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Top Los Angeles lawyers Mark Geragos and Benjamin Brafman confirmed that they were being replaced as the superstar prepares to answer seven counts of molesting a 13-yearold boy.
His new lawyer will be Thomas Mesereau Jr., who represented actor Robert Blake in his murder case until they parted ways recently.
Jackson was not available for comment last night, but it is thought that the growing influence of the Nation of Islam black rights group on him could be a factor in the switch.
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Last December, Stuart Backerman, Jackson's chief spokesman, resigned over 'strategic differences' with other members.
Geragos, a £3,000 an hour Hollywood 'super' lawyer, has been at Jackson's side since the child abuse claims first surfaced nearly a year ago, but has faced growing criticism over taking on too many celebrity cases. He has been juggling Jackson's case with the California trial of Scott Peterson, who is accused of killing his wife and unborn child.
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James Duncan Davidson wrote: > > > You've gotta 'unjar' the Cocoon.jar to get cocoon.jar. You can do this > with > > the following command in the [path-to-cocoon]-directory: > > > > jar -xvf Cocoon.jar > > > > After this you have the whole cocoon direcory-structuur + all the files > you > > need (including bin/cocoon.jar). > > Hmmm... That's a bit confusing. Maybe a rename to cocoon-dist.zip? > > I have to also put in my $0.02 about using the .jar extension for the > distribution archive. The intended and semantic meaning of a .jar file is > that it can be placed on a classpath and classes are loaded from it -- as > well it can be associated in the UI with the JRE so that a double click will > launch the class specified by the Main-class attribute. > > We went through this with the Java Tech review folks when developing the > .war and .ear mechanisms in Servlets and J2EE -- our first, uninformed > choice, was to use .jar files, but since .war files (web-archive) contain a > lot more than just class files (and are treated as a web root), they violate > the expectation layed out above. > > Yes, in the JDK 1.2 (and even in recent builds of 1.3), the source code is > wrapped up in a .jar file. It's felt by many that this is a mistake and > needs to be corrected. > > So, I encourage you guys to move calling it a .zip.... After all > > jar cf foo.zip dir/ > > works quite well. Do you want to know the reason? It's a pretty lame one: I did Cocoon 1.0 on both zip and tar.gz but it doubled the time I had to upload them on the server and being a dial-up user and having a per-minute telephone fee (no ADSL in third-world IT countries, yet :( Anyway that's the lame reason. The real one is that I did and nobody ever complained. A few UNIX people know the "jar cr foo.zip" trick and if you provide a ".jar" you get fewer UNIX guys that say "gee, not even a tar.gz distribution, this project sucks" and go away. Java people on both UNIX and Windows are used to .jar, that makes things easier. Also, in the future, it could be possible to use Cocoon-1.6.jar not only as a distribution but as an executable file. This is something we might do. So, I propose to stick with the .jar extention for the disto. What do you gusy think? -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <firstname.lastname@example.com> Friedrich Nietzsche
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The random elements in the systematic search behavior of the desert isopod Hemilepistus reaumuri
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Most of the year the isopod crustacean Hemilepistus reaumuri depends for survival on the protection of a permanent shelter (i.e., the burrow occupied by its family), despite its remarkable physiological adaptations to its desert habitat. If an isopod gets lost after an excursion from the burrow, it has to find it as quickly as possible.
Displacement experiments show that H. reaumuri is indeed successful in homing. Even if a desert isopod is displaced in an arbitrary direction over a distance (starting distance r0) from the burrow that exceeds 15 times the distance from which it can detect the entrance, it returns on average in less than 400 s.
The homing behavior of H. reaumuri is successful not because of the isopod's ability to navigate to its burrow by using external orientation stimuli but because of the intrinsic structure of its search pattern. An isopod that is displaced from its burrow first searches approximately in the form of a spiral, then it moves through increasing loops on which meanders are superimposed. It concentrates these subunits of its search around the starting point by occasionally returning there. The time course of the azimuthal direction component of its position is not clearly regular. The surroundings of the starting point are searched evenly in every direction.
The search behavior of H. reaumuri is composed of systematic subunits together with many random elements. The form of discrete brownian (random) search without directional correlations between its steps that best describes the observed behavior of H. reaumuri for search-path segments with a length between 1 and 7 m has an average step length of 33 cm. For segments with a searchpath length below 1 m the agreement between theory and observations is better if one starts from a discrete brownian search with a much smaller step length (one body length), but in which the direction of the steps is strongly correlated.
Despite these geometrical similarities to a brownian search the search behavior of H. reaumuri is distinctly more successful because of the combination of two characteristics. H. reaumuri avoids the disadvantage of the most successful form of a brownian search (i.e., the frequent passage through a region in which it has searched just before) by moving in straighter lines. A brownian search with the same directional constancy shown by H. reaumuri would be inefficient because the thoroughness with which a given region is searched would be too low. H. reaumuri avoids this problem and concentrates its search around the starting point by sometimes returning to that place.


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I recommend reading the last chapter over again, as it picks right up.
Abide With Me
These stairs are so impossibly steep.
I've treaded them many a time, up and down and with such an ease, but now they're anything but. This time, for the first time, I'm having difficulties bringing my knee up to take these necessary steps up a path that has no ending. Because where I really want to be is behind me, and I'm just running away. Escaping the girl that is still in the kitchen, that is still leaning against a counter that has been mentally marked by our disobeying hands.
I'm still shaking. Not physically, but inside I'm buzzing from what happened, feeling my skin prickle from the memory of what I did. What we did.
