people come on to an e-commerce site through a referral they are 3 – 5 times more likely to buy than when coming in cold.
Never offer to pay a referrer for exploiting his or her friendships. Use language that appears to exploit friendship and you will lose. Use the language of sharing and conversions double.
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Bristol City manager Derek McInnes watched his team claim a precious Championship point on the road at Ipswich and then explained the thinking behind an improved performance.
McInnes made four changes to his starting line-up and adopted a 5-4-1 system for the first time since taking over as manager in October last year.
And it proved a successful ploy as City had the better of the game in East Anglia.
"I've toyed with the idea of playing a back three for some time now. But I decided to do it in this game to nullify Ipswich.
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"We filled channels where they wanted to operate, we gave ourselves an extra header of the ball when crosses came in and we dealt with them trying to get in behind.
"We encouraged the full-backs, Greg Cunningham and Richard Foster, to get forward and they gave us good pace and energy.
"Then we had two wide players in Albert Adomah and Paul Anderson, who never stopped working and supported Jon Stead through the middle. They took on their roles and the responsibility and did everything that we asked of them. We should be encouraged by that."
Ipswich struggled to create goal-scoring opportunities from open play and equalised from a set-piece, Tommy Smith seizing upon Luke Chambers' knock-down to poach his first goal of the season.
But McInnes felt his team was unfortunate to concede. He argued: "I have been our biggest critic over conceding goals from set plays, but I felt we were a bit unlucky with their goal. The ball has got a ricochet and the lad has done ever so well to hook it in.
"Otherwise, I felt we dealt very well with set plays against a team that has been in top form at home."
City created the better chances and goal-scorer Neil Danns should have had a second, while striker Jon Stead missed a great chance in a first-half dominated by the visitors.
"There has to be a degree of frustration about not taking the three points, because I felt we were the better team throughout the 90 minutes," declared McInnes.
"We had more of a cutting edge than Ipswich, especially in the first half when we played some terrific stuff. We were aggressive, hard-working getting to the ball, good in possession and some of our play was fantastic.
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MEMPHIS — A former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee post office workers should not face the death penalty because the punishment is unconstitutional, court documents filed Tuesday said.
In motions filed in federal court in Memphis, defense attorneys for Chastain Montgomery argued that the federal death penalty violates his right to due process and right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Defense lawyer Michael Scholl said that because the death penalty is so rarely used in federal court, it is being applied in an arbitrary and random manner in this case. Only three people have been executed under the federal death penalty since 1963.
Montgomery, 48, has pleaded not guilty to killing Paula Robinson and Judy Spray during an October 2010 robbery of the Henning post office with his son. Prosecutors say Montgomery and his 18-year old son, Chastain Montgomery Jr., became angry and began shooting when they discovered the post office only had $63 to steal.
The pair robbed at least two Tennessee banks before the younger Montgomery stole a truck and was killed in a shootout with police in Mason in February 2011, investigators said.
The elder Montgomery was arrested when he showed up at his son's shooting scene in the getaway car used in the post office killings, investigators said.
Federal prosecutors said in March that they plan to seek the death penalty at Montgomery's pending trial.
Prosecutors claim Montgomery has shown no remorse and is capable of "future dangerousness." Montgomery planned to escape custody by making a "shank" and attacking a U.S. Marshal, prosecutors say.
Scholl challenged the assertions that Montgomery has shown a lack of remorse and is likely to be violent in the future. He noted Montgomery had no criminal record before his arrest.
Scholl also noted the rare use of the federal death penalty. He questioned why prosecutors are seeking death when more high-profile defendants such as Olympic and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph and Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski were sentenced to life in prison under plea agreements.
"Many potential federal capital defendants have not faced the death penalty in cases far more aggravated than Mr. Montgomery's," Scholl wrote.
The defense lawyer also claimed that the federal death penalty is unevenly applied on a regional basis and suffers from racial discrimination. Montgomery is black.
"Because the federal death penalty is so rarely sought or imposed, the statute operates in a fundamentally arbitrary and capricious manner and, therefore, is not constitutional," Scholl wrote.
Mental evaluations have shown that Montgomery is mentally disabled, with an IQ of about 65, Scholl has said. The defense is challenging a confession Montgomery gave to authorities after his arrest at the scene of his son's death, arguing that he was not provided a lawyer during questioning and that his statement was coerced by investigators.
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On Saturday, the Hazard Bulldogs and the Perry Central Commodores started the 54th district JV tournament. The game was tight throughout, with the Bulldogs pulling away at the end for the win.
Both teams came out tight, and scoring was at a premium in the first six minutes. At the horn, the Commodores came away with the 7-6 lead.
Things picked up in the second period, with no one holding more than a couple bucket lead at any time. Going into the locker room, Perry Central held the 19-17 lead.
Hazard wrestled away the momentum in the third period, and grabbed the lead. With one period remaining, the Bulldogs were on top 28-25.
The Commodores came back in the fourth quarter and took the lead. However, the Bulldogs would not go away and regained the advantage. Perry Central was not able to hit on the final shot, giving Hazard the 40-37 win, putting them in the finals.
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The Black Cats have been busy in the transfer market already this summer, but they are looking to make further inroads and Altidore is very much on their radar.
Clubs from Germany and Italy are also looking closely at the 23-year-old, but it is the interest from England which is strongest, with Sunderland, and also Fulham, keen.
Altidore's American agent Lyle Yorks has confirmed that they are in advanced talks with an English club, without naming the team.
Of the English interest he said that they were "in advanced discussions with them."
Altidore, who has already had a spell in England with Hull City in 2009, enjoyed the best season of his career last term after scoring 23 league goals for AZ Alkmaar.
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The recent news of the great Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar surpassing West Indian Brian Lara's record number of test runs has given maths-loving cricket geeks another opportunity to pull out their calculators and Excel spreadsheets. Marc West is openly one of these nuts and did just that.
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It may come as a surprise that your average proof in an academic journal is riddled with holes. Authors gloss over details, appeal to pictures, even intuition, and take hidden leaps of logical faith that, philosophically speaking, aren't entirely justified. These days mathematics contains proofs so long and complex that few people are able to check and understand them in full, yet once a result has made it through the peer review process and into a journal, its truth is taken as read.
All this is a far cry from the mathematical dream which started with Euclid over 2000 years ago: that every mathematical statement should be derived from the very axioms of mathematics in a sequence of verifiable logical steps. Proofs which do this are known as formal proofs, and they are the focus of a special issue of the Notices of the American Mathematics Society, which is now freely available online.
