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Craving kidney beans, I soaked some dried ones and the next day decided to make this variation of the ever popular rajma. I was originally going to use paneer in this recipe, but forgetting to pull a block from the freezer, figured goat cheese would also work well in this tart and hot dish. The resulting fusion-style rajma was a taste experience that was popular with my dinner companions.
This is my entry to October's My Legume Love Affair, a popular monthly event started by the lovely Susan of The Well Seasoned Cook and hosted this time by Cook Sister.
Spicy Kidney Beans with Tomato and Yogurt SauceOther kidney beans curries you will want to try:
Adapted from 660 Curries
1 1/4 cup of dried kidney beans
1 cup of yogurt (I used goat milk yogurt)
2 tablespoons of chickpea flour
1 small clove of garlic, finely minced or crushed
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne
3 - 4 fresh chilies, finely chopped
1/3 cup of goat cheese, mashed with a fork
2 tablespoons of oil
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon of asafoetida
1 large tomato, finely chopped
1 teaspoon of garam masala
2 tablespoons of fresh parsley, chopped
Soak the kidney beans overnight in enough water to cover. Drain, transfer to a medium large pot, cover with water, bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low and cover and simmer until the beans are tender - roughly 10 hour. Drain the cooked beans and set aside.
Whisk together the yogurt and chickpea flour until smooth. (The chickpea flour helps to prevent the yogurt from curdling.) Stir in the garlic, salt, turmeric, cayenne, chilies and mashed goat cheese. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a medium large pot over medium heat. When hot, toss in the ginger and asafoetida and stir and fry for a few minutes. Now add the tomato and garam masala and simmer until the tomato thickens - roughly 5 minutes.
Stir in the cooked kidney beans and yogurt mixture. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the sauce thickens to your desired consistency. Garish with the parsley and serve over hot rice, along with naan bread.
Yields roughly 4 - 6 servings.
Kidney Beans in a Slowly Simmered Tomato Sauce with Shredded Paneer
Mint and Potato Rajma
Curried Red Kidney Beans with Paneer Cheese
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
How can I find clinical trials for my dog who has been diagnosed with cancer?
Lili Duda, VMD, Section Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Menu, responds:
That's a good question. Clinical trials can give you access to new therapies and help those animals who are diagnosed in the future - including humans, as some therapies are used in humans as well. The Veterinary Cancer Society keeps a list of trials.


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Three Humboldt County men died this weekend in separate logging accidents, the coroner"s office confirmed Monday.
"In 20 years, I"ve never had multiple sequential unrelated logging deaths," Humboldt County Deputy Coroner Charles Van Buskirk said.
One death occurred while a man was cutting firewood on his property. The remaining two incidents were industrial accidents, the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed Monday.
"Cal/OSHA has opened an investigation for both of those cases, and the investigation is ongoing," spokeswoman Kathleen Hennessy said. "We"re still awaiting the accident reports."
At about 4 p.m. Friday, Thomas Alan Rea, 66, of Garberville, was cutting firewood when a log apparently shifted and struck him, Van Buskirk said. His wife found him without a pulse after searching the property when she was unable to contact him.
CalFire and an ambulance responded, and declared Rea deceased, according to the coroner"s office. Van Buskirk said the cause of death was blunt force trauma.
Later that day — around 8:30 p.m. — a woman reported that her husband had failed to return home from work cutting timber. Co-workers conducted a search for William Stanley Thomas, 53, of Mad River, and found him dead at a logging site on Sierra Pacific Industries land off Stapp Road in Kneeland, according to the release.
Thomas, who had about 30 years of experience, was felling a large fir tree when he was struck by a rotting black oak tree about 20 feet uphill that fell for unknown reasons, according to the coroner"s office.
"It appears the tree that struck him, pinned him to the ground and he was able to extricate himself from under the tree and made it a very short distance before succumbing to his injuries," Van Buskirk said. "I"m not sure yet where he was struck. I didn"t see an obvious cause for his death."
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.
At about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jason Danial Nelson-Meng, 23, of Eureka, was working as a logger about 10 miles southeast of Elk River Road when he was struck on top of the head by a 40-foot tall redwood tree that fell when it was hit by a log that was being moved up a hill, according to officials.
"He thought he was in a safe location," Van Buskirk said. "The other loggers saw it happen, and immediately went to his aid and tried to help him."
Humboldt Bay Fire Chief Ken Woods said the employees were administering CPR when fire crews arrived on scene.
Nelson-Meng"s pulse stopped before emergency personnel made it to the scene. He was declared dead by a responding ambulance.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday.
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Mini MBA program students graduate
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
When Ahmad Tamin decided to leave his native Afghanistan to study in the United States, he was a bit nervous about how he would be received.
"I thought that, being from Afghanistan, some people may not be so receptive," said Tamin, one of 29 students to complete the Pittsburg State University Mini-MBA program this week. "What I found, though, was that everyone here was very friendly and welcoming. It was a wonderful experience."
And it was one that he hopes to repeat.
"I plan to go back home and then apply for the full MBA program at Pitt State," Tamin said. "I hope to be back here very soon."
Tamin and his fellow Mini-MBA graduates were recognized for their achievement during a ceremony in the Governor's Room of the Overman Student Center. Dr. Paul Grimes, dean of the Kelce College of Business, and Dr. Michael Muoghalu, director of the MBA program, gave brief remarks. Each student then received a certificate of completion and some Pitt State-themed mementos.
Now in its fifth year, the International Mini MBA program features eight three-hour sessions and provides people from all around the world a chance to learn about business philosophy and practice in the United States. Topics covered include international negotiation, situational leadership, strategic global human resource management and marketing strategies.
