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An article from Courthouse News Service (a nationwide newsletter for lawyers focusing on civil litigation) caught my eye this morning:
A retired lawyer claims he wrote a book investigating the death of Princess Diana, and his agent extorted thousands of dollars from him to market the book. Paul Anthony Spletzer...sued BK Nelson and her eponymous firm, whom he says he hired to represent him for 20 percent commission.The full complaint, which demands millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages, can be seen here.
"In negotiating her fee, defendant Nelson, when questioned by Spletzer as to why she charged 20 percent commission, which is believed to be twice as much as other agencies, replied that she, she personally, was worth it," the complaint states.
Spletzer says Nelson told him that he "would receive not less than $250,000 and probably $450,000 plus royalties for the rights" to his book by selling it as a film.
He claims she asked him to pay $4,000 so she could create a DVD trailer of "Her Necessary Death" and market the book to the entertainment industry in New York and Hollywood.
"Defendants stated that this trailer would be similar to the trailers seen on HBO or Showtime or those presented as coming attractions in movie houses ... that there would be actors presenting the theme of the work entitled 'Her Necessary Death,'" according to the complaint.
Spletzer says he received the trailer in May, but that it "is worthless."
Also noted in the article: B.K. Nelson Inc. is one of nineteen literary agencies on Writer Beware's Thumbs Down Agency List. We've been receiving complaints and advisories about the agency since 1999, including:
- A 20% commission (a handful of reputable agents do charge 20%, but the prevailing standard is 15%).
- An evaluation fee of $350, plus an additional fee of between $3.00 and $5.00 per page if the manuscript isn't finished.
- A fee of $250-400 to represent subsidiary rights at various book fairs.
- A fee of $450 to be included in a Speakers' Directory.
- A fee of $2,000 to feature an author and manuscript at BEA.
- Editing fees of as much as $4,500.
- Thousands of dollars charged to a client to produce a "professional trailer" to present to the entertainment industry. This client isn't Mr. Spletzer (I'm withholding the exact amount paid to protect the client's identity), but had a similar opinion of the trailer, describing it as something that "could have been done by a high school student."
And that's just the documented complaints.
The agency's website describes B.K. Nelson Inc. as "one of the leading agencies in the nation," which "has had a strong impact on the careers of writers world wide." However, the agency's client list reveals little evidence of recent sales. Of the clients on the list, several don't turn up in any websearch. For others, the referenced titles are incorrect, or don't seem to exist at all. Two clients have books with fee-based companies (Xlibris and Tate--possibly placed with these companies by the authors themselves). For the book authors and titles that do check out, there are some reputable publishers--but few recent publication dates (most of the pub dates are 2004 and earlier).
EDITED 6/13/12 TO ADD: Mr. Spletzer's complaint (linked in above) bears a file stamp from the Westchester County Clerk dated September 10, 2010. However, a search of Westchester County court records shows no sign that Mr. Spletzer's complaint was ever filed with the court, and there's no record of any case in Westchester County, NY where Paul Anthony Spletzer, B.K. Nelson, or B.K. Nelson Inc. are parties.


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Most of those in attendance made the short trip north on U.S. Highway 59 to the crash site in a procession of vehicles led by Goliad County Sheriff's Office personnel. Clergymen at the site led a brief service at the crash scene as spectators paid their final respects.
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A central Florida woman faces multiple charges after deputies said she kicked her 66-year-old mother and punched an 8-year-old who tried to defend her.
Volusia County Sheriff's deputies then said that 41-year-old Rebecca Jenks later hit an inmate wearing handcuffs at the jail. Jenks is charged with battery, child abuse, battery on a person detained in jail and driving with a license that's been revoked.
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Deputies said Jenks was heavily intoxicated when she was arrested Sunday. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported her mother tried to calm her down but Jenks started kicking her. When the child tried to defend the older woman, Jenks pushed the girl and punched her in the back of the neck.
Once deputies managed to get her into a holding cell, she slipped out of the handcuffs and slapped an inmate.
A check of the Volusia County Sheriff's website showed that Jenks has been arrested seven times there, including twice this year.


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Admitting We Have a Problem
One reason improving West Virginia public education is such a slow process is that we keep hearing how great schools already are. Shame on those who know better for perpetuating that farce.
It happened again this week when a national publication, Education Week, released its annual Quality Counts report on schools throughout the United States.
Mountain State public schools are among the 10 best state systems in the country, according to this year's Quality Counts report. It gave public education here a B-minus grade, higher than the nationwide average of C-plus.
But the report's evaluation of student achievement graded West Virginia at "F." Our state's schools have the third-worst level of student achievement in the nation, behind only Mississippi and the District of Columbia, according to Education Week.
What else matters when the topic is school quality? Nothing. Absolutely, positively nothing.
Apparently, Education Week's evaluators were so pleased with what they found regarding how school finances are handled, how student success is evaluated and other factors that they decided we earned a top-10 rating. But in effect, that is all window-dressing. What counts is the F we received for student achievement.
The selective vision so many West Virginians have regarding our schools is nothing new, but it is guided carefully. Often we hear of successes and awards – but we have to do some digging on our own to find the less flattering statistics.
As we have noted for many years, only one standardized test is administered to children in every state and at several grade levels. It is the National Assessment of Educational Progress – and Mountain State children, on average, do not perform well on it in comparison to their peers elsewhere.
To his credit, new state school Superintendent Jim Phares referred to the Quality Counts report as "disturbing." It is that.
We West Virginians need to admit we are failing many of the children in our public schools badly. Only once we acknowledge the depth of the problem can we make meaningful attempts at reform.


