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Bob Diamond may have resigned as CEO of Barclays, but he's not going quietly, and he may take some people at the Bank of England (BoE)—and elsewhere—down with him. Documents released by the bank indicate that he may have been given tacit approval by Paul Tucker, deputy BoE governor, to adjust Libor rates to be more in line with other banks after Whitehall expressed concern lest Barclays appear to be in trouble.
A Financial Times report on Wednesday said that the bank published a document prior to Diamond's expected appearance before Parliament indicating that the issue of Libor rates had been the subject of a conversation with BoE. During October of 2008, according to the document, Barclays' published Libor submission in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse was the highest among all banks submitting their rates to determine the Libor rate.
According to the document, "Barclays did not understand why other banks were consistently posting lower submissions" and did not believe their costs were so much lower than Barclays' own. Further, the document says that Barclays had raised the issue repeatedly with authorities.
"On 29 October 2008, Bob Diamond received a call from Paul Tucker, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England," said the document. While "Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier," the document continues, "…Jerry del Missier concluded that an instruction had been passed down from the Bank of England not to keep LIBORs so high and he therefore passed down a direction to that effect to the submitters."
In an addendum to the document, a note is appended recording Diamond's perception of the call—one of only three "notes to file," according to the FT, that Diamond made during his whole career. In that note, Diamond says that Tucker had relayed concerns from "senior figures within Whitehall" that Barclays was consistently in the high end of Libor pricing.
Diamond's note says, "I asked if he could relay the reality, that not all banks were providing quotes at the levels that represented real transactions, his response 'oh, that would be worse.'"
Tucker went on to say, according to the note, that "the levels of calls he was receiving from Whitehall were 'senior' and that while he was certain we [Barclays] did not need advice, that it did not always need to be the case that we appeared as high as we had recently."
The next day, Barclays' submission of Libor borrowing rates dropped substantially.
Tucker is considered the front-runner to replace Mervyn King, current BoE governor, when his term expires in June of 2013. Alistair Darling, who was finance minister at the time, said in a Reuters report that he could not imagine BoE suggesting to Barclays that it do any such thing and further said that his department would never "suggest wrongdoing like this."
Lord Myners, who formerly was the City minister for the Labour government, said Wednesday that he had not talked with BoE at the time about the Libor rate. In the report, he said, "I can say quite categorically I didn't speak to Paul Tucker or anybody at the Bank of England about the Libor rate-setting process. And I can also say with a high degree of confidence that I don't think any of my colleagues in the Treasury, under the leadership of Alistair Darling, would have done so either."
Barclays also said in the document that it had spent nearly 100 million pounds ($157 million) on a three-year internal investigation of the Libor matter.
Allies of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne called the revelation "explosive" because it called into question not just the role of the BoE in the debacle, but also those of Gordon Brown, prime minister at the time; Shriti Vadera, one of his chief advisors; and former City Minister and Schools Secretary Ed Balls.
Dominic Rossi, chief investment officer for equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, said in a Bloomberg report that Diamond would have to tell Parliament "the nature of the manipulation, who was involved, how long were they involved for, was it escalated, did they inform the regulator, did they inform the Bank of England. I don't think anybody should underestimate the seriousness of this."
A total of 18 banks submit rates from which Libor is determined, and other banks are still under investigation for their role in the rate-fixing scheme. Among them are Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG.
Owen Watkins, a former regulator with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in England and now a lawyer at Lewis Silkin LLP in London, was quoted saying, "Barclays is now the benchmark. They have been fined, they have lost their chairman and they have lost their chief executive. If you are the chairman or the CEO of these other institutions, you might be sleeping a little less soundly in your bed at night."
The Libor-fixing scandal is taking other tolls as well. Diamond will no longer act as a co-host at a London campaign fundraiser for Mitt Romney, according to a Bloomberg report.
Diamond, who holds dual American and British citizenship, was to attend the fundraising dinner, scheduled for July 27, when Romney will be in London for the Olympics. However, that is no longer the case, according to Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul. The financial sector has been one of the largest avenues of contribution for Romney, who cofounded private equity firm Bain Capital.


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For any company to be successful, the connection it has with its consumers is of extreme relevance. The way it connects, the way it engages and the way it is able to evoke emotions among its consumers to build relationships are elements that interplay collectively to create a powerful brand. Companies invest heavily in branding to not only understand customer needs and wants but also to compete better than competition. This process is demanding, costly and highly volatile. Let's briefly discuss these three factors.
- Demanding: It is demanding in terms of effort required – a company requires specialized strategists who carrying our massive brainstorming to model an effective branding strategy. In the process, companies carry out massive research on where they are doing well and the areas they can capitalize on.
- Costly: Branding is expensive! Not only in terms of money but also in terms of time and manpower a company invests to help itself reach a point where it becomes renowned to the target customers.
- Volatile: While companies strive to oblige with the two former criteria, a single minute error can tarnish brand image. This is particularly true in the era of social media where brands attempt to relate with consumers via this channel due to the large presence of consumers. If a brand falls in the trap of committing a silly error, it can affect its image adversely. AND LINKEDIN HAS DONE JUST THAT!
On Monday, June 25, 2012, 2am CET, LinkedIn launched an update on its Facebook page stating that Reid Hoffman, the chairperson of the company, had visited the company's Japanese branch to attend an event. Supposedly, this piece of communication was to hold a link to a video of the event which was directed at people who follow LinkedIn activities on Facebook. Apparently, no link as such as included along with the message. Take a look at this:
Within seconds of the post, one user pointed out what was missing. Within minutes, a second user expressed his discontent. A couple of minutes later, a third user attempted to send out a message to the team responsible for branding and/or social media at LinkedIn by stating what to do to carry out effective media branding (clear as you can see in the image above).
