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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - A local man is still in the hospital after being shot four times in the back, and now for the first time, he's speaking to Local 2 from his hospital bed about the shooting that nearly killed him.
That man is recovering in the hospital after being shot four times outside of this home. His family and community activists held a press conference pleading for an arrest.
"I did not have any weapon, and my friend did not have any weapon and I did not go to the man's house with intentions of hurting him," said Edwin Reynoso-Acevedo.
Reynoso-Acevedo, 22, speaks from his hospital bed about the night he was shot four times in the back. According to deputies, at around 7:30 Tuesday night Acevedo and his friend got into a fight with Shannon Pool at his home on Fox Star Lane and Foxwood Garden. Pool told them to leave, and they did, but they soon returned, refusing to leave.
That's when deputies say Pool grabbed a gun from his car and shot Acevedo four times in the back.
"This young man did not deserve to be shot down like a dog in the streets," said community activist Quanell X.
Witnesses say Acevedo had his hands in the air when the shots rang out. His father says he wasn't doing anything wrong.
"Like any other father, we are sad that this happened and this man is out on the streets, all we want is justice," said his father, Manuel Velez.
Quanell X is hoping the FBI will get involved and investigate this case as a hate crime.
"For this man to be walking around when investigators came to the scene with Nazi swastika tattoos on his chest, shoot an unharmed Hispanic man in the back four times," said Quanell X.
We asked Pool for an interview, but he declined.
"This should not be accepted, or tolerated, and DA Devon Anderson should be ashamed of herself that she has not done more to lock this man up, he is a menace to society," Quanell X said.
No arrests have been made in this case.
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text: Culture 28 August 2000 Clean mac brigade Holistic Revolution Edited by William Bloom Allen Lane, 416pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994215 Sign up for our weekly email * When people stop believing in God, to paraphrase G K Chesterton, they do not believe in nothing - they are happy to believe in anything. He was writing at a time when religious faith was trembling at the knees; since then, it has nosedived. Quite what Chesterton would say if he wandered into a modern bookshop is anyone's guess. Astrology, meditation, tantric sex, feng shui, UFOs, reincarnation, crystals, auras, runes, witchcraft, healing, prophecy, shamans, Gaia - the barrage of recipes for mending our broken world and healing our bruised spirits would probably make him want to stick his head in the oven. Indeed, it has become commonplace to observe that the only healthy organ in the book trade is the Mind, Body and Spirit section. The New Age has emphatically dawned, and it winks at us from the shelves with self-adoring titles that give even semi-rational passers-by the creeps. The Infinite Mind. Discover Your Destiny. Seven Steps to Eternity. The Sacred Balance. The Art of Everyday Ecstasy. Dancing in the Flames. Ladder to the Moon. The Wings of Joy. Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul. They feel at once grandiose, churned-out and interchangeable, like paint colours - and just as open to scornful parody. "From Self-esteem to Shelf-esteem," I muttered, as I browsed among these mushy waterfalls and serpents, moons and stars. The Power of Selfish Steam. Snake Oil for the Troubled Heart. Please Leave a Massage After the Tone. In fact, there is something rather moving about all this cosmic soul-searching. It testifies, if nothing else, to the keen and mainly unslaked thirst for happiness and wisdom that exists in the prosperous world. And it reminds us that the human desire for transcendence is pretty much inexhaustible. Even the crankiest of the new manifestoes cannot easily be contradicted by established religion: there is nothing on these shelves that is more noticeably outlandish than a belief in resurrection, water-into-wine miracles or virgin births. But the great religious myths and parables have been sanctified by grand literature. The self-help jargon that dominates the Mind, Body and Spirit section, in contrast, squats smugly in language no different from those sloganeering business manuals with titles like How to Become an Instant Millionaire and Still Watch Telly All Day. Anyone seeking a navigational aid through these sometimes mesmeric seas could hardly do better, however, than William Bloom's anthology of set texts, Holistic Revolution: the essential New Age reader. A collection of extracts from the influential mothers and fathers of their genres, it embraces new science (James Gleick, Rupert Sheldrake and Danah Zohar), psychology (Jung, Reich), the environment (Lovelock, Porritt, Ben & Jerry), health, feminism, magic and myth. For some reason, it includes a crafty dialogue about the road to enlightenment by Carlos Casteneda, which is famous for having been fabricated. But the book is a spacious and interesting attempt to establish - if this isn't a heresy by definition - something like the canon of the New Age. Fred Frohock is on somewhat thinner ice in his attempt to link science and mysticism in Lives of the Psychics. He introduces his book with a weak parable about his daughter, who dreamed, on the eve of her father's departure to Spain on a business trip, of a plane crash. Sure enough, in Spain, a plane did crash - although not the one that Frohock was on. The author wants us to find this remarkable, but children whose fathers are about to fly somewhere are quite likely to dream of plane crashes: it is a dream cliche. Nevertheless, the author sets about tracing the scientific ripples from such inexplicable phenomena. He concludes (how did you guess?) that the world is a stranger place than we might suspect, riven with cosmic energies we can barely imagine. Richard Bach became a celebrity many years ago with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a book of dreamy captions to some fuzzy pictures of gulls in flight. I dimly recall a storyline in which our hero - Jonathan Livingston, I presume - overcame his own fear of crashing into the sea. But my mind is hazy, because the book was accompanied by a Neil Diamond soundtrack in which the singer growled out a few platitudes about sleeping, dreaming, soaring and so on. Anyway, Bach has returned to the sky in his new book, Out of My Mind, which describes how his brooding about modern aircraft design led him into a dreamy encounter with a bewitching woman engineer from 1923, who lived in a parallel time and visited troubled flyers with elegant solutions to mechanical glitches. I suppose that, given the amount of disbelief we have to suspend to buy this little fable in the first place, it ought not to matter that, in 1923, women were barely allowed to vote, let alone loop the loop. But it does matter rather a lot, because, as it turns out, the book is little more than a dressed-up elegy to a vanished age before computers - a gilded world of leather straps, open hatches and splashing about in the air. Like much holistic writing, this teeny book seems built to encourage us to let go of our limited horizons and open ourselves up to transcendent new possibilities. It is ironic, then, that it amounts to little more than a nostalgic sigh for the good old days. This, it transpires, is one of the governing ironies of much New Age writing. It presents itself as a furious plea for liberation, urges us to surf over the conventions of established religion or - especially - bourgeois materialism. It wants to refresh the world through spiritual renewal. Yet, in practice, it turns out to be abidingly nostalgic for an often imaginary past. Of all the myths that buttress the New Age, none is more potent than that of the noble savage, no figure more sacred than the Ameri-can Indian who glimpsed holiness in the dazzle of sunlight on a wet leaf. The central pulse of the New Age - a holistic concern for the environment - is a serious and urgent matter. But it is done few favours by being roped into these essentially Luddite tracts, which are opposed to anything that smacks of new technology or chemistry (soulless, obviously) and sentimentally in thrall to ancient folklore (what Chesterton might have termed a load of cabbala). They are also oddly sanitised, these anthems to transformation and rebirth. They are exceptionally tidy-minded, all seven steps to this and five paths to that. The greetings-card slush that informs the titles gives the game away: this is the corner for the clean mac brigade. In Mind, Body and Spirit, even sex doesn't sound like it has anything to do with pleasure (let alone anguish). It is too busy being part of our quest for inner healing. Again, there is an old puritan urge hiding behind these pretty waterfalls and sunsets. Anyone wishing to enter the New Age had better stub out that cigarette pretty damn fast, and hide the Beaujolais under the ginseng. 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You know that Spring is right around the corner when birds singing on trees right outside your window wake you up in the morning even though your alarm tells you that you deserve another 20 minutes of beauty rest. For some reason however, I have absolutely no problem waking up when it's warm and sunny and it even leaves me with plenty of energy to get creative with my breakfast. A snapshot to illustrate what I mean by Spring (this was today around lunchtime on Campus!)