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Microsoft accuses Google of continuing to block Windows Phones access to YouTube
When Microsoft first launched Windows Phone in 2010, many people complained about the rather poor YouTube app, which is simply a window for YouTubes mobile website. The reason for this lackluster experience, Microsoft claimed in 2011, is that Google is blocking Windows Phone from accessing YouTubes application programming interfaces (APIs). Now, two years later, Microsoft is once again accusing Google of acting in direct defiance of antitrust laws.
In a post on the Microsoft on the Issues blog, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner reiterated the Redmond software giants stance on the two-year-old issue. Windows Phone still cannot access YouTubes metadata in the same way that Android and iOS do, which has led to a poor experience for one of the most popular smartphone apps. The problem, Heiner says, is with Googles executives, not YouTube.
Microsoft has continued to engage with YouTube personnel over the past two years to remedy this problem for consumers. As you might expect, it appears that YouTube itself would like all customers on Windows Phone as on any other device to have a great YouTube experience. But just last month we learned from YouTube that senior executives at Google told them not to enable a first-class YouTube experience on Windows Phones.
Ouch. While there are a number of third-party alternatives on Windows Phone, like MetroTube and SuperTube, Microsoft has been unable to release its own app. And as good as the alternative apps are, people always go for the official app before third-party ones.
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Usually companies trying to launch a platform partner with others to get it off the ground, much like Apple partnered with Google when they launched the iPhone. Microsoft can't do that though since they're also trying to launch their web services concurrently with Bing. And so they're forced to try and make do without.
Probably what will happen is that the need to prop up Bing will help drag down Windows Phone while the lack of a viable mobile platform to pair it with drags down Bing.
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Downhill for diabetes event this weekendBy Anders Ax
Staff Writer | February 19,2013After learning their daughter Ashley was a type 1 diabetic, Lynn Pratt and her husband Bradley created a nonprofit charity program, Donations for Diabetes, to raise money and help fund a cure.
Within a month of the diagnosis, as a way to cope with her 5-year-old daughter's illness, she and her husband set up a ski and snowboard event at Pico Mountain Resort in Killington. The third annual Downhill for Diabetes Ski and
Snowboard Event will be held Sunday to continue funding diabetes research.
"I needed to do something overall, not just day to day," Pratt said.
Similar to a donation walk, the Pratts' event makes use of Vermont's winter sport past time with all the proceeds earned donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
In its first year, February 2011, the event raised $8,500. In 2012, a severe lack of snow almost cancelled the event, but then Pratt said the mountain received enough snow to carry on and earn $14,500.
After breaking $14,000, Pratt remembered thinking, "I don't know how I'm going to beat it next year."
This year, many local business are donating prizes and raffle items for the event. So far, Pratt said, $1,500 in prizes have been raised, some for the 10 a.m. to noon ski course.
"We have a huge amount of local businesses getting involved," said Pratt. "Lots that are making donations and being sponsors."
Other business and major sponsors, Pratt said, have already raised $4,000 in donations for the event. Pratt was very thankful for three major sponsors: Rutland Regional Medical Center, RLA Insurance and General Electric Volunteers. Each donated beyond the $250 major-sponsor level.
For people wishing to register for the event, visit www.donationsfordiabetes.org by Saturday night. After collecting donations and bringing them to the second floor in Pico's ski lodge between 8 and 11 a.m., skiers and snowboarders can purchase tickets for a discounted price.
Raising $50 will earn a half price lift ticket and Downhill for Diabetes hat. With a $200 contribution, participants will get a half price ticket, hat and long sleeve Downhill for Diabetes shirt. Totals of $500 or more get the merchandise and a free full day lift ticket.
In order to be eligible for the discounts and merchandise, participants must register the day before.
Pratt said she was thankful for the local help that has gone into publicizing the event.
"It's been really nice to see how people help out the community," she said.
When Ashley was five, Pratt said her daughter had thought Downhill for Diabetes "was to find a cure for her." Now, Ashley understands the event is not only for her but for those like her.
Type 1 diabetes is the result of the body unable to produce insulin, a pancreas-generated hormone that converts sugars and starches into energy required daily. As a result, the body must have insulin replaced in the body by either injection or insulin pump. The American Diabetes Association says that 5 percent of people with diabetes have Type 1.
Being so small, Ashley's sugar levels fluctuate a lot. Especially in the cold weather, she has to be tested every 45 minutes. But Pratt said her daughter rarely complains. "She's amazing," Pratt said. "The kid is really my hero."
"We have to find a cure for this or at least find a better way to manage it so at least her life on a daily basis is easier," Pratt said. "I'll do anything to make it easier for her."
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Falcons' Eleven: Pfeiffer's Record Run Continues
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. – Sarah Daly (New Market, MD) scored a game-high six goals to lead No. 6 Pfeiffer University past visiting Mount Olive College 20-2 in Conference Carolinas women's lacrosse action on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Falcons improve to 11-0 overall, 3-0 in league play while dropping the Trojans to 6-5, 1-3.
Daly started off scoring just 40 seconds in on Saturday before turning around to assist on aShannon Bonnel (Mechanicsville, MD) goal just 32 seconds later.Ashleigh Kassab (Walkersville, MD) would assist on Daly's second of the day two minutes later before scoring her own goal on a free position shot with 24:37 remaining in the period.
Delaney Miller (Elkridge, MD) and Haley Gourdie (Clermont, FL) would be amongst the regular goal-scorers for the Lady Falcons before Daly's third strike at 14:27 put Pfeiffer up 11-0. Mount Olive's Alysha Kulka (Calgary, ALBERTA) would get the Trojans on the board at 13:06 before Allie Dunn (Newnan, GA) ended a three-goal stretch by the Lady Falcons to make it a 14-2 contest. As the buzzer sounded to end the first half, Kassab would hit on her fourth and final goal of the afternoon extended the lead to 15-2 at the break.
