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A Philadelphia man was arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly driving under the influence.
One of the man's passengers was Eagles tight end Brent Celek.
"I put my life in danger and was in a vehicle that put other people's lives in danger, and that's just not the way I operate," Celek said in a statement on Thursday. "It will not happen again."
Around 2:25 a.m., police say Sean Glynn, 35, was driving southbound on I-95 at an unreasonably high speed. While exiting at the Packer Avenue off-ramp, Glynn spun out of control and struck a concrete barrier on the right side of the roadway, according to investigators.
After an investigation and a sobriety test, police arrested and charged him with driving under the influence.
"As far as the events of last night are concerned, I showed extremely poor judgment," Celek said in his statement. "I did not know that the person driving the car was over the legal limit, but that's no excuse."
Celek, who turned 27 on Wednesday, was one of the four passengers in Glynn's car. No one was hurt and none of the passengers were charged.
The Eagles issues this statement:
"The team is aware of the accident and has been in contact with Brent. Thankfully, no one involved in the accident was injured and, to our knowledge, Brent is not facing any legal charges."
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Preds' Smith excelling after offseason refocus
NASHVILLE — On a wall in the media room in the bowels of Bridgestone Arena hangs a photo of Nashville Predators forward Craig Smith from his rookie year. Helmetless in the 1970s style, Smith sports a devilish smile, his hair flaring outwards, as he stick-handles around a cone. In the background, the Boston Bruins' Zdeno Chara wears his ever-dour expression and an official, bent at the knees, watches intently.
The photo was shot in January 2012 at the NHL All-Star Weekend's SuperSkills competition, to which Smith was invited for his breakout performance in the first half of that season.
In much of the year and a half that followed, it was hard to find that smile on Smith's face. But not anymore. Smith leads the Predators in goals this season with 15.
During the summer, as Smith did some soul-searching, he watched a video of the late Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch's inspiring "Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." The video, which has more than 16 million views on YouTube, was made from a lecture one month after Pausch learned that his pancreatic cancer was terminal.
Smith said it helped him to restructure his priorities.
"I thought about them so much last summer," Smith said of the issues that ailed him. "I don't really care much to talk about it, but I will say one thing I learned. I learned from watching video of the 'Last Lecture' experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
For too long, Smith was not getting what he wanted. A fourth-round pick in 2009, he turned pro out of the University of Wisconsin and took the league by storm, scoring seven goals in his first 15 games. Then, the league seemingly caught up with him — and stayed up with him. Over the final 57 games of his rookie campaign, he scored seven goals. That slump continued into the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season as he totaled only four goals in 44 games. Through the first 31 games of this season, he improved modestly, scoring seven times.
Since Dec. 19, when he scored two goals against Tampa Bay, Smith has easily been the team's most dangerous forward. The 24-year-old has scored nine goals in his past 16 games.
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"He's got a lot of offensive ability," said sometimes linemate and 16-season veteran Matt Cullen. "He's a great skater and he's quick. More importantly, he works and he's very tenacious on the puck and he never stops moving his feet. He's got a real good shot. He takes the puck and creates a lot of offense even if he's not scoring, which is important. I've been really impressed with his game."
Nashville coach Barry Trotz said something similar about Smith, who can skate appreciably faster than those around him, in terms of keeping his feet moving. Trotz said to start the season, he elected to keep Smith at just one position. Smith came to Nashville as a center and Trotz bounced him around all three forward positions.
Trotz had grown concerned that Smith was growing too frustrated, especially in light of increasing expectations.
"I didn't want to move him around — right wing, left wing, center, just trying to get him going." Trotz said. "I don't know if I helped him or hurt him. This year I would say he's really stuck with it and, obviously, getting Matt Cullen and just keeping him on that right side. He's a young player, he wants to be a top player in this league so he's a real committed guy.
"My whole focus with him was to get him to relax a little bit as a player and to just keep him to one position and let him do. I love the way he battles on pucks. His battle skills on pucks are really good. He's using his legs, his skill, his shot all those things. I'm happy with Craig."
in fact, Smith said sticking to right wing has helped him. Centers have far more to think about, in terms of defensive responsibilities.
"The less things, the better, I guess," he said. "I don't have to worry about — right wing, you just play one position, you know what to do, you think about one aspect of the game and that's it. … What's easier: going and doing one thing or going and doing 10 things?"
It also helps that Trotz has balanced out Smith's line, centered by David Legwand, with Nick Spaling, who also can play center and is one of the team's most defensively-responsible forwards. Smith joked that because of his frenetic style of play in the offensive zone, he has ended up on the left side at times lately when he's skating back defensively. But Spaling has been there to cover for him.
Smith has grown in that respect, too. In Nashville's system, which emphasizes responsible defensive play, he posted a minus-9 rating in his first season and then a minus-11 rating last season. This season, though, Smith is one of only two Nashville players with a positive rating (plus-2). Trotz said Smith is maturing and has become one of the team's most "detailed" players, about the highest compliment the coach will pay a player.
"I think that's he a guy that's analytical when he looks at his shifts," Trotz said of video sessions. "The other guys will watch the game almost as a fan like, 'Oh, I got the puck.' Well, you're not supposed to be there. That's not our system. … He reads the five guys."
Added Smith: "I've said before you can't score a goal without the puck. You can't chip the puck out (out of the defensive zone) every time. You've got to make the right play. You've got to try something. You pick your times when you're going to make a play. I think at times you get stuck in wanting to do things so right that you forget about actually playing and being able to go out there and being a hockey player."
He's been able to do that in Year 3. Perhaps that comes with realizing that at its core, hockey is simply a game and not a matter of life and death, a lesson he learned over the summer.
"I don't want to complicate it any more than it is."


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DJ GarGar's unconventional San Diego band samples
The Beautiful State draws from No Knife, Buck-O-Nine and others
Jay Allen Sanford 2 p.m., Dec. 5
Andrew Loveless: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric) | Mark Scott: Drums | Kathleen Loveless: Bass guitar | Lee Loveless: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals
Genre: Blues & Soul, Rock
Sound description: Hard rockin' blues, mixing originals with covers of songs by Cream, Clapton, etc.
RIYL: Cream, Canned Heat, John Mayall
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Inception: San Diego, 2005
Current Status: Playing around town.
Influences: Cream, Eric Clapton, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, early Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat
After years playing progressive rock, Lee Loveless, guitarist for Wooden Badger, went back to his guitar playing roots -- the blues. He formed Fat Man's Misery with his sister, Kathleen, and Mark Scott, the drummer from Wooden Badger. They were then joined by Lee's son Andrew, formerly of the Black Market Hearts. The band is focusing on traditional electric blues, but with Lee and Mark's progressive influences, Kathleen's rock roots, and Andrew's punk ethic, who knows what will come out of this substantial pool of talent.
Loveless gave the Reader three reasons why he called the group Fat Man's Misery:
1. "It's a blues band. This may sound simple, but I've been playing guitar for 35 years, and this is my first blues band. Although blues is the foundation of my guitar approach, I've always been in progressive rock bands. I wanted the name to reflect a turn to the blue side of life and music."
2. "I'm fat. Oh, yeah, I mean FAT. Not just a little overweight, but at my heaviest I was 431 pounds. Oh, yeah. That's fat. True, I'm 6'3" so it's not as bad as if I were a foot shorter, but it makes me different, very different from most people. This helps tap into the blues side. Being fat is not viewed very kindly."
3. "I am a very proud second-generation native of San Diego. I am inexorably linked to this city (county, actually) and Fat Man's Misery was a place in Torrey Pines my sister (the bass player) and I used to go to when we were kids. So, this ties in the city and the fond memories of my sister and I together. And, I guess I haven't mentioned, my sister was the essential member when I first thought of doing this band."