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November 25, 2008
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Say cheese! First ever images of exoplanets.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish." An immense debris disc about 21.5 billion miles across surrounds the star. Fomalhaut b is orbiting 1.8 billion miles inside the disc's sharp inner edge, and is 1 billion times fainter than the star.
In a separate development, Canadian scientists have used ground-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile to take infrared images of three giant planets they believe are orbiting a star about 130 light-years away in the Pegasus constellation.
These are not the first examples of exoplanets — planets orbiting stars outside our own solar system — but Formalhaut b is the first that can actually be observed in visible light wavelengths. All others have been detected indirectly, for example through the wobble their gravitational pull induces on their star.
To find out more about the new discovery, and see more images and videos, visit the Hubble Site. There is more information on exoplanets in general on physicsworld.com and in the Plus article Brave young worlds.
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November 18, 2008
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Who is to blame for the credit crunch?
According to media reports there are two suspects in the dock: the rocket scientists' (a.k.a. the financial mathematicians) who provided the information behind the market's decisions, or the greedy bankers who only thought about quick profits and their end-of-year bonuses. In our latest podcast, we talk to David Hand, Chris Rogers and John Coates to find out who is guilty.
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November 13, 2008
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What does zero and infinity mean to you?
Zero, and infinity — more than just numbers, these two mathematical concepts have worried and inspired mathematicians for centuries. But they have also inspired philosophers and artists. What is zero? What is infinity? What do they look like: A black hole or a blank page? A spiral or the horizon? Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, historian of mathematics Eleanor Robson, Science Museum curator Jane Wess and artist Paul Prudence will be discussing Zero to Infinity at the Dana Centre in London. You can hear their perspectives, take part in the discussion, and have a drink at the bar on Thursday 20 November at 7pm.
For further information visit the Dana Centre website. And while you're waiting, you can read more about infinity on Plus.
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November 12, 2008
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Mathematical moments — Yutaka Taniyama
Born on the 12th of November 1927 in Kisai, Japan
Taniyama's name is associated with one of the most famous problems in mathematics: Fermat's last theorem. The theorem says that for any whole number n strictly greater than 2, there are no three non-zero whole numbers x, y and z such that xn + yn = zn. Almost 400 years ago Fermat scribbled in the margin of a book that he had a proof for this assertion, which didn't fit in the margin. It wasn't until the 1990s that the theorem was finally proved by Andrew Wiles — and the proof definitely couldn't have been written in any margin!
Andrew Wiles didn't actually prove Fermat's last theorem, but a conjecture which now carries Taniyama's name. In 1955 Taniyama, who was working in algebraic number theory, posed a problem concerning so-called elliptic curves — these are curves defined by points in the plane whose co-ordinates satisfy a particular type of equation. Goro Shimura and André Weil mused over the question and formulated a conjecture: that every elliptic curve should come with a modular form, a mathematical object that is symmetrical in an infinite number of ways. This is now known as the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture.
The link to Fermat's last theorem was made around 30 years later, when the mathematician Ken Ribet realised that if Fermat's last theorem were false, then this would mean that a particular elliptic curve comes without a modular form. In other words, if Fermat's last theorem were false, then the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture would be false also. Reformulating this yet again, if the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture is true, then so is Fermat's last theorem. What Andrew Wiles proved is that the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture is indeed true for a class of examples that is sufficient to prove Fermat's last theorem. QED.
In 1958, just days after his 31st birthday and not long before he was meant to get married, Taniyama committed suicide. His explanation was this: "Until yesterday I had no definite intention of killing myself. ... I don't quite understand it myself, but it is not the result of a particular incident, nor of a specific matter."
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Over 4 million viewers tuned in as Stallionaire brothers Real and Chance ended a rollercoaster season with only one brother finding his Real Chance of Love. Now viewers can revisit their favorite moments and catch never-before-seen footage when the Real Chance of Love Behind the Scenes Special airs on Wednesday, January 21 at 9/8c.
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This concept has been done to death, but when it comes to movies about killer tires, Quentin Depieux's Rubber is the best of the bunch.
Rubber became a Cannes phenomenon based on its outrageous premise. That alone carried it through Fantastic Fest where its first screening sold out, and I finally made it into the second, which also sold out.
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Financial abundance is for all to enjoy, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Many will listen to your dreams, but know that many do not believe you will accomplish your dreams. Because many have given up on their dreams and many do not take the time to understand that yes "You can be humble, not spend much, live a simple life and still have financial abundance"
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What is a psychopath?
Psychopaths are social predators, both male and female, who do not have a conscience or the ability to feel love, compassion, fear or remorse. It is believed that psychopathy is a genetic neurobiological disorder.
"Psychopathy refers to a pathological personality disposition that involves charm, manipulation, and ruthless exploitation of others. Psychopathic persons are lacking in conscience and feeling for others; they selfishly take what they want and do as they please without the slightest sense of guilt or regret." (Hare, Neumann, & Widiger, 2012)
The psychopath considers life a game to be played and "won" at the expense of others. Inflicting harm, whether it be psychological, spiritual, physical or financial, is acceptable to them.
Self-gratification is the only thing that motivates them and all that they live for.
Psychopaths play their game primarily to fulfill their insatiable desires for power and control. They also play to meet their secondary needs for things like sex, money, prestige, a mother for their children…or even for children to molest. Psychopaths derive pleasure from their victim's suffering. While this is incomprehensible to normal humans, it's just life as usual for the psychopath.
Psychopaths are pathological liars who will say anything to get what they want.
With traits like these, you'd never expect a psychopath to be charming, but they are often extraordinarily so.
Psychopaths wear what's called "the mask of sanity,"
which hides the truth that lies beneath. The Mask allows them to move through society undetected. They're smooth talkers with a lot to say. They're totally relaxed since they have no fear or anxiety, and this makes others around them relax. Strong social skills are their predatory edge; these skills bring the psychopath into contact with many potential victims, and make these "targets" comfortable and open to contact.
Just when you need your intuition to alert you to danger, it will be disarmed by the psychopath.
Psychopaths and love are an impossible combination. They aren't able to experience love, and they consider it a weakness that creates vulnerability that they can use to their advantage. These predators gain a victim's trust and love and then involve them in devastating sham relationships that inevitably result in serious harm.
