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- NCS Division V: Valley Christian 50, St. Bernard Catholic-Eureka 18
- NCS Division III: El Cerrito 64, Tamalpais 8
- NCS Division I: James Logan 14, Liberty 7
- NCS Division I: Granada 24, Amador Valley 20
- NCS Division II: Northgate 41, College Park 29
- NCS Division II: Montgomery-Santa Rosa 27, American 0
- NCS Division II: Clayton Valley Charter 62, San Lorenzo 7
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- Deer Valley romps over Castro Valley in playoff opener
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- NCS Division I: Pittsburg 47, Irvington 13
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SAN RAMON -- The California High football team used big plays in the first half, both offensively and defensively, to beat crosstown rival Dougherty Valley 37-12 in the first round of the North Coast Section Division I playoffs on Friday night.
As much as big offensive plays stand out, it was the No. 3 seeded Grizzlies (9-2) defense that shined in this game, twice stopping the 14th seeded Wildcats (4-7) inside the five yard line.
"We got exactly what we expected from them because they play hard," California coach Eric Billeci said. "We fumbled on our first two drives which kept it close, but then we got the ball in (Blake Bierwith's) hands and he carried us."
The offense then responded. Following the first stand at the 1-yard line, Bierwith got loose for 62 yards on the very next play, which helped set up his own 17-yard scoring run early in the second quarter.
Later in the quarter, he had a touchdown pass of 66 yards from Matt Lorenz.
Lorenz had two big scoring passes in the quarter, hitting Ryan Groleau for 71 yards with just 9 seconds left before halftime.
That score quelled any Dougherty Valley momentum, as it had just scored seconds earlier on a 9-yard run by Afolabi Adeoti.
Justin Locklear also played a big role in the first half, scoring on a pair of short touchdown runs.
Bierwith led all ball carriers with 134 yards on just eight carries, while Adeoti had 119 to lead the Wildcats.


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Three Ways to Finish the Summer in Style
And How to Stay Safe While You're at It
It's true, summer is almost over. So I have an idea: let's forget about all the things we have to do to get ready for the school year and finish out the summer in style with a great Labor Day weekend.
Here are three ideas that can help.
Number 3
Sports. You have to get those kids running around and it's not bad for us adults as well. Surprise your kids with a pickup game of kickball, whiffle ball or flag football. Kids against the adults usually makes it pretty interesting. So do following these easy tips.
Number 2
Make a Big Splash. A cannon ball is one of the best ways to end the summer – oh yeah, it's fun for the kids, too. Anyway, here are a few tips to think about whether your family is relaxing in the water or on the water.
And the Number 1 Way to Have Fun (insert drumroll here):
Cook out. This, of course, includes more than just the act of cooking the food. You've heard this from me before: It's all about hanging out, relaxing and enjoying time with family and friends. Of course, we all know some moms and dads who take the grilling pretty seriously, which is great for the rest of us. Just make sure to consider the following simple safety tips.
No matter how you choose to spend your time, have a great Labor Day weekend from everyone at Safe Kids.

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Microsoft's Surface Pro to Debut Feb. 9
Microsoft will roll out a new version of its Surface tablet running an Intel processor and sporting a retail price above comparable models of Apple iPad.
The Surface with Windows 8 Pro will go on sale Feb. 9 at Microsoft stores in the U.S. and Canada as well as Staples and Best Buy locations in the U.S. and some in Canada.
Surface Pro is similar in style and function to the original Surface RT tablet that appeared in October, except that it will be able to run the full suite of Windows applications. It will be powered by an Intel Core i5 processor and be priced at $899 for the starter model with 64 gigabytes of storage and $999 for 128 gigabytes of storage, plus an attachable keyboard costing about $100.
The lowest price Surface Pro will retail for more than the top-of-the-line iPad, which retails for about $829.
"It's not at a price point that will move the market a lot," said analyst Rick Sherlund of Nomura Securities.
Surface and the rest of the Windows 8 PC and tablet line will attract more consumer attention later this year after Microsoft's hardware partners introduce their product lineup, he said.
"Rather than one big catalyst event I think you will see a number of product announcements over the next six to nine months that will move the needle" of interest in the Windows 8 direction, he said.
Microsoft, which reports earnings Thursday, is positioning Surface Pro as a tablet with the power of a laptop and the convenience of a tablet. The device comes with a Surface Pen to make it easier for graphic designers and engineers to manipulate images precisely on the touch screen.
Analysts estimated Microsoft has sold fewer than 1 million of its original Surface RT tablet, which was only available at Microsoft stores in the early stages of its release. Surface RT, starting at $499, is powered by chips similar to those used in mobile phones. The addition of the Surface Pro to the lineup is expected to boost interest among business and professional users.
Earlier this month, analysts at UBS estimated that Microsoft would sell a total of 2.5 million Surface Pro units for all of Microsoft's fiscal 2013.


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Seven candidates on the ballot and six official write-ins still didn't provide enough choices for president for some area residents.
Neither did reality, as a cartoon character, movie politician and cereal mascot also made the list.
Even if they were real, most of the names written in for president and vice president did not count because they hadn't filed the required declaration of intent to be a write-in with the Ohio Secretary of State's office, said Washington County Board of Elections Director Tara Hupp.
But while Disney characters and Jesus Christ have received write-ins in the past, Hupp said most of this year's crop were actual political figures.
"Most are not as quirky as we've had in the past," she said.
One wasn't even that specific.
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Name game
Write-in votes for president in Washington and surrounding counties:
Joe Biden/Cap'n Crunch.
Hillary Clinton/Bill Clinton.
Jon Huntsman/Joe Biden.
Ted Nugent.
Ron Paul.
Ron Paul/Joe Biden.
Ron Paul/Virgil Goode.
Ron Paul/Rand Paul.
Ted Strickland.
Donald Trump/Bill Clinton.
Source: Times research.
"I think we had one that put down 'anybody honest,'" Hupp said.
The most frequently written-in candidate here was Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who sought the Republican nomination for president and has won a number of loyal followers over the years with his message of limited government and strict adherence to the Constitution. As a write-in, he was sometimes paired with running mates including current Vice President Joe Biden, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode and Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Marietta resident Carol Pabst, 60, didn't write in Paul's name, but only because she found someone who stood for the same values he did while watching a debate of third-party candidates hosted by Larry King.
"I would have written his name in if it hadn't been (for) watching that debate and seeing that Gary Johnson, who Ron Paul did back, had the same beliefs," she said.
If the Libertarian Johnson, who received 55 votes according to unofficial totals in Washington County, hadn't been on the ballot, Pabst said she would have had no problem writing in Paul, even though the vote wouldn't have been officially counted.
"I'm tired of voting for the (lesser) of two evils," she said. "The country is not headed in the right direction."
