Monty Python member Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, is the subject of a 3D animated film, which features the voices of his fellow cast members.
A movie review of "A Liar's Autobiography — The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman," a 3D animated feature about the late Monty Python's Graham Chapman, featuring the voices of Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Cameron Diaz (as Sigmund Freud).
Of course, as the full title suggests, you can't believe anything Chapman says these days. He did, however, leave behind quite a bit of recorded material, and now it's been assembled as the soundtrack for an animated biopic that is sometimes far from comic.
Much of the visual material (some of it graphic) illustrates his story of growing up gay in a homophobic environment during World War II and later. He has affairs with boys, and sometimes with females, and eventually settles down with a lifetime male partner (who disappears for long stretches with no explanation).
Aside from the gin drying-out episode, which is pure nightmare, Chapman and the animators maintain a sense of humor. There's grotesque comedy even in the war scenes and the coming-out episodes (Chapman recalls having to explain homosexuality to a baffled Keith Moon) and there are hints of such Python classics as "Christmas in Heaven" and the parrot sketch.
The British animators, including Peepshow Collective, Treat Studios, Superfad and Not to Scale, do an imaginative job without imitating the Python animation style. It's sometimes a mishmash, though never an unwelcome one.


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Aussie startup Kerb wins Toyota Hackathon
It's always great to be able to spread news of Australian success stories in technology and today that story is Kerb. An Australian-founded global parking app have won the first Toyota Hackathon in Melbourne on the weekend. In Australian cities and the world over, parking is a major hassle....
NAB teams up with Alibaba for Melbourne hackathon
The National Australia Bank have teamed up with Alibaba's Cloud division to host a hackathon this weekend, to explore new ways to help Australian small businesses leverage opportunities to do business with Asia. The 3-day event will see more than 100 people across 15 teams look at how data...
Future Cities Hackathon winner, built a Blockchain app pays households to cut energy use
What happens when the panda people hold a hackathon? Recently the charity WWF-Australia partnered with Schneider Electric, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NAB and Hackathons Australia, to host the second Future Cities Hackathon. Also on hand was Brooklyn-based, ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio. Held at UTS, the hackathon brought together some...
My Spot win Schneider Electric Smart Cities hackathon, plans to optimise rail transport capacity
Schneider Electric is the company that owns Clipsal, those light switches and powerpoints in your house, but the company is much broader than that. Its a global specialist in energy management and automation, that has just held their first hackathon, ) in partnership with Blue Chilli and Transport for...
Registrations now open for Monash's UNIHACK 2015
If you're a student in Victoria and love to hack on code, hardware or just problems in general, you should know UNIHACK is back for 2015. The student hackathon, is coming back this August, with registrations open now. For the very first time, all university and TAFE students from...
MYOB win Ford Hackathon in Melbourne
After 24 hours of development, many participants without sleep, Ford's first Melbourne-based Hackathon is over. The entries spanned many industries, with plenty of creative ideas and all seemed to target different driving problems. After the 5 minutes pitches (including demos) there was an opportunity for the judges to ask...
While you were sleeping.. hackers were not
Starting at 9AM yesterday morning, Ford Australia's 24hr hackathon got underway. As we approach the 24 hour mark where the hacking stops, it's worth taking a look at the progress so far. Ford have released two videos of developers hard at work. You'll spot plenty of software simulations, even...

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Every morning when I go out in the kitchen, I pull the door curtains over for a view of the backyard. To my surprise, this pretty doe was curled up near the edge of the bank. The leaves and brush were camouflaging her well. She(assuming it was a she) stared and stared at the door. I moved to the dining room, her eyes followed me. I went and got my phone camera, but I had to get out the zoom lens so I could see every detail of this lovely lady.
She stayed about 15 minutes and then went down the hill. We are thinking she was with her herd and a hunter or someone spooked them and she ended up in the backyard. She is not the first one to hang around. The last one was injured by an arrow and died in my neighbor's yard, probably from an infection.
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INHERIT THE STARS
From the Inherit the Stars series , Vol. 1
by Tessa Elwood ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 8, 2015
The fates of two interplanetary kingdoms hang upon the success of an arranged marriage in this futuristic romance.
In a universe where entire planets are being strip-mined for fuel, the House of Fane has finally created a sustainable energy source for their people. However, they've paid a high price for this achievement. Uprisings have left the House's heir in a coma, a key agricultural planet has been destroyed, and starvation and invasion are now very real threats. Sixteen-year-old Asa is the youngest of the House's three daughters. When Asa learns her father's solution to their troubles—a marriage alliance with a rival House—also involves removing her eldest sister, Wren, from life support, she tries to protect Wren by taking their middle sister's place in the marriage. Predictably, no one is pleased when they discover what she's done. While this debut is ambitious in scope, neither the characterization nor the worldbuilding feels fully fleshed out. Though Asa's motivations are well-explored, her new husband, Eagle, remains mostly a cipher, and their eventual attraction and romance seem to be driven primarily by narrative convenience. Much of the science seems implausible, even for a sci-fi setting, and political intrigue and melodramatic family secrets only further muddle the already-busy plot.
Better in concept than in execution. (Science fiction. 13-18)
Pub Date: Dec. 8, 2015
Publisher: Running Press Teens
Review Posted Online: Aug. 5, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2015
Categories: TEENS & YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY | TEENS & YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE | TEENS & YOUNG ADULT FAMILY
SPLIT THE SUN
by Tessa Elwood
More by Tessa Elwood
Swoonworthy wish fulfillment that checks all the right boxes.
HERE'S TO US
by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 28, 2021
Former boyfriends' "big Broadway love story" gets a revival in this sequel to What If It's Us (2018).
Two years after their flash romance, Ben Alejo and Arthur Seuss (both now in college) couldn't have drifted further apart. But destiny intervenes when Arthur lands his "ultimate top-tier pie-in-the-sky dream job" interning at a queer off-Broadway theater for the summer. Their long-anticipated reunion comes with a small catch: Both boys are basically taken. Ben met Mario in his college creative writing class, and, while they aren't boyfriends, the connection—and attraction—is definitely there. Arthur's officially dating Mikey, whose sweetness and steadiness saved him from remaining a "Ben-addled mess." Cue the confusion—and inevitable broken hearts—as Ben and Arthur contend with their pasts and presents while trying to figure out their futures. Who will end up with whom? Albertalli's and Silvera's voices blend seamlessly, balancing the complexities of the boys' situations with heartfelt (and heartwarming) nostalgia. As in the previous book, the narrative alternates between Ben's and Arthur's perspectives with off-the-charts wit and chemistry. Lovable side characters have grown and matured, while new characters expand the world to create an even stronger sense of community. Loose ends are tied up believably with an epilogue. Arthur is Jewish; Ben and Mario are Puerto Rican, and Mikey is White.
Swoonworthy wish fulfillment that checks all the right boxes. (Fiction. 14-18)
Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: Oct. 13, 2021
Categories: TEENS & YOUNG ADULT FICTION | TEENS & YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE
More by Becky Albertalli
KATE IN WAITING
by Becky Albertalli
LOVE, CREEKWOOD
YES NO MAYBE SO
by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed
A stunning novel that exposes modern fascism and elevates human resilience. (author's note, research and sources, glossary,...
THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE
by Ruta Sepetys ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 2019
The pitiless dictatorship of Francisco Franco examined through the voices of four teenagers: one American and three Spaniards.
The Spanish Civil War lasted from 1936-1939, but Franco held Spain by its throat for 36 years. Sepetys (Salt to the Sea, 2016, etc.) begins her novel in 1957. Daniel is a white Texan who wants to be a photojournalist, not an oilman; Ana is trying to work her way to respectability as a hotel maid; her brother, Rafael, wants to erase memories of an oppressive boys' home; and Puri is a loving caregiver for babies awaiting adoption—together they provide alternating third-person lenses for viewing Spain during one of its most brutally repressive periods. Their lives run parallel and intersect as each tries to answer questions about truth and the path ahead within a regime that crushes any opposition, murders dissidents, and punishes their families while stealing babies to sell to parents with accepted political views. This formidable story will haunt those who ask hard questions about the past as it reveals the hopes and dreams of individuals in a nation trying to lie its way to the future. Meticulous research is presented through believable, complex characters on the brink of adulthood who personalize the questions we all must answer about our place in the world.
A stunning novel that exposes modern fascism and elevates human resilience. (author's note, research and sources, glossary, photographs) (Historical fiction. 15-adult)
Pub Date: Oct. 22, 2019
Publisher: Philomel
Categories: TEENS & YOUNG ADULT FICTION | TEENS & YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL FICTION | TEENS & YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE
More by Ruta Sepetys
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY
by Ruta Sepetys ; adapted by Andrew Donkin ; illustrated by Dave Kopka & Brann Livesay
SALT TO THE SEA
OUT OF THE EASY
Longlist for UK's Carnegie Medal Is Revealed


