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We made it through our first week of 2012 problem free. Well, a few games were delayed, some rumors were started and some game breaking bugs were found. Luckily, you can read all of our quality news stories after the break. We wouldn't want you embarking on a new year without the right information.
You should check out our excellent selection of web shows:
- Feedback: This week on Feedback, Blair and Co. ring in the new year.
- The MMO Report: Casey covers the latest MMO news.
- Sessler's Soapbox: Adam Sessler took a break from Soapbox this week but go ahead, check out past ones.
- Fresh Ink: Blair Butler talks the latest and greatest comics.
- BioWare confirms that a Mac version of Star Wars: The Old Republic is something it'll be "looking at next."
- Pre-orders open for the next set-your-price Indie Royale collection, though the contents are still a mystery.
- A rumor suggests that Wii U will include an app store that will support both the console and the tablet controller.
- A resume listing for composer Timothy Williams seems to confirm that God of War 4 exists and is in development.
- Chiptune tinkerer and music-maker cTrix builds an amazing custom chiptune "guitar" using an Atari 2600 and effects pedals.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic has approximately 350,000 peak concurrent users spread across 215 servers.
- A Disney newsletter revealed Epic Mickey 2 was on its way.
- Syndicate will have a stand-alone co-op mode for up to four people
- And the top 10 most pirated games of 2011 are...
- Check out these photos from the set of the Ace Attorney film.
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- Check out our wrap-up of the best indie games you probably don't know about.
- A glitch in BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO renders dancing characters impervious to damage.
- This spring, PC gamers will take to the skies in the free-to-play Games for Windows Live release, Microsoft Flight.
- Check out our guide to the middle levels of Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- A Reddit post from DICE's Alan Kertz reveals that some tweaks are coming to Battlefield 3's weapon attachments.
- We preview the latest Silent Hill game, Silent Hill: Downpour.
- Electronic Arts reveals the bonuses that fans will receive for pre-ordering Mass Effect 3, which arrives on March 6.
- The Feedback team has been aching to talk about their top picks for this year.
- Angry Birds was downloaded a whopping 6.5 million times on Christmas Day 2011.
- Youtube user Taylorveltrop has managed to program his Kinect, in conjunction with a Wii remote, to control and navigate a NAO robot.
- StarHack, a project that has been in the works for quite a while now, has just released its beta version on Battle.net.
- GameFly's annual rankings chart names Batman: Arkham City as the most-requested GameQ title of 2011.
- Namco Bandai unleashes the intro movie for Project Soul's upcoming January 31 fighting game release, Soulcalibur 5.
- BioWare's latest patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic fixes the glitch that renders dancing players invulnerable.
- A new Saints Row: The Third Xbox 360 Achievements listing hints at some of the content in the upcoming Genkibowl DLC.
- Warner Interactive confirms that LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes will be released sometime this summer.
- A full-on strategy XCOM game was announced this morning: XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
- Sega's classic shooters House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead 4 are coming exclusively to the PlayStation Network.
- Gotham City Impostors has been delayed.
- The beta version of the Trion Worlds Rift Mobile app is now available as a free download for iOS devices.
- Casey's back to discuss EVE Online players going into space, the Fallout MMO lawsuit settlement, and the early success of Star Wars:
- Read our Star Wars: The Old Republic PvP Guide.
- Kick off the new year with Links of TheFeed!
- Indie sensation The Binding of Isaac will soon be getting an expansion called The Wrath of the Lamb.
- Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling gives fans a look behind the scenes at Modern Warfare 3 official banhammer.
- Activision confirms that GameStop's pre-order bonus for Prototype 2 gifts players the 'Butt Kicker' ability.
- Square Enix confirms that an action-platformer based on Nathan Jurevicius' graphic novel Scarygirl is coming soon.
- A Facebook update confirms that Lexis Numerique's upcoming downloadable horror game Amy is set to arrive next week.
- Valve has announced some incredible 2011 growth data for their digital distribution service Steam.
- Check out our list of the best mobile games this week.
- Tecmo Koei and Team Ninja has announced the release date for Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus.
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Pollster Stanley Greenberg and political operative James Carville, last year, reported on a series of focus groups with older, white Republicans in Georgia. They were on a quest to understand the hardcore opposition to Obama. Is it racist?
They concluded no. They admonished us to "Get over it." The animus to Obama, they claimed, is "based in the same unwavering, bedrock conservative principles that have always led them to oppose liberal policies. Some of their subjects even claim to be post racial-"proud" there is an African-American president.
I have my own informal focus group, and I'm not buying it.
I work as a psychologist in nursing homes, and I talk daily to the older salt of the earth. The other day I assessed the cognitive status of an 87-year-old male member of the Greatest Generation, and realized yet again how enmeshed racism is in our cultural DNA.
He seemed reasonably reasonable, only his toe dipping in the pool of mild dementia. He still recognized everybody. Could name all his grandchildren, outline his work history, and share anecdotes about the war. So what if he couldn't exactly remember exactly which day it was in October. He remembered it was October. I dare you to try to keep track of the day of the week if you are in an institution and don't find the newspaper on your doorstep every morning to begin your day. Not as easy as you think.
Then I asked this standard question:
"Who is the president of the United States ?"
"That n*gg*r."
And there you have it. Hitting me like a slap across the face in the privacy of the consultation room I uncover the racism left out of the polite society of focus groups.
Sure it's anecdotal, but I believe it.
One of the effects of a little dementia is that it disinhibits. It's like you're in that movie where they put the spell on you, and you are compelled to say whatever's on your mind.
Being not always recognizable as a Jew, I get my share of anti-Semitic outbursts too.
I have to believe that the n-word, and its more gentile variants, is on the minds if not the tongues of older Georgians, younger Georgians, and millions of other Americans.
I'm not saying it's the whole stew of Obama derangement, but it's surely a condiment.
I plead some guilt here too, but I'll throw myself on the mercy of the court-with an explanation.
My grandparents came here 100 years ago from the Ukraine where the Jews were the functional equivalent of people of color. They were the disenfranchised other, recognizable not for their skin color, but the black color of their clothes, and they could be easily located for pogroms since they lived in those segregated neighborhoods that gave rise to the word ghetto.
I have no direct knowledge of my grandparents' racial attitudes-they died when I was a child-but I do know the ambivalent feelings of their daughter, my mother, a foot soldier in the Great Depression with standard issue, New Deal liberal leanings. She told me of a union dance in the 1930s.
"A black man asked me to dance, and I just couldn't do it. I said 'I'm not dancing', so to be fair I didn't dance at all that night."
By not dancing with a any man, black or white-and my mother loved to dance-she was able to go home with if not a clear, at least not a dark conscience.
I grew up in Brooklyn. Although the city was multi-racial, the neighborhoods were segregated and provincial. In my elementary school, among hundreds of children, there was literally one black kid-the janitor's son from the apartment house across the street from me.
Put me in any focus group and I'm off the charts in my answers to all the progressive questions but my color blindness is like a second language learned in adulthood. I can order a meal, ask directions to the men's room, but I will never dream in it. In my reptilian brain, skin color remains the other. But that's what makes us human. We can control the reptilian brain.
Who knows where I'll be when I'm old and gray and my brain is losing its ability to censor?
But one hundred years can make a difference.
My children, because of my desire to do the right thing, have attended what we PC-types like to call culturally diverse schools. Color blindness is in my children's reptilian brains. They can dream in it.
My older boy was talking about an actor in a movie. He couldn't remember his name.
"He was the one with the glasses."
I looked it up. It was Samuel L. Jackson.
I would have said, "The black guy." For my son, it was the glasses.
Not a hint of the n-word there.
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Another quick post today…
I really hate Q & A sites, they're 95% morons asking questions and other morons wasting their time answering them (if you've got that much time on your hands get a blog and make some money people!). However I can't deny they have something of a magic formula when it comes to bottom feeding off long tail search traffic because plenty of people like to search in that Ask Jeeves style of "how do I", "how can I" or "what is".