The unofficial results for Washington County tallied 97 write-in votes, more than the total received by Goode and Socialist Party candidate Stewart Alexander combined. But Hupp said none were for the half-dozen official write-in candidates who actually filed declarations of intent.
Former President Bill Clinton was a hit at the Democratic National Convention and on the campaign trail for President Obama, and some local voters indicated they'd like to see him back in the White House, at least in some capacity. Clinton received write-in votes in Washington County as the running mate for his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and one-time potential Republican candidate Donald Trump.
The Clintons were also written in on a ballot in Monroe County, said Molly Landefeld, deputy director of that county's board of elections. Other Monroe County write-ins were from well outside the political spectrum.
"Oh, we had a Goofy I believe," Landefeld said. "We had Jesus and Pedro."
The latter running mate is an apparent reference to the character in the film "Napoleon Dynamite" who runs for student body president with the campaign slogan "Vote for me and all your wildest dreams will come true."
There was a familiar name written in on some Noble County ballots, said Michelle Larrick, director of the board of elections.
"Ted Nugent gets a lot of votes in Noble County," she laughed, noting the musician and gun-rights activist has also been written in for sheriff and other offices before.
Noble County had only 19 write-in votes for president, Larrick said. Most of the others were for residents of the county.
There weren't many write-ins in Morgan County either, but deputy board of elections director Charney Fitz said there was one pairing of an actual politician with a rather animated running mate.
"The only unusual write-in that we had was Joe Biden running with his partner, Cap'n Crunch," she said.


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10 Romantic Dates That Aren't Too Cheesy
How did you two meet?
Stephanie: We met via an app for the iPhone called MiUMeet.
Mehdi: It was meant to be.
Were you nervous on your first date?
Stephanie: I wasn't nervous, but I was getting to the point where I was like, "If this guy is not decent, I'm gonna stop dating for a while." But then he turned out to be amazing.
Mehdi: She was perfect. She wasn't a psycho or a stalker.
Interesting definition of perfect! Tell me about the proposal.
Mehdi: I put the ring in a plastic bag and I threw it on the floor and I said, "Look at this mess, you should pick that up."
Stephanie: It was midnight. I was like, "I'm tired, I wanna relax, what's your problem?" He went and picked it up and then he got down on one knee and pulled the ring box out of the bag. I was so happy!
What's your favorite thing about each other?
Stephanie: I could just talk to him and be myself and not have to think about what I'm gonna say or worry about how he's gonna react.
Ahmed: Everything. She makes me happy.
How did you two meet?
Sophie: We met two and a half years ago. I moved to the United States from France to go to Harvard Business School...
Matthew: We were assigned to sit one person apart in the first half of the year and then we were assigned to sit exactly one person apart again in the second half! It was fate. Actually the one person that sat in between us is here as one of our witnesses.
What did you think the first time you saw him?
Sophie: He was wearing very casual clothes, like flip flops and a large t-shirt and I was coming from France and I thought, "Oh my god! Showing up in class in flip-flops? That's terrible!"
Matthew: And she was very formally dressed and very attractive. I noticed that she had a hurt hand. It turned out she had a bike accident. She bikes everywhere, stereotypical French person!
Sophie: I even biked here!
And how long did it take you to start dating?
Matthew: It took us a full year of business school. We started dating pretty early on in our second year.
Sophie: After a week, I knew we were going to get married.
Matthew: After 12 weeks of dating we decided to move to New York City together.
That's so romantic!
Sophie: I was going to go to France after business school but now I'm getting married in the U.S.
What is your favorite thing about him?
Sophie: He's so handsome!
Matthew: (laughs) This will fade, remember.
Sophie: He's probably the most patient and kind person I know.
Matthew: She is incredibly strong and she pushes herself and she pushes us to be better people. Sometimes I can be easy on myself or lazy with myself, and I know that with her, I'll always push myself to be a better person.
Okay, I'm gonna cry all over the place. Why did you decide to get married at City Hall?
Sophie: This is just the civil ceremony. The religious ceremony is going to be in a castle in France over the summer.
Matthew: I grew up in South Florida dreaming of a castle in France, so it's perfect for me.
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Published: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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CHARLESTON — Colby Holmes allowed one run on four hits and struck out eight over 7 1/3 innings as South Carolina defeated the College of Charleston 3-1 at Patriots Point on Tuesday.
Holmes (2-2) picked up the win. Relievers Vince Fiori and Patrick Sullivan struck out both batters they faced, and senior left-hander Adam Westmoreland hurled a perfect ninth inning to pick up his second save of the season.
Joey Pankake went 2-for-4 with a run scored for South Carolina (19-6). He has reached base safely in 17 consecutive games. LB Dantzler added two hits — both doubles — and a RBI.
Clemson 9, Georgia 1: In Athens, Ga., Tyler Slaton totaled a career-high four hits and Matthew Crownover pitched five strong innings to lead Clemson over Georgia at Foley Field.
The Tigers (16-8) jumped on Georgia with two runs in the first inning on Steven Duggar's homer, then Clemson added three runs in the third inning and four more runs in the fifth inning to pull away.
Freshman Crownover (3-0) gave up four hits, one run, and two walks with four strikeouts over five innings in the win. Jonathan Meyer and Patrick Andrews both pitched two scoreless innings to close out the game.
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Ten years ago, California chose a different and even weirder path.
A state already renowned for wacky politics recalled Gov. Gray Davis -- only the second U.S. governor ever kicked out of office -- and replaced him with international movie megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Governator beat out a panoply of 134 candidates, including a porn mogul with a penchant for exposing political hypocrisy; a former child actor placed on the ballot as satire; and a porn star whose platform included making lap dances a tax-deductible business expense. All three placed in the top 10.
Ah, California.
To some, it was a shining triumph of populist democracy. To others, it was a cringe-worthy circus of talk-show punch lines with a "be-careful-what-you-wish-for" finale.
Sure, the Golden State is better off in 2013 than it was in 2003 -- the budget deficit is gone and our lights stay on, at least. But, looking back a decade later, California's "different path" led us to a place very similar to the one where we had been. Some say it was the recall's failure to change anything that finally changed things.
It's not hard to remember why voters were angry in 2003: With memories of rolling blackouts still fresh, a seemingly intractable budget deficit and a governor who was re-elected in 2002 mainly because his GOP opponent ran so poorly, Californians were hungry for change. And they thought Schwarzenegger was it.
Voters saw "this bigger-than-life celebrity who was talking about 'blowing up the boxes' and sweeping clean the halls of the Capitol," said former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, who finished a distant second to Schwarzenegger. "They were hoping they had found someone who would be a leader, who could deliver on his words."