Psychopaths feel contempt for normal human emotions. We show our humanness in the form of true love, insecurity, fear, remorse, trust and anxiety, and they consider these emotions unforgivable weaknesses, vulnerabilities that make us easy targets for manipulation, and deserving of it!
Victims are manipulated into trying to suppress any display of these emotions that disgust the psychopath, but that's not possible. They leak out one way or another, igniting the psychopath's contempt. In other words, there is no way to establish an intimate relationship with a psychopath. He will despise you, guaranteed…but keep using you anyway as long as you have something he wants.
Psychopaths establish a relationship with a target based on a hidden agenda from day one, the only goal being victimization. They are human predators who completely hide their real identities and create a tailor-made persona to gain the trust and love of their victim so they can dominate, control and manipulate them.
They do establish seemingly normal, positive relationships with some people for the purpose of developing a good reputation that covers up their victimization of vulnerable others. Many psychopaths are respected and well-liked members of their community because of this.
Seeing that the psychopath is well-liked makes the victim more trusting, and when or if the victim finds out the truth and comes forward, the psychopath is strongly supported by all those who think he's nice as pie. Meanwhile, the victim gets no support or validation, by design — she was probably an unknown, new to the community or in some way a marginalized member, which is why he targeted her in the first place.
The psychopath knows right from wrong, but doesn't care.
The psychopath is a cunning and intelligent "intraspecies predator," according to Dr. Robert Hare, psychopathy researcher and author of Without Conscience.
If you're targeted and lured into love with a psychopath, you'll be left in ruins while he or she goes on to the next victim. There is no easy way to detect them, but awareness may help.
Psychopaths are cunning and calculating predators.
Some go for a vulnerable person who is lonely and/or has experienced multiple life stressors, such as an illness, a death in the family, or unemployment; this is the easy target. Others like more of a challenge. No one is immune. Psychopaths are adept shape-shifters and changelings able to read their prey like a book. They figure out exactly what you need and they cut the master key that disarms all of your defenses.
There are 1 – 2 psychopaths per 100 people in the population, according to estimates. And they get around. One psychopath can wreak havoc on many through serial "romantic" relationships. It doesn't take long for the psychopath to inflict harm, and he can move swiftly and simultaneously among many victims. He can also keep one victim for a long period while having many more on the side. Some maintain a marriage to give the illusion of normalcy. Many psychopaths feast greedily on a banquet of easy targets while taking the time necessary to break down the defenses of more challenging ones.
Psychopaths are notoriously hypersexual and promiscuous; at any one time they may be having sex with their main victim while juggling a few other regulars, having one-night stands with people of either sex, and hiring prostitutes. Psychopaths are most likely to be those who continue to have unprotected sex despite knowing they are HIV positive.
When you've met someone who you believe is your soul mate and the love of your life, it's not usually the time you think of danger or want consider taking things slowly. After all, this is someone you love and trust. But this is exactly when you need to keep your eyes open and think critically about who this person really is and what they really want. Unfortunately, feeling someone is your soul mate is one big red warning flag, because psychopaths are able to so perfectly mirror your needs and desires. This conundrum is precisely why so many jump headfirst and wholeheartedly into relationships with psychopaths. What starts out as heaven will turn into hell.
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Since April Fool's Day is upon us – we would like to present you with the Ten Plots on True Blood that should have been considered April Fool's jokes…on us, the FANS!!
Which plots were total and complete jokes? Read on!
Nymerias and I came up with the reasons why these jokes in particular – weren't very funny to us.
Maryann – The Kinky Maenad
From serving heart casseroles to hosting backyard orgies…Maryann was the perfect excuse for a sick and perverted joke. She controlled the minds of almost everyone in Bon Temps and made them do things they normally wouldn't ever do – like cutting off their own fingers with garden shears. A home decorator she was not…it took Sookie how long to get her house back to normal? She wasn't all bad…she was the first person who sparked Sookie's fairy anger and we discovered that Sookie wasn't just a telepath afterall. Most fans hated this storyline, and by the time Maryann tried marrying herself to her raging bull oops, God (who was really Sam in the shape of a white bull), we were more than ready to help see her packing on a permanent honeymoon away from Bon Temps.
Ifrit – The Smoke Monster
Truebies who were fans of "Lost" felt a sense of déjà vu when True Blood decided to have a smoke monster too. Ifrit was what they decided to call it…what kind of name was that? This smoke monster was out for revenge on Terry and his army buddies who were involved in the killing of civilians during the war in Iraq. We felt bad for Terry, but the joke ended up being not only on us – but on his buddy Patrick, who kindly sacrificed his own life in order to save not only Terry and Arlene – but us as well from this hazy joke.
Festival of Tolerance
In an effort to appear politically correct, King Bill tried convincing the public that vampires really weren't as bad as humans thought; aka – damage control. Unfortunately for them (and for us), Marnie and her newly brainwashed lethal weapon, Amnesic Eric crashed the party. Why was this a cruel joke? Because it was hard to believe that our favorite Viking vampire, Eric Northman could be controlled by anybody – let alone a witch. The other joke on us was when Eric was this close to killing Bill (something most of us wanted), when Sookie didn't even think first before using her microwave fingers and shot Eric. He could've been killed for all we know! The only bright side to this scene was when Eric flashbacked to his life, in a 'Best of True Blood' highlight reel…to reveal he remembered everything that happened before – including falling in love with and having passionate, multi-positioned sex with Sookie.
The Billith Rises
This shouldn't surprise any of you…of course Billith (formerly known as Bill Compton) made this list. Bill would have made this list regardless, because he's well…Bill. After drinking Lillith's blood (aka. Kool Aid) and saying some harsh, painful – but truthful words to Sookie where he revealed what a douche bag he is…he turned into goo. Now comes the punch line…he rose up naked, covered in blood, screeching like a pterodactyl and looking like a giant bloody tampon! Haha…get it? He really should have stayed goo…that's why this joke's on us instead. Damn. When most of the fandom; including True Blood HBO have a nickname picked out for him mere hours after the season finale ended…you know this is the perfect True Blood styled joke. Hopefully, someone will shove this tampon up where the sun don't shine in season 6, or will this end up being another sick and twisted joke as well? Time will tell…
Sookie's Finale Brushoff
We probably still think this one is the biggest, most cruel and stupidest jokes of all time on True Blood. At least, I don't think too many of us around here think this one is funny. After spending most of season 4 falling in love with Eric, Sookie realized (thanks to having some of Bill's blood), she suddenly still loved Bill, even though he is the lowest creep imaginable. WTF? Where's the punchline? I don't get it. Eric told her he still remembered. He was still the same man and wanted to know if she loved him? Yes, she answered…BUT (this word is the most annoying word as you may recall) she still loved Bill. REALLY? Why? After finding out how he betrayed her and discovering how great, sweet and awesome Eric is…she STILL loves Bill? We can take some comfort in the fact that she didn't choose Bill either…she choose herself, which I do admire Sookie for deciding not to rely on any man – but after everything Eric has ever done for her – she still tossed his feelings back in his face. I felt really bad for Eric. It was no wonder in season 5, he started off the season saying, "Fuck Sookie". This scene does have one punchline we can appreciate. You know those magazine articles where they compare fashions and ask, "who wore it best?" With Eric and Bill's matching robes in this scene…you really can compare the two of them. We'd have to say…Eric won this one – hand's down. Bill looks like a joke compared to him.