The Pfeiffer defense would hold Mount Olive scoreless for the entire second period and final 34 seconds of the first half as Daly added two final tallies along with Bonnel, Carly Garrison (Orlando, FL) and Whitney Jaffe (Cohasset, MA) to wrap up the day's scoring. Garrison would pick up a team-high four assists in the victory while Daly and Kassab each added three.
As a team, Pfeiffer held a commanding 32-4 shots advantage, 24-16 margin in groundballs and controlled 17 of the 23 draws. The Lady Falcons were a perfect 12-for-12 on clear attempts and forced 28 Mount Olive turnovers in the win.
Pfeiffer returns to action on Sunday taking on IUP at 12:00 p.m. Sunday's location is TBA with pending weather as is live stats. The final location announcement will be made on Sunday morning via http://www.gofalconsports.com.
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CSU enters new class of party school
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Colorado State University is not the top party school in the state, according to the latest Playboy magazine ranking, which, to The Eye, calls into question the judging bodies for such lists.
Qualifications that may have been missed during CSU's review in the ranking process:
- Has a Beverage Business Institute that includes specialization in brewing operations;
- Offers a 400-level course called Brewing Science and Technology;
- Hired Stephen Menke in 2008 as an associate professor of enology, which is the study of wines.
Menke, based at CSU's Western Colorado Research Center in Grand Junction, has been teaching enology classes and helping Colorado develop a niche wine market with its unique flavors of grapes grown at high altitudes.
Well, those uniquely flavored grapes have been vinted at Stoney Mesa Winery in Cedaredge, bottled, given the name Ram's Point, and will soon be available for purchase for $10 to $20.
The hope is that the wines will sell and keep the winemaking program running, and even expanded to allow CSU students and interns to get involved in the process.
OK, so perhaps after all CSU is just too sophisticated to make Playboy's list.
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*Not sure where to post this* Has anyone donated there extra milk? If so how did you go about doing it and what has your experience been?
*Not sure where to post this* Has anyone donated there extra milk? If so how did you go about doing it and what has your experience been?
I am a donor for the National Milk Bank. It may not be the BEST place in some peoples opinions but it's been nice so far. They sent me a hospital grade pump to use and have been very prompt in answering any of my questions.
Wife to Ray (09/07/07)and Mama to:
Xander (01/19/07) nursed for 30 months
Liam (12/12/09) still nursing through the night and in the mornings!
Sebastian (7/29/12) my newest little nursling who graciously shares his milk with big brother!
There is information on milk donation in the sticky located at the top of this forum. How generous of you to share with other babies in this way .
I have been lucky enough to have quite the generous amount of milk-sometimes I think I can feed the whole family! Since my DS never took a bottle and barely took anything at daycare, I had an amundance of milk left over. I chose to donate primarily to the mothers milk bank in Colorado and they were fantastic!! At some of the other sites in previous posts you can privately donate as well-I did that as my last official donation. My only recommendation would be if you do it privately to make sure that it's in a good styrofoam container with dryice, and to work out the shipping charges with the person receiving the milk (upwards to $100 for priority guaranteed delivery overnight-you need to do this to maintain the frozen milk). The milk bank provides everything including free shipping to you except for the dry ice.
It's a wonderful thing to donate milk, knowing that you're giving some little baby the best thing on earth! Good for you!
For those that donate milk--can you, once an approved donor, donate already frozen milk? I had to pump for so long until my little girl got the hang of breast feeding that I have a very large freezer stash and I'm still over-producing so I'm still storing several ounces a day. I imagine that I'll use some of it--but I'm not really sure that I'll use it all before I need to toss it.


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Time is running out for Texas landowners to let the Environmental Protection Agency know it's time to "Ditch the Rule." The nationwide campaign started shortly after the EPA announced its proposed changes to the Clean Water Act.
"The EPA wants to take the word 'navigable' out of the Waters of the U.S. definition," Zack Yanta, Karnes County Farm Bureau President, said. "Allowing the agency to expand their regulations will give them unlimited power over all waters— including ditches, ponds and areas that occasionally flood."
According to Zack, expanding the scope of the EPA's powers could have a negative impact on Karnes County landowners. "If the EPA is allowed to regulate all bodies of water, including ditches and ponds, they can tell people how to use and work their land," Zack said. "They'll be able to require permits for things people do every day. If a permit isn't granted, we'll be unable to work our own land or face fines for doing so anyway."
Landowners are encouraged to talk to their legislators about the rule proposal before it's too late. Additional information on Ditch the Rule and the rule itself can be found at DitchTheRule.FB.org.


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Already over the money for a rusty car.
Engine is holding it back. I bought a std bore DZ block years ago that turned out to have a spun thrust bearing. Just lucky one of my buds could get it handled. With a complete drive train rebuild, brakes, tires, exhaust, etc one could drop another $15k here. And it will still be rusty.
i dont even know if i buy original paint on this car. the stripes inside the hood look to have been repainted


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The commercial area of the city is located in the historic center: Street Portaferrisa, Pelayo, Rambla, Portal del Angel and Plaza Cataluña, where small shops coexist with department stores and big chains of clothing franchises.
A little more to the North of the Plaza Cataluña, Paseo de Gracia, Rambla de Catalunya and the Avenida Diagonal, are the shops of international brands of fashion, leather and jewelry items. The designer items have their place in the alleys of the District of el Borne, which has gained popularity since the late 1990s. From the rest of the city, include the big street of Gràcia or Sants Street shopping areas, and shopping centers such as La Illa, La Maquinista, Les Glòries and Diagonal Mar.
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RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED ONLY OVER 25 YEARS or accompanied children.
The apartment is ideal for families.