I have to fight to keep my mind on other things, on topics far away from Spencer and her lips, miles away from her hands on my neck and her body close to mine. My eyes goes against me and closes, pictures it as I momentarily stop on these steps, these wooden planks that makes this anything but easier for me.
The sound of a cupboard being shut harshly from downstairs shakes me out of my reverie and puts speed to my feet, I'm up the stairs faster than I thought possible, ironically considering their reluctance to let me tread them just moments before.
I can't face her right now, not after running away in such a cowardice way, so I run, really run into my room and close the door hurriedly, hearing it smack loudly and cringe at the sound.
I hope she didn't hear.
She sees me now.
She sees me but not with her eyes, not with her form being in the same room as me or anywhere in my vicinity.
No, she sees me in a different way. In a way I wasn't ready to be seen in. A way I never would've been properly ready to be seen in.
So maybe this is right.
Maybe my unthoughtful but still so intentional movements last night were meant to happen. Meant to be done in such a rushed and imperfect way, because it was the only way.
From behind doors and walls and windows she holds a knowledge I hadn't fully given her before. Sure, I might've not been subtle, I might've not been suave, but I was still letting her live in partial uncertainty. Not in full knowledge of my utter attraction and deep emotional attachment to her.
Now I can't see how she would be able to not understand me. Not read me like an open book.
Regardless of my cowardice abandonment - leaving her in a kitchen that will forever be tainted by the memory of heightened arousal and shaking lips - she still must be on to me. On to everything about me and everything I've ever been.
It's more suffocating than it is freeing.
I feel exposed and unsure.
I have no clue as to how her reaction was. How she acted and what she did as I stepped up those impossibly steep stairs, unwillingly wanting her to run after me, hopefully scared that she would seek me out.
Devastatingly relieved that she didn't.
I'm afraid of meeting her in the hallways, I'm scared shitless of having to sit in the same car as her, watch her at school, go home to the same house as her.
Mostly, I'm just scared of what it will be like. If it will be the same or completely different. If she will talk to me or avoid me like the plague. I'm not sure which I prefer.
I deserve nothing but her silence, everything but her attention.
And when I step outside this door I've been hiding behind since the dark hours of last night, I am met with a sight I'm not sure how to process. Because there's nothing to process at all. Everything is exactly like it's always been.
And I'm oddly dissappointed.
She's there, alright, but not in some dramatic or extravagant way. All I see is her hands knocking in fervor on a door I myself was looking for, the bathroom door which is obviously holding the room occupied.
"Glen! What the hell are you doing in there, polishing your nails?!"
I don't hear the reply but can't help cracking a smile at her antics, dissappointment momentarily replaced with adoration before it's back with a vengeance. Along with it comes the ever alert nerves that always seem to make an appearance whenever she's near.
She's about to see me.
I don't want to admit it, but I want her to. I want her to catch me looking at her, even if it's only for a brief moment. Just testing the waters, seeing how today will play out, how she is going to act on this day after.
But when she does see me, when she does strike me with her gaze, it's me who break it and look away. Her hand is still leaning against the bathroom door, her weight tipping toward the door, head barely tilted but there is no smile on her face. From the millisecond I did meet her eyes, I only saw questions. Questions I have no idea how to answer.
This isn't just about me and her. It's about a whole family.
A family I just can not lose.
She loses her balance for a few seconds as the door holding her weight is opened, stumbling lightly before finding her footing once again. It's a cute happening that I wish I could revel in, that I wish I could watch the outcome of, but I can't. I can't stand here on the border between my room and the hallway staring at her when he steps out. He can not catch us in any kind of moment, however trivial and small it might be.
His eyes are not oblivious or indifferent.
They are searching, and whatever he wants to find, he will find if he watches us closely enough. That is not something I'm about to give him freely, so my retreat into my room is not meant as hiding from her.
I hope she understands.
I don't want to avoid her. So I try not to.
So it's not avoidance when I choose to never look her way when she talks in the car, words flowing freely from her like there's not a care in her head.
I swear it's not.
It's not a thought out decision when at lunch I choose a seat that doesn't have her in my line of vision when I usually always choose a seat I can watch her from.
It really isn't.
She deserves an apology, any show of remorse for my childishly mature retreat last night, but I'm too scared to go through with it. I'm too scared to meet her eyes when I know they're searching for mine across the schoolyard, begging me to just give her an ounce of attention, a fleeting admittance to what I did the night before.
My eyes stay glued on everything but her.
He's looking at me too, Glen, a slight arch in his eyebrow telling me he's trying to figure me out, figure out why I'm sitting on this side of the table instead of his side. I give him a reassuring look that is filled with anything but reassurance. Hopefully his eyes can't see that far inside.
My back is burning, but I am unsure if it's from her eyes burning into it or my hopes wanting her to. The burning is soon explained.
"Hey, Glen, I don't need a lift home from school after all."
He squints up at her, the sun most likely illuminating her in a saintly way, and I have to refrain from turning around and looking up at her, eyes wide instead of squinting like Glen's are.
"Why not?" he asks, obviously not caring about her answer as he takes a bite out of his sandwich and never looks up at her again. But I am grateful for his question.
"Hanging out with Madison", I hear her shout from afar, noting from her voice that she's walking away from us and it makes me finally turn, makes me finally look behind me and watch her. Only now, her back is turned to me.
I knew I should have followed Glen to the gym. There are many things I should have done but never did. And all I can do right now is wallow in remembrance of them, laying flat out on top of my bed internally cringing at all the wrong decisions I've made.
