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I am in need of replacing my motherboard and processor, and was looking at getting the AMD Phenom II x6. Then I started seeing posts about AMD's bulldozer project. What is that?
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From cat videos to Louis C.K.'s success selling his show directly to fans, the Internet has spawned countless new kinds of comedy and helped them flourish. PBS Off Book's latest episode looks at how platforms like iTunes and Twitter let aspiring comedians reach new audiences directly, regardless of how niche their sensibility might be. College Humor's Sam Reich, interviewed in the episode below, explains that humor can venture into edgier territory the web. We laugh at one kind of joke in a crowded room, he says, and another "alone in the dark" in front of a computer screen. Jon Friedman, who tweets funny observations to an audience of more than 70,000 followers, and Mike Lawrence, host of the Nerd of Mouth comedy podcast, also weigh in. Off Book is produced by Kornhaber Brown for PBS.
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Ending Domestic Violence
Each time the violence happens, the degree of violence tends to escalate, and the chances of it being lethal increase. This is why women must leave such relationships; the tragic death of Aasiya Hassan is a testament to this. However, and as is this case with almost all demographics of domestic violence, it will statistically take the victim seven to nine times to leave an abusive relationship.
What could be more ironic? A Muslim TV executive is charged with decapitating his wife. Aasiya and her estranged husband Muzzammil Hassan founded Bridges Television, whose mission was to "promote a better understanding of Islam and Muslims". Almost immediately, the term "honor killing" is thrown around by every Muslim-bashing blog and ultraconservative media outlet. Women's rights groups who admit they are not aware of the details of the case have been using the term also.
There is obviously nothing in the teachings of our faith that says in any way or form that a man should protect the honor of his "position" in the community by committing violence against a woman. Islamic law does not permit a man to beat his wife, so how can people ever claim it can justify killing her? Islam is innocent of such slanders. Islam has exalted the status of women and requires equal treatment for them; any transgression upon the guidelines of Islam is a mere backward and uneducated cultural practice.
The Aasiya Hassan case represents several areas where our community has failed. Following multiple episodes of domestic violence, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce on February 6, 2009. Several reports have stated that the community knew of the domestic violence taking place within the Hassan home, but nothing was done. Employees of Bridges TV gave a startling account of how Hassan treated his wife. Aasiya Hassan was popular at the station. Muzzammil Hassan was known among employees for having a temper; he sometimes would yell at and demean his wife, but at other times appeared to be a loving husband and father, the employee said.
Domestic violence is not limited to one community, but the signs are almost always the same. The scene isn't that uncommon. A couple has an argument. The female tries to walk away, but the male grabs her arm to stop her. As with the Hassan case, there is a duality of character in the assaulter. Many victims will say "my partner was very charming" or "I never knew." It just follows. Maybe a battle will happen, and the next day, flowers come. There's a period of forgiveness and then a honeymoon period, and then it falls back into the same cycle of violence.
Each time the violence happens, the degree of violence tends to escalate, and the chances of it being lethal increase. This is why women must leave such relationships; the tragic death of Aasiya Hassan is a testament to this. However, and as is this case with almost all demographics of domestic violence, it will statistically take the victim seven to nine times to leave an abusive relationship. Even if women do leave these relationships, they most often do not report the violence to authorities. Subsequently, domestic violence is in the league of rape and sexual assault when it comes to being reported, or rather, underreported.
Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Aasiya Hassan's death serves "as a wake-up call to all of us that violence against women is real and cannot be ignored … the Muslim community is not exempt from this issue. We, the Muslim community, need to take a strong stand against domestic violence."
In the absence of greater resolve by the Muslim community, we will not remove the stigma attached to abusive relationships. We must provide safe havens for women who are battered and abused by men, whether or not these women are Muslim. Islam condemns violence and abuse against women, and as Muslims, it is our responsibility to both talk the talk and walk the walk.
Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. One out of every three women is abused in one way or another according to the United Nations, and such figures bring domestic violence much closer to our own homes. As brothers and sisters of all faiths and backgrounds, we must work together to end such episodes of violence against females.
Here is what we can do stop domestic violence in our community:
Reporting violence: If there is any suspicion of violence, call the local law enforcement. You could be saving the life of another person! If we continue the "it's not my business" mentality, more and more women can lose their lives. Shockingly enough, relatives of Aasiya Hassan were aware that she was being abused, yet no one had the courage to pick up the phone and call the police.
For advice and support: If you or someone you know are victims of domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE).
Victims, for a safe place to stay: Call your state's branch of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence if you need a shelter from domestic violence. To find your state's hotline number, go to the State Coalition List.
Most importantly: Leave the relationship! A worker at a domestic violence organization can help you make a plan to leave as safely as you can. Also, Leaving Abuse Safely can help you think of ways to leave safely.
Use the law wisely: Getting a protective order can be an important part of a safety plan. If you get a protective order though, you should still take other safety planning steps to keep yourself and your children safe. Womenslaw.org provides free legal information and online support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Domestic violence should never occur under any circumstances. But it does, and when it does, there is help.
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I think there may be some mixed signals in our communities about this topic. A lot of scholars still encourage abused women to stay in the marriage and try to be nicer to avoid further abuse, to 'change' their husbands, etc. And there are still some people who blame the victim, as if the person is inciting/causing the abuse, there are still those who insanely believe in things like honor killings, and there is very little avenue within most Muslim communities for people in domestic situations to seek help as they are not really allowed to talk about it (spouses are covering for each other, what happens at home stays there and should not be discussed outside the family ever), and there are few places for them to turn without turning to Christian charities, etc., that may end up proselytizing or providing help that is a challenge to certain aspects of the faith like hijab, etc.
Thank you for covering this topic! long after the Hassan case is gone, there will be many more in our community. Muslim women do NOT have to suffer silently. We should revolt against heads of mosques who do nothing to stop this epidemic.

Thank you Huda J.
would anyone know where I could find such articles in order to rebutt people and to have a better understanding myself?

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Powerful piece.
Sis. Masooma:

It's not just religious leaders and scholars who encourage the healing of sore relationships and marriages. Psychiatrists, marriage experts and councillors all encourage it too, as the effects of broken families are almost always detrimental for other family members too, such as children. As Sis.Huda mentioned, if women are expected to ''change'' their husbands and remain in abusive relationships in the mean time, it's almost always due to cultural pressures, not religious.

Islam teaches us that a man's faith and his respect for women are directly related. If he respects women his piety will increase and if he is disrespectful towards women, his piety will decrease. Surely Islam does not burden women with the responsibility of "fixing†their husbands in abusive relationships, particularly when it gets physical.