But it soon became clear that the new governor couldn't simply vanquish the state's problems like so many movie villains.
Schwarzenegger "loved to be loved, and that's a dangerous thing in public office," said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, who finished third. "He had no particular point of view, I found him to be largely disinterested in the details of policy, and he ended up dramatically breaking every major promise that he made to reduce the tax and regulatory burdens that were crushing the state."
Eventually he was loved by few. And Tom Campbell, the former South Bay congressman who was Schwarzenegger's finance director from November 2004 to September 2005, said voters' current disillusionment with nonpolitician candidates is part of the recall's legacy.
"Celebrity candidates, particularly those who make the arguments 'I can fund it myself' or 'I'll run the state like a business' had some attraction" in 2003, Campbell said.
But candidates like former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and eBay billionaire Meg Whitman -- who failed in their bids to become senator and governor, respectively, in 2010 -- may have reaped the bitter harvest of voters' change of heart. "We have lost faith in that argument," Campbell said.
It's easier to list the things the recall didn't change than those it did.
It didn't solve the energy market manipulation and price-gouging that brought rolling blackouts, bankrupted California's utilities and cost the state billions of dollars. Before 55.4 percent of California voters decided to give him the boot, Davis had overseen the licensing of 38 new power plants, and California's attorneys general later sued energy companies to recover billions of dollars in refunds and settlements.
It didn't solve the state's long-term economic problems. After the dot-com bust and post-9/11 economic instability, the state's unemployment rate was 6.8 percent in October 2003. But amid the fallout of an international Great Recession, it was 12.2 percent in December 2010, Schwarzenegger's final month in office.
It didn't solve the state's budget problem. California had a $38 billion budget deficit in mid-2003 and a $25.4 billion deficit in November 2010.
Schwarzenegger's first act as governor was to repeal Davis' tripling of the vehicle license fee -- popular at the time, but costing the state about $5 billion per year. "As a budgeting matter, you do not remove a source of revenue without an equal source of revenue to replace it or an equal cut in spending," Campbell said.
It didn't solve the state's debt burden. Schwarzenegger vowed to "cut up the credit cards," yet the state's general obligation and economic recovery bond debt surged from $27.6 billion in July 2003 to $76.5 billion in July 2010. At the middle of this year, it was $79.2 billion.
It didn't restore luster to the governor's office. Only 22 percent of California voters approved of Davis' job performance in August 2003, and only 23 percent approved of Schwarzenegger's in September 2010, the Field Poll found.
Some cite Schwarzenegger's September 2006 signing of AB32, California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law, as a key legacy. But Davis said he would have signed it, too, just as he signed a 2002 bill by the same author to set stringent tailpipe emissions standards. And the workers' compensation insurance reforms that Schwarzenegger signed in 2004 -- praised by employers but panned by labor -- had to be "re-reformed" in 2012.
Many believe Davis was recalled in large part because his dry, stiff style matched his monochromatic nickname while one of the world's most recognizable macho men wanted the job.
"California got what we deserved; (Schwarzenegger) was no heavyweight, that's for sure," said Christopher Thornberg, founding partner at Beacon Economics and a California expert. "He didn't accomplish very much. He didn't really understand politics, though I think his heart was in the right place."
Porn star Mary Carey, the recall election's 10th-place finisher, said she and Schwarzenegger had that in common: "I'm sure he didn't know that much about politics either until he started running."
The recall did interfere with some prominent politicians' career plans.
"I was likely to be a candidate for governor -- and as attorney general, probably a potentially successful one -- and Arnold obviously changed all that," said Bill Lockyer, who won the first of two terms as state treasurer in 2006 rather than taking on the Governator. Instead, Controller Steve Westly and Treasurer Phil Angelides fought a costly Democratic gubernatorial primary, with Angelides later losing to Schwarzenegger. Neither hold elected office today, though Westly plans a comeback.
It was probably worse for Republicans, said University of San Francisco political expert Corey Cook. The socially moderate Schwarzenegger could never have won a GOP primary, but the recall gave California a governor who became distasteful to Republicans and Democrats alike -- not quite the post-partisanship he'd promised. "I think the Republican Party held its moderates responsible for his transgressions, and as a result have been eating their young ever since," Cook said.
That dovetails with Campbell's theory that Whitman and Fiorina -- rich businesswomen without political experience -- might have paid the recall's price seven years later, helping propel Gov. Jerry Brown -- the very face of experience -- back into office.
While Republican candidates in the recall election won more than 60 percent of the vote, it ultimately led to "the Republican Party going out with a whimper" in California, said Steve Boilard, executive director of the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State.
Boilard also said Californians' disillusionment with the action hero later might have led them to approve ballot measures adopting a "top two" nonpartisan primary, creating a citizens' redistricting commission and allowing simple-majority budget votes.
"I don't think the recall itself was a major shift in governance of the state of California," he said, but "it clarified to the general population that it's less about personalities and more about structural issues."
Davis, meanwhile, looks on the bright side.
"My wife thinks I'll live at least five years longer than I would have," he quipped. "When you're governor, nobody comes up and pats you on the back and says, 'Are you having a nice day, Governor?' It's all, 'Why did you do this?' and 'I need you to do that,' so there's less of that in my life at the moment."
Schwarzenegger, whose spokesman said he was unavailable for comment because he was making a zombie movie in New Orleans, surely learned the same thing.
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
California's recall vote was a boon -- for comedians. Here are just a few of the jokes cracked at California's expense in 2003:
Jon Stewart, 2003: "California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils."
Bill Maher, July 24, 2003: "Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings and replace him with a Viennese weightlifter."
Craig Kilborn, Aug. 7, 2003: "Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.' "
Conan O'Brien, Aug. 7, 2003: "Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country."
Jay Leno, August 2003: "As of today, Arnold Schwarzenegger has filed to run for governor, Gary Coleman has filed, Gallagher has filed, Larry Flynt, Angelyne -- I don't know if it's an election or a bad episode of 'Hollywood Squares.' "
Garry Shandling, Sept. 21, 2003: "I don't even think any of those people running know it's about politics. I think they just heard there's a part available."
David Letterman, October 2003: "Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man -- he already has all of his sex scandals behind him."
Gray Davis, 2013
Gray Davis isn't gone and doesn't want to be forgotten.
At 70, he's firmly in the private sector -- an attorney in the Los Angeles firm of Loeb & Loeb -- but has kept a hand in public policy.
He was a member of the Think Long Committee reform effort organized by billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, and serves on the Southern California Leadership Council alongside fellow former Govs. Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian.
"I still feel engaged," Davis said, adding that he's proud of his 31 years in Sacramento, particularly the five final years in which he was governor.
But now he has more time to travel and play golf with his wife, he said. "The whole package is very attractive, and I'm 30 or 40 percent through the process of writing a book which hopefully will come out in the next 18 months."


