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I remember Topshop launching their beauty range like it was yesterday, but apparently it's been 5 years, which is crazy! I've always been really impressed with the quality and presentation of the products, so I'm not surprised that it's done so well.
To celebrate 5 years of success, Topshop Beauty is introducing an exclusive collection made up of the 5 most in demand products and shades from the past 5 years. The collection has been wrapped in limited edition packaging which is a beautiful rose gold take on their usual packaging. So what's in the collection?
The Glow Pot in Polished which is a gorgeous cream highlighter that I love to use, especially in the summer. The Cream Blush in Head Over Heels which is a cream to powder blusher in a spring coral shade. I've never tried their Magic Liner from the 2012 'Sisters of the new moon' collection but it's obviously a hit with customers as that's in there too in a classic black shade.
The Topshop lipsticks have always been popular and they seem to pick the perfect shades to go with the changing trends throughout the year. There were a couple of shades I was surprised not to see in here, but they picked the top selling shade from each of the 5 years and they were Rio Rio (bright red), Ohh La La La (coral), Innocent (soft pink), Nevada (nude) and Beguiled (wine). So there's a nice mix of brights, dark, nudes and light pinks.
I'm a huge fan of Topshop nail polish as it's affordable, great quality and they have the nicest shades. Over the past 5 years Topshop have sold over 2 million bottles to their customers! I was obsessed with Pool Party so I'm sad not to see that on the list, but the top 5 are Adrenalin (pink glitter), Heart of Gold (gold), Green Room (bright green), Parma Violet (lilac) and Boy Next Door (pale blue).
I think it's a great idea for a collection and a lovely way to celebrate 5 years of Topshop Beauty! The 5 years collection will be available on the 5th day of the 5th month 2015. Of course!

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The Divine and the human
The Divine and the human are such a contradiction -- I seem to be incapable of reconciling them.
When I read over a Heavenletter or see a quote from Heavenletters™ somewhere, I am so impressed with the simplicity, wisdom, and love that falls off the page right into my heart.
The biggest wonder is that somehow, by some quirk of fate -- or is it faith? -- I happen to take dictation from God and type up what He says! Is this true? Can it be? It hasn't sunken in yet.
Every time it hits me that Heavenletters™ are words that God gave me to write down, I am sort of stunned. I cannot relate to it. I cannot reconcile this.
I feel like Bilbo in the The Hobbit. As I remember it, while Bilbo is in his little Hobbit house, having his Elevenses (his snack at 11 a.m. ) an X was being chalked on his front door. Later, when so many strangers who are going on a journey come into Bilbo's house and expect him to disturb his routine and go with them, he is certain they have come to the wrong place. Certainly he isn't going to leave his creature comforts and warm house and go on an adventure. Certainly, a mistake was being made.
It's twelve years or more that every day, seven days a week, Heavenletters™ have been written down. I blink my eyes and don't fully fathom it. I often don't believe it. Every time I think of it, I am astonished.
I understand very well that it is not for me to take credit for Heavenletters, and I don't. That is not the issue.
The issue is the contradiction. My focus is too often on something the body wants to eat, or a thought like what clothes will I throw on today or what will I grab for lunch or why don't I, for Heaven's sake, wash the dishes and straighten out my office? And yet dishes may wait in the sink, and I look aghast at my office while I don't move a finger to straighten it.
Why is it that I can't balance a check book? not even try any more? How come I overdo on peaches and let something else slide? At the very least, my office ought to be pristine, shouldn't it?
I am immersed in God and yet I am also immersed in the relative, not even the big matters of the relative but the little things of the relative. How can it be that the Hand that gives me the words of Heavenletters™ every day doesn't make me Godly?
Why is it so easy to write down a Heavenletter and so hard to get myself to make the room that Heavenletters are written in immaculate? I'm thinking it must have something to do with my relationship to space.
Through it all, I simply am unable to reconcile the human with the Divine. It's an impossibility.
Do you experience this too? Is this what's meant by the human condition?


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Twenty three year-old Dan Wolgamott announced his candidacy for the Minnesota state legislature on Nov. 11.
A 2013 graduate of St. John's University, Wolgamott currently lives in St. Cloud and works as a real estate agent and high school football coach. If elected, Wolgamott will represent District 14A, which includes Waite Park, St. Augusta and parts of St. Cloud.
"The sky's the limit for Dan," said McCarthy Center Director and long-time mentor Matt Lindstrom. "I've talked to seasoned politicos who say they haven't seen someone like him in decades."
Dan Wolgamott has been interested in politics for as long as he can remember.
"My parents were always very politically astute and active," said Wolgamott, "I grew up seeing examples of people helping other people out through public service."
As a student at St. John's, Wolgamott continued to develop his passion for civic engagement through active involvement with College Democrats, the McCarthy Center and several local political campaigns, including those of Representative Zachary Dorholt and Joanne Dorsher.
"This is a big part of why I'm running for state representative- if there's one thing I've learned in my time at CSBSJU, it's that community matters. Being involved and helping people out has been a big part of my experience here," Wolgamott said.
Wolgamott remembers volunteering his sophomore year with then-mayor of St. Joseph Larry Hosch's campaign for state legislature. He was inspired by Hosch's eagerness to speak with constituents one-on-one and to listen to their concerns.
"That's what I think public service is all about," said Wolgamott. "It's about building relationships, it's about listening and getting things done."
Integral to Wolgamott's campaign are his fiancé, Nicole Swanson, who is serving as the campaign's treasurer, and 6-year-old daughter Lily.
"She's too young to understand the policy stuff, but we've gone door-knocking before, and she really has fun," said Wolgamott. "She's looking forward to hitting the campaign trail with me."
As a parent, the issue of education is an important one for Wolgamott.
"Making sure that our schools get adequate, equitable and sustainable funding is a big reason why I'm running," said Wolgamott.
He considers development of the local economy and public transportation systems like the Northstar Commuter Rail Line to be central to his campaign as well.
Many CSB/SJU students are already gearing up to help out with their former classmate's campaign.
"I am very excited that he chose to run in the 2014 election," said junior College Democrats Chair Bridget Cummings. "I feel so fortunate that I will still be at St. Ben's so I can help out on his campaign next year."
College Republicans Chair Tyler Brown's views fall on the other end of the political spectrum, but he admires Wolgamott's willingness to run for office.
"I don't agree with Dan politically on a lot of issues, but I think he's a good guy," said Brown. "It's encouraging to see young people get civically involved."
At this time, Wolgamott is encouraging students to get involved with his campaign by making small monetary contributions. He is hoping to utilize a new Minnesota campaign finance law allowing individual contributions of 50 dollars or less to be completely reimbursed by the state.
"I'm not a millionaire, I'm not a billionaire. But I do have a lot of friends and neighbors who support me that can afford to loan me 50 dollars," said Wolgamott. "It all adds up really quickly."
Junior Benjamin Hutterer and sophomore Jake Collins intend to work with Wolgamott on his campaign. They describe their candidate as passionate, energetic and devoted to the political process.
"Even in school he was so connected with policy makers in this area," said Hutterer. "Every step he made during his time at St. John's helped prepare him for this role."
Wolgamott's activisim in the political arena has many anticipating great things from him in the future.