Br. Ali K:

Here's something about the Western legal systems and the permission to "beat†their wives. Denied in this link, yet most law professors have reliable sources which prove that this law is/was authentic.

Rule of thumb-"It is often claimed that the term originally referred to a law that limited the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife, but this has been discredited. Although British common law before the reign of Charles II permitted a man to give his wife "moderate correction",†(just fyi)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
According to Islam, there's no excuse for abuse of any kind. However, there has been confusion over what the Quran says due to a Sunni interpretation of chapter 4, verse 34. The said verse is often quoted as saying in part:

[i]Righteous women are obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah has guarded. Those from whom you fear rebelliousness, admonish them then desert them in the bed and then [u]strike them[/u]. Then, if they obey you, do not look for any way against them. Allah is High, Great.[/i]

The term "daraboohuna" has been used. While the verb daraba has dozens of meanings, the most common is strike or hit.

According to the Shia position, there are many steps involved for a man admonishing his wife, ratcheting up in intensity. None of them allow for violence, but they do have a deep psychological impact and should not be taken lightly. Banishing from the bed is obvious. But what about striking?

The rules allow for a man to take a small stick, the size of a toothbrush and lightly strike his wife, not allowing for any physical harm to take place including blood to be drawn or bruising.

I have heard women getting outraged even when the above example is given. It is my observation that the consequence of such striking is not small and that is why, perhaps, Allah has sanctioned its use for extreme circumstances to get the wife's attention. If she is doing wrong things and does not listen to logical talk, Islam allows for other methods to impress upon her that she should change her ways.
See Ch. 7 under:
http://www.al-islam.org/wii-persp-edt2/

Also, lecture #67 under:
http://www.sayedammar.com/
What we need is a slow and systematic "re-brainwashing" of brothers and their mentality towards women. They need to recognise the difference between "culture" and "islam" and STOP using their backward cultures to suppress women. E.g. in some cultures, it is a norm to beat ones wife, as if its expected. It is only when their children, esp the sons grow up and are able to defend their mothers that this phenomenon stops. It is sad to see brothers responding to the question: "what do you look for in a wife"..."Oh I want her to be quite and shy so that I can "control" her..." Well, sorry brothers... the time is over when you can treat your wives as doormats and expect her to treat you with kindness and respect... Muslim women (atleast those growing up in the west) are becoming more and more educated and outspoken. I don't blame all muslim men, I just blame those who have this arrogant and conceited view of themselves as being somehow supperior to women and have the audacity to justify their views. In the sight of God, men and women are equals spiritually... the only difference is ofcourse our physical differences, physiology and emotions. It makes me laugh to see brothers emulate the prophet saw in growing their beards (sometimes waist long) and viewing other muslims without beards as somehow less of a muslim, and yet do nothing to follow the way the prophet saw in the way he treated his wives. This is not the fault of islam, but rather the fault of ignorant and backward muslim men and their mentality... no doubt passed on from generation to generation by their backward and male dominated cultures.
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LONDON—The widespread halt in home foreclosures will result in the U.S. economic recovery taking longer than was anticipated just several months ago, HSBC Holdings PLC's Chief Financial Officer Iain Mackay said Monday.
AES Corp.'s first-quarter profit jumped 20% on currency gains as revenue surged but core earnings declined.The operator of utilities and wholesale power generator in Sao Paulo, Indianapolis and elsewhere, has reported higher revenue of ...
MUMBAI – Indian shares ended flat Monday as a sharp rebound in Hindustan Unilever following its strong quarterly earnings performance helped offset weakness in auto stocks after local car sales grew at the slowest pace in nearly two years ...
NEW YORK—Renewed concerns about euro-zone sovereign debt pushed gold back above $1,500 and added to silver's recovery after last week's selloff provided what some saw as potential bargains.
NEW DELHI -- Tata Motors Ltd. has started exporting the Nano minicar from April, a move that will likely help India's largest auto maker by sales further lift sales of the world's cheapest car and reduce its sole dependence on the ...
NEW DELHI—India's Supreme Court suspended a lower court ruling that divided a bitterly contested religious site between Hindus and Muslims in the town of Ayodhya.
MUMBAI – Adani Power Ltd. Monday reported a 77% rise in net profit for the fiscal fourth-quarter through March, helped by electricity generation capacity added during the year.
BANGALORE – Hindustan Unilever Monday reported a 2.1% drop in fourth-quarter net profit but far exceeded market expectations thanks to one-time gains, pushing its shares higher.
Stocks climbed Monday as commodity prices recovered from last week's slump and a burst of deal activity helped overshadow concerns over Greek finances.
LONDON—The world's largest economies are set to grow at different speeds, with the U.S., Germany and Russia performing strongly, while Italy, Brazil and India will experience slower growth than they are used to, according to the ...
TOKYO—Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno said Monday the company has decided to halt the No. 4 and No. 5 reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, while keeping offline the No. 3 ...
MUMBAI – India's central bank should move in a phased manner to having a committee to take monetary policy decisions, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said Monday.
NEW DELHI -- India plans to launch a new industrial output index in June that will reflect April's factory output growth, underscoring the country's recent attempts to add, or refresh, a slew of macroeconomic indicators to help ...
Syria's leading activists are going deep into hiding following a relentless and brutal crackdown by the regime, at a time when protest leaders were expected to be emerging into public view, as they did at this stage in Tunisia and ...
TOKYO—The operator of a controversial nuclear plant has refused to follow the government's demand for an immediate shutdown, saying the company's board needs more time to consider the matter.
LONDON—Elan Corp. PLC on Monday sealed a transformational deal to sell its drug technology unit EDT to U.S.-based Alkermes Inc. in a deal valued at $960 million that allows the Irish drug maker to pay down debt and fund pipeline ...
NEW DELHI -- Karur Vysya Bank,a regional bank, has appointed K. Venkataraman as managing director and chief executive officer effective June 1, according to a bank statement.
MUMBAI --Power Finance Corp. has made cumulative loan sanctions of 3.4 trillion rupees ($76 billion), and disbursed loans worth 1.7 trillion rupees ($38 billion) as of March 31.
Hundreds of farmers protested over land acquisition for the construction of an expressway by the Uttar Pradesh government. Left, farmers shouted slogans during a protest march in Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, May 8, ...
NEW YORK—Euro-zone debt concerns dealt the euro its latest blow as the common currency fell against its major rivals.The euro declined against the Swiss franc, yen, U.K. pound, Swedish krona and U.S. dollar after Standard & Poor's ...