Yes, people were running around in short sleeved t-shirts and having picnics on the lawn!!!
Anyhow, when we were skiing last week, the breakfast buffet was extraordinarily good and to be honest I didn't even get round to trying everything since I was stuck at the fruit and muesli buffet. The muesli that they served was bircher muesli inspired and was loaded with nuts and dried fruit and looked like this:
I knew that I wanted to re-create it as soon as I got home since it tasted different to the Bircher Muesli we make at home. Instead of using just normal oats I actually used an organic müsli-mix that included oats, spelt, barley and amaranth and included dried fruit and nuts (apple, coconut, banana, almonds and hemp seeds) and spices.
I first laid my eyes on the müsli mix when I went shopping with my mom on Saturday but thought that it was a dumb idea to bring oats to England when I could easily buy them here. On Monday however I had to go to the grocery store again to buy lunch for the trip and on second thought the idea didn't seem so bad after all since they were perfect for this Swiss Breakfast Müsli!
I intentionally did not soak the oats overnight (as you would do with overnight oats) because I like some crunch in my müsli. If you wish to you could follow the recipe of this Bircher Müesli and soak the oats in hot water overnight and in the morning add milk and yogurt just before adding the fruit and nuts. Of course you will have to adjust the amount of milk used to your liking.
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A stunned Sam finds Amelia's file on her unsavory past and learns who Amelia really is. After an emotional visit to her baby's grave, Sam comes to a decision.
Meanwhile, Lucky and Elizabeth have an ugly fight as Lucky accuses his wife of seeing Jason as her hero, not him. Not having the strength or energy to deal with Lucky's insecurities, Elizabeth walks out and seeks solace with Jason. Lucky and Elizabeth later reconcile as they end up in a kiss.
Spinelli refuses to help Jason break out of jail, explaining it would only end up being counterproductive to the search for the Small Stone Cold One. Sam arrives to see Jason. Alexis gets more than she bargained for when she confronts Amelia about Sam's contract.
Jax walks into a trap when he goes to Chicago to track down Jerry. Carly follows Jax and ends up coming to his rescue when the bartender at the seedy dive pulls a gun on him. Jax and Carly argue over his priorities when she questions how far he would go for his brother. Jax and Carly's disagreement comes to a halt when they're confronted by two gunmen.
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We address many of the growing animal-related problems in Westbury, which include roaming/stray animals, lost/found animals, and a lack of neutering, spaying, microchipping, and pet licensing. We offer guidance on animal topics such as training, grooming, and proper veterinary care.
CARE focuses on pets in our area through five active committees that work together and work hands-on. We have a committed group of volunteers that work diligently to make all these things possible to achieve.
Through these committees and local events, we provide education and outreach within our community. We make efforts to reunite lost pets with their owners, and if we are unable to locate the owner, we work to find foster and forever homes for found pets. We also have an active trap neuter return (TNR) committee for cats in order to reduce the feral cat population in our area. Through donation drives and events, we are able to not only funs these activities, but educate and provide beneficial information to the public.
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Bradley Cooper brings out the tight, shark skin looking suit for the premiere of his new movie.
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Ray Graham and Rushel Shell stood side-by-side at Martorelli Stadium on Saturday, but all eyes were on a sophomore from Tulsa, Okla.
The talented Pitt backfield is starting to get even deeper.
Tailback Isaac Bennett put an exclamation point on his spring with another sparkling effort in the Pitt spring game. The 5-foot-11, 190-pounder carried 23 times for 121 yards, including a cutback 51-yarder. He also had a pair of 70-yard touchdown runs and a 50-yard score during the Panthers' 15 spring practices.
"Isaac worked this spring," coach Paul Chryst said. "He's young, and I think he had a chance to learn a lot and grow. The last three or four times we've gone pretty hard, he's done some things that have been good."
With all-Big East runner Graham recovering from early November ACL surgery and five-star recruit Shell on the way, Bennett is making the most of his chances.
He signed autographs for 15 minutes after the game and had a big smile during postgame interviews.
"I think (the spring) went pretty well," said Bennett, who rushed for 237 yards and two touchdowns on 58 carries last year. "Every day I had to get better. It's just a learning process."
Bennett's emergence could give Pitt the deepest backfield in the Big East depending on Graham's rehab and Shell's transition to major college for their run-first new coach.
"That will be a good problem," Chryst said, "if we have a lot of running backs."
Conway Award winners
A pair of fifth-year seniors, center Ryan Turnley and defensive end Shayne Hale, won the Ed Conway Award, given each spring to the most improved player on offense and defense.
"Anytime you give an award like that, there are a lot of guys that were worthy of it," Chryst said. "Yet those two, no one was more worthy."
Turnley, who started all 13 games last year, is being asked to lead a young offensive line. This is the last shot for Hale, who played three games in the past two years after arriving at Pitt as a consensus top-50 prospect. The 6-4, 255-pound Gateway product said he has embraced the defensive end position.
"My head was always at linebacker," Hale said. "(Even) at defensive end, I was thinking I was a linebacker. Now I've bought in full-out at defensive line."
Chryst benches Hollins
Junior starting left tackle Juantez Hollins didn't participate in the spring game for "disciplinary reasons," Chryst said. Fifth-year senior Justin Virbitsky and junior Zenel Demhasaj took the first-team snaps.
"There's no injury," Chryst said. "We just had a situation we wanted to address."
Chambersburg tackle commits
Chambersburg Area High School offensive tackle Aaron Reese verbally committed to the Panthers last night.