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Our Job is to be Faster to Any Disaster.
Our job is to get to you fast if a water damage occurs in your home or business.
Time becomes a precious commodity when disaster strikes your home or business. Waiting for help is stressful when it is your home or livelihood on the line—you need it right away.
Nobody understands a fast response like we do, which is why responding faster to any size disaster is more than just a slogan to us.
When it's your belongings or business on the line, time is not a luxury you have regarding disaster cleanup. This is especially true when water damage has come into play.
It only takes mere minutes for water to spread throughout your property, where it will saturate everything in its path. The walls, the floors, upholstery and your belongings are fast casualties of water.
Water damage that is left unchecked for over a week can lead to a dramatically increased restoration time and costs and can also impact structural safety.
Being a locally owned and operated franchise helps us be close by and ready to respond whenever the call comes in.
Business owners have plenty of safety factors to take into consideration regarding risks to their business, staff and visitors. Fires are one of those risks to your business that you need to spend a little extra time planning for and preventing.
Of those causes, intentional, exposure, and electrical distribution and lighting equipment were the cause of the most property damage with 20%, 18% and 15% respectively.
There are many steps you can take to protect your business from the risk of fires. By focusing on fire risk assessment, fire prevention and staff education, you can work toward reducing the chance of a fire breaking out.
Assess your risk of fire hazards. There are some local governments that may offer a visit from a fire marshal to help you identify these risks and provide guidance on creating your fire prevention plan.
Have the right fire protection equipment in place, which would include an automatic sprinkler system, smoke detectors and fire extinguishers on each floor.
Create a fire plan and review it with your staff on a regular basis to ensure everyone knows what to do in the event of fire.
Conduct fire drills at least once a year to keep the fire safety protocol fresh.
Take time to review evacuation plans and where the first-aid kits are.
What is your Family's Weather Plan?
SERVPRO of Greater Northern Charleston is Ready 24/7 for any weather related emergency you may experience.
While we often receive advanced warning for some types of severe weather, there are also those times when severe weather manages to catch us off-guard.
There are steps you can follow and safety tips to take that will ensure your family is prepared for just those severe weather occurrences.
One of the most important ways to ensure your family's safety in severe weather is to have an established family emergency plan at the ready.
If your family already has an emergency plan, be sure to practice so everyone remembers what to do!
Thanks to today's smartphone technology, it is easy to receive emergency alerts and warnings on your smartphone through many weather apps. But if there is no smartphone available, you can still receive warnings through the radio or television.
In areas where tornadoes are common, ideally, you'll want to have a basement, but if that is not possible, then find an interior room on the lowest level that is away from corners, windows, doors and outside walls. Tornadoes are not the only situations requiring a form of storm shelter, and you can learn about more of the situations where they are necessary by visiting ready.gov.
Put together a map of various evacuation routes and keep it handy in the event of hurricanes, floods or fires, which can force you out of your home in a hurry. Multiple routes are wise to have just in case one is impassable, and be sure to account for your pets and find out if there are places to stay with them along your route.
You're going to want an alternative communication plan for your family because reliance on cell phones can fail you in some circumstances. Cell phone towers can be damaged, phones could be lost or left behind, and phone batteries will not be able to be recharged if power is out.
Put a family emergency communication plan in place and choose a safe meeting place for your family so that you can all meet there if separated.
If a storm does cause damage to your home or business, don't hesitate to call your friends at SERVPRO® of Greater Northern Charleston to get the cleanup and restoration process started. Feel free to call 24/7, 843.552.1226.
Our professionally trained and certified technicians can help you identify the type of water and how to safely mitigate any damage.
It would be much simpler if we could think of all water causing damage as the same, but in reality, there are three different classifications for this water: clean, gray and black. Understanding the differences in these types of water will help you understand how to better handle the situation.
This is the easiest type of water damage to clean up after, as there will not be as many microbes living in the water, but after sitting for 48 hours and following contact with the surfaces of a building, clean water then moves up to a category two, which is gray water.
With "gray" water, water damage cleanup and restoration will become a bit more serious and involved. It may pose a health risk because it will contain chemical or biological contamination.
Gray water can often come from dishwashers, aquariums, showers, etc. Again, the 48-hour exposure time applies here as well because if it is not quickly treated, gray water will turn into black water.
Black water is the third classification of damaging water and the most serious of the three classifications. Considered highly contaminated by harmful chemicals and biological matter, it would include floodwaters containing soil and all sewage waters.
Remember, when it comes to floods, assume that all water is black water since it will pick up contaminants as it travels along its path.
All three of these floodwater classifications are recognized by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Remediation Certification (IICRC), which is an organization that certifies and sets the standard for the cleaning and restoration industry. Our technicians all study IICRC standards and best practices in water restoration and are available to help determine the steps to take to get your home back to normal.
Check for road closures when flooding is a in the forecast for Downtown Charleston. Turn around, don't drown!
We have posted the information below in a previous post, but considering the forecast the next couple days, though it couldn't hurt to post again!
Got Mold? Professional Remediation Can Help!
This mold grew over some time due to a small leak left undetected around the windows of this Goose Creek SC home. We were happy to help!
It takes no more than 48 hours after water damage occurs in a home or commercial property for mold to begin to grow. Especially in our warm and humid Charleston, SC climate.
That is why if you are faced with water damage and a resultant mold issue, knowing your next steps is very important.
We're sure you've seen those ads about mold remediation and mold removal, but the second of these two is false. Removing all mold from a home or business is simply not achievable. A qualified restoration company will, however, focus on mold remediation, setting the achievable goal of bringing mold levels back to a normal and natural level.
It is true that mold spores occur naturally almost everywhere, both inside and outside. These mold spores only become an issue when a minor problem is left untreated, which allows the problem to turn into a major problem.
The mold remediation process involves technicians isolating the contaminated areas and remove and discard the wet and mold-damaged materials. Any areas that have been exposed to or affected by mold are then thoroughly cleaned and dried. In some cases, a HEPA vacuum may be brought in aid in the removal of contamination and debris.
Then the mold-affected area is treated with a biocide and left overnight to kill and destroy the mold spores.
If there is a good chance your home or business may have encountered a mold problem, you'll want to act quickly. Evaluate the size of the problem, and if the affected area is larger than 10 square feet, it is best to bring in the professionals.
Sometimes, some minor mold issues can be successfully resolved by a homeowner or a business owner on their own, but it is always in your best interest to talk to the professionals to ensure the quickest resolution to the problem.
At SERVPRO® of Greater Northern Charleston, our mold damage specialists are trained and certified experts in mold remediation. If your home or business is experiencing a mold issue, contact us to begin the mold remediation process.
Do you have a natural disaster plan for your business?
Call and ask about our Emergency Ready Program and make sure your business is as prepared as possible for a natural disaster.
Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and earthquakes are enough to bring even the strongest business to it's knees when Mother Nature strikes out. However, you can survive in the worst of these scenarios if you are prepared in advance for them.
Being prepared is the key to surviving those scenarios, and being prepared means creating a natural disaster plan for your business. Let's look at some ways to prepare and considerations when designing a disaster plan.
There are many checklists that have been created and are available from sources like the Red Cross, FEMA and Ready.gov that can help you identify areas that need to be included in your natural disaster preparedness plan.
Make sure all evacuation routes and exits from your facility are all properly marked.
Have an area that can serve as a shelter space. When choosing a shelter space, the ideal spot is in a basement or storm cellar in the event of a tornado or high-wind situation, but if there is no basement space available, a small interior room on the lowest level of the building like a closet or interior hallway should be your next choice.
Designate staff volunteers to be "safety wardens" that are properly trained and ready to implement those procedures and safety measures and to guide and assist in all emergency efforts.
No matter the type of location, there will be decisions that need to be made concerning protecting the assets inside of your business' building, like equipment or merchandise, for example. Everything is at risk when a natural disaster strikes but it only takes a bit of planning to minimize damage.
Be sure that there is a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of all items.
Whenever possible, have photographs of both structure and contents, taken prior to a disaster as this will be helpful when fling insurance claims.
If you store assets on a computer server, ensure that the backup system is regularly backing up all data and look into a storage system like a cloud storage system, which cannot be damaged.
If you are the building owner, you should talk with a contractor concerning suggestions for possible safety upgrades and identify any areas that may need upgrading to withstand certain weather situation.
Natural disasters can cause businesses to shut down for days or months until repairs can be made and structures are safe enough to enter and resume business. Every day you remain closed is another day of lost profits.
By building a relationship with contractors that would be available for repairs and knowing which cleanup and restoration service will be available to quickly respond to your emergency situation, you will be well on your way to doing business again.
With SERVPRO® of Greater Northern Charleston, you can count on us to get to the disaster faster and make it "Like it never even happened." Our training and expertise have prepared us to help with water damage, storm damage, fire damage and mold remediation quickly and effectively.
Give us a call today to learn how we can help by implementing an Emergency Ready Plan, specific to your business - no contract, no charge. Just our way of helping you be ready for whatever happens. 24/7 ~ 843.552.1226 or use our Contact Us page on the web.
Protect your home from wind damage.
When you think of severe storms, what do you think of? There are many concerns that accompany severe storms, including damaging winds. These winds, which can come with little to no notice, can cause many long-term structural impacts.
Damaging winds can happen in all kinds of storms and have wind speeds exceeding 50–60 mph and can be "birthed" by a strong thunderstorm.
You will often hear damaging winds referred to as "straight-line" winds to differentiate the damage from tornado damage.
Because straight-line winds can cause loose, unanchored objects to become airborne, the damage from these winds can be especially destructive. Windows and roofs can take the brunt of this damage, and if extensive enough, wind can also cause water damage to a home as the outside elements are allowed come indoors.
Use a professional service to have your garage door reinforced.
Properly store or anchor loose objects, such as trash cans, grills and outdoor furniture, on your property that could become projectiles by the wind.
Have large or dying trees and branches that could be blown over on your home removed by a professional.
Also, when building a new home or renovating an older home, be sure that windows, walls and doors are up to code for your area.
If your home should suffer damage from damaging winds and the resulting water damage, the highly trained specialists at SERVPRO® of Greater Northern Charleston are here to help with the cleanup and restoration of your home.
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Projet intéressant car il permet de créer son propre cloud, en supportant les api EC2 d'Amazon. Le projet permet de manager un cloud, et le déploiement d'applis. Il devient ainsi possible de créer son propre cloud compatible EC2, et de décider de migrer ses applications vers EC2 si besoin, ou dans le sens contraire, rapatrier à la maison, une application tournant sur EC2.
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OpenNebula transforms a physical cluster into a flexible virtual infrastructure which dynamically adapts to the changing demands of a service workload. OpenNebula leverages existing virtualization platforms to create a new virtualization layer between the service and the physical infrastructure. This new layer supports the execution of the services on a physical cluster, extending the benefits of VMMs (Virtual Machine Monitors) from a single physical resource to a cluster of resources. OpenNebula effectively decouples a server (deployed as a pre-configured VM) not only from the physical infrastructure but also from its physical location.
DRDB refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. DRBD can be understood as network based raid-1.
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve to your users.
Le meilleur pour la fin (à mon humble avis…), hadoop, la techno de cloud open source à suivre, qui s'inspire des clouds de google. Basé sur Map Reduce et HDFS, son file system distribué permettant de stocker les metadatas et de traiter les les requêtes decoupés, comme mutli-threadé.
Hadoop Core, our flagship sub-project, provides a distributed filesystem (HDFS) and support for the MapReduce distributed computing metaphor.
HBase builds on Hadoop Core to provide a scalable, distributed database.
Pig is a high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation. It is built on top of Hadoop Core.
ZooKeeper is a highly available and reliable coordination system. Distributed applications use ZooKeeper to store and mediate updates for critical shared state.
Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on Hadoop Core that provides data summarization, adhoc querying and analysis of datasets.


