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Georgia Got a Gun
When the 7-year-old girl climbed onto the witness stand, she didn't know her mother was in deep trouble. Dressed in pink, from the barrette in her sandy-brown hair to her shoes, Kylee Roberts had no idea that the man sitting across from her in the courtroom was trying to convict her mother, Georgia, on charges of stalking and battering Channel 10 anchorwoman Kristi Krueger.
The little girl instead thought Broward County prosecutor Nathan Avrunin was her mom's "helper."
Sitting at a table across from Avrunin was Georgia Roberts, who watched as her daughter raised her right arm to swear to tell the truth. The mother's mind flashed back three decades to another little girl making a courtroom oath. Like Kylee, that girl was 7. She was dressed like a "little American," in all white, including a tiny hat and gloves. It was a young Georgia, and she was being sworn into the United States as a new citizen.
The citizenship ceremony was a seminal event in the 37-year-old's childhood, a clue to how the Greek native became South Florida's most infamous stalking defendant, a veritable soccer mom from hell who invaded the life of a local celebrity and shook up the suburban town of Pembroke Pines. Her manic behavior spilled over at trial; Circuit Judge Marc Gold held her in contempt three times and put her in jail for two days. Yet she also seemed oddly at home in the courtroom, as if her life's path had led inexorably to that place. She was also curiously effective: A jury acquitted her on July 2.
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But it's not over yet. As Georgia announced in her often startling fashion in early August, she's baaaa-aaack. The jury split on the lesser-included charge of misdemeanor stalking. The case is set for trial in December, and following it, she promises to sue the unlucky Krueger for malicious prosecution.
To make any sense of Georgia, a self-described "paradox of contradictions," one must go back to the youth she admittedly never outgrew. Only then can her adult life -- full of dreadful conflicts, dangerous obsessions, and legal battles -- be understood. It was a childhood that culminated in a blood-sprayed bedroom where her school's homecoming queen lay dead and Georgia held a smoking shotgun. It was ruled an accident. Some still suspect otherwise.
A little Greek girl sits alone at a table in a Chicago elementary school while the other girls eat together. A narrator speaks. "When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blond and delicate, and I was a swarthy 6-year-old with sideburns. I so badly wanted to be like the popular girls all sitting together, talking, eating their Wonder Bread sandwiches... And while the pretty girls went to Brownies, I went to Greek school."
It's a scene from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a movie Georgia Roberts describes as "my life." And it seems chillingly accurate. Georgia's life has been largely consumed by an unsuccessful -- and often outrageous -- struggle to break into the upper reaches of American life. And Georgia thrives on conflict. "My mother had me after eight miscarriages," she says pridefully. "That tells you... I am a force to be reckoned with."
After immigrating to Chicago in 1968, her father, Angelo, got a job at a steel mill and the family settled in a two-story rowhouse in a northside neighborhood dominated by Greeks and Jews. Georgia, who had a younger brother and sister, fell in love with the idea of America.
But she was still an ocean away from typical American life. She wanted to lounge in her pajamas and watch Saturday-morning cartoons but instead had to hustle off to Greek school. Her gruff father forbade her from wearing pajamas outside of bed anyway -- they were for sleeping only. The family didn't speak at dinner either. It was time to eat, not jabber. Such constrictions, products of the cloistered Greek culture, dictated not only the minutiae of her behavior but also seemingly her destiny. It was preordained that Georgia would marry a nice Greek boy, stay chaste until marriage, and always live within the culture's confines. Her mother, Helen, told her so.
"My mother was beautiful," Georgia remembers. "White skin, dark eyes, black hair. She was a true lady. She walked a step behind, and she never took over the situation. My mother knew her place, because in the Greek tradition, the husband was the dominant force."
When Georgia was 10 years old, her mother began leaving the house for hours on mysterious appointments, and her father began having long secretive phone conversations with her uncle Pete. She would hide in the dark, eavesdropping, but all she could make out were the words "to kako."
The ruin of us.
When she was 12, her suspicion that her mom was sick was confirmed when her parents traveled to a place with a strange name. When neighbors told her that the "Mayo Clinic" was a hospital, it filled her with fear.
In her freshman year at Mather High School, the silence around the illness was broken. "My aunt Georgia took me for a walk around the block on a late Sunday, almost at dusk," she remembers. "She said I would have to be brave and I would have to take care of my brother and sister and that I would have to take the role of the mother. I said nothing. I did not cry. I was thinking, 'I don't believe I'm not going to have a mother.' I think I slept with my eyes open that night."
She breaks into tears at the memory. Georgia cries often. It comes quickly and leaves quickly, like the turning on and off of a high-pitched spigot.
While her mind was preoccupied with to kako, a boy from gym class named Brian Hooker asked her to go out. "He was a good-looking guy," she remembers. "He could have dated anybody -- anybody. He had green eyes, piercing eyes. He spoke to you with his eyes. And he was a very passionate kisser."
She found out that last part during regular stops in an alley behind her house. He would also feel her up, but the one time he tried to unzip her jeans, she stopped him.
There were serious problems with the romance. First, Brian wasn't Greek. Second, she had promised her mother that she wouldn't kiss a boy in high school. So it was all done in secret. Brian would pay his sister to call Georgia's house to trick Georgia's stern father, who wouldn't allow her to talk to boys. The secrecy added to the allure almost as much as it did to her guilt. "I did have fleeting thoughts of love and marriage," she says. "After the third time he told me he loved me, I said it back."
Brian, now a married contractor in Texas, says all he remembers about the relationship is Georgia's fear of her father. "I just thought it was unbelievable how he treated her and how overbearing he was," he says. "She was constantly afraid. He would make these threats, these physical threats, if she ever dated anybody."
After a few months, a neighbor saw them making out in the alley and told her father. She was caught.
"My father said he was going to break my legs," she recalls. "He said, 'We know what you've been doing; everybody knows what you've been doing. Cut it out.' I was ashamed."
That marked the end of the romance, though Georgia, who often boasts that she has a "photographic memory," says Brian also never had "true empathy" for her during her mother's illness and recalls that he didn't buy her candy when they went to see The Howling.
Brian would be the only boy she ever kissed in high school. "Yes, I liked him a lot," Georgia says, "but did I like him so much that I killed for him five years later? Impossible."
Georgia was 16 years old when her mother died. She never got to say goodbye.
"They took her clothes away and her things out of the house, and it was as if she never existed," she says. "Hear no evil, see no evil. I didn't find out she died of cancer until I was 18."
She begins to cry: "And it's very, very, very difficult -- very difficult -- to watch your mother melt away from day to day to day."
The sophomore did what her aunt told her to do. She took on the role of mother, caring for her overbearing papa and younger siblings. To this day, Georgia, a woman prone to Freudian slips, almost always refers to her father, who speaks little English and still lives in the same house in Chicago, as her "husband" before correcting herself.
She tried out to be a majorette, but after only two weeks of practice, her father made her quit. She had too many household duties for such kid stuff. Her social life was largely confined to a group of girls who called themselves the "Greek Connection."
"We ruled. The boys loved talking to us and toying with us verbally," she remembers. "We looked down on some of the Jewish girls and the partiers and the cokeheads. We weren't going to go out at night and smoke and drink to validate ourselves. We went to the mall to drink iced tea on a Sunday and make a day of it. We felt like ladies, not high school gals.
"We had Louis Vuitton handbags, and we all had Gloria Vanderbilt pants, and we shopped at the Limited. That was our thing. That was our life. We didn't go to AC/DC concerts or Ozzy Osbourne concerts and bite the heads off bats. We were 17, but we behaved like 24-year-olds. We used Sweet'n Low -- that was our high."
Brian Hooker, meanwhile, continued a normal high school existence, if there is such a thing. He began dating one of the most popular girls at Mather High, Angela Puccetti, who had blossomed from a rather plain-looking kid with buck teeth and braces into a beauty. With blond highlights in her light-brown hair, she was the head cheerleader and went to all the important parties. Brian escorted Angela when she was voted homecoming queen during her junior year.