The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Reese is the second member of the Class of 2013 to commit to the Panthers, joining Seton-La Salle tight end Scott Orndoff.


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A fun day is being held tomorrow to raise money for disabled children.
Entertainment including bouncy castles, go karts, face painting and sports tournaments will be set up at Upper Clapton Rugby Club between 11am and 4pm.
The newly formed women's netball team will go head to head with a men's rugby team in a netball match to finish off the day.
Celebrity guests attending the event will include former The Only Way is Essex star Amy Childs.
Entry is free for all and all funds raised will go to HemiHelp charity for children with Hemiplegia.
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Carbon dioxide emissions from companies in the European Union's carbon market rose 3.2 percent in 2010 as the economy recovered, in line with analyst expectations, final official data showed on Tuesday.
The EU's Emissions Trading Scheme caps the carbon output of about 12,000 factories and power plants and forces them to buy permits for each tonne of carbon they emit.
"Verified emissions of greenhouse gases from these installations totaled 1.932 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent last year, some 3 percent higher than the 2009 level," the European Commission said in a statement.
Last month, analysts predicted a rise of between 3 and 3.6 percent, based on preliminary data.
"It can be attributed to the economic recovery following the recession, which caused an exceptional 11.6 percent fall in emissions in 2009," the Commission added.
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A Matter of Trust – Part Two…James Quinn!
"Trust starts with truth and ends with truth." – Santosh Kalwar
"Debasement was limited at first to one's own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy's short story, Ivan the Fool." – Charles P. Kindleberger – Manias, Panics, and Crashes
The Holy Roman Empire debased their currency in the early 1600s the old fashioned way, by replacing good coins with bad coins. Any similarities with the U.S. issuing pennies that cost 2.4 cents to produce and nickels that cost 11 cents to produce is purely coincidental. I wonder what the ancient Greeks would think of our Olympic gold medals that contain 1.34% gold. The authorities have become much more sophisticated in the last one hundred years. Digital dollars are so much easier to debase. The hundred year central banker scientifically manufactured bust relentlessly plods towards its ultimate conclusion – the dollar reaching its intrinsic value of zero.
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Kireet Khurana animation director of Toonpur Ka Superhero, has a deep connection with animation. Being the son of the man who brought animation to India, Bhimsain Khurana; it was only obvious that he was to follow in his father's footsteps. He has directed a plethora of short films, animation series and Public Service films like, Rights From The Heart for UNICEF, Adventures of Chhota Birbal for Cartoon Network and Laadli' for the Children's Film Society of India. Kireet also founded 2nz animation, which boasts of doing over 400 AD films for leading brands in the country.
Bhimsain brought animation to India with, 'Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya' which aired on the Doordarshan channel in the 70's. He is also a veteran of avant-garde parallel cinema who won an unprecedented 16 President's National Awards, and has directed and produced award-winning feature films like Gharaonda and Doooriyan.
What's an animation director? An animation director overlooks all technical and aesthetical aspects of the animation production. It's crucial that they posses the capabilities to infuse the animated characters with just the right amount of psychological and emotional depth that will appeal to audiences. They must posses a sound perception of animation principles, body mechanics, style and continuity.
In this exclusive 'People Behind the Scenes' series, brings to you a no holds barred conversation with animation director of Toonpur Ka Superhero, Kireet Khurana, on the film and the fate behind the Indian animation industry and the evils of animation institutes.
Going back to the roots, how did you begin in the industry?
I had the infrastructure available to me back in the 70's and 80's, where I actually learnt animation through my father's guidance. In early 1991, I went to Sheridan College in Canada, one of the best for animation filmmaking in the world. I graduated with high honors in '94 subsequently; I worked with the Nation film board of Canada on a couple of short films for a few years. My short films have won 5 President's National Awards and 3 Int'l Awards besides 20 assorted awards. I founded 2nz animation in 1996 and so far we've done over 400 Ad films with leading brands such as PepsiCo, Kellogg, Unilever, Nestle etc. We've also worked with Ad agencies such as, O&M, JWT, Lowe, and Mudra to name a few.
Since I'm a filmmaker and I want to tell my story by directing feature films, in Jan 2007 we started work on Toonpur Ka Superhero me and my partner Raagi Bhatnaghar who's also the co-writer of the film, pitched the script to Ajay Devgn and he immediately agreed to do the film. The designs of the characters set and environments were all undertaken by my team. Filming didn't start until May 2008 since the principal actors weren't available to shoot the film. We finished the film in 2009 and its been in post production ever since. Currently we're almost through the Digital Intermediate (DI) process, in which the live action characters are color corrected to blend with the CGI backgrounds.
What is the story of the film?
Ajay Devgn plays Aditya, a famous actor and is married to Priya played by Kajol. He has all the success he ever wanted, but his children want him to be their hero not just on screen, but in reality. That's when Aditya finds an opportunity to become his children's hero where he somehow lands in his kids favorite cartoon show, where he must work with the Devtoons the good guys to fight the bad guys the Toonasurs.
Could you enlighten us with the production pipeline of your film briefly? How long did it take to piece it together?
The entire pre-production phase kicked off, and completed in my studio. Pre-production consisted of Storyboards, Layouts, environments, prop and character designs and sorting out the color keys. We've also done a bit of the animation; we set the bible and the tone for the film. This planning and visualization phase lasted about eight months. Production process was simple, since we meticulously planned out the film in pre-production. When Ajay came to the chroma sets to shoot the film, we would share the storyboards with him. We would educate them with the 2D environment and how they would look in that space for their reference.
Additionally, we would take the actors through the entire 3D animation blocking phase of the scene; this gives the actors a sense of how they'd look in the shots. Although in the film, locations keep changing, the actors are still present on the chroma sets. With this the actors get a glimpse and realize the gravity of the situation of the scene before they start performing for the shot. We shot the principal actors on chroma backgrounds and took those shots and edited the whole film, where we cleaned out the green screen backgrounds and fused the CGI elements that were to be used for the scenes. Overall it took two and half years to complete.
As a director, what was the brief that you gave the artists in regards to modeling the characters?
I'm an artist myself and I've learnt animation the classical way. I've studied anatomy for years; my team designed the characters under my supervision. The idea was to get the anatomy of the animation characters as right as possible. If you're from the animation industry, you and I both know that there are hidden gaps that come along with such projects. This is mainly because, they aren't trained artists sitting on the machines they're technicians.
My job was to ensure that these gaps are filled in as much as possible, I have to ensure that the anatomy is right, the facial rigs are flexible, there are strong line of action of the characters poses, to make sure that the rigs offer enough suppleness to achieve animation principles such as squash and stretch which is used in cartoon type animation.
What motivated you in choosing 'the classical style of animation' for your film?
