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The news of 175 white-collar jobs coming to Jackson County was welcome, but it was a total surprise to local officials who had never heard of the firm that claimed to employ more than 5,000, operate facilities worldwide and register $1.5 billion in annual sales.
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Two months later, the biotech company is no less mysterious. In fact, a two-month Citizen Patriot investigation of Kositech raised more questions than answers. Kositech officials say that is not surprising; secrecy is essential to the health of their business, they say.
Among the findings:
• Kositech's Web site says the company is based in Singapore. However, there is no Kositech registered as a business there, according to the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority, an arm of the Singapore government with which all businesses there must register. The U.S. Department of Commerce also told the Citizen Patriot it could not find a listing or registry for Kositech in Singapore.
• The company Web site listed sales offices in Los Angeles and Toronto. Neither could be verified through records from the California Secretary of State's office, the Toronto economic-development office and other means. Kositech has said it operates under various names and company officials won't say what those names are.
• Charles Kevin Coonce of Parma, whose resignation as the company's director of North American operations was announced Dec. 14 and is effective Dec. 31, spent several years in prison in Michigan for larceny, forgery and uttering and publishing. He also spent three years in a Kansas prison for transporting a stolen pickup after escaping from a Michigan halfway house, and three more years in a federal prison for impersonating a federal officer, according to court documents.
• In their company biographies on the firm's Web site, Chief Financial Officer Steven Winston was listed as a graduate of Oxford University in England, and Chief Corporate Counsel James Lexington was listed as a graduate of Harvard University. Oxford officials could not verify Winston studied there, and Harvard officials could not find a record of Lexington.
• The Cedar Knoll property is owned by Delaware-based Denchai Investment Corp., a company created in July. Coonce is a part-owner of Denchai, according to Winston. Denchai bought the property from HR Acquisition 1 for $340,000 on Oct. 5. (See the deed. )
Following a series of interviews with Kositech officials, CEO Michael Khalil wrote in an e-mail Dec. 13 that he was shocked at what he called the Citizen Patriot's efforts to "maliciously damage Kositech Scientific, by attempting to dig up dirt, and/or distort facts." (See the e-mail. )
"I have ordered all executives of this company to immediately cease and desist from any communication whatsoever with any Jackson area press. Period, and with no exceptions!"
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Also in the e-mail, Khalil said he authorized to fly, via private jet, a group of no more than 10 "Michigan VIP's" to visit some of Kositech's facilities and operations around the world, so that those on the trip could confirm to the press that Kositech is real. Khalil said the travel arrangements would be made within 10 days.
"After the visit, the delegates will all fully realize the magnitude of the opportunity, which is currently in great jeopardy, as far as the state of Michigan is concerned," Khalil wrote.
The need for secrecy
Before communication with the newspaper was cut off, Coonce referred detailed queries about the company and its background to Winston and Lexington. Winston was interviewed once on the telephone, and twice via e-mail; and Lexington responded to two separate lists of questions via e-mail. For this story, Coonce was interviewed once on the phone and later said any further questions would need to be given to him in written form first, per a requirement from Kositech headquarters. He responded to one e-mail before the company barred employees from commenting to the newspaper.
Winston said Kositech started as a two-room office and lab in Germany in 1972 and grew into a biotech firm that directly and indirectly employs 5,238 full time, and had sales of more than $1.5 billion last year.
When questioned about the dearth of information about the Singapore headquarters, Kositech officials stressed the need for secrecy and that the company operates under different names. When asked directly why the Singapore government has no record of Kositech, the question was referred to the company's legal department on Dec. 12. As of Friday, there was no response.
However, Winston and Lexington said there is a strong need for secrecy due to the competitive nature of the biotech industry and because it is an Asian business.
In an e-mail, Winston said Kositech "has cloaked itself in the highest level of security and confidentially both internally and externally. ... Asia invented the term 'Need to Know.' " (See the e-mail. )
While Winston said secrecy is standard operating procedure in southeast Asia, a University of Michigan professor said that's not always the case.
"Singapore prides itself on being one of the most open, transparent, accountable... places to do business in Asia, and is always at the top of rankings on this from... such neutral authorities as the World Bank," said Linda Lim, who directs the UM business school's southeastern Asia business program.
According to the Kositech Web site, the company's headquarters is on the 30th and 31st floors of 6 Battery Road Raffles Place in Singapore. However, the Citizen Patriot was unable to confirm that Kositech has an office at that location.
At the newspaper's request, the U.S. Department of Commerce asked the U.S. Embassy in Singapore to check on Kositech. The Embassy confirmed that there is no Kositech registered to do business in that country, and that the location "appears to be that of a service office."
Servcorp., an Australian-based company, leases both serviced and virtual office space on the 30th and 31st floors of Six Battery Road. Servcorp offers companies or individuals an address, furnished office suites, fully equipped corporate boardrooms and a receptionist to answer the phone in the company's name.
Winston told the Citizen Patriot the Singapore listing is for mailing purposes. He said the company has a reception area and a few conference rooms in the building.
Company executives have offices in the building, but Winston said they could not identify which floors they are on for security reasons.
The Kositech Web site and Winston also said Kositech has facilities in mainland China; Bangkok, Thailand; Moscow and Africa.
Again stressing secrecy, Winston declined to divulge the exact locations of its facilities, and said that the facilities "are secured through direct ownership, control, or ownership through third parties, and operate under names other than Kositech Scientific AG. Even the exact location of our administrative offices and officers is treated with the same degree of confidentially and security as our facilities enjoy."
The California Secretary of State's office has no record of a Kositech Scientific AG registered to do business in the state, where a sales office was said to be located in Los Angeles.
Matt Buist, an economic-development official with the city of Toronto in the medical and biotechnology field, said he had never heard of the company or of it doing business in Toronto.
An official with the Exchange Tower, the Toronto building in which Kositech is said to have its offices, said Kositech is not a direct tenant. Global Prime Office Network, a service center which also leases space in the building, said Kositech is not a client.
Coming-out party
As part of Kositech's announcement in October, the company said it would create as many as 700 jobs in Michigan. It was great news for economic-development leaders working to strengthen the state's economy.
The plan called for redeveloping the vacant Cedar Knoll nursing home in Grass Lake Township as the company's North American headquarters, and relocating some of its workers in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Grass Lake Township Supervisor Jim Stormont said local officials were pleased by the announcement, and that he has no reason to question what the company has been saying.
"I'm only concerned that they'll follow through with everything they've said," he said.
Officials also unveiled plans for a 270,000-square-foot pharmaceutical and DNA research facility in Troy that would employ 400 to 500 people full-time.
Calls to officials at Oakland County Planning & Economic Development were not returned. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation said it has not been involved in discussions with the company in regard to either the Grass Lake or the Oakland developments.
"We were never asked to participate," MEDC spokeswoman Bridget Beckman said.
In October, Winston told the Oakland Business Review, a weekly business magazine, that the Oakland location had already been secured and was expected to open by the end of next year.
But those plans have hit a snag, Winston told the Citizen Patriot Dec. 5.
"It's still fluid in Oakland County," he said. "The devil is in the details, and we found the devil."
He said he could not say specifically what caused the delay, but that it was being worked out with the owner of the property.
Winston said Kositech will launch a new product line in 2009, the first to be directly marketed with the Kositech name.
"That's the reason we are coming out from under our shell," he said.
He said he could not divulge what the product would be, only that it will be a medical-rescue product and will be "revolutionary for critically ill patients."
Following the leaders
The Citizen Patriot's attempts to learn more about the senior managers listed on the company's Web site were unsuccessful.
When the Citizen Patriot told CFO Winston during a telephone interview that Oxford had no record of his degree, he said, "I will have that looked into" and that he received a master's in business administration from the university in 1982.
The newspaper then contacted Oxford again to double-check his name along with the added information on the year of his graduation. Oxford's media relations office said the university awarded its first MBAs in 1997.