Of their earlier name, Wooden Badger, Loveless says "All of us in the band are huge Monty Python fans. The name is a reference to a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where Bedevere's Trojan Rabbit idea fails, because they forgot to get into it...Bedevere says, 'Um, look, suppose we built this large wooden badger.'"


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Fact sheet
OVERVIEW: On Aug. 1, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient stays in acute care hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. The final rule also updates payment policies and rates for hospitals paid under the Long-term Care Hospitals (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS). The rule also finalizes the payment update that is used to calculate FY 2012 target amounts for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS, such as cancer and children's hospitals, and religious nonmedical health care institutions.
The final rule, which would apply to approximately 3,400 acute care hospitals and approximately 420 LTCHs, will generally be effective for discharges occurring on or after Oct. 1, 2011. Under the final rule, general acute care hospitals will receive a 1.0 percent payment rate update relative to FY 2011 for inpatient stays paid under the IPPS. As required by the Medicare law, hospitals that do not successfully report quality data under the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR) will receive a 2.0 percentage point reduction or a payment rate update of -1.0 percent. CMS projects that the rate increase, together with other policies in the final rule and projected utilization of inpatient services, will increase Medicare's operating payments to acute care hospitals by $1.13 billion, or 1.1 percent, in FY 2012 compared with FY 2011. Medicare payments to LTCHs in FY 2012 are projected to increase by $126 million or 2.5 percent.
This fact sheet discusses major provisions of the final rule other than provisions related to Medicare's hospital quality initiatives or the determination of the FY2012 documentation and coding adjustment. These issues are addressed in separate fact sheets which are available on the CMS Web page at: http://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Public-Affairs/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-Sheets/index.html
BACKGROUND: By law, CMS pays acute care hospitals (with a few exceptions specified in the law) for inpatient stays under the IPPS and long-term care hospitals under the LTCH PPS. These prospective payment systems set rates prospectively based on the patient's diagnosis and the severity of the patient's medical condition. Under the IPPS and the LTCH PPS, a hospital receives a single payment for the case based on the payment classification – MS-DRGs under the IPPS and LTC-MS-DRGs under the LTCH PPS ‑ assigned at discharge. The Medicare law requires CMS to update the payment rates for both types of hospitals annually to account for changes in the costs of goods and services used by these hospitals in treating Medicare patients, as well as for other factors. The law exempts critical access hospitals (CAHs), children's hospitals, certain cancer hospitals, and certain other facilities from payment under the IPPS.
Until FY 2008, discharges from acute care hospitals were classified into one of 538 CMS-diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). In FY 2008, CMS replaced the 538 DRGs with 745 MS-DRGs that provide higher payment for more severely ill or injured patients and lower payment for all other cases. Since FY 2008, CMS has modified these MS-DRGs through notice and comment rulemaking. For FY 2012, Medicare is adopting additional MS-DRGs, bringing the total to 751.
The LTCH PPS was implemented in FY 2003. Medicare payments under the LTCH PPS utilize the same DRG system as the IPPS, but payment weights associated with the LTCH patient classifications are calculated based on treatment costs at LTCHs. In conjunction with the IPPS, the LTCH PPS adopted MS-LTC-DRGs in FY 2008.
Changes to Payment Rates under the IPPS: The final rule will update IPPS payment rates by 1.0 percent. This reflects an update of 1.9 percent (based on an update of 3.0 percent for inflation in hospital costs (the market basket) reduced by a multi-factor productivity adjustment of -1.0 percent and an additional -0.1 percent in accordance with the Affordable Care Act); increased by 1.1 percent in light of the decision in the case Cape Cod Hospital v. Sebelius; and reduced by a -2.0 percent prospective documentation and coding adjustment. The documentation and coding adjustment is discussed in a separate fact sheet also issued today.
Provisions to Continue Implementing the Affordable Care Act:
- Hospital quality initiatives – The final rule includes a number of provisions to improve the quality of care furnished by a hospital. Specifically, CMS is adopting certain policies related to the upcoming Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, the Hospital IQR Program, and the Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program. Moreinformation about these provisions is included in a separate fact sheet on hospital quality initiatives also issued today.
- Payments for hospitals in counties with lowest per beneficiary spending - Section 1109 of the Affordable Care Act provides for additional payments in FY 2011 and FY 2012 totaling $400 million for qualifying hospitals that are in located in counties that rank in the lowest quartile nationally (risk-adjusted for age, sex and race) for Medicare spending per enrollee. In the FY 2011 IPPS Final Rule, CMS finalized a policy to distribute $150 million to qualifying hospitals in FY 2011 and $250 million in FY 2012 through an annual one-time payment made by Medicare contractors. The final rule provides for CMS to distribute the remaining $250 million to qualifying hospitals in FY 2012. The list of qualifying hospitals and their share of these payments can be found on the CMS website.
- Low-volume hospital payment adjustment (Section 3125 as amended by Section 10314 of the Affordable Care Act) - Sections 3125 and 10314 of the Affordable Care Act amended the low-volume hospital payment adjustment by allowing hospitals, for FYs 2011 and 2012, to qualify for this adjustment if they are located more than 15 (rather than 25) miles from another hospital and have less than 1,600 (as opposed to 800) annual discharges of individuals entitled to benefits under Medicare Part A. In the FY 2011 IPPS final rule, CMS used FY 2009 MedPAR data (the most current data then available) to determine the FY 2011 low-volume payment adjustment. CMS is basing the FY 2012 low-volume payment adjustment on FY 2010 MedPAR data, the most recent data currently available.
Hospital Wage Index Provisions:
- Cape Cod Adjustment ‑ CMS is increasing IPPS payment rates by 1.1 percent for FY 2012 in light of the January 14, 2011, decision in the case, Cape Cod Hospital vs. Sebelius involving the calculation of budget neutrality for the rural floor.
- Pension Costs for Medicare Wage Index – As a result of amendments made by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974, CMS is revising how hospitals report pension contributions for the purpose of the Medicare wage index. The final rule provides for CMS to use a rolling three-year average of the annual funds that a hospital contributed to its pension plan when calculating the Medicare wage index. The three-year average controls for potential large annual fluctuations in a hospital's allowable pension cost. As discussed further below, CMS is also revising its policy for reporting the maximum annual allowable pension costs for purposes of cost finding.
- Imputed Floor: Under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the wage index for a hospital in an urban area of a state cannot be less than the area wage index determined for the state's rural area. In FY 2005, CMS adopted an "imputed" floor policy establishing for three years a wage index floor for those states that did not have rural hospitals and later extended the "imputed" floor through FY 2011. Although CMS proposed to allow the imputed floor to expire, in response to comments, CMS is again extending the imputed floor for two years-- through FY 2013.
Changes to MS-DRG Classifications: CMS is finalizing the following four changes to the MS-DRG classifications:
- Excisional debridement - The current classification of excisional debridement as an operating room procedure results in a classification of these stays to a surgical MS-DRG. However, CMS believes these cases use significantly fewer resources than other surgical cases in their MS-DRG assignment, resulting in payment approximately 40 percent above costs. CMS is therefore removing these cases from their current MS-DRG and assigning them to three new MS-DRGs that would still be classified as operating room procedures but would provide for a lower payment that is better aligned with costs.
- Autologous bone marrow transplant – Autologous bone marrow transplants are currently assigned to MS-DRG 015, with no "severity" adjustment to account for complications or comorbidities. CMS is creating two new MS-DRGs, one for autologous bone marrow transplants with complications or comorbidities (CC), and one for these transplants in the absence of any CC.
- Rechargeable dual array deep brain stimulation system – CMS is moving the codes for rechargeable dual array deep brain stimulation to MS-DRGs 023 – 024 (Craniotomy with Major device implant/acute complex CNS PDX with complications or comorbidities (MS-DRG 023) and without complications or comorbidities (MS-DRG-024)). Similar devices are already in this set of MS-DRGs.