Actually targeting the long tail Q & A style queries is pretty easy though. Here's an example…
- Take a page you're trying to get traffic to for example I'll use my link building page
- Work out what the main theme/ keyword for the page is- in this case link building
- Head over to Yahoo Answers or Quora and do a search on that keyword.
- Sift through the nonsense questions and spam and work out what the most prevalent, recurring questions are on the subject and how people are wording them so something like:
- How to build better links to your website?
- What is your best link building strategy?
- What is the most important factor in link building?
- How to get permanent one one links for free
- Add a feature area to your page under a heading like Find out on this page or This article will show you and list the questions which the page answers underneath
You can apply this to pretty much any page if you're a bit creative with how you style it. The example I've given here is just for show so I wouldn't expect to rank for these terms but in less competitive niches rolling out a feature like this will really help to boost your long tail.


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Mortality and causes of death in Crohn's disease: results from 20 years of follow-up in the IBSEN study
- Øistein Hovde1,
- Iril Kempski-Monstad2,
- Milada Cvancarova Småstuen3,
- Inger Camilla Solberg2,
- Magne Henriksen4,
- Jørgen Jahnsen2,
- Njål Stray5,
- Bjørn A Moum2
- 1Department of Gastroenterology, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Gjøvik, Oppland, Norway
- 2Department of Gastroenterology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- 3Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 4Department of Gastroenterology, Østfold Hospital, Fredrikstad, Norway
- 5Department of Internal Medicine, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Correspondence to Dr Øistein Hovde, Department of Gastroenterology, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Gjøvik, Kyrre Greppsgt 19, Gjøvik 2819, Norway; oistein.hovde{at}sykehuset-innlandet.no
- Received 26 February 2013
- Revised 10 May 2013
- Accepted 11 May 2013
- Published Online First 6 June 2013
Objective Population-based studies have shown a slightly decreased life expectancy in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate mortality and causes of death 20 years after the diagnosis in a well defined population-based cohort of CD patients in Norway.
Design The Inflammatory Bowel South-Eastern Norway study has prospectively followed all patients diagnosed with CD in the period between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 1993 in four geographically well-defined areas. All patients (n=237) were age and sex matched with 25 persons from the same county selected at random from the general population. Data on death and causes of deaths were collected from the Norwegian Causes of Death Register. All causes and cause-specific mortality (gastrointestinal cancer, cancer and heart disease) were modelled with Cox regression model stratified by matched sets. Results are expressed as HRs with 95% CIs.
Results There was no significant difference between CD patients and controls in overall mortality (HR=1.35, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.94, p=0.10). Furthermore, there were no marked differences in deaths from gastrointestinal cancer, other cancers or cardiovascular diseases in the CD group compared with the controls. In the CD group, 13.9% had died compared with 12.7% in the control group (p=0.578).
Conclusions In our population-based inception cohort followed for 20 years, there was no increased mortality or more deaths from cancer compared with the general population.


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I love my toaster oven. It does everything for me: cook, bake, toast, and warm up oh so many dishes for my dinner party of one. I find using my big oven cumbersome and energy-wasting if I need to make a small dish for one person. My friends laugh at me when I tell them that it took nearly a year before I turned on my oven at my place. Not because I don't know how to use it, it's just I never had to turn on that switch. One of my favourite toaster oven creations is kale chips. Currently I have a 'healthy' (har har) obsession with kale chips and I put it in a lot of my dishes for the extra crunch. So here's my 'under 15 mins' recipe on how to make kale chips a la toaster oven.
2-3 or more Kale leaves (buy the Kale type with the big leaves)
1 table spoon of Olive oil
Sea salt
Ground pepper and/or Chilli flakes
1) Preheat toaster oven to 400°F. With my toaster oven, I make sure my rack is placed at the top level & the settings are turned to broil
2) As oven is heating up, rinse and dry the kale, then remove the stems and tough ribs
3) Cut into large pieces, toss with olive oil in a bowl then very lightly sprinkle with salt, pepper, and chilli flake
4) Arrange leaves in a single layer baking sheet that fits the toaster oven
5) Bake for about 5 minutes, or until crisp. You know it's crispy when they look a bit shrivelled up and the edges start to brown a bit
Other types of seasonings I've used:
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Sesame oil instead of Olive oil
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Used this for the first time last nite. WOW, finally found a marshmallow fondant that works as well as standard fondant!
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This is the one that I use all the time and I LOVE it - works so well - rolls nicely, colors evenly. LOVE it!
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Loved this!!!! Tasted great and rolled out nicely!! Will def use again!!!
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What is Crisco, is there an equivalent i can use in the Uk
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A number of NBC Universal networks will be simulcasting the concert, and while not officially announced at this time, Syfy maybe one of those networks.
UPDATE: NBC Universal sent out the following today…
In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, the networks of NBCUniversal -- including NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA – will join forces to air a one-hour live benefit telethon, "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together," on Friday, November 2 (8-9 pm ET).
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Our association has several B&Bs in and around the Williamsburg area: The PenroseVictorian Inn, Twin Maples, Carol Duke's Flower Farm, The Nestle Inn, Fox Crossing, and Knotty Pines. Our association has been active for 25 years and has always had high standards for its members.
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Guitar Instruction- All Styles & All Levels
I teach at Williams College & I have a Masters in Guitar Performance from Yale School of Music
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Clean, dry & secure units!!
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Skip to comments.If George Zimmerman Loses a Pretrial Motion to Dismiss, He Can Still Be Acquitted
Posted on 04/12/2012 9:52:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Judging from a sidebar in today's New York Times, there is some confusion about how Florida's self-defense law applies to George Zimmerman's case. The law, as amended in 2005, states that someone who justifiably uses force in self-defense "is immune from criminal prosecution." Under a 2010 decision by the Florida Supreme Court, that means Zimmerman has a right to a pretrial hearing where he can get the second-degree murder charge against him dismissed if he can show, by "a preponderance of the evidence," that he reasonably believed deadly force was necessary to prevent Trayvon Martin from killing or seriously injuring him. In other words, he has to convince a judge it is more likely than not that his use of force was lawful. But if he loses that motion, he can still argue at trial that he acted in self-defense, and the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did not.
By contrast, the Times leaves the impression that Zimmerman has no hope of acquittal if his motion to dismiss is denied:
The case will almost certainly include a pretrial hearing to determine whether the states Stand Your Ground law, which grants broad protections to people who claim to have killed in self-defense, applies; if the judge finds that Mr. Zimmerman acted appropriately, the case will end there. If the judge decides that the protections of the law do not apply, the case will go forward.
At trial, however, the question of self-defense can be brought up again and possibly will, said Robert Weisberg, a criminal law expert at Stanford Law School. That could lead to a fallback position for the jury if allowed by the judge of a lesser verdict of manslaughter should the jury decide that Mr. Zimmerman sincerely but unreasonably believed that he was appropriately using lethal force to defend himself, which is known as "imperfect self-defense."
Manslaughter, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years, does seem like a more appropriate charge than second-degree murder, which carries a potential life sentence and requires "a depraved mind regardless of human life." If Zimmerman broke the law, it was probably because he overreacted in the heat of the moment, so the murder charge seems like a stretch. But contrary to the implication of the Times article, a manslaughter conviction is not the best that Zimmerman can hope for if his case goes to trial. The jury could conclude there is reasonable doubt as to whether he acted in self-defense, in which case he would be acquitted. That standard is not some weird quirk of Florida law. As Northern Kentucky University law professor Michael J.Z. Mannheimer points out, "this is true in virtually every State."
Furthermore, the Times conflates two different aspects of Florida's self-defense law. If Zimmerman's account of his fight with Martin is true, he had no opportunity to safely retreat, so the right to "stand your ground" (the "broad protections" mentioned by the Times) would not apply. In this case the unusual aspect of Florida's law is not the self-defense argument Zimmerman is making but the fact that he gets to present it before trial, along with evidence to support his version of the shooting.
