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Miley Cyrus to release new album in June, taking break from music
Teenagers around the age of 17 or 18 are often faced with a period of transition, a time to make grown-up goals and plans, and Miley Cyrus is no exception.
The 17-year-old "Hannah Montana" actress declared to the ladies at "The View" yesterday that she plans on releasing a new music album in June, then to leave the music realm for "a while."
There's no word yet if the set will be a Miley affair or if it will be released under her Montana moniker; the latter would make sense, considering this summer marks the last season and chapter of the famed Disney franchise.
"I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that ... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be."
She explained further dismay with the entertainment industry in her interview with Parade magazine. "I am not a doll, and people want to treat me that way. They say, 'Now this is what we need to do to your makeup, and this is what I want you to wear,' and I'm like, 'Dude, I choose.' When I was 12, that was okay. But I'm older now. I have an opinion. I have my own taste."
Cyrus has been discussing her work with a number of outlets in promoting her first serious film role, in "The Last Song." She stars along with her "first serious boyfriend," 19-year-old Liam Hemsworth.
As for saying goodbye to that other, small screen role? "When they're putting me in sparkles and in pink this final season, I have to grit my teeth. I can't breathe looking like that anymore. A friend came by the set one day and said, 'You don't look very happy.' I said, 'I'm feeling claustrophobic in all these frills.'"
Miley Cyrus released a solo debut "Breakout" under her own name in 2008, followed by Wal-mart exclusive EP "The Time of Our Lives" last year. Her set "Hannah Montana 3" was also released in 2009.
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Mother Pierina (1890-1945), a mystic, dedicated her life to spreading devotion to the face of Christ and, at the same time, to the fight against Satan. This was discovered in her personal diary, found by the sisters in the cell of the convent after her death.
Mother Pierina (1890-1945), a mystic.
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ROME (Zenit.org) - This Sunday the Basilica of St. Mary Major will be the site of the first beatification ever held within its walls -- that of a woman religious from Milan, Pierina de Micheli.
Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, will celebrate the ceremony, in representation of Benedict XVI.
"It is the first time that a beatification takes place in this basilica," said an emotional Sister Nora Antonelli, superior general of the Daughters of the Immaculate Conception of Buenos Aires, the community to which Pierina belonged. "We are delighted that our request was accepted."
Mother Pierina (1890-1945), a mystic, dedicated her life to spreading devotion to the face of Christ and, at the same time, to the fight against Satan. This was discovered in her personal diary, found by the sisters in the cell of the convent after her death.
Father Fabrizio Poloni, episcopal delegate for Saints' Causes of the Diocese of Novara, said that when Pierina was an adolescent she had supernatural experiences. For example, when she was only a child, she thought she heard Jesus' voice saying to her, "Is no one going to give me a kiss of love on the face to repair Judas' kiss?"
The little girl promised to give him that kiss: Then came her suffering over her religious vocation, to the point that -- as biographers Mariella Scatena and Piersandro Vazan recall -- the young girl prayed also to the Virgin of Graces "because 'she did not want the vocation, what is more, she had made a novena to lose it.'"
However, Mother Pierina would eventually spread devotion to the image of Christ's face. She had it struck in a medal, popular especially in Latin America where her religions congregation is present.
The same year Pierina had the medal made, 1938, photographer Giovanni Bruner made an artistic photograph of the holy Shroud, which reflected the same image.
The postulator for Mother Pierina's cause, Andrea Ambrosi, explained how the process leading to her beatification has been difficult. He took up the task of directing her cause in 1995, at the request of the director of the Holy Spirit Institute, which Pierina founded.
The cause had begun in 1962 and been "bogged down," he explained. So he and the director worked together to bring it to completion in March 2009. A few days later, the Pope authorized the recognition of a miracle attributed to Pierina's intercession: A man who had suffered an aneurism and was dying recovered fully after a couple of hours of prayer for Pierina's intercession.
The stalled process was due in large part, Ambrosi explained, to all the changes to protocol for saints' causes.
"Of course the cause had to be adapted to the changes," he said. "It was started according to the Code of Canon Law of 1917, then, it followed a much more complex normative. It stopped in 1969 when the reform of the 'Sanctitas Clarior' came into being. I had to leave the previous reforms to follow these new ones and then, in 1983, came the apostolic constitution 'Divinus Perfectionis Magister,' which once again revolutionized the whole process."
In any case, all the necessary approvals have been given and Pierina is set to make history with her beatification in Mary's basilica.
And why not in her native Milan?
Ambrosi classified Pierina as "more Roman than many" Romans.
In addition to founding the Holy Spirit Institute there, dedicated to education, Mother Pierina was also in the Eternal City for the worst period of World War II, which were the last years of her life.
Ambrosi explained, "She was loved because she helped everyone who approached her -- from priests to families, from young people to the neediest."
