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How high is up: Tokyo Skytree boosts economy for some
There's a Japanese proverb that goes something like: Smoke and stupidity always rise to the highest places. It's a useful saying when talking about the media frenzy regarding the Tokyo Skytree, which opened to the public May 22. Though it's not our mission to ponder the psychology of why people like to go to the top of very tall structures and look down on everyone else, whatever the attraction, it hardly justifies the redundantly blanket media coverage of the new broadcast tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. Of course, the Tobu Railway group, which owns and operates the tower, couldn't have asked for better publicity. The number of visitors has so far exceeded its own estimates by 50 percent. No one has bothered to calculate the equivalent value in advertising that this free PR represents but it must
be in the billions of yen. And it's paid off. As of last February, group reservations for tickets to the upper observation deck were booked until July 22, amounting to some 300,000 separate admissions. Because a number of people cancel on a daily basis, the operator of the 634-meter tower has decided to sell an additional 1,000 tickets a day to the lower observation deck (350 meters) between June 4 and July 10 at ¥2,500 a pop. The limit for daily admissions is 14,000, but after cancellations the number that have actually shown up is between 12,000 and 13,000. Altogether, 1.4 million
visitors have been in the tower, 85,000 of whom went to the upper observation deck (450 meters), which costs ¥3,500. Reservations must be made with a credit card (only those issued in Japan are acceptable), and there are no refunds. At those prices and those numbers, it should be no problem for Tobu to pay off its massive ¥400 billion construction cost in a matter or years rather than decades.
Tobu isn't the only party counting on the Skytree to boost its financial situation. Tokyo Shimbun reports that the "economic impact" of the tower should also be felt nationwide to the tune of ¥174.6 billion and in the Tokyo metropolitan area by as much as ¥130 billion. Even more impressive, Sumida Ward expects ¥88 billion, and that's just in income. Of the eight Tokyo districts where property values rose in 2011, two are in Sumida Ward near the Skytree. However, according to the Mainichi Shimbun there is some talk among Sumida residents of just how much they themselves will benefit in the balance. About 32 million people a year are projected to come to Tokyo Skytree Town and its retail complex Solamachi, which is considerable given that annual admissions to Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea total 25 million. But the surrounding area is more residential than commercial and while local merchants are trying to make the most of the tourist windfall, those who simply live there are wondering if the boost is worth all the trouble. How the influx compromises public safety


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Chrisette Michele Rocks Glamorous Style in 'Love Won't Leave Me Out' Video
Chrisette Michele flips a multitude of styles in her video for 'Love Won't Leave Me Out.' The song is from her latest album, 'Better.'
The R&B songbird is famous for her cropped afro look, but in this clip, she rocks box braids. We also see Michele wearing some fashionable outfits including a sheer silk hoodie and a glamorous navy freakum dress.
Throughout the video, Michele sings of one day finding true and unconditional love. The R&B singer is accompanied by two handsome men who want to take her up on her offer of love and affection.
Directed by Clifton Bell, the video is beautifully shot and features Chrisette Michele's endearing message of love and self-empowerment.


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A member of Michael Jackson's security staff testified on Thursday that Conrad Murray asked him to help gather up drug vials and remove a drip bag from an IV stand before a 911 call was made to summon emergency medical personnel.
At the time, Mr. Jackson was lying face up in bed with his eyes and mouth open, palms facing upward, and showing no visible signs of life, the witness said.
The new revelations came during dramatic testimony on the third day of the involuntary manslaughter trial of the pop legend's personal physician at the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The testimony is important because it suggests that Dr. Murray may have been more concerned with protecting himself than in acting quickly to do everything possible to try to save Jackson's life.
Alberto Alvarez, the security guard, said he was called to the scene where he saw Murray performing chest compressions on Jackson, who was not breathing and was unresponsive.
"He was laying on his back with his hands extended out to his side with palms up," Mr. Alvarez said. "His eyes were slightly open and his mouth was open."
"When I came into the room, [Murray] said, 'Alberto, hurry, we have to get him to a hospital, we have to get an ambulance,' " Alvarez told the jury.
Almost immediately, two of Jackson's children, daughter, Paris, and son, Prince, entered the room. "Paris screamed out, 'Daddy,' " and began crying, Alvarez said.
Murray told the security guard: "Don't let them see their dad like this."
The scene in Jackson's bedroom
The testimony provided the most detailed public account yet of the frantic scene in the bedroom of Jackson's Los Angeles mansion on June 25, 2009, the day he died.
Authorities said he died from a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol, which Jackson had apparently been using to try to treat his chronic insomnia.
The drug is usually administered in a surgical setting like a hospital or clinic with a full array of vital-sign monitors and emergency-resuscitation equipment. Murray was allegedly administering the anesthetic to Jackson in his bedroom through injections and intravenous drip bags.
Alvarez said after rushing the children out of the room, he asked Murray what happened. "He said he had a reaction, he had a bad reaction," Alvarez told the jury.
The security guard said he did not see any equipment in the room that might help monitor Jackson's vital signs or alert staff to a medical emergency.
Alvarez said he was shocked when he noticed a device called a condom catheter attached to Jackson's penis. The device is used frequently in concert with an intravenous saline drip to allow medical patients to urinate while still in bed. He also saw clear plastic air tubes inserted into Jackson's nose, and an intravenous tube inserted into Jackson's leg.
"While I was standing at the foot of the bed, [Murray] reached over and grabbed a handful of vials and said, 'Here, put these in the bag,' " Alvarez said. Next, he said, Murray instructed him to remove an IV bag from an IV stand near Jackson's bed and place it in a plastic bag.
Alvarez said he noticed a bottle inside the bag. Deputy District Attorney David Walgren showed Alvarez an empty 100 milliliter bottle of propofol.
"Does this appear to be the bottle you saw in the bag," the prosecutor asked.
"It appears to be," Alvarez answered. "Yes, sir."
Alvarez said when he removed the bag from the IV stand he saw a "milky white substance" at the bottom of the bag.
Propofol is white and resembles milk.
"Why were you following these instructions to assist in collecting these vials and the saline bag?" Mr. Walgren asked.
"I believed that Conrad Murray had the best intentions for Mr. Jackson," Alvarez said. "I knew it was a medical emergency so I proceeded to follow his instructions."
He added: "I thought we were packing and getting ready to go to the hospital."
"Following those events, is that when you called 911," Walgren asked.
"Yes, sir."
The 911 call
Once the 911 operator understood that the patient was unconscious and not breathing, he instructed Alvarez to get the patient onto the floor to properly administer CPR.
At that point, Murray and Alvarez moved Jackson to the floor. To do so, Murray pulled an IV tube out of Jackson's leg, Alvarez said. Murray also clipped a compact monitoring device to Jackson's finger, he said.