1. In this building families with children living
2. Avoid nuisance to neighbors
3. Is silent from 21:00
4. Remember not live alone
5. Use correctly the elevator
6. Violating the rules is cause for immediate dismissal without payment of your stay or bail.
7. 300 euros deposit
At the exit must return all sets of keys that you were given.
The final day has to leave the apartment, at the latest, at the time of check-out described in the conditions of his apartment.
You have to respect the apartment, furniture and equipment.
It is not permitted to accommodate more people than stated in the booking contract.
The noise is prohibited after 21:00 pm, inside the apartment and also on the stairs. Please do not disturb others when opening or closing the entrance of the building and apartment. This is particularly important and not make concessions.
We do not accept stag groups celebrating or groups visiting the city to attend football matches European Championships.
No reservations are accepted from people who will carry out illegal activities or invite Ladies / company is during the stay in the apartment.
The owner or contact person reserves the right to request the signing of a contract on arrival at the apartment or to be paid the rent.
They scrupulously respect the rest of the neighbors, thus the silence will be maintained throughout the stay, especially at night, in the apartment and on the outside to come back at night under penalty of expulsion without refund of the deposit.
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Apartment very nice and fairly central. Very careful.
very easily at the time of check-out
Piso muy agradable y bastante centrico. Muy cuidado.
mucha facilidad a la hora del check-out
The apartment loved. It is spacious, clean, comfortable and tastefully decorated. Attention had a very good windsurfing.
El apartamento nos encantó. Es amplio, limpio, cómodo y decorado con gusto. Tuvimos una atención por parte de windsurf muy buena.
Everything went smoothly and the stay was impeccable.
Alles is vlot verlopen en het verblijf was tiptop in orde.
Apartment very nice and spacious!
Clean accommodation with style ...
The whole family will keep a good memory of this trip to Barcelona, or it is easy to move with public transport and where there are lots of things to discover!
Appartement très agréable et spacieux!
Logement propre et avec du style...
Toute la famille gardera un bon souvenir de ce voyage à Barcelone, ou il est aisé de se déplacer avec les transports en commun et ou il ya des tas de choses à découvrir!
Excellent accommodation
Uitstekende accommodatie
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The apartment is in principle fine, but the outlet in the bathroom was (hanging out) to be repaired. Was very uncomfortable that some disgusting residents of the house had left his stool in the stairwell run free and the whole was only away on our departure. In the handover that has the lady who unfortunately only spoke Spanish, certainly noticed.
Die Ferienwohnung ist prinzipiell in Ordnung, jedoch sollte die Steckdose im Bad (hängt raus) repariert werden. Sehr unangenehm war, dass irgendein ekliger Bewohner des Hauses seinem Stuhlgang im Treppenhaus freien Lauf gelassen hatte und das Ganze erst an unserem Abreisetag entfernt wurde. Bei der Wohnungsübergabe hat das die Dame, die leider nur Spanisch sprach, sicherlich mitbekommen.
Lovely apartment, great location, close to Sagrada and nearby subway station.
Neatly trimmed, just strange that only sheets on the beds were made and no blankets, which was already cold in September.
Mooi appartement, leuke ligging, vlak bij Sagrada en vlakbij metrostation.
Keurig in orde, alleen vreemd dat er alleen maar lakens op de bedden lagen en geen dekens, wat toch al koud was in September.
The first floor apartment is small but practical, well situated with shops close by and easily connected by 2 different metros. Basic equipment on IKEA standard, which is fine for breakfast but does not invite for proper cooking. Dishwasher and washing machine come handy and make it perfect for a family with children, but not suitable for 6 adults (very small for 8) as two bedrooms are very small and don't have natural light with windows leading to a dark and moldy shaft and second bathroom is tiny. AC and electric fans help circulating the air and keeping the apartment cool. Balcony leads to a busy road.
very good well designed apartment located in a quiet area, ideal to sleep well and to get out in the center by metro nearby. In summary, a good stay and a good address
très bon appartement bien agencé situé dans un quartier tranquille, idéal pour bien dormir et pour sortir dans le centre grâce au métro à proximité. Pour résumé, un très bon séjour et une bonne adresse
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Plea deal could be close in case involving McDade shooting
By André Coleman 06/12/2013
An undocumented worker who admitted to lying to a 911 dispatcher about being held up at gunpoint the night police shot and killed an unarmed teenager suspected in the holdup could serve 90 days in jail if he accepts a plea bargain that is reportedly being proposed by the city.
Charged with two counts of obstructing a peace officer, one count of falsely reporting an emergency and three counts of falsely reporting a criminal offense, Oscar Carrillo-Gonzalez, 27, faces four years in prison if convicted on all counts. His trial was supposed to begin last Monday but was postponed so the two sides could negotiate a deal.
Carrillo-Gonzales used the word "gun" eight times during an emergency phone call to a 911 dispatcher shortly after 11 p.m. March 24, 2012. He claimed he was standing a taco stand on Orange Grove Boulevard, near Summit Avenue, when he was robbed at gunpoint by two African Americans wearing hoodies. Two officers responding to the call ultimately shot and killed 19-year-old Kendrec McDade on Sunset Avenue, near Orange Grove, following a short pursuit. Based on Carrillo-Gonzalez's call, the officers have claimed they believed McDade was armed.
According to the Pasadena Star-News, the city has offered a plea bargain which would allow Carrillo-Gonzalez to plead guilty and serve 90 days in jail, perform 90 days of community service and pay restitution for the police services involved in the incident. Andrew Bustamante, Carrillo-Gonzalez's attorney, did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story.
City Attorney Michele Beal-Bagneris would not comment on any offers between Bustamante and the city, but did confirm negotiations were under way.
"We don't generally comment on offers," Bagneris told the Pasadena Weekly. "The defense attorney has said what offer he is considering. There is a negotiation. The trial is on track for possibly starting next week, but I am not sure what they will do with whatever the offer is."