"The United States is the center for global commerce," Muoghalu said. "If you want to learn about business, there is no better place to do it than in the United States. That's why many of these students come to our program. They want to study in the United States, and they want to study at a premier business college."
With nearly 30 students from 11 different countries, this year's group of students was the largest in the program's history.
"That is a testament to the ongoing success of the International Mini MBA program and to the quality of education one can receive at the Kelce College of Business," Muoghalu said.
Max Cears, a 22-year-old from Belgium, said he enjoyed the variety of lessons that were taught during the three-week program.
"There were classes in all different fields, and it was fun and very interesting," he said. "It was a pleasant experience to receive such a diverse education in such a short time."
Cears, who spent time in the northeast before traveling to Pittsburg, said he was impressed by what he saw in what he describes as the "real America."
"I had been up in Philadelphia, New York and Washington," Cears said, "but I was anxious to see the other side of America. I was excited to see so much green. I really feel like this is the real America."
There were 15 students from Nigeria in this year's program. Other countries represented include Afghanistan, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Tanzania. The students range in age from 23 to 65.
Tamin, the first student from Afghanistan to participate in the program, said he was glad he took the chance to travel here for the program.
"You can learn so much about such a variety of business topics, from marketing and how to develop an effective presentation," he said. "It's a great opportunity to learn about business in America and how to use that knowledge all over the world."


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As Django is still in pre-release mode, we haven't yet committed to maintaining backwards compatibility in any APIs. Although we're keeping such changes to a minimum, Django developers should be acutely aware of these changes.
Of course, once we reach our first official release, we'll be strongly committed to backward compatibility.
This page lists all backwards-incompatible changes to Django so far.
Moved mod_python handler
As of [169], using
django.core.handler as a mod_python handler is deprecated. Use
django.core.handlers.modpython instead. We will be removing
django.core.handler for Django's first release.
Changed ordering syntax
As of [292], syntax used for
order_by (in the database API) and
ordering (in models) has changed.
Example of old ordering syntax:
order_by=[('foo', 'ASC'), ('bar', 'DESC')]
Example of new ordering syntax:
order_by=['foo', '-bar']
The old syntax is deprecated, and we'll stop supporting it for Django's first release.
Refactored meta.py
As of [378],
django/core/meta.py has been converted to a package,
django/core/meta/. If you're using a version of Django from before [378], make sure to delete
django/core/meta.pyc and
django/core/meta.pyo, if they exist. The existence of those files doesn't pose any known problems, but it's best to clean things up.
Changed edit_inline and edit_inline_type behavior
As of [440], using
edit_inline_type in your models is deprecated, in favor of a less-redundant approach that uses
edit_inline itself.
Example of old syntax:
edit_inline=True, edit_inline_type=meta.TABULAR
Example of new syntax:
We'll stop supporting the old syntax for Django's first release.
Changed admin log to store primary keys as TEXT fields, not INTEGER fields
As of [469], the
object_id field in
django.models.auth.LogEntry is a
TextField instead of an
IntegerField. We made this change to accomodate non-integer primary keys.
If you're using a Django database installation from before [469] and you want to use non-integer primary keys on an object you edit in the admin site, you'll need to do an
ALTER TABLE in your database.
In PostgreSQL:
BEGIN; ALTER TABLE auth_admin_log RENAME object_id TO object_id_old; ALTER TABLE auth_admin_log ADD COLUMN object_id TEXT; UPDATE auth_admin_log SET object_id = object_id_old; ALTER TABLE auth_admin_log DROP COLUMN object_id_old; COMMIT;
In MySQL:
ALTER TABLE auth_admin_log MODIFY object_id TEXT;
Added support for anonymous sessions
As of [518], Django has support for anonymous sessions. If you're using a Django database installation from before [518] and you want to use the Django admin, anonymous sessions or auth-based sessions, you'll need to make a few updates to your database and settings files.
Change your settings files
"django.middleware.sessions.SessionMiddleware" to the
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES tuple in your admin settings file. Make sure it appears before
"django.middleware.admin.AdminUserRequired". (The middleware classes are applied in order, and the admin middleware requires that the session middleware come first.)
If you want session support any other (i.e., non-admin) Django installation, change the
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting accordingly. The order (i.e., whether it comes before or after the other installed middleware classes) doesn't matter.
Create the core_sessions database table
In PostgreSQL, use this:
CREATE TABLE core_sessions ( session_key varchar(40) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, session_data text NOT NULL, expire_date timestamp with time zone NOT NULL ); INSERT INTO content_types (name, package, python_module_name) VALUES ('session', 'core', 'sessions');
In MySQL and SQLite, use this:
CREATE TABLE core_sessions ( session_key varchar(40) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, session_data text NOT NULL, expire_date datetime NOT NULL ); INSERT INTO content_types (name, package, python_module_name) VALUES ('session', 'core', 'sessions');
Remove old, unneeded things
Execute this SQL in your database:
DROP TABLE auth_sessions; DELETE FROM content_types WHERE package = 'auth' AND python_module_name = 'sessions';
Edit your settings file(s) to remove
AUTH_SESSION_COOKIE and
REGISTRATION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, if they exist.
Changed model syntax
As of [549], Django's model syntax has changed. If you're using models that use old (pre-[549]) syntax, you'll need to convert them according to the instructions on ModelSyntaxChangeInstructions.


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As the demonstrations targeting the Bilderberg conference of international leaders in Chantilly, Virginia, drew to a close on Sunday, dozens of protesters gathered around one man, hoping for a picture or an autograph.
"Alex, what's next?" one protester repeatedly yelled.
"God bless you, Alex," said a number of others, as they stood outside a service entrance to a heavily guarded Marriott.