There are a lot of them lately.
My conviction of doing what was right last night – breaking a kiss laced with so many complications – seems to be slowly diminishing, and regret is seeping into me with increasing force. Images of a continued nature, of lips still on me, of hands touching her hips, feeling her skin.
It's all playing out before me like it is really happening, but it's not me touching her, just an illusion of me. And it's not making things better.
I'm conflicted, unsure if having her here in this house with me in this instance would be better or worse. If the ache settling in my chest would lessen or grow.
I think it would do both.
I can feel the slight tug of distress in my skin, in my bones as I lay unmoving on the mattress, hips digging into soft foam, pillow imprisoning my vision along with my head. Only sound in my vicinity being the soft noise of feet trudging along wooden floorboards, lightly stepping along the hallway as if scared of being heard.
They would be unheard if I wasn't awake at this hour, alert and sensitive to any movement around me.
I am therefore surprised, almost frightened when I hear the noise of toes and heels increasing, and I can't help the reaction of anticipation filling my every nerve.
And then it goes silent.
My breath is no longer in motion, having stopped the minute the noise stopped outside my door. My eyes are wide open but they cannot see anything, being caged with fluffy fabric, and therefore I can't see what happens when the door is opened, when the footsteps tread closer, when the mattress sink down gently beside me.
But oh God, can I feel it.
My breathing isn't like it's supposed to be anymore, having forgotten how to breathe naturally, evenly. Instead it has been replaced with irregular inhales, uneven exhales, and I'm trying with all my might to not make it noticeable.
To not make her hear it.
Cause it's a her beside me, and not just any her. The way my body reacts, the way my nerves go crazy rids me of any doubt that it isn't her. That it isn't Spencer Carlin laying on the mattress beside me.
And when I feel her fingertips tracing my upper arm, I can't help but close my eyes at the sensation, the loss of eyesight making the experience of fingertips even more overwhelming.
She is laying beside me.
My eyes are willing me to raise my head, let them see her, let them see what they so desperately crave, but my mind is too paralyzed by the situation to do anything about it.
What if she thinks I am sleeping.
The way her fingers dance down my arm, touching my wrist in such an intimate way, makes me slip, makes me lose a barely noticeable inhibition but I know she can hear it. I know she can hear the slight hitch of breath that escapes me without my consent.
Because her fingers on my wrist pause, then remove themselves momentarily, and I cringe into my pillow making it slightly move, only confirming my wakefulness in this otherwise silent room.
But she proves my prophecies of leaving wrong when those soft fingers thread through my own, grasping my hand softly but securely.
And she leaves me completely shocked when she utters the most nerve-wrecking words I have dreamed of hearing ever since I laid eyes on her.
"Look at me."
And it takes me seconds, mental minutes before I dare do what she so gently asked me to do.
Requested me to do.
My head lifts from the pillow, both willing and reluctant in its quest to abide her.
It takes me no more than a millisecond to understand how close she is to me when my face finally does turn her way, when the pillow no longer protects me from what is right in front of me.
No longer shades me from the light I so desperately need to let shine on me.
And my God, does it shine. Those eyes, those lips, that stare penetrating me so deeply.
She is inside me by just holding my hand, and I can't help but let my eyes drop slightly into forbidden territory, onto forbidden lips.
"Kiss me."
I have to stop myself from saying those words. But they are the only words that keep getting repeated inside my head, the only words I can think of right now. Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me...
I say nothing.
She says it without words.
I can't think in anything but fragments, mind going blank when I feel those lips touching mine, almost as softly as her hands felt, ten times as exhilarating as her stare felt.
She is moving them so slowly against me, increasing the sensation of every move by a tenfold. And even though my nerves are still there, even though I am dreadfully aware of every complications that will follow every kiss we share, I can't help but thank whatever made her come into this room, whatever made her come in and kiss me.
She brings our joined hands up between us, lips lingering on mine before pressing deeper into them, putting pressure into a kiss she wants me to take further.
And I for once abide.
My kisses turn harder, but not overstepping into hurtful, instead just showing how much I need her to kiss me back.
She replies with a swift movement of tongue against my bottomlip.
And I am sold.
I am completely and utterly in her hands in this moment, not sure I could stop anything from happening no more, fully aware that any judgment on my behalf is gone, just...gone.
Her hand leaves mine and I'm just happy, I'm just thrilled cause she rests it on my neck instead, finger intentionally or unintentionally tickling the back of it, I don't care which.
I don't care because I no longer think, no longer analyze, too deep into this, too deep into her.
Feeling her soft sounds and faster breathing tickles my insides, strokes my want in ways I didn't know was possible, knowing my breathing is heavier than usual doesn't bother me for once, doesn't even graze the outline of my intentions cause all I intend is to follow her every movement, her every step.
Meet her halfway when she deepens, when she takes us a step further.
Her body is suddenly pushing into mine, pressing me against the mattress and it makes me break the kiss momentarily, surprised and so, so exhilarated. She doesn't let me break it for too long, lips fervently meeting mine, knee slipping between my legs and when it's hitting a spot that aches so good, I understand this isn't right, this isn't how it's supposed to be.
I am afraid to take things further.
My lips stop moving against hers, but she doesn't seem to care, her hands traveling from my neck and down a path along the sides of my body.
I hate doing it, I'm even contemplating letting her continue, but it's not right, it's so far from right that it would be inexcusable. Irreversible.