Officers Matthew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen responded to the call shortly after 11 p.m. Without turning on their sirens, they soon encountered McDade near Fair Oaks Avenue, one block from Sunset Avenue. While Newlen chased the teen on foot, Griffin pursued him in the police car, at times shooting out the passenger's side window. An emergency medical technician said the teen's last words on the way to the hospital were "Why did they shoot me?"
McDade suffered three fatal gunshot wounds to the abdomen and non-fatal wounds to the left hip, left elbow, right leg and right forearm, according to the coroner's report on the incident.
Along with the internal police investigation clearing the officers of wrongdoing, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has determined the shooting was justified. The county Office of Independent Review and the FBI are still investigating.
Two separate lawsuits have been filed, one by McDade's mother, Anaya Slaughter, who lives in Azusa. The other suit was filed by his father, Kenneth, who lives only a few blocks from the scene of the shooting.
Carrillo-Gonzalez, who is in the country illegally, has been free since the shooting with a requirement to wear an electronic monitoring device on his ankle. He faces deportation after the case is decided.
"Whether or not he is guilty of falsely reporting someone had a gun, it does not excuse the police officers for shooting someone if they never see a gun," said Dale Galipo, Slaughter's attorney.
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By Dave Wagner: CNJ sports writer
PORTALES — Facing rival West Texas A&M was already a big challenge for the Eastern New Mexico University men's basketball team, but it just got a lot bigger.
When the Greyhounds entertain WT in a 7:30 p.m. Lone Star Conference South Division clash today at Greyhound Arena, their bench will be noticeably short.
Only six players are scheduled to dress, including new walk-on Jamaal Hadley. Coach Shawn Scanlan said junior guard Chad Johnson will be sitting out a one-game suspension for an incident in a Jan. 10 game at Southwestern Oklahoma, while senior guard Kevin Davis and junior guard Jamaal McCoy are on "indefinite suspension" after an incident on the team's trip for their previous game on Wednesday at Texas A&M-Kingsville.
Women's squads clash in today's 5:30 p.m. opener.
The Buffaloes (11-5, 1-0) will bring what Scanlan called a "physically tough" squad into the contest.
"This'll be a huge challenge for us," he said. "We're going to have to try to change the (pace of the) game and hope for a few breaks."
He said the Hounds (6-10, 0-1) had their chances in a 74-65 loss at Kingsville.
"We didn't play well Wednesday night," he said. "We had as much to do with losing that game as (Kingsville) did."
Senior guard Justin Redman-Trotter has stepped up his scoring role in the team's five January games, averaging more than 23 points while shooting 48 percent from 3-point range. For the season, he's leading the team at 17.7 points per game.
"Justin has the ability to score," Scanlan said. "He just needs to be more efficient in his shots."
The freshman-laden ENMU women's squad also has its hands full against the 22nd-ranked Lady Buffs (11-3, 1-0), who swept through the South unbeaten last year and have arguably the best player in the league in junior guard Emily Brister.
"There's a reason they're a top 25 team," ENMU women's coach Linden Weese said. "They like to pressure you and force you into mistakes. Brister's a great player; she makes plays on both ends of the floor.
"We're going to have to play really well. This is a measuring stick for these kids."
The Zias (3-11, 0-1) show flashes in almost every game. In Wednesday's 66-62 loss at Kingsville, they pared a 21-point deficit near the end of the first half to one late in the game.
"We probably played as poor a half as we have all year long in the first half (at Kingsville)," Weese said, "and as good as half as we've played in the second half."
West Texas A&M (11-5, 1-0) at ENMU (6-10, 0-1), 7:30 p.m. today, in a Lone Star Conference South Division game at Greyhound Arena.
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Notes: ENMU had won three of four before Wednesday's South-opening 74-65 loss at Texas A&M-Kingsville. … WT has taken the last six meetings from the Greyhounds, including 87-72 at Canyon and 91-79 at Portales last season. … The Buffaloes opened South play by edging Angelo State 71-68 on Wednesday in Canyon, with 6-4 senior F Tyler Cooper snapping a tie by hitting a 3-pointer with two seconds left. The game featured 15 ties and 12 lead changes. … Robert Lee, a 6-3 senior G, posted his first double-double of the season on Wednesday (21 points, 11 rebounds) and leads the Buffs in scoring (14.7 ppg), followed by 6-6 senior F Chris Hinz (10.5). Five others average between 7.8 and 9.3 ppg. … WT coach Rick Cooper, in his 15th year at the school, has never had a losing season.
West Texas A&M (11-3, 1-0) at ENMU (3-11, 0-1), 5:30 p.m. today, in a Lone Star Conference South Division game at Greyhound Arena.
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Notes: WT, ranked No. 22 in NCAA Division II, has won back-to-back South titles and made three consecutive appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament. … Prior to taking their current jobs, ENMU coach Linden Weese and WT coach Krista Gerlach were on Marsha Sharp's staff at Texas Tech. Both are in their second seasons. … The Zias lost at Kingsville 66-62 on Wednesday, nearly erasing a 21-point deficit. Meantime, WT routed Angelo State 74-53 for its 39th consecutive win at home. … The Lady Buffs have won five in a row and 11 of 12 after losing their first two games of the season. Nine of their wins are by at least 16 points. … Leading scorers for WT are 5-9 junior G Emily Brister (22.4), 5-7 junior G Courtney Lee (11.8) and 6-2 junior G/F Jamie Dreiling (10.3). Brister, the LSC South preseason player of the year, also leads the team in rebounding (7.4 rpg) and shoots 91 percent from the FT line.
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Iran's Chief Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili in Baghdad, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and 5 other world powers sat down with Iranian diplomats to try to reach specific goals in the impasse over Iran's nuclear program.