As Murray tended to Jackson on the floor, Alvarez heard another security guard, Faheem Mohammed, arrive in the room. Alvarez said he told Mr. Mohammed "it was not looking good."
That's when Murray asked if anyone knew CPR.
"Me and Faheem kind of looked at each other for a split second," Alvarez said. Alvarez went to Jackson and began administering chest compressions, while Murray administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
"What, if anything, did Dr. Murray say," the prosecutor asked.
Alvarez answered: "I recall after a couple of … a few breaths, he came up and said this is the first time I do mouth to mouth, but I have to, he is my friend."
The paramedics arrived within minutes but were unable to revive Jackson. He was transported to UCLA Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.
Alvarez said he has refused more than 20 requests for media interviews about the day Jackson died. He said one news outlet offered him $500,000. The National Enquirer proposed $200,000.
He said he liked working for Jackson and that since his death he had gone "from a great salary to hardly anything."


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Peter Han's artwork lives and dies in a flurry of dust. In the short documentary Pardon My Dust, Han stands in front of the chalkboard, drawing with long, broad strokes of brightly colored chalk. The shapes appear quickly: an octopus, a piranha, a dinosaur. A tarantula crawls over Han's shoulder, and swiftly emerges on the chalkboard, its legs now foot-long curves of white and yellow powder.
As they take shape, his creatures feel as if they exist on the chalkboard and could leap out at any point. Instead, they are wiped away. "It's about the big picture, not the small details," Han explains. "Because I enjoy the process more than the shapes, I can let go of it."
Pardon My Dust is a SnowGlobe Studios production. Director Adriel de la Torre and his crew originally found Han through Kickstarter, and decided to make the film after learning about his unusual philosophy. Be sure to also check out more of Peter Han's artwork, both on and off the chalkboard, at peterhanstyle.com.
To see more more work by Adriel de la Torre and SnowGlobe Studios, visit snowglobestudios.net.
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Dartmouth Engineering Majors Build Smartphone App for Early Disease Detection
By Anna Fiorentino
April 2013 • CoolStuff
Four Dartmouth engineering undergraduates came up with a handy smartphone application and sweat collection device that allows for early disease detection. DiagnosMe, which became an LLC after Riley Ennis '15, Rob Lauzen '15, Katherine Franklin '15 and Kiah Williams '15 designed the device in Introduction to Engineering last fall, identifies proteins within a person's sweat through the color change of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay biosensor, in a process called densitometry. Users simply clip on the sweat collection device while exercising, and the iPhone application then indicates health or illness by correlating the color density to the concentration of the specific biomolecule. The device allows anyone looking to monitor their health, particularly those who are at risk for certain chronic diseases, to detect if there is something wrong with their body. DiagnosMe is designed to catch anything from Alzheimer's to type 2 diabetes in the early stages of progression, to improve prognoses and avoid additional medical bills.
"DiagnosMe goes beyond heart rate and blood pressure to show users what is really happening in their bodies before symptoms appear," says Ennis. "There are millions of people being diagnosed with diseases like cancer and heart disease after their bodies have already been adversely affected and when financial and emotional costs of treatment are already very high."
In a few short months, DiagnosMe received Dartmouth's Philip R. Jackson Award, placed in the Mitosis Impact 2013 contest, and ranked second in the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Society Business Plan Competition. The students also appeared on ABC Television News in February from the New York Stock Exchange as one of the Kairos Society's 50 most inventive student-run startups in the world.
"We met numerous helpful and influential mentors at the Kairos 50 Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. DiagnosMe was very well received and we are corresponding with a few people and companies from the event who are interested in getting involved," says Ennis.
While other apps such as Fitbit or Jawbone's UP already monitor vitals, DiagnosMe would be the first to give users direct information from their immune systems on a biological level. Still in the early stage of development, trials for DiagnosMe—which will likely cost about $50—have shown the disease progression of the flu in two individuals.
"We saw their immune systems' activity spike before symptoms arose, and then activity subsided once they were healthy again," explains Ennis.
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Booksellers across the country, and around the world, have spread the word of Beverly's tender tales of Plain country life. A clerk in a Virginia bookstore wrote, "Beverly's books have a compelling freshness and spark. You just don't run across writing like that every day. I hope she'll keep writing stories about the Plain people for a long, long time."
A member of the National League of American Pen Women, as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Evangel University, Lewis has written over 80 books for children, youth, and adults, many of them award-winning. She and her husband, David, make their home in Colorado, where they enjoy hiking, biking, and spending time with their family. They are also avid musicians and fiction "book worms."
Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amishwoman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare.
Eben Troyer is a responsible young Amishman who hopes to make Joanna Kurtz his bride--if he can ever leave his parents' farm in Shipshewana, Indiana. Yet with his only brother off in the English world, intent on a military career, Eben's hopes for building a life with his dear Joanna are dimming, and patience is wearing thin. Will Joanna ever be more than a bridesmaid?
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By J.J. Montanaro
The year is quickly winding down. For millions of Americans, that means the window for taking annual required minimum distributions (RMDs) from IRAs and other retirement plans is closing. And if the conversations I have on a regular basis are any indication, the rules surrounding these remain a mystery to many, despite Congress' simplification in 2002.
Retirement plans such as 401(k)s, 403(b)s, the Thrift Savings Plan and IRAs are designed to encourage folks to save for retirement by providing a tax incentive in the form of income-reducing contributions and/or tax-sheltered accumulation. In other words, you're able to hold the IRS at bay and build your nest egg by participating in these types of plans. But the IRS is intent on getting its share, and the RMD rules ensure it by requiring you to begin removing money from these plans – and paying the appropriate taxes – beginning at age 70½. Here's what to know as you prepare for the IRS onslaught:
You must take your first distribution in the year you turn 70½. However, the first distribution – and only the first – can be delayed until April 1 of the year after you turn 70½.
For example, say you turn 70 on Nov. 15, 2013, and will be 70½ on May 15, 2014. Your first distribution is required to be taken by Dec. 31, 2014. So you could take it at any point in 2014 or delay it until April 1, 2015. If you choose the latter, you will have to take two distributions that year since all distributions after the first one must be taken before Dec. 31.
The "minimum" is just that. While the IRS has a robust set of rules regarding the minimum amount you must withdraw, you are entitled to take all you want from your retirement savings. IRS Publication 590 provides Table III, Uniform Lifetime, to help you determine how much you must withdraw. This table works for everyone except those married to a spouse who is more than 10 years younger and is the sole beneficiary of the plan. There's a separate table for those cases.
Simply take the prior year's Dec. 31 value of your retirement account and divide it by the IRS-provided factor to determine how much must be withdrawn. You can take as much as you want from your IRA plans, but don't take too little. The IRS levies a 50-percent tax on any required amount not withdrawn.