"Dan has charisma, intelligence and a strong work ethic," Lindstrom said. "But he also has that ethical backbone that will keep him grounded and humble. I wouldn't be surprised if he's governor before he's 35."


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EcommerceBytes-Update, Number 34 - March 17, 2001 - ISSN 1528-6703 5 of 7
NOTE: The first part of this series, "Do I Have to Report My Auction Earnings?" can be found at http://www.auctionbytes.com/Email_Newsletter/33/33.html#taxes.
Last time, we discussed why all earnings must be reported and how to avoid being audited by Internal Revenue Service. This article discusses how to report earnings.
I sold my old collection of vinyl albums this year. How do I report it?
This is where the TYPE of transaction comes in to play. As I mentioned before, there are many types of people selling products in auctions. There are people who are simply selling extra stuff that's lying around in the attic or basement. It's sort of an online yard sale. Presumably, this is not a regular activity for the seller. This would be considered to be a capital sale that you report on Schedule D, Capital Gains and Losses. You will need to know the sales date and price, the purchase date and price (if it's been in your attic for 25 years and it was a present in the first place, use an approximate date and a purchase price of zero). You also get to deduct expenses of the sale, such as any auction site fees or commissions. Note that IRS only cares about your purchase price, not how much it was worth. So if you bought a painting for $5 at a yard sale that upon closer inspection turned out to be a Renoir and sold it online for $5 million, you have a $5 million capital gain!
There are all kinds of exceptions for inherited or gifted items, items exchanged in tax-free swaps, etc., and calculating basis can get tricky, so again, you may want to consult a tax preparer for that.
Well, actually, I kind of had lots of auctions running all through the year...
Once the auction activity becomes more regular, especially if you are buying and reselling items, you have a business that you will need to report on Schedule C. The truth is, even a few sales like this should be reported. This is because you will be able to deduct any related expenses, including what you paid for the product you're selling. This is when you need some way to keep track of the money flowing in and out, whether it's a shoebox full of receipts, or personal finance software like Quicken or Money, or you give it all to your tax preparer. Keep receipts of all purchases made - not only is it required for substantiation should you get audited, it's a good way to not forget about these deductions. [Note - if the business is getting really large and making a lot of money, you might also want to consider incorporating it as a way to save self-employment tax and limit liability. That is an entirely new and enormous topic - consult a tax preparer or accountant.]
If you are adding online sales to an already existing retailing business, should you combine them on the Schedule C?
The answer is - it's up to you, more or less. If the product is similar, then it's purely personal preference. If they're different, you should probably use separate forms. There are no tax implications to this decision - all Schedules C for each individual taxpayer are combined for tax and self-employment tax purposes.
But how do I do the form? More to the point, what can I deduct?
Now, let's consider what goes on the form. This is a huge topic, and so as not to lose the three or four of you who haven't already moved on to the next article, I will summarize the most important categories. Your best bet for a complete list is to get a copy of Schedule C and review the list of expenses. (The IRS Web site at http://www.irs.gov is a good place to get info and download forms.) If you use Quicken or Money, consider tailoring your income and expense accounts to fit the Schedule C lines you use in your business. That way, when you are ready to do taxes, you can just print a list of the business expenses and get a big head start on your return.
Wow, you talk a lot. How long do I have to keep all this paper you're making me get?
You need to keep records at least as long as the applicable statute of limitations. Under normal circumstances, the statute of limitations is three years after the return is filed. So on April 15, 2001, the statute will run on 1997 returns. However, if IRS is alleging fraud, the statute goes to seven years. Since you don't know it until they come knocking, it's best to keep your records the seven years at least. The good thing is that if you have to buy a file cabinet to keep all the returns in, it should be deductible.
Gee, thanks for coming. Any other incredibly informative tidbits you want to bore me with?
I guess the bottom line is that selling on-line is just like selling off-line, tax-wise. There is no difference in the tax treatment. The other point is that the tax code is incredibly complicated, and, as you can see, full of exceptions to every rule. If you want to try to do your taxes yourself, I highly recommend investing the roughly $25 it costs to get a tax package, like TurboTax or TaxCut. The packages walk you through line by line, ask questions to try to lead you in the right direction, and have fairly comprehensive help screens, and also tax planning tips for next year. They also allow you to file electronically to get your refund quicker. This will allow you to spend more time focusing on unloading that shipment of Beanie babies.
Mike Batsimm has wasted the last fifteen years of his life involved in tax preparation, research, and planning, including ten years in public accounting firms. He now prepares tax returns as a side job. Mike is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and has a Masters degree in Taxation from Bentley College.


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Kay Hooper's flair for storytelling and her broad mastery of genre are apparent in her electrifying novels. Her many works include modern and historical romances, fantasies, mysteries, gothic novels, and, like Out of the Shadows, suspense thrillers featuring psychic ability.
The small, friendly town of Gladstone, Tennessee seems the ideal place to raise a family - until two teenagers are found tortured to death. Sheriff Miranda Knight will do anything to make her small town safe again, even if it means calling in Noah Bishop, the FBI's psychic profiler. The last time she and Noah combined their psychic powers, she was almost destroyed. Now she must learn to trust him again, or she will most certainly die at the hands of the monster who's stalking her town.
Narrator C.J. Critt breathes life into the beautiful psychic sheriff with paranormal powers and transforms this exciting blend of romance, mystery, and suspense into an exciting listening experience.
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"bad narrator"
The performance was so bad I couldn't even make it through chapter one. Seriously, what was up with those 4-5 second gaps between sentences, I know that doesn't seem like a long pause, but it felt way too long to me, and they weren't at all natural, which made it worse-it was so annoying. Also, Critt read this story way too tentatively-as if she were reading it to a small child or something, and not the adults I imagine the book was written for. I love Kay Hooper-and Out of The Shadows is one of my favorites, but the narration is terrible.
"Great Story, Horrible Narration"
The end of it. The narrator was just horrible.
Bishop coming up over the hill into Gladstone. Makes me smile.
Not if i can help it.
The interplay among Bishop's team is always good. These books (despite their usually depressing subject matter) usually make me smile.
I am an entertainer...so I spend a lot of time on the road. I take my audio seriously. I appreciate great writing and outstanding narration.
I am a very cheap person. I start the review with this revelation because I want you to KNOW that I have only walked away from handful of the books I've purchased.
Out of the Shadows is one of them.
It reads like it was written by a high school student. The style is clumsy and uneven and the plot is clunky, creaky and trite -- all at the same time.
IF you find "It was a dark and stormy night" to be a sample of high literature...this is the one for you.
A terrible waste of a credit.
"From the first read is to love Hooper thriller."
I will be honest. Hooper's romances left me bored. Reading her paranormal thrillers left me stoked and looking for more. Always a good read.
"Horrible reader"
The narrator was horrendous. I did somehow make it through, mainly because I enjoyed the book itself.
Love fantasy books, usually with a strong female character. I also enjoyed just about anything from J.D Robb I am a fan of mysteries as well. I also enjoy funny and quirky novels anything from Molly Harper is a winner in my book. Since listening to audio books is important to me while I travel I also follow certain narrators as well.
"Great 3rd Book"
The end while unbelievable at least keeps the series going. Didnt expect the killer to be who it turned out to be which made the suspension grow.