By Marshall Connolly (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
The saints are real and active in our lives. This is more obvious than ever following the miraculous recovery of a baby in an Irish intensive care unit. LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - A relic of Saint Padre Pio has been credited with a dramatic improvement in ... continue reading
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August 9 is the Memorial of St. Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, Edith Stein, Catholic feminist, philosopher and martyr of Auschwitz. In this sketch, Fr. Paul Chaim Benedicta Schenck, Jewish born priest and Chair of the National Pro-Life Center (Washington, DC), examines the ... continue reading
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Over the centuries, the Jesuits have been relied upon by Popes as trustworthy, heroic soldiers for Jesus Christ and His Church. Yes, there have been times when the company seemed to lose its fervor. However, Jesus Christ the King has always sent His Spirit to ... continue reading
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This great defender of the faith insisted on the central claim of Christianity: God can be known and loved-indeed, that is why He came into our midst in the person of His Son; so that through a relationship with Jesus Christ, man could participate in the ... continue reading
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On September 4, 2016, Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Her canonization is an important event for Catholics and all people around the world. Here are 3 reasons why. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - When Mother Teresa ... continue reading
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The most kids know of St. Patrick 's Day is that you must wear green or you'll get a pinch from your friends. Adults see the day as an occasion to celebrate, sometimes with green beer and other assorted alcoholic beverages. However, few really know what they are ... continue reading
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We need to learn a lesson from this great missionary. He saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the faith. Then, he went for the next generation with all his efforts, preaching the ... continue reading
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I've never covered a subproject of something I've reviewed before, but I noticed this a few weeks ago when trawling the Tor site (I've no idea how I missed it until now). It seemed so important that I instantly gave it top billing for this month's column.
Tor has become increasingly famous/infamous in the past few months due to its use by Web sites like WikiLeaks, as well as its crucial role in getting information out to the world during the recent Egyptian revolution.
For those unfamiliar with Tor, LJ has covered it before—see Kyle Rankin's article "Browse the Web without a Trace" in the January 2008 issue and my New Projects column in the April 2010 issue. But to recap, the Tor Web site sums it up nicely:
The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites that are blocked.
However, in standard form, Tor is a rather cumbersome beast, with all sorts of background process dæmons, complex configuration files, startup services and so on. Even if you're a pretty advanced user, there's still a good chance of something going wrong somewhere, delaying your chance to jump on-line securely. This is where the Tor Browser Bundle comes to the rescue:
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB Flash drive, comes with a pre-configured Web browser and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundle additionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor.
Before I continue, the Web site offers a caveat that LJ readers probably will find more important than most: "Note that the Firefox in our bundles is modified from the default Firefox; we're currently working with Mozilla to see if they want us to change the name to make this clearer".
Although the bundle was designed to run on a Flash drive, that needn't be the case. Like many others, I simply saved this to hard drive and ran it from there. Feel free to do the same if you're so inclined.
As for installing the bundle (well, sort of), the Tor people were good enough to offer the following instructions, saving me a lot of trouble:
Download the architecture-appropriate file above, save it somewhere, then run: tar -xvzf tor-browser-gnu-linux--dev-LANG.tar.gz (where LANG is the language listed in the filename), and either double-click on the directory or cd into it, then execute the start-tor-browser script. This launches Vidalia, and once that connects to Tor, it launches Firefox.
Before continuing, this bundle is designed to run on machines that don't have Tor installed. If you do have Tor installed and running, stop the process and then you can carry on.
Now, with the Browser Bundle running, first the Vidalia control panel will start, which is designed to establish a Tor connection as well as manage various Tor options using a GUI front end. I recommend exploring the Vidalia control panel, as it has neat features, such as bandwidth monitoring, network viewer, settings dialog and more.
Provided all has gone well, Firefox should start and will try to load a Web page. This Web page takes a while to load—don't worry; the Tor network is pretty slow at the best of times, and if everything worked, you'll soon have a message that says in big green letters: "Congratulations. Your browser is configured to use Tor."
From here, you can browse like you would any other day, but the uninitiated may be in for a shock. Most modern Web sites have fancy scripts and Flash objects, and these very features are what causes the greatest security holes. Hence, Tor's browser disables these scripts by default. Chances are that the only Web sites that will work without hassle are deliberately minimalist in their design.
However, don't worry. If you look at the screen's bottom right, you'll see an icon with a blue S. Click on that icon, and you can choose either to enable scripts for this particular Web site or enable scripts globally (not recommended for the security reasons just mentioned).
Those willing to take the risk can choose new default settings for security in the preferences, available under Edit→Preferences. Given the nature of this project, the default settings are understandably set for paranoia. If you're undertaking work that involves a serious security risk, be very careful with what you enable or disable. If you're unsure of the risk you're taking, perhaps a more secure, minimalist and less-script-reliant Web service would be a better choice for your activities (assuming an alternative is available, of course).