She is all-consuming in her touches, but there is something missing, the connection with her is missing, I cannot feel her.
I feel foolish for having been fooled by her touch, by her physical presence to believe she is here with me mentally, doing this for no other reason than to unite us.
Now, I feel like nothing but another conquest of hers.
She notices my lack of returning, my sounds suddenly evading this room and how could she not notice. How could she not notice my sudden silence when just moments before I was panting into her kisses, willing to give her anything she wanted.
This isn't what she wants.
My eyes are wide open, witnessing her eyes opening slowly, as if scared it will break this. But it's already been broken.
She stares at me for long seconds.
Long seconds.
And I don't like what I see in them.
I have to flinch and look away when her stare becomes angry, when her touches are no longer soft, when her body becomes hard and closed up, when she moves off of me with a huff.
A huff I don't feel like I deserved.
"What was that..?"
She doesn't answer. Back suddenly the only thing I see of her, I cannot search her face for clues as to what she's thinking.
I don't think I would've understood anyway.
Her lack of an answer makes me angry too, but along with it comes the ever present uncertainty that taints my every thought, the fright of having done something so very wrong, something irreversible, unjustifiable.
But this time, it's not me I'm afraid did something wrong.
This time, I'm afraid she did something unjustifiable.


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Glen Sather, the Rangers' new president and general manager, officially revealed his free-agent wish list yesterday: Mark Messier, Claude Lemieux and Vladimir Malakhov.
''We're carrying on with our dialogue,'' Sather said during a conference call, when asked if the Rangers were any closer to re-signing the 39-year-old Messier. ''I talked to his father twice today. I've always had strong interest in Mark. I have strong interest in Lemieux as well. I have strong interest in Malakhov as well. But I don't know whether it's possible to sign them all, depending on the money.''
Even the Rangers, with their deep pockets, have a bottom line, it seems.
''So many free agents were signed last year that we just don't have spots for guys,'' said Sather, who cited grit and players with the ability to move the puck better as his team's most glaring needs. ''This team has to have a real turnaround. And the players have to have the opportunity to turn it around.''
The Rangers finished with 29 victories and 73 points and missed the playoffs last season.
The players need a coach first. And Sather insisted that he has not struck a deal with Ron Low, the presumed favorite for the job.Continue reading the main story
''I'm still talking to people,'' said Sather, who added he will not name a coach until next week. ''I have not offered this job to anyone yet. I'm still going through the process, but I'm getting it narrowed down.''
Mike Keenan, who coached the Rangers to their only Stanley Cup title in three generations -- in 1994 with Messier leading the way -- could be on Sather's list.
''I'm fairly certain, and it looks obvious, that he hasn't made up his mind,'' Keenan said last night in a telephone interview. ''Maybe he's waiting to see what his team looks like. And if he can sign those free agents, he could think it might require a different type of coach.''
Like Keenan?
''First of all, I think that people deserve a second chance,'' said Sather.
And he was not talking just about Keenan. Sather was also referring to defenseman Stephane Quintal, who was suspended for the final four games of last season by Don Maloney and Dave Checketts after Quintal told a French-language reporter in Montreal that signing with the Rangers may have been a mistake.
''I've been in a forgive-and-forget mode with a lot of players over the years,'' said Sather, who may be trying to protect Quintal's trade value. ''I'm not condoning anything that happened with the Rangers in the past. But those things have to be left in the past.''
As for matters perhaps lingering from the past, Keenan bolted the Rangers for St. Louis only days after the team's ticker-tape parade.
''I think Mike deserves an opportunity,'' Sather said of Keenan, who has been out of work since being fired by the Vancouver Canucks midway through the 1998-99 season. ''Out of respect, I deserve the opportunity for him to speak to me about the job.''
Sather said he plans to speak with Keenan a second time, today or tomorrow. Irrespective of whether he gets the job, Keenan did say of the expected signing of Messier: ''I think it's the right choice for Mark and the Rangers.''
If Messier returns, could that have any effect on whether Keenan -- an old Messier ally -- gets the job? Will the 35-year-old Lemieux, who has won four Stanley Cups with three organizations (including the Devils in two tenures), join a roster already laden with over-30 players? Is the gifted Malakhov, who has frustrated as many coaches as he has impressed, poised to rejoin Quintal (the two were teammates in Montreal) on the Rangers' blue line?
Suddenly, the Rangers' summer is not nearly as quiet as it had seemed.
Referring to Malakhov, Sather -- whose son is getting married this weekend -- said: ''I'd like to have it done before the weekend one way or the other. We either do it or we don't.''
What, Sather was asked, does the enigmatic Malakhov bring to the ice that Mathieu Schneider, another unrestricted free agent who played with the Rangers the last two seasons, does not?
''I think he moves the puck better,'' Sather said. ''I haven't heard from Schneider's agent anyway, so I'm not sure if he's interested in coming back to New York.''
Will Sather call Schneider's agent, Steve Reich?
''If he doesn't know what I'm doing, he must be in the dark ages,'' Sather said.Continue reading the main story


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'Hidcote' English Lavender
'Hidcote' English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote') flowers and foliage are popular additions to sachets and potpourris. Flowers appear in terminal spikes in late spring to early summer. Both foliage and flowers are highly aromatic.
'Kew Red' Spanish Lavender
'Kew Red' Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas 'Kew Red') is a showstopper when paired with ornamental grasses or as a standalone in a rock garden. It's fuchsia-colored blooms attract butterflies and hummingbirds, and is a favorite with honeybees.