LONDON—U.K. house prices declined 1.4% in April from the previous month and suffered their biggest annual decline since October 2009, mortgage lender Halifax said Monday.
COPENHAGEN—Danish food-ingredients manufacturer Danisco A/S said Monday its largest shareholder, U.S. financial investor Elliott International L.P., has raised its stake to more than 10%, a move that could jeopardize U.S. chemicals company ...
NEW DELHI -- Local car sales in India grew at their slowest pace in nearly two years in April as higher loan rates as well as rising fuel prices forced people to put off purchases.
Most companies and promoters tend to be focused on valuation. In their single-minded pursuit of getting the highest number possible, the risk-reward equation often is not given the attention it deserves.
Royal Challengers Bangalore wicket-keeper A.B. De Villiers watched as Kochi Tuskers Kerala's batsman Michael Klinger was bowled, Bangalore, India, May 8, 2011.
U.K. banks have abandoned their legal fight over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, following the lead set by Lloyds Banking Group PLC last week, in a move that could cost them billions of pounds in compensation.
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. said Monday that its net profit for the three months through March doubled from a year earlier thanks to smaller restructuring costs, helping it to its first full-year profit in three years.
LONDON—European stock markets declined, led by a drop in financial shares, as concerns mounted over Greece's debt burden and as Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating.
TOKYO—Softbank Corp. said Monday its net profit for the three months through March surged from a year earlier and it posted a record operating profit for the sixth-straight fiscal year.
MUMBAI -- Reliance Industries Ltd. will look to its petrochemicals, consumer retail and telecommunications businesses to drive growth in the next few years, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said in a letter to shareholders.
LONDON—Thomas Cook Group PLC on Monday said it remains well positioned to make progress this year, despite incurring losses due to the impact of political events in the Middle East and North Africa.
SYDNEY—A proposed one-hour strike by more than 1,000 engineers is set to disrupt Qantas Airways Ltd. flights Friday at airports across Australia, forcing the airline to plan measures to cushion the impact.
FRANKFURT—Munich Re AG, the world's largest reinsurer by premium revenues, Monday said it swung to a net loss in the first quarter, as the high burden from the recent string of earthquakes, floods and other disasters around the globe ...
MUMBAI --Jyothy Laboratories has offered to buy up to 20% more of Henkel India at 41.20 rupees a share, the offer's manager said Monday.
BERLIN—German exports shot to a record-high in March, the Federal Statistical Office said Monday, recording a second consecutive month of gains and signaling continued strength in the country's economy.
HONG KONG—In the latest sign of the choppy Hong Kong market for initial public offerings, Australian miner Resourcehouse Ltd. is expected to cut the size of its planned $3 billion offering, even as a Macau casino joint venture that includes ...
NEW DELHI -- Last week, the Future Ventures initial public offering turned out to be a damp squib.It's not clear, now, whether the nearly two dozen companies looking to raise funds still will take the public route. Public equity funds ...
MUMBAI -- SKS Microfinance Ltd., the country's only listed micro lender, Friday swung to a fourth quarter net loss of 697.7 million rupees ($15.6 million) from a net profit of 628.9 million rupees as stringent local rules hit cash ...
JAKARTA—The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations pledged Sunday to continue the process of economic integration in the region, even as they failed to make much progress toward solving some high-profile problems, including a ...
SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said Monday that board member Simon Israel will succeed Chumpol NaLamlieng as the telecommunications company's chairman after its annual general meeting July 29.
NEW DELHI -- India's competition regulator has again delayed releasing a final version of rules that would govern mergers and acquisitions.
BANGALORE -- Private equity investments in publicly traded companies in India may increase this year, after continuous drops over the past five years, on lower valuations as stock prices take a tumble.
MUMBAI -- Consumer-goods company Dabur India is ready to spend 30 billion rupees ($672 million) to buy firms and brands."We are looking for acquisitions—large or small—and if the right acquisition opportunity comes up, we can spend ...
The municipal-bond market appears to be surmounting one of its most urgent challenges of the year as banks renew billions of dollars worth of expiring credit agreements with state and local governments, avoiding a costly scramble to ...
Home values posted the largest decline in the first quarter since late 2008, prompting many economists to push back their estimates of when the housing market will hit a bottom.
MUMBAI -- Retail investors occupy centre stage for capital market regulator U.K. Sinha, but their protection need not rob the market of its growth, something a section of market intermediaries says his predecessor C.B. Bhave had done.
Pakistani media aired the name of an alleged U.S. spy. The move prompted questions about whether Islamabad tried to out the CIA's station chief in the wake of the bin Laden killing. The U.S. is pressing Pakistan for access to bin ...
The surname of British racing driver Woolf Barnato was incorrectly given as Bernardo in an article on Ralph Lauren's car collection in Saturday's Off Duty section.
Treasurys could benefit from the Fed's plan to end its bond-buying program less than two months from now, some investors say. Slower economic growth, knocking down commodity prices and reducing the risk of inflation, could prove a boon ...
Seven years ago, real-estate developer Greg Smith purchased a failed nursing home in Danbury, Conn., with an eye toward converting it into residential condominiums.
Blackstone Group LP's recent deal to pay $160 million for the top 11 floors of the former New York Times building on West 43rd Street marks the latest twist for a property that has seen the ups and downs of the real-estate market.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's People's Action Party remained in power in Saturday's general election, maintaining the political structure that has led the city-state since independence despite the toughest fight the opposition has ...
The New York region is set to receive a large chunk of federal money to improve its rail system, people familiar with the matter said.Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will announce Monday that nearly $800 million will go toward improving ...
In the 13 years since he suffered a string of political setbacks and quit the third most powerful job in Washington, Newt Gingrich has been busily laying the foundation for a comeback to an even grander perch.
GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. There, on the monotonous plain below, is a giant guitar landscaped out of cypress and eucalyptus trees. It ...
MOUNT KISCO, N.Y.—Weeknight cocktails at a new bistro, a cruise along the shopping drag in a sleek muscle car, errands at A&P and Target, a languid Sunday stroll in his front yard: Such is the suburban life of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
SINGAPORE—The deputy chairman of Government of Singapore Investment Corp. warned that a major financial and economic crisis could erupt if the U.S. loses its triple-A credit rating in a disorderly manner..
DOHA, Qatar—Bahrain's King Hamad called Sunday for emergency law in the Sunni-ruled island to be lifted on June 1, a sign the authorities feel they have the country under control after carrying out a brutal crackdown on the opposition ...
KABUL—Taliban fighters flooded southern Afghanistan's main city over the weekend, seizing key buildings to stage attacks on government agencies, in a two-day battle that brought Kandahar to its knees and showcased the insurgency's ...