Multiple plans require multiple calculations. You must calculate your RMD from each IRA or employer plan separately, but you can withdraw it from one or more than one of the accounts – as long as they're of the same type. For example, if you have three IRAs, you could calculate the RMD for each but withdraw the total required amount from one.
Can't do it for your spouse. In many cases, the IRS considers things like income, deductions and exemptions to be a team game for married couples. Not so with RMDs, which must come from the account owner's funds.
Hopefully, this helps you better understand some of the nuances surrounding RMDs as you head out to meet with your tax adviser.
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Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here.
The most shocking thing about Bo Pelini's rant about Nebraska fans is that a coach doesn't get caught cursing out his own fanbase every week. Because honestly, fuck the fans. If you were the coach, you'd say hateful shit about them every waking moment. They're loud and obnoxious and they ALL think they can do a better job than you even though they would fail horribly if handed the crown.
And the worst part is that they act surprised when a coach is anything other than 100% deferential to them. Look again at our tipster's emails to Dom: "It's only fair that the fanbase of Nebraska know what Pelini thinks about them. Them being the same people that pay his salary." You can feel the resentment, like this guy believes he truly deserves to have a say in whether or not Nebraska should terminate Pelini, eat his contract, and exhaust numerous resources finding another coach who will probably end up hating Husker fans just as much as Pelini does. Saying you "pay the coach's salary" is the equivalent of a Green Bay Packers fan holding up a certificate of ownership: It means nothing. It's just a fan's way of desperately attempting to inflate their own role in the team's business.
We fans are extras. We are the seat fillers. We don't order our teams around. They order us around. That's how it works. I'm not trying to say Pelini is a good coach and deserves better. Far from it. He probably sucks and he totally looks like Lou from Fargo. But anyone who acts surprised that a coach would secretly loathe his constituents is full of shit. There's something inherently absurd about a drunken fan screaming for his coach's head, and then when the coach lets his true feelings be known, the fan is like Fuck moi? Me, the poor little fan? How dare you, sir! Bug the office of every coach of every team for 24 hours a day and you'll find a quality fan rant from each of them. I can't even imagine what Nick Saban says about 'Bama fans to his old lady. These stupid inbred motherfuckers. Fans are assholes. We deserve the scorn.
The Games
All games in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms.
Five Throwgasms
Chiefs at Eagles: Speaking of hating your own fans, I know Andy Reid is saying all the right things about tonight, but you know damn well he'd like to win this game by 700 points and then go up to a nearby Eagles fan and piss in his mouth.
By the way, I know Mike Mayock has a lot of fanboys out there, just like Jaws does. He watches lots of tape and is very knowledgeable and friendly and that's very nice. But dude, he NEVER shuts the fuck up. Ever. There is no dead air in that broadcast. If you talk that much, I'm bound to tune you out, no matter what you have to say. Mayock could start reading a Penthouse Forum letter live on the air and I wouldn't even hear it. I just want him to ease off a bit, that's all.
Also, he calls every player "kid". Stop doing that. It's creepy even when they do it in college ball. These are not kids. They are men ages 22 and up and they all outweigh you by a hundred pounds. They should call YOU kid.
Four Throwgasms
Packers at Bengals: I went to "Back to School Night" for my kid's elementary school and the second grade teachers demonstrated how they teach addition to and subtraction to the students now. You know how you add numbers by carrying the one? They don't do that anymore, which blew my mind. They use something called a number line. The teacher went through solving a problem this way and I still didn't understand it. WHAT KIND OF WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?! The teacher explained that it was simpler than carrying the one or taking a one away, and that only served to bring out the old man in me. Making math easy, are ye? YOU'RE A CODDLER!
By the way, they teach kids WAY more shit in elementary school now than they did in the 80s. I saw a decimal worksheet in my kid's class. I didn't learn decimals until, like, sophomore year of college. I don't like these kids being so smart so quickly.
Colts at 49ers: The complaints about the Seahawks stadium noise from Niner fans reminded me of this old man rant from Dr. Z in Sports Illustrated back in 1996 (peep the cover LOLZ):
Football is something to be decided by the guys wearing the pads, not a bunch of screamers
I know I said "Fuck the fans" earlier, but fuck Dr. Z even more. Oh, and I hope he is in good health and resting comfortably. But also, fuck him. BILLS WILL WIN THE SUPER BOWL AGAIN YOU GUYS.
Three Throwgasms
Texans at Ravens: Quick drinking game: Watch Deion Sanders on the NFL Network and drink anytime he says the phrase "in the game today," as in, "AJ Green, maybe the most dangerous wide receiver we have IN THE GAME TODAY." You will develop sepsis in your liver by 5:15pm.
Falcons at Dolphins: I was walking my kid to school the other day and the crossing guards at my kid's school are VERY serious. I walked to the edge of the curb and immediately drew a whistle for standing too close to oncoming traffic. Then I got whistled at again for jaywalking. Then I got whistled at again for attempting to cross the parking lot instead of going around. Bag that whistle, crossing lady! GROWNUPS ARE EXEMPT FROM CROSSING GUARD ROOLZ. I should be able to jaywalk and bob and weave between minivans as I see fit.
Chargers at Titans: I hate holding penalties so much that I think that the NFL should make it a rule that all offensive linemen must have their hands wrapped up entirely with tape prior to the game, mummy-style. No hands for you. You don't even get the thumb. All you get is a crude, taped-up flipper to work with. That would eliminate jersey grabs entirely and it would end the arbitrary calling of holding penalties. Plus it would be fun to see 300-pound men flapping around like obese penguins on every pull block.
Two Throwgasms
Rams at Cowboys: Ever get a chest hair on your neck? I swear this happens when you get older and it's horrifying. I saw a tangle of these things on my neck the other day and thought that the hair belonged to another person, or a dog, or that there was a bird's nest stuck to my shirt. Then I yanked and the fucking shit was attached. Do not get old.
Cardinals at Saints: How much money has been spent by the Velocity Channel to promote that show where Patrick Dempsey drives race cars? NO ONE FUCKING CARES. Even Patrick Dempsey's family wouldn't watch that show. Actors are the most boring people alive and actors who drive race cars (80% of them) are even more boring. I'm not just some dipshit actor. My real passion is BLOOD SWEAT AND GEARS BRO. I hope that show is cancelled an hour from now.
Lions at Skins: Oh hey, RG3 doesn't want to run any of last year's read option scheme? Oh, okay. (leaves RG3 for dead on the side of the highway) The best part about the RG3 disaster in Washington is that this will go on all year long because the Skins suck at everything. I can't wait for the next phase of the Griffin/Shanny feud. A benching? YOU BET! Shanahan publicly stating that Griffin is fat? FAT AS SHIT.