'Loddon Pink' English Lavender
'Loddon Pink' English lavender is a compact variety with narrow, grey-green leaves and fragrant, pale pink flowers. The blooms are highly scented and good for drying.
'Munstead' English Lavender
'Munstead' English lavender is a fragrant, robust variety that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great hedge. It flowers profusely in the spring, after which a good pruning will provide an attractive gray bush with highly aromatic leaves.
Lavender 'Phenomenal' (Lavandula x intermedia 'Phenomenal')
This perennial lavender has been developed for hardiness, so it stands up to heat, humidity, and winter cold. The plants also resist root and foliar diseases. Even deer leave them alone! Grow a patch of these deep blue flowers with silvery foliage for their incredible fragrance.
'Willow Vale' Spanish Lavender
'Willow Vale' Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas 'Willow Vale') features dense spikes of deep violet flowers with reddish-purple bracts. The flowers are highly scented and good for drying.
'Sawyers' Hybrid Lavender
'Sawyers' hybrid lavender features linear, silvery grey green leaves that grows to a height of 12 to 15 inches, 18 inches when in bloom. In mid-summer it bears fragrant spikes of blue to light purple flowers.
'Nana Alba' Dwarf English Lavender
'Nana Alba' is a compact English lavender with narrow, grey-green leaves and tiny white flowers on short spikes.
Jagged Lavender (Lavandula pinnata)
Jagged lavender (Lavandula pinnata), also called fernleaf lavender, is a compact variety that has silvery-green, fern-like foliage. In mid-summer until early autumn it shows off spears of blue-violet flowers.
'Twickel Purple' English Lavender
'Twickel Purple' English lavender is a mid-sized variety has delightfully silver-blue foliage with dense flower clusters.
'Grosso' Lavender
'Grosso' lavender (Lavandula x intermedia 'Grosso') is a hybrid variety that is a cross between English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and broadleaf lavender (Lavandula latifolia). It has both excellent heat and cold tolerance, plus boasts huge flower heads and a rich fragrance.
'Jean Davis' English Lavender
'Jean Davis' shows off blue-green leaves with pale pink flowers. It's a compact variety, typically reaching a height and spread of 12 to 15 inches.
'Lady' English Lavender
'Lady' English lavender is quite the charmer, showing off super-fragrant, blue-violet blooms on a compact plant. It's great for low hedges, small garden and even thrives in pots.
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'White Anouk' Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas 'White Anouk') features bright purple blooms with white, "rabbit ear" bracts that float above silver foliage.


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If I sell the stock before I file, do I list it on the bankruptcy paperwork? Also, I'm no longer employed, have no income, an old car, and living with relatives with no rent. On CC application a year ago, I had income and rent listed, can this work against me in filing Chapter 7? If I get a good paying temp job in the meantime, can they garnish my wages?
You would not list the stocks, just the proceeds. What you filed a year ago can be reviewed, yes. On debts that are not discharged wage garnishment is possible.
I suggest, from the questions you are asking, that you need to hire a lawyer.Ask a similar question
You must list all your property, whether stock or cash. (http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/i-dont-want-to-file-on-that-what-you-must-include-in-your-chapter-7-bankruptcy). You will also list any recent transfers of property. If your creditor has a judgment against you, it can garnish your wages. However, the garnishment must leave you with a minimum amount, based on state and federal law. You need to hire an attorney to discuss the proper strategy for you. Hope this helps. Good luck!
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You must list the sale on Statement of Financial Affairs. If you use the proceeds on reasonable living expenses and then file, you will be fine. Some states (and the federal exemptions) have a wildcard provision that may exempt the stock. Contact a local attorney that is familiar with the Illinois exemptions.Ask a similar question
It would be well with it to use some of that money to retain an experienced attorney to guide you through the bankruptcy process.Ask a similar question
First, the stock may not be an issue. Your bankruptcy attorney can review how much risk you may have in having to give it or part of it up.
Second, if you sell it, you still have something, cash. So, you would have to list the cash, have used it up for legitimate living expenses or invest it into an exempt asset, but the last alternative may have some consequences to be considered.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
An Open Reply To Michael Netzer
You know I love you right? I've told you enough times, you're one of my favourite people. I'd happily walk through fire for you and I'll defend you to the death, however I have to ask, with all due respect, what the devil are you thinking about approaching DC with an empassioned plea to save J'onn J'onnz: The Martian Manhunter? You know it won't work, it could never work, and there's several good reasons for this. But by begging DC to do the decent thing and not kill off one of their oldest characters is just playing into their hands.
What kills a comic book character quicker than poor sales? Interest. Apathy will always save a character from being killed. The title might be canceled, but the character will survive until someone like Frank Miller comes along and rapes it. But hey, it's there. Barring acts of God and Miller, someone might pop along and go, "Hey, I've always wanted to bring back Tappin' Tommy, I might do so in this issue and have him take out the Hulk and the entire roster of the Defenders again with his smoking tap dance moves, top hat and cane." God love that other Millar, Mark. Still showing absolutely no interest in a character has always been the best way to go. Who wants to create an 'event' with a character that no-one cars about? Sure, kill off all of Team America. Who gives a fat rats? I even know who I'd nominate to write and draw that one shot. But once people show an interest in a character, or a title, then the companies, as you'd know better than I do, can't wait to upset any status quo that might have existed and totally shaft what readers are left. If that character is considered to be loved, hot damn, even better. Let's kill the bastards while someone is still shelling out their hard earnt for it.