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Jimmy Savile told hospital staff that jewellery he wore was 'made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary', an investigation has heard.
The disgraced presenter was also reported to have acted 'unacceptably' with bodies in the mortuary of Leeds General Infirmary.
An investigation into his abuse at the hospital heard the now-dead entertainer claimed to have "interfered with the bodies of deceased patients", including performing sex acts on them.
Investigators said while there was no way of proving Savile interfered with the bodies in this way, they concluded that "it is evident his interest in the mortuary was not within accepted boundaries".
Dr Sue Proctor, who led the investigation into Savile's abuse at the LGI, told a press conference a student nurse reported having had a conversation with Savile in which he claimed he performed sex acts on the dead.
While she said the allegations cannot be verified now, Dr Proctor said they had to be considered in the context that the controls around access to the mortuary in the 1980s were "lax".
Dr Proctor referred to Savile's claims that large rings he wore were "made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary".
Savile's professed interest in the dead was described by Dr Proctor as "pretty unwholesome".
Savile visited the mortuary in his role as voluntary porter and that he visited socially with his friend, who was the chief mortician.
Investigators said he publicly acknowledged his fascination with the dead and there were a lack of stringent procedures surrounding the mortuary.
A series of chilling reports have revealed Savile subjected patients in hospitals across the country to "truly awful" sexual abuse for more than four decades.
Savile's victims at the LGI ranged from five-years-old to pensioners and included men, women, boys and girls.
At high-security hospital Broadmoor, Savile sexually abused at least five individuals, including two patients who were subjected to repeated assaults.
Investigators discovered members of staff at the LGI failed to pass on complaints of abuse to senior managers, who could have acted to stop it happening.
And they also found "clear failings" in the way access to wards in Broadmoor was controlled, as Savile had keys allowing him unrestricted access to ward areas within the security perimeter.
A joint statement from NHS chiefs described the findings of the investigations as "truly awful", while both current chief executives of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which covers Broadmoor, apologised to victims.
The inquiry into his activities at LGI after he started his association in 1960 included the testimonies of 60 people who gave accounts of their experiences with Savile to investigators - 33 of these were patients.
Three of these incidents were rapes, the investigators said.
The Leeds team said 19 of those who came forward were under 16 years old and the age range was five to 75.
They said the majority were teenagers but 19 victims were hospital staff - all women.
At Broadmoor, investigators found sexual relationships between staff and patients were tolerated in what was a "clear, repeated failure of safeguarding standards".
There was an atmosphere within the hospital that tolerated inappropriate behaviour and discouraged reporting, the probe said.
Savile's "often flamboyantly inappropriate" attitude towards women was seen as part of his public act, "just Jimmy", the report found.
In a disturbing finding, it was noted that Savile sometimes watched as female patients undressed for baths in the wards, and at other times looked through doorways while making inappropriate comments.
While fewer assaults were reported to have taken place at Broadmoor than other hospitals, the inquiry concluded that Savile was "an opportunistic sexual predator" throughout the time he was associated with the institution and attributed the smaller number of complaints to an atmosphere of fear among staff as to what might happen if they did report incidents.
Investigator Dr Bill Kirkup said the report's findings are "likely to represent an underestimate of the true picture".
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ who also presented the BBC's Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It, died aged 84 in October 2011 - a year before allegations that he had sexually abused children were broadcast in ITV documentary Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile.
The documentary ultimately led to a joint review by the Metropolitan Police and NSPCC into allegations that the television presenter abused women, girls and boys.
The findings of the review, published in January last year, saw 214 criminal offences, including 34 rapes, recorded against Savile's name across the UK between 1955 and 2009.
Claims that some of the abuse happened in hospital settings triggered separate NHS investigations published today.
A key report into his activities at Stoke Mandeville Hospital has been delayed after new information recently came to light.


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With Ticket Revenue Down, Yankees Must Keep Spending
Why did the New York Yankees spend more than $200 million on two players in the past week? Look no further than the team's flagging ticket sales. Brian Costa joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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POP: Damon Albarn, "Everyday Robots," (Warner Bros.) 3 1/2 stars
It seems implausible, but this is Damon Albarn's first solo album in a sprawling nearly 25-year career during which he's led an array of excellent bands (Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, the Bad & the Queen) and engaged in bold World Music collaborations. On "Everyday Robots," however, he's more songwriter than stylist — although there's plenty of style on these 10 songs and two interludes — offering a restrained, atmospheric and uncharacteristically introspective collection that's every bit as good as what's come before. Whether he's pondering modern communication ("Hostiles," the title track) or broken relationships ("The History of a Cheating Heart," one of two tracks featuring Brian Eno and also the Leytonstone City Mission Choir), Albarn makes pensive sound pretty and melancholy sound like the most satisfying mood in the world. He does take an uptempo diversion, the light-hearted "Mr. Tembo," but spectral ambience and spare arrangements — along with subtle sonic effects — are the rule here, and on "The Selfish Giant," Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes) is dramatically underplayed yet powerfully present. "Genius" is a term that gets dropped a little too often in pop music, but Albarn has a better claim than most who enjoy the distinction these days.