- Thoracic aneurysm repair – CMS is moving two codes that either repair a thoracic aneurysm or place a stent from MS-DRG 237 – 238 (Major cardiovascular procedures with major CC (MCC) or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair and without MCC to the higher paying MS-DRGs 219 – 221 (Cardiac valve and other major cardiothoracic procedure without cardiac catheterization with MCC or CC, and without CC).
New Technology Add-On Payments For 2012: To remove barriers to access for costly new technologies that are not yet fully reflected in the current MS-DRG payment rates, the Medicare
law provides for temporary add-on payments for inpatient stays that involve the use of certain approved new technologies. CMS is not approving any applications for new technology add-on payments this year because the agency found that the applicants did not meet the statutory newness, cost, and substantial clinical improvement criteria. However, CMS is extending through FY 2012, the new technology add-on payment for the AutoLITT™, an MRI guided treatment for the removal of brain tumors.
Other Provisions Included In The IPPS Final Rule:
- Payment for Hospital Acquired Conditions – As further discussed in the Quality Fact Sheet, CMS did not finalize its proposal to add one category of conditions ‑ Acute Renal Failure after Contrast Administration (also known as contrast-induced acute kidney injury, or CI-AKI) ‑ to the list of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) for purposes of the HACs payment policy.
- Three Day/One Day Payment Window – CMS is clarifying that the 3-day payment window (1-day payment window for LTCHs and certain other non-IPPS hospitals) applies to both preadmission diagnostic and non-diagnostic services furnished to a patient at physicians' practices that are wholly owned or wholly operated by the admitting hospital. CMS addressed the payment window policy's affect on physician billing in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2012.
- Clarification of Add-on Payment to Hospitals Treating Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease - Medicare regulations provide for an add-on payment to IPPS hospitals that provide inpatient dialysis treatment to a high proportion of beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) whose principal reason for being in the hospital is not dialysis. The final rule clarifies that discharges of all patients entitled to Medicare Part A, including Medicare Advantage patients, are included in determining whether the hospital qualifies for the add-on payment.
- Excluding Hospice Discharges from the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Adjustment and Indirect Medical Education (IME) Adjustment – Medicare beneficiaries can receive inpatient hospice care in a hospital under certain circumstances, such as hospitalization for pain control and symptom management and respite care needed to provide temporary relief to family members or other caretakers. The final rule excludes from the Medicare DSH adjustment patient days and bed days for inpatient hospice services because these patients are not receiving acute care services payable under the IPPS. For the same reason, the final rule excludes such bed days from the calculation of available bed days for the indirect medical education adjustment.
- Changes to "Under Arrangements" Requirements – The Medicare law permits hospitals to bill and be paid for certain services that are provided to its inpatients under arrangements with an outside entity. The final rule limits the services that can be provided under arrangement with an outside entity to therapeutic and diagnostic services. "Routine services," such as room and board, nursing services, and ICU services can be furnished by another entity but only if they are provided in the hospital where the patient is an inpatient.
- Clarifying Payment Policy for Replacement of Recalled Devices – CMS reduces payment under both the IPPS and the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for replacing an implanted device that has been recalled if the hospital receives a credit from the device manufacturer equal to 50 percent or more of the cost of the device. The final rule clarifies that, as in the OPPS "partial credit" policy, the relevant device cost is the cost of the replacement device, not the cost of the original device.
- Modifying Payment Policy for Ambulances Operated by Critical Access Hospitals – CMS is modifying its regulations to allow reasonable cost-based payment for ambulance services furnished by a CAH or by an entity owned and operated by the CAH as long as there is no other ambulance provider or supplier within a 35-mile drive of the CAH. CMS is also amending its regulations to permit Medicare to pay an entity owned and operated by a CAH based on 101 percent of reasonable costs for its ambulance services even if the entity is further than a 35-mile drive from the CAH, as long as it is the closest provider or supplier of ambulance services to the CAH.
- Pension Costs for Medicare Cost Finding – As indicated previously, CMS is revising the rules for determining pension costs for Medicare cost-finding and wage index purposes. With respect to Medicare cost-finding, under the final rule, a provider's pension cost equals the cash basis contribution deposits (made within the current cost reporting period and not reflected as a pension cost for a prior cost reporting period) plus any carry forward contributions, subject to a limit. The limit is equal to 150 percent of the average pension contributions made during the highest three consecutive cost reporting periods out of the five most recent cost reporting periods (ending with the current cost reporting period). The final policy also allows a provider with current period contributions and carry forward in excess of the limit to submit documentation showing that all or a portion of the excess contributions are reasonable and necessary and should therefore be reportable as current period pension cost.
- Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program – The final rule adds measures to be reported for purposes of the Hospital IQR Program (formerly called the Reporting
- Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update or RHQDAPU) for the FY 2014 and FY 2015 payment determinations. More information about these changes is included in a separate fact sheet on hospital quality initiatives also issued today.
- Finalizing Redistribution of Graduate Medical Education (GME) Caps ‑ In the CY 2011 Hospital Outpatient PPS final rule published in November 2010, CMS implemented section 5503 of the Affordable Care Act, which provides for reductions in the statutory full time equivalent (FTE) resident caps for purposes of determining Direct and Indirect GME payments under Medicare for certain hospitals, and authorizes a "redistribution" to hospitals of the estimated number of FTE resident slots resulting from the reductions. Section 203 of the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010 further amended section 1886(h)(8) of the Act to provide for FTE resident cap reduction determinations based on the aggregate experience of hospitals that are part of a Medicare GME affiliated group. CMS issued an IFC on March 14, 2011 to implement section 203 and is finalizing the IFC in this final rule.
- Expediting Medical Record Requests ‑ CMS also finalized its proposal to allow Quality Improvement Organizations to expedite medical record requests for cases involving "serious reportable events" or other circumstances that have been identified during the course of a QIO quality of care review.
New quality reporting program for LTCHs: CMS is establishing the framework for a new quality reporting program for LTCHs that will affect payment determinations beginning in FY 2014, as required by the Affordable Care Act. More information about this program is included in the fact sheet on hospital quality initiatives.
Clarifying Average Length of Stay Requirements: LTCHs are defined generally as hospitals that have an average length of stay (ALOS) greater than 25 days. The final rule clarifies two existing policies related to the calculation of ALOS. First, it clarifies that both traditional Medicare fee-for-service program stays and beneficiary days paid for under Medicare Advantage are included in the determination of whether an LTCH meets the greater than 25 days ALOS requirement. Second, the final rule clarifies CMS policy regarding the evaluation of whether an LTCH (either an LTCH under-formation or an existing LTCH) meets the greater than 25 days ALOS requirement when a change of ownership occurs. The policy generally precludes a hospital with less than a 25 day ALOS from gaining or retaining LTCH status through repeated changes of hospital ownership.
Extension of moratoria on establishing LTCHs or increasing number of beds: The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA) imposed a moratorium on the establishment or classification of new LTCHs and LTCH satellite facilities, as well as a moratorium on increasing the number of beds in existing LTCHs and LTCH satellite facilities subject to specific exceptions. The Affordable Care Act extended both moratoria for an additional two-year period. CMS is clarifying that the moratorium extends to bed increases in LTCHs and LTCH satellite facilities that were exempted from the original MMSEA moratorium, because, at that time, they had expansions already underway.
The final rule can be downloaded from the Federal Register at:
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Billy Butler and Salvador Perez cracked back-to-back homers in the ninth inning Saturday, rallying Kansas City to a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Trailing 2-0 entering the ninth, the Alex Gordon collected a one-out single, chasing Royals starter Zack Greinke.
After Ernesto Frieri (3-1) relieved, Butler bashed a pitch more than 400 feet over the center field fence, tying the score.
The next batter, Perez, followed by clanking a Frieri offering off the left field foul pole to win it for the Royals, evening their three-game series.