So, if you want to save J'onn, stop being a martyr and just show no interest at all. Don't buy the books, stop blogging, stop drawing attention to it. Easy.
Meanwhile you know, better than I do, that the following will happen:
1] DC will kill off the Manhunter because it'll mean an instant sales spike. Nothing that is said, or done, will change that, hey - the more people who complain the better. As I've just said, if you whinge, they will kill it. If you cry, they will laugh. And they will count the dollars you give them.
2] DC will then launch a new series. They will offer up the following, a clone, a J'onn from the past, an impostor or a ghost. Remember, this is the company that killed their flagship character, Superman, and gave us no less than four replacements only to reveal that none of them were the one, true Superman (and while we're at it I'm waiting for the big reveal that the final guy wasn't Superman at all, but an energy being created by the Eradicator, with the real thing still lying in suspended animation waiting for yet another re-boot - don't laugh, odder things have happened). They've killed Robin, more than once it now appears. They broke Batman's back, hell they even killed the 'original' Batman (anyone remember that?), not to mention Supergirl, Green Lantern, The Spectre and the Flash. Some have come back since, as we know, no-one is really dead in comic book land, not even Bucky!
Here's a funny thing. Mid 2007 Norm Breyfogle and myself brainstormed and pitched an idea to DC regarding the one, true death of Batman. Never heard from them. Silence. Nada. Not even a "Jeez, guy, that sucks." Maxwell Smart heard more in his Cone Of Silence. I ran the proposal past a few people, including Alan Weiss who offered up some brilliant suggestions. It even had the best title that I could think about, a mysterious title that would have gotten a lot of attention, along with a great concept. In my dreams the book would have been drawn by Norm and inked by Norm, along with a host of artists as guest inkers - yourself, Weiss, Alan Kupperberg, Rich Buckler, Bob Almond, Mark McKenna, Steve Mitchell, Jimmy Tournas - everyone I've ever met, in my dreams, had a hand in this, one page at a time, barring the splash page and the death page, which would be pure Norm. Hell, I now want to get Fred Hembeck in there somewhere. Everyone loved it (barring one person who believes that Batman can beat anything and is, by default, immortal, but we don't get into that), but clearly DC didn't. I even wrote an out for DC: you see Bruce Wayne dies, but Batman lives on. Nope, not good enough. Nothing. So if I can't kill Batman, and I mean properly kill him, what makes you think you can save J'onn? Oh, and remind me to show you the proposal one day.
3] Eventually the real J'onn will come back to life. As he's a Martian he can't really die. It'll be revealed that he's some form of a Proty and cannot die, he just melts a bit, regenerates and comes back to life. So fret not, J'onn might have a long sleep, but he ain't gonna die. After all, who, in comic book land, is really dead. I mean proper dead. No-one. Don't let Marvel fool you, Captain America, and by that I mean the Steve Rogers Captain America, will be back soon enough. It's 2008. There'll be a build up and eventually the character will explode back into the books sometime around March 2011, to celebrate his 70th anniversary. Count on it. In fact, anyone out there want to bet on it?
How do you change any of this? Here's the hot wire to the head - you can't. Offering your services up to the title, even for free, won't change anything. Indeed the opposite - they'll just get you to draw the death scenes. Hey, as much as I'd love to see you back on a mainstream title, and it'd be almost too cool to see you revisit a title that you once drew, let's face it, if God Himself appeared before the DC brass and offered to pencil the title, with Neal Adams and Jim Lee inking it and Frank Miller writing it, DC would still ask for the character to be killed off. That they could boast a creative team of Miller-God-Adams-Lee would only be cream. So if God can't save J'onn, what chance have you got?
Face it. J'onn is dead already. The minute you and Frank Lee Delano began to protest you signed his death warrant. You drove the flaming sword through his green heart. Have a look at the Hembeck image here, it'll give you an idea of what's going to kill ole J'onn - a flaming team-up cross over. By now DC will have read your words and be drawing blood with their hand wringing. Thus when the Death Of J'onn J'onzz happens it'll be on a lot of people's heads, but not DCs. After all they're only doing what they believe you, Frank and everyone else out there wants - which is to generate interest in an otherwise fading character. And if it's not J'onn then it'll be the only other character that they've not killed and brought back to life yet, Aquaman. And why hasn't Aquaman died yet?
Because no-one would care less.
Think about it.
Drop me a line and we'll draw some more blood.
10 comments:
- Michael Netzer said...
You know you're right about everything you say, and I thank you profusely for the well stated sentiment and for spreading this around.
Maybe my intention, knowing the outcome is out of my hands, is simply to begin a process where my involvement in the proceedings will be considered. Maybe nothing more than a job application and self-recommendation.
Maybe. But I'm certainly not going to ruin everything now by telling.
- Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:17:00 am
- Norm Breyfogle said...
You don't have to tell us, Michael; the truth is obvious.
Danny, your above blog was utterly hilarious, extremely well written, and insightful. You made an obvious point (the cinicism of DC Comics vs. the transparent immaturity of much of fandom) with real panache.
Netzer's plea for the "life" of a fictional character owned by a soulless corporation illustrates either his naievte, his delusions of grandeur, or some more covert intention (as Michael himself virtually admits to in his response immediately following your blog).
Michael, I hope all your dreams come true.
- Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:52:00 pm
- Michael Netzer said...
Thanks Norm! I hope all OUR dreams also come true, wherever they converge. And the same wishes for where they don't.