In an e-mail interview with Lexington inquiring about his attending Harvard, he wrote that Kositech's strict security measures "dictate that some editing and generalizations to publicly accessible biographies must be undertaken to adequately protect our company's, as well as our Officer's and Director's security." (See the e-mail. )
When asked a second time if he went to Harvard, Lexington responded by writing: "I never told you I went to Harvard, and I never discussed my education with you in the past, and I choose not to do so now."
Several days later, the biographies were removed from the Kositech Web site. All that remains is a list of names.
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Czarnecki said he and many officials in Jackson were surprised by the company's announcement that it was moving here -- and even more so that it was not seeking any financial assistance or tax breaks.
Stormont said the company has done some cosmetic work to the Cedar Knoll site.
"No other work has been done," he said.


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When interest rates rise, dividend-paying stocks go down. When interest rates fall, dividend-paying stocks go up.
That little bit of conventional wisdom has been accepted as gospel by most investors for the 26 years I've been in the investment advisory business–and almost surely long before that. In fact, investors have often made it a self-fulfilling prophecy, selling dividend-paying stocks when they've been worried about rising interest rates and buying them back when rates have fallen again.
That's what happened every spring and summer from 2003 to 2007. Each year, investors got more bullish on the economy early in the year and benchmark yields like the 10-year Treasury's headed higher. Utility stocks, real estate investment trusts and virtually every other dividend-paying security fell sharply. Then growth seemed to cool, the benchmark yields fell, and investors came back, pushing prices higher.
That relationship broke apart abruptly in 2008. The benchmark Treasury yield did plunge in the second half of the year. But rather than rally full out, dividend-paying stocks crashed along with the rest of the market.
The reason: The severity of the market crash/credit crunch/recession–the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s–raised concerns about companies' ability to continue paying dividends. Investors re-priced dividend-paying stocks according to the perceived risk to dividends, with the result that prices plunged and yields soared at the same time so-called benchmark yields were falling.
The crash of 2008-09 showed clearly that dividend-paying stocks weren't interest-rate sensitive but economy-sensitive. And that point was again proven in the historic rally that followed the crash. Beginning in early 2009, dividend-paying stocks across the board staged a mighty rally, even while 10-year Treasury yield was rising from a low of around 2 percent back towards 4 percent.
Not only were so-called interest-rate sensitive stocks not following interest-rate trends. They were moving in precisely the opposite direction. Rising interest rates were bullish, not bearish, and falling rates were bearish, not bullish.
If anything, this bust up of conventional wisdom has played out even more starkly in the stock market selloff we've seen since late spring. At the same time the 10-year Treasury yield has fallen well below 2 percent, dividend-paying stocks have tumbled. And since early October, as stock prices have recovered, the 10-year yield has again poked above 2 percent.
What's going on here? Basically, there's a new dynamic for dividend-paying stocks as well as income investments in general. Interest rates don't call the tune. Instead, markets are constantly re-pricing risk for anything paying a dividend.
Contrary to the crash of 2008, not every stock or bond this side of Treasuries is crashing when the fear level rises. A large number of US utilities, for example, have recently hit all-time highs, including Dominion Resources (NYSE: D) and Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Many more are hitting 52-week highs and even post 2001-02 crash highs, including CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), NiSource (NYSE: NI) and Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL).
Not only did these stocks not suffer big losses over the summer and in the wake of S&P's August downgrade of US Treasury debt. But they've rallied sharply thus far in October, as the US economy has continued to putter along and defy (at least thus far) forecasts of a relapse into recession. That's clearly not interest rate-sensitive behavior, and it reflects a greater appreciation for these companies' underlying business strength, i.e. lack of exposure to the potential for tighter credit conditions and revenue that's steady even in the face of recession.
US power utilities actually demonstrated these strengths during the crash of 2008-09, with only two companies–Ameren Corp (NYSE: AEE) and Constellation Energy Group (NYSE: CEG)–cutting dividends as a result of the crisis. Both owed their weakness to excess leverage and lower revenue at unregulated operations, policies virtually all of their peers had shunned since the 2001-02 crash. And one dividend cut was as far as it went for both companies. Ameren's recent dividend increase points to its growing stability, as does Constellation's merger-in-progress with Exelon Corp (NYSE: EXC).
US utilities have, therefore, earned their creds in the eyes of investors. It's hard to argue their dividends are as safe as US government debt. But they are a lot higher and growing besides.
US utilities, however, are far from the only companies that have positioned themselves against a worse case scenario for credit conditions and US economic growth. I see the same strength in pipeline companies, both the master limited partnerships (MLP) that are using low-cost capital to expand rapidly and those still organized as corporations.
Income flows from fees that proved their resilience during the crash of 2008, when oil prices fell from over $150 to less than $30. And that's of course a far cry from the relatively minor dip in North American oil prices we've seen since the summer. And keep in mind that West Texas Intermediate crude is only one measure of global oil prices. Brent crude is the effective price in most of the world, and it has never fallen below $100 a barrel during the recent selloff.
Brent's strength is one reason I also put Super Oils like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) in the utility-like category. These companies' profits do rise and fall with energy prices. But with finances as strong as most countries', their dividends and balance sheet strength can withstand virtually anything. Investors appear to have caught onto this, however, as share prices never really fell much this time around. But anytime they do, it's a good time for risk-averse investors to pick up shares.
Not every dividend-paying stock, however, is awarded that degree of respect. Even during the 2008-09 crash, most companies were able to maintain their dividends. That was definitely true of communications companies, including rural wireline firms that pay huge yields out of cash flow.
But their performance as businesses during those extreme conditions has gotten them little respect in 2011, as investor fears of a reprise of 2008 have grown. Windstream Corp's (NYSE: WIN) free cash flow, for example, covered its dividend by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Yet it now yields well north of 8 percent again.
Yields on shares of Alaska Communications (NSDQ: ALSK), Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) and Otelco (NSQ: OTT) have climbed well into double-digits. Investors have literally ignored repeated statements by management that operations are healthy and dividends are well covered with cash flow in favor of speculation that things are falling apart.
What's at work here obviously has nothing to do with interest rates. Rather, it's simply re-pricing of investor perceptions of risk to dividends paid by these companies. And as economic conditions have weakened, the belief has grown that wireline communications companies' sales and cash flows will fall in coming quarters.
That hasn't happened so far. And if it does not, investors will eventually re-price the risk in these stocks to a lower level. That will push the prices of these stocks higher and, given the large number of short-sellers in some, the upside could be quite jagged indeed once it starts.
The re-pricing of risk has created a major trading opportunity for dividend-paying stocks and other income investments. That's basically by betting against the prevailing market sentiment on risk. When investors .are more confident in the economy's prospects, they'll price risk at a low level. The trade there is to go short companies that don't reflect enough risk and that will be sold off as investors price in more risk. The idea is to go long or buy when investors are pricing in too much risk. When conditions improve, perceived risk will drop and share prices will rise, in many cases in an exaggerated way as short-sellers are squeezed out.
We've seen this cycle actually play out several times since the markets began crashing in 2008. The selloff when worries about Europe's sovereign debt first surfaced in 2010 were a great trade, first to go short as risk perception grew, and later to go long as it waned.
Some monster gains have been made this year betting that perception of risk would rise. Most of the companies that have sold off on higher perceived risks will hold it together as businesses. Consequently, they'll rally when risk perception falls. The key is being able to identify which will hold it together, which becomes progressively more difficult the higher current yields are. Sometimes, after all, the market's worries do prove well founded, and companies really do flounder. Diversification is invaluable when that happens. And no conservative investor should be betting on super-high-yielding stocks unless they have a firm base of less-risky fare.
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There is one area where interest rates are important as ever to shareholder returns. That's companies' vulnerability to a near-term spike in rates, typically by having a large obligation to refinance or roll over in the near term. That's one reason any companies purchased to bet on a re-risking of the markets should preferably have no debt maturities between now and the end of 2012, or at the very least such obligations should be only a small percentage of a company's market value.
