Ed. at Dalhousie Univ. (LL.B., 1980). Private Career: Called to the Bar, 1980. Practised law with Lewis & Sinnott, St. John's, later known as Lewis, Sinnott & Heneghan. Became a sole practitioner, 1995. Bencher, Law Soc. of Nfld. Former Mem., Statutory Rules Ctee of the Federal Court of Canada. Appt'd Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Div., Nov. 5, 1999. Address: Federal Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0H9.
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YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET
Maria Hlady takes apart and rebuilds machines that make sounds. In recent years she has been preoccupied with rigging domestic objects, including toy drummers and teapots, to produce unexpected tones. Playing Piano, 2007, an installation shown recently at YYZ Artists' Outlet, represents a shift toward a larger scale and a more accessible context. Striking in its complex barrage of visual and musical stimuli, the work consists of a late-1920s player piano with keyboard and bellows compressor removed (here to the front of the exhibition space). The parts still function to produce an audible rhythm, the regularity of which …
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has arrived in Syria where he is due to meet the political leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas group.
Carter's Friday visit comes a day after he met several Hamas leaders in Egypt and said he had …
SBC raises dividend
SBC Communications raised its quarterly dividend 11 percent,giving it the highest annual yield among phone rivals. The companyalso said it may buy back as many as 350 million shares to increasestockholder value. The dividend will rise to 31.25 cents a share from28.25 cents, the second increase this year, SBC said. The boardboosted the buyback program 75 percent to 10 percent of common stock.The fourth-quarter dividend is payable Feb. 2 to shareholders as ofJan. 10.
GM gets pension boost
General Motors said the elimination of most of its $19.3 billionU.S. pension deficit, the largest among U.S. companies at the end oflast year, will add 70 …
ABSTRACT Pulsed field gradient NMR was utilized to directly determine the lipid lateral diffusion coefficient for the following macroscopically aligned bilayers: dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), sphingomyelin (SM), palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC), and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) with addition of cholesterol (CHOL) up to ~40 mol %. The observed effect of cholesterol on the lipid lateral diffusion is interpreted in terms of the different diffusion coefficients obtained in the liquid ordered (/^sub o^) and the liquid disordered (/^sub d^) phases occurring in the phase diagrams. Generally, the lipid lateral diffusion coefficient decreases linearly with increasing CHOL …
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Andy Roddick showed why he's the go-to guy when the United States needs to close out a Davis Cup tie.
Roddick defeated Paul Capdeville 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-3 Sunday, giving the United States an insurmountable 3-1 lead in its 4-1 victory over Chile in the first-round Davis Cup World Group series.
Roddick improved 12-0 in matches that can clinch a Davis Cup matchup for the U.S. and is 33-11 overall in 24 ties since 2001.
"It's always sweet, and every time you clinch one you think it's the sweetest," Roddick said. "I think it's also pretty satisfactory when everything is stacked against you — you got the (clay) court, the crowd. It's a mental grind …
Nearly twice as many people left Iceland last year as moved in, producing the largest net emigration on record, according to officials statistics.
Statistics Iceland, the official agency, said some 10,612 people left the country in 2009 while 5,777 moved in.
Agency chief Omar Hardarson said Thursday that the net loss of 4,835 and the total emigration figure were the largest since record-keeping began in 1887, as so was the total figure for those leaving.
The agency did not speculate on …
Northern Illinois center T.J. Lux, the nation's top returningrebounder, will miss the rest of the season and has applied for amedical redshirt season.
Lux, who averaged 18.6 points and 11.1 rebounds last season, hasbeen hampered by severe shin splints all fall. The Huskies (3-3)will be without him beginning Wednesday against Wisconsin.
"The decision was entirely mine," Lux said. "We really triedevery approach (to rehabilitation), but the pain kept increasing.What I originally thought would be a difficult decision becamerelatively easy and obvious."Lux has made three consecutive all-conference first teams andwas the only junior on the Academic All-America first …
LONDON (AP) — Spain and the Netherlands maintained their perfect starts to 2012 European Championship qualifying as the continent's heavyweights flexed their muscles on Friday, opening up commanding leads halfway through their group campaigns.
Spain, the current world and European champion, rallied to a 2-1 victory over second-place Czech Republic in Group I thanks to Barcelona striker David Villa's double in the space of four second-half minutes.
Villa extended his national-record haul to 47 goals with a deflected shot and a penalty in Granada as the Spanish moved six points clear with a fourth straight win.
The Dutch were also playing the closest challenger in their …
The case of a New Hampshire man accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a 15-year-old fellow church member a decade ago is headed to a grand jury for indictment.
Fifty-one-year-old Ernest Willis of Gilford waived his probable cause hearing Wednesday on aggravated and felonious sexual assault charges in connection with the alleged assaults in 1997 against the teen who …
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Trade chiefs from the European Union and the United States warned Monday that tackling climate change should not become an excuse for throwing up new barriers to foreign trade.
It was a sharp riposte to French President Nicolas Sarkozy who last week called for a carbon tax on imports from countries that refuse to cap their greenhouse gas emissions.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab told reporters after a meeting in Brussels that environmental goals could not justify a new brand of trade protectionism.
"I don't believe trade restrictions are the way forward to combat climate change," …
ROME - Premier Romano Prodi on Tuesday denounced a swastika and other graffiti scrawled on doors and walls in a Jewish neighborhood of Rome overnight, when soccer fans thronged the streets to celebrate Italy's World Cup triumph.
Some of the graffiti was painted on a door along a wall near outdoor tables of a trattoria along the main street of the Old Ghetto, as the neighborhood is known. Graffiti was also spray-painted on a motorscooter saddle and on name plates and intercoms on apartment building doors.
Prodi condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti in a letter to the president of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities. He expressed his government's solidarity with the Jewish community and denounced the "ignoble gesture of hate and intolerance which strikes not only you, but all the Italian people."