When I first heard of this storyline, I thought 'oh this could be good' but it turned out to be much ado about nothing. When Marnie became possessed by a Spanish speaking witch that was raped, fed on and burned by members of the Catholic Church (vampires no less), I thought this is it? This is the season 4 big bad! What a joke! No offense, Fiona Shaw! MUAH! NEXT!
The(SUPPOSED)FAIRY (MORE LIKE CHILD)ELDER
This fairy was supposed to be all-knowing and powerful but all she really did was talk in riddles and dance around like a fruitcake! Russell sent her packing into fairy dust before she could whip out her 'White Fairy Light of Doom' fast enough! Bye Coco from Fame!! The joke was definitely on us here! I was left with more questions than answers. NEXT!!
When we first saw Sookie get transported to the land of the fairies via the portal that was Claudine, we assumed it would be magical and beautiful and it was as long as you continued to partake of the light fruit! I was hoping it would stay that way for a bit but no what we got was an actual scene straight out of 'Land of the Lost'
This was by far one of the worst things I have ever seen on True Blood and that is saying something. I not only thought it was one big joke but that it was not taken as seriously as it should have been. I was really offended by this scene as Jason did not deserve it and to top it all off , he did not even become a werepanther!
Along with what happened to Jason, this really took the cake for me too! Sookie, after nearly being drained of all her blood by Bill, goes and has sex with the animal. I know this is a TV show but no respectful woman does this, IMO. Oh, how our eyes had to endure this scene! Again,the joke was on us!!
Hope you enjoyed reading what we think was our April Fool's: True Blood Style jokes. What do you think? Do you have any others you'd like to share? Feel free to sound off below!


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text: http://www.liberiangeek.net – Firefox is a wonderful browser. Even better than the most popular browser online today. I have a very high opinion of how customizable and feature-rich it is. With the millions of extensions already developed for Firefox, it is just a matter of time before you to stumble upon a really cool extension that will impress you. Mine happened today when I came across an extension called Yoono. Yoono allows you to put your favorite social networks and instant messaging profiles in one simple-to-use folder in Firefox. Find out how cool it can really be when you're registered on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linked-in, FriendFeed, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo and able to access and update all those profiles with a single post from a single folder in Firefox. To install and try Yoono, continue reading below. 1) Open Firefox and click on Tools –> Add-ons. Then type 'yoono' in the search box and hit the enter key. Next select Yoono and click Add to Firefox button. 2) Next click the Install Now button and click Restart Firefox after the installation. 3) Accept the terms and begin to configure your favorite profiles online. 4) Click on each of the folder in the list to configure or login. Click Facebook to configure. When prompted, click the Connect button. Accept to allow Yoono display post, updates and friend feeds. 5) Do this for all your social network profiles. Once you're done, click the Finish button. All your profile that are configured will have the green with the down-arrow in it. If you need to update all your profiles at once, click the all button and type your message. 6) You can also select individual profile and update instead of all of them by clicking on it. 7) You'll get a pop-up when ever there's an update on any of your profile. If you love to be connected and never missing any updates, then this cool Firefox extension is your kind of tool. It will keep you always connected with friends once you're connected to the Internet. To put everything away, just click the two left arrows and all the profiles will be hidden from view. Join the forum discussion on this post — (1) Posts (HowTos)


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This Film is Not Yet Rated
The head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Jack Valenti, said in November the 1st of 1968 that the film industry plans to set up a voluntary rating system, designed to keep youngsters from seeing undesirable films. The film industry stopped censoring and started a rating system.
Kirby Dick's This Film Is Not Yet Rated documentary is a deep examination of the MPAA, the organisation responsible for America's film rating system.
MPAA movie ratings aren't a legal requirement, but in practice it is almost impossible for an unrated film to attract advertising or theatrical distribution. On video, unrated titles are not distributed by the largest chain stores, Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, as a matter of policy. So an MPAA rating is a commercial necessity.
The system has since been praised, but also condemned. For 30 years, the MPAA has been helping parents decide what movies they should let their children see.
Inside the headquarters of the MPAA, Encino, California, an anonymous group of parents|gathers to rate films G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17, formerly X.
But the MPAA won't let anyone inside to see who these people are, or how they make their decisions. And among their most controversial decisions are the films they rate NC-17.
What do movie ratings mean?
"G" means "General audiences". No nudity, no sex, and no drugs. Violence must be cartoonish and minimal. And there may be language that goes beyond polite conversation.
"PG" means "Parental guidance". There may be strong language like "shit" or "ass" and brief nudity like showing off an ass. Or like violence like "being kicked in the ass".
"PG-13″. "Parents are strongly cautioned", as in "Look out, mum, here come more shits!" "Bullshit, dumbshit, little shit, "shitfaced, and shithead". "Fuck" is also allowed, but usually just once. So filmmakers're urged to choose their "fuck" carefully. A simple "Fuck you!" is okay. But referring to the sexual act, as in "May I please fuck you?" or "I enjoy getting fucked!", is totally unacceptable.
If a character says that, especially while abusing illegal narcotic, the film is rated "R". "R" means "Restricted". Nobody 17 or under without parent or guardian. There may be sexual themes, franc sex talk, sexualized nudity, tough language and tough violence like 100 handicapped orphans decimated by hell of a gunfire.
But if the film depicts realistic baby-making in a position other than missionary, acts involving oral sex with females, anal sex, fetishes, more than 2 humans or what the MPAA bills "aberrational behavior", this film could get slapped with an "NC-17″. "NC-17″ means "No children 17 or under". Period! An NC-17 may range from a senior citizen gang-bang to a foreign Pedro Almadovar film. But art films make people feel funny, especially the ones with "aberrational behavior".