Toonpur has a lot of cartoony snappy timing to it, It's about jaw dropping, eye popping, body breaking in parts with a loony timing to it. Therefore we chose a classical animation style for the 3D film.
What do you think studios and animators lack in our country?
The first thing that I notice is that when I've made something, people ask me what softwares have I used. This I think is the biggest fallacy and misconception people have, because the computer just offers an extension of your mind's eye. In fact, it places greater creative challenges, iterations and good quality. The demand gets more when the computer offers you more. I always emphasize on focusing on the art and the creative processes of the work. The biggest factor that I feel that we need to surmount here is that, most of the people go through software training institutes and there are no laws to stop them. The government should formulate laws to stop them from marketing their institutes as animation training institutes because they're software training institutes. They mainly talk about the technicalities of the software. For example, Photoshop can be learnt in 2 weeks, but to learn how to paint takes a lifetime.
I feel people who have grown from JJ school of arts or Raheja who've done courses that extend up to five years should be taught Photoshop that would have a greater impact aesthetically and technically. Animation is an expensive medium and in India our finances are restricted in making expensive animated films. With the turnovers that we're witnessing we're caught up with very limited bandwidth with which we have to make a movie. The least we could do is to hope that we recover what we've invested in with half million dollars, this is where things are coming from.
Where do you think we stand on the global animation map today, do you see India churning out quality like Pixar animation?
India has a strong hub as far as outsourcing is concerned, it's not like we don't have creative talent here. The animation market here in India is almost non-existent because, we're not able to portray and tell our own stories efficiently. We lack the ability to conceptualize and visualize stories here therefore; we need a lot of creative help from overseas. It's a matter of projects going wrong in this country, but internationally DreamWorks is said to be executing its next movie in India. As far as quality is concerned, good quality work is already happening, a large chuck of work for The Golden Compass was done at R&H studios here in India as well as Night in the Museum.
What makes a good animated film according to you?
The basis of any film has to have a great story, which is the most important element. The film will succeed even if its animation is average. There should be a strong emotional connect with the audiences; they have to empathize with the character. This is essentially the ingredients that make for a good film. The audiences will be forgiving even if you falter in the execution because they engage with the story. But if the story is not engaging enough and the film has great animation, success will fail to deliver it.
What's your take on Indian animation filmmaking and the mythological trend that's occurring this year?
My take is simple, there are no bad stories only bad story telling. Someone asked me to do a mythological film a while back, I refused only because I would like to have my own story. Ramayana and Mahabharata are one of the most brilliant stories ever told in the history of mankind. I feel you'd want to watch Arjuna the film because the promos are exciting. This is purely someone's interpretation of the film, the story is the same but the storytelling has been changed completely.
In Ramayana and My Friend Ganesha 3, I thought the storytelling procedure was weak when it comes to facial animation. I see that we stumble upon this recurring problem every time. For the films we've added a very flexible facial rig, so our characters are quite emotive and are pretty extensive. To get the expressions right we've meticulously planned out the facial rigs.
We do mythological films because I believe that, producers don't want to take risks by introducing new characters. We are conservative in commissioning films that are unique in it, this is what I assume. A producer's angle takes over this decision.
A message for aspiring filmmakers and animators....
Focus on art, creativity, on story telling, filmmaking; you should get involved in the whole process no matter what you specialize in, even though you're involved in a miniscule process of a film. One should think about the scheme of things and where would certain assets fit in a film, in terms of the story and visualization. Whatever you're doing is going to be a part of a larger picture, always keep that picture in your mind. If you understand the story you understand the performance and the nuances of the story, this improves an artist and an individual.


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Grant Lee Buffalo were alt-rock icons in the '90s, but their ex-frontman is happier alone, writes Katrina Lobley.
Grant-Lee Phillips, former frontman of Grant Lee Buffalo and current cast member of TV drama Gilmore Girls, has had some weird dreams lately.
"I actually had a dream the other night that I was hanging out with Russell Crowe," he rasps down the line from London. His hotel room windows are sealed and the air is making him thirsty. "It must be a premonition of Australia. I don't recall what Russell had to convey but I do recall a talking dog in the dream. I think my chances of rubbing elbows with Russell Crowe are as great as hanging out with a talking dog ... but in dreams, all things come true."
As the 38-year-old Los Angeleno tells it, his musical dreams came true perhaps a little too soon. His band Grant Lee Buffalo's 1993 debut album, Fuzzy, was greeted by rare high praise from both critics and peers. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe called it "best record of the year, hands down". And so Phillips, along with bandmates Paul Kimble and Joey Peters, spent the '90s dizzily touring the world, opening for stadium outfits such as R.E.M., Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins. Amid the whirlwind, Rolling Stone named Phillips best male vocalist of 1995.
Yet despite the accolades, Phillips has described his memories of this period as "vivid, sometimes pained".
"All at once we were presented with our hopes and our fears head-on and that tends to bring out the extremes in people," he says now. "I was the only member of the group who had been married for a number of years before we began to tour, so in some ways that gave me a more firm rooting, but it also made it very painful in terms of missing my family."
The band members went their separate ways in 1999 and, although Phillips says on his Web site that "this Buffalo may not be extinct forever", he concedes it's unlikely they'll re-form. He's had little contact with Kimble and Peters since the break-up and hears of their exploits only via the grapevine.
News of Phillips's latest venture has likely filtered back to them. His solo album Mobilize is singularly beautiful, fearlessly piling dark explorations of the human psyche onto contrarily upbeat atmospherics.
In a darker moment, which arrives only two tracks in on the album, he laments "if only humankind was not so heartless now". Phillips says that "as biting and as potentially cynical as it may seem when reduced to the lyric alone, there is an uplifting quality [to that song]".
"I'm one of those who's apt to feel that if there's truly a chance for any of us to evolve, then we have to begin to criticise our wrongdoings in order to overcome them," he says. "It's like I can't begin to be truly optimistic without being truly critical."
Certainly, putting Buffalo behind him has allowed Phillips to be in whatever mood he damn well pleases. He says he's come to realise that no matter what the taste of individual band members, a band carries with it "an overriding personality that is greater than the members of a group, and that personality will either receive or expel whatever influences seem alien to it".
These days Phillips is opening himself to the influence of his compatriots.
"As much as I've been lumped in with the whole Americana thing, I've never paid too much attention to that and probably managed to overlook some profoundly inspired contemporaries like Jeff Tweedy [of Wilco] and Gillian Welch," he says. "I'm kinda rediscovering my fellow Americans."
And fellow Americans are rediscovering him and his sound, even if it's just the quickest snatch of verse sent spilling down the TV streets of Stars Hollow. For Phillips, the Gilmore Girls role of the (mostly) non-speaking, guitar-strumming troubadour who won't play for money is a dream career move.