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"US Should Not Continue to Insist on Sanctions against Iran"
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May 24, 2012
Author: Mansour Salsabili, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20132016; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20112013
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Continuing to insist on sanctions against Iran will produce a bad deal for America.
Why? Because this week Iran is putting on the table in Baghdad a number of concrete and tension-reducing offers in response to the earlier requests of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
These offers will have the strong support of Russia and China, and may attract positive votes from other European delegations as well. This will leave the US administration, which cannot force Congress to end sanctions, in the corner and in a passive position in any future talks.
In the second round of the current negotiation between Iran and the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany any forward looking plan will need to be comprehensive, including all aspects of a final deal. However a comprehensive approach cannot be implemented in a single shot or in haste, but rather in a step-by-step process that produces concrete results for each step in turn. The final deal may commence from particular unresolved issues involving the Iranian nuclear program and then extend to more general questions of regional cooperation and even peace in the Middle East.
The success of the April 14 meeting in Istanbul between the six world powers and Iran was based on acceptance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a basic framework for the negotiation. The crucial point in this agreement is how to manage technical assurances to secure nonproliferation, without constraining Iran's inalienable right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. This is possible only through mutual confidence building something that was left in disarray in past efforts at negotiation.
The first way to secure mutual confidence is to avert confrontation to focus on collaboration: Cooperative and not confrontational behavior is needed to prepare a constructive, sustainable and encouraging environment. It is counter-productive to prejudge Iran as a proliferator and expect Tehran to cooperate. No one should expect Iran to sacrifice its sovereignty and its right to enrichment for peaceful nuclear uses in response to unsubstantiated allegations.
Here the vital task is clarifying and resolving in this case the inherent tension between the Non-Proliferation Treaty's prohibition on proliferation and provision of the right to nuclear energy. This is not an easy job.
Concrete proposals need to be reciprocated to make progress not only possible, but also sustainable and irreversible. For this reason, the parties should address the issues that are most readily resolved first. A simultaneous swap of Iran's stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium for a similar amount of fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor could come first, to reduce any concern about proliferation and to increase mutual confidence.
In exchange, new sanctions on Iran's oil industry and Central Bank must be eased, or at least postponed, until the next round of negotiation to pave the way for the realization of future steps.
Clearing up questions about past Iranian nuclear activity is the most difficult issue at hand. Its resolution requires a lot of trust on both sides. Confidence building through transparency and supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency should go along with respect for confidentiality.
This subject is particularly sensitive in Iran because of incidents such as the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists during the past few years. Issues involving dual use technology are open to different interpretations, and must be treated as highly confidential. Resolution of these issues should come later in the process, as confidence increases.
In the meantime, fact-finding missions could continue to take place along the way as a step to verify that no previous military nuclear capability or undeclared facility in Iran now exists. To avoid prolonging such missions, let's recall that other nuclear cases, such as Sweden's, resolved with expanded additional protocol to secure the future rather than dig into the past.
"Every weapon is strongest before shooting," is an old truism. Sanctions as the silver bullet of the West against Iran have already been fired and now it is time to compromise. Iran will adapt its economy and find its way around sanctions to gain access to the international community.
The passive US reaction to the current negotiations would result in a more polarized world and a loss to the United States and other struggling western economies as well.
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A fitting farewell at Old TraffordAP Photo
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson lifts the Premier League trophy after his last home game in charge of the club at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday.
The Manchester rain fell relentlessly on the end of Alex Fergusons extraordinary reign at Old Trafford.
For the 723rd and final time in the stadium where he has built a surely unsurpassable record of team management, Ferguson, the knight of British soccer, walked out Sunday to a double guard of honor: his United players to the left, the visiting Swansea City team to the right, friend and foe, applauding him.
In his familiar old gray coat, chewing gum as always, his stride busy and quick, he looked straight ahead with the air of a man wishing this were all over. The stadium was a riot of color, more than 70,000 red flags denoting that, once again, his team was Englands champion; and 6,000 white flags thoughtfully provided for the Swansea fans, whose team had won the League Cup, the first major trophy in its history.
They forget nothing at Old Trafford.
There will be one more match with Ferguson in charge his 1,500th for this club next weekend, but at West Bromwich in the English Midlands.
So this was the big farewell.
Players of Fergusons past, including the former stalwart captains Steve Bruce and Bryan Robson, were in the stands, alongside Bobby Charlton. Also among the spectators, dropped so far as we knew, was Wayne Rooney.
To the bittersweet end, Ferguson was making a point. Rooney had asked for a transfer from United, and as much as Ferguson had admired his talent, as much as they had shared great times, there was no place at the final Ferguson party for anyone who broke the team essence that had been the managers credo throughout his 50 years of playing and coaching.
He was ruthless to the end, yet sentimental, too, because Fergusons final Old Trafford lineup placed youth side by side with players of a venerable status. At the heart of the team, also retiring, Paul Scholes was chosen to start his 717th United game.
Scholes is 38 and has a persistently injured knee, but Ferguson regards him as one of the most talented and selfless players he has ever worked with. So Scholes just had to play. Ryan Giggs, another magnificent loyalist, would come on in the second half, but in every area of the field there were the players Ferguson regards as the future, the legacy he is handing on.
The recipient of that legacy, David Moyes, could not be at the party. A consummate professional in the Ferguson mold, Moyes was at Goodison Park, a 40-minute drive down the road, where he was seeing Everton to a 2-0 victory over West Ham, the last home game of Moyes 11-year career there.
As Moyes took his own lap of honor in a packed stadium, Manchester United was coming out of the tunnel for a tumultuous second half. Fergusons favorite Mexican, Javier Hernandez, known as Chicharito, had poached a goal in the first half, but Swansea mounted an honorable resistance.
Its leading scorer this season, the Spaniard Michu, stole in with a typically sweet equalizer, volleyed in off the outside of his left foot.
Now the game was rousing; now the Ferguson gum was being ferociously chewed. And now his players were moving mightily to get that winner. It came from the least expected source, from the feet of Rio Ferdinand.
Ferdinand, a defender who had not scored in five years, lurked at the far post after a corner kick, and it fell to him to make that final touch, the final home goal under the management of Alex Ferguson, for a 2-1 victory.
Then, in the rain, Ferguson took the microphone and addressed the crowd.
Im going home, he said. Well, Im going inside for a while. Eleven grandchildren, he added, as if that were explanation enough for what his future holds.
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RANDOLPH Whats educational, gassy and green all over? Why, Vermont Technical Colleges mechanical cow, of course.
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Construction of the digester, the first of its kind in the United States, began in July, and immediately VTC had a hands-on learning forum for many of its programs.
Its a fabulous educational opportunity, said project manager Mary OLeary.
Were a sustainable college, and this will provide heat, energy and power in a renewable fashion, which is great. But the biggest piece is student-powered excellence. Thats what were all about.
The digester has already been introduced to students in curricula, from the agricultural and engineering aspects to even business and computer science, and they can work from a shared drive on campus with all the plans and information for homework, projects and labs.
The state is also hoping to benefit from the research students will perform surrounding the byproducts of the digester. Both a nutrient-packed liquid effluent and low-moisture solids are produced, which can be spread on farm fields, and there is some concern about whether that will affect local water quality.
OLeary said soil and water quality is being managed by a regional community management plan, so the college and its partner farms are keeping track of the distribution of the digested materials and testing soils.
Funding for the project, which totals just over $4 million, came from a combination of bond funding from the Vermont State Colleges and grants from the U.S. Department of Energy through the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, though many organizations and individuals have been involved. The big financial benefits to the college will be lower fuel bills, as well as the sale of electricity to the grid.
This digester will help us fulfill our mission both educationally as a polytechnic institution and financially by lowering our energy costs, said the president of the college, Phil Conroy Jr. Were really pleased to be able to put this together.
In addition to supplementing courses for students, the college will be offering a certificate program in digester operations and a continuing education course for those who may not need to be operators but need to know how it works. Several smaller-scale digesters are at work on farms throughout the country, and more cities are utilizing digesters for waste treatment.
Francois Guay is the representative from the Quebec company Bio-Methatech overseeing construction. Bio-Methatech has the license to build the patented German LIPP GmbH biogas plants in the Northeastern U.S. and is constructing another in Franklin. The company has built one facility in Quebec, with plans for two more next year, but Guay said the price of electricity there is half what it is here.
Here its better economically for producing electricity than in Canada. There, the best place to use this technology is in the cities for processing the sewage sludge, said Guay.
The German-designed LIPP technology uses a patented metal folding technique for quick and lower-cost construction, but with high-quality stainless and galvanized steel for water tightness and high stability.
We built the tank with only four people in 20 days, said Guay. Its a special technique. We bring the assembly equipment right to the site.
The goal is to have the digester operational in January, and by April, once the school has received the last permit it needs, food scraps will be added to the mechanical cows meals.
Which is great, because it ties with Act 148. We will be diverting those organics, like food waste from the cafeteria, from the landfills, said OLeary, referring to the Vermont legislation banning all organic materials from landfills by 2020.
The digester will be fed almost 16,000 gallons of organic material a day. Starting in the preparation tank, the feedstock will be mixed and chewed before moving to the 135,000-gallon hydrolyzer tank, where microbes break down the material just as they do in a compost pile.
Once the oxygen is used up by the microbial process (usually about three to six days), the hydrolyzed feedstock heads to the 410,000-gallon anaerobic digestion tank. Over the course of about 20 days microbes break down the material, releasing methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen gas and water vapor collected in the 93,000-gallon gas bladder at the top of the tank.
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WARREN Local search and rescue teams swiftly responded to a dropped call for help placed by a couple of Burlington hikers who managed to make it safely off Camels Hump without any assistance over the weekend.
According to state police, Jay Blanchard and Christina Sweet were hiking on Camels Hump when Blanchard dialed 911 shortly before 6:30 p.m. to report that he and his partner were lost. The call lasted 12 seconds and was dropped when the hikers lost cell service before dispatchers were able to obtain any more information.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, Tanzanian Pres. Benjamin Mkapa, center, & Kenyan Pres. Mwai Kibaki, at a summit on forming a political federation by 2010 to accelerate economic growth in East Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 30, 2005.
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"Juma Mwapachu: Legacy of an Entrepreneurial Leader"
Op-Ed, The East African
April 18, 2011
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Agricultural Innovation in Africa; Science, Technology, and Globalization; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
African presidents have the subject of considerable scrutiny and superficial and largely irrelevant rankings over the past decade.
The focus on African leaders has ignored alternative forums where Africa is showing remarkable progress thanks to outstanding leadership.
These are what I call entrepreneurial leaders devoted to creating new government bodies, businesses and learning institutions.
One such field is regional integration. On April 19 a Rwandan national will replace Juma Volter Mwapachu as Secretary General of the East African Community.
This transition comes at a critical time when the region will be creating a Monetary Union, forging a Political Federation and expanding to include South Sudan.
Mwapachu will be remembered as a true entrepreneur with a passion for creating new institutions that improve the lives of the majority of people.
He operationalised the EAC Customs Union, led negotiations for the EAC Common Market that came into force in 2010 and laid the groundwork for the forthcoming EAC Monetary Union. He also oversaw the admission of Rwanda and Burundi into the EAC.
His five-year tenure is credited with major improvements in the running of the internal organs of the EAC.
These include the Summit of Heads of State, the Council of Ministers, the East African Legislative Assembly, the East African Court of Justice and the EAC Secretariat itself.
He put to rest any lingering anxieties about the viability of the EAC through his dedication to institution-building, a hallmark of his leadership style.
He also made effective use of roadmaps as planning tools that have brought predictability and accountability to the functioning of the EAC.
But what is critical for next generations is to understand the leadership qualities that he brought to the job that made it possible for him to achieve so much over such a short period.
I have had the opportunity over the past two years to work closely with Mwapachu during the drafting of my book The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, which outlines elements for a blueprint for regional agricultural strategies.
Mwapachu was quick to embrace our message that Africa can feed itself in a generation and to help put it forward to EAC leaders.
The book argues that this can be done if Africa can take advantage over emerging technologies, create regional agricultural markets (especially through infrastructure expansion), and mobilise political support from the new generation of leaders dedicated to economic improvement.
He found this argument compelling enough to be presented to his senior staff.
He arranged for the book to be launched at a retreat of EAC presidents on food security and climate change held in Arusha on December 2, 2010.
It speaks to the trust that the presidents had in him that they agreed to collectively launch an independent study they did not commission.
This is Mwapachu's unique leadership style, focused on creativity and innovation, appreciation for technical expertise, and open to new ideas.
He approached his job with a focus on performance and outcomes and managed the process to achieve these goals.
Where formal procedures stood in the way of results, he found alternative ways to get things done while remaining accountable.
For example, the task of getting EAC leaders to start developing a regional strategy for agriculture required informal mechanisms to marshal the best available scientific and technical expertise and promote country ownership.
To achieve this, he convened the December retreat for presidents and the relevant ministers and permanent secretaries.
A major challenge for the continent's economic blocs is their overlapping mandates and memberships.
Tanzania, for example, is member of the EAC and the Southern African Development Community, but not part of the 19-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
To solve the problem, Mwapachu helped initiate the drafting of a Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement involving the three bodies.
He chaired, for three years, the Tripartite Task Force of the Chief Executives of COMESA-SADC and EAC in undertaking this historic mission.
The agreement will cover 700 million people in 26 countries with a combined GDP of $650 billion.
Member countries will not be under pressure to choose which regional trade body to join as they will be operating in a single larger market.
The new super-bloc builds on the legislative foundations laid by the individual blocs. It advances continent-wide trade integration from the ground up.
Getting the grand regional market to work will possibly be Africa's most historic economic initiative.
It will be lasting testimony to the critical role that Juma Mwapachu played in bringing Africa closer to its enduring dream of economic integration through legal innovation.
Mwapachu has also brought to his office a keen intellectual curiosity that has enhanced his ability to learn from experience around the world to help improve the functioning of the EAC.
His own vast experience in a variety of roles in law, communication, administration, business and diplomacy helped to add to this encyclopedic knowledge.
While he sought to learn from experiences from around the world, he was also acutely aware of the limitations of copying models from elsewhere.
For example, he learned a lot about the design of monetary unions from the experiences of the European Union.
But he also kept in clear perspective the differences between the EU and EAC.
His departure raises a new challenge: how to ensure that the next generation of African leaders can learn from him.
With his abundant energy, Tanzania will find other ways to deploy his talents.
He will not go on vacation, but will be refreshing his soul at home listening to the finest of African music, especially Dr Nico Kassanda's all time hit, Doris, and others classics that we tracked through the Pan African Allstarts radio http://www.panafricanallstars.com/
Mwapachus deep appreciation of African music reflects his belief in creativity as a central theme in cultural renewal.
He often said Africa's first technological revolution was not mobile phones but recorded music which gave the world giants such as Dr. Nico and Franco.
An ideal future for him would to bequeath his experience and knowledge through a School of Regional Integration created to train the next generation of regional leaders.
Demand for competence in managing regional affairs will outstrip the supply as the region deepens integration.
The East African Federation will be the 16th largest nation in the world and the fourth in Africa in area.
With a population of nearly 140 million, it will rank eleventh in the world and second in Africa.
Its GDP will stand at $140 billion, making it the 55th largest economy in the world and the fourth largest in Africa.
The EAC is one of the oldest efforts in regional integration in the world, going back back more than a century.
There can be no better role for Mwapachu at this stage than to be a crucible around which a school of regional integration can crystallise.
The need to foster regional development will require the creation of human capacity needed to manage regional affairs.
So far, the RECs rely heavily on personnel originally trained to manage national affairs.
There are very few opportunities for training people in regional integration.
There should be a graduate school to undertake research, professional training, and outreach on how to facilitate regional integration.
The school could also serve as depository of knowledge gained in the implementation of regional programs.
The challenge is how to fly East Africa to greater heights. This would be the best tribute to Mwapachu's entrepreneurial leadership.
Calestous Juma teaches at Harvard Kennedy School and is author of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa published by Oxford University Press in 2011
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He served in the Pacific during World War II as squadron navigator for the Army Air Corp 19th Troop Carriers. Following the war, he moved to Goliad where he owned and operated Robinson-Wallace Magnolia Station.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Letitia Torian Robinson; daughter, Letitia Robin Barnhill (Bill) of Goliad; son, John Wesley Robinson III (Mary Patti) of Newnan, Ga.; five grandchildren, Travis Dye (Amanda) of Cedar Park, Forrest Dye (Tracy) of Carrollton, Will Barnhill of Fairborn, Ohio, Nicole Robinson Miller (Craig)of Washington D.C. and Jacqueline Robinson Knaup (Jonathan) of Rancho Santa Margarita, Cal.; five great-grandchildren, Alison and David Dye; Ruth, Caleb, and Noah Jane Miller; plus extended family and many dear friends.
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