The object of their adoration was Alex Jones, an Austin, Texas-based radio host and counter-culture icon. A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
Throughout the morning black sedans and SUVs would leave the property amid jeers from the crowd. The passengers, the demonstrators believed, were members of an international elite intent on establishing a "new world order".
Police had confined the protesters to patches of grass on either side of the entrance, and at one point prevented anyone from crossing one side to the other. Then Jones arrived.
"Get 'em, Alex," said one woman, as Jones made a beeline for the police. Surrounded by his media crew – who live-streamed every moment with their cell phones – Jones spoke to the officers. Moments later he managed to cross the street, with dozens of his supporters behind him.
The protesters saw the achievement as a victory, cheering, chanting and pumping their fists in the air.
Jones quickly took control of the situation, using his unmistakable voice– amplified by a megaphone – to launch into a full-throated denunciation of the global elite, the erosion of rights and liberty, and the establishment of federal "reeducation camps".
"The best bullhorner there is," one protester said of Jones's oratory skills. When Jones began describing how he likes to use multiple megaphones end to end, a demonstrator called him "the people's L-Rad", a reference to a sonic weapon police departments sometimes use against protesters.
Without Jones's radio show and website it is difficult to estimate how many demonstrators would have turned out to protest against the off-the-record Bilderberg meeting over the past three days. T-shirts bearing the name of his programme and references to his work were staple elements throughout the rally. Demonstrators would repeat a tag line from his show: "What's the answer to 1984? 1776!"
"Alex has been, more than anyone by far, instrumental in waking people up to what's going on in the world today; the Bilderbergs, the destruction of our constitution and our rights, mass poisoning, mass vaccinations," said John Kopel. "He's done it all."
"Even if you don't like his style, what he's done for the freedom movement in America is immense," Kopel said. "That's why I'm here. I look at his website every day. He's an inspiration."
"He's incredible," said Carmine Diiorio, who travelled from Baltimore to protest at Bilderberg. Diiorio carried an elaborate hand-drawn sign that his 15-year-old daughter made.
The sign caught Jones's eye. As the radio host approached to get a closer look, Diiorio yelled, "Death to the new world order, Alex!" Jones delighted in the artwork, had his crew take photos, and later signed it.
"He's only one person but it really gives you a testament of what one person can achieve," Diiorio said.
Jones is not without his critics, who say he uses his influence to promote paranoia and conspiracy theories, based on incomplete or self-serving research. His focus on secret societies with ties to devil worship and mass eugenics programs, controversial 9/11 theories and the power of the Illuminati, have been ridiculed and dismissed by figures on both sides of the political aisle as well as journalists and independent observers.
With respect to this year's Bilderberg protests – the most well-attended ever, by most accounts – Jones said his show was "central to kicking it off".
With a network of supporters that often relies on Jones for their news, the radio host says he does face challenges.
"You do get off balance when you're trying to talk to sources, get reports out, take photos, shoot video, sign autographs. It's like a balancing act," Jones said. "It does tend to fracture the thought process. Very stressful."


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Art Of The Business Card - Black Paper
When we work with designers on projects we have conversations about "production strategy." Sometimes letterpress is a good fit for the design intent, sometimes not. And often times we combine other production methods to achieve the effect being sought after. Black business cards present a range of production challenges. Flooding a white paper with black ink doesn't produce fine detail in small type sizes. Here are two projects featuring different ways to print on black paper by combining letterpress with other processes. Jamie Wickard Card - Designed by our friends at Westwerk Design
This card was produced on black paper stock: Tonal Black letterpress ink and a gloss black FOIL (side 1) and Silver Letterpress (side 2)
Antitdote X Card - Designed by our friends at Antidote X
This card was produced on cream paper stock custom duplexed to black paper stock. (Black letterpress on the cream side and white ENGRAVING on the black side) Then it was finished with custom die cutting.
To achieve fine white type on a black background Engraving is the most premium (and most costly) printing method. By duplexing a black stock rather than printing black ink and reversing out the white we've achieved something letterpress and offset printing would not have done well - notice the fine 3 point serif type! White foil and screen printing can print on black, but not with detail like that. Letterpress printing does not do well printing opaque white on dark colored paper and achieving bright opacity either. Like offset printing, opaque white can be laid down with several passes and achieve a mottled looking white - not a bright white. As a rule for general production: only metallic inks have good opacity on dark stocks.
Of course this all combining of production methods comes at a cost. Which comes to a final point - KNOW YOUR CLIENT BUDGET. Our best production advice is to know what your client wants to spend before finalizing your design. If you have an extravagant design with multiple production steps and your client has only a $300 dollar budget, you've just wasted design time on something they can not afford to produce. But if you plan production along side design, you can present your client an option that doesn't need rounds of compromise. That is what "production strategy" is all about.


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If a recent report is true, the Justice Department will need a new name – and some of us will have to step up and admit we were wrong.
It was clear that the foreclosure fraud settlement which the Administration and most states reached with major U.S. banks was a great deal for the big banks – and a lousy deal for the public. But some of us found reason to hope against hope that the settlement would be accompanied by real investigation of crooked bankers, after years of flim-flammery and disgraceful inaction by the Justice Department.
Not that we were entirely naïve. The administration's track record was poor. and even had a slight resonance of bad faith. when it came to prosecuting Wall Street criminality. So, speaking only for myself, that cautious support came with renewed pressure on the Administration to back its words with action.
Some of us knew that, pace Pete Townshend, we very well might get fooled again.