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How much will the fate of "The Lone Ranger" affect Johnny Depp's future with Disney? He already returned to play the beloved Captain Jack Sparrow in the critically lambasted "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" without buddy Gore Verbinski, but after $1 billion worldwide in ticket sales who needs critics? Now, if Disney ditches Verbiniski again over "Ranger" (the original "Pirates" helmer was jettisoned after "Pirates 3" hit a $300 million budget), will he really come back to star in the planned "PIrates 4 and 5" features? Money heals many bruised egos, but at some point Depp has to stand up for his friends right? Surprisingly, the possibility of another "Pirates" was never even hinted at during the studio's presentation.


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On Wednesday, the Department of Defense announced that it has awarded a small but important bit of contract work to Raytheon (NYSE: RTN ) . The defense contractor won a $9.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to upgrade audio equipment on three of the Air Force's four E-4B aircraft. The E-4B, dubbed "Nightwatch" in Pentagon parlance, refers to modified Boeing (NYSE: BA ) 747-200 aircraft that are to serve as the nation's Advanced Airborne Command Posts in the event of a nuclear attack. (Which probably explains why Raytheon will only be working on three of the four planes at once.) Work on these three is scheduled to be completed by Nov. 1, 2015.
Interestingly, some sources suggest that the E-4B is scheduled to be retired in 2015. Awarding a contract to upgrade the planes' audio systems -- and, in particular, the completion date set at the end of 2015 -- tends to argue that Boeing's planes will be flying quite a bit longer than that.


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quote: Either the New York Times is lying in order to sell papers
quote: However, blaming our current lack of manufacturing industry on unions is idiotic to say the least.
quote: Yes, you can argue all you want Asian's are better at 'dealing' with stress than westerners
quote: We didn't become the world super-power sitting around with our dicks hanging out.
quote: "I'm flabbergasted," says Daisey, whose reporting out of China's Shenzhen city helped draw international attention to the problems there. "I know of no labor group that thinks it appropriate to comment on a company it's investigating before that investigation has even begun."
quote: Factories don't explode from worker boredom. Sorry.
quote: I've been to China and seen working conditions first hand. Neither of these stories passes the sniff test. But by far, Apple's story stinks the most. "Normal" working conditions in China are pretty bad.
quote: Apple should at least admit the issues that it does have and what it is doing to correct them.
quote: Nobody cares. Isn't capitalism great?
quote: I fail to see how contracting work out skirts all responsibility of worker conditions. Given comments by Apple's CEO, it is plainly obvious that they choose Chinese contractors because of their low cost due to these abhorrent working conditions - conditions that they know would be illegal in the US.
quote: Deeming it "not our problem" when US companies and US consumers take advantage of these poor conditions completely dismisses the moral issues and skirts all responsibility.
quote: Not to mention these policies that have incentivized outsourcing have completely hollowed out our own manufacturing capabilities.
quote: Auret van Heerden, president of the Fair Labor Association, is currently investigating the conditions of Apple's suppliers' factories in China after Apple recently volunteered for FLA inspection. Van Heerden recently visited one of Apple's main suppliers, Foxconn Technology Group, and found that the working conditions there were better than many other factories in China such as garment factories.
quote: Sad to say, you couldn't even pay most Americans to work more than 8 hour days.
quote: Are you really implying that it is good to work people 50, 60, or even 90 hours a week? You do understand how ridiculous you appear, right?
quote: As for the rest of your comments, you clearly have an anti-American agenda. You insult Americans and the country itself. If you dislike it so strongly, why don't you leave?
quote: I just frankly don't care. It's not my problem.
quote: I've worked since I was 15, 40+ hrs a week,
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Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken over a town in Mexico as part of an escalating war against drug cartels who dominate the region and have terrorised the local population.
About 400 men wearing ski masks and carrying rifles seized the town of Tancítaro in trucks carrying slogans denouncing the Knights Templar, a quasi-religious drug gang that controls methamphetamine production in the western state of Michoacán.
After gunbattles that killed at least two people and left cars burning in the streets, the group took over the town hall, kicked out the police — suspected of complicity with the gangs — and occupied


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Sen. Paul needs to stop making excuses for Snowden. He's a traitor, pure and simple; innocent whistle blowers don't flee to South America via Cuba and Russia. National security/foreign policy is Paul's biggest weakness. The country and the GOP might not be in the mood for the McCain approach to foreign affairs, but Paul acting like Snowden is a patriot or hero is not going to fly either.
Ed Snowden is a Patriot who has revealed serious threats to our national security by the tyrannical Obama. Rand Paul is a Patriot as well, this issue sealed Rand's nomination for President in 2016.
"Ed Snowden is a Patriot who has revealed serious threats to our national security by the tyrannical Obama. Rand Paul is a Patriot as well, this issue sealed Rand's nomination for President in 2016."
Ed Snowden is a traitor and a coward who has revealed critical intelligence-gathering programs that helped to keep us safe to those would do or wish us harm. Rand Paul is a product of the "Me, Myself, and I" mentality that places total loyalty and obsession on a bumperstickerized view of "freedom!" and "liberty!" without any regard for the responsibility necessary to maintain that freedom or the consequences of not upholding that responsibility.
Unless you think that government should keep no secrets, and that the Chinese and Russians and terrorists should have full knowledge of how we're trying to keep up with them, you can't ask for a better surveillance program than one that uses warrants and an informed legislative branch to monitor an executive program, that gives government only the same level of information that the likes of Google, Facebook, and Verizon already have in their records.
#3: that assumes the program actually works on the lines you've spelled out. We've already learned that they obtained information on a blanket-basis — not a per-warrant basis. In other words: grabbing all our data, whether that includes people not suspected of anything (what used to be called "innocent people", as in "innocent until proven guilty") or not, is what they were and are doing. That isn't in dispute; the administration has admitted this much. They've offered up examples of how the blanket program protected us — unfortunately, again, for them, there are people capable of reading out there. That includes the fact that the first example actually turned on old-fashioned intel, not the PRISM data — the Brits gave us specific information, which led to specific warrants being issued and specific targets being watched. Note the use of the word "specific" throughout — no one objects to THIS type of program. We do object to programs designed around the idea of non-specific spying, however. Mr. Snowden is a traitor, per the law, and I would vote to convict him — and then assign a one-day jail sentence.
Only a moron would believe this government after Benghazi, the IRS scandal, Fast and Furious, W.M.D. in Iraq, Pat Tillman, the entire Bill Clinton presidency, Iran-Contra, etc., etc. Governments lie, period, when it comes to anything that threatens to take away any aspect of their powers, whether it be the Republicans or Democrats in charge. There is no way our government is going to willingly place limits on itself with regard to these sweeping surveillance programs, and of course the intelligence community is going to go the media and swear up and down that the info gathered by these programs are crucial to America's security. It's the same dynamic as any other bureaucracy, where they'll rage against anything that threatens to stop the gravy train of federal dollars from rolling in.
And I see no reason to feel comforted by the fact that these programs are approved by the same judicial system that found Obamacare to be constitutional and a legislative body that passes 2,000+ page bills without reading them.
Since Snowden's free speech itinerary has so far taken him to China and Russia I guess his next stop is North Korea.
I hope Bam drones his ass.
Wherever the coward decides to live, there will always be a group of people who will want to collect a reward that Obama will eventually offer for his capture. It may not happen right away, but it will happen. And this little traitor will have his day in an American court.