"I reiterate with force and indignation these words: Similar gestures will not be underestimated and will not be tolerated," said Prodi, who leads a center-left government.
The neighborhood, where many in Rome's small Jewish community live or work, is a few minutes' walk from Circus Maximus, the ancient Roman entertainment area where more than 600,000 fans held a jubilant rally for the players of the national team, which won the World Cup on Sunday. The Monday night festivities lasted into the early hours of Tuesday.
Police inspected the graffiti later in the day and prosecutors opened an investigation.
Swastikas and extremist soccer fans have occasionally mixed in Italy. Fans for one of Rome's teams, Lazio, waved swastika flags this past season at a game where rival club supporters held red Communist flags.
Also expressing indignation over the graffiti was Italy's head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano. The president called for "mobilization against any resurgence of anti-Semitism and racism" in Italy, which is predominantly Catholic.
Interior Minister Giuliano Amato, whose ministry includes state police forces, visited Rome's main synagogue as a sign of solidarity and denounced those who drew the swastika as "imbeciles." "I'm ashamed as an Italian that as an interior minister I have to deal with this," Amato told reporters.
Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, said "the guard must not be lowered" in the fight against anti-Semitism.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An FBI agent testifying in the trial of two Minnesota women accused of funneling money to a terrorist group in Somalia says authorities began investigating them in the summer of 2008.
FBI Special Agent Michael Wilson testified Thursday in the case against 35-year-old Amina Farah Ali and 64-year-old Hawo Mohamed Hassan. They say they were helping the needy.
Wilson says agents in Minnesota got a tip from FBI headquarters that Ali had been in contact with a "prohibited group." Agents set up a wiretap on Ali's phones in September 2008.
Recordings of some of intercepted calls were played in court Thursday. Prosecutors used the calls and records from money transfer businesses to try to prove that Ali gave money to al-Shabab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers carry so much personal information on laptops, computer disks and smartphones that routine searches of electronic devices at U.S. borders are too intrusive now, in the view of a bipartisan panel that includes a Republican conservative who once headed border security.
A report released Wednesday by The Constitution Project, a bipartisan legal think tank, recommended that the Homeland Security Department discontinue its policy of searching electronic devices without a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
From Oct. 1, 2008, to June 2, 2010, over 6,500 people — almost half of them U.S. citizens — had electronic devices searched at the border, the report found.
"Technology is developing so much more quickly and the law needs to catch up," Sharon Bradford Franklin, The Constitution Project's senior policy counsel, said in an interview Tuesday. Franklin said safeguards could be instituted administratively without additional legislation.
DHS is responsible for protecting the border but must do so in a way that doesn't harm the lawful flow of commerce, said Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas who was DHS undersecretary for border and transportation security during President George W. Bush's administration. Hutchinson was one of 19 experts who developed the report.
"I don't want anything to diminish security, but some business travelers have had their laptops held for months on end and a reasonable suspicion requirement for U.S. persons is a proper balance," said Hutchinson, who also headed the Drug Enforcement Administration during Bush's presidency.
Others who worked on the report include former longtime intelligence officials Paul Pillar and Mary McCarthy.
DHS spokesman Matt Chandler said searches of laptops and other electronic media are used in limited circumstances "to ensure that dangerous people and unlawful goods do not enter our country." He said the department has explained the searches, their privacy impact and the policies behind them clearly to the public.
Laptops and other electronic devices may be subject to searches for violations of law such as child pornography, narcotics smuggling, ties to terrorism or other criminal activity. DHS says less than one-10th of 1 percent of travelers are subjected to laptop computer searches.
Since the nation's founding, border agents have conducted routine searches of travelers and their belongings when they enter the country.
Limited by what they could carry, travelers used to leave private documents, letters, photographs and other personal information behind at home.
Today, travelers packing electronic devices "are unknowingly subjecting volumes of personal information to involuntary and suspicionless search and review by federal law enforcement authorities," the report said. "This problem is compounded by the fact that many electronic devices are used to carry both personal and business-related information."
The result: Growing tension between constitutional guarantees under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure and the border searches that historically had been viewed as a narrow exception to its requirements, the report concluded.
The Constitution Project found that "suspicionless" border searches open the doors to racial or religious profiling and cited a report in 2008 by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
"If a customs official could conduct a search without providing cause, it would be difficult to deter ethnic profiling because the official would not need to explain why he conducted the search," the CRS report said.
In 2009, two DHS agencies — U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — each issued directives allowing federal border agents reasonable time to conduct searches and receive technical assistance with translation or decryption in searching devices. Searches can take place at the port of entry or elsewhere and without the owner present.
Because of the changes in personal technology, The Constitution Project report said, CBP and ICE should require reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing before allowing agents to search electronic devices at the border.
In addition, when U.S. citizens and permanent U.S. residents are involved, border agents should get a warrant in court before retaining data from an electronic device or before searching electronic devices for more than 24 hours, the report advocated. The U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment requires probable cause to believe a crime has been committed to get a warrant.
Finally, the scope of a search should be tied to its underlying basis, so it does not become a fishing expedition or unnecessarily intrusive, the report added.
At least one court has ruled in favor of giving customs agents leeway.
A decision this year by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said customs officials can search a laptop or other personal electronic storage device at the border without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
Pillar is a former deputy chief of the CIA's counterterrorist center and served at the National Intelligence Council. McCarthy was a senior policy planner in CIA's science and technology directorate, associate deputy inspector general at CIA and served at the National Security Council.
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Online:
The Constitution Project: http://www.constitutionproject.org/
DHS searches: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1251393255852.shtm
The 16-month-old girl left outside in a downpour Saturday by hermother's boyfriend will be returned to her mother today.
The state's attorney's office denied yesterday a stateDepartment of Children and Family Services request to ask courtpermission to turn Niesha Jackson over to her maternal grandmother,spokesman Dave Schneidman said.