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If stomping divots is all you know about polo, you might want to listen up. The second largest polo tournament in the US will be in Aiken next weekend and it's the perfect time to learn from the best, it will feature the world's top players. News 12's Kristen Cosby is on your side and on a horse explaining why it's worth your weekend to picnic by the polo field.
The majesty. The power. The beauty of polo. And then there's me. I'm like many of you, until today I hadn't a clue about the sport. But one of the top players in the world, Matias Magrini from Argentina, taught me the basics.
"It's a spectacular sport to watch. It's amazing to see both a rider and a horse, both two athletes together," Magrini said.
But no worries for my lack of ability, Matias says the prestigious World Cup is the perfect opportunity for people like me to learn about the powerful sport.
"For people that don't play polo it's even more exciting than for people who do because it's the greatest players in the world," said Russell McCall, tournament patron.
The Gold Cup is the second largest polo tournament in the country. It was previously held in Greenwich, Connecticut, but didn't do well. Aiken landed it for the next three years because of their southern weather and fine horse facilities.
"It's kind of a point in time when the rest of the US has realized that Aiken, even though it's a very small town, is one of the greatest equestrian centers anywhere in the country," McCall said.
If the tournament does well it means a big economic impact. Everything from feed suppliers to hotels will benefit.
Now organizers are hoping the community joins them on the field for food, drinks and good game. And I'll be sure to stay in the stands.
So what did I learn from all of this? That polo is not as easy as it may look. To see the best, come out this Sunday, September 11.
Aldoto Cambias, the man who's considered the Michael Jordan of polo, will play in the tournament. The Gold Cup lasts the next three weekends. General admission tickets are then dollars. Click here for more information.


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SACRAMENTO -- Compared to the torrent of gifts that cascaded into former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office and famously muscle-bound arms, Gov. Jerry Brown's gifts have been a mere trickle.
And Brown's aren't nearly as exotic, according to the latest disclosures from California's public officials.
Schwarzenegger routinely reported about $15,000 in gifts a year, including a Giorgio Armani bathrobe (from Armani himself), a $350 pair of boots from designer Tommy Hilfiger, $250 worth of fancy cigars from motivational speaker Tony Robbins, a $325 crystal eagle head from the president of France, and a talking Terminator skull from "Terminator 3" producers Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar.
Other celebrities bearing gifts included Tom Arnold, Danny DeVito and Clint Eastwood.
In contrast, Brown last year hauled in $2,545 in gifts from the not-nearly-as-rich-and-famous, according to new economic interests statements filed with the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
His presents included a $150 ticket to a Los Angeles Lakers game from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; a $185 bottle of tequila from Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, the governor of Nuevo León, Mexico; a $250 ticket to the White House Correspondents Dinner from Newsweek; $58 White House cuff links from wine CEO John DeLuca; a framed New York Times article valued at $185; gifts to "first dog" Sutter and a bottle of whiskey, for a combined value of $156, from Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland; an $84.49 box of candy from U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein; and a $259.26 dinner from Samsung.
The framed article, a gift of the Times, is a Maureen Dowd column written just after Brown took office in 2011. Headlined "Governor Brown Redux -- The Ice Man Melteth." The column hangs in a hallway by the governor's office.
Brown accepted two flights worth $3,713 -- from Oakland to Los Angeles, and from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. -- at the expense of the California State Protocol Foundation, an organization that takes private donations to provide air travel for the governor. On one of the flights, Brown flew in a private charter to meet with the then-vice president of China in Los Angeles. The foundation was once run by business leaders who bankrolled Schwarzenegger's multiple flights -- costing in the millions -- around the world. Today, the account's balance is $30,000, according to George Kieffer, the director of the foundation.
"Sometimes it's appropriate, polite and hospitable to accept certain things, but the governor certainly hasn't made a practice out of it," said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor. Brown, sensitive to the criticism that rained on Schwarzenegger for what some said was luxurious globe-trotting, explained in his filing that he accepted the free travel "in order to eliminate these costs for taxpayers."
Some Bay Area legislators hauled in more than the governor last year.
Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, spent $3,706 on a trip to a Maui conference, as the Bay Area News Group reported last month. The Pacific Policy Research Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by lobbyists, bolstered her travel experience, paying $2,417 more in expenses for her trip. In all, Bonilla received $5,918 in travel expenses from interest groups in 2012.
In the South Bay, Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Mountain View, accepted $2,453 in gifts -- including a $350 reception, in which he was accompanied by his daughter, from the San Francisco 49ers. He also accepted a $2,492 by the Independent Voter Project in travel and hotel accommodations to attend that group's panel discussion on election issues in San Diego.
In all, 22 Bay Area legislators in 2012 received hundreds of gifts, including paid travel expenses, worth $73,210, an average of $3,328.
There's a $440 per item limit on what legislators can accept, though groups can lavish unlimited amounts for travel expenses -- but the effect can be outsize, said Phillip Ung, lobbyist for California Common Cause, a watchdog group that scrutinizes money in politics.
"We think gifts have the same, if not more, influence as campaign contributions," Ung said. "It's a means of special interests to influence or corrupt the votes of elected officials."
While campaign contributions at least have the rationale of financing campaigns, "the sole purpose of gifts to public officials is to influence," Ung added. "It's a way to build friendships and camaraderie" with the hopes of a payoff down the line.
Sometimes candidates accept gifts from special interests even before they come to the Capitol.
Such was the case in October, when then-aspiring Assemblyman Jim Frazier landed a front-row seat at AT&T Park in San Francisco, courtesy of PG&E. He was in baseball heaven as he watched his beloved Giants shut out the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League title-clinching seventh game that sent his team to the World Series.
The game was a couple of weeks before Election Day, when the former Oakley mayor captured a seat in the newly drawn 11th Assembly District, which includes parts of Contra Costa County.
In an interview, Frazier said that attending the game was a "once in a lifetime opportunity." He said the PG&E ticket was worth several hundred dollars but that he later "paid down" all but $200 with his own money, which elected officials have 30 days to do.
During the campaign, he received $7,800 in contributions from PG&E. But he insisted that neither the subsidized ticket nor the contributions "will ever sway my opinion" on any issues.
The Giants game "wasn't about visiting or being chummy" with PG&E representatives," he said. "It was about me, after a long campaign, having a chance to enjoy something."
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
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Well-wishers, celebrities and world leaders once lavished presents on former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who routinely received $15,000 in gifts annually. But they've apparently got the message that Gov. Jerry Brown would rather do without them. He accepted only $2,545 in gifts last year.
Here's a comparison of the kinds of gifts they received:
Schwarzenegger: $350 pair of boots from designer Tommy Hilfiger; $250 worth of cigars from motivational speaker Tony Robbins; a $325 crystal eagle head from the president of France; a talking Terminator skull.