Snowden, being the good Libertarian that he is, only furthers the fact that Libertarianism is about the freedom to clear his conscience of caring for his fellow humans, by violating the security of the very people he claims he's helping.
BREAKING: Snowden reportedly fleeing to Cuba soon.
He sure does love his freedom.
Where better to be free than good old democratic Cuba?
"And I see no reason to feel comforted by the fact that these programs are approved by the same judicial system that found Obamacare to be constitutional and a legislative body that passes 2,000+ page bills without reading them."
Then you have no faith in even the basic and unquestionably constitutional processes laid out by our founding documents.
Yes, absolutely, this type of program has the potential for abuse. But the potential for abuse is not, in and of itself, abuse. Even less is it justification for saying "no" to the program itself. If the abuses start to show, certainly it is grounds to debate the program. But show me the abuse first.
"BREAKING: Snowden reportedly fleeing to Cuba soon."
For future reference, somewhere within a 15 minute flight of American fighter jets is probably not the best location to flea to for a wanted traitor.
I truly hope we intercept that plane.
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Whether you like the programs Snowden revealed or not, you can't possibly think it's desirable for a low-level government contractor with no legal training to reveal classified information directly related to our national security to the international media based solely on his personal opinion that those government activities are unconstitutional… can you? It's an insanely dangerous precedent to establish. I sincerely hope Snowden ends up in an American court, sooner rather than later.
Agree, Matt
I'd prefer we have a team from the CIA in whatever country he ends up in and they grab him and lock him a box until they get into the United States. Then he can be put on trial, found guilty and sent to either prison for the rest of his life or a firing squad.
Hey y'all Obama lovers, traitors, and comrades; Snowden has a secret 80-page FISA court ruling that says that NSA spying "program" is illegal and violates the 4th amendment plus existing statutes.
That means everything the Obama people have said is a lie, the "program" is not under court control or under checks and balances.
If Ron Paul were on the plane with Snowden the Internet would just dissolve into orgasm.
The NSA breaks the law and Snowdewn is the traitor? The NSA clearly overstepped its mandate by collecting domestic calls as well as overseas calls. The terrorist plots that were stopped used foreign calls. The NSA also told Congress that their analysts have the authority to listen in on a call without obtaing a court order. The fact is that the NSA is in the wrong and Snowden is a whistleblower. The reason that he has to flee to a unfriendly country is because he has to find one that does not have a extradition treaty with the US. It is clear that the NSA does not want to
reform itself and would rather persecute Snowden. The people that ought to be going to jail are in the NSA. If it was done during the Bush Administration those officials need to be held ac countable in a court of law.
…then we have become a nation not willing to be inconvenienced for our own security. There is very little Obama says that I agree with, but its next to impossible to argue when he says that we cannot have 100% security, and 100% privacy, and 0% inconvenience.
"The reason that he has to flee to a unfriendly country"
He doesn't "have to", he is choosing to do so because he is a coward, and thinks he can do a hit-and-run against a top secret program. He is not a hero. Heroes go to the gallows to support their country in a revolution. Heroes sit in jail because they violated segregation laws on buses. Heroes go to trial as the law prescribes to make their case known and submit themselves to the just process.
Cowards run. Traitors flee to enemy countries. Snowden appointed himself as judge and executioner on a program that may well have been central to saving hundreds or thousands of American lives, then went to China and then to Russia to avoid facing the consequences of his actions.
Criticize the program if you want – but I suggest you try doing so to the face of 9/11 victims or their families, or the would-be victims and their families if the plots this program uncovered had not been stopped.
Wiretaps are one issue…but we have already had (and have, from time to time) that debate without disclosing a specific program. The heart of this program is the broad-coverage metadata collection: knowing which phone numbers called which phone numbers and where they called from and how frequently they talked and for how long. In short, and in order to compare it to data they had on known and wanted or suspected terrorists, the government came into possession of the same data kept by Internet providers, websites, and phone companies.
Can you honestly make a strong case for the government and FBI and those responsible for keeping us safe having LESS information, and LESS knowledge, and LESS intelligence than Verizon or Google?
Snowden is a goof, if anything. But what this incident demonstrates to me at least, is the inherent incompetence, corruption, and abuse that government power invites and rewards. For instance, why on earth would a low-level recent hire of a private NSA contractor be able to even get his hands on such supposedly secret documents?
Numbers around a million were mentioned in discussions of how many people in America have government security clearance and access to highly sensitive data. If true, this would be an outright formal invitation for foreign spies and agents to infiltrate such systems and spy on all sorts of private business in the country, much less its political and bureaucratic leaders.
I'm less worried about Snowden one way or another than I am about the hundreds of thousands of people who have a foot in the door to all the data, and a complete lack of transparency or public debate about what information should be on or off limits, to whom, for what specific purpose, and with what absolute restrictions.
If we get the next corrupt, power-mad, crony-mongering incompetent for president — or perhaps I should say "when" rather than "if" — this semi-secret national security state with no accountability just begs to be abused.
We're seeing just how dumb the national security wacko extremists are right here on this thread. Laughable that one of you McCaininites actually referred to the founding documents….Snowden blew the whistle on the government trampling all over the natural right to privacy that Fourth Amendment protection was supposed to prevent. Freedom was dealt a serious blow under the Bush regime, and now utterly destroyed under the current tyrant.
The battle lines should be drawn here, and the 2nd revolution for American ideals and way of life fought for…the only hope is the un-American ideas of the traitors on this thread (Kilburn, Jonathan, C) and the McCains and Lindsey Grahams die with them and the next generation can be un-brainwashed…I think the dyin' should commence immediately.
"I think the dyin' should commence immediately."
No problem. Rest assured, if we stop thinking we need to protect ourselves against terrorist plots, "the dyin'" may be a common experience.
So, I take it you DO believe that the government should know less than Google or Verizon?
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Ecuador's foreign minister confirmed on Twitter Sunday that Edward Snowden has asked Ecuador for asylum.
The Government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. #Snowden
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Can we have a policy that anyone who slanders the GOP in their name or title shall be banned.
Oh Henry,
Quit whining and tattling.
Putin now challenging Obama to a Shirtless Feats of Strength Competition to determine Snowden's fate.
Guys guys… Snowden is not the traitor, the current US government is. I liked the post over at rightspeak.net regarding Snowden.
Snowden may not be a Hero, but he is hardly a traitor.
The fact is that this government works through the consent of the governed. When the governed are lied to then this government is not legitimate. When this program was pitched in the Bush Administration, it was sold as the only calls that would be collected were calls that originated overseas or one that was made overseas. The clear imprssion was that domestic calls would not be included. When the NSA went to the wireless phone companies, they demanded all calls including domestic. Either we were lied to or the NSA broke the law. If anyone should be on trial, it should be the NSA not Snowden.
"When the governed are lied to then this government is not legitimate."
So you do not believe the government has the right to keep anything secret? That's absurd. Even if you assume that every American citizen would ordinarily be entitled to full knowledge of all programs of their government, you can't possibly provide that knowledge to those who might deserve it without also providing the same knowledge to our enemies (Al-Qaeda, Russia, China, Iran, etc) at the same time.