Something I couldn't get working under the Linux version was Flash in general. My older brother said he used Tor to watch some overseas TV shows not available in Australia and inaccessible to those with IP addresses external to a certain country. He was using the Windows version of Tor, and I'm guessing that he would've used the Browser Bundle, instead of setting up a machine with Tor permanently installed. The content he was viewing was Flash-based, so he must have been able to enable it for such a session.
I realize that Flash presents a security risk, but many people will want to use the Tor Browser Bundle for something as trivial as watching international TV shows—not really the sort of thing that will have the authorities kicking down your front door. If any readers out there know how to get Flash running with the Linux bundle, feel free to drop me an e-mail. I'd love to hear from you!
Moving back onto more serious topics, in journalism in particular, projects such as Tor will become increasingly indispensable in moving information beyond borders and protecting user privacy against prying eyes. When I last tried Tor, it gave me a headache and was far from intuitive in its use. However, a clever little bundle such as this gives Tor's power of anonymity to those with average PC skills, and regardless of its use, that's an important thing.
John Knight is the New Projects columnist for Linux Journal.
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Skip to comments.Records: Cate Edwards claimed she wasnt a U.S. citizen to get out of jury duty
Posted on 05/14/2012 12:43:09 PM PDT by ColdOne
The daughter of disgraced former North Carolina Democratic Sen. John Edwards claimed she wasnt a U.S. citizen to get out of jury duty in early 2011, court records The Daily Caller obtained show.
According to those records, Cate Edwards was excused from jury duty on Jan. 7, 2011 in Orange County, North Carolina because she was considered a non-citizen of that county. Additionally, a comment included by a court clerks office staffer states that the reason for Cate Edwards excusal was that she was not a citizen of the United States of America.
James Stanford, the clerk of the Superior Court for Orange County, told The Daily Caller that such a claim of non-citizenship originates with the person whos actually been summoned for jury duty. That means, in this case, Cate Edwards made the claim herself.
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Two Americas, and she's not a citizen of either??
Meh... this was probably a clerical error or mis-statement. She likely claimed that she wasn't a resident of the county, but it came out as, was heard as, or was recorded as "not a resident of the country" instead.
Ouch !
I think she was claiming not to be a citizen of that particular NC county.
Did she vote illegally then? In most states, jury pools are drawn from voter registration records and therefore it quite clear she is guilty of perjury one way or another.
And we all know that the government never makes mistakes.
And as I expected, it looks like she is trying to claim that she wasn't a "citizen" of that county and any references to non-US citizen was just a misunderstanding. The problem is that she is still a registered voter there, so that excuse doesn't wash.
Also, who uses "citizen" for resident of a county? I got called up for jury duty once after I had moved, so I just checked the "moved" box and gave my new address. I didn't make any citizenship claims.
Well, THAT apple didn't fall far from the tree.
When the Press turns on a guy, they sure don't mess around.
And chips can be had from a larger block of wood.
You can't serve on a jury if you're not a resident of the county. The clerk's office does not ask (or care) if you're not a citizen of the country.
The jury pool substantially lags voter registration, because the list is updated only occasionally. They figure they'll weed out the folks who have moved in the summons process (or in voir dire if they miss one).
There was a period when I did not serve on a jury because I had moved - first from Fulton out of state, then back in-state to DeKalb, then back to Fulton, then on to Cobb County. The jury summons was always several years behind my actual move. Cobb finally caught up with me and I actually served for the first time a year or so ago. But I've been here now for almost 20 years.
The Edwards family, led by the scumbag John, was dysfunctional and corrupt to the core.
Is it any wonder Democrats fawned over him and nearly made him their nominee? Great VP choice, too, Kerry.
Wow. That was a close freaking call.
Agreed... and an updated driver license would have been quite sufficient to get her excused.
On the flip side, had she actually uttered the words "I am not a citizen of the United States", then THAT claim would have undoubtedly gotten a little more scrutiny.
So let's move along... nothing to see here.
Do you actually know that she claimed she wasn't a resident of the "county", and not "country"? Could be a typo, could be a lie. I will wait for clarification.
I think either one would be intentionally misleading given that she is a US citizen and is still a registered voter in that county.
Don't lie on them, that could get you in trouble. I throw them out. They can't prove I got them.
I just got a federal jury notice and US citizen was one of the bubble questions on the form.
Are you seriously maintaining that she actually knows whether or not she is a citizen of the United States?
the family that lies together...
Would you want a member of the Edwards clan sitting on YOUR jury?
I'd take this as a win.
You are a citizen of the country and [optionally] a resident of a county. Counties do not grant citizenships, and the court clerk's office certainly should know the difference.
Additionally, a comment included by a court clerks office staffer states that the reason for Cate Edwards excusal was that she was not a citizen of the United States of America.