SINGAPORE — Asian stock markets were mixed Monday, with shares in Tokyo undermined by concerns about potential power shortages.Japan's Nikkei Stock Average was down 0.5%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.0%, South Korea's ...
Most Asian stock markets edged higher, boosted by strong U.S. jobs data Friday and a rebound in commodity prices, but Japanese shares declined on concerns about potential power shortages.
When the Mets drafted Ike Davis in 2008, the concern was whether he would hit enough to play as a corner infielder. But early returns have been so impressive that fans now ask if he can be even more—a franchise cornerstone for the next ...
The spontaneous gathering at the World Trade Center site in the hours after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden was a vivid reminder of how much this city and country needs a place to go for Sept. 11 catharsis.
The San Francisco Giants weren't all about their stellar pitching during last year's World Series run. They also hit home runs at a much faster-than-normal pace down the stretch. So far this year, they're back to where ...
Syria's leading activists are going deep into hiding following a relentless and brutal crackdown by the regime, at a time when protest leaders were expected to be emerging into public view, as they did at this stage in Tunisia and ...
(See Corrections & Amplifications item below.)LOUISVILLE, Ky.—They say regional speech is dying in America. But as I leaned out my car window in downtown Louisville and asked another driver where I could park, I heard a drawl truly ...
In 1932, Harlem was so firmly established as the world capitol of jazz and African-American culture in general that "black cinema" films like "Harlem Is Heaven" were playing on the nation's big screens. Jazz ...
Lawmakers in New Hampshire and Missouri are advancing so-called right-to-work bills that would allow private-sector workers to opt out of joining unions, the latest such efforts to curb labor unions in the legislative season that in many ...
Through the nonprofit Publicolor, Deven Parekh is helping brighten up New York City schools with a fresh coat of paint and, in turn, giving some students a fresh start in school.
It was a miracle that actress Victoria Clark, who plays Mother Superior in the musical "Sister Act," found Mother Dolores Hart.Two decades ago, Mother Dolores, a Hollywood actress turned Benedictine nun, was pursued by ...
HONG KONG—Wages are rising in China, heralding the possible end of an era of cheap goods.For the past 30 years, customers would ask William Fung, the managing director of one of the world's biggest manufacturing-outsourcing companies, ...
A company of U.S. Marines recently conducted a remarkable three-week patrol through southern Afghanistan, replacing hundreds of pounds of spare batteries in their packs with roll-up solar panels the size of placemats to power their battle ...
In sports, rookie seasons are fairly well defined—young players are called up to the majors and hold on as long as they can. In ballet, a new career can emerge in fits and starts. A soloist role here, a last-minute replacement for a ...
Chief executives at the biggest U.S. companies saw their pay jump sharply in 2010, as boards rewarded them for strong profit and share-price growth with bigger bonuses and stock grants.
TRIPOLI, Libya—Col. Moammar Gadhafi has turned to Libya's tribal leaders in a new effort to erode a Western-backed insurgency, but the initiative, including the promise of an amnesty, is having no immediate impact on the stalemated ...
It is one year since the powers-that-be in the euro zone crafted a plan to get Greece over a liquidity hump and onto the sunlit meadows of fiscal sustainability. Since then, the fiscal situation in Greece has deteriorated, the economy has ...
Facing pressure from organized labor, key legislators and real-estate executives are signaling a new openness to an idea they have long resisted: a law requiring union wages for construction of city apartment buildings.
Executive compensation likely won't rise as quickly this year as it did in 2010, but many chief executives will barely notice.Slower earnings growth and closer scrutiny by shareholders are expected to hold the typical increase in CEO ...
No. 1: Philippe Dauman, chief executive officer of Viacom.No. 2: Larry Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle.No. 3: Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS.
CAIRO—Christians blamed Saturday's deadly sectarian clashes at two churches near Cairo on Egypt's ultraconservative Salafis, a radical Islamist ideology whose growing influence is worrying both secularists and the country's ...
Digital ad firms and start-ups are crashing one of the television industry's biggest events—a procession of glitzy presentations to advertisers dubbed the "upfront"—by hosting competing events and parties in a bid to tap into ...
ISLAMABAD—Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan's military chief, was in his study in his official residence at Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Monday, May 2, when he received a call from a senior ...
AviationInternational Consolidated Airlines Group, formed through the merger between British Airways and Spain's Iberia, said its first-quarter fiscal pretax loss narrowed to €47 million ($67.5 million) in the first quarter, after a ...
Death of bin LadenThe raid on Osama bin Laden's compound yielded a trove of intelligence the size of a small college library, a top White House official said, adding that it represents the largest cache ever obtained from a terrorist ...
Manchester United defeated Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday, virtually clinching the Premier League title. United would have to lose its last two games, with Chelsea winning its final two—a combined scenario which is extremely ...
The ugly blow to risky currencies last week could be the early stages of a gigantic bubble bursting.Last week's 27% plunge in silver futures spilled over to other metal markets and beyond. The Australian dollar, whose gold exports link ...
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials will press China to allow the value of its currency, the yuan, to rise more quickly, amid signs that Beijing may be deciding to move at a faster clip in part to fight inflation.
"Thor," the newest comic-book adaptation from Marvel Studios, powered its way to the top of the box office with a $66 million opening weekend in North America, according to early studio estimates. Internationally, the film grossed ...
The Wall Street Journal CEO-compensation survey was conducted by Hay Group, a management-consulting firm. It analyzes chief executives' pay from the biggest 350 U.S. public companies by revenue that filed their definitive proxy ...
Ship owners are stepping up pressure on governments world-wide to take a stronger role in policing the waters off Somalia and prosecuting hijackers, saying lax enforcement is encouraging attacks and helping pirates extend their operations ...
Few publishing executives have gotten a closer look at how quickly digital technology is transforming businesses around the globe than John Makinson, chief executive of Pearson PLC's book publishing arm, Penguin Group.
Media chiefs are shifting their public stance toward Netflix Inc. and are now trying to convince investors that the video streaming service will expand their business rather than destroy it.
The mood is sober but upbeat, as Total SA's chairman and chief executive, Christophe de Margerie, recalls his trip earlier in the day to the company's former refinery in Dunkirk, in Northern France. The oil company, which has seen a sharp ...
When Memphis native Justin Timberlake and partners opened rib joint Southern Hospitality on the Upper East Side a few years ago, they brought a taste of Tennessee to the Big Apple.
SYDNEY—Australia's government will likely stick with plans for a quick return to surplus in the annual budget this week largely through a mixture of higher revenues from mining exports and spending cuts, even as parts of the economy ...