In mandating that procedure, the Florida Supreme Court noted the legislative intent expressed in the preamble to the 2005 law: "The Legislature finds that it is proper for law-abiding people to protect themselves, their families, and others from intruders and attackers without fear of prosecution." The court explained that the "immunity" promised by the law was meant to provide extra protection for people who use force in self-defense:
While Florida law has long recognized that a defendant may argue as an affirmative defense at trial that his or her use of force was legally justified, section 776.032 contemplates that a defendant who establishes entitlement to the statutory immunity will not be subjected to trial. Section 776.032(1) expressly grants defendants a substantive right to not be arrested, detained, charged, or prosecuted as a result of the use of legally justified force. The statute does not merely provide that a defendant cannot be convicted as a result of legally justified force.
But to reiterate, that defense is still available even if Zimmerman does not have enough evidence in his favor to avoid a trial.
Addendum: On the issue of second-degree murder vs. manslaughter, Florida's standard jury instruction for the former crime requires that the act leading to the victim's death "is done from ill will, hatred, spite, or an evil intent," which does not seem to fit the publicly known facts of the shooting, although it might make sense if it can be shown that Zimmerman shot Martin out of anger rather than fear. As Mo points out in the comments, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, today described the shooting this way: "I believe it was an accident. I believe it just got out of control, and he couldn't turn the clock back." That does not sound like second-degree murder.
Not entirely. The actual recordings of Zimmerman's 911 calls are available.
Only if you can get a Korean jury...
If the DA has her way, he'll get a North Korean jury right there in Florida, eager to please the Dear Leader in D.C.
That comment alone should see Zimmerman released due to prejudicial prosecution.
As you state, she has as much duty to find Zimmerman not-guilty, as she does to find him guilty.
Frankly I want Zimmerman to get justice, whatever is proven. If he's found guilty legitimately, I will be glad to see it. Same goes for him being found not-guilty.
How about, "...justice for Zimmerman", you wanker b-—h?
The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.
Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?
(the autopsy states she was raped. Dont think all of these animals didnt all participate)
And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?
Theres a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.
90 year old husbands jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?
Where is the outrage?
Have they caught the rest of the gang of feral blacks who raped, tortured and murdered this elderly woman? Are they even looking? Not a word about it in the media.
You can always make a bad law worse.
Convicting him of a hate crime will be very difficult unless they have a witness that can show specific evidence that race was his motive, based on his observed statements.
I agree, and the Sharpton/Jackson/black panther mob could use that to push for "stronger" hate crime laws, at least in some states.
And doing so would be crazy, but that's how we got "hate crime" laws in the first place.
Any prison sentence is likely to be a death sentence for George Zimmerman.
Very good post, but I question that part. I suspect the gov and AG were afraid that a grand jury might decide there were no grounds to indict, and were afraid of the mob reaction. So they appointed a special prosecutor to make sure there was a quick indictment to quiet things down (for now).
Trayvon Martin shooter put photo of OSU hate crime on his website
This is the "hate crime" photo from Zimmerman's web site:
You could be absolutely right. We have, after all, had our share of race riots in Florida. I lived through them in Miami, and it was ugly, and cost us taxpayers a fortune to rebuild their destruction.
And they could have been thinking about the segregationist history of Sanford fueling the media frenzy.
Maybe not, depending on how well Zimmerman's defense goes. Sometimes, racially charged situations are defused by an airing of the facts and good will.
Probable cause is a lesser standard than the preponderance of the evidence standard that usually applies as to civil liability for ordinary money damages. Only a conviction of George Zimmerman will be of conclusive benefit in a civil case for damages.
I have a question, in order to claim "stand your ground" in the pretrial hearing, would Zimmerman have to take the stand? That sounds pretty risky to me.
And there is another witness who claims he saw Zimmerman strike Trayvon first.
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source?
If I remember correctly, after OJ was acquitted, he got sued under the lesser standard of "preponderance of the evidence" and had to pay out a big chunk of money.
Sorry- had some stuff to do.
Yes, he would have to testify at the SYG hearing, and be cross-examined. The purpose of the law was to change the existing duty of a victim to flee when threatened. So a law abiding citizen now has the right to stand their ground and defend themselves if they believe their life is endangered, without fear of prosecution. It has worked successfully in many cases, and been rejected in some. Recently a fellow and his brother were ejected by a bar- reentered, started a fight with the bouncer, who attempted to eject them again, and the one man stabbed him to death. His knife was illegally concealed, and SYG was rejected because he created the situation that made him fearful for his life. So I think he is going to stand trial for manslaughter.
I heard the gentleman eyewitness on a local news show. They didn't give any information about him, at his request, but he talked by telephone, I assume. He said the police had been honoring his wish not to be named before trial, but with all the misinformation being put out on the news, he had to come forward. Sounded like a reasonable, mature person. I'll dig around and see if I can find a link to it, if you are interested.
If you look at the partial police report, it shows they interviewed 20+ people as "witnesses" at the scene- but no names or other identifying information. So who knows what else is out there?
Wrong witness- I went looking for the kid walking the dog witness- and see he has changed his story 3 times since I first heard it. First he saw the fight start with the man in red hitting the other one. Then he didn't see the fight start, just saw the man in red on the ground with the other guy on top of him. Now he says it was the guy in red on top. The only thing that stayed the same is he chased his dog at that point and only heard a shot and saw nothing.
He is 13- and going on all these media programs- and certainly getting pressured unreasonably. I just saw his picture and realized he is black- so even more pressure. Doubt he will be a credible witness.
The OJ civil case generated some monetary recovery, but it was mostly about getting a civil court money damages judgment and then using collection efforts on that judgment to make OJ's life miserable. That succeeded in that the collection pressures and OJ's volatile personality led him to the kind of shady dealings that eventually put him in prison in Nevada for armed robbery and kidnapping.
The Treyvon Martin case has various potential money damages payoffs for the Martin family and their lawyers in suits against Zimmerman, against the homeowners association, and against local government officials and entities. I suspect though that the criminal case will ultimately collapse at or before trial, making any recovery for civil damages problematic at best, perhaps only for minimal value as a nuisance claims that insurers want to settle.
Even that still leaves the Martin family and their lawyers with the chance to monetize the publicity through book, merchandise, and movie and TV deals. The greatest benefit for the lawyers though is the publicity that brings in a gold rush of new clients and cases. They will find that a fleeting benefit though unless they manage the moment effectively and bring in new lawyers and staff.
Technically, he will be claiming immunity from prosecution under Florida Statute 776.032, which makes it illegal to arrest, detain, charge, or prosecute a person who has lawfully used deadly force in self defense. That question of "duty to retreat" doesn't appear in either Corey's version of events (which is the same version the mob uses), or in Zimmerman's version of events.
He does not have to take the stand. The defense has police reports of his statements after the incident, as well as eyewitnesses. It argues that this evidence results in justified use of deadly force. The state (Corey) will attempt to rebut the eyewitnesses using DeeDee's phone call. Good luck with that.
-- I hadn't heard that [there is another witness who claims he saw Zimmerman strike Trayvon first.] --
Neither had I. I think it was Zimmerman's father who said there was an eyewitness who saw the altercation from the start, but Robert Zimmerman, Sr. didn't give any more detail, that I can recall.
Now my tin foil hat theory: If he's found guilty, he'll never see the inside of a prison. They'll say they sent him to prison, but change his identity and send him off somewhere in a "witness protection" scenario.
That's an inversion. Easier to lay out the standard in the prosecution terms, all across.
beyond a reasonable doubt was NOT in self defense = guilty
The state has the burden of production and persuasion at trial. In the pretrial hearing, the defendant has the burden of production and persuasion, to a standard of "more likely than not" it WAS reasonable use of deadly force in self defense.
I implore the authorities to look at this case in a black and white manner, (bad) pun intended.