A remark "not a citizen" on or near a form that explicitly asks if you are a citizen can only mean the US citizenship.
Want to get out of jury duty? Really?
Just let it drop that you listen to Rush Limbaugh and you will be cut lose.
Rush was correct in that they only want stupid people who watch Oprah all day.
That's what I did with the last one I got. You might think they would send them by registered mail but they don't.
Before someone calls me unAmerican, I wasted 4 days of my life by answering 2 jury duty calls, sitting in a small room with a couple dozen other people watching a tv mounted on the wall and reading 5 year old time magazines and National Geographics.
When they get a better system, I'll reconsider.
I used to go. But same as you, waste a day and not even wind up on a jury, never even get in the court room for vour dire. Then they started timing them inconveniently, like jury day on a big deadline at work, so I wouldn't go figuring I'd do the next one. Then I figured out they didn't really seem to care, so I don't either. The federal notice I just got last week was a return to the bad timing, this time right before my first vacation of the year, I bet if I actually went I'd get on a jury, and it would be a 3 week trial, bye bye vacation. So in the trash it went.
IMHO the juror list should be made up from the welfare roles not the voter roles. Make the folks living off the government dime do something for their dime. Shouldn't be too tough to have a 3 days off 2 days on for the ones actually trying to improve their lives to still be able to look for a job. but of course that idea only works in a country that doesn't have screwed up priorities.
check yer freepmail...
If it was an ambulance chasing lawyer using a class action lawsuit to soak a corporation based on phony, trumped up charges, he probably would have loved to have her on the jury.
Think the court could use the same jury as her father's?
The jury could give two guilties for the price of one...
check your email!
All the county is concerned about is whether you reside there. That's the state standard for jury service.
Let me explain. I have sat in the jury room without being called several times, way back when I lived in Fulton County the first time. Your sitting there actually has some value to the county, as you are holding a place for the completely unpredictable number of folks who don't show up because they threw the summons in the trash (yeah, I'm looking at you).
It means that cases can get tried on schedule because they have enough jurors for the pool. That's important for the justice system, especially in very large counties with short-staffed courts, when you may have just a 2 week window for jury trials once a term, or in very small counties with a circuit riding judge they share with 3-4 other small counties, who may have just 2 weeks a year for jury trials. You may not give a hoot, but some day you might have a civil case (or God forfend get charged with something) and you might want to get your case heard sooner than 5-6 years from filing (not at all unusual in the City of Atlanta).
Plus, if all you have on a jury is welfare leeches who have no concept of (1) responsibility; (2) the value of a dollar; (3) citizenship, you are going to get total miscarriage of justice. And you could be in the crosshairs yourself.
Example: my sister and her husband had a girl crash a neighborhood picnic at their house, totally drunk. They asked her to leave, and she did, but later filed suit against them claiming that she had fallen off their deck and broken her nose and her arm. Total lie, but their homeowners insurance settled the case because it was going to go to a Fulton County (City of Atlanta) jury. Mostly made up of irresponsible urban denizens who would sock it to a homeowner mostly out of envy of somebody who actually had something, and also out of racial animosity (we're white, with a little less Cherokee than Elizabeth Warren, but not much less).
It is a notoriously dysfunctional court system. Yet one more reason that we moved the heck out of Fulton County before somebody decided to file a spurious claim against us.
I'm not breaking anything. If I ever actually got picked for a jury you might be right, but I don't, I never even got close. Of the half dozen times I responded "correctly" to my jury notices I only ever got out of the wait room once, we walked to the court room, the bailiff met us and said the attorneys and judge were discussing something we'd have to wait outside, 4 minutes later bailiff came out and said we could go back to the room. It's not my civic duty to stop being a productive tax paying member of society for a day to go sit on uncomfortable chairs in an overly lit room with an overly loud TV and not be on a jury.
The system is broke and it's not worth wasting my time to observe the brokenness.
Actually I think my welfare jury system solves many problems. For one thing by making serving on juries mandatory for receiving government forces them to actually EARN their money. The ones that don't want to earn their government money can go without, thus we get to shrink the welfare roles which saves money, the ones that actually do show up for jury duty aren't going to be the stereotypical losers. And we get to stop having the jury system sap productivity by grabbing away people from their paying jobs. Instead of forcing corporations (many of which still pay their employees' salaries when they're on a jury) to support the court system it would actually let the government pay for itself. It turns jury duty from being a punishment for being willing to vote to a way for people to earn government assistance and be useful even if they don't have a job.
As was explained to me, and take it or leave it as you prefer, is that the mere presence of a jury pool, meaning that a trial is about to actually commence as opposed to being knocked back to a later date, is the incentive for many cases to come to a last-minute out-of-court settlement. You never entered the courtroom, but your presence in the jury room helped the case get resolved.