We have censorship board called the MPAA that looks at your movie and says: "This is the rating we're gonna give you".
The language in "Virginia Woolf" was really shocking and new. And I think it's really what inspired Jack Valenti to come up with the MPAA rating systems. No film can ever survive the blaze and hiss of public scorn. When Jack Valenti became president of the MPAA, back in 1966, he came from Washington,|he came from the President's office, where he'd been Lyndon Johnson's man. And he became the man of Lew Wasserman and of the other owners of Hollywood. He came to serve their interest. He came as their lobbyist.
The fact that he did come out of Washington, I think was, you know… Hollywood felt comfortable that he could protect them from the people that he knew back there. Because he was a Washington insider. And in Hollywood, when you ask what their economic interest had to do with ratings… If there weren't ratings and there was censorship, there would be 50 different censor boards. In my opinion, the MPAA uses the fear of government's censorship to keep power in control in the… motion picture industry.
Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park, relates his involvement with the MPAA both outside and inside the studio system. He submitted the independent film Team America and received an 'NC-17′, and when he asked why, he was told that specific details could not be provided. However, when he later submitted South Park as a studio production, and again received an 'NC-17′, he was given a specific list of cuts required to achieve an 'R'. This kind of preferential treatment for studio films has always been (unconvincingly) denied by the MPAA.
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New Paper Examines African Development Challenges for the 21st Century
The Africa Program is pleased to release the 4th installment of its Occasional Paper Series. This paper, entitled "Africa: The Development Challenges of the 21st Century," assesses past struggles and future prospects for economic, political and social development on the continent. In this paper, which is based upon a presentation to the Wilson Center's Congressional Staff Forum on Africa, Callisto Madavo, former Vice President for Africa at the World Bank reviews the scope and background of African poverty and identifies some broad imperatives to guide development policy through the 21st century.
Madavo situates his discussion of Africa's current development challenges within a historical context of the post-independence period. After an initial growth, Africa's aspirations to catch up economically were devastated by a series of external shocks to many commodity– dependent economies throughout the 1970s. Increased borrowing and the adoption of the statist economic development model promoted public spending and government- centered economic policies that marginalized the private sector and depressed market-driven economic activity. During the 1980s, in an attempt to improve monetary stability and to scale back the economic function of the state, many African countries underwent financial stabilization and structural adjustment programs (SAPs). Stabilization and SAPs failed to reverse the stagnation, contraction and decline that began on the continent in the 1970s, but inspired a new focus on human development indicators as central to measuring development.
The emergence of the new consensus on development policy, with human development at its center, promotes economic growth and poverty reduction at the same time. This development strategy is articulated through the globally- endorsed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focus attention on indicators of well- being and encourage a more constructive global partnership on environmental, trade, debt and technology issues. Although it is unlikely that Africa will reach the MDGs, Madavo is not an Afro-pessimist—he believes that a number of African countries may meet some, if not all, of the goals. The success of the new paradigm depends on the commitment of African governments to promoting peace and stability, good governance, and private sector growth, to strengthening the provision of clean water, health care and education, and to investing in women and the youth. For its part, the international community must commit to more development aid, increased debt relief and improved trade access for African countries.
The production of this paper is made possible in part by grants from Foundation Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.


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Cinema Under the Stars kicks off Friday at Heritage Station
HUNTINGTON — The area drive-in movies may be long gone but you can still enjoy some film watching under the stars.
Mark your calendars for the first Friday of every month as Heritage Station will be the home for the 2013 film series called Cinema Under the Stars.
The film series begins in black and white on Friday, May 3 with a timeless classic, "Casablanca," the romantic War time film that stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid.
The PG-rated 102-minute film is set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
About 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, they'll be showing the classic film, "Casablanca," at the gazebo area.
For Cinema Under the Stars admission is $1. Popcorn and concessions will be for sale and Heritage Station Shops, such as SIP Wine Bar and Bottle and Wedge will be staying open late.
Outdoor seating is available and guests may bring their own blankets or chairs
Before the movie, Finds and Designs at Heritage Station is hosting a costume contest. Come to the "Casablanca," showing dressed in your best 1940s/WWII era or inspired fashion, stop by Finds and Designs before the movie to get your photo taken and to enter to win. Best dressed wins a $25 gift certificate to F&D as well as $25 to Sip Wine Bar! Prizes for runner ups as well.
"We know everyone loves to be outside during the summer. What a fun, inexpensive way to share an evening with your family or friends," Nicole Perrone, owner of Sip Wine Bar and organizer of the event, said. "We tried to pick summertime classics – films like Ghostbusters or The Never Ending Story – that parents may be introducing to their kids for the first time," she said.
Cinema Under the Stars is sponsored by Sip Wine Bar, Bottle & Wedge, River & Rail Bakery, Common Grounds, Brand Yourself, The Red Caboose, the Heritage Station Shopkeepers Association, Cabell-Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Marshall University Campus Activities Board and made possible by a grant from CREATE Huntington. For more information, LIKE the event on Facebook at facebook.com/cinemaunderthestarswv<http://facebook.com/cinemaunderthestarswv>.
Owned and operated by the Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District, Heritage Station is a retail center featuring locally owned and operated artisan shops, boutiques, and specialty stores. For more information, go to www.ghprd.org<http://www.ghprd.org>.
The full schedule for the 2013 Cinema Under the Stars season is: Friday, June 7: "Ghostbusters," Friday, July 5: "Jaws," Friday, Aug. 2: "The Never Ending Story," and Sept. 6:
" We Are…Marshall."
For more information, go online at facebook.com/cinemaunderthestarswv.
Read about dozens of cool ways we are taking the party outside this Derby Day/Cinco de Mayo Weekend in Thursday's Weekend section in the Herald-Dispatch.


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UC Davis Trinchero Building
Trinchero Family Vineyards has been a Napa Valley landmark since the family left a comfortable life in New York City to live the dream in wine country. They bought an old and outdated winery which was once Sutter Home and began to remake the land, vineyards and buildings. Of course the profile of the winery took a dramatic step forward when they started producing what was likely the first White Zinfandel in California. While White Zin has certainly become the punch line of many jokes within the wine community of late, it helped to introduce a skeptical public to California wines in the 1980's, well before the average American consumer realized the quality wines being produced domestically. Less well know is that the winery also had started to make a name for itself among the wine elite by a series of outstanding Amador county Zinfandel offerings. Ensuing decades brought even more changes and increases in quality including the purchase of over 200 of the best vineyards in Napa Valley as well as moving the winery into St. Helena. The end result of over 60 years in the wine trade: a really, really high quality Napa Valley winery producing approximately 12,000 cases of wine per year.