"I've had a good number of cameos and a few meaty acting scenes," he laughs, "that I can stretch out in some sick Kevin Costner way."
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Lindsay Lohan's dad seems like a really nice guy
Michael Lohan has foregone taking responsibility for dropping a holiday bomb that he fathered a love child and opted to blame Samantha Ronson for writing Lindsay's Christmas Eve blog where she lamented about her dad's wayward wang. Page Six reports:
Michael told People.com he believes there's a "99 percent chance" the missive was actually penned by Lindsay's girl friend. Ronson laughed yesterday about Michael's allegation. "Ha! That's funny, but I don't ghost-write My Space blogs," the Sapphic record-spinner told Page Six. "Good thing he left that 1 percent window open so he wasn't 100 percent wrong for once.
Wait, people ghost-write blogs? Take it away, Stephen King:
No one bothered to tell Lindsay and her lover Samantha that lesbians weren't allowed in the pet cemetery that night. But Old Caretaker Rick Capshaw knew as he watched precariously from his kitchen window that, let's assume, is in Maine. (Surprise, I live there!) What happened next would rattle his neighbors to their very co – Hey, is that a van? Not again. Oh noes!
The master of horror, folks.


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China once again urged International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 5 permanent members of UN Security Council and Germany to enhance dialogue and cooperation with Iran to resolve Iran's nuclear issue, IRNA reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying was responding to a question about the UN nuclear watchdog's latest report, which allegedly said Iran is installing more centrifuges at its enrichment plants.
Noting the report Hua said, 'China has always considered that dialogue and cooperation is the only right way to properly resolve the Iranian nuclear issue.'
The spokesperson said the top priority is that G5+1 stick to talks and the IAEA enhances cooperation with Iran to achieve progress at an early date, so as to seek a comprehensive, long-term and appropriate solution.
China hopes all parties concerned could make constructive efforts to this end, Hua said.
According to an alleged report by the IAEA, which was released on Friday, Iran has increased centrifuges installed at the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, near the city of Qom.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and the unilateral western embargos for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
A 2008 report of the IAEA by the then Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, thanked Iran's honest cooperation in removing ambiguities about its past activities and confirmed that Iran has answered all the six outstanding questions of the world body about the nuclear material and activities that it had had in the past.


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Even though the median size is 4,500 sqft, there are still 0 leases below 2,000 sqft. Most properties in this market are around 2 stories. Most buildings in this region were built in 1978 and are Class B.
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M'dak and G'fras were Pakhars who attended the collision of the asteroid Maleficent with Uranus. The Seventh Doctor called them "wonderful gossips". Melanie Bush spent an hour with them while the Doctor was busy elsewhere.
M'dak and G'fras were behind the sabotage of Maleficent, working for a "higher power", according to the Doctor. (PROSE: Uranus)


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This article was published 14/12/2012 (1710 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I never met Paul Langlotz, Zena Wolfson, Stefan O. Olafson or Gwen Wilcock, and sadly I never will.
That's because all four of them, and several more I will hear about during our annual Pennies from Heaven campaign, have left these mortal coils.
But while they are gone, they are still helping to feed the hungry in our community during this festive season.
That's because their families and friends have decided to make a donation in their honour to our 18th annual campaign, which supports both the Christmas Cheer Board and Winnipeg Harvest.
And they generously let me know they want the donation to be recognized only in memory of their relative or friend instead of them.
Christmas can be both a happy time and a sad time for many families in our community. There's the joy of the season, but there's also the recognition for many that this will be the first festive dinner where there is an empty chair around the table.
It's one reason why my annual year-end tribute to the prominent and notable Manitobans who have died during the year generates such a positive reaction from many people. They are touched and gratified that the Free Press has remembered and honoured so many people for the lives they have led and the help they have given our community.
In much the same way, when we run our list of donors to Pennies I always try to get the "in memory of" donors at or near the top of the list. And I always make a point of searching our obituaries to learn about the people who are being remembered.
It's an honour I never take for granted that the families and friends of the people who have died have thought of both Pennies and our local hungry at this time of year.
Now it's up to the rest of you. For the kids, I need you to look for those coins to donate them our way. I need you grown-ups to send in your donations, too, whether in coins, bills or cheques.
You have to move fast now because Christmas is little more than a week away. We need your help now.
Where to donate:
THERE are giant collection bins inside all of our city's Walmart stores. Look for the bin featuring a winged me with my two daughters. All RBC branches in the city have our collection bins.
Our giant penny is once again on the second floor of Portage Place facing the Edmonton Court. There is a bin at the Winnipeg Free Press at 1355 Mountain Ave.
Cheques can be sent to Pennies from Heaven, c/o Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6. Tax receipts will be issued.
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There's still time to send in your original ballot for the chance to win a prize in our annual Pennies draw.
The prizes include the chance to have either RBC Olympians Jared Funk or Jill Officer come to your school or your kids' or grandkids' school, a lovely Canadian Ice diamond pendant provided by Ben Moss Jewellers, or tickets to concerts including Sarah Brightman, Charley Pride, Great Big Sea, Randy Bachman, and the Manny Tuba and the Magic Jukebox show at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Concerts for Kids.


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|December 31 2000
2000 was the year when everyone celebrated the start of the 21st Century though they were all mathematically challenged. As there is no year 0 in the calendar, the 1st Century started with the year 1. 2000 years later was the year 2001 and that was when the 21st Century really started.
2000 was also when Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush in the Presidential election. Republicans in the Supreme Court gave the presidency to Dubya on a technicality and showed that those Republicans don't care about democracy.
The people believed the increasing computerization of the world, as well as general usage of two-digit year designation, would result in all computers of the planet (including nuclear power plants and defense systems) massively glitching on 01/01/2000, bringing the end of the world. While some systems did, indeed, suffer from that, the consequences were far from apocalyptic.
The world did not end, but George W. Bush was elected though Al Gore got more votes, see 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. It wasn't quite as bad as the world ending (although it felt like it at the time).
This is the year that interest rates should have been risen.
Other significant EventsEdit
- 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
- Phillips explosion of 2000
- Iraq disarmament crisis
- Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings
- Kaprun disaster
- Rizal Day bombings
- USS Cole (DDG-67) Bombing
- UK Fuel protests


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This article was published 25/9/2012 (1792 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Health officials are celebrating the return of a community health clinic to Brooklands and Weston, but some area residents say more services are still needed.
On Sept. 18, Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald, flanked by board members, doctors and support staff, held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the official opening of NorWest at Bluebird on the main floor of Bluebird Lodge Seniors Home at 100-97 Keewatin St.
"This has been a dream of folks in this community for a very long time," Oswald said to a standing room only crowd.