"The hypnotized never lie …
Now it looks like we were – fooled again, that is. From a report published this weekend in The Huffington Post: "A last-ditch effort by federal and state law enforcement authorities to hold Wall Street accountable for nearly bringing down the U.S. economy is unlikely to lead to any criminal charges against big bank executives, according to a source close to the investigation."
The Huffington Post's anonymous source said that instead of criminal indictments, the task force "will instead most likely bring civil lawsuits against some of the banks involved." That would most likely mean more of what we've seen so far: Bankers earn hefty salaries and bonuses by committing crimes. Punishment is restricted to fines, which are paid by the bank and not the bankers – giving them absolutely no reason not to do the same thing again.
Gee, what a surprise –
– not. In the months since the President boasted of the beefed-up task force in his State of the Union message, reports (including our own) have suggested that the Justice Department consistently refused to provide it with even the minimal resources it had requested. (It had asked for roughly 100 to 200 staffers, depending on the sources cited, as opposed to more than 1,000 which were assigned to the much smaller savings and loan scandal of the 1980s.)
In case the chain of command is unclear, let's spell it out: Everyone at the Justice Department reports to Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder reports to the President of the United States.
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Barack Obama took office as the economy was suffering a massive collapse brought on by widespread Wall Street fraud. It wasn't a good sign when he appointed Eric Holder, a highly-paid attorney for the prominent Wall Street law firm Covington & Burling, to act as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. While it's certainly possible for talented attorneys to move from defense to prosecution or vice versa, when it comes to Wall Street Holder has managed the Justice Department like … well, like a highly-paid attorney for a prominent Wall Street law firm.
First Holder tried to buffalo the public into believe he was fighting mortgage fraud with a deceptive publicity scam called "Blind Trust" – which the Columbia Journalism Review reviewed with the headline, ""Obama Administration's Financial Fraud Stunt Backfires."
Then Holder declined to prosecute anyone for the misdeeds of the AIG Financial Products group (note: I was a midlevel AIG executive in another part of the organization), despite the massive evidence of potentially criminal wrongdoing compiled the Levin Subcommittee and others.
(See "Law and Order: AIG" for, among other things, a chronology of events which includes an investor call in which executives made statements which their independent accounting firm considered false. There's a name for what happens when executives make false public statements about the material condition of their firm. That name is "investor fraud.")
The Holder Justice Department also declined to prosecute anyone at GE Capital, much to the astonishment of SEC investigators who had not only identified multiple instances of investor fraud but had identified specific individuals in the accounting department who had compiled and released the fraudulent information.
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Journalist Michael Hudson compiled evidence of additional misdeeds regarding subprime mortgages at GE Capital. Its CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, lavished praise on an executive whose company he bought with a fortune in shareholder money.
What was that company? As Hudson notes, it "was a place where erstwhile shoe salesmen, ex-strippers and even a former porn actress could sign on as sales reps and make big money pushing home loans. WMC's top salespeople earned a million dollars a year or more and lived fast, swigging $1,000 bottles of Cristal and wheeling around in $100,000 Ferraris and Bentleys. "
And when an investigator tried to put the brakes on fraudulent activity in that operation, Immelt's GE Capital sidelined him so that the party could continue. Not only was the firm spared any indictments, but the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve bent the rules so that it could be bailed out!
Not that its executives escaped punishment altogether. Immelt was sentenced to attend multiple public meetings – as the head of the President's Economic Advisory Panel. (They even renamed the group when Immelt took over, calling it a "Jobs and Competitiveness Panel." That might have been a bit of mordant humor on someone's part, given Immelt's record of outsourcing American jobs overseas.)
What about that $25 billion foreclosure fraud settlement, which paid out less than $2,000 to people who had lost their homes through illegal foreclosure? We gave that deal a failing grade on all five criteria we'd defined for scoring the agreement: openness, justice, restitution, deterrence, and reconciliation. But we thought there was a possibility that some its provisions could be used to restore some measure of justice – especially if it led to criminal indictments.
Apparently not.
And as we suspected and feared, the penalties and restitution won't even amount to $25 billion. Banks are being "credited" for actions they were already taking before the settlement came along (shades of "Blind Trust").
Among the crimes involved in that settlement: Forgery and perjury, in the mass filing of notarized documents which falsely state that the person signing the document has seen and reviewed all the documents which prove that the bank is entitled to foreclose on a property. (That's what they call "robo-signing" – since a false notarized document is a form of perjury, a better name would be "robo-crime.")
Robo-signing is one of many forms of bank lawbreaking which turned into a crime wave in recent years. And while the banks have promised to stop, Wells Fargo – one of the banks who signed the deal – illegally foreclosed on the same house last week for the second time. And they hired a firm to do it that was so sleazy its employees apparently vandalized and robbed the property when they raided it a second time.
How did they get permission to foreclose on this home, which the owners owned outright and which had no mortgage, unless they filed false documents twice stating that they had the proper documentation in hand to seize it?
The Big Sting
Then there's the enormous area of investor fraud, in which these banks bundled and sold mortgages to investors – including many pension plans and public institutions – which they knew were likely to fail. In fact, the entire "liar's loan" industry was built around writing bad mortgages and then defrauding investors into buying them.
It's like The Sting, multiplied a millionfold and unleashed on the entire country. (And considerably less photogenic leading actors. Blankfein and Immelt may be shrewd operators, but Redford and Newman they ain't.)
The racketeers even built a phony shell company and an electronic database to expedite their fraud.
As it turns out, Housing and Urban Development audits of banks involved in the settlement showed that all of them had hidered investigation into their misdeeds. That makes the deal even more of a travesty than it initially seemed to be, since it means the banks made it impossible to know how much criminality they were guilty of – or how high in the organization the culpability went – before the deal was done.