When the government oversteps its bounds then that information should be made public. We do have a right to know that domestic calls are being collected when we were told that would not be the case. The government does not have the right to keep a secret when that secret oversteps the boundaries of what we were told. That is the only way we can hold people accountable. When the NSA believes that they have the right to listen to our calls without any court orders, our rights are shredded. This sounds more like Nazi Germany and the Gestapo rather than the US.
18. "Criticize the program if you want – but I suggest you try doing so to the face of 9/11 victims or their families, or the would-be victims and their families if the plots this program uncovered had not been stopped."
Breaking out the 9/11 defense of the program already?
It is sad to see that in the name of "national security" many people are willing to defend any kind of unconstitutional behavior from our government. Apparently, the Constitution is not important when "national security" is at stake.
Yes, the "9/11 defense". Because if we're going to debate things, we should debate them on practical terms. And the danger of being attacked by terrorists because we let down our guard and cease any surveillance program that might give the feds the same level of information as Verizon and Google keep on file is likely far greater than the danger of waking up one morning to an authoritative police state that restricts the freedoms of press, and speech, and religion, and assembly, and thought because the NSA actually has such previously-mentioned information on file.
I'm open to discussions of constitutional legality – but not from people who would never have any interest in recognizing the merits of such a program, and would oppose any attempt to provide extra legal cover for such a program.
The opponents of this kind of program – first they say its illegal, and if it isn't they don't want it to be, and if it is legal…they don't think it should be.
There is no question that the program was done in the interest of national security. However, should national security ever trump the U.S. Constitution?
"There is no question that the program was done in the interest of national security. However, should national security ever trump the U.S. Constitution?"
The problem is that the Constitution, like so much law, is subject to interpretation. The Fourth Amendment talks about, for example, unreasonable search and seizure – but doesn't define what is reasonable. We could go to one court and get one ruling, or another court and get a different ruling, or talk to 30 lawyers and get 30 different viewpoints.
My point is that we should be discussing what SHOULD be legal, and then asking ourselves if such things are covered under existing law. And that we can do without revealing classified programs.
The fourth amendment DOES define wat is reasonable, read the 2nd half of it.
The question is the boundaries of the program. It was known that calls going from the US overseas and from overseas could be monitored. people are comfortable with that. The domestic call gathering is the question. The NSA did not ask for domestic calls going to a certain number based on suspicious overseas calls. They asked for all calls. Even James Sensenbrenner who authored the Patriot Act has said that this oversteps what he pushed through Congress. The fact is that Snowden did not reveal anything that people didn't know what was going on. What no one realized was the extent of the program.
Remind me again of thos words Benjamin Franklin spoke about liberty and security?
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33. Subject to interpretation, eh? You're making the liberal argument, for all other "interpretations" that you presumably wouldn't agree with, air-tight with that statement. It's hypocritical to have it both ways. Perhaps they are right with their "interpretation" of the commerce clause.
I think the problem with your viewpoint is that you've started with the end in mind: extreme national security, and are willing to fix any bit of intelligence, are willing to make any interpretations necessary, and willing to ignore any limitations on government to make your argument.
I don't believe any of the efforts of the national security extremist whackos will ever effect their goal of "national security", and I wouldn't want to live under the kind of government that would be required to effect same. There will ALWAYS be some kind of danger…get over it. When I was growing up, it was supposedly the commies were all bad guys and were trying to take over the world. Now, it's the terrorists. We have massive debt and a less free world than before the Cold War, and we're likely to be bankrupt and enslaved should your utopian "1984" dreams come true.
These ideas must die. Now.
Can we call the McCain-Graham-Kilburns of the world what they really are? Fascists. They may not even realize it…but, that's what they're advocating.
scary characters on this board..a mix of uber-national security nuts, "i'll hold your coat, here's your m-16" types, and fake tough guys…
39. You've only experienced one thread apparently! There are many more scary manifestations of humanity to come…
been here a while…but it is nonetheless scary to see these reactions relative to this particular issue…expected, but scary


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189 The whole system stands condemned
We are publishing here the full transcript of the press conference that was held on Thursday, 19 February, at the Interfax news agency in Moscow. You may have seen excerpts in reports on Russia's main TV channels. Here you can read the harshest and most important of the comments made by the Politkovskaya family attorneys, Karinna Moskalenko and Anna Stavitskaya, by Novaya gazeta chief editor Sergey Sokolov and by Anna Politkovskaya's son Ilya.
First to speak was Karinna Moskalenko, lead attorney for the Politkovskaya family.
"We have talked before and exchanged opinions with many of the journalists gathered here today but until the last the attorneys for the injured party maintained its neutrality during the trial. We decided we must not influence the jury in any way and remain as neutral as they were until the final verdict was pronounced.
"The aim of a criminal trial is to defend the rights of those injured by the crime. You can see two of them here; in reality there are more. This aim was not achieved but it must be attained through a punctilious application of the law and respect for the rights of the accused. In that sense we who support the implementation of these laws cannot complain about the verdict to acquit the accused.
We welcome trial by jury in our country and consider it the fairest form of justice. One way or another, the jurors today reached their conclusion. We shall never know what discussions and arguments led them there — but, please note, it was a unanimous decision. As citizens of Russia, we and citizens of other countries who respect the institution of trial by jury, should accept that this decision has been taken. It has not yet acquired the force of law, the sentence has not even been pronounced – that will happen tomorrow. However, we acknowledge that this decision arose from competing arguments between the two sides and, together with Anna Stavitskaya and our clients, we took great care that the rights of both sides were respected.
I would like to conclude today by saying that it was very important for us not to make accusations and not to incline to one side or the other. The accused had good defence attorneys, who worked conscientiously during the trial and they proved equal to their task. We have just witnessed a rare example in Russia of a genuinely adversarial judicial process. And if as a result the jurors concluded that that guilt of one or another individual has not been proved then we must agree: failure to prove guilt means that they must acquit the accused.
Anna Stavitskaya, attorney for injured party: "If you recall, at the very beginning of the trial we issued a statement that the investigation had not been very effective. Our view, which we have held from the first hearing, is that the case should not have reached the courts in such a state. The entire trial has proved how right we were. It is now impossible to reproach the jurors and say that they made an incorrect judgment and did not appreciate what happened during the trial.
We listened attentively to the arguments of the prosecution and the defence and heard how the latter tried to sway the jurors. In our view, the defence was more convincing. The decision of the jury arose from the way the two parties worked and because the evidence was insufficient to permit an unequivocal conclusion as to the guilt of the accused. We may speculate why this verdict was reached. From a legal point of view, however, and I am a lawyer and cannot abandon that viewpoint, if guilt has not been proved then the verdict must clearly be for acquittal."
Sergey Sokolov, chief editor of Novaya gazeta: As people know, Novaya gazeta has carried out, and continues to pursue, its own investigation. I have explanations for many of the questions raised here by the attorneys for the Politkovskaya family. We also respect the verdict of the jury and do not intend to raise doubts about it. That is the business of the prosecutor's office, which intends to appeal to a higher court.
There could indeed have been more evidence cited in court, and more people in the dock. Those who went free today were involved in the murder. We continue to insist on our interpretation. We are not lawyers and things are rather easier for us in that respect. Why did things turn out this way? The investigators will never agree with us but my view is that they were simply not allowed to do their job. This was not the result of some order from above but due to the resistance of the entire system. When those serving in the law enforcement agencies, the special services and their numerous undercover agents proved to have been involved in this story, the system erected an enormous shield.