Panthers at Giants: During the lightning delay Sunday Night, I watched NBC's studio show in essence for the first time. I pretty much never listened to Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison yammering before, but they're all right, I guess. Anything's better than Herm Edwards cackling like an idiot. But Harrison and Dungy did say that Eli Manning was struggling because he didn't have enough support on offense, and that is extreme bullshit. He's got fucking Nicks and Cruz and Randle, perhaps the best wideout trio IN THE GAME TODAY! Eli fucking blows.
One Throwgasm
Steelers at Bears: That's two straight weeks of the Steelers in primetime, and they are just unbearable to watch. They need to develop emergency flexing for situations in which a team has proven immediately that it is unwatchable on offense. You can be horrible on defense and still be a thoroughly entertaining NFL team (like the Eagles!). But you cannot be the opposite.
Browns at Vikings: You dealt away a blue chipper, Mike Lombardi!
Bucs at Patriots: I like it when I'm switched to a different game late and the announcer welcomes me by saying, "We welcome those of you who just watched (x team get curb-stomped by y team)..." Really makes me feel at home. And if I'm watching a game and they truck in viewers from another shitty game that just ended, I'm also totally jazzed. Oh man, extra people showed up! NOW THIS IS A PARTY!
Bills at Jets: I don't know why Curt Menefee can't do all the Game Breaks for FOX all day on Sunday. Some guy named Joel is forced to do them occasionally and he sounds like a dude they dragged over from the craft service table to read the highlights. What is Menefee doing all day, besides gorging on olives?
Jaguars at Seahawks
Raiders at Broncos
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
Reader Jared sends in "Six Days A Week" by The Bronx. There was a 99.99999999999% chance that a band named The Bronx would be unbearable, but I'm happy to say The Bronx have somehow managed to defy the odds. It's like naming your band Park Slope. Anyway, this is awesome.
Suicide Pick Of The Week
Last week's picks of Baltimore, New Orleans and Atlanta went 3-0, making me 5-1 on the year. Once again, we pick three teams for suicide pool and one things that makes you want to commit suicide. This week's picks are Seattle, Denver, Minnesota (oh that's a bad idea) and lightning delays. Seriously, what the fuck is going on? The hour-long delay last week was intolerable, and listening to Al Michaels check out radar maps on his fucking iPad only made it worse. I demand the Ginger Hammer suspend lightning for the rest of the season. It's even striking the commercials. I'm excited for Global Warming to increase worldwide lightning attacks by 400,000%. One day, there will be a lightning strike that is 500 miles across in width. My hope is that it hits Cowboys Stadium.
Gregg Easterbrook Is A Haughty Dipshit
Verily, I cannot stay away from shitting all over His Royal Greggggggggness. His endless musing are simply tout sour to resist, HUH? HUH?!
Detroit faced fourth-and-4 at its 43... Matt Stafford threw super-short to Nate Burleson — who pulled his pattern up short of the line to gain. Tackle, contest over... Hoover damn, the play was sour.
Jesussudio Christ! Chrysler Jeepers! Josh Gadzooks, viva le sourness!
After your columnist said he liked the FX series "Justified" — entertaining but unrealistic crime drama about a modern wild-west-style lawman...
A fine series, although COMPLETELY FICTIONAL ONE MIGHT ADD (sips tea and strokes kitten)
— many readers suggested the A&E series "Longmire," also about a modern wild-west-style lawman, but realistic. "Longmire," which just wrapped its second season, is thoroughly enjoyable.
But?????? Tell me it's bureaucratic flaws, dickbot!
Walt is a good detective but, like all investigators on crime shows, never takes notes. Few crimes would be solved if real-world law enforcement officers failed to take notes. Longmire always gets the killer to confess, but never records the confession nor has a witness present, nor first gives the standard warning against self-incrimination.
AHAHAHAHA OH MY FUCKING GOD. "You know what would make this show really hum? A SCRIBE. Why are we not transcribing these interrogations in real time?! And how come Longmire never fills out a W9?" You know how Elmore Leonard said to leave out the boring parts? Gregg is the reverse Elmore Leonard.
TMQ's decade-long campaign against the name "Redskins" picked up a lot of support in the last few weeks...
FOLLOW MY LEAD, PIGDOGS! As always TMQ was in on this shit decades before the QUEENSTREAM media finally fell in line. You make me SICK!
...with Peter King of Sports Illustrated and NBC, the Washington Post, Christine Brennan of USA Today and Keith Olbermann jumping on the bandwagon. We need some sousaphones on this bandwagon!
But then we would need proper sheet music, to really jack up the realism.
TMQ gets credit for campaigning against R*dsk*ns on NFL.com itself.
Cookie for you, fuckface.
This column ran there from late 2003 through late 2005, and several dozen times referred to the Washington team as the Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons.
Hoover damn, that's genius!
My first column on NFL.com, from Nov. 25, 2003, contained this explanation: "I think R*dsk*ns has no polite usage (except for potatoes), though surely neither the team nor its fans intend offense."
"I know you people weren't paying close enough attention to my moralizing in that column, so lemme just paste it here so that you get the hint."
Next week, I may be mentioning something about "The King of Sports" — which just got a starred review from Library Journal.
But not The Economist! Oh, how Gregggggg must have cried out in agony to know such an elite periodical would trash his new manifesto. "Mr Easterbrook's work is strikingly uneven. He is given to spluttering fits of moral outrage that lead him to contradict himself." Ye Gods! Grand Canyonder! That's a real drubbing!
Great Moments In Poop History
Reader Anthony sends in this story I call HAIL TO THE POOPERS:
In 2007, I went to Ann Arbor with my buddy to watch Michigan destroy Notre Dame. I love Notre Dame football and have always wanted to go to the Big House, Michigan's Stadium. We got there on Friday night and did the usual campus drinking. We woke up Saturday morning, tailgated and headed into the stadium. When we got to our seats, I started feeling that "Uh oh" grumble down below.
This is Michigan vs. Notre Dame, I paid way too much for this ticket, so I'm going to fight this off as long as I can. Hopefully the game goes by quick and I can make it back to my buddies' place after the game. There's no chance I'm leaving. I'll just ignore the pain until it's too much to bear. The Irish are getting mauled and I can barely watch any longer, but there is zero chance I leave this stadium before the game is over.
I figure I'll head to the men's room and crap in a stall. It's a little uncomfortable pooping in a public stall, but I have a tested nesting routine that I have 100% confidence in. Besides, I've gone in a stall a thousand times before, it won't be an issue. When I get up to go, it's halftime, so every bathroom is packed and the lines are out the door. I walk into the first men's room and there are only urinals from end to end, not one single commode. No big deal, I wasted a few minutes, I'll walk to the next one. I walk into restroom two, same issue, all urinals! What the fuck!?
Walking around is not helping my stomach either at this point, now I'm loosened up and my brain is anticipating going. I made the commitment in my head to go and me, my brain and my bunghole have all agreed it's gonna happen soon. This has now become a full-fledged Emergency Shit. When I walk into the third bathroom, I'm in luck… sorta. There are 24 urinals along the wall and a single sit down commode at the end… in plain sight… with no stall around it. It's just a random sit down commode in the middle of this room. There is no seat on this thing and hundreds of guys have been pissing all over it, all day.