But the queen, say her old friends, put on no airs -- she is portrayed as a kind of Everygirl darling of the school, the daughter of a butcher and a nurse, a girl who wasn't just pretty but also kind-hearted. In the 1983 high school yearbook, she was pictured with her crown and sash under the caption "Isn't She Lovely."
Georgia became enemies with Angela over Brian. When Angela heard that Georgia called her a bitch, they fought in the hallway, pulling hair and knocking each other around. But Georgia says they quickly made up, and today, she seems to revere Angela: "She wasn't your average conceited homecoming queen -- she was special. She was truly an all-American girl."
But resentment mixes in the admiration.
"She had a big nose and a high forehead, but she was truly a beautiful person. And she had Brian's heart from 'hello'... The only reason she won [homecoming queen] was that her brother got all the stinking freshmen to vote for her," she snarls.
It's not just Angela's relationship with Brian that seems still to rankle her. Georgia despises cheerleaders in general. "Those cheerleaders were big fat cows," she recalls. "Well, three of them were fat; one was a dork. The only pretty one was Angela... Cheerleaders always end up fat."
Shortly after saying this, she confesses: "Of course, secretly, we all wish we were cheerleaders."
At the end of her senior year, Georgia befriended Angela, helping Mather High's head cheerleader land a job in a Greek store called the North Water Market, where they both would work as cashiers.
After graduation, Georgia began to embrace the people she'd sneered at during high school. She drove Angela around town in her little blue Chevy Monza, and the homecoming queen gave Georgia entrée into real American life. For the first time, the Greek girl drank into the night and acted like a teenager. The pair became close.
"Georgia didn't have that many friends," remembers Mary Puccetti, Angela's mother. "My daughter introduced her into her circle. But Angela's friends didn't really like Georgia. My daughter felt bad for her."
Georgia studied psychology at the University of Illinois while Angela took journalism classes at Columbia College in Chicago. "Angela would have liked to have been a broadcaster in television," says Angela's mother, before drawing an eerie parallel. "You know, something like Kristi Krueger."
Soon, Georgia's home life became unbearable after her father married a 28-year-old woman. Her new stepmother "was a Greek peasant girl, and my father was a big catch," she says, her voice dripping with bitterness. "It made me rebel harder against my father and Greek life."
The same year, Georgia moved out of her father's house and into a second-floor apartment with Laura Peveler, another blond beauty from high school. Peveler, now a divorced mother of two living in the Midwest, says she immediately began to notice peculiarities in Georgia. The roommate wouldn't just borrow clothes; she'd wear her underwear. Peveler says she tried to help Georgia -- whom she remembers as unstylish and unhygienic -- pretty herself up, but then it got weird: "One day, I came home and Georgia had dyed her hair blond, and she cut her hair and styled it like mine... When I saw her, I was disgusted, but I just let it go.
"Have you seen the movie Single White Female? That would be Georgia. She told me that she was angry at her mother for dying and she had a bad relationship with her father. I think she wants a new family so badly that she just pushes herself into people's lives and [then] she wants to take them over. She acts like them, she dresses like them, everything."
After about four months, Peveler moved out of the apartment. Just before the move, Georgia filed for a gun license, and Peveler's older sister, who was 21, cosigned for her. She says now that she thought it would be "fun" to have one. Laura Heller, an acquaintance who was closer to Angela, remembers Georgia telling her about her plans. "Georgia Roberts was a strange girl -- she was flighty, and she was not very bright," Heller recounts. "She did silly stupid things. When Georgia told me she was going to buy a gun, I knew it was a bad idea, and I told her that."
As Georgia flirted with the idea, she and Peveler began battling over furniture. Georgia avoided her former roommate and changed the locks. She says the dispute prompted her to order a black Mossberg .410 pump shotgun. "She is the devil incarnate," Georgia says of Peveler.
On January 16, 1986, Georgia picked up the shotgun at a store called Sportmart. The salesman, Frank Palmieri, later told police that he showed Georgia how to load the firearm and explained the safety mechanism. He also said she seemed nervous and impatient.
Back at the apartment, she loaded the gun, pumped it, and put it under her bed with the safety on red -- which meant it was ready to fire. "The gun made me feel in control," Georgia says. "I wanted to show it to that bitch Laura Peveler and say, 'Come back again, bitch; I dare you.' That would have kept her away once and for all. I would have loved for that bitch to see that gun -- my shiny, big, black toy."
Peveler says the furniture wasn't that big an issue. "I didn't hate Georgia," she says. "I was indifferent to Georgia."
That evening, Georgia had Angela stay at the apartment in case Peveler returned. At 10 p.m., Georgia came home and found Angela, who had been studying, with her books packed. Georgia took her into the bedroom and showed her the new, shiny, big, black toy. Mary Puccetti says her daughter was terrified of guns, but Georgia says she was "interested."
"Angela was always curious -- you know, she used to look in people's medicine cabinets," Georgia says. "When I pulled out the gun, she said, 'Is the safety on this thing on or what?' She was nonchalant about it. If it was a handgun, we would have both been more on alert. But this was like a toy. Even the shells were plastic, not like real bullets."
As Angela sat at the foot of her bed, Georgia stood over her and did an incredible thing: She pointed the gun at her friend's head and pulled the trigger.
After falling backward from the explosion, Georgia saw Angela on her back on the bed, gurgling for breath. "I just thought, 'What did I just do? What just happened?' I looked at Angela. There was no blood on her face. It was all near the back of the head. There was a ton of stuff running off the mattress. It was brown. It was like a leak, this brown stuff coming like water from the back of her head.
"God was protecting me in some way. If I would have been exposed to -- if something happened to her face and I saw it, I could have been in the [mental] hospital for months."
The blast of pellets struck Angela just above the hairline. In addition to the pool forming behind Angela's head, blood and brain matter sprayed the wall and ceiling. A piece of skull landed on a nearby heating unit. Scalp and hair were blown to the floor. Though she now remembers differently, Georgia told police she fell forward onto Angela before dropping the gun and running screaming into the hallway. A neighbor called 911.
Angela was rushed to nearby St. Francis Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. Georgia was taken to the Chicago Police Department, where she told police she "playfully" pointed the gun at Angela and pulled the trigger, not believing it would fire. She told detectives that, even after reading the instructions and hearing the salesman's lecture, she believed that a red safety meant the gun was "stopped just like a traffic light." As for pumping it, she said that on the nighttime soap opera Dynasty, one of her favorite shows, they always said "pull" when firing their hunting rifles, so she thought having the pump cocked forward meant it wouldn't fire.
After a detective told Georgia that Angela had died, she became hysterical and made a bizarre request: She wanted him to call Brian Hooker. The detective obliged. Nova Lanktree, Brian's mother, remembers the time on the coffeemaker clock when she received the call: 3:13 a.m. The first thing she heard were Georgia's blood-curdling screams in the background.
"This is the Chicago police," the detective said. "Is Brian there?"
Lanktree put her son on the phone.
"Brian literally crumbled," she recalls. "I was holding him, and it was as if the life was taken out of him. The whole household woke up, and we were just devastated. We were all sobbing, dumbfounded, in shock. We stayed up all night."
Georgia gave police a statement and signed herself into the Chicago Reed Mental Health Center. The day after the shooting, she made several strange calls, one of them to Peveler. "Georgia said she thought that she had killed me when she killed Angela," Peveler remembers. "She said she thought [Angela] was spinning around the room like a ballerina, and her face kept changing. She said the last face she saw was mine, and that's when she pulled the trigger."
The next day, Georgia called her again.
"She was trying to get me on her side to say it was an accident, and I wasn't going to have any part of it," Peveler explains. "She said she was going to kill me the same way she killed Angela."
From Reed, Georgia also called Lanktree, whom she'd never met, to ask about her son, and she dialed up Mary Puccetti to tell her the shooting was a "joke" gone awry. To this day, Peveler, Lanktree, and Mary Puccetti complain that detectives ignored their suspicions that Georgia had killed Angela out of jealousy.
"Immediately, I thought she killed my daughter on purpose," Mary Puccetti says. "I thought it was odd that she was showing her a gun, and it happens to shoot her in the head. But the Chicago police detectives basically told me to go to hell in not so many words.
"I think [Georgia] was jealous of Angela. Angela had a lot of friends, she had Brian, she had parents that cared about her. I think she wanted to have a life like Angela."
Police disagreed.
"Everything points to it being an accident," then-Sgt. Francis O'Connor said in a Chicago Tribune article published the day after Angela's death. "She had a license. Everything's legit."
Four days after the shooting, prosecutors decided not to charge her with murder. Georgia was released from the hospital on January 28, the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. She never returned to the scene of the shooting, but she didn't cut ties to Angela's friends or family.
On February 3, she surprised Brian at a neighborhood bus stop and told him about a dream she'd had of him standing over Angela's grave. Georgia thought Brian was going to kill himself, so she sought him out to tell him the shooting was a "joke," hoping this would cause him to yell at her. She believed the reaction would relieve her own guilt, according to police reports. Then she told Brian he was going to kill himself. "Let me do it for you," she told him, "and then I'm going next."
Georgia explains her bizarre behavior: "My brain was scrambled after the accident," she says. "I've never been the same."
Psychiatrist Bennett Braun also diagnosed her as having multiple personalities. Georgia remembers that, in addition to her "regular self," there was an evil troublemaker named "Jeorgia" and an innocent child named "Gula." Perhaps it was Jeorgia who visited Brian on the steps of his apartment building many weeks after the shooting. "She told me that she didn't know why, but she had to pull the trigger," he says. "At first, I just thought it had to be an accident, but as time went by, I just couldn't understand it. How could a person point a shotgun at someone's head and pull the trigger by accident?"
Georgia denies ever saying she "had to" pull the trigger. Six weeks after the shooting, police charged her with reckless conduct for the shooting, and she was sentenced to a year's probation.
To this day, Georgia blames Peveler for Angela's death: "That roommate from hell might as well have pulled the trigger. She is the original stalker's stalker."
Peveler says her ex-roommate set out to ruin her life after Angela's death: "She had everyone believing it was somehow my fault. The entire class of '84 ostracized me."
The two young women would be entangled in conflict and legal battles for nearly four years. Peveler claims that Georgia followed her mercilessly, often threatening her life. She filed misdemeanor phone harassment and death threat charges against Georgia, alleging her former roommate had said things like "I killed the wrong girl" and "It's going to take me two minutes to kill you, bitch."
Peveler says she caught Georgia going through her trash in the middle of the night in an alley. She says Georgia also posted hundreds of photocopies of Peveler's photograph -- with epithets like "thief" and "murderer" written on them -- in the hallway of her condo. "They went all the way up to the ceiling, and I still have no idea how she got up there," Peveler says. "She put them on all the cars in the parking lot and in the bushes too. I just cried."
It got so bad that her family put her on a Greyhound bus in the middle of the night to stay with relatives in Kentucky for a couple of weeks, Peveler claims. Georgia denies any of this happened, though she admits once angrily telling Peveler's sister during a chance meeting in traffic that the "wrong girl" had died.
As that drama played out in the summer of 1987, Georgia surprised Mary Puccetti during a visit to her daughter's grave. "She started convincing me that it was an accident," the mother recalls of the meeting at the headstone. "She said that she loved Angela and she never hurt her intentionally. She manipulated me, since I really didn't want to believe that someone would shoot a friend in the head on purpose. If I wouldn't have accepted that it was an accident, I would have cracked up."
They struck up a friendship, and the Puccettis allowed Georgia to move into Angela's room in their home. "I felt sorry for her," Mary Puccetti explains, "so I took her in."
Even Georgia says it was strange sleeping in Angela's bed: "It was weird that they let me stay in Angela's bedroom -- that part of it kind of creeped me out a little bit."
About that time, Brian happened to pass Georgia on the street. He didn't recognize her until she called his name. "She had blond hair, and it was styled just like Angela's," he says. "Her clothes looked like something Angela might wear. And then I remembered that she was supposed to be living in Angela's house. I was disgusted."
The dispute with Peveler raged on. Georgia decided to contact the Lerner News, a small community newspaper on the north side of Chicago, and talked to reporter Gary Roberts, who did an article sympathetic to Georgia headlined, "Tragic nightmare won't go away." "I used to have dreams, but they are all gone," Georgia is quoted as saying in the story, which was published July 6, 1988. "My freedom and my sanity are the only things I have now, and all this is in jeopardy."
On November 1, 1988, Georgia filed a battery charge against Peveler, saying she'd beaten her up in a nightclub bathroom. While Georgia says her nose was broken, the accused says it never happened. "I never saw her there, and I never touched her," Peveler insists. "That girl must have pulverized herself or had someone else do it for her."
The charges were dropped, but the trouble continued. On November 16, 1988, a letter with no return address was mailed to Georgia at her father's house with words cut out from newspapers that said, "Your mental ill... You R Murder homicide criminal... I we will put you in Jail again."
After that, Georgia sued Peveler twice for malicious prosecution and defamation. The lawsuits were settled in August 1989, when Peveler agreed to write a letter of apology to Georgia. "As I am in the process of moving out of state, it is my hope that any differences between us can come to an end and we can both go on with our lives," she wrote.
Mary Puccetti was also ready for Georgia to get on with her life, or lives, as it were: "She would pretend to be one person and then another person, and it was getting on my nerves. One was a little girl's voice, one was a mean woman, one was real nice, one was kind of ditzy... it was crazy."
Georgia now says Braun's diagnosis was wrong and points to the fact that his medical license was suspended in 1999 after a flurry of malpractice lawsuits.
Whether or not the diagnosis was genuine, Mary Puccetti says she and her husband could no longer take Georgia's voices -- or her constant court activity. They told her to move out after about six months.
"If she had put half that energy into going to law school, she could have been a lawyer," Angela's mother says. "And she would have made a good one."
The reason Georgia pulled the trigger will likely never be known. It might have been a mistake or a prank gone awry, as Georgia suggested to police. Or it might have sprung from a deep-seated desire to take over Angela's life and boyfriend, as some believe. Or she might have killed Angela in the place of Peveler, as the alleged phone call to her ex-roommate suggests.
It's a mystery that private investigator Wayne Black, a former Miami-Dade police officer who was hired by Kristi Krueger's family to scour Georgia's background, wants to solve. After his three assistants dug up reams of information on Georgia during several trips to Chicago, Black began to favor the theory that Georgia pulled the trigger out of jealousy over Brian Hooker. The investigator flew to Chicago last month to urge police to take a new look at the case.
Black contends that Georgia's fixation on Krueger was a continuation of the pattern that started with Angela. The similarities are obvious: Both were blond, involved in some way with journalism, and, while Angela was a cheerleader, Georgia would later describe Krueger as a "cheerleader type."
Black's work for Krueger torments Georgia.
"He is running around like Mark Fuhrman trying to get me," she cries, her voice trembling with emotion. "I could lose my children. What does Wayne Black know? He doesn't know anything."
Mary Puccetti says she would welcome criminal charges against Georgia -- but only if there were more proof. "The evidence isn't there right now," she says.
Brian feels the same way: "If there was intent to kill her, what kind of intent was it? It's really hard to know."
Laura Heller says it's impossible to know. "We've all played it out in our heads, and all we have is conjecture," she says. "You know how sometimes when you drive over a bridge, you think, 'If I just turned the wheel, it would be that simple'? Did she think of what she could do in that one split second and pull the trigger? No one knows but Georgia."
But even Georgia says she doesn't know. "Ultimately, I was responsible, but there is no way I made a conscious decision to pull that trigger," Georgia insists. "But was it unconscious? That is what all these questions have made me wonder. Did I have resentment toward Angela? I don't think so. I had no clue. It wasn't like I was bearing down and preparing to execute this poor girl."
As the years passed, Georgia remained in the grips of an identity crisis. In 1992, she even gave herself a new name: Georgia Forbes, telling people that her new identity was in honor of an ex-boyfriend named "Johnny Forbes," who had been decapitated in a motorcycle crash.
The only problem: He never existed. Peveler suspects this was more Single White Female behavior, since she -- not Georgia -- had a boyfriend who died in a motorcycle accident during high school. Georgia now claims that the story was a blend of fact and fiction that had nothing to do with Peveler. She says it was all about rebelling against her father and "Greekness."
"I did see someone wipe out on Lake Shore Drive, but I don't think his head was fully cut off," she recalls. "I think I chose Forbes because it was such an all-American name."
But the new name didn't solve her problems. That same year came an ugly legal battle with a boyfriend. Georgia agreed to a contract with the boyfriend and accepted money to compensate her pain and suffering but later claimed the document was invalid because she wasn't herself when she signed it. "When Georgia Forbes is in a dissociative state, she has NO RECOLLECTION of events because she is in the form of another personality," she wrote in court papers, adding that the personalities "pride themselves as unique individuals 'outside' of Forbes."
The only constant in her life, it seems, was the reporter, Roberts, whom she began dating when he wrote about her. Georgia describes Roberts, who is 14 years her senior, as a "father figure," and they had a stormy on-again, off-again romance. Georgia once even charged Roberts with sexual assault, alleging he date-raped her. That case was dropped, but she also had him charged with several counts of misdemeanor battery and property crimes in the early '90s, claiming Roberts would manhandle her during drunken rages. A judge ordered him to treatment for alcoholism.
Through it all, the couple somehow always got back together, and in 1995, Roberts fathered Georgia's twins, Kyle and Kylee. It was an unplanned pregnancy, but it finally gave Georgia an identity she relished: mother. But even her children didn't come without a fight; she sued the hospital for malpractice after a traumatic labor. "[Doctors] told me afterward, 'By the way, we took out your uterus,'" she remembers. "I said, 'What do you mean you took out my fucking uterus?' Whoever heard of such a thing?"
As she recounts the story, she begins to cry. "My little boy and little girl are all I have, and Kristi Krueger is trying to take that away from me. God meant for me to be a mother to a little girl and little boy. My whole life revolves around my children -- my children -- and this bitch is getting in the way of that."
Georgia raised the children on her own, determined to give them a distinctly American upbringing. "I do live vicariously through my children," she says. "On Saturdays, we lay around in our pajamas watching cartoons, which I could never do. It soothes me."
In 1998, Georgia and the twins left Chicago with a new boyfriend and came to Pembroke Pines, where she would play out a familiar drama. Only this time, it would involve her favorite TV newswoman.
Next week: Georgia embraces suburban life in South Florida, becomes fixated on Kristi Krueger, goes to jail, and prevails at trial.
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Better as stage make-upWhile this works better than the Studio Fix foundation, I still feel that this product is really thick. The coverage is good, but this would look a lot better as stage up or photo-shoot make-up than as a day to day look as the thickness of the product really prevents it from giving the illusion of perfect skin. I also found that if I used it too much, my pores ended up clogged. Definitely use this...read more if you are going to be seen in harsh light or taking lots of pictures, but skip it for everyday looks. — 6 years, 4 months agorunee89 | 299 reviews
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Lightweight Skin FinishHey, it's completely all right if you don't have perfect skin because personally, I don't. Especially on days when I feel so out of my body because I lack sleep resulting from my insomnia and my skin decides to dull, this is a wonder. I've heard rants and raves about MAC foundations and that it highly congests the skin but yet my hyper sensitive skin made a pact with it. I've used this product ...read moresince I was about fifteen and it hasn't contributed to my skin issues I had with different skincare lines and other cosmetics. It's a smooth powder foundation combination so there isn't a need to multiply the number of steps for this deal. The sponge can be used on the go but it looks so amazingly flawless when used with a large powder or kabuki brush and buffed in circular motion into the skin. Almost seven years since I've started using this and it has stood it's territory in my makeup case. Long lasting? You bet. Although for those who have oily skin, this is recommended because it has silica which absorbed extra oils but seals in moisture simultaneously. Now for a price tag of $25.00, this usually will last me about most of the year ranging anywhere from four to seven months depending on my usage. I usually have more coverage in the summer because my skin tends to be hyperpigmented when it has bathed in the sun too long even with higher sunscreen protection. It's completely buildable in coverage ranging from sheer to full but it shouldn't be reapplied mid day if you tend to shine; a simple blot film or translucent powder will do the job and it should be refreshed. Too much of this foundation will indicate itself by looking caked on but it can be thinned out with MAC's fix spray or their charge waters. While this can be compared to Make Up For Ever's Duo Mat Powder Foundation, MAC's Studio Fix Powder is much more shade reliable in my opinion, it doesn't highly oxidize to the point where it's a completely different shade whereas Make Up For Ever's foundations do so. This can also just set the Studio Fix Fluid to blur any lines and even out the whole look into an airbrush finish that totally looks natural. This has been the only foundation that matched my skin perfectly in shade, delivered a nice coverage, and is velvety to the touch. I can't say enough great compliments about this. — 9 years, 4 months agoVLA | 336 reviews
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Not for my dry skinUnfortunately, I hate this. The powder is too thick to look natural, and my dry skin suffers from the chalky texture. Yes, you get a lot of coverage, but it LOOKS like you are wearing a mask. The shade I have matches my skin tone perfectly, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it looks so unnatural. I have very dry skin like I said, and this even after hours and hours of wear lets absolutely...read more no dewiness come through. I'll save this for those girls in 7th grade who think they need a 2 inch cake of makeup on their faces. — 8 years, 4 months agoleelu | 354 reviews
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its goodi like it, but for me it is too cakey and thick. it makes me break out as well i think. nothing horrible but... i think this stuff is the cause — 4 years, 4 months agobrianna121791 | 69 reviews
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I don't get the hypeI think this works well as a touch up powder. I wasn't impressed with the results wet or dry as my only foundation. But it really makes a foundation last and doesn't make my skin act weird. Overall I think it is a good powder. I think the foundation in the title is misleading. — 2 years, 8 months agoMsAtomicBomb | 228 reviews
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goodI've been using MAC Studio Fix in NC25 for about 4 years now. Because I have oily acne-prone skin, I tend to shy away from liquid foundations (which never seem to stay put). Finding MAC Studio Fix was a dream come true for my oily skin, but it's not without it's faults. Because I use it for coverage as well as oil control, I probably put it on a bit thicker than most. The coverage is AMAZING, but ...read moreit only keeps my skin matte for maybe 4 hours on a hot day. I'm actually hesitant to reapply because it can look VERY thick and it settles into the fine lines around my mouth If I'm out in a club and its hot and I get sweaty, reapplying with the sponge is out of the question for me, as it looks streaky and patchy. I've recently started using liquid foundation (Clinique Anti-Blemish) with a light layer of MAC Studio Fix, and my face has never looked better! I think most of the negative aspects I found in MAC Studio Fix was because I was using it alone (and a pretty decent amount of it!) for coverage, which by the end of the day would look cakey and gross. But using it now to mainly control shine on my T-Zone, I LOVE IT. This product is definitely my HG. I definitely think the reason I found a problem with it was because I was using too much of it, then reapplying more. Ha! But now that I've learned what makes my skin look good, I don't think I'll ever stop using the combination of Clinique Anti-Blemish Foundation (01 Alabaster) and MAC Studio Fix (NC25) — 4 years, 2 months agomelissuhh | 52 reviews
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Use it every dayThis powder foundation is great. I used to use this a lot when I was 18-19 and it was perfect for my skin then, it is a tad heavy for me now and settles into the beginnings of fine lines, but it is easy to adjust the amount of product you use to adapt to your skin and coverage needs. One compact will last you a long time. I usually use this as a finishing powder over my tinted moisturizer (to add...read more moisture to my dry skin before using the studiofix) and it leaves me with a flawless complexion. It's the best product of its kind. Love the finish I get with this product. — 6 years, 6 months agocherrypie | 196 reviews
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Awesome coverageHaven't found a better powder with this kind of coverage and lightweight feel. Great for everyday, Alone or with a liquid foundation! — 2 years agonicolejeffrey | 2 reviews
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Projects and perfectsThis product is my go to it is truly a life saver when I need a little extra coverage without looking cakes. It is my favorite makeup product right now. It feels so light weight on my face and goes on silky smooth with the sponge application. I will be repurchasing this when I run ou for sure. — 2 years, 5 months agoDemiElisha | 19 reviews
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On verge of local trial, U.S. Attorney indicts in Philadelphia basement captive case
Days before a trial was set to begin in a Philadelphia court, a 196-count federal indictment has come down against those accused of holding mentally disabled people in order to keep their benefit checks.
U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger says the indictment alleges that Linda Weston, her daughter and three others ran a criminal enterprise when they detained 10 mentally disabled adults while keeping over $200,000 worth of their Social Security disability checks.
"Escape for these individuals seemed impossible because Weston and the others kept them confined, locked in closets basements and attics," said Memeger. "Rescue from the outside world also appeared impossible because Weston stayed on the move, going from state to state -- Pennsylvania, Virginia Texas, Florida -- in order to avoid law enforcement scrutiny."
FBI Special Agent in Charge for Philadelphia John Brosnan says law enforcement is fighting for those who could not fight back.
"The victims were targeted as the indictment alleges, because of their disabilities," said Brosnan. "They were targeted because they could not protect themselves and they could not stand up for their own rights."
Two died while under Weston's supervision — one from bacterial meningitis and starvation. That person was left behind when Weston fled Virginia for Pennsylvania. Memeger says another apparently died of starvation in Philadelphia and the body was moved to a bedroom and staged to appear as if death were due to an overdose.
"Shocking does not start to describe the criminal allegations in this case, where victims were tied up like zoo animals and treated like property akin to slaves," he said.
Memeger says this is the first time that federal hate crimes legislation has been used in this type of prosecution. Weston could face the death penalty, but prosecutors have not decided whether to seek it.
After initially saying the local trial would proceed in addition to the federal case, the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams issued a statement Wednesday afternoon that it would withdraw its charges against Weston and her co-defendants next week.
"The trial for Linda Weston, Gregory Thomas, Eddie Wright and Jean McIntosh is scheduled to begin on Jan. 28 in courtroom 801. At that time, the Commonwealth plans on withdrawing charges against them, due to the federal charges," according to the statement.
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She remembers absolutely nothing about it, but retired garage boss Ann Neal knows Wiltshire Air Ambulance helped save her life by whisking her to hospital for emergency surgery.
Now Mrs Neal, 58, who collapsed after a brain haemorrhage at her home in Sherston last year, has officially thanked the service during a visit to its headquarters in Devizes.
She also met flight paramedic Ross Culligan who examined her unconscious body before going with her to Bristol's Frenchay Hospital for treatment.
"It was a nice surprise to meet Ross and to personally thank him, although I don't remember meeting him before," she said.
Mrs Neal was among a group from the Malmesbury League of Friends (MLOF) who presented the air ambulance with a £20,000 cheque on Monday.
In February last year she had returned to her bungalow from Peglers Garage in Tetbury, where she was a director to prepare to go out to see Oliver at the Bristol Hippodrome for her 57th birthday.
She was having a shower when she collapsed. She recalled: "I just passed out. I can remember falling into the bath. I climbed out. I don't know how and I remember being on the bathroom floor and somehow managing to crawl to the bed."
The next thing Mrs Neal remembers is waking up in hospital two or three days later.
Her husband Keith had found her in bed, couldn't wake her and called 999. The call centre felt the situation was serious enough to alert Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
She was flown to Frenchay where a drain was inserted in her head to relieve the pressure.
"Apparently I had come around after the operation and was aware of people in the hospital. But I don't remember any of that."
"I can't say how grateful I am to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance for getting me to the hospital so quickly. I am certain they helped save my life."
She was delighted to be asked by the Friends to the presentation.
Claire Kelly of WAA said: "This amount of money is phenomenal and we cannot thank MLOF enough. Our service is vital in Wiltshire and this will go a long way."


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Starring: Jane Badler, Jennifer Cooke, June Chadwick, Robert Englund
V: The Final Battle: Part 2 (2 Hrs) - S1-E4
Revealing mistake: After the failed raid on the Resistance's headquarters, Brian shoots the counterfeiter who led them there, but no scorch mark appears on his victim's shirt (later victims have these scorch marks).
Revealing mistake: When Kyle, Elizabeth and Robin are in the truck being chased by Mr. Chiang, in all the outside shots of the truck it is very easy to see that all three of them have been replaced by doubles.
Continuity mistake: The last time Donovan hits Diana's craft with a laser, he hits it on the right side. But inside the craft it's the left hand side that explodes.
Continuity mistake: When Diana is being chased by Donovan after crashing her craft, she has her normal human eyes. But during Donovan's strangulation attempt she has lizard eyes. As we saw in the original series, a Visitor's human eyes had to be removed by hand before the lizard eyes could be seen underneath.
Continuity mistake: When the old woman firebombs the Visitor craft, the scene changes from broad daylight to dusk, and then back to daylight again. The three Visitors standing in front of the 'Valley Cleaners' shop also disappear.
V: The Final Battle: Part 3 (2 Hrs) - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: When the Red Dust is spread, there is a brief shot of some California citizens watching, and we see the Bernsteins among them. But the actress at George Mofogen/Mr. Bernstein's side is not Bonnie Bartlett, who played Mrs. Bernstein in the first two episodes.
Continuity mistake: When Mike and his friend escape from the helicopters in El Salvador, Mike's hair, clothes and camera are wet just before they pass in the river. They were not wet in the previous shot.
Dreadnaught - S2-E2
Other mistake: After the transformation, Elizabeth is brought home. She lies asleep on the sofa. Who had the time to apply makeup to her? Her nails are shining, which means that someone has applied some polish on them. It is obvious that no actors (even male) will ever play without makeup; however, they should not have applied such an evident makeup to Elizabeth.
Dreadnaught - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: After a talk with Diana on the mothership, Lydia is left alone and then she takes a message out of her uniform. She wears a ring on her left middle finger and her nails are painted red. In the following shot we see Lydia's hands put the message into a box. The hands do not have their nails painted and wear no ring whatsoever.
Visible crew/equipment: When Diana and Lydia are walking in the mothership corridor there are two things to look out for. When Lydia first starts talking a section of the whitescreen appears in the top right of the picture. Then a couple of seconds later the shadow of the camera appears on the door to her left.
Revealing mistake: When Ham drives the van through the road barrier, the pieces fall off very easily considering how slowly he was travelling. In the next shot it is shown that the remaining barrier sections are both split vertically, revealing that they were sawed in the same direction beforehand, then the 'broken' pieces loosely affixed before the collision.
Audio problem: When the two dogs attack the Visitors, you can see them biting the Visitors on the ground but barking is still heard.
Dreadnaught - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth's arm is waving about above the cocoon, it is covered with scaly skin. But when she is seen standing up pulling the scaly skin off her face, both her arms have no scaly skin, and there wasn't enough time for her to remove it.
Plot hole: In the opening scene we see Mike and Kyle driving in the truck. Kyle remarks that Mike has been driving since midnight and it is broad daylight outside. So they have supposedly been driving for several hours. Yet they start talking about their mission as if they have only just got in to the truck. As anyone who has been in that kind of situation knows, everyone always discusses the important stuff at the start of the journey, so it is clear that the scene has been poorly scripted.
The Rescue - S2-E13
Visible crew/equipment: The boom mike is visible at the top of the screen shortly after James starts talking to Diana in the mothership control room.
Continuity mistake: When Chris and Ham are sitting down talking about the conversion process, Ham gets up and walks over to the map. When he turns around Chris is suddenly standing in front of him, whereas he should still be sitting down.
Audio problem: When Julie walks into Nathan Bates' office and says 'I've got a question for you' her lips do not match what is heard.
Revealing mistake: During the title sequence when Blair Tefkin's name comes up, Mike Donovan is riding a horse. A Visitor craft passes overhead and shoots at Donovan, but the laser appears out of nowhere instead of from the craft.
Deliberate mistake: Several shots have been taken from Series 1, including the group of guards firing in the hangar bay, and various shots of the shuttles during the chase.


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Nikon And Warner Music Group Announce Three-Day SXSW Residency
Nikon Inc. and Warner Music Group have announced full details of their upcoming residency at the 2013 South by Southwest Music & Media Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. "The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon" will present two days and three nights of Stellar showcase performances at The Belmont Austin, slated for March 12th through 14th.
Artists from Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records, other WMG labels and labels distributed through ADA will appear live at these official SXSW showcases; all SXSW badge-holders are welcome.
Artists slated to perform at "The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon" include The Flaming Lips, Paramore, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tegan and Sara, Alt-J, Fitz & the Tantrums, Lianne La Havas, Atlas Genius, Icona Pop, and many more. A complete line-up is attached below.
For those outside of Austin, all three evening showcases will be live-streamed via Nikon's award winning D4 HD-SLR cameras on Warner Music Group's premium YouTube Channel, "The Warner Sound" (www.youtube.com/thewarnersound). Built around exclusive access to musical talent, "The Warner Sound" offers an eclectic mix of specially produced programs, all with music at their core. Accessible worldwide, the digital video destination embraces a broad Spectrum of genres and formats, from artist interviews, back-stage documentaries and live events to animated series, scripted comedy and experimental concepts that take advantage of YouTube's unique technology. For more information, please visit http://nikon.thewarnersound.com and www.facebook.com/thewarnersound.
"We are ecstatic to be back at SXSW for year two of The Warner Sound," said Camille Hackney, Senior Vice President, Brand Partnerships and Commercial Licensing at Atlantic Records. "All of the Warner Music Group labels have teamed up to deliver a diverse and power-packed line-up of artists in Austin. The festival allows us an amazing opportunity to play host to and showcase WMG's incredible artists. It also gives us a unique way to integrate and celebrate with our valued brand partners. We are pleased to partner once again with Nikon and Bed Head, and are thrilled to work with Absolut, ooVoo Video Chat, and Billboard this year."
"SXSW is an opportunity for Nikon to connect with passionate consumers to celebrate the artistry and energy of musicians and their fans through great imagery," said Lisa Baxt, Senior Manager, Communications at Nikon Inc. "The crowd at SXSW gets connectivity like no other; and this is one of the best settings to showcase Nikon's connected cameras to social-savvy attendees who want the best photos possible. We are excited to partner with Warner Music Group again this year, and give attendees the chance to shoot and share photos with our wireless enabled D-SLR, COOLPIX and Nikon 1 cameras."
Nikon is returning for a second year as the title sponsor of the Warner Music residence at SXSW and will offer fans attending the shows the opportunity to try Nikon's newest Wi-Fi cameras to capture and share amazing images from the event. Select artists will also be using Nikon cameras to capture imagery on their way to SXSW and share with their fans everywhere. For music lovers who can't attend the residency, exclusive images and videos will be shared at www.Nikon.TheWarnerSound.com. In addition, fans can get in on the action by following Nikon on Twitter at @NikonUSA and on its Facebook page at Facebook.com/Nikon.


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Secondhand smoke comes from the lighted end of a cigarette, cigar, bidi or other tobacco product as well a smoker's exhaled smoke. Just like the smoke that a smoker inhales, secondhand smoke contains toxic chemicals and nicotine. The Environmental Protection Agency lists secondhand smoke as a known cause of lung cancer. It is in the same group as radon, benzene and asbestos. You wouldn't expose others to those chemicals if you could help it, right?
But when you smoke, the people around you—your friends, children, family members, coworkers, and even strangers—are exposed to secondhand smoke and have no defense against it. This is also called involuntary smoking or passive smoking, and it can cause some of the same health problems that smokers face.
Secondhand smoke can cause lots of health problems in nonsmokers, including: chronic coughing, phlegm, wheezing, chest discomfort, lowered lung function, sneezing, eye irritation, headaches, severe lower respiratory tract infections like bronchitis and pneumonia and nose and throat pain in adults. It also can make asthma worse.
Children's bodies are still growing and their lungs aren't as strong as adults' lungs. Secondhand smoke slows healing, so kids who are exposed to it usually stay sick longer. Kids who live in homes where people smoke:
Women exposed to secondhand smoke during pregnancy are at increased risk for having low birth weight or small babies, and infants in smoking households have a doubled risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
And the scariest fact of all: Kids who grow up watching people smoke are more likely to become smokers themselves!
Nonsmokers who live in homes where someone smokes are at the greatest risk for suffering the negative health effects of secondhand smoke exposure. But even brief contact with secondhand smoke can be hazardous. There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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Aspiring scientists took part in experiments and got a chance to look over a racing car from Castle Combe last week.
Wiltshire College's Science Technology Engin-eering and Maths (STEM) expo included insights into architecture, surgery, and playing Jenga using a robotic arm.
Other activities includ-ed a mock virus outbreak for students to manage, a live video conference with an expert heart surgeon from Spain, a tank driving simulator and a 3D printing workshop.
Held at the Trowbridge and Salisbury campuses, STEM was open to schools across the county and aimed to encourage students to consider scientific careers.
Wiltshire College learn-ing director Mark Thomp-son said: "It was good to have a range of employers convey messages about the skills they seek and the potential employment opportunities open to committed students."


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Consumer PR Manager, Bucks
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Reporting to the Marketing Director, you'll develop and deliver consumer-friendly, news-led stories so you'll need to be full of ideas with an instinct for a story and a track record in securing coverage in consumer/lifestyle titles and the nationals.
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Workshop for Older Adults to Be Held April 24 in Providence District
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
April 15, 2008
Workshop for Older Adults to Be
Held April 24 in Providence District
The Providence District supervisor, in conjunction with the Department of Family Services' Fairfax Area Agency on Aging and the Oakton Library, will be sponsoring a 50+ workshop event on Thursday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Oakton Library, 10304 Lynnhaven Place, Oakton.
A large portion of county residents are either age 50 or older or are responsible for providing care, advice or assistance to their parents or other older relatives. This workshop will provide an opportunity for those interested in issues associated with the increasing 50+ population to learn more about county services.
The event will begin with opening remarks and a welcome from Providence District Supervisor Linda Q. Smyth followed by two workshops and a variety of exhibits.
The first workshop at 10:30 a.m. will focus on scams, with
presenters from the Fairfax County Police Department and the Department
of Cable Communications and Consumer Protection.
- The second workshop begins at 11:30 a.m. and will focus on services available within the county, with presenters from the Area Agency on Aging and the Library.
There will be exhibits with staff members from a wide variety of county agencies available to answer questions before the workshops begin, during a mid-point break and at the conclusion of the final workshop.
For additional details about the workshop and ADA accommodations, call the Providence District Office at 703-560-6946, TTY 711.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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The need for Congress to agree on government spending cuts could spur action on the farm bill before the end of this year, according to an Associated Press article. The Senate passed their version of the bill in June, and the House Agriculture Committee followed with its version in July, but the bill never reached the House floor amid pre-election politics.
Now, however, as the government faces the possibility of dramatic spending cuts and tax increases automatically taking effect on January 1, Congressional leaders could be more motivated to move a compromise bill toward final passage. The Senate bill would reduce spending by $23 billion over 10 years while the House version would cut $35 billion.
Quoted in the AP article, Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) says an agreement leading to passage of a farm bill would be "a significant first step in meeting the critical deficit reduction challenges our country must face head-on this year."
Spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, represents a major point of contention between the two versions of the bill. The Senate bill would cut $4 billion from the program over 10 years while the House version would cut $16 billion.
In related news, the National Farmers Union and a broad coalition of 235 agriculture organizations sent a letter to Congressional leadership today urging for the passage of a new five-year farm bill to be signed into law by the end of the legislative session.
In a letter addressed to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, the coalition noted the paramount importance of the legislation.