Investigators were polite in their language – always saying "failed to maintain controls" while describe ongoing patterns of deliberate misrepresentation, and taking banks at their word sometimes when bankers claimed they couldn't locate vital records – but the picture they paint is clear. It consistently includes phrases like "Probable violations of the False Claims Act" in addition to providing descriptions of better known crimes.
And while the False Claims Act is a civil statute, the politically connected lobbying and law firm Arent Fox correctly notes that "there are many criminal statutes … that are close analogs … it is essential to consider if there is any basis present for possible criminal liability as well."
The audits even include remarkable sentences like this one: "Wells Fargo told us that we could not interview the other (employees) because they had reported questionable affidavit signing or notarizing practices when it interviewed them. "
Oh, well in that case never mind.
We've provided excerpts from the audits below: Read 'em and weep.
Drone Fraud
But then, Wells Fargo bankers weren't even indicted for laundering money from the Mexican drug cartels that have murdered 65,000 people. Why would they worry about indictments for obstructing justice, or for something as trivial as defrauding the US taxpayer? (That's what the False Claims Act addresses.)
It was a dead giveaway when the so-called "Justice" Department declined to prosecute Goldman Sachs for its apparent defrauding of customers, or for what appeared to be perjury when senior executives appeared before Senate investigating committees.
Why has the Justice Department let all these wrongdoers go free? There's been a shifting panoply of excuses. There was the "no laws were broken" excuse, dutifully echoed by both Barack Obama and Tim Geithner, but there's overwhelming evidence of lawbreaking to refute that claim.
There's also many billions of dollars paid out in fraud settlements. But then, the crooks themselves don't pay those settlements and fines. Their shareholders do – sometimes for acts of fraud against the shareholders themselves. That aside, did these multi-billion-dollar frauds commit themselves?
That suggests a new concept: "drone fraud," a form of crime which takes place without any individuals present to commit it.
What Real Prosecutors Can Do
The Justice Department is also fond of complaining that getting convictions in financial fraud cases is too hard because the details are complicated. Leaving aside the absurdity of the excuse-making – what would townsfolk do if their police chief said "I'd arrest those crooks, but it's pretty hard work chasing those boys" – there are thousands of convictions to disprove this argument. There are, for example:
More than 1,000 convictions obtained (mostly be Republican Justice Departments) in the far smaller Savings and Loan scandal.
Nineteen executives who were convicted or offered guilty pleas in the Enron scandal.
Two senior executives convicted in the Tyco scandal.
(Those convictions were obtained under Republican President George W. Bush, whose record of pursuing corporate crime is actually superior to Obama's at this point.)
Two brokers convicted in a municipal bond big-rigging scandal.
There's more, but you get the idea.
Higher Authority
Of course, the Huffington Post piece could be wrong. Justice – real justice – could be right around the corner. The Post's anonymous informant even said a criminal indictment might come as the result of a "Hail Mary pass."
The term "Hail Mary pass" has come to describe any action performed against near-impossible odds in the hope that a miracle will happen. Older football fans know that it was coined after Catholic quarterback Roger Staubach explained a seemingly impossible winning touchdown pass by saying "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary."
From the looks of things it's going to take some sort of divine intercession for justice to be done on Wall Street. The current management doesn't seem all that interested.
By Any Other Name
We thought the Administration and the Justice Department might at least try to take action. Whatever the outcome, indictments alone can discourage wrongdoing. There's a deterrent effect when wrongdoers know that they may face a jury. They may get off in the end, but even the wealthiest Wall Street executive would prefer to avoid the experience.
So why is the Attorney General, along with others in the Administration, arguing against indicting Wall Street bankers When there's a preponderance of evidence suggesting a crime was committed, it's the defense attorney's job to argue there wasn't – or that it will be too hard to obtain a conviction. It's the defense attorney who usually meets with reporters to explain why the case won't hold up.
What do you call a Justice Department that would rather do the defense's job than its own? "Covington & Burling" is already taken. If these reports are true, the Department will definitely need that new name. But whatever you call it, don't call it 'justice.'
For Ally Financial:
"Our review was significantly hindered by Ally's refusal to allow us to interview responsible personnel and its failure to provide the documentation we requested in a timely manner. At our request, Ally gave us a list of employees responsible for signing affidavits. We attempted to interview these employees to determine whether they properly processed foreclosure affidavits but were told by Ally's attorneys that we could not do so. … Individual counsel for each of the employees objected, citing Fifth Amendment concerns – (note to Holder Justice Department: that's the one about not testifying if your answers would "tend to incriminate you") – and we were prohibited from interviewing them.
"Ally also failed to produce requested documents and other information in a timely manner. Therefore, we served Ally with two Inspector General subpoenas on December 6, 2010. The information and data it provided in response to our two subpoenas were incomplete …"
For Wells Fargo:
"Wells Fargo provided a list of 14 affidavit signers and notaries and then initially restricted our access to interview them. Wells Fargo attorneys interviewed them first and then only allowed us to interview 5 of the 14 affidavit signers. Wells Fargo told us that we could not interview the others because they had reported questionable affidavit signing or notarizing practices when it interviewed them. After discussion with attorneys for Wells Fargo and OIG counsel, terms were agreed to, permitting us to interview these remaining nine persons. The terms that Wells Fargo set required that Wells Fargo management and attorneys attend all of the interviews as facilitators. This condition resulted in delays and may have limited the effectiveness of those interviews.
"Wells Fargo's terms also required that persons we interviewed have private counsel present on their behalf. Wells Fargo chose the private counsel and paid the attorney fees of the persons we interviewed. Wells Fargo was not timely in arranging the private attorneys, which further delayed our interviews. However, as our work progressed and through other research, we began identifying many more affidavit signers and notaries that Wells Fargo did not disclose to us initially. Wells Fargo ultimately disclosed 35 persons, and we interviewed 33 of them (22 affidavit signers and 11 notaries)."
For JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO Jamie Dimon is the frequent recipient of lavish praise from the press and the President:
"Our review was hindered by Chase's reluctance to allow us to interview employees outside the presence or involvement of its management staff or attorneys; therefore, the effectiveness of those interviews was limited. On a number of occasions during the interviews, Chase's management or attorneys clarified statements provided by staff. In addition, Chase did not provide read-only access to its mortgage servicing systems, which would have allowed us to independently verify the amounts on the affidavits and assess the reliability of the data to facilitate a better understanding of Chase's internal controls.
"Chase was unable to provide electronic production records for all operations specialists during our review period. Chase's production records, prepared using Microsoft Excel, identified the persons who prepared each foreclosure package and signed the affidavits. However, for the records provided, all of the data fields were not always complete, and Chase did not provide a point of contact, who could explain and clarify the data. Further, Chase provided the production reports nearly 4 months after our initial request. As a result, it was not possible to know whether Chase omitted from the records information that was relevant to our review."
The results were similar for Bank of America and Citigroup.


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Have traveled for years to different Stadiums and seen numerous games on the road.
In our worst years I still watched every second of every game! Why? I sometimes ask myself that question, but I am a Jets fan All day long!!
I never waiver and take alot of s*it because of it! Still I dont care, I love rooting my team on and being that Fanatical Jet fan.
In recent years we have had success. I am grateful for the years we had and how Sunday was an amazing day for the family as we rooted for our beloved Jets all thru the year and into the playoffs for that chance at the SuperBowl.
I am now facing a dilema that I havent faced in awhile. being out of the race for the playoffs before Thanksgiving! Maybe Im getting older but I just cant keep watching all these games when we have nothing on the line anymore!
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You'll be more relaxed....
You're a smoker or a non smoker, a drinker or a non drinker, a Jet fan or not a Jet fan very simple. Give em 4 more years, that's what I'm gonna give em.
You never stop watching. The motives for watching just change.
At first, and for a long time, you root for them.
Then you just watch for comedic value.
If you're realistic and understand that this team has some of the worst talent in the league, it should be pretty easy to relax... I've been a Jet fan for 30+ years and going into this season I expected them to suck... I'm not shocked at what I'm seeing.. Am I pissed off about it, yes, but when i see Sanchez getting sacked w/ fumbles, throwing the picks at the goal line, Rex ruining clock management, the inability to get a pass rush, I'm not that worked up anymore...
It is what it is....
I flew to Pitt from San Diego for the AFC title game a couple years back and this team is so far from being enjoyable that I admit I've lost interest in them...
And as long as Tannenbaum is picking players and Rex isn't holding anyone accountable, nothing will change.
I get it but even when i expect less just watching them gets the juices going
30 + yr fan here as well. I used to really get crazy into the games, strained my many relationships with this team. Now, Im just as big of a Jets fan than ever, I still watch each and every game if Im not in town to attend live, but I have also learned with this team to not get myself all worked up just to be let down. Im relaxed, but do tend to get pissed off over dumb mistakes.
The problem that I have
Is that I have expectations, and thats why it has hurt so much all these years.
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intro: Just a few weeks after Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were criticized for naming their daughter "North," actress Busy Philipps is defending the quirky name she and her husband, Marc Silverstein, reportedly gave their baby girl: Cricket. "It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names," she tweeted. "Guys, my kids will be in therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure." (The "Cougar Town" star's oldest daughter's name is Birdie.)
Check out other celebs who chose unique names for their children.
quicklist: 1 title: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, North text: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West gave their daughter the name North because "[It] means 'highest power,' the reality star's mother Kris Jenner said. "And [Kim] says that North is their highest point together." media: 19456011
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quicklist: 3 title: Nicolas Cage, Kal-El text: Nicolas Cage and his wife Alice Kim welcomed their son in 2005, and named him Kal-El, which is Superman's birth name. (Cage, a comic book fan, was reportedly once considered for the role of Superman.) media:19457215
quicklist: 4 title: Jason Lee, Pilot Inspketor text: In 2004, the "My Name Is Earl" star and actress Beth Riesgraf chose the name "Pilot Inspektor" for their son after listening to the band Grandaddy's album "The Sophtware Slump." "The opening track, 'He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot,' absolutely blew my mind when I first heard it," Lee told Entertainment Weekly. "It was from this track that my wife, Beth, came up with the name Pilot for our son." media: 19457129
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Then I tried using iTunes Producer to create the .itmsp iBook package. I am still a little confused as Indonesian is not on the list of languages. Does that mean that there are no books in the iBookstore in Indonesian?
There are only 14 languages in the drop-down list. When I tried to type over the option to add Indonesian. It continued to fail when I uploaded the package to iTunes Connect. Consequently I have had to put my book language as English even though I have written it in Indonesian.
I hope that I can create a series of books for children written in Indonesian. I need Apple to add Indonesian language to their list of languages.
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I neglected to read the fine print and had to resize both my cover art image and my screenshot images for my book.
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Tallahassee, FL - Las Vegas, Alaska and Israel, those places are a few of the destinations where Leon County Sheriff's Office employees have traveled for training.
Eyewitness News requested travel documents for 2009 and 10.
Our exclusive investigation found more than $424-thousand dollars worth of travel for LCSO employees in that two year period.
It's a country with great historic and religious significance.
Modern day Israel has also been a frequent target of terrorism.
This Middle Eastern Country was also the destination for four members of the Leon County Sheriff's Office.