I grab a handful of paper towels and get in line for this lone commode. The lines are about 5 deep so I have time to go over the tactics in my head, on how to be as low-key as possible. (This is like the Army days of planning a raid on a weapons cache.) However, I am quickly realizing that with 200 guys in this room, all facing the front wall, there is not going to be any way to hide this. I get to the head of the line and the guy in front of me finishes. I take the towels, wipe the seat, then turn and look at the face of the guy behind me in line, who is now staring at me like, "There is no way this about to happen." Oh yes it is my friend, oh yes it is.
I look this guy straight in the eyes, drop my pants to my ankles and have a seat. To a man, every single guy in the room erupts into laughter instantaneously. I sit on this seatless piss-covered commode for what is one of the most relieving dumps of my entire life. Afterwards, I head back to my seat and meet up with my friend, who asks, "What happened? You were gone a while." "Nothing."
Emmitt Smith's Lock of the Week!
"My partition is that the San Diego Chargers (+3) will sperm into Tennessee and tipple the Titans on the road.
"Philip Rivers is what I call an Eileen quarterback. HE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO MASTURBATE THE BALL DOWN THE FEEL! I believe that Philip was hamstered by injuries for the past few years. But now he's completely regurgitated!"
Emmitt Smith 2013 record: 1-0
This Week In Terrifying Animal News
Obviously, the big news this week was that Florida, being Florida, is now overrun with herpes-infected monkeys. Obviously, there's only one way to stop the spread of the monkey herpes, and that is MONKEY RUBBERS. I did a quick Google search for "monkey condoms" and found no actual birth control products for monkeys available on the market. However, I did come across Condom Monkey, a wholesale rubber supplier. "Rest easy, baby. I got these from the Condom Monkey." Also, here is a rubber that is shaped like a monkey. Because nothing turns a woman on like the prospect of having a very small, living monkey being inserted into her vaginal cavity.
Fantasy Player Who Deserves to Die A Slow, Painful Death
Knowshon Moreno. Oh, now you wanna be mildly productive? DIE. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. Knowshon has ruined Montee Ball and he will get hurt two weeks from now, just when you've cottoned to the idea of making him a regular flex spot starter. Josh McDaniels has never produced anything good.
Fire This Asshole!
Is there anything more exciting than a coach losing his job? All year long, we'll keep track of which coaches will almost certainly get fired at year's end or sooner. And now, your potential 2013 chopping block:
- Rex Ryan*
- Ron Rivera*
- Jason Garrett
- Leslie Frazier
- Greg Schiano*****
- Gus Bradley
- Dennis Allen
- Tom Coughlin
- Mike Shanahan
- Mike Tomlin
*-Potential midseason firing
LOL GREG SCHIANO. What a fucking clod. Only Schiano would be stupid enough to wage war on his own team on roughly seven different fronts. Here's his idea of being diplomatic with Darrelle Revis:
It was good to see him but not really necessary.
"Darrelle and I have put this behind us. Also, he wasted my fucking time. But we're good." I would love to watch Greg Schiano doing a marriage proposal. DURRRR YOU SEEM USEFUL DURRRR (holds out ring)
Gametime Snack Of The Week
Pumpernickel and onion pretzel sticks! OOOOH, PUMPERNICKEL! So exotic. Some people have a real boner for pumpernickel, usually people of German descent.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
IC Light Mango! Oh holy Christ. Reader Patrick sends this disastrous fruity beverage for Pittsburgh-area douchebags:
Plain Iron City beer is not nasty enough! Now, dilute your Iron City, and add the "refreshing taste" of MANGOS! Haven't we suffered enough? Monkeys eat mangos, right? I believe their vomit would taste like IC Light Mango.
If the monkeys have herpes, then the answer is yes. I wish there were chunks of mango floating around in it, just to drive the nastiness home. No place on Earth makes me pine for tropical fruit quite like Pittsburgh. And only 95 calories! I MUST HAVE IT.
Robert Evans's MVP Watch!
Time to start thinking about who the leaders will be for the NFL's MVP award. So every week, legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans will join us to give us his assessment. Take it away, Mr. Evans.
"Baby, my favorite for NFL MVP is Peyton Manning of the Broncos! The wily old coot! I hear a lot of people are crying OSCAR for this Oprah Winfrey movie about a butler. Let me tell you my Oprah story. A smart woman? YOU BET! Horrible bitch? OH GOD YES. I was running Paramount what back when and Spielberg came by to pitch me an outline for The Color Purple 2: Deep Purple. And he brings Oprah with him.
"Well, big ol' Oprah walks right past my receptionist, Fresco, and storms into my office while I'm getting a quality blowjob. Then she begins rearranging the chairs in my office! And I tell her, 'Whoa, baby! I got those pieces in Istanbul!' But before I can zip up my pants and stop her, she's got five assistants barging in with rolls of wallpaper, vases of fresh orchids (to which I am frightfully allergic), and a giant tub of Swiss Cake Rolls! And I'm crying to Fresco, 'Stop her, Fresco! Stop this madwoman!' Then Oprah demanded a role for Gayle King! You should have seen how red in the face Spielberg was. I never even got to finish my blowjob! No class."
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Browns Fans
Django Unchained. I bet Quentin Tarantino made that entire movie just so he could film that one scene where Jonah Hill and Don Johnson are arguing over whether or not to wear their KKK hoods. And you know what? I don't blame him at all. That scene is fantastic. I bet Jerry Richardson HATED this movie.
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
"Fire, Man's Oldest Foe. Insatiable, remorseless, unquenchable."
Enjoy the games, everyone.
Drew Magary writes for Deadspin and Gawker. He's also a correspondent for GQ. Follow him on Twitter @drewmagary and email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also buy Drew's book, Someone Could Get Hurt, through his homepage.


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Welcome to Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
Our values focus on the Gospel and the example of Christ and his compassion for people.
The main community-oriented activities at Our Savior's consist of seven Alcoholics Anonymous groups, which all meet in the evenings at the church. They have long expressed the warmth and spirituality they experience here.
We invite you to explore our Website, contact us with your questions and comments, and join us for worship soon.
As followers of Jesus Christ
• Know and Share God's love unconditionally
Every Wednesday evening @ 6:00 PM: Potluck Supper and Worship, always open to the community. All are welcome!
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged a broker and his company based in Danbury, Conn., with stealing at least $600,000 from clients and using the money to pay for his mortgage, grocery bills and other personal expenses.
The SEC alleges that Stephen B. Blankenship persuaded about a dozen clients—including some retirees and others he met at church—to withdraw money from their brokerage accounts he managed at other firms and instead invest with him directly. As part of his scheme, he assured them they could obtain a greater rate of return on their money by transferring it to his firm, Deer Hill Financial Group.