"We're disappointed. In a case like this you would like to havesome way to monitor the family. We would rather have waited untilthe mother got her life in better order," Schneidman said.
Police said the mother's boyfriend, Richard Ervin, 39, put thegirl outside because her mother was late picking her up Saturday.
The boyfriend at first told police he had found an abandonedbaby. Later, he admitted what had happened when the baby's mother,Bernadette Ervin, 24, came to claim her child. The couple are notrelated.
The boyfriend was arrested and charged with disorderly conductas a result of filing a false police report.
Luscious visuals have long defined Pedro Almodovar's films, and that is true as well of his latest, "The Skin I Live In." It's beautifully shot, crisp and vibrant, and features impeccable production design as you would expect from the detail-oriented Spanish master.
It might almost be too pristine, however, at the expense of real emotional engagement. It might sound easy to remark that a movie about skin feels too superficial, but that is unfortunately the case here.
As Almodovar so often does, he has packed "The Skin I Live In" with references to many other films and filmmakers that came before him, from "Frankenstein" to Hitchcock. But this time they feel more like appreciative shout-outs rather than allusions that truly inform the narrative.
And oh, what a convoluted narrative it is (Almodovar shares screenwriting credit with Agustin Almodovar, based on a story written by Thierry Jonquet). "The Skin I Live In" takes an awfully long time to set up the tortured histories and intertwined relationships that are the basis for the film's big, shocking climax. By the time that comes, this feels almost like a parody of Almodovar, with its melodramatic tone and themes of gender, identity, sex and revenge.
Antonio Banderas, who made his name in Almodovar films more than two decades ago, reunites with the director as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a brilliant and renowned but tormented plastic surgeon. Having lost his wife in a fiery car accident a dozen years ago, he is now obsessed with creating a stronger kind of synthetic skin, no matter the cost. Banderas, who can be so sexy and charismatic, dials it down here and keeps his character's pain within. Robert is no mad scientist; his primary, defining personality trait is his quiet drive.
Inside his stately Toledo mansion, he has built a high-tech laboratory. He also has outfitted the place with flat-screen monitors throughout, to make it easier to keep an eye on his guinea pig in this process: the beautiful Vera (Elena Anaya), who is being held captive inside one of the many bedrooms. Marilia (the formidable Marisa Paredes), Robert's longtime housekeeper who also keeps all his secrets (along with plenty of her own), looks on disapprovingly.
We get our first glimpse of Vera in voyeuristic fashion as she stretches and twists her lean body into various yoga poses, but she is doing them in a nude-colored, skintight body stocking to protect her from the elements. Flashbacks reveal who she is and how she got there, as well as the troubled story of the doctor's teenage daughter (Blanca Suarez) and the young man she met at a party one fateful night (Jan Cornet). We wouldn't dream of giving anything away, plus it is just too damned complicated to get into.
But how Vera truly feels about her fate, even as she appears to embrace her new life, remains a frustrating mystery. That also is the prevailing sensation you will walk away with after seeing this rare miss from Almodovar.
"The Skin I Live In," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R for disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language. Running time: 117 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:
G — General audiences. All ages admitted.
PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
R — Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with the pope Monday on his first trip to Western Europe since the European Union lifted a travel ban imposed a decade ago over his dismal human rights record.
Lukashenko, whom some in the West have called "Europe's last dictator" because of his stifling of dissent, met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Apostolic Palace and later met the Vatican secretary of state.
He was to dine Monday night with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, news reports said.
The Vatican said talks were conducted in a "positive" climate. A statement said some "internal problems" were discussed, though it didn't specify human rights.
Lukashenko arrived in Italy on Sunday, his first trip to Western Europe since the EU slapped a travel ban on him in 1999 and froze his assets to punish him for a crackdown on Belarus' opposition.
The EU lifted the ban to allow Lukashenko to attend an East-West summit in Prague, Czech Republic, in May. The summit is to launch an EU program of trade and aid benefits for Belarus and five other former Soviet republics.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini defended the decision to welcome Lukashenko in an open letter Monday to Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading daily, which over the weekend had criticized the government for hosting someone who "imprisons dissidents and gags unaligned newspapers."
Frattini said the EU had suspended the travel ban precisely to encourage Lukashenko to take a "gradual path of democratic" reforms, and that Italy was merely helping push the process forward by hosting him.
"The message that the Italian government will send to President Lukashenko is one founded on the European principle defending the law-based state and the fundamental rights and liberties for the men and women of Belarus," Frattini wrote.
The EU is keen to accommodate Belarus to ensure stability on its eastern doorstep; the region is crucial to the flow of energy to the EU.
During the Vatican audience, which lasted 25 minutes, Lukashenko invited the pope to visit Belarus "God willing," witnesses said. The president's 5-year-old son, Nikola, gave the pontiff his ABCs book from school.
The Vatican said the two discussed the role of the Catholic Church in Belarus and relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Lukashenko is hoping to play the role of intermediary in relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church and help bring about the first meeting between the pope and Patriarch Kirill in Belarus.
Roman Catholics make up about 15 percent of the Belarusian population of 10 million. Many of them are ethnic Poles, who are among the strongest proponents in Belarus for democratic reform and closer ties with Europe.
Analysts and opposition leaders said Lukashenko's visit was important to his image at home and abroad.
"The catastrophic situation in the economy is compelling Lukashenko to repair ties with Europe and the United States, and a meeting with the pope opens the door to the West for him," said political analyst Alexander Klaskovsky.
Opposition leader Anatoly Lebedko said the papal audience was particularly important ahead of the Prague summit.
"Lukashenko's main goal is to improve his image and to receive absolution from the pope ahead of the EU summit in Prague, where many European politicians will not extend a hand to the Belarusian dictator," he said.
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Associated Press reporter Yuras Karmanau contributed to this report from Minsk, Belarus.