Brown: a $150 ticket to a Los Angeles Lakers game from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; a $185 bottle of tequila from Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, the governor of Nuevo León, Mexico; a $250 ticket to the White House Correspondents Dinner from Newsweek; $58 White House cuff links from wine CEO John DeLuca; gifts to "first dog" Sutter and a bottle of whiskey, for a combined value of $156, from Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland
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Tom Chapman's latest proposal for a ski area based from his mining claims in the upper Bear Creek drainage adjacent to the Telluride ski area has folks in the box canyon scratching their heads.
The controversial property-rights advocate - known for proposing developments to add value to remote mining parcels in pristine terrain - announced Friday plans to develop a 1,300-acre helicopter- and human-powered ski area in the steep terrain of the basin popular with backcountry skiers. Chapman partner Ron Curry said the duo has begun the formal permitting process to access Forest Service land surrounding the 103-acre belt of mining claims they acquired in 2010.
That's news to local District Ranger Judy Schutza.
"He's talked about it, but you can't just talk to us about it or think about it or put an ad in the paper. That's not a proposal. They need to give us something written. They really have not started the process," she said.
A proposal is vetted before it becomes an application, Schutza said.
Part of the helicopter-skiing area Chapman is proposing is inside the permit for Telluride's Helitrax helicopter-skiing operation.
"There would be an overlap there," said Helitrax director Joe Shults, noting there are no overlapping helicopter permits on federal land in the Lower 48 states.
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They are back. And they continue to haunt.
In San Jose and the Bay Area, watching the Stanley Cup finals that begin Wednesday will again be like watching a movie with characters that are way too familiar. With a plot that is way too painful.
Once more, here are the Los Angeles Kings, seeking their second Cup title in three seasons.
Once more, pacing in a suit behind the L.A. bench is Darryl Sutter, who was fired as the Sharks' coach in 2002.
And once more, upstairs in the Kings' general manager booth is Dean Lombardi, who was G.M. in San Jose for seven seasons before being axed by Sharks ownership in the spring of 2003, just a few months after he had dismissed Sutter.
"They are a very good general manager and very good coach, talented then and talented now," current Sharks general manager Doug Wilson said recently -- and Wilson did not seem to be saying it through gritted teeth.
Give credit to him for being so gracious, considering how the Sharks had four chances to eliminate the Kings from this year's playoffs but blew a 3-0 lead in the first-round series and . . . well, no need to revisit that toxic meltdown another time.
But really, now. How can a Sharks fan watch the Kings plow ahead toward another possible championship without some fulminating and puzzling over the Sutter/Lombardi legacy in San Jose? And how can that same Sharks fan not speculate what might have happened if the two men had stayed? Some of the Sharks players from that era must also wonder.
"I contacted Dean this week to congratulate him about making the finals," said Owen Nolan, who was the Sharks' captain in 2002-03 before being sent to Toronto in a March trade deadline shake-up. "And I always respected Darryl. He benched me a few times for having bad games. But I understood why he did it."
So how did it go sideways in San Jose for Sutter and Lombardi? Your memory might have dimmed. Thus, let's revisit the circumstances for educational reasons -- and as a cautionary future tale. Basically, it's a story arc of poignant and weird proportions.
Wilson, who back then was employed as the Sharks' director of pro development, sums it up best: "Some good people probably did some things they wish they hadn't done."
As the 2002-03 season began, seeds were planted for frustration. The Sharks' ownership was transitioning from original proprietor George Gund to a consortium of Silicon Valley investors. They had authorized what was then the highest payroll in team history, $47 million, with such veteran big-money players as Nolan, Teemu Selanne and Vincent Damphousse. The previous spring, they had almost reached the conference finals before losing a bitter Game 7 to Colorado in the second round.
The idea was to keep the same group intact for another strong push at the Cup, with Sutter back for his sixth season as coach. Expectations were high. But there was a problem. Starting goalie Evgeni Nabokov was unsigned and a contract holdout.
Without Nabokov, the Sharks lost four of their first five games. Behind the scenes, Sutter was putting pressure on Lombardi to get a deal done. The two sides finally agreed. But when Nabokov signed, he was not in playing shape. He lost his first three starts.
Meanwhile, key defenseman Brad Stuart was also a holdout until mid-November. The team kept floundering. At one point, Lombardi made a cryptic statement, saying the locker room had developed a "cancer," without being specific or naming names. The players were incensed.
Sutter wasn't happy, either. He had been told by management that after this one strong push for the Cup, the franchise's long-range plan was to reduce payroll by at least $10 million and rely on players drafted and developed from within. No big-bucks players would be coming aboard through trade or free agency to rescue the season or the future. Sutter shared this information with his locker room, perhaps as a motivating tactic. That didn't go over well, either.
"There was a lot going on inside the team at that time," Wilson said.
Finally, after back-to-back December losses to bottom-feeder Nashville and last-place Phoenix, Lombardi called Sutter into his office and let him go. Ron Wilson was hired as coach. The Sharks won four of six but continued to struggle. They fell out of contention as the trade deadline approached. Nolan, the team's best player, was sent to Toronto for Brad Boyes, Alyn McCauley and a draft pick.
"It wasn't Dean's call to let me go," Nolan said this week, but he wouldn't elaborate.
Lombardi's words after the trade seemed to support the theory that ownership had ordered the move. Lombardi told reporters: "We're not as good a team today as we were yesterday."
Lombardi also confessed to the start of a Sharks rebuild: "When you're rounding third and find you can't get to home plate, sometimes you have to take a step back and return to second base."
The new Sharks investors were not delighted with Lombardi's candor. In one stretch, 10 of 19 home games failed to sell out. Greg Jamison, the team's CEO, announced March 18 that Lombardi was gone -- just two weeks after he had traded Nolan and three months after he had fired Sutter.
The rest, we all know. Lombardi found work as a scout for Philadelphia before landing the Kings' job in 2006. Sutter was hired in Calgary and reached a Stanley Cup finals there before rejoining Lombardi in 2011 and installing the usual hard-nosed Sutter ethic.
"You watch L.A. play, they dig down and play with such desire," Nolan said. "They'll do anything they have to do to win. They deserve to be where they are."
If Lombardi and Sutter were still here instead of in Los Angeles, would the Sharks be playing for the Cup? No way to know. Too many variables. But that doesn't stop the wondering. And the haunting. You can enjoy Sutter's scowl and Lombardi's furrowed brow during your Stanley Cup hockey viewing over the next two weeks. Because they're back.
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A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."
In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the men alleges that Prince turned a profit by transporting "illegal" or "unlawful" weapons into the country on Prince's private planes. They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies. The identities of the two individuals were sealed out of concerns for their safety.