The comeback made a winner of Kelvin Herrera (4-2), who tossed a scoreless ninth in relief of Jeremy Guthrie. The Kansas City starter went eight innings, yielding a pair of runs while walking one and striking out two.
Greinke had to settle for a no-decision after giving up just one run on five hits in 8 1/3 innings.
Kendrys Morales socked a solo homer for the Angels, who came into the contest 2 1/2 games out of an American League wild card spot.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Prior to the regularly scheduled midweek matchup between UC Santa Barbara and Pepperdine, the two teams completed an unfinished 3-3 tie that was called for darkness after the 10th inning back on Mar. 27. After waiting more than a month to reconvene the game, it took merely 15 minutes before the Waves hit a walk-off homerun in the bottom of the 11th. Riding the momentum from the win, Pepperdine made it a two-win trip with a 3-1 victory over the Gauchos on Tuesday at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
In the top of the 11th of the continuation game, UCSB's Andrew Martinez managed a two-out walk but the Gauchos came up empty. The Waves' Quincy McAfee led off the bottom half of the inning with a single before Jordan Qsar launched a homerun to right center to give Pepperdine a rare "road" walk-off.
In the regularly scheduled contest, freshman southpaw Joshua Candau received his first career collegiate start and did not disappoint. The Acalanes HS product and Walnut Creek, Calif. native took a no-hitter into the fifth and finished with four strikeouts and no walks in 4.1 innings. The Waves managed back-to-back hits to break up the no-no while scoring the first run of the game to take a 1-0 lead in the inning.
UCSB responded quickly as freshman Jason Willow hit a laser off the scoreboard in left for the first homerun of his career.
Pepperdine kept up the offensive attack in the sixth with back-to-back singles to start the inning before a wild pitch allowed the go-ahead run to score. After a walk put runners on the corners, the Waves made it 3-1 after a throwing error from UCSB.
The Gauchos loaded the bases in both the sixth and eighth innings but were unable to capitalize on the opportunity and stranded eight runners total throughout the game.
Tevin Mitchell led UCSB at the plate with a 2-for-4 day while Clay Fisher, Tommy Jew, McClain O'Connor and Willow rounded out the offense with a hit apiece.
After Candau's strong outing, Luke Andrews was tagged with the loss after giving up two runs on two hits in 0.2 innings. Ben Brecht was very effective in relief, tossing the final four innings and allowing just one hit while striking out six.
Pepperdine's Jeremy Farraye (3-3) picked up the win after going three innings and allowing one run on two hits.
UCSB (22-22-1, 7-8) returns to Big West play this weekend with a pivotal series at Long Beach State (21-26, 7-8) beginning on Friday, May 11 at 6:00 p.m.


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John Haden Wilson (August 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John H. Wilson was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He moved with his parents to Harmony, Pennsylvania, the same year. He graduated from the Harmony Collegiate Institute, the Zelienople Academy, and from Grove City College. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He taught school, and commenced the practice of law in Butler in 1896. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard for three years and served during the Homestead Riots. He served as was solicitor for the city of Butler from 1906 to 1934, except while a Member of Congress. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1916, 1932, 1936, and 1940.
Wilson was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Edward E. Robbins. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920. He resumed the practice of law, and served as judge of the several courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania, from 1933 to 1943. He died in Butler. Interment in North Cemetery.
|Preceded by
Edward E. Robbins
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district
1919 - 1921
|Succeeded by
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Dr Bone: Doom Jazz EP 'Burning Crosses'
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Dr Bone : Bond Rehearsal 1997
Recorded live in the rehearsal studio.
Songs played: Seven Seas, Puppet Gold, Real, Juicy, Scaramanga, Clam Bake.
Dirk - Life In A Nutshell E.P. Hate Records 1995
1. Tracker
2. Thing
3. Believe
4. Pffft
All tracks copyright Dirk Music 1995 except track 3 (SBT Music 1992).
Nick Greenwood - Guitar Vocals
Brandon Keefe - Keys/Samples/Drums
Mark Mitchell - Drums/Vocals
Shaun Reader - Guitar/Vocals
Chris Thompson - Bass
Recorded March 1995 at Magnolia Studios Blackpool.
Mixed & Produced by Nigel Chedder Chadwick and Dirk.
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Dr Bone's Dodgier Vid (Part 1)
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Fuzed - Void [Early 90's Thrash Metal Demo]
1. Shock Corridor
2. Asylum (Of The Mind)
3. Losing (Live)
4. Human Impossibility (Live)
6. Untimely Demise
7. Purified
Dr Bone The Loss Inside Video
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4. Sunny Day
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6. King of the Universe
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Based on true events, Evita tells the story of Eva Perón's rags-to-riches life as she goes from poor provincial child to First Lady of Argentina. A champion of the working-class descamisados, she uses popularity and politics to serve her people – and herself. Featuring some of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's most iconic songs, including "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," this musical masterpiece won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The 1996 film adaptation was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Song.
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In a beauty parlor in northwestern Louisiana, life is anything but boring. Steel Magnolias follows six women over the course of three years as they face life's challenges together and find comfort in one another. Embracing both laughter and tears, this story celebrates the power of female friendship. The play received one Drama Desk Award nomination, and the popular film adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes.
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On the way to their first big gig, tragedy strikes Forever Plaid, a "guy group" specializing in barbershop quartet harmonies and pitch-perfect melodies. Forever Plaid begins when the guys are given the chance to perform from the afterlife. This smash hit musical is a nostalgic homage to the music of the '50s and includes hits such as "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing."
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Based on the classic film, Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn follows retired song-and-dance man Jim's efforts to bring entertainment to his small Connecticut town. With the help of talented schoolteacher Linda, he turns his farmhouse into an inn and puts on spectacular shows celebrating all holidays. This joyous, family-friendly musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy, and a parade of Irving Berlin's hit songs, including the Academy Award-winning "White Christmas."
British tutor Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam struggle with cultural differences after Anna arrives at the royal palace in Bangkok. Inspired by true events, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I is a tale of the human experience, exploring the historical intricacies of class, race, and politics in 1862. Featuring beloved songs like "Shall We Dance?" and "Getting to Know You," this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic won 13 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical. The 1957 movie adaptation was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning five, including Best Score.
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Mary Poppins flies to the stage to delivery whimsy, excitement, and memorable songs to a story that will melt your heart. Nominated for seven Tony Awards and winner of the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography, Mary Poppins is a must see for the entire family. Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name and the beloved children's books by P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins is an entertaining adventure of enchantment and fun.
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Based on the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, An American in Paris brings breathtaking moments of dance and song to the stage. Come away with Jerry Mulligan, an American GI doing his best to make it as a painter in the bustling city of Paris following the end of World War II. The storied streets of the City of Lights become the dancefloor to a ravishing and passionate voyage into art, friendship, and love. Set to the music of George and Ira Gershwin, this four-time Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee is sure to please.
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Cindy has been known for her ageless beauty and stunning personality across the globe. She is a fabulous actress and successful entrepreneur. She has been pursuing her passion for modeling since she was 16 years of age. After getting into the film industry she started concentrating on her acting career and after a few years stopped modeling completely. Entering into business was her way to ensure she had a luxurious and elegant lifestyle even after her acting career.
Every star has several hidden secrets, which they share with their fans at times. Cindy shared her secret of undergoing Great Falls Montana plastic surgery.
in the past few years to maintain her young and beautiful looks. Several of her fans were offended with this revelation. They believed her looks were the result of using her range of cosmetic products that was a hit in the market since the day it released.
Cindy accepted that she used vitamin injections to enhance the quality of her skin and to maintain its elasticity. She was honest in her revelations that disappointed several women all over the world who bought the cosmetic products sold by her company. Her beauty range products were marketed by ensuring the customers that the product would help reduce wrinkles and rejuvenate the skin to give younger appearance.