QUESTION: We own an iMac. When we try to download movies, theydownload OK, but when we try to play them, we get an error messagesaying ``Document could not be opened because the application programthat created it could not be found.'' How can we open it?
ANSWER: You probably lack the proper movie player software, or theprogram you have fails to recognize that particular file type.
Download the latest version of QuickTime or Real Player, dependingon the movie format.
Go to www.versiontracker. com-a good source for Macintoshshareware and freeware programs. The site also has tons of Mac newsand tips.
Also try opening the movie from the player's File menu instead ofdouble-clicking on it.
The other possibility is the movie you downloaded is compressedand you need to use a decompression program to open it. In that case,you need to download Stuffit Expander (www.aladdinsys.com).
Q: My grandson has been experiencing difficulty playing videogames on his 266 MHz computer with 32 megabytes of memory. He wastold he needs to upgrade to a 32-megabyte video card and 128megabytes of memory for best results. Outside of an expensiveinvestment for those specs, would a slightly better video card andlesser memory be satisfactory for playing games?
A: Today's video games are some of the most demanding programs youcan run on your home computer. Few consumer programs require as muchprocessing power. Highly detailed 3-D environments use tremendouscomputing resources.
Playing games on a PC is different from playing on a console suchas the PlayStation 2 or Sega Dreamcast. The hardware on a console isthe same for everyone. Because everyone's PC hardware varies, thegame that played so well at your friend's house might not play sosmoothly on your system. Typically, the faster your processor, themore RAM you have and the better your video card, the better yourgames will respond and the better the graphics will look.
Considering computers are coming out with 1.4-gigahertz (GHz)Pentium 4 processors and 64-megabyte 3-D video cards, your grandson'scomputer isn't state-of-the-art anymore. Aside from investing in anew computer, my suggestion is to buy a more powerful 3-D graphicsboard. Costs can range from $100 to $300.
Because your grandson's system is older, he might need to upgradethe processor and RAM dramatically to really see a difference. Adding16 or 32 megabytes of RAM will do little to help.
The price of these upgrades can add up to more than $300.Considering how inexpensive computers are right now, he may be betteroff with a new computer or you might consider investing in a SonyPlayStation 2, which retails at $300.
-Steve Woo, Associated Press
Diana's bodyguard
appeals for privacy
LONDON - Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the car crashthat killed Princess Diana and two others almost a year ago, appealedfor privacy for all the families involved "to let us mark this tragicanniversary in our own way."
Rees-Jones, who spoke to APTV, The Associated Press' internationalvideo news agency, in a taped statement released today, said he wouldmake no further public comments until the conclusion of a judicialinquiry into the Aug. 31 crash in Paris.
Rees-Jones has told investigators he remembers very little aboutthe crucial moments before the crash.
"I've cooperated fully with the judge who's investigating theaccident and told him all I know up to this present time," Rees-Jonessaid in his statement, which marks the first time he has spokenpublicly. "I may wish to ask to see the judge again in the future,but I've no intention of doing so at this moment."
The former bodyguard, who has scars marking the left side of hisface as a result of the crash, now works in a sports shop inOswestry, in central England.
His lawyer, Ian Lucas, told APTV that Rees-Jones made thestatement because he has been inundated with requests for interviews,some with large offers of cash.
"I'd like everyone to appreciate this August will be a difficulttime for myself, my family and for all the families involved in thistragic accident," Rees-Jones said. "I'd like everyone and the pressto appreciate that and respect our privacy and let us mark thistragic anniversary in our own way."
Lawyer seeks to
get back to work
LOS ANGELES - No more sex and politics talk for William Ginsburg -at least not while he's working.
"I promise you I won't talk about sex in the legal sector. I'vehad enough of that, I can assure you," Ginsburg quipped Friday duringclosing arguments in a medical malpractice case. "I'd like to try tologically reason this case out. Let's go through this with a minimumof spin. That's my goal."
The lawsuit was his first trial since early June, when formerWhite House intern Monica Lewinsky replaced Ginsburg, a medicalmalpractice lawyer and family friend, with two Washington attorneys.
Thinking about the summer ahead has most of us daydreaming about the prospect of various outdoor adventures. Images of bicycles, tents and rafts dance through our heads and make us all fluttery.
Now imagine those same outdoor adventures but with a charitable purpose behind them. That's right: You can have fun and do some good at the same time.
The sixth annual Great Owyhee Ride Against Hunger is just such an opportunity. On Saturday, June 18, the Southeast Oregon Regional Food Bank is hosting the bike ride to raise money to feed the hungry. Yes, this one is in Oregon, but it's still nice to help our neighbors to the west, and the beautiful route is worth the drive to the starting line.
The ride starts at the historic train depot in Ontario, Ore., and leads south to the base of the Owyhee Dam before looping back to the staring point. Both 50-mile and 100-mile routes will be offered.
Registration is $40, with some team discounts available. For more info or to register online, visit greatowyheeride.com.
While the cause might not be quite as obvious, removing invasive species from Idaho's waterways is still important - and sometimes a lot of fun.
Trout Unlimited is hosting its annual Carp Fest on Saturday, June 4, at Gifford Springs near American Falls. The fly-fishing tournament not only gives anglers a chance at glory and prizes but it helps remove a few more invasive carp from Idaho.
The tournament is a fundraiser for Trout Unlimited, which works to improve Idaho waterways and fish habitat throughout the state.
According to TU, last year's participants took 200 pounds of carp out of the Snake River and raised more than $1,000.
The competition will involve teams of two with one fly rod (registration is $150 per team and is tax-deductible, to boot), and fishing will start at 10 a.m. Awards will be presented at a barbecue at 6 p.m. The greatest carp catchers will have a chance to score prizes, including a one-day float of the South Fork of the Snake River or a day of backcountry fly fishing.
For more info or to register, visit carpfest.blogspot.com.
- Deanna Darr
[Sidebar]
Duckface is such a popular pose for photos. Wonder if carpface will ever catch on?
Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia won his first title in more than two years by beating Michael Llodra of France 7-5, 6-3 in Sunday's Lyon Grand Prix final.
The 30-year-old Ljubicic's previous title came in 's-Hertogenbosch in June 2007.
Ljubicic, who won the first of his nine ATP titles in Lyon in 2001, served seven aces and broke his French opponent three times on his way to his one hour and 36 minutes victory.
Devine honors Judge Reid's civil and judicial legacy
Once a lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine bestowed the prestigious annual C.F. Stradford to Judge Ellis E. Reid -- a judge he called a "torch bearer" who has pursued his judicial career in the pursuit of justice.
"He has lit a path for all of us to follow," said Devine referring to Reid who became a lawyer in 1959 and quickly rose as a preeminent civil rights lawyer Devine said has been a champion of civil rights ever since.
It was Reid's law firm, McCoy, Ming and Black led by attorneys William R. Ming Jr., Chauncey Eskridge, and Reid that successfully tried a case filed against King by the state of Alabama before an all-white jury in the 1960's where King was accused of income tax evasion.
During a ceremony held at the Chicago Cultural Center, 69 W. Washington, Devine presented the Stradford award to Reid named after C. Francis Stradford whose father was a hotel owner who found himself jailed after he worked "to quiet an angry mob during the race riots in Tulsa.
"We honor a man who as a young African American lawyer raised the bail for his father and then went on to successfully defend him," said Devine.
"He was a co-founder of the National Bar Association for African Americans. Locally, he worked to establish the Cook County Bar Association whose membership is made up of many of the leaders of our community today."
Devine said Reid's legacy "lives in the equal protection laws for which he fought so tenaciously."
He praised Devine for devoting hours of work to disadvantaged youth as well as his leadership with the Bethel AME Church and for 13 years with the Better Boys Foundation.
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Q. The other day, I was diagnosed by a neurologist as having a"frozen shoulder." What causes it, and can it be cured? I've beensuffering from pain and stiffness in my left shoulder and arm forseveral months. I am 61.
A. Here's how lots of people get frozen shoulder. First, theyget a shoulder bursitis that makes the joint painful to use. Then,fearing pain, they end up immobilizing the shoulder. Then two thingshappen: The sleeve of tissue covering the joint shrinks and bands ofscar tissue form around it.
Now you cannot move the shoulder if you want to - frozenshoulder. I picked bursitis for my example, but the same thing canhappen from any injury that forces immobilization of a joint.
You can "thaw out" a frozen shoulder, but it may take time.Physical therapy is required and injections of cortisone may have to be given before you're through. If your shoulder doesn't respond,you can be put under general anesthetic. The doctor will physicallyfree the joint.
Q. What is a functional heart murmur?
A. Harmless background noise from a normally beating heart.
Q. I was told I have a peptic ulcer and should drink lots ofmilk. Then I read that it is bad for the ulcer. What is youropinion?
A. Gone are the days when sipping milk was the ulcer regimen.Milk was supposed to coat and soothe an ulcerated stomach lining. Inreality, they say now, it only stimulates the stomach cells toproduce more irritating acid. Live and learn.
Because of the excellent medicines available, you now can eatjust about anything. Avoid any food that causes pain or that yourdoctor has forbidden. Drink an occasional glass of milk if you'dlike: It won't hurt you much.
Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, have formed a partnership to operate the pool where the Olympic swimmer began training at age 7.
Their partnership, Aquatic Ventures LLC, formally announced on Friday that it was taking over at the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center and the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, which produced Phelps and six other Olympians over four decades.
"We're just very excited to be home," Bowman said. "This is our home."
Bowman said he and Phelps will continue to balance the center's offerings between recreational and competitive swimming. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in August, will be busy with training once the new year begins, but he'll be more involved in decisions as time goes on, Bowman said.
"We will continue our mission to develop Olympic level swimmers in concert with our community focus," Phelps and Bowman said in the statement. "The scope of our program will always be greater than solely training competitive swimmers."
Bowman began coaching Phelps at NBAC when he was 11. After the Athens Olympics in 2004, when Phelps won six gold medals, the swimmer followed Bowman to the University of Michigan, where he was head coach of the men's swim team. Now they are returning to Baltimore together.
The long-term lease and operation license agreement was signed this week. Bowman declined to disclose how much the deal was for.
It means Bowman and Phelps will operate the facility for five years or more with an option to buy it in the future, said Meadowbrook owner and NBAC founder Murray Stephens.
"It's a good way for them to get started into pool ownership and management," he said.
Bowman will continue to coach Phelps and other swimmers in addition to his duties as NBAC's chief executive officer.
If you missed Thomas Mapfumo's Zimbabwean world beat show in Mayat the Cubby Bear, you can catch up on some of his world meter thismonth just by picking up the phone.
Through Sept. 1, Dial-a-Poem Chicago! is spotlighting the workof Zimbabwean musician, activist and budding world beat poet ThomasMapfumo in a program sponsored by the city's Cultural AffairsDepartment.
"Last spring, Mapfumo was scheduled to come to the CulturalCenter for a reading," arts program coordinator Hanan Wajid said."But then his band had transportation trouble and wasn't able to makeit for a performance. Instead, we were pleased to be able to get himto do a reading for Dial-a-Poem Chicago!"
The 3 1/2-minute segment starts with a Shona (Zimbabwean triballanguage) reading by Mapfumo of "Hurokuro," meaning "Conversation,"followed by an English translation. Since most of Mapfumo's songsare performed and recorded in Shona, this will give fans anopportunity to take a closer listen to Mapfumo's subtleanti-establishment lyrics. The poem comes from song lyrics on hislatest album, called "Chamunorwa" (Shona for "What Are We FightingFor"). So it's probably best classified as lyric poetry.