These allegations, and a series of other charges, are contained in sworn affidavits, given under penalty of perjury, filed late at night on August 3 in the Eastern District of Virginia as part of a seventy-page motion by lawyers for Iraqi civilians suing Blackwater for alleged war crimes and other misconduct. Susan Burke, a private attorney working in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights, is suing Blackwater in five separate civil cases filed in the Washington, DC, area. They were recently consolidated before Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia for pretrial motions. Burke filed the August 3 motion in response to Blackwater's motion to dismiss the case. Blackwater asserts that Prince and the company are innocent of any wrongdoing and that they were professionally performing their duties on behalf of their employer, the US State Department.
The former employee, identified in the court documents as "John Doe #2," is a former member of Blackwater's management team, according to a source close to the case. Doe #2 alleges in a sworn declaration that, based on information provided to him by former colleagues, "it appears that Mr. Prince and his employees murdered, or had murdered, one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information, to the federal authorities about the ongoing criminal conduct." John Doe #2 says he worked at Blackwater for four years; his identity is concealed in the sworn declaration because he "fear[s] violence against me in retaliation for submitting this Declaration." He also alleges, "On several occasions after my departure from Mr. Prince's employ, Mr. Prince's management has personally threatened me with death and violence."
In a separate sworn statement, the former US marine who worked for Blackwater in Iraq alleges that he has "learned from my Blackwater colleagues and former colleagues that one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information about Erik Prince and Blackwater have been killed in suspicious circumstances." Identified as "John Doe #1," he says he "joined Blackwater and deployed to Iraq to guard State Department and other American government personnel." It is not clear if Doe #1 is still working with the company as he states he is "scheduled to deploy in the immediate future to Iraq." Like Doe #2, he states that he fears "violence" against him for "submitting this Declaration." No further details on the alleged murder(s) are provided.
"Mr. Prince feared, and continues to fear, that the federal authorities will detect and prosecute his various criminal deeds," states Doe #2. "On more than one occasion, Mr. Prince and his top managers gave orders to destroy emails and other documents. Many incriminating videotapes, documents and emails have been shredded and destroyed."
The Nation cannot independently verify the identities of the two individuals, their roles at Blackwater or what motivated them to provide sworn testimony in these civil cases. Both individuals state that they have previously cooperated with federal prosecutors conducting a criminal inquiry into Blackwater.
"It's a pending investigation, so we cannot comment on any matters in front of a Grand Jury or if a Grand Jury even exists on these matters," John Roth, the spokesperson for the US Attorney's office in the District of Columbia, told The Nation. "It would be a crime if we did that." Asked specifically about whether there is a criminal investigation into Prince regarding the murder allegations and other charges, Roth said: "We would not be able to comment on what we are or are not doing in regards to any possible investigation involving an uncharged individual."
The Nation repeatedly attempted to contact spokespeople for Prince or his companies at numerous email addresses and telephone numbers. When a company representative was reached by phone and asked to comment, she said, "Unfortunately no one can help you in that area." The representative then said that she would pass along The Nation's request. As this article goes to press, no company representative has responded further to The Nation.
Doe #2 states in the declaration that he has also provided the information contained in his statement "in grand jury proceedings convened by the United States Department of Justice." Federal prosecutors convened a grand jury in the aftermath of the September 16, 2007, Nisour Square shootings in Baghdad, which left seventeen Iraqis dead. Five Blackwater employees are awaiting trial on several manslaughter charges and a sixth, Jeremy Ridgeway, has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and attempting to commit manslaughter and is cooperating with prosecutors. It is not clear whether Doe #2 testified in front of the Nisour Square grand jury or in front of a separate grand jury.
The two declarations are each five pages long and contain a series of devastating allegations concerning Erik Prince and his network of companies, which now operate under the banner of Xe Services LLC. Among those leveled by Doe #2 is that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe":
To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.
Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince's executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to "lay Hajiis out on cardboard." Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince's employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as "ragheads" or "hajiis."
Among the additional allegations made by Doe #1 is that "Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq." He states that he personally witnessed weapons being "pulled out" from dog food bags. Doe #2 alleges that "Prince and his employees arranged for the weapons to be polywrapped and smuggled into Iraq on Mr. Prince's private planes, which operated under the name Presidential Airlines," adding that Prince "generated substantial revenues from participating in the illegal arms trade."
Doe #2 states: "Using his various companies, [Prince] procured and distributed various weapons, including unlawful weapons such as sawed off semi-automatic machine guns with silencers, through unlawful channels of distribution." Blackwater "was not abiding by the terms of the contract with the State Department and was deceiving the State Department," according to Doe #1.
This is not the first time an allegation has surfaced that Blackwater used dog food bags to smuggle weapons into Iraq. ABC News's Brian Ross reported in November 2008 that a "federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food." Another former Blackwater employee has also confirmed this information to The Nation.
Both individuals allege that Prince and Blackwater deployed individuals to Iraq who, in the words of Doe #1, "were not properly vetted and cleared by the State Department." Doe #2 adds that "Prince ignored the advice and pleas from certain employees, who sought to stop the unnecessary killing of innocent Iraqis." Doe #2 further states that some Blackwater officials overseas refused to deploy "unfit men" and sent them back to the US. Among the reasons cited by Doe #2 were "the men making statements about wanting to deploy to Iraq to 'kill ragheads' or achieve 'kills' or 'body counts,'" as well as "excessive drinking" and "steroid use." However, when the men returned to the US, according to Doe #2, "Prince and his executives would send them back to be deployed in Iraq with an express instruction to the concerned employees located overseas that they needed to 'stop costing the company money.'"
Doe #2 also says Prince "repeatedly ignored the assessments done by mental health professionals, and instead terminated those mental health professionals who were not willing to endorse deployments of unfit men." He says Prince and then-company president Gary Jackson "hid from Department of State the fact that they were deploying men to Iraq over the objections of mental health professionals and security professionals in the field," saying they "knew the men being deployed were not suitable candidates for carrying lethal weaponry, but did not care because deployments meant more money."
Doe #1 states that "Blackwater knew that certain of its personnel intentionally used excessive and unjustified deadly force, and in some instances used unauthorized weapons, to kill or seriously injure innocent Iraqi civilians." He concludes, "Blackwater did nothing to stop this misconduct." Doe #1 states that he "personally observed multiple incidents of Blackwater personnel intentionally using unnecessary, excessive and unjustified deadly force." He then cites several specific examples of Blackwater personnel firing at civilians, killing or "seriously" wounding them, and then failing to report the incidents to the State Department.