Despite what Sharpton X may say this isn't about race or gun laws.
Corey's theory of the case comes straight from DeeDee. That's her strongest card. On the other hand, the recorded calls, the on scene eye and earwitnesses, the injuries to Zimmerman, the timeline, the AGREED point that Martin had successfully eluded Zimmerman (combined with the location of the fight) - all of that cuts in favor of Zimmerman.
This is a purely political prosecution. Corey's affidavit in support of the charge is contradicted by reliable evidence.
If Corey had stronger evidence, she would have hinted at it in the affidavit.
The affidavit explicitly states it is merely laying out the evidence giving a reason to believe.
The evidence for the reason to believe is flimsy; i.e., a time line consistent with Zimmerman's story, involving a strained interpretation of the statement of the dispatcher (after Zimmerman had already left his vehicle) to the effect "we don't need you to do that," and of Zimmerman's use of, I think, two vulgar words in the course of a four minute conversation, ending with the mother of the deceased identifying her son't voice.
If might be possible for Zimmerman to have the case dismissed on the basis of the preponderance of the evidence merely by producing the police report. But, if it were possible. affidavits from the two eye-witnesses seeing Martin on top of him should do the trick.
The clip I heard of DeeDee seems to support Z, not Trayvon. She said that Trayvon asked Z why Z was following him and Z replied with "what are you doing here?" (Now I don't believe that she accurately relayed the actual words used, but that's another matter.)
If that's the case, it doesn't pass the smell test for Z to slug Trayvon at that point. Much more likely that Trayvon would have slugged Z in response to the question.
He does not have to take the stand. The defense has police reports of his statements after the incident, as well as eyewitnesses. (Cboldt post 72)
There seems to be some disagreement on whether George would have to testify. Maybe it would be a calculated risk on the part of the defense for him to testify. I certainly do appreciate the time and effort you both have put into this to rely on facts, not rumors or media distortions.
Cboldt might be correct, his official statement might be substituted for personal testimony. I don't recall that being done, but that doesn't mean it is prohibited.
Although if I were Zimmerman's attorney, I would not want to rely on what the prosecution and police SAY I said to them as my sole explanation to the judge. Especially after reading their interpretation of the 911 call in their probable cause affidavit.
Guess we will have to wait and see.
FWIW, I was answering whether it was mandatory for Zimmerman to take the stand in his own defense, in order to complete a motion for grant of immunity. It is mandatory that defendant produce the evidence and argument to support a motion to grant immunity under 776.032, but I don't see how it can be mandatory that the defendant be subjected to examination and cross examination in order to provide that evidence.
Under odumbi, if your white, you are incarcerated until proven guilty.
Someone needs to talk on TV about 13 percent making up 44 percent of criminals, 400,000 attacks on whites and 14,000 attacks on white women every stinking year by blacks. Someone.
Sure- that makes sense. Zimmerman's lawyer is pretty sharp- once he is able to meet with him and see the witness statements, and the available evidence, he will advise him as to the best course of action.
Appreciate the civility in this discussion. I do hate the flame wars.
Yes, he is.
If you haven't, you should investigate the contents of an Arthur hearing. That's the bond hearing set for April 20.
The state has to prove its case at an Arthur hearing, or else defendant MUST be given bond. The standard of proof the state must meet is "proof evident or presumption [of guilt] great."
Corey will have to substantiate the charging affidavit with evidence. The evidence may be in the form of witness affidavits, but the evidence has to be stronger than the probable cause that is used to hold Zimmerman a the present moment.
"investigate the contents of an Arthur hearing."
I did, thanks. Interesting that the burden on the state is higher than at trial. I didn't know that. Portends well for Zimmerman.
His new lawyer did say he wasn't going to request bond until he had secured a safe place for him to go. No small feat.
It didn't dawn on me that the state had to put on some sort of "proof of the case" at an Arthur hearing. This is a substantive affair that demands a view of the state's evidence for all elements of the charged offense.
As for the burden of proof, I too see the "higher that beyond a reasonable doubt" remarks, but think that is misleading. The court will view the state's evidence in the best light, unimpeached, etc. Although defense can point out contradictions within the state's own evidence, putting any contention in doubt due to the contradictions. Which version, your honor, does the state choose to be presumed true?
Also, the rules of evidence don't apply as they would at trial. For example, inadmissible hearsay testimony can be part of the state's proof in an Arthur hearing. The defendant can challenge the credibility of the evidence, but it can't have it discarded entirely, as it might be able to do at trial.
One other point - the judge's decision is appealable.
FWIW- hubby is the lawyer in the family- he says the burden on prosecution at an Arthur hearing is "proof evident, presumption of guilt great" which is higher than trial "beyond a reasonable doubt."
The state's case has quite a few holes- if the defense has the time and money to muster adequate rebuttal. I think the boy's mother allegation that the voice crying for help is her son shouldn't be permitted without some kind of independent proof. Or maybe the witness who SAW Zimmerman being assaulted and crying for help is enough.
I am hopeful...sort of. Mainly because we don't know what all the evidence is that they based their charges. But I do have faith in the system working.
It's higher, but the two standards are in the alternative, and the state's evidence is put on via affidavit with no opportunity for cross examination. If the state puts up crap evidence (low credibility), the defense has to argue/explain why that evidence is not helpful to the state.
-- The state's case has quite a few holes --
That's an understatement. The depraved mind, for murder, for one thing. I don;t know what the state is going to offer for evidence to prove that, and if there is an absence of depraved mind, the charge is gone.
Same with all of the evidence that supports self defense - that goes to undercut the charge of murder; but it'll be up to defense to produce that evidence and argue how it undercuts the state's charge.
On voice crying, if the state can use Trayvon's mother, then the defense can use Zimmerman's father, brother, and friend - all of whom are willing to testify under oath that the voice is George's. Now, with a tie, turn to the third party eyewitness who saw George on the bottom, screaming for help.
-- I am hopeful...sort of. Mainly because we don't know what all the evidence is that they based their charges. --
I think we've seen it all. If they had more, it would appear in the information and supporting affidavit. The state's core witness is DeeDee (g.f. who called Trayvon), with mom bringing up a secondary role in establishing that Trayvon was yelling for help.
-- But I do have faith in the system working. --
I don't. The prosecutor shows that the system is rigged. In Bush v. Gore, I saw that even the highest court in the state can pull "rigged" with a straight face. Once a case turns front page news, the system becomes outcome driven, not fact and law driven. The players will deny that - but watch what they do, not what they say.
Martial law???
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Nutrition: per slice
- kcal336
- fat17g
- saturates10g
- carbs43g
- sugars25g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.29g
- 250g clear honey, plus about 2 tbsp extra to glaze
- 225g unsalted butter
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- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 3 large egg, beaten
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- 300g self-raising flour
Preheat the oven to fan 140C/ conventional 160C/gas 3. Butter and line a 20cm round loosebottomed cake tin. Cut the butter into pieces and drop into a medium pan with the honey and sugar. Melt slowly over a low heat. When the mixture looks quite liquid, increase the heat under the pan and boil for about one minute. Leave to cool for 15-20 minutes, to prevent the eggs cooking when they are mixed in.
Beat the eggs into the melted honey mixture using a wooden spoon. Sift the flour into a large bowl and pour in the egg and honey mixture, beating until you have a smooth, quite runny batter.
Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 50 minutes-1 hour until the cake is well-risen, golden brown and springs back when pressed. A skewer pushed into the centre of the cake should come out clean.
Turn the cake out on a wire rack. Warm 2 tbsp honey in a small pan and brush over the top of the cake to give a sticky glaze, then leave to cool. Keeps for 4-5 days wrapped, in an airtight tin.
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RUSH: About this house that looks like a trailer and cost 900 grand. The floors blew up because the pipes froze. No electricity, no gas. The future! It's the future of environmentally clean and green living. We're going to spend whatever the budget number is, $6.4 billion, and that's just tip of the iceberg. It's going to end up being more than that. We're going to spend billions and billions and billions to "green up" schools, right? We're going to do to the schools what they tried to do in Troy, Michigan, with this house. We're going to find out that the pipes are gonna freeze. We're going to find out the roof is going to collapse when your average thunderstorm goes through there. We're going to find out that they're going to end up full of mold because of lousy air circulation. The kids are going to get sick from raw wood rot and mold and insects.
But here's the thing about it. We know all of this, you know why? Because we've lived it, and because it was intolerable, we decided to improve it. So we came up with air-conditioning, and we came up with proper fabrics and tools and equipment to manufacture a roof that will stay on and pipes that won't freeze. Advancing our lifestyles got rid of all the kids getting sick in school from wood rot, maggots, insects, collapsing roofs and pipes that burst.
And we're headed back in that direction because that supposedly is gonna save the planet. Next thing you know, we're going to go back to the horse and buggy and our streets are going to be dirt and mud with horse manure in the middle of them. It's natural! That's what's idiotic and insane about Obamanomics. We've been there, and we didn't like it, and we improved our quality of life, and we made things cleaner. You can't tell me that a bunch of mold and bursting pipes and rotted wood and collapsed roofs is progress. Because, my friends, it isn't.
RUSH: Do you remember, folks -- speaking of "environmentally advanced" buildings. In 1994, some of you who are new to the program, of course, will not remember this because you weren't here to hear me say it originally. In 1994, I purchased a condominium in Manhattan, fashionable penthouse on the Upper East Side -- and after the typical year and a half to two years of renovations, lawsuits, lies and stuff in Page Six about the whole process, moved in. One week after moving in, I am in my fashionable new bathroom preparing for bed. A thunderstorm goes nuts outside. I mean, it was just kabooming all over the place. The rain was pouring down. Within five minutes, water was pouring through the light sockets in the master bathroom. I mean, as fast your bathtub faucet will produce water. In the dining room, every opening possible, water was flowing, being flooded. One week after moving in.
In the kitchen, same thing, through the spots, the lights in the ceiling. Bam! Water was just pouring down, one week after moving in. I'm watching this running around grabbing pots and pans from the kitchen, which were meaningless, but I was trying to do something to get the water and keep it from damaging. The bed was soaked, and I said, "How the hell did this happen, and why did nobody tell us this when we were looking to buy it?" You know what I learned later? There was a smaller penthouse above mine, and the people up there had a lot of terraces, and they had turned it into a garden. They essentially had a roof garden up there, and they had... Well, I'll be charitable.
They had failed to follow various codes and so forth in putting it together, and the membranes in the ceiling (the floor) that were supposed to be there, were there, but they were not done properly, and that amount of rain, flash thunderstorm, just soaked it. That's what got into my apartment below. Now, I mention this not because I want sympathy, because it's not that at all. I mention this because roof gardens are the latest craze, on school roofs. Yes! We don't have enough trees out in the front yard. We don't have enough grass. We have to put a roof garden up there to help save the planet from global warming.
Well, I've lived under one. And, by the way, this went on for four years. Even after they supposedly fixed it, it kept leaking, only not the full force, faucet-type flow of water. It was drip, drip, drip, but I eventually had to rip out a lot of ceilings, put it back in, curtains and so forth. The damage was incredible, all because the people up there wanted to be able to go outside to their roof garden. (interruption) Ah, the insurance company paid, yes. Of course, that was a hassle, too. It's always a hassle. Yeah, but they tried not to. I mean, they tried to blame the building, the building said, "No, it's not us. It's the tenant." The tenant said, "No, it's the building." Other people said, "No, it's your fault for not checking before you bought the place."
It was typical of the way these disputes go. That's not my point. My point is, I've lived under one of these damn things, and I've had my property destroyed. We're going backwards with all this environmental rotgut. Okay. (interruption) What? What's the moral of the story? What is the...? (interruption) Mmm-hmm? Mmm-hmm? No, I didn't know because it was much smaller. The roof garden... The building was tapered. They had more outside square footage than they had inside their apartment. Actually the condo they had was smaller than mine. Mine was the whole floor, and theirs was the whole floor, but theirs was about half the size and then outside that is where the roof garden was. (interruption)
Well, it's easy to see now. Yeah, I shoulda bought both. Right. Easy to say now. Actually if you can think that way, I should have bought the top three. 'Cause then when the middle one got damaged I would have had someplace to go while fixing the middle floor, but there wouldn't have been damage because I wouldn't have built a roof garden up there! I'd have built standard patios, put a barbecue pit or whatever up there, and lived a normal life up there rather than wandering around a bunch of weeds! (sigh)


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Thursday, June 29
NBA drafts two Israeli players!
From The Jerusalem Post:
Eliyahu (Photo: FIBA Europe)
"Lior Eliyahu, was selected by the Orlando Magic with the 44th overall pick of the 2006 NBA Draft in New York City..."
Halperin (Photo: Ales Fevzer)
And, "most analysts projected Yotam Halperin to be the first Israeli player drafted since the Los Angeles Clippers picked Doron Sheffer with the 36th selection of the 1996 Draft. Halperin surprisingly dropped to the Seattle Supersonics with the 53rd pick.
"In other basketball news, Pini Gershon, who led Maccabi Tel Aviv to three European titles, signed a contract to coach Greek team Olympiakos."
Catblogging: Israel and the terrorists (Editorial Cartoon)
Yossi Klein Halevi in the New Republic:
"Nothing unites Israelis in outrage more than the seizure of hostages. On July 4, Israel will mark the 30th anniversary of the Entebbe operation that freed over a hundred Israeli hostages, and little has changed since then in the national ethos of rescue. The last Zionist ideal still shared by most Israelis is the determination to fight back. An Israeli soldier held hostage is a taunt against the Zionist promise of self-defense, an unbearable reminder of Jewish helplessness.
"Our obsession with hostages is a tactical weakness but a strategic strength. It allows terrorists a stunning psychological advantage: With a single random kidnapping, they hold an entire society emotionally hostage. Strategically, though, hostage-taking only strengthens Israeli resolve."
Israeli gov't source: 'Asheri's killer doesn't have long to live'
Now, please contrast and compare the following. There will be a test. Actually, it's already begun:
"The pain is great, almost too great to bear," said Miriam Asheri, mother of slain Itamar resident Eliyahu Asheri in an interview with Israel Radio on Thursday.
"But one thing I feel, despite all this… is that in the wake of disagreements between our brethren, with our different worldviews and different relationships to the land of Israel that creates a lot of conflict, a lot of anger, a lot of argument - many times, I've asked G-d that he should first of all grant me love for everyone in my heart, and… that He should show me the special quality of the nation of Israel, and that I should succeed - that we should all succeed in loving each other… truly from the heart."---
"The abduction was easy to carry out, and the hostage was alive for two days," said Palestinian Resistance Committee spokesman Abu Abir said on Thursday.
"Before we issued the announcement of his kidnap and after, the Israeli security system couldn't decide who the kidnapped person was. Of course this only encourages us to continue the blessed Jihad and we promise more abductions in the near future.
"Operation 'Cavaliers' Wrath' will turn Israelis' lives into hell. Soldiers and settlers will find us everywhere; we will come out at them from under the ground and above it. We will to attack from every direction. The Salah a-Din Brigades are completing preparations for the next big operation. We will kidnap and murder more Zionists," he said.
Israel: I'm Loving It . A mutual shoutout
A moving, mutual Israeli-Jewish Diaspora shoutout over at Jblogosphere on this difficult morning:
"Those of us, who live in Israel are not isolated from the rest of the Jewish world. We in Diaspora, do care, and do think of Israel, and Israelis, as a nation (not just the Land, but the nation!) all the time. And for those of us, who live in Israel, we should not fall victims to illusion that once you become an Israeli, you forget about being a Jew. Wherever we are, we are one nation.
We have been separated through history, and wound up living in different parts of the world - but all those factors have not succeeded in breaking us, nor taking away our common identity. Israel, the symbol of our nationhood, stands strong, and whether you're religious or not, left-wing, right-wing, or somewhere in the middle, whether you're from Europe or the Middle East or the United States, you're all welcome there. And at the same time, whatever difficulties Israel experience, she is not alone. We're all here, ready to put aside our differences, the moment she needs our help."
(In related news, later today I'll be posting a powerful, different take on this issue, and a disturbing cry of despair over Israel by an editor at a major New York Jewish newspaper, in an exclusive Israel At Level Ground Podcast with noted immigrant author, columnist and speaker Judy Lash Balint. Stop back here throughout the day and listen in. Meanwhile, Judy's latest: "Former Mossad Head: "Hamas Could Implode")
PM Olmert: no plans to reoccupy Gaza
From Haaretz:
"As the Israel Defense Forces continued its land-based operation in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israel Air Force also struck targets in the south in continued efforts to pressure Palestinian militants into releasing a soldier seized Sunday in an attack on a military position near the Gaza border.
"The IAF before dawn Thursday struck a weapons warehouse managed by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees in Khan Yunis. Witnesses also said three missiles fell in an open field used for training by Hamas militants.
"Israel aircraft also bombarded seven roads the IDF said were used by Qassam launch crews."
Palestinians in northern Gaza claimed earlier to have fired a chemical-tipped Kassam into Israel, although the IDF says they have no information of such an attack.
IDF arrests over 60 senior Palestinian leaders overnight
Ramallah: Israel targets Hamas leadership in arrests
"Has Israel decided (YNET) that like the Taliban & like Saddam's regime of brutality, that the Hamas Terrorist Government's day has come?"
From Ynetnews:
"Among those arrested during the operation, which began shortly after midnight in Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya, Jenin and Jerusalem, are Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser al-Shaer, Hamas government Labor Minister Muhammad Barghouti, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Khaled Abu Arfa and many other top officials. Senior Hamas members Mahmoud Abu Tir and Mahmoud Atuan were apprehended in Jerusalem; most of the Palestinian Legislative Council members on Hamas' behalf were also detained in various West Bank cities."
Kidnapped Israeli youth's body found in Ramallah
An anguished morning in Israel:
From The Jerusalem Post:
"The IDF confirmed early Thursday a report the Popular Resistance Committees issued from Gaza that it had executed Eliyahu Asheri, 18, of Itamar, who was kidnapped earlier this week in the West Bank.
"For a Jerusalem Online video of events click here.
"IDF combat engineers and Shin Bet agents, acting on intelligence, found Asheri's body Wednesday night in an abandoned car in an open field outside of Ramallah. The youth appeared to have been shot to death, and initial findings indicated that he may have been killed as early as Sunday.
"Asheri's family has been notified."


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The Adirondack Phantoms topped the Binghamton Senators 5-3 on Wednesday night, beating the B-Sens for the second time in four days.
Binghamton forward Corey Cowick had his best game of the season with two goals and an assist, but it wasn't enough. Wacey Hamilton scored the other B-Sens goal. Fredrik Claesson, Mark Borowiecki, Mike Hoffman and Michael Sdao had one assist each.
Going into the third period, Binghamton trailed 3-2. Adirondack struck first when Jason Akeson scored at 4:29 from the slot on the power play. The score remained the same until 27 seconds remained, when Cowick tipped a Chris Wideman slapshot past Phantoms goaltender Yann Denis.
The marker was too little, too late, as Phantoms forward Ben Holmstrom found an empty net with six seconds remaining, making the final 5-3.
Binghamton will next be in action on Friday night at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, taking on the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
After two periods, the Adirondack Phantoms are leading the Binghamton Senators 3-2 on Wednesday night at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
Trailing 2-0 entering the frame, the B-Sens cut the lead in half at the 7:35 mark. Corey Cowick fought through a check and took control of the puck in front of Phantoms goaltender Yann Danis before beating him between the legs.
The marker was Cowick's fifth of the season, with assists from Fredrik Claesson and Mark Borowiecki.
However, Adirondack responded quickly on the man advantage. Only two minutes and two seconds later, Tye McGinn collected a rebound left by Binghamton goaltender Andrew Hammond and stashed it over his left shoulder, giving the Phantoms a 3-1 edge.
The B-Sens cut into the deficit once more with their speciality; a shorthanded goal. Wacey Hamilton started up the right wing on a two-on-one with Corey Cowick. Hamiton kept the puck and beat Danis short-side, scoring his second of the year. Cowick got the assist, giving him a two-point night.
The period ended with a brawl between B-Sens defenseman Chris Wideman and Adirondack forward Matt Mangene. Both received fighting majors to be served starting the third period.
The shots are 29-23 in favor of the Phantoms.
After the first period, the Adirondack Phantoms are leading the Binghamton Senators 2-0 at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Wednesday night.
Petr Straka scored the first goal of the contest at 12:42, coming down the middle of the ice and splitting B-Sens defensemen Ben Blood and Chris Wideman. Straka beat goaltender Andrew Hammond under the blocker and over his left pad, his sixth of the year.
At 18:25, Kris Newbury unloaded a slapshot from the left circle and beat Hammond clean over his left shoulder and under the crossbar. Straka picked up the primary assist.
Despite allowing two goals, Hammond was sensational. The backup goalie has been thrust into the starting lineup with Nathan Lawson's lower body injury, and kept Binghamton in the game with a host of tough stops from in close and through screens.
The shots are 18-11 in favor of the Phantoms.
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Any error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded.
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You're gonna be jealous if you don't live in Los Angeles. We're lucky enough to be the home town of the I Am 8-Bit art show, an annual gallery that's packed with fine art inspired by old-school videogames.
The show runs through May 12th... but if you can't make it, check out this video look. We even got awe-inspiring bleepy music masters 8-Bit Weapon to provide the background track. Check it:
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AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods Market has developed new standards and a labeling seal of approval for defining quality natural personal care products. Called Premium Body Care, the benchmark is designed to help consumers decipher which body care products in its Whole Body departments contain the most natural and highest-quality ingredients, the retailer said last week. "Personal care products are not regulated like food in this country, so there are currently no consistent standards for them ...
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It is a well-known axiom that traffic expands to fill the space allocated to it. When a new road is built to relieve congestion it is not long before the cars, lorries and buses arrive to form a queue.
It is therefore no great surprise that Britain, a densely populated country whose road network is extensive, is one of the most congested nations in Europe. We report a study today that shows that the volume of traffic will rise by 40 per cent by 2040.
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'X-Men' Mansion Starts The Comic-Con Countdown
Bryan Singer is feeling mighty confident in "X-Men: Days of Future Past," based on the rate he's been tossing out photos, casting announcements and other assorted teases onto the web. You might be sharing that confidence pretty soon — as soon as Comic-Con, in fact.
Singer's latest tweet from the set of "Days of Future Past" shows a set in its early stages of construction. It's an early design, but all signs point to the set in question being the underbelly of the X-Mansion. That question could very well get an answer soon, however, based on Singer's enigmatic tease about the summer's hottest convention.
"How many days until @Comic_Con?" is all he asks along with the posted picture. That's enough of a tease to let us know that something big — a recreated set on the show floor, a first look at the film's trailer, or some other form of footage — is likely to appear at the San Diego convention this year.
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Some homes are flooded in Rock County
Some homes along the Rock River, Lake Koshkonong, Turtle Creek and Sugar River are flooding in Rock County.
Chief Deputy Barbara Tillman at the sheriff's department says some homes have water in yards, some have a few inches in basements and others have full basements.
She says the power company has turned off electricity to some areas and some flooded roads in the county are also closed.
She says local athletes, fire departments, other community volunteers and inmate crews are filling thousands of sandbags and leaving them throughout the county so residents can easily access them.
Law enforcement has not issued any evacuations. So far, Tillman says flooding is not as bad as in 2008 but they are closely monitoring the situation.
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A Decline in Texas Power Looms in Washington
Thanks to a lack of strong state ties to Republican Donald Trump's campaign and a weak bench on the Democratic side, it's unlikely Texas talent will flood the executive branch in 2017 — no matter if Trump or Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November. Thanks to term limits for committee chairs, Texas power in Congress will soon diminish as well.
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I havem't forgotten Jade Darcy. A whole lot of people seem to love Mary's and my tough/fragile waif as much as we do. The new prequel, Jade Darcy: Run Out of West, is moving forward at a glacial pace--but it is going in a forward direction. This is a book set 5 years before Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor, and it details Jade's initial arrival on Cablans and her eventful first few days there. You'll see more of some of the characters you already know, as well as meet a few new ones--including Aka-Mar, whom I think you'll like (even if Jade doesn't). Work is progressing very, very slowly due to real world problems--but we still have hopes.
Jade Darcy fans will probably be furious with me, but I have once again allowed myself to be seduced by another woman. (This will not be a surprise to anyone who knows me.) First there was Polly, and now there's ... Nellie Bly.
For those of you who don't know about her, Nellie Bly was a ground-breaking female reporter. In an age (1885-1895) when the few women working at newspapers at all were writing about fashion and cooking, Nellie went undercover to get the inside story of social abuse and political corruption, setting the standard for modern-day investigative reporting. Time and again she disguised herself to get first-hand knowledge of unsafe and unfair working conditions. As a tireless champion of working women and the underprivileged in general, her exposés brought about numerous reforms. She spent six months in Mexico as a foreign correspondent until her article about the political dictatorship there brought credible threats against her life. She had herself committed to an insane asylum to learn the hideous conditions the most helpless people in society had to cope with. She brought down corrupt politicians and crooked lobbyists. Probably her most famous stunt was traveling solo around the world to beat Phileas Fogg's (fictional) record of eighty days. With Jules Verne's encouragement, she didn't just beat the record, she shattered it--becoming a worldwide celebrity in the process.
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6 Dec 2012 until 9 Dec 2012
It's A Wonderful Life at Pull Tight Theatre
Don't pass up this classic holiday tradition! With this two-night package, you will receive two tickets to this faithful adaptation of the beloved film, It's A Wonderful Life. This film follows the saga of George Bailey, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty. George's guardian angel appears on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him, by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born, that his has been, after all, a wonderful life.
Your two-night package also includes a gourmet breakfast for each morning of your stay and dinner at Puckett's, a popular local restaurant within walking distance to the theatre. Come back that evening to enjoy some warm apple cider and a good book from our library before immersing yourself in our plush accommodations. Oh, what a wonderful life!


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La Roux's leading lady, Elly Jackson, recently sat down with MTV to talk about her "In For The Kill" collaborator, Kanye West. In the interview, Elly praises Kanye for not being afraid to work with some of the hottest artists out there on his new record. "What I really liked was the aspect of his idea of using all the best people you have at your fingertips, that people don't seem to do that … and I think that was kind of his point with this record," Elly explained to MTV News.
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Elly is featured on "All Of the Lights" from Kanye's new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which came out yesterday. Elly and Kanye's chemistry is displayed even further with this week's leak of "That's My Bitch" from the upcoming Kanye/Jay-Z album Watch the Throne which features Elly on vocals.
La Roux has a lot to celebrate with "In For The Kill" hitting the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Chart this week. Their self-titled debut album is available now via Cherrytree/Interscope Records.


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Khan Academy started in a handful of classrooms in Los Altos in late 2010 and produced remarkable results. In the fall of 2011, Los Altos rolled out Khan Academy district-wide in all 5th, 6th, and some 7th and 8th grade classrooms. Los Altos teachers used mobile labs to supplement their curriculum, and students were encouraged to work on math concepts they found challenging. Teachers used Khan Academy data to create more time in their schedules for hands-on, creative projects. Los Altos plans to roll out Khan Academy across these 4 grades this coming school year.
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Very Nice Apartment, Great Location!
Size50 m²
Floor No.2
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- Balcony/terrace
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- Lockable room
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Very central location, excellent places around, just discover and enjoy this beautiful city. Palma offers many things to enjoy; like nice bars with sunny terraces, excellent restaurants, local shopping stores all "next" to the house.
The apartment is in the historic city center, 200 meters from Plaza Mayor and the Cathedral of Palma , Plaza España is 5' walking and the beach is 800 meters. Great location to enjoy all the attractions of the city and very good cuisine that offers Palma. An excellent repair after excursions during the day and night in the beautiful city of Palma.
No public transport is necessary from here, walk and just discover it. If you want to go to the beaches or other towns and cities, the bus or traini is available from Plaza de España or you can take a taxi.
the official time of check in is at 13pm. I will wait you in the apartment at the agreed time.
It is a real second floor without elevator.
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The apartment must be left in the SAME CONDITION you found.
There are elements of cleaning to keep it clean.
Please do not waste electricity. If you are not home, leave the lights off and check the natural gas in the kitchen.
If you smoke, please smoke near a window or vent the room then. Please dispose of cigarette butts in the trash.
Take care of things around the house. Report broken if anything.
Insurance is for any breakage happening at the apartment. Includes furniture, electrical appliances, linens, glasses and anything of value.
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We had an amazing stay in Sebas' house!
Sebas was a very obliging and friendly host. He helped a lot to find our way around in Bunyola and on our trips. The room was simple and clean, as well as the bathroom. You shouldn't be afraid of some small but friendly ants and millipedes around the inner yard, that's what you'll find a lot here. :) If you expect nothing but an authentic mallorquin and close to nature home for your time in Bunyola, you will have a good time at Sebas' place. The village is beautiful and easy to explore but if you'd like to get to know the island, you should have a car to get to places around. We came without a car so we had to use the bus which was sometimes a little walk to the next bus station to Sollér. Just be aware of that fact. We would absolutely recommend to come to beautiful Bunyola to stay with Sebas. Thank you and all the best.. :)
very accommodating perfect sympathetic administrator located in a quiet, comfortable accommodation close to the center. I can very well recommend this hotel and would book again
sehr zuvorkommener sympatischer verwalter in einer ruhigen, gemütlichen unterkunft nahe am ortskern gelegen. ich kann diese unterkunft sehr gut weiter empfehlen und würde sie wieder buchen
Very nice house, room and garden in a very nice village!
And a very cool and relaxed Sebas, who isn´t angy if you are late for two hours ;-). He cooked with us, recommended us good places to go...
We really loved to be there!
Sebas is great. Very relaxing and a beautiful surrounding. The room is very authentic. It is an old house with a lot of charme. We could use the kitchen and we have seen a movie on a big screen in the living room.
A lovely spot Bunyola, with an otherwise hardly encountered village community, the accommodation basic but picturesque and Sebas a friendly and helpful type, this time- it was a lucky strike.
Sebastian was very helpful and hospitable. I can honestly recommand him and his place to others.
THe room and the village was very beautiful. We spend a wonderful time here!
It was nice when Sebas: the room, the garden, the hospitable reception. The kids also liked. Who needs luxury, however, should look elsewhere. A note: You should be timely make the owner an arrival. I have unfortunately failed.
Es war nett bei Sebas: das Zimmer, der Garten, die gastliche Aufnahme. Den Kindern hat es auch gefallen. Wer Luxus braucht, sollte sich allerdings woanders umsehen. Ein Hinweis: Man sollte mit dem Vermieter rechtzeitig eine Ankunftszeit ausmachen. Das habe ich leider versäumt.
It was a great holiday.
The accommodation was nice and the host was attentive and uncomplicated.
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Man Wanted For Shooting Dog During Altercation With TransientsPolice are searching for a man who shot and wounded a dog who ran toward him during a confrontation with a group of transients in San Bernardino.
Exclusive: Family Wants Justice After Pet Dog Shot Dead In Their Backyard A Lancaster man whose dog was shot dead is accusing the L.A. County Sheriff's Department of not taking the case seriously enough.
Deputies Shoot Dog During Commission Of Alleged Robbery In EastvaleA large pit bull immediately charged at the deputy.
Perris Man Found Dead, His Pit Bull Fatally Shot By DeputyA missing Perris man was found dead in an open field and his dog was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy when it attacked.
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The Dodge Daroo I, one of the wildest factory show cars of the 1960s, was a collaboration between Dodge design manager Bill Brownlie and George Barris, Hollywoods self-professed King of the Kustomizers. Change was in the air and the Daroo, with its radical, cut-down profile and bold paint, made a big splash on the custom car show scene.
Brownlie sent to Barris a stock 1967 Dart GT convertible, which Barris shortened 10 inches in the rear and lengthened 17 inches in the front, forming…Read More


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RMIT—Australia Scholarship
- Academic Excellence—3.25 cumulative GPA or above.
- The student must be a degree-seeking SJSU student that has been accepted to study at RMIT for the Fall 2012 semester on the SJSU Bilateral Exchange Program.
- One official transcript from SJSU
- Two formal letters of recommendation:
- Two letters can address student's academic performance.
- One letter can address student's academic performance while another letter can address student's service to the community.
- A 5-page essay detailing:
- Why the student chose to go abroad
- Why study abroad is important
- Why the student chose to study at RMIT in Australia
- How the student plans on helping make SJSU a global campus and a global community upon their return
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One $5,000 scholarship
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For the Fall 2012 semester—May 1st!
- The winner will be contacted in May 2012
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About the Course
Join Windward Stewards Andrew Schreiber and Lindsay Hagamen for a weekend crash course in forest permaculture.
This course is relevant to people living in a variety of bioregions, as we are going to be detailing strategies for mitigating or eliminating irrigation using the wisdom of the forest as our guide.
"Permaculture on the Edge" is not just a single course, but a philosophy of we at Windward are bringing together sustainable self-regulating agricultural systems in marginal areas to produce food, forage, fuel and fiber with minimal energy, time and hassel inputs.
POTE is a Windward way of approaching design decisions and implementation that stresses maximum use of our observational powers to learn from nature, and gradual ecological transformation through natural succession, and both passive and dynamic accumulation of soil biomass to increase fertility and water retention.
On day one of the course we will focus on the theorhetical underpinnings of permaculture, and the practical observation the land to see how to practically implement permaculture systems that are in harmony with the existing ecology.
You will get a chance to see how we are integrating plants and animals in our efforts to transforming 131 acre forest hillside into a flourishing food forest that will provide food, fuel, and raw materials for our growing community.
On day two, we will be getting our hands dirty, putting together a large scale hugelkulture (appx 80ft long) set in amungt 1,000+ sq ft of terrace space that we are underway developing into a second generation permaculture system here at Windward.
Further down on this page you will find a more detailed schedule of the course.
Discussion about the event is also happening at Permies.com
About the Teachers
Lindsay Hagamen is the president of the Windward Foundation, the organizaiton which stewards the Windward community's 131 acre landbase.
She has a background in environmental science, researching nutrient cycling in the terrestrial ecosystems of New Hampshire, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the Pacific Northwest.
As a member of Windward she leads perrenial agriculture and forestry systems management, and has a passion for the land and growing healthy delicious food for the community.
Andrew Schreiber is the Internship Coordinator for Windwards 501(c)3 Non-profit Education and Research Center, working to cultivate the holistic learning environment for interns, apprentices and fellows that come to the Center to increase their working understanding of sustainable systems.
As Windward's lead in animal husbandry and close associate with Lindsay in the permaculture systems at Windward- Andrew divides his time between animal care, creating perennial forage systems, coordinating, and managing the octopus
For the past four years, Andrew and Lindsay have worked together to implement ecological design principles into Windward's integrated village-scale sustainable life support systems. Together, they're developing the holistic land management approaches that will enable the integration Windward's forestry, energy, agriculture, livestock and village-scale industrial needs into the native landscape.
Workshop Schedule
- 5-8pm: Check In & Camp Set-up
- 6pm: Dinner (provided)
- 7pm: Campfire & Introductions
- Sunset ~ 7:30pm
- Sunrise ~7am
- Breakfast (Bring your own)
- 9-10:30am: Permaculture Theory and Design Part I
- 10:30-11am: Break
- 11-12:30pm Permaculture Theory and Design Part II
- 12:30-1:30pm: Lunch (Bring your own)
- 1:30-2pm: Dry Forest Ecology & Observation Techniques
- 2-3pm: Walking Observation of Forest Structure & Design
- 3-4pm: Forest Observation
- 4-5pm: Observations share & Relevancy Permaculture Design
- 6pm: Dinner (Provided)
- 7pm: Campfire and Social Permaculture Forum
- Sunset ~ 7:30pm
- Sunrise ~7am
- Breakfast (Bring you own)
- 9:30-10am: Overview of HugelKultur Method at the work site
- 10-12:00pm: HugelKultur workshop (Building a HugelKultur Bed)
- 12:00am-1:00pm Lunch (bring your own)
- 1-2:30pm: Finish HugelKulture Bed
- 2:30-3:30pm: Wrap Up and Q&A
Registration and Cost
Online Registration with Paypal is up. Click the below link to register using paypal.
Or, register with a check, payable to The Windward Center
Mail checks to:
55 Windward lane
Wahkiacus, WA 98670
Registration Deadline is March 1st 2013.
We will not be able to handle walk-ins, so please confirm your Registration before the 1st of March.
Cost of the course $50 for Adults, $15 for people under 18 years old.
- Name of registrant
- Number of people who will be attending in your party
- Dietary restrictions, or if you desire not to eat
- If you like, tell us a bit about yourself! where your coming from, what your interest in the calss is, or whatever else!
We are working to recieve Payment via Paypal. Check back soon to get an early bird special on admission when you register and pay in advance!
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Participants are invited to make themselves at home in Windward 40 acre campground.
Water is available at various places throughout the camping area, so you do not need to bring all that you need. But do bring whatever water storage containers you require.
Restroom and water are available in the campground.
Late March weather on the dry-side of the cascades is likely to be fair and sunny, probably on the cold side or spring temps. It never hurts to be prepared for cold and wet weather. Here is a list of things to consider packing:
- Warm sleeping bag and sleeping pad
- Tent with Rain fly
- Clothing layers for a range of temperatures
- Rain layers
- Sturdy, water resistant pair of shoes
Meals and Food
We will be offering a hardy selection of food on the Friday and Saturday Evening. When we know more about what we are going to cook, we will post it here. needless to say, it will probably include potatos, since our land loves to produce potatos!
Plan prepare your own meals and snacks through the day on Saturday and Sunday. Remember we will be outside most of the time, and on Sunday we will be very active during the workshop. So please plan your food accordingly.
We will have limited space for refrigerating perishables food items. So please plan on bringing ice packs, coolers, etc to meet your needs in this respect.
Other Things to Consider
Medication Refrigeration
If you need to refrigerate you medications, please let us know so we can make the necessary arrangements for you.
Vehicle Access and Parking
Unless you are physically handicapped, we ask people to park their cars and stick to walking during the event. Some parking spaces are available next to campsites, once those spots are filled, vehicles will need to be parked in the designated central parking area.
For those who want to bring alcohol, we ask that you store and handle it in such a way as to ensure minors do not have access to it.


text: My daughter is almost four months old. She has been vomiting a lot for the last 12 hours. My husband had a stomach bug and she seems to have caught it. I have heard that you do not need to go to the doc unless she seems dehydrated. She is still bf'ing and a couple of times she hasnt vomited. She doesnt show any signs of dehydration. Should I just keep trying to feed her when she acts hungry? She still smiles and seems okay. She gets really tired after vomiting and naps.