ROCK: The Pixies, "Indie Cindy" (Pixiesmusic) 2 1/2 Stars
It's unfair to ask the Pixies' first album in 23 years to be up to the standards of "Doolittle" and the group's other late '80s/early '90s landmarks. But the 12-song set, compiling songs from three separately released EPs, is a welcome return whose best tracks — the grooving heavy rocker "Madalena 318," the buoyant "Ring the Bell" and "Jaime Bravo," the kinetic "Snakes" and the gentler "Silver Snail" and "Andro Queen" — shows Black Francis and company still have it. Bassist Kim Deal is certainly missed here, though; the Pixies aren't quite as satisfying as an all-boys club for the first time in its recorded history.
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Brigitte DeMeyer, "Savannah Road" (BDM): The bluesy singer-songwriter co-produced this sixth studio album, working with old friends Brady Blade and Will Kimbrough.
Framing Hanley, "Sum of Who We Are" (Imagen): The Nashville alt. rockers' first new album in four years marks the arrival of new bassist Jonathan Stoye.
Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, "Midnight Sun" (Chimera): Sean Lennon and company release their first official studio album since 2010's "Jardin Du Luxembourg."
The Howlin' Brothers, "Trouble" (Readymade): Detroit native Brendan Benson produced the rootsy indie trio's sophomore outing.
Jackopierce, "Live 25" (Be Music): The duo of Jack O'Neill and Cary Pierce celebrates a quarter-century of distinctive musicmaking with this concert set recorded in Dallas.
Johnnyswim, "Diamonds" (Big Picnic): The debut by the husband-wife duo Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez (she's the daughter of the late Donna Summer) shows off gorgeous, airtight harmonies and plenty of impressive songwriting.
Ray LaMontagne, "Supernova" (RCA): The singer-songwriter teams with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach for the most upbeat and hard rocking of his five albums so far.
Tommy Malone, "Poor Boy" (M.C.): The second solo outing by the member of New Orleans' legendary subdudes.
Harvey Mason, "Chameleon" (Concord): The album's title aptly represents the wide range this jazz and funk drummer explores on his latest release.
Miss May I, "Rise of the Lion" (Rise): The Ohio headbangers brought in well-credentialed Terry Date (deftones, Korn, Slipknot) to produce their fourth album.
The Nels Cline Singers, "Macroscope" (Mack Avenue): The guitar virtuoso switches labels and bass players on the fifth album from his extra-Wilco trio.
Old 97's, "Most Messed Up" (ATO): The Dallas troupe is back in the rowdy, alt.country form of its early albums on this 20th anniversary release.
Chris Robinson Brotherhood, "Phosphorescent Harvest" (Sliver Arrow): The Black Crowes frontman's other band remains as expansive and psychedelic as ever on its third studio set.
Rodrigo y Gabriela, "9 Dead Alive" (ATO): The Mexican guitar duo dedicated each of the nine tracks on its first new album in five years deceased figures who made historical impacts during their lives.
Saliva, "Rise Up" (Rum Bum): The Memphis hard rock group's first official album with new singer Bobby Amaru features most of the tracks from last year's limited release "In It To Win It."
Lindsey Stirling, "Shatter Me" (self-released): The title track of the violinist and performance artist's latest features a guest appearance by hard rocker Lzzy Hale.
String Cheese Incident, "Song in My Head" (Loud & Proud/SCI): The adventurous Colorado jam band celebrates its 20th anniversary with its first new studio album in nine years.
Bryan Sutton, "Into My Own" (Sugar Hill): The acoustic roots veteran is joined by luminaries such as Bill Frisell, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Stuart Duncan and more on his fourth solo album.
Ben Watt, "Hendra" (Unmade Road): The second solo album, and first in 21 years, from half of Everything But the Girl includes collaborations with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Suede's Bernard Butler.
Whitechapel, "Our Endless War" (Metal Blade): More uncompromising heaviness from this Tennessee metal sextet.
Wye Oak, "Shriek" (Merge): The fourth studio set from the folk- and rock-blending duo from Baltimore.
Yanni, "Inspirato" (Sony Masterworks): The Greek muso's latest finds him working with Placido Domingo and his namesake son, Renee Fleming, Russell Watson and other noteworthy singers.
From The Vaults: Death, "Leprosy" (Relapse); Winery Dogs, "Dog Treats" (Loud & Proud)
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New Music DVDs: Allman Brothers Band, "40th Anniversary Show Live at the Beacon Theatre" (Peach); "The Rise and Fall of the Clash" (Shout! Factory); Toto, "35th Anniversary Tour Live From Poland" (Eagle Rock)


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Obama: GOP offers 'endless parade of distractions'
- Illinois speech launches a campaign by the president to shift Washington focus to the economy.
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GALESBURG, Ill. — President Obama blasted Republicans on Wednesday for an "endless parade of distractions" and called on Congress to work with him to buck up the country's lackluster economy.
The speech was billed by the White House as a major economic address that the president intended to use as part of a sustained campaign to shift Washington's focus to the economy.
Obama declared that the U.S. economy has "made it through the worst of yesterday's winds," but he lamented that average Americans are being left behind.
The president decided to take to the bully pulpit after several months in which his administration has dealt with the fallout of natural disasters, a failed push to tighten gun laws and a barrage of criticism from Republicans over the targeting of political non-profit groups by the Internal Revenue Service and the aftermath of the deadly attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
"Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires," Obama said. "Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you – the people we represent."
He called on Washington to "shake off its complacency and set aside the kind of slash-and-burn partisanship we've seen these past few years" as he set out his vision for the remainder of the presidency.