Mapfumo, whose music helped to inspire the Zimbabwean fight forindependence from the white minority government, has continued hiscriticism of oppression worldwide. In "Hurokuro," he laments theimpotence of mere words and saying, "How can we end them (troubles),when all is big promises and all is empty big mouth. Talk is allmisery."
In this 10th anniversary season, Dial-a-Poem Chicago! also willfeature the poetry of the late Mbembe Milton Smith and ChicagoansHenry Blakely, Margarita Lopez Castro, Jamila Ra, Peter Kostakis andEffie Mihopoulos.
To hear the poetry, call (312) 346-3478. For more informationand a schedule, call (312) 744-8943.
His family can be considered almost pop royalty.
His brother, Nat "King" Cole, was an American classic in the1950s, and his niece, Natalie Cole, is a pop artist.
Chicago's Isaac "Ike" Cole also was an accomplished musician,playing on Natalie's Grammy award-winning record, "Unforgettable WithLove," and heading up the Ike Cole trio.
Mr. Cole, 73, died Sunday of cancer in Sun Lakes near Scottsdale,Ariz.
A bit heavier and taller than his more famous brother, Mr. Colewas commonly compared with him.
"He definitely had the same style, but I think he also had his ownfollowing," said Nick Caruso Sr., a founder of Jilly's EntertainmentGroup, which includes Chicago spots such as Jilly's Piano Bar andRetro Club and Italian Steakhouse. "He always attracted a largecrowd.
In 1966, when he did his first U.S. tour, a Los Angeles Timescritic wrote: "Ike's piano work, like Nat's, is outstanding, and heseems to enjoy every minute he's in the spotlight."
That constant comparison, however, upset the pianist when peoplewould say that he was "trying to live off the name." He thought aboutchanging it to quiet the critics, but opted against it at the requestof Nat.
But early in his career, Ike was asked if he tried to copy hisbrother's style. "Perhaps unconsciously. I guess it's a family traitbecause my brothers also sing this way."
Mr. Cole's first big audience was when he played a bass drum in anArmy band in 1957. After that he soon formed the Ike Cole Trio inChicago and hit the road. The band found steady work in Las Vegas andwas well-received overseas.
The band also was known for television appearances on the varietyshows of Andy Williams, Dean Martin and Red Skelton.
Mr. Cole is survived by his wife, Margie Cole, and three sons,Larry, Jimmy and Eddie Cole.
Services were held Friday in Arizona. Cards can be sent to theCole family at 25843 Newtown Dr., Sun Lakes, Ariz. 85248.
PHILADELPHIA - The Detroit team that showed up for the first fourgames of the playoffs was in trouble against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Pistons who showed up for Games 5 and 6 sure look ready forthe Orlando Magic.
The Pistons powered into the second round by crushingPhiladelphia 100-77 on Thursday night, winning the series 4-2 andagain demonstrating how good they are when they feel they need tobe.
Detroit convincingly won the last two games of a series thatwasn't expected to last this long. The Pistons have only one day offbefore they host the Magic on Saturday in the opener of the EasternConference semifinals - but probably wouldn't want a break sincethey …
Just when Fire president John Guppy had found the right coach torevive his squad on the fly into a playoff team, he has lost him.
Juan Carlos Osorio resigned Monday "for family and personalreasons" and was excused from the balance of his three-year contractto become coach of the New York Red Bulls. Insiders said Osorio'sfamily preferred moving to New York, where it has more relatives andfriends. The Red Bulls will compensate the Fire with draft picks,salary-cap allocation money and cash.
"We tried to do everything we could to help him address thosechallenges," Guppy said. "But at the end of the day, he made itclear that for personal reasons, he could not remain in Chicago. Andif somebody doesn't want to be somewhere, what are you going to do?"
Osorio, a native of Colombia, replaced Dave Sarachan in July whenthe Fire was 4-7-4 and coached it to a 10-10-10 regular-seasonfinish and playoff berth before losing to New England 1-0 in theEastern Conference final.
A key question is whether star Mexican midfielder CuauhtemocBlanco and Colombian defender Wilman Conde will stay with the Fire.They joined the team around the same time Osorio did and enjoyedinstant rapport with him.
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NBA
SETTLEMENT IN ISIAH CASE
Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomasreached an $11.5 million settlement of the sexual-harassment casebrought by former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders. A juryawarded her $11.6 million in punitive damages; this deal replacesthat.
The case was supposed to resume this week to see how much BrowneSanders was owed in compensatory damages. By settling, the Knicksavoided paying her legal fees, while Browne Sanders gets her moneyfaster and avoids the possibility of having her award reduced onappeal.
TWO SUITS VS. ARTEST DISMISSED
Two civil lawsuits against former Indiana Pacer Ron Arteststemming from the November 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hillswere dismissed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
JAMES READY TO RETURN
LeBron James is expected to be back in the Cleveland Cavaliers'lineup tonight against the Indiana Pacers. An injured left indexfinger caused James to miss Cleveland's last five games -- alllosses.
FOOTBALL
SAINTS OVERPOWER FALCONS
With Reggie Bush (partially torn knee ligament) watching from thesideline, Drew Brees passed for 328 yards and three touchdowns asthe visiting New Orleans Saints (6-7) romped past the AtlantaFalcons 34-14.
The Falcons (3-10) couldn't stop Brees, who led four scoringdrives that covered at least 75 yards, including one for 99. Bywinning, New Orleans boosted its wild-card hopes and kept Tampa Bayfrom clinching the NFC South title.
ROSE BOWL TIX ON SALE TODAY
The University of Illinois Athletic Ticket Office said Rose Bowltickets will go on sale to the general public today beginning at 9a.m. at Assembly Hall in Champaign, by calling 1-866-ILLINI-1 oronline at fightingillini.com.
WASHINGTON STATE TAKES WULFF
Eastern Washington coach Paul Wulff will become WashingtonState's new coach, a person familiar with the hiring process toldthe Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
ASSAULT CHARGE FOR SAUERBRUN
Denver police said Broncos punter Todd Sauerbrun was cited forsimple assault early Saturday after being involved in an altercationwith a cab driver.
FISHER WAITING AT FLORIDA STATE
Jimbo Fisher will succeed Bobby Bowden as Florida State's nextcoach -- someday. While Bowden, 78, will return for a 33rd seasonwith options to stay longer, offensive coordinator Fisher wasdesignated as "head coach-in-waiting."
BASEBALL
SEGUI ADMITS STEROID USE
Retired first baseman David Segui, who spent eight of his 15 MLBseasons with the Orioles, admitted that he used steroids andpurchased shipments from former New York Mets clubhouse attendantKirk Radomski, the Baltimore Sun reported on its Web site.
LO DUCA TO JOIN NATIONALS
Free-agent catcher Paul Lo Duca and the Washington Nationalsreportedly agreed on a one-year contract pending a physical.
HORSE RACING
BREEDERS' CUP EXPANDS TO 14
Three races were added to the Breeders' Cup for 2008, increasingthe two-day event to 14 races worth $25.5 million in prize money.
Byline: Ralph Z. Hallow, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Minnesota's Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, will host the Republican Party's 2008 nominating convention from Sept. 1 to Sept. 4, Ken Mehlman, the party's national chairman said yesterday.
The RNC's site-election committee rejected elaborate bids from New York the site of the highly successful 2004 Republican convention and secret favorite of many Republican officials and operatives as well as from Cleveland and a joint bid from Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla.
Party leaders yesterday called their choice a strategically important decision.
"Republicans will choose their presidential nominee …
RNC picks Twin Cities for 2008; Convention siting a strategic decision, GOP says.(NATION)Byline: Ralph Z. Hallow, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Minnesota's Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, will host the Republican Party's 2008 nominating convention from Sept. 1 to Sept. 4, Ken Mehlman, the party's national chairman said yesterday.
The RNC's site-election committee rejected elaborate bids from New York the site of the highly successful 2004 Republican convention and secret favorite of many Republican officials and operatives as well as from Cleveland and a joint bid from Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla.
Party leaders yesterday called their choice a strategically important decision.
"Republicans will choose their presidential nominee …
Members of a ring that forced deaf Mexican immigrants to selltrinkets in New York and Chicago used electric shocks, death threatsand beatings to keep workers in line, according to the indictment of20 alleged ring members.
The 11-count indictment, unsealed by federal prosecutors in NewYork on Wednesday, provides new details about the ring that wasdismantled last month after two deaf workers walked into a New Yorkpolice station. Police and federal officials quickly arrested mostof the defendants, …
Byline: Frederick Lowe
Diebold Inc. and NCR Corp. had good news for investors when the companies recently delivered their first-quarter earnings. Executives of the two ATM manufacturers told analysts smaller financial institutions were starting to take an interest in machines that accept envelope-free deposits.
Two recent announcements involving Alliance Credit Union and Bellco Credit Union also suggest the market for intelligent-deposit ATMs may be growing beyond the very largest of banks.
Alliance, a bicoastal credit union with offices in San Jose, Calif. and Wilmington, N.C., signed a five-year integrated ATM-services contract with Diebold that includes deploying machines that support envelope-free deposits. The state-chartered credit union deployed five intelligent-deposit ATMs in California and four in …
Byline: WENDY TANAKA Knight Ridder
The centerpiece of President Bush's sweeping economic stimulus package is a reduction in the taxes investors pay on their stock dividends, a measure aimed at making stocks attractive investments again.
But experts are divided on whether this will encourage corporations to increase their dividend payments or, for many more, even start paying them.
Donald Straszheim, a financial adviser in Los Angeles, is a proponent of the dividend tax cut, which will be in effect for the next five years.
``This is a very important tax law change for equities,'' said Straszheim, founder and principal of Straszheim Global …
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
Deluxe surroundings and state-of-the-art meeting facilities promise successful events.
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino has everything an association meeting planner could want. THEhotel at Mandalay Bay has 1,117 new upscale suites, a 1.5 million-square-foot convention center, access to more than 17,000 nearby hotel rooms with a wide variety of price points, and enough fun and entertainment to impress attendees.
Mandalay Bay Convention Center offers an astonishing 1.5 million square feet of exhibit space, four ballrooms ranging in size from 32,000 square feet to the 100,000 square feet mega ballroom, and more than 231,000 square feet of meeting space. Unlike the typical gray-box …
CAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Ever since a gunman tried to rob his father, Venezuelan businessman Dumas Rojas has insisted on driving cars armored with windows strong enough to withstand the bullets of a .44 Magnum.
Rojas also decided to have the same level 3 armor installed on the Jeep his wife drives with their two small children.
"As far as I'm concerned, personal security right now is priceless," said Rojas, 33. While it's sad that such measures are necessary, he said, "in any area, you're exposed to being attacked, robbed, kidnapped."
In Latin American countries from Brazil to Mexico, the affluent are increasingly shielding their cars as a precaution against violence that …
OAK PARK 42, LARKIN 12
Ricky Foytik's accurate right arm and De'Angelo Wisdom's fast feetcarried host Oak Park to a resounding 42-12 win over Larkin onSaturday afternoon.
Foytik, who was 8-of-13 for 124 yards and four touchdowns, threwan interception in the end zone on the opening drive but was on themoney the rest of the day.
I was a little nervous in the beginning, and then I settled downand we played like I knew we could," Foytik said. There's a lot ofenthusiasm on our team, and we know we …
(ADPnews) - Jun 25, 2010 - The government of the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Sapin, insists on a big union among the regional savings banks.
The head of the government Jose Antonio Grinan yesterday asked local savings banks Cajasol and Unicaja to reach a merger agreement. He also invited sector players Caja Granada and CajaSur, intervened by the Bank of Spain due to viability problems, to join such an initiative.