The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld digitally transmitted court authorizations for search warrants as permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Some states, such as Wyoming, already allow judges and clerks to issue search warrants without a formal written application by the officer or prosecutor. As a Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer, the use to telephonic warrants represents an erosion of the warrant requirement and its use should be limited in scope by the Court.
In the cases of Terry Smith v. Wyoming, and Dena Blomquist v. Wyoming, the defendants were individually arrested for an OUI offense. Both defendants were required to submit to a blood alcohol test after a judge remotely issued a warrant. The Supreme Court of Wyoming held that these remotely communicated warrants were lawful and afford the defendants the same protections as warrants that were formally applied for by written affidavit.
The Wyoming state legislature passed a statute authorizing officers to compel arrestees to submit to chemical tests once the officer has a search warrant issued on paper or one that is "remotely communicated." The statute defines a "remotely communicated warrant" as a communication between a judicial officer and the police officer or prosecutor authorizing a search by voice transmission, image, or text as long as the communication is recorded. The communication may be recorded in writing, or by any other means.
Do Police Need Warrants to Search Cell Phones? Florida Supreme Court says Yes!
As technology advances, a slew of new legal issues have found their way into courts across America. Social media networks, email, texting, and other technological communications pose new questions surrounding citizens' privacy, the 4th amendment, and search/seizures issues for police. Recently, a Florida Supreme Court ruled that police are required to obtain a search warrant before examining the contents of an arrestee's cell phone.
In the case of Smallwood v. State, the defendant was arrested for allegedly committing an armed robbery of a convenience store. Upon his arrest, police confiscated and examined the contents of a cell phone in the defendant's possession at the time of his arrest. Police discovered incriminating evidence on the phone, including images of a handgun, and photos of stacks of cash that were taken after the date of the robbery. However, the defendant argued that his 4th amendment right was violated.
According to the 4th amendment, United States citizens have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. Warrants can only be obtained with probable cause and should specifically describe the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Further, to have probable cause, police must have legally sufficient reasons to believe a search is necessary. Law enforcement cannot just seize property to use as evidence without first obtaining a warrant. While evolving technology that provides instant access to a person's bank accounts, medical records, contacts, photos, and communications pose seemingly new questions on search/seizure, the courts have faced these issues historically.
Since Commonwealth v. Cruz, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the smell of marijuana did not give an officer probable cause to conduct a search. Commonwealth v. Daniel, a recent decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, affirms the holding from Cruz. The Daniels decision may provide a defense to a drug stop for a Boston criminal defense lawyer based on the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Boston police officer was patrolling Dorchester in the early hours of the morning when he observed a SUV without a driver's side headlight make a left hand turn without signaling. The officer stopped the vehicle and when approaching the car noticed that the man sitting in the passenger's seat was rocking back and forth. The officer could also smell marijuana when he approached the vehicle, and when he asked the driver if there was marijuana in the vehicle, the driver produced two small bags from her pockets. The driver also emptied all other possessions from her pocket.
Based on this behavior, the officer suspected that the defendant was concealing something more, so her ordered the driver to pull over further and ordered that the passenger and then driver exit the vehicle. The officer searched the passenger and subsequently the driver, finding no contraband on either person. The officer then searched the vehicle and found a firearm in the glove box.
As a Boston criminal defense lawyer, defending drug cases, often the initial police seizure will be based on the defendant being in a high crime area. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has stated numerous times that being present in a high crime area or flight from the police is insufficient to justify a stop under the 4th Amendment or Article 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.
United States v. Bumpers. A police officer was conducting a routine patrol. While he was driving by a local convenience store in a high-crime area, the officer noticed two men standing by dumpsters located. The officer observed the two men for five or ten seconds and then pulled into the parking lot. At that time the men began walking away from the dumpsters. The officer exited his car and told the two men that they were not free to go. One of the men, defendant Irvin Bumpers, obeyed the officer's orders.
The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in Bailey v. United States on November 1st 2012. The predominant issue in Bailey is whether or not the precedent set forth in Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), which allows an officer to detain an individual on the premises of a location being searched, extends to the detention of an individual the officer saw leaving the location to be searched and is no longer in the immediate vicinity.
While it can be difficult to predict how the Justices will decide a case based on the oral argument, it appears as though the Justice will decline to extend the Summers case as argued by the Government. The Government argued that the stop of Bailey away from the residence to be searched was permissible under the rationale of Summers because Bailey could have returned to the residence and threatened the safety of the officers.
The defendant argues that the Summers exception to typical warrant and detention standards should not be interpreted broadly and, in fact, should be interpreted rather narrowly. Once the individual is off of the location to be searched it is not likely they will return and pose any sort of threat to the safety of the officers or the quality of the search, and Summers would not apply, as argued by the defense.
One issue a criminal defense lawyer may use in defending a Massachusetts drug crime is to challenge the use of "Knock and Talk" searches often utilized by law enforcement.
"Knock and Talk" is a law enforcement tactic that police officers practice when they lack sufficient evidence, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion to obtain a search warrant. Typically, working off a tip, an officer will arrive at the suspect's home, engage in conversation at the door, and then attempt to gain consent from the suspect to search the premises. This does not violate the 4th Amendment that guards against an unlawful searches or seizures so long as the suspect gives consent to search. However, a court will take into consideration if a reasonable person would have felt pressure by the officer to allow the search. "Knock and Talk" procedures are on the edge of being unlawful because this tactic has a great risk for abuse that may challenge the 4th amendment.
A criminal defense attorney in the North Carolina Court of Appeals was recently successful in challenging "Knock and Talk" tactics when the court ruled that Marijuana plants seized during a routine "Knock and Talk" violated the plain view doctrine, State v. Grice, No. COA12-577, North Carolina App. Ct. (2012).
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court addressed an important legal issues that arose once the Massachusetts legislature decriminalized simple possession of under one ounce of marijuana. Does the smell of burnt marijuana justify an order that a motorist exit a motor vehicle. In the case of Commonwealth v. Cruz, decided April 19, 2011, the SJC held that the smell of burnt marijuana alone does not justify an exit order.
The Cruz case involved the following facts. The defendant was a passenger in a car parked in front of a fire hydrant. The windows were rolled down in the car and the officers could see the driver light a cigar known to mask the smell of marijuana. The officers recognized the defendant and testified at the motion to suppress hearing that they saw the defendant smoking marijuana earlier in the day. Significantly, the defendant was not known to the officers as a dangerous person and even was counseled by one of the officers to "do more than hang out." The driver was unknown to the officers. The officers further testified at the motion hearing that the defendant was smoking a cigar, that they could smell an odor of burnt marijuana and that the driver appeared nervous. The defendant and the driver were ordered out of the car.
In finding the exit order improper under Article 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the court stressed that by decriminalizing possession of under an ounce of marijuana the voters changed the status of the offense, meaning that the voters intended possession of marijuana under an ounce to be treated different from other serious drug crimes. Accordingly, the SJC concluded that the changed status of the offense implicates police conduct and requires some additional facts other than the smell of burnt marijuana to justify an exit order.
2. The officer has reasonable suspicion that the defendant is committing a criminal offense, other than a traffic violation.
3. The officer can order a defendant from the car if there is a legal basis for a warrantless search of the vehicle under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement.
Massachusetts provides greater protections to citizens under Article 14 than under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution as under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, the police do not need any basis to order a motorist from the vehicle.
In Cruz, the Commonwealth argued that the exit order was justified based on the officer's belief that the defendant was engaged in criminal activity. The SJC held that there were no facts that would support the conclusion that a criminal amount of narcotics were in the vehicle. Further, the court rejected the reasoning of other State courts finding probable cause to believe a vehicle has any quantity of marijuana is sufficient to justify a warrantless search based on the likely presence of other contraband. In rejecting these other State court decisions, the SJC stressed that the standard to determine the validity of a warrantless search is the same used by a magistrate issuing a warrant. Applying this reasoning, the SJC concluded that under the facts of the case a magistrate could not issue a search warrant.
In many Massachusetts drug arrests, the police will claims as a basis for obtaining a search warrant of a residence that a confidential informant provided information that the residence was being used for drug trafficking or distribution.
As a Massachusetts drug crimes lawyer, it is sometimes necessary to file a motion to require the Commonwealth to disclose the identity of the informant in order to prepare a defense to the charges. In some cases, an informant may provide relevant information for the defense while in other cases a court order for disclosure may force the Commonwealth to dismiss the case rather than to disclose the informant's identity.
In Commonwealth v. Shaughessy, 455 Mass. 346 (2009), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that in order to obtain disclosure of the identity of a confidential informant a defendant has the burden of showing that the informant would provide information that is material to the defense. If this showing is made, then the privilege can be overcome. The purpose of the privilege is to assist the police in obtaining information without the informant fearing retribution as a result of cooperating with the police. This privilege has limitations under the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution. The leading case on the issue of disclosing confidential informants in drug cases is the United States Supreme Court case of Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 (1957).
Recently, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers submitted an amicus brief to the Court of Appeals of Maryland in the case of Elliot v. State on the issue of whether the Maryland court improperly denied the defendant access to the identity of the confidential informant. Click here to read the brief of the National Criminal Defense Lawyers.
In Elliot, the defendant argued that there was no need for the privilege as the identity of the informant was already known and secondly that disclosure of the informant was necessary as a matter of fairness as the informant would potentially be a material witness for the defendant. In defending the charge of possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, the defendant in Elliot claimed that the informant entrapped the defendant and asserted as his defense that he had no knowledge that there were drugs in his car. Clearly, cross examination of the informant may provide strong evidence for the defendant in providing a motive for the informant to frame the defendant in attempt to gain favor with the police; further, disclosure of the informants identity would allow the criminal defense attorneys to gain other valuable discovery, such as the criminal record of the informant to uncover a motive to lie on the part of the informant.
As a Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer, I believe that the Maryland Court of Appeals should reverse the lower court's decision and its decision may provide valuable precedent in defending Massachusetts drug crimes. To read the decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals in Elliot v. State click here.