"I care about one thing and one thing only, and that's how to use every minute of the 1,276 days remaining in my term to make this country work for working Americans again," Obama said. "Because I believe this is where America needs to go. I believe this is where the American people want to go."
Before Obama spoke, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the president's effort "a hollow shell. It's an Easter egg with no candy in it."
"All right, so exactly what will change?" Boehner said on the House floor Wednesday morning. " What's the point? What's it going to accomplish? You've probably got the answer: nothing."
Though the economy has significantly improved over the course of his presidency, national unemployment stands at 7.6%, and poll numbers suggest that relative economic stability has not translated into a feeling of security about the president's policies.
Forty-five percent of Americans approve of Obama's handling of economic issues, while 49% disapprove, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published this month.
The White House has downplayed the importance of the polls, but before the speech aides acknowledged that Obama has become frustrated with Republicans focused on scandals and overturning the president's health care law.
"If you ask some of these Republicans about their economic agenda or how they'd strengthen the middle class, they'll shift the topic to 'out-of-control' government spending – despite the fact that we have cut the deficit by nearly half as a share of the economy since I took office," Obama said.
Obama said Washington isn't doing enough to address the struggles of the middle class. He said that although businesses have emerged from the recession — some even breaking profit records — nearly all the income gains of the past 10 years have continued to flow to the top 1% of earners.
"The average CEO has gotten a raise of nearly 40% since 2009, but the average American earns less than he or she did in 1999," Obama said. "And companies continue to hold back on hiring those who have been out of work for some time."
Obama chose the campus of Knox College as the site of the speech because of his personal connection to the area, which hosted the Lincoln-Douglass debate and is the birthplace of the writer Carl Sandburg.
He delivered his first major economic speech as a freshman senator at Knox, and he has spoken repeatedly of Galesburg — which has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the past decade — as a community whose struggles exemplify the economic pressure on the Middle Class throughout the country.
Obama spoke in broad brush strokes and didn't offer any new proposals. He will amplify the remarks with speeches in Warrensburg, Mo., later Wednesday, and the port of Jacksonville on Thursday, where he'll focus on the nation's infrastructure difficulties.
"We've got ports that aren't ready for the new supertankers that will begin passing through the new Panama Canal in two years' time," Obama said. "We've got more than 100,000 bridges that are old enough to qualify for Medicare."
In the coming weeks, Obama will deliver more narrowly tailored speeches in Washington and throughout the country spelling out proposals — some old, some new — on issues such as college affordability, jobs, housing, health care and retirement that he says can help bolster the economy.
The effort to refocus the national conversation comes with key budget deadlines looming. A new fiscal year begins in October, and the government will soon hit its borrowing limit. Obama wants to end the federal budget cuts known as the sequester that kicked in this year.
"Over the last six months, this gridlock has gotten worse," Obama said. "I didn't think that was possible."
Boehner repeated Tuesday that more cuts in federal spending must come in exchange for Congress approving an increase in the debt ceiling. That's a deal Obama says he will not make.


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Gaiotto is one of three laureates of the New Horizons in Physics Prize, each valued at $100,000, recognizing work with high potential to lead to future breakthroughs. According to the prize citation, Gaiotto was chosen for his "far-reaching new insights about duality, gauge theory, and geometry, and especially for his work linking theories in different dimensions in most unexpected ways."
Hawking will receive one of two Special Fundamental Physics Prizes of $3 million each, with the other special prize being shared among seven leaders of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. The Foundation is foregoing the regular nomination process in light of the recipients' spectacular contributions. In Hawking's case, the Foundation highlighted "his discovery of Hawking radiation from black holes, and his deep contributions to quantum gravity and quantum aspects of the early universe."
The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation is a new organization that offers a suite of prizes in physics. Although new, these awards are already considered major distinctions. In contrast to the Nobel Prize, which has a strong leaning toward tangible, quantifiable, or practical discoveries, FPP prizes are intended to recognize theorists and researchers who are "dedicated to advancing our knowledge of the universe at the deepest level."


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THE BATTLE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE / Uncharted territory / Bush's stance led Newsom to take action
It was only his 12th day as mayor of San Francisco, but Gavin Newsom decided that night -- the very night he attended President Bush's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. -- that he was going to defy California law.
And turn the nation on its ear.
Attending the president's Jan. 20 speech as a guest of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Newsom listened closely as Bush voiced his strong support for outlawing same-sex marriage -- with a constitutional amendment, if necessary.
Not long after the speech, Newsom called his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, a gay man who was at home with his partner and their two children. "He told me that he wanted to do something," Kawa said.
Two weeks later, during a staff meeting, Newsom dropped the bombshell on his top aides: He wanted them to explore how the city could start issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
Kawa said the mayor asked staff to gather as many legal briefs, news articles and other background information as they could. Added his communications chief, Peter Ragone, "He also wanted it done quietly."
Within 24 hours, Kawa was on the phone with Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a San Francisco-based public interest legal organization.
Her reaction: "Oh, my God, you're kidding me," Kendell said in an interview Saturday. "It was a mixture of 'wow,' and 'oh s -- .' "
It was the first time, Kendell said, that a mayor of an American city wanted to take such an initiative. And Newsom, a straight Irish Catholic man married for two years, was the perfect politician to take on the fight, she said.