The most deadly combination is a large amount of debt due accompanied by a falling share price. Such conditions are a constant threat to subject companies to what amounts to a margin call, in which lenders literally force dividend cuts and worse by calling in some of a company's debt. Large obligations aren't necessarily harbingers of doom. But with so many stocks so cheap, there are plenty of high-yielding alternatives that will do just as well if things work out–but are protected against a total loss if they don't.
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In this sitcom, Matt Roth and Corey Parker play the young owners of a Massachusetts catalog for outdoorsy gear ("Think back to when we first got started," says Parker. "We didn't have some grand five-year plan. We had one brilliant idea: Rip off L.L. Bean"). But they both get a little distracted when they agree to make a flighty but fetching Harvard MBA (Julia Campbell) an equal partner. No more leering through a telescope in their corner office at the women's crew teams rowing down the Charles River. Richard Kind plays Parker's cousin, an accountant who in the pilot absconds with all the guys' profits and is thrown in jail. (He's back in the office by the second episode.) And Stephen Tobolowsky plays a dense employee named Oak, who tests all their products.
Despite some tendencies toward smuttiness (including one egregiously overworked running gag about Kind having a single testicle), Blue Skies makes a nice fit following Coach on ABC's retooled Monday-night schedule, sharing as it does some of that show's easy jocularity. Unfortunately the key cast members need a good deal more comedic seasoning to carry a series.
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For anyone who sent an email over the weekend, apologies if I haven't returned your note. When I got back to my house yesterday after a few nights in Estes Park, I found an ocean of sexually-explicit spam hanging out in my inbox. Wading through that ocean has been a pain in the butt; I may well have accidentally discarded a note or two.
Again, apologies, and if there was anything important and you havent yet heard back from me, please do me a favor and re-send the email.
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But consumers are still feeling gloomy about their future given mounting layoffs and shrinking earnings.
The New York-based Conference Board said today that its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 26.0 in March from a revised 25.3 reading in February, which was itself a big drop from 37.4 in January.
The slight rise followed three consecutive monthly drops. But the reading came in below the 28 expected by economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters, and remains less than half of its level of 65.9 last March.
How people feel about their current economic circumstances, known as the Present Situation Index, slipped to 21.5 from 22.3 last month. Their assessment about the economy over the next six months, or the Expectations Index, rose to 28.9 from 27.3 in February.
Despite the slight improvement in that reading, many economists believe that a recovery is not near, and people continue to worry about what's ahead.
"We have seen some signs of improvement in the economy, but they are subtle," said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. "We have seen nothing significant to shift the mood of the consumer."


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A Society Family's Grim Story Ends in a Suicide Plunge
But for all his advantages, Woodward was no idler. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard, covered the Vietnam war for the New York Post and ran unsuccessfully as a liberal Democrat for the New York state Senate. In sum, a well-lived life—but with a dark undercurrent. Longtime friend Parkman Shaw recalls a disturbing phone call to Woodward last month. "He sounded very, very depressed," says Shaw, a money manager. "I had a dreadful foreboding." Those fears were realized on May 2, when Woodward, 54, leaped to his death from the kitchen window of his vast New York co-op.
Woodward had recently endured wrenching personal trials. Caught up in a bitter divorce and custody fight with Lisa, 40, his wife of 14 years, he had revised his will, leaving nearly his entire fortune to their daughter Elizabeth, 6. (Lisa asserts that because he killed himself before their divorce was final, she is legally entitled to one-third of the estate.) A manic depressive, Woodward had grown increasingly reclusive. But earlier demons may have contributed to his despair. His fatal plunge was the denouement of a tragic family saga that began early on Oct. 30, 1955. In a case that made lurid national headlines, Woodward's mother, Ann, shot and killed his father, William Jr., at their Oyster Bay Cove, N.Y., estate.
Claiming she'd mistaken her husband for a prowler, Ann was exonerated. Still, probably unfairly, she was forever shadowed by suspicion. Truman Capote accused her obliquely of murder in his unfinished roman a clef Answered Prayers, and Dominick Dunne's 1985 novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles carried a similar implication. By contrast, author Susan Braudy marshaled copious evidence supporting Ann's story in her 1992 account This Crazy Thing Called Love. Whatever took place that night, it haunted the Woodwards. Just before Esquire ran a ballyhooed excerpt of Capote's book in 1975, Ann killed herself with cyanide. Three years later her drug-addled younger son Jimmy took a fatal leap from a hotel window. Finally came Woody's suicide. "I was stunned," says Braudy, a friend in the '70s. "I thought he was handling his life."
One might trace the roots of the Woodwards' destruction to a Pittsburg, Kans., farm shack normally reserved for the slaughter of livestock, where Angeline Crowell, the future Ann Woodward, was born on Dec. 12, 1915. Her parents divorced, and her mother later moved to Kansas City, Mo., where Angeline modeled for a department store, then left for New York. Calling herself Ann Eden, she found success as a radio actress and in 1941 was voted the medium's "most beautiful girl."
At 26, Ann met bank magnate William Woodward Sr., whose wife, Elsie, was New York's prime social lioness. Woodward fixed Ann up with the couple's 22-year-old son, William Jr., called Billy. Over protests from Elsie, who thought Ann a gold digger, the two wed in 1942. A Navy ensign in World War II, Billy earned a Purple Heart after his ship was sunk in the South Pacific. William III was born in 1944 and Jimmy in 1947.
By most accounts the marriage was tempestuous. The Woodwards often quarreled violently at parties, and Billy had numerous affairs. Ann took refuge in prescription drugs. On Oct. 29, 1955, they attended a nearby party for their friends the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. All evening the Woodwards spoke agitatedly of a neighborhood prowler. They were ready for him, they said. Billy's pistol was close at hand, and Ann, who slept in a separate room, had a shotgun beside her bed. After retiring that night, Ann later maintained, she was awakened by the barking of her dog Sloppy. She said she heard a noise on the roof, saw a shadowy figure at Billy's door and fired her shotgun. When police arrived at 2:35 a.m., they found Ann cradling her husband's body and sobbing uncontrollably. "I did it," she said. "I thought it was that man who has been around here."
A few days later police arrested burglar Paul Wirths, who admitted he'd been trying to break into the Woodward place when the shots rang out. A grand jury took 30 minutes to rule that Ann had acted in self-defense. It was rumored that Elsie, by then a widow, believed Ann had murdered her son but defended her publicly to protect the family from scandal. Some claimed she'd even bribed Wirths to lie. Dominick Dunne is skeptical of Ann's story. "They had been drinking. There had been fights," he says. "It's not that she said, 'I am going to murder him when I get home from the party tonight.' But whatever happened, she didn't think it was the burglar." Conversely, Susan Braudy—who interviewed more than 1,000 people, including Wirths—calls the killing "a terrible accident."
Woody and Jimmy, then 11 and 8, slept through the shooting. Afterward, their grandmother shipped them to a Swiss boarding school. "There were no explanations," says Braudy. "They were just shunted off out of sight. I think Woody tried to become an adult as soon as the whole mess happened. He always looked after his brother." But their paths diverged. While Woody was at Harvard, Jimmy joined the Army, serving in Vietnam as an MP. He returned a heroin addict and made his first suicide attempt in 1972, breaking 10 bones when he jumped from a friend's fourth-floor apartment. Straight-arrow Woody, meanwhile, had become publisher of MORE, a short-lived journalism review.
Ann drifted around the world, of-ten dallying with much younger men. Society gadfly Capote, an acquaintance, became convinced of her guilt and nicknamed her "Bang-Bang." On Oct. 9, 1975, not long before his transparent fiction appeared in Esquire, Ann, 59, took a cyanide pill. "That's that," said Elsie, who died at 98 in 1981. "She shot my son, and Truman just murdered her."