Start with the fact that the killer Rustam Makhmudov was helped to go into hiding. How could someone who was on the federal wanted list and living under another surname, travelling with an FSB officer on certain special operations, get a foreign travel passport in a third name and leave the country?
Why was FSB officer Ryaguzov's workplace not searched properly? After I testified I learned certain things and found out, unexpectedly, that an enormous number of documents of all kinds were confiscated from the apartments of all the accused (including a shopping list, saying who should buy fish and who, margarine) yet the search of Mr Ryaguzov's office was conducted in the following way: a paper with a telephone number was found in his safe but the rest "bore no relation to the case". Another paper was taken from his desk, the rest "bore no relation to the case". The hard drive on his computer "bore no relation to the case". How could that be possible if all those with whom he was in contact were directly linked to his network of agents? Why were the investigators provided neither with the personnel details of those agents nor the archives relating to the activities of Lom Gaitukayev [imprisoned uncle of the brothers Makhmudov] and the rest of that company? Finally, why were the investigators not given the tape recordings made by the FSB of Ryaguzov's phone calls?
There are a great many such questions. I believe that if the investigators had been allowed to work effectively the result today would have been quite different. The scale of obstruction, let me repeat, was enormous. And what is now accounted the shortcomings of the investigation I consider to be their misfortune. For today's verdict is a condemnation of the entire law enforcement system in our country which, from beginning to end, does not do its work effectively.
The assassin was recognised two days after the murder and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation was informed who he was. The investigators only learned of this six months later. How is that possible? What can that be called but obstruction?
Ilya Politkovsky: I am fully in agreement with the views stated here. I'd like to add that having studied the case materials before the trial, I still consider that the four men released today by the jury were involved to one degree or another in my mother's murder. I am not a lawyer, I am saying how things appear to me. Their degree of guilt and involvement should have been proven in court. The prosecutors were unable to do so. In any case, the verdict of the jurors was unanimous. They did not have to go to a vote. They were all for an acquittal.
Question from the audience: Who obstructed the investigation? Do you have your own ideas on that?
Sergey Sokolov: Yes, I do. Permit me to give a lengthy answer.
Every journalist who writes about crime in Russia know that as soon as you begin to investigate even a quite petty offence you instantly come across corrupt policemen who are backed up by corrupt police chiefs and so on up the line. So when we speak of colleagues from the law enforcement agencies who come to the attention of their own organisation, an enormous criminal network is exposed. They become very fearful that if one thread is followed the entire system might collapse: the general fears that a sergeant may be arrested because one way or another he himself will then be exposed.
During the trial it became known that Ryaguzov's chief took a plane trip with the accused in this criminal case. He knew very well about these people and was regularly in contact with them. Do you think he'd put himself at risk? Never. That is why there were such a vast number of leaks from the special services and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. That was how the killer escaped. That was why others could not be charged.
Let us be frank about this: even the arrests were made in a hurry, in my view, due to certain infighting between the Prosecutor General's office and the new Investigative Committee [set up in autumn 2007] who all wanted to get there first. That's not doing the job, it's fighting for control. That's why I'm speaking up for the investigators because they had to work in the conditions that existed. And those were the conditions.
Karinna Moskalenko: I'd like to disagree a little with Sergey .
Neither during the investigation nor afterwards did I hear any complaints from the investigators that anyone was obstructing their work. Furthermore, there are procedural norms that enable the investigators to express such indignation and demand that they are assured of their right to work independently.
Of course, I don't live on another planet, I know perfectly well what Sergey is talking about and the examples he gives probably did take place. However, I do not see that this justifies the investigators. If each time we adopt an improper attitude to the situation of the investigators, the people who are officially entrusted to carry out a criminal investigation, we won't get results but end up with what happened today: if the case goes before a panel of judges, everyone is convicted; if the case goes before an independent jury, made up of our fellow citizens who are not prepared to find people guilty for reasons of convenience, the verdict will be to acquit.
I can agree that the investigators were obstructed, I know of such incidents. Novaya gazeta informed us of such occurrences. The investigators should realise, however, that if they are to defend their honour as professionals they must speak out about the facts and circumstances that hinder them in conducting a normal investigation.
The case has been tried, however, and today we would like to say that there were two cases and that which remains with the Prosecutor General's office is what we call the main case. No, they told us, the main case is the one you're dealing with. Today we declare that the main case has become the one and only case and you still have the chance to investigate it. If someone obstructs you then tell the rest of society and demand independence.
Even so this trial has yielded its fruits. We learned new facts that we shall analyse. Earlier we submitted various petitions to the investigators but they turned us down. Let's see what they do with our suggestions now.
Anna Stavitskaya: I don't know who obstructed the investigation. If an investigator is honest then, I consider, he or she must report the fact. To say when you are investigating a crime: "Someone hindered me and so I did not solve the crime," is unprofessional, to say the least, and in general cowardly. However, the investigation also obstructed us, the attorneys for the injured party. We weren't even allowed access to the case materials. Perhaps if we had been given such access and if the investigator had paid attention to the petitions we submitted things would have turned out differently.
Question from the audience: In the light of what you have just said, is it possible within the system you describe to bring charges against anyone?
Sergey Sokolov: My view is that if the State wants to convict someone, then it will. If the State displays a lack of interest in securing a conviction then we get something like today's result. Having become immersed in this subject with the cases of Anna Politkovskaya, Yury Shchekochikhin, Igor Domnikov, Stas Markelov and Nastya Baburova [murdered Novaya gazeta journalists and editors; Markelov was the paper's lawyer] I understand perfectly that the system is not just rotten. It simply cannot function, whatever attempts may be made by particular individuals. It's impossible, the system doesn't work.
Question from the audience: Will you now demand a new team of investigators? If Garibyan remains in charge how effectively will he be able to work, after what happened today?
Sergey Sokolov: The prospects are not good but they are not at all linked to the figure of lead investigator Petros Garibyan. If such obstruction is encountered when dealing with the small fry I can imagine what will happen when the investigators began to home in on the person who ordered the killing.
We have theories about his identity. But in this situation I would like to warn people against attempts to create a PR operation of the second case. An effective manager from the prosecutor's office could be put in charge of the team of investigators: we know how they investigated Khodorkovsky case and many others. They'll pick up the first tramp who crosses their path, make him the culprit and close the case. In this situation I would very much like professionals to be on the job. It's not a good idea to exclude people who have already become engrossed in the case and have their own ideas. There have already been attempts to change the investigator. It was not helpful. I don't think they need to take such decisions about the people involved. Perhaps my colleagues do not share that view.
Karinna Moskalenko: We have not yet decided whether to ask for a different investigator – we certainly have the right. Is it worth doing so now or will the team of investigators realise that they did not take into account the many pieces of advice we submitted in the form of petitions? If we see them engaged in pointless activities or taking action that we do not understand: if they show a lack of attention to our petitions we shall discuss whether to demand a new team of investigators.
As far as the line to be pursued now by the investigation ... If on any of the charges any of the accused had been convicted the investigation could say it's job was done. So far the investigation has got nowhere. I think this makes the necessity for more effective work quite obvious. By that I mean a team of investigators which would not be lead by some ranking official from parallel agencies. The investigators must be in full control of the case materials and if there is some additional detective work then it must be controlled by the investigators. There is nothing more we can say. There are certain theories and we shall be submitting petitions but will be doing so privately. We must let the investigators do their jobs —but only when we see that they are ready to be serious about it.