The area has been without a health clinic since the Westbrook Medical Centre, which was located on Logan Avenue near Keewatin, closed in late 2009.
Bluebird will operate on an appointment-only basis and offer family medical care including diagnosis, treatment, consultations, lifestyle counselling and sex education.
Clients will have access to 15 on-site providers, including a clinical pharmacist, a mental health worker, a corrective exercise specialist and social workers.
Bluebird is one of 20 clinics under construction or in the planning stages to ensure all Manitobans have access to a family doctor by 2015, Oswald said.
More primary and home care leads to healthier living, which helps reduce the strain on emergency rooms, she said.
"It isn't rocket science," Oswald said.
"If you have access to a family doctor, you're going to be healthier."
Shaughnessy Park resident Dorothy Reimer, a former client of the Westbrook clinic, welcomed news of the new clinic's opening, but said she'll still have to travel downtown for blood work and X-rays.
"It's too bad," she said, noting, at its peak, Westbrook had eight doctors and a wider range of services.
"From what we had, it's just a fraction. But at least it's something."
Reimer's husband, Cornie, added he is concerned about access to the rotating schedule of doctors and wait times for elderly care.
The clinic has taken on 70 new clients since quietly opening in July and the clinic is expected to welcome 300 new clients over the winter months, said Renata Cook, a primary care co-ordinator for NorWest.
In a speech, NorWest board chair Ivan Sabesky noted the board is open to suggestions that will help the clinic evolve.
"I implore you to come express any needs to the board for other services we should be offering," he said.
The clinic is already looking at expanding its hours to evenings and weekends in 2013, Cook added.
Bluebird will be a satellite site of ACCESS NorWest, a health facility scheduled to open at the corner of Keewatin and Burrows Avenue next summer.
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HOUSTON - Houston police said an HISD student was not hit by a car Wednesday morning while walking to school, but instead was in a car that was involved in a fender bender.
Police said the crossing guard called authorities about the accident and said a child was hit by a car. Officials said the 7-year-old student was actually in the back seat of the car when the driver hit another vehicle.
Officials said it happened around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday on Barremore at Hackley in southeast Houston.
The child is a student at Henderson Elementary.
An ambulance responded to the scene to look over the child, but the student was not transported to the hospital.
Houston police and HISD officials responded to the accident.
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Does Government Spending Harm The Environment?
A market failure occurs when there is a gap between the private and social costs of an activity. That is, the social costs are higher than the private costs. The activity itself is something economists call an externality. For example, consider a factory where the production process throws off disgusting waste. If the factory dumps this junk into a handy river instead of disposing it in a less convenient, less harmful place, the resulting pollution is an externality.
Of course, the problem is that by using the river as a dump, production costs are lower than if the factory disposed of its waste in a socially responsible way, so the factory owner has little incentive not to pollute. This leaves the people and businesses along the river, who suffer the bad effects, to bear the cost–hence the term "social cost."
The failure of the market to cover the costs of an externality is taken as an invitation for the government to step in and make private parties deal with the social costs. In this example, the government could promulgate regulations to stop river pollution by making it unlawful for the factory to dump waste in the river, which, in turn, would raise the private cost of production but lower the social costs borne by society.
At any rate, during the 1970s, the "correction" of market failures accelerated the pace of social regulation. In 1970, both the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Clean Air Act were passed. Two years later came the Marine Protection Act, the Water Pollution Act, and the Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act. These were followed by the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974 and the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1975. There were also amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1977. A welter of new bureaucracies were created, among others: the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The extravaganza continued in the 1980s. In environmental regulation, more than half a dozen laws were passed, including the Radon Gas and Indoor Air Quality Research Act in 1986; the Radon Pollution Control Act in 1988; the Clean Air Amendments in 1990; CERCLA (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liabilities Act–the notorious Superfund) in 1980; the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments in 1984; FIFRA (the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments) in 1988.
Nineteen-ninety was a stellar year for regulatory excess. First came the mother of expensive regulation–additional amendments to the Clean Air Act. The law, which covers many businesses from giant utilities and auto companies to tiny bakeries and dry cleaners, could cost as much as $60 billion annually when fully implemented in the late 1990s. Then came the Disabled Americans Act, which requires owners of private businesses, stores, hotels, restaurants, and apartments to make specified physical modifications to accommodate the disabled. The initial conversion costs to bring these establishments into compliance range between $60 billion and $70 billion. There was also legislation requiring food manufacturers to affix labels to products carrying various nutritional information.
A good guide to assessing the growth of regulation is to look at the number of pages in the Federal Register, where all new regulations are published annually. Pages went steadily up during the 1970s, until they reached an all-time high of 87,000 in 1979. Indeed, not until the 1980s was there a respite, when the Reagan administration seriously slowed the trajectory of ever-more regulation; the number of pages in the Federal Register actually declined by 34,000, the number of federal workers involved in regulation fell, and the cost of administering federal regulatory programs was about flat.
Then the great reversal. During the first two years of the Bush administration, regulation got out of hand. The number of pages in the Federal Register increased to 70,000. The number of federal employees busy issuing and enforcing the stuff reached an all-time high of almost 125,000, and the amount of money devoted to administering these programs grew at double-digit rates. It got so bad, in fact, that, in 1992, Bush had to announce a regulatory reform against his own administration–no new rules for 90 days, later extended another 90 days. No matter. In came the Clinton administration and the growth of new pages resumed apace.
There is no one correct and clear way to measure the cost of regulation on the economy. But there are plenty of estimates. One of the most reasonable figures is that in 1992, regulation cost one-half trillion dollars, or 1% of the economy. This figure includes social regulation such as environment, health, and safety; economic regulation like trade restrictions, federal labor laws, and farm programs; and the paperwork involved in filling out forms, keeping records, paying accountants and lawyers.
Who Pays for All This? In general, the cost of regulating is initially expressed as a cost of doing business. Okay, but who pays this tariff? We all do, in one way or another.
Consider a standard situation in which a law requires certain practices to be followed in hiring or procedures to be used to assure product quality. The former will raise costs by forcing employers to expand their job search and fill out forms to prove compliance; the latter will raise costs by requiring changes in the production process. Sometimes, firms can pass these costs to consumers, making them pay more; sometimes, firms can't pass them along at all, so they will have lower profits, which means that owners or shareholders foot the bill. But, often, employers pass these costs down the line with lower wages and salaries. Other times, when costs cannot be directly passed off to employees, employers will respond by either hiring fewer people or laying off those already employed. Either way, higher business costs from regulation will result in lower wages and/or higher unemployment.
Excessive regulation also discourages investment in domestic business: Why plop a factory down on regulated soil when unregulated opportunities beckon abroad? Moreover, the threat of regulatory changes creates uncertainty, which scares investors, who then demand higher returns, and tends to make planning horizons more short term.