Plastic Surgery the Source of Beauty
The original source of beauty displayed by the Hollywood actresses after the age of 30 is with the help of plastic surgery in majority of the cases. Some actresses are known to undergo surgery at a younger age to correct imperfections. Every star has a trusted dermatologist who ensures their client looks stunning and ravishing throughout their career. It is natural for the chin and other facial muscles to drop after a certain age.
This can be corrected with surgery and filling of the cheekbone area. Wrinkles and lines are eradicated and thus giving the clients a perfect looking faces and body. Lines and wrinkles appear on the neck, which can be rectified with surgery. Injections are given to enhance the quality of the skin and make it fuller and elastic. The elasticity of skin is lost with age that can be corrected with collagen and vitamin injections. Several products are available in the market, which promises of giving people better skin tone and reducing wrinkles and lines.
Several new technologies are being used in the cosmetic surgery industry that provides better results compared to the earlier procedures. Rather than pulling back the skin to reduce wrinkles new methods of filling the area has been developed. Research is study is being done the field to introduced better and effective procedures.
All knows the benefits of cosmetic surgery since it is visible to the eyes. Celebrities and stars are frequent visitors to cosmetic surgery clinics to enhance their looks. Celebrities are the ones who revolutionize the fashion industry and set trends for the common people to follow. They are vital to the glamour world and helps in generating interest of the public to the industry. They are important in promotion of products and goods to the commoners.


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1. Don't try to consume your food with solely your index finger and front left tooth. Someone has to clean up your mess and it's probably a wonderful soul from the church down the road who will cry a little when she wipes that unknown substance off your chair later.
2. Say "thanks," and mean it.
And that's it! I volunteer weekly in the kitchen at the Boston Rescue Mission (BRM), and most of the guests there are absolutely wonderful. It's the volunteers that can be forgetful. Wait a second, BLASPHEMY you say, how dare the volunteers eat! Well, the BRM is lucky enough to get more food donations that it could possibly store, nonetheless consume before it goes bad. That is why I end up taking home brussel sprouts and oatmeal cookies each week when I help out. All of the volunteers are encouraged to enjoy the meal they help to prepare along with the guests at the Mission, and it actually becomes a great time to sit and chat with the people who aren't necessarily there voluntarily. Here are some of my favorite quotes from working/eating at the BRM:
"The guys eating will spit this chicken salad out at you! What did you put in it? Didn't you taste it?" (for the record, no I did not. That is what happens when you let the vegetarian make chicken salad)
"You know how people say 'I'll sleep when I'm dead?' – F*** that, I'll do yoga when I'm dead, let me sleep now."
"Dude, you're covered in blood from cutting that meat" — "Yeah, welcome to washing machines"
"Give it to the vegetarian" (which means it's an uncommon vegetable or unidentifiable fruit, and will be given to me)
The people you will meet down in the kitchen are great, and are usually pretty grateful too; for a good reason! The Rescue Mission has a crazy number of fantastic programs to help the homeless/hungry in Boston. Each day, the kitchen whips up six gourmet meals; three for anyone who wants to come in, and three for the residents. Residents have been accepted into a rehabilitation program at the Mission and get to live in the BRM for a given period of time (usually 3-12 months). If you want to volunteer, contact me or fill out this form (http://brm.org/volunteer.php) and just show up at the Mission. It's on Kingston street, super close to the Downtown Crossing T station, for those of you who would rather tame a tiger in order to ride it there than try to find parking in that area. If you're not near Boston, consider checking to see if your town has a soup kitchen, food pantry, or homeless shelter. It's a lot less intimidating to volunteer there than you might think.
If you're too cool to volunteer, but still want to help, I have a few tips for donations. These are regarding food, but the Mission can use lots of other things like blankets, yoga mats (!), cups, etc. just so you know. So. STOP DONATING K-CUPS. While the BRM serves some exotic lunches and high quality desserts, we do not have a Keurig machine, and I doubt many homeless shelters do. Before buying food specifically with the intent to donate it, consider how useful it would be to you if you just got out of jail and you're living in a room with 30 other people. What's that tub of guacamole going to be used for? You can't even look at tuna fish because it's all you've been given for months (so no more tuna donations, please). This means that if someone donates hummus-quinoa-bean-sprout-tofu-balls, a lucky volunteer (aka me) will be taking it home for lunch because the residents will refuse to eat it. Don't get me wrong, healthy foods are good, but unpronounceable foods are… well, no one knows because no one will try it.
As with everything in life, keep it simple.


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What is the secret to good native advertising? What is the biggest challenge for native advertising? What is the future of native advertising?
Ansgar von Garrel, Director of Marketing at Lightpower, shares his insights for our series of #NativeAdSecrets.
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The secret to good native advertising…
"The secret to good native advertising is to have the right story and the right partner to tell the story. A good example we used was product tests where publishers with their own journalists were testing our products. They were feeding this information back to us and we were able to use this information. So it was basically native advertising from us to the publisher and back to us as a company. That really worked out quite well.
Related: How Native Advertising Can Help Extend Your Brand
Another example was the production of testimonial videos. It was a series of videos we did with real users using social proof. It's when there's a certain product and when there's people who are well known in the industry who are using this product and favoring this product. Then other people are more likely to use that product as well. So you need the right story, you need people to tell your story and it needs to be authentic."
The biggest challenge for native advertising…
"The biggest challenge in native advertising for us is really to create authentic content. If the content doesn't come from the company it's very hard to create it from another source, so the challenge really is to create the content first and then to use the right channels [to distribute it]. You have to know the right channels to reach your customers and that's really challenging.
Another challenge is the question of what you are good at [as a company]? Are you good at video? Are you good at print? Are you doing both? What's your USP and how can use that USP to offer [content] to other companies or to customers."
The future of native advertising…
"The future of native advertising is for me one word and that's enrichment. Native advertising only works in my opinion if there's content, if there's a story and if the publishers are able to enrich the story with their own arguments, with their own information, with their own storytelling. A good example of that is interviews a very close media partner did with some of our product ambassadors. They were interviewing these people about their work and about the company and their products. That was a really good way of enriching the information. So for me the future of native advertising truly is enrichment."
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Gosling oozes cool as The Driver
The funky hot pink opening credits in the retro font Mistral signal this is not your ordinary car chase caper. Thanks to Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, working from a Hossein Amini adaptation of the James Sallis novel, this is a highly stylized, ultra violent movie with a title that belies its true nature.
In a weird way, I was reminded of "American Gigolo" with its nightscapes of Los Angeles, heavily synthesized soundtrack and moody protagonist. Only Refn truly knows his inspiration, although he evokes Quentin Tarantino by staging some of the goriest shootouts in recent memory. Blood and brains spattered everywhere in several scenes where the bad guys and some of the good guys succumb to large caliber weapons. It ain't pretty.
The film's stars — Ryan Gosling as the cool no-name Steve McQueen-like antihero (just call him The Driver) — and Carey Mulligan as his love interest, Irene, are both ubiquitous screen presences lately. And while its easy to imagine Gosling's attraction to the material, the female lead is a harder fit for Mulligan, whom you might picture more in a classy drama instead of single mother and coffee shop waitress.
Gosling's character, a quiet loner, is a stunt driver for films and television by day and a getaway driver by night. He asks no questions; he just drives, and he does that very well, never losing his cool even as the LAPD helicopter gives pursuit as it does in one of the opening scenes.The nature of his aiding and abetting activities preclude romantic entanglements; even so, he is drawn to a new neighbor (Mulligan) with a small boy and takes them for drives through L.A. But she is very married and Standard (Oscar Isaac), her husband, is getting out of prison in a week. Soon enough he has involved Driver in a caper with a gangster moll accomplice Blanche (Christina Hendricks), but it goes bad — very bad — and now Driver is on the wrong side of a local crime boss and his partner.