Anna Stavitskaya: Do you remember doing maths in school? It makes no difference which side of the equation you place a sum, the result is the same. If Garibyan is replaced by Ivanov or Petrov and he also is prevented from doing his job nothing will have been achieved. It is not important who is working to solve the crime. If the investigation want to solve it, they will.
Question from the audience: Karinna, at the beginning of the trial you said you considered it was a mistake of the investigators not to pay attention to Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that he knew who had committed the murder. You also considered it a mistake that there was no investigation into the fact that Anna was killed on Putin's birthday. What do you think now of these issues?
Karinna Moskalenko: Thank you for your question. At the beginning of these judicial hearings there was a row because words were wrongly attributed to me. Moskalenko, supposedly, had asked for Ramzan Kadyrov to appear as a witness in court. I had to reply a hundred times and more over the phone that I had not submitted such a request. The names of Kadyrov and Putin were certainly mentioned when the parties made their opening statements but not at all in the sense that I had requested they be summoned to appear in court.
Those representing the injured party said that the investigation would be effective, in particular, when it made a thorough check of all the theories and interpretations that deserved attention. If someone, and it did not matter whether it was Ramzan Kadyrov or Ivan Ivanov, declared that he knew something for certain, especially in a case where the evidence was patently inadequate, then of course his testimony must be taken.
When I said that Anna's death occurred on Putin's birthday I was talking about the development of interpretations by the investigation. This fact should have been analysed and a statement made as to how far it might or might not be linked to the motive behind the crime. After all, perhaps these were enemies of Putin. It is possible to construct at least two interpretations of this fact, and possibly more. We do not know to what extent these interpretations were verified; there is no trace of such verification. This is yet another example of a shortcoming in the work of the team of investigators.
Question from the audience: Karinna, did you expect that the verdict would be an acquittal?
Karinna Moskalenko: Until the last minute, as you know, those representing the injured party maintained their neutrality. That was the essence of our contribution to the closing remarks. We did not want our viewpoint, our errors or the rightness of our position, to influence in any way the convictions of the jurors. We wanted it their decision to be the unaffected will of the jury, because they knew of our neutrality and our refusal to take the opportunity to side with prosecution or the defence. And so we did not publicise our point of view.
Today we can say, Yes, we did consider that possibility. That's not to say we expected an acquittal: I could not say that because, as the people sitting with me here have already told you, we suspected that those who had been charged knew about certain of the circumstances [of the crime]. However, was it possible to accept that there was sufficient evidence of their guilt? The answer is no, rather than yes. However, we might nevertheless have expected an acquittal and gave thought to that possibility. Today when the jury withdrew and we were waiting for the verdict we told ourselves, when it took them two hours to reach a decision: "Yes, they've acquitted them." And as my colleague has already said, the defence gave a convincing performance.
Question from the audience: You consider they're guilty?
Karinna Moskalenko: When I was on my way here I thought: The people in this audience will be easy to talk to — I won't have to hide anything from them. I cannot thank you for your question. Perhaps, you will consider that I am being evasive. I shall not avoid this question, because I can give no other answer than to say that "for me an acquittal is proof that they are not guilty". I am a lawyer and my friends from Novaya gazeta are in a much easier position here. Let me tell you what the verdict said: the failure to prove guilt is equivalent to the proof of innocence. That is a principle which I shall never deny.
Sergey Sokolov: Let me take up the question deflected by Karinna and answer as follows. I consider that all four accused individuals were involved in this murder, and other people with whom I conducted a journalistic investigation share that view. Let me go further. I am very concerned, genuinely concerned, for the witnesses who gave evidence in court in the Politkovskaya case and the subsidiary Ponikarov case [concerning Khadjikurbanov and Ryaguzov]. I would assume that their lives and health are in danger. The people in the dock were not the most important figures in this case but extremely significant all the same. I would ask all journalists to keep an attentive eye on the witnesses in this case and what happens to them now.
Question from the audience: Do you have the feeling that the case will be taken to its logical conclusion?
Karinna Moskalenko: We shall force the investigators to work. As attorneys for the injured party we make that promise to you, to ourselves and to society. We shall make them work.
While the trial was taking place we prepared and have already submitted several petitions. We did not stop working for one minute. We came to court, knowing that the evidence was weak and we leave it with the conviction that our worries were well-founded. We did not need to be offered scapegoats, however. In my experience as an attorney I have at times looked with astonishment at the injured party and if the evidence was insufficient I always thought to myself: "What good does it do if they send these people to prison? Wouldn't you really prefer the truth?"
My clients in this case only want to know the truth. With my colleague Anna Stavitskaya we shall never be content with half-truths — above all because Anya Politkovskaya herself would never have been satisfied with a half-truth.
Sergey Sokolov: We remain very that the trial was open. If you remember, there were clumsy attempts to have it held behind closed doors. Our deep respect to Mr Kolesov, the juror who brought all this story out into the open. Thanks to the open proceedings the entire story showed our law enforcement system and special services in a most unfavourable light.
All these agents, who must not be mentioned, who get on with their own lives and answer to no one; all the testimony of Ryaguzov and his admissions in court; all this system with people being abducted by staff from the organised crime department: this was all uncovered before your eyes. We have two verdicts in front of us. One, is de jure and for acquittal; the other is de facto and for conviction. The entire trial has issued a verdict that condemns the degraded system of our law enforcement agencies and the corruption that exists in Russia.
Question from the audience: Ilya, are you disappointed with the verdict?
Ilya Politkovsky: I'm not disappointed. This is the verdict and that's that. I am disappointed with the charges and those people who prepared them. This verdict is the result of the documents that were presented in court. That is very important. I was prepared for such an outcome.
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Planet LocoRoco was a happy place full of cute lil' orange LocoRoco. They're round and bouncy critters who love to hang out all day and sing weird songs together. Then the Moja Corps arrived! The evil black octopus creatures flew down and started capturing the LocoRoco. Major sadness! But, you can help the peace-loving LocoRoco out in their video game on the Sony PSP. Gary reviews it right here!
LocoRoco - Tilt, Bounce & RollTo help out the LocoRoco you need to guide them through levels full of bad guys, spikes, rough terrain and other alien creatures. But, instead of controlling the LocoRoco, you guide them by tilting their whole world and making them jump around!
LocoRoco - Cute Orange Singing CrittersThe coolest thing about this game is that the LocoRoco are so cute! It's also easy to play - the controls may seem a bit weird at first, but they're fun once you get used to them. LocoRoco's levels are easy, but the real challenge is to collect all the hidden items and that's hard even for master gamers!
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Wednesday nights you can go to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and do it all - for the price of admission to the museum and the added cost of food and drink. The programs, which debuted in September 1991, draw an average of 1,000 people each week.


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Rob Mahoney of SI.com on KD: "The Thunder's scoring efficiency in those configurations has been predictably great, but the more startling trend is OKC's rebounding dominance with Durant as a power forward. We're talking about shutout work on the defensive glass and a total rebound rate somewhere in the mid-60 percent range — values well above what the Thunder have done overall and what we could otherwise expect. The specific values will settle in as the season rolls on and the minutes played by those lineups tick upward, but this is a trend that could end up making a remarkable difference. Provided that Durant can continue to outrebound and defend opposing bigs, Brooks may finally be compelled into using his team's most explosive lineup possibilities."