That weekend, Feb. 7-8, Kendell got on the phone with other gay rights leaders and lawyers to feel them out. She particularly wanted to gauge the response in Massachusetts, where a political showdown was looming over the same-sex marriage debate after the high court there ruled that limiting marriage rights to heterosexuals was unlawful discrimination.
"Would we be doing anything to hurt them? What would the ripple effects be," Kendell said. She had the same sort of questions with colleagues in Washington, D.C., where Congress is considering a constitutional amendment to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying.
"There wasn't unanimity that this was the right time," she said.
Last Monday, first thing in the morning, Kendell, Kawa, the mayor's policy director, Joyce Newstat, ACLU attorney Tamara Lange, Geoffrey Kors of the gay rights advocacy group Equality California and a handful of other top staffers in the mayor's administration met behind closed doors in a ceremonial room in the mayor's suite at City Hall.
"We talked about the legal issues. We talked about the politics," Ragone said.
"A lot of us started to personalize the issue, our own stories started coming out," said Kawa, who said he has had three life wishes: to have a family, to be an out gay man in public service and to get married.
The group also started talking details. The California Family Code states that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
They decided to proceed on the grounds that denying marriage licenses to gays and lesbians violates their rights to equal protection under the California Constitution. They looked at the marriage license documents and determined that they would need to make the language gender neutral. Words and phrases such as "bride" and "groom" and "unmarried man" and "unmarried woman" would have to be changed.
There was also talk about which couple they should ask to be the first to tie the knot. Kendell suggested Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, lesbian rights pioneers who celebrated their 51st anniversary on Valentine's Day.
After the meeting, Newsom's aides walked down the wood-paneled corridor to his office and briefed him on the possibilities. That afternoon, they contacted the city attorney's office and asked for help.
Then they started giving key people the heads up.
They called the offices of Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. They alerted Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, the city's two gay supervisors, Tom Ammiano and Bevan Dufty, and national Democrat Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Newsom. The veteran gay representative told the mayor to drop the idea -- the time wasn't right.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the administration released a letter that the mayor had sent to the county clerk's office, which issues marriage licenses. It requested that San Francisco try to find a way to not discriminate against gay and lesbian couples wanting to get married.
By Wednesday morning, Newsom was surrounded by TV, print and radio reporters while he was providing lunch to seniors in Japantown. He announced that he wanted to move quickly on the same-sex marriage issue, but wouldn't say when.
That afternoon, Kendell, from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, put in a call to Lyon, 79, and Martin, 83, asking whether they wanted to get married. The answer came back 10 minutes later: "Yes."
Newsom held a staff meeting Wednesday night. By 10 p.m., the decision was finalized to issue the first licenses to same-sex couples Thursday.
On Thursday morning, Lyon, dressed in a blue pants suit, and Martin, in a purple one, slipped quietly into City Hall. So did Kendell and Roberta Achtenberg, who was a civil rights attorney before she served on the Board of Supervisors and later joined the Chamber of Commerce as a senior vice president.
Few others knew what was about to take place inside the assessor's office. Debra Chasnoff, the Academy Award-winning documentarian, was invited to film the ceremony, and two Chronicle staffers were allowed to witness it. In all, about 20 people were on hand, including mayoral aides, selected civil rights attorneys and two other couples preparing to take their vows after Lyon and Martin. Newsom steered clear.
He asked City Assessor/Recorder Mabel Teng, who oversees the clerk's office, to officiate. But first she had to be deputized to perform a marriage.
Martin and Lyon had trouble filling out the forms because they couldn't remember the required personal information about their parents. Martin, long ago married, was pushed when asked to recall when she got a divorce. Kendell paid the $82 filing fee. The couple borrowed two rings, and at precisely 11:06 a.m., the ceremony began.
Those who orchestrated the scene succeeded in keeping it secret, a goal all along to keep opponents of same-sex marriage from trying to prevent the ceremony from taking place.
By Friday afternoon, as scores of same-sex weddings were being performed, opposition lawyers were in court trying to get an emergency injunction to stop what they termed municipal anarchy. The judge told them to come back Tuesday, when the legal battle will begin in earnest.
Kendell said she was stunned by the magnitude of what Newsom unleashed.
"I feel the weight of history, in a way that I never felt before," she said. "It is remarkable and profound."
As for Newsom, who came into office as a moderate, he credits George Bush for what happened.
"I was at the State of the Union," he said, "and I felt a real resolve on this issue."


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I bet my third nut that comments will come in accusing this band to be nazis. Most of you know they wheren't. Until Ian Stuart decided to start up a band in 1981(?) which also was named Skrewdriver but shouldn't be associated with the first incarnation of this really great Punk Rock band. I've read descriptions of Street Punk. So silly. Street Punk ha ha. What is that? Homeless punx playing on the street for free beer and Ben Sherman clothes? So let's dedicate You're So Dumb to all the Street Punk bands and Better Off Crazy to my third nut.
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Year: 1977
Label: Chiswick
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Her Make-A-Wish® experience gave Rachel the strength to pitch her cancer into remission.
Fans cling to the fences vying for their attention, but after their 9-0 victory over China the U.S. Women's softball team crowd one extraordinary young fan. They are strong courageous women who know how to fight to the top with success. They've made it and Rachel knows she can too.
The hope and joy this 16-year-old wish kid received from her Make-A-Wish® experience to the Olympics gave her the strength to pitch her cancer into remission.
Rachel, a high school softball player, always looked to the U.S. Women's softball team for inspiration. She watches every game on TV with her dad and knows all the players.