We bring up Trinchero today because UC Davis has officially dedicated an agriculture and environmental sciences building bearing the families name. While many wine drinkers realize that UC Davis educates and trains many American winemakers, most people don't realize that the University does at least as much in terms of true viticulture research. Whether its genetic testing to find the parents of currently popular grape vines, or the continued research into stopping Phyllexora here and abroad UC Davis is truly living up to its charter as a University made to create high quality, relevant research. Additionally, the ties between the Mondavi family and Davis have been well chronicled elsewhere, but for someone working in the wine trade I can greatly appreciate another winery choosing to help support the greatest publicly funded research center in our industry, especially in a time where state funding is stretched incredibly thin.
When Is Family Owned Not Family Owned?
We don't talk competitors much in this space for a number of reasons, mainly because we don't think it is appropriate, but every once in a while a wine that one of our competitors ships gets our attention.
While I won't name them out of courtesy, I saw a post on a wine blog that I read frequently with the review of the wine club shipment.
The wine club in question sells itself in much the same way that we do, they're family owned and feature family owned wineries.
The bottle in question was made by Fess Parker.
Yes, Fess Parker is family owned.
Yes, Fess Parker makes some nice wine.
Yes, Fess Parker has a great story behind it. (It was started by the actor of the same name who made a name for himself as Davey Crocket and Daniel Boone on tv)
I have to wonder though, if this is what customers expect when they hear about a family owned winery. The winery currently owns 1,500 acres of vines and crafts at least a few hundred thousand cases of wine annually.
I guess I wonder, when is family owned what we expect? Is there a production level limit as well? If so, where does it lie?
It also made me think how lucky we are to know the Santa Barbara wine scene so well. Fess Parker has been a providing and training ground for a number of up and coming winemakers in the area. Mike Siqouin who makes the wine at Beckmen Vineyards and under his personal label Kaena would have made an excellent choice. Blair Fox got his start at Fess Parker at that same time and now crafts Robert Parker's favorite group of wines in the area out of a 200sq foot tasting room on the back of a coffee shop in Los Olivos, with pictures of his young children on the walls. Lastly, Larry Tercero makes wine under his own label to craft more eccentric wines which we've also enjoyed. Heck, the three of these winemakers now get together every year to celebrate their becoming friends while working at Fess Parker by making a wine called Thread. We were lucky enough to be present at a blending meeting during one trip to Beckmen Vineyards and saw them working to put the best barrel of fruit they each had into this interesting blend.
Maybe it's some nostalgia on my part having lived in Santa Barbara for five years, but the wine scene is really full of great winemakers who have great stories to tell about why they make wine under their own label. I wish our competitors would take the time to discover those stories from time to time. Admittedly, this is the one competitor who I think works most closely to the way that we do, so it was even more surprising.
Steve Heimoff on Wine Reviews and Thank You's
Steve Heimoff on Wine Reviews and Thank You's
First let's start if you aren't familiar with Mr Heimoff, he is the west coast editor of Wine Enthusiast. He held the same position at Wine Spectator before moving over and has been a part of the wine industry for as long as I've been alive. Steve is a fixture of the California wine scene and behind the scenes, holds much of the same power when it comes to scores and selling wine as does Robert Parker, without much of the consumer acceptance.
Secondly, we'll also mention that Wine Enthusiast runs a wine club and is a direct competitor of ours (no I'm not going to link to it here). They offer a few clubs and international choices end up in 3 of their 4 club options, so we won't get too bent out of shape over the competition angle.
Of more interest for our customers is how Steve views his job working for a magazine which allows wineries to advertise, while reviewing and selling wine at the same time.
To me, that's an interesting paradox and must be a challenge to keep all those activities separate. Yes, I think they do a good job currently, but it is a concern of mine going forward as competition in our space continues to increase. I mean, how can we expect newspapers to exist if they aren't selling wine right?
In any case, I get what he's saying about being thanked for being supportive. We get much of the same reaction, although on a much smaller scale I'm sure. As an independent wine club we aren't required to buy wine from the same people year after year.
Yes, it can be strange and somewhat surreal to have to explain that you aren't placing an order because you didn't think the wine was as good in their current vintage. Yes, it can hurt relationships.
We hope that wineries whom we largely consider our partners more than anything understand that doing the best thing for our customers is good for everyone long term. There are plenty of distributors out there who are required to push whatever wine comes their way from their clients.
That isn't our model and it won't ever be our model.
As for Steve, I hope reviewers at his magazine and others are able to remain as impartial as he has always seemed to be.
Wine at Costco
I should start by saying I have a Costco membership. I've enjoyed it since it was called Price Club in Southern California.
Anyone who has ever been in a Costco on a Saturday or Sunday knows how busy the warehouse chain really is these days, everything from a first rate butcher to the cheapest toilet paper on the planet really brings in the crowds.
Heck, my 15 month old really loves Costco for the samples. Where else can we go that random people will give him food to try?
All that being said, I was somewhat sickened when I saw the CNBC show on the Costco Craze last week. Specifically the part about wine and how Costco's lead wine buyer doesn't view wine any differently than toilet paper.
If we're really going to compare an agricultural product like wine to an inadament one like toilet paper, I think we're in trouble at Costco when it comes to quality.
I could honestly see a parallel if they promoted someone from the beer or hard liquor department to take over the wine department when the previous buyer left, but I think the standardization of wine isn't going to be a good thing for Costco long term.
Believe it or not, plenty of consumers like supporting local vintners. Plenty of consumers like supporting smaller vintners. Not everyone is buying wine simply on price. Plenty of people are choosing to buy wine based on quality. Yes, story matter for wine. There is romance. Vintage even matters. Unlike beer and other hard liquor, some years are better than others in certain regions.
If a wine buyer who is responsible for over 1B in yearly sales understands none of that, I have to seriously ask what might happen to the quality of wine being sold at Costco over the long term.
As an example, my local Costco here in San Francisco carries a much higher end sample from Bordeaux than does the Costco in San Diego where my in laws and parents live. Does that change? Will there be any thought in regard to local tastes? Sensibilities? Will it all be a price game? Should I expect other products like coffee to go down this same path?