A reporter approaches, and Mookie Wilson knows what's coming. He can sense it, in the way a canine can sense a slice of beef jerky within a nearby handbag.
Massey Energy Co. said it will halt production for three days at one of its West Virginia mines after federal regulators this week called safety conditions there "nothing short of outrageous."
Gary Dugger walked through floodwaters in his backyard in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana Monday amid record flooding along the Mississippi River, which flows ...
The Louisiana Supreme Court is expected to hear a novel argument Monday in the long-standing debate over the legacy of the Confederate flag: Is it so prejudicial that its presence at the courthouse justifies overturning a murder conviction?
The Mets were down by three when Jason Bay came to the plate with the bases loaded. For more than six innings, they had failed to hit anything better than a single and positioned themselves for yet another barrage of criticism for their ...
A Continental 737 en route to Chicago from Houston was diverted Sunday to St. Louis after a man who tried to open an airplane door was subdued by passengers in a chaotic and frightening mid-air episode, according to witnesses, as well as ...
Sony Corp. missed a deadline to restart operations of its online-gaming services, citing the need to test security improvements to its computer networks in the wake of a massive data breach.
ARLINGTON, Tex.—In many ways, the Yankees' win Sunday over the Rangers wasn't the prettiest.The team committed four errors and made two other fielding blunders that won't necessarily show up in the scorers' book. CC ...
If New York drivers who like to cruise the streets in their SUVs are wondering what happened to the serious cyclists on Sunday, no, they haven't been rounded up by the cops once and for all.
As American International Group Inc. executives this week begin promoting a stock sale that will help end U.S. ownership in the giant insurer, the government looks unlikely to reap large gains officials talked up just months ago, and may ...
Inside a bland midtown Manhattan office building, Rob Goldstein spends his days trying to assign values to some of the world's most exotic portfolios.
COPENHAGEN—Reflecting higher costs stemming from a jump in piracy off the Somali coast, A.P. Moller-Maersk AS raised its emergency-risk surcharge.
Count on digging deeper to buy a used car for junior.Prices for used cars hit a record high in April and are poised to go even higher as production cutbacks during the recession and the more recent Japanese earthquake has made used vehicles ...
The record flood rolling down the Mississippi River is prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to activate a decades-old flood plan that so far has prevented a catastrophic levee breach—but not without a price.
MEXICO CITY—Carlos Slim has towered above Mexico for years, a seemingly untouchable figure who thwarted business rivals and regulators with such ease that his telephone empire eventually made him the world's richest man.
WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc.'s controversial $39 billion takeover bid for T-Mobile USA enters the political arena this week as the phone giant faces its first congressional hearing and various sides in the telecommunications battle ramp up ...
SVIT, Slovakia—Slovakia's ruling coalition government must fully back the €700 billion (about $1 trillion) European Stability Mechanism, the euro zone's permanent rescue mechanism, before counting on the Central European ...
TOKYO—The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident exposed flaws in the Japanese government's measures to guard the country's reactors against earthquakes and tsunamis. U.S. officials in recent years also have worried that Japanese ...
LONDON—U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Sunday shrugged off suggestions that he step down as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the wake of his party's humiliating losses in local elections and voters' rejection of the ...
TOKYO—The operator of a controversial nuclear plant refused over the weekend to follow the government's demand for an immediate shutdown, saying the company's board needed more time to consider the matter.
A PATH train failed to stop at the end of a track in Hoboken Sunday morning, jolting the roughly 50 passengers on board and sending 34 to area hospitals with minor injuries.
MIAMI—Florida's legislature passed a bill that aims to crack down on the notorious "pill mills" that have made the state the epicenter of illegal prescription-drug sales in the country.
Two adjoining duplex apartments at a legendary Park Avenue address are about to be put on the market for $60 million, an offering that is sure to attract global interest even at a time when demand for top luxury Manhattan homes is already ...
Yonkers resident Katherine Bannigan was one of four people who spent Saturday afternoon in a meadow of the New York Botanical Garden, learning to scale the towering trunk of a sweet gum tree whose branches began 20 feet overhead.
So it now looks as if the City University of New York is going to overturn a decision by its own board of trustees to refuse to give an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner. The ironies of modern academic politics here are too rich to ...
Las VegasIt was almost two in the morning when Manny Pacquiao arrived on stage to sing at his customary post-boxing concert, dressed in a navy suit with a yellow pocket square that peeked from his left breast like a parakeet. Earlier in the ...
Politicians don't want to tell you, so we will: Tax revenues are coming back smartly now that the economy is growing. California recently discovered $2 billion in unexpected tax revenue, even as Governor Jerry Brown promotes a ...
The list of regulatory flaws that Congress failed to correct with last year's "Wall Street reform" runs even longer than Dodd-Frank's 2,300 pages. But amid this Beltway forest it's important to focus on a few giant ...
It's not uncommon these days for middle-age urbanites to take their nest egg (if they still have a nest egg), move to the country and start farming—populating their lives with goats and sheep and grass-fed cattle. Laura Ellis did the ...
If national socialist Ollanta Humala defeats center-right populist Keiko Fujimori in Peru's presidential runoff election on June 5, Brazil's Workers' Party will deserve much of the credit. The implications for the region are ...
In the end, the courier did him in. With enough friends in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden managed to hide out for years in a million-dollar estate. But terrorists can't function without information and communications. When U.S. intelligence ...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin used to warn against deciding the political status of Jerusalem in the U.S. Congress. But what about at the Supreme Court? It's a pressing question because America's highest court might ...
Europe's debt crisis has returned full circle to the problem that started it over a year ago: How to save the malfunctioning Greek state from running out of money.
Those who claim that we can disengage from Afghanistan now that the "emir" of al Qaeda is dead seem to assume the whole organization will disappear with him. It might, but it might not. Other terrorist groups such as Hamas and ...
Afghanistan is no longer a war about vital American security interests. It is about the failure of America's political elites to face two plain facts: The al Qaeda terrorist threat is no longer centered in that ancient battleground, ...
Do President Obama and Democrats want to cut spending? There's not much evidence they do. They have acquiesced to some cuts—but only under political duress.
A selloff in commodities is good news in Asia, where inflation has become a major worry—but not as good as one might think.Tackling inflation has become a top priority for policy makers from Beijing to New Delhi, who have reacted by ...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaking at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, April 29:It's easy for the union members . . . sending their kids to some of the best schools in New Jersey to pontificate about how those [other] ...