Beckley Mason of HoopSpeak on Durant: "Durant's game was likely headed for such an expansion anyways, his drive to improve would naturally lead him in that direction. But it might also be that the Harden trade will accelerate Durant's growth as a playmaker and evolution within the Thunder petri dish. If that's the case (and it's impossible to say now) it would raise an interesting question: given the choice, is it better for Durant to become the absolute best player he can be, or to perhaps sacrifice some of Durant's peak ability in order to retain the better secondary player in James Harden?"
Sam Anderson of New York Times Magazine talking about his cover story: "The Thunder is a magical team. Everyone wanted to hate them after the debacle over whether the team would stay in Seattle, and many succeeded and even kept it up for a few years. But the team became so likable on so many levels (the personalities, the playing style, the organizational class, James Harden's beard) that a lot of that hate just melted away. That's not to say that many people in Seattle don't hate them still, understandably. But the players are so young, they had all of this potential and then they actually realized it — which is such a rare thing in sports. (I write this as a big fan of the Portland Trail Blazers, which five years ago were on the verge of a Thunderlike feel-good explosion, but then all of their best players' knees exploded simultaneously.)"
A look at OKC's Christmas uniform.
Marc Stein of ESPN.com has OKC sixth in his power rankings: "Shooting 50.7 percent on 3s in OKC, Kevin Martin can't give much more than he's given to his new team. We'd love to say the same about Russell Westbrook, but the birthday boy had been challenging Nick Young for the unofficial league lead in ill-advised shots until Sunday night."
John Schuhmann of NBA.com has OKC third: "Well, the Kevin Martin thing is working out just fine. The new guy is still shooting better than 50 percent from both the field and 3-point range, the Thunder are a plus-15 in 50 minutes where Martin has been on the floor with neither Kevin Durant nor Russell Westbrook, and he can't be blamed too much for the fact that his team still can't take care of the ball (30th in turnover rate)."
Great stat from reader Dustin on Kevin Martin: Through eight games, Martin is averaging 17.1 ppg on 9.6 shots per game. The only player in league history to average at least 17 ppg on less than 10 FGA is Artis Gilmore in 1980-81.
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Darnell Mayberry: "I mentioned much earlier that the Thunder closed fourth-quarter defensive possessions with rebounds, sort of. That's because OKC allowed seven offensive boards in the final period. That's too many. Against a good team, that will get you beat. But the Thunder weathered the storm tonight and continued to give great second and third efforts despite the late defensive rebounding issues. It made the fourth-quarter D that much more impressive while also leaving much to be desired. Get it?"
Dan Feldman of Piston Powered: "The Pistons played fine for the first three quarters – and for Detroit, fine is divine – but the Thunder were playing their second of a back-to-back and fourth game in five days. It was impressive that the Pistons could build a double-digit lead on Oklahoma City in any circumstance, but it's not terribly surprising that they blew it. The Thunder are simply a level or two above Detroit right now."


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Linus Torvalds on the Near Future of the Linux Kernel
Talking in an interview with InformationWeek Linus Torvalds revealed what features and functions we can look forward to from the Linux kernel in the near future, what direction development will take, and what his views are on the continual accusations by Microsoft.
The focus of next year's work will be improving hardware support, said Torvalds, with work being put into drivers and porting to other platforms. He identified graphics and WLAN drivers as former weak spots with the situation currently improving and likely to continue doing so next year.
What Torvalds is really excited about is the use of solid state disks (SSD) which he anticipates will help to reduce latency in data access, thus having a huge positive impact on the Linux kernel's latencies. Although virtualization is not one of his favorite topics, Torvalds doesn't deny that much has been going on in that field.
Torvalds sees Linux's strength of Linux compared to Windows less in a specific area than in the flexibility of Linux. Virtualization is a good example of this that shows the validity of various different approaches, according to Torvalds. At the same time it demonstrates the true strength of the Open Source model versus single-vendor models.
Asked to comment on Microsoft's claims that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents, Linus Torvalds response showed that he was fairly confident that there was very little to support the accusations.
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Admirals aim higher this season
The Erie Admirals will be the last team to get started in the National Premier Soccer League's Midwest-Great Lakes Conference.
In their fifth NPSL season, it doesn't matter when and where the Admirals start, but how they finish, and that's usually at or near the top.
"The other teams have played two or three games, but we have to work out a practice schedule, get set up with the right facilities, and some of our players had to fulfill their college commitments before they can participate, so we're off to a little late start," said team owner, coach and general manager John Melody. "We have to condense our schedule to two games a weekend, but that's OK because we have a team built for that."
The Admirals, with former stars Dan "Diggsy" Howell and Billy Colton back with the club, open the season today at AFC Cleveland (1-2), the club that edged the Admirals 4-3 on penalty kicks in the conference title match in 2012.
On Sunday, Erie hosts the FC Buffalo (2-0) in the 3 p.m. home opener at Cathedral Prep Events Center's Dollinger Field.
The Admirals, who played their home games at Gannon University Field in 2012, went 7-1-5 before dropping the title game to Cleveland. The two teams were tied 1-1 after 120 minutes, with Cleveland scoring on a penalty kick to tie the game despite being a man down. Later, AFC keeper Ben Yabrow stopped Erie star forward Afrim Latifi on a PK attempt to end Erie's season.
The Admirals return nine players, including Latifi, the former Gannon and Cathedral Prep sensation who will coach the Villa Maria girls this fall. Also back are keeper Daniel Mudd, who starred at Mercyhurst, former Gannon All-American defender Sean Pike, ex-McDowell and current St. Francis defender Mitch Kavlick, Mercyhurst junior midfielder Sam Dorf, forward Shane Howard (Montevallo), defender Gavin Stabbe (Duquesne), Penn State Behrend 2012 All-American forward Jake Gamble and midfielder Ryan Johnstone (Tiffin).
"We had an unusually high turnover in players, but there are two guys coming back in Dan Howell and Billy Colton who are great players that make our side tough to deal with," Melody said of former Gannon forward Howell, a District 10 career scoring leader at Iroquois, and ex-Mercyhurst standout Colton, an all-PSAC forward.
Howell played for the Admirals before going to Iceland to play professionally in 2010. Colton, who went to play one season of pro soccer in New Zealand, helped Erie to a 11-2-1 season in 2011, and scored the winning goal in the NPSL quarter-finals before the Admirals lost 4-2 to the Jacksonsville (Fla.) United FC in the NPSL semifinals.
Melody's clubs have a record of 39-7-7 in the four seasons competing in the NPSL. In their inaugural season in 2009, the Admirals lost to Sonoma County (Cal.) 2-1 in the championship game.
Melody, a businessman and former Mercyhurst soccer coach who works in the university's advancement department, sees another competitive season in the six-team conference.
"Cleveland lost its first two but won on the road, Detroit City (FC) and Buffalo both won their first two, and you can't count out anybody when you play them in this league because there is a lot of talent," Melody said. "We believe we have a strong side, and we're excited to get under way."
BOB JARZOMSKI can be reached at 870-1678 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNjarzomski.