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That demand for those courses, for which students receive no college credit but must take to qualify for enrollment in college-level classes, cost New Mexico about $22 million in 2013. The LFC report said 51 percent of the state's high school graduates needed the remedial classes, which represented about 45 percent of all coursework taken by first-time freshmen in New Mexico colleges. The LFC compiled remediation data at 24 state colleges and universities.
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Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell, a member of the House Education Committee, said the state must address education at the elementary level and make sure students are mastering reading, writing and math. "This is why we're having the problems that we are," she said.
Martinez spokesman Enrique Knell said resources used to pay for remedial coursework in colleges is better spent "in an accountable way to help our kids on the front end of their school life."
Senate Education Committee Chairman John Sapien, D-Corrales, said the state must do a better job of holding schools accountable for the number of students they graduate who require remedial classes in college.
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Ex Whitesnake & Black Sabbath bassist Neil Murray talks to LRI about his band SNAKECHARMER and more!
Neil Murray has a resume that most bass players could only dream of achieving over the course of their lifetime but the Scottish-born bassist gives off the impression he is just getting warmed up. From the late 70s to the worldwide smash 1987 album Neil was a cornerstone of the legendary British rock band Whitesnake. That's right…he played on BOTH versions of "Here I Go Again". In fact, the only person on more Whitesnake albums than Neil is David Coverdale himself. Despite having massive success across the pond and worldwide with the Snake, Neil found himself out of the band and into other projects including Japanese hard rockers Vow Wow and later, the mighty Black Sabbath joining during the Headless Cross era and later recording "TYR" and "Forbidden". He's played with Brian May for many years among countless others over the years and has now been foucused on his classic rock band Snakecharmer who have just released a great new album on Frontiers (including a sweet double lp vinyl edition). The band has ample excuse for their classic sound as it features both Neil and Mick Moody of Whitesnake as well as Laurie Wisefield (Wishbone Axe) keyboardist Adam Wakeman ( current Black Sabbath) drummer Harry James ( ex Thunder) and an absolutely amazing bluesy singer named Chris Ousey. I recently talked to Neil about his storied career as well as his new album, read on…
Legendary Rock Interviews: Thanks for talking with us Neil. You have had a very nice career playing with many artists but are most associated of course as the longest running member of Whitesnake other than David Coverdale. When you first joined the band in 1978 did it strike you then that it might be a band or the material could end up being pretty successful?
Neil: It certainly was going to be a proper band; David had done two solo albums collaborating with Micky Moody and then in 1977 they had linked up with Bernie Marsden and found a rhythm section in myself and Dave Dowle, and although initially promoters sometimes billed us as the David Coverdale Band, David definitely wanted it to be a band, not just a backing group. We started off in a very small way doing clubs and colleges but it was always a very down-to-earth, democratic situation and lots of fun to be part of. Personally, I had never seen anybody put so much into their vocals and have such a charismatic personality, even in rehearsals, and it was a new experience for me to play with such a strong front man. Of course David was the leader of the band and had a certain amount of fame from being with Deep Purple but even so the industry wasn't very interested, and we really had to work our way up from the bottom. Song-wise, for me it took a couple of albums for us to find our real direction and some of the early numbers are quite fusion influenced or quite poppy. Certainly by the time Ready An' Willing we had a very identifiable Whitesnake sound and we were playing big theatre tours in Britain and Europe and in Japan.
LRI: Your new band Snakecharmer features some amazing players and a phenomenal singer in Chris. How did you wind up at this particular lineup?
Neil: Myself and Micky Moody had worked together in a couple of bands where we generally played classic Whitesnake songs from the late '70s/early '80s period, and after a bit of a break from that we got back together to do a similar band and recruited nearly all the other members of Snakecharmer very quickly. I had often discussed working together with drummer Harry James, and I've played for the last 11 years with Laurie Wisefield in the Queen musical We Will Rock You in London, and I know his style very well, so I thought he would be a very good fit with Micky as the second guitar player and that's definitely proved to be the case. Chris Ousey was recommended to us by a couple of people and we were lucky to find one of the very few unknown singers who are really at the top of their game, as that's very rare to find in the UK these days. Adam Wakeman came in a little bit later after we'd signed with our management, and he's been a great addition to the band though he is very much in demand as he works with Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath and many others.
LRI: The album has a very warm, 70s vibe to it but excellent modern production values. The first thing that struck me was Chris's voice on a track like "Cover Me In You" and these almost classic Queen-sounding guitars. I know you spent some years in Brian May's band but are there a number of other influences that helped to shape the direction of this new material from Snakecharmer?
Neil: For me the influences extend quite a lot further than my time with Brian May, though in a sense Brian was influenced by many of the same people as myself, Micky and Laurie. You have to remember that both Micky alongside Bernie Marsden in Whitesnake and Laurie alongside Andy Powell in Wishbone Ash are both masters of harmony guitar lines, though in a different way from Brian's work with Queen or for example Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson in Thin Lizzy. But our influences are quite wide-ranging; I think it's just that going right back, most of us are the product of the blues-rock era of the '60s leading into the more melodic rock of the '70s and '80s, and it's a combination of everybody's different tastes in music and the individual style that they have on that particular instrument.
LRI: As good as some of those classic Whitesnake albums were, the band was almost more magical live to many people. Do you think any one of those nine albums you recorded came closer to capturing that live ambiance or feel, do you prefer say "Lovehunter" to "Slide it In"?
I guess certain none of the studio albums were as exciting as the band live, but if you take various tracks from each album there's quite a lot of excitement there. For me Lovehunter isn't quite as good as it could have been, mostly because this was just before Ian Paice joined the band, and he really added the missing piece to the jigsaw in terms of his power and feel, which took the band to an new level. I wasn't a member of Whitesnake when they recorded Slide It In; I rejoined after it had been finished but I got to redo all the bass for the American remix but I stuck pretty closely to what was already recorded by Colin Hodgkinson. For me Saints An' Sinners had some good songs, but to some extent the songs were becoming a little bit predictable and that style had kind of run its course, so maybe it was time for a few changes to be made. Slide it In was more of a transitional album, with more melodic rock in the compositions of Mel Galley, rather than Bernie and Mickey's more bluesy influences, but really I think it was the 1987 album which represented Whitesnake in totally new direction that David had decided to take the band in, with a lot of influence from Geffen Records and Whitesnake's US management.
LRI: A nice album deserves a nice tour so Snakecharmer should be well in demand live. Do you have any ideas as to what fans might expect from this band live or any ideas what material might make the live set?
Neil: We are just about to start rehearsing for the next series of gigs, so we will have to try out most of the songs from the album to see which ones we think will work best live. We have already played Accident Prone and a couple of others from the album live in the last few months and they have gone down very well. The band will still be playing a number of classic Whitesnake songs and we just have to find the right balance between the old songs and the new songs, but I think that the combination will work very well together.
LRI: You were a part of Black Sabbath during the Headless Cross tour and also during the TYR and Forbidden eras. TYR was viewed as a fairly different, almost experimental album back then but in recent years a lot of people have rediscovered it. Was that band fairly comfortable for you during those years, did you enjoy the creative process?
Neil: I definitely enjoyed being a member of Black Sabbath during 1989/90 and then again during '94/'95, though it was generally the case that a lot of Black Sabbath fans only want to hear the original lineup of Ozzy, Geezer, Bill and Tony. On Headless Cross there was perhaps an overemphasis on songs about the devil, so it was a fairly conscious choice to try and steer away from that on the TYR album, but musically I think it was a very strong record. It's just a pity that while I was in the band we didn't have a record company that could promote Sabbath as well as it might have done, so a lot of people didn't get to hear TYR or Forbidden. We were trying to do something a bit more current when we recorded Forbidden using Ice-T's guitar player Ernie C from the band Body Count as producer, but it wasn't a very satisfying album to make and we weren't very happy with how it sounded when it was mixed. However the songs sounded very strong when we played them live. On both the albums that I was on, the songs were mostly written starting with riffs from Tony Iommi, who has an enormous store of guitar progressions and riffs, then we would jam on those sequences, and Tony Martin would take demos away to write melodies and lyrics over the top which often he would manage to do very quickly. For me, to have a rough basic idea, and then for the band to put their own individual stamp on it by trying out different possibilities, is the best way of making a song sound like the product of a band rather than just one person, and although we did some of that with Snakecharmer, we perhaps need to do a bit more jamming in future.
LRI: You were involved in some extensive worldwide touring over the years in several bands and have had success in many countries. What parts of the world do you most enjoy visiting and what memories do you have of touring the far east?
Neil: Certainly Whitesnake had a great deal of success in Japan, and I went there many times in the late 70s into the mid-80s with them, and also played there with Gary Moore, Brian May and Michael Schenker, plus of course I was a member of Japanese band Vow Wow in the late '80s, so I spent quite a few months there during 1987 and 1988. It's only with Black Sabbath that I did any touring in other parts of the Far East, such as Korea and Singapore. I was very lucky to get the chance to play in Japan so often, as the fans there seem to be very knowledgeable, and they really listen to what you're doing. In the early years with Whitesnake when we went to Japan, we were treated rather like pop idols with hundreds of girls following us from city to city and besieging the hotels, which was a very new and different experience for us. I always enjoy touring new territories so I hope to play in the Far East again, hopefully with Snakecharmer.
LRI: You have worked with some amazing keyboardists in guys like Jon Lord and Don Airey and Snakecharmer features Adam Wakeman! The keys on this album are used far more tastefully than many of the styles and sounds of the 1980s that tended to dominate the mix. How complicated was it to get the right balance of instrumentation on these tracks?
Neil: I guess that Adam basically played what suited the songs, although we would give him some suggestions if required. We are definitely not an '80s synth band, and Hammond organ is exactly the right instrument for our kind of band. In twin guitar bands, it's always difficult for keyboards to make a big impression but we tried to leave some room for Adam to play some interesting parts. Although he tours with some very heavy bands, he is also well known for playing progressive rock, and it's great to have a lot of different musical influences that we can add to the mix.
LRI: A song like "A Little Rock and Roll" has an almost epic feel to it and "Turn Of The Screw" is just really catchy hard rock. Do you think the band and Chris managed to capture a pretty wide variety of moods and styles while staying within the format that people would expect from a band like Snakecharmer?
Neil: Yes, is the short answer! There were a few ideas which didn't stir the imagination of some of the guys so we didn't take them any further, but there is no master plan of what we should sound like, it's just what we collectively enjoy playing and listening to. We know that people perhaps expect a particular style of music from us but there is no deliberate attempt to try and sound like Whitesnake, it's just the way things end up because of how we play naturally. Myself and Micky are only one third of the band so the other guys have a lot of input into how the music sounds. It's also very early days for us in terms of the amount of gigs we've played and the fact that it's our first album, so we'll see you what the direction of the band becomes in a year's time when we have had the fans' reaction to our live set.
LRI: At this stage in your career you have a pretty good idea of what your individual bass sound should be onstage and in the studio. Do you sometimes find yourself still tinkering with it or modifying your preferences at all?
Neil: I try to find a bass sound which suits the style of music that I'm playing at a particular time, and I have many different instruments, partly because they all sound slightly different. Some are more suitable for Snakecharmer or heavy metal sessions rather than for playing Queen songs, for example. On the Snakecharmer album I ended up re-recording the bass using a Modulus Graphite Quantum 4 bass, but I also play a Dingwall Afterburner and a couple of different Yamaha basses. I'm always looking for a better bass sound while still having an instrument that's enjoyable to play, so I tend to change pickups and electronics – it's unusual for me to leave a bass completely stock.
LRI: Last Question Neil…thanks again. You have been asked a million times what musical advice you could give an aspiring player….I would like to know… what business advice might you offer those same kids?
Neil: My advice is to be business minded, but of course a lot of creative musicians don't find that doing that comes naturally to them. I think it's impossible to avoid being ripped off completely but if you educate yourself about the business side of the music industry it'll help you to know what the dangers are, and what the realistic expectations are as regards making a decent living. My advice is usually to be a singer and songwriter because those are the most likely ways of making money rather than just being a bass player, but of course there is always room for someone who is excellent at their particular instrument but at the same time it's essential that you're someone that people want to work with because of your personality. It's also the case that if you write the songs and you have a strong personality then you often get to control the music or the band that you're in, rather than just being a hired hand. It might be that the hired hand has the longer career, whereas a very individual player might either become hugely successful and unique or disappear completely. There aren't really any rules, but my advice is to enjoy what you do, because there are so many horrible jobs that you might be doing instead!
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Getting older can be a drag.
I've never been as old as I am now, and the changes that have crept up on me are mostly hideous. A friend of mine was mortified when her glasses steamed up during a business meeting. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever heard until mine did the same thing. What a ridiculous thing to happen to a dignified professional. What WAS God thinking?
Another friend of mine thought she was pregnant, another thought she was possessed by the devil, and another GOT pregnant and that wasn't funny.
Somehow, after women have paid all the dues -- they've raised squawky babies; they've car-pooled, traveled, studied, gone back to school, gotten promoted, attended endless band concerts, cleaned, prepared enough food to feed the Russian army, heard every excuse known to God or man, been sexy one minute and earth mother the next; served on committees, worked their tails off, lost sleep, done homework and entertained legions of people -- then comes the big payoff.
The body we've nursed through the middle years backfires and we get hot flashes, redness, sweating, anxiety, irritability, mood swings, depression, dry skin, hair loss, facial hair, incontinence, weight gain, insomnia, heart palpitations, fatigue and memory lapses. The really lucky among us add osteoporosis and heart disease.
Now, some women may find this prospect depressing. Others, unknown to me, approach it with grace.
I can remember, albeit dimly, a time when I was awash in hormones when I was a tender young fig, and those were certainly not my finest or most dignified moments. It's just that grace, dignity, middle age and sophistication have so few mad, impetuous moments. And the clothes aren't as cute, either.
The Middle-Age Menopausal Monster is cruel and unusual punishment for the hand that rocks the cradle -- and may soon run the Senate.
The women of our great nation should at least be given the same concern as refugees on the high seas fleeing repression. The repressed, at least, have organizations fighting for their cause. Women are generally told to simply lie down awhile and shut up. ''Put a bag on it'' is the technical term.
The answer, I believe is to begin to have fun with our stage of life and enjoy the many delights of menopause. For example, a good minor depression may be OK except it becomes boring because there is nothing to do. And it's only really fun to be tragic with an audience.
With a linen hankie to dab our eyes, hopefully we will be deluged with people telling us how much they love us. If no one does, or if those that do get bored and wander off to watch TV, we can always grab a good nap.
Night sweats can also be fun. When we bolt awake with dampness pouring off our bodies, we can claim the roof leaks over the bed. And changing sheets in the middle of the night is always memorable and highly amusing to all members of the family.
Which brings us to coughing and learning up close and personal the true meaning of the word incontinence. Especially when you have a coughing fit in church. The big decision then is whether to make a run for it out through the vesting area or sit tight and pray til dark.
Insomnia is another pleasant interlude. That gives us a chance to organize our photographs and recipes we've been collecting all our lives, but have managed so far to live with in boxes.
Some people really enjoy hot flashes. It's the closet thing to passion they've experienced in some time.
The good news, however, is that hormone therapy can help cure osteoporosis before we get widow's humps or broken hips. (Did I forget to mention those little joys?) Hormone therapy is good news, that is, if you like puffing up like a toad, growing a mustache and getting liver spots.
Of all the delights of menopause and hormone therapy, however, my favorite is getting fat. Fat, I found, rates in popularity right up there with rattle snakes. It's such an upper to buy clothes at a store catering ''to the larger woman'' and trying to not care if your arms flap. Matronly just doesn't have a sensual, mysterious sound to it.
People who tell me, ''Oh, you don't look a THING like your picture!'' cheer me up, though. Maybe it's just the facial hair and mustache that fools them.
Another thing that unnerves me is that, as I ''age gracefully,'' and nature is sabotaging all womankind, the men our age are out chasing our granddaughters. A 50-year-old male once told me that his future mother-in-law hadn't been born yet. Some ego!
My children accuse me of suffering from ''some-timers'' disease. Sometimes I remember, and sometimes I don't. But I'm grateful for my brain damage. There are many things I'd just as soon not remember, anyhow, like my first husband, Old Watzisname, for instance. Besides, the older I get, the better I was.
And as for memory lapses, I'm reminded of a story I heard about an old married couple who decided they needed to write everything down to remember. When the wife asked for a bowl of ice cream with chocolate sauce, however, her husband refused to write it down because he was certain he could remember something that simple.
He returned a few minutes later and handed her a plate of bacon and eggs. His exasperated wife sighed, ''I just KNEW you'd forget the toast!''
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LOS ANGELES - Singer Britney Spears gave birth to her secondchild, a boy, early Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to Us Weeklyand the National Enquirer.
The birth occurred by Caesarean section around 2 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Us Weekly reported. The baby boy weighed in at 6 pounds, 11 ounces.
Spears' publicist, Leslie Sloan, could not immediately confirm the report.
The singer's father, however, confirmed the birth to Access Hollywood, saying, "Everything is great."
The child is the second for Spears, 24, and husband Kevin Federline. Their first son, Sean Preston, will turn a year old on Thursday. Federline has two children with ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson.
Hospital tried to save Anna Nicole Smith's son
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Medical personnel applied CPR and other lifesaving measures to the son of Anna Nicole Smith for 22 minutes before he was pronounced dead, the head of the hospital said Tuesday.
Daniel Smith, 20, was found unresponsive Sunday morning in a chair in a hospital room where his mother was recuperating from giving birth to a baby girl three days earlier.
"Resuscitative efforts using advance life-support protocol continued for 22 minutes without response," Barry Rassin, president and CEO of Doctors Hospital in Nassau, said at a news conference.
Pennsylvania woman who rewarded son with marijuana pleads guilty to drug charges
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A woman facing drug charges admitted in court that she smoked marijuana with her 13-year-old son, often to reward him for doing his homework.
Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor drug charges Monday in Adams Country court and will be sentenced Nov. 27.
She admitted she had been smoking marijuana with her son since he was 11 and said she had also smoked with two of his friends, ages 17 and 18.
Livelsberger pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of corruption of minors, possession with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of a small amount of marijuana with intent to distribute. The plea agreement did not stipulate a sentence.
Photos dropped on Iowa mother's doorstep add cruel new twist to 1982 missing-boy case
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - More than two decades after 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while on his newspaper route and became one of the first missing children to be put on a milk carton, a potential new clue to his fate was literally dropped on his mother's doorstep.
Inside an unmarked package more than two weeks ago were two photographs that Noreen Gosch says show her son bound and gagged.
"When I saw them I could barely breathe," she said.
One black-and-white shot shows Johnny on a bed, wearing the same sweat pants he had on when he vanished, the boy's mother says. She says the other photo, this one color, shows him in a similar pose with two unidentified boys who are also bound and gagged.
Investigators with Iowa's Department of Criminal Investigation said they are analyzing the photos, trying to determine their authenticity, where they might have come from, and whether there are any fingerprints or DNA that can be lifted from them.
"They don't appear to be doctored. It's the source of the photographs that we're looking at. Are they connected to any other cases? And is it Johnny Gosch in the photos?" said John Quinn, agent in charge of the case for the DCI.
"It's a priority. Absolutely it is," Quinn said. "Were taking it very seriously. We have some promising leads in regards to information from the photographs."
The freckle-faced, gap-toothed boy was last seen before daybreak on Sept. 5, 1982. His wagon, filled with copies of the Sunday paper, was discovered near his West Des Moines home, but there have been few solid clues since then. Police have said they believe he was abducted.
Coming just a year after the highly publicized abduction of 6-year-old Adam Walsh in Florida, the disappearance of Johnny Gosch was seen as a similar watershed event. If it can happen in heartland Iowa, parents felt, it can happen anywhere.
The case contributed to what some regard as an obsessive fear ofchildren being abducted by strangers. Most kidnappings arecommitted by family members, not strangers, according to studies bythe U.S. Justice Department.
"Once every child becomes vulnerable, then it can become an obsession among all parents because it can happen to your child," said Paula S. Fass, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of "Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America." "The fear that parents now walk around with is unlike anything that we've experienced in the past."
Noreen Gosch said she believes her son was taken by child pornographers and forced into sexual slavery.
She has told authorities that her son showed up at her door in 1997 with a stranger. She said he told her he feared for his life and wouldn't give details about himself. No witnesses have corroborated her account. Johnny's father, now divorced from Gosch, has said he is not sure the visit ever occurred.
Gosch said she also believes her son's disappearance is connected with the apparent kidnapping of a Des Moines boy, Eugene Martin, who vanished two years after Johnny. Like Johnny, Eugene was on his paper route in the early morning. Authorities say they are unsure if the two cases are connected.
The National Center for Missing Children said it is examining the other boys in the photograph and trying to match them against its database of missing children.
"These kids have parents someplace," Gosch said. "I'm sure they feel the same way I did. Hopefully we can do some good and give these parents some peace."
Gosch, assistant manager at a Des Moines-area store, said she believes the pictures are real. But as for why they have surfaced now, she said: "I have no idea. I'm as shocked as anyone else."
"I kept looking at Johnny's little face in the black-and-white photographs and I kept wondering if he was sitting there thinking, `Are they going to kill me? Will they find me?"' she said. "It really is so hard. Every time I look at them I practically get sick."
On the Net:
The Johnny Gosch Foundation: http://www.johnnygosch.com
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: http://www.missingkids.com
Girls Gone Wild company pleads guilty in sex exploitation case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The company that produces the "Girls Gone Wild" tapes of young women baring their breasts and acting in other sexual situations pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges and agreed to pay fines totaling $2.1 million.
Mantra Films Inc., based in Santa Monica, Calif., made the plea in U.S. District Court in Florida on charges of failing to maintain proof of age and identification for its young performers in sexually explicit films. It also failed to label its DVDs and videotapes properly as required by federal law.
A second company owned by Mantra's founder, MRA Holdings LLC, entered into a deferred agreement on charges of improper labeling. Under that agreement with prosecutors, the charges would be dismissed after three years if MRA Holdings cooperates with future government prosecutions, admits wrongdoing and pays fines.
The two companies and their founder, Joseph Francis, will pay $2.1 million in fines and restitution, the Justice Department said.
Separate state charges in Florida alleging that two 17-year-old girls were videotaped by a "Girls Gone Wild" cameraman in sexual situations remain pending against Mantra and Francis.
"Tuesday's agreements ensure that Girls Gone Wild will comply with an important law designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of minors and puts other producers on notice that they must be in compliance as well," said Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher.
An attorney for Mantra, Aaron Dyer, said the company would clean up its record keeping.
The charges involved "serious record-keeping issues that occurred several years ago," he said. "Mantra takes these issues very seriously and has done everything it can to make sure this never occurs again."
According to court papers, Mantra Films admitted to violating record keeping and labeling laws while distributing the videos during all of 2002 and part of 2003.
Founded in 1997, Mantra released 83 different titles and sold 4.5 million videos and DVDs in 2002, according to Hoover's Inc., a business data firm in Austin, Texas.
On the Net:
Justice Department: http://www.usdoj.gov/
Japan's new prince named Hisahito, "virtuous, calm and everlasting"
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's long-awaited male heir to its Chrysanthemum throne was named Hisahito - meaning "virtuous, calm and everlasting" - in an age-old imperial rite in Tokyo on Tuesday.
The 6-day-old infant, who is third in line to the world's oldest hereditary monarchy, was given his name in an ancient ceremony at a Tokyo hospital where his mother, Princess Kiko, is recovering.
Hisahito, formed with the Chinese characters for "virtuous, calm and everlasting," was chosen with the wish that the new prince has a long, prosperous life, an even temper and peace of mind, according to palace spokeswoman Yuka Shiina.
While Kiko and her husband Akishino looked on, a court official wrote the baby's name on special rice paper with brush and ink and placed it along with his personal crest in a wooden box next to the new prince's pillow.
The crest, a stylized Japanese umbrella pine, will be used to mark Hisahito's belongings.
Keeping with custom, Hisahito's name ends with the Chinesecharacter "hito," which means virtuous person, an appellation givento male royals. The current emperor is his grandfather, Akihito,whose father was Emperor Hirohito. The baby's father, commonlyknown as Akishino, also was given the name Fumihito.
Celebrations over Hisahito's birth have been especially colorful because it has forestalled a looming crisis for the imperial family. Until his birth, Emperor Akihito's sons Akishino and Crown Prince Naruhito had three daughters between them, but no sons.
On Tuesday, billboards across Tokyo carried news flashes announcing the prince's new name. Banners congratulating Kiko on her delivery still adorn government buildings and department stores.
Still, court watchers have warned the future of Japan's imperial family is still shaky with only one male heir in its youngest generation. A 1947 law says only men can inherit the imperial crown.
An expert panel last year recommended changing that law to allow women on the throne - a proposal backed enthusiastically by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that would make the succession more stable.
But conservatives mounted a harsh attack on the plan, saying itwould end centuries of tradition. Koizumi's likely successor, theconservative chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, has said he willnot rush to take the proposal forward.
A recent poll has shown the Japanese public continue to back the idea of a female monarch, despite Hisahito's birth. Fifty-six percent of respondents to a poll published Monday by public broadcaster NHK said women should be allowed to inherit the imperial throne, while 33 percent were opposed.
NHK polled 1,674 Japanese by telephone on Sept. 8-10, receiving replies from 1,075. It gave no margin of error.
Man charged with robbing, abducting aunt of 'Dateline NBC' anchor Stone Phillips
WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) - A 49-year-old man was charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping in connection with the death of the elderly aunt of "Dateline NBC" anchor Stone Phillips.
Miguel Arciba, who had known Doris Phillips for several years, was charged Monday, three days after he led investigators to her body in an abandoned farmhouse near her home, Ellis County Sheriff's Lt. Clint Tims said.
Arciba is accused of abducting Phillips, 81, but he denied killing her and told investigators that another person told him where to find the body, Tims said. He said other arrests were possible.
Phillips was reported missing from her Reagor Springs home, about 30 miles south of Dallas, on July 26.
Arciba, who remained jailed Tuesday on $250,000 bond, was arrested Sept. 3 after he was linked to an item taken from Phillips' home, authorities said. His parents had worked for years for Phillips and her late husband, according to Tims.
Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey to tell Oprah Winfrey about declaring his homosexuality
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who had been publicly silent since announcing two years ago that he was gay and was resigning, arrived at the studios of the "Oprah Winfrey Show" Tuesday to tell his story.
Winfrey landed the exclusive interview with McGreevey because of her sense of faith and spirituality, according to friends of the former governor.
McGreevey is said to be a fan of Winfrey's education and anti-poverty work, two issues to which the former governor is devoting more time in his post-political life.
The 49-year-old Democrat drew national attention when he called a news conference in 2004 and, with his wife at his side, publicly declared "I am a gay American." The couple have since separated and McGreevey lives with his partner, Australian financial adviser Mark O'Donnell, 42.
About a dozen friends accompanied McGreevey and O'Donnell to Chicago for the taping scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Some segments of the show, including clips from the New Jersey home McGreevey shares with O'Donnell, were filmed previously.
McGreevey waved and smiled at reporters from a sport utility vehicle as he arrived at the television studio Tuesday but did not speak to the media.
The interview will air Sept. 19, the same day McGreevey's political memoir, "The Confession," goes on sale. The book traces his life through two failed marriages, his rise to the governor's office and the sudden, public implosion of his political career.
McGreevey, a Democrat, announced his homosexuality and his impending resignation in the same speech on Aug. 12, 2004, and acknowledged that he had been involved in an affair with a man.
State Sen. Ray Lesniak, who was interviewed by Winfrey's staff in preparation for the program, said they were interested in how McGreevey is now compared with how he was as governor.
"They are two different people," Lesniak said. "The first person was very guarded and very concerned about how he was perceived. He was driven to achieve and was somewhat uncomfortable.
"The McGreevey I know now has accepted who he is and has shared that with the rest of the world," he said. "He is comfortable with himself and concerned about being authentic to himself and his beliefs."


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PEOPLE OF MI V SACKDAVANH NOY PHRAXAYAVONGAnnotate this Case
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August 23, 2007
No. 270381
Shiawassee Circuit Court
LC No. 05-003008-FH
Before: Owens, P.J., and White and Murray, JJ.
After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of first-degree home invasion,
MCL 750.110a(2), and assault and battery, MCL 750.81. The trial court sentenced him to
40 months' probation, with the first 12 months to be served in jail, for the home invasion
conviction, and to 93 days in jail for the assault and battery conviction. He appeals as of right.
Plaintiff cross-appeals, challenging defendant's sentence for the home invasion conviction. We
affirm defendant's convictions but remand for resentencing.
Defendant's convictions arise from an incident that occurred on the night of July 17-18,
2005, when defendant entered the home of Tammy and Ryan Osborn and assaulted Daniel
Haljean. Defendant's girlfriend, Lisa Humphrey, had told defendant that Ryan and Haljean had
sexually assaulted her on various occasions, and defendant apparently went to the Osborn
household to confront Ryan and Haljean regarding her allegations. Seven or eight other men
also entered the home, ostensibly to provide support and assistance to defendant. Ryan and
Tammy Osborn attempted to defend Haljean, but they were unsuccessful. Defendant punched
Haljean several times. Tammy's brother, Louis Andy Zilla, and his fiancée, Carrie Miller, were
also in the home at the time and witnessed the events in question. Miller called the police, who
came to the house and arrested defendant. Haljean received cuts, bruises, and a black eye in the
fight. No other occupants of the home were injured.
I. Hearsay
Defendant argues on appeal that the trial court erred by admitting several hearsay
statements into evidence. We disagree. We review the trial court's decision to admit evidence
for an abuse of discretion. People v Katt, 468 Mich 272, 278; 662 NW2d 12 (2003). A trial
court abuses its discretion when it chooses an outcome that is outside the range of reasonable and
principled outcomes. People v Babcock, 469 Mich 247, 269; 666 NW2d 231 (2003).
Hearsay is defined as "a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying
at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted."
MRE 801(c); People v McLaughlin, 258 Mich App 635, 651; 672 NW2d 860 (2003). Hearsay is
not admissible except as provided by the rules of evidence. MRE 802; McLaughlin, supra.
First, defendant argues that Zilla's testimony regarding a verbal exchange between
defendant and Haljean constituted impermissible hearsay. Zilla testified that Haljean asked
defendant, "Do you want to talk about this," when defendant confronted him inside the Osborn
residence. However, the trial court did not admit this testimony to prove the truth of the matter
asserted (to show that Haljean wanted to talk about the matter), but to present what Zilla heard
and saw during the encounter (that when defendant confronted Haljean regarding Humphrey's
allegations, Haljean asked defendant if he wanted to talk about the allegations). Further, this
evidence, offered for a non-hearsay purpose, is relevant because it supports the prosecution's
claim that defendant assaulted Haljean and contradicts defendant's claim that Haljean was acting
in an aggressive manner and that defendant fought him in self-defense. See MRE 402.
Zilla also testified that when defendant asked Haljean about the rifle he was holding,
Haljean replied with the statement, "This is all I need." Defendant argues that this statement
constitutes impermissible hearsay. Again, however, this statement was not offered for its truth,
but rather to explain the series of events relating to the home invasion and assault charges,
including Haljean's reactions to defendant's conduct. The trial court did not err when it admitted
Zilla's testimony for this purpose.
Defendant also argues that Miller's testimony that Zilla, after opening the front door and
talking with defendant, told defendant to wait while he contacted Ryan constitutes impermissible
hearsay. Again, this statement was not offered for its truth (to indicate that defendant waited at
the door and that Zilla went to wake Ryan). Instead, this statement was offered for a non
hearsay purpose, namely, to show that he was not given permission to enter the Osborn
residence. In turn, evidence indicating that defendant was not invited in the Osborn residence is
relevant to establish an element of the home invasion charge.1 The absence of permission was
established by the fact that Zilla made the statement, independently of the factual content of the
statement. Accordingly, the trial court did not err when it admitted this statement for a non
hearsay purpose.
To establish that defendant committed first-degree home invasion, the prosecution must
establish, among other elements, that defendant entered the dwelling without permission.
MCL 750.110a(2). "'Without permission' means without having obtained permission to enter
from the owner or lessee of the dwelling or from any other person lawfully in possession or
control of the dwelling." MCL 750.110a(1)(c).
Further, defendant challenges the admissibility of a statement made by Tammy Osborn at
trial. Tammy testified that on the night of the home invasion, Humphrey made the following
comments to her: "[Defendant] was very angry at [Haljean] and [Ryan], that she had been trying
for months to stop him from responding to his anger, and that he was on his way to [the Osborn
residence] to take care of business." However, the trial court admitted this testimony for a
proper non-hearsay purpose, namely, to explain the subsequent conduct of the residents of the
Osborns' house. Accordingly, the admission of this testimony was not erroneous.
Finally, defendant claims that the trial court erroneously permitted Shawn Hanycz, an
officer with the City of Perry Police Department who responded to the scene, to testify that
Humphrey denied that either Ryan or Haljean raped her when he asked her about these
allegations. However, the trial court did not admit this statement to prove or disprove that Ryan
or Haljean sexually assaulted Humphrey. Instead, the trial court properly admitted this
testimony for a non-hearsay purpose, namely, to explain why Hanycz neither questioned Ryan
and Haljean regarding Humphrey's allegations nor otherwise investigated her claims. Further,
Hanycz's testimony is relevant to refute Humphrey's testimony that Ryan and Haljean sexually
assaulted her.
II. Prosecutorial Misconduct
Defendant argues that the prosecutor committed misconduct by referring to the foregoing
testimony in his closing and rebuttal arguments. We disagree. Because defendant did not
challenge the prosecutor's remarks at trial, our review of this issue is limited to plain error
affecting defendant's substantial rights. McLaughlin, supra at 645. Because the testimony was
properly admitted, the prosecutor's reference to the testimony was not plain error.
On cross appeal, the prosecutor argues that the trial court erred when it scored zero points
for offense variable (OV) 9 of the sentencing guidelines. We agree. "This Court reviews a
sentencing court's scoring decision to determine whether the trial court properly exercised its
discretion and whether the record evidence adequately supports a particular score." McLaughlin,
supra at 671. A trial court's scoring decision will be upheld if there is any evidence in the record
to support it. People v Hornsby, 251 Mich App 462, 468; 650 NW2d 700 (2002).
MCL 777.39(1) provides that ten points should be scored for OV 9 if there were two to
nine victims, and zero points should be scored if there were fewer than two victims. The
sentencing court must count "each person who was placed in danger of injury or loss of life as a
victim." MCL 777.39(2)(a); People v Morson, 471 Mich 248, 262; 685 NW2d 203 (2004).
The trial court determined that only Haljean was a victim for purposes of scoring OV 9
because the evidence showed that defendant only targeted him and did not exhibit assaultive
conduct toward any other person in the home. Although there is support in the record for the
trial court's factual finding that only Haljean was targeted and that defendant did not intend to
harm anyone else, the proper inquiry under OV 9 is whether other persons were placed in danger
of injury during the incident. The trial court erred by failing to consider the evidence in this
According to the evidence presented at trial, defendant, aided by seven or eight other
persons, invaded the Osborns' home to assault Haljean. The evidence showed that Ryan and
Tammy Osborn tried to make the intruders leave their home, that Ryan Osborn tried to pull
defendant off Haljean, and that Tammy Osborn tried to block the door to Haljean's room. When
it addressed the scoring of OV 9, the trial court specifically found that other persons were present
in the house when defendant and his compatriots invaded it, and that Tammy and Ryan were in
proximity to defendant when he was attacking Haljean. Properly applied, these findings
establish that Haljean and at least two others were placed in danger of injury. Accordingly, there
were at least three victims for purposes of scoring OV 9. Therefore, the trial court should have
scored ten points for this offense variable. Because the scoring error affects defendant's
sentencing guidelines range, we vacate defendant's home invasion sentence and remand for
resentencing. People v Fransisco, 474 Mich 82, 91-92; 711 NW2d 44 (2006).
Defendant's convictions are affirmed and the case is remanded for resentencing. We do
not retain jurisdiction.
/s/ Donald S. Owens
/s/ Christopher M. Murray


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December 19th, 2010 (12:30 PM). Edited December 7th, 2016 by Diegoisawesome.
Oh god the bees
Silver Tier
Join Date:
Dec 2007
As a ROM hacker, I've had to go and "customize" my ROM quite often to get it to do what I want. As a result, I've found many useful tidbits of information, and I've decided to compile them all into one useful thread. Some of these come from other people; if I forgot to credit you, please tell me!
Tile Molester Alternate "Fix"
Yeah, we've all come across this one. Tile Molester Alternate, the edited version of Tile Molester that can open Windows Palettes, cannot open a ROM more than once.
The reason is because when Tile Molester opens a ROM, it saves some settings, such as saved palettes, to an external file. This external file uses a Document Type Definition file called tmres.dtd. It saves properly; however, upon opening it, it needs the file and cannot find it in the folder, so it simply doesn't open the ROM right. This is simply because the Tile Molester hacker forgot to include that file in the download.
To fix this, open a Tile Molester download (non-Alternate), navigate to the 'resources' folder, and copy and paste the tmres.dtd from that folder into your Tile Molester Alternate's 'resources' folder.
Ta-da! Fixed.
Font Editing in FR/LG/E
The reason that practically no FireRed/LeafGreen/Emerald hack has custom font is because practically nobody has found it. When you do have it, it's simple enough to edit:
Fire Red
Open your preferred version of Tile Molester and navigate to 0x1F3100. It doesn't look like anything, am I right? Well, go to View>Codec and select 2BPP Linear, reverse-order. There's one copy of your font... but mirrored. At the moment, you'll just have to flip it when you edit it, I can't find another way to do so.
Each color font uses a different copy of the font image... Strange, huh? The other images are at 0x1FF300 for black, 0x20F618 for blue, and 0x21F930 for red.
They also have separate font width tables. These are what determine how wide each letter in pixels is. The tables are at 0x1FB100 for other, 0x207300 for black, 0x217618 for blue, and 0x227930 for red.
Editing the font for Emerald is much easier because it only has two font images and two font width tables. The images are at 0x6440E4 and 0x64C2E4, and the tables are at 0x64C0E4 and 0x6542E4, respectively.
Disabling the Gender-chosen Flight Positions for Littleroot Town (Emerald)
This one is easy. There's a check in the flying routine that checks if you're flying to Littleroot. If yes, it then goes to check your gender and assigns the appropriate flight spot.
To disable the check for Littleroot Town and make it act like a normal flight place, open Emerald in a hex editor, go to 0x124E62, and replace "00 28 0E D0" with "00 00 00 00".
Hacking the "Wally Catches a Pokémon" Event (Emerald)
There are four specials in that event you should be aware of: special 0x28, special 0x12F, special 0xA0, and special 0x29. special 0x28 saves your first Pokémon into memory for retrieval later, special 0x12F overwrites your first Pokémon with a specified Pokémon, special 0xA0 is the actual battle, and special 0x29 overwrites your first Pokémon with the one saved in memory. Used in that order, and without any modifications to their ASM, you'll have a generic Wally catching tutorial.
To hack it, it depends on what you want to change.
Hacking the Pokémon
Get the hex ID of your Pokémon.
If the number is 0x100 or over
, then instead of overwriting the first two bytes with your Pokémon's ID, replace them with "FF 21". Then, subtract 0xFF from your Pokémon ID and follow the next instructions.
Given Pokémon
In a hex editor, navigate to 0x139472. Replace the byte there with your Pokémon ID, unless it's over 0x100, in which case you would put 0xFF there instead. Then skip over the next byte (should be 21) and replace the bytes there with "XX 31", where XX is 00 (unless your Pokémon's ID is over 100, in which case subtract 0xFF from it and put it there).
Battling Pokémon
Do the same as above, except with 0xB0870 for your address.
Hacking the Pokémon's Levels
Get the hex value for what you want the levels to be.
Levels cannot exceed 255 (0xFF).
Given Pokémon
In a hex editor, navigate to 0x139482. Replace the byte there with the hex version of what you want your Pokémon's level to be.
Battling Pokémon
Do the same as above, except with 0xB0874 for your address.
Hacking the Starting Position (FireRed)
0x54A04 is the starting map. 0x54A06 is the starting map's bank.
0x54A08 is the starting X position. 0x54A00 is the starting Y position.
Have fun.
Changing the Time FireRed Stays on the Title Screen
This one was discovered by colcolstyles; kudos to him!
The 32-bit value at 0x78C1C controls how many frames the game goes through before it resets itself.
There are 59.737 frames in one second. Determine how long you want the title screen to stay before resetting using that formula.
(Thanks to knizz for telling me!)
Removing the Flashback System
I'm sure many of you have had weird things happen with the flashback system in FireRed. For instance, with JPAN's overworld system hack, you would get the original sprite; another example would be when it would say strange things when you left a gym. Well, I have found a way to make it act as if you never did any flashback-worthy events.
To patch, navigate to address 0x110F54 and replace "00 28 0F D0" with "00 1C 0F E0".
All this does is disable the check for flashback-worthy events, and simply loads the save like R/S/E.
"Porting" the Normal Bicycle from FRLG to Emerald
To make the Mach Bike have the Acro Bike's speed but not its special moves (essentially turning it into FRLG's bike),
navigate to 0x1191C8 and replace 4C with 68.
If you want to make the bike have the bike bell sound when getting on, then
navigate to 0xFD35E and
the bytes there with "06 20 8E F7 AE FC 00 06 00 28 06 D1 0B 20 A6 F7 1A FA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 20".
Not as stupidly simple as the first part, but still easy enough to do.
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by Staff Writers
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Oct 28, 2015
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a team, led by Lockheed Martin, a contract to develop, build and test the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR). The radar system will support a layered ballistic missile defense strategy to protect the U.S. homeland from ballistic missile attacks.
The nine-year contract, with options, will have the potential contract value of approximately $784 million. Work on the contract will be primarily performed in New Jersey, Alaska, Alabama, Florida, and New York.
LRDR is a high-powered S-Band radar incorporating solid-state gallium nitride (GaN) components and will be capable of discriminating threats at extreme distances. LRDR is a key component of the MDA's Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) that will provide acquisition, tracking, and discrimination data to enable separate defense systems to lock on and engage ballistic missile threats, a capability that stems from Lockheed Martin's decades of experience in creating ballistic missile defense systems for the U.S. and allied governments.
"The U.S. has a limited number of ground-based interceptors to detect threats, yet the number of potential missile threats - and countermeasures used to hide those threats - is growing," said Carl Bannar, vice president of Lockheed Martin's Integrated Warfare Systems and Sensors business.
"Our offering meets the MDA's vision for LRDR by pairing innovative radar discrimination capability with proven ballistic missile defense algorithms."
This MDA selection builds upon the U.S. government's long-term investment in S-Band radar, ground-based radar, and systems integration, as evident in such Lockheed Martin technologies as the Aegis Combat System, Space Fence, and Aegis Ashore. Since 2012, Lockheed Martin has offered solid state ground-based S-Band radar utilizing an Open GaN Foundry model that leverages relationships with strategic suppliers.
"Our mature, scalable, GaN-based S-Band technology was ideally suited for this high performance ballistic missile defense application," Bannar said. "LRDR represents the latest evolution in ground-based radar and ballistic missile defense."
When constructed, LRDR will consist of a solid-state, active electronically-scanned antenna, and the facility to house and operate this radar antenna. Lockheed Martin's proposed LRDR system will be built on an aggressive timeline ready for operational testing in Clear Air Force Station, Alaska by 2020.
Lockheed Martin has developed a team of corporate partners to meet the challenges of the LRDR program, including deciBel research (Huntsville, AL), Amec Foster Wheeler (Alpharetta, GA), ASRC Federal (Barrow, AK), IERUS Technologies (Huntsville, AL), PENTA Research (Huntsville, AL), and Davidson Technologies (Huntsville, AL).
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Here's the site in question; http://18.104.22.168/~laurierh/version-eunoia/
My client would like to hide the dropdown main menu display when viewed on a MOBILE PHONE (not the tablet version)….in the process, moving the slideshow up on the screen, closer to her logo. (BTW, she would rather rely on the navigation afforded by the footer.)
Is this easily achieved with a custom CSS setting?
I'd just remove the mobile menu js function – open up eunoia/js/avia.js and delete following code:
jQuery('.responsive .main_menu ul:eq(0)').mobileMenu({
switchWidth: 768, //width (in px to switch at)
topOptionText: jQuery('.main_menu').data('selectname'), //first option text
indentString: ' ' //string for indenting nested items
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