But, you know, some of the forum discussions on this piece leaves me optimistic enough to push for a campaign to save the Manhunter from Mars, from the forums and blogs. I'll post a report of all the reactions at my site soon.
I mean as long as we have some free time...
Daniel, I agree with everything Norm said about your response. It's right on the nail...but I'm going ahead with it anyway. You know I've never allowed rational thinking to get in my way.
- Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:57:00 am
- Danny said...
Not allowing rational thought to get in the way is one of the reasons why we all love you Michael.
I'm dead curious to see what comes from this. Keep spreading the word and see the result. I can see it now, a phone in poll,
"You Decide Who Lives & Who Dies: Aquaman or J'onn J'onzz"
I'm sure DC aren't above using the same ploy on a new generation. It worked once...
- Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:16:00 am
- Frank Lee Delano said...
I'm always happy to see a link to my blog appear somewhere without my having to scuff my knees, but I must protest the mischaracterization of my reaction to this nonsense...
My comment from the blog initially noting the news:
"I have no doubt that Grant Morrison would kill Martian Manhunter if asked. I expect it would be a very good death, and he's one of the few writers I'd want to author such a thing. Again, I'm looking at the options Dan Didio has, and my favorite is the death of J'Onn J'Onzz until the end of his regime."
...and from my response to Netzer's proposal:
"Of course this DC would try to kill off a "major character" like J'Onn J'Onzz, but just as obviously, the move will end up an utter failure. You see, just enough people like the Martian Manhunter to be annoyed by his disposal, but not so many as to even garner a "Ted Kord" level of teeth gnashing. Its simply too easy to write the death of such a character off as a hoax, and impossible to replace him with anyone that will hold an audience's interest without the kind of superstar team you'd do just well with in employing in service to the original incarnation. Also, Martian Manhunter is now, thanks to "Justice League" and "Smallville," a recognized brand within the merchandising machine. Whatever circumstances might befall the character in the short term on the comics page, J'Onn J'Onzz is "safe" in the long haul, so why should I get upset about this development? Better the Manhunter from Mars lay low for a few years than parade around looking like a constipated Skrull with a vinyl fetish. I refuse to feed any sort of "hype" related to the matter."
I've stated pretty clearly that while I'm happy to support Michael Netzer's bid for attention and work, I don't buy into "saving" J'Onn J'Onzz. Like Raymond Chandler, I recognize the character I love will always live on in my back issue collection.
- Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:57:00 pm
- Michael Netzer said...
So, does that mean you'll sign the petition?
- Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:30:00 pm
- Danny said...
Michael: I'll be happy to sign it, for all the good it'll do.
Frank: I'm sorry you believe that this is all nonsense and that you've been 'mischaracterized'. That's not the intent. I don't even know you, so how I've done that is beyond me. My point was, and remains, that DC won't kill off a character that no-one has interest in. Your blog equates interest, hence you'll have a small role in the characters demise. It's heartening to see that you fully support the death of your beloved character though and that you're not in screaming denial.
However, by virtue of comment you are feeding into the hype. Each time you mention Michael on your blog or a forum, and his proposal, then you're feeding the hype. Food for thought perhaps?
Still, who's to say that once it's gone anyone will bother to bring it back? But yep, you're right, better to kill J'onn J'onzz now and be done with it.
Viva la back issues!
- Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:41:00 pm
- Frank Lee Delano said...
Most of this has been addressed, but I'm a windbag, so I'll type as long as I wanna.
"The minute you and Frank Lee Delano began to protest you signed his death warrant... After all they're only doing what they believe you, Frank and everyone else out there wants - which is to generate interest in an otherwise fading character."
My problem with this:
1) I'm not protesting the death. I have in fact repeatedly encouraged it. I'd rather him die and stay dead until someone worthwhile has something to say wth that specific character. Most writers just turn him into a Spock to play off a bigger name character's Kirk and fall in big battles as a shortcut to dramatic tension. Alternately, he's a pissy Martian Namor, avenging son of Mars. If he isn't dead, all signs point to his going all Dark Phoenix/Parallax eeee-vil. I'm yawning in the general direction of these options.
2) I don't think it's fair to call Martian Manhunter a "fading" character. He's actually more famous and popular now than he's ever been, thanks to "Justice League," "Smallville," "The Batman" and so on. Less than ten years ago, if you approached random people on the street asking about the "Martian Manhunter," they'd call the police. Today, a solid 1-in-50 might know something about him, if you employed targeted demographics, racial profiling, and coached them a little. Point being, he's always been a loser, but he's now he's also notable also-ran with some market viability in video games, action figures, etc. Hence, there being some mileage in killing him. I'd like to shake off the multitudes-- er-- dozens of worldwide Johnny-Come-Latelys to Manhunter fandom.
3) They did kill Aquaman, in "Our Worlds at War." No one cared, except a video game licensor, so he was alive again just outside a year's time. At this specific moment in time, Martian Manhunter is by some fluke also a license with some value. Therefore, his death= whoop-de-do in every way. I don't think DC will kill him, and if they do, I don't think it will last long. I am, in essence, agreeing with your "Open Letter" almost to the letter.
As for my blog-- before Mike Netzer started referencing it, had you heard of it? I get less than 100 page loads on most days, even though I update every single day. My hits to date over the last five months are barely over the 6,000 mark. I've never had a post receive more than 5 comments, and I actually only receive about one comment for every five posts. I am envious of the traffic to the Atom's blog, and the heights of the Aquaman Shrine are dizzying from my vatagge point. If anything, my blog is an excellent sign of how little interest there is in the character. I'm fighting the good fight by showing what a personal and generally unappealing obsession the Manhunter from Mars happens to be.