Stonestreet Monument Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Every once in a while we can't pass up a huge score and simply one of the top wines of the year. Let's start with what Robert Parker had to say about Stonestreet's latest vintage:
These are far and away the most impressive group of Stonestreet Alexander Mountain estate wines I have ever tasted. Kudos to proprietor Jess Jackson and winemakers Graham Weerts and Marcia Monahan for exploiting this high elevation terroir. This has been a work-in-progress for Jackson, and he has finally hit paydirt with the following wines. Readers need to pay close attention as there are some amazing Chardonnays as well as red wines emerging from Stonestreet. There are seven distinctive cuvees of Chardonnay, ranging in production from 185 cases of Red Point, to 660 cases of Lower Rim. All of these super-impressive efforts come from elevations of 900 to 1,800 feet. I tasted one Merlot and seven Cabernet Sauvignons, and as readers can tell, these are also impressive wines. Production ranges from approximately 250 cases of the single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons (the only exception being the 5,000-case cuvee of Cabernet Sauvignon Monument Ridge)."
At 5,000 cases of production this is one of the largest production wines we've ever featured at any of our club levels, but while we know that our customers love our focus on smaller wineries, more than anything else they expect us to deliver incredible wine.
This Stonestreet is an incredible wine.
Rated at 96 points by Wine Enthusiast, 94 points by Robert Parker and ranked as the 11th best wine of 2011 by Wine Spectator-the critics universally agreed that this was a transcendent vintage for Stonestreet.
What stuck out to me and in the end made me want to feature this wine was its unusual combination of mountain fruit and a sense of balance or even finesse in its young age. A small hint at a coming attraction, but we're featuring a wine from Audelssa next month that is cut from much the same cloth, but never submitted for scores because of its small production levels.
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The Borrowers the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are borrowed from the human beans who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for "The Borrowers" in 1952, the year it was first published in England. This repackaged paperback edition still has the delightful original black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush inside. A charmer! Awards: 1952 Carnegie Medal, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Book Don t miss the other classics in the Borrowers series: "The Borrowers Afield," "The Borrowers Afloat," "The Borrowers Aloft," and "The Borrowers Avenged.""
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Recently I've been interested in games created using JavaScript. JavaScript is everywhere and works with a lot of devices and platforms including mobile devices that run on iOS, Android, Windows and FirefoxOS. On the web seems that games using HTML and JavaScript have started to replace those using older technologies like Flash. Here is a list of JavaScript libraries that I have seen recommended for creating games. To compile this list I looked at libraries that are free,…Continue
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In my last blog post I wrote about Windows 10 preview for phones. Yesterday Microsoft released the latest technical preview for Windows 10 on desktops, build 10061. With the rumored end of July release date of Windows 10 here is a look at where Windows 10 is today. The current build is the most refined one yet, but is still very buggy and hopefully…Continue
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Nearly 2 years ago I blogged about my experiences using Windows Phone for 6 months. I'm back to update my impression of Windows Phone as a whole and also blog about Windows 10 for phones. Windows Phone has gone through several updates and in early February 2015 Microsoft released the first Tech Preview for Windows 10 on…Continue
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January 2, 2013: Western media got all excited when word got out that Chinese television had recently shown the British movie "V for Vendetta." Based on a graphic novel, the film is set in a future Britain ruled by a dictatorship and deals with various forms of resistance to the oppressive government. The movie is noted for one particular bit of dialog; "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." The Western media generally could not understand how the Chinese government, which is still very much a communist dictatorship, would allow a film like this to be available to the entire population.
Actually, China often allows films like to be shown openly. That's because the rulers there know that when they liberated the economy from central planning three decades ago they could no longer try to control everything that people said. This became particularly true when cell phones came along in the 1990s and the Internet became widely available a decade later. The government was very pragmatic about the "free speech" issue. What it came down to was people could say just about whatever they wanted as long as they did not criticize the national government or call for removing the Communist Party as rulers of China. This was emphasized in 1989, when the government carried out a bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations.
After 1989, Chinese had no illusions about what could be said and what you had to stay away from. Talking about democracy in China would get you into trouble. Talking about local corruption by communist officials was OK (although those officials might arrest or even murder you). The national government quickly got behind anti-corruption efforts but it was forbidden to say or imply that national leaders were corrupt (and most are).
In China people are sometimes afraid of their government and their government is not afraid of Chinese who criticize the top leaders. But since such people are usually jailed, killed, or driven into exile, there are not enough of these critics around to seriously threaten continued communist rule. With that in mind, Chinese sit back and enjoy just about any film they want. Except porn, the government is afraid of pornography. But that's another story.
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You tube video of Barack Obama in Kenya supporting Raila Odinga, the election and violence afterwards.
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archiv...and_his_c.htmlThis is more than bad judgment, this is scary. A Jacksonian who has done yeoman's work in substantiating Odinga's nefarious Arab ties and his hand in the ongoing violence that has all of Kenya in its barbaric clutches. Inconceivable horror. Gang raping little girls and boys as many as ten times. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
"Obama has had near-daily conversations with the U.S. Ambassador in Kenya or with opposition leader Raila Odinga. As of late this afternoon, before his rally in Rochester, N.H., Obama was trying to reach Kenyan President Kibaki."
Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."


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A look at what's happened recently and what's ahead for the Society.
The Legendary Learned Hand Up Close and Personal:
15 Years on the District Court and Beyond
Presented with The Supreme Court Historical Society, this program will provide a unique look at the life and career of the celebrated jurist Learned Hand and will feature presentations from scholars and those who knew Judge Hand personally.
Thursday, April 30, 2015 / The Thurgood Marshall Courthouse (40 Centre Street, NYC)
Human Trafficking:
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The Society is working with NYS Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman on a program that will include a conversation with representatives of the police and legal community moderated by the Chief Judge, and a history look at the history of human trafficking in the United States and the development of the trailblazing Human Trafficking Courts in New York.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 / The New York City Bar Association
Asian Americans & the Law: New York Pioneers in the Judiciary
2014 Stephen R. Kaye Memorial Program
Monday, December 15, 2014 / The New York City Bar
Illustrious Alumni, At Albany Law School
Created in partnership with the Dean of Albany Law School, Penny Andrews.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 / Albany Law School
Dreiser's "An American Tragedy:" The Law & The Arts
With Susan N. Herman, Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School &
Francesca Zambello, General & Artistic Director of the Glimmerglass Festival
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 / The New York City Bar
We have been working with educators across the State since 2008 to reach students in the SUNY and CUNY community college network and connect with them on legal issues, our court system, and themes of justice through this essay contest. For 2015 the topic of the essay scholarship will be LGBT: The Road to Equality. How haev the New York Courts addressed equal human rights for the LGBT Community
Recently the Society visited Hudson Valley Community College with retired Judge Ed Spain to talk about the Scholarship and legal history with students there. Next spring the Society will be visiting Queensborough Community College with Court of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera. To learn more about these visits & the Scholarship, see our main Garfinkel Scholarship page.