I can buy that many people who were holding out become more likely to settle the closer to trial time things get, and "we're going to be picking a jury today" is certainly very close. Which is all well and good, but not really a good reason for me to not at work being useful, there's no reason to punish me because somebody should have settled a month ago. Which again spins back to my idea of use people on welfare, they weren't going to do anything useful that day anyway.
There are problems, they could be fixed or they could get worse. But your attitude that you don't want to be bothered will kill the system if enough people adopt it.
You simply do NOT want ignorant and uneducated people on welfare doing a half-@$$ed job of deciding cases, just because you think they ought to do something for their money. They'll do a rotten job at that just like they do everything else - and when they decide multi-million dollar business cases by socking it to the 'evil rich', what do you suppose is going to happen to businesses and the economy? Right now those 'runaway jury' cases are pretty rare and only happen in high-profile cases, but once layabouts who can't even hold a job are the jurors, every case will be a runaway. Even if you don't happen to be on the losing end of a frivolous suit (and those will multiply as soon as the unscrupulous realize that ignorant jurors are handing out free money), the sinking economy will sink you too.
The whole purpose of the legal system on the civil side is to avoid self-help repossession, theft, and violence. When people can't get their disputes resolved in a just and honest manner, we'll be back to pistols at dawn and might makes right. I don't want to go there.
The idea that trial day will push folks to settle is another point. The dynamics of settlement are funny, you have to have the hammer before you can get it done. It's not the lawyers, it's the clients. Nobody wants to settle until they have to -- not the defendants who don't want to write the check, and not the plaintiffs who think they can wrangle another couple thousand out of the defendants.
Mediation is one attempt to avoid last-minute settlements, but it hasn't worked out the way everybody hoped because it isn't binding.
You don't have to be in the courtroom to be useful. You are 'cushion' or 'insurance' against folks who don't show up. And sometimes we have to do things that are boring or unpleasant just because it's our civic duty. I always found that taking my own books, a comfortable stadium seat to put in the wooden chair, some music with earphones and a little easy work from my job, kept me fully occupied in the days before laptops and iPads and wireless service in the jury assembly room. Now, of course, I just FReep.
Sorry but you're just plain wrong. The system is broken, it punishes the people who want to participate in our government by voting by forcing them to waste days in bad rooms not being on juries. The biggest problem is that there's only about a 10% chance, so if there's a 6 person jury that means 54 people wasted their day not being picked. THAT is a BROKEN system.
How the hell do they know if the jury members not being picked aren't intelligent, most of them never get voir dired. Then of course there's the classic joke, the people on the jury are the ones who couldn't find a way to get out of jury duty just how smart can they really be. It's funny because it's true.
All your "proof" that it's not broken revolves around the people that actually get to serve, which ignores why it is so obviously broken: most people will NEVER serve no matter how many times they show. Running the averages you've got to show up 10 times to get picked once. BROKEN. Actually your "proof" helps show that it's broken, because if you're good enough to be a "smart" juror then you should have been picked all ten times, but you weren't, you never will be. The system fails. They call in too many people too often which results in people mostly doing nothing. I'd love to actually serve on a jury, but I won't, my half a dozen trips down to never even get in a court room proved that, which is why I won't go anymore. I'm done wasting MY time for YOUR broken system that doesn't work. They should NEVER call in more than twice as many people as they need, ever. Instead they call in 10 times as many as they need every single day.
You're not taking into account the need for multiple "strikes" -- which not every lawyer uses, but some use every blessed one. Any felony and any equity/superior court case, it's a jury of twelve unless the parties agree to fewer. There are extra strikes in felony cases, and still more strikes if it's a capital case. You generally have to have a minimum of 48 prospective jurors to get a jury of 12.
There are also disqualifications for cause: being a sworn law enforcement officer, being an employee or insured with an insurance company, knowing the parties or witnesses, having been a party to a similar case. In high profile cases, you have the additional problem of people having read or heard about the case and forming opinions.
Get enough challenges for cause, you have to pull in another panel or two from the jury room. So you have to provide not only for the anticipated number of 'free strikes', but also for challenges for cause. Obviously, the lawyers the day you were down at court were sensible and didn't use every strike, so you may feel like you weren't needed - but you were.
Otherwise, if there are not enough jurors there (and the crafty criminal defense lawyers come in the jury room and count noses - I saw a few I knew duck in and out a couple of times) they WOULD use every strike, and then when there weren't enough jurors move to dismiss under the Speedy Trial Act. Doesn't matter how good a system you try to set up, somebody is going to figure out how to game it. In cases where they know they'll have a problem, many courts use jury questionnaires by mail to weed out obvious disqualifications. But you can't do that on every case.