According to the SEC, Blankenship claimed he was investing their money in established securities such as publicly traded mutual funds. But in reality he made no investments and merely transferred customer money to his own bank account, and he misused it to pay his mortgage, travel and grocery bills among other personal expenses. Blankenship also paid some business expenses and made Ponzi-like payments to other customers who requested a return of all or part of their investment.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut on Thursday announced criminal charges against Blankenship.
"Blankenship took advantage of fellow churchgoers and senior citizens who relied on their savings for retirement and placed their trust in him," said David P. Bergers, director of the SEC's Boston Regional Office, in a statement. "He betrayed that trust by using their money to make personal credit card payments and home improvements."
According to the SEC's complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, most of the investors deceived by Blankenship became his brokerage customers at Santa Monica-based Syndicated Capital and later at Melville, N.Y.-based Vanderbilt Securities. Some had been his customers for as long as two decades. Beginning in at least 2002, Blankenship took advantage of those longstanding relationships and began persuading customers to withdraw money from their brokerage accounts at those firms with promises that he could achieve a greater rate of return for them directly by investing their money through Deer Hill.
The SEC alleges that in order to conceal his scheme, "Blankenship often created fake account statements that falsely represented that he had invested their money in a variety of investments. The purported account statements were printed on Deer Hill letterhead and provided to customers." In all instances, the investments described on the account statements did not exist, the SEC says.
The SEC's complaint alleges that Deer Hill and Blankenship violated the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and acted as unregistered brokers. The complaint seeks disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest, monetary penalties, and the entry of a permanent injunction against Deer Hill and Blankenship, who lives in New Fairfield, Conn.
Based on the same misconduct, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut charged Blankenship with criminal violations. The Connecticut Department of Banking's Securities Division has obtained, by consent, a revocation of Blankenship's registration and has barred Blankenship and Deer Hill from operating in Connecticut.


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When I bought my house a few years ago, I spent a good deal of time choosing the perfect shade of laminate flooring for my kitchen and dining room.
It had to be dark to complement the cupboards, but not too red. And it couldn't be too light, because then it would compete with the counter tops. I settled on a lovely shade with a fancy name… and then I adopted a dog.
Ever since then, especially in the spring or fall, my floors have been more of a Mud Bog Brown or a Dusty Gray. I've been at a loss when it comes to keeping them shiny and clean. Obviously, I want a happy dog, and leaving her inside all day isn't the best option for good dog health.
Thankfully, our Pets Best Insurance Facebook friends have some great tips. Here are five ways you can keep muddy dog footprints at bay:
1. Use lots of rugs
Rafaela of Colorado recommends laying down rugs anywhere muddy paws might land. We like this idea, especially if those rugs are machine-washable.
2. Hang on to the winter booties
In Missouri, Dallas lets her dogs continue to wear their winter booties into spring. As long as you can get those booties off between the muddy outdoors and your floors, there's no floor or dog clean-up needed at all.
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Lorali of Maryland recommends using unscented baby wipes to clean off muddy paws after every outing. Keep a tub of them by the door and your pups will not only have clean feet, but conditioned pads that are protected against cracking. Cracked paw pads can be a real dog health concern – left untreated, they may become infected and require veterinary care.
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Whether you choose to clean daily or look the other way, you can feel good knowing your dog will be happier and healthier when allowed to run and play, even in the mud. Before you know it, we'll all be chilling in front of air conditioners and wishing for cooler weather!


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Nicemag entered this freaking awesome headless Marie Antoinette costume in the MAKE & CRAFT contest – Link & here's how to make your own.
Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests!
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests – Link.


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Young Men of Zion
Young men of Zion, all who bear the priesthood Aaron bore,
Who watch and teach, expound, exhort as ancients did before.
Remember John the Baptist who conferred this pow'r of old;
Let us prepare the way of Christ As he did, strong and bold.
O be strong in the Lord, In the power of his might,
Than come, put on his armor and stand up for the right.
For we bear his priesthood and he gives our call;
With faith in his power, we give the Lord our all!
2. Young men of Zion, let us do our duty to our God
And magnify our callings as we walk where Christ has trod;
Administ'ring the sacrament and minist'ring with love,
We baptize to unlock the gate that leads to heaven above.
3. Young men of Zion, let us live that we may soon obtain
The priesthood of Melchizedek and temple blessings gain.
We'll go and teach the nations all, endowed with heav'nly pow'r,
And lead our fam'lies unto Christ as watchmen on the tow'r!
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Composition Date: 2012-05-04
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Focus on where you want to go
Over the last few weeks I have been travelling in Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes I have been travelling with friends and sometimes on my own.
I've learnt lots of new things, mostly through trial and error and with the help and kindness of strangers. Who knew you were not allowed luggage on the train from Wellington? (it has its own secret carriage) Or that shops often shut at 4pm and lunch finishes at 2.30?
I've been grateful to many people for their directions and help. I also have several observations.
- People are kind and happy to help – and pleased to be asked for help.
- People are proud of and keen to tell you about the area in which they live.
- People like to recommend places to go and things to do and see.
- People are interested in where you are from and how you have enjoyed visiting their country.
- Most people have a friend or relative in the UK that they wonder if you know.
- Most people are rubbish at giving directions.
Most people are rubbish at giving directions because they know too much about the area and tell you information that is irrelevant. Most people also start by telling you the way not to go. For example….
Helpful person 1
- Helpful person 1: "So you come out of the station and on your left you will see the water."
- Me: "Great – So I look for water…"
- Helpful person 1: "Don't go to there"
Helpful person 2
- Helpful person 2: "Go to the end of the road. At the roundabout see the big council building, with a yellow and blue sign and to the left of that there is a park."
- Me: "Great – so I'm looking for a council building, yellow and blue and a park"
- Helpful person 2: "Don't go that way"
Helpful person 3
- Helpful person 3: "At the bus stop you see a deli type shop with beautiful flowers in the window and it does excellent coffee."
- Me: "OK – looking for the deli and flowers"
- Helpful person 3: "Don't go that way – go the other way"
OK so I think you get it. My question is; wouldn't it be better to focus on what I should be looking for and where I should be going, rather than giving me information about the landmarks that I should avoid?
It makes me think of a driving analogy that a friend told me.
"You are driving. The road is icy and your car spins out of control. There are telegraph posts at about 10 metre spaces along the roadside. If all you think about is not hitting the post, the likelihood is that you will hit the post as that is what you are focusing on. What you should be focusing on is aiming for the gap. You need to focus on where you are going."
We often spend time concerned with where we don't want to go, whether in work, relationships, life or simply giving directions to hapless travellers.
If we focus on where we do want to go rather than on where we don't want to go, surely we stand more chance of arriving at the right destination?