The title and occupation of the main character indicate a movie saturated with car chases, but not so here. Refn uses them sparingly along with the austere script treatment, a minimalist's dream. What car chases there are transcend the ordinary with high risk, high speed driving and stunts that benefit from precision choreography. While a large team of men and women are credited with the impressive action, Gosling also logged a fair amount of time behind the wheel performing his own stunts.
The story is pretty standard with Gosling's character going up against the local mob in a showdown where few are left standing. What amps up the average is the casting coup of Albert Brooks as the bad guy, Bernie Rose. Once a B-movie film producer, now running his own crime syndicate, Bernie is ruthless, amoral and sort of charming. For Brooks, usually the funny guy, this is a welcome departure and a giant step away from type casting. Ron Perlman plays Nino, his partner and pizza-joint owner whose greed and stupidity cause a double cross robbery set up to spin out of control. And Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad" takes the role of Shannon, an unlucky mechanic who is the closest thing to a father The Driver has.
Refn has crafted an über-cool, hip film with a unique style that elevates it beyond the usual offerings in this genre. Instead of mindless car chases, there is actual thought and purpose to the action framed elegantly by Newton Thomas Sigel. And the thinly drawn characters and virtual lack of backstory keep the focus on the here and now, kind of like Gosling's character. We never learn who he is or why he is so withdrawn, but it doesn't matter really. Just "Drive."


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SD-366 Energy Committee Hearing Room 10:00 AMTo consider the pending nominations of Raymond L. Orbach, of California, to be Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy; Alexander A. Karsner, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy); Dennis R. Spurgeon, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy); and David Longly Bernhardt, of Colorado, to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.
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Hi lovely peeps.
Last time, we discussed the importance of sharing your story as a business person or content creator. If you haven't yet read that blog post, what are you waiting for? Click here to read.
Today, I am going to share four simple, but effective ways you can do so.
1. About page - Exactly what it says on the tin. This is a page on your website which details information about the people or person behind the brand, and/or the origins of the brand. It's also a nice idea to have this information on your packaging, if you are selling a product. Last time, I used Shea Moisture as an example. Read my About Page here.
2. FAQs/ Life Updates - I watch a lot of YouTube, and one thing that I particularly enjoy watching are life updates, Snapchat Q&As, and '10, 20 or 30 facts about me' videos. As a blogger, you can also produce this in written format. For businesses, your website should definitely include a blog.
3. Newsletter - Having a newsletter that people can subscribe to is a great way to let them in on your "behind the scenes". Newsletters have an added benefit of being able to offer discounts and sell directly to your target audience.
4. Social Media - This can be executed in many ways, depending on the medium you are using. Taking nice photos for the Gram, and writing a nice caption which tells a short story behind the photo is one way. Micro vlogging tools such as Instgram Stories or Snapchat is another way to let your personality shine.
Hmmm...I am looking at this list and thinking, "Madeline, you should probably follow some of your own advice!"
Whichever way you choose to "tell your story", remember that doing business and sharing content is all about connecting with people. No matter how much technology has progressed, as humans we are still social beings with a need to interact with each other.
Again, if you have not read my last blog post, you can do so here.
Can you add to my list? In what other ways do you share your story?


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Installing a White Granite Countertop in your kitchen opens up a huge range of design possibilities. White generally matches with a lot of colours but it's often at its best when trying to open up your kitchen. A White Granite Countertop is ideal for small spaces as it will give your kitchen a much larger feel to it.
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Thoughts about the exercise of the Attorney General's Chambers discretion to prosecute, its financial accountability, its lack of prudence, a quote from Dershowitz, Bangladeshis charged for sodomy and a brief description of a criminal trial.
If my criminal career was adjudged solely from the few criminal legal aid cases I took from the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre (Kuala Lumpur), I could boast of an almost 90% success rate in defending my clients. The reason I don't boast about this is because I know that my success is not entirely down to my ability; in fact, a large contributing factor to my success is actually the police and the Attorney General's Chambers themselves. When you have such opponents, you need little assistance elsewhere. After a steady diet of legal aid criminal cases for more than a decade, I strongly feel that the Attorney General's Chambers are generally incompetent in deciding the cases fit to be prosecuted, or for continued prosecution. The secret of my success is not because I am the next Amer Hamzah or Karpal Singh; it is not because I have a brilliant criminal mind (if not I'd be filthy rich by now); it is not because my cross-examination leaves the police witnesses trembling in tears begging to leave the box (although on occasion I do get the Judge to berate them harshly after successfully demonstrating how incompetent they were in discharging their duty).
It is simple: I am assigned to clients charged for a crime they did not commit. Seriously. All I do in trials is demonstrate how my clients were not involved; of course, by tearing down the prosecution's case. I just try my best to make sure the truth shines through the web of lies weaved by the police witnesses. Yes, it happens. A lot. The police will be lying about some aspect of the case – it could be about the entire event, or some crucial portions of the narrative linking the accused to the crime. Don't believe me? Alan Dershowitz in his excellent book, Letters to a Young Lawyer, in the chapter titled, 'An Honourable Profession?' writes the following:
"… As a lawyer, you will see corruption all around you, unless you deliberately blind yourself to it. You will hear policemen lying through their teeth to convict people who they believe are guilty but whose constitutional rights they violated in order to secure the evidence of their guilt. You will see judges who know these policemen are lying, pretending to believe them in order to avoid freeing an obviously guilty defendant. You will read the opinions of the court of appeals judges pretending to believe the trial judges who pretended to believe the police who pretended to be telling the truth. This sort of 'benign' corruption is pervasive in our legal system – and everyone with any experience knows it. Yet we hear nothing about it on Law Day. We never see the slogan that should adorn every courthouse: "the end justifies the means." Nor do we hear judges take the oath they really follows: "to do justice without respect to person" – unless those persons are drug dealers, Mafioso or represented by lawyers we don't like."
If this is true for the United States of America then it will be at least doubly true for Malaysia. In most of my legal aid cases, I find those charged were due to being at the wrong place, at the wrong time; whether it is being passed out in a drug dealers den, or stoned out on some stairs, or just somewhere in the vicinity, or a usual suspect. And those who are highly likely to end up in such situations are the poor, or without support from family or friends, or a marginalized member of society. They are often caught because they are convenient.
You may quite rightly ask why do the police catch people who did not commit the crime and recommend them for prosecution? I suspect this happens because the police consider a case solved if someone is arrested for it – not when a conviction is recorded against the accused. So long as the police arrest someone for the crime – their job is done – never mind whether they caught the right person or not. If the prosecution loses the case against an accused, the police will not be asked to re-open the case and re-investigate it. That will simply be the end of it. Remember the case of Norita Shamsudin – the accused, Hanif Basri, was acquitted – do you hear the police still trying to find the murderer for that case?
Furthermore, it is unclear what post-mortem analysis and action is taken about the crime committed after the prosecution loses the case. Is the officer who recommended prosecution of the crime reviewed or asked to explain why they lost? Is the Attorney General's Chambers remotely aware of the expense, including opportunity costs, in prosecuting a criminal case? Are they aware that each case lost is a wasted expense for the State?
My experience and a consideration of their methodology demands the answer no.
The method of prosecution does not reflect an appreciation of these issues. Before I tell you about a case that exemplifies this issue it is necessary to first briefly explain the trial process. If you read the newspapers, may notice the report stating how the prosecution lost at the prima facie stage or 'at the end of the prosecution's case'. You need to understand this so you can better appreciate just how the Attorney General's Chambers are financially wasteful in how it goes about its duty.