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Die 21. Boxweltmeisterschaften der Herren fanden vom 24. Oktober bis zum 6. November 2021 in der serbischen Hauptstadt Belgrad statt. Austragungsort der 497 Kämpfe war die Štark-Arena im Stadtteil Novi Beograd.
Es handelte sich um die zweiten Boxweltmeisterschaften in Belgrad nach 1978, als Serbien noch Teil Jugoslawiens war.

Teilnahmeberechtigt waren 510 Boxer aus 88 Ländern, davon 246 aus Europa, 137 aus Asien, 86 aus Amerika und 41 aus Afrika. 10 Boxer, welche aufgrund von Konflikten ihre Heimatländer verlassen mussten, traten in zwei Fair Chance Teams (FC) unter neutraler Flagge an.

Erstmals in der Geschichte der Boxweltmeisterschaften fanden Kämpfe in 13 Gewichtsklassen statt (zuvor: 8–12) und es wurden Geldbelohnungen für die Medaillengewinner ausgelobt (Gold: 100.000 $, Silber: 50.000 $, Bronze: 25.000 $).

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Im Juli 2017 beschloss das AIBA Executive Committee in Moskau, dass die Weltmeisterschaften 2021 in der indischen Hauptstadt Neu-Delhi ausgetragen werden sollen, was das Land erstmals zum Ausrichter von Herren-Weltmeisterschaften gemacht hätte. Zuvor hatte Indien bereits die Boxweltmeisterschaften der Frauen 2006 und 2018 ausgetragen.

Im April 2020 gab die AIBA bekannt, dass die Weltmeisterschaften 2021 nicht mehr in Neu-Delhi, sondern nun in Belgrad stattfinden werden und begründete dies mit angeblich nicht geleisteten Gastgebergebühren durch Indien, weshalb der Austragungsvertrag gekündigt worden sei. Indien wurde darüber hinaus mit einer Strafzahlung belegt.

Verbot der Einreise der kosovarischen Mannschaft
Nachdem den drei Boxern des kosovarischen Verbandes die Einreise nach Serbien und damit die Teilnahme an der WM verweigert worden war, unter anderem weil die Sportler sich anfangs geweigert hatten die nationalen Symbole des Kosovo von ihrer Sportkleidung zu entfernen, teilte der Weltverband AIBA am 26. Oktober 2021 mit, dass es nicht gelungen sei, einen Kompromiss mit dem Organisationskomitee der WM zu finden und dass die im Vorfeld vereinbarte Zusage der Teilnahme des Kosovo gebrochen worden sei. Das Kosovo wird seit seiner Unabhängigkeit 2008 von Serbien nicht anerkannt, der kosovarische Boxverband ist jedoch seit 2014 eigenständiges Mitglied der AIBA.