I'm sorry you think that you have wasted your day because you weren't picked -- it's necessary to have enough panels to provide for the attorney who uses every strike, and the oddball case where everybody seems to know the parties and have an opinion about it. The idea is not just to get "a" jury -- but to get a FAIR jury. You do agree, don't you, that it would be unfair to have somebody on the jury with an interest in the case, or a strong prejudice against one of the parties? I presume if you were a litigant you wouldn't like a juror or two in the box giving you dirty looks - or knowing that they were employed by your opponent?
Having sat in the jury assembly room for the Monday and Tuesday before I was chosen on Wednesday for a trial that lasted the rest of the week, I can tell you from chatting with other potential jurors and just looking over the group that it was a well-educated, conscientious bunch of people. Maybe Cobb County is just a particularly good county, with public-spirited citizens who DON'T decide that they are going to cut and run because the justice system is "wasting" a day or two of their precious time.
Besides, showing up for all those years really was worth it for the experience of serving. Oddly enough, it is a sacred duty, a little unnerving, a heavy responsibility. I understand a little better how it works now.
My trips WERE for nothing, there's no "feel" about it. Go down there, spend a day in the waiting room, never see the inside of a court room IS for NOTHING. It has nothing to do with how jurors are selected, it has to do with a court system that's stupid and wastes everybody's time.
You're not taking into account the 90% "rejection" rate (I have to put rejection in quotes because the majority of people that don't get picked for a jury are like I was, never voir dired, never actually considered, just sat in the room waiting for nothing to happen). That's what makes the thing a tragic stupid pathetic indefensible waste of time and money. To get 6 jurors 60 people will be called in, and at least 30 of them will never leave the waiting room. That's a waste.
It's not 48 to get 12, is ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY to get 12. 48 might actually go through voir dire, the other 80 are because the system is broken and stupid.
You've got it backwards, there's TOO MANY jurors, that's why over half of them never get to voir dire. They call in too many people too often. Broken system.
There's no "think" those WERE wasted days. If you went to the doctors office and spent the entire day in the waiting room without ever being seen at all would you consider that a wasted day? Of course you would, and you'd be right. Well that's what over half of all people that show up for jury duty do, every single day. Wasted.
If the majority were actually at least getting to voir dire you'd be right. But they aren't. That's the issue you're studiously ignoring. That the majority WON'T be struck, they WON'T get anywhere near the court room, they're time is 100% WASTED.
Here's the other problem: I know you would feel better if you actually got voir dired, but the court cannot take multiple panels into the courtroom while voir dire is going on.
If the court did that, and one prospective juror engaged in an 'outburst' of some kind, if it were bad enough it would contaminate every prospective juror in the room - "I know he's guilty - he's a drug dealer and everybody knows it" - "I hate insurance companies - they killed my mother and left my family to starve and they're all a bunch of crooks! I can prove it!" Trial court won't take a chance on trying a whole case for 2-3 days and then having an appellate court reverse because the pool was contaminated.
So if they voir dired everyone just to make you happy, they would need even MORE jurors in case of accidents. That's why each panel stays in the jury room until called for. If the lawyers don't use all their strikes (and most don't because they're sensible and it really hacks off the court and the jurors) then you'll never leave the jury room.
But the court has to provide for the loony lawyers, especially the flamboyant criminal defense attorneys who are just there to tweak the judge's nose, angle for a contempt citation, and try to get their clients off by fair means or foul. If you want to blame somebody, blame them. The courts are just trying to checkmate their efforts to burn up the jury pool and let the defendants walk via the Speedy Trial Act.
I wish you could understand about the necessity to prevent unscrupulous people from gaming the system. It's a shame when people are called and don't get to serve, but it's necessary to protect the rights of the accused, and also protect the public from being preyed upon by criminals who otherwise would walk on a technicality.
In the old days, when they ran out of jurors, the sheriff was authorized to just go out on the street and grab as many people as necessary to fill out the panel. They don't do that anymore because of the constitutional requirement of a random jury pool.
It's far from a perfect system, but as Churchill said it's better than all the others that have been tried. And my experience over 30 years is that by and large it works to deliver justice. A court-martial board properly constituted may be a fairer shake, but that will never go in civilian life.
I don't know why you keep going on and on and on about the selection process. That's NOT the part that I'm pointing out is broken. The part that's broken is BEFORE that, the bunch of people that will be called in and NEVER actually go through the selection process. Forget all that actual selection, that's besides the point. It's like I'm talking about NFL concussions and you keep blathering about baseball, DIFFERENT THING.
I don't want to to voir dire everyone to make people happy, I want them to NOT summon people everybody KNOWS they will never voir dire. Depending one where you're reading the estimate of the percentage of people that get summoned and NEVER serve run from 70% to 90%, and the vast majority of them never go through any form of a selection process. And everybody knows they won't. The courts are one of the most entrenched bureaucracies on the planet, they know what percentage of people voir dired are going to get knocked out, and they know how many jurors they need, so they know how many people they actually need to call in. And they also know that they're calling in 2 to 3 times as many as they need. And THAT is a pathetic waste of time for a broken system.