A criminal trial has 2 stages. The first stage is known as the 'prosecution's case'. In a criminal trial the prosecution always begins first. They must prove you committed an offence before you are legally required to respond. At this stage, the prosecution will summon witnesses, both civil and law enforcement; produce documents or expert reports to prove you committed the offence. At this stage, the defence will cross-examine the prosecution's witnesses and seek to damage their case. The defence does not have to prove anything. All it has to do is cast doubt on the evidence to get acquitted. This is done by way of cross-examination. So a criminal lawyer who is unable to cross-examine effectively is a useless one. Once the prosecutor leads all the evidence they think satisfactorily proves the accused committed the crime they will close their case. This is the 'end of the prosecution's case', also known as the prima facie stage.
Prima facie roughly translates from Latin to mean 'at first blush'. At this stage the court considers whether the prosecution's evidence proves the offence the accused is charged with without considering the defence. If the court feels the prosecution failed to prove a charge, it will dismiss the charge at this stage. What the court is saying with a dismissal is that: 'The prosecution has no case.' So a case dismissed at the prima facie stage generally indicates the prosecution messed up either in deciding it was a proper case to be prosecuted (policy decision) or at the trial prosecution itself (operational decision). I use the word 'messed up' because once the Attorney General's Chambers decides to prosecute a case they should at least win at the prima facie stage. Losing a case at the prima facie stage means that all that money, effort and time spent on that case was wasted because all it did was vindicate an accused.
If the court feels the charge proven, it will call for the defence. The accused has 3 choices at this stage. He can remain silent, or make an unsworn statement from the dock (the prosecution cannot cross-examine what he says), or elect to give evidence i.e. sworn statement. He can call witnesses and tender documents to prove otherwise. At the end of the defence, the court would consider the evidence from the prosecution and defence, and decide whether or not the accused is guilty of the offence.
Does the Attorney General's Chambers have a cost indication for each case it prosecutes? I don't know but I don't think so. Let me illustrate this with some numbers. Say each criminal case prosecuted in the Sessions Court costs the Attorney General's Chambers about RM 100,000.00. Where does the cost come from? Police have to investigate and file the relevant paper work. Time and effort are spent. Witnesses are interviewed, prepped, scheduled and come to court to give evidence. Both police and public witnesses are often called. Evidence has to be stored, secured and transported. Prosecutors have to spend time preparing the case. Their seniors have to vet and approve their work. Courts have to clear time and space to hear the case. There is fuel, electric, water, stationary and administrative costs. There are other costs of maintaining this entire system. I have not even factored in the opportunity cost of all the participants to that effort or the costs of the subsequent appeals. When the Attorney General's Chambers lose a case at the prima facie stage, all that is wasted. Burned. Gone.
This is why the Attorney General's Chambers must be careful and mindful before it decides to prosecute a case – they are spending precious taxpayer money. What is the criterion upon which Attorney General's Chambers decides whether a crime is prosecuted? I don't know. But whatever it is, I think it rubbish. On to the case I mentioned earlier.
This was a case that I conducted with my friends Amer Hamzah and Edmund Bon some time ago when we had more time to actually coordinate ourselves enough to defend a case. Amer was assigned to act for an accused on a charge of sodomy with 2 others. Since he knew Edmund and I were keen, he invited us to act for the other 2 cases and conduct the trial together. The charge against our clients, 3 Bangladeshi men who were already imprisoned for overstaying without a valid working permit, was sodomy against an Indonesian man imprisoned in the same cell as them for different offence.
According to our clients, the Indonesian man was a 'jambu', a Malay slang word for an effeminate looking homosexual male. He invited them to have sex with him. Being strictly heterosexual they declined. He got angry. Extracted revenge on them by accusing them of sodomizing him. As a result these 3 Bangladeshis who could have been deported were now forced to stay in prison longer than their term because they were now in remand over a bogus sodomy charge. Poor them!
Now on the first day of the trial, we got wind the complainant had been deported back to Indonesia. When the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) tentatively confirmed this, we sought an adjournment to have him conclusively confirm this. We asked this because if the complainant was not in Malaysia to give evidence then the prosecution had no case. This is especially so when there were no witnesses to the sodomy. But even if there were, they might not be sufficient to prove the act of penetration.
When we raised this with the Sessions Court Judge, he shared this view and asked the DPP to conclusively confirm his instructions to prosecute. The DPP however said his instructions were to proceed even if he had to confirm this. He had the photographer for the crime scene and the arresting prison officer with him and was instructed to proceed. So proceed we did and completed them both.
At the next date, the DPP confirmed the complainant was deported and not in Malaysia. There were no plans to bring him back for the trial either. We naturally requested the DPP to consider withdrawing the charges. We raised this with the Judge who also advised the DPP to reconsider. An adjournment was given and a mention date fixed.
When we came back on the next mention date, the DPP informed the court his instructions were to continue with the trial. The Sessions Judge was very annoyed and asked the DPP to explain his instructions. He informed the court that his superiors were of the view that since the trial had already begun with the examination of two witnesses they had to continue until the conclusion. Even though we were annoyed as well, I would pity the DPP more. How painful and humiliating is it to try and prove a case you knew for certain was a stinker of a loser (or even a certain winner for that matter)?
All of us knew this was rubbish. The DPP could withdraw the case at any time but chose not to. In truth, it is not left to the discretion of the actual prosecuting officer. They have to refer it. The decision to revise or withdraw a charge can only be considered and decided by a handful of superior officers at the state and headquarters (Putrajaya) level.
I have no doubt the Judge knew the case to be a waste of time. He fixed hearing dates a few days later – even withdrawing one day of his leave – and told the DPP to make sure all his witnesses were present warning that he would not tolerate any adjournments to the case. On the day fixed for continued hearing we went through the motions. We wasted the next two days in trial. Despite this, we still gave it a good show. We wanted the silliness of it all it to be at least reflected in the official records. So a poor medical officer had a whole morning being grilled by Amer on the medical report. He could have been saving lives instead of turning up for a lost cause and being pretty much 'sodomized' by Amer on the stand. We all could have been doing something more meaningful. But there we were.
Whose fault is that?
At the end of the prosecution's case, the Judge immediately directed oral submissions. He delivered his decision immediately after the DPP concluded his submissions. As soon as his bottom hit the chair, the Judge announced his decision to acquit and release our clients. As soon as they got out of the dock, they came and bowed at our feet to show their gratitude. Hilarious stuff. I regret forgetting his name. He had good temperament, was concerned about the situation and had initiative. What impressed us about him was that he canceled his leave to finish off the case. That demonstrated his concern at the injustice before him as well as our clients' plight.
So despite some of my bitching there are some good and true men and women out there. My salutations and heart goes out to those Judges and judicial officers up and out there who still give a damn and try to do the right thing when the opportunity presents itself. It's never easy, but it is often worthwhile.
There are many such appalling cases. This is just one of those that I did. I am certain if you speak to a seasoned criminal lawyer you will perhaps hear more (or even less!) of such stories. Next time you read a newspaper always note when the prosecution lost its case. And don't be surprised if you come across them losing at the prima facie very often. These are some of the higher profile cases reported in the media where they lost at that stage that I can think of: Eric Chia, Dato' Ramli Yusuff , Abdul Razak Baginda, Datuk Mirza Mohammad Taiyab, Resty Agpalo and Mohamad Najib Zulkifli, Karpal Singh, Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam, former PKR members Capt (Rtd) Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu and Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, former Perak Tengah district councillors Usaili Alias and Zul Hassan, and more recently, V Navindran.
Though I welcome the recent injection of professionalism in the Attorney General's Chambers dealings with our profession, it should now turn to more substantive matters; it could for a start consider how to refine its prosecutions to be more considered, successful and cost effective. Even though I act for the defence, it is not out of choice. The prosecution is not farmed out to the private sector like it is in England. Though I naturally seek victory in whichever case I conduct, the taste of victory in criminal cases always leaves me bittersweet. It is a zero sum game all round. Win or lose, someone always loses.
Oh yah, and by the way:
Fahri Azzat discussed this in a more summarized form a while ago in a case involving a founding Loyarburokker where the prosecution lost at the prima facie stage. Every attachment student, pupil and lawyer employed by his firm is expected to read the Dershowitz's book, amongst others.
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are you x-prosecutor yourself??
Dear Fahri, please help my brother as well as those who are genuinely innocent out there. It is pretty sad to know and difficult to accept the fact that: "You can only prove that you are not guilty, but you cann't prove that "they" are at fault."
Where has the justice gone?
Not surprising that the AGC is famed for blatant lies and incompetency. More so (as it manifest to become an indulgence to many as laughing stocks) since its logo portrayed its missions to appear in black mask, protrude two long Pinocchio noses, eyes wide shut, a pair of hearing impaired ears and speaks with five mouths with five versions of cross examinations…….while mimicking a Justice Bao's signature mark on the forehead………..…. Just puzzled how and why our Hon judges, even the RCI ones like and applaud those despicable magical acts presented to them while sitting behind the watchful stare from the Supreme's Portrait?
We need guys like Fahri to helm and revamp the whole dammed institution swiftly…. of cause right after the retarded regime CHANGED
@ Aerie – I believe that the other carrot other than money is respect. If the AG's Chambers was a place where the cream of the crop gravitate towards and to get a spot is difficult – that may well be an attraction in itself. But with the present AG this will prove very difficult.
@ Pang – Thanks for pointing that out! Oopsh!
@ Johnson – Laziness or apathy, it's hard to tell. What's clear is that there's little pride taken in both the actual work done and the manner in which it is done. But I am informed that it is not always the fault of the actual prosecuting DPP. Sometimes it is the seniors that have the more junior DPPs doing stupid cases or forcing them to proceed with it.
@ Abdullah – My apologies as I think I did not make myself clear. What I meant by an arrest is what you explained. I was operating on my own assumptions when I wrote that because for me an arrest would in most cases result in a charge against the accused. I equate them as the same thing. Shoddy prosecution is definitely the fault of the DPP but let us also be aware that sometimes the police witnesses can throw the case off too.
@ Beatnik – Absolutely.
The prosecution is a funny bunch. How many times have we heard instances where they chose not to charge certain people (of interest), or even when they do, they do it so shoddily. Sekadar melepaskan batuk di tangga. Almost always, an honest judge in a public interest case gets faulted/lynched by an angry public because of this, forgetting that judges can't possibly convict accused persons if the prosecution is fucking up their case.
I thought in so far as the police is concerned, their case is closed when the Prosecutor charges, not when they arrest. So the fault for shoddy prosecution lies with the Prosecutor all the times.
Thanks for the insights into our criminal justice system. No wonder the police KPI achievements are allegedly higher but we don't feel any more secure.
Our Judicial system is in a mess. The police are more concerned in bring cases to court. Yes, just bringing them to court. Fairness is never in their mind.
If it is a poor soul he is beaten up, confession extracted and warned to plead guilty or he will be beaten up again. The charge is read out, sometimes just rattled away by the interpreter and the poor guy is replies "Salah".
If he is well connected, he is freed. Its always the poor who suffer.
Even without a shred of evidence the prosecutions wins the case.
This is called Malaysian Justice.
Oh sorry, how rude.
I meant to say, go and ask Yang Amat Terarif Tun Tan Sri Dato' Zaki Azmi.
Fahri, I am informed that Eric Chia's case was thrown out because of the brilliance of one of his Counsel. So I am told lah. lol!
I agree with you whole-heartedly. There must be a cost-benefit study on what the AG and his band of merry-men (and women – I heard some of them are really merry!) do. That is called financial accountability.
But than again, accountability is such a dirty word.
Don't believe me? Go and ask Zaki Azmi.
Dear Fahri, your article is spot on. Similarly I had conducted a legal aid matter previously whereby my client was charged together with 6 others because the police couldn't determine who was in possession of the drugs. Just before the start, the DPP suggested for either 1 out of the 6 to plead guilty,and for the remaining 5 others to share the fine….A case of being lazy? I don't know,but of course my client declined and we were ready at all times to claim trial.
"Win or lose, someone always loses."
Um, I think that makes it a negative sum game, not a zero sum game.
If I were you I would seek forgiveness from my mother and cheer her up by relinquishing my position to someone capable and live an honourable life.
To the AG of Malaysia. Do you have a face Mr. (You are not worth all the prefixes you may have before your name) Gani Patail? Don't you have some respect for your own dignity? You have been time and again proven to be inefficient of heading the Attorney General's Chamber. You are a waste of public money. Should you have some shame, you should resign with 'some honour' What would your mother think of you as an incapable person heading the AG Chamber and bring shame to her of your nefarious deeds?
You fucking cunt.how dare you accusing such an honorable person? he is there for a reason. he is a brilliant mind. you are a fucking disgrace!
Could it be because the civil service (including DPP's) pays so little? With poor incentive schemes in the public service, the drive to do your best is absent. Increment pun sikit. How can we get the best of lawyers to join the AG's Chambers if the paying scale is small?
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I become unhappy, aggressive, defensive, irratable, I was always tired and never had any energy. My body ached and I gained a lot of weight.
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Posted on December 19, 2012 in Reports
A report on a comprehensive survey of attitudes among Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians in the Occupied Lands, Refugees in Lebanon, Refugees in Jordan, and Jewish Americans.
During the month of September, 2012, we conducted an extensive survey of public opinion with over 4,200 participants among: Israeli Jews and Arabs; Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem; Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan; and the American Jewish community. The polls were conducted exclusively for the Sir Bani Yas Forum. A surface review of the results establishes the enormous challenges confronting peacemaking efforts. Wide gaps separate Israeli Jewish and Palestinian opinion making it appear that, at present, no easy agreement can be reached on issues as fundamental as: the location of borders, the disposition of Israeli settlements and settlers, the resolution of the refugee issue, and the status of Jerusalem. Nevertheless a closer look at the data suggests a possible way forward.
1. Two States: Still the Only Viable Option
A two-state solution remains the only viable option that is acceptable, albeit with differences, to both sides.
The one-state solution is rejected by all parties, including Palestinian refugees.
What is clear is that Israelis and Palestinians want separation. Israelis want security and Palestinians want independence and sovereignty. Both sides agree with the notion that security arrangements that provide guarantees for both are important. And both agree that the future Palestinian state should have control of its borders so it can freely trade with other countries.
The task left for peacemakers will be to further test the possible combinations of borders, swaps, and the role of a security barrier or other forms of security arrangements that create the right mix for all sides.
2. Trust Is an Issue
Mutual trust has been broken.
What the polling data shows in every instance is what the Palestinians most want from Israelis, the Israelis are least willing to give, and what the Israelis most want from the Palestinians, the Palestinians are least willing to give at the present time. This, however, should not be the end of the story. These "trust issues" can be separated into behavioral matters (e.g., "renouncing violence and controlling violent elements" or "removing roadᆳblocks, the blockade of Gaza, etc.") and existential concerns (e.g., "recognizing Israel as a Jewish state" or "acknowledging responsibility for the refugee problem"). The behavioral issues can and should be addressed first. But since the existential concerns may create hurdles too high to climb at the beginᆳning of the process, it might be advisable to put off addressing them until a later stage.
3. The Whole is More Acceptable than the Parts
Taken individually, attitudes are far apart and rigid. But when options are presented, "trade-offs" offered or issues paired, both Israelis and Palestinians display greater flexibility.
The data clearly points to the difficulty in attempting to find separate solutions to each piece of the puzzle. But the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish responses to the Arab Peace Initiative and the Israeli acceptance of some of the Clinton parameters establish that a comprehensive vision that presents not only the compromise needed for a solution, but also makes ᆳnational backing may be the only way to proceed.
Watch the poll presentation and discussion online
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The Jerusalem Post: 'US Jews more optimistic than Israelis about peace
Newmax: James Zogby: Israel Is Jeopardizing Peace Process With Construction
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