Doe #1 also alleges that "all of these incidents of excessive force were initially videotaped and voice recorded," but that "Immediately after the day concluded, we would watch the video in a session called a 'hot wash.' Immediately after the hotwashing, the video was erased to prevent anyone other than Blackwater personnel seeing what had actually occurred." Blackwater, he says, "did not provide the video to the State Department."
Doe #2 expands on the issue of unconventional weapons, alleging Prince "made available to his employees in Iraq various weapons not authorized by the United States contracting authorities, such as hand grenades and hand grenade launchers. Mr. Prince's employees repeatedly used this illegal weaponry in Iraq, unnecessarily killing scores of innocent Iraqis." Specifically, he alleges that Prince "obtained illegal ammunition from an American company called LeMas. This company sold ammunition designed to explode after penetrating within the human body. Mr. Prince's employees repeatedly used this illegal ammunition in Iraq to inflict maximum damage on Iraqis."
Blackwater has gone through an intricate rebranding process in the twelve years it has been in business, changing its name and logo several times. Prince also has created more than a dozen affiliate companies, some of which are registered offshore and whose operations are shrouded in secrecy. According to Doe #2, "Prince created and operated this web of companies in order to obscure wrongdoing, fraud and other crimes."
"For example, Mr. Prince transferred funds from one company (Blackwater) to another (Greystone) whenever necessary to avoid detection of his money laundering and tax evasion schemes." He added: "Mr. Prince contributed his personal wealth to fund the operations of the Prince companies whenever he deemed such funding necessary. Likewise, Mr. Prince took funds out of the Prince companies and placed the funds in his personal accounts at will."
Briefed on the substance of these allegations by The Nation, Congressman Dennis Kucinich replied, "If these allegations are true, Blackwater has been a criminal enterprise defrauding taxpayers and murdering innocent civilians." Kucinich is on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has been investigating Prince and Blackwater since 2004.
"Blackwater is a law unto itself, both internationally and domestically. The question is why they operated with impunity. In addition to Blackwater, we should be questioning their patrons in the previous administration who funded and employed this organization. Blackwater wouldn't exist without federal patronage; these allegations should be thoroughly investigated," Kucinich said.
A hearing before Judge Ellis in the civil cases against Blackwater is scheduled for August 7.
Quote: The Nation: Blackwater Seeks Gag Order
by Jeremy Scahill
July 23rd, 2009
It became common practice during the Iraq occupation for the US State Department to work with private security companies like Blackwater to help facilitate giving what amounted to hush money to the families of Iraqis shot dead by private security contractors. In fact, Blackwater's owner, Erik Prince, discussed this practice when he testified in front of Congress in October 2007 and admitted to paying $20,000 to a Blackwater victim's family and $5,000 to another.
"We don't determine that value," Prince told Congress when asked how his company decides how much an Iraqi life is worth. "That's kind of an Iraqi-wide policy. We don't make that one."
Now, Blackwater (which recently renamed itself "Xe") is attempting to use other means to silence its victims. On July 20, the company's high-powered lawyers from Mayer Brown, which boasts that it represents eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies and thirty-five of the fifty largest US banks, filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to impose a gag order on Iraqi civilians suing the company. The motion also seeks to silence the lawyers representing the families of Iraqis allegedly killed or injured by Blackwater in a series of violent incidents spanning several years. Four cases in the Washington, DC, area were recently consolidated before Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia for pretrial motions. After preliminary issues are resolved, each case is slated to be tried individually.
The July 20 motion, filed on behalf of Blackwater by Peter H. White of Mayer Brown, requests that Judge Ellis issue "an Order restraining extrajudicial statements relating to these cases by the parties and their counsel to ensure that all parties receive a fair trial and a decision from an impartial jury." The motion specifically seeks to prohibit statements to "the national and local news media."
At the same time, according to a court filing, Blackwater is also asking Judge Ellis to seal evidence that Blackwater claims is confidential or could impact national security. The company argues that if its contracts with the State Department and its "Tactical Standard Operating Procedure" guide are publicly revealed, it "could give valuable information to those who wish to plan more effective attacks against diplomatic personnel stationed in Iraq." Susan Burke, the lead attorney on the civil lawsuits against Blackwater, is not contesting Blackwater's request to seal these specific documentsprimarily because they will still remain evidence. But, it does mean that the public will not be able to view them. "Blackwater is basically trying to keep from public view all of the evidence that shows their criminality," says Burke. "They are trying to ensure that we cannot apprise the public of the progress of the lawsuit."
Blackwater's gag-order motion focuses at length on Burke. It cites her labeling of Erik Prince as "a modern-day merchant of death" whose "repeated illegal conduct...must be stopped" and then lists statements by Burke and other lawyers that Blackwater says "are merely the latest in a long line of inflammatory public utterances":
The death of plaintiff Sa'adoon was "part of a pattern of illegal Xe-Blackwater shootings around the globe known to company management," and part of a "culture of lawlessness and unaccountability" fostered by the company.
The deaths of plaintiffs in the Hassoon case "reflect the pattern and practice of recklessness in the use of deadly force" by Blackwater "mercenaries" who have "flouted the laws of the United States and their host nation Iraq."
"Xe-Blackwater's repeated illegal conduct has caused hundreds of unnecessary deaths and thousands of unnecessary injuries. This shooting of [plaintiff] Rabea was not an isolated event. Xe-Blackwater personnel repeatedly and routinely shot for no reason as they prowled the streets of Iraq."
When asked about these specific statements, Burke quickly shot back: "It's all accurate. Those are all completely accurate statements. I stand by what I said."
The Blackwater legal team argues "there is no constitutional right to sway potential jurors through press releases, media interviews, and other extrajudicial statements. 'Legal trials,' the Supreme Court has observed, 'are not like elections, to be won through the use of the meeting-hall, the radio and the newspaper.'"
Burke's partner in the lawsuit, the Center for Constitutional Rights, says it will fight vigorously against Blackwater's attempt to silence their Iraqi clients and attorneys. "Blackwater has consistently spent millions of dollars on PR and public advocacy to try to promote their position and this is something that they have done before," says Bill Quigley, CCR's Legal Director. "This is a blatant attempt to gag the First Amendment rights of the individual Iraqis, their families, their lawyers and the public at large and to bury these factual allegations under a cone of silence. It's not new for Blackwater."
Judge Ellis has scheduled a public hearing on Blackwater's requests for sealed evidence for July 28 at 5:30 pm,, where journalists and the public can express their views to the judge. A hearing on the gag order request is set for August 7. Both will be held in the Eastern District of Virginia court. It is possible that Blackwater could ask the State Department to intervene on the company's behalf to support the sealing of documents, as Blackwater has done in the past with the Department of Defense. "I would encourage the State Department, the Obama administration and anybody else that thinks that Blackwater's misdeeds should be kept out of the public eye to really think very, very carefully before advancing that position publicly," says CCR's Quigley. As for the gag order, among the arguments Burke could make is this: Blackwater itself has a record of leaking information from court cases to the media.