Sorry but this system isn't even close to the best that's been tried. In fact it's pretty much the worst because they have all the data necessary to not do it wrong and they continue to do it wrong. It's a simple fix really, they have all the data necessary, stop calling in 2 to 3 times as many people as they know they need.
The people who sit in the jury assembly room and are never called are there because of the way the selection process works in the courtroom:
1. If a criminal case goes into intensive voir dire, the extra jurors will be needed because of criminal defense attorneys using as many challenges for cause as they can on top of their peremptory strikes.
2. You cannot confidently predict when this will happen, although you have clues. So you can use up a lot of panels in a hurry with, say, a big murder case and a jury panel that has heard the news about it and formed opinions. Because the jury summons are sent out randomly, you cannot predict how many jurors will be disqualified for cause in any particular case. And judges are inclined to grant peremptories simply because the overall cost of a reversal and retrial is substantial - and wastes everyone's time.
3. If extra jurors are not waiting in the assembly room and a defense attorney is successful in using up every juror on the panel in the courtroom, then said defense attorney will successfully move to dismiss the charges against his client under the Speedy Trial Act. The Act requires the court to have sufficient jurors available to try the defendant when he announces "ready". If they are not there, the defendant will walk.
4. Therefore, the court MUST have a bunch of extra prospective jurors waiting in the jury assembly room. The public fallout from allowing a notorious criminal to walk out of the courtroom a free man is just too great.
I'm sorry, I can't explain it any better than that. And given your inability or refusal to understand, it's probably better if you don't serve on a jury anyway.
And once again you blather on and on and on about stuff that IS NOT THE PROBLEM. You're the one who does not want to understand. They call 2 to 3 times as many people as they need. That's stupid and wrong. None of your "ifs" happen, EVER. The system is broken and your defense of it is worse.
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The 40,000 Colombia fans spilled out of the Minierao stadium in Belo Horizonte. All wore yellow, one wore a tiger's head. They'd just seen their team play their first game in the World Cup finals since 1998. Better still, they won the match with a largely impressive performance against Greece. Three points would give Colombia a huge advantage in qualifying from the World Cup's weakest group.
Former Newcastle star Faustino Asprilla was among the Colombians leaving the stadium. Asked how his English was, he replied "terrible" before explaining in Spanish how success for Colombia would be matching the achievements of the side at Italia '90.
Back then, Colombia won, drew and lost their three group games, but qualified for the last 16 as a best placed third team. They were defeated 2-1 by a Cameroon side who then lost to England.
Despite not having one of the world's great strikers Radamel Falcao after losing him to injury in January, this Colombia outfit were already in a strong position to better that. The Colombian ex-pats on the flight from Miami to Belo Horizonte before the game had put their misguided faith in Falcao's recovery , but they also spoke well of other players "like James". They pronounced it "Hamez".
James Rodriguez was their best player against Greece, but offered a chance to single him out, Asprilla instead picked the Colombian goalkeeper Ospina. The feeling among Colombians was that while James was a vastly gifted young player who'd scored a goal and set one up, he'd not imposed himself consistently on the Greeks. There were flashes, but he could do better.
The 22-year-old did do better as Colombia won all three group games. Of their eight goals scored while he was on the pitch in the group, James scored three and made four. His header against Ivory Coast and chip against Japan showed his versatility. The world began to notice the Monaco player, especially after he netted the goal of the tournament against Uruguay in the knock-out stage. From 25 yards he chested the ball down and volleyed the ball in off the cross bar. It was a ridiculous strike with wondrous technique. Oscar Tabarez, the Uruguay coach, likened him to a young Maradona, Messi and Suarez.
The world should have noticed the baby-faced winger/midfielder already. Perhaps not for making his Colombian league debut at 15 or becoming the youngest ever foreigner to start in Argentina's top-flight after he'd joined Banfield in the Buenos Aires suburbs two years later. He shone in the Copa Libertadores and joined Porto for €5 million in 2010. He was 18.
Porto won the league twice and, after a first season settling in, he was so good for Porto in all competitions including the Champions League that Monaco signed him for €45 million last year, making him the 10th most expensive player of all time. He cost €10 million more than the far better known Falcao. The ninth most expensive player is Zinedine Zidane, the 11th Sergio Aguero.
Porto are not a village side, while Ligue 1 is not a Sunday league, as some Premier League obsessed anglophiles seem to believe. Rodriguez cost more than any player purchased by an English club last year bar Mesut Ozil, but the transfer was as under-reported in the UK as Montpellier's heroic title win of 2012.