Major Mike Wood was part of the group who went for terrorism training.
"I think it's a worthy investment for the safety of the community," said Wood.
"Sending people half way around the world to get training they could probably get here, I can't imagine that it is," said Abbie McIver of the government watchdog group "Americans For Prosperity".
Eyewitness News looked at LCSO travel records for 2009 and 2010.
Four other high ranking LCSO officers went to Israel in 2009 at a cost of just under $20-thousand dollars.
One of them retired less than three years later. Another one quit to go into a family business.
Major Wood says the trips aren't designed to instruct those people how to train subordinates, so the information wasn't passed on.
Additionally, Homeland Security Captain Rob Swearingen was sent to New Mexico in September, 2009 for terrorism training and then two months later, went to Israel for terrorism training.
"I don't think there's a redundancy," said Wood.
The trips to Israel are only part of what the sheriff's office spent on travel in 2009 and 2010. The total spent in those two years was nearly $425-thousand dollars.
McIver points out the traveling by LCSO employees comes as county commissioners raised property taxes due to a money shortfall.
"There's so many ways now that we can do training, whether they're in person or whether they're remotely," said McIver.
"Certainly I don't discount that, I think we have to be innovative because the one thing I would tell you that it's all taxpayer money and we're accountable," said Wood.
Not all the travel was training related, for example in 2009, Sheriff Larry Campbell made five trips on the taxpayer dime.
They included trips for the national and state sheriff's associations and the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce annual meeting.
Those destinations included the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club and the San Destin Golf & Beach Resort.
Total cost for the sheriff's trips that year, just under $29-hundred.
"The sheriff attends those conferences and certainly doesn't decide where they're held at," said Major Wood.
"They sound extravagant, they sound like they'd be lovely vacations," said MacIver.
The Alaska trip was for a crime prevention association meeting at a cost of about $2000. The Las Vegas trip was for a Personal Radiation Detection conference. The cost was just under $1400.
Major Wood says LCSO's travel and training budgets are about the same as other similar sized law enforcement agencies.


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Blog entry 10 Ways You Can Help the Horn of Africa
More than 11 million people trapped in the Horn of Africa are facing a severe drought and are in urgent need of assistance. There is something that everyone can do... Here are 10 things absolutely anyone can do to help the World Food Programme save lives.
1. Make an online donation
Over the coming weeks, WFP will feed more people across the Horn of Africa than live in Los Angeles. That's a big job. Making a secure online donation is one of the best ways you can help us get it done.
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2. Donate by text message
Don't have a credit card? No problem. If you live in the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom, you can also donate by text message. Here's how:
For the US, text the word AID to this number: 27722 to donate $10.
For Canada, text the word RELIEF to this number: 45678 to donate $5.
For the UK, text the word AID to this number: 70303 to donate £3.
3. Take the quiz
How much do you know about what's going on in the Horn of Africa? Find out by taking this short quiz. For every person who takes it, a child will receive a warm meal thanks to an anonymous donor. Put your knowledge to the test and then challenge your friends!
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4. Share this video
It's less than one minute long and will give you a good idea of the situation in the Horn of Africa and what WFP is doing about it. After you've seen it make sure all of your friends see it as well.
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Thousands of people are on the move across Somalia and WFP is rapidly scaling up its operations in the region. Keep track of developments at our crisis page, where you'll find the latest news and updates plus photos, videos and stories from the field.
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6. Get social
The world needs to know about what's going on in the Horn of Africa and that starts with your friends on Facebook, your followers on Twitter, your subscribers on YouTube etc. Join WFP's online communities and share the message with your friends and followers.
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7. Grab a banner
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There are hundreds of things ordinary people can do to help our operations in the Horn of Africa. Taking up a collection at school or holding a neighbourhood fundraiser are just a few of things are supporters have done to help feed the hungry. If you need some inspiration, find out what 9-year-old Emily did last year to help people left homeless by flooding in Pakistan.
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10. Keep us posted
We want to know what you're doing to raise money and awareness to help. Let us know in the comments area below or through Facebook and Twitter.
Please note: at this time, Freerice rice is allocated to Cambodia as we are not able to allocate to the Horn of Africa (Freerice rice is purchase locally, and at this stage it is not possible). We will keep you updated as to any changes in allocation. You can find out more about Cambodia here
Freerice is maintained by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organisation fighting hunger worldwide. To find out more go to WFP.org
Hi nicola891, currently we are not able to provide rice there (if it becomes possible, we would do so immediately). However, the rice is going currently to Cambodia, where there is a legacy civil conflict and economic stagnation. The recent rising food prices are not making it any easier for the people there, and they need our help to survive.
You can find out more here: http://freerice.com/content-blog-post/where-world-did-your-rice-go-0
Uhh so the rice doesn't even go to Africa? Which means we're not actually feeding any hungry people? Wtf.
This is pretty interesting. I'll look up some more info online that can help!
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I took the quiz and so should you =]
Freerice.com is one of my favorite websites. I hope we can clear all hunger, or @ least a portion of hunger with freerice.com 8)/8(
I can not stop thinking about the Horn of Africa. WE MUST HELP! 8D
while what can i do to help more then give rice??? ;-j
Picture bowls of rice to the hungary. The law of attraction will totally work. It just needs time. 8/
Wish for rice to the hungrey. World hunger stinks. 8p
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I feel so bad for the little boy in the picture and everyone else suffering like that 8(. They have freerice.com for a very important reason though; and I am glad to be part of it.
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email@example.com, thanks for letting us know. Please note, it's not a scam! But the quiz seems to be malfunctioning. We have let the UN WFP fundraising team know!