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This spring saw the implementation of Grant III in our relationship with Bard High School Early College, this time supporting the work teachers at their Long Island City campus. This grant supported the development of several units built around judicial opinions that illuminated important aspects of legal history. One, targeted at 9th Grade students, examined issues of slavery through the landmark NY case Lemmon v People. Two others, developed for 10th Grade history, look at important issues of free speech. Using the lenses of People v Croswell & People v American Socialist Society, these units asks students to examine important issues and place them in the conext of the eras in which they took place.
These curricula were first used this spring with excellent feedback and will be further improved to incorporate this real world feedback. The Trustees of the Society were given the opportunity to sit in on several class sessions.
The Society annually publishes Judicial Notice a journal of articles of historical scholarship that uniquely focuses on New York legal history. Our next edition, Issue 10, & features the following articles:
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Eloquence, Reason and Necessity: Gitlow and New York After 9/11
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The New York and New Haven Stock Fraud Cases: How Alexander Hamilton's Nephew Swindled His Investors
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Theodore Theopolic Jones, Jr. (1944-2012), Court of Appeals: 2007-2012
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Inspired by the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, we have built the theme of our 2015 calendar around 100-year anniversaries. Starting in 915, the calendar covers a fascinating array of legal history, events and individuals from Henry I of England to Albert Einstein. Richly illustrated, this calendar provides interesting snapshots of these events. It culminates in December with a look at NYS Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, whose term ends that month.
Our calendar is distributed as our annual gift to Society members. To learn more about the benefits of Membership with the Society or to become a Member, see our Join the Society page.
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I just finished J.D. Robb's new book, Promises in Death. I really enjoyed it, but then I've always been a huge fan of Eve Dallas and don't even get me started on Roarke (think Pierce Brosnan with his original Irish accent). But this blog isn't my fascination on the series.
When I saw the book cover, I was surprised to notice that it just said J. D. Robb as the author. Now this shouldn't be a big deal, but lately, all the books that I've seen in the series have had covers that said Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb. Why is this? A marketing ploy? Trying to get new readers that maybe are anti-Nora to take a chance on the series? To distance it from romance? (Apparently Borders Books considers it a mystery) Having readings think this may be a man writer because men would more easily pick up a book thinking they may enjoy it better if it's not written by a woman? (Now I'm just throwing this out there as possibilities, no facts to back it up).
Here's the other thing, Nora Roberts picture is nowhere to be seen. On other books it takes up the whole back cover. Even the cover flap has no mention of her. Then there's the mass market reprints with Nora's name missing. When I checked on the Borders Books site, the older books listed the writer as J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts. The new book, only J. D. Robb.
So, what's your best guess? Done as a brilliant marketing strategy? Will it work? Won't readers notice? If you didn't know who the real author was, would it sway you one way or another? Would love to hear what men think of this.
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As senators, Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican David Vitter were not directly involved in the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, but wasted no time pushing for a massive $250 billion Louisiana aid package -- which was later whittled down into much smaller chunks -- once the dust began to settle. While Vitter admitted to involvement with a Washington, D.C., prostitution ring, Landrieu has a reputation as a clean, hard-working advocate for the protection of Louisiana's coastline.
However, to maintain their credibility in this crisis, Landrieu, Vitter and other Louisiana congressionals must stand up to the oil and gas industry after this disaster, says political consultant Brylski.
"The one thing I find distubring from our congressional delegation, is that nobody is saying, 'Stop the drilling in the Gulf','" she says, pointing out that officials in Florida have already protested the drilling. Brylski points out that Louisiana is heavily dependent on the oil and gas industries. "This is something the Louisiana delegation needs to own up to."
As the FEMA director responsible for "Emergency Preparedness & Response," Brown was put in charge of coordinating the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina but was quickly pushed out. Nicknamed "Brownie" by President Bush, who praised him for doing "a heckuva job" early on, Brown was criticized for not leading his staff properly and for emails that sounded flippant in the face of mounting disaster.
Today, Brown hosts a conservative talk radio show and works as an IT consultant in Denver. He recently appeared on Fox News arguing that the administration is intentionally letting the oil spill grow in order to garner support for alternative fuels.
Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana's first female governor, took office in January 2004, less than two years before Hurricane Katrina hit land. She was criticized for a slow, disorganized response to the disaster, which claimed almost 1,500 lives. Blanco tells ABC News.com that her predecessors had left inadequate emergency preparedness plans and argues that "nobody" was prepared for its magnitude.
Blanco announced in 2007 that she would not seek reelection, and was succeeded in 2008 by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican. These days, she's working on a memoir and preparing for her son's upcoming wedding.
Ray Nagin, the charismatic young mayor who galvanized support for his flooded city by openly criticizing the federal response, this month stepped down after two terms in office. He was ineligible to run a third time. Nagin became best known to the rest of the country after an outspoken radio interview, in which he complained that the White House didn't have "a clue" about what was going on and said, "Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed."
But he was also criticized for not doing enough on the local level to minimize some of the calamity, and for failing to revive New Orleans' economy. Nagin has told local media he plans to take a vacation before deciding on his next career move.


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Pair Of Midweek Games On Tap For XU Baseball
Xavier's game at Ohio will be carried on WOUB 1340 AM, with live stats available on the baseball schedule at www.ohiobobcats.com. Xavier will provide live stats for the contest with IU on Wednesday.
Patrick Jones started all three games for the Musketeers at Saint Louis as the designated hitter.
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CINCINNATI - Xavier baseball will play a pair of midweek baseball games against Ohio and No. 24/19 Indiana this week. The Musketeers will travel to Athens, Ohio for a 6 p.m. meeting with Ohio on Tuesday and return home to host Indiana on Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Hayden Field.
XU enters the week 10-13 overall and 4-2 in the Atlantic 10. These two games are the first midweek contests for Xavier since the Musketeers hosted Bryant on March 12. Scott Klever shut down the Bulldogs in that meeting and helped Xavier to a 1-0 shutout.
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