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Why Won't The Left Acknowledge That Capitalism Has Been The Greatest Anti-Poverty Program Ever Conceived By Mankind?
January 27, 2020 / by John Merline via issuesinsights.com
In a recent interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that the Democratic Party wasn't sufficiently leftist because it hasn't embraced her style of socialism. "There are a lot of true believers that we can 'capitalism' our way out of poverty," she complained.
We doubt there are very many such believers remaining in the Democratic Party, given that 70% of those who identify as Democrats now have a positive view of socialism.
To the extent that there are any free-market capitalists left in the Democratic Party, it's possible that they are true believers because they've seen the data, which make it abundantly clear that capitalism has been the greatest anti-poverty program ever conceived by mankind.
The Brookings Institution, a center-left think tank in Washington, D.C., found that, "for the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty."
The report – which came out more than a year ago – showed that more than 50% of the world's population lived in households with enough discretionary income to be considered middle class or rich.
More specifically, it found that there were 3.59 billion people in the middle class in 2017, and 200 million who are rich. At the other end, there are 3.2 billion they classify as "vulnerable" and 630 million who are poor.
Based on current trends, over the next decade, the middle-class population will climb by 1.7 billion while the number who are poor or vulnerable will go down by more than 1 billion.
The authors called it "something of enormous global significance" that "is happening almost without notice." And they are right.
It's a tipping point. But not the kind of tipping point that the left would ever want to acknowledge.
Meanwhile, other data from the World Bank show that the number of people living in extreme poverty plunged by 1.2 billion, even as the world's population increased by 2 billion, from 1990 to 2015.
The reason the AOCs and Bernie Sanders of the world want to ignore these trends is because of what's driving them: Free market capitalism.
The past several decades have seen an increase in economic freedom around the world. The Soviet Union collapsed, China opened up its vast market, trade barriers fell around the world.
The Heritage Foundation, which has been tracking global economic freedom for years with its annual Index of Economic Freedom, says that the global advance of free market capitalism has contributed to a doubling of the size of the world economy.
The index notes that there's "a robust relationship between improvements in economic freedom and economic growth."
What's more, people living in economies rated "free" or "mostly free" have "incomes that are more than twice the average levels in all other countries and more than six times higher than the incomes in 'repressed' economies."
You need only to look at Venezuela to see what happens when a country goes in the other direction – abandoning capitalism in favor of socialism. The animated chart below shows how Venezuela went from one of the richest countries in South America to the absolute poorest … after it embraced the kind of socialist policies AOC and Sanders want to impose here.
Yet despite all this evidence, capitalism is in disrepute. A global survey found that 56% of the 34,000 people surveyed in 28 countries said that "capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world."
In the U.S., Democrats are increasingly infatuated with socialism, and so are the young. One big reason for this disconnect is that these data never see the light of day in high schools, or colleges, or in the news.
It's time for more leaders – in politics, in business, in academia – to shout about the benefits of capitalism for the poor and the middle class, and warn of the deprivations of AOC and Sanders' brand of socialism.
By John Merline, Issues and Insights.
Tags: AOC, Brookings Institution, Capitalism, Elimination Of Poverty, Heritage Foundation, World Bank
The Bigger The Government, The Greater The Corruption. Bernie Sanders Is Looking To Double It.
Making Money Is A Patriotic Act.
Capitalism Plus Technology Results In The Production Of More With Less – Including Less Pollution And Fewer Greenhouse Gases.
Children Should Be Free to Learn about True Entrepreneurship
Flying Taxis Are Coming – If the Libs Will Let The Billionaires Keep Enough Money To Invest In Them.
Be An Entrepreneur Or Work For Wages? Working For The Capitalist Is The Better Deal Many People Choose.
Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Shelby Steele Has Exposed the Secret Weapon of the Progressive Left
It's Not Capitalism That Makes Us Pursue Consumption, It's Governments.
Why "One Man, One Vote" Is A Bad Way To Run A Democracy In Our Federal...
It's Not Surveillance Capitalism. It's Just Personalized Advertising...


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WESTMINSTER (CNS) - Police have released surveillance images of four suspects responsible for a smash-and-grab robbery in Westminster.
The robbery at Jean's Jewelry, at 9100 Bolsa Ave. inside the Asian Garden Mall, occurred at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, according to Sgt. Phuong Pham of the Westminster Police Department.
Four men entered the store while employees were working and used hammers to smash jewelry cases before fleeing with an unknown amount of merchandise, Pham said.
All four suspects were described as black men.
One suspect was 18-20 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 150 pounds and wore a black beanie, multicolor windbreaker jacket, black pants, checkered shoes and gloves with a diamond-shape design.
A second suspect was described as 20-25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds and wearing a gray Champion hoodie with a "C" on the chest, jeans, checkered shoes and gloves with a diamond-shape design.
A third suspect was described as 20-25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds and wearing a dark navy blue zip-up sweater, black Adidas track pants and similar gloves as the ones wore by the first two suspects. He also carried a blue duffel bag.
The fourth suspect was described as 18-20 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, 140 pounds and wearing a gray hooded Nike sweatshirt, black pants, checkered shoes and black gloves with no design. He was holding a dark cheetah print backpack.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (no Brasil e em Portugal, Um Vagabundo na Alta Roda) é um filme de comédia estadunidense de 1986 baseado na peça francesa Boudu sauvé des eaux, que já havia sido adaptado em filme em 1932 por Jean Renoir. Down and Out in Beverly Hills foi dirigido por Paul Mazursky, e estrelou Nick Nolte, Bette Midler e Richard Dreyfuss. O filme é sobre um casal rico, mas disfuncional que salvam a vida de um suicida vagabundo. Músico Little Richard também faz uma aparição, e contribuiu com a canção "Great Gosh a'Mighty" para a trilha sonora. O sucesso da canção levou a uma revitalização de sua carreira.

Lançado pela Touchstone Pictures, um rótulo de filme de The Walt Disney Studios, Down and Out in Beverly Hills tem a distinção de ser o primeiro filme já lançado pela Disney com classificação R-rated, ou seja, restrito e requerendo acompanhamento dos pais ou adulto responsável para ver. A classificação R é devido à palavra de baixo calão, bem como uma breve cena que mostra uma dama na cama fazendo sexo por cima, um outro pioneirismo para a Disney. No entanto, inúmeros filmes R-rated receberam desde a distribuição da Disney, em subsidiárias como a Touchstone, Miramax Films, e Hollywood Pictures. Walt Disney Pictures, a marca orientada para a família principal, ainda tem que lançar um filme com uma classificação mais forte do que a orientação paterna para menores de 13 anos, ou PG -13.

Sinopse
David "Dave" Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) e sua esposa, Barbara (Bette Midler), são um casal cujo casamento de 20 anos encontra-se desgastado. Seu filho é homossexual e sua filha tem um transtorno alimentar. Dave está tendo um caso com a empregada live-in (Elizabeth Peña), enquanto Barbara tenta aliviar seus sentimentos constantes de ansiedade experimentando várias terapias da Nova Era.

Um mendigo chamado Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) vaga para o quintal de casa dos Whitemans em Beverly Hills e tenta afogar-se na piscina. Dave pula na piscina e salva Jerry que cria um laço de gratidão para com David. Os outros membros da família ficam, inicialmente, revoltados com Jerry, mas eles acabam crescendo e se apaixonando por ele depois de conhecê-lo melhor.

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Nick Nolte – Jerry Baskin
Bette Midler – Barbara Whiteman
Richard Dreyfuss – David 'Dave' Whiteman
Elizabeth Peña – Carmen the Maid
Little Richard – Orvis Goodnight
Evan Richards – Max Whiteman
Tracy Nelson – Jenny Whiteman
Felton Perry - Al

Créditos de produção
Mino Argento – Pinturas

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O filme foi um sucesso financeiro, com um orçamento de $14 milhões, o filme arrecadou $62 milhões só nos EUA. A resposta da crítica para o filme foi na maior parte positiva, uma vez que detém actualmente uma classificação de 81% no Rotten Tomatoes com base em 26 comentários.

Localização da Casa de Whiteman
A casa usada como casa dos Whitemans está em 802 N. Bedford Drive off Sunset Boulevard, em Beverly Hills. No entanto, o beco na parte de trás da casa foi filmado em 722 N. Rexford Drive, um bloco ao norte da casa do diretor Paul Mazursky em Alpine Drive.

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 "Great Gosh A'mighty! (It's A Matter Of Time)" - Little Richard
 "California Girls" - The Beach Boys
 "El Tecaliteco" - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan
 "I Love L.A." - Randy Newman
 "Tutti Frutti" - Little Richard
 "Down And Out In Beverly Hills" Theme" - Andy Summers
 "Search For Kerouac" - Andy Summers
 "Nouvelle Cuisine" - Andy Summers
 "Wave Hands Like Clouds" - Andy Summers
 "The Mission Blues" - Andy Summers
 "Jerry's Suicide Attempt" - Andy Summers

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Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1986
Filmes de comédia dos Estados Unidos
Filmes de comédia da década de 1980
Filmes em língua inglesa
Filmes dirigidos por Paul Mazursky
Filmes ambientados em Los Angeles
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Regravações de filmes
Filmes adaptados para a televisão
Filmes baseados em peças de teatro
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Bond salesman Corzine still at it →
Cut AG's worthless office in half
Posted on February 15, 2008 by Bob Ingle
Former Sen. Joseph "Plungin' Joe" Coniglio is the fifth former Democratic legislator in less than a year charged with using NJ political office for personal gain. All are federal charges. While U.S. Attorney Chris Christie indicts, state Attorney General Anne Milgram fiddles. Where's the BPU probe? The Jim Davy investigation? What did Martha Bark do for her paycheck? Who ordered Steve Lonegan arrested? Why do we have an Attorney General's Office? From Peter "See No Evil" Harvey through Zulima "Zoom Zoom" Farber, Stu "Just Passing Through" Rabner and now Milgram, they've been an embarrassment, going after small fish if anything at all. They've lowered respect for law enforcement. Corzine wants budget cut suggestions, so let him start with this one: Cut the AG's 1,000-lawyer office in half. There are some good dedicated people but way too many worthless political hacks. And stop paying outside lawyers $1 million to do the AG's work. To read more about "Plungin' Joe" click here.
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Bob Ingle is Senior Political Columnist for Gannett New Jersey newspapers and co-author of The New York Times' Best Seller, "The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption" and "Chris Christie: The Inside Story Of His Rise To Power". He has won numerous journalism awards and is often a news analyst on radio and television. Twitter @ bobingle99.
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Our AG's have busted Blockbuster on late fees and getting the sleazy wedding photographers though!!
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for this office ever to have any respect if must first become a elected position ,not just a political patronage front
re wedding photog: Yes, but only after 500 complaints! It took 500 f(*^*(g complaints to get any action!!!!
Great suggestion Mr. I, did you forward that on to the Governor's Input website? You know it has to be officially submitted before he can consider it, with your name and e-mail in case they want to have the NJSP, um, I mean a staff member follow up on it….
The Governor has no one's confidence, NJGOP is not much better, but if I was Tom Kean Jr's advisor, he should be kicking Corzine's azz all up and down the length of this State with this malfeasance. Why in the world, like TruSue suggested, are the NJGOP not advocating making the AG's Office an elected position?
Seems a great issue to run on.
Oh because they don't want the office to be "politizied"? Umm, well that pretty much looks like what we got now. May as well let the People decide on the hack, rather than let the Governors hand pick their own.
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We'll have initiative and referendum before we have an elected attorney general. They want it politicized so they can control it from the governor's office. The idea is to protect the guilty pols, not prosecute them. If I were writing a book I would have a Chapter 5 called " 'See No Evil' Law Enforcement and Court Jesters" to expose this scam to the world.
The BPU probe? The whistleblower case isn't being handled by AG, but by 4 politically connected attorneys — who picked them? Butler travelling again. how many regular meetings in past 12 months has he been at in person? where's documentation that he share what he's learning with other commissioners and staff? how come he was only fined $500 for voting for the bank of which he had stock in at the time? How come only Democrats are presiding at evidentiary hearings?
Time for a reality check.
1) Government, if at all possible, doesn't cut waste(Jobs).
2) If they do cut, they cut the people who do the work in favor of keeping the political hacks.Then it is our fault things don't get done because we forced the layoffs!
3) If they cut half the people, as they probably should, where can they go? Corzine already is threatening to cut aid for the mental institutions.
4) Wonder if there is a roster of the lawyers? Any bets that a chunk are no show or low show jobs?
5) An interesting appointment to the board of the BPU don't you think? The most transparent part of this government is the payoffs and waste. (Amazing Corzine doesn't see it)
The problem with the AG's office is the same problem NJ education suffers from – they need more money. It's not their fault. What do you want them to do with a lousy $1.1 billion dollar budget. They have a thousand underpaid attorneys there, who can blame them for not working. Just like the public schools where the teachers are grossly underpaid, who can expect them to work?
You want proof that it is the money? OK, the school report card came out today and the Abbott districts spend the most per pupil, over $13,000 for each and every "student", and they clearly have the best results – oh wait, no they don't either, THEY HAVE THE WORST RESULTS.
So why stop at cutting the AG office in half? Lets eliminate it altogether. That closes a third of the projected deficit right there. Heck, they hire real lawyers for any of the heavy lifting anyway. Just subcontract the whole office.
Trying to find a bright spot in this embarrassment let us be thankful that as obviously incompetent as our AG's are at least they are not elliot spitzer.
Every day, I am grateful for your work. It's amazing that the citizens of NJ are finally (albeit very slowly) catching on to how our government actually works!
I am looking forward to the February 19 release of your new book "The Sopranos State". NJ government offers so many lessons about how connected people can be self serving. The book should be required reading for political science majors.
Anne-On-the-Lam—Where's the BPU probe?
Former Sen. Nicholas Asselta's recent appointment to the BPU board pays $125,301 and carries perks such as a 2002 Mercury Sable with free E-ZPass, a free train pass and a Black-Berry.
It's been widely speculated that Asselta, a Republican, who until last month represented Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties in the Senate, traded a vote Corzine desperately needed for his school funding formula bill last month for a nomination to the BPU. Asselta was nominated one day after his vote.
PENSION PUMP If Asselta, who earned $49,000 as a legislator, serves one six-year term at the BPU, it could boost his total state pension from about $19,000 to nearly $33,000, according to Gannett calculations. A second term could boost his pension to more than $46,000. PLUS WORLD TRAVEL ALL ON THE BACKS OF TAXPAYERS AND RATEPAYERS. Read on
BY SANDY McCLURE, GANNETT STATE BUREAU
BPU officials' travels stretched from Colorado to Ethiopia
TRENTON — Records show BPU officials have traveled extensively:
Jeanne Fox: From 2002 to 2004, the state paid $20,000 for Fox to take 21 trips, including events in Amelia Island, Fla., Charleston, S.C., Colorado Springs, Colo., Denver, Hot Springs, Va., Nashville, Tenn., and New Orleans. Sponsors paid for 33 additional trips by Fox from 2002 to 2005, costing at least $26,000, with destinations including Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She also took 10 trips to Washington; eight trips to California, including Palo Alto, Del Mar, Coronado and San Diego; five trips to Cambridge, Mass.; and two trips to Chicago. Fox's trips paid by sponsors jumped from 11 in 2004 to 18 in 2005. Last year, she took one trip in January, three in February, three in March, one in April, two in May, one in June, one in August, three in September, two in October and one in November.
Frederick F. Butler: Butler made 46 state-funded trips costing $13,000 and 94 sponsored trips costing at least $54,000 from 1999 to 2005. In 2002, the national association and federal agencies sponsored trips for Butler to India, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia, and Bulgaria. In the same year, the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners paid for his trips to Hot Springs, Va. The national association paid for an event in Clearwater, Fla. In 2003, USAID sponsored a trip for Butler to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The national association sponsored or co-sponsored trips to Rome; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Port of Spain, Trinidad, records show. In addition, he went on nine sponsored trips in the United States, including Monterey, Calif. In 2004, Butler made 22 sponsored trips, to places such as Mali in West Africa and Budapest, Hungary. He also attended the World Energy Congress in Sydney, Australia.
In 2005, he took 29 trips, all of them in the US. From 1999 to 2004, Butler's state-funded trips included Bonn, Germany; Riga, Latvia; Lyon, France; and The Hague, Netherlands.
Connie O. Hughes: Hughes went on 28state-funded trips from 2002 to 2004.
Hey anon 10:52 lay off, anyone can see by the destinations that these trips were vital to the operation of the BPU!
Com'mon now, these dedicated public servants (god I love that job description) are only sacrificing their time for the good of the people.
Where can I go to find out what projects these 1000+ lawyers in the AG's office are currently working on?
Surely for $1.1 billion this information should be available to the general public!
Therein lies the core problem with Trenton, there is no accountability whatsoever!
ralphwiggumm says:
Trenton is run by lawyers so how can you expect it to be anything but a full employment program for lawyers?
And when they need to look like they are doing anything or they need results they hire more lawyers from outside the AG's office. It's a "freak'n" rats nest. Or you could characterize it as a roach colony.
Any exterminators out there?
Nah, didn't think so.
So let's not forget:
"Clinton & Corzine, perfect together for the Alfred E. Neuman State!
Oh I know Mr. I. I'm a regular reader, and follow the issues closely. So I'm pretty aware that the NJGOP will never get I&R through, much less reforming how we hire the AG.
So tell the truth, the sequel to the Soprano State is already half written isn't it? lol…
I'm sure our BPU globetrotters were seriously engaged in feasibility studies on alternative energy sources, say like: hydroelectric power, cow farts, volcanic thermal steam generation, human forced hot-air recycling (excellent for the state house), and so on.
As for the AG's office, and Annie "I wanna be a judge, too!" Milgram, we could do as well (maybe better) with a dozen chimpanzees and a handful of bananas. At least the chimps might give us an honest day's work for a day's pay.
Well, truthfully, we are getting requests to do a sequel already. I'm happy people who have seen The Soprano State like it but first we have to get the first one out there.
Better make sure the book shops realize that "The Soprano State" is non-fiction!!
Chances are anyone outside of New Jersey would think you made this stuff up!! Unless of course they are regulars to your blog.
St. Martin's Press agrees. Their promotion material says "It's real. But it reads like fiction."
signal6 new jersey says:
Here's a good one from a competing newspaper's Statehouse forum. Kind of says it all about state employees.
28185. happy holiday
by lockpix, 2/15/08 12:50 ET
I just want to wish all the public workers a happy Presidents day on Monday. It will give all public employees a chance to reflect on our present President and all the areas where his intelligence and judgement is so lacking. I hope all you public employees enjoy your holiday and remember to thank all the chump taxpayers that pay for our days off. Thanks CHUMPS, I really appreciate what you do for us.
11:23 AM,12:12 PM:
Not only were the BPU's worldwide state-paid trips and offshore "feasibility studies"
vital to the operation of BPU…..
………but the total deposits in offshore banks increased considerably when Jeanne Fox and the BPU commissioners arrived.
Heym Benito Corzine—you want fat to cut–here's fat to cut.
The AG's office is runnning a "safe house" for crooked Machine pols. Whenever corruption surfaces, Anne-On-The-Lam runs interference. The Machine pols are given "cover" in the AG's safe house. Nice setup—if you're a crooked pol. The State AG's office has turned into a department for corrupt pols to go "in hiding"……….and they are bankrupting the state.
Law firm bilks taxpayers (to protect a legal opinion that didn't exist)
BY GREGORY J. VOLPE
GANNETT STATE BUREAU, AP Press
TRENTON — A law firm has billed the state Legislature nearly $115,000 in a court fight to protect a legal opinion that didn't exist. The Office of Legislative Services retained Edward J. Dauber to fight a portion of a federal subpoena pertaining to the opinion Sen. Wayne R. Bryant, D-Camden, said he received from the OLS before taking a job with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
When Bryant was indicted in March, accused of using his powerful position as Senate budget chairman to get several public jobs, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said there was no such legal opinion. "Taxpayer money was spent for reasons that are beyond me," Christie said then.
Dauber's Newark-based firm, Greenberg, Dauber, Epstein & Tucker, is one of dozens on the Office of the Attorney General precertified list of outside counsels. From 2005 to 2006, the firm billed the state nearly $415,000 for several cases, representing the State Police, Schools Construction Corp. and various counties.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070518/NEWS/705180425
Yoo hoo, Benito—here's more fat to cut.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority paid $125 million to two Wall Street giants — Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley — solely to cancel an earlier deal.
The South Jersey Transportation Authority manages the Atlantic City Expressway and also funded a parking garage in Camden that was not in any way connected to its operations.
The New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority administers education loans for low-income students. An audit found that it spent $235,940 on parties, food, travel and other questionable expenses. The state treasurer also has his hands on HESA's pile of money "for investment" purposes.
NJ Transit hiked train and bus fares for millions of riders, while hiring two political insiders to lobby other political insiders for more and more public money (lobbyists' fees range from $6,000 to $15,000 per month).
HESA—the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority administers education loans for low-income students. An audit found that it spent $235,940 on parties, food, travel and other questionable expenses.
Wall Street via the state treasurer also have their greedy hands on HESA's pile of money "for investment" purposes (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down).
Wadda you mean lawyers in the AG's office are do-nothings? The 1000 lawyers on the state payroll are Actually Doing Something while sucking up bigtime state salaries, perks, and benefits. For example, the lawyers are:
(1) Filling out state pensions apps 9-5 (thinking up new identities is very time-consuming)
(2) cashing "performance" bonus checks,
(3) thinking up ways to amp up platinum parachutes,
(4) storing up paid vacation time,
(5) storing up paid sick time,
(6) working 4-5 no-show state jobs they hold simultaneously,
(7) shopping on Madison Ave to use up state clothing allowances,
(8) driving free state cars,
(9) getting free fill-ups and repairs,
(10) calling travel agents to book world-wide jaunts on state travel allowances (to "study" legal systems),
(11) wining and dining on state meal allowances (one bottle Pouilly Fuisse allowed per lawyer),
(12) maxing out state credit cards.
Let's just assume that each of the 1,000 lawyers in the AG's office make $100,000 per anum (like that legal term?) between salary and benefits, please hold down the laughter, I'm trying to keep the math simple.
Next let's multiply $100,000 by 1,000, and we find we get $100,000,000. Is this real or am I missing something? We're spending $100,000,000 per year (assuming a flat pay scale) and a good couple million more for outside law firms to do the AG's work!
What do we have to show for that money performance wise? The Blockbuster late fees scam and one sleazy wedding photographer! The BPU still has our $84 million, the AG had NOTHING to do with the Bryant or James indictments, in fact AG's office has not handed down ONE indictement against any of the recently charged or convicted politicos!
This is the ultimate State rat hole, and no one in Trenton is questioning it's performance or cost!
And we continue to reelect the same legislators who continue to sink us taxpayers deeper and deeper into debt with a constant barrage of wasteful spending.
Hey Anon 7:09 pm –
While you are wrong on many things, you are most wrong about James. The State played a part in that case, and the indictment was announced jointly by Christie and AG.
When Barry Godwin, the Comptroller of a South Carolina pleasure boat company, received a call from a New Jersey revenue agent last July, he could hardly believe his ears. A truckload of boats bound for Massachusetts had been stopped at a weigh station, and the agent was demanding $46,200 in "back taxes."
Goodwin's 240-employee company, Stingray Boats, has never had a physical presence in New Jersey. But the revenue agent had determined through a conversation with the driver that Stingray had a "business nexus" with the state because it supplied boats to an independent New Jersey dealer. Therefore, it owed state taxes. It was either pay up, or the boats would be impounded, he was told. The company had little choice; it paid, he said.
"The manner in which the State of New Jersey acted is commonly defined as extortion," Goodwin told the House Small Business Committee this week."
Wow thanks. Does that mean that my $100,000,000 low ball payroll number is now justifiable?
Before you answer let's add to that outrageous number normal office expenses (we all know how a lawyer can produce paper), support staff (I doubt they do their own word processing), computer equipment, seminal expenses (lawyers love seminars), including travel costs, etc., etc., etc..
Once again, the AG's office is the single biggest rat hole in Trenton.
And the bearded wonder is still looking for ways to cut spending. I think that $100,000,000 is a good start, don't you?
The VAST majorty of the AG staff works on things you never even think or hear about, like DYFS cases and all the everyday suits that the state has to defend against. The lawyers for the most part make well under $100,000, with only a few reaching over that amount. This at a time when new lawyers out of law school are starting at $160k plus at big law firms. The AG may not be the best operation, but they are worth the money and needed.
annon 9:20 PM, stop it. you know poor bob dosent like when he is reminded that there are people who know he writes are only in half truths.
Anon 12:07 –
Bob has to sell his book. What good would it do to tell him that there is no federal or state crime in the BPU case? What good would it do to remind him that his hero Christie has the same information as the AG, but hasn't brought a criminal case? It won't do any good to argue the facts, because he doesn't care about the facts.
Courier-Post today says that the state put a Camden cop in jail yesterday for corruption. His wife was also sent to jail. That is a serious corruption case by the state. Cracking down on corruption extends to more than just arresting elected officials.
Anon 9:20pm,
First off I stated that the $100,000 average I spoke of represented salary & benefits. If you wish to take a $70K salary and tack on the standard 30% for benefits, that comes out to $100,000 per attorney. So unless you can come up with specific numbers I'll stick with mine as a good conservative barometer.
I will also remind you that behind every there are support and administrative personnel and the standard expenses of running a business.
That is how you consume a yearly budget of over $2.1 billion, and I believe that the people of the State have the right to question the bang we receive for our buck!
Statements such as "The VAST majority of the AG staff works on things you never even think or hear about" are not acceptable in trying to justify a yearly operating budget as $2.1 billion.
I don't think that it would be out of order to request that, oh let's say, 20% of the office concentrate on corruption in municipal, county, and state government. DYFES cases and what you describe as "all the everyday suits that the state has to defend against" have a place in being addressed, but please don't tell me that $2.1 billion goes to those two areas only.
I said it once and I'll say it again, the AG's office is probably the biggest rat hole in our out of control State spending and it must be either justified or slashed.
Anon 4:25-
By your math, that puts 200 lawyers working to handle the corruption. They don't have that many working on all crime, combined! If they have 10 lawyers who are supposed to be working at corruption, that would be a lot.
Now we know, you secretly are a closet crusader for bigger government!
uhhh…OK…so how is it that the AG runs a commercial on CN8 saying that she has 200, yes, count 'em, 200 lawyers fighting insurance fraud? OK, who truly is hurt by insurance fraud? Not the little guy…its the insurance companies that are hurt most, so you see, the AG has 200 lawyers fighting FOR the insurance industry in New Jersey…and Annie can't spare one little 'ole lawyer to read Jimmy's book?
The sequel to "The Soprano State" is those Corzine storm-troopers who arrested Steve Lonegan, storming the bookstores on release day, arresting the store owners and burning piles of your books. Sound farfetched?
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Approved 11/7/19
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 31, 2019
Members Present: Tim Dalby; Stephanie Elkins; Mallory Musolf, vice chair; Deb Shapiro; Lindsey Stoddard Cameron; Bill Tishler
Guests: Laura Downer, Morgan Grunow, Laurent Heller, Casey Nagy, Karl Scholz
The minutes of October 24, 2019 were approved.
Mallory Musolf, ASEC vice chair, reported that the UW System Reps meeting is taking place on November 1, and she expects there to be updates on TTC from UW System. Mallory, Tim, and Heather met with Mark Walters and Diane Blaskowski to discuss TTC in general and, more specifically, the forums, the upcoming Assembly presentation, and the distinguished prefix.
Heather Daniels, Secretary of the Academic Staff, reported that the Board of Regents will be holding a public hearing regarding changes to UWS Chapter 18. The changes would be to codify that harassment can also occur through electronic means. Heather sent an announcement about a new email list for remote employees. She has received positive feedback on the list, and about 100 people have signed up so far. The Big 10 Staff Advocacy Group had a call this week, where Indiana and Northwestern talked about shared governance on their campuses. They also discussed exercises similar to TTC going on in the Big 10.
Tim Dalby attended ASM's meeting on Wednesday night, where the main topic of discussion was the student budget.
Bill Tishler reported on the University Committee meeting, which included visits from Pete Miller, Interim Vice Chancellor Steve Ackerman, Provost Scholz, and Chancellor Blank.
Lindsey Stoddard Cameron reported on the Campus Planning Committee, which included Dean Linda Scott and Vice Provost Lisa Carter discussing the School of Nursing and libraries respectively.
Stephanie Elkins reported on the upcoming election for Wisconsin Public Media CASI members.
Motion to Convene in Closed Session Pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85(1)(c), and (f) to Discuss an Appointment to Memorial Library Committee and a Nomination to the Distinguished Prefix Committee (Dalby). Seconded. Approved.
Motion to Convene in Open Session (Dalby). Seconded. Approved.
•	Appointment
Motion to appoint Kyle Martinez to the Memorial Library Committee (Stoddard Cameron). Seconded. Approved.
•	Nomination
Motion to nominate Eric White to the Distinguished Prefix Review Committee (Dalby). Seconded. Approved.
•	November Assembly Agenda-for approval
Motion to approve the November Assembly Agenda (Dalby). Seconded. Approved.
•	December Assembly Agenda
The December agenda will need to be approved on November 21. ASEC discussed potential topics and guests.
Guest: Karl Scholz, Provost
ASEC and Provost Scholz discussed the Ad Hoc Committee on Implementation of the Youth Protection Policy. ASEC recently approved a charge for this committee and has sent out a call for members. Provost Scholz and ASEC also discussed the status of the distinguished prefix in the TTC Project. ASEC mentioned that the Assembly passed a resolution in December 2017 calling for the retention of the distinguished prefix in the new titling system with its current definition and procedures. The Provost shared that both the teaching professor and the research professor draft campus guidelines had recently gone before the Deans Council for review and comment. The Deans will be proposing some revisions to the guidelines, and Provost Scholz will bring these before ASEC once they're completed. ASEC also shared some of its goals for the coming year with the Provost.
Guest: Casey Nagy, Interim Vice Provost for Extension and Public Media
Casey reported on the status of the search for the Dean of Extension. The PVL has been posted and publicized in several areas. The application closes in mid-January. There is a working group that is looking at how to foster communication and understanding for campus about what Extension does, as well as access to campus for Extension. Casey will come back to ASEC once this group develops its plan. There have been targeted workshops on specific topics to bring together UW-Madison and Extension, with topics including opioids, water quality, and educational disparities. Future workshops will be on agriculture, community development, and First Nations issues. Casey discussed a forthcoming framework for synergistic opportunities for UW-Madison and Extension, and he will bring the draft of this for ASEC's feedback once it is completed. The youth protection policy that is being worked on for and by Extension is being done in a way that parallels campus policy while acknowledging necessary differences for Extension. Work around professional development in Extension is being done as well. Casey is working with Michael Bernard-Donals on this issue, and an early priority was the performance management process. There will be a survey on what employees want to see in the way of professional development opportunities.
Guest: Laurent Heller, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration
ASEC had questions regarding DoIT's structural changes and the issue of emeritus faculty and staff not being able to use helpdesk services any longer. Vice Chancellor Heller will find out about the emeritus issue. He also talked about the initiative with Lois Brooks and Sarah Hart McGuinnis looking at the DoIT billing model. Billing internally within DoIT has been eliminated. Next steps for the DoIT billing model may be discussed as part of a future iteration of the campus budget model. ASEC also raised the issue of units having trouble with slow turnaround in purchasing, sometimes taking between 4 and 6 weeks to get computers. Laurent will get a report from MDS on how this is going. ASEC also discussed the distinguished prefix with Laurent, and he said that leadership would keep a close eye on this issue and continue to discuss with ASEC.
The Administrative Transformation Project will be a topic of discussion for the Board of Regents again in December. Kayla Driscoll is on the project as the head of the ATP Ambassadors Program, which has had its first meeting. Procurement is starting, and the final approval for a RFP has been received. UW System is evaluating whether and when to make a change for all employee payroll to a biweekly schedule. This would also benefit university staff from a benefits withdrawal standpoint. The notion of having pay dates on the 1st and 15th of every month has also been raised.
Guests: Laura Downer and Morgan Grunow, Chair and Vice Chair, Associated Students of Madison
Laura and Morgan provided information on ASM's current initiatives in areas including legislative affairs, sustainability, equity and inclusion, and internal areas. Topics include emergency numbers on Wiscards, medical amnesty, and bills in the State Legislature related to the UW. ASM will be hosting a forum for students to talk with Representatives Murphy and Shankland in the near future. There was a discussion on outreach by ASM to graduate students, and there have been more of these conversations this year than in years past. There is now a graduate student advisory council, and ASM has been trying to get better information on uses for segregated fees to better educate graduate students on the use of those fees. ASEC suggested reaching out to graduate coordinators as well.
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