Although the government supports an integration among the regional sector players, their merger can be joined by savings bank from other autonomous …
Byline: Stephanie Wang
Jun. 17--You'll cry, you'll laugh, you'll sigh -- all in five minutes.
The four winners of SHOUT! The HBO GLBT Short Film Competition screened their films this weekend at the close of the 9th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival. The five- to six-minute films each incorporated a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender theme.
"It's a genre all on its own," said contest winner Justin James, whose film "Hearts and Hotel Rooms" examines a one-night stand between two gay men.
"You have to relate to the GLBT community in a certain way."
The contest, sponsored by HBO and Mox Media LLC, selected the four …
Byline: JANE BRYANT QUINN
Collecting child support from an unwilling parent is like trying to catch a fly barehanded. The welfare reform law of 1996 included some tough new provisions. But it can take a long time for the states to put them into action.
Exhibit A is what happened when Congress ordered the states to install better computer systems to keep track of child support cases and help nail deadbeats. That was in 1988. The federal government was covering most of the cost.
Today -- 10 years and nearly $3 billion later -- what's the result? Only 28 states have systems certified by the U.S. government as complying with the law. About half the …
At $799, the single-CCD (charge-coupled device) GR-D250AA is an entry-level MiniDV camcorder with some interesting new features. It's extremely compact, but the key selling point has to be the impressive 25x optical zoom lens (going one better than Panasonic's NV-GS17).
There's no memory card slot or USB, so still capture is limited to video grabs to tape, and the ergonomics are a little under par--the chassis digs into the heel of your thumb over time; the zoom control can rock the camera, and the internal viewfinder doesn't tilt. That said, the 2.5in LCD is clear, the interface is logical and the playback/ menu controls are easily accessible. JVC's new Data Battery …
Kenyan police killed nearly half the people who died in postelection violence earlier this year, a human rights organization told an investigatory committee Thursday.
The Independent Medical Legal Unit said 80 post-mortems conducted randomly in mortuaries around the country showed that 43 per cent of the victims had died of bullet wounds while the rest had been burned, wounded with machetes or bludgeoned.
Almost all the police were armed with guns but few, if any, protesters were seen with them. The police deny using excessive force.
Testifying to the five-member Commission of Inquiry, the rights organization's program manager, Joan Nyanyuki, …
Ron Fijal sat in court Monday.
And sat.
And sat.
Fijal, 52, has been sentenced to a month in court by a judgefrustrated over his failure to clean up ground contaminants at histransmission service.
After watching the way Circuit Judge Stephen A. Schiller handleda rather dull court call Monday - the first day of his sentence -Fijal said he was impressed.
"It's interesting," Fijal said at the Daley Center. "One lawyerargues against another lawyer, and the judge has to figure out who'slying."
Court veterans predicted the novelty would soon wear off.
"Maybe he should bring a pillow," said one, in reference to thehard wooden …
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan Saturday attacked and set on fire NATO supply trucks destined for Afghanistan, police and witnesses said.
Around 10 tankers were engulfed in flames as suspected armed militants opened fire on a workshop for NATO vehicles in the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital …
Byline: Heloise
DEAR HELOISE: I have been trying to clean out closets, drawers and catchall areas. I came up with lots of small mementos. I found pins from groups I had belonged to as a kid and an adult, skeleton keys, patches, buttons and regular costume-jewelry pins. I didn't know what to do with all this stuff.
I came up with the idea to attach all these odds and ends to a large, beige fringed-edged pillow.
I used safety pins to attach the stuff that couldn't be pinned to the pillow. The pillow has become a favorite of mine, and company always enjoys looking at it. I enjoy explaining some of the items.
A friend took this idea and made a wonderful …
Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer
The arrival of Thanksgiving has turkey on most people's minds, but the game bird shouldn't be blamed entirely for the fewer number of deer stalked by hunters in Columbia County's eastern towns.
"It's a definite factor, but we don't think it's significant," Nate Dickinson, a deer specialist for the state Department of Environmental Conservation's Big Game Unit, said Wednesday.
"There are people who don't see as many deer so they have to blame something," Dickinson said. "Turkeys take the blame sometimes."
EnCon is predicting a banner year for deer hunters, according to Wayne Jones, a supervising …
Ford Motor Co. will delay introduction of its new F-150 pickup truck by two months and further cut production because of the declining market for pickups and sport utility vehicles, the automaker announced Friday.
Ford also said its 2008 automotive financial results this year will be worse than in 2007, when the company posted an overall net loss of $2.7 billion. Its shares fell more than 6 percent in morning trading.
The company said it expects industrywide U.S. sales this year to drop to a range of 14.7 million and 15.2 million units. Ford previously had predicted 15 million to 15.4 million units.
Because of that, Ford also said Friday it will cut …
When Life Insurance Corporation of India, State Bank of India,Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank were forced to pick up 100per cent stake in UTI AMC (asset management company) in September2005, the media and analysts were aghast. Most assumed that thegovernment was, as usual, throwing good money after bad. Very fewwould have dared to imagine that their investments would return1,000 per cent returns in just two years. But that's exactly howthings have panned out. Today, the market is valuing the AMC at upto Rs 12,000 crore--against the acquisition cost of Rs 1,237 crore.And that doesn't include the value of its real estate assets andother investments.
Now, the …
QUOTE OF THE DAY "We're kind of the laughingstock of Northwest Arkansas." Doug Adams of Centerton, whose former mayor, Ken Williams, claimed he was abducted and brainwashed into assuming a dead man's identity Article, 1B Today's meetings Rogers Board of Adjustments, 9:30 a.m. Rogers Police pension meeting, 2 p.m. Fayetteville Board of Adjustments, 3:45 p.m. Tontitown Street Committee, 5 p.m. Fayetteville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, 5:30 p.m. Lowell Planning Commission Work Session, 6 p.m. Gentry City Council, 6:30 p.m. Elkins Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Lincoln Planning …