- Monday, January 21, 2008 8:59:00 am
- Danny said...
I'll freely admit that I'd not heard of your blog before this, but then had you heard of mine? Probably not. I've not heard of the Atom blog either, but to hear you talk it's the biggest thing on the internet, comic book related, right after that site that has those naked super girlies in bondage. Not that I've seen that one either.
I don't get you Frank. You have a site devoted to a second string character that most people would find hard to recognise outside of comic book readers, if at all, and yet you're lining up at the gates to have DC kill it off. For what? In the hopes that someone, somewhere, sometime might come to DC and re-invent it and bring it back to the second string glory it once had?
If it were a character that I enjoyed so much that I had a site devoted to it, I'd be screaming that DC fire the writers and the rest of the creative team that are clearly so devoid of originality when it comes to J'onn and offering up a viable alternative in their place. Odder things have happened.
But you're right, kill J'onn and keep him dead. Like Bucky dead, or at least Bucky dead as he was in the '60s through to the '90s. Perhaps a 30 year gap is what you need. 30 years with J'onn and by that time people might appreciate what they've lost.
Still, all's not lost. If Mike fails, and clearly he hasn't got your support despite his best intentions, then perhaps you can find an artist and pitch a Bloodwynde mini-series. People might well buy that and eventually say, "J'onn J'onzz who?"
Keep up your good fight. Perhaps you might discover what it is about J'onn that attracts you so, and in that discovery you'll then start fighting to not only change this sad choice, but put into place a pitch that brings J'onn back to his full glory. If you do that I'll admire and respect you even more, for what it's worth (and from I can gather, from your comments, it'd be worth quite little).
Remember, it was the fans that saved Spider-Girl from cancelation all those years ago...
- Monday, January 21, 2008 8:40:00 pm
- Frank Lee Delano said...
"I've not heard of the Atom blog either, but to hear you talk it's the biggest thing on the internet,"
That was part of the joke. The Atom's blog gets, like, 5-6 comments per post to my 1-2, and he started his months after mine. Just goes to show how much more appealing the Atom is compared to Martian Manhunter, or maybe its just me that turns folks off? Either way, the point stands that the Atom's blog kicks mine in the teeth, and you've never heard of it, either.
I'm not so much cheering the death of J'Onn J'Onzz as saying, with all my heart and soul, an empassioned cry of "meh." I haven't read a really good story starring the character in years, and his death would mean less obligatory purchases of middling fair for blog fodder. Also, it means really unfortunate directions like grim-n-gritty Leatherboy from Mars and treacherous Evil Manhunter go away for a while-- a blessing to us all.
"In the hopes that someone, somewhere, sometime might come to DC and re-invent it and bring it back to the second string glory it once had?"
Pretty much. Martian Manhunter is sort of like a little niche rock band you're into. They've got maybe a handful of recordings that are truly brilliant, and a lot of okay stuff you can roll with, so long as it doesn't get played to death on Top 40 radio. You don't want them to blow up, because they're "your" band, and if every other douchebag stars yelling "wooo-MANHUNTER," and the attention/money starts effecting the music/band, it just ruins it for you.
J'Onn J'Onzz is a supposed "Big Gun" who mostly hangs out with the lamest heroes, has the shoddiest villains, the cheesiest weaknesses, and manages to join both the best and worst super-teams. Make him "kewl," and it ruins him as one of the greatest losers in super-herodom. Fuck's sake, his claim to fame is being a glorified walkie-talkie relied upon by heroes who can actually carry their own books. Kill him or let him be the ineffectual geek in tights I rock to. Don't let him "sell out" to "the man," even as I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well...
"I'd be screaming that DC fire the writers and the rest of the creative team that are clearly so devoid of originality when it comes to J'onn and offering up a viable alternative in their place."
I did that for over two years on the DC Message Board. I slung so much shit at the "guilty parties," specifically John Ostrander, and all it accomplished was occasionally harshing John's mellow and maybe contributing to an early cancellation. That kind of thing works when Chuck Austin hops aboard "Action Comics" or Larry Hama "Batman," but Martian Manhunter fans just have to take whatever we're handed. DC could give a fuck, because our money just doesn't talk. Worse, I'd mostly prefer guys with even less drawing power than John Ostrander-- pariahs like Christopher Priest or Gerard Jones. That ain't happening, and hoping for a Grant Morrison is pie-in-the-sky fare. I'm not going to suck off DC to get a Manhunter series written by Bruce Jones or even Kurt Busiek, so fuck it. Kill him or shut up about it.
Also, it's not that I couldn't write the hell out of Martian Manhunter series, but who's going to buy it? Why should they? Better men than I have paved that road to irrelevance, God bless their hearts. You write J'Onn J'Onzz for yourself, because the base audience isn't that much bigger. I know exactly the qualities that draw myself and other true devotees, and it isn't "he's all Superman-level powerful, yo!" I've got a blog devoted to explaining it to other people, but trust me, I get it myself. In fact, I understand better through the blog, which is part of the point.
"Like Bucky dead, or at least Bucky dead as he was in the '60s through to the '90s."
Don't get me started. Just don't. Please. Brubaker dropped the tranny on my Captain America ride with that shit. I'm still in denial.
P.S. I'm still behind Netzer, but a Breyfogle book would also rock. I posted his take in my "Incarnations" synopsis last month, and it was perty.
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