For months, former corporate executive Herman Cain has waged a ceaseless ground attack in his long-shot quest for the Republican presidential nomination. Dinner speech in Fargo, North Dakota? No problem. Tea-party rally in Jeannette, Pa.? ...
Business & FinanceThe end of the Fed's second big bond-buying program might benefit Treasurys. The market has rallied over the past four weeks even though the Fed, the biggest buyer of the debt, is planning to leave the market in ...
After weeks of the dollar not being able to catch a break, the U.S. currency suddenly has found itself the recipient of several all at once.
SEOUL—State-owned KDB Financial Group said Friday it is considering a bid for the South Korean government's $6.2 billion majority stake in Woori Finance Holdings Co., a tie-up that would be a tacit acknowledgment of Seoul's ...
Bank accounts have proven one of the worst places for Americans to keep their cash in the last few years. Deposits earn next to nothing and have actually declined in value once inflation is taken into account.
Bank of America's mortgage risk remains a fast-moving target.For months, investors have tried to get a handle on the bank's exposure to demands that it repurchase soured mortgages, especially those sold to private investors. ...
Another meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue, another brief surge for the yuan.The annualized month-on-month pace of appreciation for the Chinese currency against the dollar hit 10.6% in April, from 3.4% in March. In ...
This book has two messages. First, religion reduces crime. Second, look what happens to scholars who say this is true.The first argument rests on the work of Byron R. Johnson, a professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, who compiled a ...
NEW YORK—Oil hedges are proving to be a drag on natural-gas companies' earnings.Faced with historically low natural-gas prices, U.S. producers are pouring more money into their oil operations. But they missed the recent surge in oil prices ...
SecondMarket Holdings Inc., one of the biggest players in the booming "shadow market" for trading shares of closely held companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., is seeking U.S. approval for how it handles those ...
Even before last week's selloff in risky assets, investors worried about slowing growth were buying up Treasury debt. To some, this is a preview of what is going to happen when the Federal Reserve ends its bond-buying program less than ...
It's among the most important and difficult questions would-be retirees face: How much of my nest egg can I afford to spend each year?The financial-services industry has some answers for you.
How would you like to start retirement with three marks against you?That's the case for many women who (1) typically earn less than men during their careers; (2) are more likely to take time away from work to care for a relative (which ...
A Life in ImagesIn his 28 years as a medical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching hospital in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School, David Weinberg filled several different roles: researcher, associate ...
Ah, the pleasures of planning a summer vacation: exotic destinations, new adventures, a break from the daily routines of home.After a certain age, though, it's also important to plan for health hazards. In addition to the vaccines ...
Hitting the Trails Almost six million Americans age 55-plus go hiking each year, making it one of the most popular sports activities among older athletes. Among the biggest benefits: aerobic exercise. According to the Mayo Clinic, hiking, ...
When my granddaughters, ages 14 and 17, were younger, we would talk often on the phone. Now, the easiest way to reach them—especially if I want a quick reply—is to send a text message. Invariably, I hear back in a moment or two.
Retirement Fees It's a question that perplexes many retirees: Should you leave your savings in your 401(k) plan, or roll over the money to an individual retirement account? And if you're still working, how do you compare the costs ...
Beyond Midlife Many of our articles in Next encourage readers to pursue new careers and passions in later life. The problem: That's often (much) easier said than done. Now, a new book, from a leading voice in discussions nationwide ...
After years of merely dabbling in disposal of my accumulated stuff, I think I might now be a candidate for "extreme downsizing." If I can be ruthless enough.
In recent years, a growing number of Americans have turned to the Internet to trace their roots. Now they want to do it IRL.In real life, that is. Inspired by what they've seen online—and by popular television shows such as NBC's ...
On a recent Sunday evening, each of my kids was engaged with some electronic gadget or another. I was about to call for a moratorium on screen time and a return to family time.
I have a question on beneficiaries and trusts. I have numerous IRAs, money-market accounts, savings accounts, etc., and they all have beneficiaries named. However, I want to put a revocable trust together for members of the family, and I ...
Editor's note: Thinking about living—or just traveling—abroad? This is part of a series of travel stories in which we ask Americans living overseas, full time or part time, to profile their adopted locales and guide would-be visitors ...
Wartime Virginia A number of museums and historical groups are commemorating this year's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Among the best exhibits: "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia." ...
Sen. Charles Schumer told regulators that sophisticated electronic traders should bear the cost of monitoring their dealings, with special fees assessed to firms that issue and then rapidly cancel securities orders.
Fortune favors the prepared. The selloff in commodities could be a stroke of luck for the U.S. economy—so long as domestic demand can handle an important transition.
Investors are likely to be cautious about piling into any of the seven IPOs lined up to go public in the U.S. this week.That's because there's some uneasiness about the performance of last week's slate of initial public ...
If it were up to Oh Eng Lock, the typical Chinese breakfast would be toast, not congee.Mr. Oh has been of chief executive of Singapore-based bakery and restaurant chain BreadTalk Group Ltd. since January. The company, which was launched in ...
When I had the honor of leading the True Finn Party to electoral victory in April, we made a solemn promise to oppose the bailouts of euro-zone member states. Europe is suffering from the economic gangrene of insolvency—both public and ...
From Tim Worstall's 2010 book "Chasing Rainbows: How the Green Agenda Defeats Its Aims" (Stacey International):Think of the extended family barbecue: there will be the idiot cousin there. No, really, every family has one (and ...
Last week Britain held its first-ever legally binding national referendum. Voters were asked whether they should scrap their traditional first-past-the-post system and move instead to the "alternative vote" method. The answer, ...
Paul Gigot: The week on "The Journal Editorial Report," the war on terror after Osama bin Laden. The terrorist's death reignites the debate over interrogations. An architect of the Bush policies is here to explain. And how to ...
Every time there is a Pakistan-sourced terrorist attack in India, the reaction in the world's largest democracy is predictable. Demands range from "hot pursuit" of the terrorists across the border to cries for all-out war. In ...
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Batman - Arkham Origins: NEWGOTHAM ROOFTOPS by inetgrafxWatch
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Hi there,
sorry for the looooong break, finally WB was so kind to give me permission to publish my artworks from Batman: Arkham Origins online.
This concept painting was an early exploration on what kind of mood we'd like to achieve on the roof top levels and was used as a ref for
Lighting and Level artists to demonstrate the snow distribution, color palette, light direction, etc.
Make sure to view the fullview, as I posted it in HD so its' suitable for desktop backgrounds.
More concepts from B:AO on my website: www.inetgrafx.com
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Is this entirely painted ?
but i don't get it, how do you know what goes where? are you using references?
but i don't get it, how do you know what goes where? are you using references?