When her days at the pitcher's circle were put on hold due to her acute lymphocytic leukemia, Rachel knew her greatest dream: to see the U.S. Women's team compete for the gold medal – to watch their victory as she fights to triumph her condition.
Unfortunately, Rachel had to wait almost a year for her wish to come true – the next Summer Olympics. But it was the long wait of hope and excitement that kept Rachel strong during her treatments. Her dad, Rob, says even though Rachel used to fear needles she stayed upbeat.
At last, Rachel, her parents and her younger sister, Makenzee, were on their way to Beijing for 10 victorious days at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Her trip begins by cheering her team to cheering her idols to victory in the game against China. After the game she is surprised when International Softball Federation President Don Porter makes a special presentation to her.
"It was wonderful – way beyond expectations," Rob says.
Rachel then meets the members of the team she has so long admired. She receives autographs, a jersey, bats and an official game ball. Coach Mike Candrea even gives her a lineup card from the game. To top it off, her favorite player, pitcher Monica Abbott, poses for pictures with her.
"When I know that I can bring a smile to someone else's face, or that I bring chills to them, that just warms my heart so much," Abbott tells NBC after meeting Rachel.
But Rachel's wish experience is far from over.
She meets Olympic champion swimmer Natalie Coughlin and Women's Discus gold medalist Stephanie Brown-Trafton during a pizza party organized by NBC for wish kids. Touched by Rachel and the ability to share the power of a wish®, Brown-Trafton joins her and her family on a tour of the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall of China.
The glory of the Olympics continues to follow her even on her flight home as she shares a flight with the U.S. Men's volleyball and Women's soccer teams, both of which won gold medals.
Meeting her softball heroes were definitely Rachel's fondest memories though.
They're kind of what helped me get through all this.
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Hey Kiddo, Loved reading your story. What a great trip! I'm very happy to hear that you're in remission. Your story inspired my son Mike who is 17 and has brain cancer.. He's a surfer but has many friends on our HS softball team. We wish you all the best. Nancy F.
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Hip, cage-free TV: 'Portlandia' is renewed
In the last season of "Portlandia," the mayor of this sustainability-obsessed city vanished in shame after he was singled out as Portland's "No. 1 electricity hog," Portland went into a blackout, cats barked, creepy music played, and a bizarre Australian who calls himself "Birdman" told guests at a bed and breakfast "there is no civilization."
Carrie and Fred -- about the only characters in "Portlandia" with any grip on reality -- tracked down the mayor at a compound in the wilderness where he was leading a band of savages, a la Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now."
"Do you come as assassins?" asks the muddled mayor, played by Kyle MacLachlan.
It's impossible for Fred and Carrie to get through to him, until they reveal that Seattle -- Portland's archrival for hipness and progressivism -- is about to take over their fair city.
"Under the cover of darkness, they might erect a Space Needle in Portland," says Carrie, rousing the mayor from his stupor and prompting him to return to his office to get the lights turned back on.
And so ended Season Three of "Portlandia."
There is a line from the first season of "Portlandia" that quickly became the show's trademark: "Portland is a city where young people go to retire."
That's not the case for the creators and two stars of the show -- Portlander Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen of "Saturday Night Live" fame. They are always looking for new ways to keep the show from getting stale.
Season Three, which ended this past March, was driven less by short sketches and more by narrative and character development.
The cable channel IFC said Wednesday it's picking up the show for two more seasons. They will premiere early next year and in 2015. Brownstein says the show will continue on the longer-narrative path, with more exploration of the dark side.
It's too early to say what's going to happen after 2015. But that might be the end of the road for "Portlandia."
"I'd like to develop and write other shows, comedy of some sort," the 38-year-old Brownstein said in an interview at a Portland coffee shop.
"Five seasons intuitively feels like the right amount of time for 'Portlandia' to be around," she said. "I always think people overstay their welcome. It's better to leave people wanting more. But you never know."
If "Portlandia" is a sendup of overzealous progressives and hipsters, it's become hip to watch the show. It's the most-watched series on IFC, whose targeted audience is the age 18-49 range.
Everyone has a favorite episode of "Portlandia," which debuted in January 2011. It might be when a cyclist (Armisen) asserts his rights by hollering, "I'm on a bike. I'm in a bike lane here" and says "Cars, man, why?" It might be the couple in a restaurant who are about to order chicken. They ask whether the chicken is USDA organic, Oregon organic or Portland organic. The waitress brings the chicken's papers and tells the couple it had a name: Colin. The couple visits the farm where Colin was raised to make sure it had been a good home for him.
"Portlandia" fans are able to recite lines like fans of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." People use the TV show as a yardstick to measure quirky events in everyday life: "That's just like a scene out of 'Portlandia.'"
Brownstein said Portland is not "the sole inspiration for the show," but that the city serves as a "signifier for an emotional landscape people are traversing." In "Portlandia," that emotional landscape is largely populated by sanctimonious humans whose obsessive pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle can clash with the desires of others. Somehow, "Portlandia" manages to portray such types with warmth.
Last year, "Portlandia" won a Peabody Award for being "a funhouse mirror reflection of Portland, Oregon, a city that takes its progressivism -- and its diet -- very seriously." This past February the show won the Writers Guild Award in the Comedy/Variety category. The show has pulled in some big names for cameo roles, including Jeff Goldblum, Roseanne Barr, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny and George Wendt.
Portlanders for the most part seem good-humored about the show, laughing at the caricatures of themselves and welcoming the attention. Tourists come to Portland to see local landmarks on the show. "Portlandia" walking and cycling tours have sprung up.