On Sept. 1, 1978, 30-year-old Jimmy leaped to his death from the ninth floor of Manhattan's Mayfair Hotel. Woody forged ahead into politics. "A great politician he was not," recalls then-mayor Ed Koch. "But he was a very nice person. He was marked as the guy who's going to go through life forever unhappy." Woody wed Lisa Schreiber in Paris in 1985; the union was troubled by the onset of his mental illness in 1994. "I don't want to use the word crazy, but there were episodes," says Lisa's lawyer Jerome Tarnoff. In court papers, Lisa claims Woody took in homeless people, slept on park benches and spoke in tongues. "He has been a compulsive philanderer," she added, "taunting me with love notes from his paramours, condoms and prostitutes' cards...strewn around the apartment."
Woodward called her allegations "outrageous." His friend Jonathan Morse, a cooking show host, says he understands both sides: "He suffered from manic-depressive disease, not a character flaw. But as far as Lisa is concerned, I sympathize." Perhaps his skewed body chemistry killed William Woodward III. But some say his fate was sealed one fall night 44 years ago. "He was a wonderful man who had a terrible thing happen early in life," says Dunne. "It's a sad end to a doomed family."
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This panel looks to examine the work of NeMLA 2012 Keynote Speaker Jennifer Egan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and other accolades for "A Visit from the Goon Squad," in relation to that of other contemporary writers. Of special interest will be papers that explore the work of Egan and others in the context of the Digital Age, the role of experimentation in contemporary fiction, and the interplay of technology and the self in contemporary fiction. Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Stephen Brauer at firstname.lastname@example.com by 9/20/11.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A search warrant left in a trailer where Miguel Trujillo was living quotes a phone call in which Trujillo allegedly admits killing his ex-attorney, Carlos Vigil, a television station reported Tuesday.
The search warrant was discovered by a KRQE-TV reporter who was interviewing Trujillo's mother, who also lives in the trailer.
The report didn't say how police obtained the phone conversations, and police Capt. David Segura and District Attorney Henry Valdez said they cannot comment because the documents have been sealed by a judge.
In a conversation quoted by KRQE that allegedly occurred Friday shortly after the shooting, an unidentified woman says: "Don't tell me you're the one who shot Carlos."
"You know it. I told you guys," Trujillo allegedly responded, KRQE reported.
In another conversation quoted from the document, an unidentified man reportedly tells Trujillo: "You can go hide someplace else, or you can to to a friend's house and hide there. ... Just go there until it cools off a little bit."
Asked whether there was concern about evidence being suppressed by the court because of such information, Valdez would say only that he feels the police have acted properly.
"I can tell you I'm confident with the course of the investigation thus far with regard to any suppression issues as they relate to police conduct," Valdez said.
Asked how such documents could have ended up at Trujillo's home, Valdez said, "Police are required to serve the warrant and the supporting documents" when they search a place.
Court documents often are sealed to preserve the integrity of investigations "and at times the life and safety of witnesses," Valdez said.
Trujillo's mother told KRQE that she didn't believe her son killed anyone.
But "I might do something, too, if they make me real mad or they do something wrong to me," she said.
"As of this time, we have not had any sightings of Mr. Trujillo reported to us," Segura said early Tuesday.
"We are following up leads as to his whereabouts.
"Again, he's only wanted for questioning, and there are no charges against him."
Police on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Trujillo, 40, on an unrelated charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He allegedly was seen Thursday with a handgun in Santa Fe, the day before Vigil was shot, Segura said.
A truck resembling Trujillo's was seen leaving the vicinity of the drive-by shooting, but Segura said no witnesses could identify the shooter.
Crime scene technicians on Monday began going over a truck found in the garage of a home in Trujillo's hometown of El Llano, north of Santa Fe. An anonymous tip led authorities to the home, which belongs to neighbors of Trujillo, and police got a warrant to search the vehicle Monday.
The truck's hood had been taken off, and parts of the engine had been removed or tampered with, police said. Segura said officers believed someone sought to alter the vehicle's look.
Police hoped a reward fund established Monday would lead to a break in the case.
Segura warned anyone who might see Trujillo not to approach him but rather call police.
"Any time you're dealing with a convicted felon who has prior assault and battery convictions, certainly you must be wary of a potential for violence," Segura said.
Vigil represented Trujillo last month in an Espanola Municipal Court case in which Trujillo, in a plea bargain, pleaded guilty to assault and marijuana possession and was sentenced to time already served.
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While the myth of the solitary intrepid explorer has long been questioned, the notion of exploration still suggests the discovery of a wilderness. This conference aims to examine the extent to which the explored territory was in fact a peopled landscape, inhabited not only by indigenous peoples, but also often by the vanguards of Empire such as slavers, marines, merchants, sealers, whalers, and missionaries, as well as early settlers who hosted the explorers and travellers. Recent historiographical shifts mean that scholars now recognise that so called 'lone travellers' in fact depended on local support for food, shelter, protection, information, guidance, and emotional solace, as well as other resources. This conference, which has a global focus, will analyse in detail the contributions of local people as intermediary figures, as interpreters and 'native' assistants, thus making the hidden histories of exploration more visible. Those hidden histories include not only indigenous participants but local settler populations.
We invite papers covering the history of exploration which address the following themes:
• The role that Indigenous people played in colonized lands as guides, advisers, trackers and translators, enabling and participating in exploration
• The experience and agency of Indigenous peoples, including issues of choice versus coercion, as well as differences between, for instance, 'professional' guides versus occasional assistants, young and old, men and women
• The role of settlers, such as sealers, merchants and squatters in the construction of knowledge about Indigenous people and topography
• The experience and changing role of intermediaries in areas in which multiple, sequential and overlapping explorations occurred, and the implications of repeat explorations in terms of the accrual of knowledge and experience
• The interaction and interconnection between knowledge gained from intermediaries within settlements and through exploration
• Differences and similarities between maritime exploration and inland exploration, especially in the respective use and experience of intermediaries
• The role of class in constituting the myth of the solitary explorer
• Gendered analyses of exploration, for example the role of Indigenous women
• Ideas and practices of hospitality, charity, welcoming etc within settler and Indigenous societies and their influence in shaping responses to and encounters with exploration parties
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We especially welcome submissions from post-graduate, early career, and Indigenous scholars. We will be looking to publish selected papers from this conference.
Conference date and location:
17 and 18 July, 2013 at the Australian National University, Canberra
Keynote Speakers:
Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Leonard Collard, Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia
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Judge Griesa summons new hearing on case of hedge funds holding Argentine bonds
US Judge Thomas Griesa summoned a new hearing at New York Court over the case of investment funds against Argentina. The judge agreed with both parts a hearing on Friday to define the following steps after the US Appeals Court ruling issued on October 26.
The ruling recognized that Argentina discriminated against bondholders who refused to take part in massive debt re-structuring in 2005 and 2010 by deciding to pay them later than bondholders who agreed to participate.
The unanimous three-judge appeals court panel said that in conducting the restructurings, Argentina violated a provision in the bonds that required it to treat bondholders equally, even if they chose to hold out and did not take part in the massive debt restructuring in 2995 and 2010.
Argentina claimed that upholding Griesa's rulings would undermine its debt agreements, trigger a new financial crisis in the republic and make it impossible for countries including Greece and Spain to restructure their debt in the future.
"Nothing in the record supports Argentina's blanket assertion that the injunctions will plunge the Republic into a new financial and economic crisis," Circuit Judge Barrington Parker wrote for the panel agreeing with Judge Griesa that with more than 40 billion dollars in foreign reserves, Argentina has the ability to pay the holdouts
"We hold that Argentina breached its promise," the appellate court said, summarizing a 29-page ruling that could make it difficult for Argentina to use the US financial system unless it complies.
The appeals court sent the case back to Griesa's court to clarify how a payment formula set by the judge is intended to work and to determine how the orders apply to intermediary banks and other third parties.
NML Capital Ltd. is the investment fund that impounded the Argentine Navy training frigate ARA Libertad which remains retained in Ghana. The parent company of NML is billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Capital Management
The case is NML Capital Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, 12-00105, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Manhattan).