Loving this one, that lighting is amazing
love your art really inspirational
Say, love the concept. Nice attention to detail. Was wondering how much 3d modelling played a part in this piece? I sometimes wonder about using 3d for such a scene but get concerned about how long it would take. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks
hmmm. should i buy this or FF LIGHTNING RETURN?
Awesome work!
perfect execiution
wow so amazing detail in this scene!!!
still want to play this game so badly
Wow, really nicely done. The detail is Amazing!!!
Amazing work! Congrats!!
The level of detail...This is so amazing! I love it that there are almost no straight lines. Gives more dynamics to the whole painting itself and proves that your hand PROBABLY did hurt a little bit after finishing this project.


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Families in the following categories may be eligible for the Working Parents Assistance (WPA) Program
|Family Size
|Minimum Annual Income
|Maximum Annual Income *
|Family of 2
|Family of 3
|Family of 4
|Family of 5
|Family of 6 or more
* If your income falls below the income scale for the Working Parents Assistance Program, the Child Care Subsidy Program will forward you an application to the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program.(CCSP). Complete the application and return to the address on the application.
Families in the following categories may be eligible for the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program (CCSP)
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Family of 3
Family of 4
Family of 5
Family of 6
Family of 7
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Family of 9
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*Teen parents and non-parent custodians on both the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program (CCSP) and the Working Parents Assistance (WPA) Program will have $5,000 deducted from their gross annual income for each child enrolled in child care.
1. I received the vouchers by mail. What do I do with them?
For State Child Care Subsidy Program (formerly Purchase of Care - POC): The provider must fully complete Section IV, (Provider Information), at the bottom of the voucher. The client and the provider must both sign and date the voucher. The client keeps one copy, the provider keeps one copy and the original is returned, fully completed, to MDCCSP, P.O. Box 17543, Baltimore, MD 21297-1543 or by fax to 410-229-0010 immediately or within sixty days after the authorization date of the voucher. After sixty days from the authorization date, the voucher expires.
For Working Parents Assistance Program: The client receives a set of monthly vouchers. Each voucher is handed to the provider for the given month. The provider must complete all sections of the voucher except for the box requesting the client's signature. The client will sign and date this section. Five days before the end of the month, the provider will mail the top, white copy fully completed to the Child Care Subsidy Programs at 7300 Calhoun Place, Suite 700, Rockville, MD 20855. The pink copy of the voucher is kept by the client for her/his records; the yellow copy of the voucher is kept by the provider for her/his records.
2. Why does the Working Parents Assistance Program require that we file child support through the court?
The goal of the WPA program is economic self-sufficiency. If the child support is court ordered, a child is eligible to receive child support until the emancipation age of 18. However, government subsidies will end before the emancipation age. Often when pursuing child support, paternity is also established. Establishing paternity gives a child born outside of marriage the same legal rights as a child born to married parents. These include Social Security benefits, Veteran's benefits and inheritance rights. If the absent parent stops paying support and the payments have been ordered by the court, the court will be able to enforce the order and hold the absent parent accountable and in contempt of court.
3. What are the advantages of using licensed care?
Licensed providers must attend educational orientations regarding child health and safety, child supervision, and general program operations. They must complete 24 hours of child development courses along with a Basic First Aid Certification. Licensed providers must have a criminal background check, have an emergency plan in place, and pass inspection of their homes from the Licensing Department and Fire Department.The Working Parents Assistance (WPA) Program only makes payment to licensed providers.
4. My provider sent in the State Child Care Subsidy Program (CCSP) voucher fully completed and signed, the invoices were completed and returned but they have not gotten any payment. What can they do?
The provider should call the Baltimore office at 1-866-243-8796 for payment questions.
5. My provider sent in the Working Parents Assistance (WPA) Program voucher fully completed and signed, the invoices were completed and returned but they have not received any payment. What can they do?
The provider should call Mia King, Montgomery County Child Care Subsidy Program, WPA Payment Specialist at 240-777-1164 for payment questions.
6. I am on the State Child Care Subsidy Program and my voucher indicates that I must pay a co-payment. Is this the only amount I have to pay the provider?
Many providers have fees in addition to the weekly cost of child care, such as registration fees, late pick-up fee and activity fees. Often, the voucher amount issued for the State Child Care Subsidy Program (CCSP) or the Working Parents Assistance (WPA) Program does not cover the full cost of child care. The parent is responsible for paying the "difference" between the authorized child care subsidy amount and any additional costs above the voucher amount. When determining the "difference" owed to the provider, also note that if the amount authorized on the child care subsidy voucher is greater than the amount charged by the provider for the cost of care, CCSP will reduce the voucher amount to the lesser fee charged by the provider.
In addition to paying the "difference" owed above the child care voucher amount, for those enrolled in the CCSP, the parent may have to pay a weekly "co-pay." CCSP assigns the weekly co-pay based on the number of children in the family enrolled in child care and based on the family's gross income. If the CCSP voucher indicates a weekly co-pay amount, the parent is also responsible for paying this amount directly to the provider. The amount of the weekly co-pay is non-negotiable. Providers have the option of reducing or offering scholarship for the "difference" owed. If the co-pay is not paid, the child's enrollment will be terminated by the CCSP. Prior to enrolling your child in care, please carefully read the provider's rules and regulations and understand all fees associated with the cost of care.
7. What if I choose a provider that charges more than the subsidy amount on the voucher?
Both the WPA Program and the State Child Care Subsidy Program will only pay the subsidy amount authorized on the voucher. When selecting a provider, discuss all costs before enrollment. The parent is responsible for paying all fees above or in addition to the cost of child care.
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I suppose. I have been on other forums where they do regulate it very well. The thing about that is that this particular forum is loads more advanced than the others. I had little clue about flawless and EV trained pokemon before I got here, I knew I could get them and the advantages but I did not have to actively pursue it till I got here. (I actually did not know about IVs till I came onto this site and saw it being used.)
As for the trading, I admit to over-exaggeration. Though you have to admit it is theoretically possible and one would feel good to have all pokemon with their OT shown everywhere.