Earlier this year, lawyers from the US Justice Department prosecuting five Blackwater operatives for the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre accused Blackwater's attorneys of improperly passing court discovery material to journalists, specifically Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press. Apuzzo wrote several stories based on leaked "evidence" that supported Blackwater's line on the case, namely that their men fired in self-defense. (Apuzzo is a reporter with a track record of confronting US government attempts to keep information from the public or "off the record." There is no allegation Apuzzo engaged in improper or unethical conduct in covering Blackwater.) On April 6, 2009, US Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor wrote:
Since the prosecutors sent a letter to the defendants on December 3, 2008, formally advising them to surrender themselves for arrest, there have been a number of documents and other material associated with this case that have been selectively provided to Mr. Matt Apuzzo, a reporter for the Associated Press wire service. In each instance, the material was provided to Mr. Apuzzo in an apparent attempt to influence improperly the opinions of prospective jurors at a trial in this case.... [Blackwater's] counsel have insisted on the right to disseminate copies of discovery material to third parties as they deem appropriate, and have declined to accept language that would place enforceable limitations on what those third parties can do with the material.
The judge in that case issued an order clarifying the rules, and Blackwater's lawyers, who insisted they had done nothing wrong, reached an agreement with prosecutors not to leak information. This case shows that "it's Blackwater, not us, that has been violating court strictures," says Burke. "For them to actually be bringing this on against us is ridiculous. There's nothing we've done that would merit any kind of order."
Quigley sees Blackwater's attempt to gag the Iraqi victims, their families and the attorneys representing them as an attack on the public's right to information about a government contractor that has been paid more than $1 billion in US taxpayer funds. "Blackwater is concerned about what the lawyers say and what the parties say and what's in the record, but what they're really concerned about is that journalists will cover it," says Quigley. "And so, even though this isn't an attempt directly to gag journalists, it's clearlythe thrust of this thing is to deprive journalists of any information that they can use to write about Blackwater or to hold Blackwater accountable or even to discuss the issues of hired mercenaries by our government."
Another interesting line to emerge in Blackwater's motion is that the company now prefers to be called by one of its recently created alternate identities, "US Training Center." One would be forgiven for thinking this is an Olympic facility, instead of a mercenary operation. The lawyer representing Blackwater, Peter H. White, boasts in his bio that he is "listed in The Best Lawyers in AmericaWhite Collar Criminal Defense."
Blackwater/Xe/US Training Center did not respond to a request for comment.


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Oprah Winfrey made Pharrell Williams cry.
Sometimes I've cried watching Oprah, but probably for a different reason.
Anyway, Williams recently got choked up while appearing on OWN's "Oprah Prime," when Winfrey showed him a video featuring people from around the world dancing and singing to his hit "Happy," from the "Despicable Me 2" soundtrack.
"It's overwhelming because I love what I do, and people have believed in me for so long that I can make it to this point, to feel that," said 41-year-old Williams, fighting back the tears.
He also said, "It was no longer my song."
Does that means he'll start sharing the royalties?
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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My paper "Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers!" is a massive collection of quantitative studies on free software, with the goal to "show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software". It has a large set of different studies grouped into the categories market share, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.
If you need evidence, not anecdotes, it's been the place to go. But it was last updated in 2005, so the latest information hasn't been included. Finally, a brand-new 2007 edition is available, with lots of additions.
A blog entry notes some of the changes. This includes:
- a major new European Commission-sponsored study, "Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU" of 2006
- a quantitative comparison of 'unsafe' days for Firefox and Internet Explorer in 2006
- a link toapproved European Parliament resolution A5-0264/2001 which calls "on the Commission and Member States to promote software projects whose source text is made public (open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing that no backdoors are built into programmes [and calls] on the Commission to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the 'least reliable' category"
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MORAGA -- With Grant Sivesind fulfilling a variety of roles, the Campolindo High boys water polo team completed a historic season.
One of just three seniors on the roster, Sivesind provided leadership, defense, scoring and intangibles as the Cougars won a North Coast Section championship for the first time.
"He's the type of player that any coach would want," Campolindo coach Miles Price said. "When we want him to be the best offensive player in the pool, he can be, and when we need him to shut down the other team's best player, he can. We could always rely on him. He was like having another coach in the water."
The first option on both offense and defense for the Division I section champions, Sivesind has been named the East Bay Boys Water Polo Player of the Year.
In the NCS championship game against rival Miramonte, Sivesind and the Cougars weren't intimidated by the Matadors' history. Miramonte had won seven of the previous eight section titles and had never lost to Campolindo in Sivesind's four-year varsity career.
But in his last high school game, he scored twice and played his usual strong defense as the Cougars prevailed 11-10.
"It was awesome," Sivesind said. "I've got some buddies on that team who have been talking trash since my freshman year, so it was a great feeling to finally stick it to them."
Sivesind was also named the Diablo Foothill Athletic League MVP after scoring 92 goals with 15 assists, 32 steals and 48 earned ejections.
"He was unselfish and understood his role and was willing to sacrifice number of goals for defensive stops," Price said. "A big part of Grant's season was just shutting down top players on the other team. He could do that and get goals."
Sivesind has also played a role in the school's dominance in boys swimming the past few years. The freestyle sprinter helped set two NCS relay records last year as the Cougars won a ninth consecutive section title.
But for Sivesind, winning a title in water polo was extra special.
"For me, I feel like I'm a lot more a part of the water polo team just because I've put so much more work and effort into making this happen," he said.


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DOI Announces First Offshore Renewable Energy Lease Sale
June 12, 2013
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on June 4 announced that its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the first-ever competitive lease sale for wind energy on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. The auction, scheduled to take place on July 31, will offer 164,750 acres offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts for commercial wind energy leasing. The area being auctioned is located 9.2 nautical miles south of the Rhode Island coastline.
The total lease area has the potential for an installed capacity of 3,395 megawatts, according to a report recently released by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This total could supply enough electricity to power more than 1 million homes.
BOEM issued a revised environmental assessment (EA) for commercial wind lease issuance within the Wind Energy Area offshore of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The EA considers reasonable foreseeable environmental and socioeconomic impacts from issuing renewable energy leases. The EA also considers the impacts of conducting site characterization activities, such as surveys, as well as assessment activities such as the installation and operation of meteorological towers and buoys. As a result of the analysis in the revised EA, BOEM issued a "Finding of No Significant Impact," which concluded that reasonably foreseeable environmental effects associated with the commercial wind lease would not significantly impact the environment. See the DOI press release, the final sale notice in the Federal Register, and BOEM's Revised EA .