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Angel Garcia, 18
Class: Senior, Palo Duro High School
Nominated by: Shannon Mashburn, a Palo Duro High School teacher
Why does this student stand out? "Angel has a drive that is rare in today's youth. He strives to better himself even in difficult circumstances. He has proven himself to be an extraordinary person who has a very bright future ahead of him."
What is your biggest achievement? "I will graduate in the top 9 percent of my class."
What is your secret to success? "My secret to success is perseverance, punctuality and focusing on what is important and necessary to achieve my goals."
Tell about your favorite subject and why: "My favorite subject is theatre, because that is where I thrive and feel most comfortable."
Please list your community or school involvement: theatre productions, UIL One Act Play, Senior Leadership, Gear Up Leadership, National Honor Society, PRO Internship Program, Amarillo Little Theatre, ALT Academy, Eveline Rivers, Faith City Mission, Trinity Fellowship
What are your plans and goals after graduation? "I plan to attend West Texas A&M University to study mass communications and theatre, then move to Chicago to audition for Second City Comedy Theatre and 'Saturday Night Live.'"
What is your best-kept secret or hidden talent? "I write poetry and short stories."
Your favorite television show: "Saturday Night Live"
Your favorite book: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your favorite movie: "The Dark Knight Rises"


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SCRANTON — The first ordinances passed by a local government to crack down on illegal immigrants, enacted in July in the old coal city of Hazleton, went on trial in federal court here yesterday, with 20 lawyers seated at counsel tables and reporters for national media scribbling notes.
The central question in the case is whether municipal lawmakers can regulate immigration, or whether immigration policy is the exclusive province of the U.S. government.
"I realize we're not fighting for Hazleton anymore. We're fighting for the whole country," said Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who introduced the Illegal Immigration Relief Act in the city council after a local man was shot in the forehead by two illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic last May.


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December 15: Boulder Creek Honor Choir Performs "A Ceremony of Carols"
Sunday 12.15.2013 @ 10:00am | ImagesAZ | Community
Venue: 9205 E. Cave Creek Rd. in Carefree
The Living Music Performance Series at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church welcomes the Boulder Creek High School Honor Choir Dec. 15. This outstanding choir will present English composer Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" during 10 a.m. worship. The program of choral music and harp celebrates the centenary of Benjamin Britten, who was born in November 1913.
The Boulder Creek Honor Choir, under the direction of Mr. Kirk Douglas, is composed of the top 35-40 vocalists at Boulder Creek High School. Individual choir members are also represented in the All-State Jazz and Show Choir, Regional Honor Choir, and the All-State Choir.
Enjoy this seasonal performance followed by a festive Christmas cookie reception. All are welcome! A free will donation will be taken at the door to support the honor choir's fundraising efforts.
Christ the Lord Lutheran Church is located at 9205 E. Cave Creek Rd. in Carefree.


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Dallas Cowboys take a swing at the Reliant Home Run Derby
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Cowboys Miles Austin snags a ball in right field during the Reliant Home Run Derby benefiting the Salvation Army at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
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Truck Scale Scales and Balances Datasheets
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MSI-5300 "Load Ranger" Portable Wheel Weigher package includes: (1) 5300 Axle Wheel Pad with 6-volt rechargeable battery [See More]
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- Resolution: 20
- Capacity: 20000
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Axle weighing the right way, built for one stop weighing [See More]
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- Display: Digital Display (optional feature)
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Hydrostatic load cells, impervious to RFI/EMI, Class 1 Div. 1 safe [See More]
- Type: Truck Scale
- Material: Stainless Steel
- Capacity: 75000
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The Bending Plate Scale contains load-weighing elements installed within a robust CNS machined steel pad. Six load-measuring transducers mounted within the steel pad are designed to allow the scale to be linearized across the entire weighing width. Each scale is mounted flush with the road surface... [See More]
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from Mettler-Toledo, Inc.
Model 7360 RAILMATE ® scales can be used to weigh both trucks and railroad cars. They are ideal for grain elevators and other operations where both types of vehicles are weighed. Reduces costs because one scale can handle all weighing needs. Weighbridge converts a section of railroad track into... [See More]
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The MagnaMount tank, truck and railroad scale assembly is designed for use with Rice Lake Weighing Systems ' RLCSP1 or Revere Transducer 's CP or CSP load cells. The "Shielded Cell " load cell mounting assembly is a highly reliable design that shields the load cell from shock... [See More]
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life and Performance. Nearly Identical Phones so the comparison is as close as one can get.
32nm 5 year old ATOM beats latest Dual Core SnapDragon S4 in battery life and Performance.
ARM cannot compete in the Windows world (too slow), and is losing out in Power to ATOM.
CES should be interesting.
A multi-core benchmark is not the same as a multi-threaded benchmark. In real world performance tests (engadgetDOTcom and others), Medfeld beats Snapdragon. A 32nm 5 year old ATOM, beating a 28nm Snapdragon in battery life and performance.
ARM is SLOW, cannot run Windows well. Its done.
I know the difference between multi-core and multi-thread:) Geekbench spawns the correct number of threads for the Atom cores. See for yourself:
and search on Z2480 .
As for benchmarks, we now have a variety of tests:
Java: Snapdragon wins
Javascript: Medfield wins
Native: Snapdragon wins
GPU: Snapdragon wins
Suites (such as Quadrant, Vellamo, AnTuTu) : Snapdragon wins
As engadget put it:
"Expect the greatest screen or the fastest performance and you're likely to be a little disappointed".
As for windows, I agree with your view that ARM is dead, but not due to performance. Clovertrail is on Geekbench, search for Z2760 and compare it with the ARM solutions in tablets.


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Nine hurt in morning bus crash
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Emergency workers treat the victims of a crash involving a Wayne County school bus and a van at the intersection of U.S. 70 and Beston Road early today. Investigators said six students on the bus and three people in the van were taken to Wayne Memorial Hospital.
A Wayne County Public Schools bus driver will be cited for an unsafe movement violation after an early morning accident on U.S. 70 East that sent six Eastern Wayne High School students to the hospital. The driver and two passengers...
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Stevensville, MT – Albert Burkhardt was welcomed in to heaven by his Lord and Savior on Monday, June 24th, 2013.
Albert was born February 27th, 1925 in Linton, ND to Fred and Hilda Burkhardt. The family moved to Montana in 1938. At age 17 he joined the Navy and served in WWII. He married Esther Derheim on Sept. 9th, 1949 in Billings. He moved to Missoula in 1967 where he worked in the timber industry until his retirement. They have two daughters, Cindy and Patty.
He enjoyed family, serving the Lord, church, farm auctions and recycling. His loving, cheerful and giving manner will be in the hearts of those he knew forever.
He is preceded in death by his parents Fred and Hilda Burkhardt, sisters; Lillian, Elsie and Velma.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Esther; daughters Cindy and Patty; grandchildren Cory (wife Krista) and Albert; great grandchildren Jeanna, Callen and Teyla; siblings Ella, Betty, Florence, Vinola and Chris; five brothers-in-law, six sisters-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services will be held July 27th at 2:00 pm at Bethel Baptist Church in Missoula, MT. Reception to follow in the church fellowship hall. Condolences and memories may be left for the family at www.whitesittfuneralhome.com


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Group of friends relegated to a low income motel, The Bates Motel. It is rumored that this crew has been known to sleep in pig stys. Which more than likely was the reason they were not allowed to sleep at the El Resort de Dubois. The Bates Crew is also known for their rediculous post-game sesh, where The Hunter, was almost a fallen warrior. These post-game seshes sometimes results in knives going into walls or people getting stuck between the bed and the wall and not being able to move.
Why were we not allowed to sleep in this house when there are 3 open beds upstairs and Derek is pulling mad nasties and not even sleeping in his room?...b/c we are the Bates Crew
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Nadya "Octomom" Suelman's nude photo shoot with Britain's Closer magazine came with a price tag – a small one that the mother of 14 is happy to reveal.