"Failure to pass a new five-year farm bill before the year's end will create significant budget uncertainty for the entire agricultural sector, including the rural businesses and lenders whose livelihoods are dependent upon farmers' and livestock producers' economic viability," the letter states.
Quoted in the AP article, NFU president Roger Johnson says the results of the Nov. 6 election, which kept the balance of power the same, should favor passage of a farm bill. "The outcome removed any sort of political rationale for a delay," he says. "The political argument I think is gone. Not to say it will be easy."


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The past few days, delegates from 20 of the worlds largest economies met in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to further develop international strategies to deal with the ongoing financial, energy and social crises. The "Leader's Statement" could reasonably be summarized by this excerpt:
"We further committed to additional steps to ensure strong, sustainable, and balanced growth, and to build a stronger international financial system."
Considering there was no mention of biophysical limits, nor of mankinds underlying consumptive drivers and considering that 'strong' is at cross purposes with 'sustainable' and 'balanced', I am left with the frustrating conclusion that our same old cargo cult beliefs – that growth and consumption will follow money/debt – are unfortunately alive and well. Below the fold is a brief overview and a chance for TOD readers to play G20 policymaker.
Fiat vs. Real – A Wile E. Coyote moment…
First, some relevant quotes from Karl Polyani's 1944 book, "The Great Transformation":
"By the end of the seventies the free trade episode (1846-79) was at an end; the actual use of the gold standard by Germany marked the beginnings of an era of protectionism and colonial expansion. The symptoms of the dissolution of the existing forms of world economy — colonial rivalry and competition for exotic markets — became acute. The ability of haute finance to avert the spread of wars was diminishing rapidly. For another seven years peace dragged on but it was only a question of time before the dissolution of nineteenth century economic organization would bring the Hundred Years' Peace to a close."
"The breakdown of the international gold standard was the invisible link between the disintegration of world economy since the turn of the century and the transformation of a whole civilization in the thirties. Unless the vital importance of this factor is realized, it is not possible to see rightly either the mechanism which railroaded Europe to its doom, or the circumstances which accounted for the astounding fact that the forms and contents of a civilization should rest on precarious foundations.
"The true nature of the international system under which we were living was not realized until it failed. Hardly anyone understood the political function of the international monetary system; the awful suddenness of the transformation thus took the world completely by surprise… To liberal economists the gold standard was purely an economic institution; they refused even to consider it as a part of a social mechanism. Thus it happened that the democratic countries were the last to realize the true nature of the catastrophe and the slowest to counter its effects. Not even when the cataclysm was already upon them did their leaders see that behind the collapse of the international system there stood a long development within the most advanced countries which made that system anachronistic; in other words, the failure of market economy itself still escaped them." [p. 20]
"The transformation came on even more abruptly than is usually realized. World War I and the postwar revolutions still formed part of the nineteenth century. The conflict of 1914-18 merely precipitated and immeasurably aggravated a crisis that it did not create. But the roots of the dilemma could not be discerned at the time. The dissolution of the system of world economy which had been in progress since 1900 was responsible for the political tension that exploded in 1914."
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Note: 100 years ago today, the NYTimes ran a piece on dissipating misapprehensions for a Central Bank".
And here are some excerpts from yesterdays G20 joint statement (bold added by me) :
7. Today, we reviewed the progress we have made since the London Summit in April. Our national commitments to restore growth resulted in the largest and most coordinated fiscal and monetary stimulus ever undertaken. We acted together to increase dramatically the resources necessary to stop the crisis from spreading around the world. We took steps to fix the broken regulatory system and started to implement sweeping reforms to reduce the risk that financial excesses will again destabilize the global economy.
9. The process of recovery and repair remains incomplete. In many countries, unemployment remains unacceptably high. The conditions for a recovery of private demand are not yet fully in place. We cannot rest until the global economy is restored to full health, and hard-working families the world over can find decent jobs.
10. We pledge today to sustain our strong policy response until a durable recovery is secured. We will act to ensure that when growth returns, jobs do too. We will avoid any premature withdrawal of stimulus.
16. To make sure our regulatory system for banks and other financial firms reins in the excesses that led to the crisis. Where reckless behavior and a lack of responsibility led to crisis, we will not allow a return to banking as usual.
17. We committed to act together to raise capital standards, to implement strong international compensation standards aimed at ending practices that lead to excessive risk-taking, to improve the over-the-counter derivatives market and to create more powerful tools to hold large global firms to account for the risks they take. Standards for large global financial firms should be commensurate with the cost of their failure.
Some observations:
1) Money is not a resource
2) Governments plan to reign in excessive financial risk taking in the private sector, but increase their own.
3) The word 'sustainable' appeared 51 times in the Leaders Statement.
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve System governing our money spigot in 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of its value, as money (debt) has been continually created to match the demand for credit, irrespective of future resource flow rates. Following the demise of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971, (and US oil peak the year prior), there has been no natural speed-bump to this expansion of the money supply. Central banks controlled monetary policy via adjusting the discount rate, the Federal Funds rate, the reserve requirement %, and various other rule changes. Contrary to the distant past, when increases in money would require new energy and materials expenditures to procure more gold from mining to back the new currency issue, under the regime of the last 40 years, commercial banks under the permission of Fed, could create money (credit) at will. As long as there was a demand for credit, the money supply could grow with only a paper tether to the real goods it was designed to represent. As long as prior period debts could be serviced in dollars, not resources, money as debt increased, and people accepted it as a resource proxy itself and increased extraction and consumption of real goods accordingly. This was not a problem confined to the United States – virtually all countries, (and all major economies) use fiat currency – backed by nothing other than the faith of government.
It stands to reason that such a system would eventually decouple, not slightly but significantly, from its biophysical tethers – (much of what has been written on these pages since 2005 has in fact been attempts to quantify such departures). Roughly, the world now has hundreds of trillions in debt and other assets that require servicing, resting on top of 55 trillion in GDP and a depleting high quality energy supply, (the infrastructure of which has been long since paid for with 1960s-80s embodied energy). Too, some decent chunk of this GDP is 'phantom' (financial and government stimulus). As this debt is not really a zero-sum game but is more a marker money supply gone wild via social and policy responses over 4 decades, the amount of natural resources we'll have available per unit time is extremely unlikely to allow us to repay but a fraction of this debt. (I will be presenting "Abstract Energy Gain and the Permanent Recession" at ASPO in Denver where I will hash this out in more detail).
In sum, absolutely nothing has been 'solved' in recent months. The components of the debt pyramid have just shifted ledgers. In many real ways we fell off the cliff last fall and a giant airgun (govt intervention not based on real resources) has allowed us to continue the feeling of levitation since. Over 30% of G20 GDP has been guaranteed by G20 central banks via loan guarantees, commercial paper purchases, various Cash-for-coyote programs, etc. The result of these measures has been a moderate recovery in notional GDP, with costs of fewer resources and less time to deal with the real underlying problems. If we are unable to grow, let alone in a 'strong', 'sustainable' or 'balanced' fashion, the whole 'increase money supply each year enough to pay off prior debts' model not only hits a wall, but goes in reverse, which it eventually will as we have significantly overexceeded our sustainable/repayable debt levels.
There are 2 fundamental disconnects with reality prevalent among those advising our decisionmakers: 1) a misconception that money is somehow a resource and not the debt marker it really is and 2)that energy is treated the same as any other commodity, parsable into dollar terms by the market. Following these 2 faulty assumptions, we have painted ourselves into a dangerous corner – we expect by printing money and government guarantees, that the cargo will eventually resume flowing again, like magic. As such, after the phantom (government fiscal/monetary stimulus led) recovery in next year or so, I expect the financial system to unravel – either there is an across the board debt forgiveness, or the Fed and other parties tries to print their way out the problem.
We have enough knowledge to make better choices.
1) Can you articulate a concerted policy response that would indeed lead to 'strong', 'sustainable', and 'balanced' growth?
1a) If not, what sort of 'economic triage' policy would you recommend? Think bold.
2) What will it take for international economists, policymakers and authorities to understand that money/credit is not a resource, and does not on its own produce cargo?