"Portlandia" put a number of locals in the show, including then-Portland Mayor Sam Adams, who played assistant to MacLachlan's fake Portland mayor.
"'Portlandia' has been worth millions in free advertising for Portland," Adams told the AP. "It is a loving spoof that has also allowed us to laugh at ourselves and allows others to do the same."
You hear grumbling among some locals about Portland being stereotyped, and about the stereotype being beaten to death. Still, locals will admit Portland is ripe for satire. If you go to a Portland potluck party, don't be surprised if nearly everyone brings a kale salad. And try not to get embarrassed if a group of nude cyclists zips past your car in broad daylight. And yes, Portland does have a vegan strip club, and another club where strippers do their thing while customers sing karaoke.
"Portlandia" was born from an earlier creative adventure written by and starring Armisen and Brownstein -- an Internet video series under the name ThunderAnt.
"It took those videos to realize we were portraying a certain kind of person," people with a "stunted maturity ... who are flummoxed by the ever-changing rules of progressivism," Brownstein said.
When the Washington state native was a guitarist and vocalist for the riot grrrl-inspired trio Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein already had a measure of celebrity in rock music circles.
And now Brownstein is a household name, if your household watches "Portlandia."
If your household does not watch "Portlandia," you may have seen Brownstein in a new American Express ad. She plays a businessman with oversize glasses licking an ice cream cone, a hipster who's just made a rare find in a record store, a sitar player and a grocery-shopping mom who puts her foot down when one of her kids tries to add two more near-human-sized jars of peanut butter to those already in the shopping cart.
At the end of the ad, Brownstein's voice says: "I'm Carrie Brownstein, and I get to be whoever I want."
As Brownstein continues to evolve along whatever creative paths she decides to follow, she will be cheered by the legions of fans she has acquired by bringing the world's attention to Portland through "Portlandia."


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Update on Ollie. In the short amount of time that I was able to care for Ollie, he grew amazingly fast, his feathers grew in beautifully. He was really strong and was darting around the mew amazingly well. I had served him a few live grasshoppers and mice and he didn't have any problem at all fending for himself, therefore I saw no reason at all to keep him any longer. I took him out to the pre arranged place and thought that I would be able to set up and take a few pictures of the "release" I was really excited as well as a bit anxious, hoping that he would do ok. Well, it was the most perfect and successful release, the little twerp did not even pause to look back and say thank you, see you later, nothing. He took off like a rocket and streatched his little wings and tried out his acrobatic talents. To quick for me to even think about captureing any photos. When he was tired out he lid about 200 yards across the canyon on the top of a rock bluff. We watched for a while and later in the day Ollie was seen hunting grass hoppers or lizards (not sure which) I am thrilled and confident that he will be just fine. It is always a bit scary to me when there is a release, but this little guy was definately ready to go. I have not "seen" him sence but have heard the distinctive kee kee kee of a kestrel a few times. ~
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Labels: kestrel, rehabilitation, wildlife photography
5 comments:
- kjpweb said...
A job well done! Maybe he sends you a postcard! ;)
Cheers, Klaus
- July 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM
very good picture! keep up great work
- August 5, 2008 at 8:15 AM
your photos are beautiful
- August 7, 2008 at 11:49 PM
A nice blog and appreciate your efforts on this rehab program. Congrats on the latest release.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:55 AM
- Arija said...
Hi, I tried to leave a comment on your other site, but the comment option was disabled.
The wolf is my totem so naturally I wanted to thank you for posting one in the snow with his lovely winter coat on.
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Evolutionists claim that water-dwelling organisms gradually turned into land-dwelling ones. In order to verify these claims, they depict all terrestrial living things and those living in water with similar characteristics as transitional forms. Ichthyostega is a marine creature that lived in the Devonian Period and which, in the evolutionists' view, represents a transitional form. These creatures were specially created to live in water, and the only reason why evolutionists regard them as transitional forms between fish and amphibians is that they compare a structure on their fins to a foot capable of walking on dry land.
However, there is no scientific validity to this unfounded claim. Living mammals such as the bat are capable of flight, mammals such as the Platypus that lay eggs, and mammals such as whales and dolphins live in the sea.
Such life forms also existed in the past. Ichthyostega lived in the sea, like dolphins, but that does not indicate that it was a transitional forms. On the contrary, it shows that they were an original and stable species. Indeed, according to the theory of evolution, there is no rational basis to proposing them as transitional forms at all.
All the supposedly transitional forms referred to today are the result of such distortions. According to evolutionists, the first movement made using the feet was made by life forms resembling amphibians that walked on the floors of shallow waters. These fish, which include the Coelacanth, were for long described as transitional forms that moved in such a way. Evolutionists claimed that the Coelacanth evolved over the course of time and turned into Ichthyostega, an amphibian. However, this was a completely groundless scenario.
A statement that Ichthyostega is a missing link between fishes and later tetrapods reveals far more about our prejudices than about the creature we are supposed to be studying. It shows how much we are imposing a restricted view on reality based on our own limited experience, when reality may be larger, stranger, and more different than we can imagine.219
As his admission shows, there is not a single piece of concrete evidence for any transition from water to land. This came to light with the discovery of a living Coelacanth and once again demonstrated that all the scenarios dreamed up by evolutionists were a fantasy.


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Mohan Chandrasekaran is a top rank Violin Maestro in the World of India Classical Music,
whose career has entered the sixth decade. Sri M. Chandrasekaran was born in a family of traditional
musicians on the 11th December 1937. He was initiated into Carnatic music by his mother late Srimathi Charubala Mohan, a talented carnatic musician.