Do not take the quiz. I am sorry to say this but i make shure nothing is a scam but i looked up all the answers and purposley got them wrong but it said i got 5 of 5
I hope i can make a difference!!! i LOVE africa!! :D
i hope they get better if fell so srry
best wishes :)
i'm trying to do some more freerice
I sent out fifteen emails to every large church, mosque, and synagogue in my hometown with a link to free rice; all told the message should reach close to a million people.
This is supposed to be the United Nations of the 21st century?
Getting real tired real fast of dead and/or misdirected links.
The quiz is not working. Fix it.
Better yet, feed the world.
You're all fired. All of you.
From New York to Geneva.
I hope that all of you will pray hard for these people. God Bless!! <3
So, I'm the second.
I'll do the 3rd proposition ;-)
yeah :(
yes ikr second to comment hehe
I will forever play this game to feed the homeless ! :)
WOW. I have no comment. Why do bad things always happen to people in Africa
I want to help. But with school, dance, soccer, softball, cheerleading, AND drama club, I barely have any time to breathe!
I am sooooo happy to help them. I am only in 6th grade so its still hard to do some of the stuff on here.
I hope everyone tries to help :D I'm actually debating getting the ad published in the paper...
Hey!Well i am the first one to answer on the "Can you have too much freerice" duh!Well i am not trying to show off but next time :p
same :( poor people facing bad stuff
STep By step we can try are hardest to help
Try to get other people to help. Watch the videos- they are reall sad and make you want to help more!
Will the drought finish?
I feel so bad that I can't do more than these, but I can only:
1. Take the quiz
2. Share the video
3. Stay current
If anyone else can help, please do!
yeah.. me too..
glad we could help.. :)
Okay, as a response to the above comment. "What the fudge?"
Your statement doesn't say anything. You say, "I'm the first to comment yay!". Notice how the 10. Keep us posted area talks about what you're doing to raise money and awareness to help. And "Oh I'm feeling so bad for them" doesn't count as doing anything. Why don't you you stop talking about how bad you feel and decide to do something instead of trying to make contribution by being the first poster.
I myself created a blog post about Freerice.
Check it out:
I pray the rice will feed many in the Horn of Africa. May God bless them with spiritual and physical nourishment. It hurts to know that many do not have a choice of leaving their very ill children behind to die because they can't go on with them.
i do want to donate money .but i dont have the credit cards you require.is there other ways for us to donate money?i am in china.
Do You Have A Money Collection Box That Can Be Put Up In Businesses And Shops? If So Where Would I Get In Contact With Someone To Get One? Because I May Have A Restaurant Who Will Have One Up...
I am going to help.
I know i do too! I wish there was something more i could do. i wish i had money to donate, but being 14 i dont have a credit card.
i wish i could help more but all i can do is donate online and take the quiz, But i promise i will tell everyone i know and see what they can do.
It is just awful. Why are we not hearing about this in the news? I really cannot think of much that is more important. I wish them the best.
is it not possible to put rice to the horn of africa?
Let us all pray to God & visualize no hunger, see them being healthy and full, it's the law of attraction!
THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE SERVER!! I getting error messages and the processing is slow.
I wish the Horn of Africa get's it's water and food in time, before it really starts to take it's big death toll.
Yay! I'm the second one to comment!
Donating rice is awesome!
lol. its not about being first loh. hmm... this month will be a time where there are lesser freericers online as malays are fasting and the chinese has the chinese ghost festival thingy...
This makes me sad. I hope it will get better there.
I hope freerice can get the rice going there.
i fell really bad for them :(
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Dave Anderson and William Thomsen Join SRI International's Center for Advanced Drug Research to Lead Programs in Proteomics and Metabolic Disease Drug Discovery
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced today that two new principal scientists, Dave Anderson, Ph.D., and William Thomsen, Ph.D., have joined its Center for Advanced Drug Research (CADRE) in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
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Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He has authored more than 60 publications and holds 42 U.S. patents.
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He joins SRI with more than 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug discovery, with an emphasis on target validation, assay development, high throughput screening, and molecular pharmacology. He has experience with several classes of discovery targets, including G protein coupled receptors, within multiple therapeutic areas, including: disorders of the central nervous system; endocrine, metabolic, cardiovascular, and immunological diseases; and cancer. Most recently, he served as the director of molecular pharmacology at Arena Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Thomsen received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington.
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Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor says that she feels blessed to be a part of Raanjhnaa. The actress will be seen playing different ages in the film and said that it was an incredible opportunity.
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against an object. It is a form of child abuse. It may happen to children up to 5 years of age, but it is most common in babies younger than 1 year old.
It is never okay to shake or throw a young child. It may not leave any obvious sign of injury, but it can cause serious long-term
problems or even death.
Shaken baby
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When a baby is shaken or thrown, the head twists or whips back and forth. This can cause tears in brain tissue, blood vessels, and nerves. The child's brain slams against the skull. This can cause bleeding and swelling in the brain.
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Saunders BE, et al., eds. (2004). Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment (Revised). Charleston, SC: National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center. Also available online: http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/ncvc/resources_prof/ovc_guidelines04-26-04.pdf.
American Academy of Pediatrics (2007, reaffirmed 2012). Evaluation of suspected child physical abuse. Pediatrics, 119(6): 1232–1241. Also available online: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/6/1232.full.
American Academy of Pediatrics (2008). Promoting mental health. In Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd ed., pp. 77–107. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.
Braverman R (2014). Eye. In WW Hay Jr et al., eds., Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 22nd ed., pp. 447–489. New York: McGraw Hill.
The Arc (accessed October 2012). Shaken Baby Syndrome. Silver Spring, MD: The Arc. Available online: http://www.thearc.org/page.aspx?pid=2549.
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