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By JEFF PICKELL
Since early last fall, there has been a lot more work to get done at Palm Plastics.
In the first three days of April alone, the factory churned out a little more than 10,000 units of its newest product. If they want to meet their quota, operators will have to hit the 100,000 mark by the end of the month.
The products are radio frequency identification control-tagged pallets—RFID-tagged pallets. They're plastic shipping pallets that contain four identical tags, each tucked into a corner of the square platform. The tags can be remotely identified by software and equipment designed by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS)—the firm that also designed the pallets.
Last year, iGPS entered into a preferred supplier agreement with Dutch firm Schoeller Arca—Palm Plastics' parent company. Currently, the Morenci plant is the sole producer of RFID-tagged pallets in North America.
According to Palm Plastics CEO Jeffrey Owen, the pallets are poised to have a big impact on the shipping industry in the near future.
The vast majority of pallets used in shipping today are leased from a single firm which deals mostly in nearly untraceable wooden pallets. It can often be hard to determine which units are still in the pallet pool, and which have been discarded, dismantled or destroyed by employees of the companies leasing them.
That's not the case with RFID-tagged pallets.
Seconds after line workers install the ID cards in the pallets, a nearby sensor checks to see if the cards work. Shortly after, the cards are welded between a one-inch-thick polyethylene underdeck and a double layered top deck.
The pallets are then stored until a forklift operator carts them onto a waiting semi-trailer. Before they even hit the trailer floor, the new ID tag numbers have been recorded into the computer network, thanks to another set of sensors just inside the loading port that trucks back into.
As the pallet travels around the country, its location will be logged. Companies leasing the pallets can also use the RFID tags to record the load, weight, destination and other information about each pallet.
In addition to the RFID tags, each pallet also contains a barcode on each of its four sides, which can be used by companies that employ a barcode inventory system.
Plastic pallets are expected to have a much longer service life than their wood counterparts, said Owen.
RFID-tagged pallets are sturdily and uniformly constructed, with five steel beams installed in every unit for reinforcement. Since each pallet is exactly the same size and dimension, they are ideal for use on automated assembly lines.
Wood pallets, on the other hand, typically suffer cracked and broken boards after repeated use. They're also constructed by smaller companies without uniform shape and size standards, Owens said. Poor construction can lead to exposed nails and sharp wood edges.
Owens added that the plastic pallets can be shipped overseas without the threat of spreading domestic nuisances, such as Dutch elm disease and the emerald ash borer.
The plastic pallets can be sterilized and reused more easily, Owens said. Wood pallets must be destroyed after they are used to transport meat.
Since the pallet project began, Palm Plastics has gone from employing about 50 people to about 110, and has plans to double its daily output of RFID-tagged pallets by early to mid-fall. This might entail adding additional jobs, Owens said, and even branching out to new facilities in the area.
How big will Palm Plastic's pallet production grow?
That's hard to predict, Owen said, but there's one fact he finds promising: iGPS has purchased a block of 25 million RFID tag numbers.


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A 20-year-old German tourist who lost an arm in a shark attack off the coast of Maui last week died of her wounds on Wednesday, her family said, becoming the first person to die of a shark attack in Hawaii in nearly a decade.
Jana Lutteropp, 20, had been hospitalized since she was attacked while snorkeling near Maui and had been on life support prior to her death, a hospital spokeswoman said.
"Jana fought hard to stay alive. However, we are sad to say that she lost her fight today," Lutteropp's mother, Jutta Lutteropp, and sister Julia Broeske said in a statement released by Maui Memorial Medical Center.
"Jana was a very beautiful, strong, young woman who was always laughing, and we will forever remember her that way," Lutteropp and Broeske said in the statement.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported in a story on its website that Lutteropp was snorkeling about 50 yards offshore, in an area known as White Rock, last Wednesday when she was attacked shortly before 5 p.m.
Four days after Lutteropp was attacked, an 8-foot shark bit a 16-year-old boy in the legs while he was surfing along the east coast of Hawaii's Big Island.
The young victim, Jimmy Ulualoha "Ulu-boy" Napeahi, suffered 30 deep lacerations in the attack, which occurred while he was surfing on Sunday with friends at Pohoiki Bay. He was expected to fully recover.
That incident marked the ninth shark attack on a person in Hawaiian waters this year, according to William Aila, chairman of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Aila said Hawaii typically documents five or six close encounters between people and sharks every year, including bites or cases in which a shark may actually bump into or brush up against someone.
According to the Land and Natural Resources department, the last fatal shark attack in Hawaii took place on April 7, 2004, when a surfer suffered severe bite wounds about 100 yards from shore off the Maui coast.


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Investment Club Manager Pleads Guilty to $40 Million Fraud
|U.S. Department of Justice September 22, 2011
WASHINGTON—Alan James Watson, 46, of Clinton Township, Mich., pleaded guilty today to fraudulently soliciting and accepting $40 million from more than 750 members of his investment club and losing nearly all of it through non-disclosed, high-risk investments. Victims were located in Virginia and nationwide.
The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia; and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) of the FBI's Washington Field Office.
Watson pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee in the Eastern District of Virginia to one count of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 9, 2011.
"Without the consent of his clients, Mr. Watson gambled away investors' funds on risky ventures that led to millions of dollars in losses," said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. "He used his investment club to cheat people who trusted him out of their savings. The Justice Department will continue to be aggressive in our pursuit of financial fraudsters—whether they are on Wall Street or Main Street."
"A.J. Watson took huge risks with others' money and lost big," said U.S. Attorney MacBride. "He covered up his massive losses through lies and deceit to members of his investment club, many of whom would never have joined his club and have now lost everything."
"More than 750 unwitting victims thought they had done their homework and calculated their investment wisely; instead, they were met with false documentation that yielded no return on their investment," said FBI ADIC McJunkin. "Schemes like this are why the FBI investigates white-collar crimes, determined to protect potential victims."
According to a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, Watson created an investment club in 2004 and served as the club's chief executive officer. From 2006 to 2009, Watson received almost $40 million from investors. Watson purported that the money would be invested through an equities-trading system developed by an expert consultant, Company A, with a promised return on investment of 10 percent per month. In reality, Watson admitted that only $6 million of the $40 million was ever invested in Company A, while the remaining $34 million was secretly invested in miscellaneous, high-risk ventures without the consent of investment club members. These high-risk investments resulted in a near complete loss of the $34 million.
According to court documents, despite the losses for the investors, Watson continued to create false monthly account statements showing net gains from their investments. In addition, Watson included "bonus" items on the account statements that appeared as trading profits, the result of a Ponzi scheme he orchestrated to use new investor funds to pay off earlier investors.