Further, regulation stymies innovation. This has been especially true in the drug and medical-device industry. Long approval periods shorten the effective patent time for the results of expensive research and development and thus diminish returns on discoveries without lowering risk. A larger gap between risk and return renders many research and development projects too unprofitable to undertake.
And last, all of the above make it harder for domestic firms to compete in international markets in which many foreign-based firms do not have to contend with the effects of excessive regulation.
What makes all the direct and indirect costs, to say nothing of the mind-numbing frustration, even more wicked, is that taken all together, these costs slow economic growth. Rather than detailing the many subtle ways in which regulation impedes growth that are so favored by economists, here instead is just one basic example: Innovation requires research, but research might not be undertaken if regulation makes the fruit of that research susceptible to liability action. Innovation requires development, but development might not be undertaken if regulation draws out the period before approval is granted. In other words, firms need a secure environment for innovation before they will commit money, time, and other scarce resources to the process. Lacking that environment, there will be less business innovation, which leads to slower productivity growth, and that creates slower economic growth.
There are, of course, offsetting benefits to regulation, especially those that concern health and safety. People are less susceptible to sickness, injury, and death because of the many workplace and drug and food laws. Ditto for those who fly airplanes and drive cars. And certainly everybody who breathes the air, or swims in rivers or lakes, is better off than they would be if cities still generated dense smogs of pollution or waterways still caught on fire. But no respectable effort has been made to quantify these benefits overall.
It is, however, possible to estimate benefits in specific categories. For example, trade restrictions such as quotas on imported cars or textiles benefit the workers who keep their jobs–so just multiply the number of jobs "kept" by annual salaries to arrive at total benefit. The irony is that often when these benefits are quantified, the costs of the regulations outweigh them. For example, the total figure for the benefits from restricting imports that accrue to domestic car and textile industries, in profits and jobs, is smaller than the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices for cars and clothes.
Then there are regulations that don't seem to produce any benefits at all. Consider, for instance, the billions of dollars spent to remove asbestos from buildings, although the very removal may be as health-threatening as if the stuff were just left alone, or the billions it costs to clean up hazardous-waste sites, despite the lack of evidence that those sites constitute a hazard. And, finally, there are categories in which regulation actually results in negative benefits–that is, in harm. The Food and Drug Administration, for instance, has delayed approval of many drugs and medical devices that could have saved lives; critics point to long approval times (measured in years) for Interleukin 2 for kidney cancer, for example.
For any readers isolated from the impact of regulatory zeal and therefore of the mind that I am overstating the case, there exists a real world example of the positive impact of unraveling regulation. Consider the move in the 1970s to deregulate large sectors of the economy. This economic event was aimed at freeing a few very basic industries in the country's infrastructure–some of which had been seriously regulated as far back as the 19th century.
The Benefits of Deregulation.
A real breakthrough came in 1975 when President Ford, asking Congress for fundamental changes in the laws regulating transportation–railroads, airlines, and trucking firms–used the word "cost" to discuss regulation. Ford complained that "regulation has been used to protect and support the growth of established firms rather than to promote competition." And he pointed to the proliferation of commissions, agencies, bureaus, and offices to oversee new programs and the cumbersome and costly procedures to license, certify, review, and approve of new technologies and products.
This spirit continued in force under President Carter: Along with deregulation of transportation, there were major steps to deregulate the financial markets and telecommunications, and to decontrol energy prices. Early in his tenure, Carter was apparently impressed by the argument that an increase in regulation showed up as cost increases followed by price increases and ultimately as wage increases. In the president's 1978 Economic Report, Carter wrote: "There is no question that the scope of regulation has become excessive and that too little attention is given to its economic costs…wherever possible, the extent of regulation should be reduced." True to his word, in 1978 came the Airline Deregulation Act and a strong push for similar deregulation in trucking and rails. In 1979, Carter presented deregulation bills for telecommunications and financial services.
Deregulation of these infrastructure industries was the most significant policy event of the 1970s–and surely an important one in providing a long-term boost to the economy in the 1980s. Total benefits to the economy are probably around $40 billion a year. Consumers pay lower prices, enjoy more choices and better quality in goods and services from the deregulated industries, and the rate of economic growth has been much stronger than it would have been absent this effort.
How Far Should We Go?
In fact, most of the global experience with deregulation has been so positive that some people think we should deregulate everything in sight. Should we? There are two equally appealing answers: yes and no. Yes, because of all the bad things that regulation does, as argued above. No, because notwithstanding all those bad things, people have already made their adjustments and expect to operate in a regulated environment; a sudden deregulation would create all sorts of new problems.
As attractive as both yes-and-no responses are, however, they don't offer a good guide for future regulation. Since the yen to regulate things–and to hope for good outcomes–is not going to go away, we should figure out some way to regulate while limiting the damage that will surely result.
Take the category that offers the smallest contribution to social welfare and the largest amount of per capita suffering–paperwork. A good approach would be to cut paperwork requirements in half (at least) and then maintain that number–of pages of forms no matter what. If new paperwork is mandated by some new rule-making outburst, then the same number of pages of old paperwork would have to go. (We could take a giant step toward a reduction simply by changing the federal income tax system to a flat rate system so that the tax form could fit on a post card.)
Second, consider economic regulation–that category that is the most unnecessary and is aimed almost exclusively at cheering up special interests. We could just drop it entirely. What's the good of having the discipline of the market if we won't let the market discipline? Minimum wages? Free employers to pay employees based on the value of their work, not on the political calculations of Congress. Trade protection? Let firms and industries fail if they can't cut the mustard internationally. Farm supports and other forms of economic welfare? Dismantle them.
Finally, what about the most expensive category–the one that, no surprise, turns out to have the biggest, most enthusiastic constituency–social regulation. There are plenty of ideas on how to make social regulation more cost-effective. Two are neat variations on the theme of making the federal government put its money near its mouth: making the government fund mandates to state and local governments and compensate owners for taking property for other uses (for example, by declaring the property inviolate as wetlands or as having historic interest).
Currently, the most fashionable idea for reform of social regulation is something called risk assessment or risk management. It attacks the presumption behind most social regulation, especially for environmental rules–that risk is controllable; that if breathing bad air or eating apples sprayed with pesticide increases the risk of cancer, then decreasing air pollution or banning pesticides will cut down on that risk.
Fine. Except, what if the cost of reducing risk was a million times the benefit derived? Or what if the cost of reducing risk was reasonable, but the risk itself was trivial? Or if the risk itself was grave, but the amount it could be reduced was trivial? Under any of these conditions, would it still make sense to go ahead and regulate?
That's where risk assessment comes in. Using what its proponents like to call sound science, or good economics, the risk of a particular activity is measured against the cost of reducing it. And presumably, if the costs and/or benefits are way out of whack, the regulation will not be undertaken.
There are lots of problems with this approach–beyond the obvious of defining "sound" science or "good" economics–like how to quantify human life, since human life is what is at risk. But requiring a risk assessment investigation before approving new regulations would be a start toward reversing over 35 years of indulging an attitude most easily characterized as: "Eek! Look, a risk! Let's regulate it away–right this minute–no matter the cost–hurry!"
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Generally, when you settle a personal injury claim, it is personal property.
Thus, even if you made a claim for loss of consortium or loss wages
there can be no later designation of a settlement as anything other than for the personal injury
The only time someone could claim that it is damages related specifically to the loss of consortium or lost wages is where there is a specific designation in the settlement or where there is a specific finding by a jury.
In other words, I do not think you have to use the actual confidential settlement agreement.
yes, but in this cas the soon to be ex were both party to the lawsuit. We had sued as a couple for medical malpractice that occur to me. The check was made payable to both her and I
I think the burden is on the other party to prove that the personal injury settlement should be classified as marital property.
There's the rub
The settlement was for both of your claims
the settlement agreement clearly state that it is for personal injury sustained by me.
Ah, I see.
Does it mention at all the ex's loss of consortium claim?
Interesting. Did the ex settle that claim separately
it specifically says for personal injury to xxxx my name
which claim?
The ex claimed loss of consortium?
she agreed
no....during the negotiation for settlements our lawyer advised her that it is best that we strictly make a claim for personal injury and exclude a claim for loss of consortium
the settlement was a general release....we both signed it
OK. Do you know if the petition/complaint filed with the court contained a claim by her for loss of consortium? She was a party to the original lawsuit?
In regard to the use of a confidential settlement agreement, you can likely use it in the divorce proceedings if you obtain an order from the court allowing you to do so and request that the agreement be kept under seal only for the court's inspection.
the originl petition/complaint MIGHT have included a claim for loss of consortium since we both sued the doctor,....I cannot think of any other basis she could have sued for since i was the one who was injured
OK, since she was a party to the case, then it likely does. Are you proceeding pro se?
i am considering proceeding pro se
OK. You would need to file a Motion for Filing Records Under Seal with the court for use of the records in the litigation.
In essence, you ask the court for permission to use a confidential settlement agreement for limited purposes, because both of you were parties to the agreement and thus there is no disclosure\
You must state that there is no other way to go about getting the information.
we had a separation agreement and wanted to do an uncontested divorce. That is an agreement that SHE drafted and then we both signed. Now she is reneging on the agreement and wants a contested divorce. She did not want any money and was keeping the house. Now she wants money AND the house. my strongest argument is to prove that the money was my personal injury. I am not sure how. Since I do not know if the settlement agreement being confidential is admissible
ah ok...is that possiblity in Georgia?
a possibility in Georgia as I am not in TX?
It will be admissible as long as you ask that the record be kept under seal because it is confidential. And yes, it will be allowed in GA. It's the same procedure as in TX. Think of it this way, you were both parties to the confidential agreement, the divorce is between you two, so there is not any actual disclosure if the court keeps the record sealed.
ah ok. i was under the impression that the settlement agreement was not admissible at all?
because it is confidential....but wow
that makes a lot of things easier
It's admissibility depends on what you are trying to use it for. Generally, a settlement agreement will not be admissible to prove the fault of an underlying action, or to prove prior bad acts. In this case, you are using it to prove the characterization of assets
So, it should be admissible.
ah ok....awesome....but essentially wouldn't this just bring an end to the contested aspect of the case?
since I would have prove that she has no claim on the money?
and there is no children
I would think it is conclusive evidence of the characterization of the money. However, you also have to look into whether there was commingling of marital funds, etc.
It will be somewhat complicated.
thans to God i deosited the check into my personal (non joint ) account
Yes. Seems like you are in a good position to win that part of the argument. You will face additional challenges I'm sure regarding whether she is due any of the funds from your personal accounts
But the use of the settlement agreement should go far into proving up that there is a portion of those assets that are completely yours
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Just got an email from the Pacers and here is the press release.
Say wha?
EDIT: Sad, sad day.
If we knew this we should have added a big @ the deadline. Upset.
"Larry Bird: You are Officially On the Clock! (3/24/08)"
(Watching You Like A Hawk!)
I legit just gasped in class
I expected this.
Now, offer him a job at our training staff / FO.
Heart just sank.
"Your course, your path, is not going to be like mine," West says. "Everybody is not called to be a multimillionaire. Everybody's not called to be the president. Whatever your best work is, you do it. Do it well. You cease your own greatness when you aspire to be someone else."
Jeff is interested in becoming a real estate broker from what I understand. I doubt he begins a job with the Pacers, but I suppose he could change his mind.
I immediately reacted with an "oh no" out loud as soon as I read the news.
I'm sad to see you go, Jeff. Thank you for everything.
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
very sad
Larry Bird and Ryan Grigson- wasting the talents of Paul George and Andrew Luck
Thanks for everything Jeff Foster!! We'll miss your 100% effort, no nonsense style of play.
It's the right decision, though I hate to see it happen.
Timing could have been better, though. BEFORE the deadline would have been helpful.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
He is a class act beyond class act, I wish him the best and to please work with psycho t on the post hard foul face. On a side note did we just become the ugliest looking team in the NBA?
I do have to say the cynic in me, while appreciative of what Jeff has given us, has to feel like he did just collect a paycheck for half the season and now he's gonna bounce.
Definitely sad to hear. Atleast he is able to walk away from the game with his health for the most part.
I'd try and collect an entire year. "Work smarter, not harder."
Saddens me as I always got the "Plays like Foster" moniker back in the day during pick up games at the park due to my excellent post defense and rebounding ability.
Great player, always one of my Favs.
But alas, I did not expect Jeff back for the playoffs and if he was back I would have questioned his insertion back into the line up with Lou playing so well. There is a certain chemistry lost when a guy who has been out most of the season suddenly plays heavy minutes.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
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Pacers veteran center Jeff Foster has announced his retirement after 13 years with the franchise because of ongoing back problems. "It's with deep regret that I have to conclude my basketball career," Foster in a statement. "I've given my all to the Pacers and the community the last 13 years. I had hoped to be able to finish the season, but unfortunately my back problems prevented that from occurring. I want to thank the Simon family and the Pacers' organization for 13 memorable years."
when was the deadline to sign another player?
As I recall paychecks left on the contract are still collected after retirement. I know we paid Reggie for his last year, which is why we had to use the amnesty on him to get it off the cap.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
This thought did just cross my mind, maybe Jeff is retiring knowing we are going to sign someone who is bought out or waived?


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