English clubs had their chance to buy him. Manchester United were offered James for £5 million in 2010 but later signed Bebe. James was offered to the club again for €45 million last summer but considered too expensive.
James took a few months to settle, with Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri talking of problems with his mentality because he "thinks like an attacker but has to defend too". He finished the season with nine goals and 12 assists, more than anyone in the league. He also became the focus of the side after its star, his compatriot Falcao, ruptured his knee ligaments in January. He'd done the same for his country. Monaco finished second and will return to the Champions League next season. James will be there - unless he moves to a bigger club. He's now reached a sufficient profile for Real Madrid to be suitors - for they go for image as much as talent. Monaco's players are well remunerated and their tax free wages makes the club attractive, but can playing in front of their 9,000 average crowds compare with life at a far bigger club?
James' World Cup adventure ended against Brazil in the quarter-finals in Fortaleza, where he survived the attentions of a giant locust and aggressive challenges to be the game's best player. That more people wanted Colombia to triumph for their attacking abandon and joy than Brazil's grinding machine demonstrates his, and his team-mates', impact on the competition.
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James Rodriguez ended the tournament in tears, but leaves with some impressive statistics. He became the first non-Brazilian or Argentinian to score six goals in the World Cup finals, the first player since Rivaldo in 2002 to score in the first five games of a World Cup.
The future is bright for a man who turns 23 on the eve of the World Cup final, but even if his career were to end now, he's done more than any other Colombian. He's been the best player in the World Cup finals.
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Convict (someone) of a further criminal offense: many prisoners are reconvicted within two years of release
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Stelios Kazantzidis, (born Aug. 29, 1931, Athens, Greece—died Sept. 14, 2001, Athens) (born Aug. 29, 1931, Athens, Greece—died Sept. 14, 2001, Athens) Greek folk singer who , used his expressive vocal interpretations to capture the joys as well as the melancholy longings of Greeks everywhere, especially those in the working class and emigrants in the Greek diaspora. Kazantzidis had little formal education and began singing professionally in 1950. Although he made scores of recordings in his career, he did not fare well during the military junta (1967–74) and made no recordings between 1975 and 1987. Kazantzidis made a comeback to a new generation of fans in the 1990s.
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They refused to cancell it and recon its online but it still does not work 6 month later. Phoning them up is a waste of time all you get is passed around from dept to dept and some of the oporators are right ignorent sods. They blame everything from my sky box, my phone,and British telicom who have checked the line and can find nothing wrong.
Of course I cancelled the direct debit because I am not paying for something I have not got and they cannot supply. now when I try to get another ISP I cannot because Wanadoo refuse to clear the line even though it does not work they are still blocking my phone line for broadband,and refuse to clear it untill I pay them 12 month's subscriptions.
I can not in all honesty recomend this company the customer service is rude ignorent and costs a fortune, the time they leave you hanging on the phone is just not on.
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Book your room at Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre
Musee National de la Marine is a short stroll from Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre, and other popular attractions like Tour Royale are within a few miles (5 km). This 80-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant along with conveniences like an outdoor pool and free in-room WiFi. It's in central Toulon and also a short walk from Hotel des Arts and Place de La Liberte.
This hotel serves as home to a restaurant, which has pool views and specializes in French cuisine, along with a bar. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service. Start each morning with buffet breakfast, available for a fee from 6:30 AM to 10 AM.
All 80 soundproofed rooms feature sofa beds, minibars, and coffee makers. Guests can expect free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Beds are dressed in pillow menus and bathrooms offer rainfall showers and hair dryers. Other standard amenities include free newspapers, free bottled water, and laptop-compatible safes.
Property features
Guests staying at Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre enjoy an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and free WiFi in public areas. A stay here includes free offsite parking. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this family-friendly hotel include a meeting room, a 24-hour business center, and a seasonal outdoor pool.
- Walking distance to Musee National de la Marine
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- Onsite dining
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Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 1560 square feet (145 square meters). This family-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge. A total renovation of this property was completed in February 2012.
Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre is a smoke-free property.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 80
- Multilingual staff
- Concierge services
- Number of floors - 3
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-in
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- One meeting room
- Elevator/lift
- Laundry facilities
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Free parking nearby
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 1560
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 145
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
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- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), RV, bus, truck parking, Free parking nearby
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Holiday Inn Toulon City Centre offers 80 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and laptop-compatible safes. Accommodations are furnished with double sofa beds. A pillow menu is available. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations with rainfall showerheads, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and coffee/tea makers. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.
- Air conditioning
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- Free bottled water
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- Cable TV service
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- Soundproofed rooms
- Free newspaper
- Room service (limited hours)
- Sofa bed size
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
Observatoire - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Open select days.
Escale - Onsite bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night
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- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Parking height restrictions apply
- Deposit: EUR 50 per night
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.21 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 14 years of age.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 16 for adults and EUR 0.00 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 12 per night
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night
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