Smt. Charnbala Mohan was perhaps the only guru for Sri M. Chandrasekaran on violin. Within a short span, Sri Chandrasekaran inculcated the essence of carnatic music and started giving public performances at the age of eleven.
His first performance was at Thiagaraja Vidwath Samajam, Mylapore, Chennai, in the year 1949.
The young prodigy won laurels of many that include the best violinist award from the Music Academy in the year 1950.
That heralded a career in music, which comprised both solo and accompaniment.
Sri Chandrasekaran has provided Violin accompaniment to the entire gamut of stalwarts like Sri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Sri Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer,
Sri G.N.Balasubramanianm, Sri Madurai Mani Iyer, Chembai Sri Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, Sri Ramnad Krishnan, Sri T.K.Rangachari, Sathur Sri A.G.Subramaniam, Mayavaram Sri Rajam,
Alathur Brothers, Flute T.R.Mahalingam, Sri Musiri Subramania Iyer, Sri Madurai Somasundaram, Sri Maharajapuram Santhanam, Palghat Sri K.V.Narayanaswamy and a galaxy of elite living exponents
like Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Flute Sri N.Ramani, Dr.M.Balamurali Krishna
and many other leading artistes. He has enthralled audiences all over India and at the cultural
centres of United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia and Singapore. He has received
appreciation of Violin Maestros like Mysore Sri T.Chowdiah, Sri Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, Sri Kumbakonam
Raja Manickam Pillai, etc. He has also received appreciation from Nadaswara Chakravarti Sri T.N.Rajaratnam Pillai.
Sri Chandrasekaran is well versed in Vocal Music too.
He had learnt vocal music from his mother and later he continued to learn under
Mannargudi Sri Sambasiva Bhagavathar, Kumbakonam Sri Viswanatha Iyer (one of the Kumbakonam brothers),
Smt T.Jayammal and Sri Vidyala Narasimhulu Naidu. He also learned vocal music from some other vidwans and
well wishers. His mellifluous voice has the depth and resonance which makes one think of GNB. He is well
known for singing the verses of keerthanas, while rendering violin solo. He has the honour of participating in all the Akashvani
Sangeet Sammelan since its inception in 1955.
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of music and excellence achieved by him, the Government of India honoured
him with the prestigious "Sangeet Natak Academy Award" in 1986. He has been honoured with Kalaimamani Award by the Tamil Nadu Government in 1982.
He has been honoured by the Rotary Club in 1984 and 1985 and 1989. He was awarded the Mysore T.Chowdiah National Award in 1989. He won the Ugadi Puraskar Award in 1993.
He was also made the Astana Vidwan of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt in 1993. He has been conferred with a host of other titles namely Kalaimamani ;
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ESSAY- 80% solution: Swinging a hammer in New Orleans
Already, it felt like I'd pretty much used up the muscles in my right arm, and I'd only been swinging the hammer for three hours. We had five more hours until quitting time.
Woody Allen said that 80 percent of success is showing up, but as I was wiping the sweat from my face with the sleeve of my t-shirt, I wasn't so sure.
It was this past September, and I was in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans, standing on the porch of a partially framed house, hammering nails into a sheet of plywood. I tried holding the hammer with my left hand, but the bent nails accumulating at my feet told me that was a bad idea.
Working next to me was Tina, a shy high school senior with a quick smile. Her home in the Lower Ninth Ward had been washed away two years ago when a levee burst as Hurricane Katrina hit. She found her house, twisted and broken, blocks away from where it belonged.
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But this was a Habitat for Humanity project, in a new neighborhood called Musician's Village, and Tina and her parents will be moving into one of these houses. Part of the deal with buying a Habitat house is the family puts in several hundred hours working on Habitat projects. (My husband and I were volunteering there for just one day.)
As I resumed pounding nails into plywood using my reluctant right arm, my mind wandered, and I contemplated the skill and strength of people who do this sort of thing for a living.
And then I recalled a piece of information I learned the last time I visited the Crescent City, but had totally forgotten until this moment.
During that previous trip, five months post-Katrina, we met a guy who was an inspector for the Small Business Administration, which was giving out disaster loans. He took us to the Lower Ninth Ward, where we saw countless houses that had been knocked off their foundations by the powerful gush of water from the broken levee. The houses ended up blocks away, heaped up against each other like Legos hosed off a sidewalk.
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As we ripped out a plywood panel that we'd nailed securely onto the frame– but had positioned inside out– I wondered how much time the Habitat folks spend correcting mistakes made by well-intentioned volunteers.
Eighty percent of success may involve showing up, but oh, that other 20 percent provides a lot of room for screwing up.
I tried to atone for our mistake by spacing the nails extra close around the window openings, minimizing the size of any gaps where the wind might reach in and try to pull the house apart.
Way beyond my ability to control it, wind blows, shoddy houses fall apart, people die. The best I can do is show up– and keep swinging.


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Artist: Krystii Melaine. Title: A Fresh Loop. Medium: Oil on linen panel. Size: 24" x 24". Framed size (if applicable): 34.5" x 34.5" Artist's description: A young cowboy gathers his rope into a fresh loop, ready to throw again. It has been a hard day's work but his horse is still alert and ready to do whatever his rider asks of him. I love painting portraits of the ordinary working people of the American West and the faithful horses who share their lives. Shipping from ZIP CODE 99005.
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