Please focus on the middle question – assume my view is generally correct for the moment – what could be done?


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The execution phase of business strategy – any strategy really – is where most management fail to deliver. I know many companies –including Fortune 500s- where strategy building is an exercise in layering carefully crafted buzz words on a document, which soon after would be saved to some obscure shared computer drive and rarely visited. Ask yourself, how many times in the course of the year have you opened your company's long-range and one-year strategy documents to status if your department or company is on course? I am not talking about measuring progress on sales, costs, and inventory levels. I am talking about measuring progress on the execution of the strategy you set. And, there is wherein the misunderstanding lies.
Soon after going through the annual joint exercise of setting strategy – usually done at an expensive off site retreat at great costs, management turns its attention to traditional accounting tools to measure achievements and deficits. This puts measurement of the results into the hands of the CFO. I have nothing against financial types, I myself find that numbers tell a story. But, management level accounting bench marks are gross numbers that will not get you visibility or get you to root cause of trouble except after several drill down levels. Finally, these same financial measures only offer delayed blunt tools for corrective action.
To get to tools and measurements of strategy execution you must combine project management practices into what you are doing. The Project Management discipline, pioneered by Aerospace industry, is all about managing resources and activities to meet a time based objective. If you will agree with me to simply define strategy as series of coordinated activities to meet time based objectives, then project management tools should be utilized in strategy execution and measurements. So, into your strategy execution phase think about mapping-in and utilizing practices of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Critical Path management, and progress measurements by adding Earned Value to traditional GAAP measurements. All these are tools I found, after learning project management domaine within the enviornment of an Aerospace blue blood.
Tolerance for failed strategy is very narrow. But in many cases appropriate corrective actions could be taken to trim course for success. Utilizing project management practices gives management a dashboard to monitor execution. With better visibility into the execution of all the discrete activities that bind strategy, you can actually follow the execution of the strategy you set and also have the tools for better informed decision making.


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Semifinal too tall a hurdle for Steele
Published 12:00 am, Friday, March 5, 2010
AUSTIN — When a Mansfield Timberview shot got lodged in the side of the Erwin Center rim Thursday night, Steele's Meighan Simmons reacted in a manner that was probably as therapeutic as it was productive.
She climbed the net, hung onto the rim and jarred the ball loose, releasing plenty of pent-up frustration in the process.
Steele's motto is "Forgotten Past," but it would have taken an inhuman resolve for the Knights to have forgotten theirs in a 59-40 loss to Mansfield Timberview in the Class 4A state semifinals.
Facing an overpowering, top-ranked Timberview squad that routed them 67-46 in last year's state semis, the Knights were certain this year was different.
The fiery Simmons, a Tennessee signee who led all scorers with 31 points, believed so deeply in her squad that she went as far as to guarantee a state championship before the season.
Then Thursday's affair began and things played out remarkably similar to how they did last season — the Wolves (36-2) jumped on the Knights early and led by double digits almost the rest of the way.
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"It's hard, it really is," said Simmons, fighting back tears in this, the Knights' third straight trip to state.
Last year, Steele trailed Timberview — also the state's top-ranked team then — 12-2 to start the game. Steele trailed 12-3 to start this year's contest.
The Knights missed their first 10 shots last year, opening the game 4 of 35 from the floor. They missed their first 11 this time around, starting out 5 for 30.
And they went 0 for 11 from 3-point range last year, only to go 2 for 20 this time around.
It was that kind of night for the Knights (34-5), drawing an end to another season in which they cemented their status as one of the pre-eminent programs in the Express-News Area.
For a brief moment late in the game, it did look as if this year would be different.
Down by as many as 17 points in the first half, the Knights closed the gap to eight on a Simmons 3-pointer 15 seconds into the fourth quarter.
But even with the Wolves struggling with turnovers on the other end, the Knights couldn't find a way to get their shots to drop to claw any closer.
Steele finished 10 for 55 from the floor, with Simmons accounting for all 10 of its baskets on 27 shots.
The stats might have looked the same, but Simmons said Thursday didn't feel anything like last year.
"We didn't worry about the past," she said. "We did our best that we could. I guess our best didn't show."


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If you watch Dragon Ball Z episodes, then it's not a striking fact for you that it is born out of Dragon Ball franchise. Dragon Ball Z carries forward, what is really essential for being the spin-off of Dragon Ball franchise. The series presents the world of mystical martial arts, teleportation and spaceships. Dragon Ball Z and its special episodes, have everything: wit, tragedy, conflict and emotions. It is a perfect blend of past and present and perhaps this is the only reason, due to which it has covered the journey from small screen to big screen.
It is really marvelous for any series to produce its sequel, as well as its theatre versions. The most remarkable point here, is that the Dragon Ball series has more than three spin-offs and it has given birth to countless movies too. These movies reflect the popularity of the series, out of which, it has taken shape. If you are devoted to the show, and watch Dragon Ball Z online, then you should transport yourselves into the world of movies.
The first movie of the Dragon Ball franchise was Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, which was first released in Japan in 1986 at the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival. In this movie, the main focus was on the depiction of how Goku meets with Bulma. Though this was the first series-based movie, the series-based Dragon Ball Z episodes were praised more than the movie.
The movie named 'Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle', 'Mystical Adventure', 'Dead Zone', 'The World's Strongest', 'The Tree of Might' and 'Lord Slug' are the few movies, which were released during the phase when Dragon Ball Z had been airing worldwide. If you take a deep look at the popularity of Dragon Ball Z franchise and its episodes, then you find that the popularity meter of the series is higher than that of the movies based on it. The movies, which appeared after the finale of Dragon Ball Z, became a part of the inspiration for future movies. Those, who still watch Dragon Ball Z episodes, know that movies have been derived out of the special episodes of the series.
'Bio-Broly', 'Wrath of the Dragon' and 'The Path to Power' are a few movies, which grabbed the attention of viewers from all over the world. If you missed the special episodes of the series, then watch Dragon Ball Z online and explore the world of its exclusive movies. 'The Path To Power' is one of the movies, which was produced to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Dragon Ball franchise. It was the thirteenth longest film of Dragon Ball Z franchise.
There are various movies which have appeared and disappeared with the course of time, but the glory of the Dragon Ball Z episodes remains high.
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Science superstar at South Eugene HS shoots for $100K
EUGENE, Ore. -- A senior at South Eugene High School has just made it to the final round of the Intel Science Talent Search 2013, the oldest and one of the most prestigious pre-college science competitions in the nation.
Hannah Kerner Larson is one of only 40 students in the entire country to make it to the finals of the talent search, which carries a $100,000 grand prize for first place.
"I was just really amazed when I got that call that was like, 'Hi Hannah, you're an Intel finalist', and I was like oh my god," Larson said, scrawling notes inside the chemistry lab at South Eugene High. "This is a project about fusion categories, which are fundamental mathematical objects."
Larson, who takes math classes at the University of Oregon, said her project could help lay the foundation work for super computers of the future.
"This is still very theoretical, but if you develop a quantum computer, you'll be able to do computations exponentially faster," said Larson.
When she isn't busy solving complicated math proofs, Larson said she enjoys playing the piano as well as her favorite instrument the cello.
"I actually really love this cello," said Larson as she held the large stringed instrument. "The tone, and it just really makes me want to play it."
"I'm thinking about intonation very mathematically, but once I start playing, it becomes just beautiful," said Larson as she began to play. "In math, you really have to get into a problem and be committed to it, and it's the same in music."
In spite of her love of the cello, she might not be able to bring it with her to the finals competition. The Intel Science Talent Search 2013 finals will be held in Washington D.C. in March.
"I'm just excited to meet the other finalist," said Larson.
Intel will be handing out $630,000 in total scholarship money to the finalists.
After the competition, Larson said she is hoping to get the project she entered in the competition, titled "Classification of Fusion Categories of Ring Four" - which is published in a science journal.
Larson told KVAL News that after college she plans to teach at a university and start her own string quartet for scientists and mathematicians.


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