"You wanna know how much I got?" Suleman, 36, asks Anderson Cooper on his talk show Anderson airing March 30.
"I got $8,000. I have to do what I have to do to take care of my family, and I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed at all ... I've never sacrificed my morals and values."
In fact, Suleman says she does not consider the nearly-nude pictures to be racy.
"I am covered. I had to think about that. I reflected on that quite a bit before choosing to do it," she tells Cooper. "I discussed it with my children openly."
Still she admits, "I'll be honest, I did it for money."
Suleman says she'd rather pose nude for a magazine than bare it all for a man she isn't seriously dating.
"I do wholeheartedly believe you need to be fully, fully in love with another human being before you give your body to that person," she tells Celebuzz. "I would need to be with someone for years, not months, for something to manifest into anything more. I don't even touch my own darn self unless I'm washing with soap!"
As for her financial situation, Suleman admits to Cooper that she's "struggling" with mortgage payments and has to move because of it, but says she does her best to keep things light at home with her large family.
"I don't feel it's appropriate to burden [the kids] with that kind of stress," she says. "I do my best to have life for them every day as happy as possible. We play, we enjoy the moments we have together and that's all that really matters."
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Agency watches Ford vans for rust
U.S. auto safety regulators are monitoring about 100,000 Ford and Mercury minivans that were not covered by a recall issued earlier this year for rust problems.
Ford recalled about 230,000 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans in March to fix rust in the wheel wells that can cause the third-row seats to come loose.
The vans from the 2004 through 2007 model years were sold or registered in 20 cold-weather states, including Pennsylvania.
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JVC Introduces New iPod Dock
The new JVC XS-SR3 was announced this week. This iPod dock features Dolby Virtual Surround in a sleek wraparound design. The dock not only holds an iPod vertically but also horizontal. This should be a bonus for those who watch videos. The dock has a shiny black speaker that curves. The iPod lays between the speakers. The iPod can also rotate allowing for watching video in widescreen. The JVC- SR3 is available this month and retails for $149.95 FollowRead more →By GamergirlSB in Gadget 1 Comment »
Disney Brings Animal and his Drums to the iPhone
Disney Interactive Studios has announced the latest addition to its slate of apps, The Muppets Animal Drummer. The game is available now on the App Store for $1.99, and puts iPhone and iPod touch users in the drummer's seat. Players get to watch and listen to Animal play, then try to match Animal's beat and timing to score points and unlock new songs. The app also features a Free Play Mode where users can rock out with Animal to original music or songs imported from your iTunes music library (3.0 OS or higher required). Users can also score points and create combos to charge their Rock Meter and power their stage presence. You can even use the App to create original music, then hit the record feature and watch Animal replay your jam session. "We're excited to bring Animal and The Muppets to a broad mobile audience, and what betterRead more →By Cherith in News 2 Comments »
PassionFruit Games to release Marjorie Liu game
Marjorie Liu author of 10 romance novels (The Dirk & Steele series) as well as co-writer of the Dark Wolverine comic is getting one of her romance novels turned into a Video Game. PassionFruit is working on Tiger Eye: Curse of the Riddle Box to be released sometime in April of 2010. It's being described as a romance game, with puzzles and mini-games with a storyline that continues to grow as you play through the game. It'll be available for PC and Mac and will be targeted at the 25-65 women demographic. Liu while perhaps being known in both the comics and romance world, has also in the past few years joined the urban fantasy setting with her Hunter's Kiss series. So many authors are being tapped recently for video game ideas – with developers borrowing heavily from the original stories as they develop plot for the new games. IRead more →
New Rewards from Club Nintendo
Club Nintendo™ is releasing exclusive new Rewards to club members. Here's a list of some of the newly available items: Two sets of greeting cards. The sets each feature three different designs from the Super Mario Bros.™ and Nintendogs™ series. Each set of 12 greeting cards is available for 300 Coins. Three different folder sets featuring designs from the Super Mario Bros. series. The sets contain three folders and include matching bookmarks. Each set is available for 250 Coins. Club Nintendo has also rolled out a series of surveys to give members the chance to provide feedback about the club – and earn Coins, making it easier for members to get their hands on the Rewards they want. Club Nintendo lets consumers earn Coins for registering and answering surveys about Nintendo products. Coins can then be redeemed for exclusive Rewards items from Nintendo. For more information about how to joinRead more →By Cherith in News No comments yet
The world of Pokémon the Trading Card game just got some new, exciting updates! Pokémon Trading Card Game: Rumble, collector's tins, and Pokemon TCG: Platinum-Arceus are all out now for the holiday season. Pokémon Rumble, a new game, combines board game and trading card game aspects in an all-included game set. The set comes with a playmat, 16 exclusive foil cards with the Rumble logo, 14 energy dice, 1 target die, and 14 player markers. Each player gets 2 markers, so this game is set for up to 7 people to grab the box and play! Everything is done on the mat and nothing extra is required, so it literally is a play right out of the box game, perfect for curious first-time players that may not have the means to buy packs and make full decks. The game is also designed as an accompaniment for the up-coming WiiWare game,Read more →By RenoChan in Hobby Angels 2 Comments »
EA releases Sims 3 tool to let players create worlds
EA is letting Sims 3 players get even more creative. Now they can download the beta of the Sims 3 Create a World Tool which allows players to create and share new worlds they design. Players will have to be registered to download the tools. The tools are the same tools that the Sims 3 developers use to create worlds and towns for the Sims 3. Now you get to do all the work. My guess is that Forks will be built rather quickly. Download the tool here. Some improvements to Sims 3 let's players go in the Sims 3 Store without leaving the game in Shop Mode. Players can also browse the full Sims 3 Store catalog without leaving the game. FollowRead more →By GamingAngel in News No comments yet
Borderlands & Fallout 3 – Why You Should Buy Both
If you pay any attention to the world of gaming at all, you've probably heard the comparisons between the recently released Borderlands, and 2008's Fallout 3. While there are several delicious similarities between the two, I am going to take a moment to tell you why buying both is really your only option. First, a bit about each. In Fallout 3 you assume the role of a young, underground vault inhabitant who finds themselves navigating a post-apocalyptic wasteland of Washington D.C. (the Capital Wasteland) in search of Dad. Along the way you encounter mutated animals, horrible raiders and scavengers, and higher-up baddies. The FPS/RPG-style game has you combing the blighted city for answers, while completing quests that further the story (or many that don't) along the way. In Borderlands you assume the role of one of four character types: Siren (token girl), Hunter, Soldier, or Berserker. You find yourself navigatingRead more →By Rachel in Xbox 360 3 Comments »
"DEPARTURES" joining the Madman catalogue
The 2009 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film went to the Japanese film "Departures", and I am tickled "pinku" now that there is news that this award winning film is being added to the Madman Entertainment collection! Here is a synopsis of the film: Daigo Kobayashi is a professional cellist who faces unemployment when his orchestra is dissolved. Upon answering an advertisement entitled "Departures", thinking it is for a travel agency, Daigo finds himself in the role of Nokanshi, or encoffineer, a funerary celebrant who prepares bodies for entry into the next life. While his wife and others around him despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of Nokanshi, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. Daigo experiences a profound and sometimes comical journey as he uncovers theRead more →
The Guild sells out this holiday season
It seems as though our friends over at The Guild have sold out this season with a full line of toys! Well… not really sold out, but they created some great parody videos with some fake products. There's the Bladezz Blade, the Clara Mommy & Me cookie jar, Talking Tinkerballa doll, the Vork unbreakable bank, Zaboo's Fantastic Pheromone Spray, and the Codex Answer Orb! There are some great cameos in the videos as well, and I was laughing during each one! The intro is below and it links to all of the new products. And don't forget to get The Guild Seasons 1 & 2 on DVD on Amazon! FollowRead more →
PlayFirst has released a new Celebrity gossip filled hidden-object-with-a-juicy-twist game and it is running rampant all over the red carpet! Gotcha! Celebrity Secrets is now available for download on PC or Mac fromRead more →By dawn in Casual Game News 1 Comment »


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Graz Osteoprotegerin as a Risk Factor (GORF) Study
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"I was interested in writing," said Elana Zarotsky, class of 2010 at UCLA School of Law and co-president of its Jewish Law Students Association. "For an English major, there's not much to do other than law school. It's a great living, and there are a lot of things you can do with it."