In March of 2009, Watson ceased investing in Company A and re-deposited those funds in separate unauthorized ventures. In 2010, nearly a year after he had fully withdrawn finances from Company A, Watson informed investment club members that he had not invested their money as promised, and that none of the reported returns had ever materialized. This resulted in a combined $40 million loss for investment club members.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a related civil case in the Eastern District of Michigan.
This case was investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office, the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The department thanks these agencies for their substantial assistance in this matter.
Trial Attorney Kevin B. Muhlendorf of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark D. Lytle are prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.
The investigation has been coordinated by the Virginia Financial and Securities Fraud Task Force, an unprecedented partnership between criminal investigators and civil regulators to investigate and prosecute complex financial fraud cases in the nation and in Virginia. The task force is an investigative arm of the President's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, an interagency national task force.
President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes. For more information about the task force visit: www.stopfraud.gov.


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Editorial: FDA needs enforcement and implementation of new laws
Passing the Food Safety Modernization Act may have been the easy part. Billed as the first major overhaul since the 1930s of how the government ensures the safety of the nation's food, it will shift regulators' response from reacting to outbreaks of food-borne illness to preventing them.
Some aspects of the law went into effect immediately, including giving the Federal Food and Administration authority to order mandatory recalls of food if growers or distributors fail to act voluntary.
But, the regulations needed to implement the law's major safety provisions, are only now beginning to be proposed by the FDA, two years after the law was signed by President Barack Obama on Jan. 4, 2011.
There is no doubt the legislation is needed. Annually, contaminated food sends an estimated 128,000 people to the hospital and kills 3,000.
The two rules proposed by the FDA require processed food makers and farmers to develop plans to prevent the contamination of foods.
For example, there is no standard that requires roasting peanuts used for peanut butter to a temperature that kills salmonella. And, there is no requirement for farmers to provide portable toilets to prevent workers from urinating in the fields.
The rules require that farmers of fruits and vegetables use water that meets specific standards and that food processors prevent bacteria from fresh food from contacting and contaminating cooked food.
The FDA has even more work to do in implementing the food safety law. It has yet to propose regulations on the safety of imported food, which accounts for 14 percent of the food sold in the United States.
And, once the regulations are fully in place, their enforcement will depend on Congress appropriating sufficient money. Even with a $500 registration fee for food producers, the cost of putting the new law fully into effect is estimated to be $2.2 billion over five years.


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Brush ebbed and flowed like the tide in the first game of the 3A state tournament on Friday night, but when the tide came in, it came in a torrent. Brush beat the Clear Creek Goldiggers 80-50 to ensure at least one more day of playing.
Brush got the No. 7 seed in the 32-team state bracket and got to host the Friday night game, and the Sweet 16 game on Saturday.
"In elimination game like this when you get a little bit of a lead the other team presses just a little too much and maybe overplay and maybe takes quicker shots. And that gives your team that opportunity to expand your lead and that is exactly what happened."
The 80-point total was the second most points that the Brush Beetdiggers have scored in a game this year and Coach Garcia credits a lot of that to the way they played on defense and opened up opportunities.
"It's that old adage – It doesn't matter how bad you play on offense if you are good on defense. And a lot of our defense lead to offensive opportunities. So as long as we play good consistent defense I feel good about what we can do," said Brush head coach Garcia.
Geoffrey Dunker had 17 points on the night for the Beetdiggers, most in the second half. Austin Garcia was the final Beetdigger to hit double digits with 10 points.
"I told them at the beginning of the game that this is what all that hard work is for that chance to make state and show everyone that the Beetdiggers can play basketball and I told the seniors that it was their senior year and their time and I think that they took that to heart and really went out there and played for us," commented Garcia.
Jordan Howard led the Goldiggers with 17 points.
Brush gave up only 25 points in the first, third and fourth quarters combined. Their only major breakdown was the second quarter, where they gave up 25 points.
The third quarter made all the difference for the Beetdiggers. After being up by as much as 17 in the first half, the Beetdiggers saw that lead dwindle to just five points headed into the second half. But Baker would get his team started with a layup and then a three to get the lead back to double digits. Baker would score nine in the quarter. Dunker, who had a very quite first half, scoring just four points in the final minutes, went off big time in the third quarter. The senior would score 13 in the third quarter, including an old-fashioned three-point play from the foul line. Bryce Needens would hits three free throws, Trae Cranson would add a bucket and Jake Brown had a free throw to give Brush a 62-37 edged in the contest as they outscored the Golddiggers by 20 in the third.
Brush would coast on through the final quarter, outscoring the Golddiggers 18 to 13 to win the contest.
The Brush Beetdiggers started the game out with a sizeable lead. Ben Mickey set the tone for the first quarter with an early three. Baker would then follow with a pair of buckets for a 7-0 lead less than two minutes into the contest. Needens, Garcia, Kyle Rosenbrock and Jake Brown would all score in the first quarter as well as Brush would go on a 17-0 run to start the first quarter and would end the quarter up 17-4.
Clear Creek would come back in the second quarter. While Brush would score 17 in the quarter, the struggled to contain the Goldiggers offense as the visitors would put up 25 in the third quarter, led by 14 from Chandler Morgan. Brush still held the lead but just barely a 34-29. However Brush would never relinquish the lead after they scored in the first quarter.
"We just lost our rhythm," said coach Garcia of the second quarter breakdown. "I was subbing and things were flowing and then we just got off our game. We had that lead and I think the kids just kind of relaxed and lost that intensity. And they (Clear Creek) picked up their intensity and were beating us to spots and going after balls and it just knocked us out."
Brush will host Aspen tomorrow at 1 p.m. for the right to move on to next week.
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The Brush girls beat Alamosa 54-41 to advance to the Sweet 16. They play Lamar at 1 p.m. on Saturday in Lamar.
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Bear {4 yrs} can spell his name aloud and recognize it in written form. so, it's time to start working on learning to write his name. {please note that the following project was done twice. once with his real name and once with his nickname for blog purposes… and he was thrilled to do two of them!}
to start off, i folded two pieces of construction paper in half and wrote each of our names on them. then i cut out around the names. once the papers were opened up, it provided the shape that our aliens would be. this was the only part of the activity that was structured. after this, Bear had full control over what materials to use and how to use them. i set out a large tray full of various craft supplies for us to choose from.
decorating the name aliens was fun for both of us… every now and then i actually make my own version of projects with Bear. for the longest time, i stopped because he strived to make his look just like mine. this only caused frustration for him and a bit of heartbreak for me.
once they were done and the glue dried, we put them up in our preschool area.
for more space-related activities, check out this Space Monster Math with Playdough post i did at Learn with Play at Home.
as well as these:
Mm is for Moon: Tot School from Train Up a Child
Mm is for Moon: Kindergarten from Train Up a Child
Moon Buddy from Let's Lasso the Moon
Thinking Creatively from Play Dr. Mom
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Activities from Inspiration Laboratories
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