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The real-life "His Girl Friday," Adela Rogers St. Johns proved women could do a man's job as well as any hardboiled newspaperman and became a veritable celebrity of letters. The daughter of famous Los Angeles defense attorney Earl Rogers, St. Johns eschewed gender roles early to become a reporter with Hearst newspapers at age 17, covering crime, sports and politics. Hearst made her a novelty act, and she garnered even more limelight as an interviewer of Hollywood's biggest stars for Photoplay magazine. She did more than just cover the industry, as she wrote screenplays and saw her stories adapted for the big screen, including an Oscar-nominated homage to her father, "A Free Soul" (1931). The Depression saw her covering some of the era's major stories as well as chronicling the street-level travail of the hard times on poor people. She struggled through three marriages, became a beloved Grand Dame of Hollywood lore, and battled her father's demon, alcohol. She told his story again in a memoir of her early years, Final Verdict, in 1962 and completed the companion piece about her years in the trade, The Honeycomb. She continued to pen books into the 1970s and established a new imprint as an irrepressible TV guest and documentary commentator on her eventful glory days. Carrying sensationalist billings such as "Mother Confessor of Hollywood" and "World's Greatest Girl Reporter," St. Johns mastered nearly every medium involving the written word and became a veritable living archetype.
She was born Adela Nora Rogers on May 20, 1894 in Los Angeles, to Harriet and Earl Rogers. Her father earned wide renown as a criminal defense attorney and one of the first to introduce modern forensic science into legal proceedings. Adela idolized him and loathed her mother, and she opted to live him when her parents' tempestuous union finally ended when she was eight. She developed a love of letters and both read voluminously and began writing from an early age. The latter garnered her recognition at age nine when her submission won a story contest sponsored by The Los Angeles Times. St. Johns attended Hollywood High School but, she would later say, truly learned of the world through the rugged people she met as an unofficial clerk on her father's cases. Through an acquaintance with one of Earl Rogers' more famous friends, publisher William Randolph Hearst, she left school early and took a cub reporter's job with the jewel of Hearst's newspaper empire, the San Francisco Examiner at age 17. She returned to L.A. a year later to join the staff of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald. At age 19, she married that paper's top copy editor Ike St. Johns, the Herald's chief copy editor.
St. Johns refused to content herself with standard "ladies" sections of the newspaper, putting her talents to work instead on politics, sports and crime beats through the 1910s. This earned her a rep as an intrepid "girl reporter," able to take on all the heady subject matter any hard-bitten male typewriter jockey did. She also began staking out in-depth coverage of the burgeoning film industry and sold her first stories to the movies in 1918. The first, "The Secret Code" (1918), starred matinee diva Gloria Swanson. In 1922, dissipated by alcoholism, Earl Rogers died. The St. Johns had begun a family, and Ike moved over to edit for James Quirk and his trailblazing fan magazine Photoplay. Looking to spend less time in the field and become a prototype work-from-home mom, she became a contributor to Photoplay, did in-depth profiles of the America's elegant new aristocracy, and additionally published in top magazines such as Cosmopolitan and The Saturday Evening Post. She ramped up her own screen work as well, collecting story/scenario credits on at least two films a year through the 1920s, starting with a pair of cautionary tales produced by fellow female film pioneer Dorothy Davenport, "Broken Laws" (1924) and "The Red Kimona" (1925). Adela and Ike divorced in divorced in 1927, and that year she published her first book, a fictionalized homage to her father, A Free Soul.
In 1928, St. Johns married Richard Hyland, a onetime star for Stanford University football and the U.S. Olympic rugby teams. The union would produce a son, Richard, but would only last six years. Around this time, she became something of a celebrity herself and hobnobbed with Hollywood luminaries. Her close friendship with Clark Gable even spurred rumors that one of her children was his love child. In 1931, MGM adapted A Free Soul into a star-studded film, starring Lionel Barrymore as a brilliant-but-alcoholic defense attorney, Norma Shearer as his daughter and Gable as the wrong-side-of-the-tracks tough-guy she winds up loving and he winds up defending. The performances would bring Barrymore an Oscar win, Shearer an Oscar nod, and newcomer Gable overnight stardom. Also that year, St. Johns' novel about a society woman bucking sexual stereotypes via a series of romances, The Single Standard, was made into a film starring Greta Garbo. St. Johns would garner an Oscar nomination in 1933 for the original story behind the film "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), the tale of a waitress discovered by a mercurial, boozy film producer who makes her a star. She returned to the Hearst fold as a special correspondent on major sports events, including the World Series and the 1932 Olympics, and bringing her evocative prose to bear on national stories such as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
St. John's stock-in-trade, however, became so-called "sob-sister" stories, which shed a light on ordinary people struggling through hard times. In 1933, she went undercover among the denizens of L.A.'s bread lines and employment offices and produced a 16-part series that made political waves and led to a slate of reforms. She stepped up to national politics in the 1930s and transferred to Hearst's Washington Herald, where she would become a signature voice on the New Deal and such riveting stories as the assassination of Senator Huey Long. Hollywood continued to spin her original stories into films, including the comedy-mystery centering on a plucky female reporter, "Back in Circulation" (1937), and a sequence of films conspicuous for their strong female leads that included "The Great Man's Lady" (1932), "Government Girl" (1943) and "That Brennan Girl" (1945). In 1936, she married again to United Air Lines executive Francis O'Toole, but they divorced in 1942. St. Johns suffered a devastating tragedy when her son by Ike, William St. Johns, was killed in World War II. She bowed out of daily journalism in 1948, but went out with a comprehensive multi-part profile of the recently assassinated Indian revolutionary Mohandas Gandhi. St. Johns then did a two-year stint teaching journalism at UCLA. In 1953, MGM again adapted a A Free Soul for an all-star melodrama starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor in the father/daughter leads.
Some of her stories were adapted for raft of anthology shows populating the new television networks in the 1950s, and she became a regular guest of Jack Paar on NBC's Tonight show (1954- ). In 1962, she published a personal nonfiction bio/memoir of her life with Earl Rogers, Final Verdict, and four years later, she made the fiction lists again with Tell No Man, the tale of the odyssey of a businessman who abandons his conventional life after a religious epiphany. In 1969, St. Johns completed what was effectively the second installment of her memoir, The Honeycomb, which resumed her story as she went to work for Hearst. President Richard Nixon awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970. She mostly worked on books in the '70s but returned to the San Francisco Examiner in 1976 to supply special coverage of the trial of Patty Hearst, her old boss' brainwash-victim granddaughter. She garnered a new generation of fans by becoming an expert witness on bygone eras and not just via her frequent guest-chats on the many talk shows of the time. She supplied engaging testimonials to the 13-episode "Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film" (HBO, 1980) and also discussed the personal lives of the America's leftist intellectuals in cutaway scenes for Warren Beatty's epic "Reds" (1981). St. Johns died on Aug. 10, 1988, in a convalescent hospital in Arroyo Grande, CA. Three years later, TNT made Final Verdict into a TV movie.
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