Zarotsky's line of thinking has echoed for generations between parents and their children — a lion's share of Jews among them — and in countless family rooms, college dorms and cubicles across the United States. The legal profession has traditionally been one of the most prudent career paths in America. But what once seemed a secure route to a bright future has hit a bottleneck as job prospects in the industry have become, at best, anemic, since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008. Students saddled with huge debt now face graduation with frighteningly few options, even those coming from the nation's best law schools.
The Web site Law Shucks determined that "2009 will go down as the worst year ever for law-firm layoffs," based on its archive of press releases, leaked e-mails and news reports. The data show that 4,633 lawyers were let go last year from the group of high-powered, high-paying national firms loosely known as "Big Law." And those numbers don't even include lawyers whose firms dissolved completely, who were the victims of "stealth layoffs" masquerading as firings, or who were laid off by smaller firms. In other words, Law Shucks concluded that, in 2009, "More people were laid off by more firms than had been reported for all previous years combined."
"Whenever you see layoffs like that, people are going to get very worried about their job future," said Scott Schaefer, a professor of finance at the University of Utah. Schaefer and Stanford professor Paul Oyer published an academic study in March titled "What Drives Turnover and Layoffs at Large Law Firms?" based in part on the Law Shucks numbers. "Because of [the layoffs], this year's law grads are facing a very difficult job market," Schaefer said. "There are a lot of last year's class, the year before, and even the year before that who are now competing with this year's graduates."
Much of that competition is rooted in the pre-recession Big Law salaries of 2007-2008, which peaked at $160,000 per year for beginning attorneys. The dream of earning that salary in one's 20s or early 30s — and paying off student loans — was enough for many young lawyers to bear the 80-plus-hour weeks and the routine night and weekend work. Now, though, salaries anywhere near that range are exceedingly rare, and many students will simply settle for a job.
Before the recession, law students looking to earn the top salaries had to follow a straight and narrow but somewhat navigable road: The first step was to earn top grades at a good school in the first year. Next, students had to gain some legal experience — through public service or at a firm — during the first summer that, in combination with those excellent grades, would wow Big Law interviewers the following fall. Ideally, that would lead to a lucrative "summer associate" job at a firm the following year. Finally, in the fall of the third year, students would tensely wait for firms to extend offers of full-time employment to their best summer associates.
But today, even the most impressive law students with fantastic grades and advanced degrees are routinely eliminated every step of the way, making it ferociously difficult to stay on the path to Big Law.
"With the way the economy has been going the last couple of years, it's created an added level of stress for students," said Matt DeGrushe, dean of career services at USC's Gould School of Law. In addition to the usual help with job searches and resumes, DeGrushe said students are signing up for a special program that has his staff constantly following up with them to make sure they are following every possible employment lead.
"The one thing we've relied on mostly, and I think most law schools will say this, is the one-on-one counseling," DeGrushe said, "because there really is no easy fix that can be taught in a workshop about what you need to do to find a job in a recession."
The 2010 Graduates' Narrow Escape
From the beginning of law school at UCLA, Zarotsky had no illusions about her goals. "A lot of law students go into law school idealistic about what kind of law they want to do," she said, "but once the loans start building up and reality sinks in, I think they start to change their mind.
"For a public school, you don't expect [UCLA] to cost $35,000 per year," Zarotsky said. "They've increased our tuition every year, and that's on top of the fact that half of us don't have jobs. It's crazy." Although she said her $115,000 in student loan debt is "not bad" compared to that of many other students, Zarotsky knew she wanted her first step out of school to be at a big firm.
Zarotsky's class of 2010 may have been the last before the lean years fully set in at Big Law. When she secured a summer associate position at a prominent Los Angeles firm during her fall 2008 interviews, "They didn't really know [yet] how bad things were going to be," and hired seven students. The following year, that same firm hired only two summer associates. "That's five potential UCLA law students who now have to find another summer job," Zarotsky said. "If all the firms are doing that, and they are, it really hurts the second-year law students."
By the end of summer 2009, it was clear to Zarotsky that her firm was having difficulty offering full-time positions after graduation, even for its best summer associates. "They had just done layoffs right before we got there," she recalled. "So it was a little tense showing up and having the lawyers working there [see] their friend just got laid off, and here are new people waltzing in."
The firm ended up offering a few of its 2010 summer associates jobs contingent on a six-month deferral after graduation, starting them full-time in January 2011. Others, including Zarotsky, were asked to take an 18-month deferral and start in January 2012. In the interim, Zarotsky says she is lucky to have found a job as a law clerk for a judge. "Otherwise, I don't know what I'd be doing for a year and a half. Starbucks or something."
Unwelcome Surprises for Class of 2011
Generally speaking, the more recently the student entered law school, the tougher it has been to find jobs. While some in the class of 2010, like Zarotsky, formed good relationships with firms before the downturn hit, most of the classes of 2011 and 2012 did not make it in time.
"When I applied [to law school], the financial crisis hadn't hit yet," said Bryan Wasser, a second-year USC law student. "It still seemed that the environment was ripe with opportunity in 2007. After putting so much time and effort into the LSATs and applications, I had sort of made my bed, and I had to lie in it."
Wasser, president of USC School of Law's Jewish Law Students Association, is a prime example of a top-notch second-year student hurt by the economy. He had already earned a master's degree in accounting and had four years of experience as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche before starting law school. Still, despite his financial experience and USC's excellent reputation, firms would not hire him for either his first or second summer.
Part of the difficulty was that in his first year, Wasser did not earn the near-perfect grades that so many big firms demand. Then the economy went into freefall. "When I started reading about how job prospects were scarce and that more emphasis was going to be put on GPAs, I was worried," Wasser said. During his first year, Wasser and other first-year students would compare their backgrounds and job prospects. "They said, 'You were already a CPA, you had a job, and now you've come here seeking a new career and you might be stuck without one.'"
By his first summer, it was clear the job market at his level had dried up. "There were maybe one or two job postings from large firms looking for first-year associates," Wasser said. Fortunately, he found a summer job in Washington, D.C., working for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its law students honors program, which pays a modest government salary.
In his second year, Wasser was more confident of securing the pivotal Big Law summer associate position. "I was hoping that I could parlay my experience at the SEC and as an accountant into them overlooking my lower-than-median GPA." But no firm would offer him a job. So this summer, Wasser will be back at the SEC, this time in the Office of the Commissioner. "Even though I don't have the sought-after [second-year] summer associate job, I still think that as business picks up, these firms are going to realize they need more associates."
In the meantime, law school at USC costs $46,774 per year in tuition alone, not including room and board, books, transportation and other costs of living. "It's definitely worrisome," Wasser said of the debt. "But I think there are a lot worse [types] of debt you can accumulate." Wasser said he is looking into government debt forgiveness programs for graduates who enter public service.
Eyes Wide Open for Class of 2012
If the classes of 2010 and 2011 faced the rude awakening of the recession while already in school, the class of 2012 made its choice with eyes wide open. "If you're a first-year student, you kind of came into law school knowing what you were getting yourself into. They're definitely rolling up their sleeves and [saying], 'I know I have a challenge ahead of me,'" USC dean DeGrushe said.
Danielle Warner just this month completed her first year at USC. Like Wasser, Warner had earned a master's degree before law school, hers in government and diplomacy. She had worked at the American Embassy in Israel, but found that diplomacy was not the path for her. "Even in my master's program, I was drawn to the international law courses. When I came back to the States, I applied to law school."
Despite the slowdown in the legal field, the lack of jobs in other industries made choosing law school easier. "I had to find a job with my master's degree for the year [before law school], and it was really hard. I don't think the employment market is any better for any other profession," Warner said.
Like Wasser and Zarotsky, Warner hopes to land a Big Law job to relieve debt worries and, of course, to become as successful as she can. "Everyone in my class was at the top of their undergraduate class and did amazing extracurricular activities and are very hard-working, self-driven people. So I think it's common for them to expect that, eventually, that will lead to a lucrative career."
But reality doesn't always live up to expectations.
Warner has already accomplished the first crucial step, getting top first-semester grades at a top school, but hit a roadblock when she attempted to find a firm job for her first summer. "I interviewed at a bunch of big firms, but at the end of the day, they are interviewing seven or eight people and only taking one," Warner said. She was not chosen.
Coming out of those interviews, Warner told The Jewish Journal, "I feel frustrated and disheartened. It's been an emotional roller coaster. I'd been told, 'That's the ticket. Once you get those awesome grades, everything will fall into place.' So to have all the qualifications and for [firms] to just say 'sorry' was a really big letdown."
Worse, when the second-year students fail to secure summer associate positions, they will drop down to compete with the first-years. "Even the typical first-year jobs that aren't with big firms are being taken by second-years. I think a lot of people are really frustrated about that," Warner said.
In the end, Warner found a job with USC's own Small Business Clinic, which helps law students gain experience by giving legal advice to small businesses that cannot afford market rates. She was one of two students taken from a pool of 50. "I'm thrilled to have a paying and interesting summer job," Warner said.
But during the time she was searching for summer work — as late as April — Warner contemplated taking out even more loans to support herself over the summer. "Many of my classmates are still searching for summer jobs or have taken volunteer positions," she said. "A lot of people, if they are from out of state, are going back home and living with their families [for the summer]."
For the class of 2012, the reality that they may not obtain top-dollar jobs has sunk in early. "It's disheartening to work so hard and it's still not enough. Who knows what the person who got that summer associate job had that I didn't?"
Looking Ahead
Schaefer, co-author of the study on law students, doubts the current exasperation over jobs will last forever. "I think this is more of a short-run blip than a permanent change in career prospects for law grads," he said. "I think the market is going to come back, but it will take some time. How long is hard to say." Until then, young attorneys will bear the brunt of it. "These [Big Law] firms seem to be using a LIFO rule: last in, first out."
Peter Zeughauser, a consultant to major law firms across the country, agrees. He predicts that within one to two years, demand will rise to "pre-Lehman Brothers" levels among those firms that were hiring prudently before the recession. For those who hired huge numbers of new graduates without foreseeing the recession, the recovery could take even longer. In any event, for now, "firms are still being cautious, and hiring classes are going to be small," Zeughauser said.
But Zeughauser also thinks the recession may have accelerated some long-term changes afoot in the legal industry.
"I think there will be more unbundling of the work that law firms do and more outsourcing to lower-cost vendors for some work — particularly work that entry-level associates have done." Big Law associates traditionally begin their careers in their first few years by putting in long hours sifting through thousands of pages of documents and evidence. Now such work can often be done more cheaply by outside contractors, including those in other countries, without hiring so many full-time associates here.
Still, Zeughauser is confident about the prospects of the Big Law American firms and, by association, of their employees. "Overall, I think the market for legal services is going to be robust as the world recovers from the recession," Zeughauser said, "[and] three-quarters of the world's largest law firms are indigenous U.S. firms."
Failing that, there is always solo practice. "That may not be the silver spoon that going to Latham & Watkins or Cravath or Morrison Foerster or Paul Weiss or other [Big Law] firms may offer," Zeughauser said, "but there clearly is demand for legal services to be delivered by bright young lawyers."
For soon-to-be young lawyers like USC Law's Wasser, the question of whether law school was the right choice still looms large in his thoughts. "It's a constant debate I have with myself," Wasser said. But he remains optimistic. "I don't know if it's a fool's hope, [but] it seems highly unlikely that someone with my background would be unemployed."
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Matt Westcott to the orange courtesy phone...
There's a little bug in the date implementation in bbgateway on
news.zxdemo.org that has just started occurring now it's no longer May.
It's writing date headers that look like this:-
Date: Sun, 01 June 2008 12:21:31 +0000
which isn't RFC compliant. The month name should be three characters,
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:21:31 +0000
My newsreader (XanaNews) is parsing these dates as 1am on the 30th
December 1899. Admittedly this is rather stupid of it. Obviously it
wasn't a problem during the month of May.
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Zale tells shareholders that its sparkle can fade
Zale Corp.'s latest message to its shareholders has a new twist: Take the sure thing.
Irving-based Zale again asked shareholders on Thursday to vote for Signet Jewelers' $21-a-share offer to buy the company. Zale added that remaining independent comes with risks.
Zale completed a successful three-year turnaround last year, but reminded shareholders that its future three-year business plan comes with uncertainties and challenges. Zale also said it remains highly leveraged and has an aging infrastructure.
Thursday's statement came as Zale investor TIG Advisors LLC, which owns 9.5 percent of the company, is asking fellow shareholders to vote against the sale of Zale. TIG believes the proposed sale price is "grossly unfair." The New York-based investment firm announced last week that it intended to campaign against the merger.
Since the Signet offer was announced in February, Zale said there have been no counter offers. Signet's original offer was for $19 a share and the board rejected it.
In a letter to shareholders filed on Wednesday, TIG Advisors portfolio manager Drew Figdor said, "we appreciate the strong outreach of support that we have received so far from our fellow Zale shareholders."
Zale directors, management and Golden Gate Capital, which has two seats on Zale's board, together own almost 30 percent of the shares.
To be approved, the transaction needs a majority of the 43,145,744 common shares outstanding. A quorum is also more than 50 percent of shares. Voting is already underway and ends at a shareholder meeting on May 29.


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This is a discussion on Re: Can output filter return "page not found"? - modperl ; Sounds like something I would *not* do. If you are going to return a 404, why not do it as soon as possible. Generating data only to return a 404 sounds like useless extra work unless you are caching the ...
Sounds like something I would *not* do. If you are going to return a
404, why not do it as soon as possible.
Generating data only to return a 404 sounds like useless extra work
unless you are caching the same data for future requests.
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> Thanks, good hint. I was thinking that myself overnight.
> Here's the basic scenario:
> I use the main request handler to generate XML. I have a framework that
> allows me to glue together various sub-handlers (from my framework, not
> Apache handlers) to add disparate data elements into the XML depending
> on the context of the page.
> Then I use an output filter to process the XML using XSLT. This
> completely separates data from presentation. Works really well except
> for my current issue. Seems like a reasonable use of the Apache 2.x
> handler structure.
> So I don't actually know whether the template exists until the output
> filter. I don't want to pollute my data generation phase with checking
> ahead for the template. I'm also not sure why Apache isn't detecting
> that the template doesn't exist ... it should look like any other
> servable resource.
> So before I start messing with headers I think I'll look at the way my
> configuration file is set up. Perhaps I'm doing something stupid there.
> I'm using
instead of (or whatever) to
> configure the output filter ... maybe it's something like that.
> Thanks again!
> Adam Prime wrote:
> > If you're using the bucket brigade API you'd have to intercept the
> > headers and modify them there. You might have an easier time doing
> > something like this using the stream API, but i don't really know, just
> > taking a shot in the dark. I'd think that it's certainly possible
> > though, somehow.
> >
> > That said you might be better served catching whatever situation is
> > causing you to want to do this earlier in the request cycle and keeping
> > the response phase from doing whatever it wants to do in the first place
> > and just causing the 404 to happen then.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> >> Hmmm...it's a bucket brigade FilterRequestHandler output filter. It
> >> seems to not care what return code I use, whatever is in the bucket
> >> brigade goes out. Can I not return Apache2::Const::NOT_FOUND from
> >> handler()? That seems odd.
> >>
> >> Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to cause a 404 error from an output filter and it isn't
> >>> doing what I expect. Is this even possible?
> >>>
> >>> mma
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >